skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of comments here for which I want to reply: "Have you tried MobaXterm? It can do want you want, and much more".
But I don't want to be too imposing, so I'll just leave it here:

http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/features.html
I'm curious about this process. Do you have contact info or pointers to other resources about it?
We decided to follow the advice of a leader in the field, Rory Sutherland, and pursue the application to market research surveys first: http://www.research-live.com/impact-magazine/the-shape-of-th.... My start-up, Collective Decision Engines, is actively working on this.
You might. That's it's default configuration.

I'm not really an expert on the differences between msys and cygwin, but i believe msys solves a subset of the problems solved by cygwin, while remaining much closer to how the OS actually functions (instead of keeping windows and unix totally separate, it does its best to merge them).

Msysgit is part of the standard git distribution on windows, I believe, and so many people already have it installed. It comes with a bash-like shell, which is what I'm talking about in the post above.
What experiments could be (or have been) run to test this?
I still don't understand, why you think you're entitled to know a candidates previous salary. But yes, I wouldn't trust you with that information.
Atom is a fantastic tool and is improving every day.
Ah, sorry, it's just Quickoffice's pdf viewer (on Android) that somehow manages to not understand the links.
> Sadly, my very first ever project as a programmer was porting an Ada codebase to C for the 787 (off by one errors for days...).

that's a terrifying statement. to those of us who know what a person's first programming projects are like, quality-wise

just terrifying. mindlessly stupid on your management's part
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Hey author of the thesis here.

You are correct this was definitely an oversight and I would have redone the measurements if time allowed for it.
However I just want to state that the libaries were built with optimizations just not on the target platform which might not have been clear from the qoute.
Additionally, the $5000 per capita program can be financed with budget income and not private cash, making it virtually free for the would-be tyrant once he's elected. Of course, the budget is limited so you have a cup on how much you can offer, and people more adept in economics would figure out it's ultimately their own money that they are being promised, but usually the margin between competing politicians is small enough that people who would vote on the promise of getting "free money" have a good chance to tip it over.
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It's laggy using a Mac OSX Chrome with a trackpad.
A fair point, though there's more to it than that.

There are a lot of things which go into creating value for a company. Trade secrets are one of many factors. Execution, connections, business relationships, location (or locations for retail establishments), and more, all come into play.

Taking two well-known examples, the real value for both Coke and KFC is far less in the specific product forumulations of both companies -- those are effectively McGuffins. Rather it's in Coke's set of contracts with bottlers, distributers, retailers, and restaurants (many of which will carry _either_ Coke, _or_ Pepsi, but not both), etc. There are even "open source" colas whose recipies are published, but which don't have the market reach of the majors. For KFC, it's more a matter of retail outlets and supply chains -- having a global branding campaign, advertising and marketing, real estate in specified locations, and relationships with suppliers such that ingredients and product are supplied to these.

Yes, there are companies which do rely to a much greater extent on trade secrets, and there's some case to be made for some level of protection over these, particularly in tech. Michael Wolf's "Burn Rate" or ... I'm trying to remember the author and book, about the "Go" PDA who had their idea arguably poached by Microsoft. But in truth, execution and capitalization matter a tremendous amount, and exclusive knowledge of a specific concept, not so much.
Could you link to the CDC claim that 30% of the US population shows signs of exposure to spinal meningitis? I'm unable to find any references. Personally, I find this quite probable, since antibiotics are already known to reliev some back pain.
I find the discussion in this thread so frustrating (not your or anybody's fault).

It's 2015, and there's still no general agreement on which tests to run to tell if you are healthy or not. We don't even have firm evidence whether your annual physical with a doctor is a net positive or negative.

Meanwhile, people are dying decades prematurely due to uncaught illnesses that we know how to fix.

We have a check engine light for our car engine. Why on earth don't we have one for our bodies yet?
There's a small bug if scrolling with a trackpad very quickly. Instead of continuing to scroll the inner div (or whatever container element you're using), it will stop scrolling partway through, and scroll the entire page instead. Usually this only happens when you've reached the end of the scrollable div, but not with this plugin.

I'm using Chrome 42.0.2311.135 (64-bit) on a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.9.5.
>> Mechanism holds that every aspect of the world can be represented as a simple hierarchical structure of entities. But, while useful in fields like mathematics and manufacturing, this idea is generally worthless, because most aspects of the world are too complex to be reduced to simple structures.

>Without trying to manage complexity, it becomes impossible to build real systems.

Both of you are correct. The real world is too complex to be modeled, and without trying, you can't build a real system. The answer to the conundrum that real systems include humans, which can handle the hard-to-model parts.

The author appears to be using bombastic language to communicate what is actually a simple point. I see the technique used often. There's a method to the madness. It's the long-form version of "to get someone to give you a correct answer on the Internet, post a wrong answer rather than just ask." Spiritual books are often written like this. Without a blend of the overly pedantic and the utterly simple, the reader won't be compelled to dissect what the author has written and won't have the intended epiphany where the reader discovers it wasn't as simple as he thought.
Not disagreeing about your post at all, which sounds entirely reasonable to me (I'm not a doctor), but I think this is worth emphasising:

> Most tests do have some degree of false positives,

I think many people don't appreciate the danger of false positives.

The complications that can come from unnecessary treatments, the dangers that more invasive tests might cause, the aggregate effect of all the time and expense the extra testing causes (e.g. by putting a strain on hospitals who may need that MRI for someone else), the negative emotional consequences of the stress from the false diagnosis, the possible financial implications etc. Even a very small chance of a false positive can have huge consequences if the test is deployed widely enough.
Doesn't lag at all, in fact if anything it lags more with it on.
> That hypothetical language wouldn't be more abstract so much as vague and context-dependent which isn't the same thing.

Well, the hypothetical language has one word, so it wouldn't be able to express much of anything (besides that one thing). I was just giving an example of how it's conceivable that languages could vary in expressive power, regardless of whether they actually do or not.

>I remember anecdotes about it being harder to express sentences with unusual referents in Japanese eg "am I wearing the jacket?" vs "are you wearing the jacket.

I'm not entirely qualified to speak on this, since at this point in my studies my Japanese skills are still relatively poor, but:

There are natural, direct translations of both "am I wearing the jacket?" and "are you wearing the jacket?" in Japanese. Contrary to what some might say, Japanese has all of the pronouns that are available in English (and quite a few more, because of its extensive built-in politeness system). Where Japanese differs from English in this regard is that it allows you to drop pronouns (or rather, the sentence subject altogether) in places where English requires you to specify a subject, and it sounds stilted and unnatural in Japanese to specify a subject when it should be clear from context. So although you can say both "am I wearing the jacket?" and "are you wearing the jacket?", it's much more common to hear "wearing the jacket?" This can introduce ambiguity in some situations, but most of the time people understand each other perfectly well.

Other opportunities for ambiguity: there is a common verb that means both "to finish" and "to do accidentally", depending on the context, and a verb conjugation which means both "to make someone do something" and "to let someone do something", also depending on the context. Such ambiguities are often exploited by writers and comedians, but again, they basically never impede normal communication.
> Without trying to manage complexity, it becomes impossible to build real systems.

Managing complexity is necessary for human designers and the limitations of their brains. Nature appears to be able to evolve more and more complex mechanisms by random mutation + Darwinian selection. It remains an open problem if there is an upper bound for the level of complexity that such a mechanism is able to generate.

> Well, yes, to a degree.

Any computation is equivalent to the operation of a machine (as Turing and Church demonstrated). A computer program is a representation of the configuration of a machine.

The problem is that people underestimate how deep the concept of machine is (for example, by not being aware of Gödel's work).

> But if you arbitrarily change a word in a 1000 page book, the book will not fall apart.

This is a property of a type of program (the typical type that humans create). Many algorithms are known that can be much more tolerant to random perturbations (e.g neural networks). It just so happens humans are better at designing linear, synchronous mechanisms.
It's 7500/month for 5 days/week.
Dude. Gonads. Really?

The last thing anyone wants to be thinking about when doing frontend development is your junk.

Like it or not, shit like this affects how people view our whole profession. Do us all a favor and act older than 13.
I really think this old attitude to copy protection is short sighted and why free games are now the top revenue earners on every platform.

If a player is enjoying your game, great! The hardest part of the battle is already won, you made a great game and got it in front of the customers. Now you just need to get them to spend some money.

Sure, back in these days is was probably harder to just ask a user for a credit card number, but punishing people that enjoy your game is crazy.
Direct democracy is a very dangerous thing and unchecked can very quickly lead to oppression of minority contingents and minority opinions. And, of course, direct democracy is vulnerable to the base form of corruption in the form of "vote for us and we'll take money from the other guys and give it to you".
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It ended up replacing most of explorer for me when I made the switch to Windows 8.
Because biology is much harder and more complicated than even the most complex mechanical system.
Could be, but they're jumping the gun a lot if that's the main idea. Tesla sales didn't really ramp up until 2014, and the batteries will probably last at least 10 years in the cars themselves.

In any case, they wouldn't need to subsidize these batteries. $350/kWh is a pretty decent price, and consistent with estimates of what they cost in Tesla's cars.
Mandatory voting won't help as apathetic votes would be either distributed randomly or given according to preference having nothing to do with the issues, such as which candidate is better looking or which one appears more on a popular comedy shows.
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I've recently started listening to The Changelog [1], which I like. Generally the discussion is pretty interesting, though I think sometimes it could benefit from a bit more subject-matter expertise from the interviewers - though, to be fair, they're cover a lot of languages and technologies.

Some recent episodes have covered:

- React / React Native / Flux / GraphQL with some Facebook people

- Elixir language and Phoenix web framework, with the creator of Phoenix

- Spark (the IOT hardware, not the compute framework) with its creator

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Your $100M got you 4 years in Congress. Let's say you can pass a key bill that'll make you more than $100M. It had better not piss people off very much, because in the next election they'll buy TWO votes each and you'll have to spend $400M to keep your law in place. In the meantime, all those poor people you outvoted are $50,000 richer.

The interesting thing about this is that the more votes you buy, the more you fund your political enemies.
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That is:

are we 5, sir?

for you.
The ability to freely set prices is no doubt a cornerstone of capitalism and there would certainly be significant inefficiencies introduced by any "fair pricing" regulations.

That said, we're just at the tip of the iceberg for variable service and variable pricing based on expected customer value and expected customer elasticity. As more of our purchases are made programmatically. and as our identities, purchase patterns, credit records, even personal environmental factors can be taken into account in real-time, free market economics will force companies to adapt pricing models that can effectively exploit each customer's individual maximum utility.

Sometimes the "optimal" economic outcome is not the moral outcome. I'm not sure I like the idea of a world where the price of a Big Mac changes as each personal steps up to the counter and their iris is scanned to determine what they can afford. I think there's some reasonable expectation of privacy to our purchasing history which will work itself out over the next couple decade as the technology gets more advanced, sees more widespread adoption, is rallied against, and eventually regulated to some extent.

Part of the problem is that bad behavior is't often punished by the market to the full extent of the damage it causes. For example, with credit cards, some cards started changing terms so that payments were applied to the lowest interest rate balance versus the highest. It's clearly an "unfair" practice but because most customers of credit card companies don't have a clue about how interest is specifically calculated, the companies that adopted the practice were rewarded with higher profit at the expense of uneducated customers. Soon it became practically necessary for all credit cards to apply payments to lowest interest rate balances first, because they couldn't compete in the market if they didn't. I think this is a great example where regulation can enforce good behavior aka "fair dealing" while ensuring there's a level playing field so good actors aren't at a disadvantage competing with bad actors.

I think so-called bad actors will take variable pricing a "step too far". At some point it crosses an ethical line and becomes predatory. We haven't exactly seen where that line is drawn, but certainly user-agent sniffing is just the beginning. The airlines can afford millions in R&D to develop the algorithms to exploit maximum utility, but who is there who can monetize the algorithms which shield customers against these pricing attacks? When the most popular browser is made by an advertising company whose existence depends on collecting these metrics, it does make you wonder.
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Chewing is extremely important, and since it's so increasingly common to drink something with meals, people are doing it less and less.

I've even heard people say the can't not-drink with meals because they'd choke. To which I simply reply "Well, I chew my food and that avoids the choking".

A bit of liquid with dry foods helps digestion, but otherwise it's unnecessary, and even unhealthy in the excess commonly seen today.

I lost a lot of weight and had several other health benefits when I started chewing a lot more my food (like going to the loo with great ease).
Hi Colin, I like your approach. I would also be letting somebody do a programming exercise for an hour or so. With an Internet connection and a editor and runtime of choice. I guess you could even consider to hire a company/service to perform coding tests on applicants for you. That may save you even more time.
Market cap hinges on projected profit margins on projected revenue.
Interesting... to me at least. I was stationed there for manual Morse school back in 1997.
The guy did not add indexes for junction table, that is why it took so much time. The benchmark is incorrect.
I'm assuming my brain is not the only brain that is uncomfortable trying to understand this...
I've been a Mac user since OS 7. Don't reinvent history.

Since 10.0, OS X got progressively better with every release up to 10.4. After that things got progressively worse.

Your are only proving our point.
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About a year back I joined a startup in San Francisco which was acquired by one of the big four companies. I am on H1B visa and had 7 years of experience by that time. I accepted salary of $122,300 for Data Analytics Lead position.

Did I get in cheap because of H1 visa ? I am seeing hundreds of 22 yrs old getting more than $100k as starting salary. I am quite good at technical stuff, actively code and have fair understanding of business as well. I can't change job right now since in 6th yr of visa.

If I was American citizen would I have commanded more salary ? I see many posts going around for negotiation but what's effective strategy to negotiate when you are on visa.
>What do you mean by comprehensive health check? What tests should I do?

Start by NOT asking random people on the internet.

Ask your doctor about what tests to do and he'll tell you based on your age / history, and you can trust him better than a random stranger or some web post.
That's quite right. Stress can be extremely harmful, but it's very hard for one to realize it.

I've have issues with teeth, hair, sleep, and colon all due to stress at some points (once in my life, all four at the same time).

Smoking a joint merely to relieve stress every once in a while would probably have helped my health more that it would have damaged it
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Those unique skills did not protect them from being abused by Oracle, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Intel or any others.

Either you believe many companies abuse their employees with no real consequences or you don't. If you believe the former then avoiding the solution because it is contrary to your ideology is never going to fix anything.
How would you otherwise handle this? The only alternative I can think of: a split-horizon DNS sounds even more complex that having your own CA.
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I don't.

Used to. In fact, this was a primary mode for me, until RSS. Then I used RSS to setup feeds I would pick through on a recurring basis. The noise levels have gone up, and my interests have changed with career and role changes too.

Now I default to a few communities, this one included, where I can follow and interact with others who have interests and experience I find relevant. Ideally, I contribute the same.

Dialogs are very important. The perspective matters to me. From there, I'll have realizations or questions which I then follow up in various ways, connecting things together.

From those places, I end up following up on information based on recommendations, supplied to me in conversation.

There are still quite a number of blogs I will check in on, and I've got 'em organized for my own needs. This is irregular, depending on what my interests actually are. And some are for entertainment too.

Some newsletters are pretty great. I would reconsider them given much improved curation. Not sure where others are at, but for me at least, it's an opportunity for somebody.

...and I have to plug podcasts here. Mostly, I'm using these for news and hobby entertainment right now, but there seems to be a lot of potential. I find myself with drive times and other odd bits of down time here and there. Audio is often a great solution. For me, a good podcast could serve as a newsletter, and it could drop right into some recurring time I have too.

Anyone have good tech oriented podcast recommendations? I would like to add a few shows to my queue.
So you're saying executive physicals like this [1] are bad? Personally, I'd like to know if I'm dying. Many cancers and other serious problems betray few if any symptoms before it's too late to treat them.

[1] https://health.ucsd.edu/specialties/ehw/services/Pages/gold....
>For example, English way of writing is terrible for expressing sounds. Japanese or the korean ways are much better Or Spanish by the way.

Just wanted to point out that the style of syllabary that Japanese uses wouldn't be practical for English. Japanese has around 150 possible syllables, English has almost 16,000 [1].

[1] http://semarch.linguistics.fas.nyu.edu/barker/Syllables/inde...
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There's one simple way to drastically reduce the amount of brain damage caused by fighting: take off the gloves. Padded gloves and taped wrists allow fighters to throw punches that would never work in a real fight. Without gloves, punching someone in the forehead is a reliable way to hyperextend your wrist or break your hand. Taken in this light, gloves are a weapon. Remove them and fighters would be forced to avoid much of the head.

Of course, gloves won't go away. Boxing would be less entertaining without them. People don't want to see fights stopped due to broken hands. They don't want to see disfigured faces (which are practically guaranteed in a bare-knuckle stand-up fight). People want to see spectacular haymakers. They want to see punches flying left and right. Most of all, people want to see knock-outs.