skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stories about the resurgence of cooking techniques that eschew modern technology have me wondering how much of the flavor and taste improvement is actually because of the technique itself.

> With gas-assisted smokers, pitmasters can load their machines with meat (likely briskets and pork shoulders) at the end of service, add a few logs, and sleep soundly without fear the fire will die during the night. This high-tech approach typically eats up less wood and requires fewer employees to watch over the smoker, two significant pluses in a competitive urban marketplace where skilled pitmasters can be hard to find.

This aside makes me suspect that an equally significant contributor to better quality might simply be the increased human attention. If you've cooked with any degree of rigor, you have probably witnessed the variation in outcomes with the exact same technique. The way to reduce that variation and maintain quality is to pay close attention to the raw materials and adjust the cooking process continuously.

A way to test this hypothesis would be have the same number of people tending a gas-supplemented smoker as well as a traditional one and see how wide the delta is in the meat.
I was trying to avoid making a concrete prediction about the weather while I speculated that it might be hard to obtain capital for such a project (because weather).
Poker face and cordial until all the bodies are dug up and the figure and most importantly, terms and conditions of sale and transition plan are agreed and the check is deposited, because it's tire-kicking until the ink is dry. It's important to telegraph genuine admiration to suggest a shop might have a better home than competing bids.

It's a hard thing to do, trade-in somwthing more precious than cash, labor, time and effort, life... so have a good time and aim make people consistently, insanely happy and always satisficed
Exactly. The image is computer generated and very simple. It is trivial to computer parse it.
Hmm. Certainly no one should think San Francisco is bigger than San Jose. But more important? Certainly all my friends who live on the peninsula think SF is more important! SJ is not exactly renowned for its urban features.
I feel a bit embarrassed I used a stretched and contrived analogy instead of actual cases of progressiveness caused by breaking of laws.
Exactly. Damn thing applies to a whole CSS, but you would think that in the year 2015, when all that "web was flawed at embryonic stage of development, but it's kinda hard to fix it, when you noticed 20 years later, when it's grown into a huge monster" thing became sort of legendary, they would be more thoughtful of designing APIs.

But it seems that w3c has something in common with war: it never changes.
How BlackBerry’s bid to one-up the iPhone failed
I'd discourage the creation of so many distributions.

The fragmentation problem is really bad. I'd encourage people to focus on one core upstream distribution and then fork it downstream closer to the specific point of customization rather than creating over eight different upstreams. Alternatives are good but not when they're all basically the same. I'd only encourage root-level distro forks when people really want to do something fundamentally different.

The kernel is mostly fine. I'd probably have merged OpenVZ years ago, which would have given us containers (and pretty secure ones to boot) much sooner.
Is it not? Can you tell me why all the Ubers I use have the exact same markings and plates as private hire firms? I'm in Manchester.
When apple enters a market, the preexisting offerings are known to not have existed anymore. Apple is always "first".
What kind of integration with uBiome will you have for regular PicnicHealth users (i.e. users who does not have IBS)? Will the uBiome results be available from the timeline?
Definitively. I'm going to provide an API pretty soon. Too bad it wont be ready for this week end.
It's both. You have to control the urge to spend or an increase in income will have a commensurate increase in spend, leaving you no better off.

Breaking the nexus of the 'more stuff' mindset is important as groundwork in increasing income. I have read quite a few stories on here where someone hit a wild payday with an online venture but were broke again in 2 years. That is because they never tamed their desire to spend, and when lack of income was removed, all of it got spent, and more. Worse still, their expectations of life increased to the point where being happy again required a much bigger income.

So it's better to put a frugal mindset in place and practice - and be ok with that- so that any increase in income can be channeled into building assets that will increase financial independence.
Don't do it. Working for free is unacceptable (especially in today's market for developers). Working for equity is usually a bad idea (the main thing to understand that equity only converts to cash on sale or acquisition, which are extremely rare events and even if that does happen, don't count on it happening for several years).

What to do instead? Either start your own open source project (if you have ideas for something useful) or contribute to one of many existing projects (pick something with decent name recognition).

If you're into low-level coding, contribute to Rust. If you're into front-end, JavaScript, contribute to atom.io (those are just random examples, the point is that for anything that you might be interested in, there is an open source project in that area that is desperate for more developers).

A meaningful contribution to a well-known open-source project will be much more interesting to your future potential employer than random unpaid work for a random company.

At the same time pick the project carefully. There are many projects that are not good at onboarding new developers so submit small fixes (Pull Requests in GitHub speak) to a few that interest you and pick those that are quick providing feedback (even if it's to reject a PR as long as they do it in a nice way and explain why) and drop those that are unresponsive.
Police Officer Killed in the Line of Duty What Changed?
While I am not against rapid UI evolution, as seems to be the case with GitLab, I think you may want to revise the choice of background vs text colour on the sidebar. It does look pretty, but the WCAG guidelines describe a minimum level of contrast for people with vision imparement to be able to read well. This side bar has a very low level of contrast, and putting the URL of a GitLab project into various WCAG evaluatioin tools will tell you the same.

Having said that, thank you for GitLab. Even though this post is about the Enterprise Edition, it is good to see some high quality open source alternatives to GitHub (i.e. the Community Version). We moved F-Droid there and have had mostly a very positive experience.
I actually think it means they decide to no make go further with the LCA. Like they decided to finally not hire the employee or the employee decided to not work for this company anymore.
Again, if a side hobby/business is getting too time-sink, boring or unsure how to scale it, selling off the value, happiness of customers, employees, vendors, etc. created, is a rational act. Shutting down is only advisable if the business model cannot ever have hope of being monetized AND folks running it lack ideas (and asked around to advisors and such) how to adjust the consumer/producer relationship.
The Guardian's live updates have been the best place to follow the maneuvering today.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2015/may/22/clock-wi...

The latest updates: there aren't enough votes for McConnell's proposed reauthorization, but there also aren't quite enough to pass the USA Freedom. So once cloture fails on USA Freedom, McConnell will propose for a very-short-term (one or two week) extension, in hopes that everybody wants to go home for the weekend and so will pass it quickly. If that passes, then the House (which has already adjourned) could pass it by unanimous consent in a pro forma session to avoid a sunset, then everybody could start wrangling again when they come back in early June. Of course the House has vowed not to do that, but I guess McConnell is hoping they'll be so concerned about a sunset that they'll back down.

It's like watching sausage getting made ... very very slowly.
Yes, work in progress!
> There you'll find more than enough to send me a pizza, if you are so inclined.

TIL that Dominos delivers in Brazil.

Question: How common is it? I.e., do huge numbers of people in Brazil order delivery pizzas, or is it more of a niche thing?
First paragraph is gold. Every country responsible involved in the proxy wars and game playing that has resulted in threats to these ruins is behaving in a criminally careless fashion and should be brought to account for their misdeed. The second paragraph is also gold until the last sentence which is absolute shit.

Humanity dying off is much much worse than ancient ruins being destroyed. Ancient ruins don't mean anything if there aren't any people around to experience them.
Yes, my job title on my US Visa was first Computer Systems Analyst, now it's Software Engineer. My college's who is also on H1B is Data Scientist, despite doing exactly the same work as me.

Our immigration lawyer decided on this job title, I didn't even know I was going to be Software Engineer before I got my visa. It's just that my college has a PhD and I don't. So, his profile fits that of a Data Scientist.
a man cooks food in one place. a man in another place also cooks food using a similar technique. both men cook food well. both of the men care about being better than the other. an article is written.
Even having a household with books in it is a massive boost in life prospects.
Political game playing by anti-Assad and anti-Iranian powers were also directly responsible for the rise of ISIS. These share a portion of the blame for some ISIS's misdeeds.
You are missing a key variable.

Estimated future earnings -> price
>"YOU DON'T FIRE YOUR KID BECAUSE OF BAD GRADES"

At huge traditional Japanese companies, even terrible, negative productivity employees aren't fired (the kid with the bad grades). Part of this is because of regulation, part of this is because they really behave as if they are a family. (Kyocera's maniacal devotion to its company-wide athletics tournament is a famous example)

The company provides you with pay, shelter (corporate dorms), a wife (there are women hired in administrative roles who are of a different category of employee than the full knowledge worker who are expected to marry a male employee and leave the company within some handful of years), commuting expenses, a pension, etc. In return, you are expected to be loyal to the company. And it pays to be loyal, because (1) the upper levels of the companies are all "propers": i.e. people who joined as new grads rather than mid-career transfers, and (2) because pay is backloaded.

Do I think this is a good system? Well, in industries where the development, retention, and continuity of incremental knowledge was important, this seemed to work quite advantageously. When the economy was reliably expanding YoY, seniority based pay and lockstep promotion was feasible since more and more seats could be added in the pyramid structure.

But when the economy stagnates and the backloaded, highly compensated "kids with bad grades" fill the ranks? The youth suffers, and something's gotta give.
I have a lot more data(millions more) and a really clean&easy UI :)
Aren't non-inlined function calls in any language "slow"? I'm not seeing any details here, but as Swift is a compiled language with little support for runtime monkey-patching, I assume it's not doing anything especially ridiculous with normal function calls.
uBiome CEO here. Happy to answer questions as well!
uBiome CEO. Happy to answer questions as well!
Also LCAs are filled when a foreigner under H-1B visa moves from a company to another for example.
Thanks! Will fix asap.
Here are some other interesting queries:

Associate and Analysts at Kleiner Perkins
http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/kleiner-perkins-caufield...

Partners at Sequoia
http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/sequoia-capital-operatio...
When a person dies we also lose something we'll never get back. And the person who dies? They lose the entire universe and all of its future possibilities.
I think this is only hard to understand if you are used to thinking at the level of the language rather than the CPU. I've done more evil things implementing language features in a compiler.
You kind of made his point there:

Yes, reducing wants is a major factor in happiness, but finally there will always be something that I want

If there's always something you want, where do you stop? It seems the key to happiness is to learn to live with that want, rather than try to satisfy a desire that can't be satisfied?
As an enthusiastic Moto 360 owner, I'd just like to tell you that you have no chance of 'getting' any smartwatch without giving it a thorough testing. Try one. Maybe you still won't find it worthwhile, or maybe you will.
Yeah, they are not the same class.
I agree. I mean irrespective of acquisition targets, who is the tougher negotiator.
Wow. Everyone seems to miss the point of what this is about.

MS wouldn't buy Salesforce (just) for the technology any more than Oracle bought Sieble and PeopleSoft for their technology.

CRM vendors are bought for their customers. CRMs are so deeply integrated into a company's business that the are basically guaranteed money into the future.

Exactly how much money is the only question.

(MS already has a competent CRM offering and a good cloud story. All this talk that they should spend their money to build a competitor misses the point!)
I've also gotten those calls, and I don't think it's nearly the legal minefield that people claim. I'll make my point clear enough if it's warranted.

I've also gotten a reference call for someone I terminated and gave them a positive reference, conditioned on the fact that the new company wanted someone with exactly the skills my ex-employee had. I was very clear about why it didn't work out with us, but thought that that it was a very good fit for the new place, given how they described the role and responsibilities. Ex-employee was hired and is (as far as I know) doing very well and happy there.

I think the "I'm only allowed to confirm dates of employment" is a terrible drain on the mobility of good employees and allows higher mobility than should be the case of poor employees, so I don't participate.
Not that it is a good practice in general IMO. I also don't like the "hush money" practice mentioned by Lane Becker either.
What if this was a mutually agreed upon hoax meant to play the media? Salesforce reminds people "Hey we're worth a lot and our growth prospects mean we can turn down huge sums of money." Microsoft reminds people "Yeah we have $95 billion in cash and can afford big acquisitions."
Or you could have an honest discussion with them and tell them you're working diligently towards putting them in the B position, and try to figure out whether there's an overlap between the timeframe you can get them there and the timeframe they would be willing to wait for. Just because someone has floated their resume out there doesn't necessarily mean they're looking to leave ASAP.
I'd go with a mix of A and B. Package of credits that expire after some period of time.

C is more risky than all other options.
very interesting now i know how much my manger makes !! data is scary !!
I see. Well, atom.io interests me a lot, since I know a little bit of JavaScript and contributed to a relatively medium-sized game framework (melonJS). I will try just starting with small bugs and work my way up the ladder.

I was asked to meet the CEO tomorrow to sign an IP assignment agreement, and I have not signed anything yet, so I assume I am ok legally speaking.

By the way, the CEOs of these small start-ups were 100% honest with the pay considerations and I feel kind of bad now that I have to go and say that I will not be joining their start-up.
I don't know about Perl, but in the case of Python and Ruby, I think there are C extensions that would have to be replaced with a JIT. So PyPy has a 5-6x speed improvement, but can't be deployed in many places.
With Amazon-style billing, you would not necessarily have to offer a free tier. That would be my recommendation.
Great question! We are currently working on an initialize method that will allow initialization of a single toggle or switch as well as all "new" toggles and switches on a page. Coming soon.
I didn't say it was a bad change. But, even good changes should make one frown at the groing complexity.
Isn't this a copyright violation?!?!

Did the author obtain the permission from IEEE to publish this work on a publicly facing internet server?!
The very problems that plague the unprotected networks to the site-to-site VPNs are the same: all it takes is one piece of malware. In fact, the complacency is the alarm. Just because you are in a "protected" network doesn't mean there aren't bad actors. The bad actors can get in, all they need is to find where your walls have a crack. There's a reason we call it Computer Insecurity.
Ask HN: Life in a Google remote office?
Hi HN,
This summer I'll be starting my first full time job, at a Google remote office. I having been thinking a lot lately and was wondering if being in a remote office for my first few years at Google will hurt my chances of learning the most I can. Or if even being outside the valley will be a major mistake as well. Has anyone worked at one of these offices that can give me some insight? Also any tips for a future noogler are greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Well, now that I think about it I also undervalued myself and almost didn't apply to university thinking that I would not get accepted.

I think that you are right in that I should work on a visible Open Source project, even if only contributing in small bugs and documentation. Eventually, and with at least some projects under my belt I hope I can land a small position somewhere.

Yet, I don't feel exploited at all because the money issue was discussed with me in an upfront manner and I have not done any amount of work yet. And besides, it is a position that offers experience that I can put later on my CV and potentially eventually it will lead to a paying job.

So in a sense, isn't it riskier to not accept this offer?

I dunno, I still have some doubts...
To me, saying "want nothing more" is as naive as someone saying "I want everything". FI means freedom from scarcity, not freedom from ownership. I don't look at people who buy $100,000 homes in the suburb -- and have to consider a 1 hour drive into the city to see friends or a show -- as being independent, even if they are free from wanting a house in the city. I view them as prescribed by their scarcity to a life separated from their mates and a vibrant culture. MMM, and presumably you, might ask if dining with friends and taking in novelties like arts and culture are truly worth spending money on, but to me the answer is obvious.
Here's a live webcast of the senate floor.
http://www.senate.gov/floor/
SIMD?
Thanks for moving F-Droid to GitLab.com, we appreciate it. You can change the colors of the sidebar on /profile/design I'm not sure if any other choices improve the contrast. Feel free to submit a design that meets WCAG guidelines.
Reasonable would be anywhere close to average. $350K is very much an outlier. It has to be. For every "senior software engineer" you show me making $350K, I'll show you 20 making less than $100K. $350K is insanely great, we're talking top-2% territory.

This seems to happen all the time in the comments here. Someone points out some insane top salary they found at some insane top company, and a bunch of people chime in with comments like "Oh, that seems pretty reasonable actually". It doesn't seem reasonable. It's not anywhere close to any median or mean. It's the far right of the distribution.

Find any company on Glassdoor where $350K is anywhere close to the center of the bar for "senior software engineer". I'll then eat my words.
On the other hand I've seen quick firings lead to other very valuable team members leaving as well.

Firing somebody who is doing a decent job causes a lot of damage. The first company I worked at fired two devs after implementing new metrics and determining they were 15-20% less productive than the rest of the team.

In reality these two guys were doing a good job; just not quite as good a job as the rest of us. I immediately started looking for a new job and within six months the entire rest of the team left.
it's almost like the media wants ISIS to destroy palmyra
Can everyone try to get a reliable income stream off of housing? No, because it's not generating wealth it's just playing the crazy system we have.

This is my beef with this and the reason for my last comment about this guy capturing labour of others. Can we all just rent off each other and watch the dollars roll in? No - other people have to do actual work so rentiers can kick back.
Reading this makes me sick to my stomach.
Will it have a spellcheck?
Have you considered hiring a software developer? Some one extremely technical most likely can deliver on any business model you conceive of.
Most amateur landlords do not factor in voids, repairs or the possibility that housing will not rise and rise.

Luckily most don't have to factor in opportunity cost because most don't "own" but are in fact highly leveraged. Housing is the only mainstream access to leveraged debt - that's why people love it.

Go to your bank and ask to borrow $400K "because you think google's shares will go up". They will say no.

But real estate? They love it, especially as it's all back-stopped by the government now.

Everyone wants to pile in and exploit other people working to capture some of their labour.

What happened to adding value and working hard? Can we all be rentiers? Who will grow the food?
If you're targeting developers using S3, then they'd be most comfortable with Amazon style billing I would thing. It's probably best to align with that thinking.
To an extent. As soon as you consider externals for a role though the merit/track record approach falls apart because of the information disparity.

Its usually better to hire the internal person who you know can do a good job, than to hire an external who looks twice as impressive on paper. Yet we often do the opposite.
Yeah, fine. If we had any decency, we'd deploy the Marines to protect the ruins, sort of like we deployed the Coast Guard to protect BP's interests in the Gulf. Not.
Actually the way they mean it is simple:

IF even THEN blue.

To show that the rule holds then you need to check:

8 (it's even, so should be blue. Is it?)

and green (because if it's even, then it invalidates the rule that it should have been blue on the other side).

The other cards/numbers don't matter as to the validity of the rule.
I should clarify he does have a bank account (with his own Interac card) but no way to access it online. This is with TD Canada Trust. I don't imagine it's much different across other Canadian banks.

Edit: sorry, to actually answer your question, yeah they still have those -- they just call it Youth Account at TD
Not 10x higher, though. Also cost of living is now always matched by median income. For instance, in NYC the median household income is 50k - the same as the rest of the nation.
AFAICT Swift does the sensible thing to maintain backwards compatibility with ObjC: When Swift code calls Swift code, the dispatch is static (a jump, and some stack fiddling, when you're counting the change). But if it's interfacing with ObjC then it must necessarily resort to the ObjC runtime's message based dispatch, which is a bit slower.