skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Company cultures are all different. Some are more traditional and value consistent hours. If there is no expectation of working longer hours and you can peace out at 5pm without a thought, then some people are ok with the understanding that they need to be in on time.

However as you advance in your career, odds are you will find you prefer flexibility (because life rarely runs on schedule), and more importantly, you will likely value working somewhere that pays you to get a job done, not fill a seat.

One of my biggest requirements now is having that flexibility--once you have it, it becomes VERY hard to go back. More importantly, it is increasingly common for companies to want you to be there at a fixed time in the morning, but then work unknown late hours. That seems a bit off to me for many reasons.

In any case, it is worth a discussion with your boss as to their expectations and reasons for needing you to be present at a certain time. Don't do it in a way that comes off as questioning their direction, but try to do it in a way to help gain perspective on where they are coming from.

Personally, my brain doesn't switch on before ~10-10:30am, so that's wasted productivity. I learned that I do well at companies that treat their employees like adults who can manage their time and work when they will be productive. As a result, I tend to get in ~10am or a little after, and leave around 6-7pm, and then typically wrap some things up from home for an hour or two at night if needed. I put in the late nights and weekend when it is necessary, and the flexibility my company offers means I don't have to worry about punching the clock or marking a time card...I can simply focus on getting my work done to the best of my ability to deliver the results they pay me for.
They're suggesting an Nvidia GTX 970 for a good experience. I'd wager very few Macs have a GPU of that power right now.

The big sellers are the 13-inch MacBook Pro and the MacBooks Air, all of which run Intel integrated graphics. And iMacs have mobile GPUs. Besides the cylinder Mac Pros, and older Mac Pros with new cards shoved in them, the entire line is short on GPU punch.
In my opinion, the punishment doesn't fit the crime. A simple warning, written or otherwise would have sufficed.

With regards to your own habit of being late, to echo what others here have said, it is something that you should fix. At one point I fell in to a pattern and I was constantly late for everything, it took a concerted effort to fix it and I think it was quite necessary.

Generally, being late is seen as disrespectful and an inability to keep your word. I've had people in my life at certain points who would show up up to 20-30 minutes late for some events. At that point I was too rattled by their tardiness to even want to interact with them. I am sure the same can be said about others towards me when I fell into a habit of being slightly late for everything.

Take yourself out of the equation and think about how your behavior makes others perceive you.
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ASK HN: How do you handle two or more tasks at a time?
in my current job as a intern, i am supposed to handle regression bucket and two dev project simultaneously what happens with me most of the times is that i forget where i was at the first when i am into second or third task, and i have to switch back and forth to all of them. Can i have suggestions from all the hackers here, how can i manage this ? Thanks :)
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to death for 2013 Boston Marathon bombing
Took quite a while due to the site crashing several times, but I finished it.

I think of it as an interesting experiment - even if nothing ends up coming from it.

My largest concern is there are about 3 questions where I was torn between two answers. I'm thinking I should create email addresses to "cover every base" by alternating my answers on those 3 questions in every permutation. On the other hand, I would feel a bit bad for using up some of the "freebies" that legitimate people might miss out on and have to pay the small fee.

@ColinWright

>8^8 should be thought of less as a scientific black box, but as a friend who claims to know someone you'll hit it off with, and wants the two of you to get together. It might be wrong, but it could very well be right.
Google App Engine Java security sandbox bypasse
I'm still surprised how many people are mad about the OSX ditch. They think they need a high-end gaming video card, which Apple doesn't support. Apple has never cared about making Macs machines that play games. Why would you want to be on a platform that doesn't care about what you want to do on it?
For posterity: The paper is here- and is very readable:

http://www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget/index.php?journal=o...

The pdf: http://www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget/index.php?journal=o...
Go find a new job that pays you enough that you're willing to be there on time.
>Consciousness – whatever it may intrinsically be – is the only carrier of reality anyone can ever know for sure.

> If that is the case, there is absolutely no sense in talking about creating consciousness, since consciousness is already there from the start. It is what there is. It can’t be created for it is that within which all creations unfold.

> If something is fundamentally beyond all forms of experience, direct or indirect, it might as well not exist. Because all knowledge resides in consciousness, we cannot know what is supposedly outside consciousness;

Just because there are limitations on our own ability to perceive the physical world does not mean that there is a fundamental limit on what can be perceived. For example, the Hubble space telescope can perceive light that is beyond both the ability of us to observe inside of our atmosphere and the wavelengths which we can see with our own eyes.

>According to my system, reality unfolds in one stream of subjectivity that I call ‘mind-at-large.’

>As such, what we call ‘conscious entities’ are merely dissociated alters of mind-at-large. An image of that dissociation is a human body.

>Therefore, our feeble attempts to engineer an entity with a private, subjective inner life similar to our own aren’t really attempts to create consciousness. Instead, they are attempts to induce dissociation in mind-at-large, so to create alters analogous to ourselves.

After creating a veil that is unpierceable by human cognition, the author conveniently hides his metaphysical "mind-at-large" creation behind it. It is as if some great mind is doling out consciousness to each animal according to its share. Because we are but fragments, mere images of this great mind we can never hope to be able to recreate anything more than cheap reproductions. Sound familiar?

> Going further down the chain of biological complexity, it isn’t unreasonable to infer that metabolism itself – that process common to all life – is the most basic image of dissociative processes in mind-at-large.

Engineers design chemical processes that harness chemical energy broken up into individual steps to produce some useful product, just like metabolism does. Indeed, chemical engineers use enzymes in some of their steps. In fact, there is even work on creating artificial metabolisms. We are better at replicating this mind-at-large better than the author is aware.

>Based on this understanding, do we have any reason whatsoever to believe that the mere mimicking of the information flow in human brains, no matter how accurate, will ever lead to a new dissociation of mind-at-large? The answer to this question can only be ‘yes’ if you think the kidney simulation can make the computer urinate.

False equivalence much? Creation of a physical substance from thin air is impossible. However, given the right inputs, the Cloaca machine can create poop from food by simulating the digestive process.

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I think Brendan is trying to apologize for those mistakes, a brave face on the embarrassment of 20/20 hindsight, mixed with some pride in the parts he got right.

He is now spending a huge amount of time trying to fix his mistakes, so perhaps he suffers more than most...
I'm fairly certain that complaining works, even if it's not constructive. When enough people complain about something over and over, it builds pressure to change. So I say keep complaining folks!
And if there are always 3 animals (like on mine), then one out of every 35 (= 7 choose 3) bots will get through it anyway. Even if each picture is uniformly and independently an animal or non-animal, one out of every 128 bots will get through. If bots are a problem, maybe use a stronger captcha.

It sounds like a neat idea but it's taking too long to load for me to check it out. I'll try again later.
I doubt very many Americans are "against trains", but very many of us are against the State subsidizing and propping up failing businesses that can't survive without public dollars. Some of us simply believe that subsidizing businesses is not a proper role for government.

Personally I think trains are awesome, and I've love to see high-speed bullet trains criss-crossing America. But I don't want the government involved in it, and if that means we go without the trains, that's an outcome I find acceptable.
Sometimes the block is just your level of comfort? Sometimes working at things makes you more comfortable? This doesn't seem damning at all. He did not almost drown -- he had both a swim coach and a lifeguard in the immediate vicinity. Do I believe that he thinks he almost drowned? Yes, but does that matter?

If MIT does treat its students this way -- let them approach failure with a safety net waiting -- then they're certainly doing better than many other universities.
> The better explanation, of course, is that consciousness somehow is the universe...

What is love? How can an uncaring chunk of bones and flesh feel love? But we do fall in love, so it must exist in some form. Hence, love is the universe itself. Checkmate
Additionally, context is never relevant, popular doesn't mean quality in any context. Something can be both popular and quality, but popularity doesn't make something quality.
Thank you for your comment and I'm really glad you think it looks cool! For now, the Facebook login is the only option, but Google and Twitter logins will be available soon.

Have you given it a try yet, despite the FB login? If you did, please let me know what you think about it.

Cheers
If there is truly a difference in the level of support from Oculus, expect to see Valve/HTC be very embracing of Linux/Mac and have yet another advantage over the Rift.
Can you tell me the talk show you are referring to and if it's accessible in the US? I'm trying to learn Turkish, and compared to when I was trying to learn Spanish, it feels like there are very little accessible resources.
I recommend Toastmasters, its Competent Coummunicator program, and the Advanced Communicator manual for Persuasive Speaking.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty in Boston Marathon Bombing
Ada does not have memory safety guarantees when you use dynamic allocation and references without a GC. Rust does.
javascript is so bad that it's great! i love it and love even more what it becomes lately.
It's safe to use "420", the cops don't know man.
Ask HN: Is Lisp still relevant?
Is Lisp still relevant ? I'm trying to get into AI, I keep hearing about Lisp. Is it still relevant ? Additionally if it is, should I go for Lisp or Prolog or Scheme ?
There's a difference between spying on something and forcing you to do something. I think the idea is there's no "Patriot Act" and National Security Letters in Germany to force providers to introduce backdoors.

The "NSA can spy on you argument" doesn't really apply here. You just try to provide solid security against that. Having poor security in "America" wouldn't save you from NSA anyway.
A reasonable compromise IMO is for Journals to have a very temporary lock on new publications. Public access after say 1 to 2 months seems to meet the vast majority of "Open Science" requirements without much change required.

2) IMO a much more stringent form of peer review is necessary. P<0.05 is only useful in very limited situations. I would argue that unless you republish your exact experimental design beforehand you would need to drop that to P<.01 to cover for a lot of marginal research out there. The old do 10 studies and you can likely publish one of them is harder when you need to do 50 or fudge the numbers harder.
Suicide rate at MIT higher than national average
Unpatched Google App Engine Flaws
It all depends. If you are trying to learn more about vm's and bytecode then this was a success. If you were trying to learn how to make a good ai that uses few resources then you might have failed. The challenge seem to be about the latter.
On too many of the questions there were multiple choices which seemed equally true thus my results would be largely arbitrary.
Is there an ebook version somewhere?
How U.S. Commanders Spent $2B of Petty Cash in Afghanistan
Exactly, it's like a Home Depot lock, sure you can smash it, you can easily pick it, but it's effectively a lock.
Well,

We should also look at the article under consideration. It seems to describe a molecule that might "cure" or ameliorate the effects of aging. Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence but even more, there's a big "push" to have something like this published given that in there would be a tremendous amount of money interested in investing in a project that appears to have even a one percent chance of being that big.
Clor is a 30 some LOC original and superior alternative to colors.js and Chalk.

See repo for full docs and examples.
Slightly off topic: I didn't realize how excited the graphics card makers must be over VR until reading this post. If VR catches on for mainstream use (not just games), that'd be a huge boon to the industry.
If you show up late and leave early then expect to get some pushback. If you show up late and then stay late I find most companies don't care.

I generally get to the office at 10:30, but then work a ten hour day.
The point is that asking Szabo if he is Satoshi is pointless since you will get a 'no' as answer if he is or not.
The card also contains certificate protected by password.
I don't think they will even receive any feedback at all: people will just buy Valve's Vive this year and completely forget about the Rift...
It seems "use strong" is for you. https://developers.google.com/v8/experiments
Those are the two I've been spinning all day today. His best work IMO.
>Actually, that was my biggest problem with the entire article.

For me it was the opposite. It was one of the only redeeming qualities of the article.

>It's a false dichotomy to assume that consciousness and intelligence aren't the same thing, if one cannot meaningfully articulate how they differ.

I think the difference can be articulated clearly. Intelligence is the capacity to create structures and processes that are isomorphic to the world "out there". It's the capacity to grasp the world. Consciousness is the phenomenological space of experience. It might turn out that it's a false dichotomy but it's a logically valid distinction. It's much easier to logically talk about the former than the latter. We can build logically consistent models of the former while only providing hand wavey explanations of the latter.
> I doubt very many Americans are "against trains", but very many of us are against the State subsidizing and propping up failing businesses that can't survive without public dollars. Some of us simply believe that subsidizing businesses is not a proper role for government.

Confusing then that the US spends so much on war.

EDIT: I'm not trying to make any political point. Parent post said that many Americans are agaisnt subsidizing industries. The military budget is an obvious counter to that point. Don't read anything else into this.
No he doesn't (legally speaking, which I assume is the framework you're adopting based on your use of the term "public figure"). It's totally legal to report facts or opinions about random people. Standards for libel and the burden of proof are different but truth is still a defense.
> When do you switch off your transpiler and serve native ES6? In 2020?

Never, probably. Why would you? When most browsers support ES6 you would want to write in ES7, or 8, or TypeScript, or CoffeeScript, or — most likely — in some new exciting language that will transpile to JS.
Yes. They chose a known quantity over an unknown one.

I'd be disappointed though.
Semi-serious question: Other than backwards compatibility, do browsers need to have a DOM? It seems like many web app devs spend more time fighting against the DOM than working with it. Why not just make the browser expose a generic GUI model? Let web devs interact with Webkit or QT directly?
Yes and no.

Sending them home for being 6 minutes late is totally overkill (unless it's something that has occurred many times, and there have been warnings).

Quitting for being sent home for a day also seems like an extreme reaction, though, especially if you like the job otherwise.

I wouldn't call it time-fetishism, and I wouldn't say it's something limited to "older folks," that seems particularly unfair. I'm 24, and when people couldn't be bothered to show up on time, I was bothered by it as well. And I'm a developer. I know that it's not vital that "you be in by x-o-clock or no work will be done for the day," but it definitely creates a stigma toward the individual who roles in later than the rest of the team.
Very good read: http://opennetkorea.org/en/wp/administrative-censorship

Related: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/south-korea-only-thing...
Pretty cool name with good connotations (like Bob Marley's music).
So what does this do exactly? It's not running the code itself as far as I can tell... so it is merely reporting on the status of the background job?
Best Buy hires new API evangelist (me, AMA)
I saw the story submitted here to open the thread mentioned in a comment to a current story, "After Suicides, MIT Works To Relieve Student Pressure"[1] published by National Public Radio on 14 May 2015. Having accurate figures on suicide rates, especially suicide rates over time, is helpful for teasing what might (or might not) be causing elevated rates of suicide in a particular place at a particular time.

A rather striking statement made by an MIT parent in the other online discussion today is that now MIT practices "hand-holding" MIT students. Older alumni sure didn't think that MIT used to do any hand-holding of students.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/05/14/406727576/after-su...
Hi HN, I'm the lead engineer on Firebase Queue. I think it will make processing background tasks in Firebase much easier, and we're already using it for some projects internally. I'd love to hear what you think when you try it out!
Uh, I'm saying it's arrogant to be self-assured about the nature of consciousness, I'm directly addressing a specific line of thinking. That is very different from ascribing psychological motivations to a swath of people who almost certainly have a wide variety of motivations.
> Publicly available archival-quality publishing for all science done in the US would cost at least millions a year to administer. The idea is nice, but is just an idea without the funding to make it happen.

This is what government is for and a million a year is a rounding error to the government.
5 Surprises Zuckerberg Revealed at Facebook’s Town Hall Meeting
Let me just latch on this comment to recommend Nicholas Zakas' book on ES6 - https://leanpub.com/understandinges6/read

Will take you a weekend to read at the max and it's well worth the effort.
I agree that government shouldn't build roads.

Only private companies should build roads, and drivers need to pay tolls wherever they go.

Government shouldn't be in the business of propping up failed, unprofitable infrastructure projects, like roads.

If people don't want to pay for roads, then it shouldn't be built.
Author here. Can confirm: you're right.

But I did learn a lot and will surely try this first in the future.

Should I have written on top that, if you're into crypto, you may want to skip to the summary?
When society is wrong about something, we make progress when those who know better act to change things.
I read the readme but I didn't find any info about delivery guarantees. Do we know if tasks are guaranteed to be delivered once and only once, or if there is possible data loss or duplication?
That's a tautology, like saying the largest predictor of how many languages you will speak is if you are born into a multilingual home regardless of how well your language centers develop.

The better metric would be correlating someone's socio-economic class at birth with deltas in wealth later in life. I'd be very surprised to find a radically different conclusion, but at the least it'll give us more actionable data. After all, trying to eradicate advantages-by-birth might be the most futile exercise in human history but maybe we can adjust for them as we grow to learn more about the statistical relationship.
Probably because some people are in favor of subsidizing certain businesses and others are in favor of subsidizing others, while some are not in favor of subsidizing any.
Amazon to Anoint ‘Choice’ Products Sold Through Its Echo Speaker
Why are trains treated that way in your brain and not roads, which cannot survive without public dollars?
Seriously, do people consider this 3D video?
Your brain should fire wrong signals when you see mut. I think part of the design of mut is to discourage you from abusing mutable variables. (Personally, I prefer F# forcing you the type mutable).

I'm glad they didn't give it a special prefix because not only would it add unnecessary noise, it would make refactoring tedious. I'd rather give the compiler my intent once, and let it figure out if I violated my own intentions.

One thing I like in the F# toolset is the syntax highlighters will highlight mutable and reference variables different colors. It's a matter of time before Rust developers have that (If they don't already).
Ask HN: Why abuse the language so?
There has been a fairly common trend, particularly over the last few years it seems, of people mis-using words in ways that I believe are more detrimental than anything.

Take for instance the word "methodology", which is commonly (ab)used when meaning "method"; "methodology" being the study of the "method".

First, in this case, people are using a word that is longer than the correct one, so I fail to see the advantage in using it.

Second, it mangles/loses the actual meaning of the word "methodology". Are we to expect people will start saying "study of the methodology" or "methodology-logy"?

I understand language evolves, and I have no problem with that, but I fail to see the point of this particular trend, which in my opinion actually devolves the language and makes it more complicated and opaque than necessary.

The reason I'm submitting this to HN is because, as logical people (or likely more so than the general population), one would assume we would be rather sensitive to clear, accurate language. Yet, so many articles posted here are plagued by these abuses.

(This trend would also include common pleonasms, like the popular "inter-personal relationship")

This is an issue that bothers me as I tend to take things rather literally and occasionally end up getting confused. I'm aware this is my own shortcoming, but some people here are often offended by fallacies and will react strongly to them.

Is this not essentially the same thing? Is there a way to kindly correct people? Should we even attempt to?