skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Career opportunities mostly. The startup I was working in was acquired by a US tech company and they decided to close the NZ office and give us the option to relocate to San Francisco (or stay in NZ and find another job :). I was pretty happy with this situation though as there isn't much in the way of a tech industry in NZ, so there's much more interesting work available here, especially in the bay area (same goes for my wife who is in biotech). Oh and despite the insane living costs in the bay area, the pay is far higher than you can get in NZ, I make more than three times as much here as in NZ (Plus NZ tech companies are notorious for not giving out equity or stock options to employees - even early startups).

NZ has its good points with regards to being able to have a more relaxed lifestyle, and its great for outdoorsy types - but skiing, hiking etc. doesn't really interest me that much, and I kind of like the bluster and hustle of the bay area.
"However the basic export (to HTML and pdf) is not that good."

What are you referring to here? It's easy enough to customize the export formatting to whatever you want it to be, e.g., change LaTeX document class, switch to xetex for better font support, etc.
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You've misread me again. The recent leaked version does not contain SOPA-like provisions. There is no evidence that TPP is SOPA-like, and there is strong evidence to the contrary.
This.

I sometimes start syncing an album before commuting. It stumble and stops in the metro but starts again by itself afterwards.

I am not sure what the default behavior of the app is. Probably to only download while on wifi, so it does not kill your data allocation. Again, you need to go in the settings in order to change this. Better than having angry users I guess.
This looks like something that would have been on Silicon Valley (TV Show)...
I have to agree with kingmob. It very much sounds like survivor bias. My first reaction is that anyone who drops out due to a test has a high likelihood of dropping out because they can't do the test, which would leave you with a low correlation test when compared with the survivors, but a very high anti correlation with the total population.

I read a blog post a couple years ago by a game programmer/designer who outsources a lot of work through places like odesk/elance. Basically his thing was to weed out the fakers, he'd offer anyone ~5hrs at their bidding rate to finish a predefined programming task expected to take ~5hrs. He says this will usually drop his pool to less than 10 out of the hundreds who may apply, and he can usually use at least one of the people who complete the task. It's hard to say how many of these people go away because the task looks too big, and there's risk of not getting paid, but it's clearly a good filter for him.

As far as measuring this survivor bias, you might gain some insight by randomly altering the order of the testing. You could measure when people tended to drop off. You might even find that people all tend to drop off around the same amount of time, or maybe after some certain amount of effort. It might even be worth paying people to see if that would improve completion rates (while introducing it's own biases).
Atom (and most other "tabbed" applications) isn't limited to just tabs-- it supports both multiple windows and arbitrary splitting inside a window. Tabs can be dragged and dropped freely between any pane. So, you can have tabs when it works well (IME, for the type of text editing one is doing while writing code, you're usually only actively using one file at a time, much like in a web browser), and you can have more than one file visible when you need that too.

(File management, on the other hand, is completely different; there, you're almost always going to want to have more than one thing visible and a windowed interface is better. That's why no mainstream file manager supports tabs OOTB.)
Keep in mind that commenting and voting don't count as page views since it's all AJAX. If you make no comments, one, or 50 on the same page, it's still one page view.

In fact, that was a main reason cited be people at the time as to why they liked reddit over other options -- because we didn't artificially inflate page views by forcing reloads.
Discussion on the Megaprocessor from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9755742
Yup, all the more reasons to keep our coastal cities out of it.
Wow, I love his brooklyn accent. Makes him sound so grounded. I guess Feynman has (had) a similar accent; and i was similarly enthralled hearing his voice (recording) for the first time.

Somehow I always presume these guys should speak with an English accent, like Penrose. Hehe.
Ideally, ideally basic income would pay for basic needs and let people be creative, more realistically it would be impossible to get passed into law, if it was passed into law it would be turned into something unrecognizable relative to what proponents of basic income expect or want, and because it would be the largest social program in history, there would be a lot of unintended consequences. I don't see how you can look at how dysfunctional US politics is and think there is any way in hell that the two parties would work together on something like it. Democrats would get trashed for removing existing social programs and Republicans would get trashed for creating a new social program. Maybe in another country...

Basic income is a great idea, but something that is actually politically workable and a lot smaller in scope is needed. It is constantly advocated around here with no real evidence that it is workable at scale.
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I use a Merkur Futur with Astra Blades, set to somewhere between 2.75 and 3.25 (typically on the lower side). That plus any alcohol free aftershave leaves me with the best shave possible with low irritation (I have sensitive skin) and no blood loss. The shave lasts me about a day and a half before obvious stubble shows up. When I used a Mach III I had to shave every day.

That said, you don't really need the adjust-ability to deal with beard thickness, you set the blade gap to match your skin, the angle you shave at, and your blade selection. The idea is more gap means the razor cuts deeper into the exposed hair, giving a closer longer lasting shave. If you get too greedy, you eventually cut your face. Sharper blades typically need less blade gap than less aggressive blades. Adjustable razors just make it easier to tune for the other two variables you can control (sadly it does nothing to make your skin more robust ;).

Having a single disassemble-able razor is what helps with beard thickness. The hair just washes away rather than getting stuck in between the blades. Cut beard hair is fairly sharp and irritates the skin as it passes over your face. It also bends the blades and changes the angle the blades travel at. That can also increase irritation.

For a large swath of the world that isn't a big deal, but it makes it darn near impossible for me to get a good shave.

When I travel I use a non-adjustable 53 Gillette Super Speed[2] due to its light weight and size. It's not nearly as nice as the Futur but responds well to the Astra blades for a shave that is as good as I would get with a Mach III but without the cleaning needs and less irritation. I bought it for $20 off of ebay and it's not quite as pretty as the linked one.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Merkur-Futur-Safety-Razor-Finish/dp/B0...

[2] http://www.razoremporium.com/gillette-1953-notched-super-spe...

Brain dump:

http://www.shaving101.com/index.php/education/double-edge-sh...

http://www.shaving101.com/index.php/education/double-edge-sh...

http://www.shaving101.com/index.php/shaving-faqs/253-do-i-ne...
> Now we have three patented improvements on top to make it truly NP-hard. And… semantically secure

This pretty much means it won't become common before the patents expire if ever.
Where do I look for those organizations?
Do we get those leaks on the constant basis? How can you guarantee anything in it next day after the leak? That just highlights what I said above. You can't trust such agreement to be for the benefit of the public, because they already contained something obviously against it. So it has to be completely dropped until there can be trust, which is only possible with transparent negotiations.
IIRC we were doubling every 8-12 months, and Digg sped that up a bit for us that year. It wasn't like a make-or-break moment, but we certainly felt it. :)

Fortunately you had just turned up a bunch of new servers just days before.
It depends on how "page views" is defined, but I can imagine a case where the same number of pages were viewed, but the interactions on that page increased as people began commenting more on reddit than on digg. Reddit doesn't refresh pages when you comment, so if they didn't count the xhr requests as "page views", you could have more active, engaged users without significantly increasing the actual number of pages viewed.
> Even under the current system, at least the waste is symmetric.

But it's never symmetric. Someone in HR spent time setting up the job posting and managing the process. Someone in management took the time to respond to HR and review your resum, then approve the interview. At least one person at a time is in the interview with you. Then the entire team will spend time afterward breaking it down.

A single hour spent by a bad candidate wastes at least 3 man-hours of work by the company, and most likely more.
What kind of shortcuts? Most LaTeX symbols will be replaced with their unicode counterpart, eg. \theta will become θ inline, once you toggle `entitiespretty' with C-c C-x \. Likewise for superscript and index, it changes as you type.

My equation blocks are created with M-o M-s which centers the current line in the buffer (when in fill-mode), so no need for C-c C-e equation.
haha okay!
I don't have any formal CS training though (and the CPU between the ears isn't too great either) so it's going to take me more than 2 hours. I'm going through void next() right now. Are you open for questions on Github?
Hear hear, the "no assholes" rule is always good to apply, regardless of programmer brilliance.
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USS Yorktown dead in water after divide by zero

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19.88.html#subj1.1

"The Navy's Smart Ship technology is being considered a success, because it has resulted in reduced manpower, workloads, maintenance and costs for sailors aboard the Aegis missile cruiser USS Yorktown. However, in September 1997, the Yorktown suffered a systems failure during maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, VA., apparently as a result of the failure to prevent a divide by zero in a Windows NT application. The zero seems to have been an erroneous data item that was manually entered. Atlantic Fleet officials said the ship was dead in the water for about 2 hours and 45 minutes. A previous loss of propulsion occurred on 2 May 1997, also due to software. Other system collapses are also indicated."

I expect this came from Congress' requirement that the military use "Common Off the Shelf Computers" rather than designing new computers for every application.

While I support the use of common computers, it is just plain stupid to use a the kind of computing product that is sold to consumers.
None of this really applies to VPC (which is a private virtual network for only your own hosts and access is restricted lower down than at the ip layer). You actually can have a public IPv6 address on AWS, it just has to go through ELB.
I guess that was intended as a vi-emacs joke/pun ...
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The labour force participation rates look rather different if you adjust them for the changing age profiles of the population, to account for there being a lot more old people and a lot more scope for them to afford to retire.

If you look at this example, it'll show overall labour force participation actually rose between 1960 and 2000 for employees of every age under 60
http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2002/09/art3full.pdf
Admittedly that trend is unlikely to have continued through the last recession, but it's pretty hard evidence against the doom-mongers of the 1960s at least. And it's remained resilient against a number of trends other than automation, not least a marked tendency to export jobs rather than unemployment to the developing world.

Manchester cotton might not have been welcomed by India's textile manufacturers, but I'm baffled by the suggestion that the British decimated the Indian steel industry (I mean, quite apart from everything I've ever read on the subject suggesting Indian steel production vastly increased in the 19th century - railways being more steel-intensive than ceremonial sword production - an Indian family conglomerate now owns the British steel industry!)
My biggest gripe is that it won't recognize that a block of text is math, unless I enclose it with $, which would then clutter the org file.
Looks good, but honestly I can't imagine any practical usage of that thing.

I mean, I understand explicit trampolining in Clojure, but in Java you don't often use recursion.
Maybe you need to look for a new job. If your IT doesn't have that in their budget, time to run!
I made it through the phone interview and honestly, you sound like a better candidate than me. Momma always said I should be a lawyer.

I have 8 years experience and talked about my personal minimal JavaScript framework I built.

I didn't pass the next interview, which in my opinion their provided reasoning was kind of atrocious. In fact, I got the "wrong" feedback sent to me, which for the most part I feel I refuted, only to then get a follow up that basically they sent the wrong feedback and I fiddled around to get things working too much for their liking, despite ultimately getting them both running.
>> I appreciate that you guys might not be statisticians

and apparently very few on HN in general, seeing how this piece was upvoted.

Google has been studying their process in the last few years and are reaching different conclusions than these guys.

Leave it to the reader to ascertain which group has more validity.
> It is rather surprising that more has not been done this year (thus far, anyway) to commemorate a significant semicentenary: the 50th anniversary of what could reasonably be called the most influential linguistics book of the 20th century.

Linguistics as a field is in a post-Chomsky hangover and none-too-happy to celebrate the man that put them there. Chomsky's many years as the dominant voice in the field were traumatic for linguistics. Once a decade or so he would promulgate The New Way of doing syntax, handed down from on high from this very influential man, which meant incredible disruption not only for syntacticians but also for those working in semantics and morphology/phonology.

Much of Chomsky's influence came not from his intellect (though that was surely prodigious) but from his forceful personality. His will to publicly ridicule not only opposing ideas but opposing personalities was a big part of his rise and continuing dominance. Linguistics was a nasty place to work for a long time. (See "The Linguistics Wars").

Now that he's not actively working to maintain it, Chomsky's academic reputation has suffered substantially and the field is largely trying to move on. Large-scale corpora and computational capabilities enable more empiricist rather than rationalist approaches to human language, which has made the argumentation less personal and more productive.

At least, that's my take.
No. Only if we identified a massive number of black monoliths converging on it would that be a likely outcome.
Nice advice.

They won't allow you to change everything bottom up, but they probably will not care about small adjustments.

Little by little, so much can be gained.
(Disclaimer: I soldered an LED to my Arduino and now I think I'm an EE)

Suddenly I'm envisioning an EE future where devices won't rely on a central battery - every component consumes energy from a common bus, and almost every device feeds energy into that bus. Maybe not every device creates more than it uses, but most do, enough to make up for the insufficient output of the others.

Similar to how individual houses are just starting to be solar energy producers, and put energy back into the grid as well as consume energy from it, these devices will both generate and consume electricity.

Obviously this won't work well on smartphones, who spend the majority of their existence within a darkened cloth or leather pocket. But many other devices, which are designed to live in the light, will benefit. I wonder how long a solar-powered drone could fly, if it did not have to have a heavy battery on board.
I've been of the opinion that that kind of "freedom" is a sad illusion at best, and a crippling sense of entitlement at worst. Consider your first question:

>Does having a mincome stop you from stressing over the guy across the street who has a bigger [house] and a better looking wife?

Well, no, however neither does almost anything else. It seems cultural, and is almost certainly psychological. The classic idiom, "the grass is always greener on the other side" illustrates this pretty well. Even with the wealth, whatever form it may take, to get the bigger house, the better looking wife, the whatever problems still arise. The neighbor with the smaller house, with more time for xyz, with a car they don't need to fret over because it cost 1/50 as much as yours.

Those aren't notions of freedom, their ideas of competition. Why can't I be /happier/ than the other guy? Freedom comes as much from being able to have a bad day as having a good one.
BEM would work in this case. It's just that I wouldn't use .sidebar as the starting container for the related elements, it would be .box instead.

In this example .sidebar just happens to be the container to hold other elements being placed into it. I would make .box be the actual true container of the widget I am placing inside whatever container happens to need it. My CSS would be built so that .box is the foundation and it could exist anywhere on the page.
Mostly useless. The AI is really bad. I get the weather and maybe a few music stations from asking. Otherwise, a lot of promise wasted and not convinced it will get anywhere exciting anytime soon. Asking "Alexa" not "Echo" is very silly.
A lot of companies will ask for existing code examples, in this way I can just point them to my example-code github repo and I've had companies use that instead of asking me to do a specific challenge for them.
About where the images come from, don't forget that there are two cameras on Dawn:

-- Framing Camera (FC) which is high-resolution and has a 7-position filter wheel (which allows for specific wavelengths to be chosen) as well as allowing white-light images. FC is used for navigation and general mapping of the asteroid geometry.

-- A Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (VIR) which is lower resolution, but better calibrated radiometrically. It produces spectrally-resolved images to determine mineral composition.

More at http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/technology/science_payload.asp

The images you're seeing in this press release seem to be from FC. I say this because they have high resolution, and some other press releases with similar images say outright that they used FC. The FC spec is 94 micro radians/pixel which, at a distance of 4400 km, works out to be about 410 meters per pixel, and that seems compatible with the feature sizes of ~10km noted in the press release.

But, some of the images in the wikipedia page you linked, which is very good, are in infrared, and are of lower resolution, and probably therefore come from VIR. The temperature plot also seems like VIR (you can get a temperature if you have a spectrum).

Finally, about processing, I notice that the images in the press release seem to have a lot of pixels. This is a clue that they might have composited a lot of individual images to get this one image. If so, there had to be a geometric correction (at the very least) because of course the camera is in motion while the images are taken. This requires very good geometry information.

Additionally, there might have been a projection into a standard coordinate system (so that "north" is up). You might be interested to know that there is controversy about asteroid coordinate systems (for Vesta, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Vesta#Coordinate_systems).

About the white areas -- yes, probably they saturated the detector.
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If it's not smooth ice sure. If you look at an iceburg, for instance, it'll be white and be equally bright from any angle.
The problem with this view is causality. Since things happening as a result of other things is pretty much the definition of "time moving forward", there is no reasonable definition of time moving backwards that still includes causality.

In other words, the "backwards" world he described is exactly the world we live in, since there would be no measurable way to tell the difference. A world where you're getting younger but can only remember the things that happened in the future is pretty much the same as a world where you're getting older but can only remember things that happened in the past.
Why then are overproportional so many Asians in IT? They are most often similarly coming from an immigrant background and had no "parents with a UNIX account".
> Interesting that the author of this piece comes from New Zealand, because NZ is the country that often springs to mind when I think of a nation that might could change dramatically with open borders.

You might want to do some research about New Zealand's current housing crisis and other socio-economic issues (such as Māori being significantly over-represented in poverty statistics) before unilaterally advocating a country that you admit you have never been to and know nothing about (other than its size and population) open its borders because you won't have to deal with the consequences.
Could also be some social media intern asking, and now they're covering their tracks.
Credit Karma's algorithms are weird. They almost exclusively give me offers for credit cards I already have. I guess you can't tell which card someone has from their report, only they have an account with that institution. Makes for some humor.
Do you have a citation for that? The link you provides says nothing about environmental harm from "slowing down the wind".
I have been using emacs for over 15 years. I still discover new things. I am working on a distributed project and found tramp mode about a year ago. Its amazing for multi-hop remote editing. Worth the price of admission alone.