skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious: are you specifically talking about the GitHub-style fetish for "a fork and feature branch for everything, followed by a merge"? I've been on a tear lately against GitHub after having another go at using it (it's where the collaborators are) and finding that it's still as terrible as it's ever been.

Have you used Git extensively outside of GitHub or done much with Mercurial? Patch-based/commit-only workflows are the right solution to, I dunno, probably 75% of fixes and don't get in the way like the aforementioned approach, which tends to be misapplied (read: used 100% of the time because GitHub demands it).

Commit-only workflows are very light on ritual, since it's got about the same overhead as leaving a two-line comment. Mercurial makes it even lighter, because you don't have to futz around with the index like you do in Git (so long as you're only changing an existing file and haven't introduced a new one).
If anything that is an education problem, which is further compounded by the trend of wanting to turn users into completely passive entities who don't know or have to do anything, because then they are more easily controlled and manipulated.

The industry does not encourage users to think and learn. The industry wants its software to do the thinking for them. It doesn't want users to think about trust at all. I think that is the scariest part of where things are heading.
Sourceforge is on the radar here, but maybe it's time to step it up.

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Fire_Drill

Update: seems others have linked to archiveteam.org, so maybe that's the best route. Is the OP part of the AT effort or do they know about each other? Maybe they should.
No mention of Padé approximants? I'd just use a Chebyshev approximation transformed into a Padé approximation, then perturb the coefficients to optimize maximum error.
Wow, this is a surprising response to a pretty normal and mild preference. Would you worry about hiring a Republican in a predominantly Democratic team? What about a Red Sox fan to an NYC-based team?

I've had multiple coworkers who abstain from alcohol for religious reasons - never had a single problem, just like with any other moral/political/racial/etc differences. And if it were a problem, a good manager can deal with a problematic report one way or another - this is on them.

Honestly, I'm just surprised to hear this even crossed someone's mind. It reinforces just how much "cultural fit" matters, sadly.
Or why a number of already vectorized (read: faster) off the shelf low precision log functions were not adequate.
It isn't clear to me how not making fun of Christians, or the ruling prime minister would benefit a the country - it seems more like petty people using their positions for personal gain, which is exactly what you would expect from a dictator.
If you don't like the taste of beer or alcoholic beverages for the matter is fine with me and I'd like to clarify that I don't have prob either with the religious cop-out but you'll have to forgive me if I get you under more scrutiny just to ensure that you fit well within the inclusive environment because from my experience religious people esp. from certain backgrounds (let's stick with PC for now not to inflame the thread) are difficult to integrate and make our lives harder and we usually up to the ears with work stuff to deal with cultural friction and sensitivity training for new hires.
It doesn't really matter what it has historically been. What matters is what it should be.
This one is right up there with A Modest Proposal.
>As an American, we should be questioning things like this. I remember when everyone demanded a re-count with Bush. Why aren't we using this same logic and not questioning it at all?

Arguably, because correctly counting votes in a close election is a valid and relevant exercise, whereas counting foreign relatives isn't.

>I will tell you why: political bias. When it comes to anything against the liberal mainstream, it's questioned heavily..but with really glaring issues like Hillary Clinton's emails that suddenly vanished, it's excused and brushed under the carpet.

Fair enough. But it would be disingenuous to ignore the extreme political bias behind the issue of Obama's birth certificate in the first place.

According to my (admittedly cursory) research, no Presidential candidate has ever released their birth certificate since Chester A. Arthur, notwithstanding those who never had one. Yet, this was not an issue before Obama, and it will likely magically cease to be an issue after Obama (as it already has with Ted Cruz), because the controversy was manufactured entirely in the name of political bias, not fairness or due diligence on the part of Obama's political opponents.

>He has lots of family in Kenya and he kept it very much a secret.

How did he keep it "very much" a secret in any way that differs from other candidates keeping their personal lives "very much" a secret?

> His University transcripts are still pretty much locked up.

Obama is not unusual in this regard. Bush's transcripts are only public now because they were leaked.

>I'm about equality..and you are just being a dick. This is the difference.

Why not be upset then that Trump refuses to play by his own standards? For that matter, why be suspicious at all when Barack Obama ran his candidacy under the same standard of carefully orchestrated PR as practically every other candidate in US history?

I'll concede to being a dick, but i'm not running for anything.
Have you seen this on HN yet?: http://www.jefftk.com/p/how-to-get-a-massive-discount-on-col...

Get married to a platonic roommate with a prenup. Risky some what, but with prenups and no fault divorce the risk is greatly diminished.

The access to finding another human to join incomes and assets for tax planning purposes has doubled.
I have found the bug.

The else block in the last if statement is missing this: signif = signif - 1.0; before the lg2 = FN; line.

Then the relative error becomes similar to what the bits of accuracy table predicts, which is very low.
The guy who sits next to me is quite religiously conservative from what I can tell, and had never had beer until he'd been working at the company for over a year[1], but his conservatism has never caused problems. I think it maybe was explicitly discussed once that I know, when he got into a political discussion with someone at a work event that wasn't on the clock. I don't even think anyone was offended at the time.

Frankly, the obnoxious coworker in this case is me, because he has to listen to me saying "goddamnit"[1] from right next to him all the time.

I wouldn't want someone who would be a dick to people in the office, but if you can be professional regardless of your personal beliefs, that's enough.

[1] At my computer, not at people.
If Apple used motion (or solar) to recharge the battery, people would complain (even more than they are currently) about the thickness of the device. It currently only just fits under the cuff, any thicker and it would be far too thick. In a dress watch, thinness is truly very important.

But whilst I've heard this argument a lot, I'm surprised people are even considering it. Do they really think it will make a big improvement to the battery? I feel like the space used filling it with automatic charging tech could be better used if filled with extra battery. In addition, it turned out that the reported poor battery life of the Apple Watch was just FUD and that since launch, there have been very few (if any?) complaints.

Notification spam is another common false complaint. If you are bothered by notifications, that's your fault. The settings are very granular. You can use VIP in mail, if you're getting too much email, and disable as many notifications as you wish - there is no problem here.

Finally, the author complains that the Apple Watch will never be timeless, then straps on a Casio G-Shock. Enough said, really.

Pieces like these are exactly like the pieces we saw after the launch of the iPhone - how reporters were going back to their dumb phones or blackberries, etc. I suspect we will chuckle about this article too in years to come.
Wow, that's really great to know! I'm going to check this out.
It will get worse for people given they are a top surveillance state that's deployed NSA-inspired tech widely. The people I know over there work hard to maintain a semblance of privacy to share their views. It's still not as bad as a lot of places, though. One of the things strengthening the government's power in these cases is that they tell me Singaporean culture embraces government as a caretaker of sorts. Comes with good and bad.

Most are more likely to be hurt by employers that exploit the heck out of them. I commonly hear about people working long shifts for next to no pay with overtime expected. Labor violations go overlooked by authorities too often. Kind of like the American situation pre-regulations and lawsuits. Hope their situation gets a bit better overtime as it did in some countries.
I would say social taboos prevented it from happening between more often between platonic men and women more so in the past.
Distinguishes you from a robot, WHEN?

After the 80 hours a week spent at work, 56 hours a week spent sleeping (going to work while sleep deprived is like going to work drunk, so they do expect you to sleep!), 3.5 hours a week spent showering (and they do expect you to come to work clean, wonder why), 10 hours a week spent in commuting to work, 7 hours a week spent on feeding yourself (and they do expect you to eat so you can work (I can spend weeks without eating, but then I won't be productive)), 4 hours a week to buy the groceries, and 7 hours a week spent on the internet or TV, there remains NO time for any hobby.

So if they want hobbies, they will have to reduce drastically work time.
What Makes the Expat Lifestyle So Addictive?
If I changed my name to 'fuckwad' people would treat me differently. Half of people's biases and thought sequencing is a result of simple word choice, not analysis of meaning.

Addendum: If this weren't the case, nobody would bother with propaganda or marketing.
Do one thing and do it well... I like how simple the interface is and how trivial it is to toggle between sending encrypted emails and non-encrypted.

Great move opensourcing this. I respect the devs stated ethos and reasons for doing this. Hopefully this project will benefit from 'Linus' Law' and will get help to address the sec issues noted in the full disclosure.

I would like to be able to integrate this with something like keybase - but where i hold the private key (which you can do with keybase but it is not the default).

An interesting project and seemingly moving in the right direction.
OP doesn't believe lithium to be some kind of deity either. It's just a metaphor. Lithium gave them life, creator gods give life.

If lithium were a deity, it wouldn't exist.
>no natural resources

The port was considerably more valuable than any natural resources they could have had, and was tapped as the 'seed capital' used to build the country.

Without it, they probably would still be as poor as they were in 1950.

The 'we built this with nothing but our bare hands' canard is useful, though, for domestic propaganda.

>It took a lot of sacrifice to get it where it is today.

It mainly just took sensible economic planning and a willingness to share the wealth on the part of the leadership from the 1960s onward.

The economic planning part - currency suppression via the purchase of US treasuries, investment in education and subsidies of key industries has been played out by other Asian tigers - Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and China.

The interesting part is where the willingness to share the wealth came from in the 60s.

In the 50s and 60s there was a sense of threat verging on outright panic among the country's elite about certain domestic political opponents. A threat which, not coincidentally, the elite of the United States also felt very strongly in the 1950s-60s from similar domestic opponents.
I read the FAQ but honestly couldn't understand the difference. As with doodle, event creator decides the only available dates and time range. And even if design is cleaner (subjective opinion) people presence group switching (gray/colored) is not so intuitive.
The absurdity of that suggestion it not absolved by the fact that someone else has said it before, or by the fact that you said it will take 'some time for it to happen'. It's completely not an option for the migration we're discussing.
Nothing. Except I tended to hang out with and lived mostly other straight men. I'd probably have been able to convince one to do prenup and marry for strictly platonic income and tax planning reasons. See comment above or below related to prenups and no fault divorces.
They can share a key in person easily, and so it should be easy to give access to a private forum by simply sharing a key/cert on a USB disk

The truly paranoid would probably prefer a printout on paper; I've actually done this before with HTTPS self-signing.
I wholeheartedly agree with the need to make cultural fit bigger than just "happy hour" fit, but primarily on moral grounds. I haven't seen strong data to make a technical case here.

Do we observe discrepancies between company performance that are correlated with diversity? They say this is observable at the team level in controlled studies, but at the macro level do we see it?

Put another way, if diversity was a strong influence on success, why do elite institutions in banking and tech not appear to exhibit much of it?
I'm still waiting for Skyr in Europe/Germany. While this article calls it yoghurt, it's.. not.
Maybe I should start an import or production business myself..

On another note, it is really annoying how every country has their own collection of dairy-based products which one cannot get anywhere else and one has to adapt recipies all the time. (It's also nice, because diversity, but still.)

edit: Looks like this year, finally, there will be skyr in Germany. Now to find a supplier..
The "long-term" qualifier is important here. The best programmers I know are willing to go to great lengths to be lazy sometime in the future. Why write and maintain comments and documentation? Because you know when it breaks in the future it will be easier to fix, thus allowing you to fix the problem and go back to whatever "lazy" thing you were doing.

Let's be honest, the term lazy is loaded. I use the phrase "long-term lazy" because it elicits conversation. "You're looking for a trait that's considered negative? Why?" It's much easier to pull someone in by saying good programmers are lazy (in the long term) than good programmers are prudent.
It seems like a sensible check is for this collaboration to include original studies, like the one mentioned in the article lede, that have already been replicated elsewhere. (Ideally they would keep blind the relevant members of the collaboration to this fact.) Then when you say "we failed to replicate X% of the studies" you also say "of the subgroup that had already be replicated, we failed to replicate Y%". If Y isn't much smaller than X, you know the replication collaboration is probably botching this.
It may not matter to them at all, but shouldn't it matter to you?
- In financial industry? check

but:

- no imprint: check

- no terms: check

- no privacy policy: check

- no SSL/TLS: check

- singup vs signup: check

Try harder. Yeah - why is this front page?
Exploring dark energy with robots
The 16 and 75 were different people (the top 20% and bottom 12% of scorers on a vocabulary quiz that was included in the survey).
The "design is better" concept generally only works if the thing you're competing with is exceptionally bad in terms of design. I've found Doodle to be very easy to use, even for people who have very little experience with computers.
Hello, My name is Xavier and I wrote the complete Backend as you see it in the repository.

A lot of the server code consists out of design patterns, I did this because of the need for maintenance on the different providers.

This was my first try for applying design patterns on a big project so there might be some holes or wrong doings there. Please let me know if you find any so I can learn from it :)
Well, naturally, that only implies the welfare laws and taxes should change as well.

For instance, whether you get welfare or not shouldn't simply be determined by your income, but by an actual analysis of your circumstances: it should be provided based on actual need, not numbers.

The problem here is that it is a very major change, and it may cost a lot and take a long time and a lot of consideration, and that might make it politically untenable.
Yes, I was aware of the port, but I didn't think it had such a great impact. I also read in a great book about the rise of the shipping container that Singapore was one of the first countries in the world to fully adapt to it. Perhaps this contributed as well to the port. In any case, it still is an accomplishment given that this was basically their only resource to get the country to where it is today. We cannot deny that the excellent leadership and understanding citizens are what made this possible.

Thanks for your other points. It's always great to learn new things about Singapore. I'm hoping to somehow use their experience to help bring my country (Tunisia) to the forefront of the region.
Thomas, I've read about REX before and I've been intrigued. How did you learn enough to be able to innovate in the HPC space before you went to school for EE?
Drinking beer should not be the glue to any team. It is not about drinking alcohol either. It's about smoking out unfit candidates when it is inexpensive to do so and religious fanatics/fundies come at the very top of the list.

The skills and expertise of a candidate have to be pretty convincing for me to overlook the fundamentalism part and the troubles that they might bring onboard.
I have had a few open source projects with around 250k installs (web apps and Wordpress plugins). One of them I was able to monetize for about $1k per month. I was getting inundated with support requests so finally I created a "product" by putting up a "buy now" button for $250 installation support. I then ran some google ads to promote it. This was an encryption product so it had business users.

If you make it easy for people to give you money and you have a useful product then there usually will be a small percentage of users who will pay. But I'm a firm believer that to make money you have to put effort into sales.
[tangentially related] 99% Invisible did an episode on the design of bank heists: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/breaking-the-bank/
> It's just a metaphor.

In your opinion perhaps. In my opinion it's a perfectly good example of poor writing as well as a superiority complex.

> If lithium were a deity, it wouldn't exist.

Please.
Back in the day, HN's reaction to Dropbox was also extremely negative [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Quite interesting that you can't find skyr in germany as one of the first places that sold Skyr in Finland was Lidl..
Use http://duckduckgo.com
Reading vulnerability and exploit analysis is (and always will be) a hobby of mine. Despite being someone that is fairly comfortable in a debugger, familiar with x86 assembly and has spent 2 decades troubleshooting complex software in large environments, the skill needed to pull off exploiting these vulnerabilities is incredible. When you take into account the work required to bypass somewhat recent developments like stack protection schemes, DEP, and ASLR, building the software to exploit these memory corruption problems is something you can spend your entire life failing at.

Sometimes, I have a hard enough time getting software to do what it's legitimately supposed to do, never mind something it's NOT supposed to do!

As a side note, there is are some folks that are pretty critical of Project Zero. The argument is that Google should be using these brilliant resources on creating defensive measures rather than playing whack-a-mole.

I don't know one way or the other, but I sure enjoy reading what they post on that blog.
And Snowden leaks explicitly endorse one and implicitly endorse the other. All I needed for confirmation of what I should use. Anything wanting to be better should build on the good properties of PGP while not possessing the drawbacks.
Huh. Disappointed they changed it, would have thought I have the right to describe my own site! Oh well.
One explanation may be: living in a golden cage is still living in a cage.

The other may be a society, people want or rather need to be part of society to be 'normal'.

One may argue that such dorm would be a society and that's kind of right, but it would be rather a mock of society. It would be super artificial.

FYI: some companies build apartments on campus.
Researchers crack RSA 4096 by listening to sounds made by CPU (2013)
That's the great fallacy though. The amount of technical knowledge required to make truly informed security decisions is out of the question for 99% of all computer/mobile users.

It isn't about being passive; it's about having lives and jobs and other things to do with their time. A heart surgeon may be a genius but he doesn't have time to keep up with the latest research and teach himself PKI, certificates, crypto, and permission models across all the platforms he uses (and keep up to date on those too!)

Users will not waste their time thinkin about trust. The history of our industry is ample evidence that it would be a losing battle. Not to mention a single mistake can be ruinous, requiring absolute perfection 100% of the time (from users and programmers).
How Do Programs Run with All Those Bugs at All?
when you declare your income you subtract your cost basis from the sale price. In 1 you paid $10 and sold for $100 = $90 profit you have to pay taxes on. In 2 you paid $35 and sold for $100 = $65 profit. It isn't the time at which you exercise that makes the difference, it is the higher strike price.

EDIT: to be clear, 1 and 2 refer to the original differences in the first post. If we are comparing different exercise time with the same strike price, then the taxes are nominally the same (Because the income tax % you pay depends on your income, you might be able to save money by exercising in a year when your income is low).
There may be overlap with the market for food spectrometers, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/903107259/scio-your-six... . You are providing food supply chain transparency at the point of production rather than consumption. This is related to software security efforts to build reproducible binaries from open source, to guarantee production integrity.
Detroit Water Project founder here. Thanks for spreading the word, but we're actually a non-profit.
I can't state how strongly I disagree with the conclusion that papers should be providing excruciating detail about protocol just because "pharmaceutical companies can't reproduce key cancer papers [without the help of the original scientists]". Science has rarely been done like this.

It would be like Google complaining that they can't copy psuedocode verbatim out of a paper and have a highly performant algorithm. Or Microsoft complaining that a static analysis defined in a paper wasn't accompanied by a production-ready implementation.

Producing protocols that literally anyone could replicate without expending effort is not the business of Science.

Replication should focus on the veracity of the underlying truth claim, not the economics of reproducing the results.
With this stance, you and the OP are uncompromising on this issue which can be viewed as good or bad depending on context but I think in this case it's very unfavorable.

Everyone has hobbies just take the time to think about it and you will come up with something better than "none" which is not really exciting to hear and might send the wrong signal to the recruiter that you are not interested enough in the opening position.
News Corp. Is Winding Down School Tablet Sales