skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I presume that US companies would also have this effect. US domestic market is very large, so why bother expanding to (say) UK which is ~15% the size?
What is in your experience a better way to subtract the effect of personal feelings from performance reviews? How can you scale, and make it fair? Is it even desirable, as an unpleasant but productive person may have an impact on the morale of a team?
I feel that every time this issue gets discussed, it needs to have some background information provided, because quite frankly, taxi drivers in France suck.

From my own personal experience, I have had the following incidents:
1) a taxi driver that took me the long way round from a train station to my home. Thinking I was a tourist, because of my accent, he basically tried to take me for a ride thinking I wouldn't notice. That lifted the bill by 50% compared to the usual price.

2) A taxi driver in Marseille that wouldn't finish the trip until I gave him my phone number. My choice was to either get out in the middle of one of the roughest neighbourhoods of Marseille and try and find another taxi, or hand over my phone number (which he verified by calling me on it before continuing) - I had to change my phone number after that one.

3) Countless occassions of having taxis refusing to take me as a customer because I wanted to go to a part of the city they didn't want to go to. One particular occassion struck me as bad - I had the car door open and one foot off the ground when he realised where I wanted to go and took off. Considering I was a lone 35-yr old woman at the time, dressed in a business suit, he obviously wasn't worrying about his safety.

4) I have a friend who actually works in the Boers (mentioned in the article). When I'm out with him, he won't let me get into a taxi until he's checked the guy's (most taxi drivers are men, and on the rare occassion I've had a female driver, they have been nothing but professional - make of that what you will) papers and flashed his badge to keep the driver on his best behaviour).

5) If I move my grievances out to people one removed from me (ie people I personally know), you can add in a guy getting physically hauled out of a taxi and beaten by the driver because the driver didn't want to go where he wanted, another guy getting hit by a taxi when walking across a pedestrian crossing, only to have the taxi driver get out of his vehicule, abuse and kick said friend for slowing him down, and then driving off, and a taxi that took off with a friend's luggage in the boot, which he never got back.

So yeah, I have about zero sympathy for French taxi drivers - the sooner they're run out of business, the better. Their latest behaviour has just confirmed for me that I won't ever be using one again if I can avoid it.
And if the consequences are high enough, it's not really free speech.
Using CSS4's validity pseudo-classes to make forms epic
If you look at his script the blocking system lets you hide html elements with css, too hide the app store banner all you have to do is inspect element in chrome, find the element id/class and set it to display none.
There's a nice side benefit here for the fact that I'm always at least 6 months behind games.

I don't have enough time to play games as much as I'd like (i.e. as much as I did as a teenager), so I only play a few selected highlights, and given that, it makes no difference to me if I'm playing the cutting edge or what came out 6 months ago - it normally takes me 6 months to finish something.

This has lots of benefits:
You get the community consensus on what is worth playing, not the marketing hype.
The game is usually cheaper.
The major bugs have been filtered out.
“Let the other 95% in” commentary
S. Korea willing to support N. Korea during record drought
Apple Signs Thousands of Independent Labels in Royalty Deal
I was wondering that. There is more to retaining talent than just fixing the review system. If the company changes their product strategy dramatically and engineers aren't happy with that, money won't help. Surely the whole idea how Adobe implements CC is flawed. It'll discourage product innovation (customers already locked in anyway), dripfeeding features does suffice. Buying other products and companies to increase potential market and customers is the only way left to increase revenue. Which engineer wants that?

Just looking at Lightroom (because I'm a customer), there appears to have been a lot of change over the years. Highly visible engineers and managers lost to do their own thing, Spotify and other companies.

The about screen lists engineers involved, that has changed dramatically as well. I don't know how engineering is set up at Adobe, but it certainly looks like they have outsourced quite a bit of that product.

It will probably take several years for Adobe to realise that their license rental scheme was a shot in the foot...
The other week I was in LA on business and I took a taxi to my hotel. If taxis in Paris are anything like there, no wonder Uber is so popular...

The hotel was about 5 miles from LAX. First the taxi driver suggested I might be able to take a shuttle bus (I had just landed after a 16 hour flight and didn't want to figure out and wait however long for that) and after persuasion agreed to take me. He had no idea where the household-name hotel was, so I had to give him directions from Google Maps. For that 10 minute trip I paid $25 + tip.

On the way back I took UberX, the driver was a lot friendlier and even helped to find which terminal I needed as I had no idea. Total price $6.50. I gave him a five stars and $10 tip as he was great.
A counter anecdote, I've used Tesseract for a largish project and it's worked wonderfully. Typically, on a full page of text, there'd be one or two minor errors, easily 99% accuracy. Irritatingly for me, but also impressively, it seemed to detect ligatures correctly (it used the unicode 'ﬂ' instead of 'fl').
Obey God.
Reminds me of why i don't like sitcoms. Because the joke all too often is about one or more people that can't admit fault and so end up dragging a issue along while the excuses etc snowballs.

But then i have the social graces of granite...
It's very annoying. To me a while of searching around to find the explore button also, which got grouped into that drop down. Hiding content in drop downs unnecessarily is very annoying.
I'm a developer, but not a game developer. Making the decision to hardcode game logic to only accept 33ms frame time sounds like a pretty dumb choice. I would wager that if your fix is to artificially cap performance of your software, then something in your code base sucks majorly. Call me crazy.
Teens Make Film in Broken English to Explain Why They'll Fail English
While I usually am fine with Ad blockers, Apple's position here is completely incoherent. They decided not to pay artists for a trial period, they've decided websites don't deserve to advertise.

Why it's almost like the only way to deal with Apple users is to sell to them through Apple, and therefore give up at least 30%.
Don't know why you got downvoted, as it's a valid counterpoint. You may be right, and that's maybe what some people at Apple may think. But i don't think it's right. Ad-supported business model is ubiquituous, and there are loads of companies who have a vital interest into finding new ways to put ads in web content.

What i think is that by making it harder to put ads in mobile web content, they'll make it more expensive as well, and thus push toward higher quality ad networks ( better targeting, better speed, better content).

Just like the end of flash saw an increase of quality SPA HTML5 frameworks.
Zapier supports RSS for both triggers and actions, so you can combine feeds together using multiple Zaps.

Also, you can run arbitrary code to manipulate data in any way you like using the Code app[0].

[0] https://zapier.com/zapbook/code/
> most of us have been in a position where we have
> been forced to use a product that is inferior
> or even completely broken

I might have used equipment that was inferior, or been made to perform a procedure of which I thought it will add very little, or maybe almost none value. I definitely haven't been in a position where I have been forced to use something equivalent of a dead brick, and pretend as if it would do something very technically sophisticated (bomb detection).

> I have no doubt that many of the people who were
> forced to use this product were aware that something
> was not right

For some almost-untrained security guard, I'd say this is probably right. Add to this the context of living in a very hierarchical system where you "just do what you're told" and I certainly can imagine someone wielding a stick around a car claiming to examine it, "as long as I get paid..."...

But then, this person isn't the one being deceived about the effectiveness "bomb detector" but rather it was the leadership of the whole army/police/security-service who obviously didn't care the least to invest even 1 second of thought into what's being bought (for thousands of $, no less...). So how much thought was put into the effectiveness of the weapons being bought? The procedures of checking cars? The method by which locations of checkpoints around sensitive areas were determined?

The death of people being killed by bombs was the result of the complete ineffectiveness of these "bomb detectors" only to a very little extent, but likely mainly because the whole organization responsible for safety was unable of rational thought and planning.
One example of impressive fansubbing i have seen was where the subs were color matched to the speakers hair, and contained cultural/historic/contextual info.
How are unvested and unexercised options in the USA any different to share save? you don't get the dividends until you vest and you cant vote them until they vest.

And BT does have other share schemes I know as my PM got some as a bonus for his work for the millennium dome - these tend to be kept quiet in fact my pm though it was a joke by some of v senior mates
VSO is pretty great actually. Private source control, bug tracker / agile planner thingababoo and build all in once place. With the possibility to auto deploy on Azure if you need it.
Teaching Kids to Code – The English Experience
Matching the speakers' hair is useful, but too often notes end up as showing off. A good translation is supposed to replicate the experience of watching something in its original language, not explain every reference.
Greenpeace is a non-profit, so they have much less to gain from 'climate alarmism' than the fossil fuel industry does from climate denial.

Monkcton studied classics and received a post-grad diploma in journalism. That's pretty far removed from being a related discipline.
Link Between IQ and Criminal Offending
What does the base rate have to do with it now you don't have to buy an annuity.

And saving tax now at 40-50% and only paying standard rate later is a no brainer and if you can do it via salary sacrifice and get some or all of the NI added to the pensions
"2010, private nonprofit universities, whose students tend to be relatively affluent, spent on average nearly $50,000 per student—with the wealthiest colleges spending nearly double that amount. At public four-year institutions expenditure per student was $36,000, while community colleges, where minority and first-generation students are concentrated and which stress vocational training and offer associate rather than bachelor degrees, could spend just $12,000 per student."

Two questions occur to me: First, how much of the discrepancy between private, non-profit schools and public schools goes into matters related to instruction, namely faculty salaries, labs, libraries, academic support? Second, is the community-college difference adjusted for the largely part-time status of the students?
Ask HN: Who's best at creating animated websites these days? Except Google. Functional animations with properly choreographed UX elements has been the next frontier in web design for some time now.
That's spot on.

The best part: Uber is managing to address problems people have been wanting to address for decades but been unable to, as those strikes can be politically devastating.

I bet the government is privately patting themselves on the back that a nice, foreign entity is willing to take the heat and provide the hammers for taxi drivers to keep driving those nails deeper into their own coffins.

When a taxi driver gang is beating up an UberPOP driver or burning his car after turning it over, the average French citizen is seeing himself, an average dude just trying to sweeten his end of month by driving people around, and the commercial dispute becomes a crusade of the right of the common man versus a gang of uncontrollable bullies. Well played Uber, amazing PR.
I really think a kind of lightweight collective bargaining is the answer here.

The way it works is simple. You install an ad blocker, let's call it QBlock.

Then, QBlock goes to the websites and the ad networks to negotiate. If you want to reach our 1M users with your ads, you have to play ball with us. e.g.

* Keep ads to 15% of screen space

* Don't autoplay audio

* Don't exceed 15% of network traffic

* etc.

If you comply with our guidelines, we'll let your ads through. If you don't, tough.

Of course this assumes there are users who would prefer an ad blocker that lets responsible advertisers through as opposed to one that doesn't, but I believe that enough people do that it could work.
Uber being available in Paris was one of the greatest thing to happen for tourists and residents alike. I agree with the general sentiment, Taxis in France are some of the worst taxis I've used. I've had a lot of bad experiences. And lest you think it's due to racism or because they thought I was a tourist (not that this would excuse their behaviour one iota), I'm French and I was born in Paris.

I can understand the financial hardship brought by Uber and the frustration with the license prices but as a group, they have not endeared themselves to me and none of my friends have generally positive experiences with them.

It's high time a service like Uber which penalises drivers for bad experience exists.
A power plant for the Internet: our newest data center in Alabama
I don't think jumblesale is arguing that his writings are incorrect or not useful, just that he doesn't like popularizing his works because of the authors political views.
Facebook Hires Yahoo Cybersecurity Chief
Climate scientists have been doing that for almost 25 years at this point, and Soon's response has pretty much been to complain that he's being bullied and that science is being politicised. I find that to be actually comical, almost as much as the presumption that an intelligent and intellectually honest person could do this for as long as Soon has. And that his association with political and industrial think tanks is a non-sequitur in this regard.
You may joke I know that a few years ago the CWU (Postal Union) in the UK used to mail floppy disks with paper work to branches rather than send emails.
We've had great success with CCV's SWT to indentify text zones and Tesseract to extract it.

[1] http://libccv.org/doc/doc-swt/
You inspired me to write a thing which will save me a lot of time in the future. Thank you.

http://www.robsheldon.com/tactics-of-crackpot-debate/#4
That's not a small team for a PC port...
No, because that was actually irrelevant. In this context, Soon's record within the scope of climate research is what's being scrutinized, not his personal life.

If Soon's opponents were attacking his love of Dune or his tendency to eat falafel, there might be an analogue here.
Thanks. PDF version is here: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/graphics/taoup.p...
SIMT of course, it is more similar to array programming than functional (of course, array and relational programming all have relationships with FP).
like https://corp.fon.com/en#what_is_fon
Unfortunately this is three of so releases old.

GNU APL is up to 1.5 now and is significantly more stable.
Both are cases where the truth of the situation is put aside from a moral standpoint, which is analogous to suggesting that someone's political views could influence the reception of their engineering views.
Well, that tactic ought to end well for the taxi drivers.
MNIST is really easy, it's not a useful benchmark any more.
In most developed countries, this is against residential service TOS and could subject the operator to disconnection.
Pre-orders also reduce the amount of working capital required to make a game. This is, obviously, doubly important if you're a small company with very little working capital...
How would you bring in the next billion dollars?
I would have gotten rid of the registry in Windows.
although weirdly hard to find

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.athoraya.a...

is a much better, modern, apl keyboard
Expecting key stage 1 kids (age 5-7) to be able to develop and debug programs is a big ask.

I would have left any coding to secondary at 13-14 just a I did when I did my CSE
How do you plan on helping candidates practice interview questions? Surely you have narrowed down the list of topics/questions somehow or else it won't be a very efficient use of time or of your service.

The juicy part is just how you plan on procuring those questions. Careercup/glassdoor? Getting previous engineers who had access to those interview question wikis to be coaches? Surely the most effective way is to just get access to the actual list interview questions/grading rubric (at the past 3 companies I worked at they were accessible to any fulltime employee). Of course you shouldn't answer me if that's what you're actually doing since it's probably illegal. But if you have that kind of data I would use your company and recommend it to all my friends.
On firefox, the close button at top right doesn’t seem to show up if you have the ad-tracking blocker turned on but if you mouse over the top right corner the pointer will turn into a hand denoting the presence of a link & you can click there to close the dialog box.
That's a surprise to me, I hadn't heard any of that. Not that I've followed things that closely.

What I found so far is [1], in which he seems to just be doing a bit of a "show me the data" thing wrt global warming (its fairly old I guess in defense). In [2] he's definitely saying IQ is race-related, and gender related to a lesser extent, in my quick readings.

I quite like that he doesn't mince his words, sugar coat things or seem to take any notice of popular opinion/political correctness. Not agreeing with him, but I find that refreshing.

[1] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1436
[2] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?m=200311
*Translator's note: Keikaku Means "Plan"
Are you good at sketching with pencil and paper? If not, I recommend dropping pixel art for a few weeks, picking up a good book by Betty Edwards or Andrew Loomis (both can be found as pdfs online), and filling a couple sketchbooks.

To make good pixel art, or any other kind of art really, first you must learn to see shapes in a particular way that's not intuitive for non-artists. It's a bit hard to explain in words, but if your mind hasn't learned that trick, your shapes will always come out wrong and you won't know why. Sketching allows you to learn that skill quickly and easily, while pixeling has so many distractions that IMO it's almost impossible to learn from pixeling alone.

With the right approach, as described in the books I mentioned, most people see obvious and major progress after just a day or two. I'm not exaggerating at all, it took me literally one day of sketching with Betty Edwards' book to go from "I can't draw, it must be genetic" to "I can draw anything right if I look hard enough".
The absolutely dreadful launch of Assassins Creed: Unity probably did not help. Consumer confidence was dropping fast, having a refund option encourages trying new things and takes some of the risk out of AAA pre-orders.
As a Hindu, I always flinch a bit whenever the word Karma is used in all these different contexts :)
After dropping out, weatherman Jerrid Sebesta sees a bright future
That is very similar to what Adblock plus did. Many of the users were very unhappy, leading to forks of the project.

This policy, for good or ill, annoyed many of the users:
https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads

Ultimately, it lead to the popular fork:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
“First Peoples” – new PBS miniseries on human family tree and its migrations
Probably fortress[1] though the original website is sort of dead now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_%28programming_langua...
Its like Fon except :-

1. There are no telco partners. We directly sell to consumers.

2. Data sharing & usage is metered. You accumulate then you use it elsewhere. Its called Karma GB.

3. We are also thinking of putting up a feature that lets you enable 'free wifi' if you are a cafe/restaurant owner and you need a DIY solution for your customers. Thinking of keeping it as paid feature.
500 MB lifetime storage doesn't seem like a whole lot.
This is my story basically.

I started getting interested in anime in mid 90s. I set up dial-up Internet (Trumpet Winsock on Windows 3.11!). I met this guy from Germany online who had somehow managed to get Ranma 1/2 on VHS tapes, which he graciously agreed to mail to me in Finland. I knew a guy who was into video editing, so he had the setup to be able to copy them so I could mail the tapes back to him.

From there it took many years before I knew enough Japanese to be of any use to anyone. But once I started to get there (and with a ton of help from my now wife), I skipped the fansubbing part and instead made a demo manga translation and sent it in a professional looking folder to two companies who were doing the official translations. I thought it was worth the shot, but didn't really expect a response. But to my astonishment BOTH agreed.

Soon I found myself regularly visiting the publisher for new work and had a professional translator as my mentor. I was getting paid to translate manga, it was my dream come true.

But after the dream ended the hard work started. I was surprised by the speed at which I was expected to translate these books. I was supposed to do 2-3 books every month! Take a look at a manga, see how many pages there are and you are not just translating the dialogue, but also explaining all the sound effects floating in the background.

Around this time social networks started releasing their APIs and I got into that world instead and left the translation work for others. That was a great choice, as I started making WAY more money doing that than I ever could have with translation. But I'm glad I gave manga translation a shot, as now it won't be left nagging as an unfulfilled dream in the back of my mind.

We translated the complete series Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne and some other manga before "retiring" from this profession :-)
LOL for the downvote ;-)
Some Startups Can Be Brutal for Employees with Families
Would you fly on a plane that is piloted by a workable system delivered in a timely manner ?

I do every time I get in a plane.
InvoiceDaddy is now free for anyone who writes a honest review
It seems this is just built on top of Tesseract as well.
It's because of the size and distance comparisons, its not about the resolution. His point is that a 2k cinema movie is like watching a DVD vs say a bluray or an 8k cinema movie.
> I wonder what rob pike has to say about OOP or java, I wish I could listen to it.

12 minutes where Pike talks about a few things, that seem to be wrong in our software world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5ApnhPAE
App banners are outside the DOM.
If the base rate was higher then property would be a lesser investment.

It's entirely crazy. I just asked for more cash and chucked the money on the commodities market. My portfolio is worth 178% what it was 12 months ago. Sod tax. Sod pensions.

That cash goes into house. That house I live in. Better interest rate. Sell when the kids have moved out. Live off cash, dumping bits of it in various other investments to avoid inheritance tax in the future.
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