skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem with a total ban is just the sheer number of people with diagnoses. For example, I read recently that something like 6% of adults have ADHD (I don't have a source, correct me if that is way off). I personally wouldn't be surprised if the incidence was higher among young geeky types. And Adderall isn't even the only drug that these types of competitions should be worried about.

You can only ban so many people from competing without really starting to affect the potential number of players, which isn't something that private gaming-tournament organizations are going to want to do.
Putting a clause in the contract stipulating that he isn't an employee doesn't mean anything, at least in the state of New York [1].

I should know, my previous employer got me to sign such a contract, but the state determined I was indeed an employee after I was unjustly fired, and now I can legally collect unemployment.

1. https://labor.ny.gov/ui/claimantinfo/ui%20and%20independent%...
Off topic; does anyone know if there are any services that get rid of floaters? I've got a nasty one right in the middle of my best eye and it is very annoying. Has been there for two years and I haven't got used to it yet.
You'll always be able to engineer a better system for a particular known purpose.

The magic of AWS is that the transactional nature of it gives you more flexibility. I was working with somebody with about a storage requirement that will be in the 800-900TB range. But to hit the price point they want, they'd be buying a 1PB capacity solution.

The catch is, what's next? If they exceed their growth projection (a strong possibility), they need to spend $$$ in capital funds to buy some large block of capacity. That procurement takes time. Implementation requires more planning.

With Amazon, the prices are high/competitive, but the marginal cost of a unit of capacity is the cost of that capacity!

On the other hand, this user also has a large transaction system with well known performance an scaling characteristics. In their case, their buying power and size makes it much cheaper (by 3x) to host in a datacenter with customer-owned equipment.
It reminds me of the time that I unloaded the loopback driver...
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I too would like this! I'd love to see a series of progressively more complex programs done in a variety of languages, actually. When I was trying to learn AngularJS, everything I did felt like it was ugly and I could do it better if only I knew how. The docs didn't help because they're trash, and various blog posts showed simple examples that I didn't know were any better than my style anyway.
Gemütlichkeit is another word to learn.

If you come to Germany you can take part in any conversations just knowing genau and ach so.

Genau - Exactly, I understand, I agree. Used to express agreement. Germans like to agree. Use freely in any conversation at any time.
Ach so - really, I see. Can be used to express agreement, astonishment, realization, understanding, questioning depending on intonation and stress.
Na - hello, how are you, hey. Can be used at any time to start or avoid a conversation.
Since I went through something similar recently, one of the best things to do is to get in touch with the CERT local to the company and tell them what the issue is. They can be pretty effective in pushing companies to solve the problem.
Vonklaus, I can assure you it was not my intention to spam anything. I went on Kawasaki's website before posting on HN and could not find any reference of it. Clearly, as you pointed out, I did not check if the same content was already in other sites/articles/blogs. Since it came from Inc.com, which is quite a common source, when posting it on HN I thought it would flag as already posted by somebody else. But it wasn't. Anyway, in the future I will check if any article i would like to post is already too common on the web.
Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (2013)
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Do you follow your own advice? You should
The thing that always bothered me about LASIK is that the flap never fully heals. I considered doing PRK (an alternative procedure that omits the cutting of the flap), but the healing time can take months. I was screened by an eye surgeon who insisted LASIK is a superior procedure. Has anyone scientifically compared the risk of LASIK vs. PRK?
i think the largest obstacle is that performance bonuses are still paid ANNUALLY. If I have an amazing Q1/Q2/Q3, but a terrible Q4, guess what happens when payouts come around? Manager remembers the last thing you did.

if the industry really wants to transform performance, pay them out monthly or quarterly

The real answer is, they dont want to. In fact, I suspect you will see an industry trend to disband performance bonuses for all non C-level employees over the next 5-10 years.
Me too..wonder how it can be done. Is this a javascript library?
I got mine a couple of years ago too. It wasn't painless at all. In fact, the first week sucked. And I developed light sensitivity although it went away after 5 or so days.

I also suffered from dry eyes. Something that the doctor says rarely happens but seems to happen more often than is being recorded(from personal research, seems to happen when person suffers from high astigmatism). But it does decrease within a few months and now I occasionally have to use the eye drops to keep them hydrated so no big deal.

Regarding the blurry night vision, it happens sometimes to me. I noticed that i notice it more when my eyes are more tired and less hydrated than usual.

Overall, I am also happy with the experience. The greatest thing about it is enjoying the underwater views as mentioned.
Im not an expert but I think that bed nets reduce infection in infancy. Where malaria is endemic (and eventual infection is highly likely regardless of preventatives) a vaccine is a good extra proection.
Was that because it worked, or because you couldn't? :)
I've been wearing glasses since I was 15 (found out I needed them when I failed the eye exam for my driving learner's permit) and long thought about LASIK. A few years ago I switched to contacts and since then the desire for surgery is gone. Contacts are comfortable, I can stop any time they become a problem, and only take up a minute of my day to put in and take out. And as my eyes change, my prescription can change, so they're a bit more future proof.

Now, I don't mean to criticize people who choose LASIK at all. It's a deeply personal choice, and what's right for me may not be what's right for you. I just wanted to share this because I had previously overestimated the hassle of contacts and I'm glad I gave them a try.
He mentions that the demands of tracing JITs and current Intel CPUs are well aligned. I wonder, how well do they play with the instruction cache? Generating little chunks of code on-demand and then executing them seems to be a recipe for instruction cache misses?
For the uninitiated, these are libc libraries for embedded systems (alternatives to glibc).

http://www.musl-libc.org/intro.html

http://www.uclibc.org/about.html
Yes, Ivy recently passed review. UI code is native, business logic is Go.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ivy-big-number-calculator/id...
That must optional, surely. Otherwise it's a dead end.
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Thank you a lot, I love you defined the builder as component factory, let me use it as expression or slogan. As for your workflow with builder I think it's suitable for big legacy projects, and I will think how to make easier to export group of components as library or whatever can be injected in outside.

Also if you have any projects, which has useful components or just a whole project which is doing something useful please din't hesitate to upload projects into our gallery.

Also if you whant to propose some ideas to me, please write to me directly in any way convenient for you.
i think this hits the nail on the head. The real problem is the terrible managers, where the only time they even considered their direct reports performance, was during the annual performance reviews. Now, since there is no formal mechanism or check in place, they won't even do that. Are they better or worse off? I don't know.
What's this about comments? Do their articles not have comments and a form at the bottom anymore?
11 years ago. Good results. Halo-ing is present, although not a big problem.

I do think my vision is deteriorating a bit now. Although not enough to need glasses yet.
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I did a lot of research when I got it last year. PRK is a better procedure, but only marginally so, and I decided it wasn't worth the pain and longer healing time.

If you do a lot of extreme sports, martial arts, race car driving or those sorts of things, PRK may be worth the extra pain and inconvenience though.
Mazetti has a background in quirky projects. He and his team once illegally flew into Belarussian airspace and dropped several hundred teddybears carrying pro-democracy messages out of a plane

Woah! This is a pretty hardcore version of #4 here: http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html
Absolutely agree with the 1-on-1's. And it doesn't have to be a super formal process. A simple way could be to take a walk, grab a coffee and just chat about things that are working well and aren't working well. Strong relationships are built on trust and you can't build trust with a tool.
> On many of the occasions in the past when I've given meaningful feedback... despite the "anonymity", that feedback has been repeated to me verbatim by a manager in later conversations. Often in a passive-aggressively angry or intimidating way.

This happened to me once and that was quite enough.

Filling in "anonymous" surveys doesn't benefit employees at all. It's going primarily towards the company or department performance indicators. Putting in a complaint might just harm your position.

I agree: if something needs fixing then it needs to be addressed openly and informally first: discuss it with colleagues and see what support you have, discuss it constructively with a manager and see what they're willing to do about it.
> This lets you get an image of any size out of a single file just by taking a subset of it. No more resizing thumbnails.

I always think of this during responsive image discussions – if JPEG-2000 had caught on, we could have solved that entire problem simply by adding an attribute to <img> telling the client which HTTP byte ranges it needs to request for various sizes. Single-file, cache-friendly, degrades well, and … will never happen.

> Sadly it never took off as storage / bandwidth are cheap and JPEG is so entrenched (especially in hardware)

JPEG proving to be impressively durable certainly was a key factor but I also think a lot of it comes down to naive moves by the community. In addition to the patent situation, there were just basic things like having a huge spec which for a long time was neither freely available nor accompanied by a public test suite.

I work with librarians who have large scanned digital collections and it was definitely interesting to compare the reactions: the users disliked JPEG 2000 because they'd been conditioned to expect it to be quite noticeably slower, unsupported by some of their tools, and knew that they couldn't rely on any two programs actually working with a given set of files until they tested it (http://jpylyzer.openpreservation.org/ has helped catch that earlier).

Meanwhile, the JPEG-2000 standards people & other boosters just tended to assume inevitability, where everyone would drop other formats once they saw how inferior they were. Things like Photoshop removing JPEG-2000 support (first discussed publicly in 2007, dropped in Elements in 2011) had this odd effect where some people expressed considerable concern (http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/TR/JPEG+2000+support+discon...) but others just assumed it was some sort of unrepresentative quirk.

I cannot help but think that the situation would be considerably different if something like OpenJPEG.org had gotten significant support much earlier. Jasper, JJ2000, etc. were the most popular way to add support at all and they're slow, buggy and generally stagnant so many people had a bad first experience which encouraged avoiding the format.
Ask HN: Where to find part-time/flexible but long-term engineering (C++) jobs?
part-time/flexible, remote are mostly associated with freelancing, working on small/short-term gigs, etc...

So I'm interested how to find full-time like stable long-term jobs but part-time/flextime? All the long-term prospective employers are looking strictly for full-time candidates, why?
No, curried languages compiled output typically has tricks like in the OP and they typically rely on a run time system to help with the 'impedance mismatch' between curried and not languages.
Publicity doesn't bring much benefit to quant funds, and it can attract imitators, so you are much more likely to have heard of a successful fundamental manager than a quant manager. The article is about a guy coming from Renaissance, which is probably the most successful hedge fund in history.
shhhhhhhhh!! you'll give Universal ideas!
Is this noticeably worse than calling through the vtable?
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I wouldn't say that musl is particularly aimed at embedded stuff, simply that its small enough to fit most times. It is a full featured, fast C library.
LASIK (all laser), no pain, no halo. One of the best decisions I've made.
I hope that guy got a better job. His managers sound clueless.

Maybe he got a job working from home.
No, because it is horribly broken in many situations: On linux, context menus often end up on a different monitor than the window, on windows, Aura can’t render text readable at all, etc.
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Not scientific but I only had PRK as a choice. And the healing time is a lot more than the LASIK procedure. Although my doctor told me that it "could take a few more days".

Took me a week until I could look at a computer screen with a ridiculously large zoom level and only for a couple of hours total per day. At about 3 weeks, I could look at a computer screen at a lower resolution but no more than 4-5 hours total.

As for risk; from my reading the greatest risk in both are post-op infections which are a concern with any procedure(even sampling blood). The others weren't really something to worry about. With LASIK, there's also a risk of flap detachment. But that could happen even with a healthy flap if the force is big enough.
Note that LASIK is not recommended if you have any kind of inflammation in your body.
for reference, the estimated probability that a proton will spontaneously decay into a neutron in a second is ~4.1x10^-37.

this has never been observed.
If you have chrome can you open up its task manager and print screen it?
I've used JRuby on a Rails 4.2 project and everything turned out fine on it. Many projects may not use what's not yet supported.
LASIK cost me about $3500 in Texas at the best place I could find.

It is easily the best money I have ever spent. I highly recommend it if you're a candidate.
Encrypted signals are not blindingly obvious. An encrypted radio transmission will appear as pure random noise and no different from all the rest of the noise that we pick up.
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I am not sure what bearing it has on this discussion, but I was intrigued to discover that this site is Finnish in origin: http://www.rakettitiede.com
Efficacy of LASIK in the longer term (20 years up) is very much unknown, though.
I've encountered that while being on a quest to find perfect gtk3 theme :) Scrollbars are tremendous, which is crucial on tiling wm (see my screenshot above, for example).
LASIK is definitely a contender for the best value purchase I've ever made. My only regret after having it done is that I didn't get it years sooner. I think you get used to the hassles and limitations of glasses and contacts and it's not until you're freed from then that you realize what a pain they really were.

I swam a lot as a kid but avoided it once my vision got bad and being able to swim with complete freedom has made me rediscover the joy of being in the water. I'd call that out too as a bigger than expected benefit. It's also a big improvement over glasses or contacts for my favorite sport, snowboarding.

I can see slight haloing at night if I look for it but I find my night vision for driving much improved relative to glasses or contacts and my memory is of experiencing haloing and other worse artifacts at night with both so for me this hasn't been a negative. Driving is probably the most demanding night vision task I do and it's improved.

I was fortunate not to suffer any complications beyond dry eyes for the first six months or so, something I also suffered from with daily contacts. During that time I'd carry the little disposable moisturizing drops in my wallet but I don't need them any more.

There are obviously risks of complications but when I looked into it at the time it seemed that they were less over a ten year time frame than the possible complications of contact lenses, worth considering when weighing up the risks.
I find it slightly amusing how so many difficult programming problems can be fixed by just tossing a neural network at it. They're not great for non-organic data, but they work so well for organic data, like text, handwriting, images, or in this case, voice.
Of all the new things in programming, this one I'm looking forward to the most.
Because go is significantly safer and more productive (of course this depends on the developer in question but on average) and using the ndk with c/c++ for serious development on android is absolutely one of the worst modern platform development experiences out there.
Got it done September 2013 and overall very happy.

I had poor eyesight (-4.5) and astigmatism in one eye.

Cost £3000 for the top end surgery (3D mapping etc.) also due to my thin cornea I had to have the PRK rather than LASIK. This took longer to recover and was very uncomfortable for a few days after.

I now have 20/20 vision though I do have a slight halo effect at night and very dry eyes most mornings but this will hopefully clear up like many others have.

Edit - I had the PRK procedure.
I've sent DMCA takedown notices. A garage band could too. You don't have to prove you're the author to send a takedown notice, you merely have to assert it.
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Can you please tell me how to convert attention into money? Genuine question, since it seems like the business model of a lot of B2C startups out there.
But even subcontractors on government projects are subject to the same limitations as the prime contractor. So many limitations and increased overhead are imposed on government contractors, it's not surprising government projects fail in ways a similar private project would not with similar funding.
Shouldn't they cache the result?
My Dad had LASIK done few years ago and he said that while his daytime vision improved to being perfect, his nighttime vision while driving actually worsened - he said that the halos around bright lights were so distracting that he would rather not drive at night if he absolutely doesn't have to.
I've had PRK, and while the healing time is longer (you have to wait for your eye's epithelium to grow back), the overall risk is less. There is no flap, just a reshaped cornea.

You wear a contact lens for a week to prevent infection. And during the time that you're healing (my case was about 5 days), you get to listen to a lot of audiobooks.

edit: my surgery was 5 years ago and I've had no issues. Still see perfectly today, although with my night vision, I sometimes question if I'm seeing poorly, but I question my wife and she eases my worry by telling me she also cannot see the dark-object-very-far-away-at-night.
Temporarily disabled by default but they turn them on for certain articles.

They claimed this was because comments had become too negative. It is possible they are genuinely just trying to protect the mental health of their staff who are usually the targets of more aggressive comments but somehow I doubt it.
They're just taking a progressive stance against IPv4.
We have known for a long time that the worst performance comes from iterating a "fetch value from memory -> make decision based on result about what to fetch next" pattern. Unfortunately almost everything that can be described as business logic looks like that. It's also common in object-orientated systems.
3DXL: large scale experiments with 3D printing
I didn't read the article because it required a subscription for me, but I feel pretty confident that he already had a lot of the knowledge. Because the alternative is that he didn't have the knowledge, and actually learned 4 years of information in 2 weeks, which seems crazy even for people with the highest aptitudes.
The only answer in my opinion, and this goes for any website with a security issue, is just not to use their service.

They either don't care or have a long list of higher-priority issues than this. Either way, nothing you can do.
How is go not portable to all of those platforms?
the error is from php 4.2 or something.
I just wrote a longer version here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9941741

Basically: they nailed the really hard stuff – much better compression, tons of advanced features – but flubbed the implementation. Unclear patents, hard to get spec, no public test suite, etc. meant that people only implemented it if they had to and those people usually found incompatibilities between the different commercial offerings, particularly if they actually used any of the more exotic features.

If I were implementing anything as complex as an image format now, my top priority would be having a decent open source implementation with a comprehensive test suite. If it's not well supported in *Magick and doesn't have browser support, I don't see it going anywhere no matter how attractive the other details are.
I've been wearing glasses since I was seven and I've never felt they're particularly annoying or cumbersome. (I swim and ride a motorcycle, so potentially I might be.) Therefore, I don't really need to think at all whether a surgery might be a good choice. This means that, I'm kind of blessed with being perfectly happy with what I have, for once. Now that I read the article and the comments below, that feeling is priceless.
If the point of a business is compensating its employees, that might be a strategy. However, that isn't the point of the business. The point of the business is to generate money for the shareholders. Over the short/medium term, shareholders might be content with growth and revenue. Over the long term, without profits the business has nothing for shareholders.

It really isn't a tax strategy any more than being unemployed with no income is a tax strategy. Amazon's strategy seems to be keeping margins low enough that it's hard for others to compete with them, in the hopes of great long-term profits.

While the stock may be valued on its revenue, that valuation is premised on the idea that Amazon will be making a lot of profits from that high revenue in the future. Investors aren't buying Amazon stock believing that it's avoiding profit as a tax strategy to funnel money to employees. They're buying Amazon stock believing that it's the future of retail and that being the future of retail will come with enormous profits.
Had it 11 years ago and I've had no issues at all. Sometimes I think my vision is deteriorating but then vision tests confirm that it's just paranoia.

I recommend it to everyone, it's one of the best decisions I've made.
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