skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the 1980s I worked part-time and full-time jobs. It was hourly pay so overtime had to be approved by upper management before it could be done.

In the 1990s I was salary, which means they could make me work extra hours for no extra pay. NO need to get upper management approval.

When I was given 141 projects in our Project Manager app, I said no to them. It was too much and the deadlines were too short. I was told to do them or be fired. I had a house with a wife and son and if I quit I would not get unemployment and in St. Louis at the time finding IT work was hard. Once I got sick and mentally ill they fired me anyway. I heard they were struggling to make things work correctly, ex-coworkers contacted me to re-apply for my old job because the person they hired to replace me didn't know what they were doing. But I was not medically cleared to work and the company had a policy of not rehiring someone they fired.

I'm a dinosaur, PC tech has gotten super fast with a lot of RAM, so they don't need me to debug the programs so they run faster with almost no memory leaks. Just look at modern Windows apps in video games or even Adobe Creative Cloud suite, they are all bloated and buggy and crash and have exploits. That is because they got rid of people like me who knew how to fix the programming issues.
I disagree. Basic UI issues are not excusable for a company with the resources of Microsoft.

If we were talking about issues in a brand new kernel, maybe. But not basic UI issues.
As has been said, they are basically the same language.

In terms of learning, it's probably easier to learn Clojure at the very beginning.

It's simpler to get repl working and get a project building with Clojure right now. Not much simpler, but simpler. And at the very beginning, when the toolchain is magic to you, that matters.

As early as you like you can switch to Clojurescript, learn the handful of small differences and go from there.
A peripheral concern is the direct job loss of the millions of truck drivers as self-driving semi tractor trucks are developed. In nearly every state, Truck Driver is the #1 job.

Will Minimum Income be the solution?
Loaded question much?

Property is a social construct. If humans decide these are the rules of property, then they are the rules of property. If your username is indicates your position, your beliefs are outside of the mainstream and your definition of property is outside of the mainstream. If you really want to have a conversation, describe where you stand. Otherwise, the answer is that theft is not necessarily involved in the transfer of wealth from A to B and you have not established that theft is involved in this context.
It is, it's just massively time-shifted.

It's interesting to put that in perspective: the pyramids were built out of solar energy by way of muscle. Skyscrapers are built out of solar energy mostly by way of diesel fuel.
The robbery just such a small amount, it should not be charged.
Since the amount is so small, i am going to forgive it.

You mean the difference like this?
Russian Censors Threaten to Shut Down Business Website for Writing About Bitcoin
Well, that's like saying you blew a Google interview question because you failed to recognize a black vine weevil, therefore keeping up with entomology is pretty important. One company having a buggy interview process that asks questions irrelevant to the job, at the very most means if you are applying for a job at that company you should spend a couple days cramming for the interview. It does not mean you should spend the precious hours of your life studying a field that's irrelevant to your job on an ongoing basis.

To be clear, if you want to study set theory or entomology because you find them interesting for their own sake then far be it from me to criticize that decision. I'm just disagreeing with the argument that you should do so because of one company's buggy interview process.
I don't know much about tensor networks, so I may not be the right person to answer your question. Maybe that's answer enough? I would guess that it would only be apparent how to do some kind of embedding like you're thinking about after fixing a gauge, so that there would be gauge configurations that are physically equivalent but not at all manifestly related to the network you're interested in.

I do know that people think about tensor networks seriously as toy models for quantum gravity. But that's quite outside my range of expertise.
Congrats on the launch ya'll! We're in the process of implementing GrowSumo right now :)
By error source you mean false positive source? Because according to the analysis doc the rules 1 and 6 have way higher false positive rates.
I don't really agree with the author. I find Windows 10 to be a step up from 8.1. Also, a fair comparison might be to verion 8 when it first came out, right?

I think Microsoft and Apple are on a good path: keeping the same major version number for their OS, and just continually bring out little changes.
I think there will be no shortage of private investors who want a piece of pie and would cough up monies to that end. It's similar to properties. Real estate in Kensington, London is valuable but the market is ever dynamic so investors don't go by the historic trends but rather short term trends when deciding the value of property.
Kudos to Yahoo! What a different time, thankful tech companies. But this is no more, only after public shaming did the Googles/Facebooks chip in money for OpenSSL and GnuPG when those projects almost collapsed. And they gave rounding-error level of their multibillion cash piles.

This is why the community is broken and sadly some of us feel cornered to do Affero or just not open source. I used to be hardcore BSD, but times changed and had to adapt.

These the majority of the community is selfish, doesn't contribute back, doesn't even give credit to most of the tools behind their UIs. See:

http://zedshaw.com/archive/why-i-algpl/
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DIY Distro – Debian Live-Build
Why are _kernel_ issues excusable but UI issues are not? I think you have that backwards.
Ask HN: How do you draw the line between bikeshedding and design?
Hi HN,

I am currently working on a project with my co-founder. We will sit down and talk about the design decisions we want to make before we start to code anything up. We have been doing this for about 2 months now. Sometimes the chats feel like design talks and sometimes it feels like bikeshedding.

Where and how do you draw the line between application design and bikeshedding?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_triviality
> To really make this a long term win, you need to make it indestructible and easy to repair with on-hand parts.

That was the first thing I looked for. The materials, at least from this image, look plastic and very custom made. http://static1.squarespace.com/static/552aca94e4b0c75f5b87b0... If these parts get brittle and break/crack, how are they repaired?
iOS devices never need to generate those signatures, as there's no way to add new tracks to your iTunes library from them.
Could it be that some of the landlords successfully made it look like an accident to collect the insurance money?
The 'risky bet' that saved Facebook hundreds of millions of dollars
The noble knights of UNIX lore and traditions are at it again. Lo and behold! Armed with the arcane power of ancient spaghetti code shell scripts and logical fallacies, they grep their way through enemy lines to banish the dreaded modernity once and for all.
Nothing is ever really finished. Apple's been working on their version 10 for 14 years.
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9979381
Is this the science consensus? I thought it's one of competing unconfirmed theories?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9983616
The Apple II reference manual beats that (https://archive.org/details/applerefjan78). It includes the disassembly of the monitor program and contains full schematics and timing diagrams.
Actual content that I found interesting:

ISIS has a number of old Iraqi Baath intelligence people.

ISIS is fighting the Syrian government, but also working with it against other rebel groups.

Iran is desperate for people to send to Syria as fighters. They're even arresting people on trumped-up drug charges (which gets you something like 20 to life in Iran), then offers them the option of fighting in Syria.

ISIS isn't really trying to inspire the masses to rise up and join them. They're trying to inspire the masses to fear and therefore obey them.
I was sure VLC vendors its own dependencies and is completely standalone, and doesn't need anything installed to work. TIL I guess.
The first Porsche predates the Type III by quite a few years. Also, Ferdinand Porsche designed the original Beetle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche#Relationship_with_Volk...
(this is not a swipe at poster).

This article by Suster is awful. The take down discussed physics, Suster discusses "doubters". The take down did not suggest it wasn't possible to transmit energy through sound waves, simply that it seemed very impractical to be able to charge a phone without pretty drastic side effects.
You're right, I am equating those, because they are all equal. Whatever label you put on it, opposition to same-sex marriage makes the statement that you believe that love between same-sex couples is inferior to that between opposite-sex couples; that you need to ensure your children grow up to have that same belief; that homosexuals are something to disapprove of, something to fear; that you have a deep fear of your child turning out to be homosexual. Whether or not you come out and say those statements (and many of your "traditionalist" colleagues are not afraid to say them outright), all of those statements are clearly implied and wildly hurtful to homosexual individuals, and their friends and family.

This is why you saw such a violent reaction to your being placed as CEO. The fact that you didn't last a week means that you and the Mozilla board are so blind to the harm that your positions inflict on your own employees and their friends and family that the appointment itself was taken as an insult, and this is ignoring your continued refusal to see the harm that you are doing. And I say this as a huge Mozilla fan (see my comments elsewhere in this thread).

You made it clear that you will use a position of power, in this case money, to put down and insult those who work under you. Why should anyone have to put up with that? Mozilla employees are lucky to live in a time and industry when they could express their disapproval and have it acted upon in a positive way. I feel for others who are in less fortunate positions.
I think everyone should roll their own distro ;-)

The example given is based on Debian Jessie. The hosting forum (vsido.org) is run by a distro based on Debian Sid (experimental).
There are a lot of people like that in the workplace when I worked. It is called kicking a person when they are down. Management had it as well which is why I got fired for getting sick on the job. Society in general hates the mentally ill. Every time there is a public shooting they claim the person is mentally ill and that paints all mentally ill people with the same broad brush. I'm non-violent and dysfunctional and could not do a public shooting. I have empathy and compassion that prevents me from doing something like that. The people who did the shootings are sociopaths that lack empathy and compassion.
It is funny that both major OS developers settled on 10 for their "forever version."
@murbard2:
> Could it be that some of the landlords successfully made it look like an accident to collect the insurance money?

The linked article directly refutes that claim three different ways.
Ongoing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9983616
> I am a real estate investor looking into the pros and cons of investing in the campuses of technical schools.

I don't know anything more than what you provided in this post, but it sounds like you're talking about for-profit education centers. These are generally looked down upon and are coming under heavy scrutiny by the U.S. goverment as of lat for their false advertisements and broken promises.
> "I agree that Joe is probably overthinking it, but at the same time, I would be turned off to find myself at a programming event that plays up my "maleness" by stuffing in lots of sports things ;) On the other hand, I find flowers infinitely less annoying than football, so..."

The issue isn't really the things, but in feigning interest in the things that don't interest you. You don't have to pretend to like something, but at the same time you can still find ways to share time with those that do. You cannot design an event which is all things to all people, the answer to being inclusionary is not to be dull, instead it's about inspiring people, and you might as well have some fun trying to do it.
Perhaps a bit of a novelty given the rechargeable battery argument others have mentioned. I imagine distributing a bunch of these with batteries and having a central dynamo-powered recharging station that gets shared throughout a community would be even more practical.

The first thing that came to mind when I saw that it lasts 20 minutes would be to use it as a pomodoro timer. Code for 20 minutes, then be forced to take a break, stand up, lift the weight, etc. You get a micro-workout as a small bonus. Again, it's a novelty but sort of a cool one at that.
ClojureScript will always run on the JVM. It's just that from now on it will also always run on JavaScript.
“Problems that are a breeze to solve in Linux are a nightmare in OSX because all you have to go by are big shiny icons. With Linux you can look at log files, enable verbose output, or often even get help from the engineers who designed the software.”

Contrary to what you said, in my experience, problems in OS X are not a nightmare to solve compared to Linux. While you can’t exactly get help from the engineers who actually wrote
OS X’s first-party software, I’ve solved quite a few issues in the past by going through logs in Console.app¹. Frankly, OS X gives you a lot more tools to solve issues than just “big shiny icons”.

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¹ — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_(Mac_OS_X)
Indochina Sea has a nice ring to it and is mostly accurate.
My ex-cofounder and I sat down at a table and hashed everything out at the interface level--what HTTP requests to make, how messages were handled, etc. We didn't second-guess each others' implementations, because as long as the interface was stuck to things were fine. That saved us a lot of bikeshedding.

I would say the line is generally "Are we both right given the current business needs?". If the answer is yes, then you're bikeshedding, and should just flip a coin and move on.
So you would leave for another job paying you the same? You would actually leave just to find another job, where your colleagues were payed less?
Sure, free except that every dereference has to clear out those bits, unless the target architecture has a "pointer deref ignoring lower n bits" operator/operand.
Yanis Varoufakis may face criminal charges over Greek currency plan
Were you trying to use it from the API or the command line?

Either way, yes. Elenril and others were doing good work cleaning up the API when I last paid attention years ago, but there's a lot of surprise technical issues esp. in libavformat that it has to cover up. (Like, PTS/DTS in avi. Like operations that are instant in some file types might be real-time minutes in others.)

As for the command line, major customers tended to not ever give feedback on it, and it was maintained by Michael who tended to use the same code-review standards on the UI code as on the inside of a video encoder. This made it quite difficult to ever get anywhere. That's one of the reasons there was a fork back then.

Of course, there's deep technical problems there too - you can tell it to do all kinds of things that are actually really hard, and it will kind of half-heartedly do them then fail. Try converting a Matroska file to MP4 without re-encoding it; you'll get a weird error. That one weird error would take more than a year of developer time to fix.
Exxon and Chevron Report Worst Quarterly Results of Current Decade
Celsius may be better for chemistry. Fahrenheit is better for real life
I'm having a hard time thinking of an example of any of these that weren't about land or resources.
Re: your comment on HbA1c, I will just leave this paper here and comment later.

"A Simple Meal Plan of 'Eating Vegetable Before Carbohydrate' Was More Effective For Achieving Glycemic Control than an Exchange-based Meal Plan in Japanese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes"

http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=12049472055...
If you sent back the NDA, it mentions an invoice, you included your rate and they accepted the document you might now have a valid contract.

A lawyer will sort this out for you. Until then enjoy the classic 'f*ck you, pay me' video https://vimeo.com/22053820
It seems that Google is more friendly to DMCA and business rights than to right to be forgotten and personal rights...

"Dont be evil" ? Forgotten so long ago...
That's probably part of the reason why 9 was skipped - Microsoft didn't want a lower "forever version" number lower than Apple.
This chart is interesting, noting that they don't use the world "unicorn" they call it the "billion dollar startup club"

http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9bJY6S9...
Having seen this link, many of the responses in this thread make a lot more sense now.

I'm starting to see a meme emerge here.
Was it the "Yeah" that made the tone seem sarcastic? I didn't really mean it that way, I genuinely do think it would be interesting to see what happens. Sometimes I wish I had been taught math from a more theoretical perspective. When I was younger, math seemed really boring, just problems to solve; how much money is left after this series of transactions, what is the area of this shape, etc. When I did learn simple algebra, it only seemed useful for those kinds of problems.

I've only found mathematics really interesting within the past few years, realizing how useful it is for creative things, like making music and art, or understanding programming at a higher level. If I had learned about functions in a more interactive way, maybe being able to create art on a computer screen, or write up physics systems in games, I think I would have been fascinated, and maybe the concepts would have stuck.
I actually need the "Backup and Restore (Windows 7)" option as, as far as I know, there is no other way to do the disk image backup or restore of my Windows computers without having to use the third party programs. The problem there is naming it "Backup and Restore (Windows 7)" and not just "Disk Image Backup and Restore" or something like that. The funny name comes from some managerial decision to hint that it's "unmodern" (hey, an old Windows version!) way to do the backup now with the push for ho-ho clouds.
Microsoft historically released a good OS version at about every 2 major versions... could Windows 10 be the start of a good version at every 3 major release?
If you are trying to say that your use of 'work' is the same as Amelius', then the burden of proof is on you; if not, then your comment is beside the point.
Release it as-is, then release patches and day-one DLC.
Rampart[1] was always one of my favorite console games as a teenager, and strangely addictive. Perhaps that would be a fun game to port (destruction and water are key game mechanics, plays well to a voxel engine, game play is already pretty well balanced)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_%28video_game%29
Everything that defines the self such as experiences, thoughts, and even our physical appearance is ephemeral and intangible. There is no particular thing to hold on to. It's all in a state of flux.

That may seem obvious, but to conceptual thinkers like myself, experiencing non-duality (no-self) and "Thusness" (as Alan Watts calls it) is difficult. It's why I designed subliminal posters for meditating: http://zission.com

Here is a specific poster for nonduality http://zission.com/product/words-inside-outside/
Ask "how much does the customer care"? If the answer is "not much", waste very little time deciding what to do.

Then, pay attention to when one of those decisions turns out to really matter, and be willing to revisit it when actually needed.
Interesting--the kind of trick you'd normally see in an interpretive language.

Marshalling a string object ref to an actual value (before it can be used for string manipulations internally) must incur a fair bit of CPU overhead.

I guess they decided the unboxed memory savings were worth it.
When are you getting feedback on the design? Real design is about adapting to the users' needs, not the founders. You do need to put something out there to get useful feedback, but you should spend the bulk of time implementing things that the users would not have thought of by themselves.

As a general rule of thumb for the startup phase, if people are arguing about it it's not worth arguing about. Pick one and show it to users, and usually the users will resolve the question for you. The design decisions that matter are the ones that everybody can look at and say "This looks off", eg. including adequate margins and whitespace, picking a sane color palette, making information easily skimmable, not forcing the user to perform extra clicks or interactions. When they fail, it's usually because the founders never thought about them in the first place rather than because they thought of them and picked the wrong one of two equally-viable alternatives.
"The attorney, as an outsider to the corporation, owes no fiduciary duty to the corporation’s shareholders so the classical theory would not apply. Under the misappropriation theory, the trade is unlawful because the attorney violated a duty to the client by using the client’s confidential information for the attorney’s own benefit."

The client is the corporation's shareholders, as management simply acts as an agent for those shareholders.
Doesn’t this imply the development of a JVM written in Clojure?
Merit-based salaries is bullshit.

Salaries are based on what the market will bear. Employee performance is extremely hard to quantify, and there's not reason to believe that this changes that aspect of the equation too much.

Seems like people in the US have completely forgotten that collective bargaining was a key piece to advancing workers' rights.
Windows 10 appears to suffer from the "pick a date" style of project management. A date was chosen before the project started and that's the day it was released regardless of any issues that cropped up in development.

And rolling release is a good model and it seems to be working fantastically for browsers but it's predicated on not releasing features until they are ready. But Windows 10 is a marketed product with features that all had to exist on day 1. So instead of a stable core to work from we get a big ball of muddled together.

I'm hoping now that the date is passed and the features are all in there that there is nothing left to do but fix everything. The (slow) rolling releases of XP worked well so I too have high hopes for Windows 10. But I'll be waiting for a while before I upgrade.
My automatic watch contains an electronic circuit, so I'm not sure what your point is.
Without a token, a blockchain is just a distributed database. These have existed for a very long time.
>...the rate at which we'd be able to build them in SF sans restrictions would at most keep prices stable year-on-year.

Do you have any citations for this? It's unexpected to me. What's the limiting factor?
Stars are the original GravityLight.
You don't really know that. You're essentially talking out of your ass while this guy is walking the walk.
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