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The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome ( https://hbr.org/1998/03/the-set-up-to-fail-syndrome ) is a great resource for how to handle situations where you feel an employee is underperforming.

This article appears to be mostly cribbed from SF Chronicle's coverage, which has additional context and some discussion of pension obligations [0] [0] https://www.sfchronicle.com/…

The article omits SB 50 [1], the effort by Scott Wiener (state senator from SF) to increase housing density and remove regulatory hurdles for housing development near transit. From…

Definitely — our R&D team works on developing new mathematical approaches (for example, how to best leverage TDA for classification problems) and also applying existing approaches …

I'm the lead frontend developer at Ayasdi, and I figure I should take this opportunity to let the HN community know that we're actively hiring in engineering :) If you're a fronten…

I did simple analysis of overall letter frequency and how that would map to a 98 tile set (not counting the blanks) and this is what I got: A: 7 B: 2 C: 4 D: 3 E: 11 F: 1 G: 3 H: 2…

Yes, my distaste for C is probably because I'm not a good enough player, haha. I received an email mentioning the CLARINETS heuristic for choosing tiles to leave in one's rack, and…

Interesting, hooking could argue for weighting letters at the beginning or end of 3+-letter words higher than those in the middle.

I was thinking that you could sum up the transition probabilities from the actual transitions available on the board as the main measure. Then you could use frequency by length to …

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Yeah, we'll do what we can to comply. If you're signed up and have your Twitter account connected you do get the reply/retweet functionality on hover. We like the calm of having no…

Good idea--I'm uploading the video to Vimeo now and I'll link to it or use it for the embedded video.

Looks like there was an Xcode 3/4 confusion that crept in. I imagine you were compiling in Xcode 3--I've fixed the issue now and pushed the change to the repository, though you may…

Thanks for the heads up. I'll patch that issue on the repository.