jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm curious, is this a money issue, i.e., you refuse because it feels like working for free? Or is it just a principal thing?

I doesn't seem unreasonable to me to ask even a senior developer to do a small coding assignment as part of the interview process unless they can show a good, relevant coding sample.

If we're going to agree that whiteboard coding isn't a great way to evaluate someone, and we can't ask you to do an assignment on your own, what else is left? Talking about past experience is great and an important part of an interview, but I think most people want to (rightly so) see some code at some point before extending an offer.
A few years ago researchers found a way to eavesdrop on a commercial theoretically-secure quantum key distribution system. The trick was to replace the polarized light pulses with bright pulses that overwhelmed the sensors, sidestepping the whole quantum business. The point is that even if a system is theoretically unbreakable, it's only as secure as the implementation, which may have nonobvious flaws.

References, which explain this much better than I did:
http://www.vad1.com/lab/full-eavesdropping-2011/
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v2/n6/full/ncomms1348.h...
What did manning release that was an actual war crime?
That's where WCF works - in internal systems where you have control over both clients and services.

Trying to do a phased replacement of existing J2EE SOAP webservices without the ability to change the clients (meaning that you need wire-level compatible) and you'll see just how hard WCF is to extend.

The fact that it IS possible to do that kind of integration is a testament to just how powerful the framework is. It's just a shame that Microsoft didn't spend an extra 5% effort on the documentation (or just open sourced it).

I should add that we're currently using WCF as an integral part of our system as despite the drawbacks being able to support TCP (and MSMQ etc) and everything else in one framework is worth the extra complexity. Plus we have a lot of organizational knowledge of WCF now.
>If it was a short-term bet, your criticism is valid. But this is a long-term bet

How can you even claim to know what sort of bet it is? I don't believe Mr. Andreesen is nefarious, but I fully expect him to talk his book. It would be foolish otherwise.

As far as his Op-Ed, I find this interesting:

"Target is happy because it has the money in the form of Bitcoin, which it can immediately turn into dollars if it wants, and it paid no or very low payment processing fees; you are happy because there is no way for hackers to steal any of your personal information"

Let's put aside the fact that people having their accounts hacked and Bitcoins stolen, amounting to hundreds of millions(?) of dollars is all over the news. We can also put aside the fact that "immediately turn into dollars" requires a fee, somewhere. How do I get a refund if need be? Target needs to record that information regarding my purchase, then we're back at square one: my information on the system of some retail operation, waiting to be stolen.

>Feel free to start there if you want.

Start where? Bitcoin proponents are going to have to do a better job selling the technology than "Go research it". I Google it and end up in /r/Bitcoin, which is a hell-hole. If understanding the importance and use of a technology involves independent research and attending conferences, no one will bother. The Bitcoin advocates need the public to understand the tech if they want it to go mainstream; Mr. Andreesen gets this, that's why he's writing Op-Eds in the NYT.

I find the technology fascinating, really. Especially with regards to the idea of information and contracts being passed through the blockchain. Yet every sales-pitch is about Bitcoin as currency, and I haven't seen very many compelling use-cases there yet.
To be fair, D has had it since 2007 :)
I wonder could UBI actually be a special payment system that could only be used for buying things and services. Maybe some reasonable part like 10-20% for cash.
"i want to talk about governments but not politics" is a fairly incoherent position.
> I prefer having a Python monoculture for AI to be able to mix and match different algorithms.

I do not. Unfortunately, high performance and python do not go hand in hand. Yes, I know the heavy lifting is done by C/C++/Rust/Cuda/Blas/Numba and so on, but, when you run simulations for millions of steps, you end up with billions of python function calls.

Afaik only Jax actually performs any optimizations because it constructs an analytical gradient. Zygote seems to be able to that and more on the LLVM IR level which, I think should enable more optimizations.
I control the HTTP layer with a forward proxy. Works well.
I read it as “Tyrants do this because it enables their tyranny.”
I'm all for Occam's Razor and don't usually buy corporate bullshit, but this comes to my mind:

- Azure is the second largest cloud provider worldwide

- Ubuntu is probably the most common Linux distro installed in the cloud

- We never heard about another episode like this before

Now if Canonical was allowing / encouraging this kind of behavior from their sales rep, I think we should have seen it happen in the wild before (like, a thousand times?) already; since it only happened once, I'm inclined to believe them. Also see [1]

Now let me think: I'm not OK with Canonical accessing my contact information because I spin up a VM, but I'm also not OK with Microsoft sharing my contact information with Canonical. What's wrong with "let me call them if and when I need?" But I'm European so maybe a little too privacy focused.

[1] BTW: let's say 99% Ubuntu VMs are spun to host some boring Wordpress site, nuvelle cuisine blog or leather shoe shop. What's the chance of an Ubuntu sales representative to ever make a sale this way? I guess it must be pretty slim, so he'd have to contact hundreds of potential customers to turn a few sales - something that would quickly get reported if it was a corporate business habit. This reinforces my first impression.
The first thing this new "government" did before doing anything else was repeal a law that allows regional rights to minority languages (Russian included) and demanded that the International Criminal Court charge the democratically elected Yanukovich with crimes against humanity.

They are only now trying to name an interim government. As far as how stable this government will be that is left to be seen, but if the US was willing to invest some resources in supporting the revolution and several of the candidates being named this week, as the assistant secretary of state Victoria Nuland seems to suggest in this intimate conversation (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957), perhaps they'll be willing to bail out Ukraine's economy?
Honest, non-snarky question for you: How is it that you could not afford a half-dozen trips to your doctor, but you could afford your medical insurance premiums? Are your premiums subsidized or free? Is the doctor terribly expensive?

(I'm assuming that your doctor charges $250 or less per visit. Six visits would cost $1,500. I'm assuming those visits were spread over at least a number of months, so you could see whether each medication was effective. I'll also assume your health insurance is at least $400/month, though that number is likely higher if you're over 30 or female. This means your six visits cost roughly four months worth of insurance premiums.)
Not familiar with Open System instruction. Is it similar to Open Learning? Our model draws threads from the flipped classroom approach.
Yeah, moving away from the abstract algebra names definitely improves clarity because ``template <typename HasABinaryAssociativeOperationAndIdentity>`` is a much better choice than Monoid.
> "Deep packet inspection to monetize traffic"

Whoops.
I'm surprised no one came up with the "NO-FLY" list excuse. If she goes to the airport alone, that's trivial---she goes to the airport, waits an hour, comes back and says, "I was refused because I am on the US' no-fly list." The US does not confirm nor deny any name on the list, so it's hard to check.
This makes me feel like an idiot.
Westernized might have been the wrong word. Perhaps modern would be better. And yes, both India and the us can (and have) adopt some Japanese business practices as well.

And we certainly can learn from India - that's a blog post idea. A bit more emo hipster than what I usually post, but maybe I'll do it anyway.
China-STYLE? Take a look at who admins the UK firewall.

http://www.dailydot.com/business/david-cameron-porn-firewall...
This is a general principle; the meanest people are, as pg once put it, "the nervous middle classes" on a status hierarchy:

"Another reason kids persecute nerds is to make themselves feel better. When you tread water, you lift yourself up by pushing water down. Likewise, in any social hierarchy, people unsure of their own position will try to emphasize it by maltreating those they think rank below. I've read that this is why poor whites in the United States are the group most hostile to blacks."

"If I remember correctly, the most popular kids don't persecute nerds; they don't need to stoop to such things. Most of the persecution comes from kids lower down, the nervous middle classes."

http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
So what criteria do you use to determine what you should 'fix'? If you're going to do it arbitrarily, I suggest we just ban all images and videos on the entire internet. It's a much more elegant solution and it would fix more issues.

Of course, we would need to create filters for ASCII pr0n, lest the kiddies on a BBS suddenly become paralyzed by a boob made out of markup.
I sometimes stumble upon old answers I posted to questions I currently have - is that a bad or good thing?
this is just different filter presets. You can change the filters. In my case, I had ABP doing all that same blocking, only I had to opt-in, whereas with ublock that blocking is opt-out.
that would be an interesting write-up
I didn't want to directly quote the business guy who told me that number for various reasons.

But I think what he was getting at is the way VC's value a company. More engineers, more valuable for fundraising because of greater ability to deliver, more need for money, and more assets in general. Especially important if the company ends up doing poorly and needs to be acquihired. The more engineers to sell, the less money the investors lose.

Another calculation you can use is that if company makes $X million in revenue, and its value-per-employee is $Y, then an extra employee is in theory worth $Y. Especially in early stages where revenue has potential to scale linearly or even exponentially with every new hire.

Also, from what I remember of running a startup as a techie and talking to a lot of people with MBA's, revenue-per-employee is one of the most important performance indicators for companies.
We're looking into the zip code issue, stay tuned.
I don't know much about this, and even less about Stuhlinger and Peenemunde in particular, but I suspect that some blame for raining death on people can be laid at the feet of quite a few rocket scientists on both sides of the war, that those scientists possessed a wide range of individual views on the justness of their cause, and that they were nearly all pleased to be able to apply their talents to a good and peaceful cause after the war ended.
No, it won't: on the length scale of a chip, the power efficiency of an electrical-optical-electrical transmission line is an order of magnitude worse than direct electrical transmission, regardless of the actual technology. Also, optical transmission lines are huge in volume in comparison to electrical lines.
I can't think of any ideas off the top of my head.

Seriously?!

So you work in a company? Do they use Excel to track some kind of business critical process? There's your $10/month business...

If you don't like that, then try one of these: http://www.google.com.au/search?q=I+need+a+program+that+*
You know it's going to be good when the very first item is complaining about something that happens in a metaphorical vision being scientifically absurd...
But I thought Microsoft was already dead ;-) http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
It's already started :) Ben Bernanke's second round of dollar printing has already introduced massive inflation in food prices in China, causing them to institute price control this month. Just wait until Asia abandons dollar altogether and all those dollar flows back to US.....
http://www.economist.com/node/13815141?story_id=13815141

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2009/wood...
I highly doubt he was hired as a "Software Engineer", more likely as a Chief Scientist, System Architect or something like that given the scope of his work and expertise, he will probably lecture for Google internationally on his work and have a large team working underneath him. His new position is no doubt worthy of such a move, though I dont know the details.
tsocks might help also for apps which do not have native socks support.
When I first got my netbook, I sometimes set up an ssh media server to stream music from my main computer to my netbook like this:

ssh user@host cat /path/to/music-collection | mplayer
step 1) Watch this motivational video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wS5xOZ7Rq8

step 2) It's an Ignite talk. So ignore most of the advice from the video. Assuming you are presenting something you are passionate about, just let that come through.

I've organized Ignite Salt Lake and Ignite at the Velocity Conf. I've watched 100s of Ignite talks. If you search, you'll find lots of good advice on how to prepare the slides and yourself.

My advice map out a coarse flow for the slides, practice a few times with the timer, adjust the slides, maybe do that once more, then make the slides as artistic as you can/will and run through it a few more times, preferably in front of some people and make the final tweaks.

15 seconds can be both longer and shorter than you expect. Practicing with the timer will make all the difference.

On the night of, just go for flow and avoid dead air (though a pregnant pause can be used to great effect).

The number of people in the audience is irrelevant.

Worst case it will be over in 5 minutes.
It's been pretty obvious for a while this is where they're going.
A more recent discussion about that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29287200

It also includes a link to this:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/guy-cures-himself-of-lactos...
"Skeptics have scoffed at climate models for decades, saying they overstate the hazards of carbon dioxide. But a growing body of research shows many climate models have been uncannily accurate. For one recent study, scientists at NASA, the Breakthrough Institute in Berkeley, Calif., and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology evaluated 17 models used between 1970 and 2007 and found most predicted climate shifts were “indistinguishable from what actually occurred.”

Isn't this just the green jelly bean test?[1] If you have hundreds of models, won't some of them line up well just by random chance?

[1]https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/882:_Significant
Oh, those stories go back to 2015 and beyond: https://theweek.com/articles/464674/8-drivers-who-blindly-fo...
There's also that rubbish app (forgot its name) for parent control in phones is not in the list. Only 1 employee (founder) and in daylight using twitter to cash out, manipulate the price, issue more shares, etc..
Voice controls do a help a lot in many usecases, but are still slower than a physical button in many others.
Sure they do - nearly all networking gear is sold by bits/sec, e.g. gigabit Ethernet, 10Gb Ethernet, and so on.

Media encoding also commonly uses bit rates, e.g. 320kbps MP3.
I will say, I WOULD absolutely love it, if it weren't for the little problem...that...I can't "just add to the zip"...because for whatever reason, it ruins the special setup...
on windows, 7zip and windows explorer's builtin zip stuff refuse to modify it, as if it was corrupted (understandable), but explorer can view it, on linux, zip (apparently info-zip 3.0 according to the version) can add to it just fine, but ruins the special properties, on linux it just spawns the debug gdb with "no symbol table loaded" and no register or assembly data, and on windows it's either wrong format, or `check failed: 0x1 == 0x0 (32)` so also broken...
I definitely love the idea of this, and the APE in general, and it works as-is, but modification seems impossible to me...changing to .zip doesn't change the breakage

anyone else had luck with adding stuff to it? is it just me? or is it like "it works with openbsd zip command only"?
http://tom7.org/mario/

to be fair, learnfun was made for SIGBOVIK.
I think it's a little unintuitive for no other reason than, to be honest, there aren't that many "Firefox" products beyond the browser now that send among others have been axed.

Additionally, I feel like it would make more sense for the overarching brand to be... Mozilla? It's Mozilla Firefox, right? And there use to be Mozilla Thunderbird, etc.

I guess Mozilla is too unattractive a brand to be the parent brand or something?

In the end I have no objection or attraction to the rebranding but I do find it somewhat weird in execution.
If you look at the list of stocks you can all see they are super super tiny companies so likely it is fraud schemes aka pump and dump. That's when a small group of people (typically) organize an effort to pump a stock using false information. Since these stocks are so small, even getting a few amount of small investors to buy in could result in significant profits for the fraudsters. Doing a pump and dump on a stock like GME would be extremely difficult to pull off.
I read through the original complaint[1] and had a few observations that made me scratch my head.

1. All other browsers' private/incognito modes behave the same. Then why do they expect Chrome to behave differently? Is the complaint about Google Analytics collecting data, or about Chrome making false promises?

2. It never explains how the information sent to Google Analytics can be tied to your person. A public IP address is generally not good enough. Forensically maybe, when combined with ISP logs, but not routinely at scale.

3. It asserts that Google is using this information "nefariously", without going into detail: "This does not mean that Google does not utilize and/or monetize this data in any way. Google does. It merely changes the form of storage after the data has served Google’s nefarious uses."

4. It points out that this kind of information is so valuable to Google that they run a program where they pay people to observe their behavior. But, the whole complaint is about how Google collects that information already. Why have a separate program where they pay users?

5. Classifying visiting a website in incognito mode as "confidential communication" is a bit of a stretch, but that's the centerpiece of their complaint.

[1] https://www.classaction.org/media/brown-et-al-v-google-llc-e...

Disclosure: I work for Google, but not in Chrome or GA. The opinions expressed in this post are mine.
I rambled a little - my point was that by avoiding te polyglot language situation you make things easier (and closer to the monolithic application). I take the other point though, parallel releases are harder.
Thank you for responding. There is a common thread (me) and it includes all of my strengths and weaknesses. But no mental health or bad behaviour or drug use in my past.

Please dont get mad but even what you have summarized about me is not accurate. It seems as if you have dramatized my setbacks because I certainly dont have such a long list of people to point fingers at?

If I seem indignant its because it feels like your model wants to kill me by statistic because I am a fat tail data point.

Underneath I have had it rough no doubt, rougher than anyone with 99% SAT and 99% GMAT (logic) deserves.
this makes me realize that xml maps relatively well to JSON array whose elements are object with 1 fields (or 2 fields) whose value is again a similar array.
It is creepy how Google Idea's projects all seem to be military type projects. It gives the impression that Google is actively using its social graph to do police work.

http://www.google.com/ideas/projects/
You don't know how much of a bully Samsung is. Apple looks out for the little guy. The dreamer.
Missing piece of context: the author of the above quoted article is Julian Assange.
How about doing something like:

type refCounted[T] =
val: T
refs: int

proc `v=`(var x:refCounted[T], var y:refCounted[T]) =
inc(y.refs)
dec(x.refs)
if x.refs <= 0: destroy(x.val)
x.val = y.val

# use let so x and y cannot be assigned
let x, y = refCounted[string]

# instead use x.v to assign and manage refs properly.
x.v = y

using "let" would make sure all assignments happen through a blessed method (such as the ".v" assignment I defined above).

But to actually make it work, I would need to decrease reference on going-out-of-scope (as there a way to do that? maybe a python "with" style enter exit macro?).

And to make it easy to work with, there would need to be a way to pre- "incref" an argument before it is passed as an argument, and "decref" it after the function call return. I can probably write a macro that rewrites every function call with a refCounted arg so that it increfs() on the way in, decrefs() on the way out; or maybe have that macro on the callees instead.

Guess I'll have to try the different approaches and see what works and how efficiently.
This title is a bit too vague; I read it as "Software [that] engineers should write" thinking it was going to be an exposé on how software engineers could better spend their time. Maybe change it to something like "Software engineers need to write, not just code"
That's disingenuous. I certainly hope I will not be convicted of a felony for opening a door.
Founders have much larger allocations, and might be suspected as trading on insider perspective or their own confidence in the company. So their movements are much more influential on the overall share price of the company than an employee's.
Yes, exactly. The graph is full of spikes and I do not see any indication that there was any real change present from the CSS change.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to play semantics with the phrase "acting white" - I've never heard of the whole "showing up" thing. I'm surprised to learn of it. That, uh, sucks. The only similar meme in my memepool is rural people feeling a bit miffed/abandoned by relatives or friends who move to a big city, but I didn't get the impression that this had to do with money or education.
I had contractor on Litecoin in Russia for 6 months. Worked pretty well.
>I don't have anything other than personal experience to back this up, but I would be surprised if it's not a completely subjective experience—one person's synesthesia probably doesn't match another person's, per se.

From what I recall from the literature (it was a while ago, so details elude me), that while there does seem to be some relatively common experiences (many people associating a particular number with a particular colour), there's definitely a lot that's very idiosyncratic. I recall some people speculating that some of these associations could be shared because of common books/teaching materials, that maybe many children grew up with the same books showing letters and numbers in various colours. But that's just speculation as far as I'm aware.