skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it takes lots of time to setup + needs a few extra server like event collector, log cleanup and enrich, data loading and database server.
The OP says that IP addresses were "randomly distributed" over IPv4 space. That's very unlikely for non-spoofed botnet addresses.
Sesame Street was created for two-year-olds, not bitter Internet pundits.

It may have been created for two-year-olds, but do you know what it was created TO DO for two-year-olds?

The article has it exactly right. The purpose of Sesame Street was never entertainment. Their purpose was to use TV to help preschool aged kids get a head start on academics and emotional development, while pushing a specific set of liberal social values around inclusiveness on them. It is a matter of historical record that this was the goal.

In order to accomplish this goal, Sesame Street deliberately had to have enough entertainment value to keep kids watching. And pulled in enough pop culture people to give babysitters a reason to turn it on. (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G95MA6RxJTs for an example of how they combined those two.) But those are means to an end, not the end. And it is very important to always push kids to do a little more than they think they can do.

The current dominance and role of Elmo reflects how Sesame Street has lost sight of their initial vision and confused the means (entertainment) for the end.
What's a good touch-first window manager? I know Unity was exploring touch UIs, is there anything better?
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

They lied about lead: why in hell should we ever believe them again?
Who, exactly, is this device for?
yep
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/devices/
10-15 days is definitely the norm.
Edit: Hydropower generally builds a huge dam to support a large head of water piled on top of it's self. Pumped storage replaces that huge column of water with hill so you only need a relatively small amount of water to store a lot of energy.

Anyway, I still think your numbers are a little high as Solar and wind are never going to have zero output over a day which reduces peek demands significantly. Existing dams can also shift production to meet different sessional needs and act as backup power production. Still, let's call a ~200 billion investment enough to solve grid storage.

Further, current pumped storage can make money though arbitration. So, private investment subsidized by say 2 billion / per year or 80 billion over 20 years seems to make this a non-issue.
I'd like to see more people doing that. Maybe then it would become obvious that monetary value of a creation has nothing to do with the creation but rather with who sells it to whom.

Maybe when creators see that, they will stop living their dream that at some point their things will magically sell and focus either on selling if they are in it for the money or on creating if they are in it for creating. And copyright will gradually become obsolete.

I think it would improve both selling and creating.
Actually, it seems your first understanding was actually correct: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10698634
Did I miss the example image produced by this camera? I didn't find one anywhere on the site.

Edit: Example images are shown in the included video.
"Run powerful apps and the latest games. Pixel C has an NVIDIA X1 processor and loads of graphics horsepower. Under the hood, you’ll also find over 10 hours of battery life to keep you going strong."

How much graphics horsepower does ChromeOS needs? On the 10 hours of battery life, I would have expected more for a, more or less, one application OS.

Edit: Oh, did not know it was Android. Thanks!
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Well, it doesn’t help that Google’s support libraries for developers are at best... bad looking. At worst, they are crashing with no way to find out what caused it.

1. AppCompat used to crash on device rotation with no clear error message on KitKat.

2. There are many third-party libraries that expand on what Google provides to allow devs to actually provide good-looking Material apps, from MaterialDialogs to MaterialDrawer to MaterialTabs.

- https://github.com/afollestad/material-dialogs

- https://github.com/mikepenz/MaterialDrawer

- https://github.com/florent37/MaterialViewPager

Many things, like a multi-pane preferences activity with AppBar, are not possible without hacks, reflection or access to internal com.android APIs either.

And when Google provides support for something, it’s often lacking features, for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/3vwpna/im_incen... or full of bugs http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30537413/textinputlayout-...
It's not about what they could use. It's about what they own and where it's going. If your employment agreement states that any code you write belongs to your employer and that you're not allowed to share company code with others, then a work-sample test essentially asks candidates to violate their current employment agreement.
> Not only does that ruin the experience but-- like Microsoft and their stalled phone ambitions-- it's not a problem Google can fix no matter how good their developers are. All the software patches in the world can't fix the issue of apathetic 3rd-party devs.

Hell, Google isn't even doing that much. Half of their apps don't have proper tablet UIs. How can third parties bother to do decent tablet apps if even the company who develops the platform doesn't care enough to do so? Google is in a leadership position, which means they have a responsibility to lead, and not only did they drop the ball, they threw an interception straight to Microsoft.
Indeed they are, because they a) pick extreme lower hanging fruit, and b) completely trivialize the costs thereof.

Imagine that they start nudging in cases where the benefit of that option isn't nearly as clear, and you have to go through that for virtually every transaction:

You reach for an item on the shelf: "Wait! Did you know you can pick this other item with slightly less fat?" Repeat x100 for every shopping trip.

Your paycheck is now 80% deductions: "We found that the optimal budget buys these necessities in bulk under these programs. Don't worry! You can opt out of this first one by going to this office, the second by going to this office, the third..."

"We found we could increase employment and reduce dependence on public assistance by randomly changing the procedure for applying for benefits!"
I totally agree with you. A good, recently published book, to read on this topic is 'Team Genius'.
Employers only match what you put in, whereas mutual funds take fees off of the returns. That suggests to me to contribute only enough to get your match, and roll it into an individual account after you leave the company for more control over where it goes.
Could have seen that being a flop from outer space.
I was curious and found this for anyone else who may be interested: https://wiki.mozilla.org/FlyWeb
Any way to run the site not compiled through python built-in server ? So I don't have to generate over and over to check out tag or template mistakes.
> No one has done this.

Not for coding specifically, but there have been some studies correlating GPA with career success, and the correlation has been found to be very low. But the reason there are very few studies that look at this is that GPA A) isn't epistemologically meaningful B) isn't a measure in the mathematical sense.

"A grade can be regarded only as an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite amount of material." -Paul Dressel
"full blown OS" seems like a very vague label.
So would it be bad if I changed my kids Christmas list (Everything they want is Robots they can build) they are aged 4 and 9 :)
I think it's interesting to consider language as evolving based on the competition of at least four different stakeholders: Writers, Readers, Speakers, and Listeners.

Usually something that seems stupid for one role happens to make things easier for another, like your atom example.
Good points all.

Point (a) is a potentially a huge problem, I agree. An entire country suffering from poor pension investments all at once could have disasterous consequences.

My understanding of the typical pension opt-in change is that it opts you in to your company's default pension rather than a state default pension, so the nation as a whole would have diversification even if customers of some pension providers are at risk (unless that nation didn't have diverse pension providers, in which case they already have a problem). Could be wrong, not my area.

Issue (b) is interesting too. I'd say it fell into my third group because it seems to rest on people being lulled into a false sense of security and then taken advantage of. There are a couple of reasons why I don't think it'd be a problem... one applies to "good" nudge units and the other is more general.

Firstly, at a 'good' nudge unit they operate transparently, both at the point of intervention and when publishing findings after the fact. If you look at Richard Thaler's work, he uses 3 'laws' to define 'good' nudges that make it hard for abuse to seem possible:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/upshot/the-power-of-nudges...

Secondly, a more general point. Nudge units on the whole use a tiny subset of the psychological arsenal that companies use daily. They only use the stuff there's clear scientific evidence for ploughing on layers of gamification, incentives, information assymetry, etc. Yet companies do not feel bound by Richard Thalers "3 laws of nudging", they rarely follow more than 1. That's fair enough, as it's harder to switch to a different government and governments have more power over us, but it does raise the question... if our decision making skills atrophy over time then that would have already happened with companies, and I'm not sure I've seen evidence to support that view. Again, could be wrong.
It's running Android.
More likely it's just an inability to judge the programming skills of someone writing in a language you are unfamiliar with. My guess is that most YC founders don't write in C# or Java. Whether it behooves them to screen those applicants out is another question.
This is Android, not ChromeOS.

Its just that unlike the Nexus series, the Pixel series of devices are designed by Google rather than a third party.
I believe so. You just end up with more rules which slows the process down more and more. Apple tries to be intelligent about it, but at some point if you quadruple the number of rules installed it's probably going to take longer to search them for matches.
Sorry I didn't make that more clear. As an example, https://docs.fastly.com/ was my handiwork. More recently, https://teforia.com/ .
I agree new features would be nice. Like alpha transparency like you mentioned. Or how about cool things like depth or normal maps? I just think almost no one cares. We represent 0.1% of the population.

The last new image format to be universally adopted was PNG in 1996. A lot of entrants have tried ever since, but I think it'd be fair to say none of them mattered the slightest.
In Windows 10 tablet mode the Surface is a great tablet. Once I got the Surface pro 4 its completely displaced ipad usage for me.
I've made the mistake in the past of overcommitting myself to interviewing with multiple companies at once. The time commitment wasn't the worst part, the real factor I didn't for see is that interviewing is stressful and mentally exhausting. On top of the interview itself, there's the hours of studying you have to put in. It's extremely hard to do while doing your full time job.

Now I have a rule that I will interview with ONE company at a time. Consequently, I am very careful about picking which companies I will interview with.
Unfortunately, tinkering in your off-hours is a key way for programmers to keep their skills current. The industry changes rapidly and the skills that were most marketable over the past 10 years are not the same as those that will be most marketable over the next 10. If you're not changing jobs constantly, the rate of tech change at your workplace is unlikely to be enough to keep your skills marketable. So you need to tinker.

This is one reason why people 40+ with kids tend to migrate into management. Their technical skills are getting rusty and having kids decimates your ability to take on major tinkering projects that help you learn new skills. However, their people skills are evergreen and even sharpened by their experience as parents.
I work in an enterprise environment though my skill set is mostly on the admin side. Ageism may play a part in the bias against enterprise workers, but other factors exist as well - whether justified or not.

1) Over-specialization - the vogue for startups is to hire full-stack engineers, which to me reads as a desire to have one person perform the work of three. The constraints of a startup environment may justify such desires.

2) Risk-aversion - many of us in enterprise environments groan about all of the meetings, deferments of decisions to superiors / domain experts, and other risk-avoidance strategies, but in the end we like our butts covered just like everyone else.

3) Tolerance / preference for a certain amount of friction - some might call this a lack of urgency or an excess of complacency. Consider the problem of selecting a platform for your new project. In most enterprise environments, the decision has already been made for you - what is on the approved product / vendor list? Another is how to get a person who reports to a different chain of command to do their job.

All of these factors and others seem to exist at odds with the startup culture, which is a general term for the composite self-image of a startup's founders. Generally, they see themselves as pirates who plunder market share from the lumbering galleons of large enterprises, at least until they sell.
The best programmers do apply. Whatever you think a work-hire test is, that wasn't it. A work-hire test attracts the best programmers. It doesn't repel them. It's a chance to demonstrate their skill. It's also far better: anything is better than the fake contests they're currently forced to endure. Which would you prefer? Spend a couple hours remotely fixing some bugs and adding a feature on a fake iOS app, or spend all day playing "dodge the bias" for a hit rate of ~60% at the cost of a vacation day?

Why do you think the programmer from your article didn't get a job when you "sat back to watch him get a job"? You didn't tune your test to what the company was looking for.

Any YC founders who are reading this: Refuse to talk to Triplebyte until they set up a work hire test for your company. Force them to do it, and force them to work with you to tune the test to the work you need. You will get a 100% hit rate. And you'll notice something else: Your retention rate will go way, way up. Want to not deal with firing people? Get them to show you they can do the work. Nothing else matters.

The test needs to be set up so that the candidate can demonstrate they can do exactly the same things all other employees do on a day-to-day basis, or it's not a work-hire test.
How does that follow?

I mean, no they don't, but there's no reason you can't. You (just) have to use a USB hub of some kind.

Edit: oops, I didn't notice it was Android. I don't know if Android can read a USB drive, so that alters my comment.
how long before this can be done with the voice as well?
60? Isn't that already your weekends?
Not really? I'm not sure what would be ambiguous about it.
This is how Dolphins see Humans with Echolocation
Trying to use current computer science to work with biology is like using a hammer to reliably modify the behavior of an ant colony. It may work but only in some special cases.

Even with the Von Neumann model, we already have ecosystems where many things are interdependent. And the difference is that the actors in the ecosystem are all designed by people who coordinate and communicate in other channels. They have common standards etc. Now imagine having some monolithic open source code with all the libraries mixed into it that has been forked many times and trying to have a process that will change some of the source code to achieve a desired effect, reliably in even THREE random forks. How would you know the side effects of all your changes? All you can do is make some very simple change and gather statistics on how often your change leads to more instability and crashes.

You can't just edit an organic system with tons of interdependencies. As humans building software we specifically limit the scope of the dependencies, we make protocols and conventions etc. So we can reason about the impact of a change and make the source code we produce more maintainable. How would this apply with DNA?
Perhaps you should have read that wikipedia page before so helpfully linking to it. There's nothing about "middlemen" there. "Rent" is political economy jargon; it's not just a synonym for "distasteful practices". Adam Smith wasn't complaining about shopkeepers or shipping companies, and he certainly wasn't talking about "back end" software services. There is no royal decree enforcing how such services shall be provided. If you don't like AWS then use GCP.
WW3+IS+GOING+ON+AS+WE+WATCH,US+IS+TRYIN+TO+ESCALATE+IT+-+YouTube
My personal definition of full blown OS is something that considers me enough of an adult that it allows a file explorer / remote shell based file sync rather than use of a specific sync app or MTP.
Elide: Simplify Your CRUD
How a buggy machine learning algorithm nearly caused World War Three in 1983
Immature humorists borrow; mature humorists steal.

Also, it's a really obvious joke. Tinder only has one mechanism (the swipe) so inhibiting the ability to swipe left is pretty much the only viable joke. As for the name, surely you've noticed that there's about a hundred companies with names involving a common word missing a vowel? Get over it - insofar as it may have copied your work, you can treat it as a vote of confidence, but that's all.
"The IoT space is a mess right now"

But is also almost entirely vapour.

Seeing this news gave me relief that Mozilla might be pulling their heads out of the clouds chasing fantastical dreams of mobile platforms, but if anything IoT is worse!
Piwik, Snowplow, etc. They do exist.

Then the question is do you really want to maintain the infrastructure required to run the analytics smoothly? Especially if your company has dozens of millions of pageviews a month and depends on the real time needs (extra infrastructure to support that).

Are you familiar enough with the stack so you could have a high degree of confidence that you can fix productions issues which are inevitable? Quite often, an honest answer here is 'no'. Then can you afford to lose a few hours/days/weeks (whatever it would take to fix the issue) of data? Again, often the answer here is 'no'.

Of course, you have hosted solutions. But they are no better than GA in terms of privacy.

Paid support exists too but the cost can skyrocket pretty quickly, on top of paying for the infrastructure and maintaining it.
I've got a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (2014 Edition) and do quite like running a chrooted debian on it in combination with an Apple wireless keyboard.
SSHing into the Debian system gives me a fairly powerful development environment.
I've never tried running an Xserver on it though.
There is a hierarchy among medical professionals. I just couldn't help laughing at the way this guy said "oh, haha, I'm a surgeon."
That's what I was wondering. The block chain isn't about anonymity, it's about validity, right?
Nicely put; also for relevant context, recently there was publicity around a 'comedian' by the name of Nicole Arbor who put together some incendiary, willfully offensive "Dear ____ People" videos, none of which I'll link. Basically, when called out for being highly offensive, she doubled down on the comedy and art being offensive is part of tradition but side-stepped acknowledging a lot of people found her material, well, just not funny. So it failed the artistic merit test by consensus. Thus, it wasn't really art, just bad rhetoric. Not all things claiming to be art are actually art.
400-Year-Old Embalmed Hearts Found Under French Convent
I'm also going to have to say that I'd rather own a Surface than this. Android is only useful for phones for me, there is nothing really compelling about Android on a tablet for me.

Disclosure: I own an Android tablet, I never use it.
Is it really the case that fewer people think ESPN is important or is that more people think cable is useless and dropping it. Many of which didn't watch ESPN to begin with. The real issue is the non sports watchers are no longer subsidizing the sports watchers. B
Agreed. Not as set-it-and-forget-it as it's advertised to be, but never turn down free money. Just do the math so you know what you're getting.
As someone who describes themselves as such and has had good success - demonstrate that you care more deeply about the success of the product than "technology" itself. Code is a tool to solve those problems - focus on what has worked and not worked in coding, rather than what is cool and exciting. Its more of a mindset thing than anything - spend enough time actually being interested in business problems rather than CS problems.
Guess it's up to Canonical to make Ubuntu Touch a viable open source smartphone OS - are there even devices running it that are being sold in the U.S.?

Did not expect that Sailfish OS would outlive Firefox OS.
I suspect most of the people saying "you don't need Google Analytics! Do it yourself!" have never used GA for anything that meaningful. As you begin to really familiarize yourself with your website traffic and understand how to look at your clickstream data in a more investigative an analytical way, you'll start to see how nice GA is and how easy it is to answer your questions.

You also underestimate how ubiquitous GA is because it's free and extremely popular. I'd consider myself an intermediate to advanced user of GA, but for people less experienced, I can easily share stuff with them for complicated tasks or they know how to do a lot of the basics themselves.

In hiring digital marketing people, GA is pretty much on par with Word in terms of familiarity. It's something a lot of people have a basic competence with.
Song about Citizens United with a final verse about Bernie Sanders – video link
It looks like a Lytro camera, but going one step further. In general, the main idea is the same: using mask and then recovering the full light field.

While it looks that Lytro was/is not a great commercial success, I see that the field progresses. And very likely we will see things which can't be done in a different ways (e.g. pseudo-3D camera for videos... or 3d teleconferences).
I couldn't help noticing that "Strong Junior Programmer" stands out from the rest. It as a category suffers from juxtaposition with "Child Prodigy Programmer". The "Strong" prefix sounds like a meaningless qualifier that only serves to blunt the label of "Junior". I have to guess that the reason companies select out of this category is that the candidates are perhaps not qualified.
What toufka said plus now we have tools to make small edits in specific areas of interest (search CRISPR/Cas9 if you are interested to learn more) in mammalian cells.

If we deliver it as a payload with targeting sequences and the "corrections" template which are needed to introduce the changes would be amazing, as we would be able to make corrections in specific cells in specific areas of the DNA. Unfortunately the efficiency of this technology is not high enough yet for prime time.
Perhaps. A lot of meatspace architecture has been automated as well so you may be right in your prediction, but I think it will come about more organically through the use of specialized software tools. Eventually developers/engineers will be just like plumbers.