skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A valley company with an ex-early-google-engineer founder hired me to do ML. It turned out he lied; nothing I worked on for 8 weeks was in any way related to data science but rather pure backend engineering. Said founder actually got super butthurt when I quit 8 weeks in, and had the balls to ask me to stay for a couple weeks to finish projects. After the job description, the interview, and the list of sample projects I'd asked for were all machine learning work. None of which I actually did. This was particularly frustrating because I'd turned down another great offer for them, and it was no longer available after I realized I'd been deceived.
> Being a refugee is a temporary status, being a human is permanent

...and if we make it harder to write about refugees, we make it harder to find ways to reduce the duration of them having that status.
Very rudimentary, but a way for an application developer to specify categories of perform/safety ratio operations. An app developer might have a simple app that only cares about performance, only cares about safety, there'd be a default in between both. Another app developer might have mixed needs depending on the type of data the app is generating. But in this way, if they write the app with a category of A (let's say that means highest safety at expense of performance) and their benchmarking determines this is crap, and they have to go to category B for writes, that's a simpler change that going back through their code and refactoring a pile of fsyncs or FUA writes.

I mean, I thought this was a major reason for VFS abstraction between the application and kernel anyway. It's also an example of the distinction between open source and free (libre). If as an application developer you have to know such esoterics to sanely optimize, you in fact aren't really free to do what you want. You have to go down a particular rabbit hole and optimize for that fs, at the expense of others. That's not fair choice to have to make.
I get where you're coming from, but am torn about agreeing. The problem is that your argument can be used, exactly as you made it, to defend physical abuse too -- or anything at all. Either you don't believe in any universal human rights (in which case your argument is perfectly consistent) or you do believe in some, and then your disagreement with the OP is just about where to draw the line (in which case accusing him of childishness for wanting to enforce rules of behavior seems hypocritical, since you do that too, just in different circumstances).
Your definition of white-collar crime is way off the mark. White-collar crime is real crime. Fraud, embezzlement, and money laundering are not "loopholes around laws", they are crimes just like murder, larceny, and rape. The government brings prosecutions all the time, and there are plenty of white-collar criminals in prison and paying hefty fines.

The absence of violence (murder, rape, assault, robbery, etc.) or physical force against property (burglary, grand theft auto, etc.) is what defines a white-collar crime. They involve abuses of trust. "White-collar" just refers to the fact that people in white-collar professions are typically the ones have enough power entrusted to them to be able to commit these crimes.

Of course, there's no perfect taxonomy and you can argue all day about whether a particular crime is white-collar or blue-collar.
My guess is it's for when you wish your configuration format had variables and loops after copy-pasting and modifying a line 20 times.
Atlassian's success reminds what a crappy place Australia is for tech business
The Hidden Fleet. How a Syrian network smuggles weapons, drugs, and refugees
I don't think that's generally true - 'white collar crime' is used to refer to bankers etc. breaking the law. It's just a) hard to prosecute and b) the politicians are unmotivated to pursue it as it's their mates c) it's often institutional, eg HSBC was involved in money laundering but which individuals do you go after? If you're just looking as using loop holes probably most do that and would be annoyed it you call them criminals.
Click "Web" and go in via the search results
Don't get sucked in to the all business plans aren't worth the paper they're written on parade.

Sure, a 200 page document that takes you six months to write that you work on to the exclusion of everything else? Yeah that's bad.

However a short few pages on the idea, the target market, some guesstimates on sales targets, expenditure and so on is a small piece of work that in my experience can be very useful.

It gives you a document to go back to as a bad line for progress. What is measured can be improved and all that jazz. Also, just taking the time to scope out your business, even at a high level, will make you think about areas of work that a founder might not otherwise consider until it's too late.
It looks very nice. The Little Prover, recently published is also a neat small intro.

I wonder how does Software Foundations compare against other more specialized classics in the field like [1-3].

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/principles-model-checking

[2] http://www.springer.com/fr/book/9783540654100

[3] https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/
Why not counter it with a use-case that proves OP wrong instead of a meta-argument?
White whale in the big smoke: How the geography of London inspired Moby-Dick
Sounds cool. Might try it in work
Can you not get a juice or water or something else whenever you have these meetings?
Cleaning Up the Valley Under the Table
Computers have been huge (ugly?) machines before now they are sexy and small. Screens have been heavy, now its all in your pocket. All of it has been in the Marked and sold wonderfully. Visual Markers (Stickers) for Augmented Reality are a design challenge that can lead to new looks. Its Natural Feature tracking, so everything can be a "sticker". This can actually help companies to differentiate from each other. Its something new to think about. I would not say that a radio with just a touch screen is particular beautiful, but it sells too. ;-) Anyhow, one thing is sure we will get rid of the marker. There is so much technological development going on in that field.
thousands of times more intelligence than humans

I see this phrase thrown around a lot by Kurzweil and fans. What does it even mean? How do you measure intelligence? Smarter than whom?
When you set a large beam of wood on fire, what typically happens is the outside chars but the fire never reaches the core, which stays intact. This won't happen so much with typical dimensional lumber like a 2x4, but when you look at timber framing using 5x5 or 5x10 beams as a stock element, the effect can be quite real.
The author complains that some people don't mention all facets of diversity, but so does she.

"On a recent episode of Re/Code Decode, Dick Costolo, in response to Kara Swisher’s broad question about diversity, makes zero mention of racial minorities, trans people and gender nonconforming people"

Race, sex and sexual orientation. Is that it? How about nationality? How about economic class? How about education level? How about all these other factors of "diversity" that are constantly ignored in favor of the "magic triplet" race/sex/sexual orientation?
Well Said.
Wow, 5 and 30 seconds before metadata and data flush? It sounds unbelievably long. If it's true, almost every power loss results in a data loss of whatever was written in the last 15 seconds, on average? Is it so bad?

I'd expect more "smartness" of Linux, like, as soon as there is no "write pressure" to flush earlier.
Are you going to build The Reality Editor for Android any time soon?
“We take Facebook stalking to a whole new level. You spend enough money, we will friend you. Not officially, but with a fake account. Maybe it’s a hot girl who shows too much cleavage? That’s us. We learned as much before friending you, but once you let us in, we have the keys to the kingdom.”

Discussed previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10239931
>Another point is that so many people say "we want to fund innovative stuff", but once you show them something innovative they rather prefer the next amazon or IoT US-to-EU rip-off.

Actually worse, they end up investing in some low risk company doing CRM for government contract management or even better some kind of non-scalable thing that was their friend's company.

Oh and they are all "early stage" but tell you that you are "too early."
Could you explain how wood is stronger than steel in a fire? I would have thought steel's high melting point make it impervious to fires, whereas wood, as you say, burns...
I don't play games, but my roommate does for several hours every day. I asked him about it and he said he loves being immersed in it, and finds it much more engaging than other forms of entertainment, such as watching a movie. I wouldn't call him "addicted" though. We hang out all the time, and I never see the sort of desperation that the author describes.

...

Are there specific genre's of games that have the sorts of traps the author describes? A giant achievement screen sounds like it could be in any game, but I'd be curious to hear of any patterns recognized by others.
It's kind of mind-blowing that "gaming the reviews of a dispenser for a spice worth less than $10/lb on a shopping site" is a paying thing.
Re-natal:react native with ClojureScript and reagent
>I've actively thought about creating something like this where you could anonymously tie those stories to the real names of VCs because some of these guys are totally out of their mind.

I have about a dozen entries if you ever do start this. My one from last week was a doozy.
Show HN: HTTP Security Headers Test
White-collar crime is also fundamentally different from violent crime and larceny, since it doesn't involve the use of physical force or violence. It's good to have the government protect people against abuses of trust, but it's secondary to protecting people against violence and theft.
> That's a false dilemma. It would be wise to defend against every existential threat in proportion to its likelihood.

Lives saved versus dollars spent is a better metric. Having said that, the Singularity crowd tends to lump in all potential future lives into the saved category. The question of allocating resources to avoid existential threats very quickly turns into a Pascal's mugging in favor of AI safety (think of the trillions of future children).

> The threat of nuclear war is well known ... until very recently the same could not be said for the threat of unfriendly AI.

Enough nuclear weapons exist to kill all humans forever. Strong AI does not exist. Expert estimates range from decades to over a century. At the same time, the people making the most noise seem come from the side of avoiding existential threats and not AI research. I am (highly) skeptical they will produce anything of value. Let me rephrase. Would you expect any productive work in 1840 by philosophers concerning potential dooms day weapons yet to be created by physicists?
A few things that have helped me:

1. Realize that tendency CAN be a powerful tool if you channel it correctly and get yourself into the right environment. I'm in media, because the tools change quickly, each project has different problems to solve, and there's a broad, somewhat disconnected set of skills that are useful.

2. Every job, no matter how passionate you are about it, will have some crap you just have to get through that you don't want to do. Don't confuse temporary boredom with lack of passion.

3. Willpower is a muscle, and you CAN get better at powering through the portion of your work that you don't enjoy.

4. If you master things quickly enough you can move up in your career so that you are doing new things with each new move.

5. It's worth talking to your healthcare provider about these concerns, there are a variety of tools and strategies that can help.

6. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Use your free time to explore widely disparate disciplines.

7. Limit your time aimlessly browsing the internet. It's a great tool, but using it without purpose seems to make it much harder to focus on tasks.
I can understand where you come from, but honestly I don't have a 1000 app to deal with and I don't want to connect my office chair to my fancy car seat. I feel sad that the world is what it is today, and it's mostly because of people like you.

"What will be the digital equivalent of a screwdriver in that future? Thats what the Reality Editor is! A powerful tool."

No comments on this one...
< Particular attention should be paid to games which advertise microtransactions to children.

Particular attention should be paid to the parental controls available in every mobile OS out there.
Autonomous Weaponized Robots: Not Just Science Fiction
Generic Protocols and Their Shortcomings
If you're trying to figure out Goldlist and having a hard time, this video helped me understand the actual method much faster than reading the 22 step list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixxq8moh4pg
Fat.

But not just any kind of fat, read here:
https://www.bulletproofexec.com/the-complete-illustrated-one...

I tried it and had very interesting observations - nothing I have tried before gave me the same results.
WW3+HALF+MILLION+IMMIGRANTS+APPLY+FOR+CALIFONIA+DRIVER+PERMIT+-+YouTube
How to become an ethical hacker or penetration tester
Sustained over tonight, with little regard to the future? Plenty of Red Bull.

Over a long life? No added sugar (it hides everywhere, even in bread), little to no processed grain (e.g. bread and all related), the right amount of exercise and sleep, and a recognition that consuming "food" to help you get less than the right amount of sleep to work longer and make someone else rich is something you should think twice about.
I really don't understand the opening rant against Star Citizen. This is a game that quite literally would not even have started production if it weren't for crowd sourcing because the big boys are too busy cramming the next Call of Duty down everyone's throats than taking chances on interesting new IPs. If Star Citizen never materializes it will still have done the gaming industry a huge service by signaling to the other companies out there that a huge, verifiable demand exists for that style of game.
Not particularly helpful if the whale is a grown adult.
It's still all in good faith and in a civil tone.
Can you comment of the lifetime (length of service, distinct periods) of a significant wood building are, and how it compares to others, like concrete or brick ? What special treatment or considerations it requires ?
You can potentially do cool things with cloud connected home control/monitoring devices. In short, I would never ever buy a cloud connected home control/monitoring.

Why?

Suppose you have an IoT device in your bedroom that uploads CO2 values (of course it may also do something useful too such us showing this data to you or regulating the ventilation).

Now the rate of CO2 production depends on bodily activities. More activity means more CO2 production. I suppose that you agree that having this information you more or less are capable to deduce when a couple has sex.

This means that we could calculate a metric how much sex is going on and relate it to a specific user.

Suppose that we detect that the rate of sex has gone down by 20 (a made up number dependant of our model). We can now sell this information.

This information is for example useful perhaps for a psychologist who wants to sell you counselling.

But it is even more interesting for the divorce lawyers who now could prey on couples having period of difficulty in their sex lives.

Even more, this information could be made more valuable by some additional influence. For example feeding the user with articles related to marital happiness and sex life.

The same thing could be probably aslo implemented within a thermostat with a precise enough temperature sensor.
Dear Eclipse,

Please make a more usable IDE.

Sincerely,

Anyone that has used other IDEs besides Eclipse.
Ask HN: Does Hacker News make you overwhelmed or frustrated or worried?
After being a HN regular for more than two years, I've now changed the way I think. That is the only way I can get over this and stop going crazy.

When you scroll through all these pointers and read some of them, I used to feel like I'm the worst programmer in this world. I know nothing. While I'm fixing these bugs, changing label names and doing CRUD on web, others are making millions with startups, writing books, making cool softwares etc etc.

Now I'm changing the way I think.

There are 1000s of posts in HN. It touches many subjects. I'm just an OK programmer, not a superstar or rock star as they say. I try my best to do my job and improve myself and enjoy life.

Out of 30 posts on the main page as I see now, one is about games industry, one about anti-virus, radio technology, Elm, Apk Tool (whatever that is) - none of these matter to me at this time and I don't worry about it. I don't have to learn that. I dnt have to make another tool. Yeah its nice to know things but its not necessary.

This is how I think these days and I'm at ease. No pressure no rush.
I wrote and self published a training course on AngularJS for Flex Developers. ( https://www.lifeafterflex.com/AngularJSForFlexDevelopers/ ). I think I released it in early 2014.

It never made the splash I had hoped; but it's staying power was lots more than any of my previous books and it still gets a bunch of downloads each month.

The series also works great as a way to convinced consulting clients I have the chops to build applications for them.

For those that want to check out the books at the lowest tier; they are pay what you want--even if it is nothing. You can use the code 'hackernews' to get 50% off the higher tiers--I think the real value of the series is in the screencasts.

I'm told the Angular pieces will work independently of the Flex parts.
Thanks for answering! I really like the comparison to a "digital screwdriver". I think way too many companies set the setup bar for their IoT devices way too high. If you can make it as easy as Reality Editor, you should!
"An idiot wrote this code" and "this code is crap" both represent moral judgments. That is, implied wrongness/badness/and so forth, with respect to the evaluator's values.

People judged that way commonly respond in one of two ways: 1) with defensiveness/anger; or 2) taking it personally/withdrawing. OP seems to rhetorically refer to the latter, when he writes, "Would you have continued asking for help?" Alternatively, they might respond in the way Carmack describes, using the criticism as a way to grow.

I think Carmack misses a key insight, however. With respect to feelings of guilt and shame, I'm completely in agreement that they can represent a wake-up call to further self growth--but only insofar as we can link them to the human needs they are telling us to pay attention to. That's where the self growth occurs. I'm not in agreement with using guilt and shame, as tools to get people to conform, because doing so focuses our attention on what we want people to do, not why we want them to do it. They're both important; without the latter, it's just obedience training.

Maybe it was a need for efficiency/understanding of the implementation, as in OP's case, which triggered the guilt/shame, or maybe something else, as in Carmack's "WTF was I thinking" (for example, compromised quality due to lack of sleep due to schedule pressure).

With impostor syndrome so common, even with people at Carmack's skill level, I think we can do better and still preserve honesty, transparency, openness, and so forth.
Because this kind of new visual interface is scaleable. You can operate 1000s of objects without a problem.
This is something your app centric user interface would start looking like Times-Square.
The Desktop-Metaphor is not scaleable with the physical space, because you need to remember the digital<->physical links in your own brain.

You can read a bit more about this problem here:
http://openhybrid.org/learn%2c-setup%2c-operate.html
Curious what species of timber they use to make this. There's a lot of structural and and resiliency differences between white pine, Doug fir, hemlock, and the various hardwoods.

I'm trying to figure out where this product fits into the construction, as well. I'm reasonably familiar with the general principles of stick-built and post & beam wooden construction, structural steel construction, traditional brick and masonry, and poured concrete. Do you just put these panels up as full walls? Does it still need an internal structure, or do the panels have sufficient rigidity? What do you do for insulation?
They also started to insert their ad in e-mails sent from gmail ( something like "scanned by Avast" and their logo) and even when the e-mail shield wasn't installed. It wasn't easy to disable because the disable option was only available in a newest program version and the installation also required a restart. So bye Avast...
Cliff's comparison of Star Citizen's preorder process to gambling, painted in royal we, is obscene.

I don't like to be dismissive, but it sounds like he's mostly upset that their slimy marketing actually works; while meanwhile people haven't even heard of his company.

For kicks I looked at his company's website, and their top two titles are "Democracy 3", and "Big Pharma". i.e. he makes video games about regulation and a highly-regulated industry. After seeing these titles, the attitude makes a lot more sense.
Law Enforcement Is Using a 226-Year-Old Law to Forcibly Unlock Mobile Phones
To be fair, if the plants are under solar panels then yeah, that's a valid point. Sounds more like people who don't want the land used for this and are seizing on any argument they can to gum up the works.
I don't understand what people have against targeted advertisement?

Because you make naive, almost childish assumption that you would be targeted by the products and services that are (most) beneficial for you.
Yeah, pretty doubtful of the author's initial claim of being "not a big fan of government regulation in general" and "not a friend of regulation". I can only imagine the views on gambling and drugs of anyone who proposes regulation for video game advertising.

Suffice it to say this guy is a friend of regulation if he's making this proposal. It's a nice little rhetorical device but most of us are smart enough not to be fooled by this.
The argument I am supporting is that different things work for different people. So yes this applies to all human "rights". That said, if a population, say the state of Texas agrees that physical abuse in the workplace is wrong, then I think that it's perfectly reasonable for a rule to exist for that particular population.

The case that OP is making is that X is the only acceptable way to talk to people in the work place.

When it comes to violence, enough of us agree within our "populations" so to speak. When it comes to how people should communicate with their words, there is enough diversity to warrant freedom of choice. I think that it's important that OP be able to choose to not work in a place where their competency is questioned without regard to their feelings. However, it's completely unreasonable to tell everyone how their businesses should be ran, or how their bosses should talk to them. Not all of us enjoy being patronized, or are ok with being dishonest about how we really feel. Enough of us disagree on the best way to communicate in the workplace that there shouldn't be one right answer. OP presented their case without any regard for the other side, "never ever" as they put it. They didn't even consider the possibility that not all of us are so sensitive, that not all of us are helpless marshmallows squashed at the first f bomb, creamed by the first, second, or hundredth joke at our expense. That is the argument I'm making. Not that rules should not exist, but that rules need to address the fact that different things work for different people, and society cannot work if it is run under the assumption that what works for one person works for everyone.