skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the way, Henry Ford was an avid cyclist ((and lots of other car pioneers were, too). So comparisons to bikes might be more appropriate than horses.
Vertical Video and Future of Mobile Video
Just want to get some thoughts on this rising horizon of video, and the shift media companies will need to make to adapt to this mobile-first format. Any thoughts as to whether it will make an impact in the way video consumption will take place in the future. Snapchat has definitely paved a way for the format.

Looking forward to seeing any thoughts.
I agree. “…” has an established meaning of “et cetera” that makes me inclined to tap it for “more”. For a while I wasn’t really aware that “≡” was something I could interact with.

I’m only 24, but didn’t get a smartphone until pretty recently. The thing that bothers me the most about mobile UIs is how implicit everything is—there are very few affordances to indicate what’s even interactible.

For example, I would never have tried to swipe down from the top of the screen on Android to view my notifications unless I had seen it done before, or I had done it by accident. To me, that’s abysmal design.
I have a hard time with Andy implying that criticism of the hamburger menu comes from "young designers" sniping on Twitter. In fact it comes from many, many prominent UX writers like NNG, Luke Wroblewski, etc. looking at real data.

But you know what? Andy Budd knows that. So let's just call it what it is: a lie. My respect for the man has been lowered.
Look into exercism.io; it's a pretty cool way to solve problems while people provide feedback on your code. Better still, you can review other users' solutions and see how you could have done better.
This really depends what is driving you to start your own business and what you are passionate about.

Are you happy with a $2million revenue a year business, or do you want to be the next unicorn?

You might find a large problem to solve, but is it some thing your are passionate about? Or perhaps you love selling antique nail clippers for example, which is probably a very small market, but you love doing it and supplementing your day job income.

Find a problem, decide if you are passionate about solving it, can you make money from it or not, then build a solution.
Fossil word: word often obsolete remaining in use within an idiom still in use
There was. Older Android phones had a physical "MENU" button that would show additional actions for a screen.
>a nation's currency is arguably the primary source of it's sovereignty

Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain might disagree.
I should've clarified that my statement assumes his model works as advertised, then notes that the pointer checks are efficient in hardware. I couldn't be sure if he was detecting or preventing use-after-free with what would be in compiler and what in runtime. Here's the things I was looking at:

"supports the general thesis that garbage collection is neither necessary nor sufficient for quality software. This paper describes the techniques used to eliminate dangling pointers and to ensure resource safety."

"Every object on the free store (heap, dynamic store) must have exactly one owner [pointer/reference]"

"set the ownership bit when a value returned from new is assigned"

"use delete whenever a pointer with the ownership bit is set goes out of scope"

Sounds similar to what I read in Rust guide, esp one-per-location and scope part. Those and other rules appeared to make it easy for checks to prevent or catch use-after-free. If so, then my keep it around for hardware suggestion could lead to acceleration work. If I misread the paper or goals of ownership model, then my suggestion would've only led to accelerating... whatever safety it was trying to enforce.

Did that clear it up for you? Or did you spot where I went wrong? Could go either way given it was a quick read for me.
Microsoft to only support newer processors on Windows 10
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9994126
Zero. I was only targeting an audience of one ;)
If it is too hard to train anybody, if you don't have time to train anybody, that's okay. Just don't hire, and make sure you retain your current employees.

But if you want to grow, it's not reasonable to expect to walk down to the 7/11 and get someone who is perfect for your company. Training is hard? Growth is hard. Who promised you that running a business would be easy?
You might consider that a hamburger menu indicates an abstracted graphical menu form, whereas an ellipsis is culturally specific and limited in its meaning.

I tend to see people in the West (of which I am a native) who completely discount their cultural preconceptions when approaching accessible digital design.
If you wish to use new CPU features such as the imaginary AVX-1337, have fun waiting a year before being able to run your leak check.

And no, I don't want to maintain multiple code paths on my system, even for compiled generated AVX[2,512,SSE4.1] code. If you do so, you end up having a dev system unrepresentative of the production one.
Well, how does anyone F1 on a mobile device anyways.
Username created 73 days ago. Checks out.

>HN is slowly becoming Reddit.
F1 and Caps Lock are two keys I almost always disable on my computers.
cool its clamb777@gmail.com - email me if you want to talk about it more.

I'm looking over your stuff and I like where your ideas are headed. You cover a lot of topics in your write up on Github. My thinking has been towards a much smaller feature set, specifically one that would help the most busy people who need the product most. After this has been achieved with a solid market share of the target market, then we begin adding additional features.

One of the major hurtles, is that email is intrinsically different for everyone. A great email solution is one accepts this natural hurtle and uses it to create an economic moat against the inevitable competition.

While I am not an expert in email or programming for email software, I have developed a feature set and interface that I believe would solve these email issues.

This project is important to me, because I think it would not only improve my life and productivity, but the lives of many others who are enslaved by emails.
The iconography of the menu is one objection but I think the author is missing out on a subtler thing here. The other objection is that paths within your application should flow seamlessly enough to remove the need to have a place to dump all the "extras".
I like how he assumes that test engineering and project management are things you can just "fill someone's time with" until they learn something useful, like coding AND that someone will take 30k a year for. Really? In the valley, both test engineers and PMs for software eng projects are >90k/year positions.

I've done both of those jobs and they've both required me already knowing how to code, writing code, and having a CS degree. I think it's sort of ironic that he manages to devalue the very same non-software engineering skills he ostensibly says to value.
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> For SoCs where it's on-die - on the same bus/fabric - they will (if it's not an idiotic design) use an IOMMU of some sort, to prevent DMA from having access outside of its sandbox.

Do you happen to know whether this is the case for the latest generation of Qualcomm SoCs such as the Snapdragon 810 / MSM8994?
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More and more colleges are NOT using them for admissions because they predict NOTHING.
Yes, AbsExecBase, at 0x00000004 was the pointer to the exec library, from which you could get at anything on the Amiga. I still marvel at how everything was a linked list - quite a beautiful OS in some regards (if it wasn't for the lack of memory protection :(
> By now Boston, the East Coast's number two city

In terms of?

Maybe in terms of VC, but it's definitely not number two in most other measures. Top-10 East Coast? Sure.
It is okay in the industry to discriminate employees based on whether they just graduated from a top tier school like Stanford. Or whether they have years of experience at a top tier company like Google. Or answer absurdly irrelevant puzzles, or implement red-black trees from memory on a whiteboard. Or whether they can answer aggressive questions demanding to explain their business value. Or whether they are a "culture fit" (too black, too old, too female, etc.) Or whether they have enough names of technologies you use in the resume. Or whether their resumes are well-formatted.

In short, throw people out for almost any reason you want, and HN will defend your right to do so. But suggest that we could ever choose employees based on measures of "intelligence" or academic performance, and you are obviously doing something horrible and nobody should see your post.

There's at least one good thing about standardized testing: at least it's standardized and objective rather than being based on vague emotional criteria - how well you can con the interviewers, or whether they think you're just like them, or whether you present social proof that you convinced sufficiently many other companies in the past, or whether you are literally a friend of an employee.
If the the police believed that the average American is well armed and capable of defending their rights, that would change how Police interact with them, reducing the number of bullshit enforcements, such as civil forfeitures.
The one I compared with is mynesting which has a pay-per-use model. They also make nestfab, which is 2k+ per seat I believe.

There are lots of others at various price point, but none that are free it seems.
I think that's why the OP suggested a pay scale but obviously you wouldn't want to do this unless you can setup a system of on-boarding so you're not killing other developer's productivity.

If you can develop a system to where a few people are essentially "trainers" (or some degree) this could work out exceptionally well...or fail miserably, I'm not sure which yet.
> ellipsis is culturally specific and limited in its meaning

It might be less culturally specific than you think. You wouldn't believe how often Chinese people send me 。。。 in chat.
What does measure that? An interview where someone gauges whether you love Node.js and can spout dogmatic gibberish about MVC?
Shamir's secret isn't safe because it requires you to have both parts of the key and put them together on the same server. Standard bitcoin multisig does not use Shamir's secret, it does a pay to script hash transaction which is safer. You can try it out yourself here https://bitcore.io/api/lib/transaction
Actually, I learned 68000 assembly by hex-dumping a freeware assembler to find the full set of OpCodes and some reverse engineering. That, combined with some trial and error (and a few magazine articles that actually had a little bit of ASM {} C), and I was able to do some very cool stuff pretty quickly).

Boy, I miss those days :(
Those police do believe the average American is possibly well armed.. they live in the same country as everyone else and know what the Second Amendment is. Why do you think they have backup and guns at the ready every time they make a traffic stop?

Why is violence an effective means of coercion by the common citizen, but an unacceptable means of coercion by the state? Surely, if fearing for their lives would keep the police honest, having the people fear for their lives would keep them honest and law abiding as well?
Some of them went to public high schools disproves nothing I said. And I'm not sure why you quoted the same piece of text I did.

Most don't seem to disagree that Silicon Valley is elitist, they just don't seem to think it's a big deal.
the machine learning concept that is setting all the records in vision / speech recognition serves no purpose as a model of a biological neural network.

I think you are overstating this. There are definite links between the two, even if ANNs end up different because of the tools we have available to us.

CNNs were explicitly designed to mimic the behavior of the visual cortex.

Most of Geoff Hinton's career has been built around thinking very hard about biological computation.

One of the major criticisms of back-propegation in neural networks is that it is biologicaly implausible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolutional_neural_network...
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>We represent ourselves as front-end devs instead of INTJ devs

This is a good thing. INTJ and other Meyers-Briggs types have no basis in science and they aren't related to what work a person can do for a business.
The hamburger menu doesn't have context...

This, yes. The 'pause' button has a single, unambiguous meaning: 'pause the current action.' The hamburger menu means 'display in some fashion an unknown number of things of an indeterminate nature.' The hamburger menu is evidence of a lack of design rigor, the kitchen junk drawer of user experience design. It's sometimes necessary, but never ideal.
Considering that Bitcoin is comprised of people who are very good at math, people who are active investors, and people who are currency enthusiasts, shows that you have no idea what you're talking about.
All I would say is I am more interested in reaching the many Chinese (and other people) who have no understanding of an ellipses than those that do. Those that do are already digitally literate and can suss a hamburger menu out, those that don't are facing an artificial barrier imposed by our cultural expectations.

Universal glyphs versus culturally specific symbols, and glyphs should win every time imo.
There is no shortage of developers. There is a shortage of perfect developers that meet every preconceived notion of lazy companies that don't believe they have any responsibility to develop and grow people. There will always be a shortage of top performers in any field. If only top performers are acceptable to you, you will have a very tough time growing. I have to laugh when I see these posts where people have 'discovered' that you can actually train people to make them better. I saw one a few months back where the 'secret' to using bootcampers turned out to be 'provide a guided program to finish developing their abilities', as if no one ever heard of this before.
For the longest time there was no way to disable that stupid F1 shortcut in MTGO. This was a problem because you were pressing F2 ("pass priority") on a more or less constant basis. If you slipped... up popped the tremendously annoying help page in your web browser.
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Why do you think that Chinese who can recognize an ellipsis are digitally literate?

There are no universal glyphs; they're all culturally specific.
> In short, throw people out for almost any reason you want, and HN will defend your right to do so

No way. All those reasons you mentioned above you've really seen people on HN defend those without being downvoted? I only ever see HN against many of those items of discrimination you mention...

> There's at least one good thing about standardized testing: at least it's standardized and objective rather than being based on vague emotional criteria

Except they're not objective but you're right they are standardized. This is not a good way of measuring people for many reasons. The more importance you put into standardize testing the more you get teachers teaching only the content contained within and you put more weight against a teacher's grading styles (which can vary wildly even on standardized testing when they're graded away from the school).

Standardized testing probably has its place but as criteria for employment is laughable at best.
Seconded. Things have changed not just technologically, but socially. The "hacker" thing is just about dead. A horde of people who do startups to get rich and act like hotshots are consuming its stiffening corpse. It's a completely toxic scene that will destroy the motivation and self-esteem of anyone who came into this out of passion and taught themselves.
I have to disagree about AI and doctors, until at least you can get much better sensing technologies. Computers are only as good as the data you feed them, and someone saying they have a pain in some vague region really isn't enough to diagnose anything accurately. It's why doctors tell people to not use the internet to self-diagnose: they quickly determine they're dying of some rare syndrome when really they just have heartburn. A human doctor can interact with human patients (most of whom are not very logically-minded) and figure this stuff out; a computer can't. Remember, a lot of diagnosing depends on the symptoms a patient self-reports, which is bound to be extremely error-prone. Now, if we get to the point where we have Star Trek-style medical scanners, then things will of course be different, but that's a long ways off.

However, I totally agree about the labor-based economy crumbing well before unemployment reaches 50%. If 30% of the workforce is displaced by automation, our economy won't work any more the way it's set up now. It's why we really need a Basic Income.
Some of us would call it's anonymous nature and lack of government control, a benefit to the currency.
I really think this full court press to push users onto Win10 is going to backfire on Microsoft.
Computer security is in its early stage of development, akin to bank security from the 1800's.
My job is to evolve and secure a particular bitcoin platform.

Money directly stolen out of a platform wallet is an unneeded problem. It should never happen. It should not be possible for an attacker to give that instruction. The system should not even know where to send such instruction to. So, how could an attacker ever do that?

The real difficulty is to prevent an attacker to inject misleading/deceptive messages into the system that cause the system to pay out to the wrong address. This does happen, if only because of bugs in the system.
I know this is unsolicited advice, but what problems do you see in this person's code that you can share with us?
Source? It's all anecdotal but I know far, far too many great developers who never even took the SAT (or did horrible on them) and are wildly successful in their careers. I have a hard time believing this is "extremely rare" especially considering most colleges now don't rely on them to a large degree.
I hear this a lot, and I think it's wrong. Sometimes you just have too much information to fit on a phone screen, but which should still be available. For example, I see people argue for tabs, but if your app fundamentally has a lot of choices you're left with an overflow tab which if no better.

Worse, I see apps that try to scale down to what they think is the "essence" of their feature set, only to be left with something that makes me say "screw this, I'll just use their website/desktop app if I can't do everything I need on the phone app"
I think the ... represents "some other text that's too small to read unless you peek close", which can probably appeal to any culture that has horizontal text.
You aren't the only one. I always wonder what we could do today to synthesize new environments which capture some of that feeling and will actually be interesting to people who aren't just suffering a fit of nostalgia.
Why not start by building a landing page and seeing if you can get at least a few hundred people to sign up? Seems like a much easier way to determine if the market's there than diving in head first.
There's a way to make this work, that a lot of tech companies already do with not-yet-technical freshman and sophomores in college: give a large funnel of people an actual training course a few months long. Give the best of this large funnel return internships. Again, give them some amount of training but this time more real-world experience. Those that actually helped the business, give full time offers to.

There's no inherent reason this model can't work with untrained, not-yet-technical non-interns. You just need to set up explicit expectations: this is a temp job (3-6 months long). The top 30% of people will be given a 3-6 month extension, during which they'll do real coding work alongside current engineers. The top ~30% of those to be given full time offers, at a "new grad" level, based on whether, by the end of the last month, they were operating at a "new grad engineer" level.
That depends on the nature of the startup: There is a ton of hyphen-tech here, so for example a fin-tech startup in my building that focuses on insurance just closed a Round B. Boston has a finance industry, but not on the level of NYC. And it's the same with media and other fields as well. Also something to keep in mind is that NYC has always been a magnet for Boston school grads and tech is no exception.
Like most interviewers are skilled judges of 'culture'. This is why most tech companies are filled with bros telling themselves how cool they are and how they are changing the world. Utter BS.
Another virtual dom based framework worth a serious look is Mithril [1]. JS, all the way.

[1] http://mithriljs.org
I don't think the author's suggestion of hiring people to "just sit there and watch/talk with (senior devs)" for 30k/year makes much economic sense.

Also the explicit discrimination based up on how represented applicants' "communities" are being recommended ahead of looking at actual technical skills is disturbing. I don't think it's illegal, but I also don't think it's good business or ethical.

Honestly, this kind of rule is how schools like Harvard keep low numbers of Asians (or in the past, Jews).
> and increased availability of firearms doesn't reduce violence

Conversely, the decreased availability of firearms doesn't reduce violence either.

Turns out there are no hard links one-way or the other. Crime rates correlate strongly with poverty rates.
criminal for covering this up.
Japan: Tardigrade reproduces after 30 years on ice
How to teach a child to type?
Are there any recommendations for programs and/or games for teaching a 10-year-old how to touch-type?
Agreed, but security and cryptography won't protect you from the police claiming "You smell like weed." and then seizing your property.
Whats wrong with proving a negative? There is no fallacy in that first comment you quoted. datapat isn't claiming that what he's saying is true, he's asking for a proof.
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How about by reading the dates on the material? It clearly states it was initially published in August 2015.

Then, by reading the chapter on "hardware and software" in the introduction, you would have the remaining explanation you desired.
The lack of a standard back button on iOS is more irritating to me. That is functionality that needs to be used more frequently and shouldn't be left as a discoverable experience on an app by app basis.
So they lost something on the order of $10 million (if my math is right) and waited a year and a half before telling anyone? This is some Mt. Gox-level sleaze.
When I was starting out right out of school, the corporate bank I went to work for had a 3 month program for recent grads to teach basic programming and database design along with company coding rules. They had non-coders in this program and started from scratch. Some of the folks in it with me were English majors. It was very successful and everyone in the program I kept in touch with went on to great careers. You interviewed for the company with round-robin interviews where 6 different department heads would have a sit down interview with you one at a time throughout a day. There was no coding involved.

I personally did very well there, went on to a financial services startup of all folks who'd left said bank and then branched out on my own doing web applications for clients and building a successful open source project with millions of users. I'm not sure if I'd get through the modern code-in-front-of-us-at-a-whiteboard approach that all the tech companies seem to favor now-a-days.
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