skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could also argue that losing out economically has significant impact on a nation and its people. While national financial institutions are rethinking the focus on finance as a focus of the economy, it's not by happenstance London, New York, Frankfurt, Tokyo, HK, etc. pursued being financial hubs.

They were keystones in their respective economies and thus just as integral to national physical defense.
> If I as a client came to a company and said I wanted a CRM built for my company, and they gave me a Wordpress blog with a shitty CRM plugin,

The parent comment at the head of this subthread specified that the client wants a CMS. That's how we got on the topic of Wordpress to begin with.

I agree that Wordpress would be a terrible platform for building a CRM. But I am dubious that anyone needs a custom CRM. There are literally dozens of commercially available CRMs at all price points and industries.
> is appaled by the amount of fat I'm eating, constantly asking me if it's healthy or whether I'm just going to get fat

I wonder how much of the fear of fat comes from people believing the saying "you are what you eat"?
The different feeds are irrelevant in this case, because no exchange sends (to any feed) information about: a) incoming immediately-executable orders, or b) unexecuted portions of an order which will be routed to another destination. The first anyone will hear about an incoming order is when it executes, and the first they'll hear about the routed portion is when it executes somewhere else.
There's been something related in the UK recently - Tesco not paying their suppliers.

"...dating from middle age..."

I've been noticing increasingly, while technology is buzzing ahead, just how many mechanisms and interactions in society are unbelievably outdated. Is this what sociologists are supposed to be advancing? What are they doing?
Thats one way to describe it. Another way to describe it is "hey prices at 2 different venues get out of whack some times, when that happens there is an opportunity to make money by bringing them back into alignment".

We don't assume other kinds of middle-men require sleep aids when they do this kind of behavior (and in fact we usually encourage it), so I don't know why HFT folks would need them either.
Has anyone used any of these time tracking apps for your iPhone?
Been looking for a good time tracking app for my team for the last couple of weeks and I came across this guide (http://blog.hubstaff.com/best-time-tracking-app-ios/).

Have any of you here used any of these apps? Which one would you recommend? Other recommendations if it's not in the list? Thanks for the help!
Total number of users might still increase though, doesn't it? People are not throwing away their old phones, just buying fewer new ones.
Simple 2 Page Application in Ionic
Then the question becomes: Is your company Slack?
> .. So, not the same as a person with no experience to show for getting a daylong interview with fizzbuzz and a take home project.

I have decades of solid experience. Multiple 3-digit starred projects on Github. Typically the person that interviews me learns something from me in the interview process.

As I said, it is getting ridiculous. Possibly it is a way to age discriminate, not entirely sure.
Interview with Grace Garey, cofounder of first nonprofit accepted to Y Combinator
So what you're saying is that its better to ultimately move into management ?
> An incremental change would be to start replacing MTA employees with Spanish, Indian or Hong Kongian contractors who can get the job done without featherbedding. Probably nothing but more money for the people currently robbing us will be "politically acceptable".

If we believe that employers should be responsible for things like health coverage then it 100% should be the government's responsibility to lead the way when it's acting as an employer. If contractors are so much cheaper than employees then either we're putting too high a burden on employers or we're allowing those who hire contractors to shirk their social responsibilities (possibly both); either way while the MTA could probably save some money in the short term by using the loopholes I think that would encourage dysfunctional lawmaking in the long term. I'm not sure where nationality comes into it; it's not like there's some featherbedding gene that Americans carry and Spaniards don't, and a fair share of the contractors for overbudget American public works projects have been foreign (e.g. bay bridge). Far more likely that the American bidding process or some other aspect of the political/legal environment encourages such things to happen.
I don't know with 100% certainty, but I am guessing rules for class action suits state that once an agreement is reached, the 'class' bringing the suit (i.e., the drivers in this case) cannot sue again for the same reason. That is, because new drivers would be a part of the same 'class' as the previous class action suit, they have technically agreed to the previous agreement, whether or not one individual driver agrees.
What do you use CUDA for?
I didn't go through each vulnerability, but I'd bet that the Heroku security team did as at least some of the vulns don't really seem to apply to Heroku.

Case in point: you for sure are not running MySQL on a Heroku dyno.
Google is very aware that their process have a few false negatives but that way they’re pretty sure to avoid false positives.
The teen who trekked 1,800 miles through Canadian wilderness disquised as a man
> most notably that prop HFT are the only ones using algos to trade

Can you point out where I made that assumption?
Same here. It'd be fun to write an Excel macro that read a png and coloured in cells according to the pixel colour values, though I guess that'd be cheating.
I think it was homebrew, that one is famous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9695102

So why is this such a big deal? The assumption here is that passing a Google interview is /the/ bar for success as a software engineer. Guy builds homebrew (success) and guy fails google interview (fail). Cognitive dissonance!

It's not surprising that there are a diverse set of skills required for building good software, especially if one is playing every role by themselves. Then it's also not surprising that at a large corporate environment, each one of these roles are usually taken on by separate people, and there is a lot more specialization. Then it's not surprising that they're ignoring all the other skills this person brings to the table - they're probably going to be squandered. It's also not surprising that a large corporation with a massive inflow of great candidates is going to have a diluted and uninteresting interview process because no matter what they're doing, they're going to get some good or at least motivated people one way or the other. It's yet again unsurprising that they fail to take their own advice when their internal studies find out that brain teaser questions or questions that don't have anything to do with the day to day work don't really predict success, because I think a lot of people who are established there passed through that bar, and ascribe their success to it despite the evidence. So it's a cultural change issue too.

Anyway, I got rejected by google when I was in college, and I took it personally at first, and now I don't. I'm not really proud of it, but I've learned to not think lesser of myself because of it. I have a perfectly fine job that I enjoy and even more opportunities. So it's possible!
> Rust has no equivalent to bitset (yet),

I believe BitVec [1][2] might be what you're looking for. It used to be part of the standard library but was moved out around Rust 1.3. While it defaults to using a 32 bit unsigned int as the basis for its underlying storage, it allows you to choose your storage type.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/bit-vec/
[2] http://contain-rs.github.io/bit-vec/bit_vec/struct.BitVec.ht...
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Open Platforms and the Self-Destruction of Walled Gardens
Exactly right. It's all about the BMR and while calorie-counting alone won't get you ideal nutrition it is absolutely enough to control weight.

I counted my calories with MyFitnessPal last spring and dropped 25 pounds. Consistent, long-term caloric deficit is the answer, except no substitutes.
If HFT doesn't make those venues worse, then how are they making money?
Advantages of Solar Energy
I remember a slew of articles mid 2015 that raised the criticism that founders came from privileged backgrounds. The article also mentioned "the cult of the entrepreneur" and the idolization of these characters.

I am born and raised in SV and yet I frankly do not understand the fetishization of entrepreneurs and the idea that this line of work is somehow holier than any other. Isn't that the root of the problem, rather than the privilege of the founders? After all, Wall Street is littered with nepotism and privileged family backgrounds, yet that isn't seen as much of an issue but rather just business as usual.

(perhaps the industry attempts to gain good will for its own gain through this portrayal, and this is the price they pay for this deceit though)
These "facts" do not apply to startups that actually succeed. Understanding customer demands and tracking business intelligence related to customer behaviors are two incredibly useful strategies for developing great products. I've seen startups do it all the time.

I worked with the startup Streamable.com for a short time, and Armen, the CEO, once told me something really insightful. He said to me, "There are no 'product' people - successful web products are designed by listening to your users and designing appropriately." As the CEO, he was the one listening to users and communicating with them. I thought this was a novel approach, and given how great Streamable is, I think Armen was on to something.
Well for many , their job is to prepare themselves for their next cushier , more high paying job.

Noone wants to be the drone who installs wordpress plugins.
lots of +1
for using emma watson, she is also pretty sideways.

However, i did experience a blocking wait for > 5 seconds "Waiting for http://.." some fusion ads or something. In UX terms, it is quite important that image loading ( -> fullscreen on click) is not blocked.
Rebranding the Koch Brothers
I seriously considered buying a ZTE - until I checked out user reviews online. The os is universally hated.
> There is no 'one true way';
as long as your app works and
you can hold it in your
head, everything is fine.

Unless you write a blog post entitled "My reaction to react" and proceed to demonstrate components in straight javascript and that blog post winds up on HN where you're summarily dismissed as "doing it wrong."
Well, the comment "you cannot outrun a bad diet" is clearly referencing the bottom 95% of the population in this case, especially when followed by referencing "thirty minutes of jogging." Clearly exercise burns calories so it follows that there is some amount of exercise that will allow a person to "outrun a bad diet," so pointing out some edge case isn't helpful or instructive.
What's so special about t.co? No other sites are having a problem. Sounds like Twitters problem.
New Clues to How the Brain Maps Time
The funniest thing was that he got the job... to be a lyre player for Scorza: https://books.google.com.br/books?id=_WyYeJOelPMC&lpg=PT106&...

His engineering talents were ignored!
If there is more demand than supply, wouldn't you expect the price to go up?
How is FF ugly? I don't find the UI very different from Chrome and Safari.
I came in here, to share my experience between Safari and Chrome, and it looks like you've iterated exactly the same sentiment. After El Capitan came out, and the changes to Safari, I REALLY gave it a shot. A sleek interface, and certainly fast, but it chews through RAM at an insane rate. There is no rhyme or reason to it, I can have a fresh window open, restore previous session of ten tabs, and after a few hours, each tab starts consuming 5GB+ of RAM until everything is exhausted. Chrome(Canary) on the other hand, twice as many tabs open, and it never runs away with RAM usage. It still uses a hundred megs per tab, but none of them go crazy. I need to have every browser under the sun installed for testing, but Chrome is the only thing I can keep opening without killing my Mac Pro that has 28GB of RAM.
Conversely you could also leave at a moment's notice for a better opportunity.
Every (large, meant for production at scale) application needs a framework. That doesn't mean it should be someone else's framework. And while there are certainly "giants" on whose shoulders a developer can stand, in the JavaScript ecosystem in particular, a lot of frameworks feature shockingly bad code or untested patterns.

So, be careful, avoid magic, let your software express requirements, and then choose a tool accordingly.
Excellent point. And this calibrating is a key point as you lose weight--once you drop a significant amount you've got to revise your calorie intake down a commensurate amount.

Estimation is good enough as long as you monitor your progress and tweak it if it's not getting you results.
How I failed my B2B SaaS startup
> If the choice is between Ares and Hermes, I am choosing Hermes.

Well put.
Safari needs to start respecting HTML5 input validations.
I did not find it to be inappropriate. He was noting his interactions with Minsky and the connections between their work which is a standard and useful thing to do in this kind of situation.
> trying to follow popular nutrition advice, like cutting out fats, meat, animal products, etc... frequently only lead to lack of proteins, sometimes in a serious manner

Frequently? Can you cite even one case study of someone becoming protein deficient by way of cutting out animal products?
If you want to post animated gifs and embed youtube videos you can't use IRC. Everything depends on the requirements. To find the right solution you have to understand what your client needs, not what he thinks he needs.
Hi, cheap plug here for my really, really low-overhead event tracer: ppt.

https://github.com/lally/libmet (BSD license)

Basically, you define structs that you then fill in your code. Then give them to a ppt-generated library routine. It's a bit of a pain, but you get two nice features:

- The storage is completely non-blocking: you're just writing to shared memory.

- Overhead is linear to write rate: if you have a spare CPU core on the machine, the overhead on your active cores is a constant + the cost of filling & copying (once) the struct.

- It'll prefer to lose some data in case the disk falls behind in writing -- it won't slow down your app. Auto-generated sequence numbers tell you what/if any data was lost.

- You can leave the code on in production: the listener attaches via ptrace() and injects a destination buffer into your process (constant time), and if there's no buffer, the data gets harmlessly dropped.

I've left it alone as I haven't needed it for myself in a while, and there hasn't been interest (I don't really advertise it, though). If anyone's interested, just ping me or file an issue.
I experienced this issue earlier today. I assumed my Safari had gotten corrupted somehow, crazy that a serverside issue would bring down the browser like that.
Is this Hacker News or /r/programming?

Was hoping for a more informative discussion on one of my intellectual heroes. To me, Da Vinci is up there in the "alien" category along with Von Neumann... there is no field in which he not only excelled, but formed theories that were centuries ahead of their time.

Not only in art and engineering, but in medicine and biology. In his notebooks you can find rudimentary ideas about evolution (in his study of fossils, he notes that different layers have different kinds, and that those at the bottom appear to be the oldest; he then notes that the Earth must be much older than his peers seem to think!). In medicine he noted that the arteries of people who suffer from heart attacks are hardened and thickly coated (another discovery that was not made until the 20th century).

There is also misconceptions about whether some of his designs worked. It was common back then (before IP laws) for inventors to insert crucial flaws into the schemes, with codified solutions that only they know, so that only they could build the product.

For example, his gliding machine, lacking a tail, will bomb. Unless you are astute enough to notice the pages where he writes down his theories about how birds use their tail to stabilize their flight!

Lo and behold, after adding a tail, the glider works: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/leonardo/glider.html

The list goes on. If you haven't, I thoroughly recommend reading more about this man. He was not just a great painter and engineer, e was truly a once in a generation mind; and all without formal training -- just his imagination and thought experiments.
Perhaps too far ahead of his time... imagine how far we'd be had further pursued his wild ideas!

His facsimiles are also available in print, and offer a fascinating insight into a one of a kind mind.
Fake it while you make it – why fake services are awesome
I know it's easy to joke about a SV twist, but there's actually a novel, _Radiance_ by Carter Scholz ( http://www.gwern.net/docs/2002-radiance ), where da Vinci's letter to Sforz is a big theme, as it encapsulates the troubled relationship of science to the military, which repeats throughout history and especially in Silicon Valley and the national nuclear labs descending from the Manhattan Project. It's bleak, but it's one of my favorite novels.
Someone's gotta pay. Right now it's the drivers paying via not having benefits.

We can have a world where (1) costs are transferred to riders, (2) costs are eaten by Lyft, (3) costs are diffused through increased efficiency and utilization of the workforce -- this tends to manifest itself in overworking of employees though (ex: paying overtime rather than hiring more workers, as is often the case in manufacturing)

I suppose that we could have a scenario for (3) where the goodwill entices riders to use Lyft more, which increases utilization of drivers (ex: collecting fares for X minutes / hour goes to X + N minutes / hour) and that can pay for the increased costs.
Can you force it not to download binary blobs that turn on your microphone?
This is exactly the same experience I have had. I gave Safari a few months, added extensions, etc. I just found myself banging my head against the wall over certain things that Chrome had natively that Safari choose not to have.
It's amazing to me that people get so worked up about HFT when the same arguments apply to 90% of "tech" companies.

> Are the people writing these algorithms even remotely thinking that the trades can ruin or starve millions ?

No they can't, by definition, high frequency trades have very small price deltas and each one matters very very little to the broader market.

An abstract way to think of HFT is that it condenses money out of information. This is exactly what ad-driven businesses like Google and Facebook do too, but HFT doesn't require massive databases of information about all of us, plus it is more energy efficient because it doesn't have to send the same copy of a cat GIF over the air to 350 million people just to make half a cent in ad sales.
‘I nearly passed out’: A $640 Uber ride for a 30-mile trip to the airport
Git-worktree – Manage multiple working trees
These are totally fine most of the time. Typescript in particular looks like a good choice for game development.

Sometimes the language is less of a good choice. E.g. i did a small toy project in coffeescript about two years ago, and found to my horror, that if your function ended in a loop, it would return an array. Always. This isn't possible to accidentally do in the host language, so I'd say it is a bad fit (for game development, where you care about such things).
There's another satellite, DCSOVR, that takes photos of the daylight side of the earth several times a day. It's not as up-to-date as this footage, but it's always fully lit. http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Try to Interview Google’s Chief Executive. It’s Emasculating
The degaussing facility uses shore power. They could mean 4000 ampere-turns, too.

Source: I went through one of these back in the day.
I live in Summit County. The situation is ugly. over 75% of homes here are 2nd homes. AirBnB is running rampant. Half of the homes in my neighborhood are empty most of the year, and the other half are being rented out for 200 dollars a night to vacationers. The towns could put up restrictions on VRBO, raise taxes on vacation homes, anything. But they won't. The town governments are all run by realtors and developers who don't care about maintaining a viable community.
> My flatmate, who's dieting with me, is appaled by the amount of fat I'm eating, constantly asking me if it's healthy or whether I'm just going to get fat

That's probably because a diet with 70% fat is extremely unhealthy and will likely lead to coronary atherosclerosis. Also, 5% carbs? How are you getting any nutrition in, since fruit and vegetables are almost all carbs?
Deep learning stuff. We push to servers for deployment but it is very convenient to develop/test on a laptop first.
If you read the article you'll see an Apple engineer confirm it is a problem with Apple's code.
These are good, very good, though I too was expecting "cell pixel" art. I bought a print of Miroku Waterfall because I love the colors and my daughter loves waterfalls.

"Cherry Blossoms" killed Excel 2016 on a brand new 16GB Mac laptop. I have to assume it works fine on the Windows version otherwise I can't see even a calm artist having the patience to complete a work.
Did Obama’s election kill the antiwar movement?
Aereo's founder is now taking on ISPs with wireless internet
Getting 20,231 Views with One EPIC Roundup Post: A Step-By-Step Guide
I think it's the tabs. For whatever reason, chrome is simply the best browser for those 50 tab research sessions.

You might like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
React and the Economics of Dynamic Web Interfaces
Same here.

Also would add a compounding series of negative results including depression, being almost shadow-banned from the business due to lack of optimism (no joke), then alcohol problems etc

I'd take a bet there are many many others on HN that can attest to this outcome, but lurk due to shame or emotional pain. Losing everything because of misjudgment is not an easy thing to admit to publicly, especially in a community so warped with the cult of survivor bias
I appreciate that choice, but maybe add a zoom out button to notify people that you can in fact zoom out, because I didn't even realize I could see the whole earth (Also, this made the 'what is that bright spot moving east to west' question very confusing).
Hey folks, I just wanted to apologize. I got an influx of several thousand views because of this post and exceeded some API usage limits, so the web and some of the image results were down for a bit. They're back up now, but if they exceed the limits again, they'll have to remain down for a bit (financial limitations :S).
Types in Elixir
I use Hours but only in the coarsest "arrive at work / go home" sense since I'm paid by the day - and for that it works fine. (I have had update issues on the iOS betas but I can't really blame Hours for that.)
No but I will now, thanks!
The ship's total mass must be close to the mass of the water it displaces. Less mass spent on the hull means more mass spent on the reactor and steam plant.
I don't get how he thinks it's ugly or different.

Not only is it very similar but, unlike Chrome or Safari, every aspect of it is customizable so you can make it look however you want. Out of the box you can rearrange the the UI elements to match Chrome or Safari.