skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anybody else gone through this?

Yes, although I don't think I was able to "see" things in my head before or after. I got West Nile Virus about 10 years ago, and was physically out-of-commission for most of a year. The particularly disturbing part was that even after I recovered physically, it took several more years before I recovered my mental ability well enough to reason about anything complex -- like math, or code. I just couldn't follow equations that once made sense.

Now after a decade, I think I'm back to about 80-90% of peak. I don't know if the small decline is residual from the West Nile, or to be expected with normal aging from 35 to 45. The experience drove home how little we understand the brain, or viruses. Consider how primitive our understanding of medicine was 100 years ago. I think it's likely that 100 years forward they'll look back at now with similar disdain: "They didn't understand anything --- they just let viruses run their course and do their damage!"
> a video game that includes lessons on Iranian constitutional rights

It's been noted regarding the Soviet satellites that only a tyrannical government needs to shoot to keep people in; one might likewise argue that only a tyranny tries to stop its people from learning their rights under that government's constitution.

Before we get too full of ourselves, we might consider what a public school makes of teaching the First, Second, Ninth and Tenth Amendments …
passpack.com is what I use. Easy to access and secure. I just wish they had a totp two-part auth instead of yubikey.
Judging by those spellings, we've also been pronouncing it wrongly. A pronunciation like "shax pear" does seem to have more of a early modern English ring to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s
Sounds rather selfish
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11552780
They paid the guys who own it, who are from the UAE and are presumably only too happy to facilitate a poke at the Iranian regime.
Lol. Try Tracy. Penninsula and Berkeley are $$$$. East Palo Alto may finally gentrify. This will rely on the cops evicting gangs though.
Because it's like Dr Evil asking the UN leaders for "ONE MILLION DOLLARS" to not destroy the world...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKKHSAE1gIs
you need to install the firmware from intel www.i0.org, I did that and at least my sleeping problems reduced
The script detecting adblockers can't fire if you have scripts turned off :)

They could just have the overlay default-on and use a script to remove it, or stick it in a noscript tag, but that's another order of dickishness I've never seen outside of local newspapers, who sometimes put a meta redirect in their noscript tags for this precise purpose...
People who climb Everest carefully (and slowly) acclimatize prior to any summit attempt. Expeditions can spend 40-60 days going up (and down) to help the body adjust to harsh conditions. Also, the 8k feet difference between Everest summit and 37k isn't nothing. There will be ~30% less oxygen at 37k feet than there is at 29k feet and, according to the Wikipedia entry for Mt Everest, someone accustomed to sea level air pressure would pass out within 2-3 minutes at 29k. So even if they made it to 29k and were still awake, they wouldn't be when they reached 37k without going upwards in a hurry (3000 ft/min is over 30 mph).

I have to agree with the poster you're replying to...37k seems like an exaggeration. Somewhere in the mid-20ks seems more likely.
'Man, Oh Manischewitz': When the Jewish Wine Was Big with Gentiles, Too
You can quote news stories (you will always be able to find an exaggerated sensationalist piece about how terrible things are, no matter the conditions, in any country. I've read plenty of articles on HN for example that describe the U.S. police force as essentially identical to the Stasi) or you can actually ask the reporters in those countries what their experience is. Both are valuable. This survey purports to do the second. Reporters' experience may generally be expressed as relative both to surrounding countries, previous conditions in the same country, and relative to the expectations of the reporters in each country, of course, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't ask them.

If there was a survey of technologists that summarized their opinions on a technical issue, but there were articles about it saying something else, would you say "well, the survey is obviously biased, look at these news articles, they tell us what the facts are no matter what the experts say"? No, you would not. Because it would be disastrously foolish to ignore the opinions of experts who actually work in the field, subjective as they may be.
Maybe. I support brain-computer interface research, but I don't think you should be so certain that it's the future.

Imagine you could stimulate the brain directly, what would that look like? If it's visual input, it's going to look a lot like stimulating the visual cortex, right? So you're suggesting we will invent some sort of biomedical device that can project an image onto some region of cortex. That would be neat!

But isn't there already a device that can project an image onto a region of cortext? There is! It's called the eye! What is really gained by stimuating the visual cortext directly, vs just having, say, an eyebrow piercing that just does the same thing by coming in through the eyeball?

Well, ok, maybe you'd like to get a little more bandwidth than the eye can provide? But I'm not sure that really makes sense. The eye takes in a LOT of bandwidth, and most of the time, unless we are fighting a bear or trying to run a football through a bunch of bodies, we're not even using all of the bandwidth.

Maybe you want to be able to look at the world and get input subconsciously without messing up your beautiful view. But you can just dedicate a some small number of "pixels" of your visual field to non-visual data. If your brain can't integrate that data with the visual field, it will just become a blind spot, and it will be as invisible to you as your current blind spots are.

Really, our perceptual system could be much more powerful, but beyond a certain point there's no reason to have more bandwidth because the existing stuff is all a brain of our size can really synthesize in realtime. You could add additional inputs to your brain, but your brain will just grow around them, dulling your connection with other parts of your body. That's not necessarily bad, but, again, why not just use those parts of your body for the input?

The planet Earth has spent about a billion years trying to design the perfect input/output interface for the human brain and it's done a pretty good job. I'm not saying we can't improve on it, I'm just saying it's going to be hard to do any optimizations at the hardware level. And we don't really need new hardware to plug in to computers, because our brain is already happy to remap itself to virtual inputs! Pretty much all of the things people imagine doing with a BCI can be done more efficiently, and less obtrusively with augmented reality.
Here in Israel, your name is דוד.
they have a value because the IRS requires the company to value the shares at fair market value and you pay tax on that value as regular income at the end of the year
Explanation of Macintosh II's memory limit
The original Apple "Macintosh Memory Configurations" technote is misleading on this topic.
For me, the money quotes was probably the least interesting (other than the take-away that a ~100k salary is probably a fair target for software engineering). The idea of someone only having a rough idea of what software-engineering is (1 year of self-study, more or less) can get an interview at Google at all was far more interesting. Also the fact that pretty much all the companies were absolutely hopeless at evaluating candidates - they might as well ignore resumes and only go direct references, for all their "great hiring process" (this includes Google, apparently).

> From no experience to teaching web dev at a bootcamp after three months? one year later offered roles by Google and Airbnb for $250k a year? Is this truly possible?

I think the real take-away is that if you can pry open the door, intelligence will always make you an attractive candidate. Especially if you also have the drive to complete projects. Note that this guy went pro poker player at 16, and was in the top tier at 18 -- essentially self-taught.

It does seem that the interview process for pretty much everyone in Silicon Valley is hopelessly broken, though. I wish he included some concrete examples about the kind of questions he got, especially the ones he thought were hard. With the little detail in the post, it's hard to tell if it's "implement a linked list, and show some examples of how one could sort it." or if it's something less trivial. And not to mention how/why the problems/questions were asked: was it to see if the candidate could solve the problem, or to see how the candidate approached the problem -- with less emphasis on the outcome?

I think it sounds ridiculous to "prep" for a job interview. It kind of implies that the interview is broken -- after all you could learn something significant about a position in a week of prep-time, almost anyone should be able to fill that position...

Some previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11552780
My fascination at this inside look at a strong candidate's experience interviewing in the Bay Area with well known companies is counterbalanced by my repulsion that people can actually write and promote such self-aggrandizing blog posts with pride. I would be ashamed to hand anyone something I had written explaining how I was the smartest person in some anecdotal room.

Every person I ever met who really impressed me, did it without telling me I should be impressed.....at least, the ones I liked being around.
There is nothing in this article that isn't better read at the original Quora Q&A:

https://www.quora.com/What-were-Bill-Gatess-worst-decisions-...

The "journalist" should have just clicked the share button at Quora, it would have been more informative.
This makes me wonder why federated login via Facebook doesn't meet this need. It works quite well, but perhaps the OAuth confirmation scares people off (or they are worried the requestor will access data they don't wish to share, post on their behalf, etc.)

There is something really compelling about the totally-seamless experience, but do I as a user actually want that? I suppose it depends on my trust in the platform holder.
Haseeb probably has some high level skills with negotiation and technically (at least with interview passing) as well.

I've went from $51k starting in end of 2012 to $75k + equity fall 2013 (both in DC) to $135k in mid 2014 to $140k + equity a few months later then $160k + equity in mid 2015 (all in the Valley) - before taking my last job, I turned down a $350k position (but low PTO - about half in equity), all for frontend engineering positions except for my current job (full web stack engineering). High salaries are certainly possible for software engineers, but you're not likely to see the inflated amounts outside of the Bay Area.

I have a friend who managed to do much better than me in less time as well in software engineering in the Bay Area. The caveat is that you have to be good at what you do in addition to having the right negotiation skills/savvy, and a bit of luck.
> Then, in one of 2015’s greatest moments of schadenfreude, especially for those who care about the widespread availability of quality healthcare and hip hop, Shkreli was arrested by the FBI for fraud. Alas, the FBI left Once Upon a Time in Shaolin in Shkreli’s New York apartment.

So why doesn't the FBI take the bloody thing, and auction it? They sold DPR's Bitcoin, no?
It would have to be risky as a driver to under-report as they would be one pull of Uber's data away from an audit by the IRS.

Health insurance might be more of a problem, but this is really only a US issue.

I am wondering if a franchise model (say like McDonald's) might get you to a model where you have the benefits of employees, but without all the associated issues.
Uses of Drones in Schools
Sounds like Teletext 2.0- The BBC Micro could even get software over Teletext for a while, and that was the 80s!
1Password. Besides personal positive experience, I've never heard a bad word about it. Solid piece of software.
See [1] also

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia
I'm guessing that extremely smart people have had this discussion internally and come to the opposite conclusion.
I was very surprised when I went to the root domain to see what stitchfix is. Completely not what I was expecting! I guess my model didn't predict a clothes delivery website to be writing about cool stuff like this. But now a bayesian update to this belief is in order :)
> For the 2000, there's the Zorro slots, which serves the same purpose, but is an entirely different type of connector.

The connector is different, but the Zorro II bus in the A2000 is logically the same across all the 16 bit models.
I it getting increasingly harder to find proper journalist pieces that don't seem like pure reposts, even in newspapers that one pays for.
Haskell. The type system eliminates a huge segment of errors that you only discover later in more dynamic langauges.
Flipkart Lite – The How?
That's basically exactly what happened with Allie Conti in his Vice interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PCb9mnrU1g). Only it was red wine and not tea.
Isn't the biggest mistake giving MS over to Balmer?
That is a creepy thought.
> So why doesn't the FBI take the bloody thing, and auction it?

Shkreli hasn't been found guilty of anything yet (and he put up his $45 million E-Trade account to secure his bond).
I would love to know what this thinking is. Uber's business model is an enigma - at least to me.
Show HN: Rasbr – A Lightweight raspberry-pi web-browser
Fighting opinions we don't like with opinions you don't like.

Fucking for virginity
Also, with regards to this quote from the conclusion~

> In the end, I didn’t get a single offer through a raw application. Every single offer came through a referral of some kind. (This I did not expect, and strongly influences the advice I’d give to a job-seeker.)

I don't know if I would call TripleByte "referrals"....it's not a raw application, but it's not really the same as knowing someone at the company either. This is a separate and somewhat new category of its own, these companies like TripleByte.
Which password managers have the worst cracking speeds?
It's always possible to saturate a satellite transponder by illegally uplinking to it. The Iranian government paid the Cuban government to do this a few years ago. I think they were jamming BBC content.
The overall culture among the OS users, developers and the respective architecture design decisions.

Personally, I don't care that much.

With time I became increasingly interested in the Xerox PARC world and how much better our current developer experience could have been if those systems had won the market instead of AT&T ones.
Yes. It expands off the bus that is dual-ported with the custom chips (the chip RAM) by default, and is slower because of it.
I've been relatively happy with SplashID, and while they're pushing their online cloud offering, you can also use it offline or synchronize just on your local network. (Looks like the version without sync is entirely free.) Works on Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android, and I've been using it since the Palm OS days.

https://splashid.com
Let's see. You leave for a London airport at 6am London time. You've finally gotten off the train, checked in, gotten through security and are at your boarding gate by 7:30am. Your flight takes off at 8. You fly for three hours landing at 6am NYC time. You take a train into the city, grab a bagel and coffee and are ready for your 8am meeting. That's not quite what I'd consider loosing a day.
Is it not both?
in "attack on titan" (fiction), apocalypse happens and humanity is hit the hardest.

but no, it does not bring any good. instead people do atrocious and horrible deeds in the name of greater good.

So, I would say, "No, apocalypse can destroy humans but not change them."
I think you need to have a better understanding of how to talk to people without sounding like a dick.
Exploring the Bay Area through data
Ad placement in Color Switch
Why not just set the min TTL to a few minutes, or even a minute, for anonymous users? Is there enough usefulness in ~seconds of delay on article edits vs minutes to warrant a much more complex design?
I know you're probably a paid Apple astroturfer. Mac OS has a ransom ware problem, too.
Given competitors are experiencing lower and lower friction entering the market, the desire to "compete" isn't limited in normal rates. The amount of competition will increase and drive (and break) economies at scale. Bubbles bursting. Markets collapsing. Faster and faster because the compute and network are lowing capital costs to enter market. Think candle vs. LED cost/light output. This is why we must rethink how we build infrastructure software.
Concorde didn't fail because there wasn't a market for fast travel between cities like London and New York. British Airways had no trouble filling them (at super-premium prices), and it's Concorde operations were quite profitable.

The real problem was that there was no market for expensive planes that couldn't operate over land routes, or from many airports, because of the extreme noise and environmental concerns.

If supersonic passenger planes are ever going to be a reality again then these are the things that need to be addressed, and thankfully it seems NASA realises this.
In an article from April 2016 they mention Felix Baumgartner but not Alan Eustace? Don't the BBC have google and wikipedia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eustace
You're doing it, presumably unpaid, on a Saturday night so hopefully you at least find being cynical about it to be mildly fun :)

I'm having fun doing it, but also I'm dog sitting for my parents out in the boonies.
Why would the FBI confiscate and sell his property? Just because he was arrested doesn't mean he's guilty, and even if he his that doesn't give the FBI the right to confiscate his property.
Low moderation and high level discussion is very possible and very common, but it depends on the topic and maybe the language. Just yesterday I've been on a French language forum on gardening, and this kid of dedicated community do not seem to struggle to keep away trolls and memes. Must be much harder for an English language forum on mangas, or a French language forum on politics. I'm not sure about Reddit, the subs I visit are either monocultural and barely interesting, or full of trolls and memes.
They probably don't feel their drivers are valuable assets worth retaining, much like how tech companies treat their telesales staff.

You want to quit? Go nuts, we have 50 people who will work for less ASAP, and we think we can onboard them easily.

We're also developing technology that will let us have robo drivers (or robo sales staff). So we won't really miss you, even if you compete with us.
Taxed as income based off of the fair market value of the RSUs as determined by a independent auditor's assessment (It's called a 409A Valuation).

In practice most companies will allow you to surrender non-liquid RSUs to pay the tax withholding so you don't have a massive tax bill from a non-liquid asset.
For a moment I have to check your username to make sure this is not my reply.

I am surprised how anyone can pay with discount in an APP call "dianping". For a two week trip in china, I found out even Taxi driver will accept my Wechat payment and they don't even know english.
I thought NASA bought X-Plane (a flight simulator from Laminar Research) to revitalize it as Lockheed Martin did something like that with Microsoft Flight Simulator. Oh well...
The entire article is written in present tense, as if it's a current news event; makes for a more interesting read. I don't think they're too concerned about people thinking William Shakespeare just now died.
No compiler (MSVC, gcc, icc) outputs the "bts" instruction for operations like:
bitfield[val / 32] = val % 32;
which could implicitly perform the modulo.

Using the intrinsic provided significant performance improvements, and we got still more when the rest of the inner loop was rewritten purely in assembly.
What do you mean by keepass formats aren't aging well?
Another anecdote, n = 1, from Houston.

(Background: I live in a large port city with a whole lot of immigrants, primarily Latinos but also many Vietnamese, Indians, Chinese, Indians, Pakistanis, Lebanese, and lots of others--about a quarter of Houston's population is immigrants.)

This really seems incorrect to me. I don't think there's any sort of price ceiling on what people are willing to pay, as one can readily find Indian, Japanese, Thai, and Chinese places that all are rather expensive per plate. There are a lot of cheap places as well, to be sure, but in the same way I can find both cheap burgers at McDonald's and expensive gourmet burgers elsewhere.

There is an argument also to be made that the more traditional restaurants have a clientele made up of folks from their community, who probably aren't terribly wealthy (because recent immigrant), and so their prices tend to be a bit more reflective of what their normal clients can bear. It's not that they couldn't charge more--it's that the people more likely to be used to their cuisine are less likely to be able to pay high prices.

This is also why, for example, you can get better and cheaper BBQ out in Giddings than you can in Houston...the meat market doesn't have a lot of business from people who are living off of engineering and medical salaries, and they are closer to where a lot of the meat was raised. Oh, and it's been in business for like fifty years. That helps.

If anything, the "ethnic" divide is probably from what the grocery stores do: a couple of aisles are dedicated to ethnic/international foods, adding a few token items to the mainstay of the American dietary needs supplied there. The German/French/Italian stuff has been around for so long in the US that it isn't even really differentiated from normal English cuisine--and that's a shame, because you have to go out of your way to find good ingredients for those dishes.

Part of the problem too is that a lot of stuff like Chinese food is just pure garbage here. Panda Express and any number of low-rent places don't cook anything like real Chinese food (like, drive out to Chinatown and order from the traditional menu Chinese food) and yet they are what most Americans think of when they want to order Chinese. That brand association can hurt places that would otherwise be able to charge more for their food.

(And yes, it's a terrible thing to use the phrase "Chinese food" when there a different regions with different cuisines; I've done that here for brevity. Indian food is the same way, and so forth.)

There is one part of the writeup I've seen first hand:

"Here in the United States, when you buy "ethnic food," you're essentially buying it from people who learn to cook it on the fly, mostly men, who have often never cooked back home."

There's a taco truck nearby whose quality literally doubled as soon as the owners' wives and daughters started working. I've observed this at several other small Mexican places in Houston. The rule doesn't necessarily hold for larger or richer places, though.