skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article ends with "fall from grace of cinematic proportions" but honestly, what a dull topic. A bunch of people building some equipment, filing (or failing to file) paperwork, a few business deals without due diligence and Henry Kissinger.

Unless they add some guns and car chases (not joking here, just hyperbole) it's hard to see how they could make any more than a 90-minute snoozefest. Dramatic music won't be enough.
I wonddr if the whole "visa free travel" thing is the real problem. Better to make it easy for everyone to apply online before they actually board a flight. Ask sufficiently nuanced questions so that people know exactly what kind of visa they actually need.
"Not doing much better?" Please, this CurrentC thing was a disaster from start to finish. I mean I'm sorry you don't like Apple Pay and all but that's just silly.
CSS Containment
Immigration bureaucrats are just doing a job. It's up to us to change the parameters of their job. So far they're expanding into the actual country:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_3dDNPwJTU
Central planning doesn't work because to achieve a perfect result the people in charge of the planning have to be perfect too. This clearly doesn't work in practice. Think of it this way. Communism has a better best case scenario than capitalism but this is rarely achieved. On the other hand capitalism has a better average case scenario and gives us consistent results.
> Time investment: 10 mins to review the code

I never think this is fair. Why is it fair for the candidate to spend a day working on a project (which you will do for even simple projects, if you actually want to get hired) when it takes you ten minutes to review the code?

> The small take home project is extremely revealing and more useful IMO. You get to see their actual ability at coding a small feature. Is it well-composed? Did they include tests? Do I want to maintain his/her code?

Honestly, you don't get to see much if that person has a day job.

You don't know who wrote it, if they had a friend review it, if they spent two or twenty hours on the project. You don't know anything about them by reading this project.

If it is shit, yes, you probably shouldn't hire them. But if it is good code...

1) The user might be doing something your devs don't understand, because they are bad devs, not because they suck.

2) "Good code" is fairly subjective. I've written some pretty good code and been shot down for "not using a graphing database."
Please provide reputable sources for your claims.
Gawker, Filing for Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Suit, Is Said to Be for Sale
I remember learning a saying years ago on slashdot. Difference between Windows and Linux: easy things are difficult in Linux, difficult things are possible. Easy things are trivial in Windows, complicated things are impossible.

This was in XP era. Today the likes of Ubuntu/Gnome try their best to dumb down Linux.
I wonder if Thiel will follow the management around waiting to pounce on them doing something else, just to solidify his brand. Kinda like the IRS loves seeing reporting of people suffering from IRS & tax problems as an advertisement to not mess with the IRS.
No. Or make sure you only state your purpose of entry as tourism.

If you go to a conference in the US (merely for attending) you're entering for business purposes. If you have only a B-2 visa, you will be turned back
The first version of MS Word was for MS-DOS, not the Mac
Since I got two replies with basically the same thing at the same time, I'll pick one at random and it'll serve as a reply to both. You won the coin flip :)

This is feasible in a sense, but C is a fairly tricky target to compile to: you have to make sure that you don't accidentally include UB in the code you generate. I know pcwalton has lots of feels here...

The easiest way to do it would be if LLVM had a C backend; I know that it did, but it was removed a few years back, and I haven't heard anything about it coming back into tree yet. MIR might also in theory enable new backends, but then you'd have to re-implement all of the optimizations that we currently rely on LLVM supplying.
> Now the programming cost of allowing filtering by anything is minimal.

The programming cost of allowing sorting/filtering on any field (especially if performance is not a concern) is small. Depending on the dataset, the resource (and programming, though this is usually less of an issue) cost of supporting efficient filtering and sorting on every column rather than a limited subset may not be.
The Republican Party homepage makes no mention of Donald Trump
There will be no ceiling effect because real journalists stay within the bounds of the law. Equating a self proclaimed gossip website with real reporting is disingenuous and insulting to journalists.

If the National Enquirer broke the law and was sued, do you really think it would affect decision making at the NYT or Washington Post?
Blockchain all the things! They don't describe how they will track 'fraudulent' ticket sales. This just seems like a closed source platform for trading tickets. Since it's not open, I don't see any real use case for a blockchain. Please correct me if I missed something on the website. Seems like another instance of people with a tool looking for a problem to solve (like most blockchain apps so far). This is from a big blockchain fanboy.

Also, why do hip new companies love hijacking scroll?
I use it every day but I do wish it were accepted in more places. I walk to whole foods and Peet's and typically do not have my wallet with me. It's pretty fast. You can use it online, but only through apps (amazon, fandango etc) since it uses the touch authentication. IRL I use my watch, for online purchases of course I use my phone.
The ROI of Employee Development
How is a 30% cut low? 30% is standard, and therefor not low.

"Earn 70% On Each Sale

We keep our fees low so you can get more"
Yeah, I gave up on Apple Pay a few months ago. It's easy and fast when it works, but figuring out whether it's going to work is a massive hassle. Simply looking for the NFC symbol is not enough. Some places don't actually enable it, and some places enable it but still don't work. It's easier to just go for a credit card than it is to try my phone and then possibly switch to the card.

On-device payments are possible, and those work pretty nicely. I've used it with Uber before. I don't think it's possible to use them with random merchants who don't have iPhone apps, though.
> Time investment: 10 mins to review the code

This is what really irks me about take home exercises. The candidate spends 2-4 hours (or 12 and say they did it in 2) and the interviewer has no real commitment to reading and understanding it. 10 minutes to review the code? I would expect a video call where we go over the code together.

All interviewing I do, I do while talking to them and give them ample time to explain it back to me.

The candidate is investing their time. You should have enough respect to invest your time too.
Strange, I know a couple of people who have worked in Japan for periods of a few years - legally I hasten to add - and who have experienced no special difficulties. Those periods of work were pre-2000 and a decade ago more or less.

Is this a new phenomenon?
If you are a reporter who has identified a bad company, how are you supposed to investigate them publicly without writing articles about how 'bad' they are?

Writing a string or articles about the same topic, shouldn't instantly mean you get extra scrutiny. That scrutiny should be on everyone, since sometimes the most biased are those who care the least to write and have done the least groundwork.
Well, Rust is awesome, but there is a place for C too. I just don't understand lack of the life and no improvements in C for ages. Better typing system (for example _Generic doesn't know uint8_t, etc types - they are just typedefs), 'pure' keyword for functions without side effects, tuples support, deprecate a lot of the things and so on.
I've had mixed success with Android Pay; the one time I needed to use it (forgot my wallet) it worked at Trader Joe's.

Most of the time, though, I spend 30 seconds trying to get things lined up properly between my Nexus 6 and the sensor, then give up and use plastic instead.
I really wish people would stop pretending Slack is just IRC with a brand name slapped on. It's so much better to use in every single way.

If you don't care about UX then you don't care about UX, but at least have the intellectual honesty to say it.
there are six fascinating hours of personal history with taylor pohlman of forethought here https://youtu.be/5i6mR3LHOB4
I was part of a meeting at retailerX where a VP or mid-level manager that was representing the company at CurrentC gave a talk. As she told it things were going swimmingly and she talked about her lead and how she and retailerX were respected by the other retailers for their IT prowess. After that meeting I knew CurrentC was dead. This lady was chosen to lead the project and most mid-level managers at retailerX were completely incompetent. RetailerXs IT department is staffed by H1-Bs and get things done through brute force. If that's the best they could find they were in trouble from the start.

Wal-Mart made the wise decision of going solo and launching their own app a little bit later. From what I hear Wal-Mart labs has a great staff.
That "death threat" was a bad joke made on a IRC channel after hours, after several on the channel had spent the day trying to debug some issues caused by changes in the most recent systemd release at the time.

On top of that he is a loudmouth and head of a controversial project, that is basically a big neon sign these days for attracting the "gamergate" hive.
Yeah, the main thing was differences between versions (even point versions) of the underlying SQLite installation on any given device. The spec probably would have helped with that. Also I don't know why Mozilla got opposite feedback about whether web devs wanted SQL compared to everyone else, but that also seemed to be a big factor.
I'd say the lapse is using guessable numeric id's, rather than sparse guids.
For a single character, I like to provide an integer value of the number of bytes (or characters, depending) offset from the beginning of the string.

For a substring, I provide the same starting offset plus another integer for the length (again, in characters or bytes depending on context).

I think you'll find these are very popular approaches.
I'm not an expert on this subject (have only dabbled in a few FP languages over the years), but what I've read in various sources leads me to think that the term "functional programming" itself is not very well-defined, or, to put it another way, different people may have different definitions of it, each including and excluding various language features or capabilities. Is that right? Any experts care to comment?
That does not sound correct to me. The IRA got most of its weapons from Libya [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ira/inside/wea...] from the 1980's on, and the Good Friday agreement was signed (presumably suspending arms smuggling) years before 9/11.
"when unethical, unnecessary, and/or pointless to do so, and may result in you taking a literal or figurative beating". ie "common sense" meets "pick your battles"
SimCity, Part 1: Will Wright’s City in a Box
Many people believe that violating your marriage vows is an indicator that you wouldn't be a trustworthy public official.
Perhaps it's because they didn't have the required resources?
Elon's a GENIUS!

[raving]
This suggests that the inefficiencies would not be fixed, but instead explicitly codified exceptions -- with a high cost to the average user but little cost to political and economic elite -- would be created.
https://www.democrats.org/ doesn't mention Clinton either.
Yeah, I don't think that this solution has been viable at any point until now, but the proliferation of cameras and ease of transmission of video might be a game-changer.
The coast of Brazil and the Cape Verde Islands are not terribly far (relatively speaking). I think a lot of Americans underestimate how close the Americas are to the Euroafrican landmasses.

Also, this is neat reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_co...
What If PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological?
Who else has used Ample Market? Pros? Cons?
That's why you use Hipchat -- use it for a month and you'll learn to always be ready for it to go down.
Firstly, the ACLU is open about it.

There's no way to know, but my guess is that had Thiel stepped up in public a few years ago and said, "Gawker is a terrible gossip rag that needs to be taught a lesson -- contact me if they've wronged you too, and I'll help you mount a case", people would be less angry at him.

People don't like the idea that a shadowy cabal can run things behind the scenes without any public scrutiny.

Secondly, the ACLU does not generally appear vindictive. The ACLU looks to fund cases with a motive that people generally understand to be making things better for American society. Thiel may claim that removing Gawker from the face of the earth is a public service, but given the obvious history, that seems laughable. He appears vindictive, not altruistic.
Ask HN: Who is hiring fall interns? (Fall 2016)
Please lead with the location of the position. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would be helpful.

Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.

Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.

You can also use kristopolous' console script to search the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.
I don't see why you dragged minimum wage into this? The above poster is correct. Employee productivity has increased immensely the past 40 years, while wages have remained practically stagnant. Meanwhile costs of housing and education continue to rise. This isn't something related to low earners, we're all getting ripped off here.
The magic word is "attend", instead of "speak".
Apple Pay processes tons of transactions daily, Current C can't actually launch their product because it's so bad. The drugstore in my building supports Apple Pay so I use it all the time and I like it more than a credit card because of the anonymity (the retailer can't track my sales). I'd really like it if gas pumps would start supporting it as they are common sources for skimmers.

As for paying merchants online (opposed to in an app , that is supposedly coming:

http://www.recode.net/2016/3/23/11587214/apple-pay-coming-to...
Job hunting checklist: #2 Autonomy
> Finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch, you turn it on, and suddenly it’s all illuminated. You can see exactly where you were. Then you move into the next room and spend another six months in the dark...

What are you supposed to do if you like math and the idea of grokking it, but you also have a job and a family and can't afford to spend six months contemplating each room in the mansion?
Sure, and I guess the speaker list problem could be avoided by using a faked passport.

Edit: can't add a reply to the followup question anymore. So I add it here. Google, all your 007 travel style will break down if the find your name via Google on the speaker list.
A ton of sites went down yesterday that were on the cloud-flare network due to them having an issue with one of their transit carriers.

Its crazy how the downtime of what seams like one edge network provider can damage so much of web access.
>Absolutely. I say this all the time.

well you are not doing anything to improve the laws and society then. Given than logic we'd still have slavery and sodomy laws among other things...
It's not an ordered system where speeding < high speed < very high speed.

You can be going at high speed, but not speeding because you are not breaking any law about going 'too fast'.

On the other hand, you can be speeding at 20mph because you are inside a public garage and the limit was actually 5mph.
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Performance. Rust is still twice as slow as C (http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php...) which is still a fair bit slower than if a skilled assembly programmer had taken on the task.

Rust aficionados will say that their compiler is getting better, but so is C. clang has gotten faster than gcc on some benchmarks and on some others gcc has catched up and is now faster than clang again.

But what if you don't need optimal performance? Then you can use Rust. But then you can also use Go, Python, SBCL, Haskell, Java, C#...
So you're totally OK with the chilling effect impact of wealth and political power on journalism. Got it.
The original inventor is not necessarily the person best qualified to license and exploit a patent.

A lot of nonsense is swept in under this seemingly reasonable cover story. If I can't build a device that embodies my invention, in what sense have I really invented it?
So giving a game a better review because you slept with the developer is perfectly ok?
Well the chrome team is making that gamble, so I guess time will tell if it pays off!
Gawker files for bankruptcy
Are there any terms/concepts in math/CS that are related to or similar to "idempotence"?
I think it ensures that journalists will be reticent to violate the privacy of powerful, public figures... If it's on a sex tape.
> Don't they have anything to gain from using Rust?

Sure they do, but they're not throwing away a decade of hard-won experience in their specialties just to tinker; at least not with production code bases. The barrier of entry for beginner systems programmers is lower.
In practice in the United States it's been shown to present little to no burden. These cases have been widely covered in the press. Again, see the link.
Wait, wait - are you seriously suggesting that people should be treated differently by the legal system based on the political views that they hold?

This is one of the fundamental tenants of western democracy that you're up against here, not "pseudo libertarianism". Rule of Law. We want our legal system to punish people and organizations that publish sex tapes made without the involved parties' consent. Sometimes that means that a "racist billionaire" funds a lawsuit by "another racist millionaire".

See also: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/23/in-favor-of-niceness-co...
Chrome DevTools in 2016 and Beyond
It seems just a little creepy that you are required to give up your in-game username as a condition of employment.
Deleting email to hide something nefarious is plausible but so is legitimately protecting her privacy and that of those she communicated with. Politically, it was not smart to delete because it created an opportunity for her enemies to attack her integrity. Then again, her critics will never be satisfied so fuck 'em.
> What are you supposed to do if you like math and the idea of grokking it, but you also have a job and a family and can't afford to spend six months contemplating each room in the mansion?

Learn to come to grips with the idea that the universe isn't always going to support your mutually exclusive preferences?
Hey! Cool article. I work for Synthego, a Biotech startup based on Redwood City California working on CRISPR technology. We're make CRISPR EZ RNA kit for researchers and scientist. Our goal is to automate labs using robots and cool sw integration. We are looking for people, always, to join us. Any interest, check the career page out: https://synthego.recruiterbox.com/

I'm excited people are talking more and more about CRISPR - it's the future :-)
Rust is not stable. The language is not battle tested like C/C++.
Slack's business is built on free/open standards, they don't exist without http and html. Asking them to contribute in their area of expertise is not asking a lot.
You can be tracked without bidirectional calls, without JS, even without images or cookies. See the Panopticlick.
Fortunately, the rule of law as it applies to harm done to an individual isn't generally ignored because of some extremely vague and dubious benefit to the greater good.
In all mentioned cases the sex becomes sexual assault, which is a felony. It's very different from adult people consensually enjoying themselves.
This isn't the original link, but I found this from 2016-03-07: http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/07/announcing-sql-se...

Edit: The actual product page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/sql-server-on-l...
thanks, lol
How would that be a problem? If they don't know I'm going to a conference, then why would they go checking speaker lists?
Salary Negotiation – how not to set a bunch of money on fire
No doubt, but the problems are the same: Food, oxygen management, cosmic rays and no atmosphere.

Though Musk mentions a "pre-fab city" of some kind built within a 8-year time frame (starting yesterday and who or what is going to build it?) how can one not think that this is too ambitious?

Question, what kind of food can they grow on Mars and would natural pressures may make this good inedible? We do not know.

What about Musk's 26-month supply drop? Who is going to pay for it and what happens if SpaceX misses a delivery due to a "black swan" event or the company goes under?

Arguably, like MARS ONE this could be a scam, or more likely a well intentioned vision with no ground work in place to be accepted as credible. Since none of these problems have been addressed, and not one "Matt Damon" potato has been grown on Mars or a "Mars sim" environment I think my remarks were credible, YMMV.
Last I tried there were a couple of issues with autoindentation with the fsharp plugin for emacs, but they're well aware of the issue and have been working on it last I checked.
Its good to hear people are working on things like these, artificial hearts prolonging life. Gives some perspective and your own problems pale in comparison.
I have 3 years of SQL and while I do know what a join is, I doubt I could write a syntactically correct one that does what it's supposed to do, on a whiteboard. I'd need some test data and access to google, and at least three or four attempts.

Reason is, I work with a CMS that handles 99% of my queries for me. It would be monstrously inefficient for me to go around handwriting sql all the time. Any time it happens is by definition an extreme circumstance, so that's how I do it when it happens - with test data, google, and several attempts.

I'm pretty sure that would be reasonable for most jobs, but I wouldn't pass the tech screen if they wanted me to just freestyle it.
Secretary of Defence Carter Names Three to Defense Innovation Advisory Board
You may be wrong. One of the founder of Instagram has said he wasn't a very good coder when they built the product. He further said some of that old code was still inside the product.