skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I felt the same way, but then you get a pay cut when you go to Mars, and another when you go to Indonesia. If the max rate they told me was based on my location, I'd be shocked if they are even be able to find a mid level dev within several hundred miles of me.
I'm pretty sure negative 10x-ers exist though. The people who can build something but it then takes someone else 10 times longer to iron out all the bugs ad performance issues.

In fact, I think these people are often mistaken for 10x-ers, especially in their own mind.
Let me guess: it is unencrypted so they can mine it for great profit.
Only if you physically go there.
The Browser Is the Worst Sandbox Ever Designed
I'm under the impression that something like heroin is dangerous while marijuana is not.

> Because teenagers in Japan most certainly do do drugs, both legal and illegal, dangerous or not.

I'd bet you a lot of money that the problem there is much much smaller than in the US. They have their own problems though. No society is without problems.
Yes, but at least it bothered to parse the email and display it? The original URL seems to have very nearly just echoed the raw MIME message into an HTML page.
Thank you for being transparent. You've saved both of us some time.
That was simple: https://gist.github.com/emehrkay/351a875c96336c530668b31c386... seems to work

Im going to change the events to activated/deactived so that I can leave the app on, but only change the screensaver when in use.
Reminds me of the Life of Brian.

"You don't need to follow anybody!
You've got to think for yourself!
You're all individuals!"
(crowd, in unison) "Yes, we're all individuals!"
I did not speak of conspiracy, simply that the current 'system' is quite lucrative for many groups and thus their self interest is not to change a broken process.
This is too bad. I used the service probably five or six times. They were always my go to for renting a car from the airport. (Never used them to lend out my own car, however.)

Interesting to note, PG said this about FlightCar in 2013: "They went from what seemed like one of the least promising startups in the batch to one of the most promising in the batch." (http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/03/27/smaller-c...)

FlightCar anecdote from the early days: I rented a car from BOS and drove it to a wedding about 4 hours away. Got a call from FlightCar that they actually needed the car back (don't know if the owner returned early, or it was a scheduling screw-up.) So someone drove the 4 hours to me in a different car, met me in my hotel parking lot 30 minutes before the wedding, and we swapped cars. :)
Store it as FLIF then dynamically serve up whatever is needed for the web interface...
Is it a HN feature that cuts off long URLs unless you click Reply to isolate the comment? Actually even after isolating the comment the URLs are cut off (but not quite as short). Highly annoying.

You should edit and put the titles before the links.
I'm not saying that the publicity isn't a good thing here but this isn't new. I feel like the writer of this article just discovered this or something or is just trying to bring attention to the issue which is a good thing. Not sure if it'll change anything though since it's been this way for quite some time now and there's been basically nothing said about this officially.

Going back to Windows 8/8.1 IE11 also played Netflix at 1080p. I don't know the specifics but I believe it's due to the differences behind the DRM being used. That's not really an excuse for not supporting 1080p everywhere but I believe that's why things are the way they are. It's a choice that they've made and you can't help but think there's some monetary incentives in it for Netflix to keep it this way but that's just speculation.

Just for comparison Amazon does support 1080p everywhere across browsers (I know for sure it supports 1080p in Edge and Chrome). You can even watch Amazon in an incognito window (at least in Chrome).
Deprecation annotations are incredibly helpful, many thanks.

This is off the top of my head and likely clang specific:
-Werror // Treat all warnings as errors
-Wno-error=deprecated // Except deprecated warnings
-Wno-error=deprecated-implementation // And these ones too

The deprecated-implementation warning flag should likely be made part of the deprecated warning group, but it's not yet. See the clang source for a helpful TODO? comment.

-Wclang-please-warn-about-warning-groups-that-are-missing-warnings ?
That would be less disheartening if any of the "hiring is broken, let's fix it" companies actually tried to fix it instead of just streamlining and/or automating the existing, broken systems
Real-world HTTP/2: 400GB of images per day
He's referring to a certain trick used to create neat transparency effects on CRTs. Like this one: http://i.imgur.com/9pI7cK3.png

Of course, that was most certainly intended, and the effect could be seen on any CRT (afaik).
> “If I ever needed a job, I’d definitely use Mentat,” says Justin Kan, Partner at Y Combinator.

Says rich man who's never had to look for a job.
We're going to die.
Point me to the change in human nature, and not the change in technology please.
Wow thats a crazy piece of news about Keith Rabois, I had a fair amount of respect for him
everything they have access to is relatively "everything".

you are an idiot, on everything.
That is a great point. I have no idea how anyone could be so brainwashed as to not agree. How many ruined lives is one less arbitrarily illegal drug user worth?

I think that the kind of people who would agree with prohibition at any cost are followers who won't think for themselves, have no knowledge or interest in history or hopes for a better future, and would have happily extolled the virtues of drug legalization if that had happened to be the policy at the time.

These people seem to attribute no value to civil liberties at all.
Does the book go into animal agriculture's massive impact on species extinction? It seems a massive contributor so often over looked.

Just one fact, up to 91% of the deforestation of the Amazon since the 1970's has been for cattle![1]

[1] Livestock's Long Shadow http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.htm
Don Hopkins and Pie Menus in – Spring 1989 on a Sun Workstation
I'm not an expert, I've just heard enough times that an explosion that's not enclosed isn't very effective. My plucked-from-the-air guess is that with today's consumer drones, you couldn't fly enough explosive-by-weight anywhere that's vulnerable enough to do anything but superficial damage.

With the metallic powder, while that stuff can fry a circuit-board, power substations have a ton more energy in them, and have much more durable hardware. They already have to be weatherproof in externally accessible areas - I can't see an explosion of metal powder doing any more damage than rain already does. IANAPSEOAE (I am not a power station employee or an electrician), though.
It also loads progressively and has a novel feature that lets a client determine how much detail to render, then stop loading any more data, all while using the same file.

http://flif.info/example.html
Ya I was quite impressed.
> What part of the stuff from that link was written in Lisp?

All of it. (Except for an IPC system which was written in C. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZK0tW8EhQ if you want to know the whole story.)

> Would you answer them?

I'll answer a few of them.

> if Lisp is so wonderful compared to C, how come so many more safety-critical systems are written in C?

Politics mainly. And inertia. And the sunk cost fallacy.

> Is it because the entire profession is blind, and only you and a few enlightened ones realize how wonderful Lisp is?

Yes. Pretty much.

> Or is it because people that have done this for decades see more problems with Lisp than you are aware of?

They, like you, think they see problems, but they, like you, are wrong.

Tellingly, none of the people who think there are problems with Lisp actually know Lisp.
Hiring is broken. It's just broken into many pieces, especially as you get to larger organizations.

The first disconnect occurs when management wants something, but HR loses it in translation, and that job description is classified and immutable for the next decade. So it gets posted, and everyone complains that the "right candidates" aren't applying. Well, that's because we can't actually write job descriptions to tell candidates what we're actually trying to do.

If by some miracle I get to post a job the way I want to describe it, I have the option of receiving every resume that comes in or letting HR screen, whereby they interpret what I want and probably trash a lot of quality candidates. Because they were doing Java instead of Python or didn't include SQL or something like that. So I tend to do my own screening, looking for evidence of critical thinking, curiosity and potential, which takes some time.

Maybe I found my candidate and I've hired them. I mentioned I'm big on potential, critical thinking and curiosity. I think I'm a pretty good manager and people developer, and I'd even like to think that those who have passed through my team have learned a lot. Naturally I don't have the sort of pay scale or rapid advancement culture to work with, so I eventually lose them to someone who does. (As an aside, I used to work with a great HR recruiter, who could really deliver the right candidates - naturally she went somewhere else to get paid more!)

And then we start over. So I like the idea of startups like Triplebyte and such, who I can maybe trust to think like me and get me a few candidates for a last round interview and a hire. Naturally, my large, old school company will have none of that :)

From the candidate perspective, these same issues manifest differently, but share the same root causes. I can see why startups who understand the process on the inside are starting to try and monetize their knowledge of the game. Personally, I'm a pretty big fan of Jobscan - it's a really helpful tool to help you adjust the language in your resume to match the keywords from the job posting, which is useful in getting your resume into the hands of an actual human to read. From there, you may still run into the above issues, but the first hurdle has been cleared.
That's what I did.
You have to pay taxes for x + y but can only sell the house for x after the company leaves
Fixing it is hard, and the fix as a product doesn't scale, as you're working directly with/against internal politics.
I agree completely. I also think there is way more luck involved than people want to admit - a lot interesting results are unexpected, and there are so few jobs the timing has to work out for you. I have known plenty of great post docs who couldn't get a Professor job, and plenty of Professors who seem pretty mediocre.
Nice. In that era we had an even cheaper solution for a multi-user accounting system, the VNA by Advanced Micro Research / the "UnTerminal":

https://books.google.com/books?id=AlnQ5OJS6XgC&pg=PT167&lpg=...

So basically no networking, just multiple video cards and keyboard interfaces in a single 386 PC (it used RS-422 to move the video signals to the screens). In SCO Xenix this worked extremely well. No networking needed.
Consider adding -Wextra. It adds a lot of warnings that will likely be bugs, but may throw more false positives than -Wall.
If you are willing to put up with more false positives and/or are willing to disable certain warnings, consider -Weverything.
Ask HN: Hardware support for garbage collection by mainstream CPUs?
Garbage collection can be viewed as a software emulation of infinite computer memory. Besides obvious technical complexity, are there any theoretical/practical reasons why mainstream CPUs don't do hardware garbage collection?
Healthchecks: Get Notified When Your Cron Jobs Fail
I haven't used it -- Is Pokemon Go a big data hog? from screens it looks like simple maps - no bitmaps and images from the camera, so no data there...
> Is redundancy sufficient for flagging? I always thought flagging was only for abusive or off-topic content, and redundant submissions were a moderator thing.

It looks like the same person was submitting the same thing, daily, to try and make it stick (without any other apparent engagement with the site in terms of submissions or comments). So I think @miles is considering that abusive behavior?

I believe when the mods ask people to resubmit something, they only ask for 1 resubmission (at least that's how it went when I was asked to resubmit something: a second shot, and it didn't get picked up, so that's that).
As an aside, holding down the option key on your Mac while adjusting the volume will do it in much smaller increments.
"Illegal"? Wut?

It's not illegal, it's just dumb. Sure, you could implement your entire C++ application inside the `std` namespace, and I'm sure it'd work fine, but you /shouldn't/. If you're going to start a project, at least google the name first.
You can use Alt+Shift+VolumeUp/Down to change volume by quarters of an increment.
Looks like a Slack version of LeadBoxer (https://leadboxer.com).
> and as far as I can tell, only the original NES, 30 years ago, ever came with more than one controller.

If my memory serves me correctly, my SNES came with two, but I certainly believe that was the last offering from Nintendo that did. Later bundles might not have included the additional controller, though.
Does changing "Trump supporters" to "racist bigots" change anything? I think that is the point OP makes. If one fully supports Trump, then another can easily extrapolate that one supports his major positions.
thanks! oooh, excellent point about deliberately changing behvaior to offer interviews (which can be patronizing.) Now I really, really, really, really want to see the results of my study. I am 100% putting it on my plate, this should be doable. I've got this :)
I came here to post The Inner Game of Tennis and was pleasantly surprised to see it in the top comment.

The book is only tangentially related to tennis - the real meat of the book is about how to adopt useful mentalities which will help you succeed at a variety of things. It's an extremely easy read and can be finished casually in a few days.

A great book which made me question some of my most deeply held beliefs about learning.
FlightCar (YC W13) shutting down operations
From my inbox (no mention on their website):

Dear Matt,

Thank you for being a loyal customer and supporter of FlightCar. Like you, we believe that people around the world can be more self-reliant by sharing their resources to improve society.

I’m writing to let you know that today, FlightCar is closing down the operations of all twelve of its stations. We recognize that this will have an impact on you as our customer, and we hope to make the transition as smooth as possible. We will not be accepting new reservations as of today.

Also today, the technology platform of FlightCar has been acquired by Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc (MBRDNA). Our technology will now be a part of the Business Innovation division at MBRDNA, the innovation lab for new mobility services. We are excited to be part of Mercedes-Benz’s future shared mobility projects.

If you have a reservation for a future rental, you will be refunded in full. You will need to make new arrangements, and we are sorry that this will be an inconvenience for your upcoming trip. If you are currently renting a FlightCar, we will reach out to you in a separate email.

All future listings already booked will be cancelled. If your car is currently listed with FlightCar, we will reach out to you in a separate email to schedule its return.

No personal data will be transferred as part of this transaction.

We truly appreciate the community that came together to share and rent each others’ unique cars. Thank you for being a great customer and part of our journey, and we look forward to a new future.

Sincerely,

Rujul Zaparde
CEO & Co-Founder
FlightCar
I think another thing people get wrong is before even using it they assume they've got to dive into a ton of custom workflows.

I've had some fairly large teams able to use JIRA without a single workflow customization (especially with Agile). We've added custom fields and such along the way for better reporting and such but there is definitely some mileage you can get out of the box with it.
Japan's Mizuho bank is notorious for struggling with the system update. Big mergers bring big office politics.

They were in news in 2002, 2011, and also right now, where they are struggling to finally merge the 3 systems of their pre-merge banks together.
No it doesn't. It simply asks for something that will work on a platform other than those owned by Apple. It's an entirely reasonable request, and I'm baffled that people on a web site called "Hacker News" are suggesting otherwise.
DNGs and RAWs aren't generally (AFAIK) uncompressed. But ideally they're losslessly compressed. They're all(?) "TIFF files" - but AFAIK saying something is a valid TIFF, is almost as helpful as saying something is "a file".

Apparently Sony uses some kind of lossy compression for it's files - I just tested with a jpeg2000 encoder on the same file above, and the size of the j2k file is approximately the same as the ARW: 7MB. Btw, the lep-file is 1.7MB.

Note that the uncompressed (flat) PPM file is 29MB as is the uncompressed TIFF - but simply running the TIFF through lzma reduces the size to 9.3MB. So ~7MB isn't that far off.

[ed: And while the lep-file was 1.7MB, shaving a bit off the original jpg, mozjpeg with defaults+baseline created a jpeg (at q=75, per default) 472k in size. Lep managed to shave a bit off that too - ending up with PPM->mozjpeg->lepton resulting in a 359K file. The (standard) progressive mozjpeg ended up at 464K.

This is not quite apples to apples, though, I think the comparable quality setting for mozjpeg would probably be 90 to 95 or so -- ending up around 1.6MB. But for this particular (rather crappy) image - I couldn't readily tell any difference.

Which I suppose is where https://github.com/danielgtaylor/jpeg-archive comes in.]
I don't know. I mean on one hand I get it but on the other I go plenty of times when people submit awesome stuff it's just bad timing. So I don't care.
It took me a day to understand the tooling required to get AFL working. Now I can spin up a new test case for a library within a couple hours. Once you have the test case, then it is CPU bound. I had on one series of tests, of the baresip sip library libre, running across 4 machines(24 cores each) for a day before it was 100% sure it had tested every code path looking for a SIP protocol decoding error through fuzzing.
A truly great and inspiring man. He really knew what science was about, contrary to how we conduct science these days.
This is something I think a lot about as well. How do you choose how much to give?
https://medium.com/@Agoraforgood/how-do-you-choose-how-much-...
There is agile software development and agile companies. I am impressed that a big company like T-mobile can move this quickly to recognize a trend and embrace it. Having worked at a large company, just getting approval on press release can take a week.

Imagine all the various groups that need to get aligned to make this happen.
Looks great. I'll have to download it and have a go.

Another seemingly great product for Apple not by Apple. I just downloaded the app Continous to my iPad Pro, and I am programming happily in F# on it. It has cut into my Pythonista time, another non-Apple made app.

Maybe Apple's focus more on hardware, and leaving software a bit behind is working out for them. It seems users are stepping up and creating some really productive software.
If your antialiasing is making things look fuzzy, then you are either positioning yourself too close to the display, or your display has too low resolution.

When you’re talking about digital camera LCDs, do you mean the display on the back of the camera? Those are mostly awful, I just ignore them. :-)
again, you're out of context... ""A lot of the Irish define themselves, historically, in terms of opposition to the British."
"

you really can't stop, can you?
Thanks for the link. It is great to see how things move from the early beginnings to an acquisition
Sales 101 for Startups
Towards Efficient Dynamic Integer Overflow Detection on ARM Processors [pdf]
Those bugs come from syscall fuzzing. Local privilege escalation is the worst thing you can get from it, so the results are as bad as they can be (apart from finding multiple privilege escalations that is).
This isn't a direct answer, but when hardware doesn't provide an "obviously useful" feature the reason is often because it wouldn't be faster. http://yosefk.com/blog/the-high-level-cpu-challenge.html http://yosefk.com/blog/high-level-cpu-follow-up.html
> How is it a false premise?

Because DRM is decreasing sales, not increasing them.

> lets say we have a "perfect" DRM method.

There is no perfect DRM. But let's say there is very hard to break DRM. That means very abusive, extremely privacy invasive policing method. It would fall even more into the crooked territory.

> If DRM didn't increase sales then I don't think you could make the argument that every single publisher who uses DRM is doing it for reasons other than sales.

Why not? I could make an argument that some do it out of ignorance, and the rest (of DRM users) are crooks. That's exactly what I'm saying. I.e. those who aren't dumb are using it for crooked reasons which have nothing to do with preventing piracy (I listed such common reasons above). And the rest (who use it indeed for sales sake) are digital Lysenkoists.
Why not rebase master into your branch, rebase your branch locally to clean it up, then merge it back into master? That way you get the best of both worlds.
Yes! Cockpit/Crew Resource Management (CRM), too. As a developer who manages other developers, I'm completely fascinated with CRM; I found a whole lot of the material and concepts useful at work despite being nowhere near a airplane.
Cool. I used to be big into artificial life. An old project of mine for anyone who is interested: https://github.com/taliesinb/floatworld/wiki
this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system
The book "Peopleware" discusses this. https://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Tom-De...
Basically, open floor plans are cheap and you can maximize metrics like $/person-sqft.

Other factors:

* "everyone else does it"

* Open floor plans seem like a good idea when you first hear them; the downsides are not immediately obvious. Verbal reasoning, no matter how flawed, almost always wins.

* The decision makers tend to be blissfully unaware of the dynamics of knowledge work because their work is typically interrupt-driven. Thus, they don't see any problem putting 50 programmers in a cramped and echoey gymnasium.

* Even if the decision maker is fully aware, their boss might not agree to a higher-cost office plan. Actual dollars will almost always beat non-metrics like "compounded employee productivity" or "time and money not wasted due to mistakes caused by people operating in a distracting environment".

--Yes, in theory you could design an experiment, but that would delay the decision and probably require spending money. And the outcome would probably be misinterpreted: the open floor people will be louder and will appear to be working harder. (But are they actually more productive or are they just scrambling to fix all the bugs they created?)
It isn't "clickbait" just because natural language contains semantic ambiguity. Contextual clues - both textual and cultural - indicate that "everything" here is limited to software and not all things in existence, and to go further, open-source software.

Natural language would cease to function were it not for audience's ability to disambiguate based on context.
musical verification - very nice! a completely unexplored area of UI design. very powerful can be.