skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC TESTSET is usable: IIRC it just sends a message that causes that to happen, but you don't learn if the test succeeded.

I was talking about the DMA mode in which every write to special register (that may be coming from a different core) gets "redirected" to subsequent byte of the DMA target region. This can work as a queue with multiple enqueuers, but has bounded size (after the size is exhausted, messages get lost) and operates on single byte messages.
tar has a confusing ordering of parameters (as compared to other UNIX tools) and handling of switches. It's one of those tools that I don't use that often, so I always have to look up examples.

I'm not the only one... see https://xkcd.com/1168/
Company is in Egypt, likely not their first language.
Aren't these mainstream areas of research though?
Oops, you are right! I misread that graph. I'm sorry - you are absolutely right. My eye followed those curves backwards and mixed them up.

Thanks for a polite correction :)
Can you send a couple of links to get an idea?
I first learned to code by following those lovely, magical Ruby on Rails videos back in the day.

A few years later I discovered Sinatra and felt liberated.
MySpace appeared to be a big winner too. Facebook's time will come.
That seems stupid- if they really thought the person was a fraudsters, Apple could ask for more information to investigate, they could get additional contact and/or identity information from the suspected fraudsters, and after investigating, if it turned out it was indeed fraud, they would have more data to report to authorities and make it easier to stop the fraud. But instead, Apple takes the lazy approach.
And you won't be able to pay for it!

Imagine someone invents a treatment that prolongs your healthy life in 30 years. How much would Gates, Buffet, and Slim pay for it? For how much would he would sell? Do you think some middle class guy would be able to pay for it?
Semi-related: I wonder why the Times is publishing the magazine during the week now. I suspect it has to do with when and how people read these days - many fewer people getting the hard copy, and probably fewer people reading online over the weekend.

I feel like we're at peak long-form journalism, podcasts, and binge-worthy tv. I could (I do not) devote 2+hrs a day to the good stuff and still be way behind.
Don't do one take? Uh, if I was her I wouldn't do more than one take. I might not do the shoot at all. I wouldn't get paid more by doing a promotional video shoot. Why would I care? Why would she?
>I have NEVER lived, and rarely visited places (including Europe), where someone hasn't used the "if you don't like the weather, wait an hour" joke, non-ironically.

I've NEVER lived anywhere anyone has made that joke, ironically or otherwise. That may have to do with the fact that the last 2 places I've lived (Portland, OR and Phoenix, AZ) have very long stretches of monotonous weather. But 2 certainly doesn't seem nearly as true as 1.
So what alternatives are there to Rethink? Not excited about Mongo.

Or is mongo no longer crap for consistency?
How DevOps Enable Simultaneous Device Use for App Testing
Just wildly speculating here (with some wishful thinking thrown in): maybe the intent is to indirectly encourage non-technical audiences to use git-based, public version control for authoring public and frequently revised documents.

For instance: imagine if federal legislation, and amendments to federal legislation, were published in this manner. You could examine diffs to see how passed (or proposed) amendments altered (or will alter) the law. You could even have a 'git blame' sort of feature that let you to see which members of congress voted for or against particular amendments. It would definitely aid political transparency, and make it easier for the public to participate in the legislative process.

Eh, I guess that's mostly my wishful thinking...
If your lawyers didn't catch that the contract with Utah was in violation of federal law, then they fucked up their due diligence. That's on you. It's also on Utah.

Besides, liability laws are a clusterfuck.
Yes, we connect with each utility company API and expose our own. Each utility API is a little bit different, so we simplify this sort of the way segment simplified analytics integrations or Plaid simplified bank account integrations.

Their APIs are read-only, no bill paying through them. We can see different types of data, though, from usage to billing intervals.
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Martin Hellman (of Diffie-Hellman algo) will speak in SF on Oct 13
If it's industry standard response then it's a valid argument against the claim that this particular company's policy is somehow out of line with normal practices.
We should acknowledge that there's a problem with terminology and lumping too many things together. There are fertilizers and pesticides that come from a chemical plant, and there are those that come from recycled biomass. I've worked on both kinds of farms and alongside chefs. I've done blind taste tests, and the trend is that the richer ecological systems produce better flavor, especially with meat.

What that study you linked to shows is that people interpret flavor with high suggestibility for the food's origin. They were misrepresenting origin to tasters--not just blindly tasting things. Plus, they were only looking at tomatoes. I guarantee if you run a completely blind experiment (with no suggestion bias) with peaches, gourds, or any meat product--factory system loses.

But the main point is that farmers have to make choices. To the extent that subsidies make factory-model decisions more viable--this leads to more food that is artificially cheap. And unpriced negative externalities are a form of subsidy. You can exploit a farm's ecological endowment or invest in it. If prices were perfect--investing in ecological richness would be more heavily rewarded.
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> Discussing classified matters through an insecure method is a far cry from physically taking documents home

It is identical. He is being accused of moving classified information to unauthorised locations. She moved information to unauthorised locations. She literally had people send classified information to the basement of her home.

Plus I'd argue that sending classified information to an insecure server is a far bigger threat to national security. Even if he got robbed on the way home the overall scope is lower than if the server gets broken into by foreign entities.
This sounds like a bog-standard technical interview process, with an emphasis on politeness (clear requirements, prompt responses).

I'd be interested to hear about the specifics of their process:

Is their "technical challenge" a take-home test or on-site? How long is it expected to take? Is it open-book, or are candidates limited in what resources they can use to solve the problem?

What sort of questions do they ask during the interview- tree-traversal problems, logic puzzles, architectural challenges, "tell me about a time..." questions?

What do you look for for "culture fit"? Most companies look for that, but that term also has a long history of being used to mask biases. What, specifically, are you looking for? How do you avoid building a homogenous team?

It's cool that they focus on being considerate, but this doesn't really tell us much about their interview process.
Was going to say that then I saw this!
For seller accounts, Amazon provides tons of indicators that let you know you are about to be shut down. After being shut down, you can fix the problem, prove that you fixed it and they may let you sell again on their platform.
You should never be faced to a wall, unless you know you cheated the system someway.
If you don't ask brain teaser questions, you're not going to get the best talent, bottom line. We're always hiring is a bit of red flag. Why are you always hiring?
CloudFlare's CAPTCHA can be trivially disabled by the site owners if they so choose. It's a trade-off though - many leave it enabled to prevent a layer 7 attack... there's not many other options to do that and there's absolutely none available to anyone but the biggest sites.
I actually thought the most interesting point this article raised - for me at least - is the implict branding associated with the "OK Google" command. All privacy concerns aside, if I'm going to have a "personal Google" I want to be able to thoroughly personalize it.
It's wonderful at Railscamps also! http://railscamps.org
I don't remember seeing any Star Trek episodes that showed people under surveillance in their private quarters or in bathrooms.

The public areas which were under surveillance on Star Trek tended to be only on military ships and star bases. I don't remember seeing much surveillance in public areas on planets. There certainly wasn't the sense that everyone was under surveillance on every street and in every shop, unlike most people in major metropolitan areas on Earth today. Nor was there anything on Star Trek like the ever-present spy satellites that can see in great detail anywhere on Earth today.

For the public areas which could be observed through cameras on Star Trek, the surveillance seemed mild compared to today because of Star Trek's lack of massive computers and artificial intelligence analysing what is seen for anomalies, using facial recognition, constantly recording everything and having those recordings instantly available for playback, sophisticated search, and computer analysis.

The reading and viewing habits of Star Trek denizens weren't recorded and analysed, unlike those of many people on Earth. Their positions weren't tracked wherever they went, unlike those of many people on Earth.

The so-called "24/7 surveillance" of Star Trek was very limited and even quaint compared to what we live under on Earth today.
The focus on "totality" undersells one key advantage of the restrictions in this language. You gain the ability to easily prove general properties about your program. This is not a consequence of totality. There are total programming languages which allow you to write programs with undecidable properties. This is really a language where properties are easy to prove, and termination happens to be one of them.

The topic often comes up in the discussion of smart contracts on public blockchains, and people often get confused about what Rice's theorem says. I recently did a small write up on the topic (plug, plug)

https://hackernoon.com/smart-contracts-turing-completeness-r...
The first picture is just depressing. All those calves living their lives in a cramped space without exposure to nature or to one another, constantly fed to achieve maturity in a fraction of the time it would normally take. This is so fucked-up. And of course their meat tastes nothing like beef.
$100/year? What if you have say a company of 5 people whose salaries get paid by the virtue of your app. One noreply email from Apple and Google and their jobs and your $1m/yr company is over? This has only become possible with the invention of curated app stores. You cannot even be fired from a normal job in the US instantly by a noreply email.
> a tech company that runs more like a normal business than a debt-fueled rocket ship

Most tech startups are funded with equity, not debt.
I agree, I too only read the first part to get a 'flavor' for the discussion and the viewpoints of those in it.

The speakers are trying to convey too much nuanced information at once for each point, and the text is presented in a small annoyingly dense format.

More editorial structure to make it easy to scan for the main points, and read through their related details as necessary would be required for me to have an interest in ingesting the content.

That isn't to say 'make it bite sized', that's saying "Give it structure, organization, and consolidate like things together".
Out of curiosity, do you remember what paper it was?
... and not a moment too soon.
Ahg, no I couldn't do that, I need to keep J as Join lines. That's pretty useful to me. Kinda the inverse of gq.
At the time I bought it, Good Reader's advantages where:

* a full file manager, with folders;

* various ways to get files on and off: a built in web server to upload files, good dropbox integration;

* the ability to crop pdf pages to just the text to get rid of margins so your ipad isn't displaying an inch of whitespace next to the text. Also the ability to set different crop sizes/locations for even and odd pages.

* bookmarks, plus the ability to email them to yourself

* tabbed files, including the ability to open a single file more than once so you can easily switch back and forth between different locations

I haven't kept up with Adobe's Reader, but it has 3 stars while goodreader costs more and continues to get glowing reviews.
I hear this but I'm not sure something will replace MySpace as violently as facebook did. Nothing says they can't come along even though competitors come and go. People still buy things on eBay and craigslist, people still shop on Amazon, people still search with Google.
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They said they can't currently afford a bug bounty program,

You're their hero of the week, at least -- they couldn't offer you free hosting or registration for a domain or three?

Very nice write-up!
Hi Sean,

We had way more demand than we expected so while you may have applied for October, we were only able to get you a spot for November. We're doing this to make sure that you have all the support you need in the program. If we tried to take everyone in the October batch we wouldn't have been able to deliver the quality we wanted as our human support services are not quite ready for that scale yet but will be ready by November. Hope that answers the question!
The circles aspect of Google+ is intended to function as an end user controlled version of segregating your data to only the contacts you want to see.

The problem, for end users, seems to have largely been the classic: Security is Difficult issue.
Be very glad you can't smell that cattle feed lot through the screen.
> a 12-year-old Spanish teenager

That's a preteen, not a teenager.

(The whole article seems to just be a -- sometimes clumsy or inaccurate, as with the above quoted line -- direct translation of much of the source article. [0])

[0] http://tecnologia.elpais.com/tecnologia/2016/10/04/actualida...
Even the destruction of evidence is illegal. The State Department ordered her to return all emails, she had staff (incidentally without security clearance) delete tens of thousands of them.

The state department has recovered emails sent and received to her (for official functions) which she failed to turn over. This is in the FBI's report and also in the private lawsuit filed by the Republican group.
Hey rerock,

That's exactly right. We have terms opening on different months so that you have a community of students you do the program with.
I'm not a Musk fanboy but I do have to admit, the minute a real, adult, aerospace company like Boeing lets Elon Musk set its direction for the future, he does win. The larger more mature company had the infrastructure in place for this for years, yet never considered it or took action on it; that makes them look timid and unoriginal. There's an analogous situation with the mainstream auto manufacturers and autonomous cars. They jump late onto a bandwagon they should've been piloting.

I still think it's a pie-in-the-sky project though. Musk compares the Mars initiative to building the Union Pacific Railroad, but the UPRR was heading somewhere full of plunder and gold, where the natives didn't even wear clothes because the weather's so nice. This operation's headed for... Mars, where for miles around, it TOTALLY SUUUUUUCKS SOOO BAD, as Louis CK might say.
Making C compilers for different architectures output great code from same source is really hard. e.g. "const" is not used by optimizers because it can be cast away. Interpreters, compression routines, etc. can always be sped up using assembly.

If what your program does can be sped up using vector registers/instructions (e.g. DSP, image and video processing) then you want to do that because x4 and x8 speedups are common. Current autovectorisers are not very good. If it is not the most trivial example like "sum of contiguous array of floats", you'll want to write SIMD assembly or intrinsics or use something like Halide. In practice projects end up using nasm/yasm or creating a fancy macro assembler in a high level language.

The choice to use assembly is economics, and it's all a matter of degree. How much performance is left on the table by the compiler? How many C lines of code take up 50% of the cpu time in your program? How rare is the person who is able to write fast assembly/SIMD code? How long does it takes to write correct and fast assembly/SIMD code for only the hot function for 4 different platforms (e.g. in-order ARM, Apple A10, AMD Jaguar, Haswell)?

If you think "25%, 100k LoC, very rare, man-years" then you conclude it's not worth it. If you think "x8, 20 lines, only as rare as any other good senior engineer, 50 hours" then you conclude it's stupid to not do the inner loop in assembly.

What are the numbers in practice? I don't know. In practice, all the products that have won in their market and can be sped up using SIMD have hand coded assembly or use something like Halide and none of them think the compiler is good enough.
I want to love org mode, but I don't know it well enough. I've only seen a video that reviewed how great it was, but I haven't seen any tutorials/videos on how to actually use it that went into detail.

Any pointers on getting started.
> I tried EVIL mode, and it is amazing, but something just felt wrong using it inside Emacs

For me the "feels wrong" is that vim is always just a little bit snappier than emacs. If you gave me a borderless window with no branding and only let me type vi commands I bet I could tell vim from emacs 9/10 times.

I used emacs exclusively for > 20 years and just recently began to transition to vim to save my tendons. It's amazing that so many of the verb-noun command constructs are still wired in to my brain stem.
I think ^ goes the the first non-empty character on the line already. Think of it like the regex. Then 0 (zero) goes to column 0.
I feel like the best thing Bay Area tech companies could do to help with homelessness is to use their influence to fix zoning and transit.

Granted this is short of them getting involved in campaigning for things like universal health care, better mental health facilities, drug decriminaiation, and other such issues that are harder to touch. But the impact of lowering overall housing costs would help many. And the reduced housing costs would reduce the demand for stupidly high tech wages helping with the inequality in the Bay Area.

CEOs of these tech companies must live in bubbles to not see the threat that Bay Area housing costs have to their business.
We already have an open graph, its the Internet Protocol and associated addresses. All other experiences that are delivered over IP are just sub-protocols with attached UX that is preferable for the users.
If you really want to do a thing, you do that thing. The ecosystem changes, you adapt.

I run my sites on free hosting (Blogger). I would like to more effectively monetize them and I am working on that, but I write for reasons other than money.

It may kill the projects that are intended to be easy money. I suspect a lot of those are sort of low value anyway. If that suspicion is fairly accurate, it won't remove much of value from the system.

Also, Patreon is working for some "little guys." (shrug)
For me the real problem is that large and trusted companies like Google are softening the public perception of what privacy should be and making it easier for smaller and more malicious companies to abuse the trust that Google and others generate.
the next logical step is a cow without a head (or without a brain, or a rudimentary brainstem only) that ingests nutrients from pipe coming from a nutrient-vat of soylent-like material.
I've found it helpful to use relative numbering in normal mode and switch to absolute numbering in insert mode:

set relativenumber nonumber
autocmd InsertEnter * :set norelativenumber number
autocmd InsertLeave * :set relativenumber nonumber

IIRC this tip was from the Practical Vim book
Hi wburgo,

It's hard for me to give a number for a few reasons:

1. Not everyone applying actually wants a job. A lot of people are taking this program just out of curiosity and interest.
2. It really depends on where you live. People in the Bay Area, Germany, and the Michigan area are going to be closer to employment opportunities than other.

That being said, we are optimizing the entire program to be such that the projects you create are things that employers want. And we've verified this by building the program with employers from the beginning.
Density or going 3D does make things cheaper.

However there are still three problems.

0. Zoning in the UK and USA is prohibiting new construction. This is a fact that can't be got around. It is a political problem.

1. House prices. Extant legal construction builds have gone way above what millennials can afford on their stagnant wages. It is a logical consequence of monetary policy at zero % interest rates can cheap debt but many people, including myself, have no desire to be buying a building which will take several decades of work to pay for. Renting isn't a solution either.

It used to take between 5 and 10 years to pay off a mortgage. Builders I've talked to say their new builds in the US are never less than 350k per unit.

2. Work is not what it used to be. Even jobs which have decent wages have not kept up with the kind of house price inflation that exists in London and San Francisco. People go where the work is, and it is becoming ridiculous to shackle yourself to a thirty year debt when the job you went there for lasts about five-seven years on average.

Summation: Tiny Houses are a good solution to a world of stagnant opportunity and a schizophrenic economy. They are about putting a backstop against getting fucked by going bust or becoming homeless to put it plainly.
If there are 7 billion on earth today, a much higher number than that have lived and died in a 120 year olds lifetime
Hey,

Again this is a totally valid question. I can confirm that Otto will indeed consider someone from this program as we are working with their VP of Engineering, Drew Gray, to actually create this program.
It is legally an indefinite detention pending formal charges, but due to the nature of "indefinite," those charges never have to actually exist.

It performed under section 1021 of the original National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA 2012), which has been upheld as constitutional by an appellate court, a ruling which the supreme court declined to subsequently hear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedges_v._Obama
> It's well-known enough

Well-known is not the same as correct. It's well known that women will do the same work as men for 23% less. It's also disproven.

Here's at least one study that finds no such bias: researchgate.net/publication/256079484_No_evidence_of_racial_discrimination_in_criminal_justice_processing_Results_from_the_National_Longitudinal_Study_of_Adolescent_Health