skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am "half-way" privileged, for my country standards (Brazil), I am part of a tiny elite, having college education, a sister that went to do masters on MIT, money to buy a computer that for brazillian standards is very high end (even if I had to buy the chassis from a junkyard).

Also knowing english is a rarity, coding, even less, both, even more uncommon (when I worked in a company that had 50 coders, only 5 knew english!)

I did things, that I know that more talented people never would, for example moving "out of the blue" to another city to attempt to create an startup, or build an arcade machine and code it with money out of my pocket so I could later use this to get a job (it worked, I did got a job with that).

This was because I knew, that if I failed, (and I actually did failed...) I had a place to return to, my parents home is not awesome, but I know I won't starve there, even if I had several weeks eating only mandioca that grows in our yard (the root that people use to make what is called in US "tapioca"), the fact I DO have a yard to grow food is already a rarity (in urban areas) in first place.

Yet, frequently people ask me: "Why you don't move?" or "why you don't attempt a job in Canada/Japan/Singapore?" or "Why you don't go for a masters/doctor/phd?"

The answer is always the same: my net worth is negative, although I won't starve, I can't risk more, having a boring job, even if just a cashier job or something like that, that pay my debts, is better than risking more debt, because here in Brazil personal bankruptcy doesn't exist, and compound debt is common, getting more debt can mean getting eternally in debt, and I want to avoid that fate, I have "richer" family members that fell to it, and their lives are absolutely screwed up (for example: I have uncles that own huge farms, yet spend most of their time hiding in distant cities, and placing their money in "strangers" bank accounts to avoid it being immediately seized, I have farmer uncle that struggle to eat because every time he has money, someone seizes it before he can buy food, and his farm is "frozen" by the government that wants it as tax payment, with taxes worth more than the farm itself)
How to Learn to Code When You’re an English Major
Without any recordings of this conversation, it's entirely possible that this conversation is entirely a lie, or simply embellished to match the world views of the people involved.
> We as a society need to do more to not only find these lost diamonds

Ok, mr. author, what are _you_ doing? Or by "we" did you mean "everybody else"?
I can guarantee you the chart is accurate as I created it. Yes they did expect change, but the only number that matters for this graph is "how big can we get" and then "if we get that big by the end, is there enough capacity". The answer to to the first one turned out to history making ; no-one in their right mind would bet on happening beforehand, and the second turned out to be "Yes".
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I would guess that you are right simply because most drugs that initially show promise in mice fail during clinical trials in humans.

But it's also worth remembering that the trope in fiction of $REALLY_GOOD_THING turning out to be $BAD_THING in disguise is just that, dramatically convenient fiction. There's no natural "game balance" to the universe. Yet popular entertainment is very small-c conservative about human improvement; if vaccines were still the stuff of fiction rather than daily life, a TV drama would show that universal prevention of smallpox has some terrible side effect that turns out to be worse than just letting people get infected and die. Fortunately we know that to be false but it won't stop dramatists and those shaped by them for immediately looking at newer biomedical advances with the most crushing cynicism.

(Not really directed at you, since I take it you're joking a bit, but this was the comment that prompted my thoughts...)
This announcement is linked from this story currently being discussed on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12607119.
For more details on the new C# 7 features, check out https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/24/whats-new...
Postgres RDS is solid and it supports PostGIS. If you have multi-AZ enabled, then downtime is typically measured in seconds even when upgrading versions or changing instance sizes. It will update one instance, automatically switch to it, and update the other one. It automatically handles backups, syncing read slaves, etc too. It is awesome in my experience.
> what they need is some sort of advocate

In brief, because I'm at my day job: no. That is not the right approach. That is the approach that gets one labeled an elitist and a snob. It's not appreciated by the little people you're trying to help.

The correct approach is one which maximizes agency. This will have a wider variance of success, but will be received far better.
>I think a large part of that was due to the non-Google login from Pokemon Trainer Club

I can't think of anything further from the problems this game had at launch than the login. So few people actually had pokemon logins this comment is honestly comical to me.
If I was operating a site? I dont think there is anything comparable at the free cost. But what you can do is turn the sensitivity if the captcha challenge down to 'Essentially Off' as detailed here https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170096-H... the default setting seems to be way too quick to throw up a captcha.
Here’s what I told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce about mobile security
This is why I described it as an "anecdote"...
Sure, but it's an industry trope now. The same way we use Alice, Bob, and Eve as everypersons when talking about communications.
Seems pretty weak. You need all three to do anything. Seems like a weak backdoor argument that "money doesn't matter when it comes to the hard things" (as long as your hard things don't take money)
Again - this is why I describe it as an anecdote.
> It just doesn't add up.

Yes it does, you're just a variable: California requires car companies to sell a certain number of EVs in order to sell other cars in the state.

So companies take their cheapest model, convert it into a passable EV, then their financing arm offers nice incentives to get them out the door and the parent company eats the difference as a cost of doing business in California.
Evil maid or the "cleaning man scenario" is a pretty standard term.

Also technically whilst it does originate from maiden it is mostly gender neutral today, just like busboy or a bodyman are.
I'll admit this was a provocative and hyperbolic post, I was interrupted before I could polish my though. I'm British and I can recall plenty of times the BBC has bent over to accommodate the ruling party. The only one that springs to mind now is after the invasion of Iraq BBC radio stations refused to play Edwin Starrs 'war (what is it good for)'.
When you do dependency injection well, you don't inject every object; that would be horrible/impossible. What you may have noticed is that there are two kinds of objects, ones that you inject and ones that you don't. The ones you don't are things like numbers, strings and maps/sets; things that you treat as values. The other objects do things, I tend to call them services.

In order to do a straight-forward conversion to functional programming, I suggest leaving the values as they are and each service becomes a free monad transformer. So, instead of having a logger, you have a logging monad transformer that has a log instruction. Instead of having a database, you have a database monad transformer that has a query instruction, etc.

You are then free (no pun intended) to replace the interpreters of these free monads during testing with whatever mock implementation you please and the result is a more principled dependency injection inspired style.

Actually, I would constrain the monad type via type classes, rather than using free monads, but the approaches are equivalent.
Carbs are not addictive? Avoid trans and poly-unsaturated fats (including peanut butter), not carbs. Eat fruit, drink orange juice and milk, moderate amount of potatoes, butter, coconut oil, eggs, chocolate, ice cream, jello, pudding, etc. Look into the work of Ray Peat, and you will realize carbs, and especially sugar, are not evil.
Announcing Rust 1.12
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A prominent skill set among electrical/embedded/firmware engineers is C.

With the advent of IoT, these engineers are being asked to design/write server side components for their products. However, server programming, especially scalable, elastic, low-maintenance and (server) configuration-free options like Amazon Lambda tend to favor javascript/python...

Would you or someone you know use an Amazon Lambda like service for running native functions, without having to configure/learn Docker?
It's too easy to generalize this as a lack of money problem. Certainly lack of money is a factor, but so is attitude and character. There are plenty of examples of people from lower income backgrounds rising above their backgrounds even with setbacks along the way because they persevered through difficulties. There are also plenty of examples of people who failed and squandered lots of opportunities. There's an element of detached elitism in the idea that spreading around more money is going to solve a lot of those problems.
My very first developer job after graduating was a 'senior member of technical staff' so who really knows.
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Imagine their mindset. They may have the attitude that their work is fun.
> I would guess that you are right simply because most drugs that initially show promise in mice fail during clinical trials in humans.

What about the contrapositive... How many substances fail in mouse studies (and are discarded), yet would have been viable in humans? Any known examples of this?
Not to mention that lack of any control data or comparison to other factors, like alcohol.
If you scroll down a bit on that page, there's a brief text introduction to Qubes (aimed at a non-technical audience):

https://www.qubes-os.org/tour/#what-is-qubes-os

Is that more like what you were looking for?
To be fair, Dwayne Johnson is still a much better deal per pound than, say, Justin Bieber.
I had a very similar thought. Also hdmi can double as ethernet. DVI uses a serial bus to negotiate features if I'm not mistaken. Probably room for exploits over that port too.

Seems like using built in input and display and giving up some external ports would be the only reasonable strategy if you were being as serious about physical security as this wants to be.
G Suite?

Can they stop rebranding what is essentially the same service yet again?

We have documentation, marketing stuff and what not which need to be kept up to date...
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Groundbreaking new robot to give surgeons a sense of touch
Or when quantum computing breaks ECDSA and allows you to deduce Bitcoin holders' private keys.
> The article didn't mention any of the technical details

Like contending with Team Rocket
Isn't brute force a chance? Should it not be "see you in next minute to few years?"
>> Diesel and diesel-hybrid will stay the same.

Really? Development is done? I think there are plenty of engineers out there working on efficiency. Engines today are more efficient than they were a generation ago, and will be better in the future. In the realm of personal transport we can talk of going all-electric but for things like shipping, the heavy+distance things, there don't seem to be many non-IC options. Development therefore must not be abandoned.
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Does anyone have any tips/suggestions for startups that are in need of mechanical engineers looking to get into the mechanical design field (2-3 years of product development and manufacturing experience).
You have to account for Moore's Law within the few trillions GP mentioned
This argument borders on the absurd. Government/voters have regulated commerce since the inception of the United States. You benefit from plenty of regulation mandating additional information. A decade ago, airlines weren't required to include additional fees in their advertised prices. Now they are. I find it bizarre that requiring companies engaged in interstate commerce to provide information germane to the business transaction to be babying consumers.

If we as HN commenters praise a reduction of 1 second of latency for an RPC call to a microservice, surely reducing the latency for consumers standing in line by 5 minutes is laudable! Especially because of the low burden by fast food owners!

If you want to discuss some other encroachment of liberty by the government, feel free. But this proposal in isolation is reasonable.
TLDR

Appears to be an isolated incident. “Something happened between the factory and delivery”.
Civil forfeiture, plea bargains and losing the ability to vote are all great detriments to our society. They prevent those who are involved in crimes from being able to get back on their feet and show an increasing number of those in the justice system don't believe in rehabilitation. It's labelling theory in practice and it's the reason the US has the highest incarceration and repeat incarceration rate of the western world.

Plea bargains reward disloyalty and often allow some of the worst people a ticket out of their crimes by implicating someone else. It's just a game and prosecutors want their stats to go up, no matter what is good for society.

I don't even want to touch the sex offender registry. I'll just say this. Australia's registry is confidential.
I posted this elsewhere, but here goes...

California requires car companies to sell a certain number of EVs in order to sell other cars in the state.

So companies take their cheapest model, convert it into a passable EV, then their financing arm offers nice incentives to get them out the door and the parent company eats the difference as a cost of doing business in California.
This article had me in tears. I grew up so poor I often didn't have shoes and wore dollar-store flip flops in the winter.

Deadbeat dad, opiate addict mother. I was shuffled constantly from relative to relative, friend's house to friend's house. I had some very supportive teachers, including one who paid for my AP tests and SATs. I got an offer to a university in the UC system. Life was looking up!

In the last semester of my senior year, my stepmom kicked me out of my dad's house. I shuffled back and forth between friends' houses, too embarrassed to explain the situation to an adult. I had to sleep rough a few times and got pneumonia from not having a whooping cough vaccination. I coughed so hard my ribs cracked. I missed a class where I had to turn in a midterm, my teacher wouldn't accept it late ("you kids always make up excuses"), I couldn't get a doctor's note because I hadn't been to the doctor. Welp, failed the class. The university rescinded my admission for the failed grade. I lost all my scholarships. I ended up bouncing around homeless shelters for a few months while I recovered my health.

Eventually, I went to community college, transferred to a top 10 university. Now I work at Amazon as an SDE and make well over six figures. Happy ending, right? Well, no -- for years, I blamed myself for "blowing" that university opportunity. I felt horrible. I felt so ashamed.
Clickbait. Damaged lithium cells explode no matter which vendor.
How about we replace every use of docker with "linux kernel namespaces and control groups along with netfilter and network bridge"? I think it has became so ubiquitous because it is so much less of a mouthful. While I don't disagree with you one bit, I doubt in practice it will ever happen.

Remember, much of the enterprise will start looking at docker maybe 2 years from now.
U.S. warns Samsung washing machine owners after explosion reports
Yes, not looking for sympathy but as a note for others. Recently a loved one of mine passed away very quickly, which I missed, and it put everything in perspective. No amount of money in the world (times ten) can fix such a mistake.
As long as the model is well described I'm all for more statistician experimenting with deep learning. I don't mind if initial code isn't great from a software perspective. If it is needed in production someone else would have to reimplement it.
Our long term plan is to limit ME capabilities using the BIOS configuration. We just released the SOW of the 1st BIOS with Eltan on the WiKi.
https://www.orwl.org/wiki/index.php?title=File%3ASowDESIGN-S...
We are planning to investigate how to further limit ME capabilities with Eltan and we will update the SOW as we make progress.
We also believe that the current secure micro controller implementation severely limit the ME capability through power management and the SSD key management.
If one interprets the graph as "derivative of transaction growth" instead of "number of transactions" then it makes perfect sense. The derivative of linear growth is a horizontal line, whereas quadratic (edited, thanks acomar) growth would be a line that has slope.
Purely anecdotal and by no means necessarily significant, but I have noticed that my iPhone 7 gets much hotter when charging than my iPhone 6 did.
This is all marketing blarb and zero substance.

Oh. And G Suite? Thanks for rebranding Google Apps once again, without adding anything actually new. Now we'll have to update our documentation, marketing material and what not. Again.

Just great.
Very cool. I don't have any questions to ask you but I want you to keep talking since this is all very interesting.

Edit: this xkcd does a wonderful elaboration on the fire - by - moonlight topic https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/
That shows their estimates were terrible.

The article says (in one of the only bits of real information) that they blasted past their estimates with only Australia and NZ just 15m after launch.

Whoever came up with those numbers must have had some serious methodology flaws. I know they couldn't predict that it would become the biggest online game ever for a while, but the initial demand prediction was clearly way off even before it started growing like a rocket.
Anybody have a hard link to the book?
I find it absurd that civil forfeiture would be "reformed" instead of recognized as blatantly unconstitutional.
The article adds nothing to the source: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/54te00/running_a_lit...
Where does the name come from? When pronouncing it I can't help but notice it's very close to "Orwell"
Fable is the one that sticks out most in my mind. He's a very talented director and developer but I think by his own admission he hypes his own work beyond what is reasonable. I'm sure he was never doing so to deceive, but you can't talk about amazing features and then completely fail to deliver and not expect blowback.
> Important to lawful civilizations.

You seem to have misread. I was arguing about word choice about tax policy, not tax policy. I choose to recognize a range of behavior as "evasion". That's what we're talking about. None of your post is relevant to what I wrote.
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I imagine that they did this in order to be able to use more of (or all of) the TensorFlow functionality available in the Python API without having to rewrite a huge amount of code in R.

There are Operations in TensorFlow that don't invoke the C++ layer directly. Instead, they are composed of other Operations in Python, meaning that binding directly to the C++ layer would require finding and rewriting that code.

It still gets sent down to the C++ layer at the end of it, though the stack traces might end up looking pretty ridiculous.
[T]hese surveys use small telephoto lenses rather than small reflectors.

Well, small telephoto lenses relative to most telescopes, pretty darn big relative to most camera lenses ;)
No hate at all here, but my last contract I had to deal with Windows deployments and it's still a clusterfuck.

Without a Enterprise agreement you can't automatically install a new Windows 10 machine, period. Bear in mind this counts for the same machine being reinstalled constantly (whilst working out the exact incantations). The Linux hosts these machines ran on installed fine from Kickstarts / preseed files.

Powershell was nice, you can't compare it to bash (they're just too different) but it lives in a world that is .net and the vast majority of the Windows world isn't .net. We needed Windows VMs for some specific apps that couldn't even install without a gui. Could I automate their install? Not a chance.

Basically all these changes are 10 years too late. Powershell is nice, if you live in a .net world. I can't PXE boot a Windows VM without gui intervention without a Enterprise agreement. Why the hell would I go with a Windows Nano solution, which doesn't support the entire Windows ecosystem, when I can write a greenfield app in Linux, even using Mono, and call it a day?
I haven't said it's "fair", only that there's a proven algorithm behind it, which I'll trust more than the goodness of human nature alone.
I'm branching out on my own with a few freelance projects. Two questions:

1. What tactics do you use to ensure a stable income?
2. What percentage of your time is spent actually developing?
I think that's an overly simplistic view. Are prosecutors dropping shoplifting charges for "upper middle class" people because they brought in an $1,000/hour lawyer? Real life prosecutors aren't quite so cartoon villain-y.

The bigger issue is that (1) laws are enforced more harshly in poor areas because there is pressure on prosecutors to focus on high-crime areas; (2) poor people are much more likely to be within one degree of separation of someone the cops are interested in. In many schools in poor neighborhoods, "kids are essentially assigned a gang affiliation." http://www.npr.org/2013/02/21/172593743/chicago-kids-say-the....

In an upper class suburb, a shoplifting charge is easy to dismiss as youthful indiscretion. In a gang-infested inner city neighborhood, where the perpetrator might have friends or family with known gang affiliations, it becomes very easy (if not fair or just) to see an indiscretion as a sign of something much bigger.
Load testing is really hard, it would be interesting to see more research in this area, such as tooling and design patterns that flag bottlenecks that could be outages at larger scales.
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Having gone to a school with an extremely high barrier of entry (in the terms of admission tests not financially) I would say that bright & motivated companionship was what pushed me forward. Pooling talent helps to develop it in many ways.

At the same time some of the best/most braised education systems come from countries with a "level playing field" public school systems such as Finland.

To me the main question is if developing talent by pooling it together is in conflict with achieving high average student development. And if so, which one of those should be the goal as a society?