skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The age old example is Pythagoras theorem, i got taught that at school and have never used it. Anyway, enough of my rant, i'd just like to see young people more prepared for the world, the opportunity is there and we're squandering it.

And you resent that at some level? It's a beautiful and interesting thing that's true about the universe, and it's easy to learn. I would be horrified to learn that high-schoolers from 2050 generally didn't know the Pythagorean Theorem.

I agree at some level that more directly applicable knowledge could be useful and even engaging, but it's important to remember that we're imprisoning kids in a building for 8 hours a day. Do we really need to spend most of that time learning menial, boring tasks too? Let's not kill their youthful spirit before it gets out of the gate..
I'm not sure if they are still active, but this group was hacking together some cool stuff for the farm: opensourceecology.org
I'd love to give them away for free. I'll see what I can do about the price though.
While it's undeniable that Google has an excellent engineering team, it's also undeniable that their products often/usually leave a lot to be desired from the end-user perspective. There's definitely a missing piece of the puzzle there when it comes to UX and human-centric design. Who's to say that their focus on low-level engineering at all costs hasn't left something on the table?

I can't say for sure that their interviewing process is broken but as a user of many Google products (many of which get randomly discontinued) I will say there's something lacking.
Researchers build transistor with 1nm gate
Pretty sure Google has multiple such teams dedicating to writing performance code that can be reused.
It's great to read the details about what it takes to buy a small business. Thanks for posting this and being so open about what went into the negotiation. I always thought (if I were to one day run into money) buying an already-running business would be a better, less risky path towards entrepreneurship than starting with a blank text editor!

A few questions:

Is it common to have to fork over all cash for these sized deals? Is it possible/acceptable to finance? What alternatives to seller financing have you seen? I don't imagine it's possible to just waltz into your local bank and say hi guys I need $100K to buy a website!

I'd be interested in learning more about finding these deals. You found this one through FE. Are there other common places to find tech listings? Do you ever approach companies that you like but aren't actively looking to sell? I'd love to see a play by play of how one of those conversations go.
For it to be a valid point, it has to be a sensible strategy or position for Google to take. Do you actually think that under the list of goals and objectives for this project there was a bullet point that was like "* Better user tracking across the web". There are loads of reasons why it makes sense for Google to do this project ahead of user tracking. It's possible - anything is possible really - but does it make sense?

Even if this was remotely close to their goal, it still doesn't make sense. They already have Google Analytics on basically every website in existence. Investing millions of dollars in an extremely robust font to increase web tracking by 0.0000000001% seems like a terrible investment.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12653059 and marked it off-topic.
The area depicted was kept down by native americans, who preferred the open fields for hunting and living in.
I haven't really experienced this, also having worked at both small and large companies. At the small companies, most of the prototypes failed (which is the whole reason you're prototyping) and then the ones that succeeded usually got rewritten because everything got rewritten multiple times. At the large ones, the prototype exists to convince a VP that this avenue is worth pursuing, and then typically it's handed off to another team to actually do.

Could also be because I've basically always had technical management, and the projects I work on tend to be fairly technical in nature (i.e. "can we do this?", not "the customer wants this by Monday").
"Parametricism": Computational architecture and large-scale urban design ;)

Zaha Hadid’s successor: my blueprint for the future

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/sep/11/zaha-ha...
If vat grown meat contains fat as well as muscle, I'd take in a heartbeat too, but if it's just muscle...I would have to turn it down. Lean meat is tasteless meat, IMHO.
- Cannot contain the special character you normally use so that you can remember what password you used. :(

- Have paste disabled so you need to type it.

- Disable the password manager in your browser.
It's easy to hate because it comes off as one of those cheesy social media apps. Other than Facebook, I'd say it's the most engaging social app that I've ever used. They really nailed it with quality content and addicting/time consuming features (e.g. the face effects).
New “Qt Lite” adds 2D renderer, targets 16MB RAM Linux devices
Exactly, it's a game of hot potato which they hope ends being held by a tech giant.
You have said that you haven't interviewed with them, and don't work there. You seem to be spouting a lot of bullshit for someone who hasn't had these experiences.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)
SEEKING WORK

Fullstack Android app developer.

Location: Cyprus (GMT+2)

Currently looking for remote work.

I've designed, developed and published all kinds of Android apps (both personal and for clients) but I have a special interest in context-aware apps.

Github: https://github.com/dotnick

Website: http://nicknicolaou.me
I would recommend going with Qt over Electron any day. You'll have an app that's fast, responsive, easily be multi-platform, have the look and feel of a native app on every platform (Windows, macOS, Linux), is light-weight, doesn't hog a lot of memory.

You'd also not be trying to twist and bend over backwards to try to use something that was designed to display documents (HTML and DOM) to construct apps (with all the overhead that comes with it), and instead be building atop a framework that was created with desktop applications first and foremost.
Apache Commons (Collections and some others) is a very old, basically legacy library, they are not nearly equivalent in terms of functionality so comparing them makes no sense. Google Guava is a nice library but it doesn't have any alternatives that I know of so it can not be used as an example to support the above generalization (which would need many examples to hold any weight anyway).

Angular vs React is a counterexample I can think of. Angular is shit.
I really wish it was that easy. We have tested a bunch of different things and there is no solution that works 100% of the time. For example.. there is no standard fragile item. A fragile item could be 2" of padding or could be 10" of padding.

The #1 most important thing is that the item arrives safely. #2 is reducing the price our customer pay. We even have machinery to create custom on-demand boxes to .1 of an inch so we don't ship air.

Starting today..For customers that are very price sensitive they can package their items, not pay the $5 pickup and still be able to use our great UX/price comparison technology.
To be honest, I didn't realize it was AGPL until they shut down (though I have to admit I haven't used it in any real project and thus haven't really evaluated it too deeply).

My understanding would have been that AGPL means all code that interfaces with the database (i.e. all code that uses ReQL) must also be AGPL. That would have instantly disqualified RethinkDB for me (whether the understanding is right or not) and I'm sure I'm not the only one to think that way.

Considering even GPL-licensed software often prominently advertises commercial dual-licensing, this seems like a major oversight (if it wasn't for ideological reasons).
I wish Wikipedia redirected m. links to the desktop site if you aren't using a mobile browser.
To see all of the characters that are on the internet, you will need to download a CD's worth of fonts, 473mb. #MindBlown
If you do the DNS traces, it's easy to see: No. They're just implementing a S3 compatible API.

;; ANSWER SECTION:
noto-website.storage.googleapis.com. 3174 IN CNAME storage.l.googleusercontent.com.
storage.l.googleusercontent.com. 300 IN	A	172.217.5.112

;; ANSWER SECTION:
112.5.217.172.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN	PTR	sfo03s07-in-f16.1e100.net.
112.5.217.172.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN	PTR	sfo03s07-in-f16.1e100.net.
The font support spans so many languages. This is incredible. Font work is hard and tedious, and thankless. Kudos to Google for open sourcing it.
Do you generally work 'normal' (9-5) hours? Do you have help on the farm or are you the primary caretaker? I'd not have thought of farming as low-time-commitment enough to be a hobby.
But nothing requires you to link directly to the font on their CDN. The sources, the whole build pipeline, everything is available and you can host it all by yourself.

The font they created has nothing to do with tracking you, it just so happens that if hosted on Google Fonts they can also do that. But that's a feature of Google Fonts, not Noto.
For me the problem with this isn't the invocation of Maslow's needs but the step to saying that they have some bearing on how people view occupations. I just don't think that's born out at all by reality.

Architect which is a very respected profession isn't fully necessary to meet even the basic need of "shelter." You can build a house without an architect but you can't without a builder.

While corn farmer and cattle rancher, the underpinning occupations of our food system aren't treated with much respect or reverence at all.
Slaughterhouse jobs correlate with increases in PTSD, domestic violence and violent crime. "Contracting out" the cognitive dissonance of causing suffering and misery has consequences to all involved.

https://www.google.com/search?q=slaughterhouse+workers+domes...
Rather than just repeat the first Google result I'll link it[1] as it gives a far more thorough answer than I would.

While I welcome innovation I would not want my terminal to be in charge of much more than rendering text and inserting keypresses.

Yes there are some helpful things your terminal emulator can do like multiplexing, repeating input across instances, scrolling, text resizing/flowing but these are strictly UI features at no point is the terminal in charge of interacting with the underlying system, that's what the shell is for.

The example of typing a URL and having it be rendered by the terminal blurs this line, it is intercepting a command you've typed into your shell (what is essentially a system command) and being executed in the terminal, not the shell.

If they want to blur that boundary then they can crack on, it will lead to pain and anguish down the line for the users especially when they find themselves out of their comfort zone without their toys.

1. http://superuser.com/a/144668
Oculus working on wireless headset with “inside-out tracking”
This is a fascinating concept. What kinds of applications could time crystals be used for?

Time locked crypto that doesn't rely on proof of work jumps to mind, but I'm by no means an expert on either cryptography or quantum mechanics.
From an old IT guy, none of this is new ... Scott Adams (of Dilbert) noted it in 1998: http://dilbert.com/strip/1998-04-06

That was 18 years ago.

Particularly raw for Dilbert: "Squeal like a pig" is from the 1972 movie "Deliverance" and refers to a assault that was one of the most disturbing US mainstream movie scenes of the 1970s.

The only real improvement in all that time that I can think of: password managers. I almost said Single Sign On, but that comes with its own security issues.
Just schema
This is not related to the font.
Whiteboard code interviews don't require you to flesh out such things in any great detail; they're intended as proxies for your thinking process.
Entr – A utility for running arbitrary commands when files change
Indeed, thanks for the clarification.
That makes sense, but the way they ended up phrasing the sentence was a little weird/suspicious I guess?
That shouldn't be a problem once we make sufficient progress in creating and growing iPSCs.
I'm definitely too dumb for this.
Every company that you listed produces a product other than Ad Space / eyeballs. Even Facebook has diversified to sell something other than ads -- I still probably wouldn't invest, as their continued success relies on such an ephemeral foundation -- millions of people continuing to log on to Facebook every day. Smart money says that when I am 70 years old, people will not be logging into Facebook every day. If they are, great for Facebook! However you would not catch me betting my retirement money on that. Have you ever walked in to Facebook? How the hell are they going to pay all of those engineers when people stop caring about Facebook and the ad money stops flowing? Same goes for Linkedin -- unless they can make a very strong play into the recruiting space I would not bet my retirement money on their continued success. Based on what I know about recruiting I doubt that Linkedin will be able to penetrate -- if you want to be a personnel supplier for a Kaiser or a Chase Bank you need deep personal connections, you need to wine and dine, you need to go golfing. They aren't amenable to the speed dating model the internet encourages. They want a man or woman they can trust who can demonstrate their value transparently. But I digress.

Snapchat sells ad space. That, to me, is not a sustainable business model. Ask traditional publishers how that model worked when the took it to the web. Won't work (in the long run) for Snapchat either. I think it's an entirely different class of business than AMD, Sun, Tesla, etc.
We don't kill comments except when banning users (and in nearly all cases we'll say that we're doing so), and have well-established policy of not doing that. When a comment is dead and says [flagged], it means that users flagged it.
Linux bcc ext4 Latency Tracing
Turnarounds are super hard. A year isn't long enough and Dorsey would have been wise to both set expectations clearly that this is a 3+ year trek as well as lock in some protective provisions around that timeline.

Given the actual state of affairs though, the Board has a clear fiduciary duty to consider all options.

Since Dorsey didn't give himself enough time to actually effect a true fundamental product/vision turnaround, he would've been far wiser to simply focus on driving revenue as a first step. Then circle back to product later.

It seems the strategy here was either unclear or unrealistic.
I'm curious what does the temporal structure look like?

Edit: have just looked it up. Looks like it's basically 3-D structure with repeated motion over time.
AIUI the designer who also did their illustrations left the company in the lead-up to this announcement? Other than that, I have no idea. Tech companies tend to not advertise their staff beyond developer roles much.
Shouldn't that make service jobs more skilled than factory jobs, and therefore worthy of higher prestige and better pay?
I wish they had added transactions. It seems like such an important feature.
Should Coke buy Twitter?
According to Google trends, “interest” in Twitter is about twice that of Disney. (1) As many others have mentioned, Twitter has outsize influence and visibility.

Twitter is losing money, but it could probably break even or make money if it stopped grasping for growth. It also has a strong niche, and can be expected to maintain its position for a while.

Disney is spending $ 2B per year on advertising. (2)

At a 10% discount rate, a $2 B/year perpetuity is worth $20 B.

Should Disney purchase Twitter -- making media cite tweets as stemming from “Disney’s Twitter" -- as a pure name-recognition play? Disney could add its logo to every tweet as well. If so, why aren’t other like Coca Cola in the game?

(1) https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=twitter

(2) http://www.businessinsider.com/10-biggest-advertising-spenders-in-the-us-2015-7
We have a 1,000 ft^2 greenhouse, a 3,000 ft^2 corn field, and a 3,000 ft^2 pumpkin patch.

We do not have 10 or 50 or 5000 acres of crops.

Basically, large gardens, not real farming.

That said, we ALSO delegate some chores to farm hands. I installed fencing the first year, then realized how stupid this was given comparative advantage. Now I code, code, code, and then get some extra work and code some more, and let farm hands do other work.
> This is not necessarily the expected behaviour in other languages

But isn't it normally the operating system's responsibility to implement this, depending on the keyboard layout?
Does that mean it is continuously changing in a repetitive fashion?
He could embarrass Apple by releasing the app on Android.
Quasicrystal
Honoring Visionaries at the 25th Annual Pioneer Awards
Lol do you know PageRank? At its core it's just a random walk on a graph; this stuff is taught in intro linear algebra courses. Of course, modelling the web this way and tweaking the middle to produce optimum results was a big deal. You'd be a fool to believe that PageRank hasn't evolved in 20 yrs.
No time to answer this now. Send me an email and I'll respond in detail. Email addr is in my original comment above.
This must be incredibly new technology, given the CIA's long history of incorrectly forecasting just about everything.
Password managers are just another tradeoff of insecure vs inconvenient.

All credentials under one master password? Single point of failure. You could use more passwords, but we are heading back to square one then.

Next you have to decide where to make your passwords accessible for yourself. Do you also want them on the phone? Because if you don't, it can get kinda inconvenient. On the other hand, I'm quite positive my phone has more exploitable security issues than my laptop. Same for all other devices you might use. What about devices that are shared by other people? You lock yourself out of the things for which you've opted to use the password manager, or you expose it to the security issues on the said devices.

I'd rather just have less stupid passwords to begin with. Why do most stores require an account for me to place an order? Not for my security. Forums, boards, other places.. anonymous posting without accounts works just fine, and there are ways to create a persistent identity for those who want it, without requiring it from everybody. Yet most "social" sites require accounts. Mostly not for my security.
*Trying to sell training and support for opensource software with great documentation and few bugs.

At least that's what the website indicates.
Qt already bundles QWebEngine, which is essentially a copy of Chromium
Learning from the best at GitHub Universe
You are aware that UTF-8 is a variable width encoding, and not limited to ASCII, right?
If you lead a pig to a trough and feed it something tasty, then bonk it on the head from behind with a sledge hammer, they're dead before they even know it.

I hope I get to go out that easy.
Well, I feel like I could write the same thing except swap "writers" for a different profession and then swap "English" for a different school subject. Engineers are inveterate procrastinators because they easily did well in math. Politicians, because they did great in social studies. And so on.
I was tempted to use a car analogy, but I resisted. It seems apt to me. I "have" to drive a car for work and recreation. I know a little bit about it, but I am not an expert, and I don't want to be. I have too many demands on my time already. I'm happy to pay the manufacturer and the mechanics to be the experts.
Can someone explain what computations using __zero energy__ from related article [1] actually means ?

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/426917/physicists-predict...

"""
Another is the possibility that it may be possible to exploit time crystals to perform computations using zero energy. As Wilczek puts it, “it is interesting to speculate that a…quantum mechanical system whose states could be interpreted as a collection of qubits, could be engineered to traverse a programmed landscape of structured states in Hilbert space over time.”
"""
Joining you. Saw some potential concept here [1]

[1] Back to the future (1985) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/
I'm procrastinating instead of beginning the documentation for some code. I've decided to start (this minute) in medias res. Thanks for the tip.
Author anxiety over big releases – is this common?
It is amazing to me how we even learned anything advanced back then. It was almost like we were so "dumb" compared to today's kids. The library and the bookstore at the mall (WaldenBooks) was my main staple as a young pre-teen kid. I'd never pass up a chance to go with my mom to either the library or the mall.

I remember as a 16yo trying to buy my first car (used 1979 Camaro) and how I thought knowing about the NADA guide you could browse through at the library was secret knowledge and used the copied page as negotiations tool. Now that info and more is readily available in few clicks on your portable phone/computer you carry in you pocket when at the dealer.
No, I bootstrapped into a farm by being lucky enough to have bought a small house in Arlington, MA just before it hugely gentrified.

I sold a 1,500 square foot house on 0.1 acres of land and traded laterally into a 5,000 square foot house on 56 acres of land.

I've worked in tech for 25 years and never hit a good IPO; I guess this is my one big karma win!
Advanced Voice Command Systems Podcast on .Net Rocks
I think companies fear after they invest in a 5.7+ Qt stack, QtCompany can just ramp up their price after the initial contract runs out.
Per their Fonts API ToS they don't track anything except total aggregate usage per font.
Nothing looks wrong to me (Firefox/Debian). Are you sure it's a problem with the font?
So ... the fifty thousand dollar question is: would you, as a writer, pay a meager fee to have real people read your Writers' Forum App posts and make engaging replies? Or, perhaps the writer might leave tips for audience members who contribute meaningfully to their forum writings?

I think the reason writing in the forum style is exciting is because having an audience for anything you do is exciting. Also, you can teach, moralize, scandalize, etc and get near-realtime reactions to the thread being teased in the writings.

I think the risk would be that if a writer edited too heavily based on feedback, the work ceases to be purely the writer's and now it's a collaborative effort, which may lead to an impersonal writing style or threaten one's claim to copyright.

In my opinion, the best place for an app like this is within Reddit. You have the willing audience already in-place to offer you the feedback. Although, I could imagine an unfiltered forum might present a distraction. There might need to be a separate forum moderator that can control visibility of comments to the writer.
Could this be used for very stable time measurements, as an alternative to atomic clocks?
Operating system? Buddy, this is web development. We're reinventing the whole stack on top of HTML and JavaScript. Welcome to the future.
Do you have to believe that the sun orbits the earth in order to believe that the earth is the center of the universe? Is it possible that the Earth is the center of the universe given all light in the universe points in the direction of Earth.