skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides, cleaning implies some entry level gig, something for a QA hack not someone experienced in complex systems. Marketing types love this kinda twist as a way to maintain control (and ensuring failure) of the project. It's like a scapegoat. Just got out of meeting where marketing claims that data "hygiene" is gonna be a priority in 2017.
>anybody hiring in C̶h̶i̶c̶a̶g̶o̶? New York.

always looking to meet smart people!
On the other hand, the influence that people have tends to be blind to how they previously acquired that influence. It's a very common problem in politics: you put power on someone due to their credentials in one area, and they suddenly have power they don't deserve in a completely different domain.
I'd like to know their definition of technical interview because it seems to cover everything from fizzbuzz to arcane problems. I very much doubt there are good programmers that can't solve fizzbuzz.
the surface book is getting there but it still crashes occasionally when disconnecting the screen. not build quality per se but definitely not apple-like
> "At this point, does not yet run macOS application with a GUI"

Great, so I can run OS X's shitty versions of Linux utilities... on Linux.
That's an interesting theory, and I like how you mention Walmart because what are they doing now, in the "future" of the '80s and '90s? Getting killed by Amazon, who offers better product (distribution).
Or the Surface Pro for that matter.
I am curious if you simply missed the numerous places this post refers to CBOR? Such as this:

There exists a binary analogue of JWT called CWT which is based on the Compact Binary Object Representation (CBOR) standard. Unfortunately you can’t convert JWTs to CWTs without the original issuer re-issuing them and re-signing them in the new format.

Or this:

This is a pervasive problem for anyone who would like to store authenticated/signed data natively in a binary format (e.g. Protobufs, Thrift, capnp, MessagePack, BSON, or CBOR), but also permit clients to work natively with a JSON API without necessarily being aware of a full-and-evolving schema.

JSON is a human-meaningful serialization format, as opposed to all the binary formats named in the post, including CBOR.

See also:

https://github.com/tjson/tjson-spec/issues/26

TJSON could potentially provide non-lossy transcoding to/from the similarly tagged types in CBOR in ways JSON itself cannot.
Was the Manhattan Project efficient? How do you go about assessing that? Do you have any term of comparison? Do you think it's unlikely that it would have been done sooner and cheaper if it didn't have to be kept secret?
Are you not familiar with the notion of men being on the hook to pursue women? That's the connection being offered here.
The pop-up effect: Why buoyant spheres don’t always leap out of the water
Why not just have a separate metadata file.
It will keep the json file lean.
Here's some facts that are actively suppressed, and nitpicked to death in the mainstream media.

Even worse, a motte and bailey approach is used where you are allowed to state these facts, but only in the context where it is assumed that you are approaching things from a liberal point of view. If you state these facts in a different context, you will be simultaneously attacked by people claiming (1) these facts in isolation are misleading because they need to be seen in the right context and (2) the claimed facts are false and only a willfully ignorant person would make such claims. The people claiming (1) and (2) respectively will never argue with each other. In the replies I get to this post, try to spot which people belong to (1) and which to (2).

1. Your are much more likely to get AIDS if you are gay. If you are white, straight and don't do drugs, you don't need to worry about AIDS (though you should still use protection for other reasons).

2. Black people commit more crime, and this explains the high rates of police use of force against blacks.

3. The US government does not do all it can to limit illegal immigration, and in fact tacitly allows it.

4. Poverty is as much about a culture of rejecting opportunities as it is about lack of actual opportunities.
Bitmap and tilemap from single example with help of ideas from quantum mechanics
historical context: https://cvdazzle.com/
When You Need Blockchain vs. Database
This is pretty common with tech stocks. People buy on rumors and sell on news, even if the news is good. I don't get it but that seems to be the pattern.

Example: say BigTechCo will be releasing earnings reports a week from now. BigTechCo stock slowly rises in anticipation of a good report. A week later, BigTechCo announces that every possible metric is better than ever, and the outlook is even better for the next quarter/year/whatever! Analysts are pleasantly surprised, and everyone is 100% on board in believing the numbers and the rosy outlook. Within 48 hours, the stock tanks as everyone furiously sells off. It happens all the time and makes zero sense to me. I'm sure there are reasons I'm not aware of, but I've got to think it's from some sort of irrational group behavior as well.
It should be distinguishable, not just from the theme. A good UX/UI design will make that clear regardless.
Very good points and picked up on some accurate stereotypes that often appear in business.
This. I hate to readjust my usual scrolling habit just because they think their unique scrolling friction is better.
The great thing about nutrition is that no matter what diet you want to try, you can find a quack willing to endorse it as a healthy option.

The truth about nutrition is that it's incredibly complex, difficult to study, and there are virtually no reliable sources who aren't pushing their own agenda.

If you want to eat vegan, by all means go for it (I'm vegan myself), but you're deluding yourself to think that there's something magical about a "vegan diet"-- which by the way can contain oreos, cracker jacks, hershey's syrup, and any number of other healthy foods.
Business Traveler Connection
What do you think an app that lets business travelers connect? It would let people login through LinkedIn and get dinner or drinks with folks while traveling. I am looking to prototype this and would appreciate your feedback.
Well they must be a lot better than me at deciding which startups are good or not :)

I have spoken to many startups that seemed great after the first 15 minutes or so, but where I found out something critical a couple of hours in. I love talking to startups so for me it is fun rather than work to put in the time.
About the only thing worse than that is inflated mysterious "shipping". An SD card with $17 shipping and when I add a second the shipping just doubles? Then it comes USPS first class package with $2.60 right on the label???

They must be just trying to piss me off.

Edit: This is likely the result of automatic "value based" shipping calculation. Don't let it create absurd situations like the above, it makes people feel cheated.
I see requests for this a lot. Is there a reason not to just do this at the OS level, with FUSE (sshfs) or GVFS or something - then it'll just work everywhere?

I can't see why every editor should be implementing filesystem stuff?
Out of curiosity, for what specialties? I appreciate your help in getting my resume in front of humans up there, but I'm still kinda upset I couldn't get anyone to even talk to me.

Also, y'all better be nice to my first-cousin-one-removed-in-law.
You could stop asserting it's true even though you have no evidence. I won't hold my breath.
Wow! Definitely one of the best designs I've seen in the OSS world. Finally someone with actual design chops has risen the bar!
From: https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved

Visual and Human Interface Design

Whether you are an artist, a designer, or just someone with an interest in how people interact with software, the KDE community needs you! The VDG help make KDE software both beautiful and usable by helping teams design their user interfaces. This includes creating icons and themes, as well as thinking and researching how to help users do what they are trying to do, instead of getting in the way. By joining this team, you can help make software that makes users happy, and those around them jealous. Find out more about joining the VDG.

Link at the end: https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/design
TJSON doesn't add any of the things you just complained about
Getting a shipping estimate doesn't take a lot of time (a few hundred milliseconds at most), and by the time you are in checkout, you should have detailed enough product and destination information to get an extremely accurate estimate from the carrier APIs (which would only change in the event of the vendor misjudging item size or weight or something similar).
To those of you remarking on the lack of response to applications:

1) recruiters get a lot of applications.

2) it's risky providing feedback. "Unlikely to be a team fit" could lead to discrimination claims.
Technically, they are't really OS X's shitty versions of Linux utilities but rather the BSD versions of GNU utilities.
No financing is required unless you want to run a budget deficit. Greece is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. They could use that sector as the cornerstone to rebuild. They would be poor (to start) but they would also be free. I think this is their destiny eventually but I don't think the pain is bad enough yet.
Definitely. I don't think it should be called a "parent bot" and I don't think it should be targeted at parents at all. I think it should be distributed/targeted at the end users i.e. kids.
The only company I had offer this used it as a lever to pressure us to work more and longer. Then encouraged peer shaming if we took a day much less a week off. At that job I had two weeks off in two years.

To be a tiny bit fair, this was a tiny company with 3 engineers doing the whole lean startup thing.

I'd say the situation was valuable to learn from because it was apparent (in hindsight) from the first interview how bad the company culture was. So the lesson was if the company seems to be informal and unstructured, one person wearing five hats, Project Manager is also your designer or lead coder etc... (and I realize I just describe a huge number of startups. Use your best judgement).

tl;dr its more likely to be abused by the company than the employee
I wasn't defending it. I'm familiar with it and use it occasionally, but I don't think I would have made that design choice.
Yes. I play games enough that i have youtube videos of me and friends playing games that have millions of views, in fact.

Is this good enough for whatever bar you are trying to set?

(i'll note you didn't provide a retort to what i suggested, you instead just went to ad-hominem. So i'm going to assume you in fact, have no data that i'm wrong)
If he was able to reduce his job to a handful of carefully crafted puppet scripts, he earned the right to do things as he pleased, and that was his motivation for working in porn. I knew guys in college who got baked every day and were in objectively hard majors like MechE. I've learned not to judge.
The real way to fool facial recognition via anything below UV light is with these bad boys:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=770nI13-MJs

Takes care of the liveness test also. However, we still have a long way to go, to overcome uncanny valley.
The catch is if you leave the company you do not get paid out for the vacation time you did not take.
The "professional" market doesn't care about visual cohesion.

[citation needed]
Microsoft launches Teams, takes on Slack on its home turf
since its the only tangible point i can glean from what you said: alex jones is not an equal but opposite voice to chomsky, just as bill mitchell is not an equal but opposite voice to nate silver. unless you are going argue that we should weight everyone's opinion on every topic equally, i would give more credence to someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of political history than someone who ...does not have that. similarly, for projecting the outcome of an election, i would listen to someone with a long track record of public success with analytics and modeling - first with baseball, then poker, then politics, than someone with literally no qualifications at all. don't you think thats reasonable?
Array is a more complex issue. The biggest issue is whether it can break existing parsers or not. Additionally, the extra typing for things like heterogeneous or nested arrays will require application code that understands the typing instead of leaving that up to the parser. I think the simplest rule for now would be to only allow homogeneous arrays. This is quite an interesting problem. (Other suggestions to send along a JSONSchema seem unrealistic and the beauty of JSON is its simplicity and brevity, nobody wants another XML)

{ homog1$ai : [2, 3, 4] }
{ homog2$as : ["a", "b", "c"] }

I don't love $ but _ is so much more likely to be used in a key name for clarity like first_name. I also doubt that many people end their keys with $type so there is unlikely to be a conflict. If they do, it is probably a code standard they are using internally anyway for a similar purpose. Personally, I think that things like jQuery, etc. have trained people to see $ as a marker for "identifier" that I think it feels pretty natural, at least at this point. Again, just my $0.02 and you're mileage may vary....
> Compare this to most databases [...]

What this misses for me is that once we step beyond the conventional database, there are many, many things besides blockchains.

So I don't think the right question is, "Is this better than a normal database?" I think it's "Is there a way we can solve the particular user needs with something simpler than a blockchain?"

Given that most of the commercial blockchain uses I've heard of involve some sort of trusted party or legal arrangement, I ask that question a lot. So far, I've never gotten a persuasive answer that blockchains are needed.
Sadly, this is the crux of the problem. If you equate increasing diversity with lowering the bar, you're missing the point.

https://42hire.com/the-big-lie-tech-companies-and-diversity-...
TBD: https://github.com/tjson/tjson-spec/issues/23
> Think of all the employees

That's a feature of any financial system beyond trivial complexity.

> armies

That's a feature of any society.

> vaults, trucks, printing presses

That's a problem with physical currency, and is orthogonal to cryptocurrencies. You don't need trucks for a bank transfer anymore than for bitcoin.

> And let's not forget the cost of shooting war or currency war.

That's, again, a "feature" of all societies. Bitcoin is completely orthogonal.

I'm open to being convinced that Bitcoin is (and will be), in general, less of a waste than the upkeep we're paying for the current system. Because I don't believe so right now, and the additional problem is that Bitcoin literally feels like taking lots of useful fuel and burning it on the side of the road as an offering to Security Gods.
At least in online contexts, this often means 'there might be an effect, but it is smaller than our experiment could have predicted. Let's keep adding samples.'
I use a fill-in-the-blank cover letter for this purpose.
house != flat, but how would you know.

If someone that owns 3 flats and 1 house is considered rich then all good I am rich, why am I even working for? damn, why my parents can't pay their electricity(tax) bills and have to make arrangements with the government to pay in installments, noone knows, we are just rich, I'll go get my private jet and fly off this comment section now.
> you can keep your wide roads and open squares to yourself.

Having a city that is not so poorly designed that it is crammed with traffic, and having pedestrianised areas are not mutually exclusive concepts.

> The way to solve the issue of traffic is to remove cars from the road, not to transform your cities into places aimed specifically at cars.

If you don't have well-designed roads, it is difficult to provide good pedestrianised areas, because you simply don't have space. The grid system devotes far more space to cars and pedestrian walkways by design, which enables you to have squares and pedestrian areas if you so wish.

It's not about designing around the car, it's about having some idea of design, rather than assuming a laissez-faire approach is a good idea.
I think locking yourself into any single proprietary format is a mistake. I realize my comment came off as implying Logic is doomed, but if you're really worried about vendor lockin, spending an afternoon on tutorials and a few side projects in the new environment can really help build your skills, not just in the new toolset but in the old one as well.
I simply had to download the Mac / Windows (https://teams.microsoft.com/downloads) client and things worked. I never found a "web version" of Teams - but it probably exists somewhere. :)
For health insurance component, that doesn't kick in until 50 employees
It mostly seems to be another place for dualists to hedge their bets, without a whole lot to offer anyone else. Maybe that will change, but I doubt that will be anytime soon.
Not yet, but we've tried and managed to build neural network processors with thousands of nodes and millions of interconnects.

100 billion transistors isn't a lot. The interconnect is a beast, but as we get better at layering chips this might not be a big deal.

The thing about biological neurons is they run at very, very low speeds, on the order of KHz, which means the heat normally associated with high transistor densities is a non-issue. You could create a chip so dense it's basically a cube without concern it was going to melt down.

The biggest problem with replicating this sort of thing in silicon is that the neurons reconfigure themselves physically, something not possible with today's VLSI technology.
It's the same short-termism you see in the sports world.

Meh, if the ensuing thread below has taught me anything, it's that one person's short-termism is another person's rational, long-term solution. So couching the argument this way tells us nothing. It just gives us another lens through which we can see the world in a way that we're already predisposed.
The problem is, in some states, you HAVE to show separate shipping and sales tax, otherwise you are not allowed to deduct them from your taxes. Found that out after doing a Kickstarter (can't charge shipping + tax), and California's tax board came a knockin'. It's idiotic.
It was amazing. Half of devops was stoned during work hours. I actually think it helped, because they usually had their hands full and probably needed stress relief. In spite of being stoned, they were far more competent and responsive than any devops personnel I've had to deal with since then. They really knew their shit, because porn sites are a big target for scammers, hackers, etc. They always knew about the latest exploits, backdoors and whatnot.
I would kill for a Nokia N950.
A proper keyboard, and a true Linux operating system with the usual userspace software you would expect.
Drastically superior service, and the fact that we have... ten... or so lines on it, and I'm the only one bothered by the phone selection.

Sprint and T-Mobile are _terrible_, and no amount of savings is worth suffering through their networks. Oh, and there's the little matter of T-Mobile leading the charge against net neutrality.
Hmm. Emacs' indentation is one of the things I've had to fight hardest. It's extremely opinionated, and it's almost always wrong for each new language I teach it about, and it took a lot of convincing to indent C and Java the way I want.

The way it defaulted to using smart fill (i.e. use indent div 8 tabs followed by indent mod 8 spaces), so that indentation had this mix of indent and spaces, gah.

It's bad enough that I wrote my own plain non-smart auto-indent (just replicate indent of previous line) to get by in modes I couldn't convince to be sane.

The fact that there is no real unification for your preferred indentation step is really telling. I have a big block configuring c-basic-offset, js-indent-level, css-indent-offset, etc. - a big random bag of different variables that affect different subsets of language modes, depending on their lineage.
Thanks for the comment! I think my main point here was that buying a house isn't necessarily a good investment, depending on your goals and the price of the house relative to its value.

I will say though, that it makes sense for owners to defend their position, since they're already owners. And, as a renter, I'm likely to do the same.

Regardless, I appreciate both perspectives!
This is why I'm hesitant to switch my business Instagram account to be an official business page. I don't sell anything so the ecommerce/insight tools don't really appeal, but I can definitely see the future of having to "boost" posts to you followers.
Broadcom Buys Brocade for $5.5B
(Spyder maintainer here) What do you mean by a modern interface?
Slack Pulled a 'Welcome, IBM' for the Launch of Microsoft's Slack Competitor
Uhhhhh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikon_at_Jones_Beach_Theater

The beach existed long before Moses, and he didn't exactly invent the idea of going to the beach.
T-Mobile works nowhere, and is the only carrier which is actively countering net neutrality.

Verizon is also required to allow using any compatible LTE handset, and they aren't allowed to care what OS you use on it. The problem is that nobody is developing them.
This is absurd. You don't need to make certs for SSL sites, you can proxy SNI without every touching the real connection. HAProxy handles this well: https://www.haproxy.com/doc/aloha/7.0/deployment_guides/tls_...

This is a horrible practice. BAD BAD BAD. No one cares about your terms of service, you need to rewrite that shit.
The real question is, how would you fool wifi silhouette technology

https://gizmodo.com/wifi-networks-can-now-identify-who-you-a...
> The winding streets slow traffic down, making it safer to cycle around when compared to the fast and wide roads of New York.

I think the way to provide safe cycling is not to slow the traffic down, but to separate cyclists and cars.

I looked for stats. Death rates in NYC and London are similar, but I couldn't find much comparable data on the number of cyclists or usage.

> They also block wind meaning we don't get driving rain along straight avenues.

That's a fair point, but presumably having well-designed streets still allows for this, e.g. by staggering roads?

I agree that electric vehicles will greatly reduce pollution, you'll still be walking through dense standing traffic in many areas.
The big problem is that all the OEMs that can build you a phone are providing android support because this is what they get from SOC vendors and there is no business incentive to provide "pure linux" support.

Plasma sits on top of the Android HAL like Firefox OS did. Nothing different there. Go buy you QC license and see for how long you'll get blob updates.

You're totally wrong about the performance penalty of FxOS compared to Android on the same hardware, but I'm done arguing that with trollaways.
>your power cord...

Why do I care if my power chord used USB? You know what I care about? Not damaging my machine if I trip over the chord. Magsafe was great, and it's gone.

>...mouse, monitor, external hard drive, even an outboard gpu can all use the same physical connector, and it's a non-proprietary, industry standard.

Yeah, if I replace each and every one of them (or buy more dongles.) Seriously, how many people have USB-C versions of these already?

Also, these devices already use standard connectors, so we're not gaining anything on that front. I'm also not going to thank apple for doing away with HDMI and forcing me to buy a new cable.
Juju on that beat dance fail