skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the fact is China or Chinese Government didn't lose anything. Meanwhile, after that they didn't stop blocking/censoring foreign websites. Meanwhile, there are lots of rumors Google want to return back to Chinese market by different ways.
Does this include front or back office?

Front office newbies have tons of options career wise. Back office? Not so much.
I'm elated to say there's already a port!

https://appsto.re/us/UIpgJ.i
Why soft skills will be the key to success for techies
> such that the overall performance continuously decreases

While I agree that 166 MB seems like a bit much for a solitaire game, how does application size have anything to do with performance? Overwatch takes up 30+ GB on my PC, doesn't mean it has poor performance...
<You'd think word would get around, but they've been doing it for years.>
If you aren't naming the organization yourself, why would you be surprised word hasn't gotten around.
Android version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....
> That doesn't seem like a very good tradeoff because then it requires Signal to store/compare _more_ personally identifying information (though I guess you could make many of those things pseudo-anonymous).

Actually, it's possible to do even better that that: one can execute a private set intersection protocol so that you & each of your contacts can discover mutual contacts without revealing others.

Signal aren't required to store any personally identifying information: they choose to do so.
I remember having predicted something like this when he started cozying up with the Python community...

Python 3 is a ghetto...
Deleterious or dangerous? (ie, does it hurt the supercap, or the thing shorting the supercap)?

"When first I appear, I seem deleterious /
But when explained, I'm nothing serious"
...It's just not the same. :-(
Who are "we?"

“The sooner we learn not to think or utter sentences such as “the United States should do . . . ”or “the American people want . . . ” or “China’s government ought to do . . . ,” the better we will understand government, business, and all other forms of organization. When addressing politics, we must accustom ourselves to think and speak about the actions and interests of specific, named leaders rather than thinking and talking about fuzzy ideas like the national interest, the common good, and the general welfare”

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. “The Dictator's Handbook.”
How does one go about getting a listing like this? I am new to iOS and macOS and I'd like to learn. Can I pull the equivalent of a iOS ".apk" file and decompile it like Android?
Play with Docker (cloud-hosted Docker swarm sandbox)
The size of the battery varies from phone to phone, but let's choose 3000mAh as a typical value so the battery is enough for a full day.

If you want to charge it in "seconds", let's use 60 seconds as an upper bound.

So if the charger has a 100% efficiency, then it has to provide 3000mAh/60sec = 3000mAh * 3600 sec/h / 60sec = 180000mA = 18A.

An USB can provide between 0.1A and 0.9A. For comparison, a typical plug in a home can provide 10A. So to charge the phone you will need some big connector, not a tiny microUSB like connector.

But it's worse. From the article:

> "If they were to replace the batteries with these supercapacitors, you could charge your mobile phone in a few seconds and you wouldn't need to charge it again for over a week," said Nitin Choudhary, a postdoctoral associate who conducted much of the research published recently in the academic journal ACS Nano.

To recharge the phone once a week, I guess you will need a 20000mAH battery, and a few seconds is something like 5, so the connector must survive to 1000A, that is a ridiculous current.
Yeah, the concept is exactly this. But I remember they had created an iPhone app that was being sold for $9.99. Can you remember? Thank youuuuuu!
But it didn't have all those ads.
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NumPy is FORTRAN under the covers, e.g. BLAS IIRC.
One of the nicest things about the Python community is the lack of drama.
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Jill Stein Pushes for Election Recount in Key States
Straight back down to Earth: A history of VTVL rockets – part 1
To use a simple example, one might need to transform an array of statistical samples into p-values. The traditional way would be to 1) create a new array of squared deviations to calculate standard deviation (also using intrinsic MAX) and 2) create a new array of p-values by iterating through the deviation array or the sample array. Using this library, one would 1) map the samples with a deviation function, 2) map the deviations with a square function, 3) foldl to get the average, 4) map the samples with a deviation function, and 5) map the deviations with a p-value function.

The first approach would be significantly faster to compute, but also require a multiple times more lines of code than the second approach.
> Market economy says that this is the most "efficient" distribution of resources.

Focusing on the rich sounds like you're referring to "trickle down economics" which is not a real thing in economics and is largely a fabrication of the media and partisan politics:

https://fee.org/articles/there-is-no-such-thing-as-trickle-d...

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/367682/trickle-down-li...

Saying that 'market economies' only favours or benefits the wealthy is a mischaracterization and/or a drastic over-simplification of supply-side economics.

Also I'm with Arthur Schopenhauer in questioning the premise of happiness as the basic goal in life. Although you're probably just referring to maximizing the general 'quality of life' rather than the emotional state, which I do agree with.
I have to confess that I never learned how to play FreeCell.
I am really confused as to why they think anyone would pay $2/month for solitaire... what happens if you don't pay, is it ad supported or just stops working?
Yeah you can use that but still you lose the liberated feeling of being able to execute js anywhere directly on the dom, which I actually appreciated quite a bit.
Ask HN: How many hours of interview “homework” is appropriate?
I just had a first interview with a company. They have given me a coding assignment and bug bash assignment that would take a rockstar coder a minimum of 4 hours and for someone like me would take about 6-8 hours. Is that absurd? Should I be offended?
I'm Australian, the law may be different over in the US.

Usually you want a contract to specify IP rights. You own the work you author, whether you're paid for it or not, unless you specifically transfer ownership of the IP in the contract. If you're a programmer, you may assign the IP rights of the project code to the client, but only issue a non-exclusive worldwide licence to your utility code. Similarly, if you're a photographer, you still own the actual photograph, but may specify to a client how it's legally able to be reproduced. Plenty examples abound, depending on your line of work.

Mostly, I find written contracts are WAY clearer about who gets what and when, and shows the client is at least willing to "trust but verify". I wouldn't do business without them.
Please don't inject partisan politics unnecessarily.

Edit: parent comment was updated to remove partisanship. Thanks!
I wear modern dailies (1-Day Acuvue Moist) and it costs me under $500/yr, and that's not including the discounts I get from my insurance.

I couldn't believe the positive impact dailies have had on my life - I can't even tell I'm wearing contacts, my dry eye is all but gone, and allergy season is now bearable to me. Even if it was $1k/yr, paying $3/day for perfect eyesight with no discomfort or hassle is still an absolute no brainer.
When individual comments on Reddit or HN get voted up, they cease to be sample bias and become a reflection of the community's opinion. That's what these sites do.

I guarantee you'd never see a comment like that voted up on r/2xc.

It's a clear indication of a problem with the community, and there's no way you don't see that...?
An observer observing itself, would that not feel like something to the observer?

What you describe is when the observer is disconnected from longer term memory.
Password to get access to website, plus encryption key phrase on your local device to unlock your content.

https://www.backblaze.com/backup-encryption.html

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664798-Secur...

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664688-Can-y...
Based on the news articles, the campaigns have a right to challenge the results, as long as they do it before a deadline (which I think is Friday).

Publishing false information isn't sufficient to overturn an election, but proving that the vote count itself is incorrect is another matter. It's possible that we're such an incompetent democracy that accurate vote counts are irrelevant, but I hope that's not the case.
They're talking about the App Store most likely. Just give it time and it'll rise to the top. Not enough searches -> downloads to sway the servers yet.
Ask HN: Best resources to learn Python and Git?
I'm looking for books that would teach me about how Python and Git work behind the scene and then how to efficiently use them.

Any good recommendations?
Really, add anything that involves eye protection. E.g. shooting sports or hunting. Protective prescription eyewear for those is rather uncomfortable - due to the shape of the glasses themselves, the lenses are usually inserts, and have to be put in an awkward location where they're very close to the eyes.
This is basically me. I wear contacts for "special occasions" but have really been considering lasik recently.

What has your post-lasik experience been like?
a mac app. it's called "Primitive for macOS"
But what happens when there is a major disaster? How will people pay if there is no internet/electricity etc.? At least with cash you can plan ahead...also what are the poor people to do?
Capable more than enough in all the ways that mattered to me, my employers and their customers throughout this millenium.

IPv6 records require a patch. Any records defined for IPv4 are supported out-of-the-box (your last question gives away you know this and the encoding used in the tinydns database).

What was your point?
While this is a common view, there is no reason to believe it is true. There was a related discussion on the D mailing list.[1] Functional code can be as performant or even better than explicit loops. [2] According to Walter Bright, a properly optimized compiler should be able to produce faster code when you avoid loops. [3]

I realize that Fortran compilers have focused on optimizing traditional explicit loops and other imperative programming constructs. Nonetheless, I'd want to see benchmarks before concluding this is a lost cause.

And of course for a lot of code it is better to write correct code quickly than it is to spend a week cutting the running time of a function called twice from 1.2 seconds to 0.9 seconds.

[1] http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.4829.1434623275.7663.dig...

[2] http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.4901.1434779960.7663.dig...

[3] http://forum.dlang.org/post/mlvb40$1tdf$1@digitalmars.com
The Manhattan Project had nearly unlimited resources at a time of scarcity, and it took enormous engineering risks. The risk component is something easy to overlook, but these were enormous infrastructure projects by any standard done at scale without much chance to prove them, and they were accomplished in incredibly short time-frames.

Could you imagine someone building a full-scale, power generating fusion reactor off a new and untested design in a about a year? More to the point, could you imagine someone funding that?
I've got a good idea, lets put a left/right spin on every post, for no reason at all, and only when it has nothing to do with the discussion.

And when we are inevitably voted down, lets pretend it is a big conspiracy.
I did miss that bit. Well, how about that then. They finally put their money where their mouth is, sadly.
Access isn't necessarily the same as authorization. After all, any hacker who successfully penetrates a system technically has access to it at that point. Their argument would be that you exceeded your authorization by deleting files or a website, defacing it with porn or a "Widgets Inc. Doesn't Pay Its Bills" notice, scrubbing a Git repo, or whatever other poison pill you implemented to force payment.

And they'd likely win with that argument under the CFAA. Even if they just handed you login credentials, they did so in the context of you fulfilling a specific task. From a technical perspective, those credentials might give you root access that lets you do anything. From a legal perspective, that's not the same as giving you authorization to do anything. For the CFAA, this would likely constitute "exceed[ing] authorized access." Not to mention that taking down a site (or just defacing it) is, on its face, clearly against a client's interests.

In any case, you're using the threat of damage to force payment. Even if the client owes you a valid debt, those threats can likely be considered extortion. The sort of jerks who will gleefully screw over a freelancer because, as they so kindly informed you, "no one will listen to you" are often the sort who have no problems with screwing you another way.
FreeCell's fun (as fun as solitaire can be), you should pick it up.
I have terrible vision and have been short-sighted since first grade. I wear daily contact lenses now and this is fine for me. For those experiencing dryness with contacts, be sure your ducts aren't clogged - I had this problem for a while and a warm wet washcloth held gently to the eyes for 20-30 seconds a day helps unclog them.

LASIK and PRK make me nervous as I do a contact sport (BJJ). I really don't like the thought of a weakened eyeball under these circumstances: my doctor pointed out years ago (when I first considered this) that I have a "healthy but deformed" eyeball. Given the fact that occasionally someone might wind up squishing down on my head with a great deal of force, the thought of having a bit of scar tissue there is not comforting. As it stands I lose a contact lens on the mats every couple of months (yay, disposables).
haha That's it! Thank you! =)
What, no love for the built-in database migrations? That feature has to be second, at the very least.
> His attitude is what is going to kill python

No. The rest of the community is much better. In fact, his behavior is an aberration.
Honestly not sure if this is satirical or not...
so emscripten provides the sdl binding? I was assuming it'd cover libc, but does that mean it's part of the ecosystem or the compiler?

I feel like I'm just asking dumb toolchain questions because I'm missing something fundamental about targeting an executable build to the browser.
I don't know. Corporations have been able to paint individuals as leeches trying to take advantage of businesses pretty successfully with their frivolous lawsuits are ruining America narrative. For example, the McDonald's coffee case involved an elderly woman with 3rd degree burns inflicted on her genitalia. I can't think of a more sympathetic victim, yet her case is the poster child for supposed frivolous lawsuits hurting businesses.
One method: navigate to the file in the Mac OS Finder, right-click on the icon, choose "Show Package Contents" from the contextual menu.
It's up to you. That doesn't feel absolutely absurd to me. If you work with them, you're going to spend much more than 8 hours working... 8 hours is very small to judge people, but it will give them an idea of how clean and careful you can be.
Companies like Automattic would start with a 4-8 hours assignment, then if you do well, they would ask you to work part-time for them for 2 weeks.
Some companies won't ask you anything except to code for one hour over the phone...
I just checked one article on my WordPress to have a point of comparison. That's 87 requests total and 4.7 MB.

The first page of HN (and reposts) will bring over 100k views in the month.

Either I'm crazy, or that's about 1M HTTP requests and 500 GB of traffic to serve u_u

Serving that over S3 or CloudFront would be $45 (mostly traffic charge). OMG. Definitely not a bill i want for my personal blog.

That's a great idea for a future post: "The day I listened to HN advice and bankrupted myself by hosting my blog on S3". With a live counter and animations to see how much each visitor is ruining me in real time, it will be awesome! :D
People can still use lower denomination notes you know.
I read in hackaday that Analogs IP will be open, But I couldn't find anything about voltage regulators.
Apollo software engineer Margaret H. receives Presidential Medal of Freedom
DeepMind looks like a hilariously wrong project to criticize because it is a true moonshot, something very different from the majority of other SV projects.
If hiring hundreds of PhDs to create a general purpose learning agent, all while publishing all the intermediate results in freely available papers isn't a moonshot with socially beneficial outcome, then I don't know what is.
Also note that DeepMind went even further than that, there is DeepMind health division aiming at using this technology to help doctors and patients directly.

If I were the author I'd choose some social media unicorn or an ad network as an example of inherent misallocation of human talent.
>If the problem of producing the atomic bomb occupied the attention and resources of the scientific establishment during World War II, it is sadly unsurprising that this very same establishment immediately moved on to the problem of adapting to the political, military, and intelligence consequences of such an disruptive innovation. We live today with the legacy of those consequences, and cannot imagine a world without them.

Nuclear weapons may have been a positive development. The doctrine of mutually-assured destruction has a lot to do with why World War III hasn't happened yet.
I'll give it a shot based on my current understanding of non-dual pointers. The perceived mystery is that of two seemingly separate realities existing - one being the unquestionable objective reality believed to be "out there" vs. the unquestionable reality of the experience "in here". But where exactly is "there" and where exactly is "here"? Could it be that the separation is artificial? Aeons of evolution created the ability of a process in brains of evolving organism to create ever more complex concepts, culminating eventually with the concept of an "I" to whom things are believed to happen, thereby slowly changing a global experience of "reality just is" to a belief in "I experience reality". Meditation (which has been mentioned a few times) is not supposed to be some non-scientific escape to a subjective mystical state but a brutally honest inspection into the source of separation into objectivity and subjectivity - the source of this "I". Those who manage to see through it claim that ultimately, there is nothing other than consciousness. Much as I'd like to, I can't claim to know, but logically, after thinking about it for a long time, it seems to make more and more sense.
I bet you are paid by Soros even.
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Please don't fan the flames when someone unnecessarily injects partisan politics.
For me the 2 main reasons I dislike glasses are:

1. Peripheral, especially when driving.

2. Uncomfortable, pinches nose, laying down on side with them on.

Also: Modification of scale of things. Makes things smaller the further they are from my eyes. Not a big deal, but I always feel kind of satisfied when I go back to contacts because of accuracy of perception. I suppose if I can get glasses with thinner material this might be less of an issue.

Keeping them clean and smudge free isn't that big of a deal for me, I just wipe them with my shirt, and normally it's not bad enough to bother me. Fogging is slightly annoying I suppose, but goes away quick.

I also seemed to have an ever-increasing strength of prescription. The last time I had them checked was in 2010, and my optometrist changed my brand from Coopervision to Acuvue because I was refusing to take mine off at night, and the Oasis is supposed to be more meant for that. I then had two bouts of some sort of pink eye (after nights of heavy drinking, but still didn't happen with my Coopervision even then), and also in general my eyes would feel drier in them. They had these slits that would become uncomfortable fairly quickly.

I switched back to my old Coopervision prescription from 2008 or 2009 and they have been working fine for me. From my own anecdotal experience, it's my theory that the constant stronger prescriptions are what makes your eyes worse. I've also heard anecdotes from other people about them just stopping wearing eye correction and their eyes get better.
it is a step against corruption

Corruption by whom? This is a consolidation of power into payment services and government surveillance. Make no mistake the corruption is simply moving up.