skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like your style. Your remorseless capacity to rationalize the destruction of another orginsm's experience makes you a suitable candidate for an experiment I'm designing.

In this experiment, you'll be required to watch hours of cell phone videos in which Central American drug cartels torture their rivals in dungeon-like warehouses.

Afterward, we'll ask you to rationalize in a fatalistic , whether or not people should feel "icky" about second-hand footage and general evidence of events that have already transpired, which they can do nothing about, and also have you form similar opinions about the fact that comparable events are likely to be transpiring as we speak, although by nature we lack the capacity to anticipate where and when they will occur next.

Finally, after having you participate in the rationalization of said events, ex-post-facto, we'll permit our researchers to place you in blinded version of the famous Milgram experiment, involving deception and empathy with regard to the suffering of others, and gauge how well you perform, as compared to the control group.

Hopefully you won't feel too icky afterward.
Tester vs. Developer – part 2
Unless you also need to free, it's pretty simple.
CAn't Touch This: Generic Software-Only Defenses Against Rowhammer Attacks
> (In practice it's also possible, as Microsoft demonstrated with Windows for decades).

There may be a handful of narrow cases where Microsoft has preserved third-party driver compatibility across long spans of time, but when looking across a decade or more, they break as much as they preserve. Consider DirectX, which is now completely antithetical to its original purpose and name of allowing applications (games) relatively direct hardware access. Modern systems can't survive without a level of hardware abstraction and sharing that mid-90s systems couldn't afford. The end result is that you get essentially no hardware accelerated graphics on decade-old GPUs anymore, except where the drivers were re-written for recent versions of Windows. Vista's new audio subsystem killed off an entire product segment of hardware-accelerated audio processing.
Ofcom Confirms Plan to Legally Separate BT from Openreach
Amazon.com is a mighty broad statement to say "not run on AWS".
The worst part to me was that despite all of the claims of meritocracy, there was zero financial incentive to perform well during my four years there. That's because any previously-granted equity is counted against you when determining your total compensation for the next year. When those big year 3 & 4 equity vests kick in, they just stop giving you additional stock, because the stock you already had went up so much.

What this means is that in four years, despite glowing reviews every year and a promotion, I never got a meaningful raise/bonus/stock grant, because the stock was doing so well. My W2 income went up, but it was completely unrelated to my performance -- I could have done just enough to not get fired and would have made essentially the same amount. People who performed worse than me were regularly given larger stock grants.

It was super demoralizing to figure that out. Big part of the reason I left.
Also at Stanford, biomedical informatics = http://bmir.stanford.edu
Discovering Statistics Using R by Andy Field. Fantastic book and very readable and at times hillarious.
indeed. under bash, it can be shortened to

cpp <<< "#include <stdio.h>"|grep size_t

which is super convenient
Yes but that is documented as part of any in-place system upgrade or firmware upgrade https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj649830.aspx
Fedora provides upgrade path
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/164331/i-dont-have-...

Won't work on an encrypted system, of course.
The building is 12 stories, he didn't jump from the top though. There is a outdoor patio on the 4th story.
The guy is definitely a fan of old-school minimalism:
http://weeb.ddns.net/0/articles/modern_software_is_at_its_wo...
I have to say I miss the old days of Gopher, too. It was so much easier to focus on the content back then.
“This gives us very stable water wires, at room
temperature,” he says.

Even the name is cool: "water wires".

So beyond fiber optics we could have water wires? This should help photonics researches make a (faster) computer with light, right?
InterSystems Data Platforms and Performance – Part 8
Assuming all machines on the network do not have the same local admin password.
Given the state of the Dart/Flutter demo app, I imagine they still have a long way to go before anything gets out the door, if ever.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.flutter.gal...
The dictionary I use in my code
iClever 12w 2 port usb charger ($5.99 shipped withAmazon Prime)
> water conducts protons at least 10 times more readily than typical conductive materials

Protons, not photons!
Secure your Active Directory by tracking historical activities/changes
https://blogs.windows.com/business/2016/11/11/defending-agai...

> Combined with other significant security advances, such as Credential Guard, Windows Hello and others, we’ve made Windows 10 Anniversary Update the most secure Windows ever.
Breitbart tweet before death adds fuel to D.C. sex-trafficking ring speculations
Somehow the majority of other operating systems manage to have such stable APIs.
There are certainly a large number of developers using macOS that have come to regularly use the Unix terminal and sub-systems. If anything comes from the cries of Apple abandoning the Macintosh hardware, it could benefit Microsoft. I'm sure there are many who could go straight to Linux, but for some of us there is needed software that hasn't been ported to Linux.
All this and the comments assume Windows will let you upgrade at all. Google "windows 10 upgrade something happened" and then try to find the fix for that amazing piece of error reporting.

In my case it was either that the language pack was wrong: Eng UK not Eng US, neither of which actually have language pack installed...
or it was the Win toobar/menubar being docked to the left of the screen and not the bottom. One of these stopped the upgrade completely, repeatedly. The greatest security risk had to be getting stuck on an old version of Windows with no good info on how to fix a 2 year old bug in the upgrade process.
I have had incredible success with this in languages for grammar rules and vocabulary, as well as for literary-courses. But except for some basic integration rules, I have a hard time using Anki for math courses. What kind of cards did you create?

And since he comes up regularly on HN: Cal Newports Stealth Studying[1] is really efficient in an Anki deck

[1] http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/10/03/the-art-of-stealth-stu...
POOF! I never claimed any such thing.

You are talking with a strawman.
This is true, but the stdlib provided by the compilers aimed at these chips is usually very bare bones and size-optimized to begin with. So it's likely hard to save much space by reimplementing subsets of it.
Founders need to live in the Bay Area during the 3-month period in which they're participating in the YC batch, but I believe companies are free to move to wherever they'd like once that period is over. I can think of a couple that were based in Chattanooga (median income ~36k) and moved back there after YC.
In Belgium, a EU country, we even have a law that allows criminals to buy off their trial. It is highly controversial and recently it was exposed that the law was designer made to allow a caught Uzbek businessman to buy his way out of a tax-evasion conviction. It has even been used to buy of convictions of corruption.
(Link in Dutch
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnelijke_schikking )
Actual article
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13061282
You over estimate the decay heat in a kg of spent fuel. According to here [1], a 1GW (1000MW) plant uses 100 Metric tons of fuel, so 1 kg is responsible for 1G/100K or 10Kwatts and the decay heat of spent fuel is .1% of its nominal power level so 10K * .001 or 10 watts. If you dump 10 watts into your water heater it will get hotter and depending on the heat insulation of the tank it might even get to boiling. Although typically I would expect a tank to lose close to 10W into the ambient air once the water was at temperature.

[1] http://www.nucleartourist.com/basics/hlwaste.htm
NASA Space Poop Challenge
If our descendants our truly more enlightened than we are, I doubt that they would condemn us for our comparatively barbaric behavior in the same way that we dont judge predators for playing with their prey. Just as playing with the prey improves their hunting ability, so to do we learn from our mistakes, eventually. The Romans are not universally condemned for causing the extinction of the Tencteri, Usipetes, Carthaginians. Similarly, we do not condemn our ancestors for the likely genocide of the Neanderthals, Denosivans, and all the other hominids.

Judging people from the pass through the scanner of modern morality is counter-productive ti understanding history. The historian, Herbert Butterfield, put it best when he said "real historical understanding is not achieved by the subordination of the past to the present but rather by making the past our present and it's tempting to see life with the eyes of another Century than our own"

In the end, society is what makes us civilized. We are still the same species we were 70,000 years ago. If society fell and we somehow experienced the same material conditions as they did, we would behave more or less the same. When we have wars and conflicts that are so intense that civil society breaks down, every one of us is more than capable of committing the most horrific atrocities. The 20th century is littered with examples of that. If you need any more evidence, I'll leave you with this description of what happened to a 13 yr old peaceful protestor in Syria

Video posted online shows his battered, purple face. His skin is scrawled with cuts, gashes, deep burns and bullet wounds that would probably have injured but not killed. His jaw and kneecaps are shattered, according to an unidentified narrator, and his penis chopped off.
Not sure whether the TIE fighter-like sound on the second movie clip [0] is edited in or that a nazi aircraft really did sound like an Empire spacecraft

[0] https://youtu.be/MvtxjSrImHw?t=41s
Care to qualify that?

Surely any irresponsible use of time is a personal deficit, not a graduate curricula's.

From a complexity barrier perspective, consider a career in ASIC design.

From a market saturation perspective, consider a career in any discipline of psychology.
London-based Finimize secures seed funding for Finimize MyLife
If your friends/family want to support you they could offer you free accommodation (living at their place) as long as you work on your startup.
Don't you get it? It's all about the "ionic frequencies" which cleanse the body of "toxins"! ;-)
In theory, we would put the company in jail. However, this isn't possible.
Focus on your technical skills and how they were applied. If anything is said about Theranos problems. Briefly clarify that you were unaware of what the management was up to. You were doing the technical work as directed. As far as you know, none of your work was part of the disputed technologies.

As a general rule, it is best to be brief and factual about any negative issues and move on. Avoiding them makes people suspicious. Staying on topic suggests that you are nervous and might have something to cover up. So be to the point and move on.

Good luck with your job hunt.
Measurements or not, past therapies have been highly unethical and criminal. Anything sharing a name with those prior behaviours is highly suspect.
They should've sold HDMI dongles (think Chromecast or Roku), with the app baked in, for ~$100. Its easy to monday morning quarterback though; This idea could've failed as well.
I made it about 4.5 years at Amazon. The equity refresh grants were very small compared to my initial grant. I left for similar work where my cash comp at the new place was equal to my best case projections of cash + equity if had I stayed at Amazon. The new place also has some pre-ipo options on top that may or may not be worth anything.

If you go up in job levels or into management, the equity grants might be higher, but in my case I stayed at the same level the entire time. I did change job families, which in hindsight I realize that I traded job level/promotion opportunity for experience and technical depth. No regrets. I would have liked to stay but my chosen career path was not valued. The 4-year vesting cliff is a term used a lot. I feel that is by design to manage people up or out.

Turnover is valued at Amazon, it makes sure processes are not people dependent. In addition to managed attrition, they encourage internal transfers to the point where they recently removed the 1 year minimum at a job before transferring.
Technology Innovation Hubs and Their Privatization of Societal Failures
Agreed. The violin plot was an experiment that did not work out in retrospect.
this sounds like how typical plea bargains or out of court settlements work in the usa

i'm not too familiar with the details of either laws but maybe someone more knowledgable can chime in here
Tracing the history of those various competitors is really interesting. Some (Transmeta) failed completely in a relatively straightforward manner and just disappeared. At the opposite end of the spectrum, NexGen became AMD's future when AMD's in-house design was a flop. Parts of Cyrix ended up with VIA and parts with AMD. Almost all of the big semiconductor companies either owned one of these x86 design firms for a time, or sold those chips under license.
The “Hype Pendulum” of Web Development
> not only what was said, but what was felt and done and whatever else needs to be communicated

I think or is more appropriate here than and, which undermines its utility: "I was like, what are you doing here?" does not indicate whether the protagonist actually said this, or communicated it in some other way, or even just thought it and didn't communicate it at all.

"this bad looking dude came in and I was like, 'What the hell are you doing here?'"

"whoa, you said that to his face?!"

"well... no... I more sort of thought it at him"
Actually a lot has changed since the NYT article (I don't know whether any of it is related to the article):

1. Much better parental leave

2. Easier to transfer internally (no longer need to wait 6 months, transfer can't be blocked by the current manager)

3. At least in my org, more transparent promotion process.
True, but you often end up avoiding parts of the stdlib like malloc anyway, because they tend to be heavy handed on the board.

(I've never needed to remove stdlib yet).
I live nearby and was walking by when the EMT and fire department were called.

Hats off to those folks. It seemed like no time at all before they showed up and moved very quickly to help the injured man. I was really impressed.
1nm carbon nanotubes... I doubt these can be produced at macroscopic scale.

Moreover the difference between 1.05 and 1.06 nm drastically affected freezing point. I don't think these can be built, en masse, to such precision.
If you put a radio at ~10X the distance of Pluto, you can use the sun as a gravitational lens, and communicate with another star using milliwatts of power:

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=10123

You're still bound by the speed of light, unfortunately.
It does depend on the student. I also aced a math degree.I did not do 1 or 2. I took good notes in all lectures that I attended and these were my primary reference when it came to revision time. I used very few other resources than the notes I took and problem sheets given out in class. I did have friends who used books and took no notes.

However, all of us who did well did 3.
It's team dependent. I joined (AWS) because it was a neat project, they pay high for my area, the Google office in my area didn't have interesting projects, and they offered to move me across the country. I will stay 2 years. Perhaps more.
Sorry Customer, You Are Not Always Right
Please don't do that sort of thing -- unless you give the candidate a piece of code and specifically ask what could be improved.

But don't expect candidates to spontaneously criticize the interviewer's code. Yeah, I know, you want to work with people who can think critically etc, but at the time of interview you aren't coworkers and aren't on equal footing.
Personally, if I as a candidate see you writing code with bad indentation I will conclude either (a) you were making a point about e.g. correctness or efficiency and didn't bother to indent because it's literally throwaway code, so mentioning the indentation would be a distraction; or (b) you and your team don't care about indentation at all.
Yes. There's a fine line between protecting people and becoming a full-blown nanny state.

Safety is a good thing, but so is liberty.
Ask HN: What decisions do you analyze a lot with spreadsheets before making?
For me: buying a used car, buying a new laptop, etc. For these, I usually create a fairly complex spreadsheet containing various parameters in columns and the options in rows. This allows me to do a good analysis to reach a data-driven overall best decision
The Codeless Code: Case 193 the Vicious Circle
This is how PostgreSQL pages works
You can get surprisingly far without using libc's malloc/free. E.g. TeX, the typesetting system by Knuth, implements its own dynamic memory handling. It has a large static array of bytes, and allocates from that when needed.
Speciesism, that's what Peter Singer calls it (the philosopher, not the roboticist). We tend to draw an artificial line between human and nonhuman.

The article describes how it selectively can be used in a hybrid setup. I hope they can come up with applications that are new, rather than doing the same experiments over and over again. I often see results and am like duh... It's like running code, changing a few lines, and running it again to see if anything changes.

And now an extremely rough statement. If there are so many people dying anyway we should definitely experiment more with humans. That will make all our experiments likely to be more humane.

Last, I hope robots won't see us as lab animals. To understand their own brain we are likely to be their best test subject though.
I had a similar background, but in the U.S. I even lived close to a few big biotech companies, and I could not even get an interview, even when applying for entry-level jobs. Then I would hear from my friends and relatives that so-and-so with just a high school diploma got a job at one of those places. I got very angry and bitter. I had given up TV and video games for an entire decade to focus on my learning and education. I was never suicidal, but was finding it more and more difficult to get out of bed by 10 a.m.
I think what helped me most of all were the stories of people that were much worse off than me, and experienced more tragedies, and yet were so kind and positive. I started thinking about these people more than my seemingly unfair situation, and life became much easier to cope with. So try focusing on inspiring stories. They will make life easier to handle and will give you an attitude that is much more attractive to employers.
Yup. You can also drop in any executable in place of the "accessibility center" which, of course, also runs as admin in the login/lock screens.
No argument, though it's hard to envision a scenario where [1] is not a predetermined eventuality for any setup that would be laughably inadequate or economically impractical.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_units_4,_5...
No incentive at best, disincentive usually. There is a steady stream of new grads willing to put up with it for a couple years. The horrible vesting means you aren't paying much for them, not to mention salaries are mildly low to start with.

I have repeatedly heard these stories about Amazon -- it is one of the known-bad places to work, unless you have found a truly special situation.

Keep in mind this is only compared to other tech employers. It's fine compared to games companies, non-tech companies that won't value your work, and most jobs if you're not privileged enough to be a software developer.
$115k is embarrassingly non-competitive for the talent and work Amazon expects.
Build your dream with a remote team: top 10 freelancing sites
Only operating system left that gives semblance of privacy and security.

You mean the operating system where with the default display server any application can read keystrokes, read mouse events, and make screen grabs of any other application? The operating system where no apps are sandboxed by default? The operating system where once you find a local root exploit, which are not rare, you can embed a root kit deep in the operating system?

Sorry for the harsh comment, but Linux is hardly the pinnacle of security. (Perhaps with rare exceptions like Qubes or RHEL with SELinux on servers.)
How could this be useful to other freezing cold nations? Like Norway that's placed far away from any tectonic plates?
Try an airplane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
Basically a Raspberry Pi zero ?
A bad team at a good company -- quite possible.

A good team at a bad company -- unlikely.
This is a privilege escalation bug that lets you reset the admin password, but it doesn't give you the old password.
When I said "hours upon hours" I was thinking about years of work to create or prove something. If you cannot protect and benefit from that work, private companies are not going to do it.

We agree on the sad state of software patents right now, but it seems that there is some movement against it.
Distributed Computing: A Haskell How-To
Dashing seems eye-appealing to start and there are many widgets, however most are abandoned like Dashing. IMHO Dashing has an awkward syntax to add or extend widgets which is why it dropped off.

That's one of the reasons I updated Godot [0] (similar to Ruby's Riemann), a NodeJS stream processor, and re-ported Riemann's dash [1] to match.

You can send any event into the stream processor including any metadata, and receive it into any of the dash widgets, such as Title, List, Grid, Knob, Timeseries, and many more. I use it to monitor anything from active container instances to queue stats to CPU wait times.

It's really similar to Dashing, in fact I ported the Knob directly from Dashing, but it's much much easier to add a data source.

As a bonus any event can trigger a Slack, email, SMS, or webhook.

If you have any trouble getting running just open an issue, the docs still have a few holes.

[0]: https://github.com/nextorigin/godot2

[1]: https://github.com/nextorigin/godot2-dash
shell-escape really should be turned off by default.
Naturally. A cog can turn the machine if he knows how it works:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1823103
That seems useless to me. I thought the whole idea of stock grants is to motivate employees by rewarding them when the company does well and the stock goes up.
You're letting MS of the hook too lightly, in my opinion.

If Windows was -> OEM license: Regular licenses :: CVS : Costco (All OEM does is give bulk discounts), you'd be right.

If most OEMs weren't abusing their position by packaging cruft with Windows, you'd be right.

But when a company imposes T&C, often specifying exactly what apps/programs goes where, and doesn't insist on removing cruft, their silence is deafening.

-----

By the way, I'd blame MS the same way when OEMs sell underperfoming computers with Windows (um um, Vista). It's true that Vista on a behemoth machine for its day was quite usable, but there's no excuse, when you're already dictating resellers policies, for letting them put windows on a 512MB of RAM machine.

I'll admit it's the OEM's fault also, but Microsoft gets part of the blaim
> Judging corporate based on fulfillment center working conditions isn't fair. One is a $15k job, and the other is a $115k job.

Yes, yes, because you earn more, you'd better work as a slave... wait, do slaves get salary at all? Ah, no, okay, so everyone who earns money must work harder than a slave!!!