skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discussion here is controlled by pro government forces, if you speak out here you've already lost.

Case in point, auto dead comment:

Yet again someone will come here to give an apologia for the government, yet again people will shrug and throw up their hands, yet again people will complain yet do nothing, and next time someone points out how corrupt the government is those same people will argue that the government is good, the government can be trusted... It just goes on and on and the oppressive society will only tighten it's grip on power.

What will you do? HN and HN mods are cheerleaders for the government, posts, like this one, are flagged and voted down or never appear in the first place -- oh this throw away green account, its just a troll, no one needs to water their time reading, only a loon doesn't trust the government.

All the time we have threads congratulating people for working for the government, for helping Obama care not be a wreck, for modernizing the beaucratic nightmare, help the oplressive government become better and morw efficient, they obviously can be trusted.

Everyone here does nothing, snd the few who speak out are silenced. You accept the tyranny before you and laugh at those who resist.
Same here. When I moved and returned three sealed boxes of equipment, the customer service agent couldn't understand how I watched TV without hooking up a TV (didn't occur to them that maybe I didn't).
I had the equipment, but never plugged it in. When I returned the equipment 6 months later, the Comcast rep refunded the entire price of the tv service, without even being asked. Normal I'd have nothing positive to say about their customer service, but that was quite nice.
I think you made the right choice. I live in Madison and have some friends and coworkers who work or have worked for Epic. The burnout is epic (pun definitely intended).

I think the only ones who really like their jobs are a barista and a cook.
Having learned Japanese as a native English speaker, I disagree.

> When French people learn English, they often fall into the trap of pronouncing it in a French way: the way they read it instead of how they hear it.

People learning any foreign language often "fall into the trap" of pronouncing it using phonemes and intonation that are more appropriate for their native languages and I sat through enough reading aloud sessions in college to assure you that somebody reading in the native script can still speak in an awful accent.
Would be curious to see a good C++ translation of that, which a modern compiler can unroll/inline about as well.
"Trolling the trolls" is a very stupid euphemism. The mainstream media is losing all credibility built in the past decades and seems to not be able to figure out how to halt the proccess (while changing nothing about the "values" [and people] they protect).
By moving Portland, OR into Washington, and OR flips red.

Move the three most western Florida panhandles out of Florida, and it flips Blue.

With an intense amount of Gerrymandering, you can really mess with the election results.
Some people don't have the privilege of working anywhere other than big companies. They're completely fine at big companies and can overlook seemingly terrible culture because they can get immigration visas and green cards. Most startups and medium-sized software companies don't even consider applicants that aren't American. I don't have an American last name and the first question many recruiters ask me is about my citizenship.
On the other hand, if they were really looking for compliant, obedient, and desperate candidate who are "good enough", then I think this screening is a job well done!
AWS VP James Hamilton on AWS scale, network, security (video)
What's stopping someone from running this inside a VirtualBox for example?
> It is why so many people struggle with the Japanese "r" and つ.

No it isn't. It's because those sounds do not appear in the same positions in English. These arguments are both tired and completely ignorant.
Wow, I failed to considered the need for validation.. but even still, that adds only another layer of testing to ensure that your techniques for converting the raw data to structured data are sound enough to be reproduced.

I'd guess the model still wouldn't be considered "pure" enough by the scientific community unless it can be proven to be free from bias samples of raw information.
The Man Who Invented VR Goggles 50 Years Too Soon
i was wondering why facebook and google acquired eye tracking companies.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-acquires-eye-tracking-...

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/24/google-buys-eyefluence-eye...
The output of autoconf is generally just a file full of variables the Makefile includes

You may just be using a terminology I don't recognize, but like 'kazinator', I think you are missing a step.

The Git project, whose autoconf recipe I've contributed to, is a good example of this.

Great, let's use that as a specific example: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/configure.ac. Line 2 says "Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script."

I interpret this as saying that autoconf takes configure.ac as input, and produces a runnable 'configure' script as output. But you are saying that "the output of autoconf is generally just file full of variables the Makefile includes". How can these both be true?
There is always something bigger and better and more expensive. Always.

I actually don't think it would be a crazy strategy to focus a business on the extremely high end of the market. I always think about the person who offered a $1m travel tour to each UNESCO world heritage site. Free to offer the theoretical tour, and charge enough that you can worry about the details later. Only ever skim-read about it, but I believe he got a taker.
Price for that board is preposterous especially considering it doesn't have the old Amiga custom chipsets to optionally run old software and games, but depends on emulation.

How many years left till these vultures stop picking the bones of the Amiga community...
For sure, as I mentioned, it's hard to call any common psychedelic light or casual for that reason. But, 3 hours of too much is much much better than 6 hours of too much :)
> Nevermind that both were obviously out of touch throughout this year's election.

Nope 2 million under the popular vote doesn't seem like they were wrong at all.
alt-right assholes can learn how to run their own httpd and forum software... Nothing but technical knowledge of how to do so properly is stopping people from renting a $150/mo dedicated server and setting it up.
If people keep spouting stuff like this we can look forward to eight years of Trump in office.
Some people think making a font is boring and senseless, but I think it is character building...
Why I’d Love to Be a College Student Again
This comment shield should not have been downvoted. Downvoting should be reserved for off topic comments. Someone who is confused and brave enough to ask a question should not be discouraged through downvoting.

The question is naive and has a dangerously ignorant view of what "engineering" means. But it has been properly and usefully answered by others.

(sorry for a meta comment rather than a substantive response, but I feel strongly about this).
Wow! I use emacs every day, and this will make my life easier. Didn't know about these wonderful packages. And the automatic init-file generation probably save me hours and headaches.
FB Messenger Instant Games: A new era of friendly play (except for iOS/Android)
There is no cheating in programming. This is absurd.
Exactly. When I was doing this, one of the questions required the use of a custom comparator. I spent the remaining 20 minutes of the challenge trying (and failing) to remember the correct syntax for writing a comparator until it timed out.
This is more eloquent than I was. I'd also add that my original argument was not about whether it's practical not to learn to write Japanese but about whether there is some intrinsic linguistic reason they couldn't adapt a romanized spelling reform if the will were there (I think it's totally clear there isn't)
I was wondering about this lately as I live in Houston in an area greatly dependent upon oil and gas. What happens when so many vehicles are charged by solar panels on rooftops (Tesla Energy)? What about oil and gas? Well, it turns out that tons of things are made from oil and gas and once we stop burning it to make vehicles go down the street, we can start using it for other things.

I'm unable to find the origin of the "burning Picassos for heat" quote, but it is catchy.

"An oil executive once observed that burning oil for energy is like burning Picassos for heat. Oil is extraordinarily valuable as the basis for so many products we use every day that the thought of simply burning it ought to be unthinkable. So versatile are oil molecules that they can be transformed into substances that serve as clothing, medicines, building materials, carpet, skin care products, sporting goods, agricultural chemicals, perfumes, and myriad other products."

http://www.resilience.org/stories/2012-11-04/burning-picasso...

I can foresee things like plastic wood being used to build all sorts of things.
That's a cool map. Pipelines are everywhere :). And yes, those don't include distribution which are nearly ubiquitous in many places.
They 100% expect the code to compile and base your results on the number of test cases you pass.
If you really care about it you can simply do "cultural screening": don't hire people that clearly don't match your attitude requirements. We are doing that.

You can also discourage certain behaviors. If needed, fire offenders.
> Just as a large majority of drinkers did not become alcoholics, a large majority of users of these products did not become drug addicts. They used opiates as "props for the unstable nervous system," like a person who drinks wine at the end of a stressful day at work.

That's from Chasing the Scream, with the quoted portion coming from a prominent doctor named Henry Smith Williams in the early 1930s. Here are two more direct quotes from him:

"No one thought of the use of these medicines as having any moral significance."

Many women who used opiates daily are the same ones who "would have gone on their hands and knees to pray for a lost soul had they seen cigarette stains on the fingers of a daughter."

The book reports that 3/4 of self-described addicts (that is, the subset of users who are addicted, as opposed to a generic term for "user") had a stable and reputable job, over 1/5 were wealthy and under 1/12 were poor.
It lacks 2015 and 2016, but the huge ramp up in US production (which fracking has contributed to) has clearly been a big factor:

http://www.eia.gov/beta/international/index.cfm?view=product...
They promote the campaign on their site ( http://fontawesome.io/ ). A lot of people (including me) already visited the site occasionally to take a quick glance on the cheatsheet. I think that's probably where the most traffic originated from.
Long before the working conditions became commonly known I heard it described as "a dirty cube farm." Wow. How appealing.

Nothing about Amazon has ever appealed. Not their pay, certainly not their track record for hardware products (all terrible with the exception of the Echo), and not their other software with the exception of some of the stuff AWS has done.
You'll probably have a hard time getting your genius cousin to show up and do your work for you on a consistent basis while you collect the paycheck
Is messing up branch prediction "Breaking Bad?"
I thought that was just me. It has seemed like posts critical of government policy can disappear quickly, but I don't have a comprehensive feel for how posts move on HN so it was only ever a feeling.

How can we collect data on the mobility of posts?

I've wondered this on Facebook too. Post something about a robot I made and people love it. Post something about US weapons killing children in Yemen and no one reacts or comments.

How much of that is the fact that people just don't respond well to those things and how much of that is the algorithm hiding the post for some reason?

How can we monitor moderated sites like this? What are the metrics we could collect?
The trick is that he was under time pressure and if he miscalculated faced a mate in one, so it was somewhat risky (and why Svidler was surprised he played it).
Having someone else take the test for you. Even in sit down on site university tests this is somewhat common.

Although in this extreme case it does sound like checking stackoverflow is considered cheating.
This whole thread: C is fine. We're fine. Everything's fine here now. How are you?
If you can cheat that well, I think you'd be probably be qualified for the job. Especially considering the "USB type C" cables they sell.
It just sends the wrong message. As a company, you are advocating tech that spies on people or in this case the test taker. Overall, it leaves a nasty taste in your mouth that a company would use technology such as this. What else would they be okay with doing once you start working there?

Why not do an onsite if you want to make sure of the validity?
You still have time! Save yourself. Google around for others' experiences, and do not work for Epic.
Presumably you're aware that job interviews and the actual job are different things? At a real job no one cares if you use Stack Overflow because there's ample other data to assess your productivity (like...your actual productivity over the months and years that you're employed). The challenge with interviewing is trying to extrapolate performance from a much, MUCH shorter time horizon[1]. You're not testing the exact same environment, but you're using a different environment (the test/interview) to hopefully assess skills that are relevant in the environment you're optimizing for.

This is hardly a new concept: exams work pretty much the same way. There are other ways to assess candidates (like looking at their portfolios), but they have their own weaknesses, and testing skills in a constrained environment can still reveal things.

[1] And this is for the benefit of both parties: I've lost count of how many people I've heard complain about companies that have gauntlets of technical interviews.
I have a Thinkpad 450s a little over a year old, and I ordered it without a cam.
I don't think I was getting "worked up" about it.

It's kind of like when you notice someone staring at you in the subway -- you note to yourself that it's creepy (which it is), and you move on.
Netflix removes as much or more than it adds.
Font Awesome is already licensed under SIL (fonts) and MIT (code), so you're sorta right.
I read and write Japanese in the same insanely complicated and only partially phonetic script as everyone else does (what choice do you have?) but that's not my point. French "R" and English "R" are totally different sounds, right? And in Spanish the same letter represents still a different sound, right? So how can anyone with a straight face claim that if you started writing Japanese with Roman letters everyone would develop an English accent? The claim is ridiculous on its face.
seems like a great opportunity for a tool to aide in learning pronunciation of foreign languages
I also did that question. You had access to the full Java docs.

I left a nice note explaining how I spent a lot of time trying to do it with the language feature, but couldn't due to runtime restrictions, and gave them a working non-optimized solution.

I was emailed to schedule an interview the next day.
It doesn't have to, you just have to believe it does...
China installed 20GW of solar in the first half of 2016. They are moving fast.
Given that the Rust compiler uses LLVM as its backend, and given that Rust's closure implementation was inspired by C++'s (though with extra compile-time machinery to make them memory-safe), I'm certain that C++ is just as capable of boiling these abstractions away as Rust is. :) (But admittedly I don't know if iterator adaptors like map and zip are in C++'s stdlib.)
That's what mounts let you do. I'm not sure why you don't agree.
Commercials were never that bad back in the day.
The rapid games are starting to become more interesting than the full-length games. I would not be surprised if rapid chess starts to become the more popular form of top-level chess.

If you're just thinking about "playing the best possible game", the computers are doing that already. If you want to see two individuals intensely competing in a mental challenge, why not speed things up so that it's actually watchable? Similar to Twenty20 cricket.
Fifth RISC-V Workshop: Day Two
Let's say you think you can earn 3% real after tax (big assumption but let's use it), the difference between $200m and $400m is $6m and $12m a year of annual spending power. If your boat costs you a couple million a year, and your plane the same, $6m is really not going to cut it...or it could just be spiteful...
Amazon Uses Trucks to Drive Data Faster
No, unless you setup VPC peering between the shadow lightsail VPC and your AWS VPC, otherwise you'll be charged at least the $0.01/GB on egress, and maybe the $0.01/GB on ingress into lightsail too (not sure, the wording makes it ambiguous, one would have to try it.)
In this scenario it would be things like having someone else answer for you, answer by committee, find the exact questions on a message board...
>> Microsoft did the same with its Win32 API. Yes, this meant that Windows was by design a worse platform in terms of the end user experience than, say, Mac OS ...

The author loses his creditability since here.
There's different types of coding. Using xyz UI framework or fancy runtime environment will of course require reference.

Sorting a list of points or finding a simple pattern in an array will not. If you need SO to answer the types of questions they ask, you probably shouldn't be seeking an engineering position at a software company.
I think Googling the question exactly and copy and pasting the answer would qualify as cheating.

(Disclaimer: I completed an internship at Amazon and accepted a second internship)
> Peter Svidler mentioned a very interesting suggestion that the players should play the tie-breaks before the match, which should produce more interesting games.

This is the first such suggestion I've heard that I actually like.
I'm always fascinated when someone mentions a paradox so I looked up "Jevon's Paradox".

The real economic term for this is elastic demand (specifically, relatively elastic demand). For example, microprocessor cost reductions make new applications possible, thus demand increased so much that the total amount spent on microprocessors went up for decades. Example of inelastic demand is radial tires. They last four times as long as bias ply tires. But since this didn't cause people to drive four times further, the tire industry collapsed on the introduction of radial tires.

Does anyone know an example of an actual paradox? I've never found one, and I'm curious if they really exist.
> But, for something like descried in the original article, there damn sure ought to be somebody to hold accountable.

Yes. Currently you can sue the company that delivered the stuff.

Stop blaming the wrong people please.
Asking questions that give an incentive to cheat are typically poor questions in my experience. Or maybe an indication that the job is gonna suck a little bit.
> and they hire a good number of people right out of undergraduate degrees

If they're using mumps they have to get them early before they know any better.
Is there really a need? Most serial protocols can really be considered 'open'.

For low bandwidth there is RS232/UART/JTAG. Then there is I²C/SPI for networked. I²C ranges from 100kbit/s to 2.3Mbit/s. And SPI goes to 10Mbps/30Mbps.

For higher bandwidth stuff there is whatever you want over USB, Bluetooth, 802.11BLAH Wifi. Etc... Afaik USB can be considered 'open', you might need to 'register' for a certification/vendor id/logo but from what I understand if you don't want those you don't need to bother. There are also http://pid.codes/ and other organisations that are giving away free pids.

There is the Wishbone bus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishbone_(computer_bus)

But that's got quite a few pins. It allows for on chip networking as well as external stuff. Also RapidIO (which has heaps of pins).

There is a RISC-V debugging standard, but I think that's protocol agnostic.
The dumper approach in Emacs predates GNU Emacs; it was how the original TECO Emacs worked.

The real fix would be to make dynamically linkable compiled elisp files (i.e. .so files) and let the system linker make Emacs start quickly just like any other program.
Is it spying if they let you know what they will be doing?
I'm curious about why you think the Rocky Mountains would preclude this (as opposed to the distance, where ~ 500 mph via air vs. ~250 mph by train seems like a larger obstacle). Tunnels, and picking a relatively flat route seems to alleviate any concerns about the Rockies.

A route roughly following the I-80 corridor would top out somewhere below 9000 ft[1]. The California high speed rail is already being designed for what I would guess are similar elevations (and perhaps steeper grades)[2].

You could also route through southern Arizona and New Mexico, completely avoiding significant mountains.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_80#Wyoming

2. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/nov/12/local/la-me-bullet-m...
she was at her own home...
How does Ku band hold up in rain/snow?
Shocking? That's unbelievable, as in I don't believe her.
For anyone else curious, I got the following answers:

1) Fan fiction websites have pros and cons for the authors

2) Both the conclusions are true

3) UVS (the only one not in reverse alphabetical order)

4) 60 (because 3^3=27, 3^3-3=24, 4^4=64, 4^4-4=60)
Questa is the full blown tool. Modelsim is a step down and that's what comes with FPGA tools. Usually the version of modelsim that Xilinx and Altera ship is crippled performance wise.
I think IBM would be more like GDR or the Brejnev era of Soviet Union.

Stalin was ruthless and the system also had this strong cult of personality. Also loved slogans which have to be repeated and paid respect in public. But also under him there was heavy industrialization so that is you know the revenue generated if you wish.
> I don't have an American last name and the first question many recruiters ask me is about my citizenship.

That's because for every job advertised they'll get a flood of applications from around the world.
And many of those are bad. Ask people in the visual effects industry how they feel about Canada's tax breaks for film production.

These tax breaks incentivize wasting money on travel and uprooting families to trot around the globe chasing favorable tax laws.

It's one thing to set a low tax rate, it's another thing to create the tax equivalent of a "loss leader" as marketing for a broader economy. I'm not saying it's immoral, but it causes chaos in the pricing signals and should be done carefully.
The reason cable is bundled as a discount is twofold: (1) you can get upsold later on a bigger and better package ("only $9.99 more!"), and (2) the bundle is a temporary/promotional rate -- after a fixed amount of time, long after you've forgotten about the fine print, your cable bill jumps up.

Source: worked a summer during college for a cable company, trying to appease thousands of pissed off customers.
> Godwin's law if you want to attack Amazon...

Oh poor Amazon. I think it will survive a satirical comment on the internet here there.

But sounds like you do have some inside info if you're talking Godwin's law...
> How is that different from being recorded by multiple cameras during an on-site interview?

I'd refuse this too. But the difference is that the on site one isn't a massive security threat.
I took a test with ProctorU a few months ago for my university class. It didn't seem creepy at all. They installed LogMeIn and watched my webcam, but as soon as the exam was over they disabled both. It's just a way of making sure there isn't any cheating.