skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you call it fizzbuzz or pascals triangle and is that how they were able to google it? If you change the parameters to ducky-fuzz (the drinking game variant) and describe the requirements they shouldn't be able to google an answer, at least not a 100% one.
Unless you have been living under a rock, there’s a pretty good chance that you’ve heard of Snapchat. For the uninitiated, Snapchat is a mobile messaging application used to capture funny moments via a photo or a short video.
I love this. This drives me to do my own thing - a small thing - but I know that if I build it for the right people, some of those people will feel compelled to give me money for it.

Not all, I know, I know, but some. Some is enough. Some is marvellous. Some might be all I need to quit my regular day job, which is all I want.
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> in most Western countries (including the U.S.) even living together binds you to the same or almost the same contract as marrying.

Correct. This is such a terrible thing. I'm coming up on 6th year of living with my girlfriend and I am told that California is also something like this... i.e. if you are living together for 7 or more years (maybe 10, not sure) that it's as if you are married. Terrible!
I share your frustration about these developments, but I don't share your perception that people on HN as a whole cheerlead for the government this way. I've seen huge amounts of animosity and opposition here toward government surveillance and other expressions of government power -- often upvoted, not downvoted -- and lots of people also saying how they feel sad, angry, or helpless at some of these developments.
Debops
Seems like the above comment complies with HN guidelines, unless you believe they are 'baiting', but they seem to be arguing that there is a systematic bias, which is a legitimate point to bring up. I see posts about race, gender, and sexuality discrimination all the time, and think a post about viewpoint discrimination is equally legitimate.
Humanity is pretty awesome. We're an incredibly tiny, fragile, and short-lived piece of the universe that has become self aware. I believe that comes with a responsibility.

Unfortunately though most individuals are good, _organized_ people produce undesirable outcomes. It's emergent behavior, a structural issue, not user error. CGPgrey explores how this affects governments in rules for rulers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs)
Also, Haskell has both useful and safe STM, and a runtime with built in concurrency and parallelism.

(Mentioning Erlang and Haskell because I've shipped solid production systems using both of those, and they work well!)
the "Economist effect"

It's real. Someone on HN mentioned them as a contra-indicator during a previous discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12516078

My supporting argument to him was that The Economist argued in 1999 that $10 oil was too expensive and that it could be headed to $5. So of course oil rose to $140 over the next decade! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12517258
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> If they hire you because you know Angular but fuck all otherwise, they're screwing over the team you're going to be on in two years who need someone that can learn C socket programming ASAP.

That's even more fucked up. It really shows that they view all developers as interchangeable cogs.
I didn't know we had mapped the entire ocean floor and were measuring the dissolved gasses from all the sub-surface volcanoes. Can you share how they relate or correlate to that of human based emissions?
> You don't want me in your kitchen telling you what to do, so don't pitch a fit when I don't care for you telling me how to run my life.

> Stop trying to control people and they'll stop pushing back.

Ironically, I'd wager that a significant number of votes were cast for Trump as a kneejerk reaction (i.e., pushback) to some extremely vocal groups on the far left making conspicuous attempts to control other people. The "Social Justice Warriors", the "PC Police", and the "Special Snowflakes" have, for the last several years, been loudly and publicly shaming people who don't share their opinions. These are the same people who decry bullying and use their hashtags to raise awareness about "cyberbullying", and then turn around and try their best to get some "toxic male" who criticized Anita Sarkeesian in a tweet fired from his job. The same people who emphasize diversity and equality while systematically silencing and excluding anyone with so-called "privilege". The people who are "helpfully" pointing and wagging fingers at "racists" (who may or may not actually be racists — the word gets tossed around so often nowadays that it's bordering on meaningless) all the while wearing T-shirts emblazoned with references to an actual black supremacist movement.

The reasons for Trump's election are varied, complicated, and much more nuanced than "toxic masculinity and white privilege".

I don't like the outcome of the election any more than you do, but it's made even worse by all the tantrums being thrown over it. The power of the president is constitutionally limited for this very reason, checks and balances and all that. And, frankly, once we got through the primaries, I wasn't going to like the outcome of this election no matter what. President Bernie would've been nice (too bad the Clintons colluded with the DNC to give him the shaft), or even Rand Paul (too bad he's a boring, down-to-earth guy lacking in outrageous, showy behavior or anything particularly radical to put forward... and, for all I know, Trump colluded with the RNC... I wouldn't be surprised at this point (cash rules everything and whatnot)). I'm more worried about the American people at this point than I am about the president. Shit's tense right now.
I agree. Having something a bit polarizing is good news.
That book might one day be considered as dangerous as an unregistered firearm... Sadly.
I personally know two folks where the prenup was partially voided. It didn't make the news and these guys were certainly not wealthy by HN standards.

Do you have some research on the topic? I'll admit my assumption has always been they are more or less worthless due to my anecdotal direct experience, and I've even had a family law attorney in my state make comments that also led me believe this was the case.
> But in the big picture, oil is getting more expensive to extract, more dangerous to ship, and contributes to global warming then used.

These assertions don't match the reality of what's happening.

The cost to extract oil has plummeted, and that's reshaping the world order. It's destroyed Russia's entire financial plan.

In the US it's become far safer to ship. US domestic production has increased to the point of effective independence, and the US no longer depends on the Strait of Hormuz for its energy supply. Oil's vastly easier to move than natural gas. Current natural gas production exists as a byproduct of shale oil production.

It's also becoming far cleaner to extract. The progress shale has made in just a few years is astounding. The extraction methods used today are orders of magnitude cleaner than the ones used just a few years ago.

Known domestic supplies are also increasing exponentially, which means the industry is highly unlikely to be "reduced to almost nothing" any time soon. The cheapest form of energy always wins, and even incentives and penalties can only somewhat mitigate that.

Sure, we'll have self-driving electric cards on the roads soon enough, but most of that energy isn't going to come from nuclear power, solar, or wind sources.

This landscape is changing quickly, and a lot of assumptions people hold–assumptions that are based on many decades of reality–aren't true.

Here's a lecture that's relatively current (though 9 months is nearly stale given how quickly shale tech is progressing), and does a decent job of outlining the situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyfVTBI4dgA
Not only are you going beyond "rational conversation", you seem to be violating the HN guidelines by saying the above comment is "a bunch of BULLSHIT".

>"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3.""
You shouldn't sometimes question it, you should persistently question and change it. It isn't just possible that we destroy civilization, it's actually quite likely. We know that dominate life forms have exhausted the resources which allowed them to thrive before, leading to their extinction. We can see it in the fossil record. The difference is we are smart enough to see it coming, yet we spend our time worrying about stuff that really won't matter when it comes crashing down.
I recently accepted a position at Amazon (have not started working there yet) and I have a similar experience.

The first part of the interview was exactly like the linked experience. No coding questions just reasoning. The second part I had to use ProctorU instead of Proctorio. Personally I thought the experience was super weird but understandable, I'll get to that later, somebody watched me through my webcam the entire time with my microphone on. They needed to check my ID before the test. They needed me to show them the entire room I was in (which was my bedroom). My desktop computer was on behind my laptop so I turned off my computer (I don't remember if I offered to or if they asked me to) but they also asked me to cover my monitors up with something which I thought was silly after I turned them off so I covered them with a towel. They then used LogMeIn to remote into my machine so they could check running programs. I quit all my personal chat programs and pretty much only had the Chrome window running.

The proctored section involved a work simulation and coding questions. Before the coding section started they opened up the Java 7 and 8 docs, C++ docs, and an online calculator in my browser so I could use those for reference. I could take a break in between the two parts but I didn't need to. In total it took about 3 hours for me to finish everything but they said to block out 4 hours. After that I got an offer.

I didn't talk a real person who actually worked at Amazon (by email or through webcam) until I received an offer.

I can understand why people would be bothered or disturbed by these practices but I just thought that Amazon has a ton of applicants and it would take more time for engineers to talk to applicants. In total it took about a month from when I first applied to when I got an offer. I was then flown out to visit Amazon (not for more interviews because I already had an offer) and I actually got a chance to talk to people and learn about teams and ask questions. Yes, I asked multiple different people about Amazon's problems and they all said that their personal experience has been fine but a few said that they know of people who have had bad experiences. Seems like it's dependent on your manager. I know somebody who works there now (not in engineering but works in Seattle) and they love it. I found a team I liked, I talked to people who worked on the team and they all greatly enjoyed it so I accepted after my visit. Everyone who I talked to seemed very passionate about what they do and all take ownership over their projects.

I also applied to other large companies at the same time as Amazon (Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter). Microsoft and Facebook haven't sent me anything. There was a mixup with Google's emails so that delayed my interview process but by the time I started talking to them I had already pretty much made my mind up about Amazon. I didn't go through any real interview rounds with Google, just preliminary screening questions. Twitter sent me a coding challenge but their email also said that they wouldn't get back to people until mid December.
Why don't you train a machine to analyze the tail deflection. Then do all the fish gene knock-out experiments?
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What's your point? You've written this as a disagreement but you still think everything will be bad.
Many countries get their information from their own national imagery and mapping agency. For the United States it is the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency or NGA. For countries that need help with this information or need higher quality imagery they normally can get assistance from the NGA through their government and commercial partnership arrangements.
> I wonder how much citizenship played into his decision to marry her originally ?

Nothing at all. In fact, he had already "earned" his Green Card by slaving for his Tech Employers for over 10 years. In his own words, it was "Love at 1st sight." Too bad it turned out this way. He says his Indian parents warned him against marrying a "Gori Ladkee" (i.e. white lady)
This is a bit shocking, as I feel it indicates that Fitbit felt a significant threat from Pebble, which feels like it would have been misplaced.
It's not hard to change. If everyone changed what they do day to day (stop flying, stop eating beef, stop driving everywhere), we would not be talking about the future in such a bleak way. But everyone thinks they are the exception, it's OK if they do it. That's why governments introduce taxes to discourage bad behaviour, because people are ultimately stupid.
How Do Software Developers in NY, SF, London and Bangalore Differ?
Have you ever learned a new spoken language? At first, the learner understands by translating to primary language. Only later, with repeated experience does the learner stop doing so and become "fluent".

Its very similar when learning the functional style of programming. Even today having most of this functional style be intuitive, when I see a complex iterator chain (usually only when constructing a `Map`), I need to mentally unfold it into a loop.
Why and how a startup uses NPS to help growth
+1. I would be curious to see how it performs vs. a standard form as well.
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Looks to me as if was just an acqui-hire.
Notice how food storage boxes changed considerably in the last few years? It's because they're derived from shale byproducts that are essentially free, if not cost-negative.

There's an irony in that we have an overabundance of natural gas due to shale, but oil itself is becoming far less important to the plastics industry than ever before.

Related viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyfVTBI4dgA
Any more papers/resources I can look at to get more context on the indexed monads vs effect systems comparison? Are they as composable as effects - ie. how do they solve the problems with monad transformers, etc?
I'm willing to bet that Debian fleshes out the man pages. At the very least, they tend to write man pages for software that doesn't have them, so I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same for GNU software.
Self aware is thrown around these days. Pretty sure half the country/USA are definitely not self aware.
Seems a bit what? I really wish I could take you more seriously. There is undoubted, undeniable evidence that human factors caused this bleaching effect. Yes humans are doing it ALL.

It is not up for debate.
"A source close to the company told TechCrunch that watch maker Citizen was interested in purchasing Pebble for $740 million in 2015. This deal failed and before the launch of the Pebble 2 Intel made an offer for $70 million. The CEO, Eric Migicovsky refused both offers. Our source said that Fitbit is now paying between $34 and $40 million for the company and is barely covering their debts."
Fracking requires an immense amount of water.
There's very little on the Github page - 18 commits, with the last "real" commit (not just an organizational change) being in September. This might be a thing some day, but right now it's just another clever idea.
Translating C's “switch” and “goto” to Rust
What's normal isn't the problem. The problem is if said Walmart doesn't have a way for a new customer to call up and say "our staff is only ever authorized to order 1 trailer a day; if they ask for more, don't fullfil until you have written confirmation that we authorise the amount, or we won't pay".

Plenty of companies operate like that, and e.g. require purchase order ids and accompanying maximum spends issued for any expense over X, where X can be very low. I've worked for companies where it was 0 - every expense, no matter how low, needed prior approval from the CEO or finance director. Not just tiny companies either - one of the strictest such policies I've dealt with was with a company of more than a hundred employees.
> If everyone changed what they do day to day (stop flying, stop eating beef, stop driving everywhere), we would not be talking about the future in such a bleak way.

And what would replace these things? Would they not create another catastrophic problem in another area?

What is the magic bullet that fixes all the world's problems??
Tracking large neural networks in the brain by making neurons glow
Why not completely abandon FB? Build your own personal free network.
Carbon tax funds sequestering operations.

Something like this: https://www.terrapass.com/climate-change/carbon-offsets-expl...
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Everywhere Google documents the service, they clearly state you should not mix their smearing NTP servers with non-smearing NTP servers.
I wouldn't say these tactics are good, but they're understandable. The issue is cultural differences, where the pressure to succeed and a different value system leads to people to gaming the system to succeed. The alternative is hiring people who have used deceptive methods, rather than competence, to succeed up to that point.

If companies hadn't been burned many times, they wouldn't resort to such drastic measures.
>Not sure why you got down voted

Because the comment adds nothing to the conversation.
I think I might have been the first to get that today. It said "played 0 times". Very humorous :)
But happy wives (I know I'm generalizing here)
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<self promotion>

I'm not surprised to see that the first thing you listed was patching known vulnerabilities. Staying up to date with known vulnerabilities is the baseline of a security policy, but patch management is needlessly hard, especially if you don't have dedicated staff to scour security mailinglists.

We built a product to make this easier: https://appcanary.com . Maybe it would have helped your old employer.

</self promotion>
It is up for debate. Whether you like it or not, people think differently. People that have actually worked in the field and have Phd's in climatology. I worked with several of them as an airman in the USAF.

Get over yourself.
Even a serious production user would generally have some threshold above which continuing and hoping AWS forgives the bill puts the company at greater risk than suspending service.

Granted, for a big company, that amount may be so big it's unrealistic to ever hit it.
I was thinking about more extreme change than that to be honest, a really noticeable change in quality of life. I already try not to fly or drive too much.

But even with what you list, external factors based on other people still happen, like your work wants you to fly somewhere, or public transport sucks because everyone else is still driving.

I disagree that we feel like the exception when we're acting like everyone else. We feel like the exception when we're trying to be better and others aren't.
Who knows, the people you disagree with might not actually be zombies. They might have good reasons for thinking the way they do.
The old system was ordered maybe 20 years ago, maybe even longer. Lots of new legislation has been introduced since that, and perhaps that new legislation is the very reason why some systems had to be renewed.

Also, a new generation of public servants are at work, defining and specifying the work.

Who remembers, were there problems at the time when the old system was taken to use?

No, I'm not suggesting courts should be privatised, but the ever-expanding legislation is a problem throughout the Western world (I'm not from the US).
> 2. Only conclusion 1 is necessarily true, because of the transitive property of inequalities; X ? Y and Z/Y can be rewritten as X < Y <= Z. However, we cannot relate any magnitude information to V and it is not necessarily true that a number becomes larger when multiplied by another number (if we assume X is zero and V is positive, for instance).

It says that the product of X and V is greater than or equal to the sum of X and V. Conclusion 2 is that the sum of X and V is less than the product of X and V. How could the latter claim be false if the former premise is true?

I agree with you on 4 and came to it another way: 3^3 : 3 * (3-1) * (3+1) :: 4^3 : 4 * (4-1) * (4+1)

4 * 3 = 12 * 5 = 60
The number of people who understand the difference between resiliency and duplication, even in the tech world, is smaller than you would think. And far too many people think they are good sysadmins because they installed a file server that one time.

"Thankfully", problems like CryptoLocker have, paradoxically, made my job as a sysadmin easier, as now most companies I work for are familiar with the horror stories of how someone lost years of work/all their bay pictures/etc and did not have a reliable, cold-storage backup to deal to recover from such attacks.
I ported emacs undump to the Convex machines 29 years ago.

http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-relea...

Emacs is old and moldy. Let it die.
I can't be sure why you are lying in the road struggling to breathe with multiple fractures. It could be that truck I heard go by that may have just hit you at 90 mph, i didn't see it so I can't be sure.

Because I can't be absolutely sure why you are in the state you are in, best not to do anything.
What if those ton of babies will grow up to form a neo-nazi gang that ends up being worse for the world than hitler was? Now we'll have to put future-detectors in self driving cars too.
We are in a seriously bad place [0] when it comes to our impact on the world.

With how politics are right now, I don't see it turning around.

[0] http://theconversation.com/how-climate-denial-gained-a-footh...
I'd be more concerned about the the level of access the monitoring software has to my computer and any services with vulnerabilities it might leave behind.

I think I'd only consider doing this if I used a computer I could wipe completely before and after. Even then the amount of distrust is off-putting.
> I'd love if it somebody could take them one step further and have it so that if a hole is evaluated at runtime, a prompt came up and said "Well this is the input, what do you think the output should be?"

For some cases, this is pretty simple to implement with unsafePerformIO - I've done that once or twice. Not a sin at all in development.
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The main purpose of AWS's cap is to prevent abuse.