skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That commenter shouldn't have overstepped the civility line like that, but that doesn't mean you get to flout it altogether in reply. On the contrary, when replying to a bad comment, we need to be more civil, not less.

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Fast coroutines in C from BSNES
> Of course all the previous bank notes (from the old set) are being banned because they are being taking out of circulation.

Being taken out of circulation doesn't require being banned. Plenty of US currency is no longer circulated but it's still legal tender. Pre-Euro currency is no longer legal tender, but many notes and coins are still exchangable for Euros, almost 15 years after Euros were introduced.
NSA has no say in private group emails(such as the DNC).
I think the general trends we're seeing need to be course corrected, and that publishers by and large have dug their own graves.

That said, this is largely about decrapifying the web (getting rid of Flash is a good thing right?) and the parent also crapped all over a profession and industry while proving to be rather uninformed about it. So no, a little negativity isn't called for.
> In a way Pitts was still 12 years old. He was still beaten, still a runaway, still hiding from the world in musty libraries. Only now his books took the shape of a bottle.

In an otherwise fine article, this was a staggeringly insensitive statement about the man's struggle with depression. That too at an age where it was even more poorly understood than today.
Always, always, always generate your own SSH moduli.
Please don't.

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Uber Defies California Regulators with Self-Driving Car Service
Yes, that was a mistake.

Short of unethical business practices, a new contract employee really doesn't have organizational standing to say "no" to anything.

If you're a consultant and they're paying you for your breadth of experience, you can certainly advise a different path. And you can make a stay/go decision based on the organization's choice.

But as a contract employee, or any new employee, you have much less invested in the organization than the people you work with do. You are reasonably expected to defer to their judgement in organizational matters.

Over time that might change, but it doesn't always. In some companies, contractors are always second class citizens.

It sounds to me like your PO has specific expectations, and you flipped the "loyal and cooperative" bit in the wrong direction. She might be overreacting, or perceiving it as a challenge due to gender differences. It doesn't matter, even if you are ultimately proven correct, you need to be someone she can work with and trust, and right now you are not.

An apology might work. In my experience, nothing else will.
Ok that concludes $1200 for just a Coffee! Either way Friend Zoned it's a Win-Win for the girl! /* Guys take note here! */
This is silly, there are plenty of counterexamples. See Santiago, Chile and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for examples of large multi-ethnic cities with efficient, safe, and clean public transportation systems.

This is specious reasoning at best unless you've done an exhaustive study of all public transportation.
If they are paying users. Hell yeah :-)
I just created a submission for libco, which I think is the best (fastest and most portable) library for coroutines in C. It's great, I wish it got more love. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13199581
Or just run:

openssl dhparam -out dhparam.pem 2048
Again, I'm not making the claim that neural nets will lead to AGI. I was only commenting on the claim that they can't or won't just because they don't accurately model the human brain.
Does anyone have any comparable analyses for Java? I would assume the performance penalties are similar. There are many popular libraries which rely on annotations (JAX-RS, Jackson, Guice/Spring DI) and this presumably uses reflection heavily, so I've often wondered what kind of impact this has vs not using annotations.
I really don't think they are doing it for the money, it is probably being done aso that they do don't have to disclose accidents, they don't even disclose self driving car % as per the article + they call out that Tesla doesn't require it, that's apples to oranges and the article also states that Tesla does have the permit.
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Multiplication Table Using Two Dimensional Array in C++
Evernote Backtracks on Its Privacy Changes
That would require Venezuela's politicians to do something sensible, which they have shown a remarkable desire to avoid at any cost.
What do you mean by Vive being most viable? The Rift has sold as much as the Vive works better than the Vive for everything but large room scale (which is irrelevant to most users).
Maintaining Knowledge about Temporal Intervals (Allen's interval algebra) [pdf]
First of all, welcome to Seattle! We live in a wonderful city with a ton of awesome things to do.

If you move from the Bay Area, you will probably find the weather shit, true. But if you moved from say, Minneapolis, you're probably ecstatic :) So, it's all a matter of perspective. Don't expect the weather to be something that it's not. May through September here is amazing. October and April are so-so. For the other months, learn to ski and go spend time in the mountains. Rain in the city means lots of snow on the slopes =)

Now, let's look at this year alone. I worked with some really awesome people, learned a lot from them, but got bored out of my mind and went onto working on my own things again. Really loving what I am doing now (AsteroidIQ.com) and random YouTube videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAURFMkO9jo). Even though I am hassling every day to get customer and learn new things, that's exactly what I love; it's way more fun than working for some else, putting nuts on bolts all day long with not future.

So yeah, life is great, but it's all a matter of your focus and your priorities. Don't compare yourself to other folks. Even the most wealthiest/smartest/"successful" ones are miserable in some shape or form. Focus on you.

Oh, and that said. Don't "look for a girlfriend," just find a lot of interesting things to do, and perhaps you'll find someone along the way. Love doesn't work on a schedule man. Enjoy!
That's a backdoor work sample. I personally don't do work samples unless paid...
> You're a thought leader because you are really. fucking. good. at something and you're sharing it

This is wishful thinking. In my time in Silicon Valley I've witnessed such "thought leaders" get prestigious speaking engagements, being quoted in the press, etc, but very often not being exceptional at anything. In fact the effort it takes to be really great at something barely overlaps the effort it takes to be a public figure (at extremely high levels, e.g. Elon Musk, obviously this doesn't hold, but these people are the exception).

The way they do it is with a small seed of something they can claim ("i helped invent X" - if X is small enough and far enough in time no one will care), and from there they move upwards and build on it. "I invented X, let me give a talk". "I invented X and gave a talk at Y, let me be an advisor". "I invented X, gave a talk at Y, and was an advisor for Z...". Same principle as that guy who traded a potato for something else for something else... and ended up with a house.

I've worked with such a clown- he was completely useless. But he got interviews on CNN, WSJ, etc so the CEO didn't want to piss him off by firing him and he got "promoted" to advisor after a while. He's off to a way more prestigious thing now, presumably because no one ever wants to get on his bad side because he's "so well connected" (if only people knew what all of his connections really think of him).

So yeah, it's sad for us nerds, but it's very easy to cheat at this game - and any time you spend doing actually meaningful work is time you don't spend promoting yourself, which puts you at a disadvantage.
Sxc – An s-expression based language source transpiler for C
The Rift is better than the Vive on probably every account except large room scale, which is irrelevant to most people, and your logic is to get the Vive? You sound like a misguided technology zealot to me.
It also wouldn't be irresponsible to send term sheets - the fact that the company doesn't exist will come out in due diligence pretty quickly.
Harassment laws are probably not as bad as anti-discrimination laws, but I do question whether they are really needed. I remember this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11666857
Streak (YC S11) Hiring a Customer Support Lead
Lenovo Launching Chrome OS Yoga Book in 2017
We appreciate that you've been making an effort to comment substantively on HN, but what you posted here is an uncharitable reading of the article, and that makes for low-quality discussion. (By "charitable" I mean that we should respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of a thing, not a weaker one that's easier to argue against.)

For example, you appear to me to have completely misread that use of the word "sexist". Ok, we all misread things sometimes, and the article wasn't clear at that point. But framing this as "trying to arouse a mob mentality" is so out of keeping with how the author engaged with HN commenters in this thread that I think you were clearly wrong to take it that way, and therefore wrong to post it.

It's true that some people do try to arouse mob mentalities about things. But we should be extra careful not to treat people that way when they aren't—otherwise their good faith has been squandered on us, and that's very bad.
Are there countries that peg their currencies to combinations of other countries' currencies, mutual-fund-style, so you're not dependent on one single country's economy and politics remaining stable? I'd imagine that pegging your currency to, say, a linear combination of the UN Security Council members' currencies, weighted to get you about equal purchasing power on each currency, would be a good way to hedge risk.

(Or is there a some economic reason this is a terrible idea?)
Right, which is what build-dh calls.
I quit my job in the spring, took the summer off, and started a new job in the fall.

At my last job, I felt like I was at my growth limit with little left to learn. At my new job, I am currently overwhelmed with a new stack, new tools, and a new culture. Going to put in a little extra time this weekend and coming week to hopefully catch myself up and end the year on a more relaxing note.
>I just think that our brains experience sadness for a reason: it's a signal that something is wrong in our life and that we need to change it.

Forgive me, but I don't understand how someone can just decide to come up with alternate explanations of attentively studied medical conditions. While there's still a long way to go in understanding clinical depression, we know for sure that particular chemical imbalances in the brain, or the inability to process those chemicals, cause the most commonly recognized symptoms and behavior. This is like telling someone with diabetes, "I just think your pancreas is trying to tell you that your life is missing something."
Hacking Apple Mac Encryption Password in Just 30 Seconds with PCILeech Device
Millennials Aren't Entitled–They're Just Better Than You
How convenient that this supposed "spooky action at a distance" can't actually send information ftl. Locality is very important for coherent laws of physics. Many worlds is still the most parsimonious explanation which is why it enjoys the most support from theoretical physicists. It's literally just extrapolating what we already see in small scale experiments to the macro scale, it's staring you in the face!
Game-changing road project gets under construction
Related: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1912
I just watched this after seeing it on Reddit. It is absolutely mesmerizing and I wish it was a feature-length documentary.
Interesting insights, though I wish much of these practices to be viable outside of closed source.

-A Scss library for functionality rather than compiling definitely seems interesting as a halfway point between pure css or pure javascript.

-When I was using pure inline-styles I rarely ran into cases where I couldn't get away with using divs or other style-less elements. The downside was div soup and bloat when rendering large quantities of components that had resets.

-I would be very interested, if allowed, to see the design of your Cell component. Rather than a component itself I find it simpler to define certain highly reused styles in the global scope, such as grid layout. Styles like these generally don't need encapsulation and are highly reusable since they are mainly containers.

-

--I must admit that prefixed inline-styles are atrocious to look at it definitely is enjoyable dealing with a component in roughly a single file. Big loss was targeting an n:child for styling

--Since I don't write any production code I can get away with the web animation api or any resource still in early stages or have not been highly adopted yet. I generally have a prefix for the global css classes e.g. 'qp-grid' and my projects are hardly big enough to have naming collisions.

It is unfortunate mixing css and inline-styles make it quite difficult to apply to an open source lib but I am quite hopeful for a solution or practice to address the issues.
I can't speak for other people or other cities, but I'm in Sydney, Australia and everyone I know who uses UberX doesn't use it because it's cheaper (though it is) but rather because the quality of service is consistently much higher than the traditional taxi.

The idea that Uber might be competing with bus or rail seems very surprising and indicates that something must be seriously, seriously screwed with the mass transit infrastructure in that city.
It took 33 years before it was publicly announced that GCHQ succeeded in deciphering Enigma codes.

Every single time they used intercepted intelligence to their benefit, they made sure to leave false trails of other ways they could've known so the Germans wouldn't suspect.

I would expect the NSA could hide it well.
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It's basically a pedant's creed. I really wish everyone who desired to express that point would translate it into some forgotten language first, just to drive the irony deep.
Here's another great video from PBS Spacetime on this topic https://youtube.com/watch?v=RlXdsyctD50

This channel and Sixty Symbols are awesome for insight into physics/quantum mechanics without the math.
I recommend to take a look to radare2 [1] - reverse engineering framework, which also has an ability to perform assembling for some architectures (and supported architectures and file formats count [2] is way beyond mentioned on METASM's site).

[1] http://rada.re

[2] https://github.com/radare/radare2
> What you may not have realized as a MSFT Office intern is that just because it was slow and awful, it might not have necessarily needed to be.

It's not just Office. It's also the two browsers I have worked on (a word processor in particular has a lot in common with a web browser, but it also needs to deal with authoring). There are many things that need to be done that aren't immediately obvious. Sure, a graphics engine has such costs too but it's hard to compare unless you're well acquainted with both sides.
That's such an extreme and off-topic stretch that we've banned this account for trolling. Please don't create accounts to break the HN guidelines with.
One of the nice things about takeaway food delivery is you don't always need to give a service your payment details, if they accept cash on delivery. Domino's don't even need an account.
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There's a difference between not having an opinion of tribal sovereignty and not having an understanding of it. In my reading, GWB doesn't understand it. Further, if GWB was such a smart person, he should have both.

Any moderately informed, politically active person could answer that question broadly. Most politicians I vehemently disagree with could talk intelligently about the topic for a half hour. GWB has a history degree from Yale, he spent most of his life in politics, he was the governor of a state, and then President.

He should definitely have an opinion on Tribal Sovereignty, there are something like 6 million native Americans in the country, it's kind of an important topic.
MapV:a library of big data geography visualization
Withings Steel HR gets the first two:

http://www.withings.com/us/en/store/details/steel-hr
Uber App Source Code
SES – Photo Editor
Tme to pull out the deep neural nets! Isn't the problem that you're describing a bit like generating, say, words given an image? Sure, there are several differences, but it's an interesting problem.

Easier than caption generation?
- There's only one possible outcome for HTML/CSS --> website look
- And we know what this outcome is (just render the thing)
- not a lot of "words" in the vocabulary... there are only so many tags and styles we can use (at most a couple hundred), with most of the complexity coming from the combinations of these elements

But in some sense, it might be a harder problem, since the idea of web development is combining these "words" in a way that makes sense. So there might be a harder-to-learn grammar.
It would still be true with a simple error code. It's always easier to reuse an existing abstraction (in this case, existing set of codes) than it is to define a new one.
SES - Shoot, edit and share with friends!

A powerful and flexible photo editor is a 19 main tools!

- Improve photos with one touch with a tool "to improve"
- Apply multiple photo filters
- Select the appropriate photo frame
- A huge set of a variety of stickers
- Various overlapping effects
- Cut the photo to achieve the best artistic effect
- Adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and other image parameters
- Adjust the sharpness of your photos!
- Change the Focus
- Apply artistic vignette effect
- Change the angle and location of photos
- Transform photos
- Apply a stunning effect color stain! (As in the movie "Sin City")
- Draw directly on your photos!
- Add the desired text
- Take a picture of a meme
- Removes the defect with photos
- Apply blur
- Removes red-eye!
- Use a tool lighten photos

+2 Amazing tool for you!
- The effect of smoothing the skin - removes all the bumps and imperfections
- The effect of polygons!

After the changes, you can easily share your photos!
Peg your country's currency to one controlled by a foreign power. It turned out so well for Greece!
Give me a break. Seriously.

I should have place my commas differently to emphasize that I have worked on many IC design projects as an EE then later on IoT projects as a software engineer.

No one replying to my comment has at all explained why during early iterations when the product is quickly evolving this separation is a good thing. Frankly it seems to me like (a) people are taking pot-shots are Uber and (b) none of you have actually worked on a hardware project.

There is a time when a strict separation between designers and testers is critical. That time is referred to as Qual, or qualification and it is for validation that a part or system operates correctly over all corners of the devices operating parameters. This is not the phase that Uber is in.

Again, I don't dispute at all that Uber are being arrogant and reckless jackasses. I'm just saying it has nothing to do with the fact that their engineers desire to work near to the systems they are designing since that is actually a sign of a smart and high functioning engineering team, not the opposite as people have suggested.
I am confused by your comment, reference counting is a form of GC. Could you elaborate?
I think I agree with Uber on this one.

Self-driving functionality, at least for the time being, is a tool used by a human operator to achieve their objectives with regard to the vehicle. This is distinct from a vehicle with no driver, for which regulation is obviously necessary. It's no different from a pilot using autopilot. If someone wanted to make an unmanned passenger plane, there'd need to be huge regulatory changes (not saying it's necessarily a good idea), but pilots use autopilot all the time without great regulatory upheaval, because it's just a tool the pilot is using to fly the plane as they wish.

So long as a human operator is in control of, and responsible for, the vehicle, it shouldn't matter in particular what method they use to operate it.
That same article says exactly what I just said: Violence could be mitigated by focusing on substance abuse treatment and that violent behaviors are much less common than you are duggesting. there's not even a 50% increase when genetic and environmental factors (siblings as controls) are considered.

you're the only person making a joke of sexual violence by attributing it's commission to people based on stereotypes rather than fact. just because you know peoplewho were assaulted by an alcoholic schizophrenic doesn't mean busses aren't safe.
What are we suppose to be taking note of exactly?
What's sensible about it? Public transit has much lower energy costs than a car right now and it sure isn't free.

You might be able to get somewhere with a public unscheduled version of UberPool, but Uber is cheap because the drivers are getting screwed, not because it's actually efficient.

(The drivers are getting screwed because they're not getting paid enough for extra maintenance and depreciation on their cars. If Uber switches to owning cars they're going to take on this problem.)
Ask HN: Is 'Silicon Valley' a Healthy Place to Work?
I have never posted here before. Please accept mis-steps.

I, like many aspiring software hobbyists and enthusiasts, came to SF Bay to learn and practice. In 5 years I have met people living in extraordinary circumstances.

- Commuting 2+ hours in traffic several times a week.

- People living in apartments nearer their work, 3-4 days/week. Separated from their family and children.

- Individuals working 50+ hours / week with less than 3 weeks vacation per year.

- People sacrificing their own health and well-being (and psychological well-being) in the pursuit of profit.

- Widespread and rampant personal depression.

Sincerely, it makes me glum.

Are there any parts of the Bay (or the) industry, which are not like this?
Are there any other engineers who have experienced similar feelings, and left? Where?
I'm inclined to agree with you, but I think this might be an unfair demand -- you're describing two jobs that are closely related but entirely different. I've had lots of doctors recommend therapy; I never expected any to be my therapist -- it seems a little like if you went to a restaurant and were disappointed by the waiter because he wasn't a very good cook.
Yes, but we didn't get to it in time, so may as well leave it now.

The tendency of the community to react purely to titles is so strong that it's one of those things that goes far beyond HN and into human nature. I'm still working on figuring out why.
If you repeat the word "collapse" enough you can trick your brain into thinking you've actually explained something :P