skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privacy is a huge topic in the ultrasonic audio transmission space right now, and it's definitely not something Amazon would take lightly. The potential for gathering metadata is there for sure, but as another commenter alluded to I would be more concerned with devices with microphones + rechargeable batteries. I haven't read the Alexa / Echo terms closely yet though. (Disclosure: I previously worked for a company making competing tech.)
Ah, fair enough. I'd be interested in reading it, but I think that (unfortunately) you're correct that it's mostly non-replicable, at least based on my experience.
Babel and webpack make debugging with the v8 debugger a nightmare. How do you approach that and avoid using console.log everywhere? console.log can be great and 90% of the time it's enough but for that other 10% I'd rather my debugging observe the execution context instead of being part of it.
Also OT: but how do I view the article? I get subscription advertisements and the link won't show the article. How are you all reading the article?
Nix is used / usable in production. Guix is still pretty far away.
What products are you finding that are counterfeit on Amazon? You should report them to Amazon.
Just because something is true doesn't mean that releasing it to the public is good. For instance, there were hacked documents released for some Congressional races that were expected to be close races where Democrats had an edge. These releases included the detailed campaign strategy documents of the Democratic candidates in those races. There was nothing in those releases showing any wrongdoing, or even hinting at any. Just internal planning documents for the campaigns. There was no legitimate public interest in releasing it, except maybe as historical documents after the election.
Firefox and Chrome are still limited to 720p. I use Safari only for Netflix...

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742
Curious if anyone knows how the Dash buttons handle when your wifi password has changed since their last successful connect.
It felt to me as if it were written in a rush.
I feel that a multi-day interview or a longer process helps weed out those who aren't interested in your company, just interested in a job, but I can agree some companies overdo it. As for meeting with multiple people who don't talk/coordinate, that sounds more like something that takes place in a larger company, whereas this article was about new startups, where I imagine communication would be stronger.
>My original plan was to find a job, but most of the companies I contacted didn’t even want to interview me.

@mxstbr - Contact me at jim@techleads.io and send me your resume/cover letter/cold email that you used to approach these companies.. You probably just need a few tweaks with your personal pitch.
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It's called outsourcing to Russia! You can get amazing devs for 15$ / hour...
I'm going to have to read that one. I recently had the same realization myself. As you learn about African-American history, racism looks less like a vanishing relic of the past, and more like a looming spectre over America that keeps re-appearing and wreaking havoc in every generation.

The thing that really made the difference for me was visiting the Charles Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. I actually was there for a wedding but ended up touring the exhibit anyway.
I'm going to use Typescript regardless of which flavor of ES/JS I expect to target, for type safety alone. Since I'm already using a build system, writing for the latest ES/JS spec supported by Typescript is entirely about convenience of the new specs themselves. I can use Typescript to downlevel as necessary for the expected runtime environments.
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When I view your landing page, the graphics spaz out. Is that intended?
When employers stop treating degrees being a better worker then the public will change it's perception. Sadly neither of those will happen soon and I don't think universities will go out of this without a fight.

I mean, who the hell has 200k to spend "for fun" at a liberal arts college?
That's how I moved jobs in my last 3 positions.
Find me, meet me (coffee, lunch), meet the team for some ideas/brainstorming. Make me an offer I can't refuse.

Screw the rest, seriously, it's just not worth the trouble.

A couple of weeks back I saw a repo on Github. Preparing for an interview @ Google. It was a mile long. Never doing that.
great cause!
On the downside, then you're working at a company that hires its staff by bar conversations, rather than by attempting to determine competency and mutual fit.
I am curious how you come to that conclusion. Framework lust, particularly in the JS ecosystem, is inflated and often not representative of technical authority, experience, or sometimes even competence.

If I were a hiring manager and the candidate couldn't write very basic vanilla JS I wouldn't hire them either. I don't care that they have a bunch of github stars. The inability to solve simple problems without a framework is a liability.
The point about a scientific theory is that you test it and if its predictions do not agree with the observed facts - it's wrong. No ifs or buts. Back to the drawing board. At least that should be the approach.
https://youtu.be/EYPapE-3FRw.

What do we see in climatology?

"The IPCC have produced 102 climate models to predict our future climate. The world’s meteorological organizations use weather models to forecast and predict weather and have been for many years. They have proved to be very accurate over 4 days and reasonably accurate over a week. The IPCC’s climate models are notoriously inaccurate. We’ve had these models now for some 30 years and we now have 30 years of data to compare them against. They are not even close to accurate."

Facts trumped by theory? Looks like it these days!

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/12/21/homogenization-of-tem...
I'm not talking about frequency of disasters but rather their severity. It's not that one Fukushima-type disaster every 30 years is much better than one every 50 years, but that one Fukushima-type disaster is a lot better than one Chernobyl-type disaster.

Fukushima type plants have Chernobyl type disasters approximately never. That part was not a lie.

Supposedly new plant designs never have Fukushima type disasters.
I didn't know the Nixon stuff. Nick Touran has a good summary of the practical difficulties if you haven't seen it https://whatisnuclear.com/reactors/msr.html#problems
Meetup is my vector as well. I am organizing my first meetup on the topic of mechanical sympathy and low latency microservices with focus on low level details like dedicating cpu cores to interrupt request handlers, call routing within service discovery and so on. Only 5 people have confirmed but these are the folks I am interested in talking to and hearing from. It can be quite rewarding both personally and professionally.
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It weeds out everybody who isn't desperate for a job and taking those multiple days interviews with anyone that offers them.
Read the black swan and thinking fast and slow after, I think the combination is life changing. It was for me anyways. They really complement each other.
Yes, there are no paying customer yet. So what?
World's first solar panel road opens in Normandy village
Their resilience is amazing!!
I have heard that Amazon tried to do this with hiring with really bad results.
>Now DRM on BluRay, DVD, Digital Downloads, Games, etc that do have an assumption of ownership because I pay a onetime fee with the expectation of accessing that content in a non-time limited way. Those types of things should never have DRM

Oh man, I still remember when Microsoft tried to pull "steam" on their xOne - backlash was insane and they backed out. I wonder why do PC gamers let Steam, Origin, Battle.net, other crapware apps walk all over them with DRM. Buy a console, buy a game - you do not like it - sell the disk on ebay.
Daemon was one of the best book series I've ever read. It's one of the few that stuck with me and made me fall in love with "near-future sci-fi". Things at the bleeding edge of technology that are technically possible today, and the book is written in today's world (not tomorrow's), but just hasn't been done yet.

Douglas Richards has a whole series of these near-future sci-fi books as well. Mind's Eye is good (along with it's whole trilogy) and Wired/Amped is decent too. I'd be hard pressed to say if Daniel Suarez or Douglas Richards are the "new Michael Crichton", but I'm glad both of them are writing books.
As long as sourcemaps are setup correctly it's not bad at all.

That being said, setting up sourcemaps correctly can be a bear... But it's taken most of the pain away from our debugging issues.

And if that's not possible, as long as you aren't using some of the "heavy to transpile" features like async/await, looking at the translated code directly (and stepping through it) is generally close enough to get the gist of what's going on.

Edit: the bigger headache for me is code which loses it's full stack-trace, which is becoming more and more common when transpiling async/await for reasons I haven't had time to look into.
FYI, I was able to dodge the paywall and read the article by copying the URL into Google to get their referral, then clicking the top link.
When you join the armed forces they don't just stick a gun in your hand and fly to you Iraq, the training you receive will bring you to 18 before you are deployed.
I guess the flipside on centralisation is it allows you to build much simpler (and much less) transmission infrastructure (unless we're talking about a scenario where everyone is 'energy independent' at the household level).

I do somewhat agree with you though: the sheer scale of current nuclear power plants (and the technical complexity) means the market is fairly uncompetitive. From what I understand, companies like Westinghouse will practically sell you the plant 'at cost' and then gouge you on the fuel supply contract.

Then again, some of the gen4 designs can work as small, modular fission reactors that might power a small town or community. I know the molten-salt reactor's initial intended applications were: (a) powering army bases and (b) powering a nuclear-powered strategic bombers (which seems rather insane to me).
Isn't this what SourceMaps are for?

Edit: What he said /\
C is low level for everyone using a programming language other than C (excluding assembly). That even applies to languages created in the early 60s, prior to C.
Considering that the imperfections were on the order of 1/32 of an inch, or 0.8 millimeters... Yes, I can absolutely believe that they were missed on visual inspection.
> It's important to remember that past revolutions in automation have destroyed one field of labor while creating another.

That's exactly right. We've been creating work to keep people busy for 200 years in many more ways than you mention. Consumerism. Marketing. Bureaucracy. We have one industry that makes people sick (food) and another industry that makes people healthy (healthcare). The twin peaks of the sickness and health industries can grow indefinitely, especially in the USA. We have industries that make plastic casings to wrap goods, just so we can sell goods to consumers, who unwrap and immediately dispose the plastic, so that another industry (sanitation) can take them away.

We basically have a society which continuously breaks glass windows and then fixes them. It's all, in some sense, pure dead weight, just to keep people employed.

So why should this stop now?
Additionally, it is delivered as an MSI, making it less usable.

I would also like a simple ZIP file please with no installer. I like to set up some software with an environment variable that points to which JRE / JDK that I want it to use.

Example Use Case:

One Windows OS. Several smallish Tomcat servers. Each Tomcat server has environment variables that point to the CATALINA_HOME (a base unpacked tomcat folder), and a JAVA_HOME which points to a JDK or JRE.

I can stop a tomcat service. Remove it from Services control panel. Change some environment variable pointers in a .BAT file. Re-add it to Services control panel. Then restart the service. Now that server might point to a different Java and/or different Tomcat release.

Similarly Eclipse. I don't "install" it. Just unpack it and create a shortcut to it's launcher. Set its configuration file to point to which of my various Java versions I want it to use -- including multiple vendor's implementations.

Red Hat: I don't WANT to "install" a JDK on Windows.
Of the first page of items, I see exactly three items that include the phrase "split ender". What you are seeing could be attributed equally well to either a "fuzzy search" (people search "split ender", the search is converted to "split end remover" because that produces more relevant results) or Amazon's search being terrible (because there's a lot of things that are just generic beauty products there). Three items is not exactly a strong argument - but let's move on,

This is what it looks like when a trademark is in the process of becoming genericized. People search "kleenex" but what they actually want is "facial tissue", so you give fuzzy search results for it and people put it in their titles and so on.

Why should Amazon be the front line of protecting this company's trademark? Isn't their job to sell products, and the company's job to protect their trademark? If they think Amazon themselves are unfairly demeaning their trademark then go ahead and sue. Easy as that.
The packaging is functional, the scripting is not. Guix still uses a fork of the nix-daemon, and thus derivations. The "functional packages, no side effects" part is still guaranteed in the build & install part.

I'd say it's largely what you want, minus probably some GNU-isms in their packaging choices.
This site messes up my browser navigation worse than anything I have ever seen before.
Yes, I'm pretty sure that that's the case with the fake Koss Porta Pros (headphones). If you're going to make and sell a forgery, why would the barcode be a problem? Barcode or no, passing off the forgery as the real deal isn't exactly legal.

I don't see the point of making a fake but refraining from forging the barcode.
I'd go work for that company over a multiple days interview any day. If you talk about the right things, it beats any interview (IMHO of course).
There are local web shops, but most I've seen are specialized around electronics vs. generic home goods. There are also online portals for brick-and-mortar stores, but the experience is clearly not the same.

AliExpress offers a smattering of stuff you didn't know you needed until you see it, and it melds several businesses into one: the Newegg-knockoff website you've used before, the phone case stall at the mall, the Chinese clothing market that sets up at the fairgrounds, the random home goods from that downtown department store you haven't been to in five years.
We already got lots of in return, even if there is no revenue yet.
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>where you do things intuitively without needing to first learn a shortcut for everything.

you can learn that intuition easily by learning 'vim language' , there are no shortcuts.
> This DRM has total control of your machine including all memory peripherals and so on.

The foundational premise is false. You can build a machine that follows DRM, what you can't do is know if you're talking to that machine or some other machine controlled by pirates who extracted the keys from the that machine. Nor can you stop them from extracting the keys when they have physical control.

But the futile attempts are certainly expensive for everyone.

Though much less expensive for the pirates, who don't have to follow the rules and so don't suffer the consequences when they're inconsistent, inconvenient, unreasonable or bureaucratic.
Honest statement: maybe its because I'm a child of the 80s, and so grew up around media with strong dystopian/cyberpunk styling...

But I've always wondered why more tech companies and corporations don't embrace this aesthetic. The buildings are so distinctive and striking that it would result in very strong branding. And while motivated by questionable ethics, we do associate megacorps in fiction with bleeding edge technology and incredible capabilities.

It is not as if anyone takes the Google happy colors and 'don't be evil' motto as actually indicative of ethical behavior. Conversely, I don't think an insidious aesthetic would imply 'we are doing bad things' as much as a fun nod to sci-fi high tech.
This might be an edge case but it's worth bringing up that this would just delay the amount of time before kids in a myriad of bad situations at home can escape. There are kids in situations where abuse is difficult to prove and the longer they're near them the harder it can be for the child to leave or remove their harmful influence. A parent with narcissistic personality disorder for example.
I think there's a reason we do not just blindly follow the numbers. They can lie just as much, sometimes more. I'm a bit alarmed that this comment is upvoted so highly, given the criticisms of fMRI studies just below. Haven't we learned something from all the replicability issues?

If you want people to be prepared for life, you need to prepare them for life. This life is hard to live, and we mostly just throw people to the wolves and act surprised when they get eaten. Waiting extra years will not magically impart them with missing wisdom, and all the people who end up in the criminal justice system likely have poor families and will only be worse off having to spend even more time with them.

I would, to the contrary, would like to see more means for independence. I'm still not sure why parents need to subsidize everything.
That's complete bullshit. You can't judge the entire job market by one guy that ends up really good.
They should not be called sales. That should be considered fraud or deception. You are renting it at their pleasure. You do not own any products by this company, they do. If the company uses the word "sale" anywhere consider them to be liars.
The common propaganda that a GitHub-as-a-portfolio doesn't work in the real world, unfortunately. At minimum, an HR screener will never look at it and instantly dismiss the job application, even if it points to open source work, due the lack of paper education/professional experience in the field.
My wife has gotten genuine goods for a fraction of their initial price by purchasing old designs at less prestigious stores. While a lot of things are obviously counterfeit, it's not always easy to tell whether you've just stumbled on a great fire sale. When you're shopping globally, it's even less clear-cut, because things don't always cost the same in every country.
Ask HN: Experiences with cloud-based dev platforms?
Are you using, or have you used, a cloud-based IDE or development environment like Koding, Cloud9, CodeAnywhere, etc? What do you like about it? Dislike about it?
Reminds me of the murder-Gandhi thought experiment: http://lesswrong.com/lw/ase/schelling_fences_on_slippery_slo...
> I'd encourage you to look at the frontpage of Lollipuff or in the eBay fashion sections -- you can absolutely find items that retail for $900 new for purchase in a resale market for $90 used. It's sort of like going to GoodWill.

Used, yeah of course. But you won't find them for that cheap new, which you definitely can on Alibaba (obviously not legitimate).

edit: Just checked out the site. Can't seem to find anything for Men?
> Different speed limits for different drivers could result in a "lower-class" driver being an obstruction for others. I don't think that would work out

what i'm really saying is that you should be able to test for a higher speed limit in the US. slow drivers will be slow regardless of what the limit is, and unsafe. i've driven on the autobahn in the no speed limit sections (primarily around munich) and there were still slower, unsafe morons occupying lanes they shouldn't have been. maybe tourists.

remember, in the US we have very low speed limits of ~100kph pretty much anywhere. i think it should be higher. people routinely drive 145kph here in southern california, enforcement of 100kph is arbitrary, which is not healtyh for respect for the law in general.
They had a method for whitelisting vanilla http domains in the app plists. It wasnt going to eliminate http. It was going to push general app transport to TLS by default.

Apple seems to have wildly varying execution. Some things they do are great. Other times their behavior is shockingly erratic.
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Thanks. My wife is French-English bilingual with an interpretation certificate, and she now wants to become a science teacher, and I kinda wanna apply to enter Canada given the recent unpleasantness.
Thanks, I'll look it up!
Ah, it wasn't working for me until I turned off uBlock, for whatever reason, incase someone also has this issue.
This article really nails this topic. Architecture and film theory are two of my favorite topics, because visual symbolism is so integral in both. Both disciplines have a lot of domain-specific language that it's really easy to write an article that is inaccessible to most readers. Most articles by 99% invisible really hit the sweet spot where they are entertaining and accessible introduction to the subject, but are still interesting to people familiar with the topics being reported. This article could easily have been "Five real buildings that housed Evil Megacorporations, #4 will surprise you!"

Speaking of dystopian megacorps and their architecture, I bought Invisible Inc during the Klei sale on Steam. I'd highly recommend it. It's a turn-based stealth rougelike based based in a cyber-punk world run by dystopian megacorporations. You control a team of technologically augmented spies who infiltrate these megacorps. The levels are all procedurally generated, which works really well for the inhuman sameness that corporations have in science fiction.

The gameplay is well thought out, and the story mode is well written. It deconstructs a lot of themes typically present in cyberpunk, but the deconstruction doesn't upstage the gameplay (I feel like game designers sometimes try to be 'clever' when deconstructing tropes, to the detriment of fun.) The story mode isn't very long, but it has good replayability due to the roguelike nature and the procedurally generated levels. There is also an endless mode, which adds a lot of replay value, and is something that I miss in other roguelikes, such as FTL.

I played it on Linux, and it runs well. It's $20 normally. I'd say it's a must-buy at $10 or below if you enjoy roguelikes or stealth games. I'd say take a pass if you don't enjoy turn based games or cyberpunk. You can probably get a pretty good idea of the gameplay from watching a video on youtube, but I'd definitely try to avoid spoilers.
Feels more like a pendulum. I remember one of the big pre-1.0 branches of Django was called "removing-the-magic".
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How could any quant models not be based on the brains of their inventors?
Emotion is how we process reality. Just because we spend a lot of time with computers that only understand logic doesn't mean that that works for real life.

The problem is lack of information, not emotion. Politics is immensely complicated and hard to understand without the right heuristics, and, from what I've seen, age doesn't help here much at all. People just tend to believe whatever most in their bucket believe regardless of age or even education. Logic doesn't seem to do squat, which is actually not surprising if you think about it.
For my personal interest, I'm developing an app on a Rails/Postgresql stack, and client software that talks to the app in Go. I'm interested in finding a cloud-based solution that supports both without a lot of DIY hand-rolling.