skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I don't disagree that it's important. But a first impression is a delicate time. I mean, I assume that's not the story you lead with when you meet someone socially, say in a bar. That isn't the worst model to use here. Get too serious too fast and you're liable to put some people off, is all I'm saying.

On the other hand, I'm too old and not well enough socially connected to be your likely target market, and it's been a hell of a long day. I could be making more of this than it merits; take it for whatever you find it to be worth.
His "story" seemed to hint at a more engineering capable than Jobs. Jobs could do a bit of hacking it seems. Musk could do a bit of physics which is a tad harder IMO.
Differentiating between a great idea and a terrible idea
How were you aware of all the risks involved? Did you hire your own immigration lawyer (NOT the company-retained one) and have them go through it with you? If so, then that's very wise. If you didn't, I very much doubt you knew of all the risks, since some I've never seen documented. I really think if you had one of the rough times on the H-1B, you wouldn't be so caviler.
A 100-Drone Swarm, Dropped from Jets, Plans Its Own Moves
Um, they are also planning to discontinue the consumer-focussed Google+ Hangouts user experience that the API allows building apps for; Hangouts is being pivoted to be an enterprise messenging product. This change in direction has been announced previously, and is referenced in their information on the API discontinuation.

(And keeping a zombie API available without maintenance, which is non-neglible in cost, is in someways worse than discontinuing it even if the service it interacts with still exists.)
What should people use?
It doesn't show how much Rust inproved in usage compared to last year.
I won't disagree about the effects of oversight at the state level - but the system usually isn't changed that much by this. The disciplines have their own literature and
mores.

I don't think the conservatives have anything to do with it. For one, most of the conservatives I've read work from within the academic system. For another, an original conservative might have been someone like Edmund Burke, who died in 1797.

What changed was - there was rather suddenly a lot of money. There was the mandate that "(nearly) everybody needs a degree." When you go from 5% of the population to 50%, things will be different. Take UT Austin - its endowment is sufficient that they need never charge tuition, but they do to keep capacity matched to demand.

What's really changed is just galloping careerism. Nothing else is needed to explain this.
No way is it a leap. Lots of people are doing stuff to llvm to do gpu work. Take mapd for instance. There is a LOT of untapped llvm -> gpu goodness to be had.
I carry an LL Bean Commuter Ballistic. Has some really great organization features along with being able to handle 2 15" MBPs with ease.
Berkeley and UCLA were among first UCs to increase enrollment for foreign students until they got flack for it in recent years and has started to slow down:

>The rapid rise in recent years in those students at the two highly selective campuses — to about 30% of the freshmen class — triggered much controversy among legislators and families.

However, the problem is still getting worse at other UC campuses:

>UC San Diego offered freshman spots to 10,313 students from other states and countries, up from 8,765 last year; Irvine accepted 9,413 of them, up from 6,564.

>UC Irvine spokeswoman Cathy Lawhon said that there is room on campus for more students but state funding won't accommodate more Californians.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-me-ln-uc-admit-20150702-sto...

And:

>Even as the University of California accepted a record number of freshman for fall 2014, admission rates at its most selective campuses reached new lows. Huge increases in the number of applicants, changing admissions processes and a growing emphasis on out-of-state and international students are driving them down.

>UCLA’s admission rate, which fell to 18.2 percent from 20.1 percent last year, reflected the school’s growing profile and popularity. Applications surged 7.5 percent to more than 86,000, while admission levels held steady.

>The drop was even more stark at UC Berkeley – to 17.3 percent this year from 20.8 percent in 2013 – under a new enrollment process that will see the university accept fewer students and then turn to an expanded wait list to fill any remaining open slots.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article2596255.ht...
I got a RiutBag, which has no outer zips. It's pretty neat. It's well made and sturdy, and holds more than you'd expect.

https://www.riut.co.uk/
There's no conflict between federal and state law here - marijuana is illegal under federal law and not under state law (depending on the state).

This isn't an abnormal situation. There are lots of things that are illegal under state laws that aren't illegal at the federal level and vice versa.

Marijuana is still a schedule 1 controlled substance under federal law, and you can be arrested by federal agents, who have jurisdiction in every state, for possession of any amount. It's not likely to actually happen, but it's another tool the feds can use if you annoy them.

Personally, I don't see the constitution gives Congress the power to outlaw possession of anything unless that thing crosses state lines. But over the years the courts have supported an alternate view.
A multiple-impact origin for the Moon
The second quote is my one-line characterization of the behavior of many "liberals" on university campuses. It has no relation to the Wikipedia article.

Sorry for the confusion.
Great. I hope my medical data is sold so they can use it to improve my healthcare.

Americans are hysterical when it comes to healthcare privacy. Meanwhile, the rest of the world carries on leaving us behind.

When I was in Taiwan, people had national cards that carried a digital history of their medical records on the card. When I explained this to a nurse here in the US she looked at me like I was crazy. Like I had suggested we send men to mars.
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If a car has trouble, it pull over to the shoulder or right lane. This is what people (should) do, and what cars will do. Yes, it can be annoying, the question is, is it orders of magnitude MORE or LESS likely to happen in an automated car.
He worked under Jobs as a direct report, like a VP role is?!

I had the impression he wasn't that high in the totem pole before Jobs died...
OK, I'll make another attempt at conveying my point, perhaps I wasn't clear enough.

I believe it's a mistake to treat words as though they were nothing more than abstract parse tokens, devoid of any cultural, historical or etymological baggage and conveying only the precise meaning that we intend to convey. Language is more complex than that, and the baggage that comes along with words does sometimes imply things that may be entirely unintended by the speaker, and often slip easily below the level of conscious awareness. Entire
fields of propaganda (and advertising!) are based on this.

I am unsure why even the idea of thinking about the words we use is apparently so controversial - is critical self-examination really so scary?
Glymphatic drainage, and the visceral theory of sleep have also been things I use to think about my own sleep.
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Popular in Israel too (no subway here tho ;P)
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85k, 8.5k (total) paid out quarterly, 10k from consulting so about 103k total

about to leave to join small consulting shop for 110k
Worse, melting land-ice increases sea level, while melting sea ice does not.

If the entire Antarctic ice shelf melted, global sea levels would rise about 60 meters (200 feet).

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophys...

Though it would take a huge temperature rise for that to happen -- enough that the other climatic effects would probably be as bad or worse than the sea level rise.

Greenland is not nearly so cold, so it's more likely that its ice shelf would melt, which would add about 7 meters (20 feet) to sea level.
Travel to the country of sexists and homophobes
Please stop smoking.
the Mac ecosystem is now ingrained into open source development.

Where do you get this from, other than screenshots with red-orange-green buttons in the window decoration on github?

software built to run on Linux servers runs best
under an environment that is designed more like Linux.
He now owns a MBP.

And what does he run on that machine? If he uses it to run 'software built to run on Linux servers' he might just run Linux on the thing and be done with it. It is what I'd do, minus the MBP that is.

That leaves us with what, Linux itself as the OS

Indeed, for the stated purpose of developing software which is to run on Linux I'd certainly use Linux.

Anyone who suggests doing this either hasn't done it
before or has way too much time on their hands.

I do have a lot of time on my hands, part of which is due to my use of Linux. Integrated package management which actually works, servers which only ever go down to upgrade the kernel or because of physical damage (lightning strikes, etc), no forced upgrade path, no planned obsolescence, no need to hunt the 'net for drivers (where did you get the idea from that Linux users still need to do that? Times have changed since I started using Linux, back in 1992...). As an added bonus I can install Linux on anything I want, try that with MacOS and you'll soon know what it really means to 'hunt for drivers' or 'understand an obscure error discussed in a long forum thread'. And before you ask why you'd want to install MacOS on something else beside that which carries the Apple logo, realise that the deeper you buy yourself into the Apple world, the harder it will be for you to buy yourself out again when Apple finally decides your niche is not the market they should serve.

I fully expect this release to be their Windows 8 moment

I think this is more comparable to their Mac Pro moment, or maybe their Macbook Air moment.
I can't, this is one of my favorites. I have a great story associated with it. I tell it a lot when i'm drunk.
And yet, I very very rarely hear anyone talking about it? I assume it's pushed heavily internally at Google, but anecdotally it seems nigh-unused outside of Google.

Am I totally off?
What developer uses an 11" screen? Are you serious?
"preternaturally"
The Odds, Continually Updated
They emailed everyone using the app and updated the documentation for the API itself, and are notifying anyone using an app that relies on the API through the UI.

Seems to cover anyone with an interest in the API more effectively than posting on any of Google's many blogs would.
I will sometimes mentally kick myself, but for 30 seconds maximum. After that, it's time to fix it.
Possibly, but commpanies need to export/produce there, at an affordable price. I thought they'd plan to go for western markets first.

If an asian company catches up fast then yeah it will move faster there.
Poll: Is using free music download tools ruining the industry?
Drone cars! Why isn't remote control driving progressing apace with self-driving cars?

Outsource Uber driving to lowest-wage drivers in India, Bangladesh, or Nigeria.
Minds, Machines and Gödel (1961)
Then he'll make his email or other contact information available in some manner.
It's called a "Dark Pattern" and there are some other HN posts on it.
It is, some people also tried SAT solvers for mining:

http://jheusser.github.io/2013/02/03/satcoin.html
> I think it's assumed that buildings will have that these days.

I've never seen it in the UK; hadn't heard of it until I visited Boston, MA.
Lattner was indeed THE lead programmer of Swift, but Gross was A Director working on Machine Learning not THE guy in charge of company wide machine learning efforts ("Director" at Apple basically means second level manager).
> the police can simply hire anyone who is not a LEO to conduct a warrantless search on their behalf.

It's clearly illegal for private individual A to search the computer of private individual B without B's consent though
Kind of related, but does anybody have any links to essays/reading critiquing the whole assumedly-good concept of self-improvement?
Context is the key.

They say HTTPS is complex to enable and imply they've been working on it for up to two years. And they finally get it done nine days before Trump.

Some people and organizations are panicking, either about his behavior or that net neutrality is out the window or about some boogeyman. That's why this story is relevant, now, because it's an indication that NYT may feel the internet will soon be a much more hostile environment.
"However, depression is a disease independent of external factors."

Blanket statements like this (and quite a few in the article too) should be suggestions at best. That might be your experience but it sure as hell isn't mine. I think we can agree to disagree on this and possibly recognize that depression is not a one size fits all disease. What works for you might not work for me. Thus presenting any analysis or solution as fact simply confuses people and can be quite dangerous. Presenting the chemical imbalance theory as fact is especially misleading and extremely dangerous. It's much harder to admit we know a lot less than we actually do, but it's also much more helpful.
For all newspaper subscriptions (and all other semi-shady companies), I use Privacy.com. It allows you to create silo-ed credit card numbers and specify how much each card is allowed to charge you per week/month/overall.

When I want to cancel a newspaper subscription and it's impossibly difficult, I just email them telling them I'd like to cancel the subscription delete the associated credit card. Not my problem anymore
You are well paid - rock on!

Who cares though if you are or are not a "real" software engineer or not. You are clearly creating value in the world.

Given that you've been working for the company for a while as a freelancer, I think the person hiring you has a pretty good idea of your relative productivity. It's certainly possible to be 5x more productive than your average developer - and schools have little to do with that.

Good luck and have fun!
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Sorry this is off-topic, but I really dislike the overuse of the word "disingenuous" in tech discussions. It means you think the person is being insincere or duplicitous in what they are saying. It's much more likely that they just have a different opinion than you.

Questioning a person's sincerity is unproductive and usually unnecessary. It makes discussions needlessly personal and unpleasant.
Yeah, one would think that it's an easy job, but media organizations tend to have different projects, CMSs, designs, sometimes even (sub)domains for different things.

Media websites are constantly-evolving beasts, with a small tech team trying to hack shit up to make them work, and killing older content is never even an option.

At the end, with a limited amount of (mostly human) resources, you kind of have to draw the line somewhere and introduce the change, otherwise you will end up postponing it for possibly months.
Latest discussion of Chris leaving Apple to join Tesla: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13369510.
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Trump intelligence allegations [pdf]
> I bet if they had just moved the ESC key to the tilde

No! Tilde/backtick key, are you kidding?

I use those almost as much in a development setting as Esc!
Are there cycling/pedestrian advocacy groups that are against self-driving cars? I'm sure there's some concern about the early stages, but these groups are so acutely aware of the deficiencies of human driving that I find a lot of enthusiasm for automation.

A driving infrastructure that's advanced as far as signal-less intersections is one that will almost certainly have dedicated space for human-powered transport. Automated driving, as a whole, appears to be far more compatible with peds and cyclists. As far as whether resources will be allocated to build the ped/cyclist friendly infrastructure, just ask any realtor what a 'walkable' neighborhood does to property values.
I'd say that 'jettisoning QA teams' is a mischaracterization. The role is still filled, it's just evolved a lot since the windows 8.1 (and prior) era. Similarly, I'd say that 'Trusting telemetry alone' is also a mischaracterization.

From where I sit, both roles are combined. The output is a far smoother engineering process and a higher quality OS. You mentioned 'corner cases [being] unaddressed' but I've witnessed the exact opposite: most of the criticism I hear about Win10 has nothing to do with quality.
3B records leaked in 2016 because of data breaches and cyber attacks
Backpage shuts down adult section, citing unlawful censorship campaign
Probably because it's failing and is mismanaged.

Don't get me wrong, I hate dart almost as much as rust, but Gilad is a powerhouse and there's some interesting projects. All rust has is servo, a bunch of cucked-out communists, no standardization, etc.
How to setup and deploy a Rails 5 app on AWS Beanstalk with PostgreSQL and more…
I never do that. Sometimes I leave an accidental one or two, though...
Or if you need to use paid wi-fi for free, you can always use

https://github.com/yarrick/iodine
...*conservative justices* ruled in favor of IMS Health and against the attorney general of Vermont...

It was, in fact, a 6-3 decision, with even Sotomayor and Kennedy in the majority, upholding the decision of the Second Circuit.
Some constructive criticism on the font used for headings: it's atrocious. If that's your handwriting, good for you - it's pretty good handwriting - but it definitely affects the readability of the content.
In five years, I expect to see Amazon paying workers to trawl the Amazon catalogue, recording their neural output to derive associations between otherwise tenuously related products, and feeding those into its recommendations.

"Customers who viewed this item also thought about:"

;)
From the article
"A 4K panel of the same physical size is retina at 25 inches. An 8K panel hits that mark at the one-foot mark, but precious few people use a 32-inch display while sitting just 12 inches from the screen."
They were hacked in 1998 by "H4ck1ng F0r G1rl13z", by Adrian Lamo in 2012, by the Syrian Electronic Army in 2013, and claimed Russia attempted to hack them 5 months ago (and in the same breath said they have no evidence of this). Glad their security team is on the ball with this new-fangled encryption thingy.
Absolutely. Reading HN is not a barometer for the real world.
Interested to see your sources on this. I was under the impression Android started first but Apple beat them to the announcement
Points for Vector Clock name drop. I'm a big fan of that pattern.
hahahaha, it looks like they hit their own captcha! http://i.imgur.com/cnPWqwz.png
Big Beautiful Dating- Place for BBW and Their Admirers Meet
In the case of WoW, those temporary re-subscriptions for 2-6 months upon release of new expansions is the business model that sustains the game. If Blizzard didn't allow pausing and resuming billing at any time, the game would have died off many years ago.
9 women can't make a baby in a month
Once people see the cost of ownership vs. sharing, I think the decision will be made for many. Ownership would likely persist at some level, but it's hard to imagine it as much more than a slim minority.
I have the 21L bag. I think it's a great size. Makes a great travel bag.
> so that the wifi provider's login page can be displayed without an SSL error

AHA! That's it. Now it makes sense.
You should try http://mobitest.akamai.com/m/index.cgi or http://webpagetest.org instead for accurate results.
What languages are used by Tesla for developing autopilot software?
So how long until prerender gets abused to make our clients do way more work than necessary?
I've had a few here and there, though usually the sorts of performance bottlenecks I encounter are resolvable with concurrency (which Elixir makes very easy). I don't really run into many situations where something is both inherently sequential and prohibitively slow (but I came from much slower languages like Perl and Ruby, so I ain't the best judge).

My interest in ports/NIFs (and Rust as a specific implementation platform thereof) is less for performance and more for doing things that aren't really easy in a VM-driven architecture, like dealing with low-level device access or interfacing with native libraries/APIs.

Basically: I'd try it first before dismissing it for supposedly-poor performance. There's a reason why Erlang is considered to be a "soft real-time" language, after all :)
A lot of uses of Redis are suboptimal, but easy to set up and good enough. For example, "true" LRU is not always needed -- an approximation of LRU is sometimes sufficient. It's often not worth the time and money to do better.

When you need to scale past what Redis can provide, you can move on to a different solution, as Github has done.
I live in Washington, DC and I've seen at least five of them here.
For future reference, I just tell people I understand that they are supposed to go through a script but I consider the subscription cancelled because that's what I've requested.
Economics Conference Tests Job Seekers’ Mettle
As a counter to this point, there are many people who have more money than time. If this service has any chance whatsoever of improving their quality of life, ~$12/mo is just an absolutely trivial thing to give up in exchange for that.
Do you travel? I often have problems and am running out of non-https sites to test against. Best I can figure is that they're whitelisting certain domains so the captive portal detection isn't triggered. I think this is so certain things like iMessage or email work (hence, whitelisting apple.com), but blocking out the rest of the web.

I don't travel often (Christmas and maybe once or twice a year outside of that), but it's when I encounter this. It's very frustrating because I'll be walking, pass a store I've previously connected to Wifi, and suddenly lose Internet, then hunt for a website to get the portal to pop up.

I'm annoyed that captive portals have been commonly using DNS hacking since 802.11b and I'm surprised a better solution hasn't been standardized. I have no idea where in the stack it should go (DHCP, wireless standards, or whatever) but DNS hacking drives me nuts.
> doesn't really know where to start

- Take Andrew Ng's ML class on Coursera.

- Install TensorFlow and TFLearn.

- git clone something based on TF from GitHub and hack it.

- Do some pet project from scratch.

- profit
It's worst cast in the model of security that hash tables are usually evaluated under. The authors of Siphash state as much:

> Stopping advanced hash flooding. The _worst possible_ exposure of hash-table
indices would simply show the attacker H(m) mod `for any attacker-selected
string m. We advocate protecting against this maximum possible exposure, so
that applications do not have to worry about how much exposure they actually
provide. The attacker’s goal, given this exposure, is to find many strings m
having a single value H(m) mod `.
https://131002.net/siphash/siphash.pdf

They also state that the "Target applications include network traffic authentication and hash-table lookups protected against hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks".

It's nice to have a fast random hash function, that is also reasonably cryptographically strong, in case an attacked gets access to the hash values. That doesn't mean it's as cryptographically strong as hash functions specifically designed for full exposure.

I'm just saying, use it for hash-tables, but don't use it as a general replacement for HMAC-SHA-1 in your encryption schemes. At least I don't see the authors recommending that anywhere.
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