skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello brother, this game almost broke me and then, I guess, made me in many ways. I can't play without getting too into it, though to be fair, I haven't tried in a while.
I'm really amazed by stories like this. It's the type of thing I would never think of doing. Are you still working with affiliate marketing? What are you up to now?
How a Mistake Gave Us the Word 'Cherry'
My two responses to this would be:

* The failure here transcends "best practices" and reaches the level of "teamicidal".

* While being teamicidal doesn't automatically make you bigoted, if your teamicidal action specifically targets a workplace minority, that does.
There's been a lot of talk in the compliance gcp slack on this, seems like a lot of products are being audited and announcements will be made at Next.
I saw a bunch of examples just like this:

https://i.redditmedia.com/C87zcWzT3KPN0Sdo4YfMIe2Rd0oLWTwBsX...

Sometimes the fake accounts will even have identical comments and only post in each others comment chains.
mobile chips have them disabled I believe
Car burning seems to be a hobby in Sweden these days. A few days ago police arrested a suspect on a drug charge in Rinkeby and five hour riots erupted. Torching cars, looting businesses, throwing rocks at police, beating up journalists. How Swedish of them.

Same thing in August last year in Husby (a suburb in northern Stockholm), 47 cars torched. Same suburb that saw the same violent riots and more than 100 cars torched in May 2013.

Was there a single riot like that in Sweden that does not involve immigrants? Were there any honor killings that don't involve immigrants from specific part of the world?

Simmilar pattern can be observed in France too.
CloudFlare has no idea of knowing what was in uninitialized memory that was leaked. This is just spin.
I had a hard long think and I don't recall anyone making a plea for immigration in non-white countries. The Japanese wishing to keep their country filled with Japanese is not seen as a problem to be solved. The white farmers being marginalized in Zimbabwe and butchered in South Africa certainly didn't raise concern with the diversity aficionados either.
Good article, but I couldn't help stumbling over the thumbnail history of markup languages in the introduction -- in particular the assertion that Markdown, "in 2004 ... really pushed the concept over the brink of ubiquitousness". I would say that the concept of markup languages truly became ubiquitous in the 1990s, with the extremely widespread popularity of a markup language that the author didn't even mention -- the Hypertext Markup Language.
> Having said that, I lament the issues that the OP brought up: poor naming, unfamiliarity with their language's data structures, etc. Those are issues that will come up. Especially naming.

Indeed. And those things came up in writing a fairly simple utility function, so they're going to come up later in some large codebase.

While you're seldom hiring programmers to write utility functions like this, this kind of test shows whether the candidates have a basic familiarity with topics that will definitely come into play in their day-to-day work. I regularly run into "professionals" who can't structure their code in sensible ways, who don't even try to name things well, don't think about edge cases, etc. As it turns out, you don't want these people gluing together library calls either, because you'll end up with a mess on your hands.
It took me an embarrassingly long 15 minutes in Python. I had already seen the mention of recursion in the description, so I hope I would have realized that it was needed. (I am guessing I probably would have looked at recursion at the point when I realized that there were multiple levels of nesting, and not just one).
I think that the company which sold the leather jackets is the one in the wrong, if the facts are correct in this example. If you are paying a bulk rate for jackets, that bulk rate must apply to male and female jackets. They don't have to be the same price at the end, but the discount has to apply to the entire order.

I also, however, think that the facts are probably misrepresented in this article.
Agreed, it's not a problem of theoretical possibility. It's just that the maintainers' time can be better spent improving Python 3 than maintaining a Python 2 compatible runtime.
What immediately jumps out at me is that both hypothetical surgeons described are men; patients consistently assume that my wife (neurosurgeon) is a nurse, and that the tall man in his 50's (a PA) is the surgeon. She doesn't even bother correcting them most of the time, it's not worth the effort.

I would say that if you have no other information, pick the female (and preferably minority) surgeon. I know a lot of excellent white male surgeons, but within my circle of acquaintances, a randomly selected woman is unquestionably a better option than a randomly selected man.
Does anybody here know what the profit margins of electronics are?

I have been running onlineshops before (not electronics though) and we happily spent all of the profit margins of an order on trackable advertising. Because a) the lifetime value of the customer b) the word of mouth value of a customer and c) the untracked sales generated by the advertising.

2.5% of revenue sounds unbelievably cheap to generate an actual trackable order.
I definitely think preference is a lot of it. Just figured I'd share my experience as a happy android dev!
Do you really need someone telling you why it is a good product to buy? If you buy something from Amazon and it doesn't work in the way you want it to, return it. Watching reviews is a waste of time.
It's fine to build your business on someone else's platform as long as you accept that they have a lot of control over your destiny.
I believe the essence of what you're saying is true, but I dispute the overall reasonableness of what you describe.

The vast majority of video games are either built around the principles of addiction, or require a tremendous amount of time in muscle memory training.

What you're describing seems like describing how enjoyable it can be to smoke one cigarette a month. (assuming that actually felt good). Could be true- but the odds are certainly stacked against people attempting that behavior.
Anyone who passes HTTP or HTTPS traffic via CloudFlare might have had that data leaked into other users sessions.
The aging of the gaming populace is I think a large part of why online CCGs (like Hearthstone, Shadowverse, Eternal) have been getting so popular - while there are obviously a lot of kids who play, many of the players are older.

As I've gotten older I've lost the wherewithal to focus on mechanically difficult games like SC2.
Games, especially Japanese video games are why I got into programming, got into the games industry, why I'm on this site.

I limit my time playing them now due to work, my entreprenuerial engagements, wife and two children but I just got finished with Final Fantasty XV two days ago and it was the most magical time. Ignis is my new favorite
game character. I'm convinced games are a better story telling medium than books, movies and TV. I never remember the details of anything I've watched but with a game I always remember because i actively participate in caring for the characters, healing them, making them grow.

There is a negative side, they can be too engaging, too much fun and too rewarding in an instant gratification sense. Sales at your startup not going well? A game can make you feel good, getting bullied at school? A game will help, but really we should deal with the real problem and then make time for games. If you do that they are great and I'm convinced they will get better and we have not seen anywhere near the full potential yet.
Some people like listening to music while doing productive things, some like watching TV.

I play slow online turn-based games when at home doing really boring work. I can context-switch, engage my creative mind for 15-30s, and jump back into page 57 of the design doc I'm reviewing.

As for intense gaming sessions, I have young kids = unless it's appropriate for them (more and more the case as they grow up) I don't have time for it.
This whole thread.

"This post is an interesting approach to B. I have looked in to A and B, but if you could explain why you chose A or B that would be helpful"

> C
Don't just read the book. Watch her videos if you haven't. I think she gets a lot across by body language, tone, etc.

Like anything else, practice, practice, practice. The best way to get out of your head is to get into someone else's and genuinely care about their feelings. So strike up conversations, practice being charismatic, practice caring about what other people are telling you, etc.
Stealing a Googler's laptop or account credentials don't get you access. At best, you might get temporary access to my gmail in the browser. I could give you my username and password and you could accomplish nothing.

Googlers all have to use 2-factor access via hardware tokens, so you'll need to steal their laptop and steal their token, and murder the employee before they report it to security.

Google laptops only permit the installation of software from Google, they are locked down and don't allow arbitrary installation of software, much like an iPhone. Those using Chromebooks are even safer.

Having to ask permission for every thing not only adds huge overhead, it inhibits global code gardening and technical debt reduction, and it inhibits learning, because you don't even know if you need to ask permission for something until you see it. You don't know what you don't know. If I want to learn about Google Translate because it might benefit my project, asking permission is bureaucracy, because I don't even know if what they have will help until I see it, and if I had to write a long justification for access rights, I probably either don't have a clue why I really need it, or might just not bother because of the hassle and seek out other open resources.

I feel sorry for you if you work for a company that operates internally like North Korea. One of the rewarding things about working at Google is the constant learning experience of exploring other people's stuff.
ГІРКІ ЖНИВА. Трейлер 2
They removed volume pricing. For instance, books used to start at 4% (I think), but it you sold even a nominal volume you quickly got a 6.5-7% commission.

Now it's a flat rate 4.5% in that category. Which amounts to about a 33% cut, because almost everyone was earning 6.5-7%.

This is likely to have a massive affect on the blog/article review ecosystem. Most of the review sites that exist today only do so because of amazon's fairly generous programs. I expect in aggregate there will be a shift in what lines of business people decide to get into, based on this.

Of course, there's not really a good, easy replacement for amazon affiliates, so people will still use it. But I expect people will deprecate affiliate marketing as an activity to some extent: this is a major change in the niche.
Phone surveillance in 2017: Are you being watched?
Personally, I think this problem shows why sane type systems are useful.

In Haskell

data NestedList a = Single a | Nested [NestedList a]
-- Or equivalently, type NestedList = Free []

flatten :: NestedList a -> [a]
-- This is pretty much the only reasonable definition of flatten the compiler will accept given this type
flatten (Single a) = [a]
flatten (Nested xs) = concatMap flatten xs

-- or given the Free variation of NestedList
-- flatten = retract
Similar situation here. With the time constraints imposed by kids you have to drop entire categories of activities, not just moderate them, because the baseline time commitment ("oh god, last time I played this was 2 weeks ago and I only played an hour then—I have no idea WTF was going on or how the controls work") and money (PC upgrades every couple of years, new consoles) required just can't be sustained at the incredibly low levels they'd have to to fit in with kids plus a bunch of other things.

You kinda have to pick 3-4 things to focus on and drop the rest entirely, not just cut back. If one of those is "stay sort-of in shape" then you're really limited. Most gaming just doesn't fit in any more. :-/
Also not a Java programmer, but my approach would probably involve two classes implementing the nested list interface. One would hold a list, the other an integer (or maybe parameterize over that, depending on the context).

Drawing analogy to lisp, we need to be able to answer "is this a list or an atom?"

Note that the actual structure involved is "really" a rose tree.
As a fat guy it's really common to miss out on swag that we didn't get in my size.

None of it was like a badge of office, though.
Why is the FCC against net neutrality?
My brother is a super charismatic salesman, and I am the engineer. My parents are rather different people as well, so I'm not ruling out genetics, but I can point to differences in development. Overall I believe charisma is developed, and genetics along with environment drive your interest areas for development.

From the beginning, my brother was interested in "people" whereas I was interested in facts. I loved reading non-fiction books whereas he practiced reading people. He liked and expected to be at the center of attention, and always knew what to say. On the darker side, he knew how to push people's buttons and he was a bully.

Still, the lesson is that charisma didn't happen overnight for charismatic people. By the time you noticed it, they already had decade(s) of practice. The way for you to get charisma is to start getting genuinely interested in people so you learn about them. That's when you start to be able to push people's buttons, for good or for bad.

Interest can come from many reasons and it's up to you to discover them.

As an endnote, I was probably as socially inept as you can be. Worse than inept even as I would do or say things that piss people off. Through awareness and correction, over a decade, I can say that when I am "on" I think I can be just as charming as my brother. Of course, I'm still an introvert at heart and am not worked up to be "on" very often :)
The board isn't the interesting bit, the board just shows that Otto was using Waymo's design. This also isn't what they're suing over, this was just the tip off they needed to figure out that the ex-employee stole data on the way out the door.
I have never asserted that Python 3 can never run Python 2. The claim is that Zed trolled some imaginary people who said this.
You perhaps missed that there were two solutions (+ test infrastructure) in that Perl post. You Python code is the moral equivalent of the three-line "flatten" function in the Perl example. The long "flatten2" function was doing it without recursion.
OK, now I want to know what games you're playing. I do this too with Starcraft II Arcade offerings.
I've been following this space for a while. Looks like its starting to heat up.
In theory static CMOS behaves this way but there is still some power consumption due to leakage. Some microcontrollers have ultra-low-power sleep modes.
This is why getting laws passed, instead of relying on executive orders and the whims of bureaucrats in power at the time, is so crucial.
Apple implements very restrictive internal secrecy, yet leaks haven't been stopped. So what's the point? Live in a police state, still get leaks, or live with freedom and benefits, and get leaks. I'll take the latter.
Let's hope they are building the managed Postgres product from the ground up with an eye toward compliance!
White House Bars Times and 2 Other News Outlets from Briefing
Not necessarily. See my bash solution in another comment :-D
Not unbiased.

I have seen products which are not superior quality but are ranked as #1. Generally best are third or below ranked products.
The conventional argument is that capital is a more mobile tax base relative to labour. It's probably not true in all cases, but it seems mostly true. 'Wealth' can also be a remarkably difficult thing to measure, and a fairly easy thing to hide (as you note).

As for progressive taxation, I've never heard a clear justification from, well, anyone. Maybe it just seems obvious to everyone (I'm not being sarcastic here; this is a genuine oddity that has bugged me for ages). In my opinion, progressive taxation is justified because people probably experience diminishing marginal utility with respect to wealth. Which is just a fancy way of saying: an extra dollar of wealth means much less to a millionaire than it does to someone who is starving and homeless. So society probably makes a net utility gain by taking a dollar from the millionaire and giving it to the starving homeless guy.

Following from this are second order considerations like: how many dollars can be taken from millionaires before they decide to put forth less productive effort, and we all end up worse off? It becomes a constrained optimisation problem and a question of degrees, although people seem hell-bent on treating it as a question of absolutes.
> I disagree. That link shows no formulas whatsoever, just a generalized explanation of what they do.

I said the link was a general overview of seasonal adjustment used in data series by the BLS, and that they provide additional detail the about the specific methodology used in specific series elsewhere.

But the key part from that summary relevant to your comment upthread is that not only are the specific methodologies for particular series published in advance, but the resulting adjustment factors for future time periods are determined and published in advance, before the data to be adjusted exists.

One may disagree with the methodology or the figures, but neither is the methodology opaque nor are the factors chosen to get desired results (since the actual raw data, and thus the factors necessary to get produce desired results, are not available.)
Because beekeeping and ping pong are more fun!

That said, I'm interested in farm integrated gaming. I think there are ways to make automation adventurous. Properly this will be different than what we call gaming today, however I think the answer to your question is that when tech assisted activities are diversion from reality they tend to go out if style. When they amend it and make it cooler they tend to become it!
This is what I tried (logged in via private browsing window), but no luck.
I'm also at around 700 hours of CS:GO. I find it to be the most enjoyable and probably my best playing after a very long day of work, usually with a cup of coffee or a beer. It's just not as satisfying to play on my days off. Totally agree on spending a weekend outside with friends instead.

I don't really think meta knowledge/research is needed to play competitive though. I used to be really into learning nade throws and watching pro pushes and retakes, and now that I barely have time to play at all I'm still around the same rank.
Ptrace Linux anti debugging
I was doing this while I was a broke college student. Luckily for me the coding experience I got building this system out and scaling it to handle the amount of traffic we were driving to it from Google Search helped me get a job for a startup, and now years later I actually work for AWS, so I've come full circle, but now much more legitimate now haha.
There are a few threads asking about various features (SGX, TSX, etc.) so I want to make a top-level comment: we're not ready to share more today (sorry).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
Yes, playing games is fun. In no small part because they're carefully engineered to engage you, provide a path to success, and otherwise resemble a theme park experience. Even games like EVE Online that pride themselves on being massive PvP arenas are carefully tuned to make constant conflict a reality.

Not many people here know this but I have a youtube channel where I have done an absolute ton of gaming content (mostly minecraft, but perhaps most famously a Dwarf Fortress tutorial series), as a way to practice my speech and work through a very difficult stutter.

And while I still respect and root for my full time youtuber friends, for me it felt like such an emply lifestyle. Ultimately you're just walking along in other people's stories, experiencing other people's visions, and working within other people's limits was increasingly galling. And short of becoming unpaid labor for those games via their modding scenes, you are a passenger in someone else's car on someone else's map.

Like television (and probably better than television, from a cognitive perspective), gaming is a great escape. But making it more and more of your life as some of this article suggests is a recipe for gradually detaching yourself from real life, real problems and real accomplishments. It's an addictive escapism, and ever year the authors of said escapism refine their techniques in a ruthless competition to keep you captivated.

And the best minecraft fort or cleverest warframe trick I've pulled off pales in accomplishment to selling a company I built, teaching a new developer a new skill, or anything similar. The minute that gaming becomes an end until itself, you end up sliding down a slippery slope to irrelevance.
The implication here was that we used to have good reviews before this. I disagree. I'd gladly dump all of cnet and engadget down the drain for half of The Wirecutter.

Their win was realizing that I don't give a shit about reading about the latest tech news on new product X. I just need an in-depth review for each product category that is done by an expert, exposes the best products I can get for each part of the tradeoff spectrum, and is kept up to date as time passes by. That's all I need. So many times I've done my own research for days and came up with the same 2-3 results that they have, so I don't even bother anymore. I'll be very sad if The Wirecutter dies.
do you have any pending lawsuits?
Simulators seem to be popular for this. Someone to be buying all those expensive train sim addons..
Republicans have control of Presidency and Congress.
None of this paper trail has been surfaced or aired in a public forum.

And Uber is not denying allegations until they do an investigation on their end. When some sort of evidence comes out, that's when we should be making judgements.

Right now, this is trial by mob.
What's interesting is that Google's Translate, via neural network training, seems to have found an efficient structure underlying many languages:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2114748-google-translat...
Aside: ran through the demo and got a "bad gateway" at the very end trying to access the todomvc-jquery app. Guessing HNs'd.

First impressions: very little magics/transparent, reasonable pieces, reasonable architecture, well packaged, nicely automated, descriptive UI, no glaring wtfs, all the bases are covered, looks easy enough to customize at any layer with skills I already have — all very sensible.

Damn.
Previously it was (in general) 4% for up to 6 items, then 6% (or apparently higher) as the number of items sold increased. I don't recall whether quantities within an order impact that or not, it's possible that an order for 10 of item X would be counted as a single item for that calculation. Obviously the percentages could go quite a bit higher.

The "gutting" in this I'm sure is referring to the change from "electronics get 4-8.5% commission" to "electronics get 2.5% commission and never more than that." Having a huge range of other items also all capped at below 6% is also a huge blow to people who've been doing a lot of Amazon Affiliates work.

I've never really made much from it - probably less than $100 in any given year with one outlier when someone bought ten copies of Dragon Medical ($1800 each) after using one of my links. Still, this does give a good indication of whether it's worth putting together a focused product comparison site I've been contemplating. 6% or more on products with prices in the $100-1000 price range could make it worthwhile to build and maintain (content curation). 2.5% capped makes it a much less appealing proposition unless the site can have affiliate links to vendors other than Amazon, and I'm not sure if that's against their TOS.