skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Already mentioned it in another post below) I think companies like Google and Facebook perceived this vacuum created by the failure of the traditional news media to manufacture consent and control people's opinions. They want to send a strong message to those in power that they are better positioned at manufacturing consent in the future than those crusty old dinosaurs like CNN, NBC, etc.

There are obviously a lot of money to be made from campaigns and having powerful and wealthy candidates, or just companies marketing their products and ideas, rely on your platform. Think of it as their way to advertise the ability to "properly" (wink, wink) filter and bias news to suit their customers' demands.
If we think of particles as little spheres (or loops), it should be possible to knot them [...]

As far as we can tell elementary particles are point particles. They are however surrounded by a cloud of other particles due to vacuum polarization.

[...] you can knot objects 2 dimensions less than your space. (Hence, there are 1-knots in 3D and 2-knots in 4D, where an N-knot is a N-sphere embedded.)

Could you actually knot world lines if particles were solid spheres? That's certainly above my ability to visualize and I know practically nothing about knot theory but naively I would think that solid spheres would not be different from points by imagining the radius shrinking towards zero. But my intuition may of course be misleading.
> "Bad" characters in this context is control characters.

For sufficiently narrow definitions of "bad", sure.

It is probably a bad idea to allow mixed character-set filenames, as that allows homograph attacks[0], and there are other non-control characters like the zero-width space and it's brethren that should be disallowed across the board.

In English you probably also want to disallow ligature characters like ﬁ, ﬄ.[1]

There are other "good idea" limitations that may affect internationalization of various languages (not in terms of making it difficult, just constraining it, as in the above English ligature example).

For example, it is probably a good idea to disallow Hebrew diacritic symbols[2] like niqqud in filenames.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature#Ligatures...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_diacritics
The Facebook Fatigue Dilemma
I won't generalize here and say all Google support sucks, Google support for both Adwords and AdSense sucks so incredibly bad.

I don't understand how their CORE money making products can be staffed by untrained and in my experience uneducated foreign workers.

I've been an AdWords customer for probably 10 years, I won't say how much money I've spent (on behalf of clients) because it would sound like bragging but you would think with that much I'd get some sort of concierge treatment, or at least some sort of "direct line."

Even basic questions and support tickets don't get answered correctly, or in a timely manner.

The sad part is their marketing is so on point. I get clients that get coupons in the mail all the time looking to sign up, and end up not signing up because they arent willing to deal with a non-English speaking person reading from a "conditional logic support script."
I use a LiquidSky cloud gaming PC as my main games machine. For Overwatch, I have a ping of 1ms, as it's next to the OW servers, 40ms total ping from my home to LiquidSky. it's kind of amazing and works wonderfully
Bad jobs are constantly in need of filling: people quit very frequently.

Bad employees are constantly in need of placement: people get fired very frequently.

If you're hearing about a particular job or candidate, the odds are they are bad. Most jobs are filled internally or by referral. IIRC, it's only about 20% of jobs that are filled by recruiters and/or cold job applications.
Ryzen: Strictly technical
yep, happens all the time. I have so many examples of legit customers getting banned, they truly don't care.

Personally I'm an AdWords customer but I always have a backup.
San Jose area, Oakland area job markets wobble, sparking economic uncertainty
I'm just impressed that this is a 2-3 hr task.
Worldwide geoparser and geocoder
> Perhaps my perspective is a bit colored, as I'm far enough along in my career that I can be choosy about which companies I invest time in. I only talk with a dozen or fewer companies in each job search, and so I won't do a 4-hour homework assignment unless I'm already interested in working for you.

Interesting. I've found the opposite. The farther I get in my career (and the older I get--not going to say the "A" word), the more difficult it is to get through the interview gauntlet. Companies looking to fill Junior "5th engineer from the left" roles tend to be fine with a warm body and a brain. Companies looking for super-senior-staff engineers, engineering managers or even more senior folks are extremely picky and probably reject almost everyone they meet. Even when I'm not actively looking for work, I try to answer every recruiter E-mail try to reach out to 1-2 companies a week just to keep irons hot and be able to act on the off chance that something spectacular pops up.

The older you get the MORE shoe rubber you need to go through pounding pavement.
I have heard similar stories, I have also often heard the rumor that its really important to check out the ford parts in the engine of any Cessna you are looking at buying because some mechanics will sneak in the vehicle OE parts when working on their own restoration projects. Which can then get expensive the next time you do 100 hour inspection with an above board mechanic.
Most programs do something other than parse the syntax of the language they are written in. A programming language really only needs to be self-hosting once, and that may be an early program, but it seems unlikely it is the very first.
fantastic! will definitely use this when talking to prospective clients looking for an identity package. this is really good to reference.

edit: this should probabl be posted under show: hn
Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully – In Ten Minutes
Third party "fact checkers"???-- factcheck[dot]org "FactCheck.org was launched in December 2003 by Brooks Jackson, a former Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, and CNN reporter" Just sayin.....
> "Over the past 10 years Apple has produced 10,975 patents with a team of 5,232 inventors, and Google has produced 12,386 with a team of 8,888," writes Wes Bernegger, data explorer at Periscopic. Those numbers are, frankly, pretty similar in terms of proportion.

Ummm, Apple's 2.0977 patents per inventor and Google's 1.3936 patents per inventor are pretty _dissimilar_, I'd think, unless many companies have yet more or far fewer.
I feel like these people have no clue what they are investing in. Is it just me? :)
I'm not sure I buy the argument that Apple's inventors per patent means they're a more open or egalitarian companY. The hotspots seems to suggest that Apple just has a culture of giving management credit on the patents.
> Nothing is purely true or false because everything falls on a continuum.

That statement sure isn't purely true. (Therefore, there must at least kind of be something which is either purely true or purely false.) Though perhaps the sentiment behind it might not be totally wrong?

> Forget trying to find the truth.

No.
This is what I found: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1912-VALUATIONS-MONEY-BONDS-STOCKS-H...

I think I need something a little more modern :)
Olbers' paradox (“dark night sky paradox”)
It's funny, but the touchpad is what kept me on a MBP for my late 2014 purchase... love the touchpad... not sure if I can stomach it again when I get another laptop, as everything else I like about mac has either gotten stale, soldered on, or simply not providing enough value to justify the cost.

But the touchpad is far and above anything else.
Thanks! Added above.
Actually you can't choose not to receive medical treatment, generally. In emergency situations you are distinctly unable to choose not to have medical treatment, because you're essentially incapable of informed consent.

Since EMTALA means the hospital has to treat you, and as a society people will ensure you get taken there, you are in fact incapable of doing the opting out at the times it's likely most expensive.

And frankly, as a society, we shouldn't trust you: because the outcomes speak for themselves - people don't voluntarily choose not to get medical care. They lie about it when they don't need it, to suit their politics and greed.
I think you're putting too much faith into IQ.

Shockley only had an IQ of ~125 (even though he became an eugenicist...).

More importantly, Feynman used his low IQ score (124 I think) to show how useless the IQ test was as a predictor of intelligence.
I think people will just mark anything they don't like as disputed. IMO they can try suggesting posts with different view points than the one users click 'share' or 'like' (combining ML and user provided data to pick the articles). Maybe that will help people have a bit more balanced view on the matter.
One of my backlog-projects is an implementation of Common Lisp in Go, which can be easily used to provide an embedded scripting language for Go programs (and, eventually, an excuse to write 'Go' code which is actually Lisp). It's one of those crazy ideas I'll probably never get to, but it sure would be fun.
Can tilapia skin be used to bandage burns?
It's true that Trump didn't claim it was a result of his actions or policies (enacted or planned), but that is clearly the intended unstated message. Otherwise, why did he tweet it?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect

Just because you care about AI doesn't mean anything about market size or even potential market size. GPUs are still niche compared to CPUs, GPGPUs even more so, and AI specialization is a fraction of that. I mean you're talking about a market measured in hundreds of millions today, a pittance compared to x86...and even assuming massive growth for a decade or more still couldn't catch up to the current market size for x86.

And as the only company in the world that is even legally allowed to compete with Intel on x86, they would be stupid to not try. The fact that they're catching headlines suggests that they actually have a chance of recapturing a portion of that $60B market...something unthinkable 3 years ago, especially for a company with yearly revenues lower than the monthly R&D spend of its competitor. To think that AMDs growth is entirely due to the market misjudging the level of commoditization of GPUs is absurd. If you're that confident of the market being so absurdly off base, some simple bets should put you in the Forbes 400 within a year or two. Get on it.
The Social Transformation of Trust in Government (2005) [pdf]
I'd add the touchpad to that... second to none imho... my logitech keyboard for my htpc feels about as good, but the fixed (not able to be adjusted) right click region is irritating over two/three finger clicks.
This seems relatively complex for being the first Go program. I suppose they wanted to test something non-trivial which took advantage of most of the implemented language features. I guess I was expecting something closer to a hello world program.
It's definitely not mine. The effect is crazy tho. I wanna at least find a way to find the source/direction of it.
Startup postmortem
if that were the case, it would suck if we got rebooted or worse case had a fatal kernel issue. Imagine its like that old device in the TV show "lost" sitting in a tower for 20 years being played over and over again. It works fine until someone touches it, then blam!
Oh, and enjoy this one: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120214100719.h...
Hi Enoren,

I would like to get in touch with you to talk more about this position as I feel my technical skills closely fit the job descriptions. Could you please share you email?
I have been watching this development these last few hours. In a back-of-the-envelope calculation it is a very robust pace. It's nowhere near the CPAN modules, yet, but it is way more than any other repositories and it grows continuously.
There are a few thousand created a day in the US. Given that the US population is a third and more developed/mature, these numbers seem normal.
This is true, as much as I disagree with his ideas. Trying to genetically modify a living adult across many cells is very difficult.
it'll be powered by bitcoin and crowdsourced, so if you skimp out on your bill, you aren't allowed to come back.
How I designed a physical product and launched it on Kickstarter for $2,000
The amount of information available to westerners about the Chinese economy is pretty pitiful. Here in the U.S. there's like four or five talking points that echo around the media about the Chinese economy and those are the only tidbits people bring up.

I've seen a few NHK documentaries about China. Kudos to them for chasing down interesting angles.
This has less to do with the popularity of the post itself, and more to do with the overall success of the HN community, and possibly the growth of the userbase over time.
The average retail investor has access to options and margin which is more than enough to beat the market by significant amounts.
Anyone running a handful of VMs for DBs/apps/services while also developing Java or .Net "enterprise" (fat-stack) applications. It's pretty easy to hit very high usage.

I do mostly web-stack stuff with node, and chrome is probably my biggest offender... But I've also got multiple tabs in firefox open, not to mention VS Code and other desktop-ified apps (spotify, slack, etc). I do okay with 16GB... but I know when I fire up a windows VM with Visual Studio, man does it get tight.
This has happened at my company. We give a similarly near-trivial hw problem, and sometimes people come in and literally "cannot remember" any single thing about the assignment, including the names of the columns in the data or the approximate objective of the HW. This is after performing plausibly well on a phone screen etc.
Yep.
From the beginning, the assumption that the coach or OC "randomly" calling plays is a particularly important goal is pretty flawed.
In high quality NFL offenses the QB will walk up to the line with 2-3 plays of varying types available and make a last-minute decision depending on how the defense sets up.
And surprise comes less from which play is called and more from showing run and then passing, or vice versa.

There is so much more that this doesn't account for, like matchups and how defenses/offenses handle runs or passes.
And unless any of this analysis is actionable, it doesn't really matter.
Does this mean an opposing defense can accurately predict when a run or pass will occur?
Will they actually be able to act on that knowledge?
Unclear.
My favorite example of bias from Politifact.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/oct/...
Yes, I agree, but later in the article they show that if the second and 10 is due to a run on first down, they are more likely to run on second down than if they passed on first down. I.e., the coaches are looking backwards not forwards when they make the decision.
I prefer to include veteran benefits.
Yes, that's it. And a 'business' can also be a small contractor, a restaurant, or a hot-dog stand.

It's difficult to firmly characterize the difference between such business, but it's probably not fair to refer to every registered business as a 'startup'.
The heading on that article says: "Why Donald Trump's tweet about national debt decrease in his first month is highly misleading"
Is this using CRISPR or some other method of editing the DNA?
Part of the beauty of these kinds of gene therapies is that the cost can ultimately be lowered to near-zero levels. These are not drugs that must be taken over a lifetime, but can potentially provide 1-time delivery of the instructions to your own body about how to cure itself. Certainly in the near term the R&D must be paid for (and the marketing, and regulatory burden, and everything else). But in the long term the actual material used to change someone's life forever can cost pennies and a one-time delivery.
> I'm not really sure how measurements are done in big buildings (maybe someone could explain?).

In most jurisdictions, your electricity must be metered separately if you are billed by the utility company. In my building, there is a room with a bank of electricity meters, one for each apartment. Next to it is a bank of gas meters.
I have a Final card. You have three options:

1. Use your real card number. I never do this.
2. Use a merchant-locked card number. I use this commonly for online pizza and other online shops I don't trust much. Once a merchant uses it, only that merchant can use it.
3. Use a one-time card. The number is used once and disabled. Good for one-off orders or skeezy purchases.

Overall I've been pretty pleased. I think the idea that card numbers should be disposable is awesome.
At 15 you aren't allowed to have an account with PayPal and were technically defrauding them with a false birthday to get in. It isn't much of a stretch for them to ban you for that alone. Even if you were emancipated, it would be nearly impossible to prove that to a web business with no allowances for unusual circumstances.
"Companies are doing shitty things with browsers nowadays. Instead of shaming them and calling them out on it, lets just create a system that shows us how best to grab our ankles"

This is going to ruin so much about the web, and this 'lets just give up' attitude is one of the reasons why
And the US government saying there's no inflation, and the recovery is real - just a little slow. ;-)
The Day the United States Blew Up a Reactor (2015)
I prefer "disputed" over marking something "false" if Facebook isn't doing the fact checking itself.

But I personalky would prefer Facebook simply make a statement that you can't believe everything you read, on the internet or not.
I'm still breaking into a software job and had a homework problem for a company, with a week deadline. Since I worked full time, I spent the majority of my free time working on this problem.

I was happy with my solution, and disappointed when I was rejected.

Rejection is fine, but what upset me more was radio silence when asking for any feedback on my solution. As a young engineer it would have been amazing to get feedback from professionals.
Ask HN: Your Best Morning Routine
Wake up time, hygiene habits, foods and drinks, media consumption, whatever - what's your best morning routine? Can be whatever makes you happiest, most productive, least stressed, etc.

How has it affected your life?
> If you don’t fit their mold (“We need a Javascript engineer with 5 years of experience writing full stack consumer-focused applications.”), they won’t know what to do with you

This is the truth and it hurts. Take a company with 20 job openings, each of which you are probably semi-qualified for, and could see yourself doing. As a candidate, you're limited to applying for one of them, and if you strike out, you're back to square one--often below square one because companies make you wait N months before applying again.

I'd love it if a company were to say, "Hey we're going to pass on you for this job in Division X but you know you're smart and Division Y's role is a MUCH better fit for you--why don't we hire you for that?" I've never seen this happen in my life.

Try talking to any company's recruiter and say, "You know, I specifically want to work for your company but am not sure what the right role is. Why don't we do an interview and then determine where the best fit is" and watch their brains explode. Nobody does it that way, but wouldn't it be so much better?
What is the reasoning behind this?
The Beauty of Mathematics: It Can Never Lie to You
FYI Unreadable on Chrome, at least for me. The SVG graphic takes up around half of the text.
Found this document referenced in an article [1] I read about trust in American institutions. I usually skim these things but I was so surprised to hear that America's dropping trust in institutions is shared internationally that I ended up getting fascinated enough to read it.

I'm especially fascinated by the facts that a) this drop started at roughly the same time for most of these nations (the 1960-70's) and that b) we evidently know that in both Germany and Japan trust in government was rising heavily post-war until this point.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/03/...
That is really cool and would come in handy for generating data visualizations. But I think it needs to have added attributes for the latitude and longitude of the center of each circle.
That's true... and the Left said, as a whole and by party line, that the results can be trusted.
IQ mean is 100 and stddev is 15. He was in the top 5.5% of human intelligence.
And don't forget, it's not sum(glyph sizes) either. You ought to be taking into account kerning, too.
> little FAQs that tell you nothing useful.

At first it seems like they'd finally clarify exactly how to address the problem: "Understanding ... suspension" - "Oh! Finally, I'll get my answers", but then manage to do none of that. At least they use a nice and friendly conversational style so the user feels a temporary comfort before being told to go fuck themselves.

It is a very good example of PR and corporate-speak. They were criticized for not addressing the problem before. So they've managed to address the problem ... but without really addressing is.

Now I guess they probably meant to say "we don't want to disclose how to prove your innocence because then fraudsters would figure out how to game that". For example, I would have probably just told customers that, and maybe apologized. Or you know, maybe hired some more customer support people to handle individual cases. But that's why I don't do corporate PR and just write code instead.
> elementary particles are point particles

This might sound dumb, but how does a point have a wavelength?

(I actually think QM is a conceptual mess of hacked together math, but that's a rant for another day. Here I am being sincere, because maybe (probably, almost certainly) I just don't understand what you mean.)

> I would think that solid spheres

Sorry, I think I was unclear.

I meant sphere in the topological sense of just the "shell" part (the surface), as opposed to a ball, which contains the interior. Think bubble.

You can vizualize a 2-knot fairly easily: tie a knot in a piece of string, hold each end, and spin it. The "sphere" you get by identifying the start and end of a cycle is knotted.
Requiring a take-home assignment, not just offering it as an alternative to an in-person interview phase, is a great way to systematically reduce the diversity of your hiring pool. It works well for some, but please don't require it of everyone.
That doesn't answer my question of whether TypeScript solves the concern of JS being frustrating to work in.
I doubt they actually enforce it.