skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no finish line that you need to reach to call yourself a developer. You already are a developer. As far as learning is concerned, I would suggest to learn the fundamentals of computing and you will find every new shiny tech that people talk about is just those fundamentals with a new name.
Also Demetri Martin
So do you think that he'll intervene more than Clinton would have done?
Check out the lyrics of the song “Another one” by Remy ma
The appendix to this video [0] goes into the specific operation of the Whiffletree mechanism.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_SC7oWL78A
To quote Kate Tempest, "We die so that others can be born, we age so that others can be young."
So basically PayPal itself would call it fraud if somebody else would be doing it, right?
I appreciate your insight. I think that's a big part of the difference -- in the US "relaxed immigration" would mean people without money or skills.
action_fallback seems like a great addition. It is helpful to expose all your error codes in a single place.

However, I am not too convinced about having a context for each resource. I think that should be optional, meaning that I should be able to specify a context for some related resources but at the same time, I should be able to have resources outside of any context.
PayPal is going to lose this one. They're acting as a charity fund-raiser, which is highly regulated due to a long history of flaky fund-raising.[1] PayPal is probably going to claim they're a special snowflake because they're a payment processor or something, but that probably won't fly, because PayPal claimed to the public that they were collecting funds on behalf of a charity.

[1] https://oag.ca.gov/charities
It's named after a Catholic saint, so I kind of doubt it's a public school.
I've never read any of the case data, but among the articles like this I've read it often seems like people's sensitivity and reactions to these neurological drugs varies by a range of 1-8x and the resulting impairment also varies. It also seems like in some people have neurochemistry that self-amplifies effects.

Too bad we don't see long term convert studies on how MDMA has positive treatments affects on soldiers (hard to get funding for that obviously - these studies are all about finding new and better ways to harm the enemy, not help our soldiers)
that was just one of many many charges of tampering[1].

honestly this cristicism of the NOAA, NASA is pretty unwelcome by most HN people, so im not proposing everyone accept this immediately.

but the facts are out there and slowly if what i am saying is correct ( time will tell ) the the tampering will start being rolled back.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11367272/Climategate-the-...
Honest. I was pretty clear that I think it's a state issue but was interested in hearing whether it's feasible for the states to handle. If it isn't, then I could see that being a valid justification as a federal investment which is undergoing cuts that may affect the service.
I believe that the Windows 10 logo requirements are exactly the opposite of that.

If you look at the UEFI requirements for Windows 10[1], specifically clauses 19 and 20, it says for non-ARM systems the user MUST be able to put Secure Boot into Custom signature-checking mode.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/windows/hardware/commercialize/de...
Well, no, you don't get FU money at 30 by saving up. 40s to 50s? Possible if you are frugal and responsible with money.

(Or retire at 30, start a blog about retiring early on a rather small amount of money, then pull in 400K+ a year in ad revenue. =) )
A Digital Clock built in Conway's Game of Life
Move over, Google – Snap has a big cloud deal with Amazon, too
Is being clear and understandable not an important professional capability? If not, then why does the interview require it?
Blockchain technology is (nearly) useless without the blockchain being public. Banks need stronger distibuted consensus primitives than theyre using now, but blockchain is overkill.
> Much like moaning during a TSA pat down, I wonder how well a mass campaign doing that would demoralize CBP officers.

Maybe a few, but many are sociopaths and would be unfazed or even energized by the opportunity for conflict.

Source: anecdata based on many times crossing the Canadian border.
https://www.bogleheads.org/ and you absolutely have to save up. If you don't want to save, play the lottery / be born into a fortune / build a time machine and work at Apple right before the iPod. What did you expect?
Looking at Model-View-Controller in Cocoa
I'm an ergonomics nut and I've been looking to learn Rust. Any chance they're looking for a set of guinea pigs to report their experiences as new users, or are they mostly working on already-known issues?
This administration and the current GOP?

This isn't a partisan problem, it's a systemic one. Every recent administration and both major parties are beholden to powerful special interests.
one piece of advice that stuck onto me till date: "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."

Write/Re-write/optimize is a good cycle to be in.
Because everyone is nitpicking the first statement and not reading the second.
Kindred AI is teaching robots new tasks using human virtual-reality “pilots.”
This is really bad. NOAA also covers oceans. This talk mentions how it was underfunded already 9 years ago.

https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_ballard_on_exploring_the_oc...
GBA has three generations (stock, SP and micro), 3DS had 2 or 3, depending on if you count the XL. Wii had two (original and mini). Other then the New 3DS, none of these have been system hardware, but given that the Switch is built on a tegra chip, I can see it getting upgraded with full backwards compatibility at some point.

Not to mention
Ok well you can tell your cohort that this narrative isn't going to fly anymore.
Is using the if statement as a ternary that much worse?

let x = if a { b } else { c };

Sure, it costs a few characters, but I appreciate the consistency and clarity.
And to make it even more difficult - there's stuff out there that could save you but isn't approved so you can't even make a calculated risk when you have little or no options.
The graph in the article you've linked to [1] shows that suicide rate in Japan is comparable to Switzerland and New Zealand. Maybe this problem in Japan just gets more media attention?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan#/media/File:S...
You can leave the inner type out...

https://play.golang.org/p/m3bLmneArB
> eliminates very many correct programs

While this is also true (there are certainly correct programs that aren't writable in rust without unsafe{}), in this context I'm guessing you mean "incorrect programs".
SpaceX files FCC application for 7518 more satellites
Where did I argue we have to rebuild the military? Are you even replying to the right comment? Is your first sentence projection?
I've been hoping they'll drastically lower the Wii U price so I can pick it up that way :)
Whatever prevents me from using multiple methods of payment.
Sexism at Uber from female management
The Most Desirable Passports On Earth Don’t Include America’s
> The idea that the US is weak and needs to increase its military budget to achieve "Peace through Strength" is laughable.

Who are you arguing with? You haven't read my comment, clearly.
What many don't realize is that ECC is a bit like paying for insurance just built in to hardware, most likely you won't need it, but if you can run ECC sticks other than cost there is no reason not to.
But it's also questionable to limit them to people who are not, depending on what you want to accomplish.
Kinda poor taste to just try and bump your submitted HN post versus posting the actual source.
Curiously this has come at a weird time for me. I didn't think much of healthcare. I just turned 27, and like most twenty-somethings I have this idea that I'm immortal (not literally, but you get the idea). Lately though I've been dealing with a great deal of stress and anxiety related to my job, stress combined with the sickening feeling of doing something that in the long-term just feels so pointless. Coincidentally the internet seems to be preoccupied with cancer and death as of late, or maybe it could just be me. Prior to reading this earlier I found this arresting article regarding colon cancer rates rising in people my age.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/well/live/colon-and-recta...

It has made me thought about my own mortality, but that only occupies half my thoughts. The other half are preoccupied with this sickening reality that our 21st century technology really isn't all that great.

Sure, we are getting better at beating cancer. Immunotherapy seems especially promising. On the other hand though, it's almost maddening how many people develop a mild pain and find out it's late stage cancer after a doctor's appointment. Had they ignored said mild pain it could've progressed to the point where they're terminally ill.

Facebook can probably build an elaborate psychological profile based on my online habits. It knows my mind. How strange that we can't hope to know our own bodies so well.
Definitely not sketchy as you mentioned, but according to the article the parent is right about the allocation:

> It turns out that Eggers actually persuaded his partners to cough up only $485,000 of the $500,000 investment. On his invitation, Natalie and Andrew’s school, St. Francis High School in Mountain View, Calif., chipped in the remaining $15,000.

I read on another article that he's on the board of the school's investment fund which backs startups. So it's a strategic initiative and definitely not sketchy as it's a private school.
That which is natural is not necessarily good.

It also seems like special pleading to suggest that it's a tragedy a young person to die but not an old person. Just because we're desensitised to it doesn't make it ok.
They're not opposites. PCs are required to have secure boot and they're required to have MS's cert installed and they're required to be able to disable secure boot.
How is it clickbait? It is literally what happened.
Ifixit just posted their teardown as well.
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nintendo+Switch+Teardown/782...
Chinese official calls for easing of internet censorship
As would anything that comes with a tax such as cigarettes.
* Your government isn't a utopia, and thus has corruption

* Your government won't adequately protect collected information from your stalker

* Your stalker has friends who work for the government

* Your stalker works for the government

* You're gay, and live in the UAE, where your outing may result in your death

* You're gay, and live in the USA, where your outing may result in your death

* Your government has too many laws to count - nevermind read - and can find a violation of them for anyone, given enough time

* Your government won't adequately protect collected information from other governments

* Your government won't adequately protect collected information from your competitors

* Your government won't adequately protect collected information from identity thieves
I've always disliked this aspect of Perl... I prefer control flow to be obvious.
Well if you count the Switch as a portable, they've done at least one revision/refresh of almost every generation: Game Boy Pocket, Game Boy Light, GBA SP, Game Boy Micro, DS Lite, DSi, 3DS XL, 2DS, new 3DS. They've actually really gone to town on revisions lately with handhelds.

TV consoles are a different story. The NES and SNES had later variants, and there's the afterthought Wii Mini, and that's all I can think of.
If the screen is behind something like Gorilla Glass [1] like all the other tablets on the market, then that plastic will never scratch the screen. This is due to the way scratching and physics work. [2] A good reference is Mohs scale of mineral hardness [3]. Generally speaking, a softer material will not scratch a harder material. Plastics are really soft, glass and toughened glass are strong. There's a pretty good demonstration video on youtube. [4]

--

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardness

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohs_scale_of_mineral_hardness

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7ANcWQEUI8
I agree that much of it is the US's fault and that the US changing policy could help dramatically.

That being said, if that happened today the cartels still exist and they'll exist for several generations and they'll still have military, police, and government collaborators. Unless that goes away then the mindset which allowed the cartels to engage in what is essentially a cold civil war and has allowed more than 100,000 people to be killed (many tortured) will continue to exist.

Until that stops existing there's no way in hell the US should open their borders and allow movement into US territory. You'd have the cartels (heavily armed and financed) moving into US cities and claiming turf, and then you'd have that violence here and even more guns available. It just isn't worth it. The cartels could be more powerful than the Italian mob ever was.

If the cartels lose influence and Mexico becomes a much less violent place in a few generations, maybe then you can consider opening the borders. But how would it happen any time soon without harming a lot of innocent people?

It's hard to exaggerate the brutality or (potential) reach of the cartels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War
Are the joycons not real controllers?
This is a very interesting way to look at things. I will try that.
Something to avoid during a job interview is getting too carried away talking about how much you HATE your current job/boss/role etc. You may not have done that, but it's something to check for which can cause you to sound demotivated/negative etc.
The most real part of the problem is actually people investing into rental properties. It only takes a moderately sized rental company to take out many units off the sale market, especially over time due to reinvestment.

Also holdings.
Exactly.

Uber didn't have to have Greyball in the first place. Every driver that got intimidated/assaulted should go to the police. Every time a competitor pulled some shenanigans against Uber, they should sue. And so on and so forth.

This is just smokescreen. It's obvious what the intent was.
Why can't it be based on HN demographics?
> Why do you think that immortality is not just desirable but also inevitable?

Regarding "inevitable": There's a huge amount of uncertainty about when we'll manage to cure mortality: many people alive today would hope that it'll happen during their lifetimes, but I honestly don't know if it'll happen 20, 50, 100, 150, or 300 years from now. But I would argue that there's far less uncertainty about if we'll manage it, and I don't see any reasonable support for the idea of the problem being entirely and eternally intractable. Assuming humanity itself manages to survive, it'd be shocking if thousands of years from now we hadn't fixed it.

There's no obvious reason why any particular problem of biology would be somehow completely intractable, to the point that no amount of time could ever produce a solution. There's no obvious reason to believe that there's an unbounded set of such problems. And there's no obvious reason to believe, as a matter of physics, that it's somehow impossible to run a human mind on anything other than fragile biology, given enough computing power.

Regarding "desirable": for exactly the same reason we seek cures for every other affliction that plagues humanity. Do you consider cancer a good thing? Heart attacks? Strokes? Alzheimer's and other degenerative diseases? Would any reasonable person look at one of those and say "that's fine, let's keep it, we should force people to keep experiencing that"? The general consensus seems to be that we should fix all of those. So what reasonable person would look at the whole set of all possible causes and say "at least one of those should keep existing, people should keep dying"?

Minds are incredibly precious, and it's always a tragedy to have one less, no matter how many more we have.

> I don't think that viewing it as a horrifying tragedy is particularly healthy.

If one of your foremost goals is to fix it, accepting it is counterproductive.
I think it's better to have a little less money then have a higher crime rate that migrants would bring.
Can you get into more detail re interview prep?
How about thinkpads? I really enjoy my t450s.
I get your point, and you can pretty much tell it is a Catholic school from the name, but in California, there are plenty of public schools named after Catholic saints because there are a ton of cities named after Catholic saints. Santa Monica High School, San Jose High School, San Miguel Elementary School. I think the tip off is whether the it's anglicized or not.
Do Berliners still refer to it as Europa Center or something else?
I've worked in Japan in a mega Corp R&D division.

There are candidate pools that are "potential hires" with no assignment pre offer, and there are "specialist hires" where you know the team you'll be assigned to. Only accept the latter.

The job hunt process isn't nearly as bad for technical hires as it is for humanities grads.

I completely agree that grad level work should be done in English. I know a few brilliant researchers at Stanford who will likely head back to Japan to take academic posts because their English (and mainly politics of academia) skills just weren't good enough, and their taking the "wiser route out".

I don't know your field, but I hear good things about places like Hitachi Chuou Research.
That's either a great thing for a side projects, or rough thing for startups.
If the power goes off, you shall return to whatever enables you to buy food, be it gold, arrowheads, detergent, drugs etc.
> Word will get around, and on Glassdoor. That's a very real risk, significantly more than the threat of litigation. This is expecially true in creative, engineering, etc roles.

Companies that have declined to give me feedback after an interview include Google, Facebook, small startups and medium sized places. I have not seen any evidence that you are correct.
I happen to know a lot about this situation, and there wasn't anything sketchy at all:

1) St. Francis is an expensive ($17k a year, which is actually pretty low for the area) private school, not a public school that receives funding from the government.

2) Most private schools have endowments and investment vehicles to manage those endowments. Tuition money generally isn't going into these funds, rather they're for donations and capital campaigns.

3) Many of the parents of the kids at St. Francis are tech executives or VCs, so it's not surprising that they're investing in startups instead of more traditional mutual or index funds.
> It turns out that Eggers actually persuaded his partners to cough up only $485,000 of the $500,000 investment.

This almost certainly means convincing his partners to let someone else come in instead if LVP taking the whole $500k. Lightspeed has over $3B in assets under management and $500k is already at the low end of check sizes they'd generally write. On the other hand, squeezing a friend into an interesting deal is a big favor.
To chime in, I recently (this week) purchased a new Razer Blade laptop (1920x1080) with the intention of dual-booting windows and linux, as a permanent replacement for my MBP.

I have to say, the build quality seems top shelf. The laptop itself is a sturdy feeling machine. It booted up out of the box just fine, and within a bit I was supporting 2 player rocket league on an external 34" monitor with no problem.

After some fussing about, I finally got Antergos up and running on a smaller partition, and now it's working flawlessly.

I am not a linux guru, so I had to bash my head a little bit, but here I am...

I cannot speak anything about the quality of the customer service, or how long this laptop will perform admirably (obviously), but so far I am extremely happy.

edit: I should say that I received the laptop today (at time of writing) and getting linux up and running only took a few hours of my uneducated self faffing about.
VR Experience Highlights Work of Maori Artists
I think these kind of exercices are essential to show the power of the language. The scope is limited and forces us to look for new ways to solve given problem targeting best performance, because some real life situations, this is what is required and this game helps filter unqualified languages for specific problems. Rust proves itself a real option.
Saudi Arabia is a monarchy and theocratic dictatorship. The law of this country is not made by the people for the people unlike any decent democracy. Picking up the worst example on the planet to try to make your argument look good discredits you.
Even ignoring the underwhelming performance, it seems ridiculous that you can't just choose to run in 720p mode when docked. I'd rather have my TV upscale the content than have the game be close to unplayable due to lag... the engine is clearly capable of rendering to a 720p framebuffer since it does that when not docked, just add an option to let me do that when docked...
I can't wait until May[0] for the new 'Programming Phoenix' book. I found the first edition to be a great learning experience.

[0] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781680502268.do
It would be so awesome if we could simply springboard off the "wow, this is amazing..." factor of highly novel ideas we've never heard of before and leverage our awe to soak in new things at superspeed. Instead, we get overwhelmed and demotivated and think "I could never learn that" - which only serves to send is spiralling in the opposite direction!

Completely serious question/request: I'd be hugely interested in psychology hacks/ideas that short-circuit the brain (safely) to remedy this "thinking anti-pattern".

I think self-worth and confidence might be buried in the answer - I don't know if this is my own bias (depression?), I can't help but think that there's the tiniest edge of "I'm not worth learning this", which snowballs in a big way. Lack of confidence would be an obvious blocker though.
Is remote work possible for any of your engineering positions?
I mean, it would still have taken time. Should they have delayed 1.0 and stability for it? I don't see the benefit.

There have been plenty of quality of life features that were promised and delivered successfully. Many new ones have been discovered and are in active, visible progress, but are not implemented yet, so yes, you can always identify some pieces that are still being developed. The amount of resources is finite, but Rust is getting significantly better each year.
>Job was all about design, and design for him went from the very simple, raw components to the final packaging and marketing. For him there was no boundary between engineering and design, between software and hardware, they were all part of the same product.

+1 Somebody who actually understands Apple and Steve.
There are a lot of reasons people think Uber is shady beyond just their lawbreaking.

Their CEO, their abusive and toxic mysoginist work culture, etc.
Hell I don't even count the GBA Micro, considering it couldn't run GB games despite having a Z80, simply because they dropped 5-volt support. That's not a refresh, that's just taking a dremel to the thing!
Ah, maybe it's when they're alias types that that wouldn't work?
10 Social Media Tools for Customer Service
I think they've posted it.
It looks like that the Humble Bundle is also affected by this. On their webpage, it says "Charitable contributions administered by PayPal Giving Fund" and "PayPal Giving Fund retains ultimate discretion and control over the use of the donations it receives from Humble Bundle."

Is there a way to know which charities are registered with Paypal?
I remember when we had the "luxury" of pre-check security for free.

You know, back before the fascists who voted for Patriot Act wiped their collective asses with our Constitution.