skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, my objection was much more fundamental. I never suggested packing a bit at the beginning, I suggested using a header of about 20 bytes or so (trivial against a GB). As for the shifting 1 bit question, my complaint with it was that I was in the middle of answering 1 question and then another question was brought up as a non-sequiter. The fact that I was asked it made me assume there must be some answer superior to iterate over all the data, which I don't believe there is.

The other reason I dislike this type of interview question is that if the interviewer never proposes a superior alternative at the end, you get no opportunity to challenge them. How do we know my solution didn't solve problems the other party didn't see?

For context, it seems the "preferred" solution was to build a wrapper around existing memcache. However as a real-world engineer the solutions I was solving for (90% of your clients won't use this wrapper at a company over 100 people, so we want to avoid key collision with people who aren't using this driver) were not the theoretical ones (How could we make the header only 4 bytes!) that the interviewer was evaluating on.

Plus on top of all this, I have no idea if the person interviewing me is unaware that memcached supports atomic increment, knows but doesn't care, or is deeply concerned about preserving this functionality. There are dozens of facets that an individual could consider "important" in this type of problem, and there's no objective basis for most of these concerns without a context of the user (because that's what all engineering comes down to after all).

My guidance to companies in this type of situation is: A great engineer can do 80 hours of work in 15 hours, but not necessarily do 30 minutes of work in 29.
I can appreciate comments on HN that counter the prevailing wisdom or even question if something is a conspiracy or not with some (at least circumstantial) evidence and without being too leading but hrodriguez's comment just reads like any other creepy, angry and nasty conspiracy theorist's vitriol. I don't know if it violates any guidelines but I hope we make this kind of comment style unwelcome on HN. There's entire communities dedicated to this style of discussion they can participate in.
Amazing how many people fail to grasp the difference between opinion and journalism.
It's not an option. It's what some people implement themselves when coming up with a PIN. Like "square" (4578) or "Z" (1379) or "triangle" (2792), etc.

That being said, I don't think the loss of shape ability would be that big of a deal. Neither do I think this is something that needs to be defended against.
I'm a big fan. Ive been using it to do 'outside in' google type, expose services on the internet via oauth for ages. Its solid and great.
RxJs Based Pub/Sub in NgUpgrade Angular Applications
Bit of a click-bait title, I wanted to read about female gamers not gender inequality in the work place...
I cant wait to get blocked out of a website and not know why.
It's a shill account posting ad-news. Please exercise skepticism.
farmville and candy crush?
Well, org-mode is a pretty decent replacement for LaTeX. You can do most of the basic formatting, plus it supports specialty LaTeX syntax when org-mode is not sufficient.
GAO.GOV 40M secret docs exposed on Google reported at Databreaches.net
Sounds like that might take a bite out of the market for Spanner :P
This is a massive pain, and also against the TOS. Amazon Cloud Drive is $60/year for unlimited storage.
> wholesale violation of 4th Amendment protections

Where is there a violation of the 4th Amendment? The 4th Amendment is not about capabilities, which always have existed in one form or another (e.g., reading people's mail), but about legal authorization to use them.
Been a since I tried to use the multiprocessing module. But, last time I did try, I ran into issues with it interacting poorly with pyodbc. It's been years, so I don't recall what the problem was, but I spent a few days trying to resolve or work around the issue with no satisfaction.

Also, most of my Python scripts run on both Linux and Windows, so I have that restriction, as well.
You can move no-longer-useful data into an archive file: http://orgmode.org/manual/Archiving.html
I wish I knew the answer, you and others deserve one.

Capitalism is a 12-year-old boy. The movies you see, the music you hear, tend to target that most profitable (largest common denominator) sub-group. And SV is capitalism writ large. The result is, sadly, a culture that is less mature than the average male high school student.

I don't know what steps are best to fight it.
A zero history account thought it was really important this wound up on hn. It's almost certainly paid-for content.
Data scientist at Opendoor here. That is a very accurate analogy.
How does cutting funding for non-producing government agencies listed above affect the phd students and research being done at colleges? Care to explain?
You are trying to imply that Tufekci is part of a tacit conspiracy to suppress the real news about... something? I'm not sure.

1) There's nothing in what she wrote to suggest that she's minimizing the dangers posed by telcos and goverment.

2) She just wrote a whole book about resisting the government using the internet. (https://www.amazon.com/Twitter-Tear-Gas-Fragility-Networked/...). She has a long history of documenting the ways governments and telcos meddle with popular action, in real time, too. (e.g. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/449896348142555138 , which I just found by Googling "zeynep telco").

I'll restate what the article actually said, since some people seem to have missed it. She writes that Wikileaks characterized Signal and WhatsApp as being useless for secure communication; that this is not the case; and that the media reported this uncritically.

Rather than raise questions about Tufekci, I think it's more important to ask why Wikileaks is now trying to spread FUD about some of the best tools that we have.
> This is standard operating procedure at propaganda outlets like NYT/Washington Post Et Al.

It's an opinion piece. It's literally right there in the title that you should expect someone to be expressing an opinion, not engaging in objective reporting.
My first thought after reading about the wildlife around Chernobyl many years ago was that Greenpeace or similar groups should arrange 'accidental' radiation spills in threatened environments. Good for a few decades of protection.
When someone insists on that style of writing at someone, complete with the "Mrs Tufekci" bit, I just mentally read it in the voice of Hugo Weaving from The Matrix.

It works surprisingly well!
> Don't expect lots of pre-prepared food, and fancy pre-made items. In fact, expect very little. It's mostly staples with some extremely common packaged convenience foods.

In my experience, I would have to disagree. For what I have seen at the two nearest stores to me, 50% of the store's inventory is boxed, canned, and frozen foods. True, they do have your staples (your meats, veg, and dairy), but to say they have "very little", at least in my experience, is simply not true. In fact, the wife and I get most of our boxed and canned goods at Aldi.

> However if you want some items, your best bet is to go at open.

I've been at our stores pretty much at random hours and have never been disappointed in the quantity of inventory. It sounds like you might be visiting a mismanaged store.

> They provide no bags. At all. Though they'll happily let you take the empty boxes items came in.

Not true. Again, at least where I am at. They offer paper bags for $0.10 and heavier reusable plastic for $0.30 (to the best of my recollection). They also offer the washable heavy-duty fabric variety as well.
Agreed. A main purpose of propaganda is not to persuade people, but to create enough noise that intelligent discussion is impossible. That seems to be working, to some degree, on HN.
You get presented with the traditional reCAPTCHA if you're 'blocked'.
The press made a lot of fuss about this claim.
Unfortunately we have no confirmations nor denials,
it would be nice to hear an internal about this.

http://thehackernews.com/2016/04/android-swift-programming.h...

http://www.dday.it/redazione/19590/app-android-scritte-con-s...

http://www.webnews.it/2016/04/08/google-apple-swift-android/

http://android.hdblog.it/n429420/Google-Swift-di-Apple-lingu...

https://www.tomshw.it/android-google-pensa-swift-apple-posto...
If 52% of Computer Gamers are women, isn't that a counterpoint to the thesis of the article--i.e., that more women need to be writing software so that software appeals to women?

EDIT: It feels like we've reached the point where any statistic, no matter which way it swings, will be used to support a feminist agenda. If only 10% of gamers were women, I trust that would also be used to support the article's thesis.
> - I assume sentiment and star ratings are strongly correlated, but are there cases where these deviate?

> - Are there interesting differences in sentiment mean+variance by app category? For example, are utility app reviews more polarized than games?

These are answered in the white paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.02256.pdf
I would have thought poor people are more likely to do that because they can't afford the upfront cost of the phone.

I mean, I don't have any data, feel free to prove me wrong. But when I was a poor student, I wouldn't even dream of buying a smartphone outright, yet alone an iPhone.

And I had a look, those $6/month contracts barely subsidise anything. I don't really get what's relevant about them.
Most house flippers are not some evil group going around tricking grandmas. Their typical pitch goes like this:

I will buy your house immediately. The way I can do it is to offer you a lower price than you can get if you wait to sell it. Here is my offer for 88% of what your house is worth.

If they wanted to change their pitch it would be...

I buy houses from people. I can close right away, but I need to charge you a 12% fee for a fast closing. That really only costs you 6% because you dont have to hire a broker.

Economically, they are the exact same pitch. There is nothing wrong with either approach. I do understand you not wanting to be associated with flippers, but the reality is hard to argue against.
But to create this header, someone would have to compile that list, so that browsers could know how they should interpret it. So you can just publish it and allow developers to receive updates.

By the way, there are already such lists and tools:

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Secure_Headers_Project (OWASP in general, though I hear the crypto stuff is weak)

https://securityheaders.io/
"If only to protest with their wallet."

Except that 'the wallet' is in the US, not somewhere else.

I say this even as a Canadian. The money is not here.
Why Google's DeepMind next-gen machine learning will stay undercover
My Linux Chrome shows your example perfectly though. Note that I also have CJK language pack installed.
A little off topic, but anyone else find those example gifs exceptionally fluid and intuitive? I really liked the way the blue dot indicated movement, clicks, etc. A very elegant solution for demoing a touch-based system.
ODB? Do you mean the OBD (On-Board Diagnostics) port?

As far as I understand, OBD is only designed to read out information about the car's operation. You can read about the protocol here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics

Being able to control the car through this port is a security bug[1] that you wouldn't be able to use reliably, and would probably vary from one model of car to another. And at some point, manufacturers will hopefully clean up these security bugs, since they're a high risk for disasters and lawsuits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics#Security_...
I think C#'s designers make it clear that they don't want you to use out parameters. They're a hack; they were only included at all to make it easier to communicate with C/C++ libraries. But now that they're there, they have to stay because of back-compat - Microsoft definitely does not want a Python 3 situation. They might as well make them as painless as possible for the people stuck with them because of some library. And at the same time, they should offer a compelling alternative to out parameters, which they have finally done with tuple returns.
> The National Center for Women and Information Technology states that in 1985 37% of women had a degree in Computer Science. In 2010, this number rolled down to 18%.

Ugh, this is a badly distorted statistic. The link says 37% of computing graduates were women, which makes more sense. This kind of obvious poor attention to detail makes any other statements about the current way of things suspect.
On an article about healthcare costs in the US... I hope you understand why I got confused, sorry about that.
There is a huge difference between a hacker being able to read your encrypted messages, vs a hacker being able to read your encrypted messages if they have malware on your phone.

Conflating the two is dangerous, people will stop using Signal if they think it's insecure. She's right to call out Wikileaks for lying about this stuff, and at no point in the article does she imply the governments actions are acceptable either.
I interviewed with Ammon. He did not come across as smug. I went through the process just as a curiosity because I was fed up with the typical interview process. I haven't followed through anything else related to Triplebyte in terms of an actual job in case people think I have a favorable view because I got a job through them.
Seth Roberts wasn't a bullshit scammer. He was a self-deluder who produced a regular stream of blog posts about how he'd discovered links between standing and sleep, viewing faces and mood, and other monthly improvements in his health, until he dropped dead of a heart attack at age 60.
TLDR (a) no (b) it costs $250
oh, bandwidth restricted
This is a stark reality.

For a Canadian, Waterloo might be ok.

For most Americans, it would be like moving to Alaska.

I tried to hire into Waterloo, and for Americans, Canada in general is a really tough sell.

We brought in some Americans, most of them kept their homes in wherever.

We hired a bunch and let them live wherever, they flew in every few weeks.

It was far less than ideal.

That said, it might be better than many places in the US - but this is where California has such a massive advantage.
You indeed don't have it exactly right :)
There are no 1 two-week project and our final interview is 2 hours, not 4.
It seems to me that the amount of work required to fix the above, in most cases, would be almost equal to the amount of work that would be required if you hadn't used the LIMIT clause.
not to mention the assertion of 52% is based upon a link to an article that references (but does not link) to a 2014 study (https://iabuk.net/about/press/archive/more-women-now-play-vi... actual study PDF requires membership.

Amusingly the press release states that "The growth in women and older gamers has been driven by free games, primarily mobile apps." and "Trivia/word/puzzles are favourite genre – driven by older women", which kind of does not line up with the "Computer Gamers" statement (or maybe I am just nostalgically thinking that means mouse+WASD).

Ah the Internet, proof of the amazing ability of information to twist and turn out of context.
Obviously, there is a vital function to be performed here. No one's disputing that a recruiter can add value, only that in practice, the tech recruiters are horrible at their job and accomplish nothing other than nebulous keyword matching, and overhyping some other party's qualifications. They produce very bad matches and just add an extra level of annoyance.
or maybe games aren't really that sexist and women are enjoying games like Zelda just as much as men are. i dont think it takes being a man or woman to enjoy mario or metal gear or a good story.
When people arrive in Vancouver, we rewire their hypothalamus with wildly lower expectations for what constitutes "amazing weather".
I disagree that it is stealing because I never agreed (or wanted) to participate in this program. The site owner did.

I'm under no obligation (moral or otherwise) to make honest contributions. If we wanted to continue with your analogy, it'll be like being forced into a taxi, then driven one meter, then forced to pay a large fee because the landlord doesn't want me to walk on his lawn. I didn't choose to ride the taxi. The landlord did (ignoring saner options).

If google wants a revenue from their service, they should consider charging site owners.

If google wants to train their NNs, they'll have to pay people to classify data for them.

If google doesn't want to do either, and doesn't want people like me contributing to their system, don't let site owners allow us to use their site.

Otherwise, I think google should shutdown the service.
Can people who have read the article address specific facts the author brings up, or specific errors in the analysis? Maybe we can have a serious discussion right here.

I read the article and it looks straightforward to me, but I don't independently know the facts. The analysis seems solid, but perhaps someone knows something I don't.

Unfortunately I've rarely seen so much noise (i.e., non-contributing comments) on HN, though the level tends to rise when someone doesn't buy into a Wikileaks' message.
Yes, this type of minimalism does exist, but the author seems to be discounting the possibility of a genuine focus on what matters to a person regardless of financial status.
Your US 2 party system is busted to the extreme, and in other G7 countries your Democratic party would barely be considered "left" let alone "far left", so yeah, pretty lunatic.

As for sanctuary cities, when your state is sitting on territory that was formerly part of Mexico, its major cities still carrying Spanish names, its labour force overwhelmingly dominated by Latinos, it doesn't seem crazy at all to question the rationale of the US immigration system and borders and try to accomodate to the realities of the actual real world demographics.

Not to mention from my understanding sanctuary cities have their origin with the migrant fallout created by the central American wars that the United States was directly involved in.
> in 1985 37% of women had a degree in Computer Science. In 2010, this number rolled down to 18%. Without a doubt, this negative tendency will have a huge — and potentially demolishing — effect on tech companies.

We'd all love to have more women in tech, but "huge", "demolishing"? Tech has been highly successful despite that decline. Other fields do just fine without gender balance (psychology and veterinary doctors are dominated by women, for example; the fields aren't being "demolished").

Yes, some studies show that greater gender balance is good for an industry. But many factors affect an industry's success. There is no need for alarmism.
g1-small and n1-highmem-2 US prices were actually lowered by ~5%. You can see the old prices here: http://wayback.archive.org/web/20170304211331/https://cloud....

In general, Compute Engine's US region got a 5% price drop, Europe got a 4.9% drop and Asia (Japan) got an 8% drop.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
“Banks are no place for coders”
That forgotten use might be a special string sorting algorithm such as LSD. Or it could be a trie but input strings have many common prefixes.
May be he knows something which you don't or are purposefully trying to look away from. Look at these below, that is what he is trying to avoid. People's lives and our country are more important than few startups.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/20/trump-may-have-be...
(Look at the Facebook post by police officer from Sweden)

http://www.truthjustice.net/politics/immigrant-crime-rates-i...

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/02/21/ten-topics-sweden...

http://www.zerohedge.com/search/apachesolr_search/police%20o...
(Long list here)
Good question! Because of those important bits of functionality that will keep rolling in during the Beta, I'd say single digit months to the most important ones.

As a point of clarification though Beta => GA is about production hardening. Products can't go to GA without demonstrating that they've met their SLOs continuously for several weeks. Products can take longer than that if they feel they should make more tweaks first (and pgsql certainly qualifies), but we want to both ship quickly and get out of the reputation for perpetual Beta.
How to prepare for a startup accelerator?
Anonymous methods were basically the last thing that Java still had over C#, and now there's not even that.
As an outsider whose only contact with New York Times is from submissions here, it seems that they don't know what they are talking about most of the time.
Canada has lower corporate tax, liberal startup grants, greater income mobility, higher qol, health care, safer, more tolerance - but it's an itsy bitsy tad cold, no one goes.
i know its not much help but kubernetes does it by mounting on the host then volume mounting into the container.
Your turn, Azure

https://feedback.azure.com/forums/217321-sql-database/sugges...

https://feedback.azure.com/forums/217321-sql-database/sugges...

https://feedback.azure.com/forums/170024-additional-services...

PS: managed MySQL is currently the most requested additional service on Azure:

https://feedback.azure.com/forums/170024-additional-services...

.. and managed Postgres + MySQL are currently the third most requested feature in relation to their managed DB offering

https://feedback.azure.com/forums/217321-sql-database/filter...
A relevant example is the massive success of games from Japan in the US, even though they were written by people from a different country and culture.
Is it entirely wrong though? Dumb people who impulse buy things aren't poor?
"52% of gamers are women" is a misleading statistic. Women are overrepresented in casual gaming, and men are overrepresented in non-casual. There is a lower proportion of women out there who have bought a games console, and lower proportion again who've bought a PC with a beefy graphics card.

If you were going to target a gender for your game, if it's casual, you should target the women, and if it's not casual you should target the men.
Imagine numpad in your mind to play shape on to extract sequence
"A more thorough review of the distinctions between the male and female brain leaves a pressing feeling that we came from different planets (Venus & Mars, no less)"

I'm not sold on there being a distinct anatomical difference between the brains of men and women. I think it's more accurate to say that the differences between individuals is larger than the differences between the genders. That is, you'll find plenty of women with 'male' aspects and plenty of men with 'female' aspects.

A study of 1400 individuals that seems to be in opposition to the paper the article references: http://m.pnas.org/content/112/50/15468.abstract

I don't have a biology background, so I'm not sure which paper should be held in higher accord.
Why would you, though? Especially when you only have one site.

(as an aside, there is a The Times newspaper in the UK and I'm sure many other places. I suspect ownership of .times would become a lot more bother than it was worth, very quickly)
I think most applications in C# end up with a Utilities class/library.
The day before I was about to migrate to RDS. Change of plans!
Exactly. Is nursing being demolished? Are oil rigs being demolished? Is kindergarten being demolished? Is the car maintenance industry being demolished? Is metal working suffering?