skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s why we made the decision to ditch the Demo Day — and why I encourage others to rethink how they support innovation.

Notably, the article doesn't call for others to abandon Demo Days. They're just giving a case study on their logic and their startups.
Sure, but the hard part for adoption isn't using the tools, but teaching people how to keep their private keys safe/secure
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I avoid Triplebyte like the plague. I passed their "online interview" and was marked as exceptional.

I mailed the guy (forgot who he was, but his email address showed up on one of the pages) since I had some questions. He responded once and never again.

Then they had the audacity to email me again a few month later to schedule a call to give feedback for their platform.

Yeah sure, I am going to take extra time from my day to provide you feedback for no return. If they had sent it as a web survey, it would have been probably better.

Finally, they can only schedule interviews on two days a week. Really?
You didn't start it in good faith

Right. We're done here.
Have android phones ever had the problem of holding the phone blocking the signal, consistently failing power buttons, or that bending issue? I just can't remember any Android having a major hardware issue like that, not even the lower end ones. Nothing bad enough to get publicized like those 3 examples that happened with various iPhone models definitely.
Enough of this fear mongering, and Nazi comparisons. Nazism, after all, was practiced by a majority of German population, and if everyone now in the US is forecasting it and fighting a what's to come, how can it really happen?

I am much more concerned about our "soft hegemony", propagated by politicians (for politicians) and accepted by a wide populace. Namely, slogans and ideals that are passed as a public policy. Instead of delivering goods, these politicians deliver slogans. California governor would talk for hours about the environment, but nothing would actually be done about the Oroville dam or building a new reservoir to store the water, to actually improve the environmental impact of millions of Californians. Take any lingering issue, from inner city blight to terrible situation of African American males, it's all political talk and nothing is done to actually fix things. That's where hegemony is, in my opinion.
Or as Homer Simpson said, "Alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life's problems!"
Backspace is typically not one grapheme at a time, though it is for emoji. For scripts such as Arabic, it typically deletes ḥarakāt when they are composed on top of a base character. For a bit more discussion of how I hope to handle this in xi-editor, as well as links to the logic in Android, see https://github.com/google/xi-editor/issues/159
Yes, there is an entirely new Always Free Products tier.

https://cloud.google.com/free/

"Use these products for free up to the specified usage limits during and past the free trial. These usage limits do not expire, but are subject to change."

Includes gratis usage of App Engine, Compute Engine, Cloud Datastore, Cloud Storage, Container Engine, and much much more.
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What conclusions are you referring to, in particular?

The respective ones. If you collected statistics about Americans in the back of a squad car, you'd conclude that Americans are a bunch of criminals (shocker of shockers). That's the point: it's just about the silliest, most extreme way to bias your sample.
but what you said is "you SHOULD feel this way" not "I have a vision of a better world were we all strive for greater equality". your word choices matter.

also, while we're on the subject of communication, I would like to point out that there has been enormous and widespread political backlash that is due in no small part to the poor communication strategy by many leftist movements.

many (most?) people absolutely do agree with the proposition "women are humans just the same as men and deserve to be treated as such." a lot of those people, however, really do care about how they are spoken to. tone and language choice matters. it is not effective communication or politics to be constantly making accusatory remarks. people really do respond based on their emotions and will oppose those who have been "mean" to them recently, just because of that mood affiliation.
Another guard trick if you are drunk & being hostile is to claim you 'struck an officer'. Since you are blacked out drunk you have no memory of the altercation and now face a felony charge.
Tiny Modular Web Server in Node.js
I haven't researched the JS options in this space yet either, but if anyone reading is looking for something like this for PHP, there is Roave Security Advisories — https://github.com/Roave/SecurityAdvisories

Add it to your composer.json and it will simply conflict with all lib versions with known vulnerabilities.

The data source used (https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories) has an excellent history of keeping up-to-date.

Disclosure: I'm the founder of Roave.
A few data points.

People become poor after buying stuff like iphones and often wouldn't improve their financial position by selling them.

People get expensive phones for cheap with contracts. If the problem is that family needs 400 per month in food stamps and 700 help affording health insurance which amounts to 13000 a year in help the extra 200 they paid for an iphone is a small thing.

People buy older phones for cheap or even get given them by family members who upgrade. I can buy an older iphone on craigslist for $40 right now.
> We don't need YC ruining Canada with hopped up "startup" bros.

As a Canadian who once got funded by YC and is no "\"startup\" bro" I wince at this comment, which is beyond inaccurate. So is the bit about solid long-term businesses—I can tell you from plenty of first-hand observation that you're quite wrong in YC's case.
Vaping cannabis doesn't involve adulterating with flavors or fillers (necessarily). In the best case, it's a CO2 extraction of the plant, rendered into an oil, or steam distillation of the same. I would agree with you though, that people are insanely cavalier with these GRAS additives they're happy to inhale all day.

...Although if you're stuck between smoking tobacco, and vaping nicotine... vape away.
> Maybe I am not a developer after all.

Maybe you are a developer, but just an extremely mediocre one.

Someone has to account for the lower end of the bell curve. Maybe you're one of them.

Based on the information you provided, I think this is the most likely answer to your question.
If you look at the examples, they all look like adding extra functionality to your inbox, not to the content of the emails you send.

So it doesn't sound like "I'll send you this email that you can only access if you have gmail AND this specific add-ons", more like "when you open an email, the add-on shows relevant information from your internal CRM system as well as canned responses".
No need to be pedantic; the narrative that they are all gang members, rapists, hard, violent criminals is deeply flawed and inaccurate.
Stack is offline. Working on it now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debtors'_prison#Great_Britain_...
"You have 5 questions remaining"

Limit is 5 per year, that's brutal
> Not sure in what reasoning one can complain for a method with 25% margin of error (say), but be OK with a method like "5 cakes" which still applies quantification, just in an even more vague and hazy sense.

One method implies rigour and the other one is honest about what it is setting out to do
But monkeys don't start talking (even when surrounded by humans), therefore would you agree that somewhere in our DNA must be the description for how our neurons need to do so? Therefore, that DNA must contain this information? (source code), at some level of abstraction or compressed in some way?
Don't you think you could better promote change by working for the system rather than being a dissident outside the system? Everytime I see threads that talk about "bad apples" I find it strange that I never see comments that encourage getting "good apples" to apply.
Even a toy project will burn through this in less than 60 days...I was expecting a free tier as in free up to 1GB or something like that...a little misleading because the site makes it sound that.
That is a great point. I'll add an issue to the repo now and get a fix in soon. Thank you for the suggestion!
Are you allowed to write something that removes Google ads?
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode
We can profitably do without more drive-by snark (which we've asked you repeatedly not to post) on Hacker News.
You write as if the current jail conditions are set in stone. Why is that?
I hear a lot of people in my area (West burbs of Chicago) joke about building the wall up to cut off California. Sure, they're joking, but I don't think the average citizen outside CA gives a damn about the state as a tax revenue base. They do, however, get tired of the far left rhetoric. Nobody thinks more highly about California than Californians.

Personally, I am ambivalent (and technically I am a Californian).
Hadn't heard of n-gate, pretty funny :)
There's emerging evidence that nicotine itself actually increases lifespan.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23871228
I meant full government, not head of state. I agree that most of Trump's acts will be neutered, and in a few years things will probably change.

I just don't think a government having a big impact is surprising.
Gatsby is awesome, as evidenced by this demo and as I've learned building a site or two with it.

@kylemathews, I'd love to see a one-pager on the differences and improvements between the upcoming 1.0 release and the 0.x stable branches. Jumping around Github issues and PRs to track it is difficult.
Oh, so if my app is currently under all the Free tier quotas for DB/Hosting/Storage/transfer, I could sign up for Blaze and my cost would be $0? I didn't realize that, the pricing page doesn't seem to make that clear to me.

Edit: Actually, if I'm exploring this price calculator right, it appears that there is no free tier for DB if you are on Blaze, only a free tier for Functions. Which suggests I should leave my Free tier plan as is, set up a second project that only has Functions that make external calls in it, sign that up for Blaze, and call those functions from my free tier functions... Convoluted, but hey, it'd be free.
how about amazon chime
It seems to me like they are aiming to make one amazing chat app. It's called GSuite.

For example, it'd be very useful if you could collaboratively edit a document in a chat app. So should your uber chat app swallow Google Docs too? That would be a beast, and the HN would scream.

No, you make a bunch of smaller apps that embed, interoperate and integrate.

And once you've built a bunch of integration points for your own apps, then you document them and make them available to third parties. Voila first-class fully dog-fooded integration points rather than third party integrations being distinctly second class citizens.
To expand on this point, one resolution to the Ship of Theseus problem is that the point at which the ship stops being the "same" ship depends on how you are going to define "same." "Same" could mean different things depending on what you are trying to do, so this isn't just an it's-just-semantics cop-out. In particular, to borrow something Ravi Vakil once said, a definition is worthless unless it has a use (which in his case, as a mathematician, if it can be used to uncover and prove a theorem). This is what I have in mind: I do not think it is worthwhile to worry about "the true length of a Unicode string" unless there is something you could do if only you could compute it, and I've been trying to think of something but have come up short.

Speaking of equality: in a lecture about logic I once gave, I asked the students whether {1,2} and {1,2} were the same. In a very real sense, they are different because I drew them (or typed them) in different places and slightly differently -- I promise I typed the second {1,2} with different fingers. But, through the lens of same-means-same-elements, they are the same. That is a warmup for {1,2} vs {1,1,2}, and {1,2} vs {n : n is a natural number and 1 <= n <= 2}.

(There's also kind of a joke about how my set of natural numbers might be red and your set of natural numbers might be blue, but the theory of sets doesn't care about the difference.)
Do they finally accept prepaid cards? I chose AWS mainly because I don't have a credit card.
I don't know, guys.

Inbox was nifty at first but it positively crawls now. Any input action takes several seconds, at best, to process on a fast machine, sometimes much more. Loading Inbox is about 30s. It's maybe 20x slower than straight gmail classic. Plugins will just slow it more?
VCs don't want people with a life outside work.
You haven't been reading the news very carefully. Worst case scenario is that you get sent to a 3rd party country, have your passport seized upon landing, and possibly end up in prison where your human rights are at risk.
You forgot ChromeOS taking from MS. Grew over 35% last year while Windows and OS X bith declined.
According to the bottom of the home page, they are available in over 20 locations.
Sorry for this nerd-interruption: The plural of anecdote is data, at least as said by that aphorism's inventor, Raymond Wolfinger:

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-an...

https://web.archive.org/web/20080523225000/http://listserv.l...

Both variations are insightful; I like using Wolfinger's because it is an accurate observation that all data start out as anecdotes, and are influenced/distorted by the collection and filtering process. Still, this also implies that one outlying anecdote is not enough evidence alone to dismiss the aggregate findings across all of the other anecdotes.
Ah, but the problem with technical interviews isn't the false positives, it's the false negatives -- introverts, people who are inexperienced with whiteboards, people who think it's silly to memorize BFS and DFS when they could look them up, women, people of color.
I would not reveal cannabis use to my GP, nor would I advise any person in the US to do so. A note can (probably will) be made in your medical records. That note may follow you around, and cause doctors to treat you as a "drug-seeking" patient.
It is still in Beta after all. The meta data loading is much slower than my server, but transcoding so far has been great.
Physics Today had a nice article on sailing a few years back. I think it's well done: The physics of sailing - http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.2883908
One feature of my app is the PDF creation of invoices and estimates. I use a Java library to make these PDFs. Developing an iOS, web, and Android app that syncs in real-time is much easier (or even possible) when your PDFs are made on the backend.
Their newer approach of different products targeted at consumer vs. business use cases has some merrit. All/Duo for consumer, Hangouts Chat/Meet for business. The needs are different and one size fits all often means one size ideal for nobody.
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Seems safe to assume that NeXT's existence was predicated largely—possibly entirely—on Steve Jobs reputation to actually deliver millions of units. In the end, he arguably "made it work" by the thinnest of margins.

A better, if flawed, comparison to Lily might be the Apple I: entering an established, growing market with a product which lowers the threshold for adoption in very specific ways. (I'll defer to more informed, educated, and insightful individuals to carry this comparative analysis any further...)
I want to think that this is the usual anti-cannabis scaremongering, but it actually seems more like a combination of clickbait and the usual soft "science" studies. I file this under, "Eggs are good for you/Eggs will murder your soul". Maybe it's a matter of moderate consumption? In the case of cannabis in particular, maybe it's a matter of not combusting the damned stuff? It's hard to imagine that smoke in any form is good for you after all. Fortunately smoking a plant only became the popular route for cannabis once it was made illegal. Before that, tincture was the way to go.

Most people don't want to walk around with a joint hanging out of their mouth, but they'd be fine with a breath-strip with fractionally distilled CBD or whole plant extract. People who would reasonably scoff at inhaling burning plant fumes, might be comfortable with a medical vaporizer and a CO2 extracted product with lab tests to vouch for it.
I have used AppEngine for many years, and occasionally spin up very large compute engine instances as needed.

Am I reading this correctly: even though I am an existing customer, I am still eligible for the always free f1 micro instance, and other always free services?
Are you saying that police officers, by virtue of the fact that they primarily interact with criminals, would conclude that people here on, say, student visas are a bunch of criminals?
I'm betting we find a notable difference in effects based on what people are doing after ingesting in different ways. I suspect certain types of mental & physical exercises done at some point after ingestion could help to a large degree.
> Although if you're stuck between smoking tobacco, and vaping nicotine... vape away

Hear, hear! It's also much easier to taper off the nicotine with vaping. I just started on zero myself, so I'm almost done altogether.
I am generally supportive of founders taking some money off the table, but not so much that they necessarily get post economic. When a founder ends up with such a concentrated position, I think it is reasonable for them to diversify.

BUT, I think the criticism here is absolutely justified. It should not have been done as a common stock dividend using new investor money. If a founder wants money now, they should give up a proportionate right to money later.
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I want one but not sure why.
Thanks for this, I just posted the first link I found on Youtube after the Facebook stream timed out. Only realised at the end that it wasn't official :/
That insight gave me more confidence. Before 'Quiet', I wouldn't allow myself to act a certain way or would feel bad if I did.

One simple example: as an introvert, I would get tired at parties or gatherings of bigger groups.
Before 'Quiet', I would try leave unnoticed (slightly embarrassed from leaving so early). Or I would stay and feel increasingly worse.
Now I'm better aware of what's going on inside me. I feel more confident and leave. Or I find a quiet corner, read a book on my iPhone for 20 minutes, and get back to the group.
I see "free trial" when I signed up...still not sure what free tier is...
It's mildly dishonest, but it does help you as the employer get closer to the ideal fit for the position. Especially one that is likely posted to a public forum.

The fact that candidates that pre-select themselves out of being chosen is not really a big concern. Why should it be? The way around this is knowing exactly who it is you want for the job, but in that case I wouldn't be posting the job in a public forum. It's kind of what recruiters are intended for.
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The logic of it is simple to me. The name "America" was initially assigned to a newly discovered area in the south, and was later used for the entire land mass. Eventually the USA was founded in part of that area, but with such an unwieldy name, "America" became a popular abbreviation. That doesn't invalidate the original meaning. I understand that it's not ambiguous to many people, but it's ambiguous in my own mind because I do think of "America" as applying to the entire land mass.
If you think being able to live without a smartphone is bragging then the problem really isn't with me, it's with you.

In the context of this conversation, which is about people with nothing else... how else should your comment have been interpreted?
You can do it as a business, but as software engineers we like to make our own deals and normally build our own software to track competing offers, pros and cons of each offer and rankings of which one will benefit us career wise in the long and short term. Our own systems are pretty advanced as they are built catered to our needs, an agent would not be able to reach the depth of each and every developer as they all have their own needs and wants.

Though this might be good for the engineers without much real work experience to get a better job in the beginning, though it may not be very useful for those senior and above that have been in the game for 10+ years anymore.
Good grief Google, make up your mind. It's like some sad corporate race condition. Google keeps optimizing things but has no guiding vision. I might as well be watching cats in a diamond mine.
I would think that being well overdue for a recession and being in an objectively overvalued market would be a good reason to not want to get in now lest you be the one to IPO a week before judgement day. I heard on NPR today that one, if not the only, bull market to last longer than the current one ended with the dot com crash.
Indeed there is. Most often a token, stored in localStorage. But that token can be used from anywhere and with any mechanism. So I guess what I mean is that if there is a way for somebody to intercept or retrieve it, then I have in the past viewed that as a vulnerability of the browser (probably wrongly).

So what I'd love to understand better is the kind of attacks that would be practical, and how they would exploit a 3rd party library.

By the way I am totally receptive to the possibility that there may be grave vulnerabilities. I just don't have the kind of mind that easily thinks of them.

Edited: for clarity
An extra $650? Android phones aren't free, and iPhone SEs are $400 out of pocket.
I read this several years ago and the next time I went sailing I could see the flow effects in the behaviour of the sail. It helped me trim the sails more effectively.
I'd hate to be a mechanic working outdoors in winter Toronto. Just thinking of handling steel tools with un-gloved hands (otherwise you can't grasp much) makes me feel sorry for those folks.
It actually doesn't matter what California voters want, or what a red federal government wants, a constitutional amendment would require 2/3rds of both the house and senate, as well as 75% of all the US state legislatures to approve Calexit.

I think it's a good idea, and would probably move there if they did exit, but it's practically impossible for it to happen.
There is a permanent free tier for many products like App Engine, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, etc in addition to the $300 you can spend​ for 12 months.
If it's just a programming language thing, those are easy to ramp up on, within weeks or months. Every job that I've had so far has involved a lot of extra learning. Even in the cases that I already knew the development language, there's been a large preexisting codebase, essentially providing its own in-house-built framework.

The next position that I'm waiting for a written job offer for: I don't know the language, haven't ever developed on the OS, and I'll be looking at 15 years of legacy code. It sounds like an exciting opportunity to expand my knowledge on someone else's time and do something I haven't done before.

Granted, I never would've applied on my own; they contacted me through LinkedIn. But that kind of thing is how I expect I'll find all my work in the foreseeable future.
/r/vancouver "Visiting Vancouver" page:

https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/wiki/visiting
Just closing the loop, here is the issue link: https://github.com/mattcbaker/dotnetcore-slackbot/issues/1
In the length of time I spend commuting to work in the morning, people in KW can drive to downtown Toronto to get some fun for the evening.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/University+of+Waterloo,+200+...