skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the original Apple watch and it's seen 50+ swim sessions (including ocean/river) without any impairment to the functionality or usability. Key point is to rinse it out with clean water whenever you exist (easy: shower).

The capacitive touchscreen isn't reliable when wet - have they improved that in series2?
Any data to back up that theory? The alternative theory that busses are undependable and low-status is more plausible to me.
Did the legal team at your work review the patent issues? (see top-level comment by rdtsc above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13814476 ?)

edit: time -> team, thanks JoshTriplett, DYAC.
I think it's a great idea - and I think all motorcycles should be exempt from such tolls.
comp.lang.c still used to be the one true place for c programmers to hang out at back when I started learning it in the 90s, not sure if that's the case these days.
This is a classic externalities problem[0]:

My use of roadway space imposes a cost on other drivers because they now have less roadway to use leading to lower speeds. Currently, I do not have to pay for this cost leading me to use more roadway space than may be optimal. Taxing roadway use captures this cost and forces me to take it into consideration when choosing whether to drive.

[0]http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/basics/external.ht...
Why do employees, or contractors face more severe penalties (in proportion) than the company?
Uber hired these people, they should face big fines and losing business license. Hell even if they both are fine equally 100% off income for Uber drivers, and fined 100% income for the company as well.

Illegal immigration wouldn't happen if there were huge penalties against companies and or people hiring them.
Whoa! Great catch. We'll need to record a new animation. Thanks for pointing it out.
I think the answer you're looking for is "no".

Because C was developed at Bell Labs in the pre-internet 70s, the first "official" documentation was the book by K&R. Due to the language's popularity, it was standardized first by ANSI, then by ISO. So these days, the closest thing to a "source of truth" for the language is the standard published by ISO. That working group's website is here: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/

Of course, standards documents are not really entry points, as they are extremely dry, technical documents. Which is why I think the answer to your question is "no".

I think your best bet would be to start with the second edition of "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie, then work your way "into the future" by looking at books on C published in the last decade.

HTH
The CIA has a long standing "no comment" policy when asked about the authenticity of any documents. So you can't rely on the absence of a counter-claim to prove the veracity of the documents.

I wouldn't rule out an intentional leak to spread misinformation.
> Few people are in the situation of a single interview or they don't get to pay their bills next month.

If this is true of the people around you, then you know folks who are very, very lucky in their life and work.
No software development in any language should be undertaken by people who don't understand the language and surrounding tooling and libraries. No program in any language should be written with the expectation that it can be maintained by people who don't know the language. This is not some APL predicament.
Much of the little I know about jet engines was sparked by my reading this wonderful article: https://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/each-blade-a-si... (which happily is _not_ paywalled).

In particular I learned that each blade is a single crystal! I still find this absolutely mind boggling.
Offer solutions, not problems.
> One driver kept a logbook of every passenger's name plus their source address and destination address. He was perfectly pleasant to talk to, but that logbook creeped me out.

I don't know what kind of information Uber/Lyft sends back to their drivers, so this could easily be a mileage record for tax purposes.
There are many books by scholars but it is probably not what you are asking for. But you can read a lot as usual on the English Wikipedia [0].
I wrote recently a small book in French about this subject and had entertained the idea to write an augmented version in English in one or two years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Africa
> Everyone that interacts with the candidate must offer a beverage or a trip to the bathroom as many times as possible throughout the day. Bladder manipulation is a powerful interrogation tactic.

I used to do this, I guess it's time to stop
Kubernetes: How Do I Do That?
The acrimonious and often zealous tone taken by many doesn't help matters either. What you just wrote was nuanced, and there's very little room for nuance recently. Most of what qualifies as discourse today simply degenerates into a shouting match with each side not giving an inch.

For example: compulsory vaccination via mandate, coercion, exclusion, or otherwise. While there are compelling motivations to pursue such ends for the greater social good, doing so is a slippery slope fraught with the risk of trampling individual medical freedoms in the process, such as informed consent.

I've seen people on the latter side of that argument treated as if they were analogous to axe murderers for even suggesting anything but 100% compliance, all the while being shouted down by the angry mob.

The fact is, vaccinations carry the risk of very rare but sometimes serious adverse reactions. As long as that remains true, there can be no absolute moral high-ground when demanding compulsory vaccination.

In the current climate however, stating such a position outside of tiny civilized bubbles like HN is tantamount to heresy. I suspect when the autism link was debunked, many people conflated this to mean vaccines were completely safe, when in fact they're simply very safe.
Nice to hear you praise the quality. We haven't spent a lot of time on producing the current casts, it's just that the tool makes it easy to create casts of high-production value. No more fiddling with screen-recording software and post-production. It makes a big difference when you can go from "I want to explain this" to a finished cast in three minutes.

The "casts are shown in an overlay"-feature was released yesterday. It certainly requires more iterations. Thanks for the feedback.
> I don't think anyone has any issue with having to physically use a marker on a whiteboard during an interview.

I have friends whose RSI is sufficiently bad that it could be an issue.
On that note here's an image of a badge from Detachment 4 of the 18th Intelligence squadron based out of Feltwell Norfolk. Note the Carrot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th_Intelligence_Squadron#/me...
Throwing out a string of random adjectives does not give credence to your skepticism of the post above.

There is a huge body of research done on mating preferences for both sexes. Some of them may not confirm with your current world view.
I would think PhantomJS, being a headless, scriptable browser (plus built on WebKit so closer rendering to the most popular browser), would be the "first port of call."
Android about to pass Windows as most-used OS
> That doesn't explain the photos of the car's aftermath.

Do you realize how ridiculous this sounds? I take it you're an experienced crash-scene investigator?

How exactly would an accident scene differ if the accident were caused by a CIA-backed exploit vs. your standard high speed crash?

> I mean, it's just as likely people pressured his family to say this (either organized crime or the government .. really the same thing).

No, it's really not just as likely. In fact it's not likely at all.
It's certainly usable for that in LA, where last call is also 2am. I believe every train runs until 2 or 3 AM (on Fridays/Saturdays), and starts back up again by 5. Not quite 24 hours(except on NYE, when they don't stop), but still very usable.
The fact that there might be good arguments for a proposition doesn't mean I'm responsible for looking for them. There's an abstract sense in which I should be seeking all good arguments for everything, but the world is big and my resources limited and even if all I'm doing is rationally seeking truth I need to prioritize. And in a rhetorical context, there are certainly burden-of-proof considerations.

My point was simply that a flawed argument for "X" should not lead me to think "not X" is more likely. Otherwise, I can get you to think any "Y" by presenting flawed arguments that "not Y" - I have an infinite supply of them regardless of whether "Y" or "not Y" in fact.
1E Launches Tachyon: Fastest EDR Solution
BSD is _more_ restrictive than what Facebook gives you here, since it doesn't give you any patent grant at all.
> They want to equalize the footing in AI for everyone

Equal opportunity to pay, or actually democratizing it so that anybody who wants to use it can reap the benefits?

I'm willing to bet it's not the latter, given the reliance of AI on large training corpuses and machine time.
Ok, but note this problem lessens as more people use the system.
Did your csv files contain stuff that looks like human language text? Use PPMD like so:

7z a -m0=PPMd demo.7z demo.txt

This beats bzip2 and zstd for such files.
Wait, so this is just Uber where after you finish your short Uber shift, you go to work?
The PATENTS file. Calling it "zstandard" is a genius move - everyone assumes it's a replacement for zlib (royalty free, bsd-style copyright, patent free), where only the first two are in fact right.

See the post by rdtsc above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13814476
There is no reason that the revenue generated from this could not be used to fund more public transit.
I agree, in the past, it would've been better for everyone to adopt prototypal inheritance instead of the dozens of half-baked class implementations we have now, but the fact that people tried to hack classes into JS shows that prototypal inheritance was the wrong design choice in the first place. JavaScript developers (in the general, not just the ones on HN) wanted classes.
1E Unveils Tachyon the Fastest Platform to Query Endpoints
Helping libraries get youth excited about computer science
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I cannot wait for the "everything needs to be a small looping video clip" fad to go away.

Video clips of typing make no sense. The animation is distracting, it provides no useful information, and they always either loop too quickly (frustrating me because I lose my place and have to wait for the whole thing to come back), or go too slowly (frustrating me because it won't hurry up). A 3 second loop is great for a hamster meme, it's not great for displaying text that I want to read.

It's like an entire group of people completely misunderstood why GIF animations were despised and died off.

Seriously, what value are these video clips adding?
</rant>
Thanks the report, @jasode. I'm bringing in a few folk to take a look.
Isn't Mark also running for president?
They have the same thing in Istanbul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrobus_(Istanbul)
Was built on top of Yodlee. Mint transitioned to Intuit's own scraper after they were acquired.
> For CTFs like Starfighter

CTF?
Once again, Dopamine is the fundamental driving force of human nature.
A 'primitive type' is one which can be directly operated on by intrinsic CPU instructions. My understanding of Scala was that all objects (such as Long, Int...) are encapsulated inside of an object.

Therefore an array of boxed types will not be memory aligned; and any vector instructions (which are very important to scientific computing) cannot be used.

Perhaps something has changed in Scala land since I last looked(??).
It absolutely provides the Trump Administration with cassus belli to take punitive measures against the CIA. WikiLeaks appeared to have received the dump quite recently.

This is all conjecture, but this could be seen as a 'civil cyber war'. The Executive branch suffers from leaks, followed by an evisceration of the CIA hacking capabilities? Trumps love of the intelligence community is well known, and the scale of these leaks can be seen as a warning to the other agencies: the Executive branch will accept severe destabilization risks to protect itself.

Will be interesting to see if things escalate.
your chart is defective, the y-axis is supposed to continue indefinitely in either direction
> am I supposed to be upset about?

Who do you imagine is asking you to be upset about anything. A strawman?

This is knowledge. Wikileaks is about spreading knowledge. How you react to that knowledge is entirely up to you.
I know Chrome stopped supporting NPAPI plugins long before Firefox, so simply "use Chrome" won't be the answer.

I doubt they will give up these "security" plugins, so the answer will most probably be an even more invasive system process. It seems that some banks are migrating to Warsaw, which is known for among other things causing problems with IPv6 (http://ipv6.br/post/bug-em-plugin-de-seguranca-de-bancos-blo...).
Any data to back up that theory? The alternative theory that rail drives neighbourhood growth and has better long-term political safety is more plausible to me.

Not that I disagree but it's no less backed up than the theory you support.
It seems whenever we discuss taxis and Uber/Lyft/etc, one has to make it clear what area the experience happened in. Re-analyzing my experiences, I don't feel I have enough data now to compare both services as they happened in very different cities and not enough times to draw any conclusions.

So rephrasing my argument: I feel safer in my city, with the requirements the local government imposes on taxis (licensing, training, special driver license, etc) versus "anyone can drive an Uber/Lyft". Interestingly, my personal experience has contributed to make this feeling stronger but I understand that will not be the case for others. I often hear a lot of bad stories about taxis in the US and, to make me more confused, that's where I had terrible Uber/Lyft experiences.

I think this only goes to show there's a huge lack of quality everywhere, with both services.
That list is actually making fun of what you're describing in the JS community. "Not Awesome" is a play on the "Awesome" lists like this [https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome]

JS classes were extremely hyped up a year ago. Taking a stance against classes was going very hard against the hype.

How well your devs understand the code is the only real metric. If you understand OOP better, stick with it!
Microsoft Teams launches March 14 to take on Slack
Most of the web dev features they are so excited about already have been in various IDE's (IDEA, Sublime with plugins, Netbeans etc) for couple of years. Some of which are source map, live reload, linter, ES5/6 support etc.
I'm glad to see that 63% develop on Linux; IME there really is no substitute.

I think it's a real shame that vi, VSCode, Atom, IntelliJ & Sublime Text come in ahead of emacs — emacs & go-mode are a wonderful way to write Go, particularly if one's using projectile or spacemacs. It's really worth a shot!
> [rail] will always have the last mile issue

That is true only for heavy rail (commuter trains). But light rail (trams, or perhaps called streetcars in American English) can have stops as often as buses.

Here is a tram in Karlsruhe, Germany:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3470/3906930335_f3b2e209c2.jp...

Here are some in Helsinki, Finland:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/47004637.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_jhbBeEkiyc/maxresdefault.jpg
Wow this is so much better than a traditional video explanation of code. Really well done and polished for a beta project.

Speaking of 'beta', what is the plan for Scrimba? Are you interested in it being an open place for sharing videos and demonstrations? Or are you planning on monetizing in some way?
It depends on the "window size" used by the compressor. According to https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/doc/zstd_compressi..., the window size can be anywhere from 1KB to 1.875TB.

The table mapping compression levels to window sizes is at https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/15a7a99653c78a57d1ccbf.... The first element is the window size. I'm pretty sure you raise 2 to that power to get the window size. As you can see, level 1 is 2^18, which is 256KB - far larger than the minimum of 1KB. Lowering it will make compression faster at the expense of compression ratio.

For comparison, zlib's max window size is 32KB. That's one reason its compression ratio is so limited.
Not sure you can call it an immigration form, because it's targeting "nonimmigrant visitor".

Moreover the form do not specifically mention concentration camp guards:

> "(...) between 1933 and 1945 were involved, in
any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies?"

I guess Wernher von Braun, like most of the people included in the "Operation Paperclip"[1] would have fallen in that category in some way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
Its pretty standard for most life saving drugs to be subsidized. Watch the end of many pharma ads in the us. Not saying he is a saint, but in this case you are ascribing malice where there is none.
my understanding is that they are generally granted in limited numbers to politically powerful entities

Taxi licenses would comply …if they were freely available to anyone who met the safety and service criteria

In the UK, that's what happens: fulfil the safety and service criteria (e.g. appropriate driving licence, language skills, knowledge of the locale, suitable vehicle, etc), and you can obtain a licence.

To the best of my knowledge, the restrictions on the number of taxis (i.e. the Medallion system) appears to be a predominantly USA-centric issue. I don't know of a similar quota system outside the USA (and please do correct me if I'm ill-informed).

There are cases where companies have appealed against the criteria - such as Uber fighting TFL's language requirements: "a third of the drivers would fail the English tests because it would be too difficult for them" [1] - but it's still the case that if they fulfil the criteria, they can obtain a licence.

[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/03/uber_loses_english_...
I love chaining, but one verb per line. Instead of something like

Me.getFish.skin.debone.flour.salt.fry.eat

It would be something like

Me.getFish
.skin
.debone
.flour
.salt
.fry
.eat

I find this more readable than doing it without chaining like this:

fish = Me.getFish
fish.skin
fish.debone
fish.flour
fish.salt
fish.fry
Me.eat(fish)
I made NewtonScript, starting in 1992. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewtonScript)

The other viable choice was to have application developers write everything for the Newton in C or C++. By giving them a much higher-level framework (Scheme/Self-like language + UI views/interaction + indexed object store) we were able to get more functionality into the product/ecosystem faster and more reliably. At least I think so. Also, we didn't have much RAM to play with, and were able to do some nice memory-saving tricks underneath.
HOW Your BUSINESS SHOULD BENEFIT OF LEAN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT [PART 1]
I can think of many more interesting things other than debugging a three year old evergreen browser.

Staring at a blank wall, for example.
Okay, I think I just misunderstood you at first.
Haha, very nice. I think this might works with https://www.groupon.com/ too.
That's sort of my point though. If hardware back doors exist (and I don't argue that they can't!) they're exotic, highly protected and rarely used. They aren't routine instruments of state surveillance.
What I think is a bit remarkable is that it's not so much generics which are lacking, but syntactic abstraction. Folks focus on generics, but really the one thing Go is missing is the ability to extend the language as a programmer.
Huh, I must have missed the "classes are great" wave. I only remember the "classes are bad" FUD represented by this list... HN is my main connection to the hype train these days since I quit Twitter.

> How well your devs understand the code is the only real metric. If you understand OOP better, stick with it!

Agreed.
i believe that anyone who held significant stock prior to IPO is locked out of at least selling for a couple months - SEC probably has some regulations regarding that kind of thing.
One of my favorite little-known tidbits of Los Angeles traffic history is the Alweg monorail proposal in 1963. The Alweg Monorail Company offered to finance and build a 43 mile monorail system, which would be repaid with MTA revenues. The proposal got derailed when Standard Oil lobbied heavily against it.

I'm convinced that if this proposal had gotten approved and built, the trajectory of public transportation in Los Angeles would have been significantly different, and the city would probably have a very efficient and extensive monorail system now. Los Angeles seems to be the perfect place for a monorail - it can be built around existing structures and doesn't require underground tunneling. I'm not sure that Los Angeles would be a 'car city' now if we had started building this monorail system 50 years ago.

http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/LA1963.html
I really hope not. At least not without autonomous controls that prevent human error, such as collision avoidance.
The technology used by the CIA and NSA is all stuff people on HN can totally grok. That's kind of exciting and disappointing at the same time.

Some people on this site could probably do better than the CIA and NSA is doing. Some people here probably wrote some of leaked stuff. Hah!

I like the way the teams are broken up by device target but I think they should probably have an even more decentralized setup. Or maybe just more teams doing the same work. Wikileaks tries to make a political point about wasted effort, but more people means more exploits found, etc.
Sounds like a great way to solve other people's problems. I drive through D.C. often enough. Their congestion scheme seems to do little for the schmucks who can't afford to pay.

It makes a hell of a lot of money though. And it's defiantly a help for people driving through.
Russians do not have free press and the state controlled media allows them to use nationalism to strongly insulate themselves from criticism and foreign press.

Combined with their propensity for assassinating dissenters and journalists, there is less willpower to resist the fascism.

It's to the point now that things like this improve Putin's poll numbers, not hurt them.
Everything I know about jet engines comes from the fantastic multi-year youtube vlog of AgentJayZ of JetCity, Canada! https://www.youtube.com/user/AgentJayZ
Ahh nice something to look forward to in life haha
That takes me back 33 years...
commenting for future reference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_the_flag
I cant find when i subscribed to that particular belief in my ledger, it feels self-evident to me at this point. Whether it's true or not is mostly a semantic argument. You might personally define a beliefs "utility" to be strictly tied to its "objective truth" (or whatever epistemic ideal you assume), but the linked article posits a particular intersection of "rationality" and "utility" of beliefs (as far as I read it anyway). I found it agreeable and chose to share my musings on the topic.

I do not agree that the view is particularly post-modern, but since you called it first i guess i must concede. The point was not "all is subjective and nothing is true", rather "whether or not i take on this belief (or fact or whatever) presented to me is a function of the degree to which i understand it combined with my intuition of the ramifications of me holding this belief". We don't have truth-seeking minds, we have "value-" or "utility"-maximizing habits.

We understand things and we underestimate things.
We prefer things and we reject things.
Not always knowingly and sometimes intentionally.
Those aren't mutually exclusive: tolls are a way to force a lot of people to economize at once, which can create the critical mass needed for a functioning bus ecosystem, which could even include private buses.