skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need technologies which will make location unimportant.

With virtual reality, 4k HD conferencing and network bandwidth which can support both.

California taxes and real estate prices in SV will make more businesses move to Texas and other states where there is little or no income taxes.
>Our mechanics dress clean, bring you your favourite coffee, and teach you a bit about the repair as well to educate you about the trade.

Dress clean? Really? Are they "articulate" too?
DOOM Resurrected, Part 1 - To Hell & Back (DOOM Documentary) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS6SBnccxMA

DOOM Resurrected, Part 2 - Designing a First Impression (Doom Documentary) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsoVQWnSOfM

DOOM Resurrected, Part 3 - Guns, Guitars & Chess on Mars (Doom Documentary) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0nOsuaPDeg

I too recommend these.

Noclip also has a bunch of extended interviews that you can find on their channel or in related videos but I haven't seen those so can't comment on whether or not they are worth looking at.
A fun little demonstration to do when teaching sailing to kids is to fill a baking dish around half full with chocolate pudding and level it, then drag spoons through at a slight angle to simulate a sail. It's far from scientific and isn't really working on quite the same principle, but if your pudding is the right consistency, it does a decent job of showing the pressure gradients. Best of all, you've got a bunch of chocolate pudding to eat after.
"Paid advertising" is where you take money from somebody, and the person you take money from controls the content. I don't see how Microsoft suggesting that you try Edge or OneDrive (which are free, and which you already have) fit into that category.
I can't speak for the data science stack, but everything in the web stack is Postgresql (with the exception of Redis for background jobs and things of that nature).
That last part seems to really put a damper on things, since the problem the author describes is that a person with a hearing aid requires speakers to take turns. Apparently, when people speak together, the multiple voices clash. Even if the hearing aid amplifies voices only, that problem remains.

Still, cooler than a lot of things Deep Learning is being applied to these days.
and tracking of links inside emails
Hartford typically. Get quotes from various top companies and see how they rate you. Your experience and history will affect your rates etc.

Generally depending on limits you are probably somewhere between $500/yr to $1500/yr. of course higher limits or high risk areas change those drastically.

There is an online company. I think called something like tech insurance and they write policies for most top end providers and get how to help freelancers and small consulting shops. I used them a couple of times in the past.

Also look into an umbrella policy personally too. There are some differences but it may make sense depending on your situation.
If I were in charge of aiming the Deep Space Communications Complex radio beam, I would likely find the temptation to 'accidentally' redirect it towards Proxima Centauri for a second to be overwhelming. Hats off to those well-behaved NASA engineers!
All About Animation Softwares
"serious injury"
hah, what a joke
The Catalina 22 is available with a swing keel that is about 550 lbs. Those models have no other keel. By contrast, my Morgan 24 has a full-length shallow keel with 1900 lbs of ballast, plus a fully retractable centerboard that is not particularly heavy. I think the only common distinction between the terms "swing keel" and centerboard is whether it provides appreciable ballast.
The better question is would the rest of the world allow the remaining US to do a damn thing about it? The US itself has a history of supporting states that leave other states in civil wars.
They're not. The type ValueTuple is a value-type.
This is why I have an old Kindle that isn't back lit.

Has no keyboard. Manual buttons. No touchscreen.

Terrible for note-taking.

But easy, easy on the eyes.
How we cracked the mentoring puzzle at Microsoft Accelerator
j/k :) sounds like a great service! I'm excited to see more services that value educating their client base as a core value.
I'm not a US history expert, but I think Nixon had very firm ideas about how to run a country. In the end, people did not approve of these ideas, but at least there was an internally coherent world view.

The problem with Park is not that she had wrong ideas, but that she did not have any idea at all. Instead she let her close friend take care of the boring chore of running a country. During the past four years the country was essentially on auto-pilot, progressively worsening while bureaucrats were awaiting for leadership that never materialized.

I'd say she's more like Nikolai II, complete with Rasputin.
I can't speak to the author... but I've done a couple contracting stints at financial institutions... the first time was a great experience, everyone was at the top of their respective game, and it was a great team to work in, I'm actually working with a few people I worked with back then at a job I recently started.

The most recent time, was not very enjoyable at all... very litigious, slow moving and a recent project was built like it would have been a decade ago, ignoring all progress in the space, and getting it updated was akin to pulling teeth with the rest of the team. After a year, I was ready to not go back in.
Yes, I use OneDrive and I was hit with the Windows Explorer ad this morning. It's ridiculous.
H.R.1275 – World's Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017
The exercise was to write a regex parser. He asked me about worst-case behavior, which is an exponential number of states. He asked for a regex with worst-case behavior, which I could provide, mentioning that I knew this because the textbook I used for the project pointed it out. Behold, a worst-case regex template:

(a|b)*a(a|b)^n

This requires at least 2^n states in the DFA.

He asked me to prove that 2^n states were required while he waited. I didn't know the proof and wasn't comfortable trying to produce it while being watched. There's no upper limit to how long producing a proof might take.
Working While Female
> I don't think any .NET language can do that

Although the CLR does allow for them.

Global functions can be emulated:

public static GlobalFuncs
{
public string Greet(string x) => $"Hello, {x}";
}

Elsewhere:

using static GlobalFuncs;

public void Test();
{
Greet("HN"); // "Hello, HN"
}
Do you sign HIPAA BAAs?
> The approach we take is to track a lot, and figure out what works the best over time.

That's really, really bad statistics.
Sorry, but why are we immediately assuming this wasn't an accident/unintentional? Did I miss the part where the admin assistant took off their KKK costume and stick-on Adolf Hitler moustache before shaking everyone's hand?

Have we really reached the point as a society where we immediately assume every social faux-pas has some sort of vague racist/sexist motive?

I'd be totally on board if this was something that genuinely damaged or demeaned this woman, but it clearly isn't - someone didn't shake her hand, apologised, then presumably shook her hand. If that's going to cause her to fall to pieces and give up on life as the author and most people commenting here would have us believe, then this blog post isn't really going to help her much.
My question was more along the lines of "there's a lot about red-black trees that I could know, but don't. What does he expect me to know about hash tables that I hadn't already told him?"
This is very similar to Pandoc, which also processes things into its own AST/Internal representation. It then knows how to translate its representation into a many different outputs. Pandoc is really nice and you can script it with a variety of languages, though if you really want to dig in you have to use Haskell.

Kramdown using Ruby makes it more accessible and has some cool options like table of contents generation that is more flexible than Pandoc. You can see some discussion of supporting Kramdown in pandoc. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2711

Generally I think pandoc is the more mature tool, but I can see places where it might be a better call (especially if your app needs it as a library and you aren't willing to call a command (Pandoc).
CIA Coding Conventions for Python
It's like people don't remember that there was a president that called a press conference, spoke to the people, put on a jacket, got in a helicopter, and flew away from the White House forever.
A related article trending on HN couple of months back
https://medium.com/@afarrington/ycombinator-backed-fiix-io-i...
> Do you expect to get hired at companies without ever getting interviewed by them? Triplebyte culls out as much of the process as you can realistically expect to be culled

Almost all other fields are capable of trusting third parties to certify competence. They interview for fit, but with a basic understanding that the candidate is qualified.

Employers waste less time giving interviews, and benefit from a more accurate filter than they could develop in-house.

Employees waste less time giving interviews, and will find out early (i.e. by failing college classes, prompting them to switch majors) if the work isn't for them. Good practitioners are unlikely to be denied their dream jobs by the unreliability of the interview process, and truly incompetent practitioners aren't allowed to keep trying until something sticks because (below some threshold) they'll never get in the door. They're given the benefit of the doubt for making it through the main gate (undergrad/bar exam/whatever) and from there, judged on the basis of their performance in their actual role, not how well the study for a song-and-dance routine that approximates the role.

Triplebyte's value proposition is to be such a trusted third party for software engineering, since universities aren't. If companies don't trust it, and view people who passed Triplebyte with the same "incompetent fraud until proven otherwise" lens they apply to everyone else, then Triplebyte isn't adding value for anyone in the ecosystem.

I think you can realistically expect the skills test to be culled from interview processes: in other fields, it never even appeared.
8 core CPU; 6 Tflops of performance.
Honestly, even Google is more ethical.

Google is at the top in Mobile. Yet Android is 90% Open Source. It's not that even that.

If I want to install an APK, I can do it. No need to be a Enterprise or pay $100 for a developer license, anyone can install FDroid. And they let people write competitive software (Firefox, etc.) and set them as default. Actually, as a user, I don't have to see anything be Google if I don't want to.

And don't forget open sourcing TensorFlow.
I agree. The point is that there is no US president comparable to Park, and probably the closest match is Nixon.
Go to a store, pay for a Win 10 license, step through the installation like a typical user would ignoring anything that says "advanced settings", and see how pushy MS is with ads for their services.
I respect Joel immensely. That said, I found his post strange in what it leaves out. So much so that I wrote my own follow up.

https://medium.com/@wwalser/re-developers-side-projects-3ee3...

Basically, yes, it's standard practice but in every company that I've worked for there have been escape hatches that were relatively easy to utilize. HR usually has paperwork that both parties sign saying something along the lines of "[developer] is going to build [thing] in their own time using their own hardware. We grant [developer] the legal right to maintain ownership of [thing]".

I pay a lot of attention to what I'm signing. My side projects are important to me. They're a part of my lifestyle. I think most devs could very comfortably sign without a second thought. On the whole, state and contract law in the US combine to create a fairly good safety net for avoiding truly abhorrent contracts.
https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/the-myths-of-bi...
yes. and people have. you're right that its very low res!

The newest idea is to use "programmable" difractive optics instead of lenticular lenses.
7 years. Iraq and/or afganistan were/are far longer. Every US president has their war. More often than not those wars have ties to domestic politics. That a president uses a war for political gain is expected. It is for the people to hold that in check... which they did with nixon. If not for vietnam he probably would have stayed in office. He spent all his political capital and, when the inevitable scandle hit, he had to go. Other presidents stayed on after far worse.
It doesn't matter what the cause is - I'm saying as a result of that, the general populus understands gigabytes.
Man pages' source texts are not human readable.

If they were, that would bring good things.

This is the entire motivation behind my comment.

I don't know how I can be clearer here.
I wouldn't say that jQuery has a vulnerability, but it having tons of APIs that have an overloard supporting injecting HTML from a string make it easy to write vulnerable code (compare to React where the only way to inject HTML from a string requires using a very explicit API involving typing "unsafe") and hard to identify vulnerable code (I can't easily ctrl-f through a codebase for easy-to-misuse functions because most of the calls will be calls to safer-element-taking overloads that I can only identify by following the code backwards).
but the real question is why he needed password length constraints instead of password strength constraints...
Sanctuary cities are absolutely protected under the Constitutional doctrine of anti-commandeering; a direct and obvious and firmly established application of the Tenth Amendment.

The Federal government has to enforce its own laws. The States may voluntarily assist, but the Federal government has no authority to mandate that states, or subdivisions thereof, enforce federal laws.
> I don't see this as being particularly different from Google showing me an advert for Chrome every time I do a search....

I expect ads when I visit someone's store. I don't expect ads in my home, even if I'm just renting it from someone else. That's the difference that I see.
Sure. Just concatenate a 256-bit nonce to your PIN, calculate the SHA-512 of the concatenation, and then type the last 4 hex digits of the hash. Easy!
> What tech company has ever been at the top and acted nicely?

It's not a binary option (nice vs. not nice) but a range from nice to not nice. Companies fall at different points on that spectrum. As examples; Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM and Oracle all fall on very different points on this not-nice spectrum when they are/were at the top. The relative positions are subjective depending on who you relate to each (developer, competitor, user, recipient of legal threat or bystander), but in my circles there is a general consensus on the relative positions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13835823
People still use WCF? I suffered enough getting one project running with Windows Configuration Fuckup. Never again.
The share price has doubled, Office 365 is a success, and more than 400 million people are on Windows 10.

Yes, but the balance of where the money is coming from seems to have been shifting, at least going by the public briefings. As I read them, it's not that Windows 10 has been successful: only 400 million people is quite a poor performance given everything 10 should have had going for it, and market share seems to have flattened dramatically since the end of the giveaway period. It's just that other parts of Microsoft are currently doing well enough to make up for it.

Windows 10 has also improved dramatically over the past 18 months.

When you start with as many problems as Windows 10 had, it would be hard not to!

Still, I'm not convinced the things that originally put off the people who haven't upgraded already have really changed much at all. Potential deal-breakers like forced updates/reboots, privacy/telemetry concerns, driver/hardware problems, and ads all still seem to be there. Edge and Cortana are still mostly gimmicks. It still doesn't have as much support for playing media as previous versions.
I understand what you're saying and agree about Fox and WSJ, but the fact is for years all major media corporations gave airtime to "opposing arguments" made by Think Tank talking heads on global warming despite the universal scientific agreement on it. That's what I mean by false equivalence and that's the attitude, and not purposeful misinformation by some outlets, that's the problem.

Yes, mainstream media has gotten better about that topic in particular, but in general journalists still go for the easier "stories" that can be portrayed as competing sides, or simple narratives in general rather than what would actually inform people about the world.
There's a big drawbacks of Flex App Engine, comparing to Standard App Engine:

1. Deployment of a new version can take up to 30 minutes. It seems to do the following:

* Spins up two new GCE instances, that will build your code to a Docker image (and you pay for them).

* Uploads all of your code to those instances (even the files that weren't changed, contrary to Standard GAE).

* Then you just wait until it builds the code and deploys it to Flex environment.

In Standard env, only changed files were uploaded, and no extra building step occurred, so the whole process was less than a minute.

2. Static files -- now you have to manage them yourself: either serving them from server (bad), or, as they recommend -- upload it to GCS or any other CDN, and serve from there (good).
With Standard environment you just didn't care -- statics were served from some internal CDN (not touching your server), and were always in sync with your currently active code version. We're not ready for going that hassle now.
Windows 10 latest chrome shows it properly, fwiw.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13831824

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13835733
What state was this at? I would question its legality/enforcability.
If you think about how their service started--as a tire replacement service--I don't think it's as concerning. If I wanted my tires changed or rotated I don't care who does it (I always took my bike to the CycleGear but that's just because they always had good rates for tires). But once something big happens to your vehicle I'm with you and can't imagine calling over a random mechanic (nor do I think they can do a sufficient job repairing it in a driveway).
Bayesian networks without tears [pdf]
While value-types are recommended to be immutable, it is not mandatory.
I do understand that using tech to ease my adddiction may not be very effective. However, I do think it is worth a shot. After all, it is the nature of the Web that has made porn use and/or addiction so prevalent.

My addiction does greatly affect my life and occasionally ruins my productivity. Sometimes I would stay up until 2AM watching porn while perfectly knowing I have to wake up early the next day. So yes, I would really describe it as compulsive.

That said, I think an addiction could include a 15-20 minute use. I'm strongly against porn (multitude of reasons), yet I watch it, which points to my being compulsive. 15-20 minutes doesn't seem like a lot, but I still consider it precious time that's wasted.
It is informative, but slanted towards the view of the employer IMHO.
Singapore’s central bank is ready to use the blockchain for inter-bank payments
Still looks to be a bit shy of the 60fps gold point...
What I wish I was told when I started out as an engineer
> and in other G7 countries your Democratic party would barely be considered "left" let alone "far left", so yeah, pretty lunatic.

True, the Democratic Party is basically a coalition where the two main factions are the dominant center-right neoliberal faction (the "Third Way" that reached its peak under Bill Clinton and his since lost some ground in the party while still remaining dominant, if barely so) and the secondary center-left progressive faction.
Airbus Pop.Up uses drones to carry cars
KCIA is currently run by clowns who roll in the same bed as Park's people, so probably not. (One of the first thing the next president needs to do is to purge it of all the criminals who've meddled with domestic politics.)

...Unless someone has the craziest idea of killing her so that she could be a martyr. But I doubt they have someone who is that evil and that competent at the same time.
> Not really. I wish the Mozilla Foundation would rejuvenate their email client once and for all.

I would love that too. Sometime last year Mozilla enabled donating specifically to the Thunderbird project (which was a long time wish of mine) as opposed to donating to Mozilla as one entity, and I started donating to it. With more monetary support, we could have possibly have it become much better again (native and good Exchange calendaring support without extensions would be my top wish - the current scheme with the integrated Lightning and Exchange Provider is quite buggy).
At 1080p, sure... 4k would need to be able to push 120fps at real workloads to support dual 4k @ 60 (give or take). Which is probably 6-8 years off.

I have a GTX 1080 fouders connected to a 4K display, and love it, replaced dual 27"s, but gaming isn't there yet, and need to reduce the resolution. Of course, I don't game enough to really comment... it's nice having a single 40" display without the break between the screens.
https://youtu.be/GNR9El3XWYo
Kramdown is the default for Jekyll now and it's pretty awesome.

I switched the content team over to writing all of the pages for our sites in Kramdown and they're enjoying it much more than HTML. Easier for both them and us to maintain.
I pay $999/mo to Blackwater, which slaughters the Brinks Allstate and Alfa Pinkertons agents coming to arrest me.

Their families pay $1100/mo to Triple Canopy, which eventually wins its protracted firefight with Blackwater, securing my capture.

The market takes notice. Soon the only protection services in demand are those provided by the company which can wield the most force.

And we're back at government.
People definitely play beach volleyball in Vancouver in May. Maybe they are just insane. But some days are much warmer than 17C, and when it's sunny the air temperature doesn't matter that much.
The big impediment imho between c# and scripting language is the whole Visual Studio project experience. With Roslyn they introduced the csx format for c# scripts so you can have a stand-alone 1-file executable c# script, but the tooling hasn't caught up yet.

I'm using LinqPad for all kinds of one-off scripting jobs and loving it. I was trying to learn PowerShell for that task but I've finally given up on that. PowerShell has some great features, but the overall chaotic syntax just kills me.
> The metric we optimize for is our onsite success rate i.e. how often does a Triplebyte candidate onsite interview result in an offer. Since our candidates don't go through the regular technical phone screens, any improvement we can make on the industry standard of a 20 - 25% onsite success rate saves the company engineering time spent doing those phone screens. Currently we're averaging 2x that rate across all our companies.

I can see where that's valuable to the companies. What value are you trying to provide to candidates? I already know how to apply to companies, pass the phone screen, and wash out of the interview. If I knew how to pass the interview, I'd still know how to apply and pass the phone screen. What is Triplebyte supposed to help with?
Fewer Americans Try to Lose Weight – Fat Loss for Women
I feel like out was important for marshalling into C++ code?
Much though I hate voting up a Daily Mail article, this is interesting.

I've posted the abstract of the study behind this story at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13836648 but that is just the abstract.