skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. I'm in my late 30's, being interviewed by 25-year-olds for jobs. These people do not want to be challenged intellectually.

Some (paraphrased) excerpts from conversations I've had recently-- "Would you be willing to do a coding challenge? "Sure, about how long is it?" "I'm not sure." "What subject is it on?" I'm not sure." "When do you need it?" "A week from today." "I'm going to be traveling starting tomorrow, can we do the test the week after next?" "No, I really need it on Tuesday." "So the only thing you know about this test-- is the due date? I can't commit to an unknown amount of work in a week where I know I'll be traveling."

"We only hire the best, absolutely best programmers." "Oh really? What would you say your average experience level is?" "3-5 years."

"We insist on the highest quality work, would you be able to perform at that level?" "How does your organization define quality?" ... what ensued was 5 minutes of stammering and "uhhhsss" until I let her off the hook.

Experience, at least in California, is a liability not an asset.
https://gist.github.com/ahoka/aa2a83196ceab44ab400

It's much better since I have learned about use-package.
You just said it was likely.
Show HN: Continuous Integration and Delivery of Enterprise iOS Applications
>You do realize that building that wall essentially says: Mexicans, you're on your own, you won't be able to vote with your feet any more, and we will not allow you to come to work in the USA to send money home in order to slowly increase the standard of living South of the border, made worse by American companies being strong-armed into operating North of that same border?

Please explain what prevents Mexico from improving its standard of living on its own. Mexico is not some kind of slave to America; it's a sovereign nation, in control of its own destiny. It's free to trade with all the other 200+ nations on Earth, or to attempt to negotiate having its people go live there.

Why does America get all the blame in your world for Mexico's problems? Who does America get to blame for its problems?
Photos of the rise and fall of Apple
Thanks! I guess my actual question is -- what are the hook(s) Expo expects from a React Native package?

I'm used to using Webpack or Gulp or Grunt to transpile source code into something deployable on the web. The React Native / Expo packaging process feels opaque to me though. It's not clear to me, for instance, whether Expo uses https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tree/master/package... or whether it has some kind of different packaging process.

Likewise, a newly created project with the XDE builds automatically using Babel. But it's not clear from the project itself how XDE knows to use Babel. Is Babel hard-coded in the XDE? Can I turn it off?

Expo apps also all seem to have a `registerRootComponent` function, but there isn't any documentation on what this function actually does.
I've yet to see a MUMPS code base that would qualify as 'elegant', do you have any pointers?

I'd love to see how it should be done, the only things I've seen are examples of how things (any things!) really should not be done.
I wrote this somewhat thorough post about time, date, events, and timezones in response to a stackoverflow question once: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2532729/daylight-saving-t...

It covers repeating events, historical accuracy, ranges, events that are fixed in localtime but variable in UTC, and more.

TL;DR: Always store UTC datetime + TimeZone, sometimes you need to store a little more information.
The Atari 2600's TIA made use of these pseudorandom counters, too, for the current horizontal raster position of sprites and other objects. As a result, the programmer couldn't set the position directly -- you'd have to wait for the counter to reach the desired value, then strobe a register that sets the position register (to the opaque pseudorandom value). You could then nudge it -8 or +7 pixels with yet another register.
> The analogy to the legal system is that mob rule supersedes (digital) contract law and property rights.

Imagine if you and I wrote a contract, and in the contract, there is a typo which says that I will pay you $5 gazillion for an iPhone, then that doesn't mean that the courts must enforce it. Clearly, it doesn't follow the 'intent' of the parties.

Now, what if the other side truly signed the contract because they thought that their iPhone was being bought for 5 gazillion dollars, well this is why we don't "JUST" communicate via the contract. We communicate and perform negotiations via other human channels and the legal contract is a formalized expression of our communication.

Same thing goes with smart contracts. I don't intend to use Smart Contracts because the missing 11th commandment said: "Thou shalt obey the Legal/Smart Contracts to the word". I want to use Smart Contracts because they would be an extension of legal contracts taken to the decentralized + technology domain.

Literally, nobody put their money in the DAO because they thought that if a person puts in $1000 in the DAO then he should be able to take out $10 million if he is clever enough.

Lemme put it this way, had the hard fork not happened, but nearly 90% of the Ethereum holders quit Ethereum after that and joined say Lisk or some other smart contract platform, (which meant that the hacker's bounty would have been decimated, would you still say that 'mob rule has superceded the contract law and property rights'?
I very recently bought a watch online from a private seller and paid through Paypal without an account. So this appears to still work?
How did you find the demo page, and why did you expect it to be more useful than the front page at explaining what LLVM is?

The llvm.org front page already has "The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project" as its title and the first sentence of the body text is "The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies."
This blog post really just compares EC2 vs GCE. That's a valuable comparison to make, but covers a fairly narrow use case. I'd love to see comparisons that that say "for EDW X wins over Y", "for high volume message passing Z is best", "for data archival Q wins" etc
> The Nazis didn't have anything like modern surveillance, and they didn't need it to enact the Holocaust. So I'm not sure what your point is; could you clarify?

There was significant custom logistical technology developed for the challenge of tracking millions of people during the Holocaust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
For what it's worth: The latest ETA for AP2 to reach parity with AP1 was tweeted by Elon Musk yesterday:

"It's been a bear to get done, but prob 10 days or so, depending on full speed autosteer test results"
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/841041891747545089
I used to be the opposite of apathetic. I was deeply involved in party politics at the local and state level. I met and spoke with governors and senators, representatives and mayors, presidential candidates and district attorneys, activists and money people from both parties. I raised money, I knocked on doors to get out the vote, I waved signs at busy intersections, I sat through countless committee meetings. I even ran for a state office once. (Lost, thankfully.)

All of that experience taught me that there is, in fact, no difference between Bush and Gore. There is a difference between Clinton and Trump, but there is no difference between Clinton and Jeb Bush.

By the way, Trump is different because he comes from outside of that system that has been built up since the late 60s. He doesn't fit any of the existing paradigms the Baby Boomer generation created, which is why establishment Republicans were busy attacking him during the election and obstructing his agenda right now.

Now, tell me again I'm lying to myself. Tell me how many politicians you have personally eaten with, or even spoken to in private, in the last 30 years. Tell me why your experience is superior to mine when it comes to making such a judgment.
Money if fungible. California spends an enormous amount of money on illegal aliens (illegal immigrants). For example, there was an NYT op-ed piece which explained that 200 illegal aliens are allowed to attend at in-state tuition UC Berkeley.

Thus, the Federal Funds noted in this article were in fact being used to fund people who are residing in this country illegally.

We don't even have enough money for the poor who live in this country legally.

So, for California to get the funding it needs for the train, stop funding illegal aliens K-12 education, healthcare, university education, ....
serving pdfs to the web like no other

link to the gigantic image (displayed quite tiny on the site and after a slow load just linking to the pdf): https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2017/03/Visua...
That makes gaming the system too easy.
Doesn't look too promising so far.
New Zealand.
hiring a guy for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars might look strange to future investors, but buying a company for that much is commonplace. alternatively, they could have done it in the attempt to limit any potential liability (like this waymo lawsuit) to otto without risking the mothership (uber).
Very low quality comment. Millennials are among the best informed of the issue.
Critical Vulnerability Uncovered in JSON Encryption
Premium seems really pricey as the only one that has a "give to charity" option. I expect some increased options to give to charity (10,20,40,60) would be a significant boost to good will / advertisement. "50% but only if you pay us $30+/mo" comes off as kind of greedy.
Thanks, I've fixed this.
No React Native is the awesome future right now and this shall go unquestioned!

But yeah seriously, some pretty basic stuff is neglected and this is a reassurance that there are people at Facebook who are working on it. Listviews are complicated, but pretty much a prerequisite for mobile apps.
Ask HN: Is there anything like NewGrounds these days?
About 10 years ago, I remember NewGrounds being this amazing place to see fresh animation / game content.

I really enjoyed trying to hack together animations back then, even if most of them did get 'blammed'. Since then, I've focussed on programming, so am out-of-the-loop with where the cool kids and trendy game devs hang out and showcase their stuff.

I'm looking to get back into indie game development and was wondering if there is a 'new' NewGrounds — or if it is indeed still as revered and the place to check out new stuff.

Bonus points if anyone knows of the above, but more JS focussed!
They should've started high speed rail in the bookends, since any construction there would have immediate benefits for hundreds of thousands of riders, and instill public confidence in the project. That would've helped Caltrain electrification right there.
In all seriousness ... the experiment failed to control for potential differences between the farts.
Assuming they have basic protections to stop malicious users massively-downvoting stories they don't like? The number of [real] users rating the story improves the balance, and you can use the same system they do now to prevent voting by brand-new users, things like that.
California's housing crisis won't be solved unless Californians embrace building
Thanks for share the IRC's specifications. I wrote this little project just as a exercise of my studies from Common Lisp, basic concepts of multi-threading and TCP/IP sockets.

Sorry if this annoys you. You are correct, would be better implement a well-known protocol for chat like IRC, is unnecessary as you say. But I think is still useful for learning purposes.

Thanks for looking it, anyway.
It's very obvious you're upset since you're resorting to name calling.

No trolling required to upset you. It seems just facts and reality will do it.
I don't agree with the the assertion that HN mainly "serves a business purpose", perhaps in its early days its main purpose was to funnel prospective people into YC (second step from pg's essays, I stumbled on HN this way back in the day).

If HN serves no business purpose, why does it employ full-time paid moderators?
Ketchupreader – a webclient for pocket
I'd like a system to filter out fluff threads on reddit. It would reject easy-consumption content such as images, gifs and short vids, or anything shorter than 60 seconds; also, low quality comments (short, aggressive, memes, etc).

Reddit is a gold-mine of interesting content, but it is flooded with fluff and garbage to the point where it becomes a problem to find the good parts.

I'm wondering why they don't use more machine learning magic on the site. There are multiple machine learning papers based off the reddit comment corpus.
Indeed, but this is representative of a very real change in the relationship between your clocks. The only way to keep this non-surprising is to make the time zone the schedule runs in explicit to the user. If somebody in a different zone edits the schedule it has to remain in the original time zone unless they explicitly change it. You do all your scheduling calculations in the schedule time zone and then convert it to an instant in time, likely expressed as a UTC time, when you need to calculate how long your computer should wait until the next event.

(Date)Times stored in the schedule (start times, end times, trigger times, clock times) are not instants in UTC, they are time specification in a calendar system which can only be interpreted as specific instants in the context of a particular time zone. Which is stored explicitly and separately from the calendar date-times.

This crucial separation of a time specifications in a calendar system from instants in time is one thing which many date/time libraries get wrong and which Noda-/JodaTime gets right.
'homos' is the pretty much the direct translation.
Ha ha, I'm embarrassed now by all the attention this thread got! Hopefully everything will go back to normal now that I'm sober and I can make my usual 2- and 3-point comments here and there.
> Yes, the website says "unstoppable uncensorable contracts" and we stopped one.

Let's say that Hard fork never happened, lets say if tomorrow due to a certain smart contract, 90% of the Ether holders sell off, and go join Lisk or some other Smart contract platform, would you say because 90% of the Ethereum supporters sold off their currency, therefore the smart contract has been 'stopped' and that they should remove "unstoppable uncensorable contracts" from their website?
Is there a reason to believe that the distribution of funds vs the economic activity generated by illegal immigrants is significantly different from any other group?
More constructively phrased: make them run around outside a bunch during the day, and don't let them use devices with screens after dark.

Works for adults, too (especially if you also reduce use of artificial lighting) though it can be a struggle to fit that into modern life—especially in the Winter, since kids don't do much running around at school these days and it's dark shortly after they get home.
The bombshell is that Google uses SVN.
Not a skyscraper, then; rather, a house, but one which had to be built of brick-sized prefab components, where a constant revolving door of contractors and architects worked either by adding or replacing bricks one-at-a-time.

To put that another way: sometimes the problem isn't the problem. Sometimes the ungainliness of the tool or process used to solve the problem, is the problem. If you've got a 1000-ton hammer, you might (in theory) be able to hammer a nail, but you've got some other logistical challenges to solve first.
I'm honestly amazed that anybody bought "pivot to self-driving cars" as a strategy. Even if it did work and they built perfect working autonomous vehicle software, right now, legitimately, what's the next step? Were they going to buy and operate a fleet? Have random people sign up to rent their unused cars out as taxis?
This is just unnecessarily divisive.

If a change in law is your recommendation, I'd suggest that this is not unnecessary. Rallying public opinion is often a necessary precursor to legislation.
I think the argument for runtime fragmentation and package fragmentation is a bit exaggerated. Most people use pip. Most people use CPython. People make tradeoffs when they need to use another interpreter for performance reasons [1], but CPython is the reference implementation. Just because alternative options exist for specific cases doesn't mean there's fragmentation in the ecosystem at large.

[1]: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/which-python...
I write down things I want to do but am liable to forget, which are almost always <1 day of work. The rest is in my head and the details are worked out on the fly.

It helps to not worry about racing to a practical product as fast as you can. Take your time and do it right. A practical product will come with time.
It would be refreshing if he actually backed up his words, rather than just saying what he thinks you want to hear. It's not refreshing when he flip-flops depending on who his audience is at the time.
>Your reference to yoga pants/tights is amusing but you do know that yoga pants/tights aren't made of 100% nylon?

Actually, no, I'm talking about tights, not yoga pants. If I had meant yoga pants, I would have written that. Tights are just thicker versions of women's pantyhose.

>The key ingredient for tights these days is spandex and not nylon.

Untrue; go look at the labels. Spandex is usually in the single-digit range as a percentage, and never more than 15% from what I've seen. I guess you could call it a "key ingredient" like egg is an essential ingredient many baked goods, even though it's a small portion of the overall volume, while the majority is wheat flour. But no one makes anything out of mainly spandex; it's added in as a small component for its extremely elastic properties.

>You know what is uncomfortable that is apparently casual these days is "skinny" anything. Skinny jeans are damn uncomfortable.

Tons of young people seem to disagree with you. Most likely, they have spandex added. It probably also helps a lot to not be fat.
What is the illegal part of this? This happens all the time in the Valley. Did they actually steal source code?
Real life. Mine also.
So, they are losing 12%/ride, but some of these costs will scale with the number of rides, and some will not.
No offense at all! It's just that history is written by the winners and we have so little international visibility that it hurts :P
I'm not sure how accurate it was, but someone wrote a piece about how there's just no way to measure how much a cost that group of people inflict vs contribute. The title of the article kind of says it all, undocumented and unmeasured.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/undocumented-and-unmeasure...
Why not? It's administrative work in an office environment. That seems white collar to me. What do you think it is instead? It's not service work (pink collar). It's not manual labour (blue collar).
Yes, we have made sure to add appropriate language to the appropriate paperwork (in addition to being protected by California law).
AWS Week in Review – March 6, 2017
Submitted just an hour ago, and has two comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13861648
If it was replicated/repeated for the next several years, I'd imagine the retention was relatively good. Likely as good or better for most people than today.
Building a facial recognition web app in under an hour
Last time I was thinking about it the number of non-standard extensions combined with there being multiple RFCs involved if you want to support more than minimal features led me not to consider it for my hobby/learning project.
Honestly I just think distros and package managers are the busted ones here. LLVM is strongly coupled to your language's semantics, and I'm unaware of any good reason to force every compiler to use the same version.
Why, in a thread about unacceptable reach of executive power, is the top comment a defense of the sitting president (the wielder of such power) and a canard about a mostly-unrelated political scandal?
I find the skyscraper comparison actually quite apt. You build an app that is 10 features, while the main facebook app itself is 100s of features. When you build a building that is more than 20 stories high, you have to change everything about that building. No more wood construction, you have to use steel, you have to think about the bedrock, you need to put in elevators and so on.

I bet if facebook was able to ship an app that only came with the mostly used %20 and was able to download the 100kb of binary for each of the mini features inside their app on demand, it would be a far more scalable application. But they cant, because iOS stops them.
> How much have you had to pay beeminder?

about $300 or so, much of it front-loaded towards early on when I was still gaining some necessary meta-habits, like "check beeminder carefully every morning/night."

> How do you make payments (escrow, credit card, PayPal, etc)?

They're credit card only for now.

> It seems like this would be a great opportunity for a non-profit.

I have no problem rewarding Beeminder for a service I find many times more valuable than what I pay them. Paying Beeminder my pledges is voluntary and mutually beneficial--they get an incentive to keep the service running, I get an incentive to improve my behavior. I like giving to charity too, but I'm fine with my Beeminder contracts strictly rewarding Beeminder.
Uber's drivers aren't really fans of them though, nor are they loyal to a single company. Uber could disappear tomorrow and all its drivers would be fine on Lyft.
According to TSLA, Mobileye didn't want their data used to train AP2 https://electrek.co/2016/09/15/tesla-vision-mobileye-tesla-a...
Facebook updates policies to prohibit surveillance
Yea i've kinda experienced that too. I currently use puree of Carolina Reaper peppers to accomplish the feat. It doesn't take much (a few drops) but it works great for me still. I think it also might help that I like the taste of the extremely hot peppers. The less hot ones have always tasted like grass to me (bell, jalapeno, etc).
I feel for the author's father, but I think the author knows the score. His father made a bad decision to assume he could ride out the rest of his career on his COBOL skills.
Yes, and then these "private contractors" who own the car and buy the self-driving hardware box from Uber take all the risk.
>Comparing hosiery to tights is not even remotely the same thing.

WTF are you talking about? Hosiery and tights are the same thing; tights are just the thicker opaque versions. Yes, they absolutely ARE worn with skirts/dresses. And yes, they do have nylon; nothing is made with 100% spandex, that's just plain ridiculous. Please go learn a little more about clothing before making such ridiculous and false statements.

>Ahh just google it but I confess the reality is most woman don't wear hosiery anymore so it doesn't really matter.

Only in your warped perception of the world. Just because you state something as true doesn't make it so.
I disagree. Uber's transportation-as-a-service model is likely to be far more cost effective when applied to self driving cars than car ownership is. Self driving cars will initially be quite expensive, making outright buying one cost-prohibitive. By the time costs come down transportation-as-a-service will have taken over the industry, and few people will have any particular desire to own their own car anymore.

Not to mention that transportation-as-a-service would also be a lot more convenient than car ownership. No need to refuel, repair, or otherwise maintain your vehicle; just grab whichever one happens to be nearby. You can have as many or as few cars as you need at any particular moment, and get a car of any model or paint color you want at the push of a button.
"Uber, suspension is definitive: service forbidden across all of Italy"

http://mobile.ilsole24ore.com/solemobile/main/art/tecnologie...

This is about UberPOP.
Obama didn't spy on anyone, he was a president, not an intel agent. Bush didn't invade Iraq, he was a president, not a soldier.