skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All bugs "shouldn't happen in the first place", the use of types is to reduce the surface area for where errors can be introduced. If you read some value from an external source and subsequently use measure types then you've isolated the scope for the introduction of errors to the read function instead of every location in the program that uses the value.
I just got fired
Basically people jumped on Dropbox to make money out of Dropbox's success. If Dropbox remain conservative and just continue to do remote storage/syncing well then those people won't get [as much] free money.

Those people aren't investing they're speculating. They're not there primarily to see Dropbox succeed they're shareholders because they want to get rich from other people's work.

So yes that's a problem for the company. Ultimately this model of "investment" can kill a business that is technically succeeding because the speculators don't see a high enough return. That's also a problem for society as it creates instability and prevents technologically successful companies from prospering long term.

At least that's one narrative that appears to fit well with my observations.
Didn't Bohr sideline Einstein when the latter was very much alive and kicking?
Seanote aims to be the world's repository for human opinions and behaviors
It only does if it cant pay the bills.. right now some of these unicorns have large amounts of debt, or similar obligations, that they cant payback unless they grow.
React Lifecycle Methods- how and when to use them
Airbnb “Bribes” Host with Cash Under NDA After Partiers Destroy Apartment
Considering WeChat, that's probably not a bad bet.
World breaking news.
I'm afraid you're talking to the wrong person.
If anyone was wondering what that next number was in the sequence, the sequence for the problem given is https://oeis.org/A076912 and it is now known to begin,

5, 2875, 609250, 317206375, 242467530000, 229305888887625, 248249742118022000, 295091050570845659250, 375632160937476603550000,
503840510416985243645106250, ...

If you want a few more details you might check out https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Clemens'_conjec... but of course mirror symmetries have whole textbooks devoted to them nowadays, one of which the Clay Mathematics institute has released to the public [PDF warning: http://www.claymath.org/library/monographs/cmim01c.pdf].
>But if a car manufacturer consistently uses a production methodology which causes door handles to keep falling off, again and again, even after they've been re-glued on for the Nth time...

We know the characteristics of glue, and have switched to better glues. All our assembly jigs work with glue. When the handle falls off it is easy and cheap to glue it back on.

If we switch to screws we need to redesign the parts and the jigs; and reorder the entry assembly line. [Not realized by the engineers at the time is if they use screws dissimilar metals of the screws corrode and result in the handle falling off as well - and it is a much more expensive fix because you have to replace the handle and the part it attaches to as both have nothing to screw into)
Xfinity WiFi tried this in 2014: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/why-comcasts-jav...
I spent my early 20s working 2 shifts a week at a bar. It doesn't cost much to buy yourself the time and headspace needed to get from 0 to 1 as a creative worker. It was a rich life. It still is. All that's changed is that I travel more. Priorities, man.
A Change Data Capture Pipeline from PostgreSQL to Kafka
"Unlimited" space in any online service almost always means "there is a soft cap where we start threatening to shut down your service, but we won't tell you what it is ahead of time".
Yes. It depends on how well organized the Playbook is, but this one is nice. As long as they kept their dependencies clean edit:

https://github.com/jlund/streisand/blob/master/playbooks/str...

Comment out any roles you don't want with a # at the beginning of the line, YAML is very picky about syntax.

comment edit: Think of roles in ansible like building blocks or common chores you can apply to any server. It might be nice to not have so much stuff by default, but this tool isn't meant for complete technical novices, so it is expected (in my opinion) that you go in and prune anything out you don't want/need. What is nice is that you have lots of options and if you ever need to add a role you can just uncomment it and re-run the playbook.
Sorry - minor correction - imagine the tweet by Donald Trump would have been: "There's nothing like the bond between two grown men and the sex that makes them stronger."
"
Each time you make a Voice Call on Telegram, a neural network learns from your and your device‘s feedback (naturally, it doesn’t have access to the contents of the conversation, it has only technical information such as network speed, ping times, packet loss percentage, etc.). The machine optimizes dozens of parameters based on this input, improving the quality of future calls on the given device and network."

Is it just me or does this sound like serious bullshit? Unless you have some hard evidence of course...
Maybe just having one good product is okay.
It doesn't? Or at least I can't see how it would.
Hyper Space space shooter game for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
It doesn't. It's a choice the owners/shareholders can make, which increases (hopefully) the value of the thing they own.
I just think there are huge opportunities for new types of UI once it works. Any time I'm out and about with headphones, I want something like a custom radio station, mixing up my music and podcasts, dictating messages and highlights from social media or news sites I like. I'd even accept short adverts if it was genuinely relevant and location aware. Even when I'm not travelling, I suspect it'd be a cool interface to have at work. If something can check in from time to time between music tracks, giving me a quick run down of anything interesting that's happening (even plugins for the build server etc), it will cut down on my temptation to open it up in a browser tab.

I've wanted to build this app just for myself for years, but it's only very recently that it seems the state of the art is close enough for it to be palatable to users.
Still surprised Dropbox doesn't apply their UI/UX talent to taking S3 to the cleaners.
I wish they allow arbitrary user identifiers, which are not tied to mobile operators. Just for geeks.
Overage? Like they can offer 30 people a terabyte of storage for every 10TB available because very few people will use their full quota.
I've never used the ios mail app, but in general gmail has a weird imap implementation that behaves wonky with a lot of mail clients so with gmail using the webmail or a gmail specific app is usually preferable.
It's startling how much the current era reminds me of the late 1800s/early 1900s, as well as how little that era was focused on in my history classes. We jumped from the Civil War to World War 1 pretty quickly, with scarce attention paid to the social upheaval and long, often violent struggles between workers, governments, and the upper classes. Nowadays, we act as if the Industrial Revolution evolved into shared prosperity naturally; we mock the Luddites, the utopians, the Communists for being unable to see how the disruption caused by technology would lead to positive outcomes. But these outcomes took a long time, were not inevitable, and they did not come from capitalism alone; they were fought for, every step of the way, in a long, complicated, morally ambiguous struggle to shape the new world. We seem to be entering another age of disruption, and would do well to look back on the previous one to understand what was fought for and why.
I wonder if as they started to make this change they started finding numerous areas of the code where devs went "eh, it'll never be more than 140 chars... that's our thing".
Which part? That it doesn't have access to the conversation, or that it improves the call quality?
Americans are now so used to this insane system they can't even conceive that it actually doesn't have to be that way.
Fuzzing is magic – Or how I found a panic in Rust's regex library
> And Gates is probably closest to a scientist, although I'm not aware of any research by him.

Gates has one published paper: Gates, William H. and Christos H. Papadimitriou. “Bounds for sorting by prefix reversal.” Discrete Mathematics 27 (1979): 47-57.

PDF: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~christos/papers/GP79.pdf

Pancake sorting seems to attract Harvard people who decide to forego their planned science careers for other fields. It got Gates with normal pancake sorting, then 18 years David S. Cohen did burnt pancake sorting, before leaving science to change his name to David X. Cohen and write for The Simpsons and later Futurama:

Cohen, David S.; Blum, Manuel (1995). "On the problem of sorting burnt pancakes". Discrete Applied Mathematics. 61 (2): 105–20
Oh, I'm sorry, is the poor burden of publishing the laws of a government too hard for the big bad government to possibly do or fund?

Of course the solution is to make it copyrighted / restricted / owned by a third party corporation.

What? Simplify laws or properly fund the ancillary tasks entailed in changing laws? Blasphemy.

This is corruption, nothing else.
Ask HN: When do ISPs begin selling your data, and is a VPN all that's needed?
When does the "ISPs selling your data" begin, and is a VPN without logging all that's needed?
My script isn't ready for public consumption, as it is specific to my home setup and use cases, but I could certainly make one that is more generic. I probably should anyway, with all the changes around ISP's and customer data. I will work on that this weekend.
David,

Can I pick your brains about MSP430FR5994 UART code in assembler at some point please?

TIA
How Websites Are Built: Using a House Analogy to Understand the Layers – Søren
The concept of this bot is really interesting.
Are you referring to this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7900741
And Georgia sucks. Not as bad as Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, or Arkansas.

But definitely in the next tier. At least it is gradually entering North Carolina territory.
Binary Search Method to Find Sqrt
Ryzen Community Update #2
This literally just turned on for me seconds ago. I noticed it because nearly all of my Notifications timeline now lacks clear context.
#that's #going #to #make #some #longer #messages #really #fucking #annoying #to #read #because #people #are #arseholes #and #this #is #why #we #can't #have #nice #things.
I don't think this change invalidates it. What they're basically doing is moving the list of reply-to's out of the body of the text into another field, which is being shown differently in the UI. What remains in the text field is still <=140 characters.
FBI, Congress Face Off Over 400M-Image Face Recognition Databases
Ah, got it. I tip base off of the pre-tax amount just out of principle.
Mess with Brexit and We’ll Mess with Texas
Are you a good Open Source contributor?
This reminded me of the surprisingly interesting chapter on character counting in their docs: https://dev.twitter.com/basics/counting-characters

Summary: the probably did find problems like that, but long before this change when they encountered different languages and character sets.

I'm sure running into the int32 limit for object ids was more of a hassle.
Or just use a new tab.
Scaling your API with rate limiters
Most scientists are NOT creative thinkers. They just extend what came before them. People like Einstein is the exception but people seem to think all scientists are like him and draw wrong conclusions.

On the other hand, if you think entrepreneurs are just "executers" and not "creative thinkers" you are completely wrong. Most entrepreneurs are forced to think creatively every single day (otherwise they won't survive). Scientists don't need to because they have a stable job. If you're a scientist, some ambitious people want to become an Einstein but 99% of the population don't ever believe they can become one and just do mediocre research all their life. Unlike entrepreneurs where mediocre work will mean their business will fail and their family will starve, mediocre scientists can survive just fine, because they're paid by the research organization or the university they belong to.
Like, load the list into stumbleupon. I'm thinking about 6 seconds for trash, 30 seconds for interesting. So, maybe about 2 work days to remove trash and a few more to complete the rest. Could be done in less than a week.
Whether you put money in a Roth account (Roth IRA or Roth 401k) depends on your future earnings potential. If you think you will earn more in the future than you do today, it makes sense to contribute to a Roth. The reason is that you pay less taxes now than you will in the future, and money inside Roth accounts grows tax-free.

I don't quite understand how your current city's cost-of-living factors into this equation. At the end of the day your investment choices are primarily governed by your income tax bracket now vs. in the future. This holds true regardless of whether you are planning to retire in a low cost-of-living city - which is something everyone should plan to do anyway regardless of the type of retirement account they have.
> I've seen no indication he doesn't think it's correct.

He explicitly told us this during a lecture. It was something to the effect of "I just made it up, it's an oversimplification, but it's good marketing."
Well, the natural law here is that we need access to resources to do anything. And money is basically a proxy for it. Until we solve the resource problem, I think other economic systems would eventually run into trouble as well. Its human nature to try to game the system.
E.g. capital gains tax.
Why would high performing employees with office jobs be "lower class"? As others mentioned once you hit a certain income threshold and job security, then you can start prioritizing the parts of the job you enjoy. This is who the article is talking about.

This means keeping a $60k job instead of sacrificing your happiness for $90-100k.

That's hardly quasi-religious phenomena. It's a luxury of skilled people living in a western society.

If anything it's the result of the push back against capitalism, such as the type of comment you just made. We're all told since we're kids to do what we love. And to since the late 1980s this anti-consumerism Fight Club-style mantra has been pushed hard to the point it's basically mainstream now, which is why marketing is so hard these days, even kids see through ads and demand authenticity.

The primary issue of inequality is largely the result of the fact that ~90% of recent job growth since the 2008 recession has been temporary/contract jobs, with little job security. These aren't the type of people who are valuing 'mastery' over money'. Middle class job growth is largely dead. And big incumbents dominate markets and global economic systems push wealth to a few. Entrepreneurship has also declined recently. There's plenty of reasons.

I don't suspect it's some cultural, original sin, type of thing that we should all feel guilty about.
I use the Pomodoro technique at work, except my pomodors are 50 minutes (I use the Focus app for Mac, and you can customize the pomodoro length and name your pomodoro).

On a productive day, I can get about five 50-min pomodoros.

The technique helps me A LOT psychologically. Once that timer starts, I do not do anything else from what I have named my pomodoro. It helps me focus my attention and keeps me from drifting off to HN or reddit or whatever.

That said, the standard pomodoro time of 20 minutes is WAY too short for programming tasks. The technique itself is solid though.
Hah. It becomes a problem for it's users. When they are chasing quarterlies and the focus shifts from providing a good experience to making numbers, you'll feel it. Most companies DNA is pretty baked in by the time they offer publicly.
Why must these things always be looked at through the eyes of business? Why can't Dropbox just do file sync really effing well?

Companies need to stop trying to take over the world, and focus on product/service mastery
> Resists changing the price in the country that is imported into.

If they don't, then people will just import drugs from the cheaper source, as long as it remains cheaper. Which amounts to the same thing.

> With open export regulations on drugs, there is effectively no way to subsidize a drug for your own citizens without subsidizing it for others where it is lower than another country that allows importation as long as the combined import fees and subsidized cost are not more than the cost in the importing country.

Correct. And on the flip side, there is no way for one country to force the other to subsidize its share of medical research, by purchasing the drugs at a price that doesn't cover R&D. Currently, that's what is happening. Pharmaceutical companies don't complain too much, though, because they can still make up the difference off of their largest customer: the US. If they couldn't, then things would be very different.

The US is the largest consumer of patent-protected drugs, by a huge margin. It also funds half of all medical research worldwide, the benefits of which are then available to all countries, even though most pay rates that wouldn't sustain that level of research. There's a reason that even most European pharmaceutical companies get the bulk of their research funding from the US.

Any solution which reduces drug prices in the US will inevitably result in either other countries that recognize US parents having to pay more, or total medical research funding dropping, which affects all countries worldwide. Realistically, it'll probably be some combination of both.
How do you .@ reply with the new UI? (i.e so that the reply appears as a normal tweet to all your followers)

Not seeing it on iOS.
Yeah, that's the thing. If gas ever gets back up to $4/gallon in the US, EVs which are just somewhat competitive at $2/gallon are going to be radically competitive.

However, if EVs become widely used, then the lower demand for gasoline will mean gas prices stay low. So long-term, EVs need to compete with low gas prices anyway, even if prices creep back up in the near-term.

But yeah. Once batteries are cheap enough, then electric vehicles may actually become cheaper than internal combustion engine vehicles /upfront/, in addition to the much lower running costs.
It does work. Most of the time, for most people.

But, at least on Windows, only being able to sync 1 folder is a serious limitation.

Again at least on Windows, CPU and disk utilisation goes through the roofnon start-up, rendering your machine all but useless for half an hour.

And the final nail in my Dropbox coffin - it seemed to quite often choose the wrong file when there were conflicts, and at times it mistakenly deleted a lot if files. I just couldn't trust it.

Oh, and support via their forums was rubbish. Dozens of people would report the same problems, and they'd be ignored for years.
This doesn't hold in my experience with an engineering education.

The objective is for students to gain and demonstrate basic competence in fundamental concepts of their field, and straightforward answers to straightforward questions suffice. There's not a lot of room here for novel arguments, and the objective is not to solve novel problems; that comes later.

This is time consuming because, for most of us, learning a new concept and applying it takes some time. It's not a sinister plot by the system to waste our time.

Regarding mentoring students to work on real research problems: yes, this doesn't scale to huge number of undergrads. But most undergrads don't yet have the drive or the fundamental knowledge required to tackle real research questions. That said, if a student does well in a class and shows interest, a lot of professors will give an undergrad a chance to work with their research lab.
At least you shouldn't argue for more benefits or social programs, if you don't take to account the existing benefits and social programs.

As far as I know, no one in this discussion is doing that. So, I have difficulty understanding why this comment is here.

If you are interpreting my remarks that way, you are in error.
And it works on Linux well, from early on.
Ask HN: Your favorite IP-law war story?
Care to contribute a "war story" -- carefully anonymized -- of some
trade secret or patent business, that worked out
especially well or badly?

Here's one of my own.
While working for a small, underfunded startup, I built
some novel code.
Another employee managed most of our dealings with the patent attorney.
His summary of their talks:
"X doesn't understand. I mean he really doesn't understand."
Moral of the story: Expect to pay well for the time of any competent patent attorney.

Selfish motive for the post: I expect to be seeking advice
soon from an attorney skilled in patent research,
trade secret protection,
and IP monetization strategy in general.
> I consider the explanation in the book sufficient, though. I don't expect my fiction to be perfectly consistent with everything, and this particular story passes my personal, subjective bar.

Sure, and that's your prerogative. For me, the explanation made me think about some of the mechanics more than I had bothered to up to that point, and what I viewed as inconsistencies actually detracted from the story and ruined some of the immersion. It changed my opinion of the story from "great" to just "very good, with some problems".

In the end, the movie was a bit more hand-wavey on the specifics, but in this case, I found that to provide for a tighter story, and one in which I wasn't plagued by some confusion at some point. So, I subjectively liked the movie as a story more, as it was more able to sustain a suspension of disbelief in my opinion, but that's not to imply I disliked the short story.
As I understand it (from friends in med school), the grades in the pre-clinical classes are important as they affect the Dean's letter, the primary letter of recommendation for residency applications.

However, the grades from the time they spend in the clinic are much more important than the pre-clinical coursework.
Announcing AudioSet: A Dataset for Audio Event Research
There was some stuff in search at one point that stored the length of a tweet in a byte. Making DMs longer was a database limitation at one point.

Today though, I wouldn't expect it.
That was the narrative. That was the perception at the time, and decisions were about a predictable future (even if the prediction was wrong). The retailers may (I'll have to check) be printing more than ever, but customers are walking into the retail store _once_, not three times - and that point alone terrified retailers.

Kodak had excellent imagers in development and high-end production. They knew the imaging technology & business better than anyone. They just didn't pivot (fast!) to making that their core competency. Having literally 5 miles of chemical processing factories clouded the vision required to build highly competitive cameras.
>He does more applied science than vast majority of scientists that I can think of.

Does he do it or does he manage a company and people who do it?