skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like what's discussed here is more controversial than taboo. It's similar, but slightly different.

While Whiteboard interviews might be controversial, I wouldn't consider this taboo. Making jokes in the workplace about women however, would be considered taboo. Even though this may have been considered 'acceptable' just 15 years back.

It seems like the difference between the two is one of opinion vs offence. While having a different opinion is fine, raising offence really depends on how much backlash you get.
Pshhhh 768k ram ought to be enough
Ask HN: Best text editor to develop React Native in?
Awesome, thanks! (And sure! If I can work out how to implement the change myself, I'll definitely submit a PR.)

Edit: The change was pretty straight forward, so I submitted the PR: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/pull/24015
At least when AI takes over we'll still have our precious horseradish cookies!
> Pigs have a similar level of intelligence to dogs

Everything I've seen is that pigs are far smarter.

I've never heard of dogs being smart?
It's time consuming to chase down credentials, especially as when you're hiring someone, it always feels more likely that they aren't making it up. After all, you have a great hiring process, right?

My father-in-law is a doctor, and he tells me there's been several occasions where he's thought some colleague was really quite shockingly ill informed. He's always been too timid to call the bluff, but he says it's happened a few times. Also he's had the old trick of the certificate with the the cigarette burn on the date attempted.

There's probably a lot of jobs outside of the more technical fields where simply being a nice person who can read and write makes you indistinguishable from someone with an education in that field.

Heck, I worked with someone with a mathematical PhD for years wondering how he'd never heard of Banach-Tarsky. Not that it's a specifically useful or necessary thing, just that you'd think a math-interested person would have come across it. Or how it could be that he thought excel was a good platform for quantitative finance. In the end I decided there were too many things that surprised him, even if he did act interested when told about them. That's not to say he didn't actually have the degree; but he certainly didn't have the skills that are supposed to go with it.
DbForge Studio for Oracle Supports Connection to Oracle Database 12c Release 2
Please tell us who exactly is censoring newspapers in Germany?
Solar power satellites would be a nice-to-have for the ultimate "clean energy" supply for Earth civilizations. I haven't looked recently to see exactly how practical they are though.
>"None of them managed to sell enough devices to keep a profitable business."

Nokia managed it with the N900 and the N9, the only reason they didn't continue is they lost their bottle and sold out to Microsoft.
Makes sense, but if you know that your only way back home is your car and you still pop the cork, you're acting like a bad person in my book ("hitting a child" level indeed).
And who brings the dock in that somewhere else you're going? How's leaving a dock everywhere better than leaving a laptop or even a chromebook everywhere?
I totally agree about the hiring process. I've found that those most vocal against certain hiring techniques that tend to work fairly well in the large are bitter at their own mediocrity being discovered in such a process, and that result flying head first into their own over inflated sense of their own ability.
Tizen is an alternative, whether you like it or not is another matter.
WTF?! --am announcement, introducing Unity, from 2011. Why?
> They'd certainly be served better with fewer (at least not ~90%) old "management"-looking people on their webcasts, which could've looked like they were made in the last five years (and less misleading people with talk of "hundreds of satellites" that in reality, IIRC, weigh just about the conventional PSLV cargo capacity[0]).

Which is why they made this video highlighting the Indian women who powered the mars mission.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/isro-pslv-women-mars-orbi...

they are all "management looking".

You do realize that ISRO is the third space agency in the world to have a mars capable launch right ? and did it at a tenth the cost ? The only others are US, EU and Russia.

We have a word for this in India - jugaad. It sort of means "duct tape". And we are very proud of it.
They do, right? Needs to be depreciated.
Me having fun with true color and Unicode 9.0 characters:

https://github.com/daleroberts/tv
What you read might not work on another UNIX. BSD has its own semantics making writing cross platform UNIX scripts (depending on how far you stray from POSIX) a pain. Though I admit, its not fair to compare it to a single vendor system like NT. :)
Gas, wear and tear & depreciation aren't free though, these are always going to be higher cost areas to serve.
That still sounds like an amazing job. Thanks for sharing!
You can still have observable facts that are social constructions. The key is that without human values, those observable facts would disappear. So for example, we assume that dinosaur fossils would still exist even if humans had never walked the earth, that our sun will turn into a red giant and then a white dwarf long after we can no longer observe it, and that all matter is made out of atoms even if those atoms don't form humans. (Ignore "if a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it..." arguments for the moment.) These are not socially constructed. But gender roles, for example, are very much observable and very much facts of life, yet gender is still considered a social construct. Money is a very necessary part of life and if you ignore it you won't have a happy one, but money is also a social construct. If all humans disappeared, these facts would cease to have any coherent meaning.
> So if you want to color every different part like operators, symbols, braces, with a different color, and you try to do this on C++, it is not going to be a small task...

For a lot of modes, Emacs does this using regex.
Poland stands out because it's EU, and the Eu is supposed to be better.

But since the EU didn't do much when Hungary started their quasi-dictatorial tendencies, there's not much to do about Poland, if only because two bad apples mean there will never be unanimous agreement about any of the two.
there are plenty of people doing things like climbing Mount Everest for fun while you and I are watching Netflix

The net long term difference of which is effectively zero. Adventure travel Everest climbers are not pioneers, and provide no new knowledge about Everest or the human condition - while burning up millions in cash in the process.

The frontier is still terrestrial.
They share the browser limited performance and bring a load of issues with them, they're at best a way to work around browser -> sensor access and bypass the appstores barrier.
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I agree that reciprocal doesn't really describe it.

Perhaps the concept they were trying to get at is that sharing suggests everyone involved is getting the same thing in some way. If I share a ride with you, it's because we're both going the same way. What's actually happening with uber is we each want something different. They want my money, and I want to be taken somewhere.

It is, however, an highly successful branding exercise.
As an aside, what are your recommendations for the best startup podcasts to listen to?
Free Speech in the US isn't "all", either, but besides that I would argue that the US don't need to be afraid of a slippery slope, they've already slipped right off into "how could anyone think that's a good idea" territory.
> If not why did the process identify them as the most suitable candidate?

Because hiring is entirely broken in many industries.
Instrumental values can have arguments for and against them. Only terminal values are "protected". I'm not sure that considering all people precious is a 100% terminal value, it seems at least partly a game-theoretic convention.
I'm not surprised, XMPP has eveything. In twenty different variations each. Self-fracturing its community infinitesimally, because nobody has the same plugins for the same proposed XMPP extensions installed.
http://www.amzi.com/articles/prolog_under_the_hood.htm

I find this article very helpful when it comes to understanding how Prolog actually works.
Thank you. It's a relief to know that I don't need to invent it.
VPNs could suffer from the same problem as ISPs - how can we be sure they are not selling customer data?

The recent privacy rule changes for USA ISPs has me a bit worried. Enough so that I'm shopping around for a low cost, low power consumption, dual-NIC Linux box for making my own firewall.

For the VPN, there are a lot of providers, and switching among them is much easier than switching ISPs. I could also rent a small instance to run my own.
VR interested gamer form the US wanted for Interviews (Study project)
Hey together!

I´m Jenny from Germany and I´m searching for some US woman, man at all ages who love to play games by steam or on smartphone. You should be interested in a VR headsets. Maybe you have tried one, it doesn't matter which one, it can be a smartphone or a stationary VR headset.

It is a university-project where we should define a sales and marketing-strategy for VR-headsets. I would be very happy if some would help me and answer my questions.

Each who would answer my questions will get a personal link to their Question-sheet. For this please mail me: bisskraft@freenet.de

Thank you for your time and interest!
Best wishes from germany :)
They may not be able to compete on price, but they sure can when it comes to reliability and launch cadence (current strike action in French Guiana notwithstanding). Ariane 5 is currently on a 77 successful missions streak. SpaceX has a long way to go to reach those numbers.

If you're trying to get a $250 million satellite into space, price savings of $20-30 million can easily be outweighed by a long history of successful, on-time launches.
In my observation, there is a ton of survivorship bias in attitudes about STEM education.

"I had some quirk in my history that motivated me to slog through years of seemingly meaningless crap to get to where I am today. It worked out great for me! Now I can't imagine any other path actually working for anybody else."
I'm not really sure about the amount of money needed to have an actual impact on a stock like Amazon but maybe somebody more knowledgeable might have an idea: Does this measurably lower the market valuation of Amazon? If there is constantly someone selling shares in those volumes there should be some effect, even if Bezos is obviously not selling $1B in one day but over the course of the whole year?
I'm happy with uber having contractors, workers or employees (three distinct categories in the UK). What I'm not happy with is them picking and choosing the parts of those definitions which benefit themselves.

I don't think it's particularly amusing to be upset at a multi-billion dollar company trying to skirt employment laws.
As I see it, you are talking more about exposure than choice. I agree having GNOME on the spotlights will draw people to it and stuff will get fixed and possibly better. Never liked Unity but didn't use it ever either.

And having defaults doesn't imply a lack of choice IMO. It is still easy to change DEs on a vanilla Ubuntu as it should be. I don't bother with the variants, I just install vanilla Ubuntu and install my DE of choice in place.
How is this even up for speculation? Why is there a need to quantify this with a study? Of course it curbs drunk driving. When you have better options, they're used.
New instagram bot with dm support
Twitter Launches Lite Version of Its Service for Developing Markets
>Time isn't displayed by the command and is different to LastWriteTime, how do I discover that it's a property?

The command you're looking for is Get-Member or gm. In this case 'ls | gm' will give you what you want. In much the same way that you were told to type 'man', rather than type all combinations of three letter words, you'll have to either pickup a book or read an article to learn a system. As a novice you can't expect to be proficient on day 1 now can you?
Can Dynamic Pricing Save Retailers from the Discounting Drug?
> A confident group doesn’t need taboos to protect it. It’s not considered improper to make disparaging remarks about Americans, or the English.

The Catholic Church is a pretty confident group, yet it's taken multiple decades for people to start taking allegations of wrongdoing seriously. It's been taboo for a long time to cast aspersions against the church, even though they're a powerful organisation - how can you dare to question them!?

Conversely, until quite recently, in Anglo societies being pregnant in public was somewhat taboo, as was breastfeeding in public or letting a mentally handicapped child be seen in public. Same with talking about domestic violence. These are taboos against the weak, not the strong or in-between.

As for "not eating mud because that's what others tell you", the author clearly hasn't played a field sport in winter.
Sure whiteboard interviews are hated by everyone and maybe they aren't so terrible, but I think there's better alternatives than "just chatting about their past".

How about a coding exercise to take home?
I think Microsoft has that covered :)
It's somewhat jarring when people use "we" as if they're in a faction and they're the spokesperson of that faction. It's almost as bad as using "you guys" when faced with a single commenter.

Anyways, you can't think of a single analogue for the emblem->handlebars example?
"seems too granular,"

Probably right. I used the term diff as a concept not implementation.
stumbled upon this tool and thought I had to ask. Looks like, it's a full size instagram bot (auto likes, auto followers etc), but with post scheduler and dm sending support. Have you guys tried it? Worth trying?
I worked for a company that was sued for something similar, and as far as I could tell, you're right. You can do nearly any tracking you like, you just have to be honest about it in your privacy policy.

If your privacy policy says "we're gonna look down your pants if we can figure out how", I think you're pretty much free to do so.
> no one should be surprised that people drink and drive anywhere.
> People make all sorts of terrible decisions when they're intoxicated

Many people make a Ulysses pact: if they're going out drinking, they make the decision whilst sober to leave the car at home, removing any temptation to use it to get home later when they're drunk.
Not related to 17.10.
Dustin, could you lobby LXD support for Kubernetes?
Its not like community will do it in a year without Canonical support. But users really need it, and more above this could promote LXD more
How to adopt the Agile approach to eLearning development [Interview]
Nobody is going to use ZeroNet in the first place if it's not secure. "Users before security" makes no sense at all if the product you're selling is security.
I wanted to switch to Lyft but stuck with Uber when I found out that Lyft has a tip option. It's not that they aren't great or deserve more money, it's just that I don't want to be a party to their employment arrangement. I really dislike tipping and would prefer that the product be priced correctly to begin with. I still do so as social protocol dictates, but eliminating the exchange of money entirely is probably the most valuable thing Uber provides for me.
Ask HN: What is a CTO's responsibility when a startup prepares for exit?
>So I am not sure what entrepeneurs Bezos is referring to.

Probably people like Planetary Resources[0] and Deep Space Industries[1] that intend to get their raw materials from
Space.

[0]http://www.planetaryresources.com

[1]http://deepspaceindustries.com
> And like you know, all the other things he listed:
>> it's easy to call one from a crowded/loud place, you know how much it will cost, they don't use cash, they know where you are, and you don't have to give directions.

Subjective advantages which are not exclusive nor intrinsic to ride sharing services. They can be replicated by anyone in the industry if they are deemed as valuable to their business. I never denied they don't add value (for some), I'm saying that it is the hugely undercut pricing that is primarily driving this trend.

> p.s., why do people like you want to hate on ride sharing services so much? Is it just that nothing can ever be good enough in your mind?

Wow, generalize much? Who is "people like you" exactly? The answer to you question is pretty obvious if you put the snark aside: My problem is with the predatory pricing that companies like Uber are using. when I said their pricing is not sustainable that is exactly what I meant. In 5 years they will either be gone or will have raised their prices.
well first, thank you for your suggestions :)

The idea is that microquest could be used for anything, even outside the shell, so I'll keep mq as simple as possible.

Users can contribute wrappers, quests, files, scripts, but I don't think I will change microquest much besides what is in the todo list.

Turning the module into a library (all print() functions will be delegated to the mq.py cli) is also on my todo list.
Still no excuse.
Not related to 17.10.
Dustin, could you lobby LXD support for Kubernetes?
Its not like community will do it in a year without Canonical support. But users really need it, and more above this could promote LXD more.
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If you were fine with "open source" on those Nokia devices, you should be happy with "open source" on Android.

Also as a former employee I can tell they didn't sell that much units, specially when compared with Symbian devices.
Akamai is firing people from all of its locations.
I agree, my life is precious to me, I have no reason to believe the other people feel differently about theirs.
How about: Human life is the most advanced creation of evolution; the pinnacle of billions of years of evolution. No other life is as advanced. Therefore, human life is precious.

(I don't love the wording. But the idea is that, just as the greatest painting of a famous artist is precious, likewise the greatest production of evolution is precious. Not air tight, but maybe a start).
The Play Store is closed source though.
Just south of the US border, drinking and driving is the norm. Edit: Whoops, guess I hit a nerve with an uncomfortable truth. The lax enforcement in mexico, is just something industrialized people rarely think about...until you get there. But hey, argue about it on the internet and tell that to the drive-up neighborhood beer and fish taco stands from ensenada to tiajuana. I never go farther south, but I'm sure it's the same.
This could mean a significant jump in the adoption of Debian, from Ubuntu users!
dis poooooooiiop
in some place drunk riding a bike might have similar repercussions [incl. criminal charges above certain levels].
It's like some law: everytime there's a discussion about newspapers, subscriptions or paying for content, someone will bring up Blendle. You can fairly say by now that Blendle is the Hitler of newspaper discussions.
That would also work :)
There's national laws under consideration to force cities to lay fiber any time they dig up a road. That's imo the most promising, yet very slow, way forward. Coincidentally, Congresswoman Eshoo is one of the sponsors of the bill.
The one thing I'd miss from unity is HUD. Too bad canonical didn't focus on it.
Woit on Physics and the Riemann Hypothesis
They also will use your dns data.

There's existing companies that already do this.
Monitoring Azure Functions with the Portal and Elmah.io
Public schools serve one primary purpose. They free up women to work in the labour market. It turns out that having every kid attended to one-on-one by their mother was a terribly inefficient system compared to just shoving them all in a room and letting one person look after ~20. The fact that any sort of education happens is just a nice add-on after the fact. School also does a fantastic job of preparing you to submit to the arbitrary demands of authority figures. Today its the teacher, tomorrow its the cop.

Society is a well oiled machine from cradle to college to job to marriage to suburban home to grave. Sadly I'm too much of a fan of indoor plumbing to consider the alternative. We're all just cogs in the machine.
It seems a little... minimalist.
> Does this measurably lower the market valuation of Amazon?

Only if this sale generates a significant drop in price, which it probably doesn't (after all that price has continuously risen in the last few years). I'm no expert but I believe if you sell in small quantities at a time and at market price, you won't lower that price.
'Human life is precious' is not a truth in any sense of the word. It is a feel-good slogan, coined by humans for humans. You cannot possibly define it rigorously enough to start worrying about its trueness. The example is poor and is clearly reaching for shock value.
Finally))))))
That's like saying Hacker News can't be considered a nice place to discuss things, until they employ everyone who contributes to the discussion.
Funny you say that: KDE 4+ was all about convergence. Then all tablet and phone efforts based on it failed pretty spectacularly, and eventually the KDE folks kinda accepted the hard truth that Microsoft also had to swallow: consumers don't care about convergence, what they care about is having the right UI on the right device.
i have a very very bad feeling that one day in a distance future employer will be demand your sign over anything that come from your head over to them before they will offer you job.
For servers there's docker which works great already. We'll see.
Prolog was part of course that I'd taken during my Masters. I loved it then. I would love to take a closer look when I have time ... whenever that happens <sigh> ...

Interestingly, IBM Watson uses Prolog. [1]

[1] https://www.cs.nmsu.edu/ALP/2011/03/natural-language-process...
I agree, I was really looking forward to it. Imho the mistake was to partner with Meizu and BQ whereas distribiting images (at least to start with) for the Pixel/Nexus line phones would have been more effective. That way people could have put their toe in the Ubuntu Phone water before committing. I donated to the dev that was working on the OnePlus 3 port, I was really looking forward to it, it could have been my next laptop (if only the OP3 would have supported HDMI via the USB3 port or MiraCast.)
Most likely they were just passionate about self-driving cars then, and are passionate about self-driving cars now. It doesn't mean the two were connected.
How would you hack a navigation app with shell scripts?
Fucking billionaires.
As a long-time Jenkins user (since the Hudson days), I'd like to comment in my first language - sardinian:

Minca, gi' fiada ora.

Then, in english: Wow! About time! Kudos to the whole team!
How is this even up for speculation?
Why is there a need to quantify this with a study?

Legislation and governance is influenced by statistics.
If a City Hall meeting is discussing legislating against Uber, and a taxi commission presents a paper demonstrating that Uber will cost $X in economic loss to the commission, it behooves Uber to present a competing analysis: showing $Y savings relating to drunk driving (or whatever else they can show).

On the face of it, it seems sad that everything - even the cost of human life - is quantified.

But it is a rational argument when making trade-offs:

"This new pill is better than aspirin." "OK, let's use that instead of aspirin."

Vs

"This new pill is 0.1% better than aspirin." "How much does it cost?" "Ten times the price of aspirin." "OK, so the effect is 0.1% better, but we can only treat a tenth of the number of patients? Better stick with aspirin."