skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said "permanent prosperity" anywhere in my comment. Of course the market has boom and bust cycles. Will the market pull back sometime in the near future? Probably.

However, it just doesn't matter for anybody with an investment horizon over 10 years. The gravity of the markets is upward. Timing the broad market consistently is statistically impossible.

The subprime mortgage crisis was statistically a once in a lifetime drop, only comparable to 1929. It's occurance was due to a fundamental flaw in the system. It wasn't part of the standard "pattern of the market." Everybody sitting on the sidelines waiting for the next flaw to rear its head will likely decompose before that happens.

The size of your future returns directly correlates to the amount of risk you are taking. If you are on the sidelines it's a statistical certainty you'll get destroyed by inflation.
Rising Waters Threaten China’s Rising Cities
On the other hand owning Google or Facebook shares was a good idea, no?

Be wary of "obvious" things that "should" be true. A lot of people said the Fed was pumping up the stock market with QE, that inflation would go crazy, etc. I ignored them and bought into the market heavily in 2009. Maybe the market is being irrational but I sure did make a lot of money (doubling my personal account and nearly tripling my retirement) by ignoring so called "obvious truths" and investing in a "rigged market".

Maybe in the long term you are right. You sure can lose a lot of money or miss out on a lot of gains that way too.
> These policies can and are changed at any time zero notice

Not if they're in your contract -- that's the point!

"Union jobs" don't exist as such in the UK, joining a union is optional. Perhaps half the staff at that job did belong, and across all roles. I didn't join the union, but the head of project management was in it, and one of the senior developers.
I can assure you that there were a lot of art pieces that were created and defended by hand.
1) I alrady have a hard time trusting Google/Microsoft/etc with my email let alone another third party.

2) For local backups, IMAP/POP works relatively well already.

I don't see how this would work as a standalone product. Maybe if it was a feature in something like Fastmail or a full-fledged office suite, it would be more appealing.
Read the article? Goodenough credits his old age productivity to the fact that he's been able to think about the same problem for decades, and that he's been able to learn about different fields in sufficient depth that he can find new connections between them.

All the stuff you mention, you can measure. How do you measure intelligence? The kind of intelligence/wisdom that leads to making new scientific discoveries?

I will posit that raw intellectual horsepower might decline with age (and even then, what the hell is this thing and how would we measure it?), but it's also clear to me that decades of accumulated wisdom and study can increase the likelihood of making a new discovery.
The analogy is completely broken. People aren't houses, cars, or stock certificates. The information that is pertinent might be references from former coworkers - can they do the job you are hiring them for? Asking for the previous value of the person as if they were any other commodity is nonsensical. There's not an inherent price to the person, and a higher or lower salary says more about where they have worked (which you can see on the resume or ask about) than how well they have worked (very generally).
The NPT gives all countries the right to civilian nuclear power in exchange for an inspection regime.
Ask HN: Is your company (job) family friendly?
The other day I talked with a friend who is searching for a new job. His expenses got higher when he got a second child. He went to some interviews and he got an impression that he wouldn't handle new job, because he doesn't have free time like he used to for studying new frameworks and languages and work hours were from 9 to 6 (or 7). And he would love to spend some time with his family.
Is your company family friendly? If it is, please help me build a list of companies who offer family friendly jobs.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WcwFlqppHmLZ1kIqinqPedYjQpsfcGjCXTDF_4tuQEE/edit?usp=sharing
Works great! Very nice as a "starting point" for further customization, for people like me who are still learning LaTeX. Comments:

1. The experience/research section is pretty cramped, at least on safari. Maybe take advantage of the whole browser window rather than putting it in a frame?

2. I may have missed it but couldn't find a way to delete fields mistakenly added. Output just includes blank data that can be deleted later so not a big deal.

Overall cool!
Flume, Third-Party Instagram Client, Leaves the Mac App Store
Did you use ECC RAM?
Hey, don't push your lack of religion on me! That's as bad as pushing religion on me!
Nvidia's “Open-Source Guy” Has Left the Company
I suspect it's mostly about flexibility: the firm doesnt have to worry about balancing driver availability (either complying with labour laws or not having them available at peak times) because they get paid exclusively in fares so will be available every hour that's humanly possible.

As I understand it my local firm's drivers pay a weekly fee for use of car and dispatch service, and take the fees, so aren't in a very different situation from Uber drivers.
No, you are wrong. It takes longer than 10 years to permit/build a new nuclear plant and it costs over $1 billion. It is the exact opposite of cheap and fast.
FYI you can click on a dead comment's timestamp and vouch for it. May require a certain minimum karma to do that.
Um... Need I remind you, that everything from Vault 7, was leaked on flash drives, (vault 7 shit doesn't require infrastructure to deploy or use as most nsa implementations do), and given to ex spooks, contractors, ex contractors, private contractors, even those with no intention of working for the government. Basically a deal sweetener, for those with similar status or ideals. Has been showing up in pieces for sale in various places online. I suggest looking into where Assange got his copy of the flash drive from. Pretty interesting.

Also, 'the hammer' was purchased by blixtech, who's owner (Edra Blixseth) used it to hack her husband's lawyer during divorce proceedings, upon finding out, he confronted the engineer behind it, who had previously filed 18 formal whistleblower reports with the White House and was denied all 18 times. He has recorded full video testimony and a dozen affidavit's, and received full immunity, finally, two weeks ago. When the story first broke, no judge would pursue it. Eventually Joe arpaio tried to, and Fox recorded extensive reports, which have not yet aired. The engineer provided 800 million recorded phone calls, as many bank records, and emails. The system was just some sort of brute force which broke ssl. This has been mentioned in vault 7, briefly, but will be expanded on in a release very soon. Fox was provided with 10 million sample users, so they could take local callers who were willing to hear their conversations on air to prove this. There is an hour of recordings with Tim Blixseth, Joe Arpaio, and a few others, going over many more details. Definitely worth looking into, however it shouldn't be much longer until it is revealed in full. Pretty insane. Look into it, will blow your mind.
But you also have to consider the probability of the brain containing precisely the self-consistent information that would allow you to develop a false theory. To me, the probability argument is more compelling than attacking the circular nature of the idea.
i don't think the law will improve the information disparity. I think employers will quickly find ways around it as they always have and it will promptly be business as usual.
Did the tool provide grid coordinates? I don't recall that. Are there any references to subreddits or other locations actually coordinating these things?

Because the way the US flag appeared certainly looks artificial.
The best visualization of this is the heatmaps.

Take a look at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tT0F6ZPG-I
It sort of doesn't matter if it's legally true, it's an easy out of the question which is the goal. If the other side pushes harder you can simply assert that's your reading of the terms of the contract and you aren't about to risk breaching your contract.

Even better, after stating the above use it as a segue-way into them disclosing the range, e.g. since I'm not a liberty to share, perhaps you can tell me (the salary range | benefits package ).
Is it fair to say that JITs are usually restricted to memory-safe languages, which don't rely so much on machine-level defenses? I guess you're losing something if you load a C library into your Java program, because exploits in the C library can do more damage now. But at the same time, having the majority of your code in Java is probably a win for security?
Do you often find a significant number of CVs listing technologies that are too new for one to have gained any mastery over?
We don't need it to simulate the universe for a billions of years. We just need it to simulate your belief that it happened for a couple of seconds.
Have you written anything about your...uh...conversion? =)
A few years ago I tested Xpra, maybe it would suit your needs, it's "screen for x11" : http://xpra.org/
Longest Repeated Subsequence problem
Yes, though that generally falls into the category of "problems you want to have."
Yeah, I wanted Jquery steps but couldn't make the sections expand downwards.

There is no way to delete but Ill figure something out tonight along with a LinkedIn scraper.
Rails Back End Developer at Blinkist
If someone thinks the peak of their creativity and mental abilities occurs at mid 20's, then I feel sad for them. It's more about attitude and practicalities of life than an inherent degradation of mental faculties.

As someone who is probably already considered "old" by tech industry standards (I am 32), I've definitely noticed an improvement in my thinking and ability to solve problems compared to ten years ago.

Unless my attitude towards learning changes, some kind of physical ailment occurs, or my priorities change due to unforeseen circumstances I don't see myself slowing down anytime soon.

So it's obvious not fair to say younger people are "smarter". It might be more fair to say that younger people have more time to devote to learning.
That is fantastic news!

I recently interviewed with a prominent Drupal company, Forum One, and was shocked that they not only asked for my previous salary, but previous 3 salaries and also wanted me to verify them with pay stubs! I told them no and the interview stalled after that. That was a sad day, I really wanted to work with them but what they asked for was unacceptable.

They were not in New York but I welcome this law everywhere.
[0] was the thread for how to help with the mona lisa.

There were tools being distributed, but they were more to help with placement and location, they didn't do anything for you

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/MonaLisaClan/comments/630qjq/mona_l...
https://studio.bricklink.com/v2/build/studio.page
Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake Processors
I've been using 3.6 for some personal work and man are f-strings and ordered dicts wonderful. I don't want to go back.
How does Overleaf compare to Sharelatex?
> Would you not be outraged if an equivalent tool was used on US targets by a non-US government?

As a targeted investigation of an individual (which is what this would be used for)? No.

> Anyway, why would you be fine with such tools being used on non-US targets?

Because I literally cannot envision a world where the incentives mean state actors are not going to be doing this. You can legislate it away, or make moralistic announcements, but unless you actually remove the incentive, it will happen. If it's happening, I want my government to have at least the average level of proficiency.

The difference with domestic spying is that based on our laws, ethos, type of government and the fact that the people doing the spying are also citizens means that there are some powerful counter-incentives along with the incentives to spy domestically. That at least gives it a chance to be curtailed in some ways. Foreign spying really doesn't have the same counter-incentives.
Better never use Promises at all, it is no solution for a problem, instead it makes code only more ambiguous IMHO. And indeed mixing it with callbacks or async libraries makes it even worse..

I've once had a very nasty bug keeping me busy for days, where somewhere in a complex structure of multiple promises I somehow forgot to return a call to a resolve. With all these new Promise(), .then(), .catch(), resolve's and reject's nested it's very easy to miss one, and very hard to read where the bug sits.

Maybe it's just me, but I never had such a severe bug with the simplicity of the standard async callback pattern. I Never used promises again, still enjoying that decision.
For the child comment to yours, Sam here is referring to Sam Altman.

I actually can't seem to remember this interview but it certainly rings true for me! Again, this might be an age based difference. When I was younger I was going to be "the next Bill Gates, but so much better, and so much more ethical, and cooler!" I actually said pretty much exactly that. I wrote up a plan in my very early 20's on how to become a billionaire by 30.

Post 35 years old, I wanted to start a business for entirely different reasons. I didn't care if I was a billionaire. I didn't worry about whether my company was in a good position to accept seed funding or venture capital. I wasn't worried about whether it would grow to the point of being sold or go public. I worried about profitability, sales, making the best products for my customers, and whether my target customers were happy and my market segment was growing.

Now, I don't want to make it sound like those other things (being in a position to take seed funding or venture capital, going public, becoming a billion dollar company, etc) are bad things. They aren't! My personal focus had changed by then. That is all. Did it make me more successful? I have no idea at all!
Yes, the security response to the Provisional IRA campaign in the 70s, 80s & 90s was often low key. IMHO the British govt didn't want the British population to be so alarmed that they'd demand NI be expelled from the UK. I've got to differ on the aim of terrorism in this case. Obviously the aim of PIRA was and is a united Ireland: a 32 county Republic. The twin watchwords of the PIRA campaign were endurance & infliction. Endure everything that your opponent can throw at you, and inflict maximum damage on them. Which tacitly recognises that the campaign couldn't be won militarily. So the bombing campaign aimed to inflict economic damage. Just the same aim as the bombing campaign organised by Nelson Mandela as leader of the ANC's MK military wing in response to the Sharpeville massacre in early 60s South Africa. A secondary goal is polarise public opinion, so that moderates are forced to take sides. Bloody Sunday, internment and the hunger strikes all drained support from non violent nationalism in NI and bolstered support for Republicans. However, there's no comparison between the ANC and the PIRA on the one hand, and ISIS, Al Shabaab, Al Qaed & Boko Haram on the other. The ANC & PIRA were rational actors pursuing limited and legitimate goals. Jihadi extremist see shedding infidel blood as an end in itself, and they're quite explicit about wanting world domination.
It's not as sensitive than your credit history which is bought and sold by credit bureaus. It's also not as sensitive as all sorts of public records like foreclosures, personal bankruptcies, and criminal records.

Anyways, its likely subject to the FCRA which means you can get a copy of your own report once a year to see what it contains.

EDIT: Here you go, you can request a copy right here, https://www.theworknumber.com/Employees/DataReport/index.asp
I'll add that this isn't normal collection. This was off the books. As in, he was routinely given 5,000$ cash to take to Lockheed facility to give to a contact who would 'sneak' him into use a faster machine.(1 billion attempts per minute.) As well as an sending stuff to the oval offices direct fax line. Everyone believes Trump is saving this as the big reveal, an answer to Obama wiretapping, and as the reason Obama got up, said forget the whole 'build a team to fight trump in DC' thing, got up left his family, and flew to Tahiti (non extradition) for the foreseeable future.(went from month to months to foreseeable future.)
Three things stick out on that list as things non-engineers care about.

Lyrics; people listen to music and then enjoy singing along. This little thing called karaoke supports a whole industry, for engineers and non-engineers alike, so people can get together and sing songs.

Redesigning the client. New interfaces are scary and different for non-engineers.

Can't add third party songs to cloud library. Non-engineers understand that some licensing nonsense means they can't get Taylor Swift on their Spotify, and then... just don't use Spotify, because all their music is on the Apple.

I'm not including "native client to bundled browser" as something non-engineers care about, but people do ask "why does the new version of $program make my laptop fans get all loud?"
You could hyphenate to clarify: lesser-known libraries.

But come on, the English language is ambiguous. We can figure out the meaning from the context. I'm usually a nit when it comes to vocabulary and grammar, but this one...

Actually, maybe the title should explain more of the purpose: Machine learning libraries that should be more popular.
You could, and that's a fair point, but you're more talking about philosophy of science and epistemology. My point is that Many Worlds seems to die to Occam's Razor, because of all the additional requirements to accept Many Worlds over something like wave function collapse.
Why? I've used Redux and TypeScript together before. They make a really nice combination.
A critical point about these types of frameworks it that their benefits wont necessarily outweigh the complexity they bring to every project, and specifically they are likely to be needlessly complex in smaller projects.

In larger or long-term projects though the ability to use formal conventions to break down an app into components that have solid documentation already written on how to do this or that in a way that will scale and extend is quite valuable.

Additionally being able to reach out to a large community of developers who use similar conventions and plugins is quite valuable for troubleshooting those 10%/90% problems or finding a drag-n-drop solution that's compatible with your stack.
> Most employers don't ask, and the few that
> have have never made my leaving that information
> out an issue.

That is some serious English gore.
In my experience the team should be free to make whatever technical choice they want. The only reason you get dictation from on high about what choices should be made is because your technical leadership lacks the technical depth to advocate for a common stack that is actual useful. Every time I have seen an origination talk about standardizing on some language or framework and its hasn't grown out of the engineering community at that company its been because leadership didn't have a strong technical background and they were making choices based on marketing material, sales reps, or consultants.

The best standardization I have seen grew out of a team who was empowered to make decisions, made good decisions, showed how their decisions were good for the entire origination and helped everyone migrate to one solution which turned out to be pretty good at solving everyone's problems.

If you as a leader find yourself pushing a standard tool set to a team who is hesitant to adopt it the problem is most likely you.
>Still no Hi-Fi option

Spotify supports 320kbps. Lossless streaming is borderline a pointless luxury, and I'm happy not to subsidize it for people who want to stroke their gold ears or egos. There's luxury services for that.

My problem with Spotify is their lack of TFA. My account had a unique password that was somehow stolen a year and a half ago, at which point I realized users' full names, address, DOB, etc are all exposed on the profile screen once logged in. There's absolutely no email or text verification for new signins either. That, and the android app runs like shit, pushed me over to Play Music.
> It is quite small because bittorrent needs to use some peer source. If you're not using the DHT you're using a tracker. The same information that can be obtained from the DHT can be obtained from trackers. So there's no novel information leakage introduced by the DHT.

Replacing a tracker with a DHT trades having one server with all peer and chunk knowledge with N servers with partial peer and chunk knowledge. If the goal is to stop unwanted eavesdroppers, then the choice is between (1) trusting that a single server that knows everything will not divulge information, or (2) trusting that an unknown, dynamic number of servers that anyone can run (including the unwanted eavesdroppers) will not divulge partial information.

The paper I linked up the thread indicates that unwanted eavesdroppers can learn a lot about the peers with choice (2) by exploiting the ways DHTs operate. Heuristics can slow this down, but not stop it. With choice (1), it is possible to fully stop unwanted eavesdroppers if peers can trust the tracker and communicate with it confidentially. There is no such possibility with choice (2) if the eavesdropper can run DHT nodes.

> That's not what I said. Relying on a DHT for some parts, such as bootstrap and discovery is still... well... relying on it, for things it is good at.

> Well yes, but these limits arise naturally anyway since A stores data for B on C and you can't really incentivize C to manage anything more than small bits of data.

Thank you for clarifying. Would you agree that reliable bootstrapping and reliable stead-state behavior are two separate concerns in the application? I'm mainly concerned with the latter; I would never make an application's steady-state behavior dependent on a DHT's ability to keep data available. In addition, bootstrapping information like initial peers and network settings can be obtained through other channels (e.g. DNS servers, user-given configuration, multicasting), which further decreases the need to rely on DHTs.

> About DHTs in general, you can easily make reverse lookups difficult or impossible by hashing the keys (bittorrent doesn't because the inputs already are hashes), you can obfuscate lookups by making them somewhat off-target until they're close to the target and making data-lookups and maintenance lookups indistinguishable. You can further add plausible deniability by by replaying recently-seeing lookups when doing maintenance of nearby buckets.

I'm not quite sure what you're saying here, but it sounds like you're saying that a peer can obfuscate lookups by adding "noise" (e.g. doing additional, unnecessary lookups). If so, then my reply would be this only increases the number of samples an eavesdropper needs to make to unmask a peer. To truly stop an eavesdropper, a peer needs to ensure that queries are uniformly distributed in both space and time. This would significantly slow down the peer's queries and consume a lot of network bandwidth, but it would stop the eavesdropper. I don't know of any production system that does this.
This is a dupe post. Here is the other one with more discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14058696
I hope it serves as twitters end.

How can a company with a product loved by its users be so out of touch with them?

I think it served us well, but it has to go. Users need to claim microblogging for themselves...