skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a lawyer, and what is an appropriate accommodation certainly leaves room for interpretation. My understanding is that yes, either diagnosis qualifies under the ADA. How much weight that carries for any specific accommodation I have no idea.

My employer values offices. Most aren't very big, but most of the company works in offices.

Also, to favor the team dynamic and lower contention on conference rooms, offices for a team surround a conference room for that team in a "pod" architecture. You enter each team's office suite from a hallway into the conference room, and then go to the individual offices from there. You only need to book a conference room elsewhere in the building if there are enough guests from outside the team to overflow your own pod room.

It's helped a great deal over having offices right off the hallway for purposes of avoiding distraction and also for getting the team meeting and hack session space with no waiting.
Shocked, SHOCKED, that small government, limited regulation Republicans in control of Congress for the last 7 years haven't been all over improving competition in the banking sector.
DevOps Webinar: Applying AI to Root-Cause Analysis
Crack shack or mansion?
This is unfortunate. Private, everyone consenting. Who cares
Wish this was around back when the only other option was Box2DJS, which was a Flash conversion, maybe even nothing more than a trans-pile. I haven't had a use for it in years, but I will definitely keep it on hand. A commendable contribution! I thank you 100 times over!
No. It is extremely dishonest of Uber to do this.
No. That is a terrible, terrible defense.
[dupe] see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14053958
Aren't medicine and law the classic things demanding parents push their kids to study?
Good reads on war/military strategy under 200 pages
> But it's just that a general purpose programming language like Python doesn't treat executing subprocesses in enough of a first-class manner,

That's my general impression on scripting, too. Shells are great at doing day-to-day things I want to do interactively on a system, but start to develop problems (awkward syntax, lacking readability etc) when it comes to more complex programming. On the other hand, languages like Python do that really well but have problems with the first part.

I sometimes wonder if there's really no way to combine the two in a practical way. One datapoint (on the negative side) would be Powershell, which (as a more recent shell) gives its user very useful tools but still fails (IMO) on the syntax front.

An idea I pondered on for a while was that maybe a shell-specific notation could help. Take xonsh, for example. The concept of it is something I could get used to, but I can't really get around the fact that there's some magic involved in differentiating between shell and python commands[1].

Perhaps a more modal approach (think vim) could help? Say I can switch explicitly between python- and shell-mode (avoiding all the magic) and can write shell-constructs in a script in a dedicated notation (like JS has its own notation for regexes, for example). Then, the main problem would most likely be the interaction between both modes (i.e. how one can pipe the stdout of a subprocess to a variable)...

[1]: http://xon.sh/tutorial.html#python-mode-vs-subprocess-mode
They should really stick with their standard naming convention and just call it a 1090 or a 1080 Titan or something - all the information is there, you know what generation it's from and you know where it stands in the product lineup. No confusing "which Titan X do you mean".
The doctors who live on my street drive Porsches, Mercedes-Benz and Audis. Two docs on our street own multiple Porsches each (summer, winter, racing).

Maybe it's family money.

Then again maybe it's taxpayers paying their salaries.

(location: mid-sized city in Canada)
This is a fascinating article for anyone who is considering reading it. Long but absolutely worth it.
Twitter sues U.S. government over user information request
Thanks to the 23andMe test I found out have I think 6 of 8 rare bad variants of various genes that give me what's currently estimated at around a cumulative 50% chance to develop a particular type of leukemia late in life. Of course, 23andMe doesn't provide this information - I came across it accidentally while studying my SNPs with other third party tools.

I don't really think about it that much - experimental treatments for it are already basically curing the disease and if I do get it it probably won't be for another 20 or 30 years. But now I can be the tiniest bit proactive - getting my CBC checked every few years, and watching out for unusual symptoms like fatigue.

The challenge is in communicating these things properly with fair analyses of the probability - we have X model that predicts Y risk, and we have Z error bounds on that. While it's unfortunate that most people lack the education to interpret statistical statements like that, I don't see why that should legally preclude me from getting information relevant to my health without a gatekeeper geneticist to hold my hand through "this variant has 1% prevalence, that means that 1 in a hundred people have it...".
This is why you either buy an iPhone, Pixel/Nexus, or learn how to port the patches from Pixel/Nexus to your own device.

You could also trust someone on XDA, but that involves trusting a random person.

Android security is abysmal.
Winners of the British Academy Games Awards 2017
Nice job!! Love the 8 ball example ... really fun :)
New self-driving taxi service just spun out of Udacity to challenge Uber
That's certainly a factor in contention with a less open workspace. It's not actually an argument against it, but something that should be balanced against it as best is possible.
> I wonder if that would hold up with this language as well - if it is so concise and precise, would it just mean that people take a while to speak it, and take a while to understand it after hearing it, before responding?

This sounds to me like formal scientific discourse: extremely concise and precise, but it takes a while to package one's thoughts in that form, and to unpack someone else's. That is to say, I think that your question is great, and that this possibility is probably what would happen (… or happens, I guess?).
Bezos is selling $1B of Amazon stock a year to fund rocket venture
A Fullstack developers survival guide to the JavaScript jungle – Part 3
What drama? I didn't even realize there was one.

For better or worse, Sony, Debian and Reddit are all going strong. Internet dramas mean very little. There was a shitstorm about Uber every other month for the past few years; hell, there's one even now on the HN front page. Each time I hoped the company will finally crumble and die, but no, they're going forward as strong as ever.
I setup my company through Atlas, and overall I really liked the process.

My only pain point was, "why silicon valley bank"? They have high fees, is a pain to set up and manage, and it's basically the opposite of what I think of as a good experience.

As some people said in another comment thread, Capital One Spark is great. I'm actually going to switch to them as soon as I have time.

I do work for Capital One in my day job (for now), so if you want / need a contact I can provide one. I do realize they don't support foreign teams, but honestly anything is better than SVB.
Think the same.

Biggest annoyance of Android are the millions of permissions which every app asks for and which allow perfect fingerpinting. Phone number, all device accounts, wifi access names, mac adress are some examples. I know that one can switch off those permissions with newer Android versions but thia is too much hassle for me.

And my second gripe with Android is the slow browser: Android's Chrome is much slower than iOS' Safari. Safari is as fast as Chrome on my Macbook.

Third and biggest bummer: the updates on Android.

Android is in general and as an OS quite good.
I'm on the -announce list so I get the occasional e-mail but, TBH, there really isn't much that interests me. I haven't been to the place on Rogers but I did visit the previous place (off Curry Pike) several times (I started a class there but "dropped out" after a few weeks due to work/travel).

Perhaps I'll drop by the new place some time, though.
I feel the urgent need to express my gratitude to Twitter for fighting this, instead of quietly handing over the information.

I'm sure the cynic in all of us says they're doing this for the PR value. If so, let's make sure they get their money's worth.
The Use of Data in Campaigns
In my own experience gradle is far simpler than SBT, especially when you factor in the binary incompatibility between scala versions and the technical debt this adds to your build plugins.

Plus compilation with SBT is ridiculously, laughably slow. Modifiying your build.sbt essentially causes a rebuild of your whole project. The complexity and expressiveness of SBT is a BAD THING in terms of compilation and troubleshooting.

Maven suffers from a different issue. Build processes are fundamentally procedural, not declarative so sooner or later you have to shoehorn your shell commands into a maven plugin section in your xml instead of just executing them as a line from within your build script.
How do you suppose that Uber is making any claims to you about what portion of your payment is going to the driver? I literally have no idea, when I book a ride, which dollars are going to whom.

They are not like a broker in that they do not advertise performing a transaction (whose price is known) at a certain fee. If your brokerage offers to sell 100 shares at $1, with a $5 fee, you know how much of the $105 should be going to whom. Uber only tells you a single, flat price.
Don't forget malpractice insurance. As high as $200k/yr for high risk doctors like obstetricians. That significantly reduces your take home pay.
Crunchbase raises $18M, debuts enterprise, plans marketplace for 3rd party data
Source? This seems incredibly unsubstantiated. There were public efforts Steve made to keep Adobe on the platform and I know there were developer meetings to ensure the transition to Carbon and Cocoa went fine.

I have seen no evidence of illicit stock grants or Apple giving direct cash to executives at adobe.

I hate to be that guy but I would like more information on this, otherwise it feels rather unsubstantiated and just paints both Apple and Adobe in a bad light for no reason.
The State of Apple's Mac Pros
after reading this it got me to thinking maybe "tech interviews should be "pass/fail" with 2 passes a valid output. or maybe ratings of 1-5.
Great analysis. Thanks for following up.

I guess you realise this, but the benefits of hoisting even simple operations like a dereference outside the loops is enabling other optimisations, such as the addition -> multiplication one here or even fancier like interchanging loops/ifs and vectorisation.
1. Do you sell a product or a service?

2. What part of the world are you in (Europe/Asia/Oceania/South America/etc)?

3. Were you already a functioning business with revenue already flowing in?
I think that playful mathematics certainly exists.
I would disagree about plugin parity. There are a lot of maven plugins, much less snt ones.
Renaud Laplanche, Ousted at Lending Club, Returns as Rival to His Old Firm
What does "knowledge of AI" mean to you?
Now the top twenty place thieves will look for cash on your house
How does this compare to other CDNs, and to Amazon, Google's offering? I thought HTTP/2 support became standard quite a while back.
You sound like a fucking jackass.
Probably it would be easy, I would be happy to help with that, please feel free to open an issue on github.
I love the private venture space race - finally fueling innovation from the private sector and making this a viable industry.
Tesla’s Model 3 Prototypes Caught on Camera
The 'haters' are the vocal minority. Lots of people I know, (myself included), actually prefer systemd as it greatly simplifies system management and writing of service files and is a lot more dynamic than upstart was. Maybe it's just my bubble, but systemd tends to be accepted as the right move now.

I am sure the people who hate it have good reasons, but all I've heard is 'doesn't follow UNIX philoshophy', (guess what, the whole Linux ecosystem doesn't really, even Stallamn isn't a fan), 'centralized', (somewhat valid, but there's still Gentoo and Void Linux), binary text files, (installing a 'text logger' over journalctl takes 5s and the filtering capabilities of journalctl are awesome).

Also, the hate for PulseAudio largely died years ago. I for one am glad for people like Pottering, who are willing to think longer term and produce great* software.

Yes, maybe more buggy at the start, (but not really the case with systemd), but great eventually. Also, let's be honest, the reason you see more bugs in i.e. PulseAudio is because it is being developed in the open from its inception.
I would imagine the government's case will center around a small number of tweets which they will claim "leaked" confidential information.

If they can show probable cause that the owner of the account broke federal law, they have legal grounds to demand Twitter release his information.

But unless he has released classified information via the account, I'm not sure what law they'll be able to allege he violated.
I think it's a motivating factor to attract contributions.

I was catching up on C++11/14/17 after spending a lot of time in Rust recently and I realized that I see the C++ standards committee as this nameless faceless void, and the Rust team as these friendly people on GitHub and IRC. There's this college kid who thinks using "pre-pooping your pants" as a technical term is a good plan, this Brooklyn hipster who really likes communism, etc. Whether or not I endorse their "personal stuff", I have a sense that there's a community of real people and not just names on a community, and that makes Rust as a language attractive. If I want to contribute something to the language, there are people I can talk to, and there's a clear way for me, as I am, to do that. I have no idea how to propose something to C++ without working for a company that has a seat on the standards committee. Maybe there is a way, but I'm certainly not under the impression that there is a way.

Projects that are more able to attract contributions will be healthier, more technically productive, and more secure (via Linus' Law). It's meaningless to try to focus purely on the technical if you don't have the people to do the technical work.
Generalist and specialist are not mutually exclusive. Someone can simultaneously have some knowledge of many different areas, and deep knowledge of one particular area. This is in contrast to someone who has no deep knowledge in any area ("knows something about everything") or someone who only has extremely deep knowledge of only one area ("knows everything about nothing").
People get fired from actual jobs for far less.

The evidence suggests that this guy is a creep whose Gorean fantasies are linked to regressive views of women in the real world. Allowing such a person to have a significant contributory, let alone leadership, role in an open source community is bound to leave other contributors massively uncomfortable. To avoid distruption to the community, the community exercised its right to exclude such a person.
> Remember when Best Buy created an entire shadow web site just to keep people from looking up prices in the store?

No, because they never did that. The explanations that came out ten years ago made sense, about different regions having different pricing structures and the national price not always matching in-store. One spends different amounts to retail items in different areas of the world. That was a Consumerist/Gizmodo/Connecticut hullabaloo over nothing, which continues to this day at pretty much every retailer I can think of. I can totally understand an in-store kiosk showing in-store prices, and there are more non-nefarious explanations for the entire scenario than nefarious. I say that disliking Best Buy.

Take gasoline, for example. Notice it's cheaper when you cross an arbitrary governmental border? California into Nevada is my favorite. Notice Chipotle, hell, Taco Bell is cheaper (sometimes >20%) in some places than others? It's all the same issue.
I love that you consider trivial the extrapolation from "Microsoft bans emulators in Xbone and Windows Store" to "no one can run nginx without authorization".
Ask HN: Consider 25yo for senior dev position
Would you do it ? He says he's been developing for 9-10 years.
That's not a risk if you early exercise at the time of grant where your strike price is equal to 409A price. Then there is no taxable value.
> getting the feel for design/architecture of medium-sized systems

Yes. This is exactly the kind of thing I was once looking for, only I didn't know how best to phrase at the time. Think I've since found some of the details I needed then, but will look into these nonetheless and see what I missed, if anything.

Thanks!
Yeah, I wish I could edit that post to specify American Christianity, and exclude Catholicism.
That's odd indeed
Northern NSW is no stranger to floods, but this one was different
Those statements don't seem to say anything about the possibility of your data being acquired by God-knows-who in the event 23andme goes bankrupt.
Pixelated Bitcoin Logo Gets Painted on the R/Place Canvas Experiment
Yup, but this took me way too long to figure out.

Sadly this goes for a lot of Azure services and all the enterprise-buzzword laden documentation doesn't make that easier
Is it wrong to be critical of research? Back in my previous life of doing basic research I scrutinized papers left and right.

http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ towards the end has similar methodology and is 1.5 years old.

Hype is an interesting thing especially when it comes from laymen.
When people complain about "Web" vs. "native", they are not talking about the Web versus the Xerox Alto.
Uber's Levandowski Fights Full Disclosure Over Waymo Secrets
isn't it impressive? They trained a network to predict the next character and when the finished they trained the last layer to predict sentiment with only few examples. The network was able to learn sentiment somehow in the first training phase without telling it!

For me this open my mind to new opportunities when training deep learning. For example I can do the same for images: train a network to recognize objects and later use the same network to predict sentiment or prettiness for example. And the best thing is that I don't need a lot of labeled examples for the second phase of training!
Before people start comparing this to the John Rivello case last month (the guy accused of tweeting a seizure-inducing GIF), Twitter released information in response to police warrants:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3520966-FBI-Complain...

It doesn't appear that a warrant was used in this case, which is in part why Twitter isn't complying.
What you are proposing with the rat brain simulation/scan seems pretty close to what the Blue Brain Project folks are doing: http://bluebrain.epfl.ch/page-56882-en.html
It feels like a bad dream now, but yeah this really did happen. It was awful.
German doctors have nice sports cars too. Same in the US.
I was told by my recruiter that because I have interest in ML but no practical experience, I could work on an ML project during 20% time.
in your question "Do I have any legal grounds for this?" Do you mean for or against creating the clone?
I have no sympathy for Uber, but it does start to feel like someone is out to get them, the guys just can't seem to catch a break.
It's worth noting that the sanity you're appreciating is, IME, very typical of the Rust community. Mistakes/overblown claims will get called out (if someone notices them), and "better together" is something people generally embody: e.g. even the language itself incorporates good ideas from "competitors".
Twitter Is Suing Department of Homeland Security
How would you redesign the Gregorian calendar?
There's a discussion to be had about the correlation between a preoccupation with interacting with the world through computing and "attachment styles" that are not considered to be healthy. (avoidant etc.)

Witch-hunts are a dumb way to pursue this.

If a project (say a cryptographic software project) is full of avoidant/dismissive types, a lot of mainstream people will be naturally so far from engaging with it that they don't notice whether it succeeds or fails.

Our understanding of psychology is so limited that our idea of what's desirable is really at the level of hunches and rumors, sometimes supported by obscure studies. (Obscure mostly because of the size of the configuration space.)

Etc.
> these are companies that I would consider to have minimal network effect

Gett raised $100 million [1], designed a decent app and put up a bunch of billboards all over Manhattan. I tried to use it for over a month. The drivers were friendly, the cars were wonderful and the rates were great. But the waits were like 20 minutes. Haven't used it since.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-30/uber-riva...
Tesla Has Something Hotter Than Cars to Sell: Its Story
> > Proprietary Linux drivers have the added downside of not supporting later kernel versions.

> And most likely not supporting future kernel versions.

Huh?
Raspberry Pi is our era's IBM PC: From educational project to industry disruptor
Patchwork is a user interface for displaying messages from the distributed database to the user, and to allow the user to add new messages. The underlying protocol supports arbitrary message types, patchwork exposes a UI for interacting with a subset of them. Anyone could write and use other UIs while still contributing to the same database. Patchbay[1] for example is a more developer-centric frontend.

Under the hood, patchwork connects to a scuttlebot[2] server. Scuttlebot in turn is based on secure-scuttlebutt (ssb).

[1] https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay
[2] http://scuttlebot.io/
If you provide a product or service to your customers you are entirely responsible for it.

If I buy a laptop and it craps out I don't send it back to the manufacturer, I take it back to the retailer.
> operator-overloading enabling eDSL-creation

This is almost certainly in the negative column for me. SBT has the dubious distinction of being the only build system that takes me hours to figure out how to change a setting. Inevitably I have to fall back to reading the source, and given all the macro magic that can be difficult to unwind.

I've been using Pants, mostly because it's polyglot and has better multi-project support. The oss community is a lot smaller, and it has a fair number of problems around bugs, but I find the code much more approachable.
I personally use an app called TapeACall. You could also just put your call on loudspeaker and record it with another device.
Well, I think that it's easier say something than do it.

If he has been developing so many years, why instead believe in his words why don't test him doing a more technical (hands-on) oriented interview instead a "normal" (talking and such) interview?

Well, IMHO, I think that in such scenario he can shine or fail according if he's saying the truth.
I think they are naive to leave Leah in any kind of position within this project. I'm not saying she is a government operative, but activist projects like this that seek to end the potential for electronic eavesdropping via the IME are going to be at least spied upon, if not disrupted. And stirring up a bunch of crazy drama is a known controlled opposition technique. Like I said, I am not accusing Leah of being such, and I have no knowledge to make such an assessment of her. I just know that in my line of activism, someone acts a fool like that, they're out. Period.
What happens if each year I fire my below average developers and get better ones