skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming a candidate without super-strong experience:

1) Good code sample showing non-trivial piece of code, ideally in C. (craftsmanship)

2) Reasonable github profile, showing ability to contribute to some opensource projects (which means: basic git skills, communication skills, testing) (craftsmanship)

3) Reasonable experience from CV (assuming we're not talking about hiring for junior role) (craftsmanship)

4) Genuine interest and experience in one of crypto or security or networking. (depth)

5) Debugging skills. Systemtap? Valgrind? (depth)

6) Basic understanding of different programming paradigms. Haskell, erlang, scala or prolog count. (breadth)
I don't know which article thetli8 is referring to, but this might be a good place to start an investigation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronotype

> I'm quite skeptical of the concept of humans "evolving" different time-preferences

As described in the wiki link above, the differences in "time-preference" are basically down to natural variance - I don't believe there's any evidence of a bi-modal distribution.

Nature does seem to select for anti-fragile populations (because by definition they are robust) and one way of achieving this is to have a certain amount of variability in phenotypes.
I'm just gonna put this out there with no citations or proof: this controller[0] had the best hand feel of any console controller ever.

[0]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Nintendo...
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Rust can currently statically link the VC CRT, looks like servo doesn't compile with that option at the moment is all
Like rattray mentioned, this is something that I think would be totally doable in Prettier (whether or not it would be wise is a separate issue).

I sort of deal with something like that even just personally. On my work machine I have nice screen real estate, but when I'm on the go on my 11" air I have prettier set up with a more generous character limit so I can see more on screen. If you combined this set up with something like the pre-commit hooks that OITT have suggested, I could then be looking at my own code slightly differently in two machines but the end result would be the same!
Here is a lawyer who took the tobacco companies for billions talking about it: http://www.valuewalk.com/2017/04/david-dao-united-airlines/

It's disturbing to see here and elsewhere (not so much you, but certainly others) the degree to which people doff their caps to big business.
Why must "real Nintendo fans" keep a boxed copy?
I think the concern around sleeping is that you don't know how long you can safely sleep for without knowing to inspect state.toggleLedTime (and every similar value - potentially error prone).
Sure, if your taste in clothes is graphic t-shirts and ill-fitting work jeans. Quality clothing costs more than it used to, and it's harder to find locally because Walmart won't sell anything that they can't discount the hell out of.
Well, they just became my worst design company.

The noise the fan of my laptop made after 10s of that connect page. OMG. I do not approve of these useless animations.

Lucky I'm not running on low power mode or that would probably have frozen my browser for some time.
*yet

I would be shocked if the Virtual Console wasn't running on the Switch by the end of the year.
This is a big deal. Another article about this from MIT:

http://news.mit.edu/2017/scientists-unveil-crispr-based-diag...
> "The Fearless Girl has value, too, but it is not without critics either, so there is at least a valid discussion to be had."

I'm all for discussion, but from what little information we have to go on, it appears the bull's sculptor is seeking to stifle discussion and simply have the girl removed despite a valid permit and public interest.

That's what I take issue with; he doesn't get to dictate what is placed on a public street any more than the girl's sculptor does (which she isn't).
If US airport security was run according to Israeli standards, all international flights would have to go through one of two airports, on the east and west coasts, each of which would have to be larger than ORD, JFK, LAX, DFW, and ATL combined. The special school required to train the screeners would effectively be the largest college in the world.

International tourism both in and out would shrink dramatically, as there are precious few religions that consider anywhere in the US to be special holy sites, and plenty of places to see in the US that don't require intensive security screening. No one I know would ever be amused by a strip search.

The Israeli air travel strategy just doesn't scale up quite that well.
As you said earlier, some people drop out because they can't work at all hours. You don't know why, but you are assuming that it is because they don't work as hard as you . Hence survivorship bias. People who drop out for reasons other than not being able to work effectively at all hours are irrelevant.
This seems to have triggered the most cynical and disillusioned thread I've ever read on HN, and there have been a couple. Well done. It would be interesting to fish out a few other HN reviews of business practices, but I don't even know the correct terms to search as they generate instant disinterest.
Well, deep sea, thermal vent life is predominantly blind on earth at least. One may postulate this form of life is much less likely to form technological civilizations thus moderating such. Thoughts?
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This sounds like a fun gimmick, but it makes me more excited about the concept of Mastodon (GNU Social). I think this creates a really fun use case for federation. Hell I never thought of it before, but maybe now I'll want accounts on multiple servers now.
For a user who saves scarce vertical screen space by moving the desktop panel to the side, this is a worry:

https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-panel/issues/157
I almost never have a problem on desktop, but using iOS safari (and the mobile reddit site), I often see the error page. I think it's a view/rendering issue, and ends up being displayed rather than a loading modal, but I could be wrong.
Coincidentally a book was written a few decades ago called "Ringmakers of Saturn" which discusses the presence of alien life around Saturn as well.
All Nintendo needs to do is make playing older games as easy as opening up Emuparadise and clicking a few buttons.

High prices, not being able to play some SNES games available for the Wii on the 3DS (wtf, just let play FFVI on the go), poor library (I know, licenses, but still), etc. make feel like they don't care.
I think they handled it poorly, but there is no way that a passenger's wishes will override the pilot or the airline. They probably thought he would come to his senses when the cops showed up, I think that is where they screwed up, IMO they should have disembarked the rest of the plane and then arrested him in-place.

Whether or not bumping him is fair, there is no question about who owns the aircraft and has responsibility/authority. No one would want to fly on an airline where a stubborn passenger could override the flight crew.
> If even .1% of Nintendo's revenue comes from NES/SNES games, then they are doing it VERY wrong.

Why? What's wrong about Nintendo continuing to monetize their old IP, which is still apparently in high demand? If anything, Nintendo managing to continue making money off of these old games is impressive.
I maintain a web driver too (Selenium-based) and have been wondering about how it would compare to Selenium ChromeDriver headless. Mine is built in Java and uses Java's embedded WebKit. If anyone has feedback this is where I'm discussing it, https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver/issues/2...
Not every upvote increases your karma. There are algorithms for detecting voting rings, and some users have managed to get themselves on a list that means their votes appear to be registered, but actually ignored. As a result, it's not as simple or transparent as you might hope.

The best advice is simply not to bother about it to much, behave well, upvote good stuff, downvote stuff that's of negative value, flag stuff that really shouldn't be here, and submit things that are potentially of interest to hackers.

In short, don't worry about karma. 10K points of karma and $5.70 will get you a coffee.
Since you insist, this is one of many open positions: https://boards.greenhouse.io/cloudflare/jobs/589571
you've done some nice work on the app! hopefully that was fulfilling in itself.

(but there's always a 'but'...) most small businesses (startups or otherwise) are a marketing problem, not a technology problem.

i've seen a ton of event discovery apps like this over the years (i even worked on one myself! =), and, while it seems logical on the surface for something like this to exist, such apps almost never solve a burning need for users.

discovery just isn't something recreational athletes go to an app for. social networks and search are generally good enough initially. and once you find a single location or event (in my case, a basketball league), your now expanded network provides all the further discovery you need (including other sports you like).

because of this, every casual sports discovery app i've seen either dies or pivots very quickly.

i would advise you to think about what else you can solve in this space that doesn't have a substitute product (e.g., don't pick messaging, as that's well covered by social networks as well).
Agreed.

I understand gamer's frustration with paywalls and pay-to-win, but let's be real here. These are collectible figurines and fun cosmetics inside a game. No one is forcing anyone to buy these and Nintendo has every right to do limited runs on some Amiibos. That's half the fun if you're into collecting these things.

If it's understood that I will never have a skin/level/weapon because I didn't purchase something additional besides the game, I just weigh whether I want to make that purchase. Just because a feature can be unlocked via a code doesn't necessarily mean I have a right to it outside of purchasing that code.

This is hardly Destiny where you paid the same price for the game, but some of the userbase got access to more content based on their console and that content never got released on other consoles (not that I'm bitter or anything). Here, you pay if you want it.
Compensation, even token compensation, completely changes the game when it comes to swapping or filling in for shifts. There's a HUGE difference between a coworker "doing you a favor" versus taking on paid work.
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Your personal anecdotes say nothing useful about the experiences of other people.

I get pretty wiped out for a week when the clocks go forward or back. I'm only marginally productive when the sun is up, but get a huge amount done from about 8pm to 2am.

But so what? That's me. I don't expect the rest of the world to be the same.

Sleep is clearly very individual. Standard school/office hours are a hugely inefficient waste of the potential of tens of millions of people.

It should be possible to design a more flexible system. But we still have ridiculous notions that early risers are somehow the model of virtue, and everyone else should aspire to the same hours.
yes, but it's not cheap and is essentially a second parallel tapeout path that slows your chip design time - if you're building a CPU you likely build a high-level software model and code to that (with some register-virtualisation layer), then test against that as part of the chip DV (QA) process
We here at Company X believe that math is not useful unless it is bespoke, hand-made, artisanal. Please pretend that set theory does not yet exist in this universe, and describe to us the smell of the algorithm you might write to solve this problem.
Use a video to hire someone to complete your to do list
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Well, then this is superstition on the part of those execs. LinkedIn is the one tool that every recruiter uses. They are more likely to map out your employee network on LinkedIn than to even visit your company website at all (much less count on it for having accurate up-to-date information).
Older people have all the money (in America at least) so Instagram may be ok with that.
My apologies for misunderstanding. Which industry are you thinking of exactly?
Yes, but why?

This seems to me the same principle as "no libraries, instead keep a spec and re-implement the domain logic in each service" discussed elsewhere in this thread.

You still have a common dependency of all services (the spec/design doc) and you'll still have to modify them all if the dependency changes. Except now you also have heaps of duplicate code.
They may end up like the creatures in the "The Abyss" and be really good at manipulating water. Who knows?
Were you running this out of your home? Because that is against their terms.
It doesn't work on my Nexus 6 with a modified DPI to emulate a tablet, so yes, this is likely the case. I'm not sure how they missed such a major set of screen resolutions.
They're actively contributing to the problem and damaging trust in their brand by comingling inventory with third-party sellers.
I run it at pre-commit and in CI before approving a PR. Basically my thought is to trust my team to do it whatever way they want to, in the editor, manually, or as a commit hook; and then verify it on the backend before committing.
This website is slugish as hell. Every time I scroll my cpu usage jumps to ~30% and I have ~2FPS, using the latest version of Firefox.

On Chrome the CPU still spikes, but it's no nearly as bad.
The good old case of developers and designers only testing their sites on a maxed out Macbook Pro running Chrome with super fast fiber.
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This is a good summary of the situation of software divisions within hardware-dominated enterprises.

There's a lot of patience for building labs and improving physical infrastructure (which is carried from one activity to the next activity), but much less patience for iterative development of non-physical infrastructure. As an experienced software person told me, "they really want something they can kick" to show the point of making an investment.

If the hardware design is dictated by computer modeling, this can be a point of overlap, in which everyone can agree that patient investment in software is a competitive advantage.
This comment makes me so goddamned angry.

Around the time I turned fourteen I lost my ability to fall asleep at night and wake up in the morning. I hung on to decent grades by "testing well," but never able to keep my head up during morning classes. All along people told me it was a discipline problem, and I followed their goddamned advice and got nowhere.

The last fifteen years of research in sleep and brain chemistry have validated my experience. It had nothing to do with self-accountability and responsibility; some people are night owls, others are not.

Fuck you for thinking that your personal experiences are indicative of me having “poor character.” Fuck you and your fucking career.
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I would love the same app for tennis partners :)
They are talking about Plan 9's network file system protocol. I'm not sure what they were using it for. I've seen it used as the easiest way to share a host file system with a Qemu/KVM guest OS.
>but some Pro features are locked by a software gate

And to top it off; you can't buy a key for the pro version!
>I'm trying to work out if you're being serious.

> user: ColinWright.

> created: 2676 days ago

> karma: 83694

Wow! --the autism is strong in this one.
I think part of it is wrapped up in Grant having come around to an unflinching opposition to white supremacy. At least that was my take away from Ron White's recent "American Ulysses ". The degree to which the Grant was able to move forward on a semblance of emancipation, to have it unwound within a decade of his departing office, not to be realized until a century ranks as one of the great human rights tragedies. He was not without his ineptitides ( be careful putting your friends in cabinet positions), but can't accept that the diminution of his standing was not largely due to racialist backlash.
How is offering a similar application with similar modes of communication, similar formatting unethical but, copying an API like the Java API for Android not considered unethical in the same vein?

I'd have to think there isn't a legal case or the billion dollar company that is Snapchat would have mounted a case. They didn't patent an interface (code or visual). They didn't try to protect it or even make a public case that it was somehow copying.

Yet, here we are on Hacker News saying it's somehow unethical? At this level, all social networks are "clones" of each other. Twitter is a clone of the FB news feed. Android is a clone of the iPhone. All of the food delivery startups are clones of each other. They all should do the moral thing and close up shop or at least pivot to something else.

Except we would all be poorer for it. We would have less options, less innovations and fewer ways to communicate. If any of the parties thought this was unethical stealing of their work, they are big boys and well funded; they'd at the very least say so.

You may not like FB/Instagram because of it but, if it's a superior free product and no one is making a case then I don't think it's immoral.
I disagree where you say that it is a "technical problem", because that's not the real bottleneck at this point.

You can tell because there are many security issues (e.g. plaintext passwords) where relatively easy technical solutions have existed for a very very long time... Yet they still aren't being consistently applied.

Why? Because the root-cause is a matter of incentives, rather than a matter of inventions.
It's limiting in a big way. Occasionally, you can say a string of words without that symbol that flows without worry, but an individual word trips you up and brings much difficulty, as any of its obvious synonyms all contain that symbol too.
That guy lon. You know, the spacx guy. Oh yah, why didn't you say so? Musk.
> MSG_PEEK is a pretty obscure feature. I'm not personally aware of any commonly-run UDP code that actually uses it. You'll want to patch your kernel for sure, but unless you're running really crazy UDP servers, you're probably not immediately vulnerable.

Or unless you have untrusted users on your machine, in which case they can run crazy UDP servers and escalate to root.
What Zhang & Co are doing at the Broad, is truly spectacular.
What is wrong with Uber's management? I don't think I've ever read anything positive about the company.

From their numerous gender bias and sexual harassment claims, to their CEO acting like a bratty spoiled 15yr old and bitching out a driver, to trying to skirt public safety laws by refusing to register their self-driving cars after being catered and begged to do so by government regulators simply because they don't give a fuck, to this whole Waymo lawsuit, to this. I think this shitty company needs a complete change of upper management.
I really like the Amiibo idea. It's like a DLC but I'm actually buying something real, a physical token that has value in itself regardless of being on game or not. In BOTW the Amiibos are specially good because they offer a good reward without fell that you are cheating. You save some time, but nothing that completely changes the game. Yet, as pointed in the article, some Zelda amiibos are impossible to get or way too expansive due to low offer and high demand. I don't care about having a "rare" Amiibo.
I started from here: https://retropie.org.uk/

It was actually quite simple. Starting from opening the box on the RPi, that I'd never touched before, being kind of a Linux moron, and tracking down the necessary hardware (an old TV and USB joystick, and some networking stuff), I had it running in just a couple of hours.

The only thing that slowed me down at all was figuring out how to copy ROM files onto it through the network.
Yes, but as far as I know there are not suicidal. Or why do you think they would do that?
For using the omniscient voice. Many people don't think Nintendo hardware is a letdown.
First off, this isn't AI, it's machine learning.

> The idea of AI picking up the biases within the language texts it trained on may not sound like an earth-shattering revelation

That's an understatement.

> But the study helps put the nail in the coffin of the old argument about AI automatically being more objective than humans

Again, this isn't AI, and anyone with knowledge on the subject has always known that a traditional machine learning algorithm is only as good as its training data.

This also seems like a case where the researchers are simply unhappy with the results they received, rather than being able to show that the results are wrong.
Ars also had a nice info-graphic [0] for the distribution of the T-mobile 600Mhz spectrum gradient.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/t-mob...
Maybe college students just need to have better self-accountability and learn responsibility.

My ex husband was career military and used to say the same thing about our homeschooled sons -- that they needed to develop a routine and learn to just get up in the morning because someday a job would require this of them. Meanwhile, Mr. Hypocrite To The Max never stopped being a night owl himself and would stay awake on weekends until 2 a.m. or whatever and go to work on Monday morning on 2 or 3 hours of sleep, then nap when he got home after work because he was short of sleep. Twenty plus years of military service never really cured him of being a night owl.

It always amazes me how talented people are at ignoring actual reality for some convenient theory of theirs.
Nice! I've been looking for something like this for ages
If there is, they don't have to do much other than to make Uber's shitty practices more public.
That experiment is literally described in the first paragraph of TFA.
But do people really want to wear a headset? And comb their hairs or get a shampoo after a long session? The only headsets people wear, sometimes even as fashion items, are glasses, air straps, hats and helmets. All of them are much lighter than a Hololens (maybe except some helmets). Hats and helmets suffer from the same combing problem as Hololens. Furthermore I don't see people going around with a bulky Hololens. With something like the glasses of the Denno Coil anime or the contact lenses of Vinge's Rainbows End, yes. It's a long way to there.
Cellphone screens for VR is a more recent example of this.
In the real world, doping affects others around you. In a video game, there is no victim.
Aside from being good software, it was created by a prominent person in the React/JS community and co-developed by a well-known Facebook engineer in the React team. It was lucky to be adopted by large companies quickly, but a) easier to adopt something Facebook approved™ and b) it's painless to adopt since it does everything automatically.

All that, being a great tool, and some Twitter/Medium promotion = success.
there is no point in calling your project a startup if you are only a wannabe fasting growing app. You can call it but people will appear to contradict you. And it is not a problem to have an app instead of a startup. I actually think it is a lot better and less biased.
This is amazing and I got so many ideas on how to tackle the scaling issues I have with my own multiplayer drawing website. In the aftermath of r/Place I went into some of the factions' Discord servers and posted my site, getting 50-100 concurrent users which caused a meltdown on my server. It was a good stress test but also a wake-up call.

Again, amazing write-up. Thank you!