skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a long time to catch up, yes. But HHVM did several big improvements to their JIT tech between then and now.

PHP7 also rolled out with very little noise about stability, migration issues, etc.

Not knocking FB at all, just noting the PHP folks did a nice job.
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What do you work on? Can I interview with you?
This is related to the human tendency to overestimate the danger of unpredictable risks.

The danger of a major financial disaster for a healthy and educated young person in a developed country is much lower than it seems. I know many such people that traveled across the country, some with no money or possessions to their name. None of them were broke for more than a few months, and within 6 most of them lived a similar lifestyle to the one they left behind.

The danger is much greater if you're unhealthy, uneducated, or have other liabilities, but that doesn't apply to a good portion of the HN crowd.

What a lot of people don't think about is that a true disaster will knock you out even if you have a steady job, insurance, and education. I know several people whose lives were forever changed by a lawsuit, medical bills, and health problems. These risks are barely affected by anything you can control, so in most ways it's best to just go on as if they don't exist.
I watched Silicon Cowboys last night and was really impressed. The stories of Rod Canion, Jim Harris, and Bill Murto utterly fascinate me. Three guys from Texas who originally were going to start a mexican restaurant chain ended up starting the world's fastest growing technology company instead.
My understanding was that the Sony lenses were so big due to the high quality required for the high resolutions (e.g. 42MP A7Rii). If you were happy with less resolution or a centre crop you could build a far smaller lens...
This was a really refreshing event to attend and the open Q & A resulted in a lot of different questions than were typically seem to get asked when a talk only has a chance for a few questions at the end.

On a related note, can someone explain France's obsession with chatbots to me?
Awesome answers. Honestly, Quay seems like the way to go right now.
There were several versions of the Oberon OS as they explored new languages and hardware. The first relevant here is Native Oberon using original, Oberon language:

http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/native/

They also did one, Active Oberon System, based on a multi-threaded language called Active Oberon. The latest version of that was A2 Bluebottle. I ran its ISO in VirtualBox a year or two ago to get a bare-bones, but fast, experience.

http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/OCP/Downloads

You might also love the alternate history we missed in the Juice project to replace Java applets (or todays JS apps) with Oberon apps sent as compressed, abstract-syntax trees. If you know how fast Go is, then you'll know what we lost when it got ignored.

https://github.com/Spirit-of-Oberon/Juice
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Can you describe why you choose freebsd over Linux+DPDK? I realize freebsd has the fast path built in, but I would think it's lacking in other areas.
It's even worse — you've correlated a particular IP origin to a weak password. Now you still have to figure out the account to even begin guessing.

I guess this is the flip side to marketing of bugs like Heartbleed. Now people are starting to use the same approach for trivial nonsense.
You can do 40gbe even if packet sizes are small using any kernel bypass technique and multiple cores. Mellanox claims up to 130Mpps.
I'm not taking about contenteditable, but the document model of the editor. Markup is much well suited to rich text because that's exactly what it was designed for.
Where do you see an Intel 100gbe nic?

Edit: I think you're referring to omnipath. Should be clear than Intel has no 100gbe card available. That link is also pcie3x8, so it can do a max of ~60gbps to host.
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Taking a look through https://stackexchange.com/sites, I see several fairly specific programming communities:

askubuntu.com and unix.stackexchange.com

vi.stackexchange.com and emacs.stackexchange.com

stackoverflow.com and codereview.stackexchange.com
Who said anything about contenteditable or not having control over the content? The editor can have complete control and still store the document in markup rather than JSON.

HTML offers a number of advantages over a custom json-based document module, not the least of which is interop. You'd never want to store Skates data model in a database in case you switch editors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandar_bin_Sultan_Al_Saud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_28_Pages
What books did you read?
I am interested in books recommendation for parenting.
I suspect that Frito Lay would possibly be capable of using higher quality ingredients/making better quality chips if the market demanded it. Perhaps you are in the minority of people who cares enough to notice the difference?
Slightly off topic but does anyone happen to know if GitHub's markdown editor is open source?
>>“What do you want to be doing in 10 years?” The answer is invariably “working at or founding a tech startup”

Funny. I deal with startups all the time. When I ask startup employees where they want to be in 10 years they invariably say "Working for Google" or some version of "Working for someone more stable than this bag of cats". When I speak to startup founders, honestly and in private, the answer is some version of "On the other side of either and IPO/buyout". The employees look for stability, thier bosses cash.

The grass is always greener. I once worked in film/TV and everyone wants to hear the stories. They all think it was so much fun. It was hell. That glorious job is never what you think. Except fighter pilot. Every one of the dozen or so I've met live and embrace the stereotypes.
Most people intuitively know this. But sometimes it takes 10 years or even decades to climb a hill, and the probability of picking a random spot in a valley or on a plateau is high. People are just risk-averse. And I think most winners win not because of this strategy, but because they can climb hills much faster than others, thus have a higher rate to try new spots.
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The US airline industry seems remarkably similar to the US ISP industry.

In both cases there is no real competition, and new competitors are legally prevented from entering the market.

As a result the US are terrible in both categories by international standards.
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In my experience, not only is it not their business, many middle managers are actively hostile to anyone who is working in the the best interests of the business, as that interferes with their ability to extract value from the business and put it into their own pockets in various different ways.
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I suspect you've never looked through one of the good modern EVFs. They aren't slow any more, and they're immensely more accurate than what you see through glass.
There is a lot of evidence that certain elements within the US government had foreknowledge of 9/11. Nothing conclusive, but enough to begin an investigation into people like Dick Cheney. Is it really so hard to believe that the same war criminals who manufactured the Iraq war might also turn a blind eye to a terror attack that spurred trillions in weapons and "defense" spending?
Is this just blind forwarding or does that include some decent routing logic? I've looked into kernel bypass but I keep shying away because it seems to proprietary, especially the virtualized flavor which seems to be Intel only
That doesn't really make sense. Gmail has a minimum password length of 8 characters. I bet 50% of users have an 8 character password. This bug hardly gives you any information at all.
This is a classic "sounds small, but is actually huge" statistic. Most of these pop up when people are trying to be deceptive, but this one looks like a mistake. I'm surprised it slipped past both the author and editor.
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My childhood experience was similar to yours: lots of discipline, authority, and dogma. I have turned out to have issues with authority, and dislike working for others (even good bosses). Someday I suspect this will lead me to do my own "thing." In any case, I turned out okay, but the road to "here" was pretty rocky and uncertain. Lots of moments things could've gone sideways.

I have a daughter who reminds me of myself, and I (like you) try to take a gentler approach with her. I hope she can tap her intrinsic motivation and skip a lot of the needless misery I endured. Or at least always know her parents supported her as she spread her wings (whereas mine did not). I too worry about how to develop grit a work ethic for her, but I think that's the key: I CAN'T do any such thing. I can help expose her to things which might engage her interest (arts, inventing, medicine, engineering, etc...) but I don't dictate how the story ends. Stepping back, to me, means honoring the fact that it is their life to make something of, or not. I know until my parents adopted that strategy with me, in my mid-twenties, I was going nowhere fast. Suddenly they behaved like they didn't care if I worked, went to college, dropped out, or whatever. They told me they loved me, but otherwise would just pretty much grunt when I'd tell them what I was up to. So I think we have to communicate to our children that we're not going to try and make them some form of what we think they should be, and that if they want to do anything with their life that will be on them.

With my daughter that means lots of conversations about things like "oh, you want to play guitar, but you're frustrated because you're not good at it right away. Hmmm, well you know the only way to get good at something is to practice, work at it, spend time with it." Somehow she has the completely baseless idea that she should just know how to do everything, and beats herself up for all her perceived inadequacies.

So yeah, as you can tell, I too don't know if this is the best way... I'm just trying to find my way in the dark as best as I can, just as you are. Hopefully as long as we're operating from a place of unconditional love, understanding, patience, and kindness ultimately things will turn out for the best.

If my kids can grow up to be capable of creating their own meaningful lives then I'll be satisfied, no matter what that looks like.
Ha! I think I managed to grab both the top and bottom of this post!
Ask HN: How many of you quit using Facebook or rarely use?
Fascinating. What, exactly, did they use VR for? Were they actually doing design work with it, or just doing demos? What kind of hardware and software?
Thanks I will have to go down this road at some point. Have to learn a bunch still. Sorry I didn't see this sooner, had a wall of text to look through (not yours other replies from other posts).
"electromagnetic weapons capable of disrupting electronic equipment."

I would really like to learn more about this particular capability. Could you imagine the impact in an area of conflict 'turning off' all electronics would cause?
Author needs to review the relative appropriateness of "average" vs "median".
I realise they have 0 problems with CS fundamentals while being at the same time top experts in respective fields.
It's always pleasant to see PHP occasionally get a positive moment in the limelight on HN. It's oft scorned yet powers a very large chunk of the web. With the work done on 7 it's also one of the fastest scripting languages around and deserves a little more credit if I'm honest.
What if longevity is explained partly by the resilience to social isolation?
Probably. I was bullish on docker in the past, but I'm no longer convinced its worth the trouble for small projects. It adds an awful lot of operational complexity for what is essentially a more complex abstraction around processes.

I think its a nice tool for deployment and making reproducible builds, but a lot of other things become harder through docker - like managing a databases's data, and communication between local processes.

Maybe the tooling has improved in the last few years, but I've gone back to the raw unix coalface.
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> He has decided he hates Wall Street and wants to work at a tech startup (good!).

> How can smart, ambitious people stay working in an area where they have no long term ambitions? I think a good analogy for the mistake they are making can be found in computer science.

It's as if being an entrepreneur is the end-all, be-all of all careers. It's hard work. It's riddled with failure. It's not for everybody.

In addition, the algorithm that the author attempts to describe is called Simulated Annealing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing
I wonder if it's possible to compile it for iOS?

I need a templating engine in my app, and php seems like the most popular one.
Cool, picking up a copy now. I love the way it's written but unfortunately not safe to read to my kids as a bedtime story.
laumars, you seem to be antagonizing my comments and downvoting regularly. There are people with different perspectives here in HN, but I do not see you replying to each one of them.

Your only recent activity has been exclusively on my threads, with a tone not allowed on the HN comments section (personal attacks), baiting for responses so you can downvote them, since you can only downvote a reply once and there's a minimum karma requirement for downvoting so it's unfeasible to do it with fake accounts.

We just had a pointless argument thread 20 levels deep a few days ago (which was not the first one), where neither of us conceded to the other's point of view. A waste of time, HN karma, and I still think you were wrong.

HN is not the Monty Python argument clinic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y
For the system, it's like the particle swarm algorithm (PSO). Well, fine, the system will do fine. But it's really hard on ants.

EDIT: Almost all multi-agent exploratory algorithms have these characteristics: evolution, free-market capitalism.

And we all (as the species, as the beneficiaries of the system) benefit, even if 10M sperm died to give us 1K eggs to give us 1 living turtle to get back to the beach to re-spawn. The species will live. The ecosystem will adapt and thrive -- but it is very wasteful in terms of point-probes on the multi-dimensional problem space. 1K:1 or 1M:1 die, to have the one survive, because it found the niche in the problem space. That's all fine and dandy until we realize that each of us are the point-probes. We think that we are better than that. Well, maybe we are. In 1000 years, they will look back and see.

EDIT2: > It's as if being an entrepreneur is the end-all, be-all of all careers. It's hard work. It's riddled with failure. It's not for everybody.

Well, for the system, it's great. The system searches for it's maximum potential. For the entrepreneur, he's just a point-sample (in one algorithm), or a geodesic field in yours. These things are tried and tossed away as if they are trash if they don't "fit".

Nothing wrong with that ... it's as if the universe is using the human geoplex as a hive-mind to achieve something greater. But, we, as individuals, might have opinions about how we want to be treated as agents of this algorithm.
Japanese farmers are being subsidized by these trade regulations, at the expense of other Japanese workers (namely, any worker who produces something that Japan could trade for foreign potatoes).
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Quit in 2012.
PHP is a whole lot more than just a templating engine. I think you would find that much more effort than is required just to make some templates.
Another one of nikic's seminal guides into the workings of PHP. It was him who wrote the foreach guide on StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/a/14854568/308851 .

Another note: if I ever catch you using these cute "finally ... interesting edge-cases" described in this article, your PR will be refused. Yes, yes, it's very smart, and you might win an obfuscation contest but in a professional environment we like code that can be understood even when the emergency phone kicks us out of bed. If it's five times as long, I care not, but if it requires me to think hard on the code, I do.
Well if they can't get hired then it sounds like they don't know what they're actually worth, do they.
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If I recall, from the 2016 GTC keynote, the parking is in the basement. The CEO felt he was voting in favor of the environment by putting the cars underneath.
Looking up PSO, I came across Russell Eberhart's name as the co-author of the algorithm. He is also the author of the excellent book called Swarm Intelligence where I first encountered the Simulated Annealing algorithm (and many other cool ones)
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> Instead they let themselves caught up in the 'fake news' fiasco (a factor absent from the article),

I don't think it is as simple as that. It is a fiasco at face value. Only if we think those smart people running Facebook and Google really thought Lizard People and Chemtrails believers have turned around the election and now they are on a noble mission to rescue us from such horrors, because you know, they are pure and noble, and not evil. At least that is how they framed it.

But I think it was a about something else. It was a signal to powerful advertisement buyers that traditional media (TV news channels, newspapers etc) have failed at manufacturing consent, and they shouldn't waste their money on them anymore. That market vacuum can now be filled Google and Facebook - "Don't let fake news ruin your next campaign. Come to us. We'll make sure only true news gets out".
Who would have thought that GBA software is still being written in 2017? Awesome!
This article in the NYTimes is like Duchamp's urinal in a museum.
There is some truth in what you say, but there is also a trap.

In my experience I've found that by thinking about what they want, a person can get a better understanding of what their choices are offering. The challenge is differentiating between 'heading to' (aspirational wants) versus 'running from' (symptomatic wants). The question the example person in Chris' article did not answer was "Do you want to do X?" (aspirational) or "Do you not want to do Y?" (symptomatic). People can spend all of their careers running away from things they don't like, that seems to leave them feeling bitter.

The nuance that I think Chris overlooks is that you can see the next hill but the valley is still full of fog, and that fog can obscure the fact that some hills have a cliff on one side of them. For example you can't just go over to the local hospital and say "Hey, I'd like to be brain surgeon! Got any openings?"

One way I've found to separate things I'm simply running away from versus things I'm trying to run toward, is that when I think I want to go to X, I start researching X and what paths lead there. Sort of like looking at people who are in the space I think I want to go and looking at the path they took there. Then trying to figure out what steps were necessary and which ones were not. To be a doctor these days you need a medical degree, its necessary, but you don't need like biology, that is helpful but not essential. If I am unwilling to take the essential steps, I have to consider that perhaps I don't really "want" what I think I want.

As a result one of the things I try to do in every place I work is 'round' myself out in some way or another. The goal is to make as many "hills" accessible as I reasonably can.
Thank you, all.

Listly.io is my private work built days ago.
I hope to hear opinions if it is useful for you... or not.

Listly.io turn HTML to Excel in seconds without coding. It finds the pattern of repeated structure and extracts all of image links and texts. It does find not tags (table, ul ...), but the structure.

Ideally for developers, I think API would be the best way to adapt this extractor to other scraper or your own scraper.
Seems to me a local maximum that definitely exists is not too shabby compared to a higher hill that has a 90% chance of going dead flat on you.
That's interesting. I wonder if having a popular app in the app store counts, because then I can say that I'm a business owner
Since gmail has minimum password length of 8, my random guess is that 90% of the users have passwords between 8 and 15. Does knowing the precise length of the password buys the attacker so much that they can now guess the passwords of 10% users? Also, note that they do not know the username that corresponds to the given password length. Without more details, I seriously doubt this claim.
Farming in the US is heavily subsidized due to a nexus of national security, the farm lobby, and food stamps.

So it's a legitimate concern many nation's have, even EU countries have similar programs.

In the US it has gotten out of hand, however.
I work for Disney (but do not represent them), and the tax reason was one that we had floating around our office. I tried to find a good source, but I couldn't. I'm probably wrong, but here is at least a rundown of the situation: http://www.ocregister.com/2016/07/01/bye-bye-airbnbs-short-t...

Doesn't give much of a reason why STRs are banned other than some homeowners not liking it.
Actually they outsource because the wages are cheaper in India
>> I realise they have 0 problems with CS fundamentals while being at the same time top experts in respective fields.

I suspect your definition of CS fundamentals is only Algos and Datastruct problems. Said experts are very good at what they do. That does not mean they will whip out an algorithmic puzzle solution on a whiteboard under pressure.

I also suspect that those experts have better things to do than get a job at Google. They'd rather not go through this process. Google wants them to be there not the other way around.
All of my friends are over 40 miles away except my new friends after moving. They all use facebook heavily. I don't have any issues keeping in contact with them.
Life on an island whose population has proven itself exceptionally, uniquely, mindblowingly capable of running af civilized society and carving out their own distinct and highly successful niche in the world, or rather on top of it.

They will emerge alive from this potato calamity, trust me.
I am not at all surprised by things on the internet being scary or inappropriate for kids. Let alone YouTube or really any site with user generated content.

It's no different than parents that let their kids rent whatever videogames they wanted back in the day. As much as I enjoyed Conker's bad fur day it probably mentally aged me a few years
First question should be: can we only receive SMS reviews if we have a 140 character limit?
Is it a problem for a SMS if there is no limit?
I agree. I may earn my living in the tech field now, but I majored in Cognitive Science, not Computer Science. And I think it has served me well.
Honestly, the other platforms tend to be at least equally weird. Particularly given how there tends to be no way for for software to interrogate the hardware on most non-x86 platforms, so you have to just sort of hardcode topology (either directly in the kernel or in a device tree type file that you generate).
I would posit that pretty much all useful content is generated by .01% of people across all mediums.
One data point, but I was asked that as a Microsoft interview question when I was a freshman. I figured it out on on the fly pretty quickly. I'm no genius.
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