skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Nobel worthy scientists and engineers"? You'd never hire one to make you a native ad!

Native ads, integrated or disguised as creative content, are impossible to block. Creative professionals, like film directors, visual artists, writers and even ad executives are the main innovators of native advertising.

I would argue native advertising is where most of the relevant innovation in ads occurs. Not at Google.

Creative content? Not at all Google's expertise. The best engineers are the least equipped to understand appealing creatives.

- Google acquired YouTube, whose basic premise was pirating, not creating, creative content. Despite having the largest video audience in the world, Google could never make something like Netflix's House of Cards.

- They're years away from delivering a compelling experience for Daydream. Never mind a game. Every NYTimes subscriber who received their Cardboard probably threw it away.

- The folks who worked on Make with Code privately describe their Google partners as insufferable.

- The folks who work on Google's creative ad campaigns—video & design—have variously described their Google partners as aloof and stifling.

- Despite its huge penetration, Google Music has no role in music culture. No musician I know thinks about how many plays they get on Google: they worry about Spotify, Hype Machine and other things their manager actually uses. A music manager wouldn't be caught dead with something as uncool as a Google Music subscription.

Indeed, I would argue that Google's culture is toxic to artistic creativity. If they wanted to hire some writers and directors, what would they do: administer a white boarding test? Laughable! That's assuming the people at e.g. ATAP even follow up with their own recruits (which they don't).

Serious creatives are anti-conformist. Google as an institution is something serious creatives criticize and lampoon, not celebrate. Have you seen Silicon Valley? Read Circle?

Listen, I might hate David Eggers's writing. But nobody writes a book about how Netflix is a cult.
Ask HN: What developer tools (or services) do you pay for?
Java EE is moving to GitHub
That's not true: https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/04/14/okta-inc-ipo-what-....

If you're using GAAP, you have to include stock-based compensation as a cost. There are, however, a lot of tech companies that try and spin non-GAAP earnings by removing stock-based compensation, which can paint a very different picture (e.g., Salesforce)
Nothing wrong with them being cheap enough to own. I mean, I paid a company, who hired workers to do the job of installing them. I gave people jobs. They did their job. I paid the price they charged me upfront and bought them outright. At the time, it seemed expensive and I felt like I had spent too much money and probably wouldn't see a return as good as I thought.

Honestly doing more good for the planet using that big ball in the sky. I think the only reasons against it is the effect it has against the electric company. My electric bill was an average of between $85 - $150 with the high being $300 during a summer where we ran the air conditioning unit through the entire month.

So with that data, it averages out to about $100 - $120 a month.

The rate of return doesn't seem great at first and really, unless you plan to live in your house for a while, it probably isn't worth it.

This was my electric bill for a 4 bedroom house, for the past few months, in US dollars:

January $123.00

February $48.00

March $25.00

April $7.00

Definitely love seeing those numbers. During the warmer months, it is going down, which is awesome. I've had them less than a year but hopefully get to see those numbers roll over during the winter months.
this. literally every United SFO<=>HKG upper-deck is loaded with Apple engineers.
Walmart has a new kind of discount – and it's impossible for Amazon to beat
> This includes weather and maintenance issues but does not include bumping passengers to allow staff to take their seats.

I'm astonished at the facility with which this keeps being said.

Why are weather and maintenance (e.g. broken seatbelt) a reasonable excuse to bump someone? Well, because they're unpredictable, unavoidable, and if you didn't bump, the flight could not be safely executed, affecting a planeload of pax (and probably more, due to knock-on effects.)

Now, mechanics flying to AOG (aircraft on ground) have the highest priority on many airlines, and dead-heading crew the second highest. Why? Because if they don't go, you will have to cancel flights affecting plane loads of people (and probably more, due to knock on effects). Now, why do you suddenly and unexpectedly have to position mechanics or deadheading crew? Why, good question - frequently for weather, maintenance, sickness, and any number of similar unpredictable and unavoidable reasons.

The justification to bump pax due to seats required for mechanics or deadheading crew is exactly the same (avoid flight cancellation and inconveniencing planeloads of pax that arose for unforeseen, unpredictable, unavoidable reasons).
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Teaching the Ape to Write Poems
James Tate, 1943 - 2015

They didn’t have much trouble
teaching the ape to write poems:
first they strapped him into the chair,
then tied the pencil around his hand
(the paper had already been nailed down).
Then Dr. Bluespire leaned over his shoulder
and whispered into his ear:
“You look like a god sitting there.
Why don’t you try writing something?”

My interpretation is, while we entertain these ideas of "teaching" animals or machines as something we control and decide to do, a long chain of events (evolution, causality, space jesus, technobabble simulation magic or ancient astronauts all the way back) behind us placed us here as well.

We look like gods sitting here.
Mastodon halts registrations on its ‘main’ instance due to high demand
My impression is that building a car involves a fairly different set of skills (ie: pretty much everything except the dashboard) than Apple has.

The thought of bringing in 95% new-hires to work on a project in which your company has no experience... I mean, why?

If the primary motivation is money, without sufficient passion, good luck competing with Tesla - where they live and breath electric cars.
Definitely, but the UI in 3D apps usually isn't as crazy as music is.

Viewport tools and interactive graph visualizations aside, 3D is mostly just text fields and sliders editing values. With music, there's all manner of knobs and dials. Each VSTi plugin tends to have its own wildly different interface. Case in point:

https://www.google.com/search?q=VSTi&source=lnms&tbm=isch
It's a small startup that hasn't been around for years. And it isn't a purely software focused company. Most of the engineers will be joining soon to start on this new product. They don't have a ton of engineers currently at the company.
The google style guide for c++ actually has a recommended format for TODO's where the author is in parens:

// TODO(author): fix this

that way you know who was TODO'ing
> lets an NSA/software company "double-employee" add it without the company knowing.

I always wondered how that works. I am a full time employee at software company. Cannot imagine having extra time to report to another employer (NSA) and deal with their red tape and crap as well.

Or does NSA show up at their doorstep with a bag full of cash - "Here you go, have this, and install a backdoor in your company's software. And we never met <wink>, <wink>"

That sounds good on paper so to speak, I just have a hard time imagining a realistic scenario.

Now finding 0-days and hoarding them, I can see that.
So good for Travis, bad for the investors in Uber? Nice move.
Folks - a kiwi here. There are loads of tech companies in NZ and in the past developers are attracted by the lifestyle. Orion in the health space, Xero SaaS accounting system, Navman, hell even the first GSM controlled Coke vending machine was from NZ. GPS chips for mobiles invented by Radon, and we of course have Tait Electronics in Christchurch who do military comms gear - everybody who wants the best for the most extreme environments buys their gear.

Auckland house prices pushed up a load by Chinese families needing somewhere safe to put their cash outside of China. And the only thing they could put into was housing.

As to quality of housing its different to Europe because of the cliate duh! Solid stone and brick houses are not suited to temperate climates. And yes they are smaller than American houses because NZers dont live inside all year round. If its cold or wet, then just tough up, wear more clothes, and get on with your ife instead of hiding in your concrete bunker with the central heating on (you wont find those either).

First and foremost consider the lifestyle. If that is for you then you can be sure if you are capable then you will find work. NZ has the world's highest proportion of self-employed and entrepreneurs and still an attitude of 'can-do' prevails.
I'm not worried about their technical capabilities. I'm worried about a company culture that blames the customer when the product is misused or doesn't meet industry standards in some way. Things they have gotten away with in the phone and computer market will kill people in the automotive market.
Free Costco membership was not one of the perks (and isn't with the Citi Costco card either).
Interview starts at minute 11
> Few companies intentionally expose SMB to the internet. Generally users are required to VPN in before then being able to contact an SMB endpoint.

And what did (and likely still does) the NSA possess? Exploits for Cisco gear, which many enterprises and universities use to provide VPN access.

> So either the article author lacks the technical literacy to understand why this is untrue, or they know it to be untrue and are trying to implant fear into their readership. In either case, not a good look for The Intercept.

Place a drive-by-infection malware on a news site, or a well done email, which contains a payload that exploits said SMB issue, and boom you've infected the entire network.

Also, many people don't upgrade their Windows servers if not absolutely neccessary.
As a Kiwi, here are my thoughts:

Isolation: yes, you are away from the troubles of the world, but it also means you'll be away from your families, you don't get Amazon Prime, and surprisingly you won't have as many Netflix movies to choose from. Don't expect to miss gridlock traffic, or be living in a Hobbit house lol

Costs: Don't expect NZ to be super cheap. Housing prices are ridiculous and often won't have much in terms of insulation and heating. Food prices will be fairly normal (although you will have a diverse selection, and it's generally good quality), and you're simply not going to get paid as much as you would in major centres elsewhere in the world. Phone and internet plans are going to be expensive. Also, take into account those flights home you'll be making - they won't come cheap.

Entertainment: There will be fun things to do for sure, but don't expect as much as what you might get in other major cities. NZ is however great for sports, and you'll fit right in if you have a sporting hobby or two.

People: NZ has a diverse population, and has a unique culture. Don't expect it to be like wherever else you're from. As a kiwi, I love the NZ culture - I love that people will stop and help you out, that police are friendly and non-threatening, and that we have the ability to laugh at ourselves, and not take things so seriously. Just like anywhere however, you do run into dickheads every now and then.

All in all, NZ is a "pretty choice" (pretty good) place to live. I imagine it'd be quite a bit of a culture shock for some people though, and it's not all cherries and rainbows. Some people might find it a little boring, others might like the chilled atmosphere and laid-backness.
If only he could make it the lunduke half hour
Websites, please stop “confirm-shaming”
Random people have commented on my Chase Saphire card, complimenting the weight, joking about how 'rich' I must obviously be.

It's just a thick card because it was one of the original pin & chips. It's old. The annual fee is $90. That's less than most people pay per month for cable TV.

I'm not sure why it gets so many looks, but I will admit most people just carry bank cards in this area.
Original title is "Websites, please stop trying to shame me for not subscribing to your annoying marketing emails" but it is too long for Hacker News
> NSA had worked during the standardization process to eventually become the sole editor of the Dual_EC_DRBG standard,

Yes that was a devilishly well executed backdoor, on so many levels.
If overbooking were stopped, load factors would drop, prices would rise, and (unnecessary) environmental pollution would arise.
When did that happen? I just got a replacement Chase Amazon Visa Signature a couple months ago -- it's not embossed, but it ain't metal.
edit: re-reading your comment I suspect we're in violent agreement. :)

> The store to x is dead and ought to be totally elided

Yet, it's a clear sign of a bug in the program; the fact it happened to be elided in that case doesn't change the fact that it's almost certainly a bug that I want to know about.

Heck, earlier today I wrote a Rust function along these lines:

fn foo<A, B>(a: &A) -> &B {
assert_eq!(size_of::<A>() == size_of::<B>());

unsafe {
// do horrible low-level things
}
}

The assertion is there to make sure that two generic type parameters that should have an identical size actually do. If they do in optimized builds the compiler knows the assertion is true and completely elides the assertion itself. If the sizes aren't identical, the assertion isn't elided and I'll quickly find the bug when the program crashes(1).

I definitely wouldn't want that assertion to get elided just because the "horrible low-level things" happened to be categorized as undefined behavior!

1) Of course, a sufficiently smart compiler could detect that the assertion was false at compile time in this simplified example.
Just email them sharutils for windows [1] :)

1.http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sharutils.htm
Could we have a research station beneath the ice ?
That's a ridiculous statement when you don't qualify it with the price at which you would(n't) buy. I am sure Apple would love to own Tesla too, but Tesla shares a very expensive compared to other car companies'. And if Apple were to attempt a hostile takeover, they would have to pay even more. And what exactly would Apple get? Tesla has a fantastic brand, but so does Apple themselves. Tesla has some ability to mass produce cars, but nothing compared to most other car companies. Apple could buy Ford and get much, much better value for its money. The only assets Tesla has that would be of unique value to Apple, are it's employees and maybe some of the tech related to self driving cars.
It's the same everywhere. I bike to work and hate people in cars. I drive around and hate bicyclists just as much.
The Amex Platinum Card for Schwab [1] returns 6.25% cash[2] for airfare from airlines & amextravel purchases. If you can get the 400 of value from the travel & Uber credits, you break even with $2400 of spending in the 5x point categories and quickly do better than a no fee 2% cash back card.

---

CSR is great if you can redeem through their portal. I mostly travel in Asia and Europe where discount airlines don't seem to be in either chase or Amex's travel portals. The traditional carrier flights they offer are usually 2-3x more expensive than the AirAsias of the world.

1: http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/investing/accounts_produ...

2: 1 MR = 1.25 cents deposited in Schwab account
I have yet to find an issuer on Visa/MC that can even remotely touch Amex's customer service.

I've tried. Everyone else is simply anti-consumer, to the point of being nearly fraudulent. Amex on the other hand generally "just works" how you would expect when something comes up or when you need to do something.

I agree - if there were never any problems ever, who cares. Go with the cheapest zero fee Visa and be happy.

The experiences I've had recently with multiple Visa issuers have led me to cancel those cards, and now I keep exactly one Amex as my primary, and a backup Visa just in case it's not accepted somewhere. I tend to avoid those businesses if possible.

Amex is so far and away better on their customer protection/service it's not even really a competition. They are playing a different ballgame.

Ignoring chargebacks, anti-consumer practices to collect additional fees, etc. - just something as simple as losing a credit card and needing a replacement sent is eye opening. A typical Visa/MC (even a so called premium card) will take a week. If you're lucky. Good luck if you happen to be traveling, have fun dealing with a 90 minute phone call involving an escalation to a manager. Amex will overnight you a new card to a random third world country with a 5 minute phone call.

It's stuff like that which keeps me firmly in the Amex fold. If/when they start screwing that part of their offering up, I'll switch instantly. So far their competition has a long way to come. The last two credit cards I've signed up for (for promotions) I've canceled within 60 days due to horrific anti-consumer - and in my opinion - entirely fraudulent business practices. I refuse to do business with folks who actively are trying to rip me off.

For people who are willing to jump through hoops and make a credit card issuer's problem theirs - amex is not the choice for you. For folks who think their bank should work on their behalf and not be something I have to set a calendar reminder for in order to remember stuff? Amex is the choice.

I actually get angry thinking of my last Visa experience (Google Credit) - it was so anti-consumer I can't even believe it's legal.
Very nice to know - I wonder how long this workaround will last.

Have you tried the -mhe option in 7zip?
Wowsers, this guy sounds like Gilderoy Lockhart.
Lets also not forget to note that United's way of handling the situation after it went viral was to dig up dirt and defame Dao. I couldn't believe what I was hearing regarding unrelated personal past issues Dao had that were suddenly being broadcast by main stream media.
72 books Barack Obama recommended during his Presidency
Cheetah Attack Sim
Best resources to learn ARM assembly, linker scripts and startup codes?
Title says it all. Btw I am using STM32 MCUs if it helps. Any type of resource will help. Thank you
Just read another article where the author said that if the word or term is not defined in the contract then the basic meaning is what's used. So what most airline employees think it means is irrelavent.
> Your reasoning is excellent.

Fwiw, I meant that sincerely. I just doubt Apple can pull it off.
https://www.heise.de/tp/features/How-NSA-access-was-built-in...

Note the date - 04. September 1999.
You can always build this yourself with SuperCollider.
United States still has obscenity laws, a backdoor around first amendment, which can be interpreted to mean whatever the court wants it to mean in any given situation. It exists, unchallenged, because otherwise child pornography would have to be legal.

My question was, wouldn’t this ruling be a basis to challenge the outright Tobacco ad ban?

Before the ban there was still regulation, the ads had to be offset with other content, pro-health etc. Just like with political ads on public airwaves now.

In Canada, for example, the Tobacco ban was successfully challenged in court as violating Freedom of Speech as recently as 1991. Ultimately the ban remained in place because of another backdoor called “peace, order, and good government.”
People used to say Nokia had such a head start on phone production, how could Apple catch up.
Well, the point is to state another's position to their satisfaction.
Shadow Brokers, or the hottest security product to buy in 2018
Is it just me or does those post read like an advertisement for the cruise and the segway-like device?

For someone complaining, the post goes on and on into the minutiae of features!! Suspicious
Until they are rate limited, which is almost immediately.
What if Lego took some inspiration from Pokémon GO?
Elbox announces a new Amiga 1200 tower system – BlackBOX 1200
Well, rather than calling it a separation of church and state, I think US laws are more intended to enact a protection of church from state.

Historically the church informed everyday practices and morals and was the basis of many laws.

The worry was that a singular church would rise up in a region, and aim to use governmental power to put down its rivals.

The idea of a total atheistic separation where no one talks about morals and laws in a religious context was truly alien.
Free will is one of humanity's most persistent and enduring delusions. When AI wakes up, it will be the culmination of the entirety of the history of the universe, a place which we actually happen to occupy at this very moment...

Interesting thought, how would a super-intelligence deal with the philosophical question of free will?
What Happens When You Don't Mind If You're Not Smart
Very true! A16Z recently had an episode where they said millennials prefer nicely integrated infotainment over horsepower or looks.
It took some time to find out on Google , but I guess MR stands for Membership Rewards. Unless you're referring to the Mongolian airline, the Dutch travel agency or the Belgian political party using the same abbreviation.
High Performance String Wrangling
You are so so right about input
The Post JavaScript Apocalypse – Douglas Crockford at Confoo 2017 [video]
> Customers still running prior versions of these products are encouraged to upgrade to a supported offering.

That's a very polite way to say "fuck you, pay me".
Rancher Labs delivers fast, ultra-lightweight container operating system
I'm not really seeing a buy-in clause.

It's called 'disagree and commit', wherein you can disagree with the direction the leader has decided to go in, but still commit to following direction.

This is opposed to 'disagree and dig your heels in' which is the default expectation. Or 'disagree and implement poorly'.
I noticed Microsoft has been very careful not to mention NSA.