skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to imagine how they won't be profitable. The cost of providing the service is pennies and they get dollars per transaction.
So hypothetically, if you paid $5 a month for this service, you would be confident they were NOT selling your information?

No. A statement's truth doesn't imply its inverse [1].

It simply means if a company has employees, and they're receiving paychecks, and the money is not coming from you, then it's definitely coming from someone else.

If you are giving them money, it doesn't mean they're not also getting money from somewhere else. But they're less likely to need to do that, especially if it would upset their paying customers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent
And he would have given everyone a unicorn.
Deciding not to read the terms of service isn't the same as being in a situation without transparency.

The beef industry would also collapse if all the meat-eaters who thought killing animals wasn't ideal in principle had to watch the cow get killed before every meal.
> IT employee's can't work freelance due to IRS Tax rules that they are an employee and not a contractor which creates both criminal and civil liabilities for managers.

Can you cite a source?

I have never heard anything about this. I have known many devs who take on freelance side projects, though obviously it depends on the particulars of their employment contract.
In terms only of capabilities, that makes me wonder a lot about Gmail. I don't see anything there that they couldn't do if they wished to do it on a far grander scale.

Granted, I tend to think the people who run Gmail are more honest than that, but if someday the wrong people retired and others took over or what have you, I wonder just how suddenly that could change?
You used to be able to save a private key with the OS that would persist. It's no longer working now.
Your chances of getting an interview or acceptance are so slim, you have nothing to lose by applying and thinking through the application process could help clarify parts of your business.

Think of YC as a customer, as all investors are. You're selling them the investment.
They are related to automated game AI. He tells it is another of his interests.
No, the people who know how hard good security is, how easy it is for this material to spread around when a huge chunk of your intelligence services are private for-profit contractors, and had completely sane ideas about how weaponized the government's tools were likely to be - were not crazy or cuckoo or conspiracy oriented.

Conspiracy theorists are where 3 million illegal voters, thousands of Arabs dancing on buildings, and the last president being a Kenyan with a falsified birth certificate, all come from.
tech has become a cesspool of slimy founders + and unbridled capitalism - this needs to stop for the greater good
I only buy old ThinkPads, I avoid all the horrific shit Lenovo is doing to them, and get solid Linux support.
There is nothing conventional about psychology. You might as well have posted a link to a scientology article.
I was under the impression that influxdb's storage engine was going to be a viable solution for Prometheus at some point. Now they are writing their own; not sure where that interest went.
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I suspect that he feels like me that glBegin and glVertex are very convenient to make low performance prototypes. When you initialize a gl context it is not always to feed it millions of polygons.
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HE sort of should have realized there aren't enough class A:s even for companies of Eli Lilly's size.
It was popular in competitive Quake play, was included as an option in Quake II and the original Half-Life was the first game to ship with the standard WASD + mouse scheme that every game uses today.

Here's a more in-depth article on the history of WASD: http://www.pcgamer.com/how-wasd-became-the-standard-pc-contr...
I could only imagine the legal shit show that'd occur if they tried to do that, however amusing and novel the idea may be.
This was probably not explained well. The compilation failed with an error saying that I was basically trying to do something that was not allowed.

For your second question: I don't believe there is a way to use a separate assembler.
When a Walmart opens, it knocks out about half the jobs in a small town. It doesn't replace that number. It also pays so low many of its employees are on welfare. Companies like WalMart are subsidized by the taxpayer. Repeat that across thousands of stores to get enormous impact on economy.

Add downsizing, consolidation, price gouging (i.e. Koch's, oil), and offshoring to get an even bigger one across the board. The Recession was a given with buying power always going down while costs always go up.
Well we do have a choice. It usually manifests in suggestion of extending the retirement age.
"I've said this before, Most Indians coming from TCS,Infy,CTS are not _highly_ skilled people. 80 to 90% of them are don't have expert skills. These people are close to management and play politics well, thats how they reach USA."

You haven't met everyone of them to apply such a broad characterization. You have a point to make - that these three businesses abuse the Visa - but that gets lost in your attempt to pass judgment on a group of people you haven't met, and yet feel at home grouping them together as "shoe-lickers". Get off your high horse.
I love the fact that we're even considering running stuff like this on such hardware inside a web browser.
I guess you didn't understand the buried lede then. Apple forced them to stop. The offense was extremely minor and didn't hurt anyones privacy (unless you view iPhones as persons).
Before this runs the risk of becoming a universally acknowledged truth, is it fine? Actually wasn't "Gentlemen don't open each other mail", also a perfectly reasonable position? In the cyberwar the US already seems to be fighting against its own weapons! Would it actually be much better for a nation like the US to use its knowledge defensively and keep their citizens safe from foreign interference?
I have a very hard time with accents. I've done a couple of phone interviews where I hardly understood a single thing the candidate said. In those cases I usually write my question verbatim in the shared document and focus on the code the candidate produces. It has probably hurt the chances of at least one or two interviewees.
How is this 'github for Siri'?? The reason I clicked is more because I thought I was misunderstanding, and so I was curious. But I don't think you can continue with a non-sensical comparison.
I thought Be would be the spiritual successor to the Amiga and attractive to the original Amiga user base. Having said that I didn't buy one because I didn't want to spend time and money on a platform that was obviously not going anywhere. Even a Mac would be a reasonable place for an ex-Amiganaut to end up. I didn't go there either because while I thought the original OS-X was a great idea I think it got more fragmented and further from the lauded Apple design brilliance with every release. Plus Apple stuff is stupid expensive for what you get.
Thanks for the explanations.

Interesting and somewhat ironic to think that Uber had to put countermeasures in place against drivers engaging in their own questionable version of "growth hacking."
I mean, for the parents in question the ship has already sailed. I don't think it's a bad idea for parents who are engaged in clearly negligent behavior to be prosecuted (hopefully before something like this happens.)
> Neither of the candidates of the established parties of left and right will be in the runoff.

From one perspective, it's very surprising that establishment parties are doing so badly in Western countries. There is no real crisis in the West. There is no crisis of security (war, etc.), no crisis of economics (recession or depression), etc.

Compare to the 1930s and 40s, for example, when a depression beyond anything any living person in the West has experienced crushed economies, and the worst war in history swept across large parts of the world.

These days, certainly there are problems but there always are. Certainly there is a sense of crisis, but if you step back, things are actually pretty good and stable - except for that sense of crisis.

What did the establishment do that was so wrong?
Bookmark it, then read later? Not quite sure what problem are you running into.

I tend to have several directories - for places i asked questions or posted something, for things i want to read, but don't have time right now, for things that sound interesting, for "maybe later" and so on.
Researchers now hope to make glass with a modern-day technology: 3-D printing
> The ban on pre-existing conditions was done either because the drafters of Obamacare have no clue what insurance actually is, or they actually wanted to destroy health insurance. No one is going to pay for coverage when healthy if they can sign up when sick.

This is what the tax penalty was meant to prevent, correct? I'm curious, what is your solution to insuring people with pre-existing conditions?
I don't think anyone worth a damn as far as this subject is concerned would have labeled you a conspiracy theorist. Anyone with an even passing knowledge of security assumed something of this nature was going on. It just logically follows, given the explosion of computers in every aspect of life, that the NSA would be doing this.

Side note, what black image in a remote area of Utah? If you're talking about the Bluffdale data center, it's been visible on Google maps this entire time IIRC. You can even see historical images of it being built in Google Earth:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.43085,-111.9278303,2900m/dat...
Would it really hurt to include a screenshot of what it's like to use? Sorry for the grouchy comment but we're all busy people, there has to be a modicum of convincing on a programmers part to encourage us to divert us attention to their project.
Could this be a sign that Apple is beginning to 'get' web services? Their new maps in 3d is industry leading, but is missing a web api, and you still need an AppleId to view it.
> Someone should to step in here, whether it's government or not, is another question.

Actually, it is the central question, because without a feasible answer all you have is a fine-sounding principle that is utterly infeasible.
First, when Apple found out they made Uber stop and they eliminated the API hole that was used.

Maybe you meant they knowingly allowed Uber to do on iOS what any app can commonly do on Android? Apple works very hard to protect users privacy, it doesn't guarantee it. Android doesn't guarantee it either, and doesn't try very hard to protect it.
GraphQL Subscriptions with PHP Through WebSockets and Apollo Transport Protocol
The trick is in how you define "the better". Problem is that hospitals don't buy just syringes, they buy lots of medical supplies at once, and corporations can offer much better deals on such orders, you can just buy everything at once. They then use that position to push exclusive deals with hospitals and kill the small players. It is still a free market at work, hospital gets the best deal business-wise, but it has retrograde effects on the progress and end-users.
Guessing keys should never be an option, otherwise Bitcoin needs to upgrade its cryptographic functions.
The supply will be shrinking in the sense of the asset/currency becoming deflationary at some point, as soon as 'lost Bitcoins > mining reward'.
The limit of 21 million is arbitrary. Actually the current maximum in terms of units is 2,100 trillion, as you can divide every Bitcoin in 10^8 units.
As a hard fork can update this denomination, there is nothing that limits Bitcoin to be adopted by a large audience.
There is always going to a problem that you haven't done before or haven't done for a long time.

If I was the interviewer and someone was honest about not knowing about biwise operatoons but was able to ask the right questions to gain some understanding I'd be impressed.
It is literally one of the criteria that the IRS uses to decide whether someone is an employee or an independent contractor.

From https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe... :
"In determining whether the person providing service is an employee or an independent contractor, all information that provides evidence of the degree of control and independence must be considered."

One of the categories of control and independence is behavioral, which is described here: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

It says: "An employee is generally subject to the business’s instructions about when, where, and how to work."

Uber, Lyft, etc. leave the driver to decide which car they drive, where they buy gas, which jobs they take, and when they work or don't work. This is a big part of what goes into justifying their legal status as contractors rather than employees.
Colleague from Latvia got it in under a year, he said Germans would have a similar time frame. Russians as well I think
I got into Google within 2 years of completing a graduate CS degree. It's been nearly 10 years since I've been in school, and I doubt I'd be able to get into Google again.

(There's even a term for this at Google: Impostor Syndrome.)
Confirmed. The title statement is wrong. I think the moral of _that_ story is that not even renowned experts can reliably get bash right.
The "Advanced R" title is not joking, and will be less useful for people who are not already familiar with the language.

For more common knowledge of R, see Hadley's book R for Data Science. (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12513985)
Polaris: Shopify's Open Source UI kit of React Components
> literally why they were created to do

The NSA is supposed to do both defense and offense. The defense came up, for example, when they improved DES to resist differential cryptanalysis (which the public crypto world hadn't discovered yet) before DES was standardized.

But that was a long time ago; at least since 9/11 the offense side seems to have pretty much eaten the defense, as far as we can tell. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG) I believe this newer strategy is badly misplaced from the standpoint of the security of the American people (and good for the power of security-state insiders).
FYI, blog layout breaks down completely when trying to zoom text on an iPad, making it impossible to read.
"I've setup an instance on Heroku of Timestrap that resets every 10 minutes if you want to play with it."
Wow, nice catch, how did you do it?
The Startup Bible (2017)
Thanks for letting me know, I'll see if I can fix it. If I could trouble you to do so, can you provide a screenshot?
I've heard of Google hiring committees rejecting candidates who got all "Hire" recommendations from the interviewers. I've also seen candidates get hired who seemed on the wrong side of "borderline." There are many more factors at play than just your interview performance.
Just reminding everyone that Telegram (a self-funded company, also a messenger) builds cool NATIVE clients for all platforms.

And Slack (a company valued at $4 billion) writes some intern-level Electron apps.

This comes from a desktop dev living in Europe (also frontend dev, backend dev, "you name it" dev).

This goes to you bay area folks, you hipster-coders, JS-framework lovers ;) No offense.
It's not like inventing a car makes a bicycle obsolete.

Also, since when is QNX old or obscure?
The basic problem with this then being that all conversions between the two concepts are implicit. Dates are points on calendars and there is complexity to deal with and assumptions to be made when converting to points in time.
The cpp compiler would catch it only if the incorrect data was of a different type. Type specification and hinting only helps with the more egregious mistakes.
A side note, since when has posting Wikipedia articles to Hacker News become so popular? I've seen it a number of times now in the past few days, and virtually never before.
You shouldn't be. We have links for this. This is plagiarism.
Uber's behavior is so against the time .. it will fall in ruin ..
I mean, did you expect better from a user named 'drcross'? Also, if you took the time to click through the link you quote yourself, you would see the following, mostly useless message: "If you don't have a user yet create one via the CLI. If you need more users add them via the admin panel."
Uber will fall in ruin .. people may already shorting it now ..
Wikileaks Leaker – CIA Manhunt Underway
Meanwhile Author's found that very few people were commenting on them, and decided that they might as well declare and standardize from the get go ;)
I remember porting my system from a.out to elf binaries. Manually. Learned a lot though.
:) you're being facetious correct? advertising, has no money? television, has no money?

But more importantly, you haven't then answered my question.

> Better question, if there are 100 visas allowed, and 80 experts needed for software, and 50 experts needed for bio, then how do you compare software experts vs bio experts? What metric do you use to justify someone is more of an expert overall? It is apples and oranges.
Please modify the url by removing the trailing "#t-700391" so that the video will start at the beginning rather than at the end.
Aw, what could be more appropriate for a site named "Hacker News" than a link to a new programming language?
This was only one purge tipped off by USA Today.

I would guess that Facebook has 10-20x that number of bots total, since this appeared to be a single network that hadn't become "active" (as per the story).

A quick Google puts Twitter at 9-15% bots, which makes the estimates roughly line up with what I'd expect: Twitter is slightly worse (2-3x bot concentration) but the two aren't incomparably different.
It's 1 of ~20 criteria (list has changed over time), importantly they are not all weighted the same and people will always pick a few things on a list like that to support their side, but no it's no where near the most important.

EX: Using their app counts as their equipment even if you use your car. Much like using your shoes is required to work fast food not not sufficient equipment. However, it's a more balanced arrangement.
the nice thing about standards is that you don't have to make sure the script runs in a billion different shells. You just have to make sure your code is POSIX compatible, and all of a sudden, all POSIX compatible shells will interpret it just fine! Isn't that fantastic?
"It seems like the NSA is trying to avoid perceptions that they're scanning domestic internet traffic, but that leaves us in the vulnerable position of hacking everyone while leaving our own doors wide open"

I'm curious as to what your response would be to solve this. If it's to scan domestically, then that's a 180 from every other argument point people make against the NSA and domestic operations. That said, they do spend a regular amount of time working with private companies to remedy and solve breaches by nation- state & similar actors. For an example lookup the aurora investigation.
> monopoly influence over iOS and Mac software as well as restricting development

This is generally not what is considered a monopoly. You're describing control over a product segment that is a small part of a larger industry.

> See Microsoft and IE bundling? Virtually identical circumstances to mobile Safari.

Except Microsoft was 95%+ of the desktop market, whereas iOS is less than 20% of the smartphone market. Bundling wasn't the problem; bundling that used one monopoly to extend another market segment is. iOS doesn't have that critical first piece.
> Now most of them just eat the tax penalty (or avoid it, there is a provision where it can be waived if you demonstrate it's literally too expensive to afford) and have no insurance at all.

Don't the increased numbers of insured people contradict this statement? Being poor still sucks, and having to make this choice, still sucks. But it also expanded Medicaid coverage to more people.

They should have offered Medicare as an choice in every market, or at least every market where there are fewer than three options on the exchange.

> mandatory from 18-up catastrophic insurance at low premiums.

Isn't that what the law does? The mandatory bit is enforced with the tax penalty.
Exactly, if the US army starts raping ISIS females later it can't pretend its barbaric for other armies to do the same, incl. american females in the army.

Doing the least morally right thing always brings more problems than its worth, and that's exactly what NSA does every time it pokes holes into everyone's software.
It's the same question of how society is regulating things. It's quite a broad subject, but we were talking about the principle here.
The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance into Harvard
.edu and .gov sites are typically considered the gold standard for nutrition information. But your question is incredibly broad. What, exactly, are you looking for? Eating guidelines? Nutrient content?

There are lots of different dietary protocols (keto, vegan, etc etc) that various people swear by. So, your question is simply too broad to answer with more than very broad guidelines about what kind of website to look for when searching.
The posted graph(http://imgur.com/sKUm2u0) shows only 1999 onward. From the articles I've seen, the trend of increasing health care costs (2-3x rate of inflation) extends as far back as the mid-80's. The broader trend is largely independent of the ACA and remains a huge issue.

Speaking of the graph... what is that huge gap that opened between between "Workers Contribution to Premiums" and "Premiums" in 2010, right when the ACA was signed into law? Is that just... raw profit taking?
This looks nice! I fail to see any use for the dashboard, though - especially as you can't drill down into the timesheets from the pretty graphs.

I think the quickest, most prominent action should be to start tracking a task - or change which task is currently tracked.
You are making several assumptions:

1. That we can clearly and precisely define intelligence
2. That successful interviewing correlates with intelligence
3. That hiring people who can clear this gauntlet will generate more value for the company in the form of better products
4. That there is only one "bar" for quality

As far as I am aware, current research indicates intelligence is multi-variable and by extension there are multiple "bars" for quality one could measure. It also seems likely a team will be more successful if it includes people who are capable across multiple dimensions.

We're still in the very early days of Software Engineering. Why do we insist that the Landscape Architect must be familiar with the intricate details of HVAC Engineering?
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This is implying that you're able to prove that all free products sell/profit from your data.
Can Grade-Skipping Close the STEM Gender Gap?
Who knows? Maybe at one point people will realize the value of local mail storage and end to end cryptography.
That was an interesting read :)

There are lots of similarities between what you describe and the Model-Driven approach I was talking about, except that the latter aims to be much more generic.

Indeed, if you go ahead with the implementation, my suggestion is: take a look at what you've found about the program graph, and see what you could generalize to _any_ graph of that kind.

And by the way, you could even be able to describe the structure of all such graphs (made of entities, atoms and edges with cardinalities) as a graph.

If you want to check previous work in the Model-Driven field, look for:

* Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF);
* Ecore, a language to describe metamodels;
* OCL, a different language that can be used to add constraints to an EMF metamodel.

While I was writing this, I came up with a question re:your graph structure. Java and Python allow for inner classes (ie. a class definition inside another class), and Python also allows for nested functions. Can a graph such as those in your article describe self-containing constructs?