skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the Internet and competition from social media has made journalism better, as you can no longer buy up every local paper when Twitter and Facebook and Blogger make journalists out of anybody, and as a result the news companies have to work extra hard to justify their subscriptions.

In addition, mainstream US newspaper subscriptions have been booming since the election with readers demanding unprecedented oversight over this new administration and its addiction to blatant lying. In a way, fake news made real newspapers great again.
Why would she want to work after making literally hundreds of millions of dollars?

Why would anyone?

That's what I don't get about these people. I'm not saying they should retire, but they can still keep their professional connections and a semblance of "work" life by sitting on various boards or doing non-profit stuff, and not actually have to deal with the humongous stresses of C-level work.

I mean let's be honest: $186M is enough to last Marrissa's descendants forever and ever. If I were in her position, I would figure out a way to make my exit. It's not like she's the founder of Yahoo so there won't be any emotional or moral attachment.
The essence of the article: PATH_MAX applies to the syscall interface. It's not related to file systems. Paths aren't a file system thing, but simply a convenient means of addressing files. Basically they are URLs for local resources.

And that totally makes sense once you understand that files are basically "objects" (in the OO sense) identified by inodes instead of memory addresses. A file system implements the graph of these objects (linked by special file objects called directories). The fact that one can cross file system boundaries using file paths also indicates that file paths are none of a file system's business.
And the best bit: anybody else could have recovered your account too!
It's a very special, magical vault that confers tax-free status as long as you never open it. There's one gold magnate buyer who has expressed interest in buying your store for nearly the full value of the gold because he never intends on opening the vault.

(I think the metaphor has been stretched to the limit...)
I like how you think
Color me a NIMBYist, but I love the height restriction. It gives me amazing views from my little apartment.

Edit to add: An image from my balcony [0].

[0] https://storage.googleapis.com/lee-salminen-fileshare/IMG_24...
This is bikeshedding at its finest.

Textbooks were a minor, tiny part of the total cost of attending college. When you put the cost of books next to tuition, room and board and opportunity cost of not attending college, it's barely noticeable. I probably spent no more than $250 on books per semester (less on average, thanks to used books and online materials).

This is almost as comical as a hypothetical scenario of putting public terminals in health clinics that point you to WebMD, in an attempt to cut medical costs in the US.
Or the inability to drive your car because of an unpaid parking ticket.
Treading water in a tech job in the bay area is kind of like being in a "normal" job (such as architect, as in buildings not software) any where else, except you don't have to worry about layoffs or a tyrannical boss because you can always just get another job.

Sure it would be great to have both a high income (relative to local costs) and a job you love and plenty of other options, but if one must choose... I choose to trade away the upper-middle-class lifestyle in order to have enjoyable and impactful work in my chosen field of software engineering.
Serious question; Why would you hope this?
ARM Announces Mali-C71: Their First Automotive-Grade Image Signal Processor
It happens because the curves are not polynomials in the normal sense. The parameter t that ranges from [0..1] is not the same between the two curves, so it is not equivalent to setting two polynomials equal to each other and solving for x, or t in this case. A solution to the intersection is equivalent to solving for the t parameter of both curves simultaneously and IIRC that ends up having an order that is the product of the orders of the curves (9th order for 2 cubics?). On second thought it's not the product, but it is definitely much higher order. That is the reason people use the matrix representations, once you get a feel for that the complexity tends to get hidden by representing an entire matrix of Nth order polynomials by a letter like B.

If anyone is really interested in this stuff and wants to make a major contribution to open source software... First study these and then move on to NURBS, surfaces, and then trimmed NURBS surfaces. These are the core of all CAD software and a clean library for trimmed NURBS is sorely lacking. There are two that I'm aware of, the one in OpenCascade which is a huge ball of mud (but works) and the one in SolveSpace which doesn't scale well and has some other limitations - that is the one I feel is most worthy of someones time.
Id love some opinions on a couple networking questions I have. I'm looking for a new job currently and I'm trying to be more proactive in networking. Is it presumptuous to cold email somebody and ask them for coffee? I imagine everyone is busy and doesn't have time for coffee with strangers, but I really hate talking on the phone. And if the person I am emailing is someone I want to work for, should I be upfront about looking for a position or should the initial email be more of a request for an informational interview on the industry or company?
In all seriousness, ransomware that would kill someone won't be a remotely common thing - for one thing, it will be represented as "$COMPANY's lack of security KILLS PERSON X", and the bill for the ransom will need to be paid by them.

And then the cops/secret-service would get involved. If there's a death involved (and reason to believe more will occur in the future, which would be necessary for ransom as a prolonged business model), then they will come down on any ransomware (and responsible negligent parties, such as auto companies with shitty security) like a TON OF BRICKS.

Plus, there's still a lucrative malware model that goes like this: Infect the car, then quietly make it steal itself in the middle of the night (or at your moment of choice). Bam, you now have a stolen car that you can't be connected to, and nobody will notice for a while.
I hate JS single-page apps, but as far as c2 goes, I think the idea is to eventually make it distributed. To make that work requires two parts:

- Some way for the page to communicate with other instances (e.g. bittorrent, or whatever, implemented in JS)

- Some way to display the results (i.e. a JS renderer)

The easiest part is the JS renderer, so it makes sense to implement that first. With a JS renderer, the server side rendering can be thrown away. Now that it's a single page using JS calls to fetch data, it's a much easier target to make distributed: "just" switch out where those calls get their data from.

I'm glad such experiments are going on, and don't mind putting up with this awkward in-between phase in the mean time.
Indeed, the term lobbying was used twice and has bad connotations (as well as being inaccurate).
It seems to me that the Yahoo! brand was perceived as destroyed, and simply milked for as much short-term profit as was possible. Security was completely sacrificed, and there was never any vision for building brand loyalty despite having highly-loyal properties (e.g. tumblr/flickr/fantasysports/finance). Long-term value is not built with short-term thinking.
The correct answer to that is very simple, and very expensive: just make correct software.

Such malware are only possible because the targeted system has vulnerabilities to begin with. One just has to ensure the absence of such vulnerabilities, possibly using machine checked proofs.

One obvious approach is to properly isolate the driving software and sensors from external input.
Title is obviously a little click-baity. But I can attest that Chris Fralic practices what he preaches.

Back in 2013, yours truly was a fresh college grad, fresh off the boat, to play the SV lottery.

He took an hour long meeting with us, and politely declined to invest and explained his reasoning (probably the only VC who did that and which I really appreciated at that time since pretty much everyone else 'let me circle back'-ed out of orbit).

He could have cut us of there, but he went the extra mile, got us a couple of passes for us to the ChannelAdvisor conference in Vegas that year - through which we ended up getting a couple of customers!
I believe the average wage for jobs like nurses and firefighters is over 100k in California... some firefighters can pull in 400k with overtime [1].

[1] http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/03/02/firefighters-ear...
It's a figure of speech
It's almost certainly going to be whatever is the most prestigious or makes the school look the best. They'll obviously use national rankings if they're #9 in the nation. If they're #9 in Mississippi, they are probably not using national rankings.
Sure... Being a software engineer is not the same as doing whiteboaring all day. But guess what, %80 of the final decision is based on your whiteboarding performance.

The interview process is so unfair and broken, anything not standard will go against you. Companies focus on the negatives and forget about all the positive things you've done. To get hired you need to score 100 (positive) - 0 (negative). Being an introvert is not a big deal but it'll be seen as something that can impact your performance at work => "and for this reason - I'm out" :) Shark tank style.
Author here. Questions about data engineering, versioning data, or why you shouldn't use git to store data? :) Ask away.

You can also file feature requests or PRs against our GitHub repo https://github.com/quiltdata/quilt
I tried it with SS64.com, the chart shows that $0 is four times bigger in Canada than $0 in Italy (https://ss64.com weighs 0.02MB)
>who reimburses the parent for $100K they invested in the kid?

The state pays death benefits.

Plus SGLI is around half a million dollars, last I knew. Plus ongoing payments to surviving spouses, I don't know about parents though. There's a small premium for SGLI though, around ~$300/year I think
> Now we get those signals through the algorithms on Facebook. That's a problem.

You are assuming that the person doing NYT frontpage must do a better job, at least in regard to giving me an accurate, complete and informative picture of the world. But what if it's not true? What if that person has an agenda to sway my opinion and bring me to a conclusion that person needs? What if that person's goal is not to inform me but to make me vote for certain candidate or support certain law or hate certain person? Why would I then trust that person and use the frontpage as my gateway to the world?

The signal is only good if it's signaling what I want. But I don't think it's the case nowadays.

> a minimum they need to drop the pretense of objectivity.

They are pretty much already done with it. At least nobody believes such claims anymore.

> You don't think the quest for clicks has come from the social media side of the house

It's certainly not from social media - everybody loves clicks. The thing is, the rise of sites like Snopes or Politifact showed there are clicks in trying to be unbiased and informative too. Maybe a bit less clicks, but there definitely are some. Yet, those clicks do not seem to be all that attractive.

I think it has to do much more with journalistic mindset shifting from duty to inform and disseminate the truth, to some kind of paternalistic mindset of making people form the "right" opinions, where truth that may "mislead" people into a "wrong" opinion is ok to hide, and a falsity that helps the "right" cause is ok to promote. I think it's much more an ideological motive than pecuniary one.
Waymo is hitting Uber where it hurts
I feel like this piece starts with the assumption that we should WANT to be well connected. Being that well connected, however, doesn't come without costs (in time and effort, mainly).

I don't think I want to be this well connected.
You can request to view source code as part of a lawsuit.
How do you get to that level of compensation? Are you just referring to "luck" with stock or cash salary? If it's not stock what skills pay that much?
OK, here's a person who owned a bunch of property, and they died. So now they don't own the property. Who should own it?

In America, the default assumption is not that the government owns something until proven otherwise.
We still have $5000 personal computers in the '10s! Hell a new MacBook Pro with everything and some upgrades is $3499 to $4299... very few people can truly afford that.
For the most part, early games dumped you directly from the title screen into the gameplay. They had a few paragraphs in the manual explaining that some bad guy's kidnapped the princess, and it's time for the chosen hero to beat up the bad guy's army, rescue the princess and save the world. Most of the people didn't read it.

This made the games that attempted to tell a more detailed story stand out from the crowd and develop as a distinctive genre.

Nowadays games feel as if they have to give you ten minutes of cutscenes for every twenty minutes of gameplay. Games are a great artistic medium for telling stories. The problem is that games that aren't in story-heavy genres feel a need to pretend that they are. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a great example of a modern game with a minimalist approach to its use of tutorial and cutscene elements.

So today, games that take a minimalist approach to storytelling are the ones that stand out from the crowd.

It's hard to build a game that's fun but focuses solely on narrative. Heavy Rain did a great job at this, but a lot of games fail.

JRPG's are the genre that gets as far as possible toward a storytelling focus without totally sacrificing gameplay. For a recent example, Persona 5 is a flawlessly executed example of a game that tightly integrates story and gameplay (although a full appreciation of the game's literary depth is impossible without some knowledge of Japanese culture and tropes).
> Compare that to boys who are supposed to be raised as more independent and tough. Is it possible that the way we raise boys versus girls is what's causing more boys to have trouble paying attention? Self control, willpower, and the ability to pay attention are all non-cognitive skills. If "attachment" and "dependency" are the things that develop a child's non-cognitive skills… could this be why more boys have ADHD than girls?

No, please read some research, please, for the love of god please stop, no. This conjecture is thoroughly questionable, there is copious research to show these traits developing essentially from birth. The same behavioural differences exist in effectively the same way cross-culturally (including in Japan).

There's more to it, schools in japan place a lot of responsibility on the kids. They are responsible for maintenance of the school (the non-dangerous kind), and later somewhat responsible for governing aspects of the school, among other things.

I can't remember a time in a Canadian public school where I was asked to do something useful for somebody. I think more of that would have helped a lot in terms of motivation.
> and it'll spit out all the calculus problems you want

Better look into old Russian textbooks for interesting (often very hard) calculus problems.
Why would you define the type of something in the PARENT object?
They don't need all the vision data -- likely what they're doing is running their beta self-driving features in the background all the time, and only send data back (1) when the driver's input differs dramatically from what the self-driver would have done itself, presumably because the driver saw something their software missed, and/or (2) when a driver gets in a crash (at which point they can check if their algorithm would have prevented the accident).

They just need to send back data from a few seconds before either of those scenarios to quickly accumulate a giant library of one-in-a-million edge cases they can test future algorithm tweaks against. I think it's a reasonable strategy.
that's true - but i was hopeful !
That's fine advice for anyone who wants to know or do anything about coffee. As indicated above, that ain't me. I'm not going to a weird store to talk to someone who operates weird equipment to buy some weird stuff that I don't consume. The reason I'd consider buying a Keurig is that then I wouldn't have to do any of that.
Keeping detailed records helps a lot in case of witnesses I think. Trials that don't last several years would be great too.

Maybe avoid questioning people more than once? I don't have a solution or even that much knowledge of how it's already done.

I'd say it's easy to point at cases where it obviously works well and where just witnesses without physical evidence are highly problematic. It's the cases in between that are hard.

Even Sherlock Holmes always gets a confession in the end. Without a confession the case isn't over. Ever noticed that?
I could be wrong but that's only a system that compares schools in CA with other schools in CA. It's currently being revamped so it may change.
This is 100% incorrect. Soylent is nothing like Ensure.
Adding IPv6 connectivity support to the Dropbox desktop client
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People won't buy self-driving cars (well some will, but not the majority). These cars will be running 24/7 in a ride-sharing service.
I don't see what's wrong with reminding people that there were other groups of people that we killed in WW2.
I'm also surprised that "didn't lift a finger" is considered inflammatory.

I admit that I allowed myself to be little provocative but I think it would be better not to censor comments, but instead moderate non-technical links from the forum before inconvenient discussions take place. If this is not a place for discussions like that, it's also not a place for links to articles that will start such discussion, right?
I already have that problem and I'm nowhere near rich. Just rich enough not to care about tomorrow. I do still work but only when it is (a) interesting and (b) pays well. Other than that I'd rather do family stuff and private projects.

If I had that kind of money I don't think I would still be able to put a value on my time.
I lived in Salt Lake City, Utah for 11 years. Needless to say, I got out five years ago the first chance I got. If you’re not into winter sports, the weather is shit. You get 10 months of bitter cold and snow every day. You have to dig your car out of the snow all winter and drive on horrible conditions with clueless drivers who seem to forget how to drive in snow every year. Spring and fall are one or so week each and you get rain storms the whole time. Then you have 6 or so weeks of scorching hot summer where it’s unbearable to be outside.

I never ventured outside of the metro area and no one was ever overtly racist but boy if you are not a white Mormon you will stick out, you will be judged and questioned. Most Utah Mormons are conditioned to be nice so on the surface they appear so but they do judge and single out people who don’t belong.

I visited SF over a weekend and was instantly surprised about how accepting everyone was. It just seemed like I fit in and belonged. I’d tolerate much worse conditions than “low income in SF” than be “rich” in Utah.
Unidirectional dataflow for the win!
OT politics and viewpoints are deeply ingrained. Two people with different views could be given the exact same facts and come away with vastly different conclusions. That never changes. The way we with with people we disagree with does change, and it indeed changes us as well.
Uber expects flying taxis to take off in 2020
I mean, I would fault Tumblr's CEO David Karp then, who is the original founder and still CEO. I guess you could blame Yahoo for not replacing him, but either way, its so easy (and popular) to just blame Yahoo.
That's terrible performance.

The problem seems to be that Tesla's system is extremely dependent on a nice clear white line at the outer edge of the road. On this road,
near the traffic islands, the roadside grass sometimes overgrows the road edge and obscures the white line. The white line has also been scuffed by cars near the edge of the road. [1] The Tesla runs off the road in that situation.

There are two kinds of self-driving. One came up from the DARPA Grand Challenge, which was off-road. That kind first looks at the terrain and obstacles, and figures out where it can physically drive safely. There's LIDAR profiling of terrain. Then it looks at road markings and figures out where it's supposed to go. If the road markings lead into an obstacle or drop-off, it will stop or go around the obstacle. That's Waymo.

The second kind came up from lane-keeping and auto-brake systems. Those are very dependent on highway markings, and only work right on freeways. That's Tesla's original system.

It's hard to tell about the others. Volvo has an extensive sensor suite. Otto seems to be mostly a lane-keeping system for freeways. Uber hasn't released much detail.

[1] https://youtu.be/UZ1XLqc5IUg?t=46
There's much more than just the one-time death benefit. On top of that SGLI (servicemember group life insurance) has a maximum payout of $400,000 and surviving spouses get ongoing payments and other benefits as long as they remain unmarried.
Hey Guys, I created Langmanual which is a central platform for text/image content. It functions like Google but doesn’t search the raw web. Instead, it searches through user submitted text content.

Anyone can post whatever is on their mind at any time and all posts go live instantly. Users can like / dislike posts, see view count, leave comments, reply to comments as well as follow / unfollow persons of interest.
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Take your pick. That was just the first one in a big list.

The Independent may be rubbish, but that doesn't mean it only prints lies.
Start with your friends in the business and ex colleagues.
What? Not sure where you got that idea, but Facebook was never a good choice for photographers to showcase their work in isolation from other noise, or for people to browse photos in specific categories and collections.

The social part makes it all "oh, I was there too it was such a nice day, are you coming to my party next week?".... I'm guessing that's FB. Facebook = happysnap. Instagram = happiersnap.

This article is from 2012, and is off the mark. Flickr is still up and running, even if crammed with ads sending uBlock into a frenzy.

If anything, photographic collections and studies don't have the appeal they once had due to the trillions of images we see everywhere now. The eyesore of over-sharpened, over-saturated, too high dynamic ranged retina candy. Good photography now is back in the galleries where it should be...IMHO, the image resting on a print not emitting any light of its own. No blinding pixels, and hopefully matte paper, no glass.
It's a double shame, because the collation of most of the 6 millions Jewish victims names and details, is a data mining feat worthy of great technical discussion on HN.
Electric cars just pollute upstream, and even with solar, that does not seem like a solved problem just yet.
> Moreover, you won't find any reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years. Not even one.

Of course there is: http://www.nwcr.ws/Research/published%20research.htm.

Here's a good question: other than the fact that these people lost weight, what is identifiably unusual about them?