skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any suggestions as to how those rules for professional conduct would be enforced?

A lawyer can be disbarred, and this is easy to enforce because they can't go into a courtroom and defend or prosecute afterwards.

Developers have no equivalent. There is no way to dictate who can and can't work as a developer. Perhaps you could create some sort of agency that every developer needs to be a part of to work, but I don't ever see developers all agreeing to give an organization that much power.
The earlier, the better. Can someone say at what point we should stop trying?
Analyzing a Local Startup Ecosystem with Mattermark, GraphQL, Apollo, and Neo4j
Looks like press release masturbation to me.

Good job virtue signaling, BigCorp!
Crazy part is this guy didn't even come up with the name!

https://github.com/torcoindev/torcoin/issues/4 You can see he changed the title in that issue, indicating he was taking over the abandoned name.

The original project is at least nearly 3 years old: https://github.com/torcoindev/torcoin/issues/1 (Git timestamps can be forged, but not Github issues)

And for the pièce de résistance, there's a backdoor in the code: https://github.com/torcoindev/torcoin/issues/3
Sorry but you're not addressing your own point:

> RPC is a great fit if you are constrained to a single vendor and don't care about third-party clients

If I'm not constrained to a single vendor, and care about third-party clients, what makes RPC a bad fit? In specifics, not vague historical comparisons.
Instead of taking the question too literally just think about a recent projects that had some technical challenges that you would like to tell the interviewer about.
Is there a possibility that length-encoded vectors will be practical someday, or is it just a useful toy example for tutorials?
Fly with the Jetman (TED 2011) [video]
Not interesting to YOU. And why that is, I'm not sure.
Oregon fines man for questioning traffic light timing without engineer license
Up to you. Follow your heart.
I guess. But it strikes me as engineers and coders will just gain more power to work in higher-level abstractions.
Comparing the past tenses is probably more appropriate as that's the tense that those verbs are most commonly used in. It also occurs to me that a lot of the use of just "rob" may well be the name "Rob." Given that, the usage of stole vs. robbed tracks quite closely with just a bit of an upward track of stole over the past couple of decades.

I originally thought that rob vs. steal might be one of those Germanic vs. French roots thing but both words seem to be traceable through Old English.
Yup, I've always known STAR as the "gold standard" for these kinds of questions. Also the presentation technique of: "Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said."
Protocol for configuring IoT device settings
> Basically, unintended consequences.

Generalized "unintended consequences" is, inasmuch as it can be used as an argument, always an argument against changing status quo policy, even when the change is superficially a reversion to status quo ante policy (because path-dependent signalling effects are one important source of unintended consequences.)

Evidence of specific consequences of the status quo policy (unintended or not) may be an argument for policy change, but unintended consequences potentially are in play with every policy change.
Can you explain what you mean by the overbooking + auction system? I don't fly often and though the news has left a bitter taste in my mouth about United, I do want to understand how their system works and their flaws in a less biased way.
What kind of an answer is that? Do you have evidence that they have leaks they're sitting on? If so, why would the leaker not just send their materials elsewhere? The point of Wikileaks is to publish, after all. You're arguing that they have lots of material they refuse to publish, and the people who provided that material oddly don't use other channels, yet you have no evidence.
The story is only interesting because it's strange. Like if you heard of a man who was stuck on top of an electricity column.

It does not strike anyone's fantasy.

Sure, these kinds of stories may exist and have some audience, but not the wide audience that you would see for mainstream typical romance stories.
For a firearm purchased by mail from another state they have to be shipped to a federally licensed dealer and the transaction has all the same requirements as if you were just buying from the dealer in person.

There's lots more details than that, but it isn't a free for all.
That's beyond cruelty and evil.
That's the common refrain, but I don't even mind it in bumper-to-bumper traffic. I think it's pretty magical to just barely lift my foot off the clutch and control the car's acceleration. Is it tedious? Needless effort? Nope, it's racing in ultra-slow-mo!
Isn't that incredibly obvious though?

I thought the author was sort of trying to push back against our instinct to be interested in problems - which I don't agree with. I'll gladly break the law for an interesting enough problem, I reverse engineer stuff and break copyright law while doing so all the time.
For me, preparing for an interview for weeks (or maybe months, I've even heard of interview preparatory courses) by reading exam-like stuff that won't have any effect to your job but are interview preparation only is an insult to my personality. I would never do it and of course I don't want to work on companies that don't respect me. The most important perk for a job (for me) is to feel respected.
right, it was a half baked plan, but its not impossible. typically you would want either a corporate account in a country with little accurate banking information required, and then you would obfuscate the origins with casinos. (Fake players losing, or simply exchanging large amounts of chips which have no record of ownership, but this is a nuance because it only need to happen on paper)

To get it back to you in large amounts as clean money, you would need to have another corporation that contracts with the casino or other service provider, and it is paid with money that is clean for all intents and purposes.
I wouldn't disagree with this. But the golang.org website doesn't mention "system" on the homepage, or documents page. You have to go all the way to reading the spec to see the first (and only) mention of Go describing itself as:

> a general-purpose language designed with systems programming in mind

And I'm not sure this definition is actually unrepresentative.

Contrast this with rust-lang.org where "system" is the fourth word on the homepage. People like to blame Go for people being confused about what "systems language" means, but it seems to me like this is just poor branding on Rust's part.
That's only a useful signal if someone takes it offline right before breaking in. If you're planning an event you can take it offline a week or more beforehand.
Coming from a games background, I've not heard of an R tree before. Quadtrees (or octtrees for 3D) are probably the most common spatial query data structure used in game engines. I'm surprised they weren't mentioned in the article. Gonna have to do some research on what the pros and cons of an R tree are vs a quadtree now.
Clean architecture in this case is just the name of the architecture. There are many others.
>technical hiring is broken

>this advice will not work for the majority of people

That sums it up, the advice is good but since technical hiring is broken it doesn't work. This is why having a good interviewer is pivotal for a company. Someone who knows the company well and is good at reading people quickly and accurately
why aren't teeth implants and crowns getting cheaper because of 3D Printers

crowns and teeth implants should be a lot easier than other organs or bones
Honesty and honesty.
A simple web app for making plans for a weekend trip
Rhino Is Now on Tinder in Attempt to Sustain the Species
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

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

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

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
These systems call the cops, so the DoS attack could be vs local law enforcement which is a bigger deal.
This is the beginning of the end. Privacy is gone, humanity is doomed. What other data will these devices skim while they are looking through the phone OS to see when the last text message you sent was?

We are on a slippery slope to being completely controlled by cops and their technology. Pretty soon every law enforcement vehicle is going to come equipped with a LTE spoofer running in their car that skims all this information from the phones in the near vicinity.

You'll get automatic messages in your car's dashboard display when you send a text message - "Pull over, you broke the law and sent a text while driving. A cop will be here soon to arrest you."
New Mobile Phone Assembly Plant in Nigeria Announced by AfriOne
Unix-Style Windows Development Environment Adventures
Shouldn't DB be part of Entity - right in the middle? Why it is on the edge of the circle outside gateway?
You might think that, but the law actually currently uses a concept called "portal-to-portal". Companies only need to pay for time that is "integral and indispensable" to the labor in question. In short if you aren't actually earning money for the company, they don't necessarily need to pay you.

It originated with mine workers who would have to take a long mine-elevator ride (30m+) to and from the vein, and companies didn't want to pay for that time. They successfully argued that the time spent riding the elevator was essentially part of your commute, just like driving to work, and they shouldn't have to pay for it.

Lately it's also been applied to things like Amazon warehouse workers, who need to stand in line for up to 30 minutes to go through a metal detector and be frisked on their way out of the warehouse. That time is legally allowed to be unpaid.

In short - even if the work is in some sense "necessary" as a condition of your employment (you would be fired if you didn't wait through Amazon's frisk line), if it's not actually a primary part of the job (the thing they are paying you to do) then they don't have to pay you for it.

The FAA may mandate downtime, but that's not part of worker safety per-se. Consider if the pilot were taking that downtime on the ground - you obviously wouldn't be paying them to do that. Nor would you pay a long-haul trucker taking their downtime.

The company could argue that the "portal" in this sense is the cockpit door (rather than the door of the plane), and that being trapped in the plane during your off-duty time is just an unpleasant aspect of the job (like a miner being trapped in a mine elevator during some of their off-hours). You're perfectly free to watch a DVD or whatever [0] so you're not really on-duty.

This is a pretty shitty thing in labor law overall, but as a descriptive statement - that's how things are right now. If the wheels aren't turning, you ain't earning.

Or at least if you're earning it's through the grace of your employer, not because they're legally obligated to.

[0] Interestingly enough, the FAA doesn't actually mandate sleep during off-hours. Which is a big problem since many pilots are paid so poorly nowadays - they end up flipping burgers to make ends meet, instead of getting the sleep they need. It's caused several crashes so far.
"Do we want to build this or buy this" is a pretty typical decision at all large companies, no? Wouldn't it be supremely strange if Google acquired something without at least considering building it internally?
It was much speedier before the new odomoter laws
The point when the black line on the graph goes below 0
http://i.imgur.com/sjH5r.jpg

(from: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/04/11/0435231/mit-fus...)
The makeup of the "big 4" depends on who you're talking to. The phrase is borrowed from accounting, where there really are just four megafirms (and a large number of "boutique" firms).

People probably mean Microsoft, Google, and two of Facebook, Apple, and Amazon. In terms of market share, you probably also want to account for large but less cool organizations like Oracle, HP, Verizon, etc.
Ah - I wasn't aware of that fact. Thank you!
Because a 3d printer isn't going to be vastly better than a milling machine.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/06/dentis...

(especially for such a small amount of material, material with a lot of requirements, bio-compatibility, durability, etc)
So... What's the purpose of this agreement? The only new stuff from the agreement is in the third bullet point, which I think is the tl;dr:

> Airbnb will continue to expand its efforts to make it easy for users to file discrimination complaints, and offer additional information for users who seek to file complaints with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing.

Disclaimer: I work at Airbnb
Malawi Telecoms Will No Longer Offer Customers Mobile and Internet Services
I've never thought that was a fair question, because it's actually pretty rare to be able to work on something you enjoy and end up proud of. The way I see it, one of the reasons I'm interviewing with you is that I hope that the best of my career is ahead of me, and that the project I'm most proud of is the one I'll be working on next.
I think that would be one of the major issues.

Here's how that situation is handled on the legal side in the US. Anyone is permitted to practice law for themselves, but to practice law on someone's behalf, you need to be admitted to the bar.

I'm not endorsing it, but I can imagine a situation where anyone can write code on their own, but to get paid to do it, you need a license (subject to ethics rules). Again, I'm not supporting the idea, but it could work that way.
So funny, I thought this was another article about Levandowski.
Wondering if they ever tried to do input/output testing if that ever makes sense at the cerebral level of complexity.
Yes. The underlying systemic issues do not get addressed or solved by "well let's just get to the next tech revolution first", that is simply a lazy idyllic 'solution' for those who don't think through their proposals.

In this case, meshnets would likely be lobbied into only being operable by licensed entities as radio waves are now.

- Lobby to quickly fabricate and sell appropriate talking points (ensure some anti-terrorism or anti-CP laws in there to gain mass support) to congress and the media

- catch a few mesh operators and bring the hammer down on them, quickly making an example that kills off support for the niche community

- provide the alternative; enumerable 'licensed' operators to exist that sap demand for unregulated comms ('not worth the effort' or consequences of point 2) and maintain the same (or likely evolved - there'd probably be a smarter way to profiteer off meshnets than trying to meter mesh devices for 'fastlanes' but maybe they'd start there) regulations that maintain your profit margin

And there goes your 'fix'.

The reality is that whatever technology you develop, the monkeys with big sticks will always be able to skewer you, so it's up to you and everyone to collectively agree what we decide are skewerable offenses, not merely to say 'well let's just get to the iron age first so we don't have to worry about it'.
You have it backwards. If you think there are no natural difference between men and women you better bring a mountain of evidence.

Strong claims require strong evidence. I did not make any outrageous claim.

It would be incredibly surprising if men and women were identical in every aspect except for their reproductive body parts

Just consider the difference in selection pressure that men and women face.
One thing that might cause error is the difference in pronouns vs proper names names or other labels.

In the example "The man winced, then he fell to the floor." You'd only register "he fell." This would also be biased if male or female characters were named more often.
>> believable that high bandwidth bidirectional neural interfaces (at the cellular level) are on the horizon.

This means getting inside the brain, right ? do you see it happening for regular brain augmentation, and not just serious medical issues?
learn VHDL and get an FPGA kit, think of a use case and create something.

or find VHDL code on github and contribute to their code.
I don't at all agree with GP's point, but "the infrastructure being given away" is, objectively, an instance of regulation. Laws were passed, government bureaucracy was involved, papers were signed in triplicate.

If we're really on the regulation-is-bad-mmkay train, then also on the chopping block needs to be franchise agreements, agreements where high-density housing buildings can only use one provider, and so on.
If only things were so black and white as that.
This is pretty horrifying.

But almost as bad: websites that insist on over-elaborate security measures for trivial stuff. Take a bow, HM Revenue & Customs:

> You’ve got a new message from HMRC

> Dear Fred

> You have a new message from HMRC about Self Assessment.

> To view it, sign in to your HMRC online account. For security reasons, we have not included a link with this email.

> Why you got this email

> You chose to get paperless notifications instead of letters by post. This means we send you an email to let you know you have a new message in your account.

> From HMRC Self Assessment

And HMRC have mandatory 2FA. So to read the spam they've sent me - and it is pretty much spam, it says "you need to do your self-assessment before next January", I know that already - I need to go through the rigmarole of entering my Government Gateway number, which I don't remember but starts with a 4 or something and hopefully that will be enough for Chrome to autofill it, then authing with my mobile phone. Which I think I left upstairs or something. Wait while I ring it with the landline to find where it is.

Seriously, I might just go back to getting letters by post.

Edit: No. My Government Gateway number which starts with a 4 is my company one. My Self-Assessment login appears to be a different number.

People elsewhere in the world, whenever anyone tells you that the UK Government Digital Service is a beacon of usability and good practice, please don't believe them.
I sold security systems in 2008, door to door. (Icky, I know.) I had a long time to think about it, every day, and during pitches.

I soon stopped, because I think they aren't worth it (which made me the world's worst salesperson. I remember near the end talking one old woman out of it.) The first important thing is that they won't prevent the nightmare encounter where a thief enters the house when you're there. Second, police are too swamped to have ever reacted in time to catch the thief. To my knowledge, it has never, ever happened.

There is a possible benefit that it may truncate the time in the house. To me this is not a big issue, I suspect most competent thieves are efficient with time.

Finally, there is an unobservable deterrence effect, but that is easily obtained by faking the appearance of a system without needing to enter a contract and pay monitoring fees. The most useless thing about security systems, the monitoring, is the only thing that costs serious money.

The final benefit is life-alert style stuff, but there are better solutions for that.

On the other hand, there is a massive placebo effect, a sense of safety that the monitoring provides. I suppose that is what people pay for.
Hmmm, that's interesting. I've never been to Sweden, but pretty much no shops in any country I've ever visited required a pin code for Visa or Amex credit cards. Is this really changing?
I dont think web is the best way to go for most people either, its certainly not what i would do, though it does seem easy on the surface, i suspect getting a junior webdev role involves more than knowing how to write a header and title in html and maybe a few css stylesheets.

What do you think about backend dev, or devops type roles? would you expect them to start in frontend and move towards backend as they get experience, or should they start out from scratch and jump into SQL and python/java/ruby?

Or would mobile development be the way to go? learn swift or java and jump into creating some popular app clones in your github?
What doesn't get caught is a super interesting question. (As is object genders too.) How often he occurs vs she is important. How long he is talked about vs how long she is talked about; I'm not certain about screenplay conventions, but usually the first sentence would name the character and some number of subsequent sentences might use she rather than repeat her name.

So yeah, there's plenty more room for making this analysis scientific, and no reason to assume it's unbiased.
A lot of these architectures assumes DDD. (I'm not sure if clean architecture does)

Domain driven design. You model you business problem using plain objects and methods. The domain should do nothing else other than modeling the domain, and solving the business problem you app is designed to solve. It should be persistence ignorant.

Then everything else simply has adapters for interfacing with the domain. Including a persistence adapter.

This is basically ports & adapters, and a lot of these architectures are basically variations on that.
That seems like a problem with software composition? If you just want to clone a neural network, you can do that without knowing how it works. In git terms, we have fork but not merge.
This one took a while to figure out. Especially, since as a tech-support person I did not have actual access to customer system.
http://blog.outerthoughts.com/2004/10/perfect-multicast-stor...

This one took many many tries of various incantations and variations to discover (documentation was "less than useful")
http://blog.outerthoughts.com/2011/01/bulk-processing-lotus-...

This one makes for a nice story when I talk about computer-specific language issues:
http://blog.outerthoughts.com/2010/08/arabic-numerals-non-wy...
Which design? This weeks, or next months?
You might prefer the more technical introduction at https://mozilla.github.io/fathom/intro.html#specific-areas-w.... It talks about Fathom in terms of declarativeness.

> "on a selection of"

One has to start somewhere! At this early stage, my aim is to demonstrate that Fathom has value for simplifying the implementation of recognizers, not to claim a polished, production-ready Readability alternative.

Though, frankly, getting to the latter would be a fun project for someone: just write more features (in the ML sense), and add more tuning data. There are lots of low-hanging TODOs in the code around https://github.com/mozilla/fathom/blob/master/examples/reada....
Not _your_ definition of sexism, apparently.

If you define sexism in such broad terms that it includes both bad and neutral things, the word will lose its meaning.
I guess it's true, in the sense that when you look at it, everything is the beginning of some end.
Show HN: Using rok8s scripts to automate your deployment workflow
Every one of them thinks "man, so close, next time for sure"
Hard technical problems are pretty much exclusive to the academia and R&D departments (and opensource projects). The rest of us are the 21st century's plumbers and electricians - if we run into a hard technical problem, it means something definitely went wrong in the planning process beforehand.
The origin of "Considered Harmful" in computing opinions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful