skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a whole movement around this called Software Craftsmanship. There are a lot of companies involved and typically they are using the apprenticeship model to bring on new employees and grow the company. The one I'm most familiar with is 8th Light which started in Chicago but is now in Los Angeles, London, and New York City too.

Their approach is more spend 5-9 months having the apprentice do mostly directed self-study, then a kind of final project and other work and, if they pass, an offer of employment. It's a really interesting model that seems to have worked well for them -- they attract developers from both traditional backgrounds and non-traditional.

They have a page that goes into what apprenticeship means to them here: https://8thlight.com/apprenticeship/
Unsustainable, or unsustainable in the face of people using property as an investment rather than a place to live? Foreign investment has destroyed Vancouvers affordability. The city is half full of rich Chinese driving Audis, and nearly all real estate signs come in Chinese.

The same is happening down the west coast of the US as well as Toronto now. We need to prioritize affordability - and not just subsidies for the poor. The middle is being hollowed out, and only those with family history in the area are affording anything. Basically if you aren't on the ladder when it shot up to the sky you are screwed now.
What do you consider cheap? 500k for 400 sq/ft? Toronto has some of the highest sq/ft prices in the world. There is nothing cheap. If you have ever been to Toronto you will notice that most of the homes are semi's and only outside of the city in what can be considered the suburbs (Etobicoke, etc) will you find detached homes. Lots are no more than 20-25 ft wide in the city.
Segwit and Lightning Network; agility of Litecoin to evolve and advance. These are the reasons LTC is moving now.
It is truly sad. However don't shift all the blame to the politicians. You live in a democracy where you the people are responsible for the actions your representatives take. Years of demands for more services, more facilities, more money, more wage rises, beyond your willingness to pay for them in taxes have led to this.
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Looks pretty thick, but for those of us who sit in front of computers all day, this is what I want in a phone. Small and long battery life.
TIL there are territories of the United States where the U.S. Constitution is not fully applicable.
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"Fuck yeah you should be ashamed (and also go to prison)."

I'm sure you would enjoy 18th century england and US. Debtors prison was once totally a thing. I like to think of it's dismissal as an evidence piece that a civilization evolves.
I think beating the market was way easier in earlier times because the markets were less efficient. These days everyone have data and watch metrics.
This is really cool. I might need to build a IDE soon, and I briefly looked at using VS Code for a base, but determined that it was a bit of overkill for my purposes.

Out of curiosity, what was Sourcegraph running prior to this in-browser VS Code?
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The problem with your proposal is that if you slash the inheritance tax, you don't need a trust to pass the wealth down across generations. The whole point of a trust is to avoid multiple halvings. By lowering the inheritance tax to 10%, the money makes it several generations down before even getting halved once.
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This is essentially the case right now with TSA key designs available with little trouble online.

https://www.wired.com/2015/09/lockpickers-3-d-print-tsa-lugg...
I'm interested: with Jim Simons, is it some acumen you believe in, some method he employs, or some connections/stature that leads good deals to his door?

For instance, with Buffett, it seemed his stature, historical perspective, and means allowed him to invest $5B in Goldman Sachs at the near height of panic, under terms that very few were able to get.

(Caveat: I don't know anything about Simons, but I'm very curious about the basis for your claim/offer, knowing that in the HN crowd, you have a lot of industry experience.)
So if Uber stole Google's designs but are not using them in their present self driving stuff can Google do much?
Of course there might be good, honest and non-greedy actors among the crowd, but I think the bad apples will spoil the market.
>There's lots of talk about tapping into the 'green belt' to allow more residential building.

How do you propose these people commute? There are no roads and Ontario can't seem to find the money to build any.

Your commute from the Greenbelt to downtown TO could take 2 hours or more. Just look at the folks coming from Barrie and the nightmare they have to drive in. Most of the work is in Toronto so many have no choice.

Maybe if the Gov would stop the 200 billion in foreign fx that gets laundered in Canadian Real Estate people could afford a house in Toronto.
Surely if you're using core Swift, or core Objective-C, the runtime is a shared lib shipped with the OS? I can't imagine that every single app built on Swift or Objective-C is bundling the exact same foundation? That seems so unlike Apple to miss such a massive optimization to reduce the download size of nearly every app. I can understand there being exceptions with some apps that use custom setups, but surely the majority of apps are written in XCode using exactly what is provided as a toolset.
A few months ago there was a story about starting an ISP on Hacker News [1] and the comments section was about how hard it is to start one. What if these rules allow someone to build a new ISP and take some of the advertising profit from some of the big companies like Google ? Google can afford to lose some money and perhaps it could improve the ISP competition in the US.

Also reading about the general history of the Internet, even though initial work was done by DARPA, it did not become the world wide network until commercial interests ( and free market capitalism ) took over [2]. This is not the narrative in the featured article.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13688595

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Revolution
I was mentioning FFI in general, like Common Lisp's FFI, LuaJIT, others. For example for callback back, you need to have a trampoline, where the "C/C++" trampoline would call back your language runtime "engine". But this introduces gap in the "stack", and might not work with all VM's, or you may run out of trampoline slots, and not being able to allocate new, since this would require dynamic code generation, and say on iOS and certain other game consoles that's not allowed.
As an American with some German ancestry, I find this to be very embarrassing. (The Swedes in my family can all change a tire as well, including my sister, but the German side is embarrassed.)

Americans have become complacent and lazy, with no sense of "know how" or "make do." Hell, kids don't even know how to clean and cook a rabbit, let alone how to catch one with a snare. If the zombie apocalypse ever happened for real, The Walking Dead wouldn't last a full season. Everyone would starve to death.
Oh. I just grabbed what would have been my next random 42 character password, hoping that would be sufficient to prove the point that (almost) ridiculously long one time use passwords is the way to go.
Well you did edit it with the parens and you are the one sinking to putting words in my mouth and being dishonest so it's just an impasse I guess.
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Heart breaking relevant reddit threads:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/640iem/foun...

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/68xzxt/star...
He did time the market correctly, and still lost.
It appears that hacker news users upvote anything with machine learning or tensorflow in it. This is merely a fifo queue implementation, which is not particularly significant any way. Why it was submitted, much less upvoted, is nonsensical to me.
No, actually, if they want their product back, they are obligated to pay however much is necessary to do so. They have no leverage other than that. They're spending a very tiny amount of money to repress something that would become quite popular without them.
Ask HW: How to read and understand complex open source project
Hi everyone, I love reading source code of good project
The most recent one is redux and I think it's really brilliant, but sometimes I found it's really hard to get into those projects if they are large and complex, I found I can't quite follow the thought behind them or even understand their structure.
How you guys get start with some project when it's big and complex
Oniguruma was a big roadblock for me on Chromebooks too.

Ideally, I'd have liked to have a version of VS Code that could be released to the Chrome Web Store, but regex is so labyrinthine in its edge cases that dropping in any other implementation was just inciting hatred from the editor.

Ultimately I looked at cross-compiling Oniguruma to WebAssembly to see how far I could get with this, and if that didn't work, NaCl.

I didn't get too far down this road as it was taking me away from the core goal of the project, and there's one of me.
Why? The site linked is much larger and busier than HN. It's in no danger of going down.
I will agree with your approach. With any large system or government database schema adding another table and then adding a relation to the necessary reports is 100x better than changing the parent table.

I've seen too often jobs being quoted for clients for simply adding a column to table blow out to 4-5 month development tasks. Turns out the table was being used by an old C/C++ program with oracle C bindings. That had to be updated, and that in turn caused another application to stop working.
From what I've seen, buybacks are often more about preventing dilution due to share-based compensation; they're effectively a tax-advantaged dividend. However, they can also be a sign of a company that has no better idea for spending their capital, which can indicate a decline in the ROI of their R&D. Could HP and IBM have done better with their cash over the last 10-15 years than buying back stock? Share repurchases seem to obfuscate with plausible deniability whether the intent is to return capital in a tax-advantaged way, or whether there's just a basic lack of faith in investing in new innovations.
We’ve lost sight of the most important rule in debating science
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Yep. It's a sad state we're in. It's just too risky to pay more for an app from a publisher who is not well-known. All too often, installing an app for $3-5+ is disappointing when you discover the app is not what you were expecting. I rarely pay for apps, simply because I'd have paid thousands of dollars over the lifetime of a single phone, only to uninstall 95% of apps after discovering it was not for me.

Is an in-app purchase required to offer something tangible? Instead of using ads and offering an in-app purchase to remove ads, I'd love to see cheap apps (ie: free or $0.99, without ads) with options for in-app purchases - maybe $3, $5, $10, $20 - that are nothing more than a voluntary donation to pay more for an app I find worthwhile.

If I could volunteer to pay more for apps after using them for an extended period of time (fully unlocked, no trial gimmicks), I'd likely have spent a lot more money than I have thus far. I won't pay thousands for a bunch of crappy used-once apps, but I'd pay a few hundred for the bundle of apps I've kept.
I would never want to go up against blizzard legal, but I have a hard time with the "trade secret" bit when the box came from eBay. The guy didn't sign a contract with blizzard.

I have cds with intellectual property on them. It's not like he's copying it all willy nilly. No different than finding a manual of procedures for some random organization.

The only "real" risk seems to be possessing stolen property (maybe, could have been a gift or souvenir). But stolen 20 years ago and never reported.

I can't understand how keeping the disk is particularly bad. But good for them for giving it back. I think it belongs in a museum, but back home at blizzard is ok too.
This is amazing - especially reading the thread following as almost all these discussions have been going on again in recent weeks.
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Bitcoin doesn't need to be perfect to remain #1. Just needs to be good enough.
Jesus christ. They successfully bought him off with $20 worth of flimsy plastic crap and company scrip. What a miserable shame.
We can, just need to take responsability serious like in other fields.

Software bugs should be no less than product defects, with possible fines in place.
I don't know why California Democrats elected Diane in the first place. Were there not any real liberals in California to choose from preferably with some expertise in Californias most valuable export?
If you look at where the money is moving, this is exactly right and it has already happened. Passive management is crushing the inflow numbers.

Perhaps this creates opportunities, but maybe not opportunities at scale.
> Is it that cost of constructing Cap'n Proto / Protobuf is quite a bit higher than constructing objects defined natively?

I discussed in more detail in reply to your first post, but just to be really clear on this:

No. In fact, for deeply-nested object trees, constructing a Cap'n Proto object can often be cheaper than a typical native object since it does less memory allocation. However, there are some limitations -- see my other reply.

(Constructing Protobuf objects, meanwhile, will usually be pretty much identical to POCS, since that's essentially what Protobuf objects are.)

There is a common myth that Cap'n Proto "just moves the serialization work to object-build time", but ultimately does the same amount of work. This is not true: Although you could describe Cap'n Proto as "doing the serialization at object build time", the work involved is not significantly different from building a regular in-memory object.
Would you risk eating a "zombie rabbit"? :)
Thanks for posting this, as someone who poked around functional languages for years, this lecture really pulled together a lot of ideas. Im amazed at the ability of a good teacher (world class even) to illuminate complex subjects.
Albatrosses counted from space
He's been pretty adamant in his posts that he did not, we can all channel wish energy or something though.
The timing of conceding this bet is auspicious.

--Signed, another $BRK meeting attendee
> I would never want to go up against blizzard legal, but I have a hard time with the "trade secret" bit when the box came from eBay. The guy didn't sign a contract with blizzard.

From what he wrote, I don't think they said he was under legal obligation to return it to them. I think they said why they wanted him to, they asked nicely, and they thanked him afterward. Seems perfectly appropriate to me.
It's either ALOT harder or very different now-a-days. Anything that you could run on a consistent basis as a bread-winning norm is already or quickly in the process of *aaS or being integrated into one or other.

One way to sell a remote-style work is to make it part of a perk you want in the position or job. There is a ton of talent and skill already willing to move right into the company's parking lot and LIVE ( literally ) there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG0_KiM9Mv8

You're not competitive with them at all if it comes to just comparing apples and oranges. The way the market is, offering remote-work can be sold as a perk by the company, or something you need to negotiate for. But expect to either fly to the office or meet them atleast once a week, maybe less or more depending... most likely more than once a week.
I'm reminded of a Father John Misty song which goes:

Try not to think so much about
The truly staggering amount of oil that it takes to make a record
All the shipping, the vinyl, the cellophane lining, the high gloss
The tape and the gear

Try not to become too consumed
With what's a criminal volume of oil that it takes to paint a portrait
The acrylic, the varnish, aluminum tubes filled with latex
The solvents and dye

Lets just call this what it is
The jealous side of mankind's death wish
When it's my time to go
Gonna leave behind things that won't decompose
What are the basic properties of the cable test?
Is there a reason a lot of these cryptocurrencies have suddenly started to skyrocket all at once?
I still haven't drunk the VR kool-aid.

I want to believe. I've used all the software. Played many games. The problems for me are 2 fold

1. I don't have the space. I don't personally know anyone that does. Maybe if you live in the mid-west or the suburbs but there are plenty of cities where people are unlikely to have a space for room scale VR and arguably the non-room scale VR is just not that compelling. Visiting a "VR space" is not ever going to be mainstream so that seems like an issue for mass VR adoption.

2. When I play a good non-VR game I play for hours and days at a time. As an example last month I played Zelda:Breath of the Wild for 70+ hours, 10-14 hours a day. I've yet to play anything in VR that I could stay in for 10-14 hours. In fact many VR games get extremely tiring very quickly. I've played a few where after 10 minutes I'm exhausted. That's doesn't seem likely to become a main form of entertainment.

I've also played at a few VR arcades. Again the games have been fun and immersive but the also felt like thrill rides. In other words, 5-10 minutes and I'm done. Neat experience but just like I could not ride a rollercoaster for 10hrs I can't do VR for 10hrs. It's not about the form, it's about the activity. Searching a room, opening draws, pressing various floating buttons, holding virtual weapons. It's tiring not relaxing like non VR games.

Those issues don't seem solvable. They aren't tech issues they're inherent to the whole concept. Fixes for the space would require direct brain implants so you don't actually move around, you just think you are. I don't know if there is a solution to the 2nd. It's one thing to push buttons to see Nathan Drake climb mountains. It's another to actually do the climbing.

As for the article itself I was a little sad to see VR defined as only

> VR… only tracking, rendering, and display. Tracking is the process of recording the user’s location and orientation in 3D space. Rendering is the process of constructing the appropriate image for a user. Display refers to the fidelity with which the hardware can produce the rendered image."

Even with the problems mentioned above there seems to still be low-hanging fruit.

If you want to be able to talk to people in VR you need to be able to emote. That means you need low-res cameras looking at your eyes and mouth so your avatar can show your expressions.

Similarly, 2 hands is not enough. I need censors on my feet and maybe knees, waist, elbows. In many VR experiences I've played things where bumping up against something with my waist or, kicking something away with my feet, using my knee to close a draw etc seem like natural actions that were thwarted by lack of input.
When someone writes "we're fucked", the only completely wrong response is to assume "fucked" has a precise and technical definition. As a bit of language, it merely means "things will be shitty". What does "shitty" mean? C'mon… yeah, this is all relative.
It sucks right. It'd be nice to compute things or design data storage or something.
Possibly so Kotaku doesn't get the ad revenue/page hits.
I don't think so. The big companies are "interesting" (if you consider news interesting) because they have so many attachment points: many products, many customers, often multiple modes of interaction, including second-order ones like tax.

While on the other hand, there are a large number of small companies, typically with one or two products, each of which reaches a small number of people. Quasi-stochastically they get a little mention in the major press, which perhaps helps them a bit.

Snapchat, google, FB became big deals before they were written up much, if at all. They made it to the popular press because they had become big deals.

Frankly I haven't seen an article in the NYT be successful for any startup I have followed. Perhaps it happens in the specialty press (travel or fashion) which are really just specialty journals whose "articles" have always been what is now called "native advertising"
Is there interest in a cryptocurrency index fund? The idea is you could just buy an index fund composed of, say, 50% BTC, 20% ETH, 15% LTC and 15% ZEC. I'm fairly certain that one of these cryptocurrencies will 10 or 100x in value over the next 5 years, but buying each one individually is just such a pain. Would you invest?

In reality, we'd probably buy the top 10 coins weighted according to some measure, and rebalance once a week. We would send out investor updates and let you know what the weights are, along with performance over the past week.

We're YC and our previous idea didn't work out, and this is something we're considering pivoting to. If we get enough interest we'll start one!
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Corporations have a bad track record at preserving stuff like this. Celluloid movies are a great example. And blizzard already lost this one once. But, yeah, this is ok.
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The energy intensity of the developed economies is decreasing (J/$ GDP). So you're getting your wish!
Then oauth based attacks like this come along and your password (however strong it may be) and two-factor auth are bypassed completely... It's interesting Apple can scale personally vetting apps for the app store but Google apparently can't be bothered to do the same for apps that could actually ruin businesses and lives with the data they could scoop up
"those women who did not use condoms showed fewer signs of depression"

The ones that didn't worry enough to use condoms didn't get depressed often. The more carefree types were having more fun. Amazing that this wasn't in the article or study if the article represents it accurately. What garbage.
> So taking away secure encryption from the rest of us is just security theatre

Even more importantly, it's a power grab of the powerful (which mostly translates into "the rich", and vice versa) aiming to further dominate and manipulate the remaining population ("the 99%") in order to secure and increase their dominant situation.
The whole Bitfinex scandal could have contributed to the rise as well. Bitfinex was one of the largest exchanges, but now no one (except people with Taiwanese bank accounts) can wire fiat out. Suddenly, traders are pouring out of Bitfinex and into the next best place---Coinbase, where trading on margin is free.

Really, the only reason not to use Coinbase right now is if you think that US banks will "crack down" on them as well and not accept any transfers out.
Bravo. Masterclass username for this comment. I'm dying.

(For those who may have missed it in this HN crowd, let me momentarily invoke a veil of joke-explainer and offer this http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2 of the joke.)
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Being stuck with crippling debt that destroys GDP faster than it can be repaid (leading to a deflationary spiral that makes it impossible to EVER pay your debt) is a massively worse alternative, which you are also stuck with the rest of your life.
"prepack has no idea what Date.now() does" isn't quite true, because there's a typeof check happening on the return to ensure it's a number, meaning that some assumptions are definitely being made.
You can discharge them in bankruptcy, too, it's just harder than most other debt to do so.