skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also the rebels, not only ISIS.

And what would be the consequence of him not complying after the fact?
Tesla Analyst Split Comes Down to Tech Believers versus Car Guys
> at least with "javascript" you can view the source code

minified and/or optimized JavaScript is generally not human-readable. Try view source on some major websites.
Nope. React native doesn't use webviews to render its ui. Business logic and view configuration are in JavaScript but all rendering and event processing is done in native. Also it's easy to wrap native components and insert them, something you just can't do in a webview.
>A go game with a triple ko has no result

True under Japanese rules. Chinese rules at least theoretically use a superko rule. But many comments online say in practice the game is voided under Chinese rules too.

http://senseis.xmp.net/?Superko
Kids are going to not get tattoos to rebel against their parents.

(That being said, I didn't grow up in Texas, I grew up in the Northeast)
Interesting. So one person sees the right wing de-emphasizing the "freedoms from" and another sees the left-wing taking away "freedoms of".

I guess we need a middle wing that attempts to preserve as much liberty as possible for as many people as possible regardless of who feels it is unequal or offensive.

I say this because I feel that the fight for equality is in direct opposition to the fight for liberty.
It doesn't really matter. If you're an American citizen, you can just refuse and they have to let you enter. They might confiscate your device, but they can't turn you away from the border.

And if you're not a US citizen, "I'm not physically able to unlock the account right now" doesn't buy you anything. There's no obligation that says if you do all you can physically do to accommodate their wishes, that you get to enter. If they want access, you either grant access or you get back on a plane. The only thing not having your 1Password credentials with you does is remove the choice of which you want to do.
Looks great, and it's snappy! Is "Dartmobile" a reference to Dart the programming language? It's the same color scheme :p
It's very difficult to correlate interview performance and job performance. No one is willing to hire at random to really get the data. Companies only look at who got hired.

I've seen some companies decide "well, whiteboard interviews are flawed" and just scrap the whole thing and replace it with something else... that's much more flawed. They're really not being honest with themselves about what the flaws exactly were in whiteboard interviews and if those are fixable, or what the flaws are in their new process.

There's a lot that can be done to make whiteboard coding/algorithms interviews less flawed.
- Be clear with candidates and interviewers about expectations. What knowledge is okay to assume? What knowledge is not?
- Clear guidelines on what makes a good question. A lot of companies ask very simple or well-known questions but think they're emulating what Google does. They are not.
- Good interview training. Most companies don't have interview training, beyond maybe basic legal stuff. Even the companies that do have training typically have crappy training.
- Interviewers should candidates with certain things that might not be obvious. For example, writing examples of input and output on the whiteboard is helpful. Don't rush into coding.

There is A LOT that can be done to make whiteboard interviews more effective.

You can also replace them with some other things, but understand that those will come with their own flaws. Scrapping whiteboard interviews is not going to deliver you some perfect system.
For me it's a self-correcting problem. I don't care about what most people are posting, I've unfollowed probably more than 75% of people, and I spend maybe 5 minutes a day scanning for interesting updates. I don't post anything because there's nothing I would ever share, that'd be appropriate for the grab-bag of friends, family members, former coworkers, and randoms that I've Friended over the years.
This may be the thing that gets Google to switch. They like having every piece of code in a single repository which Git cannot handle.

Now that it is somewhat proven, maybe Google will leverage GVFS on Windows and create a FUSE solution for Linux.
I first checked them out the day they opened (July 05), and was using them daily by January 06. There were definitely real people and a growing community by then.

I wouldn't attribute their success to fake accounts, although the fake accounts were probably necessary to seed the community. Rather, they took off once they added comments (Dec 05, IIRC). It's the same story as Whatsapp (messaging), YouTube (related videos), and AirBnB (pro photos): there was one feature that they really needed for product/market fit, and once they added it, people started using the product on their own.
Very nice. The levels are well-designed from a game design perspective, too.
See my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14410788 There are many ways to punish children – taking away privileges is a good example – without denigrating them in front of their peers. (And even before reaching that point, talking with students who are acting out to understand what is causing them to do so often yields great results. But that's beside the point that humiliation is unnecessary.)

(Aside, consistently rewarding good behavior is not a great way to modify behavior either, as behavior reverts shortly after rewards stop. Inconsistent rewards are better; encouraging self-motivation is best.)
Cancer is the wrong word. These things are addictions not diseases. "coca-cola for the mind" is how I like to put it.
Apparently FF nightly already has support to show WebAssembly, but it will be no different than looking at straight Assembly.
The data they are basing these arguments on seems rather suspect. Wouldn't Ford be doing the bulk of it's testing in Michigan?

Surely the data Tesla is collecting from it's production cars on the road also counts for something too.
I understand that fashions wax and wane, and that khaki slacks might not be as haute couture (or whatever) in 2017 as they were in 1997. However:

(1) They're still ubiquitous in most office workplaces. Perhaps not for the HN crowd here, but certainly out in the real world.

(2) I'm sure the fashion trend pendulum will swing back around eventually. The author's argument to the contrary is basically, "Khaki's require an iron, and millennials don't own irons". I don't know if that assumption about iron-ownership is true or not, but I do know that wrinkle-free khakis have been the norm for 30 years now. Where are you buying slacks that still need ironing?
I also like to alias `gd-` for `git diff --cached`, for checking what I have staged so far in my index.
Yes, it's exciting that a half point win gives us no bound on the strength difference betwen the human player and AlphaGo -- the human player could play "twice as well" and still lose by 0.5.

The best way to test strength, assuming Ke Jie continues to lose, would be to start giving handicap stones until the winrate stabilizes. I'd guess that AlphaGo is no more than two stones stronger, but maybe that's just more bias towards humans..
Should I specialize in machine learning or control theory in robotics?
Unfortunately, nobody has any data on the job performance of people who failed their interview.
This is mainly why I'm asking for data from Facebook. I've seen claims that their vcs operations (at least the most common ones) are near instant, but nothing official. It would appear that FB have solved the responsiveness problem with Mercurial but, again, no official data to back it up.
Unless every service we use becomes non-free, I think it is not lobbying, but very reasonable. The opt-out option is a necessity, but the average user doesn't give two cents about that.
That's just the attitude of most american women...
I admire your openness about this. I never used Imzy, but I definitely saw the appeal. Its unfortunate things didn't work out. I'm curious; Knowing what you know now, do you think you could have made it work? Basically, how much of a difference would getting to market quicker have made?
I know it's a totally different game, but it would be interesting to see AlphaGo play a game optimized for expected number of points, instead of low variance wins. I assume it would require retraining.
I'm feeling an increasing sense of hostility towards "web devs" lately.
Ugh...sadly Voat. They recently ran into budget problems (they run at $6k/month) and were able to raise enough to keep running for a few months and get volunteers help move it off Azure's overpriced hosting.

So there's an example of site, without much money, building off their community. It's filled with a lot of hate, racism and extremism.

I still like browsing it, just to see the opinions, try to understand where others are coming from and expose myself to viewpoints I disagree with.

There is some good content and some viewpoints I agree with, but I wish more reasonable people on there weren't so drown out. I think moderate people do try, but after barrages of downvotes, they give up (new accounts can't downvote either; you have to build 100 comment points -- which keeps that group think going).
It's not a political article

You were correct in your other comment that I skimmed the article the first time. It set off my BS detector and I didn't bother to painstakingly scrutinizing it to see if it had some other value.

Taking your challenge, I re-read it and now I'm going to go one further. This was a hit-piece article that was designed to go after Murray and satisfy the typical Vox liberal red meat audience. The science that was in the article was incidental and the best they could do given their overall motive of striking at Murray while generating hits from their typical readership.

The title of the article is "Charles Murray is once again peddling junk science about race and IQ"

I think that someone came up with the title of the article first to capitalize on the Middlebury College controversy and then sought to justify that title with as much science as they could muster. Vox knows that they'll get tons of hits just from the title and that the information in the article won't be judged too harshly by their typical readers. My guess is that after coming up with the title, Vox editors got some scientists in the field who are critics of Murray to write up a justification.

Despite the article's title, the scientists admit: "Some well-informed scientists hold views closer to Murray’s than to ours. And there are others who challenge views that we accept about the utility of the general concepts of intelligence and heritability."

So which is it? Is it junk science or do some well-informed scientists agree with Murray more than they agree with the authors of this piece while some other well-informed scientists consider the authors of this piece to have flaws in their basic understanding of concepts that they touch on? My guess is that the scientists wanted this disclaimer in there but that the Vox editor would have preferred to not even make that admission. Those two short sentences in the article completely destroy the title and show that this article was politically (or financially, depending upon how you look at it) motivated.

And it addresses your "twin studies, separated twin studies, adoption studies" dismissal, rather directly.

Well, it agrees with them and even admits: "These “DNA-based” heritability studies don’t tell you much more than the classical twin studies did, but they put to bed many of the lingering suspicions that twin studies were fundamentally flawed in some way."

I wrote more but while trimming it up realized that this nonsense political hit piece has already wasted too much of my time. My BS detector was functioning perfectly the first time and I should have trusted it and avoided going back to that link and contributing to Vox's ad revenue.

edit: typo
Name one Mid-east democracy right now that "we" would want to live in /where basic human rights are protected 1

1. Minus Israel....not that it fits my description.
I don't know all the reasons they didn't "need" it, it was just a phone screen with their recruiter. The point was just that they only used a sprinkling of JS in general.

And your semicolon is misplaced.
Yesterday, I received [1] from a friend. I laughed it off as the usual exaggeration when someone talks about Google and privacy. Today, I read that Google moved one step closer to that story.

[1] https://www.devrant.io/rants/605665/hello-gordons-pizza-no-s...
I may be completely wrong, but my recollection is it requires you to be running the Keybase software, which gets notified when the user signs up so it can rekey the payload for them.
Xaml + .net core would surely be an electron killer
Looks like they just have a poor cert setup - www.ups.com is fine
While I agree, it seems to happen quite often that the two are deliberately conflated.
> In some cases (like Pinochet or Franco), the ruling dictator simply accepts there is no point in continuing and just dies away without bestowing the country on his children.

Yeah that's not what happened in Franco's case. He appointed Juan Carlos to succeed him as King of Spain. Juan Carlos was crowned after Franco's death, and decided to turn the country into a democracy. So we got lucky in that sense.
Would it be possible to upload an extension for Opera? I believe the platform is essentially identical.
I think it was on HN that I read someone compare social media on your phone to smoking in the 50s.

Always liked that comparison.
Prometheus 2.0: Dramatically increases monitoring scalability
Cau-book-js
I really hope they do. It may not be up to them and more up to their investors, but having a platform like this that people in the open source community can hack on may provide new great things further down the line.
CTCI is a great book. Is it acceptable to ask an interviewer for a different question? For example, if you're really bad at chess algorithms and you get the N-Queens question?
WTL is way old.
Just a heads up, I find the font+background colour combination on that page very hard to read.
It means the Frankenstein of CSS/JavaScript/HTML tooling, still catching up with the 4GL RAD tooling of the 90's, or expressive native environments like Microsoft Blend, iOS and Android native layout managers.

Or the lack of integration with native animation frameworks, widgets, behaviours and system APIs, even with HTML 5.

Or hacks like Service Worker with in browser database, to be able to write offline apps, something that just works out of the box in native apps.
Dunno about "fearless concurrency," but "zero-cost abstractions" and "move semantics" are straight off the front page of rust-lang.org. So they're kind of marketing-ish in trying to make you go "hmm sounds intriguing" and click to find out more.
> A lot of common security measures can be defeated with modest technical skill and diligence. Fortunately for the police and the public, the vast majority of armed criminals are not even modestly technically skilled and diligent.

Yes - although almost none of them have the technical expertise to manufacture a gun and yet significant number of criminals own them. Similarly criminals don't need the expertise to own a "gun obfuscating device" to own one.
I've been trying out this extension for a few days.

What I would really like to see from this extension is a 1-click way to sign any message I'm writing, anywhere on the internet. Along with that would be the ability to verify that a keybase signature found in the wild belongs to a particular keybase user. Then I can initiate out-of-band discussions with the author of a comment on someone's blog, not just with a Reddit or Hacker News poster.

Having the keybase chat button appear next to posts on sites like Reddit, HN, etc. seems like a great step toward a "metaweb" platform as well. For example, I could let someone know about the typo in their post via keybase chat, rather than polluting the public comment stream.

Very excited.
The saying is "A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch"

By democracy I mean a system where basic human rights are protected and cannot be voted out. Would most Saudis, in a fair vote, allow for Catholic Churches to be open here? If the answer is no (and I think it is) then democracy is bad. Same for women rights, criticizing their faith, gay rights etc.
Probably?

Snowden leaks already show NSA has badbios-style firmware viruses targeting every manufacturer, every model, going back a decade. Imagine what they have today. Why not mass infect all hard drives at the factory? Targeting individuals or "thematic warrants" are still too clunk and doesn't scale.

All these folks who say "I'll out smart them, I'll encrypt my SSD and Fedex it" are "Not Even Wrong."

http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-35661.pdf
I played it on a 250$ (and years old) desktop when .kkreiger came out and it worked great.
Great question!

We give a little bit of detail here: https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs#frictionless-sharing

But the basic model is that when you share or chat with someone@twitter, that content is only encrypted to your devices. When that Twitter account posts a proof, and announces that proof on a Keybase account, Keybase's servers will notify your devices including a link to the tweet. Your device will independently verify that the cryptographic proof is validated by the keys of the Keybase account claiming it, after which it'll re-encrypt the keys to that data for the newly verified Keybase account.

This all happens seamlessly in the background.
If you're referring to where the key/cert is persisted, it's currently facilitated by Kubernetes' secrets and mounted into Envoy container

Disclaimer: I work on Istio
Are you sure the majority of senior engineers earns 200 - 300k ?
I don't get it. I just see their home page with just a picture and links to app stores. Tried Chrome and Safari.
Windows developed an extension that lets them do conflict resolution in the web. We have a server-side API that it calls into, but the extension isn't fundamentally different from using BeyondCompare or $YOUR_FAVORTE_MERGETOOL.
I'll take "terrible fucking ideas" for 1000, Alex. Seriously, this is beyond stupid-you can't just completely upend the format of a show to "fit the mobile experience better". People will do that on their own, and all you'll do is ruin it for everyone else.
We are using Biboumi as our official IRC gateway for movim.eu (at irc.movim.eu) for a couple of years now :) Never had any trouble with it. It's a wonderful piece of software that I recommend to everyone!
The press release in question:

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-rele...
This! This would give us an idea of "how much stronger?" rather than just answering the question "is it stronger?"
The impressions you get from Facebook, or Twitter, or even Hacker News are going to be shaped in large part by what you choose to focus on. If you expect to find outrage and envy, and focus on the things that confirm your expectation, you will probably come away outraged and envious. If you expect to find joyful news and humor, and focus on the things that confirm your very different expectation, you will probably come away happy and amused. You can guide this process further by who you choose to befriend, who you choose to mute or highlight, and even what you post yourself.

Social media lets you become connected. What people, what facts, or what feelings you connect to is largely up to you.
Broadly speaking this is true, but note that in some ways CVS and SVN are better at scaling than Git.

- They support checking out a subdirectory without downloading the rest of the repo, as well as omitting directories in a checkout. Indeed, in SVN, branches are just subdirectories, so almost all checkouts are of subdirectories. You can't really do this in Git; you can do sparse checkouts (i.e. omitting things when copying a working tree out of .git), but .git itself has to contain the entire repo, making them mostly useless.

- They don't require downloading the entire history of a repo, so the download size doesn't increase over time. Indeed, they don't support downloading history: svn log and co. are always requests to the server. Unfortunately, Git is the opposite, and only supports accessing previously downloaded history, with no option to offload to a server. Git does have the option to make shallow clones with a limited amount of (or no) history, and unlike sparse checkouts, shallow clones truly avoid downloading the stuff you don't want. But if you have a shallow clone, git log, git blame, etc. just stop at the earliest commit you have history for, making it hard to perform common development tasks.

I don't miss SVN, but there's a reason big companies still use gnarly old systems like Perforce, and not just because legacy: they're genuinely much better at scaling to huge repos (as well as large files). Maybe GVFS fixes this; I haven't looked at its architecture. But as a separate codebase bolted on to near-stock Git, I bet it's a hack; in particular, I bet it doesn't work well if you're offline. I suspect the notion of "maybe present locally, maybe on a server" needs to be baked into the data model and all the tools, rather than using a virtual file system to just pretend remote data is local.
that link doesnt work, this does https://www.upcall.com
Working hoverboard – FlyBoard Air [video]
To make sure they don't accidentally end up connected to such hits as juicero, Uber, theranos, uBeam, etc ?
Windows is also locked down so that Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc... cannot make arbitrary changes to it. If they could they would like break the update mechanism.

I have seen plenty of preinstalled crapware from all those companies that never gets updated.
TPP Comes Back from the Dead or Does It?
FYI for those curious, this link takes you to the "How do I delete my account page" at facebook.

I haven't used Facebook in around 5-7 years. One day 2-3 years ago my wife was fooling around with our media PC and accidentally logged me in (lastpass) when she wanted to check a video link. Broke my record!

More substantially, but not wanting to preach...I'm amazed as I visit customers, partners and coworkers around the country and see how much time/effort people (especially middle aged corporate people) spend on the Book.