skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admire triplebyte's effort and the content they produce. Their narrative is really data-driven common sense: some engineers fit to some companies but not to others. Especially enjoyed: http://blog.triplebyte.com/who-y-combinator-companies-want

I am a programmer and I run http://www.coderfit.com, a tiny recruiting agency in Zurich / Switzerland (reach out to me via e-mail address in my HN-handle if you look for a tech job in Zurich). Recruiting is really, really hard and I am happy to see platforms like http://interviewing.io and http://triplebyte popping up that give programmers without classic CS background a chance.
Electric motors, unlike internal combustion engines, produce very high torque at low/zero RPMs, and therefore can accelerate very quickly. Electrical engineers have known this literally since the 19th Century. Electric motors in industrial applications routinely do things many times more demanding than anything that will ever be required in a car, and have been doing so since the time of Nikola Tesla.
Everything in #3 in that link is silly. In now way can the blockchain be used to prevent music piracy.
Python for Finance, Part 2: Intro to Quantitative Trading Strategies
Turning Off GitHub Issues (2016)
If you use radix sort the sorted array approach becomes O(N). And since the actual order is irrelevant, radix sort will work for any fixed size data structure (or even objects of varying size if you just sort and split the array according to size first).

And if you're worried that for objects of size k, radix sort runs in O(n k), rather than O(n), I'd like to point out that n*k = N is simply the size in memory, so it is in fact still linear in the size of the input, so it truly is O(N).

For string-like objects using a radix tree might be better, although the result is pretty similar.
Technically, Edison invented the vacuum tube - he just didn't completely understand it or its usefulness entirely.

That's why what was later termed "thermionic emission":

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

...is also known as the "Edison Effect" (though the effect was discovered by others much earlier, and re-discovered over time - Edison being just one in the chain).

His whole purpose was in trying to find out why his light bulbs filaments broke and burned out, and why there was darkening near the positive terminal of the bulb.

I won't go further with this, but I do often wonder if Tesla, while he worked with Edison, had any contact with this part of Edison's operations? In everything I've read on both inventors, it would seem like the answer is "no"; Tesla started working for Edison in June of 1884, and Edison took out a patent on the effect in 1883, and exhibited it in 1884.

The timeline is close, but for some reason Tesla either didn't have contact with the device, or dismissed it - as far as I can tell, though, it was likely the former, because I've never read anything from him where he discussed it.

Which is a pity. Had they not had the "breakup" of the century (which resulted in an insane rivalry ala "War of the Currents") - I am certain that Tesla would have both seen and understood the usefulness of the work, and would have been able to scientifically describe its workings most likely. Electronic technology would have been advanced by almost 30 years or so (whether or not that would have been a good thing we cannot know).

EDIT: years
As I've heard it defined, the "viable" part basically means that you could tell someone with a straight face that this product would be useful to them. It doesn't need to have wide-market appeal, since the point is to start as small as possible and use early feedback to guide the development of the full product.
Well, and my GUI editors don't respond to single-letter commands. It would violate my expectations of their UIs if they did. Similarly, in vim, I expect ctrl+q to send an XON signal to my terminal emulator...not to quit my editor.

They're different programs with different UI conventions. I don't expect them to act the same. And I especially don't expect vim to change, after having 25 years of its own precedent and an additional 16 through vi.
One problem I have with these list is, as you say, they make it seem as if there is a huge problem with people being harassed. I am not convinced that is true, because the context is missing. Like how many people work for Google, how many incidents are there per month, and how many of these incidents even warrant a complaint?

There is already a debate about the "princess" incident. Eventually somebody will make statistics about that list, and the "princess" incident will be counted as a harassment incident along the lines of grabbing somebodies ass or blackmailing them for sex over losing their job. That seems very misleading.

Also, I'd argue the existence of such a list is already harassment of a lot of people. If now you have to watch your back for every comment, it doesn't make for a very pleasant work day.

I can not judge if "princess" was harassment or not, because we lack context - and so do the readers of the list. It could be friends who habitually edge each other on, like calling a vegetarian "princess" to probe their determination. Or it could be said with disdain, Redneck style (anybody who doesn't eat meat can't amount to much). We don't know. But everybody now has to worry about their words being taken out of context and glued to the wall.
"who owns england?" and then show Scotland too. how typical.
quit is not a piece of repl functionality, it is a python function that will exit the repl when called, with a string representation that gives that message. If I set quit = 1, or if I define my own quit() function, I don't want to have to be continually fighting the repl in order to inspect its value.
BART (subway) police accused of stealing user data and track cellphone users
Some friends have really enjoyed https://jetprogramusa.org/, you pretty much just need a college degree.

I'm not sure in general, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14243572 from the last Who's Hiring thread stood out because they don't require language ability.
Compared to the US, I think there might be a shortage of truly affluent individuals. Are there angel investors in Norway, that can give a new startup a chance?
This is the value behind MAYA "Most Advanced Yet Acceptable" pioneered by Raymond Loewy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Loewy
It's worth pointing out that there are aircraft mounted LiDAR systems that already operate at 1550nm, such as [0]. Another company has an interesting paper about which wavelength is best for their activities[1].

http://www.teledyneoptech.com/index.php/product/titan/

[1] (PDF!) http://www.riegl.com/uploads/tx_pxpriegldownloads/Paper_ILMF...
Who cares about bacterial content? I care about how I smell.
I'm in two minds about it. Good that it's possible, bad that it happened like this.
I don't think they own part of Mazda anymore, for the past couple of years or so.
If hurts people with money, something will change.
I'm mostly a python dev. But yes deployment is such a pain.
The current Crypto-currencies (why not just say bitcoin!) benefit early adopters, people in unstable economies, speculators and criminals. I suspect the biggest by far at the moment is Speculators.

I dont see any reason for the average Joe to buy them and like anything with speculation involved dont put all your savings into it unless your happy to get burnt.
The main appeal of high-end raw denim is not its utility or technical performance. In fact, denimheads cherish flaws in their jeans. For example, fabric with yarn unevenness and imperfections is prized as "slubby", and the objectively weak chain-stitched hem is highly sought after. These flaws add character and uniqueness.

What is exciting about raw denim is that it develops highly personal wear patterns that reflect your life over a long period of time. Picture a beat-up pickup truck, or a pair of boots. You've had it for years, taken it everywhere, it's full of stories. That's the idea.
I strongly agree with you on this being one of the most impactful technologies the world has ever seen. In fact, it may be the only thing that prevents the destruction of our species from our own selfish actions. Humans are proving to not be sustainable, precisely because we have been designed altogether too well by natural selection to be selfish and guided fundamentally to maximize our inclusive fitness. Even displays of incredible human altruism are ultimately forms of very clever genetic selfishness. Combine these facts with our current state of technology, and this is a perilous situation that no amount of cultural evolution is going to resolve.

Intelligence and trustworthiness are not what you're looking for. Obviously we would love to engineer humans to be healthier, smarter, etc, but these do little to enhance our long-term survivability in the face of human on human and human on environment domination that we see today.

What we are most in need of is to engineer a more compassionate human than exists now, by modifying key genes for species-typical behavior. All humans have a tremendous and largely unconscious ability to tune out highly-destructive socioecological acts. We might expect these problematic genes to occur with little variation across all human populations.
Any other examples you can link to stories on? I love this sort of thing too. The best ones are instances where there is a logical and sometimes very smart reasons behind things that don't make any sense on the surface until the outcome is revealed at the end. I think that's why I'm hooked on the show Billions.
Their value isn't in the driver business, because eventually they'll just have to pay for the marginal cost of damage to the car. If they can optimize pricing between locations better than others, they'll win in the driverless world. (This drives the value, not the spread between what they pay and collect)
UK threat level raised to highest level
No, I had not. I'll certainly take look.

http://moi3d.com/
I felt that way as a kid (wait, can I please just wear my "dress clothes" all the time? These jeans suck!) through my early 20s, but I'm back on jeans now and they're not uncomfortable. Might be a body shape thing (that certainly changed—I got much skinnier) or maybe a body type/brand mismatch; I know I had the cheapest thing readily available as a kid—usually Lee or Wrangler—and now I wear mid-range ordinary Levis, not their cheaper department-store targeted sub-labels.
It's got more proof than the fabled 'Trump-Russia' connection.
And Wales; it seems to show data across Great Britain
Come and see us in Europe, it's nice here !
Τελικός Γιουρόπα Λιγκ Άγιαξ – Μάντσεστερ Γιουνάϊτεντ
You're going to build an array of 2^64 ints?
I wonder how much of the drivetrain technology in the Bolt is owned by LG.

If most of it is stuff that can be licensed to automakers other than GM, then GM doesn't have much of a lead.
Wow you totally told me bro!
The term MVP is from the context of a go-to-market strategy (i.e. for a startup). It's not a reflection on whether a tool performs its purpose.
This is a quiz about python gotchas.
This reminds me of the very cool research of Chris Harrison, a professor at Carnegie Mellon. Lots of interesting work thinking about different ways to interact with computers. http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Research/Welcome
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IANAL and I don't have an answer to this, but I would be deeply alarmed if this were the case. I can understand them making the case that anything on your personal is searchable (though I disagree that this should be allowed).

By asking you to sign in and sync, they're not just requesting access to information on your person -- that's an enormous expansion of their search powers.
Just a little anecdote, but my experience mirrors OP's.

I also use FB for groups related to computing. It's not DL groups for me, but something else in the computosphere that concerns me but the aspect is similar. I think a lot of people on this site might display behavior similar to OP's.

After all, facebook is but a tool, it's up to you how you wield it.

I'm curious if p1esk sees these things as really bad or actually normal or acceptable.
one of react's differentiating qualities is that it can render the entire page on the back-end, so there's no reason for the page to fail if the user does not run javascript.
That would have been really nice 9 years ago when I was trying to assemble a linux based DAW. I might check it out one of these days.
Oh no! A joke!!! Kill him!!!!
Keep a sticky note next to your desk and, while you're learning, make a mark every time the answer to "Why does it do that?" or "How do I do this?" has a seemingly random or counterintuitive answer.

In a year, that's the tally of how terrible or great a language is.

Bad languages don't just make bad choices, they make bad choices and then make different choices for other, similar questions that should be related.
A Translation of Genesis I using word2vec
As little as possible. And, I consider every comment to be an implied TODO: Simplify This. Caveat: I work alone, with no external deadlines, and my boss (me) lets me refactor as much as I want.
If "smart person" is a proxy for "scientists and engineers", the answer seems obvious; it's not included in their education.

Not in primary school, not in secondary school, not in their major, and not in graduate school.

If people truly believed in the importance of "smart people" learning about philosophy, they would put more effort into making sure they were actually taught some at some point.
All of this is fantastic if you are a deep learning Jedi Master. But there's a very small supply of those sorts.

I really worry about all these reduced floating-point representations when they are made use of by people who mostly understand deep learning through tinkering with existing tensorflow tutorials.

FP32 seems like a relative sweet spot with sufficient dynamic range to let most amateurs avoid getting trapped in the weeds. I could probably be persuaded to believe that FP24 is sufficient as well.

But I suspect that once you get down to 16 bits or so you have to do all sorts of stochastic rounding / dithering that is beyond the skill set of most data scientists. And that's because I suspect many of them don't really get dynamic range.

Which then leads me to believe that what we really need here is the equivalent of R for machine learning.
>you could tell someone with a straight face that this product would be useful to them

The title of the article we're reading is literally "no one cared."
better according to who?

If you retreat when pushed, they'll just keep pushing. The issue here isn't whether you offend someone, it's who should be sided with when it goes to HR.
There would be no backlash unless the person was well-known, all they would have to do is show an unflattering picture of the victim and accuse them of 'possessing hacking tools' and 'hiding information from law enforcement.' Both would be true, the latter being actually true and the former applying to anyone using a terminal with black background and green text.
The 'p' word always seems to come out, as a kind of insult or accusation, I assume since you used it with "reek" (implication of negativity) this is the case here?

Yes, in fact anyone living in the west is privileged. Since we are talking in the context of software engineers, we're probably better off than most. Who are you talking about?

> get a paycheck, do their job, and not be discriminated

What "discrimination"? Being called a princess? or being shamed/fired for calling someone a princess?

It doesn't quite fit that someone "just" wants to collect their paycheck, yet rocks the boat on such a minor issue.

> inclusive and professional behavior

Are just words, without substance. Are tattoos unprofessional? or would discriminating against people with them not be inclusive?
cut!
There are two separate issues that need to be distinguished:

1. Physical keyboard layout (how keys are placed). There are two primary standards: ANSI (mostly US) and ISO (most of Europe). The most notable difference is the shape of the Enter key (L-shaped on an ISO keyboard and straight on an ANSI one). ISO keyboards also have one extra key and a shorter left Shift to make space for it.

2. Logical keyboard layout (how key presses are interpreted). This is what is printed on key caps, but it doesn't have any relation to the actual scan codes being sent. Many languages use their own accented characters (e.g. ąęćłóńżź for Polish) and historical preferences (e.g. QWERTY/QWERTZ/AZERTY), but this is implemented in software.

Logical layout can be easily configured in the operating system, and for touch typists it doesn't really matter what is printed on the keys, but differences in physical layout can take some time to get used to.

PS. I'm Polish, I live in the UK, and I type on a US mechanical keyboard with ANSI layout :)

https://deskthority.net/wiki/ANSI_vs_ISO
Great tips.

UPS implemented a system where they try to minimize the number of left turns, which apparently had impressive savings in terms of fuel cost and time. I wouldn't be surprised if left hand turns are also the most dangerous.
Do you love your cubicle, worker 000843874?
I wouldn't expect a bonus on vacation either.

It depends on what the rating is used for.
The person who asked the question I was responding to:

> Do you never sweat? Are the jeans antimicrobial or something?

apparently cares.

I also am in the smell + "does it look bad" camp in terms of "will I wear it."
Interesting, counterintuitive at first, and well explained! Thanks for sharing.
I believe after the third repair, they'll replace the entire machine with a new model.
Skater is a new Python library for model agnostic interpretation
Learning to appreciate the results of medical grade studies does not translate to blindly accepting the results of any result some scientist claims.

I was merely pointing out the persuasive power of placebo affect which has resulted in a billion dollar 'holistic' industry to treat medical conditions and my personal experience growing up with someone who believes that non-sense. Which gave me a strong bias towards scientific results over 'natural' ones.
Judging by the size of the captions, Sealand is a more prominent place than Colchester!

Okay that may not be remarkable if you're not from East Anglia.
FWIW mine need a wash after ~4-6 wearings or they smell. I haven't tried the vodka-spritzing trick I've read about, though, which may let them go longer.

How they're stored probably affects it some. I have better results hanging them up rather than letting them sit on the floor, even if I'm just going to put them back on the next morning.
Can you provide some more precise examples of the things this tech would prevent, and how it would prevent them? From an outsider's perspective, it seems like google or whomever could always add an extra layer of junk to any underlying technology to bring it back exactly to where we are now, but just less efficiently.
and find that offensive?!
Unique ownership is proved by signing with a unique digital signature, long possible. You must be thinking of something else entirely.
Ethereum is going to dominate this.
The map also displays some data for Wales and Scotland, where landowners' data includes this; our project is focused on England.

That's explained pretty early on in the article.
I don't think it will be hard for them to introduce voice commands to it with the google home. I understand not wanting to spend more money on another device but this is their whiteboard, then google home is their voice command module.
> n encrypted NFC or Bluetooth bracelet

Should be significantly more secure than Mifare though. Ideally something like a contactless OpenGPG card or similar.

Recently I searched for passive NFC ICs that'd be suitable for implementing that, but came up empty. Usecase was exactly that: A NFC device located at about the wrist. My laptop has a NFC reader at just the right place of the handrest to read it. And I'd probably transplant a NFC reader into my desktop computer's keyboard for the same purpose.

But first I'd need that NFC thingy.
The solution to this problem is to not visit US.
Github plays Github
What if someone is allergic to your food. What if there's a virus that makes everyone allergic to a specific food. The value isn't inherent.
The repl's basically supposed to help you write a program by matching the behavior of Python itself. What if I've got a variable called "quit" and I want to check its value?

The repl treats it specially because "quit", taken out of the context of the repl, makes sense as something to type in when trying to quit an unfamiliar program, not because actual Python programmers are likely to type it often.
> While drivers’ pay is determined according to the time and distance they travel, Uber has begun to experiment with how it calculates the price for riders.

I don't get this. How can you "experiment" with price calculations?
How Raygun increased throughput by 2,000% with .NET Core (over Node.js)
Isn't it established that they'll ask for social media credentials which sync old data automatically?
It was - for people that cared about implementation details. Look for articles about so called Direct Boot.
>"Sensible policy" would acknowledge that prison usually makes people's actual behavioral problems worse.

Indeed.

Prison is not the only form of punishment, and indeed it is not the most effective (in a large, if not overwhelming, majority of cases).

I think if you stopped and caught your breath, you'd realize we're mostly in agreement.
I would say this is more like a local git repository than what you said. When you add passwords to a vault, then it gets saved to your local copy and then synced to the server. When changes are made elsewhere, it downloads the changes and syncs your local repository.

Now "travel mode" simply removes the local git repository. The data still exists in the cloud, but you have to actively go out and log in to their service to retrieve it. Are you "hiding something" because you deleted a local copy of something from your device? There isn't something on your device that is somehow hidden. It's not there.
Meet the new Surface Pro
It's amazing how disparate the experience is in Europe. The first time I flew to CDG a year ago I honestly thought I somehow skipped customs accidentally. Heathrow, on the other hand, feels like a dystopian experience straight out of Minority Report. 20 questions and having your photo taken at every turn for simply connecting through the UK.
Not if its true. We don't know if it is or not, unless you know this person in real life.
Blockchain, simplified
> Biometry is fundamentally broken.

"fingerprints are usernames, not passwords" is the standard advice I've read.
A 3 Month Holiday wouldn't improve my programming skill but I am sure as hell it will make me a better programmer
The point is that some services can start before the user data decrypts - for example an alarm clock. The apps can opt in too and get separate store encrypted with device key ( and not user key) before the user unlocks the data partition.
Centrism Takes on the Extremes
JavaScript – What is the 'typeof' a null
Bitcoin has inherent utility as a store of value that cannot be frozen at the whim of a government agent or a banker.
The article isn't concerned with estimates, but if you have large amounts of data, approximate numbers may be sufficient. I am a fan of HyperLogLog. It can be used as an online algorithm, so you don't have to keep all values memory.

It could be useful if you want to do something like estimate the number of unique links posted to twitter in week. (if you could get that data)

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