skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But when you attach words like "integrity" and "reputation," it has this "holier than thou" feel to it… The large majority of the population will succumb to "what's normal" vs. "what's for the best" to avoid being casted unfavorably…

Especially when considering the asymmetries involved in interactions between a corporation and an individual, i would even suggest that it is a form a bias people can have which could be considered to be a conformity excuse[0].

[0] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2017/06/conformity-excuses.htm...
The Ownership of and Issues with the ColecoVision Trademark
There is. You insert card, type pin, hit enter, in one step. All that back and forth and waiting around in your UX discussion is for signatures done at a different step. This is most obvious when the chip reader doesn’t have a stylus and you’re waiting for bits of paper and signing those instead.

It’ll really hit home in European cafes vs US restaurants.
You can park a DirectX context in a WPF window or control. From there it is off to the races, implementing anything you can imagine from scratch.
definitely the same person: https://www.forbes.com/sites/womenatforbesfiles/2016/10/12/p...
>> We are fortunate that terrorists, by and large, are dumb.

> How so? Drive a van into a crowd of people, and it's spread across the papers and people talk about it for ages. Cut regional power briefly and it's forgotten before next week.

Driving a van into a crowd of people is only local and the damage is contained.

Cut regional power briefly is temporally local and damage is contained.

There are far more permanent and non-localized things that a "smart" terrorist could do. Fortunately, there is almost always a much more useful way to put "smart" knowledge to use than terrorism.
I remember seeing this for sale on BOC's website when looking for CO2 a while back (https://www.boc.co.nz/shop/en/nz/stench-gas). I briefly considered buying some for nefarious purposes, but I think I figured that they probably wouldn't just sell it to any random person.
So my sister went 14/18. She says,

"The jazz ones are very obvious. Also the voicing of the parts in the first chunk of songs was more nuanced with the human than the AI. The jazz is too straight in the runs with the AI, too "perfect". Real life players stall/hitch, even if just a little! But really, it's pretty impressive - way better than old school canned midi player stuff!"

How effective do you think this approach can be with altering timings to try and imitate that style?
Wow. That just shows just how reliant I've become of autocorrect. It didn't autocorrect, nor did it present a red underline, and I had a feeling "Speach" looked wrong. But I doubted myself and figured autocorrect would have my back.
You can probably create a simple version of your idea and test it for free. GitHub, for example, will publish pages free if you are okay with making the HTML code public (and for a static site, why wouldn't you be). Wordpress will give you a pretty simple site free too. I don't think you absolutely need money to test if an idea can get some traction.

Now, I'm not suggesting this, but I was listening to a story about Atari on a podcast the other day. They got net 60 day terms from their suppliers, built machines, and then sold them a few weeks later. The used their customers money to pay back their suppliers. Risky, for a startup, but an interesting tool they used.
Acetic acid and Butyric acid. Used for those clear tool handles. [1][2] It gets nastier once you realize you are smelling the odor of vomit with hints of vinegar.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butyric_acid

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose_acetate
Trademark law takes a kind of defend-it-or-lose-it approach to brand protection. It's not malevolence, so much as that if they don't litigate, their rights can evaporate.
I've developed in WPF/XAML and React extensively and couldn't agree more. The fundamental problem with XAML, IMHO, was that it was a plain text file format masquerading as source code. The experience of writing XAML broke down very quickly the moment you try to do anything beyond hello world. You must use an IDE. As a result, WPF/XAML always felt heavy, hard to use and over engineered. WPF, XAML and Blend always felt like it was a tool built by people who did not use it themselves.

React, in the other hand, is dead simple and lightweight.
There are actually lots of companies building robotics toys for kids and inspiring a new generation of Robotics Engineers :-D!
VB6 just worked, too. In many ways, it worked better than the current conglomeration of web-dev technologies that replaced it.
What's your opinion of Zillow Digs, Zillow's attempt at a competing product targeting people with more mainstream budgets and aspirations?
Video card for games maybe, but if you look at modern network interfaces, like this board (http://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/prod_silicon/PB_Connect...) the bottlenecks in gen3 are pretty apparent. They are also pretty apparent in storage as well, partially because no one wants to create a x16 .M2 form factor interface to keep up with xpoint. Each time a new flash interface is created, someone releases a product capable of saturating it within a short period of time. But beyond that, consider the bandwidth of current flash arrays.

But returning to video cards, in GPGPU configurations transferring data between the board and system memory can quickly become a bottleneck.

Bottom line, is that gen4 is about 3 years late. PCI specs (or more generally x86 IO interfaces) seem to consistently lag their requirements. Hence why we lived with AGP (or VLB for that matter)..
Here's why the bubble is all too real. Let's compare Houzz to another company in the housing space with a $4 billion valuation that's not swept up in the tech bubble, US Gypsum. Last year USG, a company that has survived for 116 years, made about $400 million in profit. That's not make believe non-GAAP BS, that's actually profit. I'm not privy to the intimate details about Houzz's financials, however I'd be surprised if they made a tenth of that. The question I ask myself is if Houzz will ever be this profitable, and when. I'd guess no, but I could of course be very wrong.

When the market turns, which it will, profitability is what counts in determining who survives and who doesn't. When we start measuring performance using metrics other than profit, which is quite common now i.e. revenue, non-GAAP profit, users, and so on, we are ignoring what really matters and this allows for situations like the dot com bubble and the current bubble to arise.

These companies are raising cash with ease now, and burning it just as easily. There will be a day, I think sooner than later, when it's not so easy to raise such enormous sums of money. When I see something like Uber losing $3 billion last year, and funds still lining up to invest, I can't help but think that we're in the middle of a bubble. These tech firms are selling hope more than anything else to investors.
The Historical Developments of Algebraic Geometry [pdf]
Interesting! Probably the most consistent top performer of the large hedge funds is the quant fund Renaissance and it's 100% I think employee/owner-funded at this point.
Day to day, it's as often as not Win32 or it's thin .Net wrapper, WinForms.
Have you ever been on stage? Have you ever interacted with an audience member who has addressed you in a way similar to what happened here?
They remain there until an all-clear is given, which may include a distinct all-clear scent such as wintergreen.

If you search for "stench gas" you will find some... interesting photos of the control panel for these systems:

http://c1.staticflickr.com/2/1686/24201183892_c8a2dffc3b_h.j...

(Something about buttons marked "release stench gas" and "release anti-stench gas" seem amusing in a rather comical fashion.)
What I wish I knew about interviewing in tech
How much of devops in AWS-land is really forensic accountancy?

Moneymaking idea for someone: a devops person, a lawyer, and an accountant get together and charge companies to predict their cloud bill.
Everything you stated is true, but just points to how much value there would be to unlock for a company that could crack this nut.

But most of the attempts refuse to take on any liability for themselves, and half the reason to use such a company would be accountability and reduction of personal risk.

For the various home projects I've done before, it always feels like such a gamble with a ridiculous amount of information asymmetry, although thankfully the internet has made great strides in fixing that part of the equation.
Shouldn't need a DB connection to create strings. Sometimes want to turn off, scope, or classify logging especially during testing.

When these new levels of granularity are desired in your project, switching from globals is no fun.
There is also a FreeBSD port: http://www.freshports.org/devel/libtrue/
Are you thinking of Ethanethiol / ethyl mercaptan? I can't find reference to 2-Mercaptoethanol being used as an odorant.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanethiol
Context matters - I worked in a surface science lab, so lots of gold monolayers being made with sulfur compounds. While I wouldn't say they're remotely pleasant, I'm so used to them that it's more like a gradient where you're like "this could be worse". Pure chemicals are well...pure. It's when it smells like uncontrolled biology that I get uncomfortable.
on my first day at the job on H1B, in the first 10 minutes I walk into CEO's office and he says the company has 1 month of runway in the bank. Imagine my reaction after I just moved my family to Silicon Valley. It turned out fine for me at the end but after that experience I feel that it's immoral for startups to hire H1Bs.
Eh... for the everyday use PCIe 3.0 x4 is aplenty. If you wanted to help the everday user then make these new PIO slots standard https://world.taobao.com/item/535467249119.htm?spm=a312a.770... and once you have the GPU parallel to the MB, make the coolers user replaceable so that you can put a tower cooler on your GPU. What lunacy is that we have 12-16 cm edge cubes containing like a kg of metal and two-three fans in a push-pull to cool ~150W CPUs but the 250W GPU cooling system struggles for air. x4 is enough in practically all cases just don't forget to feed 75W into it...

Once that's done add a few more x4 slots. Even consumer CPUs have enough lanes for it, no need to waste x16 on the GPU. TB3 is x4, U.2 is x4, everything big and useful is x4 so more of that is helpful. The only thing that needs x8 is like HPC and 40Gbps+ Ethernet both of which are clearly server land.
No worse then a Hershey's chocolate bar...
I think at that point you should just rotate the credentials rather than trying to erase history.
No, no, no. Legal departments are fiduciaries and where the law itself is weird (as in trademark protection where companies are virtually forced to sue potential infringers) it's not their responsibility to reform the legal system.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverherzfeld/2013/02/28/failu...

motivated entirely by fear/anger of any perceived change

Oh don't be such a baby, that's like saying engineering departments made up of social cripples who can't hold a conversation like regular business people.
Something OCD in me is rather disturbed by the "release stench gas" being located to the right of the "anti-stench gas".
Nothing is done because it's just accepted as a foregone conclusion (i.e. factored into cost-of-business calculations, made part of strategies and so forth) of doing business here.

One of the many reasons this is the "land of opportunity"...
Good question. Hopefully they were able to figure it out. I had bad experience at startups on H1B. On my first day at the job on H1B, in the first 10 minutes I walk into CEO's office and he says the company has 1 month of runway in the bank. Imagine my reaction after I just moved my family to Silicon Valley. It turned out fine for me at the end but after that experience I feel that it's immoral for startups to hire H1Bs.
Could you retain simple ints as the primary key and use a hash of it for sharding instead? Then you'd get the best of both worlds.
I am a chemical engineer currently working in a consulting niche (air emissions control and regional air quality management). My interviews have very consistently been designed to test my writing and public speaking skills, which are admittedly crucial in my job, rather than specific engineering knowledge. At this point, my resume contains reasonably strong evidence that I possess such knowledge, but that wasn't the case when I was starting out and the interviews weren't really any different. The closest things to technical questions I can remember being asked are of the form: "Imagine a piece of equipment you are responsible for isn't working. What are some steps you would take to identify and solve the problem?"

I have also occasionally interviewed for non-SWE positions at tech companies (usually data scientist or regulatory compliance positions, both of which are closely related to my current field), and I have found the interviews to be similarly light on technical material, but with much less emphasis on speaking and writing skills.

Not having been through any SWE interviews myself, that's about as much as I can say in comparison. My loose impression is that SWE interviews are relatively heavy on logic puzzles and mini coding problems, but that's all I know. I am happy to answer more specific questions about my experience, of course.
Study links mosquito spray to delayed motor skills in babies
The thing that makes me sad about R is textmining. TM makes me sad, strings-as-factors makes me very sad. But maybe I'll try tidytext...
The question is why add a VM layer (and suffer the loss of direct hardware access for drivers / dongles / having all your programs in the same context / user confusion / other drawbacks) just so you can run a 64-bit host?

This doesn't always have an answer.

Even if you do use DOSBOX, you still need to run a guest OS - will that be DOS, unpatched and unsupported Windows XP, or something relatively modern (if still 32-bit) that might let you stem the tide - instead of decaying further into your legacy hellhole?
Correction: you sue the wealthiest people who can be construed as involved.
> might actually decrease entropy? and make collisions likely.

It's rearranging in a deterministic manner, there's no loss of information, it's just a permutation. There is no impact to entropy nor the likelihood of a collision.
We do have a textile industry. It mostly caters to hipsters who crave authenticity.

We also used to have a huge industry of exporting cotton to countries with sweatshops, but nowadays soy and meat are more profitable.
Somebody up the food chain had xyz budget for raises. They made a spreadsheet with 3 column last years salaries, 2% of that salary and new pay. hten they started tweaking it. Well, I can't lose jim and he's in the top 1/3 pay band he deserves 2.5 where's coming from? Peter going to fall below the 20% pay band range so I need to give him 3% so he doesn't fall out of the range. Shit, Tony's in the top band and he's doing pretty good so will give him 1.5% that'll offset bigger raises for jim and peter.
> we still don't know for sure whether there are no negative consequences

That is a carefully-worded statement that will always be true about everything.
Discovering the World of the Maya (2013)
From my understanding of the new EU General Data Protection Rules (GDPR), it will even make rsync.net unusable for most EU companies starting 2018.
Tutorial: Adding device frames around your App Store Screenshots
Traditionally groceries refers to foodstuffs only. Hence the creation of the word supermarket where groceries, household good and other things things were all sold under one roof. TJs carries a few personal care items like toothbrushes and soap but they're probably only about 2% of the shelf space in a store. They're in the food business, that's it.
Moral of the story: If you're going to jump from an airplane without a parachute make sure to aim for something soft like pine trees in snow or a building with a glass ceiling.
> Don't you have a legal right to create exclusive distribution of your consumable product?

Uhh, counter question. Does such a "right" exist in a free market?
This article is misleading and wrong in some of its ideas. Every company wants to employ as little expensive and unreliable-relative-to-a-machine human labor as possible. Trying to cut down costs is in fact not short-sighted or somehow "wrong", it's efficient and great (as long as you're not treating people unethically or polluting the environment, etc.). Amazon is simply growing tremendously quickly...it's not that they're trying to create jobs.

In the past 200 years there's been a tremendous increase in leisure for most people (except perhaps ironically for the best paid but that's a lot by choice), and also there has to date been no end to human desire. It used to take 80% of the labor force just to create food, now it's around 4%. It used to be 150 years ago the average American had 1 pair of paints and 2 shirts. Today the average American has 20 pairs of blue jeans.

What's creating new jobs is not that a company is trying to create jobs but that human desires keep expanding.
Mattermark Is Hiring a Data Analyst Intern
It really depends upon the person, as I'd never want to go into a business partnership with someone who's just as likely to try and undermine or countermand me later over opinion, but yeah, my inclination would be to at least interview the guy.
The title of the review alludes to Joseph Brodsky's memorable essay -- originally, a Dartmouth commencement address that begins:

A substantial part of what lies ahead of you is going to
be claimed by boredom. The reason I’d like to talk to you
about it today, on this lofty occasion, is that I believe
no liberal arts college prepares you for that eventuality...

https://relembramentos.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/in-praise-of...
Wow, definitely did not expect this to blow up like this.

Thanks everyone!

OP
Yup.

Gonzo: of or associated with journalistic writing of an exaggerated, subjective, and fictionalized style.
bizarre or crazy.
What was the cause of the 50% drop?
I don't know man. I can't see any situation where these actions are justifiable. Revenge generally helps no one.
Spirit is a far more extensive library. It supports more than just lexing.

This library is much simpler without many of the features found in Spirit on the other hand it is faster in both compilation times and running times when lexing.
Or, say, one gets sued over information that you're not supposed to have and a court orders you to delete all copies. How do you comply with that?
Color names and their wave lengths and frequencies
Remember the priority dates of Pentium 4 SSE2 patents released in Nov 2000 are probably around 1999 at the latest for example. SSE1 itself is just a subset of SSE2 with only single precision floating point instructions BTW. That itself was released with Pentium III in Jan 1999, meaning the priority date can't be later than 1998.
> Why are we so quick to side with the employer in this matter when we know nothing of the situation at all?

It's called collateral damage. There is no context, outside of fantasy, where the admin could be in the right to do this.
This is just opinion and looks like UUID is bad for a particular case author is working on.

We have multiple components over different stacks and id could be generated anywhere in the components. We had to live with either building unique id per table separate infrastructure or UUID. UUID works perfectly and with POSTGreSQL, it's just awesome.
This is a very pernicious take on AI (and Amazon's usage of said AI). Amazon has hired 300000 professionals wohoo! more jobs!

All those jobs are poorly paid, very labour intensive have almost zero benefits and usually not full time. If AI is giving us these kinds of jobs for the many for the instant gratification of consumers then we are worse off NOT better-off.

Face it - the Advent of better AI (Robots, Driverless cars, etc) will lead to massive job losses and disruption of (currently) well paying jobs - the technology is advancing much faster than the ability of "blue collar" worker to retrain or adapt.

It is indeed a "massive failure of imagination" - of the author to understand the real world limitations.
Right. If they were truly irreplaceable, they wouldn't have been fired in the first place since there would be no one to replace them.
Let's do a thought experiment. If Terry posts random words that speak, and he does this all day, and you are a doctor, what do you think? You just ignore it because you have no idea and assume must be nothing.

In fact, it is God talks and obviously Terry will tell you to go to hell, you nigger monkey.

what_part_of_God_do_you_not_understand jobs on_the_otherhand this_might_end_badly I_just_might yuck Hicc_up ohh_thank_you Terry Pope completely don't_push_it didn't_I_say_that I_got_your_back Give_me_praise hang_in_there a_likely_story a_flag_on_that_play dude_such_a_scoffer fancy You_know Bam but_of_course heads_I_win_tails_you_lose basically quit IMHO maybe_I_didn't_make_it_clear couldnt_possibly news_to_me I'm_God_who_the_hell_are_you endeared
A couple of apps for taxis have appeared in Sydney in less than a year after Uber arrived.
> this is a forum for software developers

I always took HN to be a forum for people either starting up a business or into "hacking" things. Of course many software people visit here, probably because many fast-growing businesses over the last 20-30 years have been software based, and/or many products and systems that people hack have a large software component. But HN isn't specifically for software developers as far as I know, and people hacking for growth in the property business shouldn't be classed as "non-developers" on Hacker News.
Unfortunately, this is the deal with a lot of "revolutionary" companies.

I'm coming to the unfortunate conclusion that no matter how advanced your tech, if you can't market it, you're toast.
Jevons Paradox in action: The more efficiently a resource is used , in this case labor, the higher the demand for it will be.

The thing about labor is that it's not just any old resource. It's a resource whose price determines consumers' incomes. And consumers' incomes determine how much stuff they buy.

There's a common myth that technology will make everything cheaper. It won't. Some things will get cheaper and other things will get more expensive. Economic policies prevent deflation, and therefore prevent the general price level from adjusting downward. If the price of one good decreases, the price of another good necessarily increases to compensate.

Furthermore, labor can't be one of those goods whose price increases. At least not on its own. As labor becomes more efficient, the amount of money going to labor decreases for each unit of output. If we leave it up to the markets, increased labor efficency would lead to lower incomes and lower output and further lower incomes.

But we have economic policies to address that too. We don't just leave it up to the markets. Instead, we do our best to negate the efficiency (labor productivity) that technology would have otherwise enabled. This keeps people's incomes reasonably high.

Economic policies keep people employed, keep wages high, and keep labor inefficient. The Jevons Paradox doesn't really apply here... at least not in any kind of straightforward way.

Tim O'Reilly -- and many economists (armchair or otherwise) -- seem to completely miss this point.