skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but it is much better at preserving closeness than the alternative he mentioned (lexicographical sort).
Yeah but a negligible one.

As a long time Yahoo mail user, I was very disappointed with Yahoo under Mayer. Firstly they did a terrible job with the Yahoo mail web client; it became slow and clunky and inherited the worst parts of Gmail and none of the good parts. Secondly my account was hacked and to this day my old contacts still receive spoof emails from "me" (though not actually my email address) about weight loss supplements.

I am ashamed to tell people my email address. I started moving to Gmail.
Or just ask them all to implement decentralized SecureLogin.
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When evaluating a developer, do you care more about whether they're a good fit for the job, or whether they spent more time than necessary applying for your job?

I mean, how much time did you spend approaching each developer individually? Since you used an ad, I'm guessing zero. I'm not saying you should have tailored your ad to each person, but why do you care if they burn time for you, rather than evaluate them on what they can do for the company?
Are you insinuating that they can't do both? They're certainly working on the things that you're asking for. Maybe not at the pace and direction that you personally want but they're not stagnating, either. They've already said they'll have a new Mac Pro out next year. They've introduced a new iMac Pro. They're investing heavily into AR/VR.

They're big enough to do a lot of different things. It's like asking Microsoft to focus on Windows and Surface instead of putting in effort into their Hololens. Again, why can't they do both?
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The title of this article isn't accurate. Personally I think it's just meant to scare people.

Money can't be "stolen" from your Uber account.

Someone can find out your password to your Uber account the same way they could get your password for any website. Then they log in as you, and take trips using your account. Your card would then be charged for the trips.

It's OP's fault that someone found out their password. Uber was nice and refunded them for the trips.
I pretty much disregard every application that doesn't have at least a basic note explaining why you want this particular job. Maybe getting a job is a numbers game, but I don't agree that getting a good job is.
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Ideally you'd provide a PDF as the most convenient format, but have a latex or similar root file that could be processed into other formats, like maybe .mobi or .epub.
Also, exposing ONLY views and stored procedures is the recommended way.
Yep. Geohash is just a fancy name for a z-curve.
being burgled in the middle of the night or when they don't expect you to be home is certainly one scenario. But some people break into your house to hurt you. There is no magic insurance policy that can un-rape my wife. So if some mother fucker comes in my house in the middle of the night, I'm not going to confront him, but you can bet your ass he's going to get a face full of lead the moment he heads up my stairs.

As far as the "age of the country"... I'm calling BS. Unless your country was formed within the last generation, the matter is irrelevant how long people have been living in a certain territory. And if you want to get technical, the US Constitution is the oldest, surviving charter of government in existence. I resent the fact that Europeans have the gall to suggest that we're the immature ones when it comes to government.
Is VimFX going to continue to work when Pentadactyl breaks?
>should be the reader's choice, not the writer's

Sometimes. There are a lot more design options available if the creator of the content maintains control over layout, fonts, etc. Sometimes this doesn't matter--if it's a block of text for example. Fairly simple layouts also render pretty well on the web.

Different content works better or worse with different approaches. One isn't intrinsically superior.
But the stock price could have fallen. She should be credited with negotiating the deal and selling the company for 4.5B, and when she resigns the market cap isn't going to drop. She's not responsible for the market cap at all.
With ES6 and Typescript having momentum behind them, what is the point of the Dart project?
IMO it's because she was intentionally not a generic CEO. The high profile approach to publicity was part of her plan, and brand, to turn around Yahoo. It just failed.
As someone diagnosed with RSI, I'm looking for ways to type and use my track pad slower and less of the time. I find that other than text chatting with my co workers, nothing really depends on me being able to type fast. I don't know what kind of programming work the author does, but I find I have to type/track pad very little even for large refactorings and slowing down from about 80wpm typing to probably half that hasn't really affected my working speed. I'd say I'm at least half to a quarter as slow both typing and tracking (used to use a trackball which was faster than any track pad or mouse) and it's affected my overall speed less than 10%. There are many ways to automate and avoid a lot of repetitive actions in programming which also help quite a bit.
I was really hoping that it's about an app that can generate a cv for itself and auto-applies for jobs, hoping to get itself hired.

Are we not at that point yet?
next step is playing tricks with memory mapping so that the buffer is large in virtual memory but only takes a single page in physical memory, fitting in L1 (at least on the read side).
i assume you meant to say "you can't chargeback..." since you're pointing out there are time limits.

in my experience the time limits are related to delivery of the service. for instance, you pay with credit card for a service happening 9 months in the future. if the appointed day arrives, and the service is not performed, there won't be a problem getting a charge back even though the actual charge was 9 months old.
Are you using arrow functions? I find that using es2015 arrow functions for class methods takes care of most of the problems around this and react.

The only annoyance is dealing with binding event handlers to items/components in a list. Generally you need to abstract the list item into it's own component and do the event handler binding there.

I don't use .bind() anywhere in my react code.
And in the Midwest.
There's nothing to melt down, there is no (public) website there. I can barely get a conversation started on this topic without HN's cynicism, as you demonstrate.

But as evidenced by this and other articles, as everyone is getting fed up with the current state of data, people are coming around to the idea.
There are two design factors that most people overlook:

Most people know you can use Z/C-curve encodings to dynamically content address point data. There is a (very useful) generalization to hyper-rectangle types, perfect for content-addressing non-point geometries etc, but those types can't be meaningfully sequentialized at all in big systems. Most non-trivial spatial analytics involve non-point geometries, so being able to sequentialize points has limited utility.

Second, the computational cost of sorting along the curve, assuming you are using only points, is prohibitively high for negligible benefit. Modern storage engines use small shards, which are adaptively re-sharded as needed, and medium-sized pages. For insert, the content-addressing mechanic gets you to a single page; it would be significantly more expensive if you were sorting along the curve. For query, the typical selectivity on a shard is so high due to small adaptive shards, that you are better off treating it as an unsorted vector anyway. In short, much slower inserts and few (if any) query benefits.

As an optimization, it tends to only be applicable in cases where the architecture is significantly suboptimal anyway e.g. the use of gigantic shards. You'd get more benefit by fixing the architecture than trying to optimize poor architecture if at all possible.
It does, and has since its original discovery. Though the effect is not as pronounced as its popular conception would have you believe. The poor performers overrated their performance, but did not rate it higher than the high performers did. It is more like the grandparent observed that everyone tends to think of themselves as close to average.
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For me it's not the mouse itself as much as it is moving my hands back and forth from the keyboard to the mouse. I've had RSI symptoms from that. Now I use a ThinkPad keyboard with a trackpoint and no separate mouse.
I agree about the polarizing part. I think she is paid pretty similar to most CEOs, but she seems to get much more hate because she stands out.

This page does have more complementary comments than normal, I think startup world likes a clean exit, but maybe its just people have given up moaning about her and are over it.
Why should you need to trust a third party (payment company) of a third party (Gemini) with the plaintext password to my bank account ? Even if you trust them to not store the password long term, in the interim you are giving them access to your entire financial history. That's a pretty big privacy issue in itself.
This might be off, but have previously interpreted the term 10x engineer as someone who is a 10x multiplier to the team and brings the collective level of the group up by ~10x. To me, that especially doesn't correlate with cranking out 10x more code or working 10x more hours.
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If the speed of yes is bounded by memory speed, doing anything useful will almost certainly consume that data at a far lower rate. Putting it on a disk, pushing it over a network, etc. will almost always be slower than yes is able to generate data.
I would love to chat with you about your experience. This pain during the slow formation process in Germany is exactly what we are trying to solve. You can reach me via ck at firma.de.
I'm not surprised, Chargebacks are inordinately expensive for the company. The initial cost is usually over $25 regardless of the size of the charge. [1] I can go up from there. If they fight it, which they will likely loose because CC companies stick behind card holders, it will cost more.

To ensure they don't get more chargebacks, they have little choice but to block your account. Most companies will do whatever they can to avoid a chargeback. It's better to start there if you want to maintain a relationship.

[1] https://chargeback.com/chargeback-fees-processor-library/
I feel this way and it's mostly due to apple's return policy. Because it is near impossible to return an app I generally look towards free apps with an IAP to unlock everything/remove ads. If apple had a refund policy similar to steam with a 2h return window I'd be much more willing to pay upfront.
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Actually, the standardization of most symbols from mathematics and logics that we use today happened in the 20th and late 19th centuries. In my opinion, with UTF-8 one can represent most formulas in a very readable way, and also many diagrams. But if more expressive power is required, plain text TeX is available.
If someone can't be bothered to spend 10 minutes writing a cover letter for a job they want then I would consider them unqualified. I don't want to work with somebody who refuses to put in a bit of effort to get what they want.

I spend at least a few hours writing job posts. Why shouldn't I expect the same?
>delta between company X profit and similar company Y's profit

If that were true then Amazon is doing terribly under Bezos.

Profits over time is an incomplete metric for measuring company success because CEOs can decide to invest it all back into capex.
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Oh and the new logo sucks.
As someone who obsesses online over my mechanical keyboard (cherry mx clear today, but I have a collection), system hotkeys and .vimrc, I actually generally agree with this. Code entry time has almost nothing to do with software development productivity. It's just stuff I enjoy, and the fact that people get obsessed by it shouldn't confuse you any more than the myriad of other things people obsess about online. Learning to save a keystroke in vim is really just my equivalent of learning to kill a certain monster in a video game.

On the other hand, I'm generally shocked when I meet programmers who don't know their tools at all, and in my experience that really does correspond to poor productivity. I'm not talking about people with average typing speed or people who use toolbar shortcuts rather than hotkeys, but programmers who don't know how to auto-format in their tool of choice or who stop typing every few keys to reach for the mouse, click file and then save. There's a mindset that goes with effective software development, and a natural curiosity and a constant desire to do things just a bit more efficiently are key factors in that mindset. People who are constantly getting out of the flow even in their editor of choice because they haven't learned to use the tool efficiently might not have the right mindset for software development.

But yeah, I recognize that the vim golf stuff is silly (but fun!).
I sense a meme forming.
I totally agree and I strongly prefer text. So much that I made this: https://www.libre.university/ for me and my classmates to learn some topics. Note: the English one is mostly empty except for [1], the main one is the Spanish page.

[1] https://en.libre.university/subject/4kitSFzUe/Web%20Programm...
1. A geohash is a z-curve.

2. It won't be better than a k-d tree. Dimensionality reduction is usually done when you have really truly huge numbers of dimensions that are sparsely populated and you don't care much about some information loss (e.g., for machine learning) or, in this case, when you have an easy way to create a single dimensional index and you want to force multi-dimensional data into it. In the general case a k-d tree would be objectively better in terms of performance.
I don't think she was an absolute failure like many others do but this is a very generous take on her performance. I'm not going to monday morning QB her work but it did seem like there was no real vision there for yahoo as a company. They just seemed to acquire random things and took a scatter shot approach to investing to build the company (though to be fair, that is how it ended up with its AliBaba holding).
WSJ has a more economically sophisticated audience and this place is full of crypto-libertarians.
I'm not so sure it completely boils down to her gender. I mean, I'm sure that's an issue for some folks... but I can't say that explains 100% of the vitriol. She came onto my radar after killing the work from home policy that Yahoo had. Then she promptly built a nursery in her office. That was a douche move. Any CEO that plays the "us and them" policy with their workers vs execs rubs me the wrong way. I'm not at all bothered that she got 23 million as a "thank you". She had an extremely hard job. The pressures she dealt with are nothing I could understand. So by all means, reward her for it! But I'm still kinda chapped about the work from home thing.
If I sell 200 licenses for my desktop app in one year at $10/pop, that's $2,000 in my pocket.

Your license server costs $288/year. I'll need to continue using it as long as my software is in use—lets say 5 years. The service will cost me $1440 over that period.

Over that period, I'd be paying you 72% of my gross revenue.

If I only sold 100, then it would cost me $440 more than I made on licenses.

If I sold to the plan's max of 1000, your service would cost me 14% of my gross revenue ($1440 of my $10,000 gross) over that five years.

A pricing scheme that closer resembles $x/license (forever) is something I would be more interested in.
Faster processors do not exist. The current gen MBP already uses the latest Kaby Lake chips.
most open forums like that one are regularly spammed by social justice warriors and the like. the business readers aren't going to waste their time posting to a message forum such as that.

one example of similar that went downhill after acquisition by a national paper is The Volokh Conspiracy whose comment section became downright toxic after the exposure to a more public forum occurred
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Why doesn't pure math get similarly attacked? Clearly math has generated lots of economic and scientific value, but it seems to me that there isn't much difference between string theory and, say, math work on the Monster Moonshine group or whatever.
Thanks! The numbers are from a beta test I did with around 200 users. I came up with this idea as a college student, when my classmates and I would apply to dozens and even hundreds of jobs to get any opportunity available.
>"How would you measure a CEO's performance of a public company if not share price?"

Stock price is most certainly not the only dimension by which to measure CEO performance. In fact relying solely on that metric is exactly what fosters our current culture of absurd CEO compensation packages.

Both "Operational Impact" and "Leadership effectiveness" are equally important considerations[1].

Quoting from the source:

"Operational impact. Operational impact refers to the CEO’s influence on the company’s effectiveness in operational areas, such as customer satisfaction, new product introduction, or productivity enhancement, and how well the firm implements its strategy. Operational impact measures often give a better indication of a company’s underlying potential to create value because they are directly related to the immediate stock price, which is subject to market-wide volatility. While still subject to external and internal forces outside of the CEO’s immediate control, this type of performance is more closely related to the CEO’s actions.

Leadership effectiveness. Leadership effectiveness addresses how well the CEO carries out his or her responsibilities, both in terms of executing specific role responsibilities—identifying a successor, meeting with key customers and investors, developing a long-term strategy—and the quality of those actions—communicating with external stakeholders, energizing the organization, and gaining the confidence of investors.Rivero and Nadler (2003)."

Source:

[1] https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_corporate-governance/s10...
Try react-native, react-gl or something with different render target than the web platform. It makes perfect sense to you then.

The SGML syntax is just perfect for composing and nesting components. So does HTML, XML etc. You just have to get your head around the idea that you´r writing HTML, because your´re not.
I'm not a fan of the disconnected global menu for regular windows. For maximized windows, however, the way Unity integrates/eliminates the menu and title bar feels very natural and is one of my favorite features.
Not a physicist, but questions of "how" and "why" are complicated by their ambiguity in English.

In common English, "how" means the mechanics of a system, and "why" generally means for what purpose someone has undertaken an action. Think of "Why did you build a garage?" (for what purpose or to what end?) vs. "How did you build a garage?" (what exact method did you use).

To complicate things, for action by non-agents, "why" can also mean "how". Children might ask "Why is the sky blue?" but what they mean (or the answer they get) is "How is the sky blue".

So when it comes to physics, we generally say there is no "why" (teleology, or mental purpose of an agent), only "how" (observable physical mechanisms). As far as physics is concerned, there is no God who set up the universe in a particular way, because he liked things a certain way, or he wanted a certain outcome.

However, the ambiguity of "why" can still be re-purposed, if you will, in physics. It's not referring to the will of an agency, but instead to lower-order phenomena that give rise to higher-order phenomenal. Why does the Earth sky have to be blue instead of, say, red? We're asking about why the mechanics of Releigh scattering play out one way verses another.
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A curiosity that was also cutting edge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girandoni_air_rifle

It seems to have taken to ~1850 for practical military repeating rifles.

edit: Your comment is still young, but I'll note for history that I replied with the wiki link before you had added it to your comment.
This just seems like a slightly different join syntax.

If they want to support graphs, they could make their recursive SQL work properly, i.e. not like this: http://www.sql-server-helper.com/error-messages/msg-460.aspx
ermagerd, how dare someone talk about something extremely technical that involves math and geometry on this site.
Parent-poster said tamper-resistance wasn't an issue in their usage case.

But are you sure it'll DFU over USB?

If so, for avoiding DFU, could you use some simple hardware to disable the data lines on the OTG port until the Pi had finished booting?

Could one use an i2c or spi based crypto chip for key storage?
it is, but computer isn't smart enough for the future to happen yet
Thanks for the heads-up, I'll definitely fix those issues :)
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This is how US law enforcement elicits false confessions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_technique
Yep! You can read through all the descriptions, and check/uncheck the ones you would like to apply to.
What about indirect observations then? Something that cannot be otherwise explained?
> can't wait to see what Dart 2.0 brings us

What makes you think there will even be a 2.0? I ask because a couple of years ago there was talk of 2.0, but sadly, that has tapered off to silence.
> That's not really the important status quo of today, though.

On this point, you need to educate yourself more. It's cleared you've consumed the lies of right new media outlets. Immigrants contribute a lot more than they consume. See the National Academy of Sciences report[1], or read some articles from the Cato Institute, or even the short summary of the Libertarian Party's position[3].

The problem is that this country's laws hate and despise skilled and educated immigrants. My company tried for two years in a row, to bring a developer from our Paris office over into the US. A brilliant developer, who had been with us for a year, and proven himself. Someone who had graduated from EPFL (one of the best higher-education institutes in Europe -- the equivalent of CMU/MIT here). Someone who was being offered a $140,000/year base salary. Someone who spoke fluent English. And he was rejected (lost the H1B lottery) twice, thanks to the US skilled immigration policy.

That is the status quo today. Which is a far cry from what is morally right. I don't think even a preference system for educated/skilled immigrants is morally right. The only morally righteous immigration system is one that permits the free immigration of people that are peaceful/non-voilent and who are self-sufficient/self-reliant (i.e. they'll have no access to welfare, and must be able to support themselves).

[1] https://www.nap.edu/catalog/23550/the-economic-and-fiscal-co...

[2] https://www.cato.org/research/immigration

[3] https://www.lp.org/issues/immigration/