skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like how it starts you up instantly and how simple mining, helping the network and transactions seem to be. Really well done. I found a quick block too and sending/receiving transactions and getting the confirmations seems nice and fast. As a user it makes me pretty happy.

However, turning your coins 'permanent' somehow doesn't seem nearly as intuitive. I have no real idea how these coins are now tied to me. I found my block on chrome, and launching the site in incognito mode / firefox doesn't show the funds in my wallet. This would make me worry about deleting my browser history/cookies/etc and I'd have no idea how to access these coins on another computer. How do I go about making these coins tied to me beyond some form of browser storage, and why isn't that process explained somewhere? Right now it feels like a mild breeze might erase my wallet and the coins in it. Is this something that'll be dealt with in the future?
ISTR an old blog post or doc about this. Apple engineers wanted to be able to do prefix matching in HFS+, if I remember correctly. And so making the name as long as possible (via canonical decomposition) made sense to them.
It's worth noting that from 2015 and on, iMacs can no longer be used in target display mode.
Why would you think I was referring to 'dudes'? I was referring to 20-somethings, men and women. Women can be (and are) dumbasses too.

I think you and I are too far apart on this. I disagree with your thought process and your conclusions.
I really look forward to the day when WebAssembly stops being seen as "JavaScript's fast sidekick" and starts being seen as "the language of the web". It won't take that much to expose APIs directly to WebAssembly rather than just to JavaScript.
It's not entirely ethical because the advertiser gets ripped off. It increases their cost and reduces what they are prepared to pay for ads. If everyone else used it, content creators wouldn't get paid eventually. If YouTube was independent from Google it would die.
Awesome articles, thanks! I also found the facebook issue. I am using an ipad, if I tap anywhere in the actual articles, it shows a "share with facebook" dialog (preventing me to follow any of the links in the internal pages). I guess some kind of social sharing plugin is invisibly out of bounds.
Baseball, like any other sport, has gone under many revisions to its rules throughout its history. The only statement you say has never changed that I can tell is the bases have been 90 feet apart since 1840. Pitchers have not always pitched from 60' 6" from the plate and home run distance, park size from plate, varies even today.

Interestingly the park sizes differ to try and keep the difficulty of a home run equal in lieu of differences in air pressure between locations. It is rumored the Red Sox added a bullpen to give their new recruit Ted Williams, who was a left handed batter, an advantage at home.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2011/09/13/q-why-are-majo...
I hate to cite forbes but its hard to find source for something I've known by word of mouth.
Not just the media. A lot of current U.S. politicians apparently believe their best path to power is endless fear mongering. And it works pretty well.
Denying people without recourse protections is the same as demanding that they accept abuse.
There's this joke in applied math departments that the best way to spook a pure mathematician is to whisper in his ear "We've found an use for your theorem..."
Syncthing is not really comparable to iCloud IMO.
And I would find your generalizations unpersuasive, so it seems we're not going to agree about this.
Another difference - The free climbing on the Dawn Wall allowed for mistakes because of the ropes. Jorgesen (and maybe Caldwell, I can't recall) both took falls while attempting to climb the wall. The spirit of free climbing is that you do each pitch (basically one rope's length) without falling at least once. If you fall, you go back to the beginning of the pitch. That way, you have essentially climbed the whole route without assistance from pulling on ropes, since you only rest in 'natural' rest areas.

Honnold's free solo is amazing because he did not make a mistake and have to use the rope. Every move was executed perfectly.
Is it possible to see the code? I do not see a link to the code source.
Honnold has not free climbed the Dawn Wall. Adam Ondra did last year for the second free accent.

[edit: fixed Adam's name]
The cost to an employer of a false positive (hiring someone unqualified) is probably 1-2 orders of magnitude higher than the downside of missing an actually-good coder who can't pass a WBI.

Not only does it take a lot of time and bandwidth to fire someone incompetent, but now you have to deal with the damage they've done to your codebase and projects in the meantime.

Even if your WBI process rejects 10 good coders for every bad coder it weeds out, you're coming out ahead.

As for all these posts from famous or well-known hackers who assert that they don't need to show that they know their stuff -- sure, if you have a portfolio of open source projects that everyone uses, then you have the luxury of not needing to demonstrate your technical competence.

How does that help employers evaluate anyone else?
Axler is easier to digest if you have some familiarity with the tools and the jargon but hated/forgot everything in your college linear algebra course.

A (very imperfect) analogy might be something like the GoF book vs Peter Norvig's essay on design patterns.
I have a brother that lived in Los Alomos, the National Labs are no where even close to Santa Fe or Albuquerque and the Universities there are not comparable to CU. When the Lobos join the Pac-12, that's a good way to know that they are comparable. Housing in Santa Fe is not exactly cheap either. Also, NM is an acquired taste and is not for everyone. The labs were kinda put there because of the remoteness of the place. I mean, Los Alomos is at about 7500 feet, 2 beers and you are knackered. That said, I do love NM and it's wilderness; I'll take my enchilada Christmas style ;)
Amazing photos that highlight how insane this was. My palms are very sweaty.
It was down for me for about 15 minutes. Was just about to post a dump from wget, and it's back up now.

While it was down, I was able to ping it, but I got a connection refused error from google.co.uk, google.com and youtube.com. Everything else was fine.
or maybe the SEIU exploited their power over politicians to force this state into a similar mess in Illinois (2009) by not only setting wages for private workers but also force compulsory unionization of all such workers. It took a 2014 Supreme Court ruling to stop the forcing of these care givers, which included people merely taking care of family, from paying union dues.

Never expect actions taken by government are always to protect the workers, especially when they start hitting heart strings on the phrasing.

This is about supporting their campaign base, unions push a lot of money into politics and getting such laws passed are their means of getting more into their coffers. Look at the prison story we had on the front page, the costs are almost all due to employee wages and those are driven by the most powerful union in the state .

this was about protecting political interest, they don't care about care givers. this startup simply got caught in the middle.
My daughter is already a guinea pig for this stuff. Her public school uses i-Ready. http://www.curriculumassociates.com/products/iready/diagnost...

I have no way of knowing if this i-Ready is the bottom 25% or the top 5% of barely tested software chugging algorithms. It's the only choice I have anyways, so it's hardly worth educating myself on the matter. Luckily my daughter is in the gifted program, so I at least have some assurance that her teacher isn't total crap. And beyond that, being gifted gives her a decent chance of overcoming a potentially shit education.
Al-free tea tree oil based rollon works for me
I would argue that if there isn't one thermostat per section or even per room, that the building is poorly designed.
need context to determine what would be better. giving the same interview for every position you're hiring for is not usually the right thing to do. Google is very unusual in their practice of hiring into a general pool. Most companies hire for more specific openings.

In general though, when I interview it has three main sections, tailored for the role.

First, is conversational. Talk about the resume, talk about work experience, talk about technology, etc.

Second, is a practical example. Sometimes (but not always) this involves solving an algorithmic problem on a whiteboard. Sometimes it involves a guided tour of the codebase and functionality of a relevant project the candidate has worked on. Rarely it might be a take-home coding task.

Third, is a more general example usually of some kind of system design problem. A lot of candidates like to write/draw on the whiteboard for this section but it's not strictly necessary nor do I ask them to do so. There's a board in the room if they want to but I don't ask them to use it.
Honnold has not climbed the Dawn Wall. There has been only one other ascent by Adam Ondra: https://www.climbing.com/news/adam-ondra-completes-dawn-wall...
This is true but I think pinterest and reddit have a similar problem where they really can't make their userbase too mad at them and they could either stunt their growth or users will jump ship. Either that or its the guiding philosophy to not make their userbase mad.
A deep dive into the internals of Laravel
Idris-style Holes in OCaml
Applied Privacy by Design: Finding Personally Identifiable Information
Author here. So the techniques in this post aren't actually limited to terrorism, although it' s probably the easiest to talk about. It's broad enough to include homicides (as mentioned in the post), and hundreds of thousands of people are murdered each year because they aren't able to predict their own danger soon enough for law enforcement to be informed (and to intervene).
We're also doing this at Thumbtack. We run all of our Spark jobs in job-scoped Cloud Dataproc clusters. We wrote a custom Airflow operator which launches a cluster, schedules a job on that cluster, and shuts down the cluster upon job completion. Since Google can bring up Spark clusters in < 90s and bills minutely, this works really well for us, simplifying our infrastructure and eliminating resource contention issues.
I feel like you're missing the entire point of how a social network site works and makes money
> they lack the composure under pressure

Depending on the exact role and project, that can be a severe negative as well (e.g. devops). In that case, putting them through the stress of a WBI is a side benefit.
When I was a math grad student, most of the other grad students hated getting chalk on their hands because it dried their skin out. Whereas I'd grab extra chalk from the board, and rub it over my hands to keep them dry.
The limit on Linux is usually a bit under 2MB (ARG_MAX), other Unicies will vary no doubt and Windows is 32KB, and I'm sure you are aware that xargs is your friend.
The Falcon 9 is long and thin, this one is short and stout, and they weight about the same amount. The payload isn't nearly as good as the current Falcon 9 revision but it's about the same as the Falcon 9 v1.0 from way back in 2010 and most rockets of similar. The payload to mass isn't great compared to other rockets but most of the gross mass is in the solid boosters so you shouldn't expect the price to be very high for the mass to orbit.
> That's why this practice should be abandoned.

Not if the cost of a false positive is much higher than the cost of a false negative, which for many employers seems like the likely case.
We do not log any type of network access to a client Droplet/VPS. Whether they use Cloud Firewall or not.

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Probably a big investment, but my immediate thought is I'd love a mobile app. The mobile site was better than nothing, but if you had a slick mobile app, I would use it constantly. So many times I forget little things that I would love to jot down in exactly this type of product.

e: On birthdays, might be nice to be able to add day/month but no year. I'm working through adding some of my contacts into this and noticing small things as I update/add more.
Er, that's 16 games per team for the NFL.

Your point is still valid, though.
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>"Because it's 20 people out 12,000"

What are you suggesting by this, that there is an acceptable margin for unacceptable behavior?

>We don't know the context, the exact infraction, and how it was dealt with initially."

We do know the context, the context was an investigation into sexual harassment conducted by an outside law firm.

We know that 31 people are in counseling/training and another 7 were given warning as a result of the investigation. So by comparison the incidents with these 20 were determined to be serious enough that they warranted termination instead of counseling or a warning.

>I can't even tell if that rate is high, average or low when compared with any other company of similar size who would create a special sexual-harassment probe to investigate itself."

I think the fact that 58 people (20 + 31 + 7) needing to be addressed retroactively instead of proactively at the time of the complaint is a pretty good indication there might be a large problem.
Bohemian Rhapsody Based on U.K. Election Polls. (Machiavellian Rhapsody)
Doing the safer and slower thing seems better on the surface than just giving up and not compiling, and the article doesn't talk about this option. Could anyone chime in with some problems with OpenBSD's decision?
This is good until the ASICS come in force and make mining in the browser useless.
Yeah, I always search with -site:pinterest.* (text so the star after the dot is not parsed).
The Future of MDN: A Focus on Web Docs
OutWatch: a polyglot functional & reactive UI framework
I think one of the real problems that doesn't get discussed very much is Google-envy. A lot of companies that don't really have problems like Google, and don't really have organizations like Google, and don't really have applicant pools like Google, will yet interview the same way Google does.

It really might be the correct way to interview for Google. Certainly they've put a lot of thought into how to manage their hiring process and they still lean heavily on the whiteboard. I'm almost positive, however, that most companies are really nothing like Google and really should not be using the same interviewing techniques.

Smaller companies with more quotidian problems would be better served with a more conversational and less time-pressured interview style.
Disclaimer: I work on this project w/ the author.

The author writes about how he used this system to solve a case of a slow query. However, this is really sort of the wrong query to illustrate why we built this. It's more of a "oh hey look since we already have this data super fast in this other system, lets just use it."

What the system does is allow us to arbitrarily summarize at whatever granularity we want, any second, to any second.

For example we can ask it to summarize January 4th at 11:22:02 to March 1st at 16:22:09, and so however many writes happened during that time at any second are tallied up very quick, because of the way the data is stored. So even though lets say during this 3 month~ period you have 10,000,000 writes for one user some that say "add 3" or "remove 4", you will only query at a second granularity around the edges, and the middle you will query whole day, or month buckets.

Another way of explaining the point of this system is that it allows us to really quickly (well under 1ms) summarize any data in the past N days (N usually equals 120) from any start to any stop point we want, using any granularity we want, and we can do it concurrently and generate this for 1000 users at a time and it all can happen in 30-50ms. Considering that the underlying data is recorded at second granularity, and can be retrieved at that granularity and automatically expired when this granularity is not needed, redis is the right tool for the job here. To accomplish this in pure sql you would have to log all writes you make to the table, and query this change logging table in a similar way. So not only would this add a lot of overhead to the database as a whole, but a lot of churn to remove the lower granularity when its not needed.

We will be polishing the system more over time, and more blog posts will come out when we release some of the client code ;)
Working at McDonald's is already economic suicide. Unlikely that they're worse off now unless they are unemployed.
US Congress to Announce Study on Virtual Currency Link to Terrorism
Anyone find a benchmark? I need to know if i should upgrade from the Nov 2016 macbook pro.
It must depend on where in Boulder you live and work. From my perspective in South Boulder, there are many bike lanes and bike paths. I don't even have to touch asphalt to get to work.
Using Serverless to Simplify and Automate AWS Lambda
Boo! No, don't move to Colorado! It's terrible here! Too much snow! White people all the way to Nebraska! The views are over-rated! Skiing is too expensive! Beer is all just hop-juice or Coors! Terrible food! Nothing but Papa Jonh's and stoners! Stay Away!
People who have decided they dislike uber are unlikely to ever decide to like them again. Firing 20+ people who have sexually harassed other employees is objectively a good thing for a company to do.
If no one cared, the problem would be solved. That's simple logic right there.

An odd unexpected consequence of this is that by trying to get fewer people to care, it is in fact helping to solve the problem.
How it is different than Gitlab? They also hire almost contractors only.
While I understand your argument, your anecdote lacks causality. That fancy new high rise was coming now matter how what McDonald's was paying.
In the end it is his choice.
Mantid: high-performance computing and visualisation of materials science data
I am also interested in this. This whole process has been a shitshow. I'd just like a decision to be made and a little warning so that I have time to replace my RapidSSL certs (they are signed by GeoTrust which is owned by Symantec).
I see no reason not to deprecate things... removing them is another matter entirely.
By far the best article I've seen to supplement this: https://www.outsideonline.com/2190306/why-alex-honnolds-free...

As a climber, there are very few people that I trust to have a more useful opinion on all this than Tommy Caldwell, a close friend and long time climbing partner of Honnold. It's so out there for most people that most jump to conclusions without proper knowledge of the subject.

Caldwell is in an interesting position of having to balance supporting his friend, and trying to get over the fact that he very well could die doing these attempts. His article does a great job expressing this.
> But none of those other behaviors happened at Uber

That's false; of course they did. She was told by HR that after her manager propositioned her, she had to switch to another team, or likely suffer a poor performance review.

In another conversation with HR she was told that CA is an at-will employment state and she was on thin ice for reporting her manager to HR.

In other words she was punished for declining a proposition.
You are welcome. Feel free to tell me how we can improve the product.
Wolfgang Güllich, free soloed Separate Reality and other gnarly routes, died in a car accident with 32.
The only thing that should be taught in tandem is the definition of survivorship bias.
That's a great lesson to extrapolate, but only as long as you are applying it to a domain where failure != death.

For example, in climbing where you have protection a much better lesson to extrapolate is that you will fail, and to be prepared for that at all times.
It's not really pure arbitrage when the prices are so volatile and every transaction takes ~30 minutes to confirm. I'd say he's going to have better luck with smaller crypto trading pairs.
Ok, just to clarify... the CAN bus protocol can not be used to control throttle, brakes or steering. Critical stuff like that must be feedback driven.

Most manufacturers have their own communication protocol (some on top of the CAN bus).
Probably the most researched and hacked bus out there is BMW's I-BUS (Used in MINI, BMW and Range Rover) [1].

You can however flash the ECU through most CAN buses (not in the protocol, but info about it can be found for most cars).
And from there, one can interfere with the throttle.

[1] https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/HackTheIBus
Does icloud work with rclone?
We're a long way away from that. Here's what you'd need:

- GC types in WebAssembly. That's still an open problem, but that would give you API access.

- Ability to load WebAssembly via something like <script>.

- WebAssembly would have to load and start as quickly as JS.

The last one is probably the hardest in the long run, since wasm is being optimized for the kinds of apps where you want to pay some cost up front so that you get great throughput later.

Note also that GC types would make it harder to compile existing languages to wasm, since those GC types will probably have to have JS semantics built into them from the start to allow API interoperability. So, even if wasm succeeds in the way you'd like, it would probably mean that the language of the web is still something JavaScriptey.
Statement on Justice Department Allegations
If I'd been allowed to work at my own pace; there's been some understanding for my environmental needs (I can do classroom/group, just fine, but I need peace and quiet when I'm working by myself); and I'd been provided some actual social oversight and guidance, instead of the "Lord of the Flies" dominance of the student peer group (staff were largely divorced from all but pedagogy, and my parents -- plopped down in front of the TV every night -- were no help at all). Well, I think I would have done a lot better.

That is to say, you can throw all the money and toys and methods you want at it. What you need, is people actually paying attention.

And paid to pay attention. So that they are not overwhelmed with workload nor how they are going to pay their own bills and take care of their own families.

In other words, invest in the people providing the education. Choose them wisely, and empower them. The rest is just various forms of b.s.
A similar service is Pushover. They have an e-mail gateway that allows you to send e-mails to your custom Pushover e-mail address and have it be converted into Pushover notifications. Each user has a @pomail.net address assigned when their account is created, and additional addresses can be created with custom options for each one such as a default sound.
Highly recommend it.
Co-Author of the blog here.

Awesome stuff, glad to see folks leveraging the possibilities! Perhaps as a follow-up you could write a guest blog on how this works for you! Feel free to ping me offline.