skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my personal experience at places I've worked, there has been a strong negative correlation between conference attendance and overall quality and productivity of the staff. Conferences offer such an easy out for people who want to waste a week while pretending to work and taking a quasi-vacation on the company dime that if you're careless in permitting conference attendance, it can easily turn into a free-for-all.

At one small conference I attended, most companies were represented by one or two people, maybe a CXX and a bizdev guy. Our company had a couple dozen people there. The attendee list was published, and it was kind of embarrassing when they acknowledged our presence during the intro remarks because it basically told everyone what a joke of a company we were. The only reason my team was there was so that my boss could add more make-work to put in his quarterly report while earning points from his team for being that "good boss" that supports employee development. It was such a mismanaged mess at that company that they even paid for a team of contractors to take a paid week off to attend a conference, mostly so that they could pad their resumes, since none of that knowledge was actually applicable to the project they were on.

At my next job, people were too busy trying to hit their goals to pitch their boss on conferences in Vegas.

Conference attendance can provide benefits to employers under the right circumstances, but if I had my own company and an employee initiated a request to attend a conference, I'd insist that he have some skin in the game--he'd either have to take vacation days, or if it counted as work days, he'd have to pay for a significant part of the travel/registration costs himself. If he's not willing, then it probably wasn't worth much to him anyway.
This seems like a stretch. The site doesn't, as far as I'm aware, have any control over who links to them in any form, including Facebook shares. I think it's unjustified, not to mention totally impractical, to say that a site can never change content it's offering (for free, no less) after it's first been published, just in case someone already linked to it and didn't like the change.

It's also not at all unreasonable, again IMHO, for a site that didn't start with ads but suddenly receives an abnormally high level of traffic to introduce ads at that time. Someone has to pay the hosting bills, after all.

A better bet if this mechanism is being abused might be to establish some sort of standard whereby a link could include a checksum that would then be invalidated if the linked content subsequently changed. This way, anyone following the link (including any hosting sites that share that link) could confirm whether or not what they were seeing was what was originally linked. You could take this further with some sort of standardised changelog and last updated indicator that sites could make available if they wanted to, and having browsers that detected a mismatch in a checksummed link warn a user before displaying the page and include recent update information if the site provided it. Lots of details would need working out, though, and I'm not sure I see enough upside to justify the complexity and inconvenience.
If it was a conference I wanted to go to anyway, and I was going to get the ticket in addition to time off and all other logistics, I'd take the conferences.
Is it true for DEL?
What would the fix be? The fact that you can point the stack pointer at arbitrary memory and the CPU will treat that memory as the stack is a feature, and an important one, of the ISA.

The real issue here is that writing programs in memory-unsafe languages is inherently difficult and risky, and fewer programs should be written that way.
That's the thing though, the user base is largely a bunch of high school kids that go to the same school - they likely see each other daily. They don't need to "live" anywhere and to the contrary, they don't want to post a bunch of shit their parents are going to see.
Totally. The article fails to mention any history of why Hong Kong fell into British hands in the first place. Flooding a country with drugs and then launching/winning a war to preserve the free trade of said drugs is a pretty shocking foundation. It wasn't even that long ago!
yes, the serial number is printed on the outside of every meter (so you can use a telescope to read your neighbor's meter serial number)
Many international withdrawals only do 4 digits which means 6 digits in your home country becomes meaningless...
I actually created an Excel question for interviewing help desk candidates:

If you were to type in 5+2 into a cell, what would be the result?

:-)
You can't carry a foldable bike inside everywhere you go...
Oops. Thanks for the correction.
The above comment did refer to population studies.

Most drugs are studied using clinical trials, which contain control groups. Not perfect experiment, but close to it.

There are plenty of examples studies and trials published in scientific journals with erroneous conclusions. With a purwly scientific experiment that would be impossible (at least for the experimental outcome to disagree with nature).
I think the web should succeed as a platform for so-called "content", but I don't see why the web ought to be best for progams or applications. I still hold the "dated" belief that native is better.

The "universal runtime" idea doesn't make sense to me, it's just a single language (javascript) that everyone implements bad, competing interpreters for on different platforms. I don't see why this has to be the only or best way to distribute cross-platform applications.
Thank you for the feedback. I have fixed the bug.

I will look at the navigational options.

There is actually an amazon affiliate link for that book on the site. I have not done well with amazon affiliate links. But maybe I will figure it out someday. (Though, I have updated it to make it text on the assumption that you have an ad blocker and that's why you didn't see it.)

I am not planning to abandon the homeless survival guide, but the TLDR is that I am more interested in promoting solutions that reduce homelessness than in helping people after their lives fall apart.
As a marketing consultant:

Zapier

Microsoft Office

Zapier

Photoshop

Zapier

ActiveCampaign

Xero

UberConference

Zapier
Its in ETH, not dollars.

Oh. This suggests that ETH is way overvalued and illiquid.

We're about to find out how liquid Bitcoin really is. The Mt. Gox bankruptcy trustee has 202,185 Bitcoins and may have to convert them to yen.
I generally opt to abstain from conferences, even if my employer is willing to foot the bill.

I'm unlikely to learn anything from the conference that I couldn't learn on the web, and almost certainly not enough to justify the expenditure of time.

Plus, a round-trip flight crossing a couple of time zones would probably double my carbon footprint for the year.
Journalists, You Are Worthy of a Data Breach
Does this have hot reloading?
Spine animation tool 3.6 released
Allocations are challenging for HTML parsers, even in C, because of the presence of entity references and case-normalization of attribute & tag names. That means that a lot of the time when you think you ought to be able to just use a slice or memoryview into the original source text, you can't; for example, if any of your text nodes contains &lt; ('<') or &ldquo (smart double quote), you can't use the original source buffer, because you're supposed to have decoded the entity to a unicode character, which will leave the string a different length. This happens stupidly often in real HTML.

I initially had the API for Gumbo use string slices a lot more than the final released API, and then found that I couldn't do it and needed to allocate in order to maintain correctness. I'd done a patch that arena-allocated all memory used in the parse, which gave a fairly significant CPU speedup, but it also bloated max memory usage in ways that some clients found unacceptable, so I never merged it. Small C strings at least are quite lightweight; Python strings have a lot of additional overhead, and much of the PyObject structure itself requires chasing pointers.
Deconstructing Long Range Connectivity for an IoT World
Back in the dot com era, a coworker registered a domain name and retired not long after he sold it.

These things happen. It's fairly random. The main thing I learned is never to confuse financial success with merit. (Obvious, but it sunk in more.)
Societies where the choices are made by the government, not the individuals, have not bestowed prosperity and stability on the whole.
Yes!!!

Replace the 8 inch floppy's used to load the launch codes with an Android app connected to twitter.
here's how its supposed to work:

you have a great contributor. someone who does a substantial amount of work and has come up with enough novel stuff to get a paper published in the field.

they go to the conference, and no you don't get their output for a few days...except some work on the plane and some nights at the hotel

but they give a great talk, and learn about a bunch of new exciting things in their field to bring back with them. every time someone talks to this person and is impressed by their work, the name of your company gets associated transitively

when the people at the conference think about a new job, or using a product in your space, they implicitly think 'foo co - thats a great place doing really cool stuff'
Pasition v1.0 released  Path Transition with little JavaScript code,render to anywhere
I knew about Bitcoin back when Bitcoin faucets were a thing, and I don't really feel bad for not having bought like a hundred bitcoins then.

I still do regret the $50 I paid to crowdfund App.net, the Twitter competitor that was run by person with strong business sense, launched at a time when it was clear Twitter had no business plan and was killing its existing customer base and would be dead soon, and widely praised on HN. That was a much surer bet than this weirdo questionably-legal currency that only a bunch of nerds with heterodox view on finance were interested in.
> There already exists a common currency through which we can trade. It's called ether

Also, dollars.
Is group chat making you sweat? (2016)
Minds.com open sources social network app in angular2, ionic, cassandra
I think you've mistaken what pcwalton was trying to say. This library is interesting because (via macros) it creates a DSL that attempts to emulate how the HTML 5 spec is written, in order to more easily verify the correctness of the implementation. Note that, by dint of much of HTML being an accident of history, the HTML 5 spec is somewhat imposing; it's not going to be a cakewalk in any language, and at the same time it's bespoke enough that it would be silly to design your language to cater to the needs of the HTML 5 spec in particular. The fact that Rust can create DSLs via macros does help here, though I wouldn't recommend this approach for anything other than a similarly extreme case. In fact I'd say this library has the most extensive macro use of any production Rust code I've ever seen, it's quite atypical as far as Rust code goes.
Iceland is demographically homogenous (over 90% Icelandic), and 64% of their population lives in one city. It is fairly easy for that kind of grouping of people to reach agreement on things because they have a lot of common interests, and a shared history and culture.

As you "scale up" in diversity, population, and geographic distribution the set of things people can agree on falls off dramatically.
If a lot of companies who performed an ICO would actually cash out ether prices would tank pretty fast. There are a couple of paragraphs in the very recommendable Crypto Trader Digest (written by the people of BitMEX) which goes into a little more detail. Liquidity is still very low on all these exchanges so it doesn't take much for panic selling to set in.
I would tell them that "I like to learn new things and given my resume', what sort of new things could I learn working for them?"

I started asking this question because I actually wanted to know the answer. I discovered a side effect: the interviewer would almost always switch to trying to sell me on the company which tended to change the dynamic.
they should fix the underlying problem but in the meantime, they probably could just automatically truncate to 4 chars when 6 can't be used?
Been on reddit or Youtube lately?
Wealthy? I don't see how that got into the discussion. In the winter when it's -20C and snowing here nobody bikes.

Actually no my concern is there is no room! The width of the road is barely enough for one vehicle leaving maybe 30cm on either side. Making a law to demand 1m (100cm) separation seems to ignore reality, and math.

Also, I could be ahead of a bicyclist and he can overtake me but I am now required by law to make room as he overtakes to my right. Even if there is a vehicle to my left I have to move over or be fined.

I understand the purpose of the law but it is poorly written.
Could they, though? If all the dozens or so people who could really drive a new big ARM project are at Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm, and NVidia, they might struggle to assemble a team that could make the needed breakthroughs to differentiate it. They also don't seem to have much interest from a business standpoint, preferring instead to sell $2k+ Xeons all day...and I hope EPYC gives them a real competitor.
The Machine Learning Algorithms Used in Self-Driving Cars
> HN hasn't much of a discourse, as in discordinng ideas aren't debated but shunned and driven away.

I would have said the exact opposite. As long as they're well supported, HN is more accepting of controversial views than anywhere else I know.
no what you are looking for but there's http://plaintextoffenders.com/ ...
>it sounds like they're afraid Gun's post may affect trading of their token.

Yes, it works out quite nicely all round. They, by taking his ability to move the market so seriously, grant him social proof that can't be obtained any other way. He, very magnanimously, walks back his most serious attacks, to wit: their team are not credible, and the problem they want to address "is not a real problem". And anyone else who wants their token to pop* will know who they'd better have inside the tent.

* Bancor's token becomes tradeable shortly, see https://blog.bancor.network/token-activation-update-285ba819.... It would have been tradeable today, but they have some last minute debugging before their smart contract is ready to "automate Yellen", as Sirer puts it. It's hard to begrudge them this, having seen how Yellen performs in the unpatched 1.0 release.
a piece of paper in your wallet is probably safer in many cases... but not as convenient
Close-Up View of DNA Replication
Firefox lags with GC due to a painful decision to permit C to point to JS directly.
>(store/restaurant) or content creator issuing tokens to be used for membership reward/points

Why would a restaurant use this for membership point when a glorified Access db would work just as well?
Ask HN: Which blogs do you religiously follow?
What would we do without cat videos
>Microsoft famously acquired Danger Mobile and then crushed it destroying the first widely adopted smartphone tech for consumers.

Microsoft bought Danger in 2008, 5 years after Andy Rubin left to start Android [0]. 2008 was also the year after iOS was released and the year Android was released. Too little, too late.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Inc.
this is aimed at cryptocurrencies and designed to not have counter-party risk. self executing smart contracts.

one problem is that they may be relatively expensive because they require "gas" to execute but on the plus side they can't be shut down.
I think you are confused about what "private" means.

I've never "consented" to "releasing" my address publicly, but real estate records are public information thus the real estate I own is easily queried from my town's website and the real estate transaction was published in all the local newspapers. You can even look up my property tax bills from the towns website and my payment history of said taxes. If you're feeling generous you can also pay my property taxes online too.
You're off topic. The government hasn't released my birthday. I question their data security practices, but any release of such information would be considered a mistake.

I don't care if you think paying for health care or national security is important or not. That's an unrelated issue to whether or not Birthday is private or public data.
Many clickbait/content spam sites use referring sources to change the article content into galleries to maximize revenue, especially if they're also promoting these stories as ads on social media and recommended content widgets.
I'd hesitate to pin the blame on "memory-unsafe languages", because Rust is currently vulnerable to the same attack: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/16012

It looks like the fix is going to involve adding some code to LLVM to probe each stack page when you make a large stack allocation, but once that happens, it's straightforward for clang to implement -fstack-check for C and C++ programs, too.

This is a weird emergent problem from the fact that stack and heap memory are part of the same address space and that the stack is designed to implicitly grow as needed. It's not clear that it's a language or compiler's fault for relying on the stack doing that, nor that it's the platform or kernel's fault for making that approach possible.

I'm not totally sure how you would design a language so that you don't have this problem. I guess you could forbid a function from using more than some small amount of stack, and make sure your stack guard area is at least that big, but that seems like an unfortunate restriction. Maybe something like the Stackless Python approach, where all variables are heap-allocated, would work?

Also, all that said, note that Windows gets this right: MSVC inserts calls to _chkstk() to do stack probing. I believe this entire class of vulnerability doesn't exist on Windows, and probably some people at MS who spend their entire lives in memory-unsafe languages are feeling very smug today.
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Really not trying to disparage you, but I think there's room to allow the cause and effect to go in both directions.

Since parental involvement is a really good proxy for wealth, and, as you point out, parental involvement correlates strongly with educational outcomes, wealthy children tend to have better educational outcomes.

However (and take it from a gifted and learning disabled person) the presence of better-educated (and more academically invested) students in a classroom can be a rising tide that brings up the more marginal students.

Overall, I don't think we actually disagree. Education is well-correlated with wealth. Parental involvement (given that parents who are able to be involved are more likely to be able to do that and stay financially functional) effectively "counts" as money spent on education, especially since it indirectly helps the entire cohort.

It takes a village.

Sidenote:
> assuming there aren't other barriers to accomplishment

In my neck of the world, poverty counts.
this is not bait and switch. 100% of the same content is there, even if the presentation is different. the site owner is able to change it at will, just like you can use an adblocker and change it yourself. cant say 1 method is acceptable while the other isnt.

also there's no explicit contract of delivery here, a headline alone doesn't confer that.
Quantum mechanics?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinism#Modern_scientific_...

Edit: why downvote this?
Teespring’s valuation plummets from $650M to about $11M
nice post, I think you forgot to fill in the Introduction though
I like this. There's a lesser-known phrase in English with a similar meaning, "embarrassment transfer".
The question is one of de facto free speech rights, given access to physical space, platforms, or media, especially those removed from the common weal by state intervention in the first place: broadcast spectrum, land.

If you look to court decisions, you'll find that the strict literalism you and others are following is often tempered by a pragmatic consideration.
From what I've heard, there are extensive connections between the Sinaloa cartel and the Mexican federal government too. The cartels laundered over a billion dollars one year through the state-owned oil company Pemex, for example. It's even been alleged [0] by ex-cartel leaders that the US government props up the Sinaloa cartel with weapons and other material support, since in general the Sinaloa cartel tends to be less outrageously brutal toward civilians than for instance Los Zetas (whose founders unsurprisingly studied at the infamous School of the Americas [1]).

[0] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sin...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_f...
Yes. One state doesn't mean all states. Also, it's tbd whether this website will be allowed to continue to operate,

> "According to the webmaster, there is a class action lawsuit that is trying to have the site shut down"

The article also argues that many types of workers ought to seek removal of their name from this list in the interest of personal security.

The story is making the case that this should be considered private information.
5 dried grams of magic mushrooms. Or listen to 40+ hours of lectures from Alan Watts.
I feel similarly. I find that conferences are kind of wasteful, from the signage, materials to the travel to get everyone into the same place. I can see greater value if a company is remote and you want to engage with a community that way. I feel like at least in the Bay Area there is a plethora of local events so no need to travel high and low for events.
And I plainly told him that conferences are a perk and perks play into job decisions and that there is a direct cost to losing your employees.
Ahh, the AMP model. Once the big 4 or 5 move that way, we're almost back to the original AOL model of a privately held "internet". Funny how things circle round.
The example of Kodak or any other, once upon a time, successful company can be applied to anyone: from Intel to Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft. We can't predict the future but Intel has a competitive advantage in the technology and investment capabilities of more integrated chips while Kodak was completely disrupted by new innovations. Intel has a lot of room to experiment if they are really challenged. I am not bullish on Intel but they remain to have unique offerings.
Bucking the existential weight that in the grand scope the life of a single human is nothing.
Attention is all you need
That seems like a different definition of "professional victim" than the one implied up-thread.