skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are interviewing at companies that so many people in the field from around the world apply to. So it's really damn challenging to even get an interview lined up. It's up to you, often you can have more fun, and play a bigger role in product design, architecture, and planning at smaller companies. But if you care about the status, pay, and comforts of working at one of the big ones, then go for it. It really depends on what you value.

Also, based on my experience with interviewing and being interviewed, the questions are difficult on purpose. If everyone got the solution, you couldn't differentiate between applicants, but if they are very tough, you can get a sense of a persons problem solving skills, how determined they are, what types of questions they ask to proceed through the problem. etc. It shows a lot about a persons thought process and how likely they are to be successful when a tough problem is thrown at them. Often, getting to the solution isn't the point of the question. Seeing how someone solves something, they haven't encountered before is much more informative (especially for companies and startups working on things that are game changers).
All the vim plugins? That's bizarre. VSCodeVim had a bug if you were using `useSolidBlockCursor` that would slow it down, but I'd be surprised if all the vim plugins had the same bug.
Scientists Solve Ancient 'Bright Night' Mystery with Satellite Data
Yeah, I think vehicle software is going to be a nightmare. No way are they going to keep patching software after 5 years or maybe 10. I can imagine that a 20 year old vehicle will just be recycled into scrap because it has been compromised.
Solving origami (2d) was the task of 2017 ICFP programming contest.
I wonder how this MIT approach would work for that task.

http://icfpc2016.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/task-description.ht...
Why? Imagine every state in the US functioning as well as Denmark. Then all of the US would function as well as Denmark. Scale has nothing to do with it.
Huh, you're correct. My professor said doubly-efficient IPs were used in Zcash, maybe he just meant as inspiration?
* Remove all the boilerplate text from your landing page. Focus on what your algo does: why is it different from current existing solutions?

* Use metrics to demonstrate capability.

* Hit real investors and get real feedback.
This isnt a really good reason to not run windows, they have similar 0days for any nix system as well.
So what would tell the "real" story then? Admitting there is a problem is the first step to finding a solution. Sticking your head in the sand doesn't solve anything.
Well show us how to do it better then.
Never is a long time. I still have hope.

For DS9/VOY and for Babylon 5.
I think the idea is interesting. I don't think most reasonable people believe that you can't handle backreferences and arbitrary lookaround in something that's largely based on automata; rather that if you're using automata you probably made the decision to use them to avoid having to allocate arbitrary amounts of memory, to "stream" or for multiple pattern support and/or performance reasons.

If those criteria frame why you are using an automata to begin with, then you either (a) can't use a stack either or (b) you at least need to make a performance argument that using NFA+stack is better than a back-tracker.

Arbitrary lookaround seems straightforward except in streaming mode, although efficient support for forward asserts for arbitrary regexes without "grows with the input size" side storage is IMO not trivial (it also breaks our ordering model). Backward lookaround seems easy if you are OK with adding logical AND to your NFA.
Hacker Newsletter (http://hackernewsletter.com) makes a few thousand a month from sponsors. It could easily make more if I were more of a salesperson, but I'm happy with it as is. Just to be clear though, it took some time to get to that. I'm actually about to hit the seven year mark and issue #357. Speaking of... I'm working on tomorrow's issue as I type this!
In the case of US cities (sorry, I don't know about research that covers Canadian cities) research shows it's a limited supply and failure/inability to grow that makes popular cities expensive: https://www.buildzoom.com/blog/cities-expansion-slowing

Edit: They key section of that study is the section called "Expensive cities and expansive cities"
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Lambda itself is already ~300% more expensive than EC2, but in comparison API Gateway is indeed much much more than Lambda for processing the requests.
There's something about Windows exploits that just feels like a canned hunt by now.

With stuxnet, there developed the sense that Windows received conspicuous attention from a special class of mysterious operators.

At this point, given the tiny cottage industry that feeds a handful of starving security analysts, I feel it's reasonable to presume that Windows is built to be a secure as possible, and that what's possible is mostly intentional and understood as a known quantity for special populations.
Apparently Lyft runs their end-to-end tests in California City. Roads positioned just like those in a real city, but without people who would actually need to use the service.
Why do you need style information for off-screen content in a text editor? It's not like you're going to have JS running that can query the computed style at any point. If it's for scrollbars then you can probably just use an approximation, or compute metrics without actually computing full style information.

Based on my limited experience, most text editors don't have correct information for off-screen content anyways, as they tend to do lazy syntax highlighting, which you can sometimes see adjusting while you scroll.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but are you saying you trusted that the malware documentation is correct?
At least they would listen to the public and revert rather than continue on sidelining stolen identity en masse for ISP support.

Today it's people vs corporate lobbyist paid accounts/bots and the ability to spam conversation.
All I can say is that's not my experience. At the large chain pharmacy I use, all of my regular generic prescriptions are priced under my modest co-pay. Prescription medications may not be the most competitive market but enough people are aware of price for ongoing medications that they will switch if a given pharmacy is consistently high.
You mean because there's no sun from December to March?
It will be overwhelming to be significantly prepared, even for a passionate CS expert. But a passionate CS expert can still get an offer at these places, even without preparing significantly. This is because (many) interviews are designed to test a breadth of fundamental knowledge, up to pushing the candidate to their limits, and even the limit of the state of the art. As an analogy, just because a Corvette doesn't perform like a Ferrari doesn't mean it's a bad car. It could still be chosen. Perhaps chosen based on some other soft qualities. Or because the Ferrari is too expensive.

Don't worry so much. Keep preparing by focusing on small bite size chunks you can master. Then attempt some interviews.
Hey, super excited to hear that all of this is being open sourced. Visual programming isn't something I have had positive experience with in the past, but it seems like you have introduced new concepts and new UX that may change that. I would love to read a technical write up about the design of the language.
GiveCampus (YC S15) needs front-end and full stack engineers in DC and SF
We are GiveCampus, and we build fundraising software for educational institutions. Our goal is to build innovative software so schools can raise money, and make it cheaper and more accessible for everyone.

Our engineering team is currently still small, and we're looking to add to the team to keep up with our continued growth.

We are looking for someone who's been working professionally for at least two years, and has great front end chops, but can still manage some of the backend functionality as well. The ideal candidate would have an eye for clean design (though not necessarily need to be a designer), and be able to implement and iterate quickly. Our stack is Ruby on Rails, with mostly Bootstrap on the front end, and we're moving toward React where appropriate.

Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, expects us to be a household name in the next few years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13896296. We were also covered by the Washington Post last year (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/1...), and have quadrupled the number of schools using us since it was published.

Shoot us a message at careers@givecampus.com with your github and a little about why you're interested in GiveCampus!
I'm a huge fan of Lambda, but these prices really need to go down. If anyone thinks API Gateway is cheap, just do the math, this is a trivial amount of traffic for even the smallest of EC2 instances.

Head over to http://serverlesscalc.com/ and enable the "HTTP Requests" radio.
The Size of iPhone's Top Apps Has Increased by 1,000% in Four Years
In the US, 100 Mbps availability hit 60% in 2014, and the next milestone is gigabit.
Hey man- professional courtesy here: "if linksys users believe their routers are compromised" is possibly the worst way to frame this. You should flatly advise users to update.
Milf Examiner Licks Teens Pussy in Car – 3634795 – DrTuber.com
More reliable than humans is too low a bar. People mostly forgive each other's imperfections, not so much a computer's. A self-driving truck is going to need to be at least an order of magnitude or more safer than a human.
When alien archeologists study the third rock from Sol, they will find no life save for IRC C&C bots chattering back and forth. Feels like the end to an interesting sci-fi novel.
I think you can find everything you have just mentioned in Buenos Aires, for sure. if you will be earning in USD you will be more than comfortable.
A video of one of the authors folding a bunny model like the one in the article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAnW-KU2yn4
I don't know if they are profitable, but Peter Cooper has a whole bunch of good ones at https://cooperpress.com/
AWS Lambda Outage
No lambda invocations are happening for me in us-east-1. Internal server errors and service unavailable messages.
> Statistically speaking, many of them are Trump voters....Can you handle that?

I hope this is a joke. If someone literally cannot handle working alongside someone who voted for Trump, that is so sad.
> Uruguay is like a parallel dimension, where somehow Argentinean people didn't screw up their state.

Lol....best Uruguay definition I've ever read
The US Government Wants to Permanently Legalize the Right to Repair
Or less cynically, the people who choose to work in government and law enforcement see themselves as doing good.
Some idle speculation:
* Self driving cars kill walking and urban development, make things even more suburban by removing one of the major current downsides of car travel
* Further migration out of colder northern climates to increasingly hot southern areas leads to more and more air conditioning usage
* Instead of batched shopping trips once a week, or even postal-service-level delivery aggregation, everything is delivered on-demand at a one-off energy expense
* Similarly, maybe some sort of robotic daily clothes and dishes cleaning instead of only doing it when there's a full load?
* Active temperature-regulating clothing? Now I feel like I'm reaching more and more :)
A Comcast tech (who was out as a preliminary to getting a run buried to my then-unserved house) cut my ATT DSL line because he "assumed it wasn't being used." (Even though he wasn't installing anything that day)

Since then, I watch Comcast techs work, tell them exactly where to term and where to stop, and then to get the hell off my property.
Google VR180
Yeah this is a bit worrying. But since it was leaked, this actually doesn't seem so bad. What incentive would the CIA have to lie internally?
There are slots plays for advantage players ... when the jackpot reaches some amount there can be an edge for the player, they do promotions that can be gamed ... takes a lot of studying the minutiae for a loophole ... a more general article on advantage players https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/magazine/how-advantage-pl...
Why would you hate it?
Didn't really have any other choice. We had tons of users calling in last week panicking over what to do about cherryblossom.

Without a sample of the implant or confirmation from the CIA that the documents are legitimate & unaltered, this advisory is pretty much all we can do for those users.
The three biggest silicon valley firms should buy up all the land, buy new campuses and house for all the workers.

Would reduce strain on bay area and its only a few hours south so good connectivity.
Oh, please, stop repeating the mantra about 120K immigrants flocking into Toronto every year. Quite a lot people are leaving the city due to insane real estate market as well as retirees, going as far as St.Catharenes. Nobody knows how many exactly, therefore no good numbers on the net inflow (which is still positive, though).
Netflix sells pixels. Not stories.

They are the McDonalds of movies, and a McDonalds is all about standardization and efficiency.

If only allowing for cameras that deliver a narrow and predictable band of technologies let's them work more efficiently, and if they are able to make and save money that way, it makes perfect sense for someone who works at scale to do exactly what they are doing. They are a market marker now, and thus can afford to play around with previously established norms.
Waymo Hires Ex-Tesla Engineer to Lead Self-Driving Hardware
Stratechery? Ben's monetisation is the newsletter
The more I think about it, the more a legal solution like the ones these guys are advocating more makes sense: http://irregulators.org/ .
We're running http://androidweekly.net and http://swiftweekly.com?

It was roundabout 5 years just editing and making no money. Now it's making money - but just a side income.

1. Content is king!
2. Start to build a community (if you link someone in your newsletter just ping him on twitter).
3. Go to community events.

Doing ads on Facebook and Twitter actually didn't work that well.
I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here. Do we need enforcement here or do we need to change policy?
Note though, it’s a very different grid (syntax/properties evolved): https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/11/26/should-i-try-...
I don't run these but here's a couple that I know of:

- Stratechery (Ben Thompson) - $100k/month (conservative estimate) via subscriptions (https://www.stratechery.com)

- WTF Just Happened Today (Matt Kiser) - $8k/month via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/wtfjht)
Understood. Thank you. It makes sense that you would move on this urgently and confirm it's success only after.
> No, they're actually not. They're trivial to get to a state of "the process is running on my machine", but to actually get a set of suitable metrics presented the way you want them, that takes a while, especially if you're not already a skilled sysadmin. It's certainly more than "a couple of hours of sysadmin time every couple of years" that others in this thread suggest.

I said what I said not as speculation but out of experience. It's really not hard. Telegraf includes many of the metrics you'd want built in and others can be sent with minimal effort from most applications with StatsD.
Some games can get large enough jackpots to make a game +EV.

Doesn't mean the house would lose.

The advantage players would fight for the machine(s, if a pooled jackpot) and play until the jackpot was hit, at which point it would become -EV again and they would stop.

These machines are relatively uncommon, and getting more uncommon.

You can read about these players, I think they can squeak by making about minimum wage or thereabouts.
Besides Iplan, is there another alternative? Can you share how much does it cost to you?
I find it hilarious how the limited supply of these engineers is forcing these companies into ping pong hiring.
Jekyll 3.5 released
If only I had taken my own advice :(
Indeed you couldn't. Technically you still can't, but now you can buy a game token with cash and then sell that to other players on the auction house for gold.
"self-order kiosks in McDonald's restaurants are not a labor replacement". Right, and if you believe that I've got a bridge to sell you. I'm sure a lot of these kiosks will be going into places that have a high minimum wage.

Somehow they think this is going to increase same-store sales. I don't know how, unless they're counting on more traffic due to the novelty factor. Or maybe the kiosks are going to automate upselling - "do you want fries with that? They've automatically been added to your order, hit Delete if you don't want them."
Rails 5.1 has dropped dependency on jQuery from the default stack
I own a bar and a few of these machines, and I can assure you they don't work that way. (I have several family members who believe they do, though)

Each spin has an equal chance of winning. The payback is adjustable in the software, but it does not pay extra when it's behind.

Of course, sometimes the jackpot is larger and that's a better time to play (but still not a good time).
I think the biggest reason is that the USA is a melting pot from people all over the world. The culture clashes in this country are way bigger than you would see in such a small homogenous country as Denmark, or even Israel (which has socialized healthcare). When there is a uniform culture, it makes it much easier for people to cooperate. However when there are many different cultures, people naturally gravitate to what is familiar to them. That makes cooperation much harder.
Ex-employee at Infosys claims company favored workers from India
How often is the performance difference between 100 megabit and gigabit internet all that measurable, though? For that matter, how often do truly get even, say, 900 megabits allocated to you on that sort of connection?

I'm not doubting they actually give you a gigabit connection, but especially during peak hours, I doubt the transit links you hit would necessarily have that much to spare.
O(cn) = O(n) I believe is what parent was getting at
Multi-table tournaments are the most high-variance way to play poker.

The post you replied to was talking about cash games. Those are also fairly high variance--you certainly can't win every night.

Poker great Barry Greenstein says in his book that he won, IIRC, 70% of his sessions.
I haven’t defined away the controversy, just taken a step back and tried to look at the issue more globally.

My company over the years has transitioned from no employees, to employees, to no employees again, and back to employees. The only time I have been in control (despite having 100% ownership) is when I have had no employees.

When you are thinking about starting a business the decision to employ or not is even bigger than deciding to take in investors.
Slightly tangential.. a code editor was showcased on HN few years back, with context sensitive "panes".. for example currently selected function/variable declarations in another pane. Very impressive stuff, but can't seem to find it anywhere now.
>variety of food/things to do, milder weather, LGBT friendliness

Wrt LGBT, I worked with people from Chile who moved to Argentina because the Chilean culture is very conservative/religious. In that case, Buenos Aires is known to be very LGBT friendly. I think Uruguay is also a good option (liberal/atheist culture), but simply because of the size, you'll have much more options to socialize in BA.

Wrt food, BA has lots of options from all over the world, simply because it's a very cosmopolitan city. Maybe not to the point of NYC (it's hard if you put the bar there) but certainly the city is also known because of the quality of the food, expect to gain some weight.

But of course, everything in life has trade offs, and this is where BA loses some points.. It's not cheap to buy technology there. That's why people who can travel, buy their gadgets and branded clothing in other countries.

Speaking of security, I was born and lived there most of my life, and the only time I was mugged, I was walking at 3am in 2003 (close to the biggest economic crisis in its history) in an insecure neighborhood outside of Buenos Aires (I had a fight with my girlfriend and left her house, and I thought: I'll walk home... This night could not be any worse, anyway... hehehe, I was proven wrong)

So unless you do something stupid, as I did, it should be relatively safe. But even then, you should take some cautions: do not use expensive jewelry or watches, be cautious when walking at night in places you don't know, do not leave unattended items (eg, your laptop at a bar while going to the wc).. Etc, some simple things that I've seen people who go there from other places sometimes omit to their regret.
> Perhaps that's true of the founder's life experience, ...

That's what I was thinking. They might be exaggerating a little bit the difference in culture.
That's super interesting! What do you charge?
The situation is so scary, I don't even joke about it.

I don't want to discuss it in depth for the same reasons, but joking around with friends has led to feeling physically ill and bouts of drinking because of the extremely dangerous possibilities that exist.

It's a fundamental mistake to network all of society to make it efficient: inefficiency is security. (In a broad, theoretical sense -- from capitalism to government to IT.)
The monthly subscription price for Stratechery is $10/month. Are you saying 10K people are paying for it?
That would be Stanislaw Lem's most depressing but aptly named masterpiece, "Fiasco".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiasco_(novel)

http://garethrees.org/2012/05/31/fiasco/

2. Radio static

A radiolocation map of the planet showed hundreds of transmitters of white noise, which merged into shapeless blotches. Quinta was emitting noise on all wavelengths.

In the Cold War theory: “What came to mind was an image of “radio warfare” taken to the point of absurdity, where no one any longer transmitted anything, because each side drowned out the other… All bands of radio waves were jammed. The entire capacity of the channels of transmission was filled with noise. In a fairly short period of time the race became a contest between the forces of jamming and the forces of intelligence-gathering and command-signaling. But this escalation, too, penetrating the noise with stronger signals and in turn jamming the signals with stronger noise, resulted in an impasse.”

Other hypotheses considered: “The noise was either the scrambling of broadcast signals or a kind of coded communication concealed by the semblance of chaos.” [It’s a consequence of the Shannon–Hartley theorem that the maximum information is transferred on a channel in the form of white noise.]
The 35b profile with active DSLAMs in neighborhood cabinets "may" reach 300mbps with a fully vectored network (but just a couple of loops not being vectored greatly reduces speeds [1]). It still requires lots of infrastructure upgrades, replacing the old passive cabinets with bigger active ones containing DSLAMs, laying lots of fiber around etc. I still think its a dead end and countries like Greece that only now are installing such networks are making a big mistake.

FTTB, either through G.FAST OR Ethernet is a better use of all that money in my opinion and it's a lot easier to upgrade in the future (either the building terminal or switcing to full fiber i.e. AON/GPON etc).

[1] https://i.imgur.com/39pCRjN.png