skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main benefit I get out of it is that without it I would never cook anything because I wouldn't be able to get the motivation over the long term (I've tried, and it works for a short time, but fades).

So basically it gives me reasonable portions that I can cart to work, gets me to cook by force-feeding me recipes (which seems to reliably motivate me, and they taste good enough when done), and at least seem more healthy (and at $9 a serving substantially cheaper than) a restaurant.

Not saying that the same thing would work for anyone other than me, but has worked out better than the prior "stuffing whatever food I can reach into mouth" method.
Fair point.

I sometimes overestimate the ability of the average electronics hobbyist to properly understand a datasheet.
A massive new ransomware attack is spreading around the globe
I've been doing this for 20 years and I'm not even sure where I'd start on your middle school math question. I hate working with calendars and dates and I don't think I know anyone who enjoys it and can write totally bug free code that takes care of all edge cases.

I'm sure good at fighting database fires though.

This probably is at the heart of the answer to the question "how could this programmer with such a long resume have botched this interview so badly?" It would be insane to believe they've never added value to any organization and have just been coasting along all this time. Maybe your interview sucks and isn't good at finding value.
It's surprising that the attackers ask victims to send an email. Why not ask victims to publicly post a picture of their screen to social networks with a certain hash tag (and a new account)? That would be less traceable and harder to shut down, I think.

Not that I want to give attackers any ideas... :-)
I've taken recently a row of interviews. I've had my first whiteboard exercise and it wasn't as bad as I've expected to be. It actually proved to be very useful, as I could abstract away details that I otherwise had to deal with if I had to implement the solutions on a computer. I've also had those five interviewers on the other side of the desk! It was pretty funny for me, but I concede it may have been stressful for somebody else.
That would be excessive and impractical; just because you can't go the whole way toward doing something, it doesn't mean that any measure along the way is useless. Supporting copyright less is better than supporting it more, as I'm sure GP would agree.
I experienced the exact same feelings as you. Until I started interviewing candidates in quantity, I had no clue how many candidates cannot complete FizzBuzz. The reported failure rates of this simple test are completely legitimate. In my own interviewing, it comes out at about 50/50. The 50% who do pass often make some significant conceptual mistake, for which I'm generally pretty forgiving since interviews can be a stressful experience. This question comes at the end of a hiring pipeline that does 2 phone screens before the on-site happens.
pump it where?
Nvidia, AMD to Launch Cryptocurrency Mining Graphics Cards
Lord have mercy, Apache 1? That's what you get bro.
these questions are better directed at the team, not me. I am just an investor. Bear in mind, you are getting health advice, not a medical diagnosis, that would be impossible via a chat service.
If you work on subject matter you commit it to memory simply through familiarity, this is a great boon as it simplifies many analyses to recall facts.

What good knowing how to think without having the standard inputs; this enables focus on the wider problem rather than interrupting to feed in necessary facts.

E=hf ... but hang on, does that make sense, the trained mind can analyse it. Sure you can look up energies, and Planck and frequencies but having any of those to hand makes your work more efficient. It doesn't just have to make theoretical sense except for v. v. few ... and I say that as an erstwhile theoretician.

Don't get me wrong. Learning facts as a goal is inherently misdirected. But facts are the atoms on which the trained mind works.

Moreover axioms are facts that can't be intuited or derived, they must be learnt of existing systems or defined of new ones.

I think the position espoused in those quotes is hyperbolic.
Honestly, this is an issue with having absolutely terrible browsers. This sort of thing should be easy to do without having to know javascript. The user just has so little power with the user interface they're given for interacting with the internet. Obviously, this will change over time, but the transition period is very frustrating.
True, but remember this is a bookmarklet, not an extension. So you use it on a site that is actively annoying you. If it breaks the site, you can refresh.
How did the engineers who designed that process get hired? What was wrong with the process that landed you your existing team?

Lastly...why are the engineers coming up with the hiring process anyway? Is this common in other professions?
What change?

Are you suggesting that there's a cast iron guaranteed way of saying 'this stuff should be in the OS and nothing else'?

If you are suggesting that, are you suggesting the trust root for that particular stack is something other than the vendor? If so who?

Take the example of Windows. Let's say they agree to put in a backdoor like DoublePulsar. Microsoft release the official OS and say 'we promise this is all good and only stuff that should be in here is in here. Honest.' How do we as third parties detect they've put something in there that shouldn't be?

I see you're CEO of verify.ly and have some background in this, so I'm actually quite curious to know how you'd detect a malicious closed source vendor like Microsoft who is working with a TLA to provide backdoor access.
I tried Blue Apron just to see what the deal was. It was "OK" but not really a fit for me.

I do know people who like it though. There's a category of (especially) couples with disposable income who really want to cook at home a few nights a week but appreciate some structure to make it happen.
I'm not sure what you mean, but I've used Kill Sticky every day for the past year or two and it's worked flawlessly. Any time I have any crap following my viewport around, it gets rid of it.
>For new projects, you will know the answer to questions like:

> do tools exist to build it?
> are the tools “mature”?
> can our team adopt these tools without bankrupting the company with technical debt?
> Your years of experience will make you more confident in your understanding of the “state of the universe.” This is valuable to employers…always.

No, you won't know the answer to these questions any more than anyone else unless it's a tool set you've used. It takes actual experience with a particular tool set to know where the hype meets reality.
I've tried BlueApron and HelloFresh. I enjoy cooking, and the quality of the recipes is great, but damn, it takes too long to make their recipes. Often, they promise it only takes 15-30 minutes for an entire meal, but apparently I'm not a professional chef who can wash vegetables, dice them, prepare marinades, chop garlic, and do all of this in just a few minutes. I end up usually spending between 60-90 minutes just to cook a recipe, which is way too much labor for a meal that is already priced about the same as a restaurant meal.

Granted, the food is much healthier than restaurant food, but my time is too valuable to spend that much. I suspect that other families where both parents work full time (like mine) are the same. Who has the time to spend an hour or two cooking every night? And pay a premium price for it?

I'm cautiously optimistic about Tovala. They are the first one of these that has a fairly unique system where the food just needs to be popped into their combi-oven (bake, broil, and steam) and you just wait until it cooks.

Eventually, we will have fully automated cooking appliances where drones deliver fresh food staples to your house and you get hot meals prepared automatically, but in the meantime, Tovala looks the closest to creating that experience.
Or the behavior should, y'know, go away entirely. It's the bane of everyone who uses the top edge of the viewport to help them read.
Russia Threatens to Ban Telegram Messaging App
The War Between Typescript and JavaScript
Some of our gov agencies, private firms were hit by a virus
This is what real engineering looks like.
Imagine you are a dentist who has a web site for your practice.
So the lesson is apply for ESTA as late as possible?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14634890
There's another nice profiler for Python: https://github.com/nvdv/vprof (no history view though)
"There is not a single set of skills that define a good programer. ... No engineer can be strong in all off these areas."

The ability to spell is one of them.
AMP is a horrific web standards breaking power grab but if there's one thing that's going to kill it it's that google can't help but put a dang sticky header at the top of every page.
Maersk Line's login site for customers is down, with a message saying their systems are down.[1] APM Terminals, their business unit which runs ports, has their web site down with a 500 error.[2]

* Los Angeles APM container terminal shut down for today according to press report.[3] No mention of this on APM web site.[4]

* Port Elizabeth (NJ) APM container terminal is down for incoming trucks, according to Port Authority of NY and NJ site.[5] No mention of this on APM web site for the port, so apparently APM web site updates have stopped.

* Mobile (AL) APM container terminal is down.[6]

[1] https://my.maerskline.com/
[2] http://www.apmterminals.com
[3] http://www.sgvtribune.com/business/20170627/la-ports-largest...
[4] http://www.apmterminals.com/en/operations/north-america/los-...
[5] https://www.panynj.gov/port/
[6] http://wkrg.com/2017/06/27/widespread-cyberattack-impacts-co...
When I upvote on side projects and I like them then the upvote is to support the anonymous developer like me, early exposure is good.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14645452
CODE RED for US Entrepreneurs: Senate Healthcare Bill Will Destroy Us
Can't you read? I said I had tried using my local account initially but then I couldn't use the Windows Sign In dialog for anything, not to access Windows Insider Programme ( Settings > Windows Insider Programme - which you do need an MS account for) not to add another user, not to connect my Internet account, not to login to the Windows Store, Xbox, etc. So after spending a few hours trying to run every hack I could find (none worked) I ended up reinstalling Windows 10 again then kept their default Internet account policy and now everything's working again. Since you don't have any clue what I went through feel free to Google it yourself: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+10+can%27t+add+user+dialog
I am definitely not a fan of all the default analytics gathered, not cool, but I took "cooperates" to be referencing legitimately malicious software.
A quick Google finds this (I consider NPR to be at least a decent source): http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/06/18/13724926...

That seems to cover the basics of the situation.

The TL;DR is that an "organic" label just means the food was grown using only "organic" components. There are plenty of organic pesticides.
> Consider WebGL, which is very impressive yet seldom used.

I want to like it, and do confess it is nice way to prototype shaders.

Yet thanks to the way it works, blacklisting GPUs, it means all my mobile devices are OpenGL ES 3.x capable and yet they can hardly display many WebGL pages.

While most games just work.

Regular users won't be going into browser settings to enable WebGL content, 99% of them won't even know such configuration does exist.
And I thought this was going to be about the companies that produce military rations.
Great minds think alike - I also have an 11' macbook and got annoyed enough to make a chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zapfixed/jgiflpbko...

I think his one may be better. Mine toggles using jquery.
Thought this was going to be about growing physical fibers -- making cellulose threads in a reactor or something.
Are you sure about that? You do know most organizations will implement that as a huge amount of bureaucracy for every commit, rather than proper man-hours of security-oriented development.
Thanks, we'll give it a go next time.
Not really, no. When Dropbox applied to YC, they had to fill in a section that specifically dealt with how hard it would be to enter their space. It was much harder than it looks, and they convinced YC of that.

Groupon always suffered from being easy to copy and having no appreciable network effects.
> Finally, I just don't care right now about navigating your website, or following you on Twitter. I'm trying to read. Let me focus on that for now, please.

Agreed. Those sticky headers almost always wind up on sites like blogs and text articles where they have no place and just reduce usability.
I wouldn't say censorship is at play. There have been analyses showing that Google is a favorite topic of HN users[1], and also there have been customer service scenarios that prove that there are a lot of Google employees on here. Those are probably the forces at work in this case.

[1] http://blog.datadive.net/which-topics-get-the-upvote-on-hack...
Let me know when the DoD routinely has their nukes stolen, possibly without them ever knowing.
WASM is way lower-level than JS. It doesn't have functions as objects, or really any object system. And the point is for developers to write higher-level web languages that compile down to WASM, so there's no real pressure to add layers of abstraction down at this level. https://medium.com/javascript-scene/what-is-webassembly-the-... It seems like you're hung up on the "browser" part, but it's just providing a compiler and a sandbox.
> The article doesn't say much, besides replaying many common thoughts. Actually, as an article, it's pretty much useless.

Yep, it's totally useless and is really only designed to draw ad traffic (god there's a lot of ads)
Could you give some examples of one-liners you feel might be more elegant in Awk than in Perl? It might be fun to get a thread going where people try to give clean Perl versions.
I can see this being used in large corporations to end-around a sluggish IT group.
>Are there any industrial plant moisturing robots? What approaches do these use?

Sure there are. They look like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/PivotWit...

I assume you mean the second/third definition of "robot," since GreenPiThumb doesn't look like a human. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/robot
The problem is that they convert, so they are going to keep being used.
> The problem is that such a service has no real hope of taking the place of someone with actual cooking skill who knows you well and will tweak the recipe to your preferences, possibly without you even having to explicitly ask or remind her.

My wife and I have used meal-in-a-box services. We both tweak the recipes without reminders. They don't aim to replace a cook, because they still need a cook.

They mostly replace some of the effort of shopping, portioning, and some part of prepping, plus recipe discovery.

> If you can afford a meal-in-a-box service, why would you not just go to a restaurant

Because with a restaurant, I don't have a cook that will tweak to my tastes without detailed prompting.

> where the wait staff will do a decent job as a substitute for your own live-in cook

You are confusing front-of-house with back-of-house staff.

> Someone else decides what you will be eating and you have to do the cooking.

The ability to select from a menu of options prior to delivery would be an improvement for many of these services.
I think that's the point of the article (although I doubt it's anyway near 99%). The article is enforcing the importance of building an "economic moat" in business: http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/economicmoat.asp

In the case of the meal-kit industry, the author's suggesting there is no moat, or none has been identified/built yet.
I think too much ambition to be able to home-cook every kind of food under the sun leads to much of this trouble. Focus on a narrower set of things—say, 2-3 national/regional/ethnic cuisines, and/or cooking techniques—and most of the difficulty, expense, and even planning of home cooking goes away.

The wildly globe-hopping table of the home cook is a recent, and kinda silly, development. You can get plenty of variety without trying to prepare meals from every continent.

(this goes out the window if it's a major hobby, obviously, but in that case so should complaints about its difficulty/inconvenience, which are entirely self-imposed)
Or just don't re-appear, and leave scrolling alone. If I want to view a header, I'll scroll to the top of the page.
whats the difference? regarding laid off/fired.
How did PHP get to its current model after the PHP 6 mess?
OK, I'll just delete the comments if they're too controversial or something.

I'm a little confused as to why it's off topic though.
The silly looking swirly light is intended to attract attention so that people will look directly into the camera. [Seriously. I found it in a technical description.]

That's evil.
If you're a coder I bet you could hack it to do that. It has an amazing containerized browser mode where you can browse in a remote browser via VNC, with the remote browser set up to use a WARC-writing proxy. So the general outline would be to run it locally in Docker; expose the proxy port used by the containerized browsers; and configure your own browsers to use the same proxy.

I'm not sure how much this would interfere with normal browsing -- it's not a typical usecase.
Someone just lost $1M by buying stolen domain
Add my name to the list of people that aren't entirely convinced that bundling IE was a abuse of monopoly power.
Congress prioritizing space by creating a U.S. Space Corps military branch
on what is this based.
the EU commision distroyed roaming between EU members, and im pretty sure they had all the lobiying from mobile operators to not do it.
It took me a long time to learn SQL well enough to appreciate its beauty.

Simple queries, you know, "SELECT foo, bar FROM baz WHERE lastChange > CURRENT_DATE" are easy.

But if you are facing the database of your ERP software (as I often am) whose vendor is very reluctant to tell you about its internal structure and how that interfaces with the ERP system (my gut feeling, though, is that we're lucky - SAP and Oracle are probably much less friendly to people poking around in their databases to create custom reports, hehe), using SQL and its interactive nature to explore the database is a lot of fun as long as the database design is relatively sane. Thank God our ERP vendor's programmers were not creative enough to do insane things.

(Well, they did one crazy thing - there are NO foreign keys to be found anywhere in that database, instead it is all faked with triggers. I think that's how people used SQLite before it supported foreign keys. But we're talking about Microsoft freaking SQL Server here; being derived from another enterprise-y RDBMS, I find it hard to believe that it would at some point have lacked foreign keys. Since the triggers DO check for referential integrity, why on earth did they no just use Foreign keys? What were they thinking?)

It gets a little mind-bending at times, but in a good way.

But explaining SQL queries of the non-trivial kind to somebody is intimidating. One of our accountants at one point expressed interest in learning SQL, because she would bug me with questions that I answered by running a few carefully worded queries. For some reason I find SQL relatively easy to understand but really, really hard to explain.
Re: 1) You might think that is in Google's best interest - but I'm not sure most previous behavior with handling anything from usenet (Google groups), via the rss reader through any number of other services Google has mismanaged or shut down.

It's in Google's best interest to make money. A large userbase and ubiquitous brand is part of that. User happiness is only one possible means to that end.

Finally, you seem to think that search users are Google's customers - as they don't pay anything to Google, they are a resource, or product - not a customer.

Google search is a loss-leader for Google ads - if there's no competition (say paying for product placement at these other sites) - Google gets a bigger share of the ad revenue.

I don't see what magical mechanism there is that would strongly push Google to care for the Google search users "best interest".
Oh this is awesome, well presented and clear.

A couple of notes, generally if you email the author of a paper they will send you a copy. Scholar.google.com can be used to evaluate the other papers referenced, highly cited ones will be 'core' to the question, less highly cited ones will address some particular aspect of the research.

For any given paper, if it cites one or two seminal papers in the field, you can build a citation cloud to create what is best described as the 'current best thinking on this big question'. You do that by following up the citations and their citations for two or three hops. (kind of like a web crawler).

With something like sci-hub and some work on PDF translation, it should be possible to feed two or three 'seed' papers to an algorithm and have it produce a syllabus for the topic.
Use a big enough hash length that this is less likely than cosmic rays flipping your bits or something.
What if they become automated grocery delivery?

It's an interesting leverage point, since there's obviously a [possibly smaller-than-they-want] market. But the expansion into automated grocery will be a matter of luck & timing. Unless you're Amazon [in which case it's persistence]
A trouble is it's a moving target. As soon as you sort one annoyance they'll invent a new one. That said Chrome could really do with a simple do not autoplay video setting.
How it was the C source code 25 years ago?
Of course I have a choice. Not using WhatsApp.
> I'd love to read about how avoiding "GMO foods" increases exposure to herbicides,

The OP comment doesn't say that.

It says that probably is increasing their exposure more toxic herbicides, not that is increasing the exposure to herbicides
tl;dr wish they could just get to the point
> [Google's site] runs on their server [...] Micosoft runs their products like Windows and Office on YOUR machine

That's not a significant difference - Google's site renders on your machine too. Google's servers send you computer code (HTML, Javascript) and Microsoft's servers also send you computer code (Windows binaries).

> [Google's site] is free to visit

The use of API calls in Windows is also free. Would you be OK with Windows servicing Chrome and Dropbox several times slower than Microsoft products? There was a huge antitrust case about this in the '90s.
This is fairly well understood, as is the fact that none of the parties involved - Facebook, the media, or the political parties - have an ounce of incentive to change.

So, what do we do? It may be becoming apparent that the theory that democracy does not work in a world with social media is correct, but what can be done with that information?

For every Buzzfeed you kill there's another, for every social network with detailed discussion there's a bigger, dumber one.

I would love someone to propose something radical, but the only new ideas I've heard are monarchy (from people that also tend to think minorities are a problem) which is terrifying, or Chinese style rule, which honestly sort of seems to be working? I have no idea, I'm a software developer, not a political theorist, but you have hit the nail on the head.
> I think it would actually highlight how subtly and unconsciously racist many people are, which would help us solve that problem.

One can make the same argument about height-ism, ugly-ism, or money-ism.