skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using simplification to make predictions about reality ≠ "having a fantasy".

The entire mode of operation of science involves being aware that one's approach is less than absolutely accurate. The advance of science certainly debunked vitalist views of nature as some irreducible essence. It's a "common trope" to equate to such debunking into turning nature into a machine but nature itself remains as it is regardless of our ideas.
The Scrum Master job description totally cracked me up - Champion agile methodologies, hunt down and eliminate remaining waterfall advocates
right, but if you are at a high risk for heart attack it is worth the risk.

Ask your doctor how the risk/reward plays out for you. Never take medical any other than ask your doctor from a message board.
I agree with you somewhat, but couldn't you just as easily replace "unpaid weekend writing code" with:

- unpaid weekend updating resume

- unpaid weekend practicing algos

- unpaid weekend browsing job sites

just as easily? I don't think asking job seekers to be interested enough to give a work sample is an undue burden. If that filters out people playing the numbers by applying to every opening...is that such a bad thing?
The user often does not have a choice because websites that they must use for one reason or another will require these extensions, just like some required Flash. And that's assuming that the extension even works on their system. The extensions are native code IIRC. Ever get a "sorry, your OS isn't supported!" message on a website that you really need to use to get something done? It sucks, a lot. I don't know why the W3C would want to steer themselves in such a direction, it's the antithesis of what the web was supposed to be. The web is supposed to have a well defined set of standards that anyone can implement and use to view the web. This was never true in practice because of things like Flash, but the W3C never endorsed such a thing. Now they are, and that is sad.
"Oh By".[1]

I launched this about a year ago and while it has made more than zero dollars (some folks have indeed paid for personalized, editable Oh By Codes) it doesn't really make any money.

I am very busy with rsync.net and much more so these past 12 months so I haven't had the time I would like to invest into Oh By. I continue to believe it's a good idea.

[1] https://0x.co
I'm not an agent myself, but I did help start a brokerage and spend most of my time automating busywork for our agents. Our top agents do 5-15 transactions per month in very competitive markets, have competitive acceptance and close rates, and great NPS scores. Agents are absolutely necessary to negotiate with sellers and talk stressed out buyers through the process, but most spend the majority of their time doing lead generation. I talked to an agent from a respectable brokerage in LA the other day who said she spends 95% of her time prospecting for new clients.

I'm not by any means saying agents are lazy, I maybe phrased that poorly. Just that if you're looking at the hourly rate the agent is making for the ~10 hours they're spending from offer to close, it's kind of wacky compared to most other types of high skill work (e.g. 10 hours on a 500k home with the typical 2.5% commission is $1,250/hour).
If any of you on that list are interested in hacking on docker, kubernetes/docker swarm, aws/azure/google cloud or infrastructure provisioning tools (terraform, cloudformation, cm tools like chef and puppet) and making scalable and testable infrastructure a reality at really large companies, email me at carlos@contino.io.

I've been working with some amazing folks on some really interesting projects, and we have clients all over the world. We are located in NYC, London and Melbourne but hire from anywhere (I live in Dallas.)
I'm not OP, but I do share OPs views the about disparity in laws themselves for white-collar crimes on the order of $3M and drug possession of $ values 100,000 less.

If there is a criminal prosecution, that would certainly affect my outlook for the better, and I would gladly admit that I was wrong to the degree that I was! I really hope that you're correct on the "inevitably," but I'm also extremely doubtful.

That said, I'm not sure that we have the full picture here. With somebody as political as Hobby Lobby's management, and as politically viewed as they are, there's probably an entirely different side to the story that never makes it out.
Do you have... any kind of evidence to support that claim?
Yes, it's true. Most of the water that flows from the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico comes from rain. And most of that rain comes from ocean evaporation. Sure, there's some input from aquifers, and some recharging of aquifers. And there's evaporation from the Mississippi, its tributaries, and all of the associated lakes, wetlands, and so forth.

But the fact remains that the Mississippi is part of the global water cycle. And cycles are circles.
why find the jobs when you can let the jobs come to you?
The Surprising Psychology of Rock-Paper-Scissors
Angular 4 just came out 4 months ago. NativeScript + Angular 4...just released this year. Who knows if that's even mature at this point? Google doesn't build native mobile apps with Angular. Never have and who knows if they ever will? They use native Java and native iOS. No doubt they could achieve rapid simultaneous deployment of features...but they have to juggle a lot of different tech stacks to do so. Facebook benefits tremendously by unifying its code base around React. Tremendous productivity benefits
I wrote a todo list app for windows phone called listage, which had neat fast entry and auto categorising features. Free with in app purchase to unlock advanced features. I built it for myself but secretly hoped it would take the world by storm, which it did not. I sold 5 copies. That's probably 1/4 of all the windows phone users left out there :)
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It's not a cryptocurrency issue in general. For example, Ethereum doesn't have this problem because it keeps track of balances (instead of unspent transaction outputs).
Even with perfect UX, these kind of "user errors" will still happen. I wonder if there is any recourse available? So far it seems like you can either hope the person on the other end will give you something back (unlikely) or convince the entire Bitcoin chain to fork to void your transaction (even less likely).
Fixing the Dreaded “SyntaxError: Unexpected Token in JSON”
Just like 'There is no such person as Good CEO', but only 'A Good CEO for a particular company, at a particular point of time', there is no such a person as 'Good Programmer', there is only 'A Good Programmer for a particular job, at a particular point of time'.

Context matters a lot. One does not use an AK-47 to kill a mosquito. It is terrible for that job. But that does not make AK-47 a terrible weapon.

Good at programming competitions does not equal good at any programming job, is a more appropriate sentence.
That is not a useful comparison.

Because if you try the same on a big analog modular you won't get very far at all - less far than you can get with code, given that very basic singing synthesis was already a solved problem back in the 1960s, and systems like Vocaloid have been commercial products for more than a decade now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDsJCJ02184

...Which is the core problem with analog synthesis, whether it's a modular or a box-of-knobs synth: it's the synthesis equivalent of writing code in BASIC.

You can do it, and it's good for certain kinds of jobs.

But even though a wall of knobs and wires looks like the last word in musical openness, it actually puts some very rigid limits on the complexity and sophistication of what you can do. And worse (IMO) it trains you to think inside those limits instead of encouraging you to explore beyond them.
I had a similar experience, but it was single women, and there was no way to ask Google to stop showing me those types of ads. At the very least allow me to block adult advertisements. Maybe it's on purpose...
I'm a QA guy, which may come out in some of the jokes, e.g.:

Ineptech CEO Dick Hallerson wishes to apologize for describing the Quality Assurance group as a "necessary evil." Mr. Hallerson did not mean to imply that QA is necessary.
If your bank charges you $0.50 to make a wire transfer, and you make 10,000 wire transfers at once, they will charge you $5000. Making a large number of transfers at once with cryptocurrency is essentially the same thing. This is not difficult for most people to follow.
You don't need to live in a Malibu mansion with a view to the ocean, you just need to live within reasonable distance of your routine locations.

And competition is high because supply is constrained by NIMBY zoning regulations. It's an artificial constraint.
> 1) Google [..] definitely works on hard algorithms

True, but Google also has over 20,000 engineers working on various things. I think only a tiny minority of those are actually working on hard algorithms.
Is that really worth the good PR for them? It seems almost ridiculous if it was not BTC.com's mistake to begin with.
I am familiar with Outliers. I read the book. But I fail to see how this is relevant in any way.
Location: DC
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Technologies: the written word, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
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Especially interested in writing, editing, design, and marketing for social impact ventures.
No workflow, we just use BackupPC (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) - cant recommend it enough. Restores are easy, monitoring and automation on different schedules is all built in. It's really great.
I didn't realize Bitcoin Core had switched. I mean it's kind of an obvious idea if you're trying to make money, but it could make the network weaker if some kinds of transactions take days to get verified.
What's the edge case? That the destination address is an alias? That I was using a personal domain? That Google implements aliases using Google Groups?

I never understood what was causing these bounces. The entire email chain occurred within Google's control, passed SPF and DKIM checks, my domain isn't on any blacklists nor used for spam that I know of, and isn't used for anything but personal emails. And I've had it registered for years. Nor was it the content of the message. I had a friend with another Google Apps domain setup an alias for testing and when I mailed that address it bounced the same way, regardless of the message body. Emails to other addresses in his domain were not marked as spam... it was only Groups aliases that bounced.
Study: Recurring intestinal infections increasing in United States
"It's just the "Do you want to allow Flash to play this cool video?" story all over again."

Another comparison to existing tech is Javascript. A lot of sites break if you disable Javascript in your browser, but if you enable it you open yourself to Javascript vulnerabilities.
Saturday (iOS)
Try explaining any technical feature of the incumbent monetary system to any normie...
Fifteen new devices from Technoethical now FSF-certified to respect your freedom
Is there a way to add my company to the list of recruiters or export it as a .xls/.csv.

GrowingStartup.com would love to work with some of these people.
I'm glad to see how supportive everyone is.
PICO8 was my first thought too
Put all personal data on a zfs z2 RAID system (FreeNAS). Take regular snapshots.

Someday I'm going to get a second offsite system to do ZFS backups to, but so far the above has served well. Then again I've been lucky enough to never have a hard drive fail, so the fact that I can lose 2 without losing data is pretty good. I'm vulnerable to fire and theft, but the most likely data loss scenarios are covered.
They mined the block, so they got to keep the btc. They're going to send it back to the person once they verify their identity. Hopefully that person does t destroy their keys when they're done.
> BTC will never be a currency for anything legal

It is actually already quite common for many legal internet-based services.
> I have a bridge to sell.

Sorry what's a bridge? I don't get the reference.
There are cases of people going to jail because they donated money to charities claiming to help orphans. Government argument in those cases was that they should have "known better."

Only reason executives are not charged with treason is because they are white Christians not brown Muslims.
I find carbs make me feel this way. Do you do carbs? I find the combo of low carb + IF gives me more energy and focus on days I don't eat.

Btw, my IF regime is 3 24-hour fasts a week. I usually do dinner to dinner (so skip breakfast/lunch).
It's important that these stories be told because somehow people need to be led by example this is how you deal with female founders if you're an investor.

Eliminate any excuses at all. It's just common sense for a lot of people, but as we've seen recently not all.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14720162 and marked it off-topic.
You are right and calling it quintessential might be too much. Local lexing seems interesting, but the approach I used is called combinatorial parsing and it does parsing and lexing in one go because they are so intertwined anyway. This also lets me get to the AST in just one pass over the input string with very little backtracking.

I'll update the post with this feedback.Thank you.
You are right on the SAN cert, my bad.
Ask HN: Do enough people click on ads to make targeted ads worth the cost?
I would wager that it costs a lot of money for Google/Facebook/Twitter to curate personal info and then sell it to ad providers.

Everyone I know uses an ad-blocking plugin, and those who don't would never click on an ad on purpose. So...are there that many people who WILLINGLY/ON PURPOSE click on ads?
The Assassin's Teapot: How Does This Thing Work?
You shouldn't have your credit ruined for not wanting to give up your documents to some shitty company.
No malloc optimization can eliminate the waste of re-initializing an object from scratch. The fastest caching will be caching of almost-ready-to-go objects that don't require allocation and initialization from scratch. No malloc can provide that while sticking with malloc semantics.
Just to keep pricing in context, the media home value in the US is right around $200k. So the transfer cost ends up being ~$12k. If the RE attorneys (on each side) each spent a full day @ $200/hour on the closing, you're looking at $3,200. That creates an extra $9k to split between the parties. And there's no way a closing takes a full day for an attorney (and most will be less than $200/hr).

The best part is that that same $3,200 will transfer a house that costs a lot more. The more expensive the house, the more you should want to use a lawyer over a realtor.
Amazon is responsible for making a reasonable effort to prevent anyone unauthorized from doing anything to an account. Swap "shut down" with "read personal information tied to account" or "upload a heinous webpage to the AWS server," whatever.

This is not one of those "by any means, achieve the ends" type scenarios.
I built the Zyn-Fusion user interface for the ZynAddSubFX ( http://zynaddsubfx.sf.net ) musical software synthesizer. I spent roughly 4 months coding, testing, and (light) marketing the new interface, but sales have been quite modest since it's release. This project was originally motivated by user demand for improvements in the ZynAddSubFX interface, centering around usability concerns. Before building the project I talked with the community and sent out surveys, but unfortunately the prep work overestimated the interest and underestimated the time needed to polish the application. That said, the Zyn-Fusion subproject was targeting relatively short term crowd funding, so I didn't expect it to turn into a huge revenue source.

As per doing things differently, I don't think there was another solution to accomplishing the goal given the complexity/demand and in a few months it will be available for the open source community.
The problem is paging the local SQlite DB requires you to use the main UI thread without causing nasty bugs.

The main problem is large redux objects, which you're right - needs major refactoring. It's a pain.
I had the same experience. I really wanted to use Redfin, and heavily used it for all my research and self-searches, but when the time came, I found my success with an agent.
It depends on what position are you trying to fill: if your business have various hard and general algorithmic problems that you need someone to solve then, hiring an ICPC regional champion would probably be a good thing. But this is not always the case...

I wouldn't hire an Olympic medalist runner to do pizza delivery because: 1) the person will probably get really bored (and may quit or perform bad after some time), and 2) the delivered pizzas will probably be a mess inside the box.

I believe programming competitions would do itself a favor changing its currently ambiguous name to algorithmic competitions. Then engineers, who are also programmers, would be ok with it and we would stop having this kind of threads every few weeks.

That being said, I personally enjoy competitive programming and I do agree that the knowledge you acquire is invaluable :) and I also think that most engineers should practice with online judges now and then to be better at their jobs.
Not the low dose version. I've been taking them for 5+ years and never once had a problem with the stomach (that wasn't obviously something else).
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I've maxed out a couple credit cards and spent all my severance pay etc. trying to finish building this '3D abstract visual debugger,' which I'm calling Lucidity [video]: http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd

I started working on it in 2014 and it's been on my mind ever since. I applied to YC with it a long time ago (was not accepted, and I can see so much wrong with the application I sent now...) I was laid off in November so I jumped back into the project and have been working on it since.

The main thing I'm planning on changing up now is: it's too general purpose—closer to a platform than a specific product. So next I'll focus on building one particular product on top of it: something kind of like Chrome's object browser (which you get when using console.log)—but showing dynamic structural changes in time (steppable/reversible), and being multi-language.

The other main issue is that, even though I'm trying to get it into user's hands as soon as possible, it has been a giant task for me to get even an alpha of this thing together on my own,—though I am damn close now. And my sister has been helping a bit recently.

Edit: direct link to video: https://youtu.be/KwZmAgAuIkY (looks much better full size!)
I've been using Torque[1] for about three years now. It's got a pretty nice UI to show just about anything your car outputs via OBD-II, and lots of things that can be derived from that, as well as integrating GPS and accelerometer data. You can log the data to your phone, as well has have it uploaded to the cloud.

The only time I've really used that data was the time some jerk stopped me, cursing at me for driving like a maniac and endangering his children (who he'd been allowing to play in the street). With the logged data, I was able to show that from the time I turned onto his street, I had been going no faster than 10mph below the limit.

The OBD-II error-reading software is very useful. It showed me that the Hyundai mechanics were completely incompetent. After holding my car in the shop for a week, they finally concluded that the problem is exactly what these diagnostics told me they were (plus 10 minutes of googling).

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torq...
We were talking about C code. That doesn't have strong, static typing with built-in safety. C developers also rejected things like Cyclone and Clay. So, my comment assumes a C-based platform (esp OS).
It's like only hiring NASCAR drivers to drive taxis because "they might need to go fast".
> This summer marks 30 years since I began writing the GNU C Library. (That's two thirds of my lifespan so far.)

So he started writing it at age 15?
You raise some great points. I would love to see an banking insider document regarding a true assessment of how they could compete with bitcoin. Or in other words, what is bitcoin missing that banks account for in overhead.

I want bitcoin to succeed as much as the next but I think a lot of people are naive and convinced its ready just because they can transfer btc from one party to another.
We were told to tell to customers that the feature was broken and that they had to do it themselves rather than pass it to team leads who in fact could do it in order to encourage users to do it themselves. Meanwhile we were providing support for the segment of customers the company considered most valuable. Most were paying $100-$250 a month.
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You are right, the compiler cannot handle much of higher order functions and closures yet. I have hinted how to do that with lambda lifting and closure conversion and I might get it working in the next few weeks. Maybe a part 2 for the blog post.
Amid Unprecedented Controversy, W3C Greenlights DRM for the Web
For those checking out the ineptech site, please don't miss the poetry compiler joke! It's the bit I'm the most proud of. It's in an unlinkable modal so actually I'll just paste it here:

Upon a stack of bits, about so tall, // Boolean[] isprime = new Boolean[n];
just think, O traveller, what we could do // Arrays.fill(isprime, true);
if every other bit was set to false // for (int i = 4; i < n; i+=2)
beginning with (but not including) two? // isprime[i] = false;

Now take two lowly numbers, A and B // for (int a = 3; a < n; a += 2)
that equal three and two. What would happen // {
if they, by twos and ones respectively, // for (int b = 2; a*b < n; b++)
were incremented in a nested fashion, // {

And if we falsified, at every turn, // isprime[a*b] = false;
the value offset by A groups of Bs? // }
Then to the aether let those bits return, // }
to fly back home to Eratosthenes! // return isprime;

(You may have figured out that I put a lot more time in to the silly programmer jokes in the fake site than in to the app. Wonder why it never took off...)
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>Most of what you've said in your comment is non sequitur, and I suggest you edit it out.

I believe this is unnecessarily rude. I appreciated the content of your comment but I feel your mild personal attack devalues it.
Waymo has a partnership with lyft right now, so that would be pretty tricky
Seems like something out of Black Mirror. I like the hand just slapping him for no reasons :D
With borg (https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/) and a custom script (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sanpii/deploy/master/src/b...) to test pg backup and sync to another server.
I agree that free LE certs disrupt the TLS certificate market pricing and a lot of CAs are probably going to be out of business for that matter.
Or just a title company. I have twice gone without realtors in transactions. Sales contracts in my state, Florida, have a uniform structure. The title company, if its large enough, probably has a staff attorney. In one case, I was able to escalate issues to the attorney when the seller was tussling with me about changes to the contract. No additional costs other than normal closing fee's associated with title insurance and such.
Hey I made this product to help organize the company mailroom

Let me know what you think
There are a lot! What kind of math or science do you like? Any books you've liked before, so you're looking for "more like this"?
I don't, because my idea was to buy a consumer device for a consumer person.

Turns out, what gets sold is barely usable, due to OS mainly.

I start to dig why chromebooks ever a thing. Because having nothing other than browser is better than having Windows.
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