skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree for the most part, but I think it really depends on the product your team is building. I can think of at least a couple companies I've worked at where the hard algorithms weren't rare, they were actually non-existent. The product's success relied on user experience, a solid design, and exhaustively tested and maintained code.

The reality with many companies these days is that the algorithmically hard problems are solved in the frameworks and libraries they use, it's simply not necessary for most engineers to understand their inner workings.

I'm curious, would you prefer an engineer with solid software engineering and design knowledge, or one with minimal experience building real software, but very in-depth algorithm and CS theory knowledge?
But the settlement occurred in 2017, so according to the calendar it's back to being President Trump's fault.
And yet, on my brand new Android Nougat phone, I have these StartCom and WoSign CAs. I just disabled them, but I doubt many users will.
Why bother with pesky political systems when capitalism will just self-organize everything for us perfectly??? NOW WITH 100% MORE FREEDOM
Thimble for Mac ( https://thimblemac.com )

It's a plugin to bring gesture-shortcuts to graphic design tools (Sketch, Photoshop, etc.). I've worked on it in bursts of my spare time for a few years, and took a break from development the past several months. At some point I started calling it more of a 'passion project' because I just really wanted to see other forms of UI in the world outside of the sandboxes of gaming, and a hope that it'd maybe serve as some portfolio piece in trying to work as a software developer/designer.

At the moment I'm trying to motivate myself to work on it again, partly because even in a touch-bar age I still find myself using it. Yet at the same time need to figure out how to get it past a beta phase and to a point where I'm more comfortable marketing it.

The hardest thing is trying to find time/motivation, it's easy to endure isolation and keep the day job when you're excited with the product and haven't gotten feedback yet. It gets vastly harder once you start wanting more of a social life again and the numbers so far haven't made it seem like a product worth going full-time on.
There was a good article about that yesterday:

http://www.sightline.org/2017/07/05/stop-blaming-foreign-hom...

tl;dr - that's not really the problem. It's a supply issue.
As much as I personally dislike Google, I have to agree with you here.
> But it's a little ridiculous

That's the point I'm contending: Its not ridiculous because its not obvious that its an alternative. And not just an alternative, but a much much simpler alternative for many use cases. I absolutely agree its annoying, and I'll have to be that annoying guy for a while. Because I can't stand seeing people spend time on clever solutions to problems that, with mobx, you may not have.
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It depends on your mental hierarchy doesn't it? It's easy enough to see lexing as a sub-step of parsing. It's also quite arguable that the classical emphasis of a separation between parsing and lexing is as much an artifact of classical tools than a "natural need".

For instance, from a Chomsky's hierarchy of languages perspective lexing and parsing are simply language analysis at two different levels on the hierarchy with lexing focused on the "regular" language embedded within a larger context-free or context-sensitive language.
Matrix's technology is decentralized by its very nature. I think ICO is appropriate as a consideration here.
On a 3D6?
UPDATE: The hold has been removed from my account, and I have access again. Even though I had previously been told my account had been closed, it seems like this wasn't final. This resolution was down to an escalation of my case at Amazon, after a team member contacted me through Twitter and promised to personally look into it.
It's just a saying.

Usually said after someone shows off a highly complicated technology with no practical purpose.
Wealth is an asset. Health care insurance is not listed as an asset in accounting, it's a risk mitigator, and the premiums are expenses (typically employer expense, is an employee benefit and in the U.S. it's an untaxed benefit but it's still not income on a profit and loss statement, and it's not an asset on a balance sheet).
5 years ago today I did Show HN
I built https://bestfoodnearme.com with the hope of making it easier to decide where to eat. I am still trying to find product market fit and iterate on improvements.

I think it has not found much traction as I have to prime the pump in terms of content. Finding the right audience also would help.
I would say don't work on the branches first. If something is simple and predictable, it can be done later. (This also allows you to slowly converge on a completion date since all the stuff you've put off is simpler and easier to understand and predict in terms of schedule.)

Best to work on the challenging, unknown items first, especially if they form the core that everything will rely on. It gives you time to work out the kinks in the overall architecture. It's much harder to change those things later and harder to predict how long it will take. It's also easier to mock out and fake the branches.
At least you think it's educational...

It depends on how you consume it. Often, very often, it's only infotainment.
Yes, of course the base systems root is necessary to create the jail, but then the jail has its own root user as well as its own /etc/passwd (and /etc/everythingelse).

For many, many purposes (almost all ?) a FreeBSD jail is indistinguishable to the root user from a bare metal server.
I think that you're not catching my point, and recommend that you look up the word "unique" in a good dictionary, preferably of mathematics.

(It's tautological and uninformative to say that any x is the unique member of the set of things equal to x. And it's simply incorrect to say that any member of a set with multiple elements is unique wrt that set.)
Can you explain how malware could benefit from EME? Note that EME only applies to video.
Or for those who don't have a ton of money to spend on it https://intrinio.com/data/realtime-stock-prices
So don't! If you create a second account for your business identity, nobody will know. Keep business and personal accounts separate. Neither is throwaway!
The first author that comes to mind is :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Allen_Paulos

His most famous book is Innumeracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innumeracy_(book)

but all his books are nice.

Maybe they are too simple/basic?
Location: SF Bay Area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies:

- Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator - design for print products.

- Sketch, Craft plugin, Invision - wireframes, design, mockups, and prototyping.

- Twitter Bootstrap, Middleman, Github Pages - websites.

- Xcode and Swift - I have 4 applications in App Store and working on more.

- Git - keeping all mode code on GitHub.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-koldaeva-3128176b/

Email: koldaevana@gmail.com
Wow, thank you cyphar! That is very generous and hugely appreciated :) We will be doing everything we can to keep Matrix growing and evolving as fast as we possibly can.
These sort of UX issues will have to be resolved before cryptocurrencies become "mainstream". It wouldn't be seen as acceptable by mom and pop to "accidentally" send thousands of dollars to a store for a pack of cigarettes. However, I do think we'll start to see some fixes for this in a few years, hopefully without increased centralization (like the DNS system).
Location: SF Bay Area
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies:
- Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator - design for print products.
- Sketch, Craft plugin, Invision - wireframes, design, mockups, and prototyping.
- Twitter Bootstrap, Middleman, Github Pages - websites.
- Xcode and Swift - I have 4 applications in App Store and working on more.
- Git - keeping all mode code on GitHub.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-koldaeva-3128176b/
Email: koldaevana@gmail.com
I would tend to agree, and while I was never very good at programming competitions, when I saw some of the winning code on Topcoder, I somehow lost interest. If that's the code I would write if I learned to be better at competing, then I should rather spend time learning something else.

On the other hand, something like Project Euler or even Advent of Code is very nice, if you do it at your own pace, or for learning a new language.
> What marketing plan is going to sell a house in a week? None at market value.

Do not agree. Markets are only collections of people, and brokers know people, some of whom are buyers and a few of whom are the perfect buyers. Reaching those people is the marketing plan. Also, this is not buying airplane tickets, this is the single most costly and complicated process buyers and sellers will likely go through in their whole lives, so time frames of a week are fantasy.
You might dig Daytum: https://daytum.com/
> don't have existing work samples they are able to share.

This, at least, should be fixable.

Don't work at places that won't let you talk about your work and demonstrate your competence.
Congratulations on making this awesome fake website. I had a shit ton of fun going through it. You'd be a rockstar copywriter, if you are not one already.
That's not what a work sample is.

A work sample is a (usually, hopefully) standardized piece of work you request from all candidates that mirrors the actual work they'd be doing on the job.

There's no reason a work sample needs to be so onerous that it costs you a weekend. What people forget when this comes up for discussion is that interviews are work. In fact, they are themselves onerous work, since they require you to be on-site and intensely engaged in ways you don't have to be to do the actual work of a job.

A work sample, on the other hand, can be done from your home, with a beer next to your laptop if that's how you roll.

The notion of audition work has definitely been abused in our industry. People get work samples that aren't standardized. They get work samples that are later ignored. Work samples don't have objective scoring rubrics. Some annoying companies assign new features for their products as "work samples".

Done carefully, though, with objective and predictable grading and calibrated to offset in-person interviewing time, they're superior to any process we have.
This highlights a recent episode I went through.

I decided to delete everything on my FB account. I didn't want to close, just delete years of photos, posts, likes, comments, etc. Everything. Then these two surprising things happened:

Having used Google Takeout many times, with great results, I decided to do the same with FB. For years I used FB as my primary way of storing and sharing photos from my phone (vs my desktop for a DSLR), so there were a lot of photos there that I didn't have anywhere else (pre-Google Photos times).

When I downloaded, I was surprised: Facebook downsized all my photos to 90's-era 800x600 pixels, and stripped ALL metadata from it (date, hour, location, camera, etc.). This pissed me off so much. FB wasn't just "not doing a good job", they were purposefully sending me a big "fuck you" letter as I removed my content. FB still had all my images in the original size, and with the metadata, but they chose to give me a shitty version of them.

This isn't laziness or incompetence, it's just plain evil.

My second surprise was how hard it is to delete content on FB. There's no "delete all", or even a "select and delete". You need to manually click 2-4 times for every single comment, post, picture, etc on a laggy user interface. It almost looks purposefully designed to prevent you from doing so.

There are some Chrome extensions that try to automate that, making deleting 1000's of items faster, but FB is constantly trying to break them.

So the message is clear: FB doesn't give a fuck about you, and will try its best to fuck you if you want to delete content or even get it back. Don't use FB as content storage, don't expect to have your FB content back.

PS: I went ahead and deleted everything anyway. Out of spite.
Surprisingly, no. Though the Buffalo areas' ports of entry draw about as much cross-border traffic as Detroit (but not including Port Huron-Sarnia also in Michigan), Toronto's proximity to Buffalo is not often felt.

A few trade and investment groups have been working in the last 15 years to attract Canadian companies to Buffalo with good success, but largely Canada's influence grows towards Michigan and approaching Chicago, and it's the US' influence that grows along the Niagara border into Canada's Greater Toronto area.
Maybe the paper didn't address this but it sure is all over bitcoing.org.

"As these services are based on Bitcoin, they can be offered for much lower fees than with PayPal or credit card networks."

https://bitcoin.org/en/faq
The Investor's Exchange (IEX) offers the ability to resell their data stream for free, so that would be a good place to start. Getting real time stock quotes from other exchanges is going to be expensive.
You're the overwhelming majority, which is frustrating, because the method you're advocating for empirically and clearly does not work well.
Maybe the paper didn't address this but it sure is all over bitcoing.org.
"As these services are based on Bitcoin, they can be offered for much lower fees than with PayPal or credit card networks."
https://bitcoin.org/en/faq
But as much as you need a good algorithm, you need it to be testable, reliable and predictable

This involves some team work
What's really bad is your friend had no idea you never saw his email because it ends up in a spam folder and not bounced back instead
Budgeting tips (cash income) back when I was a restaurant server was hard, so I recently built https://www.tipoutapp.com to make this easier.

It works well (I think), but I haven't gotten around to marketing it yet, so no one really knows it exists.
>What about antibiotics? That seems like a clear case of changing the world for the better.

At first glance, yes, but then you remember that the universe is not static, but dynamic, constantly evolving, and the introduction of antibiotics, while useful --- miraculous, even --- at first, eventually results in "antibiotic-resistance"[0], and now we have a worse problem than the one we started with.

There is a wonderful essay by Paul Kingsnorth, titled "Dark Ecology"[1] that identifies this pattern as a "progress trap".

This quote from the Tao Te Ching is especially apt:

"Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it?
I do not believe it can be done."

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4378521/
[1] https://orionmagazine.org/article/dark-ecology/
Ask HN: Startups who have exited – asset sale or stock sale?
Edit - Or attorneys / others that have exposure to this sort of deal flow
And if there have been multiple rounds at multiple valuations, then multiple agreements and/or complex negotiations. It seems logical that the principle is that the outside world just isn't going to know the ratio of optimism to desperation in a high valuation - since saying "You're buy at a high valuation" is equally saying you "get the money for a low valuation first".
It's doubtful that the most successful ads are ones specifically shown to Americans in Canada, and the number of Americans in Canada at any given time is probably very insignificant compared to the number of Canadians in Canada.

It really does seem like a boneheaded advertising strategy to market yourself to a consumer audience when the overwhelming majority of them can't pay for your products, and when it's presumably easy to screen that audience out by IP address.
Ok that sounds amazing. I'm finding all kinds of treasure in this thread
But 'not having a central authority' is only valuable if the alternative solves the problems that having a central authority causes. The main problems I have heard articulated about a central authority is that they have high costs, are slow, and can block transactions or withold funds with no recourse. Bitcoin doesn't solve the first two issues; does it really solve the third, either? Maybe, but there are also a host of NEW issues that it brings up, too.
"Wait until they discover fasting.."

Rediscover. Fasting is preserved as a commandment in all the major world religions.
And it isn't even remotely clear how this would work. Like all "let's just semantic web all the things!" projects it all makes sense at a super-ultra-high level, but when you try to manifest this in the real world there's an immense explosion of tricky details, by the literal thousands.

Making social networks speak together is probably a good order of magnitude harder than unifying the IM networks, and even after a decade+ of effort and tons and tons of work, the multiprotocol IM clients are still generally quirky, involve losing useful features from any given specific network, and face constant issues where the semantics of the networks differ. (Especially around conferencing.)

Shared social graphs is a nice idea, but it would take enormous effort backed by legal force to happen, at a minimum.
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How is whiteboard coding reflective of engineer skill? At what time, during any job you've had, have you needed to instantly write code on a whiteboard, in front of peers, in a matter of minutes. Almost by definition, it's not reflective of engineering as actually practiced in a job.

I'm a far bigger fan of at-home coding exercises. Yes, I know, some people get annoyed at these because they think you're asking them to do free work in their spare time. But what other way is there to test people's coding under circumstances that most adequately mirror those of an actual job. E.g. they have a (relatively) unlimited amount of time, they have access to Google, their IDE, etc.

I'd much rather see what someone can come up with, in response to some novel problem, based on a couple of days programming, than what they can hack out on a whiteboard based on thirty seconds of thinking. The former seems closer to what coders are actually required to do, day on day.
Wireless updates obviously have major security issues, but I wonder if there's a compromise that doesn't require surgery. Induction, perhaps? Updates transmitted through a wired induction pad pressed against the skin above the device?
It just makes me sleepy and unable to think straight at ~14-16hrs without food. Maybe it gets better after that but I don't really have a lot of days I can afford to be useless for the whole afternoon—I've gone 30+ hrs and it doesn't improve. I've been informed this is what happens when you aren't on a keto diet and try fasting, but I'd have a way easier/happier time going vegetarian than keto (I like almost none of the keto staples—meat, beans/lentils, eggs—except in combination with not keto things) so that's not happening.

I actually find not-eating fairly easy, so it'd be sweet if fasting didn't make me want to nap all the time and slow my brain down to 1/2 speed.
But winning the 3pt shooting contest is a pretty good proxy for shooting ability.
> No one in the US has contributed more the rise of ISIS than Democrats

The invasion of Iraq and the bungling of early phases of the occupation are the main reason AQI, as such, existed and began the process by which it metastasized into ISIS.

While some Democrats do near some responsibility for that as enablers, they weren't the ones directing the relevant policies.
I'm very interested in why many people believe a realtor should receive a percentage of the home's sale price as compensation but not the:

- inspector (arguably a good one is more useful than realtor by pointing out foundation problems and other issues that can cost 10s of thousands)

- attorney (again, arguably more useful. they can point out clauses and things like flood zone, unpermitted work, liens on the property, etc.)

- appraiser (you might not even be able to get a loan if the house appraises for less than the purchase price, unless you can foot the difference and/or waive appraisal contingency)

- lender (unless you're paying all cash. some lenders have vastly different interest rates they can offer you, given a credit score. this can save you 10s of thousands).

Additionally, it doesn't really make sense. The realtor's value is not proportional to the price of the home. Even if you believe a realtor is extremely valuable, a house being twice as much in price wouldn't make them twice as valuable.

Redfin is definitely an interesting step in the right direction towards fixed fee realty.
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What's ironic to me is that a lot of people are going to see this video and just start using programming contests as a negative proxy signal for engineering skill.
The way your product is presented on your site is excellent!

Take heed people, this is how you explain a product.
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Lies. The silent generation had a top income tax rate that was never less than 75%, and for a long time it was above 90%. Of course, not maybe people got hit by it because they found ways to avoid it. What ways? Well, by taking deductions that reduced their taxable income below those high brackets. What are tax deductible expenses? Things like charitable donations, and starting or growing a business.

So they had high taxes, massive redistribution that was basically compulsory. The policy was, use it or lose it. You spend it, or we spend it. You don't like how we're spending your money? OK, find a way to spend it differently, take a risk on a business, and deduct those expenses.

Taxes are so cheap at the top end that it's better to pay those taxes, and stuff the remaining money in real estate, the stock market, or bonds, than it is to take the risk on a business. Being a greedy hoarder should be very expensive in terms of taxes. WE've done it before, the country was not killed, instead it thrived. That era of high top end taxes built massive public and private infrastructure.

It's the greedy hoarders who are killing the country. Below a certain level of wealth, saving money is very good. Above a certain amount of wealth, it's very bad. Draw the line to make it really punitive to stay above that line.

Otherwise, you're just a cranky advocate for aristocracy, and oligarchy. And that's what'll kill a country.
As I said, many good engineers are not willing to spend unpaid time auditioning for a job they aren't yet sure they want, doing work they can't reuse, by taking a formal standardized test.

It may in fact be a better hiring practice in terms of its ability to predict job performance. But you will _lose good candidates_.

And in particular, you will lose experienced candidates. You are embedding biases toward younger (and therefore less experienced) male coders in your hiring practices if you require what is, from their point of view, free work. (You can see the biases in your "with a beer next to your laptop" remark, for example.)
If false DRM initiatives are what it takes to get browsers to implement proper crypto modules, then sign me up.

Obviously it can't be used for DRM, I will just capture the frame and redirect it to a codec to re-encode the stream. Alternately, I can just stream it somewhere else.

On the other hand a secure place to store keys, free from the reach of plugins and javascript would be nice.
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The level of support where they won't ignore my emails after locking me out of my account and compromising my production servers for a week without my consent.
SegWit is not centralised, at all. It's just a way of separating signatures from transactions so that they can be stored more efficiently, and accounted for more accurately.
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