skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never understood why they chose such a hacky language (an a VM model that encourages these kinds of languages), and expect people to write supposedly secure (in the sense of: obviously correct!) code with it.

Any remotely popular functional programming language created over the last years shows a better design (and taste) than this one.

And if that only attracts a certain type of programmers? (pun intended) That is, programmers valuing languages like Haskell/OCaml/F#/Kotlin/Rust, who would only ever touch C with verified compilers and 5 different static analysis tools?

Well, that's exactly kind of people you to attract to write your security-sensitive code.
They wouldn't be in the position to guide content if it weren't for users submitting that choice to them.

I agree with your sentiment and I too am uncomfortable with it, but we the individuals should take responsibility and ownership of our consumption. It sounds like you are preparing to do so, but I don't have high hopes for society at large.

I might extrapolate that at some point I would have pinned the blame entirely on Google, and then rattled about how they have a "social responsibility" and perhaps that's still true. But I am seeing that really, we took the spade to dig a flowerbed, and haven't wavered a bit as it's deepened into a grave.
Lmfao can't wait for the virgin 30 year olds on the site to start crying about this
Google's services just get worse and worse these days. Used to be so damn good.

Sad.
Seriously, these observations should be submitted to the Solidity team for consideration.
20 years ago, all the engines (AltaVista, Lycos) did exactly that. And then they all became "portal" like. And then a brand new engine with just a search box (so refreshing so clean) came along and swiped them over....
Depends on how US companies behave in other people's waters.
Loool nice one :)
How could rolling dice be "more random" by any meaningful definition of randomness than random.org? Rolling dice is a pretty trivial physics problem with really hard to observe parameters... parameters that the machine reduces the dimensionality of considerably.
Selenium competitors for UI regression testing
Hmm, doesn't seem to log into slack. Linux version, FF as default browser. It takes me into the web app of slack but eul stays empty.
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It's a war backed by pharmaceutical companies. They influence how doctors treat pain.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/31/530929307/...

Here's something... curious. Poppy production was virtually wiped out in Afghanistan: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/20/world/taliban-s-ban-on-pop...

Then we invaded. Now it's high: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Afghanis...
Great startup idea!
IANAL, but I think that would count as "compelling speech" ("You MUST complain to regulators about each other!") which is explicitly forbidden in the States (not sure about Europe, but I think it's the same).
I'm also a little curious about what happened about a century later—the line drops by about 90% for another decade or so in the mid-1400s. It's the only other significant drop in the chart (other than a single outlier datum in the late 1800s that might be an error of some sort).
they are excellent observations, but it seems pretty clear the team would be unable to implement them properly this late in the game, or worse unable to understand why they are a good idea.
Blockchain.info, but not sure how they intend to handle the fork. May be best to set up a personal wallet using the mentioned link
There are several different strains, with different lethality. Also, in Africa the disease has been endemic long enough that the population has developed resistance. Malaria is much more dangerous to naive hosts, hence the high mortality rate amongst caucasians in Africa, described as the "White Man's Grave" in the 19th century. There has also been some research done on the burden to economic productivity from chronic malaria, which is quite significant. Malaria is also a contributor to higher infant and childhood mortality in endemic regions: you get the disease as a child and it either kills you or your immune system learns how to keep the chronic disease in check.
The "newsfeed" pattern is one of the worst ideas humanity has ever had. Never has it been so easy to manipulate public opinion at will. 10 years ago there was a such thing as standards in journalism. Now anypoliticalblog.com's headline has been promoted to the equal status of an actual news organisation by means of the implicit legitimacy of appearing in a news feed. This insanity has reached a crescendo with the official endorsement of sites like breitbart.com by the White House, and I don't think there's any going back.

It's a psychological hack, and the promoters of this technology know it.
This sounds awesome. Should greatly help against the biggest phishing threats, and seems fair for both sides without getting lawyers involved.

My question is how would registrars coordinate this?
Usable, but only barely. As AXI / APB3 are intended for on-die communications, they lack the line coding and error correction used by other busses like PCIe or SATA. On the upside, though, they take a lot less area to implement.
The research doctors at NIH have been refining treatments with IL-2 for almost two decades for thousands of patients. They've gotten enough experience to recognize and mitigate the issues that may develop.

In my specific case, they weee concerned that I might have a heart issue that was unknown (I don't). For the sake of my own safety, I was given the treatment in ICU. For most patients, this is unneeded.

Actually, my biggest risk was contracting a superbug with my severely weakened immune system. The last NIH patient who died from the superbug was a few rooms away in ICU at the NIH Clinical Center at the same time as me. (I knew the doctors were taking extra precautions with me, but I was totally unaware of was what happening down the hall from me.)

https://www.google.com/amp/www.nbcnews.com/health/health-new...
There are dozes of anti trump subreddits which will ban you for not conforming. It's same with most if not all ideologically driven subreddits. They always have not pinned "go to r/<our-ideology>Debate if you are not conforming" type thing. To me every one of these echo chamber subreddits should be prevented from appearing on r/all (which is how people get exposed to these subreddits most often)
Before each day he generates a pseudo-random shuffle of the physical dice rolls ;)
Took long enough. The next step will be adding a Google+ integrated commenting system.

But why?

Attention (which is Google's main product) is now captivated by the social networks. Google must adapt or lose market share. What is interesting is how they have not been able to really break into social. What about Google makes it so difficult for them to do just that?
Why would Ajit Pai care what we think? How much money have we given the GOP? What kushy job do we have lined up for him if he does what we want?
And it goes without saying that the news sources preferences will reflect those of Google's predominantly liberal top brass.
So much to do! We believe that talent acquisition is the most important thing that each company needs to master in order to be successful at its core purpose. This might sound obvious now, but it is pretty new! Thus, most companies are still figuring a lot out when it comes to recruiting.

I'm sure we have a lot to learn as well, and what we've learned so far is years in the making. Lever Nurture (https://www.lever.co/nurture) is our most innovative product to date, which we released a bit less than a year ago. There is a lot more we can do to make this new product even better, and we have some other tricks up our sleeves. :-)
99 out of 100 questions.

Solidity is ostensibly designed to let people write smart contracts for Ethereum.

More realistically, it is a marketing tool for enabling and onboarding people onto the Ethereum platform, which Ethereum benefits monetarily (enormously so) from. Security and design are secondary goals to the extent that they help prevent disasters which hurt adoption or churn developers away.

Through this lens it's not a mystery why the language is "hacky". Perhaps being a good language is not even the driving goal.
I prefer just tethering my phone, it's generally cheaper just to get a bigger data plan than it is to get a new service for $device number 2.
It's hard to believe this is going to happen to google.com

Google is, if nothing else, obsessed with metrics; unless they'd A/B/... tested this to death, there is zero chance they'll roll it out to their homepage.

I can't believe it, and it's not mentioned anywhere on their blog post.

To be fair, most people probably search from the chrome toolbar now, but even so, I imagine at most, we'll see a staged roll out to a cohort to test it.
There are two main reasons to denormalize: security, and performance.

The former (security) is something I have only ever had to deal with twice. If your going to cordon off data based on some arbitrary ruleset (3rd party) it is a path you can take. For transactional integrity, and from an operations perspective both cases were perfectly valid.

The latter is one I have also only seen rarely.

I have seen it done to keep a history of actions without cluttering up the primary table. As an example I worked on a DB with millions of entries for users, and a separate table for emails, when the user updated their email, it would add a new row, verify it and then fetch the newest complete row when the user was queried. Getting rid of all the history in that table provided a fairly significant performance bump.

The second was to split little used columns in a single table out from the frequently accessed ones. The resulting trimmed table then fit in memory and was orders of magnitude faster than going to disk.

Is there ever a case to denormalize and duplicate? There are a few:

OLAP systems are unique beasts, and duplicate and denormalize in many a strange way, and all in the name of performance and ease of use for end users. The reality is that these systems usually have a SINGLE point of entry for adding and updating records (that aren't materialize views of end users). OLAP systems are weird, because nothing makes sense in them, but most of them (with all their duplicate data) aren't primary stores. Oddly I have replaced a handful of OLAP RDMBS with document stores...

The other major reason to duplicate is for "snapshotting". If you need to know the state of one record when another record was created then your probably going to end up with duplicate information. IN every case where I have seen this the words "compliance" and "audit trail" are part of the conversation. However rather than being problematic the decoupled nature of the duplicate record is desirable.
The title is a bit clickbaity. It's a news feed. I don't see how it's related to Facebook.
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According to Google one 100mg Viagra tablet costs $60. So they only need to sell 5,000.
I think in the general case you could imagine a NxN matrix of values between 0 and 1 representing similarity between N songs. Songs on the same album would have high similarity, especially consecutive tracks on the album, and different versions of the same song (e.g. live vs. studio) would also have high similarity. Then when selecting the next song, you would weight each available song's selection probability inversely to its similarity to the last few songs.
Ask HN: I'm developing my own ICO, who wants to be a part of it?
I have an idea in the area of machine learning that I've been thinking about related to storing algorithms and their returns in smart contracts It's attracted attention of investors to the tune of $20 mil. I need to find a team. Anyone interested?
Stupid question:

Could it be that the lack of manufacturing in the US (when compared to China) is hurting the robotics industry?
JavaScript Factory Functions with ES6+
That was largely employers responding to previous rounds of dumbing down. If they couldn't fill positions with college graduates then they wouldn't be requiring them.
I do not get this opinion at all.

Just because there exists a thing you do not agree with does not mean it should not exist. It seems like many people on HN are for free speech as long as it's speech they agree with. There will always be people who do not think like you and do not believe in same things as you, but you are not helping any situation by no platforming them. Join the debate and use your words, like adult human beings, don't use force (even if it's virtual and not physical)
Seems like bad news to me! :(

However, one could easily start using "startpage.com" or duckduckgo.com with "!google <your search string>" - both deliver results from google!
Yeah that's not gonna happen. Startups are lots of work for low pay, with the lottery ticket that you might be the 1% who makes it out.

You ask for a megacorp salary and you'll be laughed out the door.
Building one-off cool devices and auction it to the highest bidder. Market to the super rich.
This seems much more like Apple News than Facebook.
Not necessarily true.

In my experience, motorcycle riders are much less attentive to blinkers and take a lot more risks on the road.

This affects all drivers.

However, AFAIK, in most of the USA (that's it, not in California) motorcycle riding is a lot more strict, with regard to lane-splitting. Only where lane-splitting is banned I can agree with your point.

In most of the world, where lane-splitting is the norm, my point stands.
> Block scoping is default now in JS

The default best practice, you mean? Declaring with 'var' will still get you the same lexical scoping rules as always.

I believe OP meant 'inherited from pre-ES6 JS'
A magazine (Fortune, The Industry Standard?) ran an article about the declining prices of dotcom IPOs and included the sentence, “It can go down to zero.” That was correct.
Imagine the court case:

Your honour, in my defence, the contract clearly specified that anyone could reset the wallet, and if that's not what they wanted, they shouldn't have agreed to it.
There is a reply to that comment that more or less confirms that's at least part of the issue (i.e. Trustonic owns the rights).
I had a weird realization that startups might be for people who came from stable households that crave a romantic version of drama and hardship.

Anyone who grew up lower/lower middle class has absolutely no romanticism about being overworked and underfed.
The 'quality of life' section is a bit 1 dimensional. Clearly, there is more to life than crime and housing costs. Notably absent are lifestyle indicators -- bikability/walkability or cultural exposure for example. Dallas and other Texas cities rank highly, but if you prefer walking/biking/taking public transit to work, you are generally SOL. And is it really honest to say life in Raleigh is almost 2x better than in London?

Also, that cost of living for Portland seems high.
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I was considering the first column, which does list Thailand as second highest in terms of road fatalities per 100k inhabitants. By second column, I didn't mean to say skip the column with country names -- that may be the mixup. Here's the source data too: http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_st.... I think considering the number of road fatalities and accounting for population seems like a good enough comparative measure.
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Ask HN: How to get a programming job as a twice exceptional?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_exceptional

I have a CS degree. I have been unable to get a job for 2 years. I have obvious symptoms of being 2e. I usually fail the communication portion or get rejected due to low GPA. My tech skills are decent.

Are there any services that can help me?
> there must be some other mechanism for establishing that the behavior of the contract matches the common understanding of what the contract does.

There is, we have been using them for hundreds of years, it is called a contract.
Citations 14 and 15 also seem to be unpublished, and are all by the same authors.

Seems like important sections of this paper were not ready in time for them to perform their ICO.
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They can abandon algebra. So can high schools. But let's be clear on one thing. They will limit their students' future potential severely. If you can't do algebra, you have no chance in hell of ever programming a computer. No chance of doing anything in STEM whatsoever. No chance in finance, business, or any position requiring critical thinking. Yes, if all you're trying is to teach liberal arts majors, this might be an option, though I'm not even sure of that. If you want to prepare students for any kid of future, abandoning algebra is beyond horrible. And we're talking about community colleges here. First and second year students who in many cases have no idea what they really want to do in the world. Do we want to limit students' futures so severely because of our institutions' and teachers' failings at teaching? Why even go to college then? I'm not even sure what these students can excel at if they can't even pass algebra. Maybe manual, hard labor at best.
Thank you, this looks great.
Have we gone back in time? The idea of a newsfeed is ancient, pre-dating the interne. The only difference is that this time around the feed only shows you what you want to see.

Scary shit.
Thanks. That makes sense, as a licensee signs a contract, so they will be governed by the terms of the contract, and the contract can presumably be written to outlast the patent. It suggests to me that when a patent expires then licensees are potentially disadvantaged compared to non-licensees. It highlights that one must make sure that licenses are written to terminate royalties on patent expiry, or think twice about licensing patents that are close to expiry.
The highways were empty and I spent my time playing Vampire LARP in downtown Palo Alto , or talking with my friends about larping. There were no jobs anywhere and I almost moved out of state. However, I decided to stay and take the consequences. It worked out for me, but I occasionally see some people I knew from back in the day. They never bounced back.
Yeah. Hard to develop a world class reputation squirreled away in the basement of Apple. This is the real reason Apple doesn't want their people publishing. Because Google will know who to snatch away!

It's very much a kick the ladder away type of company.
Maintenance work. No more being clever with "elegant" OOP hierarchies and abusing generics. No more layers upon layers upon layers. No more DAL's and other hideous abstractions over the database.

Just the KISS principal. I'll take repetitiveness over obfuscation anyday.
Didn't know there was a messenger light. Maybe because there wasn't when I was traveling a few years back? I'd be really interested to see it. I did install FB light on a phone I bought in a developing country and was so excited by it. The whole app was maybe a few MB at the most and it was nothing but my friends content and the basic functionality of the early Facebook wall/feed (minus graffiti.) Like stepping back in time kinda. Made me remember how simple a concept FB is/was under all the algorithms, data mining and JavaScript.

That app, ironically enough, is a major reason I'm not on FB today. When I got home and installed the standard app (at 3xx MB) and immediately felt like I was tricked into installing bloated adware. It ate my data up (comparatively) and provided me with little to no extra features beyond a prettier UI. More ads, more analytics, more shitty newsfeed clutter. I uninstalled it and haven't been back to FB since :)
The vast majority of places where I have to wait in line to pay (lunch spot near work, CVS, Starbucks, etc.) I don't have to sign because the amount is below the limit (usually $25 or $50). Pretty much the main place I need to sign is at restaurants, and then I usually don't care because I'm sitting down, in conversion, and not in a rush.
AFAIK, it's because, whilst opiates aren't a great choice for chronic pain, they're just aren't many options that are useful for many forms of chronic, severe pain.
Most likely the best you'll get is either a fully usable TrustZone SoC (so you can have your bootloader or linux do what you want) or there are SKUs of SoC where the ROM locks the various TZ registers into certain configurations which is meant to disable any runtime usage of the TZ by higher level SW e.g. bootloader or OS.

If you are making something with the SoC.. it's probably safer to buy the locked down version of the SoC than to mess about with TZ or to leave it open.
I think they weren't being precise and just meant how the app will look, which some people might equate with google.com itself.

I don't see any reason to believe it would affect the site.
Isn't the team also working on a new language targeting the same VM? If so, they might be useful.
I failed miserably when they gave me a math portion, but they still hired me, because I knew the language and I was good at logic.

Anyways, you might want to try a job site like https://codefights.com/jobs in which they test you on your coding skills.

I would also suggest getting together whatever projects you have worked on and your portfolio and resume.

Aside from that, I highly, highly recommend you go back to the college you graduated from and see a career counselor. Why do I recommend this? They can likely help you with your interview skills and personality. (Believe it - a sense of humor helps)

I'm convinced that personality plays a huge role in helping with the hiring process, and since you claim you fail the communication portion of your interview, it may be that you just need some help with your people skills.

While GPA matters slightly, a good personality can probably explain yourself out of why that isn't important in who you are.

Additional advice:

- Make sure you have nice clothes to wear to the interview with a nice pair of shoes. (hopefully a strong resemblance to what you will be wearing and feel comfortable in, business casual)

- Make sure your hygiene is on par along with a nice smelling cologne (if you know any women at all, ask them if they could come shopping with you or find a woman at the store -- the clerk who will likely be standing near the cologne / perfume section -- and ask her for an appropriate "business casual cologne")

- Make sure you appear confident (even if you have to spend hours in front of the mirror practicing)
There is a deeper level of vendor lock-in for serverless vs servers as well.
Do you think we're in a bubble and it'll burst?
I am the fifth dimension
> Mike Bostock did a very nice visualization of that here: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/

Thank you for that link - a great read!
FBI investigated group of D&D players as part of the Unabomber case
That's cool!