skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect social engineering. it's pretty common these days for everyone to give live sessions to connect with their followers and keep answering personal questions. Don't be surprised, when asked by the followers, most of them are ready to share all personal details from dob to mothers full name. I have noticed many times, the accounts got hacked right after a live session.
Yes, the win+arrow shortcut is one of the few window management things from Windows that I miss on Mac - so I use HyperDock to get that functionality (and the similar drag-and-snap-to-edge-of-screen window resizing). I have a feeling you can find free tools to do the same too if you search a bit as well
For me it wasn't actually a repo but doing a lot of https://www.codewars.com challenges until I was proficient enough in js to pass the technical interviews
This is highly dependent on the company, small companies with a strong technical focus generally do better since the developers have more say over hiring.
Even if you were to subscribe to that notion, it's still on a quarter lag.
> do they sell and advertise saws with this at Home Depot, Lowes, etc. where most people buy their power tools?

Yes, they did. Both companies carried Bosch REAXX saws, which have injury detection sensors, and are advertised accordingly.

^edited to past tense because there's apparently an injunction banning US sales of REAXX. So they tried to, and the reason they don't is that the company advocating for this law won't let them.

> I also think that thinking this will remove consumer choice is inaccurate as well, because if this was mandatory it's not like current saw manufacturers would simply stop selling saws

First, it still removes consumer choice to massively increase the price of saws. The cheapest sensing models I can find listed are >$1,000. The cheapest table saws at Home Depot are ~$400. Tripling the price of the cheapest model is absolutely a restriction of choice, and one that's going to hurt both hobbyists and professionals.

Beyond that, Bosch REAXX is currently being sued by SawStop, the same company/inventor pushing for this legal requirement. Does it restrict consumer choice if there's only one legal brand, all the others having been sued out of the market?

I agree that this technology is makes saws safer. I'm not at all convinced that the safety justifies handing a single company a government monopoly on table saws.
I'm the lone F# developer in a shop full of experienced and talented C# developers. I have clout, but not enough to convince any of them that F# is a better choice for many of our purposes. It's frustrating, but I try to understand that people are just naturally resistant to big changes like this.
Still do. The ICE derailment at Eschede, for example, started with a tyre peeling off a wheel at speed.
Mmm, I'd give the points for consistency to the Mac here. I bet still, in 2017, there are text inputs in Windows apps that draw a little rectangular character when you type Ctrl + Backspace instead of doing the right thing.
Xmake: A make-like build utility based on Lua
What doesn't add up? If your investments make more money than the interest you pay on debt, then conceivably you're making more money than you are paying in interest on the debt correct? The situation I imagine here is that if I have $X in cash and a house costs exactly $X, I would rather invest all of $X in a place that gives better returns than the interest on a loan for $X, because I will be making money.
wow... so sad... you are exactly the same...
Worked perfectly. Thanks for the link and the help!
Your first points are nonsensical and requires that we believe that technical/problem solving skills and IQ have no correlation, when actual reality demonstrates a very strong correlation. Not a perfect correlation, obviously, but very high.

Your third point again is based on a bogus premise. To get those CRUD jobs the developers often went through a gauntlet of CS (or shining independently through projects, etc), hiring selectivity (everyone hires the "top 2%", etc). Even if the job is banal, the road to get there is often very demanding.

As to your fourth, I have no doubt that many women in tech have negative experiences. Having said that, many males in tech have negative experiences. I'm a fairly outgoing, obstinate, outspoken type of person and I know in my career I've left a wake of male coworkers who were dismissed and talked over. This industry tends to be hierarchical, and when it's a male that's life, and when it's a female that's sexism.
how about just one step: make 80% of your company's job offers to women. eventually you'll get close to parity.

simple.
Supervolcanoes could be the key to our battery-powered future UK
Good article. F# would find much better adoption if there were more FP style libraries out there. I have tried to move to F# but it's a real uphill battle when pretty much all sample code and most libraries are in C#. I would do it if I was alone but it's hard to convince a team of the benefits.
2004 was a long time ago. Can we just assume for the sake of discussion that the state of the art in electronic devices was different then?
Your write ups are always spot on Chris! I always look forward to your response in these finance related discussions.
Also, Strikingly is hiring in their Shanghai office. The advertising works in that I remember the names, but it doesn't make me want to work there.
MLCCs work at 200ºC for tough projects
In some sense, the current trend of chasing quick predictions at cost of giving up on understanding of the inner working of things resembles the described in the article approach that was taken by Babylonians.

A lot of resources is being put into machine learning, as it provides relatively quick solutions that delivers results that are superior in comparison to other approaches for many of problems. And I find it to be fascinating. However, I'm concerned a little about a possible paradigm shift that can happen if we continue to grow this "prediction-first" attitude and let it become a part of our scientific philosophy.

Such a shift might make people who actually try to figure out the underlying mechanics of the problems they work on to be perceived as "inefficient", as they are going to be (and often already are) inherently less competitive to machine learning algorithms in terms of ability to quickly provide predictions that are good enough to be practically used. If it happen, it probably would make the areas of science that involve building and invalidation of theories less attractive to youth in comparison to those that are centered around building better predictive models and application of them to complex phenomena with a focus on making practically useful predictions.

I see the culture in this type of future as something similar to Babylonian culture as it was presented in the article and compared to the Ancient Greek culture. No to say that this future looks completely bad, but I think it is not as exciting as the one where true understanding of the things is valued first if not the most.
> why can't people accept the possibility of sexually dimorphism in psychology? How can one claim to be rational or objective while denying such a possibility?

I don't see people denying the possibility that biology plays a role. I see people saying it hasn't been determined to play a role in determining which sex is better or more likely to choose complex modern professions such as software engineering. Damore makes it sound as if this has already been demonstrated by science:

"I'm simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership."

"This leads to women generally having a harder time negotiating salary, asking for raises, speaking up, and leading."

The latter is a conclusory statement. Meanwhile, he continues to claim that his essay is fully backed by research. He denies that anyone has made a proper rebuttal, despite many scientists directly refuting his claims, including one he cited.
Introducing Unobstruct
Currently it's just saws from SawStop (now owned by Festool, IIRC?).

Bosch released a saw with similar tech (called Reaxx -- https://www.boschtools.com/us/en/more/news-and-extras/specia...) but they were forced to stop selling it.

To answer your first question, you can't buy a SawStop at Home Depot or Lowes.

If this tech was mandatory, it would force other saw manufacturers to charge $200 more per saw to cover patent licensing from SawStop/Festool.
GoPro Is Finally Starting to Right the Ship
Yeah an the fact that he starts the post with "I finally beat the S&P 500 by 10%." suggests he has basically just tried a lot of techniques on historical data until he found one that worked. Almost certainly luck.
LOL keyword may

Udacity's full stack developer nano degree was co-created by Amazon, Google, GitHub, and ATT. Lambda is light years behind.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They can continue to do so just fine ... but I much prefer employers who don't overvalue overworking their employees, thereby implicitly creating a de-facto requirement. Of course, sometimes overtime is needed, believe me I've done it plenty of times to hit a deadline or release. However, I'm just plain happier working for employers, and with colleagues who don't create a hostile working environment for people with families.
> Table saws are mostly used by competent people and the injury rate is pretty low. When an accident does happen it only involves a single person and usually requires a few stitches.

4000 people a year suffer from being mangled by a table saw. That's losing digits or an appendage (their entire hand). (NPR had a story about this a week or two ago)

EDIT: Let's say, conservatively, each accident on average costs $100K in medical costs, disability, etc. That's $400 million/year in costs. Just a hunch, but adding the safety break seems like a clear win.

I suppose that's a perverse benefit of healthcare being so broken in America; its so expensive, its usually cheaper to fix the problem then to dump it on the healthcare system as an externality.
When I was in Europe 15 years ago it amazed me that people there asked if I had a cell phone: friends told me they were not going to call me on my cell phone (work provided with a Europe number) because they were caller pays and they didn't want to pay that much. Do you still have such a strange system where you will refuse to call someone because you pay who knows how much?

In truth caller pays makes some sense in a world where call time is expensive. However the world is different: call time is dirt cheap. Caller pay means (unless of course the government steps in) that you have no idea what you are going to pay for a call and thus don't make them.

Last I heard in the US the average person pays twice as much [per month] for their cell phone plan, but in turn they talk on their cell phone 5 times as much.
Uh! I was once referred by a real MD to a real (licensed) physical therapist who worked in a real physical therapy office who performed a purely quack "procedure" (craniosacral therapy) on me and they billed my insurance for "physical manipulation" which they paid. My insurance specifically excludes craniosacral therapy as a covered expense.

Uh,I felt terrible about the whole thing, it seems like a cut and dried case of insurance fraud to me. My MD said she was sending me to physical therapy so I thought I'd be getting real treatment and didn't think about it further. I never heard of craniosacral therapy before that but it was clear that the physical therapist was practicing woo once I was actually there.

The worst thing is, since craniosacral therapy claims to treat almost every symptom and every disease she may refer 90% of her patients. :(
Fractured U.S. Solar Energy Sector Argues at Tariff Hearing – Fortune.com
I like mountain biking, Jeffrey Dahmer liked munching on people's legs.
Diff strokes for diff folks.
Making something better than Planet of the Apps will not be very hard. It's sad though, at the beginning I thought they would be bringing in small developers and indies, but all apps that get reviewed have at least hundreds of thousands of investment already in.
Amazon expands program that pays Alexa developers for top-performing voice apps
I'm currently a C# developer, but have tried functional languages before. As mentioned in the article, I think a lot of people are satisfied with the functional capabilities C# already provides. I don't need to write functional code all the time, but if I can model a problem more elegantly using higher-order functions I will gladly do that.

I'd be interested to read a more in-depth description of the recent project which the OP chose to implement with F#.
Same for me. Do you think that in the end F# would be that much better for good C# devs? I am not so sure.
I triple checked it and still got it wrong, thanks for the tip :(

Edit: fixed + added the favicon
Tiny robots crawl through mouse’s stomach to heal ulcers
That post says that they currently work, but there is a new os-independent collation method coming.

Edit re your edit: the already working collations are in PG 9.x - the OS independent collations are coming in 10.x. (Hence the post title, "More robust collations with ICU support in PostgreSQL 10")
If CPU backdoors exist how has nobody logged network traffic required to abuse them?
SuperComputing: Racing Against China to Build an Exaflop Speed Computer
A couple years back there were some traders talking about trying to implement a really fast version of K-means for clustering stocks that are transiently correlated on some sub-reddit. I wonder if this guy is the one who started that thread.
Yep. Simply the core idea of attacking memory latency with massive parrelization of in flight operations rather than large caches makes sense for a lot of different workloads, and that probably isn't going to change.
Female engineers have rebutted James Damore's Google memo
Introducing Event Grid: the first fully-managed event routing service
Nice, thanks for the info! I'd never seen the inaccuracy quantified like that before.
Ask HN: Why hasn't any company implemented free 1-day shipping?
It seems like in the cut throat world of retail; Amazon is killing it. I can't help but think it has almost everything to do with their free two-day shipping. If this is the case, why hasn't a giant like Walmart (or Jet), Target, or other company embraced free 1-day shipping?

I know the obvious answer would be 'it costs too much'. If that's the case why don't they try to Amazon it? (Amazon it - Have a great idea, lose a ton of cash, gain traction, figure out how to monetize it.)
Bronwyn is a beautiful Welsh name.
The participants in the consensus group are selected via PoW. You would need to control > 1/3rd of them (i.e. 1/3rd of the nodes that have recently won the PoW leader election race/lottery) to cause Byzantine faults.
Which amazes me how RethinkDB never eclipsed all of the other "nosql" offerings. A relational, realtime, document store. You get the benefits from both sides.
Exact same situation here.

Was rejected for an interview until a senior Dev found my github account.

I had a bunch of app tutorials that I had built and then extended quite a bit, as well as some pet projects that I built from scratch.

It told a story of my progress (and the speed of that progress) in learning and the development of my capabilities as a programmer.

Just build stuff, follow good coding practices, and put your github on your resume.
Which predicted we'd meet a bunch of milestones of general AI by 2009.

Why is this post about a specific machine-learning task even referencing Kurzweil, anyway?
If it's one of your primary tools of navigating code without using the mouse, it's going to be a concern.

For example, in Visual Studio ctrl-x with nothing selected will cut the whole line, but very few other programs support that. As well as using to move code around, I use it to delete lines (ctrl-l is better supported, but you can still do ctrl-x with your hand on the mouse). So when it doesn't work in Notepad++, it's quite annoying as it breaks your flow. I'm using a plugin to simulate it, but it's not quite right still.

One of the another thing that can catch you out is that the various MS code editors behave differently depending on the language you're using, SQL Management Studio will treat anything wrapped with []s as a single string, but while in text strings of SQL in Visual Studio it will stop on each bracket. It end up being quite annoying you can't mark a string in VS as a sql string when you want to make a small tweak or add an extra column.

It's muscle memory, and so it's going to annoy you when it doesn't work, it makes you feel clumsy in the new environment.
You wouldn't do that on a table saw. That's why they sell Sawzalls.
I have no dog in the fight, but generally it is the extraordinary claims that need backing up.

Consistently beating the market would indeed be an extraordinary claim, because we havent seen that a lot (if at all).
Right, but amazon wouldn't send them in a world where they pay to send. Email would cost Amazon millions of dollars each year.
This is no different than, say, watching MongoDB for if it loses your writes, and if it does, replaying them.

This is definitely a band-aid: a good database doesn't lose writes it acknowledged.
Succeeding at engineering is not the same as having the desire to do engineering. If it takes encouragement to push women into the field, that says the desire is not there.

I am going to go further and suggest that software engineering is just not that desirable of a career, no matter who you are. Given that compensation is a function of supply and demand, and this career is fairly well compensated, the lack of people – both male and female – entering the career path would suggest is not the top choice of anyone.

What appears to be happening is that some men are willing to put up with an undesirable career because of the higher than average compensation, while women are less wooed by those monetary factors.

The only 'fix' here is to drive home the importance of doing unhappy careers for big money towards the female population. But do we really want to do that? That does not really seem like a great goal. There is more to life than money.
> how shrewd Trump is

He really isn't. He's everyone's impotent racist bigoted grandparent railing against the iniquities of the modern world because he doesn't understand that the world has moved on from 19th century plantations. The man is a demonstrable idiot who has achieved little off his own bat.
The practicalities of dark launching
Those projects are pretty exciting. We accelerated FA2 and are now adding acceleration to the surrounding analytics interactions. And yep, to support an eco-system here, we've been iterating on a sustainable & scalable model (... "enterprise").

To that end, we have a variety of non-profits & scientists using our cloud tier. We want to streamline that program in the coming months: If that's you today, we'd love to help, so feel free to reach out for early access. For example, we've been excited by data science and cybersecurity schools, journalists, and scientists.
Peaches are the worst casualty of this trend in Big Produce.
The same shortcut 'move on a bit more than right arrow'
And while they're at it, please remove all api's which allow for scrolljacking.
Of course someone who responds to violence by white supremacists by saying, 'But what about those lefties,' is implicitly defending white supremacists.
That's a false equivalence that's very popular with European right-wingers.
I find that article to be in need of review by someone with good literacy. It presents single datapoints and talks about "this decline", despite not actually presenting past data to compare with the current numbers. The largest timespan it shows is the literacy from '92 to '03, and they explicitly quote the report saying that "average prose and document literacy did not differ significantly".

They also fail to mention that the 2003 report showed no decline except for Hispanics. Maybe, just maybe, immigration by people with non-English backgrounds was the cause, not textbooks? It'd be nice to at least see that discussed.
> Unless there are performance concerns, that reason alone would make me choose it over Canvas every time.

I agree, but ironically am one of the few here with a use-case that seems to be in the canvas-is-always-better category, and performance reasons aren't even the only motivation (although that matters too).

I'm working on a data browser of huge data sets, and the plotted data needs to maximise the use of the limited available pixels to convey as much information as possible (see [0] for an example). At that point canvas is the more convenient option.

[0] http://linnarssonlab.org/flamemaps/
> I'm personally going to still consider that my responsibility and look for ways to prevent that situation in future, if possible.

I hope nothing I said gave you the impression that I would in any way disagree with that.

> It's still something to strive for.

Of course. All I'm saying is that you should not despair if you don't always achieve it.
I'm working on migrating an app right now (just one MySQL database) but can highly recommend [pgloader](http://pgloader.io/). It has a bunch of built-in and configurable rules to cast different column types to PostgreSQL and the developer has been very responsive in helping me make weird column types work, too.
I wrote my own ORM. It helped because the person interviewing me actually looked at my projects, looked at my code and had a conversation with me about it.

It was the only interview I've ever had where someone actually did that.
I've always thought that Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right were borrowed from Emacs M-b and M-f. Isn't it true? Are there older programs using these key bindings?
Lots of additional spending? We're talking about one saw per district, a saw meant to last years. If they can't shift the budget to work in a one time purchase of a single tablesaw, in exchange for the safety of hundreds of woodshop students, that's on them. Most equipment in a school woodshop lasts multiple decades.

That said, many school districts already have made the switch. My high school already had a Sawstop by the time I first took a woodshop class in 2006, and it had already stopped multiple students from losing fingers.
The best way to get someone to tune out when you are trying to convince them to get out their . bubble is to casually introduce words that they don't know.

By doing this, you separate yourself from the listener, giving a clear delineation between the noob and the l337 wizard.

It also helps to feign surprise, "you dont know about monadic entropy lenses?" or use the word _just_ as in "Just run the parser combinator in reverse, its easy".
Yeah, I usually answer and put the mic on mute to see if there's anyone on the other end. Usually it's a robot waiting for audio from the other side to proceed, so it hangs up after several seconds without ever saying anything.
As far as I know all of Verizon's prepaid plans offer unlimited talk and text.