skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hack Reactor is ~11 hours a day

11 hours a day for 12 weeks can't compare with two hours a day for a year.
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If you trust the software you booted (which seems to be the main feature), why would you need a hardware module to sign your logs? I.e. what additional attack scenarios does hardware-based log signing prevent?
Well, you'll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers
Till you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake

Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia

Sorry. The rice bit just sent the mind there...
"Roaring Forties" and "Furious Fifties".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Forties
I thought I saw some people from booking.com saying they get that in Netherlands.
I would care because it means convincing the sales people to let me test said TV without a network connection to see that it doesn't e.g. nag me about lacking connection, or have delays when starting due to trying to connect or similar crap. It's annoying enough with the clutter in the UI related to features (analog TV, inputs I have no use for) that we only ever notice because it occasionally gets in our way. And that's on a "dumb" TV.

I also care because I don't want to encourage more of that crap.
How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009)
Who gives a shit where or how you learned to code. What a stupid and indirect way to filter candidates.

Just show me what you've done. Send me repo links, production code, or even just the end result with some sort of proof that you actually built it. That's the best part about any craft - practicing or building something creates tangible results. If you don't already have a portfolio, get to work on that before you start applying.
Which courses are you doing at UCLA extension? I'm hoping to get into the GA Tech Master's eventually, but I know it's extremely competitive, especially as someone who doesn't have a CS degree.
Pigouvian taxes: When the interests of individuals and society do not coincide
Jules Urbach’s Quest to Realize Star Trek’s Holodeck
Their lawyers have power. They've killed people too, though that was years ago.
If anything, most of the addictive internet stimuli are social to some degree.
I do think there's an interesting analysis to be made of how social connectedness got redistributed though. Both in terms of absolute connectedness and who we're connected to.
Yeah, I'm a little up and to the left of that (a couple hundred miles inland.)

While the big spinning mass offshore is the headline, the subtitle is that everything east of I-35 is going to get somewhere between a foot and two feet of rain. Not snow, water.
> And it turns out that junior web developers make a shit ton of money in the bay area.

Part of the problem is the high salary comes with the expectation of quick growth.

I think a lot of bootcamp graduates come up short.
Based on the symptoms Kanoa was an amateur shop that burnt through a lot of money and was on the final notice from their investors to start shipping. They tried that. It didn't work. The end.

But at least they got a colorful review to show for their journey.
I am assuming this is python. This fails in python2 but works (returns complex number) in python3.
The living cost in SV is ridiculous too. There is another thread right now with ppl claiming that 240k USD/year makes it hard to afford house + family expenses.
That's really far-fetched since the box is describing an AJAX call.
> What do you think we should hugely cut spending on in order to fund this huge increase? Proposals to spend lots of money on this or that are somewhat unconvincing unless you can explain where the money should come from.

That is actually the easy part. Latest numbers I have seen are from 2009, when the US government paid farmers $5 billion to waste their time growing corn to turn into ethanol (basically to turn 1 barrel of oil into 0.7 barrels of oil equivalent), and paid oil and gas companies $7 billion in oil and gas exploration subsidies. Enough money for huge increases in both renewable energy and fusion research programs:

http://www.eli.org/sites/default/files/eli-pubs/d19_07.pdf
If you're considering building an Uber-for-x, why not incorporate as a co-operative - a business model where there is either 1 worker 1 vote or 1 consumer 1 vote (as opposed to 30% of shares being a result as 30% of capital investment)? The reason for this is I think there's a lot of 'bullshit jobs' but this way at least people have ownership over what they are getting involved in and can elect a board etc. Could be a great experiment! There's also unique instruments for fundraising in this sector and opportunities for government funding. There's still a board of directors (elected) and a usual employee hierarchy stemming down from there. Founders can take all that they need to reasonably live on (and retire) in the form of some salary compensation package, with a legacy that creates a social enterprise and goodwill & a recession proof business model (when times are hard - co-opertives are more resilient because of this shared ownership & goodwill. When times are good, profits can be distributed - in addition to everyone's usual pay etc).
Why are flash LIDAR the way forward? Is it just packaging, and the ability to blend the sensor with the lines of the car? Cost? It certainly isn't image quality AFAIK.

(as an aside: I don't buy the moving parts argument -- a modern car has thousands, many of which have much tougher jobs than "spin at 900 RPM while on".)
Setting web.config defaultProxy with Powershell for debugging .NET web services
The sad reality of software engineering is that the wast majority of code everyone writes is not something they would want to show in an interview. Even if they legally could, which is rarely the case for commercially developed software.

Heck, even reasonably good software can produce a very negative impression. Utilitarian code can be seen as ugly or overly simplistic. Elegant conceptual stuff often runs the risk of grinding against biases and preconceptions of the particular reviewer.
From: http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/07/technology/zerodium-apple-ha...

"In a sense, Zerodium is a cyber arms dealer. It pays hackers to learn about their tactics, then packages that and sells it to elite subscribers.

For $500,000 or more a year, governments could buy a road map for hacking Android phones to spy on people. Companies could learn about a special hacking tactic before it's used on their own Windows computers -- or quietly use it themselves for corporate espionage."

So they are selling to governments (which make laws and make this legal).
Native tools that don't rely on node and electron. If javascript on the desktop is going to be an eventuality then pygtk would be a much better direction.
I maintain https://github.com/thewilsonator/llvm/tree/compute and https://github.com/thewilsonator/llvm-target-spirv which has (unused) tablegen definitions for SPIR-V, for LDC and DCompute.
I'm _hoping_ to get some consensus on backend integration into LLVM trunk at IWOCL in May.
More users of the backend are useful for convincing the LLVM folks of the usefulness of having a single backend in trunk.
There're 2 ways to access a geolocation service:

1) Secure your own database(s) and offer it as an internal library/API
2) Use a hosted version.

IP Sidekick offers the latter option. The advantage over running your own version is more predictable Opex, both money and effort — if operate your own, you'd have to find source(s), make sure they are updated and make sure the services remain up.

With IP Sidekick, you pay a certain amount monthly, and it's a relatively simple API to use, so there's 0 maintenance and ongoing effort.

Another advantage is I'm supplementing additional data other than what other geolocation services offer. eg. the results now include the public holiday for that day in that country. Planning to add more.
Indeed. On the other hand EU scene doesn't look like a bubble with insane valuations.
> I'm a consumer and these are $300 earphones and they can't send a signal from my ears to my ass

To be fair, that's not the intended function of earphones.
But I didn't ask human population to grow and where I live there's no growth. Why would I do anything about that then?
the wright brother's wooden plane isn't viable at long distances.
I always wondered is there some particular reason why Czechia wasn't pushed as a geographical name right from the start (in most slavic languages it was already translated as such)?

Isn't Česká or something a used word in czech?
I'm derek, nice to meet you. I'm a robot that helps you manage Pull Requests
TL;DR - don't read articles like these with convoluted examples comparing different loan terms (tenures) from different lenders and assuming the APR (annual percentage rate) is what matters.

I don't understand why someone who's interested in getting a lower outgo would even conclude just based on the interest rate when the loan terms are different with different lenders. The example given in this article is somewhat convoluted because each lender's loan term is different from the other, and that justifies the existence of this article. If the loan terms were the same across lenders, then the lowest APR would be the winner, and aspects like origination fee (included in the APR) wouldn't matter at all.
> I know, shocking but not everyone is Amazon.

Amazon Vendor Central only has support for EDI (at least in the UK) - as in EDIFACT files sent over FTP.

If you want to do business with them you either need to talk that or be comfortable farming out to a 3rd party (I'm 1 day into a project where I'm finding all this out, and the hell of EDI file formats).
A similar script in Windows script (.bat)

for /F %%i in ( ' cat requirements\\base.txt ^| cut -f 1 -d ^= ' ) do pip install %%i --upgrade

Careful, it needs the unix utilities cat and cut on the path - they are included in various other packages so you will probably already have them.

Also, it must be run through a .bat file and not directly from the command line.
Well, I work at a big company and

1) I know many people who think like that (in some cases because they have such a position. Manager without knowing what their reports actually do)

2) The hiring decisions made -regularly- prove that this is in fact the overriding opinion in our management.
It reminded me of this awesome project: https://earth.nullschool.net/
What _really really_ sucks is well-defined, reasonable, meticulously documented formats where all in-the-wild implementations stray from the spec in different ways :-/
http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2017/jun/22/ain...

http://www.snopes.com/illegal-immigrants-2008-election/
I'd like to bid on the United Nations login system.
they don't
It's a key pair, for SSH keys, which is what SFTP uses to tunnel the FTP protocol. You cannot derive the private key from the public key. So no, you cannot duplicate someone's private key unless you have access to their machine. In which case you could just install a keylogger.

Hardware tokens are vulnerable too, by your own admission. A 6 digit pin created by a token is still "something you know" even if it's only good for a couple of minutes.
Zoom – 3D Face Login
Some prior arts: Data::Abridge, Data::Visitor::Callback, Data::Rmap, Data::Clean.
Imagine a DDOS attack on your life. Don't underestimate the cumulative effect of fanatics with little individual 'power', intent on punishing you...
Ask HN: How do you start looking for a new job?
Just curious on how people start preparations for making a job change. Will you start reaching out to your contacts for references, or just start scouring the job boards, or will you be always on a lookout for a potential job?
> Customer Obsession - Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers.

This seems like one of those "warm and fuzzy" things to frame and put on a wall somewhere, but I don't believe (based on my experience) that Amazon is far superior in this respect compared to others (though there are many companies with absolutely pathetic customer service). As an external observer, I see Amazon's primary and foremost principle as one to grow market share at almost any cost (to anyone) and crush competition through that route.
> I just got my four year old an iPhone

Do you find that she's able to limit herself? My kid loves screens, and is the same age as yours, but having tried to leave him with a tablet I've decided it's too dangerous. He can literally sit with it all his waking hours, so no more tablet for him.

Screen time ate up a lot of my childhood. Learned a lot, too, but I only got a computer as a teenager.
Same experience. It was like it was written by two different authors (one fantastic and one awful).
Hunting Performance in Python Code – Part 4. CPU Profiling (interpreter)
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Is English not your first language?

It's pretty clear that Fogest was asking if the kids get carsick and there was no implication that anyone was lying.
The article doesn't mention bias from employers, the problem is just delivering a course sustainably that gets people employed as devs.
It seems to be based on OpenStreetMap (I recognise some changes I made), which is indeed a lot more detailed than Google Maps in some areas.
Where is that place and why isn't anyone doing anything about it?
If I was making dummy applications to show basics of how browsers, networks, web servers and databases work (which it looks like the rest of the picture is doing), I find it wholly plausible that someone comes up with a play of words on fundamental concepts like that.
many courtrooms do not allow photography
For free? Pretty sure they paid quite a bit to buy it.
I enforce a "barrier to entry" myself when I interview someone though.
If they're less than highly competent, I don't allow them to join the company I'm interviewing for.
Others have this mentality of "letting everyone in, we'll train them later", especially if doing so serves other (non-technical) political or social agendas.
Great article, thanks!

I'm not an expert Alchemist by any means, but whenever I see a `cond`, I try to see if it can be refactored out using pattern matching (after I was picked up on the same thing during an interview!)

defp formatted_hour("AM", "12"), do: "00"
defp formatted_hour("AM", hours), do: hours
defp formatted_hour("PM", "12"), do: "12"
defp formatted_hour("PM", hours), do: 12 + String.to_integer(hours)
I disagree here. Modern kids shows are much more sophisticated than the rubbish we watched in the 80's and 90's. Take something with a remake like voltron or thundercats to eliminate the nostalgia factor and watch them back to back, the difference is vast.
It's just an echo chamber effect. People still use other languages for their daily stuff. It's just that people want to write their hobby projects and new small work stuff in go or rust. Would take some years for main stream adoption that current popular and established languages enjoy. But rust and go have momentum going for them.
In the UK there is also a 'pull' system (Direct Debit) in which you instruct your bank that a given third party can regularly take money out of your account until further notice.

It's commonplace for bill payments, subscription services, etc.
Why "rude"?
"There is a Physics PhD, undergrads in Mathematics and Physics, an acctuary Statistician from an insurance company, a Mom, and Biology grad, and a Veteran. An elclectic group I feel."

How can this work? I mean, I can understand those with a math background being there to learn the tooling and programming, but how can a mom (presumably with no prior education?) and a vet (also presumably without any other qualifications) keep up? Or, if they're teaching at the level of 'this is the slope in a linear equation', what's in it for the math guys? I just don't understand how this sort of thing works in real life.
I totally agree that IF the loan terms are same, then lowest APR would be the winner.

Unfortunately, most people are not financially savvy and unable to make logical financial choices even if they are well educated with good enough incomes. Most of the financial education content emphasizes comparison based on APR (which is correct) but they miss out the impact of loan term and origination fee especially if someone prepays the loan.
That's what the article is trying to explain, if the loan terms are different, then don't just make decisions based on APR thinking you'll prepay and save more money with the lower APR loan.
Perhaps, the article could've done a better job at explaining the concept.
Blood-delivering drone company Zipline readies for launch in Tanzania
Because the NYT bestseller list is essentially not an accurate report, but "fake news." In 1983 William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, filed a lawsuit against the NYT for failing to include his book Legion on the list, despite provable sales. The Times won the lawsuit by claiming that their list does not in fact reflect bestsellers, but their own editorial opinion as to what constitutes a bestseller. In other words, they massage and ignore real data: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Astronomers Capture Best-Ever Image of Alien Star
It must be nice to live in a world where you don't need to write fast code.
>in large part motivated by religious fundamentalists seeking to replace public education with voucher-based religious schools

This can't possibly be the reason. Otherwise the bay area would have the best schools in the nation because religion here is borderline illegal.
> I feel the only real arguments against fixed-width records are concerned with wasted space

Sometimes, fields can turn out to be too short. I have received a few letters from business with my last name truncated, because somebody way back when decided eight or nine characters are definitely enough for a surname.
They usually do incremental builds. And a lot of work goes into reproducible builds so that incremental builds can be trusted. But even clean builds are typically minutes of wall-clock time. Not hours.

Of course part of the trick is that work has been distributed across a cluster, so a lot longer was spent compiling than that...
To expand on this:

$ cat foo.go
package main

import (
"fmt"
)

func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello")
}
$ go build foo.go
$ file foo
foo: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped

compared to:

$ cat bar.go
package main

import (
"os/user"
"fmt"
)

func main() {
u, err := user.Current()
fmt.Println(u, err)
}
$ go build bar.go
$ file bar
bar: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, not stripped
I've been declined services because my signature doesn't match my passport - like many, my handwriting has deteriorated significantly due to keyboard use and a document almost 10 years old isn't reflective of my current writing skills: I convinced the clerk to let to practice my signature on paper until it looked like my passport. Absurd and clearly insecure! I got some enjoyment out of the ridiculousness of it but I imagine others less cognisant of the farcical nature might have given up. (This wasn't a bank at least, it was a vehicle rental center in South America)
It will, there is normally a, "kick down" point where it will accelerate at max, for emergency situations. This also normally disengages the max limit.

Another feature is speed warnings, which "beep" at you when you exceed them. Currently they only seem to be singular, but it should be possible to integrate them with satnav and speed sign recognition. I expect these would be safer, especially if it linked up with a, "black box" to report excessive violations with a parent, insurance company, police etc.
Id check the rates offered and choose the one that pays the most
> this is not a transpiler though, it as a compiler. which makes it attractive, especially because Crystal is so very slow

This is an interpreter, not a compiler. Crystal is a compiler and what makes it "slow" to compile is type inference but then it runs at native speed.
Instead of signing my credit card, I write "Ask for ID". Most vendors don't check the signature anyway, but those who do are usually prompted to ask for my ID, which is my hoped outcome. I've been a victim of credit fraud several times via both theft and skimming so it's an interesting topic to me.
Same for me, a book or a gameboy at the dinner table would result in a clip around the ears. My parents weren't strict in the slightest, but dinner time was the 10-20 minutes where we all sat down together as a family and put up with mums political views.
I wasn't arguing against working with other people. LOL.

What I'm saying is that you should have clearly identifiable portions that you can point at as something you did. I also think that it takes extra curricular activity to truly master a subject. You can't just rely on others to show you everything. You have to experiment and learn on your own too.
My apologies, it read like a blog. Seeing the parent page I see that it is not. Either way, my comment stands.
Germany's self-driving car solution: Kill animals,damage property,protect humans
The Swiss Watch Industry Is Being Given a Painful Lesson in Rationality
Fundamentals of Software Development. If you are familiar with loops, if/else, simple functions that don't return anything or take any arguments, and using printf...I'd say give this class a pass. It is trivial really unless you are 100% unfamiliar with programming. Unfortunately, I didn't make that judgement until after the date where I could be refunded.
The best security is like an onion. Let's say something goes wrong/funky and you're concerned an outside actor may have somehow gained access to the "secure" system. Can you trust your logs?
I would argue that these "social" parts of the internet are social in the shallowest sense of the world. E.g., telling people how your life is without actually talking to them. I would agree with above that these devices are adding to (creating?) our social isolation.
"Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All"... What an insufferable asshat.

PSA: There is no reason to behave like this and this is an incredible way to alienate a bunch of people. You either offend people directly with the murder implication or they don't take you seriously because you sound like you're throwing such an extended temper tantrum that you managed to write it all in a blog.
Genuine question:

Recruiters/employers of HN, how do you filter out this type of applicant?
Can I have a karma point too? I need it for Keybase verification.
The UK had no national ID card, and people certainly do write cheques (although I wish they'd stop)
[podcast] Building an Artificial Pancreas with Elixir and Nerves
You're answering your own question : they do it because it makes business sense and they probably won't be the one to pay for the damages (not personally at least)