skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that's a good point - I've noticed a tendency to use side projects as a buffer for frustrations being experienced at work. Maybe there is a fundamental amount of true engineering I need to do on a weekly basis; if I'm not getting my fix at work it'll spill over to hobbies.

Lately I'm pulling back from technical deep diving at work. A lot. My role as an enterprise architect (bleh, don't judge too much plz) means I necessarily have to shift to big picture guff and stop spending time on the details pieces. In short, I don't really get to engineer as much as before.

Of course, I'm an engineer at heart so the idea of ignoring the details is anathema and it frustrates me. When I'm deep in whiteboards, board meetings and shitty powerpoint at work, the side projects and home lab become my release valve. It's a coping mechanism, I think.

Likewise, when I'm sucked into low-level grind at work which happens from time to time, side projects stagnate. I don't need them for a while.
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> I doubt it, unless the umbilical cord to all the advertisement money is cut completely.

Forming separate LLCs does that.

> Google has gotten way too big.

Alphabet — and especially the non-Google subsidiaries — isn't Google, and this transformation makes that even more true, legally and financially.
My only other experience with large groups of foreign students from the same country was when I stayed in China as an exchange student and met a lot of Pakistanis.

They definitely hung out with each other more often, but they didn't seem to actually study much together. I had a few email me with questions on the same exercise, so at least those three hadn't exchanged notes.

Of course there might have been some Pakistani-only homework sessions I was simply never invited to, but I don't think that was the case.
Except that Keurig/Nesspresso/Tassimo machines actually make coffee using ground beans. It's a convenience thing, sure, but they are roughly the same as an espresso machine that you don't have to fill up yourself. Juicero was squeezing juice out of a pack. It could come in a bottle and you could pour it yourself, the product would be exactly identical.
Yeah, this is an abuse of notation (it should be written as set membership, not equality), but the "=" in "0.99... = 1" is really equality, so I don't think this is a good example when talking about that.
I don't understand your problem with someone having a mentor. I've been a sysadmin for approaching a decade now and I have a mentor, and no-one's ever called me a fraud at any stage. So what if she has help from someone more skilled than her? She clearly does at least some of the work herself, from her time-lapse videos.

Why is it that women in tech aren't allowed to have intermediate technical skills without copping shit for it? "What, you had help? Such a fraud!"

> Bucking this stereotype... is what China needs

Perhaps one way to buck it is to not try on every little excuse you can find to discredit someone, birther-style?
Since Google makes all the money, that's the opposite of the important direction of insulation. This way if one of the other bets incurs massive liabilities, Google's assets and income streams are insulated.
Being a student is enough of a job, thanks.

Your assumption that I should have a job on top of this, without knowing my life or financial situation, is evidence that people rarely consider lives apart from their own on websites such as this.
Killing is indeed an inherent requirement of communism. That's the only way to gain and hold such authoritarian power and to subjugate the masses as communism does. There has never been a communist regime that did not kill large numbers of people and that's because this is an inherent quality of communism without which it cannot come to or hold power.
I have to disagree with this characterization. I don't work for Google but it is apparent that a lot of work goes into their products. You don't necessarily need to launch a new product to show impact. Improving existing ones is plenty great too, even if these improvements aren't as apparent as product launches. For example, we take for granted that the Google assistant can understand most things we say to it. By this time next year it would have gained a bunch of new capabilities that we would also take for granted, except more people would likely be using it and they'd be happier with it than they are today.

On one hand you acknowledge that they are constantly improving existing software, launching new hardware, new frameworks, new tools and on the other you criticise them for "not launching even one product". It's strange because I've actually heard the opposite criticism of Google on HN, that they launch too many products and don't focus enough on existing ones.
If the investment worked, sure. Cutting off the nose to spite the face is silly.
> Just carry a dongle

The problem is nobody wants to carry a dongle. Also, localizing the dongle inside the house is not as straightforward. Would the users need to put one dongle-detector in each room? one near each exit? If it has long transmission range, then it would probably be big/heavy due to larger batteries.
Republicans and Trump are much less friendly to Google, even if less generally inclined to anti-trust vigor,
Through, the culture is not just what people in tech do. These debates often comes up as accusing men in tech of being worst, but the "I am girl therefore I can't possibly like it, a girl who like tech (cars) have something wrong about her, it is not for me, wow I did not knew women can be programmers you must be smart" is internalized much sooner.

What also definitely does not help are odd ideas about what kind of personality can enjoy tech work. The best predictor imo is willingness to solve puzzles and personality that likes to learn. Meanwhile, people use "playing action games or clash of clans" as proxy. When i was studying, dudes who spend all their time on irc or muds were seen as potential genius programmers, cause they spend all time with computer. Most of them could do only a bit of administration, but they acted confidently.

Different interest thing is cop out. Tech is not magic, interest in it develops exactly like interest in anything else - starting from litterature and art, continuing though biology to astronomy or sport.

Whenever topic came out, it was "women just have different brain and are not naturaly as good". And people truly believed that. So I am kinda glad for "actually women have same aptitude" change, but if you are convinced the child is incapable in x, child will grow less interested in it - even if it is a music.
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The fact that anyone can make a sort of decent cup of coffee with a nespresso is also important.

Additionally, the taste benefit of nespresso over instant coffee or something similar is probably much higher than juicero over the best bottled juice.
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That course sounds brutal from the schedule. Sometimes I wish my education had been more so.
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It's not about whether you mind, it's whether people who do mind should be forced to contribute.
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You most likely have put money in the pockets of many people who have behaved just like the man in this video.
> The Soviet Union was a particular implementation of Communism which chose killing.

It was an implementation of (what it called, though there is debate in socialist circles about the validity of the claim) socialism. Communism is the end-state they claimed to wish to achieve, not the thing they implemented, even in theory.
So maybe we should stop talking about men in tech as if they were all so obessed and passionate about work? Because I can confirm I met quite a few dudes who disliked the work itself. And it universally shown at their output, but many of them still climbed the ladder due to being good culture fit (meaning they were fun to chat around ping pong table and could talk well) and I always thought we would all do better without them.
I find a big thing too is building up that mindset of always roll forward. Bug in production means next production build will fix said bug. No hotfixing to say the release is done etc.

Completely agree that from a tech side there is no excuse, however a lot of QA culture has persisted through orgs and they want to keep that feeling of control (even though automation does it way better than them)
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on specialized Tech Management courses?
A lot of top-tier schools have recently introduced management courses geared towards technology management.

As someone who is considering applying to these programs, how do you think the programs will fare in the market in the Short term and Long term.

While each school brings its own strengths to the program, most of the programs aim to churn out Product Managers (IMO).

Are recruiters more or less likely towards hiring a candidate with these qualifications over, say a traditional MBA.

Some of the courses that I am talking about.

CMU Masters in Product Management

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/master-science-product-management

NYU Tech MBA

http://www.stern.nyu.edu/programs-admissions/tech-mba/program

Cornell Tech MBA

https://tech.cornell.edu/programs/masters-programs/johnson-cornell-tech-mba
I got started for personal entertainment in darker corners of the internet. That ultimately evolved into me writing some of the tools people used in the industry. Eventually that developed into some SaaS products and 2 companies that we ended up selling.

My advice to you if you are just getting started in the infosec world is... don't do it! Short of the increased attention to encryption and various better authz/authn standards... the newer crowd doesn't want to hear anything about the vulnerabilities in their code. 9 times out of 10 the only reason they'll resort to testing anything is to cross off a corp checkbox somewhere. Keep in mind that nobody likes policy and you'll be associated with their hatred for it.
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Why would definitely write tests for an API but not a mobile app?
Well, the last one is quite something :). Not sure why this was downvoted. For one, the last would attract more duses to computers then girls. For the other, context matters - 80 were more sexist overall and it puts this article in proper context.
I bought an 'Owl' energy clamp and display from the discount bin at a local hardware store - about £13 ISTR. I made a copy of the rflink (Arduino-based 433MHz rf sniffer/decoder: https://diyprojects.io/how-build-rflink-433mhz-radio-home-ga... - about £20 including ESP8266 wifi link) that decodes the signal from the Owl, my wireless doorbell and that of an outdoor temp/humidity sensor (£6 from Banggood). The board can also send control signals to the rf-enabled mains sockets I have collected over the years (for lights and home appliances).

It's all managed by a raspberry Pi (About £20). The system can also pick up my wireless doorbell, and I am about to add temperature sensors and relays (£25) to my central heating system so everything is automated and controllable from Node-Red and a Web interface. Overall, I will have a private home control system for under £100 and I can view and manage it from my laptop or a VPN link from my phone.
"What is the one thing that they charge for, except advertising, and that scores of people care to pay for? Nothing."

I think you forgot Google's enterprise tools (i.e. Google mail, docs et all with an actual helpdesk to call to). People do pay for those. But I have no idea how many customers they have.
Except to their own companies bottom line, generating millions in revenue?

Releasing less often is a way to guarantee that bigger bugs will get through at some point, requiring hotfixes etc. The more you release, the higher quality releases you have, and the smaller production incidents.

The point isn't to remove QA, it's to trust that the automation in place is high quality and will catch the majority of issues before they are issues (i.e. if something makes it through the automation, then it should be caught in the internal release, or at least the 3% canary group), and then on the back of issues, make the automation more robust.

The more people who are introduced into a process, the more likely it is to fail at some point - the fact is that Facebook has a pretty low rate of huge production issues compared to most software companies, they must be doing something right.
I've not heard of that before. Where is this?
It's still early stages. I'd recommend a multivariate test on the best pie chart colours, following Google's astounding results from their search link colour test.
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> Web browsers typeset documents in milliseconds)

Well, poorly. Try printing a site out.
$5,000?!
0.999... does not represent a function or a process or anything like that. It represents a fixed number: the limit of sum from k=1 to n of 9/10^k , as n approaches infinity.

You're demonstrating why so many people get confused by the 0.999... notation: they (and you) are thinking of it as the sequence (0.9, 0.99, 0.999, ...) ; but actually it doesn't represent this sequence, or a process for producing this sequence; rather, it represents the limit of this sequence, which is a different type of object: a real number.

> Mathematicians are using the symbol … ambiguously

Sure, it can mean other things in other contexts (like in my description above of a sequence), but we're talking about what it means in the case 0.j_1 j_2 j_3 ... where the j_k's are base 10 digits. In that case it has a well-defined, non-ambiguous meaning: \lim_{n\to\infty}\sum_{k=1}^n \frac{j_k}{10^k} .

> If, as you say, in instances like this mathematicians take … to mean “the limit (from calculus) of the demonstrated sequence” this is news to me. Well, maybe it's not news to me but I'm not exactly buying it.

OP is right. I have a degree in math and this is what mathematicians mean by 0.999...

> What I'm saying is that the expression could be taken to be one of any number of things

Yeah we could have had the notation mean something else. But we didn't. We have other notations for the things you're talking about. Who cares?

> That you say the convention is that it most assuredly is 4 is not something I'm buying into.

What would it take to make you believe that this is what mathematicians mean by this notation? I promise with all my heart that this is true.

Don't take my word for it. Here's some random analysis book. Flip to page 31 (51/686 in the numbering of the PDF): http://www.matematica.net/portal/e-books/Apostol%20-%20CALCU...

> (I'd nearly go a step further and assert that it ought not be defined this way).

Plenty of stuff in math has pedagogically dubious notation, it's not really novel or philosophically interesting to claim you dislike some piece of notation or think it could have been better. It's all just convention.

> Where we get into problems, I believe, is when people say nonsensical things like the sequence reaches 1.

No mathematician is saying that. The sequence (0.9, 0.99, 0.999...) quite clearly never reaches 1, and any mathematician will agree with that. But its limit is 1.

> Or if they start talking about the actually completed sequence rather than a symbolic representation of it. And this, by the way, is the gripe that people have with Cantor's completed infinities. It really is an ontological claim, not a mathematical one that such things exist.

Well, things don't have to "exist" for us to be able to study them in mathematics, so what's the point of claims like this?
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>She clearly does at least some of the work herself, from her time-lapse videos.

I do ALL of my builds myself and keep cameras running from beginning to end to prove it. What other technical help I get is always disclosed in the presentation and build log.

There is no proof I can offer that will be accepted and he harder I work, the more evidence I offer, the more I study and try, the angrier they get. Now this shit- I write a reasonable article and they jump in to try and discredit builds that are not even relevant to the discussion.
True. My point is that equality is never defined well.
You have SHA256 built into the browser. Use it.

Stop inventing your own crypto protocols, as you clearly have no idea what you're doing in that area (as evidenced by any usage of MD5).

xxHash64 is not a cryptographic hash function. Collisions and pre-images matter here as they allow for subdtitution of content by an adversary.
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There is such a thing as 0.9... .

This notation is defined as meaning the limit as n approaches infinity of the sum from k=1 to n of 9/10^k . A sequence doesn't have to reach its limit!! For example, the limit of the sequence 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, ... is 0, even though the sequence never reaches 0. The limit of the sequence 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, ... is 1 (and this is BY DEFINITION what 0.999... means).
I am not quite sure about it not being good typographic practice, but it's sure weird historically to mix faces of different weights. Furthermore there is already emphasized (italic) text; it's not strictly necessary for prose.

I've read a handful of books where there is some type of bold formatting used, and in each case it was electronic rich text (e.g an email or word document).
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It is formally defined in this case. In mathematics, 0.j_1 j_2 j_3 ... where each j_k is a base-10 digit is unambiguously defined to mean \lim_{n\to\infty}\sum_{k=1}^n \frac{j_k}{10^k} .
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Project tango is great but not a product with hundreds of million users. It is a tool for developers.

Chromecast has sold 30 mio units since it was launched 4 years ago. Whereas that might be a lot for you and me if we launched a company, it's very little for Google.

If it had been an independent company selling 30 million units in 4 years for maybe $10-15 a piece to the stores, making maybe $5-10 per unit, you would likely never have heard of them. In 4 years Chromecast has probably made less revenue for Google than the ads make per day.
As much as I believe that 0.999... exists and is equal to 1, the thing where you write 1/3 as 0.3... and multiply both sides by 3 is a really bad proof -- it's pretty much circular reasoning.

For someone who doesn't understand what 0.999... means, why should we expect them to understand what 0.333... means and believe that it exists?
```
booking.com: 'talk to the hotel for a refund'
hotel: 'talk to booking.com for a refund'
```

Yea I experienced this last March. Charegbacks are not easy for regular consumers. Their customer service are trained to never give refunds (based on first-hand experience).

You'd have to be a valued client of your bank to have a successful dispute. And it is the only way I believe.

Both parties (booking.com and hotel) simply won't budge.
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"0.999... = 1" isn't really a "claim", it's a definition.

Well, it's technically a claim, but one that is obviously true once we agree on what 0.999... means. Anyone who doesn't agree that 0.999... = 1 has a different definition of 0.999... from the one used in mainstream math notation.
No threading bugs though.
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Never? Equality always means the same thing in every case I can think of, except big-O notation. You picked the one example I'm aware of in all of mathematics where it means something different.
And is it less or more than the number of people who die from coal pollution.
That's unfortunately not my experience. I'm appalled every time someone tells me "But Scala.js is not a compiler, it's a transpiler, since it compiles to JS!"

I assume other language users and authors suffer the same kind of comments on a regular basis.
Reagan was pretty bad.
Cannot read the article, but .. for a blog post from a respected researcher supporting Googles position? Sounds like a good paycheck.
> The problem is not that the money is private, but that it's donation relies on the compassion of individuals, not on laws.

Well, that's the american (US?) culture. Different ways of doing things.
All these taxes to pay for:

- $1+ B Side-deals to raise the gas tax $50+ B.

- $10+ B Mass-incarceration.

- $80+ B High-Speed Monorail boondoggle orders of magnitude more expensive than Hyperloop.
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It is deception at it's finest. My siblings experienced this first hand and I told them, no more booking.com, ever.

Also, the cancellation was 1 month away from actual booking but they do not care. They just want to decieve (scam?) you and get your money.

Luckily, the bank sided with us. The dispute is a sure process as long as they value you as a customer.
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