skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. Industry and regulators team up to take from society by imposing a weak regulatory framework and then acting surprised when we hit a bump in the road and it falls apart.

Capitalism only makes sense when the big guys are allowed to fail and fail big.

If they had been allowed to, smarter people would have bought up the bits that had value and likely done much more with them to benefit society.
The FAQ is not a binding contract. There is no reason to believe anything outside of the license itself, and the license sais you'll lose it if you file a patent infringement claim.

People lie. It happens. Facebook is not exactly the most noble company in the world.
Not likely. The Toronto housing market saw its laws changed at the end of April. The market has lost some confidence because of that, but it is likely to only be temporary. Once buyer confidence is restored, it will be business as usual.

Vancouver's market also "crashed" in mid-2016[1] after their new – similar to Ontario's – laws came into effect. Six months later, after buyer confidence came back, an all-time record high was set.

[1] http://creastats.crea.ca/vanc/images/vanc_chart05_xhi-res.pn...
The simplest explanation is that we've built up large bodies of specialist knowledge that can't just be reduced to "Rock falls down, gravity. huh."

Take biology, and look at this depiction of metabolic pathways: https://img.scoop.it/B6Bp6lXGshGZEPRnL8_P4YXXXL4j3HpexhjNOf_...

How do you bring that complexity down so that someone coming out of highschool can avoid having to learn a lot about it first, and still transmit something useful to other specialists? Otherwise, what we'd get is another episode of NOVA
The "electronics" list doesn't include Horowitz & Hill's "The Art of Electronics". It's one of the best, used at some prestigious universities (written by 2 professors at Harvard, used there among others). Sedra/Smith's book "Microelectronic Circuits" is listed, it's the other one I'd mention for a course on the fundamentals of electronics engineering.

Camenzind's "Designing Analog Chips" also deserves mention for people interested in analog IC design. It has a free version on his website: http://www.designinganalogchips.com/

They say that they've actually only listed a random subset of the books some professors recommended, so that may be part of it.
I wonder where companies or hiring managers can post their job openings that supports this hiring process sometimes called Trial Employment or Job Audition for Software Engineers. Looks like a great way to get the best hire and also prevent a bad hire, although it can only work for a very limited number of companies and candidates.
One of the interesting political tidbits I read was an article about a homeowner who had started voting against zoning laws because gentrification was making it so bad that their kids would have to move far away to be able to afford rent.

You only get the realise the benefits of increased property values if you move away.

A more valuable house also means more property taxes (unless you live in CA).
Can I gloat now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15187695
I am kind of away form keyboard, but saw that Tweet from @samccone pointing out that http://lite.cnn.com/ was making users download React...

https://twitter.com/samccone/status/906714941360553986

I wanted to provide a lighter way to get latest headlines on poor connection.

It's a quick edit to my old project( removed Boostrap, Google Analytics and added Twitter feed for #irma) https://www.alexkras.com/simple-rss-reader-in-85-lines-of-ph...

If anybody knows a good RSS feed to add, or wants to fork it and do a better job, please be my guest.
That's questionable.

The most common way that liability for fraud was offloaded was to have the bank purchase the service of validating loan applications from some willing schmuck.

That is, by law the originating institution is required to verify that the applications it processes meets some guidelines. Since the applications absolutely did not, and the bank was unwilling to lie about it itself, what they did was purchase the service of looking through the application from whoever who was willing to sign that the application meets requirements for the least amount of money, and over time picking the "institutions" that had the lowest denial rates (which of course trended to 0).

This way, the defense of the bankers was essentially: "We did not defraud our customers, instead our dastardly subcontractor did, and we had absolutely nothing to do with it."

However, I bet that a jury could be convinced that they had both sufficient information that they should have known that their subcontractors were fraudulently approving applications, and a duty to make this not happen. The ultimate reason why no heads rolled is that those heads are extraordinarily politically connected.
Why would Stripe buy a website like IndieHackers?
It can be assumed that, if a law can be made to increase profits, corporations will lobby for it, regardless of public interest. Assuming anything else is naive and dangerous.
> Banks were basically shifting risk off of themselves.

FDIC means that banks are not held responsible for losing depositor money, and depositors no longer pay attention to how risky the bank's financial practices are.
> I should be more concise.
> a monopoly by the three ratings agencies
Shouldn't speed bumps be designed that you move over them at the speed allowed there, e.g. 30 km/h? So theoretically there wouldn't be a slowdown, unless you're already going faster than allowed.

At least I haven't seen speed bumps in 50 km/h roads just to slow people down.
Second this. Can you do this? Looks like email addresses were already harvested.
That successful genes spread is a tautology. The frequency of a gene in a population compared to its alleles is its success. I wish we could retire the idea of success in an evolution and just talk about gene frequency. Then the irrelevant ideas of goodness and progress don't come up so readily in people's minds.
I suppose I sensed more malice than might have been there, and I agree with you. I also find many papers difficult to read and especially lacking important implementation details.

I've found that many researchers are very open to questions via email, however. Most of the time I'll get a response that can clarify a thing or two.

I personally feel that researchers just need to be better writers though. Most of the time, the writing is just plain bad. Perhaps there needs to be a way to enforce a bare minimum in writing quality. Personally I wouldn't be surprised to see more researchers employ editors for themselves.
Well, let me give you one reason why: Last year I got launched by a speedbump on my bicycle and broke my leg in six places. I could have really done without that given the fact that I wasn't exceeding the speedlimit and wasn't driving a car.
Artillery – a modern load testing toolkit
Depickling, gadgets, and chains: the class of exploit that unraveled equifax
But, but, looking at your code requires effort on their part.
My soft skills are good enough on the job. I hardly get complaints about communication issues with co-workers and also have taken part in client meetings at some companies, discussing their goals and requirements. I keep on track with everyone that is needed for a project.

But almost everything about soft skills on a job interview feels too orthogonal and dissimilar to my applied work soft skills. Interviews like that are more suited for sales jobs, I think. Sales skills seem like they have been put on a pedestal. Therefore I cannot see these interviews as an accurate representation of most soft skills at work.

Edit: Also about my older thread, are you referring to the one about returning to an office job after 2 years of being away from it? I really do feel like this is what I need and almost all the jobs I apply to require daily 9-5 office work. I'm a homebody and hang out only with 3 people regularly. It remains to be seen on the "when" of I'll get that kind of job.
Unless your company was exceptionally unique in some way I'd probably just pass instead. It's awfully one-sided: you're just sending me some code and I'm supposed to invest hours on it. At least with an onsite interview our priorities are aligned: neither of us want to waste more time than we have to.
I found going to acting school a help. I doubt I could have mustered up the courage to do stuff in front of an audience back then, but being given a script to perform in front of a small group of other acting students was much easier.
The last place I worked with consultant hiring.. an employee hire was like a full day of interviews.. consultant hire was 30 minute phone screen "Do you know what an ArrayList is"?

Logic being it was very easy to fire bad consultants. Employees it was more work.
Ask HN: Why hasn't any Facebook gotten any traction so far?
Yes. I use PouchDB.js on the client to store data and sync it with the CouchDB server. The CouchDB server also provides the authentication routines for the app.
There are so many geometries (by design or error) .. but I remember that those that are more like a lifted platform with low angles are the one I like the most. I do slow down but I don't have to fear shocks. win win
Anus.
I think it's just because Stripe has an interest encouraging people to start side projects/small businesses. It increases their userbase.
Is doing interviews in an IDE and expecting fully functional code actually a thing? My company uses a simple text editor: perfection is not expected, and it's still way better than a whiteboard.
Secret just means the vast majority of people can't know the details. You can have a huge paper trail with secret classified documentation.

EX: Huge gang's may have secret handshakes.
Question I asked myself for years, why not use the idea in car bumpers. Maybe not fully loaded with fluids but non newtonian approach to shock absorption.
The full npr.org provides transcripts for many or all of their stories. This site leads me to stories that only contain bylines and no other content. Seems like a bug to not include at least a link to the audio or the transcript.
Unless the statistical distribution of alleles is exactly the same (unlikely) from one generation to the next then humans would have to be evolving, wouldn't they?
People who've never lived in poverty should stop telling poor people what to do
Guilty as charged, kind of the point of this whole post.
Seven Questions about Technology You Aren’t Even Allowed to Ask
Promissory estoppel.
(1) I don't think it actually turned out great.

(2) Even if it had, "it worked out" isn't a good justification for gambling with taxpayer money.
A bunch of interesting facts in here. Obvious in retrospect, but I had never considered the fact that in order to measure the hardness of a material, you need something harder with which to indent it. And when you do have a harder material, you unlock new possibilities, like this:

> Already Dubrovinskaia and her colleagues have applied this to study osmium, a metal that is among the most resistant to being compressed in the world. They found it could resist compression pressures of over 750 GPa. At this point, the inner electrons, which are normally tightly bound to the nucleus of the metal atom and are highly stable, began to interact with each other. The researchers believe this strange behaviour could lead the metal to change from being a solid into a previously unknown state of matter. They hope to investigate what properties this gives osmium in the future.
That's how a trojan horse works. It has to have an outward reason to invite it in.
I also find it pretty hard to believe that a company like Equifax didn't just have everything hooked up to one big database, but I still don't think it's likely the breach is going to take the whole company down.

Most people aren't going to be tuned into the leak the same way that we are on HN, they've still got their special place in a government-sponsored near-monopoly, and big companies have the resources to deflect blame and hunker down to weather the storm.

Remember the Deepwater Horizon spill and how angry people were at the time? These days, a large majority probably don't remember the details or even the name of the bigco responsible.
There's still surprising little on installing and configuring CouchDB 2.0. there, but there is a lot of great info there and I've poured through a lot of it.

I'll probably post my install instructions in the comments of their CouchDB 1.6 guide so others can help improve them soon.

I've not yet had a chance to play with the DO API yet but I do want to, and will sometime soon.
Airplane cabin fragrances: Good scents is big business – CNN Travel
The music stops when you pull out the headphones...
I'm not saying that I bought before the crash, neither did the government. I literally did exactly what the government did; bought shares of banks and automotive companies after the crash, at severely reduced prices, and held for a substantial gain.

The government absolutely did not sell an insurance policy before the crash. Even if you're arguing that there was a guarantee that the banks would be bailed out, which argument has merit, the banks didn't pay for that guarantee.

We did it for different reasons (I won't pretend I was either magnanimous or delusional enough to think my investment by itself would buoy the stock price enough to keep the companies alive) but the actual actions are the same.

Edit: technically both the government and I bought during the crash rather than after; my ROI wishes I'd been better at calling the bottom, but that's life.
This is an OK mental model until a wholly compliant C or C++ compiler blows it all to smithereens with an optimization exploiting UB.

You gotta write C or C++ for the abstract machine defined by the standards. Thinking about C in terms of some concrete assembly language or architecture can be problematic.
I suspect not, at least not in terms of a mortgage loan/housing bubble collapse. What is more worrying is a seeming disconnect between the stock market and the rest of the economy. The "middle class that sees a market that’s stable, that had jobs for the past five, six years" has been shrinking for many decades.
How can sites punish Google? I guess they could switch to non-popup ads that aren't powered by Google...
Starting a startup. Honestly, the lack of control I felt at interviewing at the top tech firms back in college and my only average GPA was a big motivator for me to start my own business. I hated the idea that my career was out of my control and would depend on whether I could answer challenging interview questions under stress or my GPA/school. This was also at the peak of the ridiculous mythical word problems Microsoft, Google, et al were known for, and those were not my forte whatsoever.

Best decision I ever made
You had AMP set up for your site, a really interesting article would be a comparison between the AMP version and the "standard" one, and going through the differences.

Where is AMP better? Where has it downsides? What's difficult about matching the good things in the normal page?
Here are some things I've down over the years in no particular order.

Work on algorithm problems during slow times at work, or when I know I'll be interviewing soon. I'd just search google for tech interview questions, then implement so that I really understood the solution.

I used to write 2d games as a hobby, I made Tetris, the most ambitious game I completed was a jump n run with a simple level. This taught me 2d graphics, animation, simple physics, and managing state of a lot of interacting entities.

I implemented software 3d with flat shaded polygons and used that to make a demake of an old game. This taught a lot about 3D, matrix math and modeling.

I've implemented parsers and interpreters for simple languages multiple times. I personally think this is the most bang for the buck type of project, you learn a lot about working with text, recursion and tree data structures.

I wrote an emulator for an old architecture. This taught me a lot about assembler and how machines operate.

I wrote a couple of simple games for gameboy color and ran them on an emulator using homebrew tools. This taught me a lot about assembler programming an old game consoles.

I wrote client server library kind of like zeromq. This taught me a lot about socket programming and threads.

There was other stuff. Note all these projects were for my own edification and amusement and were never released anywhere. It was all basically an excercise in "ok that's how that all work", then moved on. There was never a goal or schedule. These were just things that interested me.
Google Crisis Map
You are being interviewed to see if you have the technical skills to do the job, and to see how you well you interact with other people. You must learn to be confident and friendly. These are foundational skills.
Layers -> "Storm Information" overlays specific information about Hurricane Irma.
And although now we've pushed literacy up from 80% to 90-something percent, I wonder whether literacy is actually lower than it was in the 1850s. More people are literate, but those who are literate are on average less literate, because we've pushed our educational standards down in an effort to pick up those last 20%.
It's an interesting analysis, but it misses the key point: the payout will on average always be a little more than the running costs on a completely optimised setup, and therefore a bit less than your running costs if you don't have the most power efficient machine and the cheapest electricity, and certainly not enough to pay for your time on a single machine with a handful of GPUs. If you want to mine cryptocurrencies because you have an interest in them, fine, but if you want to make money you'll be just as well (or as badly) off by buying them with dollars.
What result would have met your test for worked out? Gambling with taxpayers money is a pretty good description of the job of government (will this transportation system get used (consider Detroit's highway system)? Are we encouraging business the right way? Will this law reduce crime?)
It looks like they only looked at abstracts. I'd argue that they should be more complex and that abstract readability don't correlate with the readability in the text.

You can communicate the big ideas and importance in the necessary context in the abstract. These are built on top of many small simple ones. Back in the day 'We measured this thing' was plenty for a journal paper because there was so much disagreement that each result was novel and interesting.

Now I still believe that the quality of writing has decreased, but my point is that you can have a complicated abstract for an idea that is extremely clear in the text.
> The actual outcomes are two of the greatest long lasting Democratic Republics in the history of the HUMAN RACE....

The French Revolution didn't produce a democratic republic. It produced a series of short lived regimes imposed from the top down, culminating in the First Empire. France is a democratic republic now, but only continuously since 155 years after the Revolution (if you pretend the Vichy regime didn't happen, it's been a democratic republic since the fall of the Second Empire, “only” 80 years after the revolution.)
Solving pocket Rubik’s cube (2*2*2) using Z3 and SAT solver
It's amazing that Aminet still gets new releases every day. It's of course nowhere near its peak, but the fact that the Amiga refuses to die is still inspiring:

http://aminet.net/recent
I came across a couple of features (https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=NY7569166021) about 1km west of Vindolanda (https://houseprices.io/lab/lidar/map?ref=NY7705466352) on a Lidar Map I made.

I assume they're not unknown to science as they're pretty prominent, but then again they're not marked on the Ordnance Survey map as such things tend to be, like the Roman Camps just to their north west for example (http://streetmap.co.uk/grid/375689_566022_120).

Any archaeologists in the house?
Google Chrome Will Soon Warn You of Software That Performs MitM Attacks
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Should, probably, but it's common in Central Europe that on a 50km/h road, there are 2 speedbumps that can't be safely passed if you're going over 25km/h.
re: (1), so you think it didn't turn out a hell of a lot better than most imagined?
You might want to look at a pie/donut chart of government spending. Mostly you got medic{are,aid} and social security. I think most people would agree that reducing the tax payer burden of those programs without reducing benefit is an objectively good thing.

I don't disagree that the financial system should strive to be better, but during a crisis is definitely not the time to make that happen.

https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/images/pubs...
I didn't do a technical interview at all for my last few jobs.
I hope when we get there that we have set up a Manufacturing Freedom Foundation, equivalent to the EFF.
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What happened is every high school mandating the use of the TI-35 and their brethren, making sure those kids are so used to working with infix calculators that they never approach an RPN.
> After spending several weeks, I felt like I understood the article almost well enough to implement it.

How long do you think it took the researcher to develop the idea? Probably longer than a few weeks. Even if they could have communicated better, it's still the case that you, a non-expert (my apologies if this is untrue, I am assuming based on the context), can decipher and implement the method in a few weeks!
I don't know if there should be more or less credit, although it sure seems like an improvement to reduce fraud and have less people up to their ears in debt.

Even if the companies running the system have serious problems, it still provides a mechanism of trust. Most people are likely to experience at least one event in their life, for example an unexpected expense or some long term investment, which would easier to navigate if credit were available.

Replacing the credit score system with the subjective judgement of a creditor introduces arbitrary, discriminatory bias into the system.

If credit is a competitive advantage then isn't hurting its fair availability is somewhat an own goal as long as the USA remains part of a global economy?
How else would they detect popups?
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You do not even need a scientist to see that there is a massive degeneration and retardation going on in the US gene pool currently. Influx of foreign genes was the solution, but now dumbness itself will trigger its own growth even stronger. If you want a better gene pool for your descendants it is time to leave US now. Good Luck!
Some historians think for a few hundred years Hadrian's Wall was a megastructure where the locals had no solid understanding of who built it, how they managed it, or why.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kkr42

It's admittedly debated, but even if just plausible, still fascinating to contemplate.

If not for the wall, there were probably periods in the local history around the pyramids that would qualify. Julius Caesar is closer to our time than he was to the time when they were built. There's a lot of time for people to forget other civilizations in there.
If you're relying on rising value to break even, probably just buying the eth low and selling high would be a better approach.

The reality is that any big miner will get economies of scale for buying memory in bulk. Though eth is asic resistant, nothing will ever be bulk pricing resistant.
What circumstances bring out the 'madness of crowds' as opposed to the 'wisdom of crowds'?
Yeah we all have different taste in interviews, I'd much rather spend 2h working for free than writing som tree traversal or fib function on a whiteboard for ten minutes. Interviewing is hard.
Look's like http://skimfeed.com would fit the list perfectly.
Massive Gain in Compute Power with AMD GPUs Using ROCm in Caffe