skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does Snowden have anything to do with a collaboration between Google and Hashicorp?

You say this is not tinfoilism, but the tinfoil in this one is strong.
If you're an emacs user there's nothing worse than doing an on-site interview where someone wants you to pair program using their editor. Nothing works right and you spend half the time flipper-handing it over the keys trying to remember how normal editors work.

Then again, it's rare that I interview anymore. I've done maybe two of those kinds of (pair programming, someone else's rig) interviews in the last ten years and neither was for a job that I really wanted after spending time with the devs conducting the interviews.

You want me to consult with you? Let me talk to your biz people to see if I'm the right person to solve your problems, and let the technical folk go over code I've written and we can deep dive on that if there is any question about my chops. Otherwise, fuck off. I'm too old to play "dance monkey".
Berkeley 'taught' emacs in 61A when it used SICP and we programmed in Scheme, taught being in lower case here, italicized and in quotation marks. The idea that a university course would teach an editor is a bit much. I think there was a cheat sheet passed out by the TAs in section. My point is that this was at Berkeley where vi originated 40+ years ago.
> Their FX reserves have plummeted

On what timescale? WP says they have $3T, same as 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-exchange_reserves_of_C...
All of this. Like a lot of us that frequent HN (I'm assuming), I'm introverted af. I'm not shy though.
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Before he was killed Bin Laden communicated with his inner circle only by USB drives transported by sneakernet - his bunker lacked Internet connection but his communications were electronic. I think some of his communication was re-transmitted by his couriers over the Internet though but not through locations that were physically near where he was hiding.
> The Fed can't print money without devaluing the money already in print.

Well, the way this actually happened is that a few trillion dollars simply evaporated in 2008. The Fed "printed" a few trillion dollars to keep the few trillion that evaporated from destroying the whole system. That few trillion that the Fed created didn't devalue the money already in print; instead, it kept things the same.

Now, you could argue that the few trillion needed to be destroyed to undo the devaluation that had happened by its creation. That's a reasonable argument. But doing it very fast can cause a lot more damage than doing it slowly.
I don't think you can do better than brute force search for cryptographic randomness, but it would be interesting to see if this does well on personal heuristics people use. Eg the XKCD approach.
ProfaneDB: A Protocol Buffers Database
Because it is the most efficient way to build a reserve of a limited commodity (bitcoin) that has a much longer exponential curve to expand along.
Currently, the Chinese miners are operating as a business to squeeze a margin out of the discounted electricity available in China. It is in China's interests to treat this as a national resource wherein it is produced domestically. My thesis is NOT that they want to control Bitcoin, only the domestic production for their long term national interests. Remember mining will continue until approximately 2140, that is a significant horizon to look at.
There a various definitions, but the one I like is: introverts exhaust energy while around people, extroverts recharge.
I recently had to get a card replaced and what was interesting was that some companies with recurring subscriptions automatically updated to the new card number without any input from me. Not everyone did this but it was about half of my recurring charges. They must have some way of updating the info via the card provider. The expiration date and CVV changed as well but they magically already had it.
ENSEIRB-MATMECA, a french engineering school
Shortcut sends a barber to your home/office at the push of a button
Probably we (as in Facebook users) are part of the largest psychological experience in history. With the billion users and trillions of actions, the computers at Facebook have an unprecedented opportunity to make experiments on us to see what makes us tick.

Take notifications as an example. Not that hard to think that there could be some machine learning system trying to find the best possible notification pattern to lure back a user who has not visited Facebook for a while. On Facebook scale you can run large number of tests in reasonable small time frame and still get pretty good number of observations for each test.

Similar thing could be applied to quite many things on Facebook. Most of the things they want to optimize are easy to measure. Like how often we check the site, how much time we spend there, how many times we click ads and so on.
> CPU & RAM: MediaTek Quad-Core: 2 @ 1.8 GHz + 2 @ 1.4 GHz , with 2 GB of RAM

Mediatek... You shouldn't wait LineageOS for it. Neither any updates.
1) There's no economic consensus that inequality doesn't matter.

2) I'm sure plenty of people who do not understand power laws are able to comprehend economic concepts around inequality.
Does HN allow posting referral ad links to products on Amazon like this?
People who care enough to learn something because "higher paid or smarter people use it" are the very kind of people who are going to do better on interviews.

I've seen plenty of professors say they can tell (generally, that is a strong correlation) whether someone will succeed or fail using a single criteria. One example: When hearing a new word, does the student immediately look it up in a dictionary? That person will go far because they recognize and correct areas where they lack knowledge.

Mike Acton of Insomniac Games has one criteria. The only one he's seen actually result in long-term great employees: An insatiable desire to learn. When they hear something they don't know, they go home after work and begin reading. It's basically the same thing as the dictionary.

People who are willing to endure the onslaught that is vim or emacs, are willing to sit down and learn things that aren't easy. It doesn't make you a better programmer. It's just a hallmark of an already great programmer.

When he was a kid, Linus Torvolds used to write programs with a hex editor and directly writing the opcodes (instead of even using an assembler) into a file. That didn't make him a great programmer but the drive to do things like that when most would go "why bother", is what made him a great developer. It stands to reason that when presented with future obstacles, he applied the same gusto and problem solving skills instead of giving up.
surprised you are being downvoted - i totally agree with you - this data should be taken with a huge grain of salt and imo should be ignored for deciding on interview candidates and certainly ignored for hiring decisions.

While this data is fascinating, it does lead me to consider what other unknown factors are at play here influencing these results.
Not only post your picture, but friends can tag it with a name along with time and location, and now association with certain circles of friends. You are probably not going to get that kind of context with a picture on reddit or imgur.
That’d go directly against their business interests. It’s in Amazon’s interest to make it as confusing as possible, so you never notice you spend orders of magnitudes more than you’d have to.
Tech has grown up
You use an iPad as a grocery list?

What ever happened to paper taped to the fridge? and... you know... an egg timer?
You mean, installing Linux on the Mac? Most developers I know who use Mac like it because they don't have to install a Unix-friendly OS to use Unix/Linux tools, yet still get a solid and working OS to use on top of the kernel.
Star fading: it's not E.T.
So crude. So effective.

I've been considering low cost, easy methods to mount cheap, interconnected tablets (or even cheap touch displays hooked into an rPi) in a few different points around the house. It never occurred to me to just tape the damn thing to the fridge.
No, you're pretty close. I will nitpick that awareness has nothing to do with intelligence and I mentioned nothing about anyone's intelligence level. However, awareness doesn't guarantee compliance.

People were made aware that smoking causes cancer, vaccines do not cause autism, and that man-made production of CO2 was causing accelerated climate change. In each of those cases, there are experts in the field warning common people of the danger. In each of those cases, the experts observed that people didn't know about the dangers beforehand. In each of those cases, there are people who refute the claims of the experts or flat out do not care (I should note that plenty of intelligent people fall into this last category).

I expect this scenario will be no different.
>Secondly, drone warfare isn't conducted primarily to kill civilian targets. Sure, bystanders do die in the process but there's never been an account of a US drone strike that was motivated by the desire to instill fear in civilians by maximizing civilian causalities.

This isn't a drone strike, but wasn't the goal of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs to kill as many civilians as possible in order to instill so much fear that their country surrendered? If that is the criteria for terrorism, then we have certainly already committed the largest terrorist attack in world history.
I have a bunch of random apps w/ 200-300MB but I still have about 79GB available of 128GB
> What should we ask Computer Science students?

"What is the most important problem (of policy, not of specific technology development) that Computer Scientists should be addressing and currently are not?"

(The parenthetical is to forestall nearly-content-free responses like "We should do more with AI!" and similar.)
And this is why sperm banks require donors be at least 5'9" tall.
While not really accurate, "Serverless computing" is the accepted industry standard term for this model where server management is abstracted away with cloud-based services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serverless_computing
The backlash against MS began in the 90s with the start of the anti-trust trial. It was preceded by MS achieving a greater than 90% [0] market share. Apple has nowhere near that and so will not see that sort of legal backlash for them for a while.

Microsoft used their position to do things like:

Spend over $1 billion to advertise a free web browser to compete with Netscape (fear of cross-platform applications that Netscape could support).

Embraced a fucked up version of web standards where they literally did the exact opposite of what the specs said in order to make sites compatible for their users break (without serious dev effort) for everyone else.

Convinced Compaq (memory fuzzy, I get them and HP mixed up now) to not release computers with BeOS. If they had, MS was going to eliminate their favorable Windows licensing costs. This would have driven them out of business as they could not achieve competitive PC prices with reasonable margins (PCs already being a low margin business at that point). They tried similar, though less aggressive, pushes against companies that later wanted to release Linux workstations.

There's a whole litany of MS's abuses of its monopoly position in the anti-trust suit, it was actually fascinating reading if you care about economics, business, politics.

[0] Precise numbers failing me, I believe they got close to 97% at some point.
Yeah, but not everyone's non-salary income is funny money from startups. I work at a Fortune 100 and get stock grants (not options, but actual shares) as part of my compensation. It's real and I can trade it that day (and pay high taxes on it), or hold it and trade it later.
Or perhaps there's some racial bias and a certain ethnicity tends to be associated with Java and Eclipse.
Despite how you phrase the question, if I had to hazard a guess about how they'd answer, I'd say AGI.
Perhaps, but a lot of teaching is done with Python nowadays, and Python has a positive pass-rate, and actually tops the on-site success rate. So it doesn't just seem to be a case of beginners getting rejected a lot.

Based on my anecdotal evidence of interviewing Java devs, I'd suggest the problem is the opposite. While there are some excellent Java coders out there, there are also an awful lot of "experienced" devs, with fifteen years of experience and salary expectations to match, whose technical ability proves to be pretty miserable.
Is this about economics, macro-economics, micro-economics, finance, or simply income inequality?

This looks like a "populist" site. It teaches you a "lot" about income inequality but it doesn't stress on important matters.

This is totally subjective but, for me, the most important concept in the economics of the 21st century is "banks printing money out of thin air". All money, in fact, is not the same. Even though, on the small scales it looks like it is.

The site do talk about it here: http://www.core-econ.org/the-economy/book/text/10.html#108-b... But given its importance, it seems highly buried: Like, hey look there, here is how we print money. That's it.

The implication of the monetary policy is huge. It explains why our system can collapse of the mistakes of other people completely non-related to you.

I still find the Khan Academy videos on Economy the best, simplest and most informative out there on the Internet. Really worth to watch.
It's the market at work, and roughly the way it's always been. It's easier to pay a developer more to live in NYC than move your finance shop elsewhere.
You increase your prices by better targeting, either by knowing the demographic of the eyeballs (Facebook) or by intent of the action (Google).
> You mean, installing Linux on the Mac?

Yes.
My first Tor Relay with netdata stats
I think he is referring to performance, which in my experience is true. You would have to do a really terrible job for an electron-based app to beat your native app performance-wise.
> If 85% of science think X, then that is what is presented as science.

"Science" is a process [1], not consensus. It uses the scientific method, which is a "body of techniques" for investigation [2]. That is exactly what parent said - if you are "following the scientific method and collecting data in good faith" you are "doing science" - i.e, you are a scientist.

[1] a "systematic enterprise" (wikipedia.org/wiki/Science)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method

EDIT: bad formatting.
Farming isn't the problem, manufacturing isn't the problem. Water rights & water law is the problem. Nobody pays a fair market price for water, whether ground or rain water, and until then we will continue to see squandering & rampant abuse.

The tricky part is ownership. Who owns groundwater? Who owns rainwater?
That's one huge sperm
I think parent means that china avoids the risks of using theoretically subversive decentral foreign technologies, is this right?
Alcohol is addictive and toxic. Yes, we do have alcoholics all over the place. Few are dead.or dying because of methanol poisoning, and few need to steal hundreds of dollars a day for a fix.

It's not really a very strange argument, particularly when it comes to opiates - it's a pretty well evidenced argument. Those with access to cheap or free maintenance doses have a better recovery rate, and a better rate of being able to re-enter prodictive society.
Government of Odisha releases social media accounts under free/open license
Vim with vim-go plugin is really nice.
Also make sure that any media you use for backing up your MacBook is also secure. And use encrypted backups of course.
Silicon sculptures depict half billion year old creature
-1 : I am very uneasy with the "evil" / "not evil" characterisation. There are many practices that are in a morally grey area but they don't go as far as invoking demons. Maybe it is because English is not my first language that this figure of speech has always bothered me.

-2 : I don't really see Apple as very different from Amazon or Google or any other tech giant. They are here to defend their bottom line and IMO they have remarked that ads were an easy critique of their rival so they are tabling on it.

If only they could :

- stop changing their TOS every 5 minutes and make them actually human readable.

- let anybody distribute an app on iOS, even outside of the app store, even if it competes with iTunes, Safari, etc

I would be way more inclined to cheer for Apple and call them a defender of our liberties. Another issue is that as far as net neutrality is concerned, this is scary.
What often happens is you hold it for a while to reduce the tax burden. Then when you sell it, say you want $100k, you actually sell $115k to cover the extra 15% in taxes. (You'll end up needing a little more to cover the extra 15k, but that's easier than covering the 100k.)
Right, just in the same sense that Google and Equifax are not just websites, Facebook is not something you can entirely ignore without consequence.
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I think iMessage is the worst offender for most (at least it is for me). Every video or photo I receive eats up space until I remove it or it gets removed in 1 year.

Also, the base model only came with 16 GB for a long time, which I imagine most people didn't upgrade.
Really just prioritization. We prioritize everything based on its usefulness/need. We are also in "MVP mode" right now so anything that isn't a part of those core features mentioned or isn't essential is put on the back burner.
When I worked in Shanghai this year, I noticed that a business openly advertising "large sum transfers" was located literally one door away from city's procurator office.
> constrained to a small area of life (even if you are one of the targeted demographics).

The specter of police violence is not constrained to a small area of life for members of targeted demographics....
Proclaim thyself victor, oh stubborn one.

Evidence falls on deaf ears.
The processes that generate a huge proportion of online content do so to maximize ad revenue. You might not be aware of ads, but the advertising economy is still a major force in what information you and many others see on a daily basis.
I really don't think it's in Amazon's interests to have a "holy shit, what happened?" reaction when you open your credit card bill.
I know old school native code is looked down upon these days, but there are people that write code without bloated runtime dependencies.

You don’t need to add python “to do anything interesting.”
This.

> We in the developed world enjoy a dream-like existence few in the whole of human history have ever known.

You just have to ask yourself; how many of my ancestors were able to afford a hot shower in the morning and you begin to realize, how mind-fuckingly amazing the life we have actually is.

Thanks for putting it into words.
> Agreed, and this should be the retort to any curtailing of free speech in the name of safety

There is no free speech issue here, Twitter isn't operated by the government, neither is Facebook or Reddit. My point is, people are still free to set up their own servers at home, running their own app, their liberty to do that is not harmed by Twitter rejecting content. On the contrary, it's an opportunity for free speech advocates to remember that.
Workspace grid for MacOS without external tools
Considering modern CSS has been abstracted away by libraries and frameworks, I've noticed a trend among startups, smaller businesses, and companies short on time that they so often default to Bootstrap. Developers who don't work on front-end, the execs I've been under in several jobs previous, all want Bootstrap for these reasons.

It makes me sad that my job as a front-end developer working with HTML and CSS has become scaffolding a framework instead of creating unique and non-Bootstrap designs.
Unlesss you're at a startup or independent, your company likely has an IT department. Therefore, the IT department has to install crappy software on your computer, either for legitimate reasons or just to perpetuate its own existence.

The end result is you are likely stuck with a Windows PC (usually a horrible, custom built Windows image, too). If you're lucky, you might elect to get a Mac. And if you like Unix, the Mac is the better option.
I'd like to see the answer for both Economics and Computer Science. Should be interesting.
I'm not always getting the greatest results. Mixing Portishead with Perturbator gave me sensical results, but Perturbator with Dance With the Dead should have given me other synthwave/outrun style faux-80s music. Instead it gave me The Notorious BIG, Sound Garden, and the Foo Fighters.
Double-sided velcro tape works pretty well. Put the soft side on the tablet...
The pursuit of loneliness: how I chose a life of solitude
The british were by far the largest atlantic slave traders and the american colonies were largest market to ship slaves to. Once they lost the colonies, they lost their largest slave market and switched to anti-slave trade to punish the US and also to hurt the french slave markets as well. They even ran blockades against the US and french to keep slaves from markets and starve the economies of slaves.

Pretty interesting how self-interest and economics drove american/british views on slavery back then.
That's great, but I think you hit on exactly the point the parent was making: to use emacs / vim effectively, you need to do things like learn lisp or spend countless hours tinkering and customizing. IDEs like vscode already come with some great defaults so it gets the full gamut from newbies to gurus. I think the parent was just saying that the emacs / vim group doesn't have the low end of that gamut watering them down.
One of those was probably mine. I was banned within five minutes of signing up, I'm guessing because I was using semi-public wifi and didn't provide a phone number (although the signup form says it's optional.) The stated reason was for "bot-like activity".
I clicked on this expecting a review of Nancy Etcoff's _Survival of the Prettiest_ (2000), another work in this area.

The New York Times review of Etcoff's book is called "The Beautiful People" <http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/03/21/reviews/990321.21lehrm..., but the review is about _Survival of the Prettiest_. Lewis Carroll would be happy with this. I wasn't able to find an NYT review of the Marilyn Manson album.
Google requires you to turn on all web, search, app and location history just to set your home address in maps. Then it continues to siphon all your private data 24x7 out of every device that Google touches.
> beginner developers are going to be more likely to be on a big GUI IDE, which would drag down the measured average quality of Eclipse users.

The data gives PyCharm and Visual Studio an "advantage", suggesting this isn't the case. Or are you suggesting that only Eclipse is used by beginners?

> I was the most productive dev on most teams I was on. I'm pretty sure this would've been impossible without plugins at least including auto-complete, jumping to definitions, etc.

Pretty sure this was unrelated to the editor you were using. All sane editors have these features you've listed, and I'm sure you would do equally as well with them, especially since being a productive developer doesn't mean you write the most code (usually).
I removed it from my phone, blocked it in my browser my only way to check it now is with my phone browser ... I still have the heinous facebook messenger app installed.

but much like you the FOMO is gone, but so is a lot of anxiety. I can focus on things that are more important ( reading is my new hobby) and spent more focused time with my family.