skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a terrible comparison. A decade old tech company is not at all comparable to one of the oldest and most powerful and influential institutions in history.

Actually it's rather apt given that there are more Facebook users (2B) than Catholics (1.2B).

The reality is that Facebook has a disturbing amount of influence on what a quarter of the worlds population see and hear on any given day. No, Facebook can't directly give orders but as a mechanism for propaganda it has unparalleled reach.

> I suppose that makes Zuckerberg god in your analogy.

Closer to the Pope.
Open known-clean pump. Take picture of inside. Give picture(s) to worker, tell him to look inside every day and compare to picture(s). If the inside of the machine doesn't look like the picture, call manager, and put "Out of order" sign on machine.
I did, see my above comment.
Lol... My base salary at a startup is 50% more than the 75th percentile for Seattle. Also, coffeescript is listed as a distinct technology? Makes no sense to me.
I guess I got carried away with the usual dev stuff, "oh well need an account to keep track of sketches", "oh better require email address so they can reset their password", "hmm better confirm it so bots cant spam sketches and fill my s3 buckets" and so on... I've just gone through the signup process myself - for the nth time, and felt myself that after submitting that first sketch it didn't feel right that the next step is to leave the page and confirm an email address...

I did make the confirmation optional previously, I think first step will be to go back to that and work from there towards a signup-as-an-edge-case approach.

Thank you, you've given me a lot of food for thought.
> If you haven't looked into Lambda cold start problems, you're in for a treat.

What the heck are you doing for 15 second cold starts? I haven't seen more than a 1s overhead for cold starts with Node.js apps packed with webpack (more like 2 or 3s without webpack)

But yes, if the cold start time is unacceptable to you. Lambda is a terrible fit. But you have to ask yourself what is and is not acceptable. Especially in a mobile or single page app where you can eager load or do background requests.

It is not for everyone.

Another trick is to group similar functions together in the same code and have different API gateway endpoints go to the same Lambda. Using that method most apps I've made have less than 1% of requests hit a cold start situation.

Edit: for many apps 1% sold starts is unacceptable. And that's OK. Lambda isn't for you.
What is the "accurate" price of a security, particularly if it does not pay a dividend? And what good is achieved by that price being found?
North Korea Missile Tests Visualisation
(copied my response from another thread)

I left it running when I first wrote the comment. Went back to it just now, after nearly two hours, and the memory usage didn't increase. Still at 120-130 MB.

My guess is that compared to Slack, Github app doesn't really do much when idle. Slack fetches user statuses, new messages, notifications and so on. When you have an open channel with ongoing conversations that will add up in the RAM. This app doesn't seem to do anything when idle, so the RAM usage doesn't increase.
A private company concluding that it probably isn't a net positive for either itself or humanity to host broadcasts inciting people to drive trucks into Parisian shoppers or blow up London Tube trains is somewhat orthogonal to the question of whether US foreign policy and individual military strikes often have disastrous results.

Ironically, no argument could be more US-centric than arguing the concept of terrorism cannot exist outside of the US government's list of enemies du jour or the suggestion that corporations' right to make moral judgements about whether they wish to offer free recruitment advertising for suicide bombers should be sacrificed to the false idol of the First Amendment.
>My understanding is that the failure of institutional lending in response to QE is still considered "a mystery" by mainstream economists, etc.

As the Austrian school economists pointed out during the crisis, you can print money, but you can't print borrowers - the banks need qualified borrowers to lend to, and in the middle of a financial crisis there aren't as many.

Of course the fed can't allow cascading bank failures, but once the banking system is out of danger pouring in more money won't do much.
This sounds a lot like Throttle (https://throttlehq.com/). How are they getting around the deliverability issues? If they forward mail along, don't large ISPs like Gmail ultimately attribute any spam that comes along to their outbound IPs?

I moved away from Throttle for this very reason, because getting mail deliverability right is incredibly finnicky. Ended up moving to Fastmail and using their catchall. Fastmail solved the deliverability problem for me (since they host the catchall domain), as well as permitting me to send out from any of my wildcard aliases (thus allowing me to reply in situations where I still want to keep my real address hidden).
Except these estimates seem laughably low.
I have heard that the price is the price for AWS and that the small guys pay the same as the biggest ones. But I have no evidence to back that up.
mBTC: MilliBitcoin - 1 thousandth of a BTC
uBTC: MicroBitcoin - 1 millionth of a BTC

Further details: http://bitcoinchaser.com/bitcoin-units-and-denominations
I guess. I had experience with such company too. You'd be lucky if you can use Linux in VM in such case. In better cases Linux is offered officially as an option.
My first thought: I guess Freeman does whatever he's paid to do these days.

Second thought: Other than the spy story, replace USA with Russia in there, and it will still be accurate. The USA has undermined about 1 national election per year (on average) since the WW2.

But sure, everything he said about Russia is also likely true.
Given that this was the context of my post, I wish people weren't downvoting you for this. Seems obvious to me.
What did Google's initial funding have to do with the securities market?
It's possible that Amazon has some algorithm that decides whether a product is worth returning or not, and that they just tell you to keep the product since the cost of return handling, etc., would consume the margin they'd make reselling it. I'm not sure if this type of algorithm would be applicable to FBA sellers, but I doubt Amazon would want it to be, since they'd lose out on the opportunity to collect additional handling fees from the seller.

Just conjecture at this point as I don't think any non-Amazon employee could know exactly all the details around when Amazon decides to charge a return handling fee, etc. I guess this may be in the fine print somewhere, but I would rather expect the fine print just to say "We can charge you a return handling fee if we want".

My experience is that I tried to return something last year, and Amazon was going to dock 12 dollars of my 14 dollar refund for return shipping if I clicked anything other than "defective". The product wasn't defective so I just decided to keep it, not worth the hassle for a $2 refund.

Did you order from a third-party FBA seller? If you did, they will often tell unsatisfied customers to keep the product and issue a refund anyway, because they'd rather be out one unit than have a return against them.
Well that is sort of a common law view of things. But most countries practice case law, which means if somethings not explicitly illegal then it must be legal. So I don't think circumventing the law is seen the same way as it would over in the anglosphere, where we'd condemn someone for intentionally not following the 'spirit of the law' and a judge/jury might convict them anyways.

Disclaimer: IANAL and perhaps a bad judge of how people around the world view the law.
Don't do all tasks on one computer. Computers dropped in price so there's no reason to do that.

You can use a livecd for surfing the web. The web is one of the biggest sources of badware.
As some other comment pointed out, we update it daily. When we started debian-slim was not an option for us, but it has caught in terms of size and features, so we will definitely take another look
It's great for asking "who uses this function" and "how do they use it"?

CPAN is used by the perl community to make lists of modules broken by new perl releases. They use this to find how intrusive proposed intentional changes are, as well as to find accidental breakage.
The base configuration was 16GB until the 7's release in September 2016 (following which the 6S and SE were updated with 32GB base configurations as well).
Intellectual Ventures ramps up push to commercialize inventions
Which macbook pro, which flavor of linux?

On mine, I was plagued by "stuck pageflip" issues, issues with external monitors, resource allocation, battery life, etc. Furthermore, there was no webcam driver.
That is not in the definition of a bubble. Nor does it preclude there being a bubble.
Not in the US they don't.
If they operate like lots of other big corps, I would think the retail arm actually would have to pay AWS for the service. Obviously zero sum, but you want can't know your true profit and loss for individual business units if you don't.
The low score of C++ and high score of Python in pass rate made me think for a moment. How are they determining pass or fail rate? Because if they're failing people because they forgot a semicolon or something trivial like that, then this ceases to be a test of interview performance and more a test of how many inconsequential mistakes does the average person make.

So for instance, Vim doesn't provide much help when you mess up. If you type a variable name that doesn't exist, that's your fault (I'm sure with plugins you can get more). So do Vim users do better because they're nerdier, don't mind a steep learning curve, and like working in a terminal, or is it because Vim doesn't tell you that you accidentally called "reduc" instead of "reduce"?
Leverage Information Overload as Creative Fuel for Problem Solving
Beautiful Fractals by Genetic Programming: Carpets, Genetics, and the Pi Fractal
Sorry for the harsh words, but this looks like a solution looking for a problem. Any CEO of a company that's lucky enough to have customers contacting them would spend a not trivial amount of their time reading and replying to the contacts. For example, Jan Koum, Whatsapp founder said that they only started hiring dedicated customer service staff when they reach 150M users [0].

[0] https://youtu.be/8-pJa11YvCs?t=849
90% of speculators don't do this. The process to sign up and verify is usually so arduous (because of excessive fraud) that once they are verified they trade and stay at only one exchange.
Regarding the work history thing, I think the point is missing good programmers who have a patchy work history. I, for example am 42, but I've only been a programmer for 3 years. Someone looking purely at my work history probably wouldn't have bothered to interview me for the first couple of years.
Fortunately for me that wasn't the case.
And, indeed, eclipse is the editor most colleges use to teach undergrad students Java.
You are probably correct about the vector math! We learn low level embeddings from playlists we scraped from Spotify (with little discretion) and are still working on the algorithm.

We are essentially trying to draw a line between the embeddings of the two songs and find "close" songs to points along that line. This should give us a somewhat smooth transition - at least that's the hope.

I suspect some of it may be that we are using a euclidean line through the vector space, but using cosine distance for similarity. We're still trying to get the hang of using the vectors to build a smooth transition between songs.

We are also tuning our model and training variables, as well as pulling in more playlists, which should help (I hope).
This is cool as can be, especially the "custom cars" section. There are a few in there I worked on but I helped build most of this one when I was around 16 years old...

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles.php?make=Custom+made&model=Eve...
Toys R Us: the birth – and bust – of a retail empire
KiCAD's files are all text, so they store well on GitHub, and they're reasonably human-readable. This whole project is on GitHub.[1]

Now if only I can get GitHub to stop mis-identifying this KiCAD project as "AGS Script". Somehow, GitHub's language classifier misidentified a SPICE model file, which is mostly "name=value" items, as Adventure Game Script, which has roughly C syntax. Previously it misidentified the project as SourcePawn. Before that, it was properly identifying it as KiCAD. Reported the bug.[2]

Hardware projects tend to have many file formats. Schematics, board layouts, part footprints, schematic symbols, SPICE models and simulation schematics, plus software-type stuff such as firmware. Unfortunately, the files tend not to have unique suffixes.

[1] https://github.com/John-Nagle/ttyloopdriver

[2] https://github.com/github/linguist/issues/3812
Yea, I know how stressful it is to read the tea leaves of what an interviewer is actually looking for, so I'm always extremely up-front about the fact that I don't care at all about certain things. Hell, I've even told people that an incorrect final answer isn't a big deal: one of my favorite strategies is incrementally racheting up the difficulty of a problem until the candidate gets stuck. The richness of the information you can gain from this process is fantastic, though again, you have to couch it in a lot of communication to the interviewee that they shouldn't get stressed about not perfectly crushing the problem.
Dunno man, seems like I'd be missing ctrl+shift+f search across all files, with a nice little box that easily lets me filter out the .less files when I'm doing JS stuff, and vice-versa.

Obviously this is available in emacs, but not vim without serious configuring, and not with everything staying within a nice single editor context.
A lot of people simply dislike density beyond the density found in small towns and suburbs and are willing to pay a bit of a premium for that living condition. The author even "admits that the ideas of the Garden City and the Decentrists made sense on their own terms: a suburban town appealing to privacy-oriented, automobile-loving personalities should tout its green space and low-density housing. [Their] anti-orthodox frustration stems from the fact that their anti-urban biases somehow became an inextricable part of the mainstream academic and political consensus on how to design cities themselves[.]"

I noticed that the author mentions that a busier city street is safer from violent crime but doesn't acknowledge that very busy streets are also havens for pickpockets, whereas you generally get it both ways on mostly-vacant-except-cars streets in lower density areas with little to no violent crime.
(Article author here.) I have the data, and you're right -- a plurality of Go users were using VS Code.
Not to downplay the move, but by their own admission, many of them were banned before they even tweeted once. I'd bet most of them don't fall under MAU
Thinking in terms of competitive advantage, there's premium, niche and lowest-cost provider.

The thing about niches, is that with enough of them, many people can be the number one choice for someone. These niches require richer data (as you say), but also richer awareness of what characteristics really would suit you.

Of course, this doesn't help if what someone really wants is whatever everyone else wants, or to beat them.
Have you seen Adam Curtis's documentary, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace? A lot of it is about that
> Keep complaining; neither they nor their customers care.

Apple has reversed several business decisions. Error 53, in app purchase gouging through developer fees, allowing apps instead of web apps (after realizing the iphone was pretty useless without apps), allowing bitcoin apps, etc etc.

>I find it hilarious that every time Apple does anything like this, people complain and Apple still sets record sales.

I hope you are not so naive to think that buying a product implies people like every single feature/change. Also, I don't quite see the hilariousness in a company ignoring valid complaints.
> don't find Vim offering any huge productivity boost

Really? I feel so much faster with Vim bindings. Watching other people try to edit text even with OS or other-editor bindings, let alone just selecting text with a mouse, is very frustrating.

I know other editors have bookmarks, and I imagine they might work as well as in Vim. But, besides Emacs, in what other editors can you 'delete everything up to the next `=`' or 'delete everything from the current cursor position to the start of the third word (to the right)'.

Gah – even cutting and pasting more than a line or two is so much easier in Vim than anything else.

And that's just editing text. Editing code is even harder for me! Trying to remove a 'word' in a long camelCase variable without being able to jump to a letter or a search pattern consists of hitting way too many arrow keys.
I have 47GB available out of 128.

~30GB of music, 2GB podcasts, 1GB photos & videos, the rest is a large subset of my ios applications.
> Well that is sort of a common law view of things. But most countries practice case law

Aren't these the same thing? [1] Do you mean something else (civil law)?

But that's a great point; maybe the problem is my lack of living in a purely civil law country. The thing is though, it seems more like common sense to me than a legal issue. Like for example, if (say) murder with a knife and a gun had been illegal, but there was no law against using baseball bats, then suddenly everyone in a civil law system would naturally assume using baseball bats to kill would be okay? It just doesn't make sense to me that "whatever is not expressly illegal must be legal", whatever the legal system... but maybe you're saying that would actually stand up in a civil-law court, and people would actually be okay with it?

It's also quite counter-intuitive to me since the US (with its common law) seems to be quite prominent in its tendency to let its people and companies stick to the letter of the law but not its intent. e.g. so many corporations find legal loopholes to take advantage of all sorts of people (from consumers to politicians) by means which are not technically expressly illegal but which almost surely are out of line with the spirits of many existing laws.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
WiFi should take hours to drain 30% of your phone battery. Did you check the battery usage in Settings?
No this is the postal company deciding for you which ads are not "worthy" enough, and not delivering them at all.

This has nothing to do with net neutrality directly at all. The parallel it does share, is giving Apple a potential position of power to decide which data goes through and which don't. This is also the essence off the net neutrality debate.

Their proposed "filter" could even very well be perfectly to my liking and in line with my personal standards for ads or how they are brought upon me.

This is however about them providing a code, or at the very least a seed off their own for their machine learning algorithm to filter content.

I like experiments, but I rather do not wish Apple or any singular entity for that matter to regulate my content.

I do hold bias against Apple, because they have a certain position. They gave everyone phones, ecosystem for devs and patents and rights and indirect control to web frameworks through licences. Their might be conflict off interest. They have so much (acces to) people's data already through their devices and market influence, that I do not feel fully comfortable about them deciding that now the rest is not allowed to gain similar data.
So the article you just linked ("Greggman") was interesting and began roughly along the lines of the questions I expressed in my comment.

Sadly, JavaScript is not among the languages Greggman compared (didn't see it in the charts or on the page), let alone both JavaScript and a language that adds types to it.

That's what we're really interested in, isn't it. And as the original article we're discussing ("To type or not to type") promises, that's what would have:

>immediate practical applications for many project teams. Is it worth the extra effort to add static type annotations to a JavaScript project? Should I use Facebook’s Flow or Microsoft’s TypeScript if so?

So if these languages had simply been included in Greggman, it really would have gotten at the essence of my questions. Unfortunately they weren't studied.
Fourier

I've always heard this pronounced like "for-e-ay" (or "for-e-eh" where the last part is the Canadian "eh?").
> 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 just using a hypothetical example of how data can be confounded by factors that have nothing to do with the central implication that "better developers use vim/emacs". You're right that my particular example is weakened by the fact you describe, but there could be _further_ confounders: in my anecdotal experience, Eclipse is a lot more common as a beginner's IDE than any of the Jetbrains IDEs (everyone I know in college used Eclipse, while my first exposure to a Jetbrains IDE was a few years into my career, while at Google. FWIW, I prefer JB IDEs to Eclipse (and prefer vim to both!)).

> 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 think you've completely misunderstood my comment. I didn't say these things were related to the editor I was using. I said that the parent comment's implication that you can only be productive with a big IDE (as opposed to vim) is based on a misunderstanding of what vim is capable of. Obviously every sane editor has these features: they're pretty much table stakes for development IMO (which is the whole reason why I augmented my vim with them).
Is public speaking really that bad for introverts? I always felt that even though it sucks the life out of you, it's only for an hour, and gearing up for one hour life suck activities is a pretty common thing we have to do.

I mean, would you rather get invited to a party and spend 4 hours socializing with strangers, or give a talk at a conference for 1 hour? Guess it's different for each person but for me the party is worse.
No.
Sometimes at work I don't want to use my employer's wifi.
Sometimes I do.
So why don't you find an individual partner or angel investor with a few 100K to spare?

If your idea is as good as you say, it should be simple.
There's plenty of people reading this that could help you.

And I do think it is suspect you won't tell people here what you are doing. (We are not asking how. We don't want the magic / secret sauce.)
I think they have to be ethical standards. If they are economic standards then you open up the possibility that any method of war/killing is acceptable in dire economic circumstances. That is how you get a country like North Korea threatening nuclear war.

This idea isn't uniquely American. Humanity as a whole has decided that there are different levels of morality in warfare and killing. Those standards evolve over time. You example of the American revolutionaries and the extensive use of chemical warfare in WWI are examples of things ebb and flow. But at the heart of it I think most can agree that people have a right to fight for their own freedom, but they do not have the right to indiscriminately kill. That indiscriminate killing is what separates drone warfare from terrorism.
Apple is not analogous to the postal service. That would be Verizon or Comcast or AT&T or whoever. If they did this, it would be troubling.