skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point I consider any request for a take home assignment as malicious. They never take 6-8 hours to complete, the implementation is always unsatisfactory one way or another, and I have a weird impression that more and more often they are just a source of free research on how a particular problems can be approached or even solved. One pays for research, dear (potential) employer.
(Thanks for the perspective, that was interesting.)

Btw, modular/semi-modular home construction is a pretty big thing here in Sweden. Seems like most standalone homes are built that way nowadays. I had earlier assumed it was similar elsewhere, but it seems like it isn't dominant in most other places.

I guess our horrible climate makes it nicer/more profitable to build modules in a climate-controlled factory than on a wintery/coldish/raining building site. Contrast that to e.g. California - decent climate all year around. I'm also guessing that our high taxes on work and a lack of a low-paid builder workforce also contributes to making automation of housing module manufacturing worthwhile.

See e.g.

https://www.treehugger.com/modular-design/sweden-they-are-bu...

(It's not just one house manufacturing company doing these, there are loads of them around the country; I think the typical size is a couple of hundred people. With lots and lots of automation. Not quite sure why large-scale consolidation hasn't happened yet - I'm guessing it's because these companies tend to be privately/family-owned.)

http://www.globalconstructionreview.com/trends/why-sweden-be...

"About 84% of detached houses in Sweden use prefabricated timber elements, while in developed economies such as the US, Australia and the UK, no more than 5% of permanent housing has any significant prefabrication."
Interview with Vladimir Voevodsky-Part2 (2012, English Translation)
If you can't refactor with just search and replace, you don't really know the depths of your project, and yes - I would be uncomfortable working with you.
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I think that bit was awesome. Norm MacDonald is a great comedian, and he can deliver everything just perfectly.

That's a perfect example of a comedian taking something supposedly solemn and turning it funny. Kind of like when a chef takes an off-cut of meat and turns it into something delicious.
> Anyone who thinks Vimium is anywhere nearly as polished as Vimperator probably never used the latter much.

That's why I suggested it - apparently OP didn't use it that extensively :)

Note that even if Chrome didn't have an API, that doesn't mean Firefox will never get it. For example, Vimium had to reimplement its own address bar, but I believe they're working on API's that will let it manipulate Firefox's.
How about a license that says:

If you use this software in your company and your company makes more than $100 million per year, they should give $10.000 per year or per release to the community/person who wrote it -- otherwise do anything you want with it, view the code, edit it, ship it, etc.

Straightforward, capped (so they don't worry about you jacking up the fee), a drop in the bucket for large companies, and would allow projects to actually hire people.
Ah, so the 2nd amendement is not about militias at all?
Didn't consider that aspect. That would be very cool! Okay, thats a little more of a challenge than generating some initials and making a circle, lol. I will investigate, sadly I'm not the most creative person, so wouldn't be as cool as https://robohash.org
That was the approach I took to same probelm for users on an annotation service.

This seems nice but still overkill.
The are lots of new API’s and some old code has been deprecated. There haven’t been many Objective C tutorials or books in 3 years.
yes, yes, decades of research by nerds in their labs, who don't trade and live on public welfare has shown that conclusively. in the meantime, here is what the real world is like:

* people falsely believe that due to having learned about the myth of the buy&hold investor, they are now 100% in control of their psychology and will not succumb to 'this time is different' panic selling when things get serious. their own psychology will be the biggest surprise to young investors, who have entered the market after 2008 and haven't experienced even a single correction.

* people aren't properly accounting for being forced to sell at a loss due to unexpected expenses, which are dramatically more likely to occur during a downturn, i.e. the probability of losing their job during a recession is >> than any other time. same thing with divorces, probably. maybe even illness. distant relatives asking for money. etc etc

* people aren't entirely wrong to panic sell when mass hysteria breaks out. most of the research is based on the US stock market, which is exceptionally long-lived and uninterrupted. if you asked tsarist bureaucrats retiring in France how well their portfolios are doing, they would sing you a different song.

* [personal] if I had to put a monetary value on the psychological relief I feel since reducing my exposure to equities by half, it is very well worth whatever grandiose compounding fortune I am forgoing because of it, not to mention that should I be lucky with the timing, that may not even be the case. as a rule of thumb: when you repeatedly find yourself checking financial news, you are invested too much (and are now longer a 'passive investor')

the only good thing to be said about the 'buy & hold' meme is that it drives people away from the even worse active management industry, but that doesn't make it unconditionally good advice.
I think this is a fallacy. I believe another pipeline does not necessarily produce better doctors. They also make mistakes; sometimes those mistakes cost people lives.
Yeah, those days when a programmer could make a living, even a killing, from their work.
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Yeah, it absolutely is (ui-avatars). I think its a neat little think to act as fallback for gravatar, but I totally agree that it's overkill
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You can run them through the Xcode converter. I made a list of the code that I converted. It’s really not that hard to deal with small examples:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2016/09/17/my-ios-10-and-swift-...
Actually, take a look at this Patrice O'Neal clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwk-BQ4Mc0Y

His point is that you're allowed to try to be funny about anything, and if you bomb, you pick yourself up and dust yourself off. You should be allowed to make the attempt.

I will agree that the more sensitive a topic is, the funnier you gotta be. The joke should have an insight and good timing and delivery and all that. If you're just saying shocking things for the sake of saying shocking things to try to elicit a reaction, sure, you won't get asked back.

However, that shouldn't be a reflection on how sacred the topic is, but how unfunny you are.
>I find that a strange question to be honest. Plenty of FOSS is well funded.

You'd be surprised. Even extremely popular projects are severely underfunded, to the point of begging for money, while being used left and right by huge enterprises...

>I totally see the problems. But it's not that nothing is happening and no solutions exist. OpenSSL moved from "mostly one overworked guy with little funding" to "stable funding from multiple parties". It did so by convincing some major internet players that they need to increase the funding of software important for running the Internet.

If it has to come to that -- convincing Facebook, Google, IBM, whoever etc --, surely there's something problematic?
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They probably play a part in Schizophrenia http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jun/03-the-insanity-virus
In regard to latest edit with Twitter

I think it's interesting how much thought goes into default avatars, and that it can be used as a marketing tactic. Thanks for providing link to Twitter as well. Guess I'll have to think more about it in the future.
Funnily enough I noticed this playing FPSs online like rogue spear. Teamspeak wasn't really viable on a 56k so text was the only method of comms for me and my friends at the time.

I remember my dad being proud that I could type without looking. He asked me to demonstrate to his friend - I was in a rogue spear lobby at the time.
There are two reachable from here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09482
Rooms always matter unless of course Genelecs somehow break the laws of physics.
I write in both ObjC and Swift. It takes more than a few hours to get used to both languages but it’s also true that you get used to both. I prefer the relative terseness of Swift and also find the language more elegant and safer than ObjC.
Sorry, I'm only getting paid to shill during office hours.
Not bashing Swift, but I can't remember the last time I had a memory issue when using ARC in ObjC.
What if the ugliness that people who experienced trauma see isn’t real either? Everything you experience is an illusion created by your mind, sober or not.
The role of professors in experimental sciences has simply changed. The most successful ones manage multi-million dollar annual budgets, have connections with politicians and local billionaires. They almost never do research themselves, their success is measured by their management of big projects. I know of one professor that has ~100000 citations, oversaw the construction of two institutes during his tenure and has been involved in big european projects for over 30 years now.

It is a wholly different story in theoretical fields like theoretical physics or mathematics of course, where you basically need no money.
Like CERN?
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> pretty good piece rebutting AI alarmism

I only read the text, but I was under the impression it was mainly meant to be a funny Wat-style talk and not a meaningful rebuttal.

If, in fact, this piece is intended as a serious rebuttal then I honestly think it fails. The overwhelming majority of the content is either a funny whataboutism (e.g. Gilligan's Island, pot smoking roommate, the Great Emu War, etc.), or jokes about what could be loosely termed the "AI community".

AI 'alarmism', as I understand it, is not predicated on the idea that super-AI is a certainty - merely that it's a possibility. No point raised in this piece gives me a reason to believe that AGI (or whatever) is either impossible or so unlikely that it can be disregarded.
Toyota owes A LOT to Bell Labs. I'm not so sure they can thank Wall Street for being unnaturally forgiving.
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If you go to codementor.io you'll find exactly that. Apparently people do pay, but they don't want a mentor at all (also, the sheer majority of people who request a mentor end up not hiring any -- or even replying to their messages).

The whole thing is a mess.
How, exactly, is commercial research taxed? Only profits are taxed, and research is all expenses, and can be deducted from profits for tax purposes in the year they occur.
> totally ignoring that a bellow average team can do much better than a hero can

I don't understand what you mean by that. Sounds like a paradox. If they do better than a hero, then they're not below average.
Amazon deciding if it will make a big move into selling drugs online
Chrome V8 makes Node.js a first-class citizen
That just means you've never worked on a big project, where the component you are responsible for is used by >10 different other components. One very quickly reaches a limit where manual refactoring is an option.
Maplins isn't that bad. They've got a decent range of electronic components that can be picked up in store. They might have to cater to the mass market to keep going, but at least they've not neglected hobby electronics enthusiasts.
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Simple search the whole database
Two of my favorite avatar generators:

https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article391/cat-avatar-genera...

the furry version of

https://robohash.org/
Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX and friends
It pretty much is one reason. Neural networks also fell out of favor in the AI winter, for similar reasons, but people could still experiment (and did) so we now have an NN renaissance.
CERN, ISS, the ITER, EMBL, ESA, and, of course, the International Potato Centre.
As a former insider, I can tell you likely pre-story which might cast a different light on this:

* Google employee comes up with an idea.

* They go and research the idea to check if there are any already existing companies which do it.

* If any are found, they meet and decide if they should buy the company, reinvent the idea, or that it isn't relevant.

* If, after investigation it is determined the company's tech isn't good enough, they will re-invent. Google has fairly strict tech requirements (no php, no shady licenses/ownership, no pirated stuff, etc.), so many companies don't pass.

* When they reinvent, they will do it "clean room" - ie. none of the people who reviewed the original company will be involved in the re-invention.
It matters yes, I’ve never been completely comfortable with Python and Lua because of their style but in the example above how is the Swift better than the Objective-C? Sure the params syntax is cleaner here but then you have the return type (with the ugly arrow) at the end instead of the start of the line which is unusual compared to many other c style syntax languages and you also lose the -/+ instance/class method syntax i always liked in Objective-C. JavaScript of course doesn’t have to supply a return type at all, I just don’t see how any of this helps someone coming from JS/Python/Ruby combined with the deeper understand required around nullables and types.
Haha, they're so great!

There's also this one: http://avatars.adorable.io
Could someone explain to me why everyone is crazy about type theory? ATM i learn category theory by watching and reading the awesome material from Bartosz Milewski. Should i stop and learn type theory instead, if i want to know more about programming languages in an abstract / general sense?
sigh again with the "files are numbers" thing.

Above the generous threshold of about 128 bits, any given number is vanishingly unlikely to have been derived through any other process. If your 134-byte file turns out to be valid SVG for the Cartoon Network logo, then functionally speaking it is the Cartoon Network logo because it's incredibly unlikely you just pulled those particular 1072 bits out of your ass.

Similarly, if you are in possession of a 30-million digit binary number that happens to be valid h264 for an ISIS recruitment video, "oh what a stunning coincidence" isn't going to wash.

So "files are just binary numbers" doesn't get you anywhere, at all.

https://qntm.org/number
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> No active developers were part of the NYA. Some in the NYA have said that they agreed because they believed Core was party to the NYA.

They were invited but declined: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/74ow7f/erik_voorhees_o...

> I don't think anyone, including Core, is against that (higher transaction throughput). But on-chain scaling alone can't get you very far, and it has large costs that need to be carefully considered.

Meanwhile, no one has yet provided a believable scenario how miners can get paid in the long term that isn't high transaction volume at low cost.

> The idea that another capacity upgrade should be rushed so soon immediately after Segwit is kind of silly.

This debate is ongoing since almost four years. I wouldn't call that rushed.

> The idea that it should be decided so soon behind closed doors by a few CEOs is sillier.

See above, regarding invitations.

> Let's be clear about the word "update": it means to switch their software to a fork that none of the active community Bitcoin developers contribute to and that none plan on contributing to.

And many others see 2x as the first real sign of the incentive system actually working.
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Not currently, we want to ensure that salaries are shared only to those who actually work at the company. Checking your current position on LinkedIn is our way of verifying this.

Can you think of any other way to check and share salaries with a companies realm, without knowing anything about you?
Another interpretation is that Bitcoin Cash is the necessary credible threat to get the rest of the folks onboard 2x.
Wow take a look at the phone's that is going to get the Android 8.0 Oreo update
> SegWit2x is basically the mining faction stealing the network away from the Core development group

That language is very revealing: It never belonged to 'the Core development group' in the first place.
Agree, just look at the "new" Airport in Berlin, which will probably never go live.
> Segwit wasn't a hardfork, which makes it very different from this situation.

How so?
Textual search and replace is blind to the syntax and semantics of the programming language, of the software itself. Why should we use stone tools?
Oh, the avatar is a girl
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I haven’t tried Swift, but I never use XCode and always use Jetbrains IDEs - there is one for Swift: https://www.jetbrains.com/objc/
Not sure why this is (was?) being downvoted.

Yes it expresses a subjective opinion.

Programmer preferences on languages, tooling and other things involve subjective opinion. We are all humans, not purely rational automatons.

There is nothing wrong with a purely subjective, and taste driven argument. How much weight you choose to give it is another matter.
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The big contracted/outsourced projects usually have equally big penalties clause in their contracts. It doesn't really help.
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No not for free, of course. But streaming which I can purchase. Don't have iTunes, but have 3 services (Netflix, Amazon Prime and HotStar) in India. None of them seem to have it.

Ideally, I want to be able to just buy a movie from somewhere, without needing to subscribe to the entire service.
I wouldn't trust Google to act as "verifier", but I would trust Google to aggregate and pass on veracity metric from other sources.

For example, Google could say "68% of experts appointed by the New York Times approve of the content of this page".

Individuals could then choose which group(s) of experts they want to become part of the ranking for their personal news feed.
This strongly reminds me of an old joke stating that the end of the world had to be postponed yet another time.
Anyone who wants to invest there should read the T&C very carefully.

See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/74mgka/why_bitfinexs_c...
I like this project, reminds me a lot of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg

What was used to generate the gifs?
This piece describes a future that is reminiscent of the world created in Zachary Mason's "Void Star" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29939057-void-star). The world of this novel is one in which superintelligent AI operate in tandem with everyday human life, with their own unknown motives. The narrative takes place at a point when humans no longer quite understand the science or math behind the AIs' inventions.
> What is bigger: a 400-pixel square or a 400-pixel circle? Geometrically speaking, their width and height are equal.

The area of a circle isn't width * height though, obviously. If you plug pi * r^2 = 400^2 into WolframAlpha, you get a diameter of 2*r = 451.35 pixels, very close to the 450 pixels the author came up with.

For the icons too, maybe you could just count the pixels (ask Photoshop the amount of filled in pixels?) and make sure every icon has a similar amount.
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> Their behavior has changed a ton from then ...

Based on?
A subset of "Interactive Fiction".

The latest in language: http://inform7.com/

"Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of IF."
In case anyone is interested, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1994/12/04/... is the article in the Washington Post from December 4, 1994.

While it is a popular slogan, West Virginia has never had "Almost heaven" on its license plates. The slogans on license plates have been "Mountain State" (in all caps) and "Wild, Wonderful".
Given the current resources and constraints of the economic system, it might be accurate to state it as an "oversupply" of scientist.

Given the sad state of actual science however, I think it's more useful to characterize it as an undersupply of resources and/or political and societal will to value science correctly.

We need large scale studies validating and invalidating each other with publicly available data so they can be repeated, performed with different population groups, and we need negative results to be seen to be just as important as positive results are. And hopefully a better understanding from everyone in the world of what the process of science is and should be.
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Google is dirty player. I have very little trust on google! They company politics are violating people's rights. They are manipulating and deleting peoples accounts if they political agenda is not google's agenda. Sad sad google. You are just like any other corporation like facebook and twitter.

Freedom of speech??
- you must be joking
I was pretty pissed it automatically uploaded the image. "Save" refers to saving to your local machine. "Upload" means uploading to a remote server. Fix the damn button.
I feel this lacks imagination. In actual fact, a computerised person of average intelligence would be an incredible piece of technology and could easily lead to an AI singularity, given enough funding - which it would probably receive, because holy shit. What happens when you set thousands of average people on a problem, and give them thousands of simulated years to work on it? When you can spin up a research team as easily as an AWS instance?

>but without changing the way that it stores and indexes the information, it can’t make something that can solve problems that it can’t.

And yet people routinely grow up to be smarter than their parents, with no special effort on their parents' part. All you need to make a smarter version of yourself is the ability to make inaccurate copies and dumb luck. What, besides ethics and money, stops you from running an evolutionary process that selects for intelligence at a vastly higher rate than real time?
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If you think this post was "defending" China, then you have a very thin skin for dissent. I was instead trying to discuss the challenges these activists may face and why attempts by the west to "help" may backfire.

> Why am I not surprised.

Because HN does a good job allowing active debate on a complex subject?