skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd be surprised. A lot of people are technically inept.

I've seen people create new accounts every time they lose their password. I also had a friend who'd create a new account every time she had a personality change of some sort (new hair? new profile!). Another friend owns a couple businesses and has accounts for each one (Pages are completely lost on him...). My aunt has entered her birthday incorrectly so she's supposedly 19 years old right now. A neighbor has a "family account", which is really just the wife posting pictures of kids.

Don't take "technically inept" to mean "my abilities, just a bit lesser". Take it to mean "no ability to reason about software applications whatsoever".
It helps when you're not afraid to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks; it also helps when you have dozens of companies following that same strategy. Android makers are almost always going to be "first" with something new.

They're rarely going to get it right.
It is super exciting to see projects like this! Is there anything similar that uses Postgres, or any other database that has a better reputation for data integrity than Mongo?

I'm confused to see this marketed as serverless- it seems very much server-full. Is there an easy-to-follow guide for setting up cloudboost on Azure or AWS?
If you hold to one system of ethics doesn't that mean by definition you hold competing standards to be inferior because you selected your system over theirs?
Your getting close to sealioning here but I will bite.

You need to have an "objective justification" if the job really needs you to be able to lift a 210lb person on your back and carry them down a ladder
The NIH budget, the largest US government funder of medical research, is bigger now than at any time before 2000 (although it's down a bit from the 2003 peak, adjusting for inflation).

Source: https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/NIHMech_1.jpg
Yes collective code ownership generally produces the best overall outcomes. Individual developers or small agile teams need to be able to work through an entire vertical slice of the application to deliver a complete feature that has actual value to users. When you divide up the work by code module rather than by application functionality then the user's needs stop being the primary focus.

But with collective code ownership it's still useful to designate a couple of developers as "stewards" for each major component. They don't own the component, but they take responsibility for training other developers on the internal design, making suggestions on refactoring, and reviewing design proposals and code diffs.
People also got used to smoking. Telling people not to smoke might not have been nice, but it definitely has been working.
Flip side, it's realllly easy to tell when businesses hire botnets to push up their follower count in hopes of being verified. If an account has tens-hundreds of thousands of followers and no interactions from them, save to assume its all faked. Whats sad is twitter seems to verify them without actually looking.
So is Facebook, so is Reddit, so it Instagram..... rinse and repeat.
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Bitcoin script allows you to specify more complex conditions for settlement than a digital signature by a single key.

For example let’s say we first lock coins into a condition that both your key and mine are required to spend. Then I “send” you money by signing my half of a transaction sending the payment to you and returning the change to me. If I later want to pay you again, I send you a new partially signed transaction with the sum of all the payments so far. Either one of us can broadcast the most recent to when we need the funds for other purposes. Since one tx is needed to set this up, and one tx is needed to close out/settle then this makes sense as long as there is payment, or even for single payments if the close out is used to setup a new payment channel at the same time (my change address sets up a similar 2-of-2 with someone else).

This protocol as written is not safe, but only because it’d be too tedious to write out a full protocol in a HN comment. With tools that are available besides signing, such as relative lock times and malleability-free transactions it is possible to construct safe versions that don’t fall down in the face of DoS or rebroadcast of old state etc.

If everyone uses such transactions, which they will eventually once the tools are more mature, then you only need proper block chain access for the rebalancing transactions.

Off chain transactions are not censorable because they are between offline parties in direct communication with each other. And settlement aka rebalancing transactions are not distinguishable from regular payments if MAST is available and cooperative closure is achieved.
I think part of the issue is that it is literally impossible to have a news organization that everyone thinks is unbiased. Even if you just report straight facts people will claim bias just on the set of facts that you report. I think this is a lot of the reason there is such a diversity of news sources.
Judging by these guidelines I see no evidence that NYT actually wants their staff to be unbiased. Only to appear unbiased. This, I presume, is because it allows them to present biased opinions as objective truths. An art which the NYT has perfected over the years.
Bee-level intelligence
It passes through the client User-Agent unchanged. I've not yet looked at anything else although I doubt it will do anything but pass through the client headers.

It might be interesting to send confusing or contradictory request headers and see how it reacts.
Hmm.. I'm not convinced that this is a problem that actually needs solving. You admit to having these misgivings when starting out - could you describe in general terms what changed your mind?
Is that common? Most small business insurance I've seen is for liability, not for damage to the company by its own employees.

I am admittedly not well versed in this.
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Strongly with you on that. I too avoid both hardware and software that uses external services as much as I can. Every day this becomes harder, though. For me it's not even about security - it's about reliability (having the stuff work off-line), longevity (not losing a device or software because a startup reaches the end of its incredible journey) and plain old respect for good engineering. Shuttling bits around half of the planet to move them between devices that are physically next to each other is just shitty engineering.
The signs in California aren't useless because the signs are useless; they're useless because of the specific implementation.

If you do have an area with known-dangerous substances, and don't put up the sign, you get hit with a penalty significant enough to hurt. If you don't have anything dangerous, but do put up a sign, nothing bad happens to you. So rather than actually check for what's there and put up the sign only when relevant, everyone errs on the side of "better put up the sign just in case".
I'm not even looking for a winner-take-all argument. I just want someone to be able to immediately correct Rich when he says something wacky about static typing. E.g.,

'You don't have labelled arguments!'

'You have labelled arguments since Standard ML i.e. at least the '80s, e.g.:

$ poly
Poly/ML 5.7 Release
> fun add { num1, num2 } = num1 + num2;
val add = fn: {num1: int, num2: int} -> int
> add { num1 = 1, num2 = 0 };
val it = 1: int
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Z-wave and encrypted ZigBee controlled products work pretty well for in-home automation. Communication is encrypted between devices.

The problem can be the Z-wave/ZigBee controller which may very well require Internet and Cloud access to "phone home."

I avoid using IoT devices that I can't re-program or if nothing is available except some proprietary/cloud driven device I isolate them into their own little network space, so they can't attack the rest of the network or "phone home" unless I let them. Sometimes, that isn't possible and that's when 30 day return privileges come in real handy.

The ability to trace the packets coming off of most IoT devices is fascinating and sometimes scary. A lot of devices are like the recent OnePlus smartphones that record and send most everything to their "true master" the manufacturer of the device. At least, with a Oneplus you can fix that, by reflashing the phone.... which is not true of most IoT devices being sold today.

Have you noticed that BestBuy seems to only sell IoT devices that will "phone home?"
Glassdoor reviews are useful only if you manually read them individually and critically judge each one for what it's worth.

A lot of negative reviews for my current employer are incredibly spot-on.

I had a very negative experience with my former employer, which currently has 11 reviews with a 4.9 star average, which led them to be rated the #10 best employer in a very large tech market.

They were constantly explicitly threatened to fire people. Ran off 2 out of their 3 founders, some of them very abruptly, jeopardizing the staff's pay and benefits (and this was just a couple of months before winning that "best in town" award). They either cynically produced horrible quality code for their clients, or farmed you out as a body shop to local software teams that couldn't attract their own talent directly, and for good reason.

Exactly 1 year later I now recognize exactly 1/3 of the bio/profiles listed on their website, the other 2/3 being totally unrecognized and new.

When I left the place I had a negative sick time balance, which they offered to write off, and also kept my health care running for an extra month after the month that I departed. And during the same conversation they offered that "we should not talk bad about each other," and of course they had the one really nice guy have this conversation with me.

So now, I look for individual negative reviews which seem reasonably articulate and unemotional, and if a place looks interesting enough, try to queue these issues up for questions during a prospective interview.
It could technically fit any of those cases depending on the implementation, but the simplest path is probably building an application that disguises itself as an operating system. It could even be sandboxed to some degree and still probably suit most needs.
Techmeme summary: Ian King / Bloomberg: Qualcomm files patent lawsuit against Apple in China seeking to ban the sale and manufacture of iPhones
Live streamed design meetings-ft. Stephen Wolfram? Pretty much what you'd expect
Why would you think a good standard would be a situation which would be the hardest imaginable for you to make a clear headed rational choice. The situation where you would be most tempted to choose petty emotions over real justice.

This is about the worst standard I can imagine.
"Accident" is prejudicial -- it prematurely rules out intent, negligence, and other causes.
Whether you genuinely want it to stop determines whether it's worth listening to, and there's a lot of people whose income depends on it not stopping.
I think they just told you?
I made the transition after 12 years as a developer.

One of the issues I had was mistakenly assuming all the people working with me would be easy to get along with and hard working, which was how I behaved and is a factor in my becoming a manager.

It's not that way at all. You see the 80/20 rule play out, where you have a few A+ players who do most everything, a few people who do decent work, and then a handful of duds. Attitude-wise, the harder people work, the more pleasant they tend to be. The duds can be indifferent towards you or even hostile.

Being a developer and being used to controlling my work product, I had to make a shift to trusting other people blindly and that wasn't easy for me. Over time, I realized it was the most effective way to get people to do their best work though - trust that they'll give good results until they repeatedly prove otherwise.
Gold is hard to transact with due to physics, but ideally a digital currency should be capable of micro-transactions.

Here is a quote from the bitcoin.pdf white paper: The cost of mediation increases transaction costs, limiting the minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions...

If your vision of the future of Bitcoin is simply "a store of value" then I think you are missing out. There is a lot more value to disrupt by making transactions more efficient, and I hope the Bitcoin of the future will evolve to tackle this problem.
Just a bad apple, you see.
Certainly it's impossible, because choosing which facts (even if we grant they are "facts") to report is a form of editorializing.
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It's being worked right now! :)
To be clear, sidechain transactions are just transactions on another chain. I wouldn’t call that off chain as it actually introduces more transactions (to move across the peg).
I've been through the entire Google interview, yes. And I'm going to go (slightly) out on a limb and say that if Google could reduce their false negative rate, they would. IOW, yes, that's a factor of having a high bar, but what that statement is capturing in aggregate is the fact that their interviewers are not all equally calibrated and the interview process can be very uneven, although always looking for very strong people. They then turn around and give those really strong engineers a very high salary and (in many cases) relatively uninteresting work. It would be surprising to me if that changes as a result of this $1B grant, but I would be equally surprised if they don't try to skim the cream off that particular crop.
> But it's trying to re-invent the compiler wheel (and the language design wheel) so that it can run on bare metal and "grow up to be a real Lisp machine" some day, and I think that aspect of the project is a fool's errand.

I'm not so sure about the actual intentions behind the development beyond "experimenting".
Ask HN: Who is your hero?
Definitely not trying to downplay anything, quite the opposite. I was trying to suggest that diversity involves more than just the color of your skin.
Banks and hedge funds are not blocked from buying bitcoin.
> Would YOU hire somebody who just knew these things?

For an intern / very junior position, yes. For anything else, no.
If they aren't logging into those accounts any more, then Facebook's advertising isn't "reaching" them. That explanation doesn't paint Facebook in a good light either, because presumably they are measuring how many impressions they serve and to who, right?
awesome library. like a breath of fresh, after all those complex frameworks. keep up the good work guys.
It's a green field versus brown field problem. Windows Mobile was/is a green field where the only competition was exterior. Whereas UWP has to compete with Win32 on the desktop and tablet.

It's easy to armchair quarterback hindsight and wonder if they spent too much money in the green field, but it should be reasonable to see why the green field looked so appealing at the time.

It's also easy from 2017 to forget the real, hard, brown field battles that Microsoft did fight, particularly as Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 slowly become "forgotten" versions of Windows like Vista before them. Almost all of the missteps in Windows 8 that people yelled at Microsoft for direct consequences of building the UWP out and trying to make it competitive to Win32. Some of the features like the Charms were attempts to give the UWP some platform-wide features that would have really differentiated it from Win32, but found they added confusion because they weren't easily portable back to Win32, and that is just one example out of many. Brown field work is hard.

I don't get the impression that the green field work Microsoft tried in mobile ate resources that would have been better spent on the brown field work on the desktop. Win32 has such momentum at this point that had Microsoft thrown more resources at Windows 8, trying to bring UWP further ahead faster they might have only gotten more backlash from Win32 fans, and arguably there wasn't a much better plan for desktop than the uneasy truce between the two platforms/subsystems that Windows 10 is/has become.

If they had built a "UWP subsystem for Windows 7" at the time of Windows 8, people would have asked for it for the last remaining months of Windows XP. Asking for a "UWP
subsystem for Windows 7" today is a bit like asking for that Windows XP subsystem. Windows 7 is feature complete; it may have security support for a bit longer, but it's out of support for new Windows features (it ended mainstream support in 2015; it ends extended support in 2020). It's now two released versions behind (8, 10) and more versions behind if you count "service packs" (8, 8.1, 10 (1506), 10 1511, 10 1607 (AU), 10 1703 (CU), and the new one (FCU) coming later this month/early next month).

Honest introspection: if you are a developer and someone asked for a feature to be backported to a version from 7 years ago that is 6 major versions back, would you support that or would you encourage them to pay for your hard work and upgrade to something more recent that already has that feature?

It's not just that the work is hard, it's ignoring years of hard work that you've already done.
In one case you were looking at the world from the perspective of a poor boy, in the other from a rich earner.
You want pharma companies to keep doing drug discovery why not ban outright any kind of marketing or advertising for their products? R&D spend across the industry is a fraction of the marketing spend. Think of all the good research that money would fund once pharma companies were freed from spending it on advertising.
Please don't post like this on Hacker News. It amounts to unsubstantive inflammation and we're shooting for something different here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Because MariaDB is based on MySQL which is fundamentally broken: check out how basic SQL doesn‘t work on Youtube. And then there is silent data corruption and six different storage engines because Monty & co. just couldn‘t get the code to deliver decent performance for the generic case. Then there’s the nonexistent OS based authentication and very amateurish database backup capabilities. With all of these „features“, MariaDB is „a recipe for success“.

Meanwhile PostgreSQL has always been about reliability and stability and has been getting better and better with every release.
It's naive to think that Operation Mockingbird (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird) isn't continuing to this day.

These major organs of the media function simply as a fourth branch of government.
I get the feeling that the author really dislikes Laufer. The whole article comes across as wanting to smear his character as a rich, egoistic crazy person with hubris. I don't know what kind of anarchists you got in SV, but wtf:

> He said this over lunch at an upscale French bistro in the Silicon Valley, where he orders Champagne and sauteed scallops. “If you really take the time to smell the scallops,” Laufer said, inhaling luxuriantly, “you can feel the ocean.”

I really disagree with the commentators that feels that this is an article aimed at lifting Laufer.
Very common look up rancid tomato proxy
Yes I do take an interest in helping others avoid mistakes I've made in the past. It isn't really an unreasonable thing to do. I'm actually sorry that it appears this won't be of help to you.
Animated Rust operators. This is the Rust operator affectionately known as "turbofish", used in the unusual case of needing to disambiguate a type.
At my company the negative ones are all real, but positive ones (which outnumber them) are mostly fake. I imagine a lot of companies are the same.
Are airliners impervious to armor piercing bullets? As I understand it, a small bullet penetrating the loop will cause a minor release, not a catastrophic event. It's not correct to hold the Hyperloop idea to standards that we don't apply to other forms of travel.
Agreed... super odd to see "serverless" and "Deploy with Docker"
The supply argument isn’t any different from Tulips in the mercantile Netherlands back in the day.

This is coming from a bitcoin enthusiast that loves the technology.
It really can be either way.

The only way to make it not look like a HR racket is to let the negative review slide for a few weeks/months. And at a later date decide if you'll leisurely encourage current employees to make reviews. Even better, encourage employees to make reviews prior to there being one bad review to set the tone of the debate.
Agreed. There was one company I worked for that made all the employees write reviews for the company, but the boss asked each person one after the other so that he knew who wrote each review. So of course everyone wrote a good review.

I tried to make mine so over the top that it would obviously be spotted as fake but still within the "compliment" range that I thought my boss would accept it as genuine. Then when I left I wrote a proper review and indicated that most of the other reviews were probably untrustworthy since everyone was asked to write a review.
VR vs. AR
Well, to correct it entirely, you should probably use thirds instead of 30%, since that was either an allowance for simplicity or an error originally. I believe the correct answer is just under 3 accounts per person in the group with multiple accounts.
I have written both bots and a client, I have yet to see a sponsored tweet. In fact this is why Twitter cracked down on 3rd party clients because they cannot show sponsored tweets.
Okay :) I find node very tempting myself but then it feels like it'll take all of my concentration to be any good with node, then I'll wanna make everything node, and that's how _you people_ happen lol :) How did you meet?
Twitter deleted data potentially crucial to Russia probes
The standard wasn't "if I would want to do this to Hitler, let's do this in the general case".

The standard was "If I wouldn't be willing to use it, even against Hitler, it should be categorically disallowed."[1]

That is, if you consider it so brutal that you'd feel queasy about using it even against someone really bad, i.e. a case where you would most favor casting morals aside, then you know it's beyond the pale.

It may not make sense if you've never experienced something so bad that you said, "wow, I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy", but I'm sure at least some fraction of the population has had that thought.

[1] If necessary, replace "categorically disallowed" with "off the table".
That's exactly what I was thinking. Wow, a neural network discards information at each layer by reducing the number of cells in each matrix? Water is wet.

How else would a network make a final decision? If it never discarded any information, it would be just as heterogeneous of a dataset as when it started. It would be as if a linear regression algorithm "fit" a dataset by connecting the dots, except even more useless.

I truly don't understand what this "new" theory is trying to say.