skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Live and work in the south bay and yesterday was really bad. This morning I could still smell the smoke but the skies seemed a bit clearer. Yesterday, though, the conditions reminded me of pictures from China where the pollution is so dense, your field of view appears to be around 10 meters or less. I could barely make out the mountains east of my home.
That is nowhere close to evidence that Equifax had tax returns.
You can always go the eat-your-own-dog-food route: create a startup around your technical expertise. The only problem is that it ends up making you learn and practice all the people/soft skills (and more) that you were trying to avoid in the first place. The upside is the possibility of a much bigger financial return.
This article is an advert, it offers no solutions, and the last line even ends with the name of the author's company which sells solutions to this problem. Maybe it sells great solutions - I don't know, but this article is not too helpful.
I'm halfway through The Three Body Problem, a science fiction novel by Chinese author Cixin Liu. The apparent irrationality of three-body orbits is central to the story. So far, it's excellent, both as science fiction and as social commentary on contemporary China.
If he pays them more he also pays payroll taxes.

If he donates to charity he gets a tax credit.

Am I missing something? Else seems logical to me.
It's a great idea and I can't wait to see more high speed rail built all across the country.

We've already criss-crossed uncountable acres of historic, sentimental (what?? really??) land with roads, both local the state/federal highway system. HSR would be so much better use of land than roads, for moving a lot of people quickly and comfortably. Not at all redundant with Amtrak.

Happily, the California project is funded and is already underway, and I think there's one or two others being talked about/planned.
The real Terraria code isn't much better. Here's their 3MB [decompiled] NPC.cs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csnxs/Terraria/67de21a27e1...

They had serious problems implementing multiplayer because they had to synchronize objects with 50KB of state every frame.
Where are you getting that 90% statistic from? I'm pretty sure at least 30-40% of their employees are based internationally, and even within the US they have offices in pretty much every major city. So most Google employees are already working "remotely".
Nice to know!

Well, It was another protection layer for, like you sad, to keep bad kids away.

This was 10 years ago already.
That's short sighted - how you make money is sell when high, buy when low.

So you sell right before the dip and then buy again at the bottom of the dip. They knew there was going to be a dip.
And while the 3d sequels were at least somewhat competent 3d platformers, it's pretty crazy that Gex had a playboy sidekick in the third one. (Somewhat NSFW https://i.pinimg.com/originals/18/20/93/18209312f22639374c84...)
You want this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008MCUT86/ref=od_aui_deta...

And the filters:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009XYN7O/ref=od_aui_deta...

P100 (P for oil Proof, 100 for reduces particulates by 99.97%) filters are the best you can get[0]. N95 (N for not oil resistant) filters will also work for smoke[1], but they will get clogged in heavy-smoke environments quicker, so P filters are recommended [2 (filter selection flowchart)].

Like others have said, being inside is safer, and these filters get expensive.

[0]https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/96-101

[1]https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/477874O/wildfires-cleanu...

[2]https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/96-101/images/96-101.gif
I'm sure all the gender studies classes has helped the vast majority of tech students become better developers
First, you didn't count the 5,000,000 Gear VR headsets, which are co-produced with Oculus.

These numbers, if accurate, are prior to the massive price drops from this summer. There was a huge spike in sales, with Oculus struggling to keep up supply (it took a few weeks to actually get my own order).

Unless the numbers were an order of magnitude lower, I doubt Facebook would be pulling the plug any time soon.
Legally they are on equal grounds. Morally, I find reselling UV codes to be less scummy because each code is associated with an actual sale and cannot be used multiple times. That's just where my personal line is drawn.
>everyone will have to actively choose a side rather than the 'no' side getting all the non-active default votes

No, this just shifts the do-nothings from 'no' to 'yes', as they will have to actively create something that will let them stay with what they currently have. It is technically and morally dangerous because most people aren't technical enough to understand what they are being forced to accept.
"PERCEIVED lack"? Doesn't the fact that salaries are sky rocketing essentially disprove your point? Why are the salaries getting pushed higher and higher? Because demand for SWEs is outstripping supply.

This to me looks like the same kind of privileged outlook that other professional guilds like the AMA desire. Do you want cheaper healthcare, or doctor compensation to keep going up? Hey, letting nurse practitioners take on some of the load is "flooding the market with n00bs"

This just seems like protectionism by another name.

Yes, the good times for software engineering will come to an end. I'm a software engineer, this will affect me. But the question is, do I have a natural god given right to have a ballooning salary every year, while fighting attempts to increase labor supply that might cut that growth rate?
Charity also has higher PR value for each dollar.
How UNH spun blowing a frugal librarian's donation on a football scoreboard
> If he donates to charity he gets a tax credit.

A tax deduction + PR.
No, store of value by definition cannot be diluted. Possession is the biggest risk, which seems low mathematically at this time based on prevailing wisdom. That could change, and if done so in secret for long enough, could render the validity of ownership null and void.
https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/afs:Medium:145...

https://imgur.com/a/tkMAo

https://imgur.com/a/s1a1M
KeePass does the same thing by default, but all you've done is create a race condition. Clipboard changes can be picked up by any application that cares to listen.
I'm thankful I found a company like that after graduating. Seemingly the only such specimen in America today. It's a giant international consultancy company that seemingly has a questionable reputation online but it was all I could get that paid anything remotely respectable and they even do paid training. It's seems to be one of a rapidly dwindling handful of paths for new grads who are graduating and finding out the online hype like "it's easy to get a job in CS if you do [some combination of good side projects, internships, good gpa, etc]" is an outright falsehood at this point in time - it's very hard unless an opportunity approaches you like what eventually happened to me amd it turned out all that applying and trying was a waste of time.

In my case I had no choice but to do a draining unpaid internship in college, their return offer was only $15/hr, nowhere I applied to for months (likely hundreds of applications) would take me even though I did all those things in the list and continually put my resume through those resume threads on reddit, except one offer for 30k. 15/hr and 30k are abysmal insults to the amount of time money and effort put into programming since middle school, getting a BS CS degree, volunteering on big online projects since high school, etc. I'm not in the middle of nowhere either, this was NY/NJ.

These experiences signal to me that the tech field is hightly oversaturated for new grads and it's a matter of time before people realize the bubble popped. Someone in my position should not be getting offered what amount to poverty wages taking into account student loans, the high price of car insurance for a driver of my age range, etc. Programs like what google is doing are just going to make this problem even worse as companies feel further emboldened to require increasingly more experience out of junior programmers and offer them salaries further approaching minimum wage.
Spawning git doesn't mean that it can't just check for a timeout and stop the task with an error.

Someone will probably have to actually try an experiment with Gitlab.
> If the lender doesn't want to use one of the other credit agencies, then most people can find another lender. Those businesses need to know they'll lose business as long as theyre loyal to equifax

lol, yeah, good luck with that when you go to get a mortgage.

Mortgage lenders pull all 3 reports, not just one. There is a ton of laws around mortgage underwriting that need to be followed. They technically may be able to underwrite a mortgage with only two credit reports but I doubt any mortgage lender actually will or if they did they'd be charging outlandish interest rates. If you're hiding a report they will assume its because you're hiding something negative that's on the report.

Things don't work like you would like in the real world, only in theory. You are delusional if you believe Chase having to pull Experian instead of Equifax once every million credit applications is going to somehow effect Equifax's bottom line.

If your landlord uses a background checking service that uses Equifax and the background check service comes back with "frozen report" and you say "I demand you use a different background checking service that doesn't use Equifax" then your landlord is just going to say lol and rent to the person who isn't being extremely difficult, as its a sign you're going to be a difficult tenant.
Making it easier to do some things we do with code today doesn’t mean there won’t be new hard problems to solve tomorrow.
You’re either right or wrong and your opinion is valid. Downvote isn’t justified IMO.
Hospital Design Pattern. A new way to treat sick Data
KeePass can do two-channel obfuscation where it mixes both clipboard and keystrokes, but both of these things are trivial to intercept.
Cable companies keep tightening the screws on Cable TV customers who in many cases will remain cable subscribers for broadband internet only..... But only because there are no other options in their area.

Also Cable Companies continue to encrypt local channels that used to be on unencrypted clear QAM channels. So that HDTV or DVR that has a digital tuner that you purchased can't get a signal without adding yet another cable box (or cablecard) to your monthly bill for each and every device.

Then customers decide to try an Over-The-Air (OTA) antenna and realize that the Cable Co's have been degrading their local channels signal for years in favor of pay channels and shopping channels.

Next, a customer may get a Roku or Chromecast and realize the choice greater and quality better streaming from the Internet than via local cable and the customer has much better control over the costs.

Also "cord cutters" are making a lot of noise on social networks about what they are doing and how well it works. Couple that with how much "love" most people have for their cable company and well decline should be inevitable as long as the alternatives work and they do.
A glimpse into a “masterpiece of engineering”
Had you considered that your people are simply not “investment people” and that’s why you chose not to invest when you first heard of it?
Why should he pay them more than market value? As a shareholder, I definitely don't want this to happen. It's not Bezos' company, it's a public company.
I Made It in San Diego: The Battle Behind a Family’s Secret Sauce
Unlike Keras and Tensorflow, Gluon is Define-by-run Deeplearning framework like Pytorch, Chainer.
Network definition/debugging/flexibility are really better with dynamic network (define-by-run).
That's why Facebook seem to use Pytorch for research and caffe2 for deployment. Gluon/Mxnet can do both define-by-run with Gluon API and "standard" define-and-run with it's Module API.
see: Cupertino
Off topic, but did anyone else notice the sneaky back-button highjacking? I don't know if there's a better word for it.

Open the article in a new tab, and instead of the back button being greyed-out, it is functional -- when clicked, it redirects to the home page with a full-screen headline.
Get Hired Without a CV
How the 747 Got Its Hump (instead of full double-deck)
amazing series! book 2 is probably the most mindblowing sf novel i've read since brin's "startide rising"
What's market value? Seems like a better description would be "as little as you can get away with".
Announcing TypeScript 2.6 RC
MoviePass – $9.95/Month Unlimited Movies in Theatre
Yeah, they do this for PC games as well.

A good example is the Steam release of Final Fantasy VII - it actually ships the original binaries from the 90's PC version mostly intact. Code for things like the Direct3D 6 and software renderers, and MIDI sound is still there in the binary, just unused. All the new features like cloud saves, achievements, and original music are implemented using a separate DLL that hooks a lot of stuff in the game, like the graphics and audio subsystems. It's a pretty fascinating thing to reverse engineer.

That must've been an interesting job :)
Technical consulting is one path.
All the Times Twitter Pledged to Be More Transparent
Your comment may seem flippant, but honestly it seems like people are more eager to be right than aspirational these days.
>No--they've just punted the "hard" stuff to the end.

Citation needed. The link provided gives no support.

I would be interested in seeing your calculations on the thermal side. An ANSYS multiphysics simulation (the software SpaceX uses) would show the problem, no?

SpaceX has already built and used a mile-long, 11' diameter vacuum tube in Southern California, which would seem to put this matter to rest (the proof is in the pudding, after all).
I suggested exactly that 2 months ago [1]; the idea was not popular here.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15003048
No, that doesn't make sense. Both types of expenses are fully tax-deductible.

Technically, payroll taxes are paid by the employee, even if–even more technically–the money itself goes directly from employer to Government. To the employer, it's just part of the employees' wages.

Of course neither option means that it's a net positive for him (or anyone) to spend money. If he pays 1 Million more in wages, or gives that same million to a recognized charity: in both cases he save only the taxes he would have paid on that million, i. e. something around 25%-35%, depending on the source of that money.

And taxes aren't just a black hole that swallows money. The marginal utility can be extremely high. Because so much of the budget is tied up in long-term obligations, administrative wages etc, any additional money has an outsized impact when it comes to the discretionary budget, where politics is actually able to shape communities.

The government is also much better at allocating funds where they're needed, compared to most charity work. Trying to replace government with benevolent giving just leads to every stray puppy on earth being pampered, but nobody is going to finance reintegration efforts for convicted sex offenders.
That rail route has ran continuously since 1971: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Starlight. The transbay tube connecting Oakland to San Francisco via BART opened in 1974.
> he believes someone may make the judgement call that he is unintelligent because of the way he speaks, just like you associate speaking like a redneck to unintelligence

That's a really great point. The very fact that I do mentally associate my friends accent that way is part of the problem. It's a problem that I hope I am getting better at overcoming.

I'd rather by a hypocrite and say it's wrong than agree to the idea that it's okay to need to modify the way you speak to avoid being disqualified by society.
I don't think you're wrong; I could see certain kinds of engineering jobs becoming more blue collar. But at the risk of sounding pretentious, there's a bit of an intelligence restriction on certain kinds of engineering work. There will probably always be more of a demand than supply for people who are really good and useful.
Well obviously, think of how well I'd be paid! /s
The Tiny Clocks Inside Us
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What the fuck
> This was one of the few railways to survive the great railway crash

The government well made its money back before the great railway crash.

Let's say the Internet suffers a crash in a few decades. Few would argue that any previous investment into the Internet was not worth it.
Another great quote from that same talk is akong the lines of

"Any syntactically valid code, that the compiler will accept, will eventually make it into your code base."
If this was the case, then why wouldn't Google just tap this global labor reserve instead of training people? Why is the federal reserve expecting inflation to rise as unemployment continues to be low?
Empathy = understanding the other, including on emotional level in such a way that the other feels understood.

Nothing to do with changing them.

If the other did not feel that deep understanding, empathy did not take place.

Source: I teach empathy with a worldview rooted in nonviolent communication. This is the definition I use; it is not universal.
Have you read Nexus yet?
Yeah, but this post seemed pretty barren. Since I skim a lot, it felt like nothing happened in the last release.
Well, I did my own research and thus does more or less what I would want, but only works on Rift and Vive:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/382110/Virtual_Desktop/

This rather complicated process does work with Gear VR (and so should work with Oculus Go), but seems to only support one monitor (and streams only games?): https://www.vrheads.com/how-stream-your-pc-desktop-your-gear...
I think you had a justifiable devil's advocate until your claim about "Fragmenting"

What exactly is so bad about competition?
If he plans to donate to charity, he is acting on ethics. Why not translate that to the surplus money available in his business is the question.

Of course there is nuance here with taxes, PR, and what dispersal of money does more ethical good. The point is, depending on the answer you settle on for this resulting question, there are multiple valid answers to your question above.
"There is no good reason that Bitcoin is still going up once Ethereum came on the scene. Transaction times, transaction cost, decentralization, future development work,"

BTC is not popular because it's a currency - though 'it can be a currency' and people like to think about it as such, that's just what gives it the veneer of 'utility' and therefore value.

'That it is technically a currency' is a necessary aspect of getting some kind of valuation - that's not what is driving the valuation.

BTC is popular because it's a speculative thing that has 'gone up' which creates a further dynamic of that, at least for some time.

It's really not used as a currency, there's no underpinning value, there's no 'ownership of anything' - and so there is no way to actually value BTC. It's the most purely speculative thing ever.

To compare Coins on their 'technical merit' misses the underlying premise of their valuation, which has nothing to do with technology, valuation or finance - and everything to do with mass psychology and memes.

'Some people are willing to pay $X for a number'.

That is the beginning and end of it's valuation at any given moment.
3 and a half hours is way faster than driving. And for the comfort of being on a train? Worth it!
I don't know, how can you reasonably defend from that sort of domain hijacking/repurposing? We fundamentally have to trust DNS at some level, but domain names are somewhat transient in nature. Is it fair to single out Equifax here, or is this just an example of an unsolved problem in the industry?
There are a LOT of people in tech who are really insecure about their own jobs. They see any move like this as a plot by bigcorp to undermine their job prospects.

Training kids to code? Yup..threat to their own job.
I got sick of Comcast charging for basic, then ++ for a box then ++ for HD (over and above renting the HD box) then ++ for a DVR, then ++ for a little box in the kid's room, then contracting out people who don't know what the hell they are talking about to (not) fix things when the picture goes bad, then charging me $85 for them to (not) fix it. I'm sick of the horrible customer service too. It ended up being $130 bucks a month for garbage.

I cut them off with prejudice (to use a legal term), and replaced them with Netflix, HBO, iTunes and Hulu for College Football games. I have an antenna but don't use it much. I figured for $130 a month, I could buy 4 seasons a month at $30 a season and still be under what Comcast charged.

Comcast can go pound sand. (except their business internet).
If you haven't already, check out Redox OS [1,2]. It's a microkernel written in Rust.

Here's a good interview with the developer [3].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Redox/

[2] https://redox-os.org/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH5JgMlNE8o
You need a problem to have a solution to it. What do you consider to be the problem here?

This is essentially something that can be expressed in relatively few bytes that expands to something much larger.

Imagine I had a compressed file format for blank files "0x00" the whole way. It is implemented by writing in ascii the size of the uncompressed file.

So the contents of a file called terrabyte.blank is just ascii "1000000000000"
... or the contents of a file called petabyte.blank is "10000000000000"

I cannot decompress these files... what is the solution?
South Park slams Facebook for selling fake news
> And the worst part is, I have no idea how I as a person could say "I don't want to do work with Equifax because I don't trust them."

A good start might be never employ anyone who has worked in Equifax IT. There should be some sort of professional repercussions for being involved with an organization as incompetent as this lot seem to be.
Yeah, they don't have a private api, but you could use the client side API (miner) to get total hashes / listen for accepted hashes and save the data on your side and give rewards based on that.
Normal maps are a technique used in 3D graphics to emulate surface details on a mesh (3D model). Think of a brick house - if you want to render a detailed close-up view of the wall, the naive approach would be to include the seams between individual bricks in the wall mesh itself and render that. But that takes a lot of effort for the modeler and greatly complicates the mesh in terms of how many polygons it consists of. Alternatively, you can use a flat mesh and specify a normal map - an additional 2D image that, when applied on top of the wall texture, encodes which parts of it are protruding/depressed compared to the base level of the mesh. This way you can model a bunch of buildings using simple boxy meshes and then implant details to the walls using a combination of textures and normal maps.

The project above automatically creates normal maps of metallic surfaces using a camera extension. This is useful for 3D modelers, since they no longer need to have special normal maps manually created for each surface type in a scene.
Patentable subject matter under U.S. law consists exclusively of "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof". 35 USC 101. So, a program may implement a patented process or it may be a piece of a patented machine, but it won't be patentable in itself.
Exactly this. Agile is a mindset. It is a set of values, most of which should be common sense.

"You are saying we should listen to the customer? You are saying we should talk to each other and share ideas?"

If you think bootstrapping scrum is going to fix your inability to work as a team then you should probably cross your fingers too.
Obviously, they have fingerprints of what they're looking for.