skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at any of the aforementioned companies, but just for fun...

L6 at pre-IPO SF-area unicorn, 11 years out of college, 3 at current company. 200K base salary, no bonus, but RSUs that would be worth about 1M/year if we were to IPO tomorrow at the current funny-money valuation, but right now they are worth exactly zero. Whether or not they ever become worth more than zero remains to be seen.
Jet engines sound different.

If you felt the window, it was warm to the touch vs. cold on a subsonic. Outside window was much smaller than subsonic.

The sound of the air passing by was closer to a sizzling sound in super cruise vs. what we hear on subsonic.

Take off had a noticeably faster groundspeed before rotation.

60-90 seconds (I forget, depends on airport) after departing the runway, throttles were reduced and you felt the plane slow quickly and the plane's angle of attack was reduced. This was for noise abatement and they explained this prior to takeoff so not as to alarm you.
Leaving JFK on 31L included a sharp left bank as soon as wheels up to follow the shoreline and avoid populated areas. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j-3003jtuY

After leaving populated area, throttles were pushed to full and climb resumed. If all went according to flight plan, Concorde would be at .95 Mach shortly and get the OK to go supersonic.

Afterburners. You felt them getting turned on to go supersonic. They were turned on in pairs - one on each side. Felt like someone was gently pushing you from behind.

No turbulence - would fly above the weather.

Landing was like being in a recliner. High angle of attach on the approach. Once down on all wheels, NOISE as the reversers kicked in.

The delta wing didn't flex like subsonic wings do, so any bumps during climb or decent felt a bit more sharp (less bouncy/spongy? hard to find the words). Maybe it was just me.

Other than that, it's the same as a regular subsonic.

10/10 would do again. Need time travel.
> "block" based content

I've been wondering if this wouldn't be good for something like MarkDown editors that show the output as you type side-by-side, because you would be able to limit compilation to the block being edited (in this case, to maintain document structure the blocks would have to be be defined by headers).

Although I also would expect that dedicated tools do this already for efficiency purposes.

The reason I'm thinking about this is because I once saw a product in development at an e-learning company where they showed me a new product where (among other things) they wanted the students to write their stuff in MarkDown, in a naive "re-render the whole thing on every keypress" way. This... did not really scale at all.
Just like Lee Se-dol is a Go grandmaster, beats Gary Kasparov at chess and can also get a perfect score in Pac-Man, right? I mean, if you can't do all of those things then are you even a human-level intelligence?
Shows a blank page on Android Chrome.
"Check for anything that looks wrong or charged wrong." Could you clarify against which should I check? The original problem is that no price is published in the first place.
Employers do buy the labor of employees. Think of the employee as the store and the labor as the clothes.
I think the meaning implied is in terms of quality of work. Even the best Silicon Valley company you might join, the big ones that pay well, will largely have you parsing xmls or other mundane programming ritual done and demonstrated to death.

Controlling telescopes, photographing once in a billion year astronomical events obviously has its coolness factor associated with it.
Why Ruby App Servers Break on MacOS High Sierra
Well, if you phoney up some W2s on your laser printer to apply for a mortgage, that might be a problem.

But (on credit card applications) I've always put a 6-figure income in when asked. Even as a college student with an income of $0.
Interesting question - I hadn't thought about compiling the JVM bytecode to machine code. It looks like there is a Java frontend for LLVM that achieves that:
https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/java/trunk/docs/java-front...

One of the things that appeals to me about Scala Native is its interoperability with C, which I suspect is something that the LLVM Java frontend doesn't provide.
Lets Encrypt works fine for personal sites, etc. but it absolutely crushes the use case of being a large scale service needing to support thousands of individual sites, each with their own SSL cert.

Heroku, Hubspot, Shopify, etc. all have implemented LetsEncrypt and UX wise, is now pretty much just the default.
Creating charts in Ionic 2
Actually I am in the US, on a visa - albeit I'm Canadian and have a good country to fall back on. Regardless of the president I feel vulnerable on a visa.

I empathize with those on DACA or other immigrant situations; however on average I would argue reporting of the issues, the emotions, and reactions are over the top.

The news cycle every two weeks is - "immigrants getting kicked out, DACA is over" - three days later "president goes back on his word w/ EO" or "congress not in sync with president; won't change legislation." (not literally, but you get the point).
how brain-damaged are you that you can spin something that is so evidently completely broken in Go and say that not only is it not broken, but that its actually an advantage. Holy shit.
Keep your repulsive error handling semantics confined to your Neanderthalean language, and please for god's sake, never design a language
Entrepreneur Interviews: Starting a Hardware Business While Employed
Still photographs spring to life
Nonky – A Desktop Customization App (and Platform) [open source]
I live in the US. This is my point the sentiment is over blown.
one must imagine lawn mower Sisyphus happy
This has been happening for a while, so your statement is false. Even under Obama, funding suffered.

https://www.aaas.org/news/science-and-technology-funding-und...

It is best to think of the problem as the inability of the executive branch to work with Congress. This is not a result of the “ascent of the conservative political movement” as you call it. It is simply a result of a polarized political environment, both by left wingers (Obama) or right wingers (Trump). Both made it a point to leave the other side out in the cold after winning (remember Schumer saying that Dems passing Healthcare alone was a strategic mistake?)

We don’t have to let political persuasion blind us from reality of where we are since Obama won the first time: a divided country.

https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/policy/healthcare/225...
Yes, digital textbooks can have all those nifty things, but usually don't. And cross-referencing something in a digital textbook? Forget about it. In a paper book it's so much easier to flip back to check something out than in a digital textbook - even more so if you're quickly flipping back and forth comparing passages, or comparing between books. Textbooks work in most lighting conditions, don't need power/recharging, and don't have reflections of the overhead lights to distract you.

They both have their pros and cons, but the actual experience of digital textbooks falls far short of their promise.
The vast majority of criminal cases end with people pleading guilty rather than going to trial. This US government page [1] says 90% but I've heard even higher figures from lawyers and other sources.

Now, perhaps the police are very good at their jobs and really do get the right guy 90+ of the time (everyone who pleads guilty plus everyone convicted at trial - approximately 60% of cases that go to trial [2]). Or, perhaps the court system has a bias towards finding people guilty.

One data point that argues for the latter possibility is that people defended by public defenders are significantly more likely to go to jail than people with a private lawyer. People with a public defender go to jail 88% of the time compared to ~75% for people with a private attorney [3]. To me, the implication is that the skill of your lawyer, and the time your lawyer will spend on your case, has a huge influence on your likelihood of getting convicted. That influence implies to me that the police probably aren't 96+% accurate in getting their man, and that therefore some of the people pleading guilty are doing so to avoid a false conviction.

If you look into this, you'll find prosecutors threaten defendants with harsh punishments as a tactic to get them to plead to vastly reduced sentences - e.g. "Take your chance at trial, kid, you'll do ten years for possession with intent to distribute. Or, plead guilty, do six months with two years probation." Prosecutors are incentivized to make these deals because they are evaluated, in part, by conviction rate.

1-http://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/types-cases/cri...

2 - http://www.justice.gov/usao/reading_room/reports/asr2012/12s... page 14

3 - http://www.pbs.org/kqed/presumedguilty/3.2.1.html
I think that there are some decimal places missing. But that said, I'd expect a chemical explosion to deliver itself mostly as a shockwave and a ball of hot gas, with relatively little delivered by light. Because the part exploding is surrounded by smoke and chemicals that absorb light.
> The things located at the URL may have names or identifiers, but by design of the web the stuff located at an address is mutable while the address is immutable.

But an address is a designator/identifier.
I do. Moxie is awful though, I don't care what Ted Williams says.
Thanks for that, and good question.
Given the supplied anecdote, it is because 99 men and 1 woman completed the requirements for a CS degree, for whatever reasons the individuals decided go do so.

Let's step aside the point of generalizing one anecdote to be representative, however. Can we really assign the disparity solely to microaggressions against women? Would we feel the same if the split were 75/25,or 51/49? What is the threshold of equality with respect to noise?
The issue is homes/lots in dry areas with 1-meter-high dead weeds. After the California fires, and how quickly they spread, I can understand the concern.

That said, since the drought, there are thousands of dead lawns, and I've never seen these laws enforced.
Definitely possible the various brands of batteries have changed since this testing I have referenced this in the past. http://www.batteryshowdown.com/results-hi.html
Also check out fzy:

https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
It was a very bad choice of words.

I wish that I knew a phrase to mean "has all of the documentation, tools, and libraries that are needed for an average team of developers following common practices to be likely to successfully ship and effectively maintain commercial projects, consistently".

Many really interesting languages and frameworks don't pass this criteria. It doesn't mean that they are a failure: the idea of programming languages that are designed for teaching or research, and are specifically not for commercial use, perhaps used to be more common than it is now.
Yes,if you can clear their hiring bar, post mortems for all such incidents are shared among AWS employees... Some of them are shared company wide
https://www.consul.io/api/catalog.html
NSA made seemingly bening improvements to crypto standards that the academic community only discovered as valuable over a decade later.

They’re the largest single employer of mathmaticians in the world.
Facebook and Google competed for anti-immigration ad dollars during the election
"The CFTC first found that Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are
properly defined as commodities in 2015."

Never heard of this before. What are the implications of this on ICOs if any?
To the OP:

Burn out is not really something physical. You probably need some rest, but it is less than what you think (measured in days). Your own mind is dissatisfied with some of what you are doing and it is raising red flags. You need to figure out what is it.

Do you like writing software? This is the first question. If you do, keep going, but you need to focus on something else. Maybe a slightly different industry, or smaller companies, or even something on your own.

I agree with the comments about college. You don't know what you are missing out until you do. It's great that you are self taught, which is an important skill for college.

There are a few reasons to enroll. You are unlikely to be implementing data structures in your day job. However, some algorithms are very hard to understand, and it forces your brain to work really hard to crack them. Then algorithmic problems at work become rather trivial. And the remaining non-trivial can be reduced to one of the problems you already know.

Second, there's the exchange of ideas. You'll notice that many billionaires are college dropouts. Meaning that they did enroll and took classes, and decided to quit because they found a big opportunity. Odds are you are going to leave college in debt instead of a billionaire, but you'll leave with knowledge and connections, which are worth more.

And of course, your CV will be better for it.
What's your favorite single sign-on (SSO) solution?
Looking forward to know the list of most affordable sso solutions in the market. Do IT admins prefer using password management solutions like LastPass, Zoho Vault for SSO? or OKTa, OneLogin, etc. Tips please.
I would not remap , and ; as the article suggests, since those keys are already used in Vim for repeating f/F/t/T.
They go on to mention how it's beneficial in this case too...
Ugh. I really need to move to a city where I can meet people who have the same mutual interests in and out of work.
How to Set Up DHL ECommerce Using WooCommerce DHL Express/Paket Shipping Plugin?
Try http://www.fast.ai/ Probably this is the best course form non-mathematical side.
Thanks for the clarification. I did not realize that `upgrade-insecure-requests` applies cross origin. If you do not load any insecure content is setting HSTS and `block-all-mixed-content` the best strategy?
How exactly does DDoS attack?
Initially i wondered as well.

However, the author ended up reporting him, so i guess it's a moot point.

... As long as the guy has learned something or changed his behavior, i mean.
What do you mean by move simulation?
These results come from the National Ignition Facility, the world's biggest ICF experiment.
You seem to be under the misapprehension that climate change is simply fiddling with the thermostat. The decidedly ill-chosen name of "Global Warming" might certainly lead in that direction.

But here's the thing - the weather systems on the planet are rather complex systems that are in a somewhat stable equilibrium. Changing temperature will affect that equilibrium, which will mean rather impressive upheaval. Both a warming and a cooling will have catastrophic effects for humanity. What we should pursue are strategies that prevent shifting too far from that fragile balance. No matter which direction.
To get the glorification you need to consider that those men and women are willingly exposing themselves to mortal danger. This kind of thing is hard to understand for someone who has spent all their life in an all white upper middle class neighborhood with not a worry in the world.

The US foreign policy might be haphazard and misguided, but don’t you dare shit on the very real sacrifice these kids are making.
Luckily, the services only enlist less than 2%.
You can earn more from YouTube Read now
Same here. Could able to see the error in the console:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'isLoading' of undefined
Few people seem to know about Composition Events: https://w3c.github.io/uievents/#events-compositionevents

Using those, implementing IME should be relatively easy. The events tell you which partial characters to show, and which completed characters to insert.
> Consider that you're spending $X on college, when you could probably just as easily buy the text book (or not!) and do courses online for free. So what is it that you want to get out of college? If you don't know, why are you paying?

Heh. I got a specially tough mathematical logic professor and failed multiple times. It literally took me years until I finally passed the class. And several textbooks and nights with little to no sleep. I had to rinse my brain and put it back a few times until I finally got it.

Sure, go with a textbook if you are ok with some superficial knowledge. But it's nonsense to compare that with spending months studying a single subject under a tough teacher.

It is not something required to be successful, but I'm getting tired of hearing stuff like "just buy a book, it's the same thing". No, it's not.

It is, however, a good idea to do so, and use that to figure out if going deeper in those subjects would be worthwhile.

Disclaimer: never learned calculus properly. Teacher wasn't strict enough, and I didn't care at the time. Big mistake.
Depends. I presume dyslexia affects learning, not merely reading - else, people would have discovered this by accident a long time ago. So the simple experiment would be to close one eye and then learn to read.
Just like communism, real science is infallible.

Seriously, is there a threshold? If this continues for, say, a hundred years, will science have failed then? A thousand?
How important is emotional awareness for you?
Cities and the future of work
"Better" is highly subjective but I just thought that I should note that if you're using here "on my computer" as opposed to iPad, you can do that on the iPad too if you're browsing the web on it.

Open web page, switch to readability mode, select print from the share sheet, unpinch on the page thumbnails to zoom them to full screen, open share sheet again and save the PDF in another app.

It's probably the best hidden feature in iOS.
In the United States most (all?) cities have local ordinances regulating lawn height. For example, in Portland, Oregon “lawn areas” can be no more than 10 inches high[1]. Mind you, this is just for the city and only applies to lawns, not gardens, or forested areas on large acreages. I imagine it stemmed from helping reduce fires near dwellings, but that is a total guess. Rural areas will have different regulations though.

[1] https://www.portlandoregon.gov/citycode/article/514518
Do you run Slack on Windows by chance? I've only seen it being CPU intensive twice on macOS.
This study appears to be an alarmist rehash of what was previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14323533

Here's one of the original papers:
https://www.farmlandbirds.net/sites/default/files/Orbrioch%2...

The 75% decline number appears to be from two data points from a 220-acre plot. From that paper:

"What follows is a description of measured Insect-Biomasses from samples collected in the Orbroich Bruch Nature Reserve, near Krefeld, using Malaise Insect Traps. The results show that, in the same two areas, sampled in the years 1989 and 2013, there was a dramatic fall in the number of flying insects. Using the same traps, in the same areas, significant reductions of insect populations, of more than 75%, were found. Our data confirms, that in the areas studied, less than 25% of the original number of flying insects collected in 1989, were still present in 2013."

"The Orboicher Bruch, to the Northwest of Krefeld, is a designated Nature Reserve of around 100 hectares (220 acres). Due to the reserve’s relatively remote location and its rugged landscape, intensive farming came to the area only recently."

So alarmists are extrapolating from two data points (years 1989 and 2013) for a 220-hectare plot of German farmland to the entire world. I think that is a bit of a stretch, even for statistics.

since different bugs breed in different seasons, and numbers depend on the fruitfulness of previous generations, food supply, predation, disease, temperature and so on, this bug weight could vary considerably from year to year (or site to site) for any number of reasons. While one year cicadas thrive, the next year there may be none. Shocking, simply shocking!

BTW they're measuring the weight of dead bugs - not how many bugs or what species of bugs - just the weight of bugs. Actually they're not even measuring that, they're measuring the weight of dead bugs' soaked in 70-80% alcohol.

I could go on and on about controls in statistical experiments but I think you get the idea.

See the original HN posting for discussions pointers to the earlier papers.
Silicon Intersectionality: Sounding progressive while protecting privilege
https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2016/12/introducing-watson... says: Introducing the Watson Discovery Service: Content full of lemons? Turn it into lemonade.
The author describes outing him at a later occasion.

That means the person is not kept anonymous, his name is simply not included in this article.

Now, I think that omitting his name makes the article better, because it removes a distraction.

On the whole i think that whether or not his name should be mentioned depends on whether or not his behavior has changed -- with some bias in favor of not mentioning him, because... well people should be allowed to learn and improve themselves?
Yep, dead lawns and waist-high weeds. See it all the time. No nuisance enforcement. Although after the fast-spreading fires, I wonder if that will change?
They are regularly enforced with notices to clear weeds by a date certain or they will be cleared with costs charged to the property owner, at least in some CA jurisdictions.
If you take a look, the problems they’re describing are direct counterparts of problems society has: The prison/industrial complex and the war on drugs is disqualifying people on the character test, the basic fitness requirement is undoubtedly affected by the food deserts in major cities and so on.

This is pretty serious: an armed force that doesn’t resemble the general population is a recipe for conflict and tyrrany.
While he's talking about cloudbleed that affair does raise questions as to their reliability. A spur of the moment decision like that doesn't give much confidence in their integrity. It's fully understandable of course (they're Nazis) but it was still a decision to terminate service with no warning. You're probably safe from such things if you're not a Nazi, but it's not 100% safe.
I've taken economics in university. I understand this line of thinking. It's wrong.

(twice, btw, once because the negative externalities of "the interview process" are not negligible, and second because the power dynamics of said process are just wrong)
ContentEditable never really specified much of a cross-platform standard API. If we wanted to replace CKEditor and its ilk, we should have pushed for a standard spec on textareas with rich structured editing support for a variety of formats (Markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, etc.) But that would then require standardizing structured text formats and/or figuring out how to add extensible functions, what to do with copy and paste especially from third-party apps, how should drag and drop be handled, what about saving, auto-saving, how should you add styles to a drop-down list to let users pick their own fonts, font-sizes, etc. These are complicated things to get right, often site- and implementation-specific, and contenteditable allowed for direct text manipulation and editing (with spell check and native text cursor flickering) within HTML, which is good enough to build your own rich editing interfaces around. So, it would be going too far to say ContentEditable was supposed to put these RTEs out of business. In fact, I would argue that Markdown's popularity has done more to put RTEs out of business recently, and that block-based, template- or widget-integrated text editing is the future, and where these tools' APIs are headed.
And their job involves indentured servitude punishable by law if they quit early. Just the act of joining means that for at least the minimum term of service the individual turns their life over in service to their country.

Any other job doesn’t involve getting shipped overseas for service and being unable to quit.

So yes, just the act of turning your life over to serve your country is pretty dang brave and absolutely not just another job.