skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a classic problem with open-source GUIs - they're a wrapper around a command-line program. Such programs typically have no clue what happened at the command line level - they just present whatever the command line program prints to the user.

A few days ago, there was a UI designer on here who was looking for an open source program to work on. I suggested "git gui". Git's default GUI is a Tk wrapper around the command line program. Lots of buttons, corresponding to command line options. No understanding at the GUI level of what's safe, what's useful right now, and what the state of the project is.

The original Macintosh deliberately lacked a command line, so programmers had to figure out a usable GUI for everything. They had the right idea.

One of the original design misfeatures of UNIX is that programs take in command line parameters and environment variables, but all they give back is a numeric error code. If they gave back a list of strings and a set of name/value pairs, and there was some convention about what should come back, scripts and GUI front ends would be less dumb.
The author works for a micro-satellite company. I dunno what that implies for this particular project -- is this level of stinginess important or just nice to have? Back in college I considered joining a student satellite project where the processor had just a few hundred bytes of RAM, but that was in the 80s.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We're trying for a somewhat higher level of quality here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Correct: if adding a variable for a literal used as a parameter for a function call, the argument name in the function definition is used (provided we can figure out which function was called!).

There are multiple name suggestions when:

(1) Multiple items are being replaced and each replaced item had a different name.

(2) There would be a name collision. To resolve the collision, either one or the other variable can be renamed.
Because the gif's are not included using basic <img> tags, but instead they are inserted by javascript code. As to why, I don't know why.
BTC1 is not months behind. They track Core 0.14 for the production branch, and Core 0.15 for the dev branch. They have not moved to 0.15 because of bugs in Core (not BTC1!)

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x...
What amazes me is somewhere along the process someone with power didn't notice and think "Hey you know this all seems like a bit much considering what we're looking at here..."
We're working on getting it fixed. Pardon our dust.
You're starting the text like a story (in the first person even!). Wikipedia articles aren't usually written like that, so the network is in unfamiliar territory. Its only option is to quickly revert back to something closer to the style of an informative article.
The git commits are associated with "<user@debian>" rather than a valid github account. Whoever made the commits probably did not set up their git authorship information correctly on the machine where the commits were made.
I think it has something to do with the power of building hierarchical layers of abstraction, to make increasingly precise predictions about the world.
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>> If you're an average citizen in the US, Europe, Australia etc, then why wouldn't you care more about attacks in other western countries than you would about attacks in Africa?

Because many more people are killed in attacks in Africa?
Tesla cars are a reality and continue to improve self-driving, efficiency and safety. General Motors and Chrysler went bust a few years ago and had to be bailed out. VW cheated on diesel emissions. The incumbents suck.
Moderators didn't touch that post. HN is definitely a curated site, though; where did you hear otherwise?
When you hire someone to fix your roof, do you make them build you a doghouse first to prove they know carpentry?
If you are building a non-trivial application you will end up using value generated in one cell, in another.

Its exactly like programming. A lot of state is stored in intermediate variables.
Reflecting on this article brings up a lot of contractions in my own past thinking:

I wouldn't want to work somewhere with public salaries, because I suspect that like unions they wind up enforcing mediocrity. I'm confident enough in my own abilities that I want the possibility of out-performing and being compensated for it.

On the other hand, as an employee I would want freedom to discuss salary with fellow employees, to get better information when it's time to negotiate raises and promotions.

Also, in a professional services firm, which I think is the ideal structure for software developers to capture more of their value, the partners all know each other's earnings (at least assuming the firm is of modest size). What's more, I agree pretty strongly with David Maister's recommendation in Managing the Professional Services Firm that partner profit-sharing should be based on seniority rather than some metric, since that is less likely to distort incentives and cause resentment.

It seems like I am all over the place! I'm not yet convinced these are true contradictions, but having them laid side-by-side does force me to ask why not.
That had to be incredibly tough.
Hey friend, I was pretty bummed out at my last rejection too, and honestly had some similar feelings. Here are a couple of things I realized:

1) Maybe there actually was a problem with the approach we were taking to the problem we were trying to solve (there was).

2) We weren't far enough along for the YC program to actually work for us.

YC shouldn't the the solution to bootstrapping. If your team is solid and your solution is solid, then you're going to get to write an "I told you so" letter like you're prompted to in the rejection email. Not only that, but you won't be giving up any equity.

Not getting accepted sucks. Hopefully it doesn't discourage you from working on whatever it is that you're working on.
We rented a u-haul to move cross country for $2k a few months in advance. Then a month or before we moved we changed plans, moved it by a week, we called u-haul and they said $3k. We asked around our friends and heard similar horror stories to yours, "reserved" trucks not available, having to drive to distant locations to get trucks, etc.

Fortunately hertz penske saved us with a much better price (much less than the original u-haul) on short notice and gave us a great truck.
It's not grocery store thin, but it's not making out like a bandit either. It's pretty middle of the road.
> To intimidate Ken White?

Also, if I were trying to intimidate people who read a lot of Ken White's opinions, I wouldn't try to do it by filing questionable legal things about Ken White, thereby forcing him (as you say, a former USDA with a wide network) to enter into legal proceedings with me and inviting him to discuss my actions to his audience.

To a first approximation, that seems like it has a high likelihood of backfiring.
Thanks for your answers :)
Whataboutism doesn't disprove the fact that China spends an unprecedented amount on overseas propaganda, more than any other country. The US, in comparison, spends about $666m per year on foreign public diplomacy. Why is China spending 15x more on overseas propaganda than any other country on earth?
You are on to something. I think Facebook is nearing the point of exhausting its reach, or is at least extraordinarily close. There will be an inevitable backlash where we are finding Facebook is this unruly multi-headed mass of features and services no one really asked for or needs. The overreaching of these services will eventually wear thin on the public and they will want to simplify their digital footprint and value privacy a little more. I am already seeing it in the under 20 crowd. They have grown up seeing their parents entire life smeared all over Facebook and it isn't "cool." At some point, I have to think, the public will want to reclaim some of this and we will see things scale back to a simpler form of "social media."
Culebra has always been the problematic one but I guess I am quite behind the times after I've checked the current situation. Culebra is only open one week a year from when I checked last year.

Lincoln, Bross, Democrat and Cameron had their access blocked in 2005 by people who acquired land via old mining claims. It appears a happy impasse has since been reached with the town of Alma leasing the land and taking on the risk of litigation, which is limited by the town's governmental immunity.

So it was only a temporary blocking, but I guess I'm still unhappy it occurred at all.
Have you considered using Nginx directives to slow bots down/rate limit them?

http://alex.mamchenkov.net/2017/05/17/nginx-rate-limit-user-...

Also, can you front your EC2 cluster with Cloudfront, Cloudflare, or another CDN in order to reduce your outbound EC2 data costs?
> I think many of the people on HN that say they won't do a take-home assignment would actually do a 30-60 minute take-home assignment if it meant avoiding the "code some algorithm on a whiteboard while the interviewer glares at you" situation.

Except it never means this. It's always "and" and not "instead of". Many companies do these irritating programming challenges now, and then when you pass them, will still bring you in for the standard Whiteboard Hazing sessions.
It's the same with driving skill - the bulk of people think that they're better than average drivers.
There are many historical examples of cultures murdering and taking over areas from the traditional inhabitants. Even the current Native Americans apparently killed off/supplanted earlier peoples.

Anyways, the tradition of access to the open range extends back to the indigenous Americans who didn't necessarily possess the concept of owning land or fencing it, so I think that weakens that argument.
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It looks to me like this code will read off the end of short packets; the actual library interface (dumpulse_process_packet) probably needs to take a length, and sanity-check it.

I only looked for a moment and might be wrong.
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Have you seen the Apollo Client DevTools?

https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client-devtools
Harassment is a pattern of undesired behavior. One advance is OK, but if you're turned down you DO NOT MAKE ANOTHER to that person. Just accept it and move on.

Really that's it. It applies everywhere. It applies to non-sexual harassment as well.
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For more on Russia's focus on subverting the West, see Yuri Bezmenov, who defected from the KGB and was assassinated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZnkULuWFDg
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Well, deed restrictions (and property taxes) make it so that pretty much anything you can imagine can be "restricted" as you voluntarily enter into the agreement upon "purchase" of the property...

Its not much of a stretch to imagine common security/networking/etc type clauses in those restrictions as in many cases condo's sold in the US basically have similar situations where you agree to adhere to building wide decisions (on say which ISP services the building).

Then the servicing company comes along and starts to behave like John Deere and starts prescribing what TV/pc/whatever they will inter-operate with.
Do you find it the least bit ironic that you learned that from a admittedly liberal talk show host who's videos are pushed on YouTube while conservatives who create similar content are demonetized?
I'd hate to jump on board a replacement only to have MS buy it for a crappy Skype integration. I see it's a free beta now, any word on the monetization plan?
Thankfully you policed my tone instead of being constructive to the discussion.
in my current game, the dwarves all have redneck accents, and if anyone questions why they're not talking in bad Scottish accents, they start talking about "ijits" who've never seen a real dwarf but only halflings dressed in fat-suits at the minstrel shows pretending to be dwarves...
Can different LIDARs interfere with each other? I can't see cars using it when all the cars are using it.
Black pudding is part of the full English in Yorkshire, but not more southerly than that, as far as I know. It's not surprising to find it in London- you can find anything edible in London, including a restaurant that specialises in cooking animals whole and letting nothing go to waste. I forget the name, it's one of those trendy expensive ones so I've never been.

Where I live in the South, the full English is french toast, baked beans, hash browns, fried mushrooms, grilled tomatoes, eggs, bacon, sausage and spam (sorry, couldn't resist). I sincerely believe that a majority of English people would not touch their breakfast if it had black pudding in it.

Also, I'd think the middle classes would be more likely to eat offal, just to show they're superior to the plebs. But I might be wrong.
So would mod. of old school setup work OK?
A consulting company signs up/buys a product and creates specs/ test cases. Company takes specs test cases and creates a product.
> instead you get dance-like-a-monkey "coding tests" (unpaid, of course) that are nonportable from employer to employer.

This - the non-portable aspect - is what irks me the most.

Especially for enterprise developers. Since most of the software we develop is under NDA, we cannot put any of it online to showcase our skills.

I've had to do 3 different take-home "coding exercises" over the last 10 days. 1 was for a Hedge Fund, another for a Real Estate company and a 3rd for an Accounting SaaS company.

I'm in the process of publishing these coding exercise solutions after polishing it up a bit more onto my github profile. Still, I feel like this will also be a waste, because like OP says, most companies have their own specific "Coding tests" and wouldn't take an already coded solution to accept skills and experience of the candidate.
It's funny to see all these comments about people's side projects being "loose" and "experimental". I have a few side projects, and they tend to be very clean, well-organized, polished, because code that you write professionally for a company tends to end up being the opposite: rushed, hacked together because deadlines, full of compromises, and littered with legacy crap that the business can't get rid of.
I can fart for hours.
This was an interesting postmortem, but nearly the first thought that struck me as it proceeded into the closure reasons was that many of the factors (to be fair, not all) seem to be industry knowledge easily gained through the market research about the industry.

This gives the appearance that Walnut founders either didn't perform this research (seems unlikely given the research-heavy approach they displayed) or had a large blind spot when deciding to move forward, a bit of blind optimism that somehow it might work out.
This is a tradeoff that I don't think is widely enough understood. The faster the rocket's exhaust goes the less fuel and more energy you need to reach a given speed. This only makes sense if you have access to a lot of energy, and are concerned with conserving fuel.
This might sound cynical but given the way the conclusion has been phrased, it is most likely they were on path to "autonomous robots" but no VC was interested in their unit economics.

Sure, there are companies with astronomical valuations with unsustainable business, but for whatever it is worth they seem to be good at marketing/presenting to VCs too.
> I'm not going to do free work for you.

It's kinda funny that so many people have this attitude, when, as a salaried employee, we likely have all done more than a standard 40-hour work week on occasion (or habitually), without extra compensation.

Do you also consider time spent prepping for an interview (brushing up on algorithms, learning about the company, researching interview questions, whatever) as "doing free work"?

I just really don't get this attitude. It's not "work", it's a evaluation. And it's an evaluation that actually displays skills relevant to the job, unlike many other approaches.
Your point being? It's well known that China spends billions on overseas propaganda. The $10bn on propaganda has been reported in multiple outlets. Does the Nikkei Times article on it somehow make the figure untrue?

Also, your entire comment history is just pro-China comments. Why is that the only topic you think is worth discussing on the site?
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Objectivity has nothing to do with it. The statistics are presented in an infographic designed to maximize emotional impact. This is an appeal to pathos. For many people like myself, arguments formed this way are seen as psychologically manipulative and offensive.

This report is not treating me as an autonomous person able to form my own conclusions, it is attempting to recruit me into a political position with cheap tactics.
Random question, but did y’all purchase a different license from Zero Tier the company or is the GPL on ZT somehow not relevant for you given how it was deployed or used? (And if so can you elaborate?)
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Would the parent comments point change if you did anything but the equivalent of statistical gerrymandering for the two continents? You are why people voted Trump
Have you heard of the Access Fund? They help work out access issues for climbers. They mainly deal with rock climbing issues but might do other stuff as well. They have been successful negotiating with property owners in the past. They sometimes even buy land to ensure access forever.

I live in CO and climb but don't do much mountaineering. Is anyone working on this issue? I'm shocked this has happened because climbing 14ers is one of the most authentically Coloradan things one can do.
You'll note that the Golden Rule doesn't appear on the list.
I would say take-home assignments complimented with an assurance of an in-person interview is the trade-off that I'm willing to make. I recently interviewed with a company that gave me one and told me that my solution would be the basis for the final onsite interview, which made a lot of sense to me.

After I submitted my solution though, the company came back to me and said that they had received a lot of submissions and would not move forward with my candidacy. This made me intensely angry as I had spent an entire evening coding up the solution.

To add insult to injury, they even asked me to remove the solution from Github where I had posted it (I had not posted the question so it wouldn't really make sense to someone just glancing at it). At that point I stopped all communication with said company.
I've been taken aback during interviews and client conversations when they brought up details about projects I'd posted on my off time. There are people who look at that stuff.
How do you replicate the experience of a framework or standard without experiencing it? Now, I am not talking about looking at the machine code and whatnot, but the public API or UI.
My understanding is VCs (as an industry) fail to beat the S&P500 returns, so no, they don't turn a profit.
Glad to see they’re finally doing this, I’m pretty amazed it took so long.

I don’t know how they planned to run a large advertising sponsored business with this kind of content. No one would ever want to be associated with it, and saying “your ads don’t run on that part of the site“ doesn’t seem like a viable solution.
What does the Z stand for? Zettabytes?

If GC pause times do not increase with the heap- or live-set size, it could handle such large heaps.
Its a good idea but speaking as a non-citizen on a work Visa such kind of work would technically be illegal for me to do.
Objectivity has nothing to do with it. The statistics are presented in an infographic designed to maximize emotional impact. This is an appeal to pathos. For many people like myself, arguments formed this way are seen as psychologically manipulative and offensive.

This report is not treating me as an autonomous person able to form my own conclusions, it is attempting to recruit me into a political position with cheap tactics. It is treating me as a means to an end, just as so many soldiers and miners are.

The solution to such a problem is to form connections and build bridges between people so that we can come to see one another as individuals to be valued and protected, not recruited into political campaigns in order to attack others.
Don't miss out on "term of venery" -- it means more than STDs and sex.
I was not referring to sexual harassment in the legal sense. I was referring to it in the literal sense of harassment of a sexual nature. For example cat calling a woman on the street might be legal, but that is still literally sexual harassment and shouldn't be acceptable. If you use empathy as your guideline for your own personal behavior, the actual code of conduct for your employer or whatever professional environment you are in is irrelevant because you will already be abiding by a higher standard.
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> And there are a whole lot of guys that just don’t ship. They show up. They commit code. They are prompt and attentive at meetings. But if you need to ship, they just can’t shit it out.

Inability to ship tends to be a project planning and scoping problem, not an engineering performance problem. If you can't ship, it's not because you have lazy developers but because you either bit off more scope than you could chew, or you don't actually have a plan that gets you from-here-to-shipping--one that is more detailed than "work harder, guys".
Really ? Where can I download long term acoustic data from earthquake fault lines ? Needs to be years, and ideally including more than a few real earthquakes (let's say 50 to 100 of them would be ideal).
Yet Screenhero had been at it for 4 years at least, presumably had ongoing guidance from and access to the great business minds at YC and yet in the end decided that the best value they could get for their product was as a feature of Slack.
internet company are global by default now, however VC are not . Social capital is going global from day one. One of the first startup that applied to social capital was a Mexican startup. It was much easier for a Mexican company to get in touch social capital than a local mexican vc. Makes perfect sense. Social capital will go where no VC will go . Mongolia may be next
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