skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love this:

> This new material [copper] was much more versatile, since it didn’t have to be painstakingly chipped into shape. It led to a whole range of elaborate inventions, from crowns to ornamental sceptres. But many objects created in this era retained a decidedly stone-age look.
The top 100 products in each subreddit from 2015 to 2017
What about an artist or a musician? Would you expect a musician to practice and get better in their free time or only play their instrument during paid gigs?
We keep hearing how farm raised fish are genetically inferior...so let's put them to the test.

Do salmon need estuaries to find their way back to their breeding grounds?
The writing was engaging, although the “1000 NoSQL databases” was a nail in the tire. Although I feel the encryption almost for free as part of the platform is rather cursory in evaluation. I’m not as worried about some process poking around in dev mem as I am of a general API that was added to ease cross team barriers, which is later found to be publicly accessible.
This reads like an Enron financial statement. I wouldn't at all be surprised if this is the unintelligible gobbledygook that IBM actually uses to sell their stuff. Between stuff like this and "Watson curing cancer", I continue to be amazed IBM still exists, but the IBM name and reputation will likely allow them to float along for quite a bit longer. Just a few weeks ago I was speaking with a relative about their employer -- a large Fortune top 10 company -- buying into some IBM Watson b.s. because their CTO was an "IBM guy". It is really amazing.
Using docker can greatly improve your development situation.
For example, you can use docker to define the full environment needed to run your web app, meaning you can have another dev running it with "docker run", and not needing to install any local dependencies, as everything (web server, node etc) is contained inside the docker container.
This turns out also be useful for your future self, when you in 2 years from now are having troubles re-creating the environment needed for running your service.

Docker orchestrate can further improve your development situation, in which you can use it to define and test out multiple virtual servers on your laptop, such as the database, the file server and the web server.
So...it's a single purpose digital camera? Cool? I...guess? Can someone into astrophotography weigh in on why this is a meaningful development, as opposed to, say, mounting a DSLR on a motorized base and then also having a nice DSLR to take on vacation?
There are numerous thought experiments on how transparent salaries affect team cohesion and go against human nature.

Meanwhile, professional sports teams and the military, who rely on team cohesion more than random white collar professionals, have transparent salaries. If teams worked better with opaque salaries wouldn’t these ultra competitive/life-or-death industries have figured it out?
I've only sent items back a couple of times (been using it over a year now).

They seem to be really, really smart (devious?!) with the pricing for the individual pieces. If you don't keep all 5 items, they charge you a $25 "stylist fee". The price difference is then not all that large in many cases to keep all 5 items, vs sending a couple back.

I'm sure they tune their algorithms so that items more likely to be kept are the pricier items, and items that you are most likely to send back are the cheaper ones. Or maybe they even vary the prices per customer, based on feedback and prior history, to increase the odds of a "full purchase". If they don't, they should.

Either way though, it saves me hours of shopping at malls or other stores, and usually does reasonably well with the styles and pricing. I like the service overall.
Health Services as Credence Goods: A Field Experiment
Can't wait for my next phone to come with tail fins.

(This article could have been better titled by the BBC as "vestigial traces of older products in the design of newer ones.")

And for those lucky enough to never have seen them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_tailfin
I guess dead pedestrians are cheap for the insurance?
They would be more expensive when only injured. That means the SUVs are actually good for the insurance and they can lower prices.
If you asked a musicians to perform an audition before you hired them, would you accept the response, "Sorry, I don't work for free."

Would you expect a musician to practice their instrument in their free time or only play their instrument during paid gigs?
It is not just the long hours. There is a psychological game being played on the developers that is a grand mind fuck. The hours are not even half of the issue. People break down working on games. They. break. down. Physically and mentally.
GoLorry (YC W16) Is Hiring a React/React Native Engineer – India Based
GoLorry is a mobile marketplace for trucking in India. We decided to hop on RN Android the very same day when it was released. We've since experienced the framework from v0.16 to v0.49. We are looking for the next bright React/RN engineer to join our talented engineering team. You may view the latest job description at the link below. Apply through Angel List or send 1) your answer to the questionnaire in link below and 2) resume to zj@golorry.com.

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Classic example of supply and demand. More people want to become game devs than there are jobs, and so they can be abused knowing that if they complain, they will be replaced.

Tools like Unity, Gamemaker etc are part of the solution : lower the barrier of entry to expand the market, which might even eventually introduce IT level employee competition.

Might also be useful if the current generation of game dev 'elites' retire. Props to them for their games, but it often seems their success bias allows them to view crunch and other terrible development practices as normal.
My mustache wax pocket!
Sensor Fusion: Keeping It Simple (2013)
We still need 'break' but few systems still implement it. Let's leave it in the hope that someone reads the rainbow books and brings it back.
It's hard to look at the current media landscape and think the big problem is takeover by conservative news agencies.
"Objectionable content", "Hurting religious sentiments" are the reasons given when github/ vimeo/ pastebin etc., were banned few years ago. The rationale is pretty vague and it's often tough to understand on what info a certain site gets blocked.
it is, if all agree that original Kinect price was subsidized based on plan to get the rest of the money through purchase of games
Surely then the company could explain this reason. More trustworthy? Something else? This would give the employee the option of trying to improve that aspect their performance.

I’m not saying this is easy, or without pitfalls, but the biggest reason I’m for transparency is that it helps protect against unfair salary discrepancies.
Its also an Argumentum ad populum fallacy, and a bit of a begging the question fallacy.

In all, a great way to avoid having to give any real arguments as to why this is a good idea.
the only way to get a piece of the capital is by planning your exit strategy

VCs have always needed founders to have an exit in mind, but 20 years ago it just wasn't vocalised. There was never a time when VCs would put money in to a business that didn't have a clear way for them to get their money+profit out again. The dot.com bubble made everyone believe an IPO was the obvious way to cash out. When that bubble popped most founders started to see the exit as acquisition. That's all.

To be honest, the startup scene has changed a great deal over the past few years. When I did my first startup you could raise a seed round with nothing more than an idea; I got in to an accelerator before we'd even spoken to a potential customer let alone made an actual sale. Now you're unlikely to get very far with investors until you've proved the idea and got some significant traction. The level of risk people are willing to accept is really low. It's a shame, but it's quite understandable.
"if you don't speak nerd"

Usually used by people who want to pretend like they have deep technical knowledge.
It's a big red flag that a lot of bullshit is coming next.
Proof by analogy is fraud. You should know better.

If you really want to go down this path -- a broken clock is correct twice, as two discrete points in a continuous time space. The act of looking at the clock is analogous to sampling one discrete point in the time space. The possibility of sampling those two points at any given time is zero.

So no, a broken clock is not correct twice a day. Also, please stop proving anything with analogy.
Luc: being raped by a gang is not workplace sexual abuse. I never made the comparison you see.
The site’s down, so I don’t know the context, but is your point of quoting the radiator sentence that pretty much all desktops and laptops need radiators to cool them down?
go and write an automated-voting-bot in the with optimal schedule for the plant

fight fire against fire :)
Solar and Wind Power Are Outperforming Expectations
Does mplayer have a backend capable of using this?
Shift Labs Wins Global Health Award Recognizing Innovative IV Infusion Tech
How would this help you? I don't think they could edit all of the cells required to undo this genetic defect for good, right?
Hashed arrays are much simpler to do in AWK than they are in Python, for example.

Also record splitting and processing is highly configurable in AWK with RS, ORS, OFS and one gets it for free without having to write extra code. And don’t forget that Python needs about 25,000 files just to fire up, while AWK is a single 169 KB executable (on Solaris / illumos / SmartOS). Makes a huge difference come application deployment time.
Unfortunately, not all Whole Foods Market stores.

Turns out that competitors like Target don’t like this practice, and if they have a rental agreement with the landlord that lets them place restrictions on what kinds of services will be allowed on the property, then they will use those to keep out competitors.

The only choice for Whole Foods is to put their store in, but they can’t have an Amazon Locker.
Ask HN: Which companies do NOT give online coding interviews?
New grad here. I'm looking to apply to companies that do not judge based solely on a few test cases. I get too stressed out within the hour period and I can't do as well. I'll absolutely nail take-home projects. I want to find a company that values side-projects, motivation, and passion for building something and solving a problem. Any companies I should be on the lookout for?
> except for the bootcamp grads who all have identical Githubs

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by this? What sorts of things do they all have in common?
Agree to disagree then. I think this is a symptom of a larger issue and I think it is a disservice to only try to remedy the symptom rather than looking for larger change.
Yep, pretty much. Been out of the industry for four years now, and I miss shipping games. But then recruiters in the game industry contact me, and I just can't bring myself to go through that mess again and the pay cut I'd have to accept, most likely. And I'm not even that highly paid in my current industry (in fact, I think my wages are a lot more depressed than they could be because I spent several years in the game industry working for much lower wages)
I recently played Life is Strange and ABZU, both of which would be difficult to classify as Skinner boxes.
Are you in the US? In the UK Apple Pay works anywhere contactless debit/credit cards work, and banks have been pushing contactless for years now. It's very rare not to see a contactless card machine at a shop here. In London the whole Oyster system is contactless too - so tube, buses etc., and other places are starting to get it for public transport too.

It's much more common not to be able to pay with it because of the £30 limit (again inherited from contactless) than because it's not available.
100 lines of code is far, far better than zero, and this thus quite meaningful. Mathematicians can write proofs shorter than that and demonstrate mastery of their craft, and programmers can demonstrate basic competencies the same way.
6-15 are not only not mandatory, they are purposely offered by some employers to attract and incentivize employees. Thus, to compare them to government required benefits (1-5) makes no sense. The the high cost of employees is more attributable to the competition for employees by employers, not government required benefits.
What that wiki page is missing is a discussion of actual desirability, and perceived desirability of a job (I'm sure actual academic discussions of the theory do include it).

Because game development seems objectively more unpleasant than some of the other programming jobs. It certainly seems more unpleasant than my work situation, and with worse pay.
> However, have you ever noticed that no country has ever modernized through free markets, it always required a lot of protectionism.

I think attributing this to protectionism is not really helpful. There are many protectionist states (or states with a "strong industrial policy") that don't develop at all economically.

The examples of Europe before the early 20th Century and Far Asia in the late 20th century are certainly prominent but what about the other protectionist countries during that time or today?

You can find the "most protectionist" (by some measure) countries here:

http://www.heritage.org/index/explore (Click on "Trade Freedom" and then check the top vs bottom of the list)

So we have examples and counter examples, not a strong case in favor of protectionism IMO.
There is an incredible subculture for denim, distressing jeans the old fashioned way, no skeuomorphism here. The pre-WW2 production methods produced a higher quality product (surprise?) but the small looms couldn't produce it fast enough or cheap enough and were sent overseas. The Japanese have carried on producing proper American work wear, while American brands largely produce a simulacrum of American work wear. Sad fact, Cone Mills is shutting down after more than a century, last of its kind in the US.
Was hoping for a more in depth explanation of source maps.
Amazon has a camera to unlock the front door to my house.

Nope. Can’t ever see that going wrong.
Your argument in defence of Apple's strategy is an odd line to take.

The point you've missed is that when Apple stops releasing OS updates, all the built-in apps and programs also suffer the same fate, such as Safari web browser.

Some websites are starting to use ES6 javascript in some circumstances. Certain ES6 methods are not supported in browsers older than 2017. Valve's Steam website is one example, the preview videos and slideshow on each game page do not load because the highlight player now uses ES6 javascript. Newer iPads see the player, "older" iPads do not.

There is absolutely no reason why this needs to be the case.

Browser updates and patches for some built-in programs should be offered even when the OS is no longer updated.
They had a press conference where they admitted the issue, then made a page on their site demonstrating the issue on every leading phone of the day complete with short demo videos for each model.[0][1] This put other manufacturers like RIM and Nokia into a tizzy releasing their own death-grip press releases![2]

Free bumper cases and refunds.[3]

The rapid evolution of that antenna page via archive.org is really interesting.

If customers aren’t happy with the iPhone 4—“before or after you get a free case,” Jobs added—they can bring back the undamaged phone within 30 days for a full refund. Jobs said Apple won’t charge a restocking fee and that users would be able to get out of their contracts with AT&T.

“We want to make all of our customers happy,” Jobs said. “And if you don’t know that about Apple, you don’t know Apple.”

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20100719021135/Apple.com/antenna

[1]: https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-launches-antenna-perfo...

[2]: https://gizmodo.com/5589639/rim-and-nokia-respond-to-apples-...

[3]: https://www.macworld.com/article/1152751/iphone4_antenna_fre...
Dell Lost Control of Key Customer Support Domain for a Month in 2017
These extreme development environments aren’t even creating games that are that fun, certainly compared to some older games.

First, there are so many bugs and obviously-unfinished things. “Ship now, pay now, pay again later and maybe it’ll be fixed later” is the new normal.

Then there’s the huge production costs. Games suffer and become boring because they take forever to develop these photorealistic scenes and don’t have time to produce a lot of actual game content!! Instead of spending an eternity to create a handful of amazing-looking things, focus on just-OK-looking opponents and make a much bigger and better game.
Brigade: Event-Based Scripting for Kubernetes
cells in your body are being replaced every two weeks I think? There must be some way to spread the cure.
Could you please give some examples where he was misleading and how?
Personally, I've lately been considering the opposite: getting out of coding as a job, so that I can continue to love it as a hobby.
How does Google use this internally? Is it for cloud?
tl;dr: The note said:

"A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness."

On a second sheet, he wrote another message: "Where there's a will there's a way."
Yeah, that kind of thing has me crying like an anime fan on prom night.
One mistake, and it could affect all of humanity in short order. Gene drives, in particular, highlight the potential potency of our ignorance:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_drive

The potential for good is enormous when it comes to Gene editing. But it's not risk free. (Just like nuclear energy.)
Hollerith punch cards (the overwhelming standard...there were other experiments though) were the size they were because Herman Hollerith wanted to use cash handling trays for managing the cards (they used to do statistics on them by lining them up and then manually running metal rods through the holes to see which ones were universal their set! No kidding.). The federal dollars back then were larger than the reserve notes we use today in the US.

By the way the usually had rounded corners for the same reason rolodex and library card file cards usually did: less likely to become damaged and then caught in the machine. Whoever wrote that article didn't remember or perhaps had never actually seen, much less used these technologies.

My favorite of these fossilized design elements though is on hearses in the US. Ever notice that they have a funny shape, like an elongated italic "S" on the side? It's actually a completely deracinated coach spring! When people started using motorized vehicles to transport coffins, they still liked to use a horse coach for more "formal" occasions like funerals (and coronations...) -- think of JFK's funeral or Queen Elizabeth (mother of the current Queen). Eventually to make the hearses seem more fancy they glued that stupid thing on.

Another great one is the fossilized fashions of times gone by. Why do some banks still have fancy fronts or a logo with columns? Because back when banks actually kept their cash around they wanted to show off that they both had a solid building and were profitable enough to spend money on the expensive stuff kinds used...like marble. Nowadays if you visit someone really really rich with a modern house (i.e. castle) it's very often ultra high end glass and steel (Not just California, all over the globe) or exotics (think Geahry). The merely very wealthy are more likely to use the wealth signifiers of the "old days" (gold, crystal, marble).
I wonder if one could abstract tcp on top of udp using this.
Tesla's cars have cooling grills in the front, they're down low and small enough that people don't notice them.
I've worked a couple of jobs in healthcare IT, and worked with several other big companies while working those jobs. I'd say you're not wrong.

And it's an industry where it seems like no one really has their acts together when it comes to properly managing their data or communicating their requirements in a consistent or timely fashion to the people they need to build their software, while pretending otherwise and thinking forcing everyone to take the same online HIPPA class every year is all they need.

And yeah, the pay isn't too great, unless you're an executive or founder.
You'd be surprised.

I have a friend, whose team had this policy - no raise with promotion.

He got a promotion with no raise. When asked, his manager said, "you shouldn't work for money. You should work for the learning experience."

He resigned in a month. And this was not some random fringe start-up - one of the biggest companies in the world, with over $100B in market cap.
Antecedents from, as noted, mainframes, and APL specifically.
When you look at what a lot of games end up doing to a lot of gamers, does anyone think there might just be a little bit of karma mixed-in here? Just a little?

I've seen so many otherwise well-adjusted people blow their time, health, and sanity on these things rather than deal with their own real-life problems. Then there are the newer ones where they nickel-and-dime people actual money for digital cornfields and lollipops.
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Many of the women in these latest scandals are saying they were raped, not simply harassed. I think that’s why your claim that the gaming industry is 100x worse is raising some criticism.
h2: HTTP 2.0 client and server implementation for Rust
It's not so much that integration is hard, but that any given site tends to integrate differently.

The problem I've encountered with SAS specifically is that the more powerful tools are hard to gain access to (or proficiency with) given the licensing costs.

I have literally been told by SAS regional sales staff that I would be better off pirating a copy of the software to gain access to it. I politely declined.
Jeez I can't even remember the last time I saw one of those things much less used ones.

Maybe we should go backwards to a feather pen, or a chisel for cuneiform wedges?

(or a cloud logo, a CRISPR logo, a blockchain logo, an AI logo or whatever the next buzzword is!)
How Coinbase took millions of Bitcoins during the Bitcoin Gold hard fork
Hi; I replied to your Github gist quite a while ago:

https://gist.github.com/rlonstein/90d53fdeea31d2137737

about a matter related to the hash bang line in the script.

TXR has a nice little hack (that apparently I invented) to implement the intent of "#!/usr/bin/env txr args ..." on systems where the hash bang mechanism supports only one argument after the interpreter name.
Emotions aside and logic in place, it would be easier to say no to someone like this, you're just making it easier for recruiters to filter you out.
> I am not sure why they are so complicated

Uh, the business rules alone. Want to compute scheme fee and interchange on a cross-domain DCC refund reversal, be my guest. Then add the kludges and hacks you have in financial services software.
I would assume it's much the same as Canada's law against publishing hate speech. Just with a very wide net on what constitutes hate speech.
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well, i think that's a conservative point of view. My point of view is different. Video games spur a ton of technological advancements because there's always so much demand from consumers. Technological advancements are always slow and under-funded if it's not backed up by common consumers. There aren't many things that common consumers crave more than entertainment.
And I want the ability to lock the bootloader again, but with my own keys.