skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't there a set procedure for companies to report performance (of the company's finances, not individual employeess)-based layoffs like this to the Feds?

What are they going to do, say "no, you owe these people jobs, go take out a loan?" Well, maybe if the company can't demonstrate that they actually need to drop so many people, but this sort of seems like they're being lazy and cheap, at best.

Y'know, it's starting to really seem like the market simply is not willing to accept how expensive things are.
I am a man. I am definitely privileged because of it. Many men make similar observations: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-t...
How many product managers have you spoken to and / or done an information interview with?
Why Zimbabwe Has a 'Minister of WhatsApp'
Hasn't unauthorized access of a server with weak or no security measures been proven illegal many times in court already, though? Admittedly, I'm not a legal expert of any kind, but I could swear that's a common thing.
Small nitpick: long-polling can be done over http/2, in which case the connection is shared.
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On a large file with many duplicates, seen[x]++ can overflow, unless you're using GNU Awk with bignums (gawk -M).
The Kinect has done wonders for amusement park and museum efforts. At this point I'm more surprised when those sorts of museum and amusement projects aren't using a Kinect. (...and more often than that it's simply because an old expensive system hasn't broken yet, but soon as it breaks you expect it to be replaced with a Kinect.)

For that reason, the commodification of the Kinect really has been a boon for science and entertainment. There are some commodity Kinect knock-offs out there (Intel's cameras and sensors come to mind), but selling millions of Kinects means that they will probably stay important to museum projects.

The secondary market will probably remain flooded with Kinects for a while, but maybe (hopefully) by the time it becomes hard to get a decent priced Kinect for such cool little projects there will be a Kinect 3 or similar ready. (Or Microsoft will sell the Kinect brand to a hardware manufacturer.)
I don't mean to be negative, but this seems like just generic advice (probably what you'd get from any counsellor or advisor). Why is it particularly interesting for Hacker News?
That's just your particular case and not indicative of the situation as a whole. I regularly encounter software that requires me to run macOS. I build virtual and augmented reality software. macOS is garbage for VR, all the major VR systems work better on Windows. But, if you want to build AR apps for iPhones (or any sort of game app, doesn't have to be AR), you need Xcode, and Xcode only runs on macOS.
I did my undergrad 10 years ago in a very large US college. Now I'm back doing grad in a different very large US college. The people the author is talking about do exist, but I would estimate there's about 100 of them in my college of ~39,000. And even then, how many of them will still be that way 5 years out of college?
For a deep space probe that fuel cost is not a showstopper. That's well down in the weeds compared to the cost of launching it to orbit and manning the tracking stations and buying airtime on the Deep Space Network.
I’d venture to say most, if not all, make some variation of the claim “Truth is relative”, which in isolation isn’t that profound of a statement to make. But when it’s much of the foundation of your ideology it leads you to very dark places.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativism
> "If a malicious hacker gets remote access to a smart lock the risk is effectively zero."

Especially if said malicious actor can also control the camera that is meant to record anyone entering the home.
Why in heavens name is this a .org domain name.
If you are only storing images locally, an intruder could destroy or remove recordings.
Nicely done.

A different take (with community involvement): http://www.halfbakery.com
Link to the actual post:

https://www.popehat.com/2017/10/24/in-which-my-identity-is-s...
Look how much hate Bernie Sanders—a man who fought for equality his whole life—is getting from the left. He’s being called racist, sexist, etc., and not just by some straw man versions of liberals.
> The universe is inside a black hole.

More like it is itself an inside out black hole, or acts like one. I suggest Leonard Susskind's talks/lectures on Youtube for a clear explanation.
Not a very smart way of looking at it. With this attitude Steve Jobs had never been able to create Apple
EPA chief: ‘True environmentalism is using natural resources that God has blessed us with’
I agree that's an excellent book, and that his sentence completion exercises are helpful. I would caution against thinking they're some kind of magical thing; they help, that's all, there's still lots of work a person needs to do. In any case, anyone who's interested can start out by reading the same exercises on his website (which is still there even though Branden died several years ago):

http://www.nathanielbranden.com/sentence-completion-i

http://www.nathanielbranden.com/sentence-completion-ii
The driver should certainly not expect a clear roadway.

At least in Britain, roughly the first driving lesson begins with looking all around for other road users. Speed must be reduced if there's an increased risk of inattentive pedestrians, such as near parked cars around a school or houses.
This is not your father's Department of Labor. I see little chance that any enforcement will happen.
What provider are you using for ACH?
There's no explicit SLA, but I've heard rumor that they start getting paged at ~4 hours staleness, though that might not be actually-true. I would think it's pretty quick in the average case.
That's an unfair characterization of Google's hiring process.
I was inundated with that kind of language when I was last in school, a few years ago.
s/could/should

I am very impressed with Square constantly. It's really amazing to see what they accomplished.
But that only works because in the final print, you have done arithmetic with s.

So in other words, we can take out the BEGIN block, but then we must remember to change print total to print total + 0.

Also, using uninitialized variables is basically a code golfing stupidity that will bite you in any halfway complicated program.

GNU Awk has a useful --lint argument which spots uses of uninitialized variables. If you make it habit to write code that way, if you then use --lint for finding a bug, you have to deal with false positives.
I made the argument that women are less INTERESTED

But interest is an outcome, influenced for example by the presence or absence of role models or the impression of certain fields as not welcoming to women.

If I remember the state of things correctly, the gender imbalance of interest in science is not present at early ages but develops around junior high ages when kids start picking up on which jobs or fields are "appropriate" for males vs females.

I don't think anyone is saying the gender imbalance is purely a result of hiring discrimination (although it likely plays a role), but there are clearly other biases in force that directly arise from the gender imbalance. How do you propose getting rid of those biases except by trying to "prime the pump"?
Members of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported. Around the same time, they will realize that suburban white-collar workers — themselves desperately afraid of being downsized — are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide social benefits for anyone else.

At that point, something will crack. The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for — someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots.

One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past 40 years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion. … All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet.

-Richard Rorty, 1998
This is the release many of us have been waiting for!

The performance enhancements will lead to better embedding and extending V8. Chrome should probably implement proper tail calls. More now that even safari has this feature implemented.

Great job and thanks you very much !
Why bother coercing when they can impersonate the party that was given permission?

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/11/fbi_agents_po...
Collection of image processing plugins for color manipulation, film simulation, sharpening, noise reduction, ... Highly regarded and expensive before Google bought them

https://www.google.com/nikcollection/
Password change dialogs generally have entries for:

Previous Password:
New Password:
Confirm New Password:

They don't need to store the plaintext password, as you're giving the old password plaintext to them in the same dialog. Now, if such rules were against "any of your last 4 passwords" instead of just the last password, then that's much more difficult to do. (Obviously nobody is going to cooperate with a form requiring the person to submit their last 4 passwords as part of the password change dialog.)
I volunteered at a few food co-ops and student-run cafes during both undergrad and graduate school. It got me out of my bubble of science/technology classmates and exposed me to a lot of this world. There was never any bad behaviour, just plenty of students getting as serious about post-modern and feminist theory as I was about my science.
That's interesting! You should post that to HN directly, since it hasn't been posted before.
You make good points regarding other things that can be done to reduce accidents. This article is addressing one in particular that is being tried in Hawaii.

> ”Yet the article barely addressed what laws currently address this in Hawaii, if any.”

I think this is a bit unfair. Articles are not exhaustive dissertations on a topic. They have some scope that the writer and editor determines is appropriate for the context. That may or may not match the scope you expect. Then again, the article may just be poorly written. If you were to look into this more deeply yourself and put together a piece yourself, I’m sure there are others (even on HN), that would find it interesting.
Kids do those things everywhere but there's a difference in intensity.

I agree about VCs. In my experience the coastal cities do not have a monopoly on talent but they do have a strong monopoly on investment capital for new businesses.

I think it's a branding thing too. If you were an angel and saw a company on AngelList would you be more likely to fund them if they were from:

(a) Mountain View, California

(b) Los Angeles, California

(c) New York, New York

(d) Cincinnati, Ohio

(e) Louisville, Kentucky

I bet you picked (a).
Apollo Client 2.0
"Understanding water displacement" is not the goal of the test.
Its because of how difficult is for the average person to setup port forwarding and to keep these device secure.

Using a cloud system means the device make and outbound connection through however many nats, doesn't matter. Also no way to directly connect to device without going through the cloud server acting as a high level proxy. The cloud servers are more likely to be kept up to date and monitored.

I have a Synology system for my cameras, uses https with an inbound port for the app to connect. Works well, but I do worry about it getting hacked.

If IPV6 where widely deployed maybe the ease setup could be made better.
Build an Autonomous Vehicle: Driving Your Vehicle
This number they throw around is such marketing bs.

If we break it down what it really means is "If we take a sampling of the population only 1 in 1 million people will look like you so you're good".

As Schiller conceded in his keynote, any identical twins will need to "deeply consider how much they trust their sibling".
Apparently a collection of plugins for Adobe Lightroom.
It's still the #46 website in the world according to Alexa.
Well, I'd want to see a source for this, but my personal experience doesn't make it hard to believe that they'd be pumping out externally-facing propaganda.

That being said, the changes can be felt on the ground level. Public dialog is changing about climate change.
Really disappointing news, rolling Screenhero into Slack doesn't solve the same problem at all.

I work for myself and have a large contact list of people who don't know each other who I often pair with or screenshare with. With Slack, there's really no way for me to create the same setup.

I'd need to create a new team called "Adam's Screenhero Contacts", invite all of my contacts (who don't know each other) to be part of this "team" together, and I'd have to foot the bill for the whole team since there's no way for each individual to pay for their own Slack account.

Is there a viable Screenhero alternative out there yet?
That's cheap! The launch'll set you back about $100m so another $3.5m for propellant isn't going to be worth worrying about. At some point we'll be wanting to start finding more fuel for our rockets at our destinations. There are ways we know how to do this for oxygen, hydrogen, and methane but getting more xenon on Mars or Titan just isn't doable. So at that point I expect people to switch over to Argon which doesn't ionize quite as easily but can be found all over the solar system.
> Devices that are rooted will not fail to attest via the API.

That should be "will fail", right?

> We're at the point where you don't even own your own filesystem anymore on a Linux device.

Is this really true? It seems to be of the form "if you decide to own your file system, then you are not given access to certain proprietary media resources or applications". That's a shame, and I'm not happy about it, but my access to Netflix is a convenience, not a fundamental right.
Throwing in two cents from the world of politics, a lot of people voted in opposition to what they saw was a culture out of control. I think this is evident by the areas that votes for Trump, and the demographics. Trump pulled broadly from many segments of society.
It depends. The language's author probably didn't post this, so who knows what stage of development his project is at.
Not at all difficult, really. It is only difficult in the sense that it is difficult to tell the difference between a snake and an elephant if all you can do is feel its tail. If you actually know what is happening then the distinction is obvious.
Bad being subjective...
The examples brought up seem to mostly have occurred in (1) small private liberal arts colleges; or (2) Berkeley.

I am guessing that non-Berkeley research universities are not affected, or not affected as heavily.
Principles Behind Re-Designing Strava's Leaderboard Infrastructure
Python is slow, you can downvote me all you want. Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15548904
S3 is just the simple storage service.
Cost/unit was an incredible driver of adoption though. What other depth sensor could you pick up at a local thrift store for $10?
I will elaborate further: inspect usage trends of Alexa to determine anomalies, i.e. times of no usage in the day when the owner isn't home.
> Men alive today unless perhaps very old have not benefited from discrimination against women

Yes, they have, because discrimination against women is still widely practiced. It's true that the scope and extent of discrimination in law has been almost entirely eliminated (one of the last major elements to fall being the military combat exclusion policy, lifting of which was fully implemented less than two years ago; given the significance of combat assignments in military career progression and the practical impacts of military careers on both elected and certain other high-level government positions, there are a lot of men in the military and government office today that are, now, benefitting from the effects of that direct, legally-mandated discrimination.)
> a company selling ads to a dwindling user base?

Twitter's userbase isn't "dwindling" (diminishing gradually in size, amount, or strength.) It's not growing as fast as shareholders might like, but its monthly active users are growing in number: https://www.statista.com/statistics/282087/number-of-monthly...
2, What problems are you trying to solve?
A: 1, easily integrate with C. 2, stable and modern syntax. that's all I wanted.

I have asked a few more questions about the language:

https://github.com/lemon-lang/lemon/issues/6
Does that mean you'd leave your doors unlocked?
Screenhero is hands down the best (smoothest) screen sharing app I've ever used.

It's bittersweet to see them acquired by Slack as a paid only feature, but I'm happy for the team and it seems like a very ideal kind of acquisition where they solve a problem Slack has and wasn't solving well, and then Slack can scale the Screenhero userbase overnight.

Edit: I just tried this feature in Slack with /call then enabling others to edit and it didn't seem to be as smooth as the usual Screenhero experience. I wonder if something was changed in the integration.
UAE Has Established the Very First Artificial Intelligence Ministry in the World
They can, but the risk of being caught by neighbors and passers-by increases with forced entry. Show up in a delivery outfit, with a code that lets you in the house, and you look legit even to the police.
Its a real bummer, I would much rather pay for Screenhero standalone than integrated into Slack.
How does Square make money? Credit card processing itself is a tight, low-margin business. Verifone is only worth a couple $B for that reason.

Does Square make that much money off services?
What hate is he getting from the left? I have seen center-left DNC members throw insults his way, but they would very much be on the right of his views (especially economically).
Just FYI, the author is Michael Shermer, founder and Editor in Chief of Sceptic Magazine, which also includes Richard Dawkins on its editorial board (along with some other intellectual heavyweights ).
Speaking anecdotally, the majority of the people I know for which this applies are college students and majoring in mathematics or the hard sciences. It appears the Two Cultures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures) are becoming further estranged from one another.
> edit: I believe workers should be treated fairly, but I also want us to go to Mars. If 1 prevented 2, I would be torn. Why should this earn a negative vote?

I assume because this same argument, if you took it to ridiculous extremes, could be used to justify a whole range of terrible shit. Watch:

"I believe workers should not be enslaved, but I also want us to go to Mars. If 1 prevented 2, I would be torn."

"I believe Musk should not torture underperforming workers, but I also want us to go to Mars. If 1 prevented 2, I would be torn."

I don't think you are actually willing to torture or enslave people so that humanity can get to Mars, but the way you constructed your argument leads in that direction, which is probably why it's being met with resistance.
Of course not. But they demonstrably spend time hating other people in order to make themselves feel better.

And if the people in question are huffing their own farts, it's just more grist for the mill.
The Expressive C++17 Coding Challenge (in Rust)
That's like saying you looked at my open front door so you committed B&E
This website really seems to have an agenda and isn't a source I would qualify as good journalism.

For anyone who's interested in the story, here's an interview with the professor. Admittedly, from an interviewer who's pretty on board with her ideas.

https://theeducatorsroom.com/mathematics-political-post-sess...
That's fair. Anything you don't need to resolve as redirects/file serving through an app is a big win
Well, put it this way: One day there was some kind of staffing glitch, and one of my classes had no teacher. So 30 students were left to their own devices; some snuck outside, some went to the cafeteria to socialize, some to the library, or to the auditorium, which was used as a kind of study hall. At the time, McCourt was covering Hamlet. Remember high school? Every subject, every day, for forty minutes. I went to McCourt’s classroom, found the one empty desk, and sat down. He glanced at me and kept on going, without missing a beat.

I re-read Hamlet every few years. In my inner voice, the characters have a tendency to slip into an Irish accent.
We were very disappointed with the current generation of RealSense devices. The next generation ones look good though - more based on the Tyzx acquisition.
>They blame Patreon for their vulnerability and use pity to win an argument. Fact is, they placed all their eggs in one risky basket, and now that basket is gone. They have themselves to blame.

What other basket is there? I thought that's the whole point of this letter, that patreon has become their lifeline but now even that is clipped.
It's still wild to me how consumer hardware outpaced cheap lab tech so decisively around 2010-2012.

At the time I was in a research lab that needed wireless networking + high-def video + light source + on-device processing + battery power + small form factor. It turns out that even compared to Raspberry Pi, the cheapest possible solution to that problem was "buy old Androids on Ebay and add external batteries". A handful of years before that we would have been cobbling together a $500 device, or more realistically scrapping the whole project.

The whole model of feature-dense sensors suddenly crossed from something for major production runs and custom orders into single-unit consumer products, and I'm not sure people really noticed how big an impact it had on research.
Sounds like a noble endeavor. From https://suckless.org/project_ideas

Suckless font rendering library

There is libdrw in suckless now, which still uses xft and fontconfig. Fontconfig and xft are ugly and require too much internal knowledge to be useful. The next logical layer in Linux evolved as pango and cairo. Both of course added HTML formatting and vector drawing. This is not needed to simply draw some text somewhere. And this is what a suckless font rendering library should do: Give it a font string and render at some position the given font without having to care about font specifics.
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zoom.us allows remote controls, it worked fine the couple of times I've used it.
I think it depends on the flow of money. It doesn’t happen overnight, but if money is flowing unevenly and most of the population is not getting enough to maintain their consumption, then their consumption will fall reducing the need for employees. For now, many people are still reaching into the future and pulling money into the present by buying with home loans, student loans, and car loans.

But once that is unavailable, and demand starts dropping because they’re not seeing the money come back to them (since it’s easier and easier for it to get funneled to the top), then the market will adjust again. However, you never know when it can stop because governments tend to keep pulling money from the future to pay for things like healthcare and retirement welfare for people who didn't save enough.
They can't take control of your screen but I like https://appear.in/
I took his comment to be sarcastic, but I could be wrong.
"Square has taken aim at the much larger goal of providing a tech-savvy alternative to the big banks, expanding out from payments to lending and online deposits."

Note also that Square is not actively losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year, which is a point in favor of its value.
Happened at the University of Toronto, which is definitely a large research university http://torontosun.com/2017/03/17/protesters-crash-controvers...