skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are good for design questions for somewhat experienced candidates..but I guess you still gotta test the problem solving or algorithmic approach of the candidates.
Good to hear. It's good you had the camera anyway, which was your main point, and also good you survived!
Dramatic Shifts in Technologies on Stack Overflow
When a user searches Google from the Firefox toolbar (or Yahoo, or Bing) the relevant search engine pays them a little bit of money.
Is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... really broken? That was a test pilot experiment till two month ago, it would be very bad (and a bit ridiculous) if that addon were already broken.
The other problem is cryptocurrencies have created a ton of new companies that are paying big for talent. I actually think this is a good thing. Too many people were working on dumb startups back then. I want more engineers at Tesla.
Some people want to run a business, some people see a big financial opportunity, some people have a vision of something they want to exist in the world. All 3 of these could lead to someone deciding to start a business, but for the more visionary types, the fact that it's a business might just be considered a necessary evil, rather than the goal.
I agree that having mono and .NET Core being developed at the same time is not a good thing. How do you pick one over the other? There is way too much overlap.

With .NET core being open source they should find a way to work with the mono team.
A demo of monitor screen hijack to show arbitrary pixels
Somewhat tangentially, I really like the cartoons Lin has made. I’ve found I’ve naturally anthropomorphized code. Often when I start working with someone new they get confused when I start talking about constructs like people. I think it’s given me a different perspective on encapsulation and concurrency than most people.

I don’t know if I’ve ever worked with someone that thinks the same way. When I work on code that wasn’t designed that way I force my brain to think like the CPU instead of in terms of little elves with different job... Not sure if anyone else has experienced this 2 modes of thinking about code. It seems like FF engineer’s might be thinking in the same terms as they tackle concurrency refactors.
Personally, it has to a large extent. Somethings that are not yet there:

1. Since Webextensions are new, some extensions that I use in chrome, need to be ported over. Most are not must haves to be fair.

2. Hangouts for work. :(

3. A solution to manage different personas - Chrome has the "user profile" thing linked to google accounts, firefox as container tabs. I think user profile is better than container tabs, although both are kinda bad.

Except hangouts, none are deal breakers - I use firefox as much as I can, and in fact overall it feels more faster and more repsonsive than Chrome starting with Quantum. It also looks and feels better than chrome.
Lyme disease is just one of a major class of bacterial infections. Syphilis is another. And there are several others...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirochaete

They aren't just limited to the Eastern US.
Or startups could pay, you know, salary + bonus like the rest of the world?
... at which point a person can calculate their 40 hours of play * what the time is worth to them, and decide if $80 to just buy the thing is worth it.
> I am taking the "cheaper and scale better" part into account when I say that machines will be more accurate.

Then you used the wrong word, because cost and throughput are not accuracy. A machine that always returns "true" can be very cheap and very fast.

> The false positive rate is whatever you configure it to be. The confidence level for flagging someone is a parameter and you can adjust it to whatever false positive rate is acceptable.

When that makes the false negative rate ~100%, you might as well do yourself a favor and throw the entire system in the trash.

> Every single flag will be reviewed by a human who will decide whether or not to take action based on it. This is no different than a human looking at a list of suspects and then watching for matches, except that the computer can use a much larger suspect list, and give the human hints.

That's the problem though. Getting arrested and subjected to twelve hours of questioning every time you walk in front of a camera will ruin your life even if you ultimately get released every time. The much larger suspect list only exacerbates things. Even if the false positive rate is no worse, it gets multiplied by a much higher volume.

When the problem is that people make mistakes, making the same mistakes faster only makes the problem bigger.

And of course they'll look a lot like the target. That's what causes the false positive.
I remember shortly after WoW was released, there was this huge hubub over Cosmos and other add-ons, which led to one of the funniest WoW posts ever.[1]

1: http://www.lordaeron.org/WoB/
I don't get it... I thought the Internet was supposed to be decentralized... How is it possible that one or two companies can cause such widespread issues?
Until they figure out a way to address their irrelevance on Mobile, devs will never fully switch since they have to do testing on mobile devices.

It is really sad that Gecko is becoming so good, but is mainly used to power a product in what is becoming a niche market (yes, desktop is becoming a niche in terms of users relative to mobile).
It depends, are you worth between $30k and $80k to someone? If yes, I would switch to Chrome.
Considering where Firefox started and the dominant browser at the time, it's in a much better position than the first time around.

Remember, Firefox was never the dominant browser, and where it is now is where it has almost always been.
Yes, the take-away here is not that Go is particularly bad, but that GCs are problematic. Notably, GC != automatic memory management.
From Troy Hunt's article:

> given the processing power to actually observe and interpret eye movements in the split second within which you expect this to work, this would be a really neat failsafe. Apple highlights this as "attention awareness"

Yes, it would be a great failsafe.

However, if the PoC demonstrated by Bkav is legit, it would seem that Face ID doesn't look for eye movement; it just checks if the eyes are oriented toward the device.

That said, I agree that regular people probably don't need to worry about any of this.
That data is never truly deleted, not for a while at least.

I suppose it has benefit now with Android, and multiple devices, but Google, and Youtube both started saving searches long before the release of Chrome.

Quite terrible.
I've looked at Contributor and found it weirdly limited. Google doesn't need publishers to sign up for Contributor, because they are already all signed up for AdSense! The most logical way to implement Contributor would be essentially as a personal buyout of AdSense ads: if you are a Contributor, the AdSense JS checks that and then simply doesn't run, and assigns a fraction of a cent to the publisher in lieu of a displayed ad. Everyone gets what they want and this immediately gets you coverage of millions of websites instead of, like, 10.
What amazes me is how the fund continued to exist for so long despite a track record of failure.
I am actively working on this problem, see Mathpix (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mathpix/id1075870730?ls=1&mt...) which lets you create Latex by taking pictures of math, ping me at nico@mathpix.com if you have any ideas
There's no valid way to get a statistic on how founder/professional CEOs cause success.

Using the methodology I think they use, the statistics are dominated by the fact that only fairly successful companies are able to hire a professional CEO at all. A company that starts and goes nowhere (perhaps due to the idea being bad) is always in the founder-CEO column.

It's probably also true that companies with multiple offices are more successful than companies with a single office. And companies with a superbowl commercial are more successful than the average company without one. But that doesn't imply you should do either for your early-stage company.
Effectively Mozilla, like a growing number of big name FOSS projects, got hijacked by SJW busybodies wanting to pad their resume. Thus they spun up a bunch of "social consciousness" projects that sapped time and resources.

And now they have decided that to make Firefox competitive they have to throw out all that made Firefox distinct, and clone Chrome behavior by behavior. Just watch them up and decide that maintaining their own engine will be too much and go Blink in a few years...
No, you're right.

They'd declare that the JS engine was just as fast (or faster) - but that didn't cover the whole of the UI, and laggy bits of the UI could slow things down no matter how fast the JS engine was.

Thankfully they now seem to have improved the whole UI.
It's pretty easy to accidentally enable uploading all your cleartext passwords to Google's cloud service too (the dialog to do so is a dark pattern). I similarly was furious when I discovered that. Firefox is now my go-to, and what I recommend to friends and family.
Can anyone explain what this is about, for non-gamers like myself? Am I understanding it right, in that he paid $80 for a game in which he needs to pay even more to get access to the Darth Vader character?

Is there a price list somewhere for what it costs to purchase various in-game things?
Which is the point when you decide to go server less?
Not really "per search"... the deals are negotiated for N years. If that was per search Mozilla's finances would not be in such good shape, which could actually help them focus on chasing the right targets.
The main problem i see with the equity system is that its absolutely intransparent in terms of cap tables and preferred shares.

To the very least, if companies were forced to give out cap tables, or at least, a calculator that gives you your payout based on the company sell out cases, you would be able to measure it.

Right now, the calculation is complicated and obsfucated for employees. Lets say you have 1% of stock and the company sells at 100m. You are most likely not going to get 1m because of preferred shares. Preferred shares are truly a cancer on the system.
Possibly. FOSS projects are notorious for going with rewrites rather than throttle back and maintain what is already there.
Isn't this just `up`?

https://github.com/apex/up
Ask HN: Any good whitelabel assest management services?
Can anyone refer me to a good hosted asset management services that has:
* global CDN
* ability to create accounts or sub accounts with api
* get CDN bandwidth info for said accounts via an api
* Image transformations
* block accounts / subaccounts via api or limits
ELI5 example: The more users you have, the more the search providers (like Google, Yahoo and Yandex) may pay you to be the default search provider in a certain region.
I had to stop playing Factorio after about 2 hours. I'd probably end up spending months on it ... ... such an addicting game!

Absolutely fun, though.
Free food is taxed unless it meets certain qualifications, the biggest one being that it is for the convenience of the employer.
Good summary of the issue: https://reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/7cddyo/_/dpqoy26/...
I'm only going for indie games these days.
In the case of the seat, the revealed preference is "I still need to get from A to B, so you can abuse me all you like".

Like airline food, there's no effective way to reveal that you might prefer to pay a little more for something a little better, and your choice is usually limited to paying a lot more.
Didn't target="_blank" originate in that era you were talking about? I know the target attribute was part of HTML4 (1999). I'm not sure when _blank became a special value, but I imagine it was before the spec acknowledged it.

I agree window.opener was a fairly dangerous addition, but it is subject to CORS restrictions. You can't access it from just anywhere.
I use both Lyft and Uber regularly, and it's the exact same experience (except that the Uber app/system periodically decides to not process my request for unknown reasons).
410 hours deep in Factorio here - with no end in sight. I slowed down for a while but then discovered the Warehousing and Loader mods which allowed me to build entirely new types of factories. I haven't been this addicted to a game since Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
People, perhaps, get upset about this sort of thing because game content isn't "real," in the sense that an employee could spend mere seconds (assuming a script was already cooked for them to do it) to give this art asset to players for free. The $80 pricepoint (or 40 hours of game interaction) seems a very artificial thing. It doesn't take $80 worth of work to produce and distribute the Vader art asset, so why should one be compelled to pay $80 for it?

... but this is a misunderstanding of the nature of digital content and monopoly. The old rules of supply and demand still apply---even if satisfying demand is relatively trivial after the archetype has been created---when one party has a monopoly on supply, as EA does here. And when the archetype still takes several dozens or hundreds of person-hours to fabricate, there is still cost to EA to be offset. But even if there weren't cost to EA to offset: they have a monopoly on the product, they can charge what they will, the amount of markup they can generate is immaterial.
The one major benchmark I use for browser speed is how fast Tagpro runs, and it's definitely gotten much slower on Firefox recently, to the extent that I need to generally play it on Chrome, even though I normally much prefer Firefox to Chrome.
Well, first of all this is for an IoT CPU, so there will probably be less competition there and it can probably be tuned to specific niches. But I have to disagree that building a new CPU is easy. This is only true if we're talking about "toy" CPUs like some of the RISC-V implementations put out by UCB undergrads, these run at ~200MHZ clocks and with sub-1 ILP. If you want to make a high end and energy efficient CPU, it's still quite a difficult task and most novel CPU projects (e.g. the Mill, I guess the Adapteva Epiphany might count, although it's not really a CPU) don't have an existing GCC/LLVM backend.
Thwarting the Tactics of the Equifax Attackers
no new money millionaires disrupting the status quo, please.
On international keyboards, there is no right alt key, but instead at that place is [AltGr], which triggers both [Alt] and [Ctrl].

[AltGr]+[M] for example gives μ, [AltGr]+[E] gives € and [AltGr]+[Q] gives [@]. Obviously, [AltGr]+[←] doesn't work.

It's one more of those shortcuts that make it obvious that whoever made the decision only ever used a US Standard keyboard, and never even considered international users. The only decisions even worse are ever using ` (it's a 4 key combo on some international keyboards, and not at all existing on others), or ~ \ [ ] { } ( ) ; : (all of these are combinations of usually two or three keys on most international keyboards).
Wait, which is it? When you say "this is why" it implies you stopped because of unbounded greed on the part of large gaming publishers. However, then you explain it as growing out of gaming and a shift in your interests to learning.

Also, in my opinion, learning and entertainment don't have to be mutually exclusive. You sound like an I-don't-watch-TV snob right now, to be honest.
I guess a course like this might help some folks. Have personally taken many interviews and see really smart people just rambling about with no structure to their answers. A little planning and thought could make everyone so much more happy.
See Gradescope (https://gradescope.com/pricing) and Mathpix (https://mathpix.com/).
It may even be worse than that. They have effectively thrown out all that made Firefox distinct in any user facing sense to achieve this.
Because it's not decentralized.
But this one's written in... Oh.
I posting from Firefox monile now. It's my main browser.

If I use Chrome only it is for my sockpuppet accounts.

I far prefer FF even on mobile.
This it [0]? Googled "short story masks reputation economy musical instrument", it's pretty good at finding seemingly super obscure, usually through someone else describing it.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12632596-the-moon-moth
Most game now have "micro transactions". I have not followed closely but I guess that your start the game without all the characters unlocked, so you need to play X hours of time to unlock that character, or buy it in addition to the base game to unlock it immediately. Which might be a bit steep after you've just spent $80.

edit: so after reading minimaxir links it seems you can not pay to unlock a new character, but since you have to effectively chose spending your credits (i.e time spent playing) either on improvement like weapons or new characters, it greatly incentivizes you buy in-game currency.
CNCF just got 36 companies to agree to a Kubernetes certification standard
Best 3D Floor Plan Rendering Services
userChrome.css is still present on Quantum. I haven't played around with it a lot, but if you feel like getting your hands dirty, this should be a relevant resource to you: https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx/issues/1
Rackspace, HPE pitch pay-as-you-go private cloud
Go-routines going gaga
How Andy Weir Scienced the Lunar Colony in His New Book Artemis
"The current draft of the Senate Tax Reform Bill would tax stock options and RSUs upon vesting."

Ok. I wouldn't panic here. Calm down.

How shares are vested is up to the board. So, if this were to pass I would just walk into the CEO's office with a few employees and ask to change how shares vest to: "Upon the vesting schedule AND a written letter from the employee requesting vesting. If the letter isn't submitted the shares are not vested." So, if I don't send a letter to the board the shares do not vest. If I want to vest 12 months and leave, I would just submit the letter. Problem solved. How shares are vested is totally made up. You could have them vest when you wear a purple shirt on tuesdays.
My high school did something similar [0]. We never had math textbooks, only a book of problems. Each night we had 10 problems we had to solve. When we showed up in class the next day, each student would present a problem on the board and discuss their solution.

It worked well for the really disciplined, rigorous kids who were super interested in math and already had a solid background in it. But for someone like me, who never quite did all the homework, it became a game of getting to class first so I could present the one problem I did last night.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harkness_table
Filling geofences with geohashes
Deep RL Bootcamp Lectures
And mail in may be better than extra classes or similar, as it may avoid various "tall poppy" issues.

And these days it can even be done electronically.
EA responded to Battlefront 2 unlock estimates, and players weren’t having it
Why would I want a headache?

I do know from experience that I'll have headache if I cut off coffee. If I cut modafinil, I'll just not feel like doing anything, and sleep a lot.
Can I give back my options if this bill passes? I'm literally sick now reading this. What I thought was a great part of my compensation package is literally going to bankrupt my family.
I prefer the default theme on Windows 10 as there the title bars of the other windows like Settings and Explorer use the same style, which is the color defined in 'Colors' in the settings. Using the 'Light' theme makes Firefox looking different which isn't nice.

Haven't seen any other black title bar on my Mac though...
SUSE Reconciles OpenSUSE with SUSE Linux Enterprise
Or like in the uk for approved (ie tax friendly) enforce the issuing of the same shares to employees as the others.
well.. if you have already advanced to the point where you're making a mask, I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to heat it up a bit.
I have a Cateye RapidX3 light which is good quality and lasted a long time. ( cateye.com/en/products/ ) ... USB charge, good battery, very bright.
That looks nice but without any instructions on how to install it or generate that sample—or even what format of data it wants for the elevation data—I'm not really sure what kind of useful comment I can make on the project itself.
MediaTek is only suitable for mid-tier phones (at least when I was in the OEM industry). Exynos is only for Samsung. A lot of OEMs try to make their own LTE chips, but it's not easy.

Qualcomm is still very much relevant in the phone industry.
Firefox mobile has extensions, specifically an ad-blocker extension.
Also see this recent article:

https://work.qz.com/1125919/we-finally-have-proof-that-visio...

This is the direct link to the research mentioned in the article:

http://www.people.hbs.edu/rsadun/AreFounderCEOsGoodManagers....
Overleaf (www.overleaf.com) | UK | REMOTE | Ops

We're looking for someone for a Ops role at Overleaf to modernise our operations setup. Overleaf is online LaTeX editor with over 2 million registered users that helps academics collaborate more effectively and makes LaTeX easier to work with.

We want to migrate our infastructure to Google Cloud/AWS/Docker from our current setup which based around Chef-server running on Linode. The technologies we currently use and will still need support before any migration include Ubuntu, Redis, MongoDB, Haproxy, Nginx, Node.js, Jenkins and Docker.

The job will involve responsibilities like:

* Modifying our Node.js services to work with different architectures as they evolve.

* Improving our auto-scaling solutions for our LaTeX compiling backend

* Management & maintenance of our infrastructure, including designing redundant architecture, and upgrades & security patches of services.

* Improving our CI and deployment process

* Testing and improving our backup & backup verification process, and emergency procedures.

* Keeping our emergency monitoring services tested and up to date

* Improving and automating the Docker build process of our open source and onsite package

* Being on call to deal with out of hours emergencies

Some reasons you'd enjoy working for us:

* Around 80% of our codebase is open-source and we’re big fans of Free Software.

* We’re agile (with a lower case a). We test everything (unit and acceptance), we have a CI build process, a full staging environment to play with, and we automate as much as possible.

* Working hours can be flexible to your needs.

* Remote is a first class citizen, all founders and employees work remotely. We get everyone together in London every few months for valuable face to face time.

Send us an email: jobs@overleaf.com
Your counterpoint example to the proposition that text is hard to mess up is... a picture?

Edit: or have I completely missed the point of what you're saying!
Amazon Flex has been around and growing. It's Uber but the drivers have packages instead of people. It will not be difficult for them launch Uber like services.
Why would someone from a large publicly traded company panic? Shares already are taxed upon vest there.
Visualizing classifier thresholds
https://islevel3down.com/
It's not just the discovery problem; for a multiplayer game like Battlefront, there's value in the concentration of players. You want to have full servers, friends that also play it, etc.

As a W:ET fan that still occasionally fires up the game, I can tell you that it's no fun seeing a desolate server list, filled only with bots.
A "global load balancer" is not that simple. You can run multiple servers with a single anycast IP, but that will cause problems for 99% of non-UDP traffic.

Anycast DNS is one way of pushing local traffic to local servers, but the only thing "load-balanced" is the DNS server itself, not your app. Your app is just geographically routed.

If you want true global load balancing, you're beginning to talk about something like WAN optimization and running your own network fabric. If you get to that point, you're probably better off rolling your own than using AWS anyway.