skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check mate.
And i think thats perfectly normal. People basically demanding free public services and the operator of that service can't log anything.. thats what i have problems with :)
Fully agreed, though optimization is something that should come later. Otherwise, folks will spend too much time making a really tight loop that isn't actually run in a loop. :)

I also agree that folks should try to avoid poor habits. However, I'll note that even Knuth uses brute force for some parts of his programs. Quoting, "Brute force is the rule in this part of the program."[1] Sometimes, it really isn't the bottleneck. :)

[1] http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs/dance.w
"This is going to be one of the most embarassing chapters of world history in a few centuries."

And it won't be that far from archaeologists being prevented to decipher any ancient language. If today's copyright laws existed in historic times we wouldn't have precious documents copied by monks nor the Rosetta Stone.
It's just dumb crazy how this works.
|There is a ton of interesting work in the finance sector.

I agree.. and I'd probably recommend any friends who were planning on moving to Chicago to focus on that area as there are a ton of really good financial companies.
SoftBank Value Fund goes full circle by investing $25B in Saudi
Yes! I'm very excited to see what the CSS landscape will evolve into over the course of 2018. I'm consistently encouraged by the creativity of the open source community.
What's weird is they don't even test knowledge of the theory or operation of data structures, just if you can puke a few classic ones on a whiteboard.

Honestly, I think they've optimized on simply hosting an ordeal and selecting for any employee capable of performing the feats, even if they're unrelated to the job. It selects for employees willing to put in work and take a lot of shit, which is what big corps want.
What he actually says, and the implications of the headlines and comments snipped by third party organizations tend to be quite different indeed!

This is because Pai’s comments are made in bad faith.

https://gizmodo.com/the-worst-lies-from-yesterdays-anti-net-...
Anyone downvoting this instantly correctly doesn't see any value in a post making a lot of allegations without any evidence. The "lol f u" attitude makes it easier to click the down arrow without attempting to engage someone who appears close-minded and lacking an ability to engage in civil discourse.
No. I think your logic may be off. If I say all A have property B this does not imply that no other type of object can have property B. For instance, it is true that all living men have cells that reproduce. But men aren’t the only living humans with this property.

Also it’s clearly just meant to be a witty statement and not to be taken as a formal definition.
I completely agree with you. As a long time Mac user I remember how Macs would delight you with the details. The thoughtfulness that went into making your life easier, to facilitate getting your work done.

With this latest generation of MacBooks, it seems that you have to constantly struggle to adapt to them, not the other way. You need to bring dongles to connect peripherals, the charger no longer has MagSafe and the LED that used to tell you when it was charging and when it was fully charged, etc.
Right, so if we downvote (literally censor) comments based on style and not content, but we also do it anonymously, it's all good, right?
I'm sorry these people lost their homes, but it does seem pretty straightforward that if you build in a flood plane your home might flood. If there is any failure here it's that they weren't given adequate warning before they flooded the neighborhoods. It sounds like they announced it for the next morning but because of the pace of the water rising they had to blow it over night instead. That's something you start announcing over loudspeakers if you have to at that point.

The other issue I see is that for some reason Houston didn't require all of these people to have flood insurance. I feel like if you live in an area that gets hit with Hurricanes flood insurance should be a requirement period. This would all be a moot point if these people were adequately covered by insurance
Soon 1 Password will be a pay2win model, micro-transactions for filling in the password online. a second vault? that'll be 2.99 please
Amazon EC2 F1 Instances Are Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US)
Only if gov't didn't apply environmental regulations when they should've.
We've all faced rejection
I definitely agree with you and this particular dark road is best left untraveled.

It would be really great to get more data behind what is mostly anecdotal evidence. Also getting data from across the US and other countries would be very useful in understanding this better. Without the data it is too easy to go down the dark path.
I can agree with Jonathan Blow's responses in so far that you should be able to invert a binary tree in an interview if that's the sort of knowledge you need on-call on the job and there's somehow no room for rustiness because it's some sort of high stress environment that needs immediate results (btw that doesn't describe jobs at Google).

But then he reveals that he's completely full of himself when he suggests that "sorry, you're not a good programmer then."
The issue has nothing to do with file formats, but work flow. Use different tools to use with the file format. I would personally use every cli program I can get my hands on and just convert them on my machine.

Personally I just make scripts and view the output file to check for quality. I use ImageMagick mostly but Gimp and Inkscape also have command line interface.

Gimp - https://www.gimp.org/man/gimp.html

Inkscape - https://inkscape.org/sk/doc/inkscape-man.html
In "Windows Update Settings" there's a "Update History" link which lists all recent updates. For the one that was failing it was listed every day.

This had been going on for months too.

I think that's my biggest beef with Windows 10, you're not supposed to muck around with the scheduler running tasks when idle or the updates, but it's so brittle that when it fails it does really stupid things without telling you.
Pushing human-identification capable software and libraries everywhere is starting to get pretty creepy...
One -27F January day, I looked at my wife and said, “this is America, and we don’t have to live like this.” So we moved to North Carolina, then eventually got a gig with Microsoft. Haven’t worked at Microsoft in twelve years, but Seattle area suits us so we never left.

Also I can empathize why people are against Tesla, it's just the general mindset in the midwest when it comes to new technologies.

More than just the politics are conservative. :-)
How to prototype a photo sharing app
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Don't accuse others of astroturfing or shillage.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
They can't be forced depending upon your definition of whether a company has a nexus in your state (Quill vs. US):

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/91-0194.ZO.html

Amazon got pressured to collect in some states by those states considering Associates and other programs to constitute a nexus.

Note that in most (all?) states [that have a sales tax] the buyers supposedly have to pay sales/use taxes anyway. The debate is whether Amazon has to collect those taxes on behalf of the state.
This is what I’m referring to. Your sickening, the the other media outlets critical of CKs response is lost energy that could otherwise better be used against the problem.

You assume discussions are driven by who to focus on, when they are driven by understanding and figuring out the best way forward for healing and justice weighing all variables.

It’s natual to be angry, there’s nothing wrong with it, please carry on with doing it. However I’m asking we separate that anger from discussions of any lessons, priories, strategies, conclusions we can learn from any of this if it has a chance of improving perspective in the long run.

Critical analysis is different from grieving and empathy, and very hard to mix. I’m sure I probably couldn’t separate them if I were a victim or someone close to me was.
No it isn't.

I can forgive the extremely contrived decks, but using a card to completely change the behavior of the majority of your cards doesn't mean the game itself is Turing complete. If anything, this is just showing how you can utilize Magic game mechanics to create a Turing Machine.
I suspect if he continues in 'Adtech' he will find opportunities.
Ridesharing Has Upended the Dining and Nightlife Scenes in L.A
It’s a rare ad that starts with the product owner telling you how much he hates the product.
He acknowledges it in the article:

> I also came to the conclusion that AppyGEN didn’t really help make the world a better place like every other startup I read about. It seemed to me like it was just making the play store a worse place, helping non-developers publish hundreds of unoriginal apps that only took away from the visibility and chances of more ambitious apps.

> I was myself an app developer once and I could clearly see how my product ultimately harmed other developers. I started hating everything AppyGEN stands for, no matter how much money it continued to make for my existing customers.
Because BSD's SMP support has traditionally been pretty terrible compared to Linux's. They still have a SLAB memory allocator (compared with Linux's default of SLUB which is much better for heavily SMP systems).

Many of the vendors for HPC (I'm looking at you Mellanox) primarily develop and certify their products on Linux. While they might work on BSD ok, you're not going to get the full performance and all of the features on a BSD system. If you paid for Mellanox EDR 100G Infiniband switches and all of the fancy VPI network cards, you want to use them to the fullest performance capable. The vendor tells you to use Linux for that, you use Linux.

TL;DNR: Linux is what the hardware manufacturers overwhelmingly target and work with. HPC users use what vendors support best.
> There is an entire undeserved niche from the dialup crowd who are extremely unhappy paying more than $10 a month

A low-speed broadband plan (or even dialup) would serve those customers fine, no?

> As for caps - which do you think would sell people better: "You have full access to anything on your email" vs "You can download 500 mb of data a month"

What if those emails link to some other site on the internet? Or contain photo or video links? Does it still count as “full access” if things slow to a crawl in those cases? With email being so small anyway, how does that differ in practice from just a low speed plan? It could still be marketed as “access to everything in your email.”

> And what will happen to their service when the grand kids come over and want to watch netflix?

This question itself seems to undermine your point. What would happen in that situation, on a plan like the one you’d like to sell?
Martid Fowler (Gang of Four) on What Makes a Code Smell
I thought about word2vec as a service. I gave up because I think customers could easily cache (pirate) my data.
Does anyone have an example of one of these clone apps that has done well?

Why does this process only work in PlayStore and not IOS as well?
Which should have a corresponding increase in quantity of housing. Why that doesn't happen in some places is hard to discern, but the investments by the rich does make the economy grow.
>the game itself is Turing complete [...] you can utilize Magic game mechanics to create a Turing Machine

Aren't those two statements equivalent?
Equality of resources and status, or equality of opportunity?

Some people are worse than others. Some people are less useful to society than others, though that doesn't make them worse. Some people, given large amounts of money, can do amazing things for the world. On a whim, I can think of Elon Musk. If he weren't allowed to have his fortune from Paypal because inequality is unethical... who would have gotten that money? A government? What would they have done with that money? And why is government/the public always the best decider of how wealth is spent?

Your argument may be reasonable in degrees: Who needs $500 billion dollars? Should there be a legal requirement to invest that money in the public at a certain point, if it isn't taxed directly? I don't know. But I believe inequality is ethical and necessary.
Mozart? Beethoven? Dijkstra? Bah!

Real programmers wait for a sign from the almighty, like Bruckner, or Terry Davis.
I think it locks after an hour or two.
Bitcoin Spot Market Which CME Plans to Use for Futures Is Down
Right, so the burden of proof is on me to prove that selling on Amazon was in fact unprofitable. Would you like to see my receipts?

Or maybe you could just take my comment as an idea that sparks interest in your brain, and then you can go Google around for stories that confirm what I'm saying?

Wasn't aware that I was being held to such standards of academic rigour on this site where so many others get a free pass, if they're saying the right things that confirm HN's biases.
No one ever thinks about the mountain West/Southwest, what's our stereotype?
With star ratings, I think an important point that often gets ignored is: different people use stars in different ways. One user might 5-star most things, but give the occasional 4- or 3-star review if they have a problem. But another user might 3-star by default, and save their 4- and 5-star reviews for exceptionally good cases.

I wonder if a simple way to fix that might be to reinterpret everyone's star ratings as percentiles, based on the overall distribution of stars in their reviews. "This user gives 5 stars 10% of the time, so we'll interpret a 5-star review from them as anything in the range 90-100 -- assume 95%."

You would probably also want to reinterpret the results for each user. "This review scores average out as 84%. For user A, that's 4.5 stars, but for user B, it's only 3.5 stars."

The big downside is that star ratings become subjective. But they're already subjective, and ignoring that problem doesn't make the results any better. Average star ratings on all the big websites and app stores right now are garbage -- they'll usually warn you if some Amazon product is terrible, but that's about all.

If you crunch all the review data and figure out the best possible recommendations, you end up with collaborative filtering and the Netflix Prize. It's a shame that so much great work was done for that competition, but nobody seems to be using it now. Netflix themselves just use a trivial upvote scheme now.

But I wonder if there's some much simpler approach that still gets pretty good results.
Part of my point: most of them are complex and to a big degree unnecessarily complex.
> What Pai is saying is deal with specific bad behaviors as they arise...

You sound so sure, and you just take Pai unskeptically at his word, but is there a specific reason to think that this will actually happen? If you look at the most famous recent case of deregulation (in the financial markets), what eventually happened was that all the bad behaviours enabled by deregulation just continued without any regulatory action until the whole thing blew up. That's no model for governance.

If there isn't a specific reason (like a plan with some details, so that it's actionable), then it's also quite reasonable to think it's a bit of an excuse, intended to give cover, and a fairly transparent one at that.
> How do you individually address an issue where the hiring manager is making a generic decision based on age unrelated to your individual performance (especially in hiring where they have no idea how many hours you personally work)?

There isn't evidence of this, but even if you believed that were the case, you combat it the same way you would any other weak point of your value proposition. You address it head on in a tactful way that resolves those concerns without having to be asked explicitly.

That could include interest and experience in an emerging tool or architecture (combats stereotype that skillset is outdated), casual commentary on the latest Game of Thrones or Silicon Valley season (combats stereotype of bad cultural fit), or a true passion in solving the problems the company sets out to solve (combats stereotype of clock-in clock-out worker). It could also include adjusting your salary expectations more in-line with what your competition is expecting (if necessary).

The possibility that ageism is not the only cause cannot be simply ignored.
>Spending a massive amount of time on getting it “just right” will most likely teach you that you’ve developed the perfect solution to a problem no one cares about.

And this is the reason a RDBMS is totally better. You NOT need to "spend a massive amount of time". With this:

1- You get a totally proven and mature tech
2- With massive tolling support and documentation
3- With the capabilities to model even most NoSql structures.
4- With a query engine that will outperform most developers. And more flexible that most NoSql give
5- With enough scalability that you will ever need for your MVP and beyond
6- And with the ability to plug specialized storage like column stores, time stores and more without complicating your code duplicating efforts.

---

P.D: I have been part of several projects that drink the NoSql koolaid, and be part of the weeks-long coding efforts that could be summarized as:

"This could have been a one line sql code/or index ..."

My last one, rebuilding core aspects of a RDBMS and still building features... dedicating large part of dev time is really "Spending a massive amount of time on getting it “just right”"
Professors Take Out Ads Protesting Their Own University’s Online Degree Programs
ING publishes Ethereum compatible ZKRP implementation
> An anonymous action cannot possibly be signaling of any kind. Words mean things.

What meaning are you ascribing to "signal"? According to a few common ones[1]:

1) two anonymous parties can exchange meaningful signals about each other or a third party thing,

2) one party can receive, either directly or via observation/interception, a meaningful signal from a group of anonymous parties exchanging signals in any permutation or combination between them.

An anonymous consensus reflexively contributes a signal; if it did not, various forms of cryptography would not be possible.

As a meta point, being pedantic only works if you do it correctly. Otherwise it lowers the signal to noise ratio of a forum :)

____________

1. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/signal
Yeah I know the rule, I've been here too long to not know it.

"Please don't comment on our biased censorship. It might expose our scheme."
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Berlusconi, Italy. Not kidding.
The part the I think was closest to the truth is that the Midwest does not have a strong collective culture like the East, South, West, or Southwest. They are much more likely to identify as part of their state or city more than the Midwest as a whole.
We're having similar problems at work regarding the headphones. You just have to remove them and plug them in (sometimes twice) before they work after a restart. This problem is present on both Lenovo and Dell laptops and in both cases with Windows 7.
I've been using vis as my primary editor for six months, and I'm quite happy with it. (I'm a long time vim user.)

Main selling points for me:

- Simple editor, easy to learn, with a ~650 line man page as the documentation

- Simple, yet has the most useful features from the great vim and sam editors

- No feature bloat - unlike vim

- No vimscript (lua instead)

- Readable and hackable codebase - unlike vim

- Structural regular expressions

For now the unavailable features that I miss the most are tag browsing and code folding. I don't miss them very much in sufficiently clean and modular codebases, but they are indispensable when analyzing large, complex, or badly written code. I switch to vim when that is the case. I should say that their implementation is considered though:

https://github.com/martanne/vis/issues/547

https://github.com/martanne/vis/issues/342

vis is highly recommended to anybody looking for a better vim and appreciate & know how to use vim without a gazillion of plugins.
Clearly not. In fact, I went out of my way to say as much in my comment (in anticipation of responses like this one). But I guess there's almost nothing you can say to prevent this response (which is unfortunate, because it's a significant impediment to productive discussion).
Gottlob Frege: The machine in the ghost
I'm objecting to your bastardization of the English language. "Virtue signaling" doesn't mean "something I don't like". It has a specific meaning that comes out of behavioral economics. It's a quite interesting concept actually. Unfortunately it is the process of being taken by people like you and turned into a contentless insult to fling at people. That's a destruction of the richness of our linguistic commons and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for doing so.

The down-voters and rightness or wrongness of their actions are a separate matter.
If you already own housing it makes a lot of sense to block new development.
It's an issue when two people try to write something at the same time and one of them gets a crash because acquiring the lock failed.
But Ubuntu doesn't say that they use Ubuntu as "... an ideal incubator and proving ground for features."

I use to use Fedora Core and then up to Fedora 7. I got burned way to many times and view Fedora as a slight step up from Arch Linux as a working distro. Both Fedora and Arch are more "hobbyist" distros and I will not use them in a professional work flow. I use OpenSUSE and I find their model to be the best of Distros and haven't ever got burned by them. OUTSIDE of 2001 when I was installing SUSE and wiped my partitions because I didn't know what I was doing :)
Not surprising considering the author admits to creating malware in the first paragraph.
It's probably a combination. Truckers often live in small towns because it's cheap and has a culture they like. Multigenerational rural families often have plenty of farmland and a large positive net worth. There's still some manufacturing jobs in many of these areas, though most places are still continuing to decay due to outsourcing and globalization.

edit: I'm shocked I'm getting downvoted for this. For those unaware, globalization and outsourcing has undeniably had a massive, negative impact on the midwest: http://chicagopolicyreview.org/2012/04/09/the-global-midwest...
When you say "brogrammer" it makes people not want to read the rest of your comment. Please be civil on HN and in general in the world.
(397) SOLAR – Minds
This appears to be what powers the basic face detection in the Vision framework, not what powers Face ID: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision

It is not capable of identifying individual people, just recognizing faces and facial features in an image. Still quite useful for things like Snapchat's masks.
Some Minor Security Quirks in Firefox
Hi there,
I'm the guy who wrote the story.

I agree with what you said, and yes that is why I hate the tool. That was the point of the write up.

I did not want to post this on hacker news, but seems like someone did.

Edit : Our users do not spam the play store with fake icons though, they just make unoriginal apps based on templates ( Wallpapers, stuff like that ).
And in Missouri we have New Madrid ("New MAD-rid") and Versailles ("Ver-SAILS") among several other similar re-pronunciations.

Many locals pronounce Johnny Carson's teenage hometown Norfolk, Nebraska as "Norfork."

I don't think it comes from ignorance though (and I'm not saying you're saying it does) but instead just a way of taking local ownership.