skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why I think that interview challenges should be "easy". E.g. something like "Make a number guessing game."

1. It's easy enough so you can talk and explain while solving it.

2. It can show your ability to split problems into smaller subproblems.

3. It maybe filters people that just memorize a bunch of solutions, since it's open how exactly you solve it.
Without a corpus, the training will "teach" the computer that an English word will always be followed by another English word.
That is a very good point!

I remember reading an article by Courtney Love, where she explained how her band got a record contract worth $ 1,000,000 and ended up owing money to the record company which happily billed the band for things like renting a record studio or making a music video. In other words, things that one would consider a record company's job.

There are models for supporting artists directly, like bandcamp. There is something like Kickstarter for musicians where people can participate in financing an album. I vaguely remember Younger Brother using it for their third album.

So there is a glimmer of hope, at least for music. I don't think crowdsourcing would work very well for movies, at least not for 100-million-dollar blockbusters (then again, one could argue, that a bigger budget does not necessarily make for a better movie; maybe it even makes it harder, because now you have to appeal to a wider audience).
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In all fairness though, I don't have good reasons to believe most of consensus science other than appeals to authoritative sources.

It gets me wondering how I could emperically test the things I supposedly know.
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If the Go compiler can't tell anything about the length of storage of a slice, it'll end up in heap. The stack is usually only used when escape analysis determines that the value does not survive the function call, atleast IIRC.

Slices should be capable of being partially deallocate so long as the backing arrays are not referenced anymore.
I think a lot of fathers-to-be imagine their newborns spending most of the time sleeping, leaving lots of time for work/learning/whatever. In reality, it's rather unlikely you'll be getting more than a few hours sleep yourself!
lol, I always had the impression RDS was the AWS Redis :D
That's why he can ask if he doesn't know what we expect. Silence is the worst option - we're there to form an impression on you (an accurate one, hopefully) - if you just sit there silently, it won't help us.

(I actually ask the candidate to talk us through his thinking process if I see him sitting there; I start asking questions if he still refuses. I realize that it's an artificial setting, where many people feel pressure to "perform well" rather than just be themselves; unfortunately, I have found no better solution to hiring, that would make the interview unnecessary in all situations)
But I thought the Trump tax plan was going screw the middle class.

From just a glance at the chart, though:

1. More are receiving a tax cut than a tax increase.

2. Those receiving an actual increase are highly concentrated near the $0 amount, which means the increase is minimal.

3. The tax cuts definitely begin phasing out as income goes up (about $80K), which is exactly what a true, progressive, middle class tax cut would show.

So if this can get rid of a lot of loopholes and complexity, I'm not seeing why liberals are throwing such a fit, at least on the portion related to the middle class. Those parts of the plan that may or may not (we'll see) end up being massive give-aways to the 1% and wealthier are a whole different topic.
Contract calls are executed by all the nodes in the network.

And they will all update the contract state onto their own blockchain then broadcast the result and compete via proof of work.
noone here knows, but I am :D

joking aside; in light of the text, I could imagine one dog defending a turf against intruding dogs would be a huge driver to their adoption.
Can you script iTerm? I usually set up tmux scripts that start a workspace for a project. Splits are set up, a compilation run is started, vim is started with the right files for the project, things like that. Then I can just my_project/start_work.sh and everything is set up the way I like it.
Depending on the country, civil law notaries are generally a protected profession to protect some of the interests of the state. They are civil servants but run their own private practices.

Quite an interesting profession, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_notary
Flash symbols accidentally leaked (see the docs.Google.com links)
>. In comparison, GPU's have many cores (thousands) that are comparatively dumber, but that's fine because we use GPU's when we want to run lots of simple operations in parallel, like image processing, etc.

They don't have that many cores. Look at AMD's Vega 64. It's right in the name. It has 64 cores. Each core is very dumb but also very big with 64 ALUs.
Good job, congrats! I'm interested to hel out for sure. Would need some time to go thru the features though. First few quick comments:

I've loved using Eventbrite and it has some really nice additional features that you could benchmark (event picture, paid ticket/ donation option for scaling the business and getting some money in, showing remaining tickets for public if wanted, automatic (scheduled) email announcements for community subsribers (before event, launchign event, after event, etc.).

Also streamlining the sponsorship process would be helpful. Often times sponsors don't remember to accept the offers etc. and we are forced to send emails back and forth.

Connecting to SoMe accounts/ Slack and sharing event info from the platform.

Last but not least, making it possible for same sponsor to be added in multiple cities.

We've realized that companies in Tampere are willing to pay a bit extra if we just ask them for some organizing fee. To include that into the sponsorship process would be really nice. Would require more specs for sure.

Thanks!
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I knew that DynamoDB is a noSQL DB, I thought with the noSQL hype and everyone doing MongoDB/RethinkDB back-ends now, they would simply say "In the cloud you have to use this and that's it"

RDS somehow sounded like the Redis service of AWS, hehe.
I think I remember it was in a pixelshader language.
Rapid succession button clicking usually combines many different tests:

- Performance

- Usability

- Brute-force capabilities

- Error handling

- And in this case, Security, a bug where trying to log in a couple of times on the Login screen with an empty, or set, password.

A test scenario closer to this would be:

---

When I am on the login screen

And I enter 'root' in the 'Username' field

And I enter 'thispasswordisfalse' in the 'Password' field

And I press the 'Login' button '10' times

Then I should see the text 'Your password is invalid'

---

Please note that this issue is not just in the Settings page, it takes place on the login screen as well, that's why I'm shocked, it's such a core functionality, touching so many system components.
Depends what you're testing for. If I'm testing for problem-solving skills, I will pick increasingly harder problems, until you can't solve them. I will judge you on how well you performed on the one you couldn't solve.
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So it's clear that for military applications, a lot is hidden for security purposes... and also in general for industry because at the end of the day it is more the "how you actually do it" than "knowing how to do it which is important".

I was mostly thinking of this because of Elon Musk's comment "having the exposure to the latest AI improvements, i'm very worried".

How far do you think some AI guys can go without the general public can know ? Do you think compagnies like deepmind / openai are showing off only like 10% of what they are actually able to do while being way ahead, like "just enough" to get the best researchers apply ... ?
"Alexa, play I'm going crazy"

"Sorry. Turning off".
They added some preview support for CosmosDB recently to Azure Storage Explorer.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/storage-explorer/

But I haven't used it with CosmosDB yet.
Biggest issue with everything on AWS or GCP is still the bandwidth costs... $0.09 down to $0.05 per GB just kills most live production service use cases.
Nah, there are still just 21 million bitcoin. Nice try though.
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Your explanation is not supported by the data.

Firstly, the headline figure is that parents are spending twice as much time with their children, so this isn't simply a case of family time being squeezed by time spent at working.

Secondly, the average number of hours worked has been stable or slightly declining, with all but the most highly educated men seeing a reduction in working hours. Reductions in the amount of non-market work (shopping, household chores etc) mean that there has been a substantial increase in the amount of discretionary leisure time enjoyed by the average American. More women are participating in the labor market, but labor market participants of both genders enjoy significantly more leisure time.

Most Americans have more free time than ever before and are choosing to spend more of it with their children. The one exception is amongst the most highly educated, which (given the demographics of HN) may be why this fact jars with your personal experience.

https://www.bostonfed.org/economic/wp/wp2006/wp0602.pdf
My root pw passwordLastSetTime says this morning.. the fuck??
I think there is still room for facebook like sites. Just stay with your plan and dont sell it.
Holding off on updating is a great strategy but for how long will we have the choice? Forced updates are slowly creeping into MacOS after MS has led the way with Windows.
I've posted this excellent short film about the last night of hot metal printing at the New York Times a few times here, but it never got any traction:

https://vimeo.com/127605643
I don't know how many times I've written that kind of test, but I'd bet I can count them in base-10 with just my fingers.
>that should be rarer than one in a trillion.

You're assuming that the tail of the statistics behaves like in normal distribution. In practice this is incorrect (see "black swan theory").

Various sports that employ statistics (cricket, baseball, etc.) sometimes have a single player who strays from bell curve in a ridiculous way. For example Don Bradman's batting average in cricket [1].

[1] https://www.statslife.org.uk/sports/1989-did-don-bradman-s-c...
Charging the batteries in parallel is the correct explanation for why the truck’s recharge speeds are possible.
Why are those interview questions mostly random algorithms?

Wouldn't it be more sensible to ask for design patterns? At least you can use them in real life.

Or refactoring patterns. Like give them a page of shitty code and ask them to make it nice.

Forcing people to memorize obscure algorithms and solve them on a whiteboard seems like the worst possible solution. Unless you are really looking for some expert on algorithms.
When writing code it's a much better idea to write according to https://url.spec.whatwg.org/
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> A full-cell incorporating graphene balls increases the volumetric energy density by 27.6% compared to a control cell without graphene balls, showing the possibility of achieving 800 Wh L−1 in a commercial cell setting, along with a high cyclability of 78.6% capacity retention after 500 cycles at 5C and 60 °C.

Does that mean 5C Charge rate and > 5C Discharge? Because in the EV Market 5C discharge would be borderline enough (I think Teslas 18650 discharge at a peak of 20A per ~3,5Ah Cell so 5C Discharge would be cutting it very close.)

If it's 5C Charge and getting to 500 cycles with higher discharge then...woah.
But that is an overhead you would face regardless of the database engine. Or did I miss something?
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As far as I can tell, "dsenableroot -d" seems to have no useful effect. After having "* Successfully disabled root user." with it, I can still log in to the root account with the password I set, both at the command line with "login" and from a remote machine via screen sharing.

To be flippant, I might say HN discussions seem to QA using Apple methods.
Sure, but that doesn't make features like this automatically bad -- it's a tradeoff between completely local understanding and extra specificity that may or may not be helpful. For example, most languages will implicitly choose a meaning for "+" (integer addition, floating-point addition, etc.) based on the types involved. That's usually a better choice than making the programmer write (and read) a more specific form like "Float.+" or "Int.+".
OK, I guess when doing OP's root trick, the root user gets activated/created, and that's that's when the PW gets set to empty. I guess that's where my passwordLastSetTime comes from.
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bootleg markets all around shkwed that years before broad-band, I believe.
Ahh the links weren’t on the first page of the HN comments when I posted. They are now. I didn’t click more. :)
They're not complaining, they are pointing out that this is a bunch of work that Palemoon's authors need to do, just to be no worse than Firefox. Work there isn't much evidence of them doing.
In my opinion that's not a great reason for not trying clojure (although it may be a great reason for not using clojure). Then again, if all you do is native work, then clojure is likely a bad fit in its current form.
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I see a lot of comments here wondering why Apple seems to not care about software quality anymore. I don’t know if that’s true, but there’s a perfectly obvious answer: They don’t have to.

Software quality in macOS was important back when they were trying to get people to switch from Windows-based PCs to Macs. Nowadays, most people who were going to switch have already switched, so Apple has no incentive to keep up the same level of software quality anymore. They just have to keep people locked into their ecosystem (with iPhone etc.) enough that the barrier to switch out again is high enough.

There is no reason for Apple to improve macOS, since doing so won’t make anyone switch to Macs who hasn’t already switched, and not improving macOS won’t make anyone upset enough to switch back. Ergo, Apple leaves macOS to stagnate, and they will keep macOS at this bad-but-not-horrible-enough-to-switch level for the foreseeable future.

That’s my theory, anyway.
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Guess what has to happen to maintain or increase value transfer when you have reached a limit on blocksize.

Ding ding ding! You guessed it!

The price must rise. The utility has not degraded and just looking at 'number of transactions' is not useful. Just because I can move some arbitrary number of units in a given timeframe does not mean my unit is more valuable. Banks can move way more than 600k USD transfers in a day.
Got any pointers on getting into your line of business (e.g. as a business consultant)? What are the big problems you deal with in this space? I really see chatbots as disruptive for customer service, especially for power users, if implemented in the right way.
No, that's a hack. And it opens new attacks, like on the hashing algorithm and poor randomness or predictability in the generation logic.
> Beats grepping header files IMO.

who greps header files in 2017 (or even 2010) ? just fuzzy search a few characters that more or less looks like what you want in your IDE's search box.
It's an argument from absurdity. Nobody would say Android isn't Google's project, even though it wasn't started by Google, and wasn't written exclusively by Google employees.

Same applies to LLVM. The only reason it might not seem a fair comparison is that Apple has run LLVM as a truly open source endeavour, whereas Android (which marketed itself to geeks as the more open platform) has, as you rightly point out, been run as a closed-source project with occasional begrudging nods to its ever-shrinking open source subset.
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While your theory is interesting, if deeply cynical, the thing I find most interesting is that it's the top comment on an 800+ comment discussion when it was less than a minute old. Do new comments start at the top? I've never noticed that before.

Edit: By the way, regarding the vulnerability, ANY password you use when you first attempt to login as root BECOMES root's new password. (Blank is a red herring.)

So if you're going to test this, maybe use something non-obvious. In a terminal, setting a strong password for root with "sudo passwd" is the quickest mitigation.

Ill-advised, but in a pinch, you can apparently 'secure' a machine you don't otherwise have access to by attempting to log in as root with a long random password you fail to remember. An admin on that machine can later change root's password with a "sudo passwd".

Also, it appears the "dseneableroot -d" command suggested elsewhere here fails in preventing root login.
>if passwd is a lone asterisk, then you haven't been exploited.

At the risk of sounding a bit pedantic you can't really assume that, it's possible that somebody used this vulnerability, installed some sort of backdoor and then disabled the account to hide their tracks.
Surely they havent used up the pool of people that might/want switch to macOS. How can anyone make even such statement?
> Rust references 1) are first-class

what makes them more first-class than C++ references ? eg in C++ given a type T, you can use `std::add_lvalue_reference<T>`, `std::remove_reference<T>`, overload on references, check if a type is a reference to another...
Lots of native English speakers write ‘baby’ without an article.
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As a native speaker of a Slavic language I can confirm that articles are something that I often seem to be getting wrong when I am writing (and speaking) English.

They seem like an unneeded extra, from the perspective of Slavic languages, where the information that they give is most often easily inferred from the context or the construction of the sentence.
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I wonder how they can ever expect a system like this to scale given that every node has to execute every instruction in every called smart contract...
I believe the "we just need a better compiler" thing has been tried with e.g. Itanium and turned out to be harder than expected.
Of course, we're all here to help each other! Good luck!
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> if the reference escapes the function

The difficulty is knowing when that happens, and you're probably guessing wrong (the -m gcflag will tell you).

Furthermore fitting Go's theme the escape analysis is pretty simplistic, so there are many cases where it will somewhat unexpectedly assume escape (note: link is from 1.15, some have been fixed since like the …arg one or the slice assignment): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CxgUBPlx9iJzkz9JWkb6tIpT...
Whilst APFS is an improvement and I fondly remember using BeOS back in the day, I am not sure APFS is that impressive feature-wise compared to NTFS. It's still miles behind NTFS, which is now ancient.
Forbade to not upgrade? So, forcefully install?
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Absolutely, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. He crafts a beautiful story.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand was a long one, but very very good also.

Lastly, The Empire of Austria: Its Rise and Present Power by John S. C. Abbott. It gave me a deeper understanding and historical context on where I am currently based.
The problem is that you can't just solve the hard problems (e.g. those from hackerrack) like that by just thinking about it for some time (it would probably need hours or days of research).

You just have to learn and remember some obscure algorithm to solve them.
That just filter for "unexperienced" people that have enough time to actually learn a lot of algorithms by heart.

I.e. that would be fresh graduates. But then you could just look at their uni grades, if you want people who are good at learning.
I think new comments do get a slight boost initially. But I also think people are venting their frustrations at the very noticeable decline in software quality from Apple over the last 3 years.
The higher the poster's karma, the higher her comment will be upon posting. This user has almost 6k karma, so it can rise high. Once the comment is at the top for a minute or so, it can stay there if enough people keep upvoting it.

Try it and post a top level comment now. I'm pretty sure it won't be at the top initially because you don't have enough karma for that.
There's a few other comments in here talking about their own experiences, so I'll add mine as well. I'm working on a bootstrapped startup called FormAPI: https://formapi.io

I launched about a month ago, and my MRR is 3 figures. Here's a few of the marketing ideas I've tried.

* I spent around $100 on AdWords, but didn't get any conversions. I think my ad was pretty good, but my theory is that most of my target audience are using ad-blockers.

* I started a blog, and wrote a post about Rails/React development [1]. It was included in the Ruby Weekly newsletter, which was great, although it didn't get too many views (< 1,000). The blog post doesn't mention an author, so they used "FORMAPI BLOG" as the subtitle. This was a nice surprise, since sponsored links are very expensive. (I'm booking a sponsored link for early next year.)

* I ran a "Bitcoin Treasure Hunt" [2] with a few programming challenges. I had a good spike of about 60,000 views, so some programmers might remember the service next time they need to generate PDFs. I couldn't get any attention on Reddit or Hacker News, but maybe I'll have better luck next time.

I learned a lot from this experience, so the next one will be much more interesting, and it won't have any ambiguities or mistakes. It will be less of a "scavenger hunt", and will have more fun challenges with algorithms and logic puzzles. (There's a signup form at the bottom of the post, if you're interested.)

* I paid for a short marketing consultation with someone who has a lot of relevant experience. They've been really awesome, and have provided a lot of great advice that I'll be implementing soon. Lots of things to improve around pricing, SEO, UX, social, PR, etc.

The initial launch went pretty well on HN and Product Hunt, but that traffic has died down, so now I've just got to put in consistent work over the next few years.

[1] https://formapi.io/blog/posts/json-patch-with-rails-5-and-re...

[2] https://formapi.io/blog/posts/bitcoin-treasure-hunt/
Yes new comments get a bit of time near the top. The amount of time varies based on the amount and quality of other comments.
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Top 10 software blunders of all time:

1) (Apple) 1 + 2 + 3 = 24
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15538666

2) (Apple) Blank root password
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15800676

3) ...
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About half of the recyclable garbage is still burned along with the regular garbage, because it burns better.

Profit is, after all, more important than the environment. The garbage companies in Germany make somewhere between 50 and 100 billion per year.