skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Before we reduce this to a slippery slope, what scenario do you envision in which FB could coax its userbase to upload nude photos? I know the OP is about taking a selfie to prove existence. What would FB use as the basis to mandate the general user to send a self-nude?

Phishing attacks against users that this feature is supposed to protect are more likely to succeed.
Check src/{main, lib}.rs for any !#[feature] flags.
Converting mass to energy does not violate conservation of mass. But if anybody on the planet managed to convert a pound of mass into energy, we'd hear about it pretty quickly - it's roughly as much energy as a Castle Bravo thermonuclear weapon released. But chemical reactions of course do not involve any significant change of mass, too low energy levels.
> Unfortunately the CS trivia is necessary.

No, it isn't.

If you interview at NASA, the CS questions being asked better damn well not be trivia.
I'd pay reasonable (to me) 15% recruitment fee for a guaranteed job offer within 2-4 weeks.
Worst case you can post the website just as a normal link, without the Show HN.

Re actual project: this seems like a valuable thing to do... but your target audience, the people who aren't Internet savvy, aren't likely to find it on their own. So maybe the site is more of a reference at this point, and start by pointing people to it in person? E.g. teach a free class, and then point people at this when you're done.

Our local library has Internet access (wifi, and computers for people without computers), and community rooms you can get for free; perhaps your local library would be a good place as well.
> achieve rich UI elements for emacs

Are you saying emacs is not customizable enough?
I worked on a growth team so I confirm that you need data, but you can do a lot with agregate data. For example, you can run a campaign and see how that influences high-level metrics like total pagelands (using some kind of first-touch attribution model) and stuff like that. You don't always need individual user data points.
I’m not OP, but I like Monero. However any question like this is likely to get brigaded with everyone’s favorite bag to hold^W^W^W currency.
Outside counsel lawyers, perhaps.

Staff attorneys / in-house counsel are generally salaried and work as described above.
Yes, numba is great; I've had a good experience with it for some functions.

Some problems aren't suited well for it though, especially those that involve Python dictionaries or sets. For those problems, switching to C++ results in MUCH faster code (std::unordered_map is way faster than Python's dict, especially for small elements).
They can. Also, MPLS circuits exist.
He didn't say that the rich automatically get privacy and the poor don't. He said that the rich can afford privacy. The poor cannot afford it even if they desire it.

I've long since resigned myself to the fact that getting privacy is a struggle and costs money, and most people won't bother.
Who said you have to be inside the office? It's totally plausible to work remotely. Reading your emails is working.

Who about on call? You can be called repeatedly in the middle of the night, every night.

I've seen people being abused to work on days, nights and week end. It's doable.
You subsidize them then. Mining isn't free. Running a node isn't free. Bitcoin was never about being cheap, it's about protecting your purchasing power.
Not impossible, I do it in the book. I write both macro definitions and namespace declarations to file during compile time! :-)
This is why it should take more than 24 hours to put out a patch for an operating system.
Thank Vlaada and CGE! I can't believe that they gave me permission to play with their toys. This is what it looks like when a company/creator responds with great kindness when confronted with a fan project!
Nasa timelapse paints 'most complete picture of life' to date
Vesting Schedule after working with the company for X months months:

12: 5%
24: 15%
30: 20%
36: 20%
42: 20%
48: 20%

They give cash signing bonuses for the first 2 years while RSU vesting catches up. SDE1 gets a lump sum with prorated clawback, SDE2 and up gets monthly installments and no clawback. The year 1 signing bonus is slightly larger than the year 2 signing bonus. The larger RSU vest in year 2 more than makes up for this. With this structure target total comp rises 5-20% per year.

Base salary is capped at $160k in most locations, $180k in ultra-high COL areas like San Francisco and New York City.

Source: I work at Amazon
Well, no, you can't create information that doesn't exist. They don't have any better source to match against your blonde-hair picture than their imagination. The novelty here is that they may outsource that imagination to the machine now.
Ah, the usual exceptionalism of commenters on HN. All leaders in their field of work apparently..

Being more serious for a minute, can you explain why you think like that? With data, not anecdotes.
The usual reason for using an RTOS on small embedded controllers is that a full OS is way too big to fit on such small CPUs (eg. 64K of RAM and 256K of FLASH is common). FreeRTOS is tiny - it only uses a few KB of FLASH. Non real time OSes also don't provide the timing guarantees that are often required in those kinds of applications.
There are liquidation limits on the exchanges. I think Coinbase limits to $10k USD in exchange for your Bitcoins. You can get increases by providing additional identity verification. IRS is way up in Coinbase’s business since this is essentially a huge potential avenue for laundering and tax evasion.
What do you mean? That is literally the job of QA. Even the worst QAs I've worked with test every input field into oblivion.
The main reason we don't have them is that people don't want them. Autopilots date back to 1912 (yep, you read that right) and the first flight off an aircraft controlled 100% by autopilot happened in 1947. US Navy carriers and aircraft have been capable of automatic landings since the 1960s. IIRC today most larger airliners have autopilots capable of handling the entire flight after take off (they don't bother to include auto takeoff, because no one uses it).

Aircraft are downright trivial to automate compared to cars, at least until something goes wrong. The vast majority of the time a car can drop into a fairly reasonable failsafe mode of "steer straight and apply brakes." Aircraft, not so much.
Properties that don't abut wealthy people's properties are auctioned off for unpaid taxes all the time, and they're never given back after the intervention of a U.S. Senator.
When the choice is between "allow public, easy, possibly remote, root access" or "maybe deal with a bit of inconvenience fixing the fix" I'll take the second one.
You call your alt whatever you like. I'll call it bcash so that it removes confusion from peoples minds that it isn't bitcoin. The only thing that alt has is a name they've stolen from bitcoin. So bcash it is.

No one cares about the fees. If they did, they'd use litecoin. Blocks 4x the speed of bcash and bitcoin, and they have segwit too, so double the capacity of bcash.
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I don't see how that relates to the point you were making. Clarify?

> Bitcoin as a currency is fairly useless unless you're buying drugs or you're a botnet operator

You claim that Bitcoin is useless. This was to justify the point you made before (nothing will settle in Bitcoin) or maybe as a cheap dig. Either way, your statement as it stands is worded to be condescending and confusing.

It's like saying "Mouthwash is fairly useless unless you don't want bad breath." Turns out, the market for people who don't want bad breath is pretty big. Calling it useless is wrong.
That's the story they love to spread, ever since the "run on the same infrastructure as amazon.com" days.
So is data, so are files, so are ledgers. Every program physically resides somewhere... Just because it's infinitesimally small and it's interface obfuscated doesn't mean it isn't real. Cue Feynman quote "the world is real and it's made of atoms!"
At a quick glance, the "absurdly fast" seems to be talking about programmer time, not cpu time.

It shows four lines of code, and compares it to ~30 lines with the comment "Even with all of that boilerplate, this still only supports x86-64 machines with SSE or AVX ... "

The closing section: "Here are some extremely unscientific benchmarks which, at least, prove that this isn’t any worse than scalar iterators." suggests the final executed code probably runs at around the same speed, but the short version is _way_ easier to write and _way_ more portable.
I probably should of been a bit clearer with the question.

Interesting example. Do you find yourself reusing checklists or are they specific to the job?
> My guess is the people who have such black and white views haven't ever been tasked with marketing a product in a true professional capacity

This is so, so true and in such a broad way. I've had this thought gnawing at me for ages that these people who are doing seemingly evil things (think James Comey, Ajit Pai) have likely been tested in ways I never have. Who knows how I would handle being in their situation? I don't think it excuses or absolves true wrongdoing, but it does give me some sympathy or at least reasonable doubt of malice. This an elementary concept, but it never seems to get mentioned.

To be clear, I'm not one of the people who categorically hates your profession. I'm an advocate of privacy, I avoid most types of social media, use uBlock, etc. But I can see it being hard to figure out where the line is, and how to not cross it. I've never worked in the consumer/media/ads world and had to face the "what to track" dilemma head-on.
> What is this going to sound like when cities have hundreds of whining cars driving around?

Car noise is a big issue.

We had to start designing cities around cars.
For those who don't know that open source speech recognition that does not depend on AI already exists:

http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/

http://julius.osdn.jp/en_index.php

Maybe with this data set released eventually all that additional data will be used to improve those tools as well
I don't disagree with your analysis, however I have been informed that there are reasons for asking things this way. At a class for booth volunteers for selling alcohol for example we were told to ask for someone's birthday rather than their age. The reasoning in that training was that someone could quickly lie about their age but they had to work at it to back compute a birth date that would fall within the range of legal drinking age and not be ridiculous for someone of their apparent youth.

I am not saying that this is a reason that everyone uses for asking these questions obliquely. I am simply sharing a situation for which I was explicitly told that was the reasoning behind asking the question in that way.
Is this useful for simulated celebrity and fanfiction porn yet? Would be very interested in that PoC.
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So here's a scheme that could be used to wildly profit in the fiat market. If you're what is considered a bitcoin "whale" holding millions worth of the currency you would just setup a short on bitcoin futures. Then you initiate a large sell from a well known whale wallet. This would trigger a large sell as stop losses are triggered. Profit then re-buy the dip.
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You just put together the clearest examples I've seen for illustrating this point. When it need to make it from now on, I'm linking to this comment :)
You aren't addressing the substance of her point.

The government is arguing that a limited record pull is okay without a warrant and she is pointing out circumstances that might coincide with the record pull and asking where the warrantless searches would stop.

They full transcript is available:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcr...
GPL is also a non-FOSS license. It says it is, but its not.

Can't wait until the GPL is a rarely used license.
For anyone interested in solving this problem in their own business—we take privacy extremely seriously at Scale API (http://www.scaleapi.com) and implement numerous safeguards operationally and technically to ensure this doesn't happen.
Monero's cool too. Probably most projects that are reasonably young and successful, and have something new and different about them.
These people can't help themselves.
> Easy to steal?

Bitcoin is perhaps the most commonly stolen store of value the world has ever seen. It has its advantages, but being difficult to steal (or lose permanently!) is not one of them.
The tax bill is a public record, and any responsible property owner would make sure it's paid.
I don't see absurdly fast anything in this post. Are there any benchmarks that would support the statement "absurdly fast numerical calculations"?
That's a very interesting explanation! Maybe an extra twist to make it less confusing for the customer would be to include a small card in the first package saying "your package is on its way! Thanks for ordering!" Some people would still be annoyed, but it'd be the truth, and it would reduce most suspicion that you'd been sold a box of rocks.
I don't see why Mozilla would do this kind of things except to spread ressources. I know that it is an anecdote, but I don't know anyone who uses any kind of speech to text in part because they all suck if you don't speak english and even then..
There’s decent chance big money of some form is behind this recent increase anyway.
So does that mean a 1 weighs more than a 0? Big-endian bytes weigh less than little-endian ones? What about polarization? North heavier than south?
This isn't very future-proof. Computer graphics today can produce human faces that are extremely realistic. Someone will make a random-face generator, and a bot will pipe random faces to Facebook.
Starting compensation at competitive tech companies is already higher than 150% of airline pilot compensation. Looks like a pilot with 10 years experience at AA makes 120k. An engineer with 10 years experience at Google makes around 300k. There are also far more engineers at competitive tech companies than there are airline pilots.

I'd gladly trade an occasional 1.5x hourly bonus for a 2.5x salary.
Most people don't have a basic understanding of how autopilot works in airplanes.
Nice. Was this automating stuff like fundermental analysis, ratios, that sort of thing?
The difference with bitcoin is the price increase from 1c / BTC to $10,000 means at many points someone could have purchased $1000 in BTC and been left with enough to retire.

I don't think anything else has had that levels of "returns"
Have you run the chicken compiler with the -deploy flag? It doesn't create a statically linked binary but does dynamically link all the libraries with the binary in a single folder.
You may try to min max everything, but you might not actually min max it. Not everyone is willing to build a model of the game with all its probabilities, and calculate the optimal solution. Many will just play their gut feeling for the probabilities. Others will build naive models. Others will just guess at a general strategy.
> Looks like the pilots trust AA less than I do when they promise vouchers.

I know several people who work in union shops, including airlines. They all have adversarial relationships with management. There's a lot of gamesmanship and working to rule even if that prevents actual work from getting done.

It's funny to hear them complaining sometimes about trying to get good vacation slots, etc, because the guys who've been there the longest get all the priority due to union rules and they get what's left over.
Ponzi schemes are illegal and so long as bitcoin remains a vehicle entirely for speculation, it's sorta-kinda-almost a ponzi scheme.

Quite a few ICOs and altcoins certainly were created with the intent of such a scheme and should definitely be considered illegal.

In reality, intent matters, and since bitcoin was not created with the intent of creating a pyramid, it seems likely it should be legal, at least by that particular possible illegality.
> No it's not

"the average cost of an undergraduate degree in Germany is $32,000, PAID FOR BY THE STATE" [1] (emphasis mine)

7306 x 4 = $29,224 < $32,000.

Math!

Notice I put some caveats in my original post -- US states do spend some money per pupil in high ed, but those numbers are relatively small and rapidly shrinking. Tracking state cash to specific schools is pretty hard, I wasn't able to do it, so instead I just chose states known for relatively low per pupil higher ed spending.

It is possible that the schools I mentioned are more expensive than universities in Germany. But not by much.

Also. Parent claimed that education in the US is expensive in absolute terms, insinuating waste. No one is disputing that students in the US have to pay a lot for their education. But I am disputing the common myth that all colleges in the US are absurdly expensive -- in absolute terms -- compared to universities in other countries.

[1] https://www.marketplace.org/2015/03/31/education/learning-cu...
I am not arguing with her main point. In fact, I agree with it. I am merely lamenting that someone like her, who clearly doesn't understand the technology, is getting to make the decision on so important an issue.
I've also some knowledge about international companies within the EU. What you are describing is not possible. Local law cannot be broken with location and workforce from an international organisation operating within that country (you cannot just go to another country and disrespect local law) unless there is an higher EU law which regulates this situation. Country of residence and country of doing your work (there is one main location somewhere where you work for) is for sure relevant to judge about this. If you're sent from another country to do your work in Germany for some time (I think maximum is 2 or 3 years within EU) is different but certain rules have no or more relevance while beeing in Germany.
TL;DR: What your previous employer enforced is not legal to do in whole EU (pretty sure).
you seem to be for free markets and against unions, but that's contradictory.

free markets precisely allow participants to join together (e.g., unionize) to strike better deals in the marketplace (in fact, that was one of the original advantages of forming a company, to band people together to gain market power).
It is like if you and I took turns paying for lunch periodically and we used a ledger to track who paid what, and who owes who. The ledger itself is bitcoin. The ledger paper is worthless, but the entries on it "have value." For you and I, the ledger "has value" because that's where the history is.

If you printed 50 new blank ledgers, they wouldn't have value because they don't have the history and our mutual agreement.

Bitcoin is the worldwide ledger (WWL).
I think your analogy is good, but I do have some issues. The lower down the 8 bit scale you go, into greyscale graphics or black and white, the more it approaches the old cellular automata games, game of life. Which, we can show is turing complete now we have functioning instruction-set machine logic. But, GoL is not itself the turing, its the machine we build inside it.

In that sense, the pleasure a butterfly feels as a commanding thing, set against its overall brain function probably is more at the cellular automota end of the scale. The mouse we're trying to kill, before it gets our cheese is a couple or more orders of magnitude up the food chain. Its decidedly not monochrome.

Its where you draw the line which matters, in conversations about ethics and equity. Jains draw it a lot lower than I do.
Probably the country of California. (Or possibly Colorado, Georgia, or Texas - according to a quick google search.)
The Android Camera API is notoriously bad, and the Camera1/Camera2 switch isn't helping either. I would guess the main reason they do the screenshot approach is that it's actually faster than asking Android to take a photo and produces a photo that exactly matches what the user expected.
That's incorrect as it pertains to the US. In fact, it's not even remotely close to being true.

The majority of tech companies and tech employment in the US exists outside of San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Seattle.

There are 6.9 million technology jobs in the US currently. There are about 1.2 million technology jobs in all of California. Just Texas + Florida = 900,000. New York has close to 400,000.

So CA + NY = 1.6 million out of 6.9 million US technology jobs. Not all of those are located in SF, LA, NYC. Also of importance: a very large percentage of that tech workforce in California, consists of a small number of huge tech companies.

The slim minority of tech companies are located in locations with such extreme living expenses. They do represent the extreme outlier outcomes when it comes to producing iconic mega corporations (high value market capitalizations).

It turns out there is an extremely large economy outside of Silicon Valley. See:

Cyberstates 2017 Study

"The definitive state-by-state analysis of the U.S. tech industry"

http://www.cyberstates.org/pdf/CompTIA%20Cyberstates%202017....
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> Sounds like a pretty good benefit for everyone involved.

Yes, its just a terrible one for everyone else. Thats the whole point.

> Sucks for consumers, but your point was about the workers, not about consumers, etc.

Consumers are workers. If we talk only about pilots, its also bad: the union prevents other pilots from being hired.
>That is why people are willing to pay a due and give up some freedoms in order to use them as leverage in compensation negotiations.

I am not ant-union but unless they live/work? in a "right to work" state I don't think they gave a choice but to pay dues or quit.
The fact that he's come back from the future to ask us to change something means that he wasn't successful. If he'd been successful, he wouldn't have needed to come.
For anyone reading along at home, this is one of the oldest and most standard anti-union talking points. #1 on the list, in fact. [1]

[1] http://www.bankableinsight.com/ways-unions-hurt-the-economy....

[2] http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/03/17/unions-harmful-wor...
When I worked at Yahoo years ago many people told me about how they worked long hours. It was some sort of point of pride. In reality, most of these people worked normal days or close to it. They’d work til 7-8pm every night but they never showed up before 10-11am. With lunch thrown in, that’s just 8 hours.

People overestimate their hours when they work places that treat long hours as a sign of commitment or productivity. When the culture expects long hours, people fake long hours.
Why isn't there a bigger push to hire more pilots? Especially when you consider how badly the American pilot industry needs diversification. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
To make any worthwhile claims you need the worst case execution time of your code. Even in the absence of multi-threading, technologies like caches or out-of-order execution can make this quite painful.

The common solution seems to be: Don't care for some missed values (e.g. non-safety critical systems) or over provisioning (absence of budget pressure).

-> A RTOS alone doesn't give you any reliable claims (but does make a lot of embedded stuff much easier).
QF32 is tricky, but I don't see why a computer couldn't have easily landed US Air 1549. It would have known exactly whether it was capable or not of returning to the airport and immediately deciding on an alternative landing location if not. Handling an engine failure during takeoff and landing on water are both textbook training scenarios for all airline pilots, they would surely be handled by any self flying plane designed to operate without a human pilot.
But every single person who is qualified to trade futures would know about the CME... It's the 900lb gorilla.