skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be argued that the new "improved" rewrite versions are strictly downgrades compared to the extensibility of the original.
People don't want powerful features because they can be misapplied, making a mess. These people aren't worried that they will make a mess of their own code, they are worried that they will have to deal with someone else's mess.

What happens as you add more developers to a code base, with larger variance in ability and favored abstractions is going to be important in some cases, and irrelevant in others.
Yes, I got it the first time, but this is not a good plan... you have to be together to share the experience... just call the company and postpone it...
Yes, but the quote is talking about “share-price time series.”
Audio version of uncanny valley?
Why do we need to constantly surveil people? What happened to trust?

When people do illegal things to other people or their property, that is when law enforcement should get involved.

We shouldn't just watch people waiting to see them do something that we have defined as "wrong". We should react to the things that people do wrong, and educate people about how to go about their lives without harming others.

> Surveillance by people is expensive, grueling, and hard to hide.

Laws are designed for a law enforcement body that has these inadequacies. If we start enforcing them in a different way that does not have these limitations, the aspects of those laws that were designed to make up for those inadequacies suddenly become harsh and constrictive.
My interpretation is that it's more like the behavioral equivalent of "dress for the job you want" rather than being unethical. Always being open to learning new things, and being confident in your ability to overcome challenges.
Hey, I actually built a data controller (H/W & S/W) for a pump station when I was between jobs :-)
Experimenting with AR and the Web on iOS
> I'm really grateful to Tesla/GM/Nissan and the people buying their cars.

I find it interesting that it's GM and not Ford.

In the pre-2008 years (when Ford didn't need a bailout but GM did), Ford was investing in and rolling out gas-electric hybrids while GM was very heavily invested in SUVs and opted to minimize hybrid development while maximizing the $500/unit upgrade to "FlexFuel" type ICE drivetrains. When the price of gas spiked in 2005-2007, Ford benefitted while GM was reeling.

I wonder if the restructure during the bailout changed GM's priorities...
> Because only a vanishingly rare amount of the incorrectness in compiled C programs comes from a bug in the compiler.

True.

What I meant to say, but didn't, is, why aren't more people working on ensuring that this provability bubbles up from the compiler to the program itself. I come across a lot of work in specialized areas on this topic but haven't seen anyone have a go integrating formal proofs and a widely used programming language. At the moment this looks like a pipe dream because of the obvious objection (and I hope this disappears "soon") that currently it is too cumbersome to have to prove your programs, let alone write them in the first place.
The Hookworm program seems to have been more about education and sanitation than eradication, and apparently it has come back in the poorer areas of the US not quite the infections rates as earlier though. I couldn't find support for the IQ claim, but I guess it's always an issue if you are host to a parasite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Sanitary_Commissio...
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/09/12/5503876...
You're simultaneously missing and making my point.

Sure Rowling wrote a great book and the economic gods smiled on her and we got a new pop culture staple. But what about the authors of other books that are similar but made orders of magnitude less money? Does it make sense that there is such a gap? Is everyone involved being fairly compensated? Even the people running the printing presses and delivering the books?

Is it beneficial that "money makes money" without the promised trickle down effects to the middle class? Why is it possible to make a million dollars in a year with 10 million (10%!) but not just as easy to make say $100.00 with $1000.00? If $10,000,000.00 is such a small sum why will the overwhelming majority of people never see that amount of money in their lifetimes?

Yes it is hard to drop out of the elite, because they're keeping the wealth, they can't even help it. This is the neck stepping I referred to.
Thanks for the info. What was the range when new and what type of batteries does it have? And charge times?
The lifestyles of LA's rich and famous include concierge firefighters
Must be a different company, then.
By defining a "traffic engineer" as a title that demands license, we prevent discussion from other people.

I am very critical of the idea that a license should be required to discuss the traffic system that we all interact with.
If you can point to any blog post that shows how one would implement Shazam, I'd love to read it.

I read somewhere that the Pixel 2's on-device index of 10,000 popular songs was only ~60MB. That blew my mind.
I really wish Rails came with an easy out of the box to run as a REST api mode that let you load your initial front end from a single endpoint, or for server rendered react/vue/angular that can then hit the REST api, in a way that let you abstract the front end cleanly so that front end developers never need to touch anything rails related.

Rails with webpacker built in and rails api mode are both awesome, but they don't feel well integrated together.

Sure, you can get this working in a rails engine, but it feels like a hack and you miss out on a lot of built-in template goodies. There is also shakacode's React on Rails, which is awesome, but still pretty tightly integrated with the default rails views.
What OP is saying is if you invoke undefined behavior in your program (like the Heartbleed bug for example) it doesn't matter that in the end the compiler is correct. And this does account for the vast majority of bugs (programmer error compared to compiler error).
There's a different phrase that I think makes more sense: "Act As If".

People suffering from and trying to overcome Impostor Syndrome (the feeling that even though you are doing good work and have made some big accomplishments that you’re really an “impostor” at your job and people are going find out) are somewhat endemic to startup and tech circles.

I think most of this is brought on by the rapidly changing toolsets, frameworks and technologies that you need to grapple with to put out a modern web app. (see:
http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/)

So, it was pretty surprising that the best advice that I’ve heard on the subject comes from Conan O’Brien.

“In improvisational acting there is this great rule that I’ve used in my life: ‘Act As If’. Act as if this is completely normal. Of course I’m supposed to be interviewing Barack Obama. Of course I’m supposed to be playing guitar with Bruce Springsteen and of course there’s a big part of me inside that’s saying: ‘What are you talking about?’”

From “Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop” — 21:00

The best entrepreneurs that I’ve worked with have (without naming it) exhibited this same pattern.

1. Recognize privately and intellectually that some big crazy thing is about to happen: a key investor meeting, a sales call to a big new client or interview with a major publication.

2. Do the hard work of preparing and making sure their product and facts are all in line.

3. Execute through their fears and anxieties by “acting as if” in public.

Nothing is a cure all, but it is surprising how much even a simple phrase repeated to yourself can help.
If you own the share (exercised the option to buy it, were granted a share, what-have-you), you'll get a letter once the deal is finalized. If they were bought for $100m, you'll likely get a letter saying that your share is worth $0.
Any updates on filecoin integration?
The legal maximum in most states (65mph) is way too slow for ideal conditions. That speed was decided on during an era when cars were far less safe, capable and mechanically sound as they are now.

A typical family sedan in the late 70s had a double-digit top speed. And those "recommended" speed signs that say you should do 35mph around a corner, were actually accurate. If you dared to take a 35mph recommended speed corner at 36mph, your tires would be yelping.

In a modern car, you can take those casually take those corners at 55mph; aggressive cornering starts at double the posted speeds.

It's the same thing with the freeway. Going 80mph in a modern car is probably safer than a 1980s car was doing 65. Today's Civic has the cornering, acceleration and braking performance of a 80s Ferrari.
Game industry calls people who spend a lot of money on games "whales". I guess it is because whales are supposed to have a lot of meat. None of people who use it knows a lot about biology and whale is likely the only big animal that can be eaten they know.
I know they are not the same as a patent troll but I find repulsive the idea of silencing and threatening this guy:

> I’ve written some code (100% my own) and implemented my own methods for matching music. There are some key differences with the algorithm Shazam uses. The code isn’t published yet, but I was planning on releasing it under Apache License to the open source community soon

Edit: of course if you are OK with software patents then it's perfectly logic. I am happy I don't live in a country where software patents exist.
That’s more a case of bullshit IP Lawyers than Shazam being a problem.
Swimming is something you do. "A swimmer" is someone you are. A swimmer swims. If you can't already swim, you learn how to. But when you can swim, you aren't necessarily a swimmer yet.

I don't think it's about some particular skill, but more about an identity. Taking on a new identity might involve learning some new skills, but those are just the prerequisites to even successfully "faking it".

Put another way, it's more about establishing patterns of behavior. You start off making decisions consciously, and maybe even with difficulty, like "I'm going to get up at 6am, warm up, and swim 10 laps". And "I'm switching my diet to complement my new exercise routine". They'll start out feeling novel, like they're someone else's actions. Then eventually, they'll be your norm. They'll still take effort, but of course you'll make the effort, because "this is just what I do".
I don't think we can learn much from how an engine learns, but we certainly can learn from its results.

For example, there's this interesting discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/7ibzq4/stockfish_vs_...

Because Alphazero did not learn from human games, it looks at the different pieces without attaching values like we do. It has no problems sacrificing a higher "valued" piece for the sake of its strategy.
Interestingly, the IRS has a WI80 of 22.6, higher than all the industry averages listed in the article except gaming: the 1% pays 50% of the income taxes, and the top 20% pays 85% [1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/13/top-1-pay-nearly-half-of-fed...
Of course! If you have human resource to separate and maintain backend and frontend - it's an excellent solution.

But it's article not for teams like this. The described solution for full-stack developers and small projects, which needs to be maintainable too. And component manner is a proper way to organize frontend code.
What differentiates junior and senior programmers, beside years of experience?
I never found out if the new leafs actually use proper thermal management with a coolant loop on the pack. It's a shame the never did it on the original and battery life suffers because of it.
PostgreSQL Workshops
I think that's a bit of an oversimplification. It may be possible to find people willing to do that work at that price because those people are desperate. This type of thinking is why market forces alone cannot sustain a middle class.
>Though it might sound fatalistic to some Westerners, who think that Asians are so, I thought it was, rather, realistic, in acknowledging that not everything in life is in our control,

You really think you're in control? Well, I think you're craaaaaaa-aaaaazzzzzyyyyyyy...

It's not just a "Far East" thing.
I mean it can’t work worse than Google Apps do on iOS (so bad that the web versions are usually better... until they cripple those and funnel you to the apps, like they do for Sheets).
So last year I was in a big brand clothing shop and I heard a cool song. I Shazamed it. At home searched it on YouTube.

To my shock, it was launched a few months ago and it barely had 5k views. The shock for me was how the hell a giant clothing company (H&M if I recall correctly) has such an underground song on.

So I started googleing around to find out how music in stores gets selected, and long story short, this is a multi-million dollar business and there are companies which create playlists according to your brand. These companies also scour the world for underground artists, because you want your store to have the best music before it's popular, so that customers perceive you as a trendsetter.

What is the success metric for these playlist companies? One of the task of store employees is to report how many customers they notice using Shazam in the store.
Interesting how many people went flat.
Code as data is such a big deal that - whatever you say - I will never ever understand why we don't all do Lisps.
When making bold claims and assertions, you should cite facts.
Could ISPs throttle IPFS content the same way they did with torrents a while ago? (and probably will again once net neutrality falls).
Weird choice of name since there's an email service w/ the exact same name - https://www.drip.com/
Pick one. There are thousands across the country!
Presumably he's talking about Mediabase, or Meltwater, or something along those lines.
Good, now get rid of that touch bar, and give me back my SD Card reader and MagSafe power.
NN isn’t a magic bullet. You still need data, inputs, and users.

Branding is nice too.
Or recycling. Why mine when you already have some sitting around?
What you are saying leads me to the following thought: lithium will be the new oil. With all the same consequences that oil has now.
How is there not an open source or at least a paid WP version of this. Seems like it's a decent plugin you could run on your own site + make a good lifestyle business out of (while saving people tons of money by letting them process their own transactions).
Is clojure.spec a replacement for static typing? I ask because I've taken a look at clojure in the past and generally like what I see, but after moving from JavaScript to TypeScript at work I don't think I can ever return to a dynamically typed language again. Types are just priceless when refactoring, integrating someone else's code with your own or just exploring new libraries or APIs.
Why you shouldn't buy a Toyota
Yes I should have phrased that as "In the age of big data selecting the value to optimize will be our greatest challenge."
Yeah your math totally makes sense. I just disagree with the premise:

> The life of an engineer is a life if sacrifice and 7 days a week work for five days pay.

This just isn't true. Maybe at certain startups, but it's your choice to work there. As a (qualified) software engineer, you're blessed with thousands of options, many extremely comfortable. Flexible hours, free food, great pay, no dress code.

When so many people are struggling just to make ends meet, I have very, very little sympathy for someone in shams' situation. Just get a new job.
Crawl public facebook videos, automatically figure out what they were watching/listening to in the background, and correlate that with their public demographic information.
Market rate == value, not fair or unfair compensation (from the wager earner perspective).

If the value generated from work is less than minimum wage, it may not be that fair to the business, but usually those types of unfair scenarios are corrected.

Fairness in compensation for an individual revolves around a livable wage. Of course, “livable” is highly debatable. Should livable compensation be enough to be able to save? Does it include being able to afford a home in a safe neighborhood? What is safe?
I literally just did exactly that half an hour ago.

Of course, it's my company and I'm both the salesperson and engineer, but sometimes you have to sell shit that doesn't exist yet.
Also not the mention of Mormon hardliners like Bundy in the text. The Mormons believe that Jesus traveled to the New World and preached the gospel to Indians. There may be other reasons to suggest an ancient connection between the Old and New Worlds. Just a thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamanite
http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Native_Americans
Open source baseboard teams up with Linux-ready MAX 10 FPGA module
That's a great link!
"wonder what it would look like without them" ... they are following a trend in tech they see, not inventing physics.

Its our phds and universities that prusue the underlying science. Companies make a cost analysis on the RandD and reep the profits ... if it wasnt GM it would be another company, and eventually it will be most companies if the tech proves itself to be as good as the propaganda says.

All in a days work of capitalism , making sure hard work it rewarded and that we keep striving for better

I dont praise GM for their work , I pay them , a fair market price. Thats what they deserve, but they are not gods they are just good engineers and business men doing their jobs and hopefully our schools keep creating them.
The Turkish writer Elif Batuman has a trio of essays about Turkey in The New Yorker that are excellent. I like all of her writing, but they are especially good.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/19/the-sanctuary
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/03/07/the-view-from-...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/31/the-big-dig
>For example: good for Rowling but why aren't more authors able to make a living writing?

Because consumers don't like them as much. The market increasingly is a winner take all, moving away from the 20%-80% split. How many books did you buy this year? How many were from indie/unknown authors?
Your hypothesis: "it's not going anywhere."

Do you have some argument points to back that up with?

I keep hearing simple assertions about what will happen, confidently proclaimed by two sides of a table.
I am not a company. As companies pay taxes on their profit after expenses a 40% or 80% tax rate only reduces but does not eliminate their profits. That said, they will probably be significantly better off to sell the company, but it's simply not required.
Mhm.. you all work too much, or not enough.. still on fence.

It's a motivational concept, a personal reinforcement of a goal you've set for yourself, slang for dropping in. You'll get hit but you want to get hit. You want this.

Wanna be? Gotta be. Poke and go.
This is something I wondered about for quite some time now. How come so many employees and so much spent money with so little to show for it.

Reading the reason for dropping alsa support or refusing to have better linux integration it seems mozilla is short on dev time and resources which they clearly are not.

Do you remember when they got 10 000 people donating money to pay to place an ad for firefox 1.0 in NY Times while at the same time they had revenue in tens of millions of dollars ?

Mozilla had a strong stance against a content blocker in firefox for what ? 15 years ? Whatever they said to justify this position it is obvious that the actual reason is conflict of interest with their main source or revenue.

Isn't it strange that while their user base has been divided by 5 their revenue has been up by more than a hundred millions ? Even more so when this revenue is based on number of users being sent to search engine of this commercial partner.

Has anyone on HN and explanation for this ?
"We have admitted to violating Mr. Järlström’s rights" -- looking forward to the followup news story where he sues the state.
White House scraps proposal requiring airlines to disclose bag fees
Calling 'print' from within a library is pretty bad form too... responses and errors should always be returned as data that can be inspected programmatically. In this case it's even worse, as the code will just return None on error, and you don't know why.
Well, i've been running firefox pretty consistently since I switched from Netscape all those years ago. I've tried pretty much every browser out there, and have a fair number of them installed but came back to FF...

But 57, is likely the end. Yah, they fixed it. Its a little faster, but it still seems to consume RAM/CPU until my whole machine grinds to a halt. Previously, when it did this I could be assured that it likely wasn't consuming more than ~2GB and a little more than 100% of a core.

So, unless they fix this decade long RAM/CPU consumption problem they have, i'm getting rid of it. I don't mind having to kill it every couple days, I just can't stand having to wait 30+ seconds for the task manager to swap in so that I can kill it. At least on linux I can constrain its resources, but i'm not going to run it in a VM (like I do java) just to have some control when it goes all piggy.

(some of this is likely my own fault, and happens with other browsers too, since I haven't managed to cure my tabitus habit of failing to close tabs i still have interest in).
I always read this as meaning "if you want to do something that's uncomfortable for you, force yourself to do it — perform the actions mechanically — until it does become comfortable".
Not that it's somehow my place to say it, but I appreciate the spirit of your apology; you too are among the victims who deserve no blame.
What I actually found was that they were unable to think outside of the box they were stuck in. They were in a position of "you can't do that" when the problem at hand required that "you need to do that" so find a way to do it.

I think one of the problems of today is the limited education that many in technical fields have. They are taught how to do something in one language or system and they do not get to see that other ways are possible in other languages and systems.

One of my former colleagues (from decades ago) was a brilliant programmer. We had a particularly pernicious problem to solve. He had spent some hours programming a solution around the problem and had written about half the code needed. In discussions with him, I brought up that old chestnut of Karnaugh Maps and Don't Cares. He had never heard of either. Once explained to him, he fixed the entire problem with 5 lines of code, throwing away all the previous work. He was very capable of thinking outside the box.

I have worked with many very capable Australian technical people over the years and they have been less valued than foreign people even though the Australians were vastly superior to their overseas counterparts.
I’m in the temperate Bay Area and I’ve done well enough without.

But I was in Tucson for Thanksgiving and my cousin was replacing a 12V for his SUV. Apparently 12Vs don’t live long down there.