skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ping me. We might have a new service for you then :)
About the monomorphic and bimorphic virtual methods, Aleksey Shipilev has some great articles on the topic, including low-level benchmarks: https://shipilev.net/blog/2015/black-magic-method-dispatch/
I don't know if it would work for instagram, but I habitually block brand accounts on twitter if they promote tweets to me. I can't quantify it, but I feel like I don't see as many ads on twitter as I used to.

https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/njFjyOn40oKxRW8XJLmN70...
Paths to Becoming a Web Designer or a Web Developer
So let’s take away the sexualized imagery aspect.

If huge percentage of the ads you saw on Instagram were pictures of legs with varicose veins advertising some sort of treatment… would you want to see that all the time? Wouldn’t you start to get annoyed and grossed out that they keep shoving that in your face when you’re trying to look at pictures of cats/cars/landscapes/buildings/whatever?

The author doesn’t seem to be complaining the ads exist, they seem to be complaining about the quantity/frequency of that kind of imagery.
Cali has a 67% higher gdp than canada. Texas has the same gdp as Canada despite having 2/3rd the number of people.

I just think the importance of the H1B is a little overblown, but I am not opposed to to it either. I think if you can make it to the US and hold a job we shouldn't kick you out.
A friend and I were concerned that Vimperator would die with Firefox 57, so we made our own version [1]. To our delight, it mostly works and has a few users.

[1]: https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl
I learned and released my first gamedev project - a multiplayer arena fighter (http://kikiki.io) . Still have a couple hundred people playing per day, but no longer maintained.

These days, I'm learning React/React-Native to build a marketplace that connects photographers with people who want better dating photos.
> The point of triggering a SWAT team is to deliberately risk someone's life.

Unfortunately, it wasn't as if the SWAT team were going in guns blazing. The victim specifically chose to put his hands down when ordered to keep it up. He failed to do so and that resulted in his death.

Seeing the huge number of SWAT cases, this is the first time that I'm aware of, where a person has been deceased. To make the argument that calling SWAT team to somebody's house is akin to calling a hitman to your house is ludicrious.

The case falls further apart because the victim was unknown to any of the parties involved, there's no way they could've predicted the victim would disobey police orders that put himself in danger.
Not defending the gp's harsh tone, but there's nothing particularly interesting about this post. We all know how ad algorithms are stupidly repetitive and how ads only show attractive people. This is just flamebait.
I see no indication of this whatsoever. This article reads like a plea for improvement to a service she mostly enjoys.
I like this. Seems like a simple analog solution to fairly difficult digital problem; true randomness that is.
63 points, 77 comments, and 2 hours ago. This post is relegated to 3rd page already by HN. That's an interesting algorithm
I don't think those two projects belong in the same category. I got into Ethereum tech in 2016 and found it so immature that I sold most of my ether. I'd expected problems and felt disappointed even more so. But it looks to me like Vitalik was brilliant and inexperienced then, while IOTA has basically nothing to recommend it. I'm not looking to start another cryptocurrency argument, just noting my disagreement.

Yes, real money in smart contracts is part of the economics shift I brought up.
TLA+ is by no means considered a lightweight formal method. It is proven relatively complete, i.e. anything that can be proven about a program, can be proven in TLA+. It can be used to only partially specify and verify a system, but so can Coq (usually, the term lightweight formal methods is applied to tools that can only specify/verify partially, or that that is their main intent).

The main difference between TLA+ and other "deep" formal tools (Coq/Isabelle/Lean etc.) is that it is much easier to learn and apply. This is not because it is by any means lighter-weight in terms of software verification, but because of specific design choice which make it unsuitable to the primary goal of those other tools, namely formal proofs of "high" mathematics and the definition and exploration of novel logics. Those tools are so much harder to learn and use than TLA+ mainly because verifying programs is not their main goal.

As a general math/logic proof assistant, TLA+ could certainly be considered lightweight, though :)
This is fascinating!

The link in your article no longer works (http://www.abaphysicaltherapy.com/2011/10/what-is-craniosacr...).

I really like your analytical approach to solving this, e.g. https://corticalchauvinism.com/2017/11/13/yuval-levental-cra...

Most people suffering from this condition don't have a physics background and wouldn't think to apply Hooke's law here.
I made a service to help people exchange paper books. I still need to populate it, and then I can start using it with friends.

http://marginalia.porcupinefactory.org/
I hate self checkout and refuse to use it. Perhaps I am in a minority. I'd reconsider if there was a discount but that discount would likely be made null by some accounting in the price of groceries. I don't think they do anything for the customer, but more for the profit margins.
Because we’re on Hacker News making that kind of the default assumption, and it’s an attitude I’ve seen from hackers far and wide.
Ask HN: Help me get out of teaching and into software
Hi HN

I've been reading people's year end posts about what they've accomplished or learned in 2017 and it's really inspired me to take concrete action towards a long term goal of mine. I'm a primary school teacher but I taught myself to code many years ago - I bought a palm pilot in 2000 and started writing little shareware apps for it. I've been building side projects (mostly websites) ever since. I'd love to work full-time as a web developer.

I'm proficient in rails and php. I'm also learning js and vue . Over the years I've applied for several (remote) positions but I never get to the interview stage. From a quick scan of my inbox, it's mostly because I lack professional experience (8 companies). 2 companies turned me down due to lack of open source contributions (although I shared some code from side projects) and 1 company asked me to do a coding test but then turned me down because they didn't like my solution (it was a simple string manipulation and I wrote a simple method - they'd have preferred it if I wrote a new String class). There are also many companies I've applied to who never bothered to write back. All the roles I've applied for have been junior level.

Does anyone have any concrete, actionable advice that I can take to improve my chances of getting interviewed and hopefully hired?

Thanks in advance
I think the technical wtf should become clear if you look at the entire comment tree starting at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16041209

But yeah, to clarify: What they primarily need is someone who gives a shit about the site being functional, secondarily money to cover operating costs. Before the first need is covered, just blindly giving some loose group money seems like it would have a high potential of going to waste.
Spent the last 9 months on a startup I co-founded, https://carbonstate.com

We are producing an ECM system aimed at the SMB market.

The short feature list is:

- Configuration driven; no coding required to create management systems

- Complex schema support ( nested and linked types )

- Automatic data entry/modification form creation

- Workflow support

- Compiled templating with fragments and support for reverse proxy cache invalidation on data change

- Horizontal scaling ( nanomsg based node interactions )

- Vertical scaling ( new event based http server translating http messages to nanomsg )

- Script driven installer system with UI ( smaller and more flexible than NSIS - <100k installers containing XML parsing and a general purpose scripting language )

Kickstarter to fund finishing the project is in the works.

Before the startup, at the beginning of the year, I rewrote a new version of Apache Avro in C, C++, Perl, and Java to replace all of the event logging within Amazon. The code runs billions of times per day across 4 major web platforms and 20+ component systems.
And it works extremely well. That’s why, thanks to Amazon ads, I’ve bought 14 vacuums in the last two months.

Sigh.

I really wish the algorithms were smart enough to distinguish between things that you might rebuy frequently (bras are closer to this end) and things that you probably won’t buy again for a long time (like vacuums).
It really takes a special kind of asshole to go and do something like this. I hope they are made to pay for this.
>> multiplayer arena fighter

I'm curious - are there a lot of tutorials or learning resources out there for this kind of game? I feel like I see a lot of them. modd.io is a whole platform for making these kinds of games almost exclusively.
Just for computation sake, there are more than a million tech workers waiting for the GC as per this article. They have been here over a decade, and been in the tech industry. So even if you take a conservative number, the saving each one would have made over the decade would be around 100k. So we are talking around a 100 billion dollars in saving which would go back to India or other countries if these workers were deported by expiring the h1b, insteading of spending it in the US. Do the americans want that?
From my experience (engineer at ad retargeting company) the models used for retargeting are very advanced/optimized. They're shown repeatedly because the data suggests that it IS the optimal policy despite the reaction people have to it.
> Ever notice how many locations around the world advertise to come bring your business there?

France made a very public appeal to climate scientists. [1]

> Or holiday/vacation there?

Anecdotal evidence I know, but almost all of my friends in Canada have or want to visit Amsterdam. But while they're enjoying pot brownies and the red light district, Amsterdam has many startups who will hire English speaking employees.

Or the people who really want to visit Oktoberfest. Munich also has many firms willing to hire English speakers with the right qualifications.

I will grant that perhaps Europe can do a better (more obvious) job of appealing to North Americans who want to immigrate. Personally I found it extremely easy to immigrate from Canada to Europe (no family ties to gain Eau citizenship), though I had already finished studying.

Another easy option that is often overlooked is the Working Holiday visa. It's quite easy to obtain and allows someone under 35 to work and travel between 6-12 months in many EU countries.

[1] www.businessinsider.com/emmanuel-macron-american-climate-scientists-france-2017-6
In the future, maybe there will be a more efficient mechanism to pre-scan a construction site for noteworthy finds. I'm imagining a non-invasive deployment of cyber-worms that go thru soil & nano-drillbots that go rock to survey a site. With sufficiently advanced sensors (which totally exist in my sci-fi future), you could pre-find all the cool stuff. When a construction site has been blessed as 100% uninteresting, you can blast away with your explosives with reckless abandon. You could even buy archaeology insurance to cover you in the event that construction efforts unveil something this survey missed.

Can anyone familiar with construction comment on how construction sites are blessed now, and what hedges are available to construction companies who have to halt construction because someone found dinosaur eggs?
She has been clustered into a group most likely to click bra ads by a data-mining algorithm that maximizes click through rate based on available data. There's no other consideration given and no deeper meaning to it. The bottom line is that you should use ad, script, and tracking blockers on every website you visit. It should be common sense by now.
Thank you for the comments. Please note that I made this Keybee Keyboard first for myself because I could not type good in a qwerty smartphone.
Secondly I decided to make it for everyone and give it for free (free apps and no ads). I invested a lot of time, passion and money just to create a better typing experience for more people.
I also decided to protect my idea because, in case of success, I can tranform this project in a full time job. There's nothing wrong on that an nobody obliges you to use it as your definitive keyboard.
Happy 2018..!!!
Marco.
;-)
Displaying pictures of healthy, fit women in advertising is not harmful, nor does the author actually make that point. All she does is say that it's true, without any argument to back it up. We're simply supposed to accept that because she says it's harmful, it is. There's nothing degrading or overly sexualized about these ads. The fact that the models look good does not need to be a threat to anybody.

I was with the author as long as it was a complaint about how repetitive and uninspired the ads were, but when it morphed into "pictures of healthy people trigger me" is where she lost me. If you are so insecure you can't see an image of a person who is better looking than you are without freaking out, that is nobody's problem but your own. It's not instagram's fault.
Still working on Codeflow - A visual programming platform -
http://codeflow.co. Do have a look!
This isn't how entropy works. They have more than enough "entropy" for "10% of the Internet" without the lava lamps.
I looove it! Used it multiple times this year (Typescript / C# generator)
What did you do to prepare for leaving your job? Do you have another source of income?
Wow, way to dismiss her very valid points. In fact, no, if Instagram and Facebook think this is relevant advertising then they’ve scammed their investors far worse than we thought. And if the ads make the user feel unhappy, then they are really bad and they should do something about them. Finally, please get past the false notion that people with advertising-ideal bodies like your sister are somehow putting in more effort than other people. That’s demonstrably false. And in any case your final question is sort of the point of the post you are trying to dismiss. Why do all the women in those ads have one type of body, when there are so many other types out there?
Speaking from the perspective of the company posting the ads. Not trying to argue whether it is 'harmful' or not
PROPHECY OF THE EXTREMELY VIOLENT SHAKING  OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE and THE EARTH
I’ve been using Elementary for a year straight[1] and like it a lot, but I see it as Ubuntu with the “right” UX.

(I also don’t see Linux developers flocking to it in droves, which is sad because it is a lot cleaner and easier to use than Gnome and KDE, IMHO, but then again Linux has always been more about diverging choices than unity—and I don’t mean the desktop environment here).

The only thing Elementary needs to do is allow for disabling all animations, to get rid of the perceived latency issues some folk complain about...

But I digress. It isn’t an OS, and you get all the Linux legacy underneath, so it’s understandable that Fuchsia is happening. Google seems to be attempting to lay a new foundation here, and I think it’s actually a good idea to do so, although the number of third-party packages and run times they’re bringing in makes it hard to peg it as “legacy-free”.

Time will tell, I guess.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12830761
Were you able to find a position? You are qualified, but it's very competitive, few jobs and many PhD level candidates with experience.
This is so silly. That’s all I have to say.

So you’re telling me that because I pay for Coca Cola - that somehow makes it a more noble and more pure product than Instagram?

Have you considered that perhaps I don’t mind “being the product” in exchange for a platform where I can share photos with the world that I’m proud of and follow some cool people relevant to my interests?

Have you considered that perhaps there are trade offs involved, and that just because you’re not OK with them doesn’t mean that somehow I’m not as “enlightened” as you are?

Look, social media is not all good and it’s not all bad. Like most things, it’s in large part what you make it (sure there’s nuance around this - but I’m gonna keep it short). You can definitely abuse it and it’s easy to do, but it’s also possible to use it in a way that is a net positive to your life. Social media is many things to many people so don’t project your unhappiness with the way you use the product onto other people.
Oh I agree. I was trying to answer to why some people respond in such an all or nothing manner bout stuff like this. Some people may have already made up their minds about what role entities like fb/instagram should have (ie none), and will take any opening to try to propagate that belief.

Or maybe it's just being lazy. Or both.
You can't possibly be comparing companies subsidized by the government and the critical natural importance of bees. This can't be real.
But how much of that "news" is propaganda/incitement to violence?
I live and work in Taiwan. A tooth cleansing is about 7 usd, with insurance. X ray is 30 usd.

In France, my country, a tooth cleansing is closer to 60 usd, and a x ray is closer to 70 usd. I guess in the US its even more.

Super satisfied with Taiwan healthcare system!
I basically used two open source projects as learning resource . I recommend checking out https://github.com/huytd/agar.io-clone and https://github.com/ahung89/bomb-arena . Simply playing around with those code, tweaking them, and modding them, allowed me to go from knowing nothing about gamedev, to learning about how to create one.
Do you think SWAT tactics are designed with minimizing civilian casualties? Or SWAT team casualties?
It isn't lower population. Canadian culture has a bad case of tall poppy syndrome. I'm Canadian and the jobs in the US simply pay 50% more (before taking into account things like the exchange rate or taxes) than jobs in Canada do. Employers don't want to hire Silicon Valley level talent. If they did, they would pay to match. Canada's economy and policies actively encourage brain drain.
Ah you must be in the tri state. I'm down in Alexandria and by god I hate the Giant self checkout. If I'm desperate with 1-2 items, ok. But more than that and I will wait for a cashier on principal.
Not disagreeing with your point, but it's important for a new project to consider the human cost of ops in addition to the cost per request.

Lots of "enterprise" solutions don't need more than a few hundred TPS and can tolerate some of the variability that comes with lambda. The net cost (including ops work) will likely be less in these scenarios, plus they don't have to staff for a devops guy or pay to build that skillset up internally.
I didn't say that I agree with the current administration and neither did the poster I was agreeing with. All I was saying is that I don't agree with the current H1-B regulations. There's a third approach that neither the Democrats or Republicans seem interested in that I feel would be of more benefit to both immigrants and our country.
Yeah I’m sure the WP frames have lost a bit of their fit, even if I had fitted them properly to begin with. I guess my main complaint was that my traditional (again, admittedly more expensive) pair has much less distortion from the center. In fact, I hardly see any from when the glasses are offset to any reasonable degree. The WP lenses have noticeable distortion in a much larger area.

I think the value tradeoff — $95 vs $300+ - is probably right. To be sure, I like the WP service, just wished there were ways to get better quality lenses even if it meant $100 more, though that would probably dilute the service for its core user base
sounds like this plot: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21535767-the-great-zoo-o...

Are they dragon eggs.
The fundamental unacknowledged problem with Keynes is it relies on natural rate of inflation, which only happens with population growth. See Japan's continual stagnation despite endless amounts of inflationary policies.

The 4 main econ drivers for the US over the next 20 years - China's ascension to number 1 world economy, pension and social security debt and lack of funding, the toll of automation and the gig economy, population growth (or lack thereof) in the US and other major allied nations.

We will embrace keynes as solutions to those problems, because that is what those in power know and are comfortable with. The fact the 2008 crises didn't end in 1930s like depression will all but assure them they are right. The question is whether or not that was a one-off lucky "save" largely successful because of the global coordination that went along with American policies (China, Japan, and Europe), and if so, will that global coordination be done for future economic crises, which seems unlikely to me based on the totality of global history.
So what's going on with the edges? They don't match. Are the fragments stacking because of the upflow?

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/under-the-midnight-sun
Remember who owns Al Jazeeera.

Hint: A terrorist sponsor.
Woot! Glad you found it useful.

Is there anything we can improve?
I actually like that it’s LTS underneath, because I know I can run the machine for a couple of years with stable packages and then upgrade to the next version.

I understand the appeal of more up-to-date stuff, but with Docker I can have my stable cake and swap toppings at will :)
As a user, I can't think of any ads that would make me happy.

As an unattractive person, I wouldn't want to see unattractive people in ads either. Seeing fat people wouldn't make me happier.

(Why was this thread collapsed?)
NCIS? Don't assume anything based on that show; it is a ridiculous farce of nonsense and made-up bullshit. I have family members who watch it religiously, in all its goofy flavors. Not a minute passes without the seemingly serious portrayal of something that would never happen.
Oh, I think I get what you mean now. I misunderstood "OP." You're saying, maybe the commenter I replied to has decided that this service is completely worthless, to the point that they can't understand why someone would still put up with it? I could see that being the case, although I think that's just a special case of the phenomenon I'm talking about.
I promise to never use that font again
In UK we have supermarkets like Waitrose which do this (QuickCheck) and it works pretty well. You get a random rescan - though haven't been done for a long time (hopefully proved trustworthy in the past!).

The smartphone app works, but is much less convenient I find because my phone goes off in between scanning items!

One drawback is buying alcohol - you have to wait for an assistant to do override to ensure you are over 18 - can result in a wait.

As for the various shops which offer self scan at checkout - most are very poor UX I find. You have to scan things and it is waiting for a weight to be added to bagging area - if you don't put it down it doesn't register. 5 items the same - all have to be scanned one at a time. Then there is annoying voice - I dislike them. Worst example is W H Smith at airports - not helped by lots of less than clued up people using them...
Any details on the hardware? Passive RFID, NFC, BLE or something else?
It's food for thought if you work in ad tech. Targeting based on tags/interests can be effective, but understanding the visual content of an ad and how it will be received by the user is a different problem that could result in better targeting if solved.

Suppose all ads were tagged for their visual content and their ad-hiding functionality looked for categories of content that you frequently hide. That data could be used for better targeting and passed all the way back to creative agencies to influence design decisions.

How is that not relevant to HN?