skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the standards on HN are higher (for the same money) and in general, the standards for remote work are higher (again, for the same money.) -

From interviewing people for sit-down in-person contracting positions at big companies in silicon valley proper? Finding someone who is just competent is quite difficult, even when offering much better money than 'startups' tend to offer.

As for the unicorn ninja rockstar thing, I'm pretty sure that's just startup talk for "We want someone enthusiastic and confident" - which usually means they have to lower their expectations in other areas (which is part of why they shoot for early career folks;)
Doesn't breaking a window to get in negate the "sealed windows" advantage of the location?
I doubt this will work on a plain economics standpoint. A pallet container housing tower would be incredibly expensive in comparison to a normal skyscraper or wooden medium rise. Most housing cost issues stem from policy than from actual price.

A lot of the costs of driving and parking commons is subsidized through government policy and taxes. If the commons gets abused even more easily because driverless electrics reduce the friction of doing so, cities and government will react through policy and user fees.
Though it requires active participation from the participant, i.e. visiting the "infected" website. Whereas this method requires no actions on part of the server, beyond behaving normally.
believe so, another point is that React Native seems really nice, that Weex for Vue.js seems a lot weaker, ideally with React you will be easier to leverage it with React Native.
> rapidly growing superbugs

We can outsmart them. We have biochemistry and flocks of 30 year old PhD students. They have a random number generator.
I also have three Chromecasts and occasionally 7-8 mobile devices that are connected to them in multi-AP network. I have mostly Sony devices and I think they have a rather aggressive powersave profile.

The last 3-6 month or so, the mobile devices have been losing connections to Chromecast while playing, and the network have become markedly more flaky also for other devices.

I actually got a Chromecast Ultra with an ethernet connection in case the wifi was bad, but it didn't really make a difference.

At some point a D-Link AP that is also the main router started to hang at least once per day, occasionally every 5 minutes. I installed Lede on it in order to rule out hardware problems - and then it stopped crashing at which point I stopped bothering, but I suppose the hardware can still be cooked.

I've noticed that the network occasionally is really slow for a short while - I managed to measure the speed to an external provider to be around 4-5 mbit/s instead of 100, but I haven't considered the possibility that it's my own network that goes bananas.

The WAF is declining, but it's so much junk that can go wrong so it will take a considerate amount of time to debug.

Edit: I must say though, that I expect my routers and APs to survive 100.000 packages...
The previous discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16139522) had a non-paywalled link in the comments:

https://navaltoday.com/2017/12/22/germany-returns-lead-f125-...
To people downvoting - you are all a bunch of morons. And e.g. this is an insult that is sanctionable under section 185 of german criminal code as it is mentioned in the new NetzDG act which would make ycombinator liable to 5m€ fine should they fail to remove it under certain circumstances. This is why the law is unjust. Now even though I don't reside in or don't use services from companies residing in Germany I'm strongly encouraged to refrain from pointing out morons amongst you because state actors are strong-arming companies they shouldn't have jurisdiction over.
I would love to see an RSS reader that was smart enough to follow links and make a 'source graph' so it the NYT and Slashdot write articles about the same source they both appear in the same 'thread' about that source. To me that would be the killer app for RSS.
Adobe employs similar tactics.

Even though I was paying per month for the Creative Suite, I was told that I was only able to cancel my subscription during a small timeframe each year. If I didn't take advantage of the opportunity at that time, I would have to fork out for the service each month for another full year. I couldn't preempt it by asking to have the subscription cancelled when the year was up - I had to notify them at that time. I did have the option to cancel early if I paid a large penalty (some large percentage of the remaining monthly payments as far as I recall).

The whole thing left me with an aversion to Adobe in general and provided the impetus I needed to look at other solutions.
Hmm, I was under the impression that they've known about Meltdown/Spectre since June and gave themselves an extension. But I'm not sure where I read that.
More like, "if I find out that the airplane is about to crash in a few minutes, I will unclip my seatbelt and roam around the cabin". You have control over your car, you have no control over the airplane or the bomb.
Focus primarily on the "soft skill" of selling yourself, whether you see that as a job interview process or more like selling consulting work.
I'm not confused about the fact that Facebook is not a court and does not have the ability to impose a criminal sentence, and the ensuing criminal record.
I have a little 2d game that I'd like to port over to Skia. What did you end up using to handle input and audio and other gamey things?
> In general, the FDA over-regulates rather than under regulates.

In general, the FDA under-regulates dramatically.
Speaking objectively, I linked to an appeal from a broad coalition of disability rights activists to stop using a particular term in the vernacular that has a demonstrable link to the othering. This is not just me, nor is it "liberal coastal areas".

A little more concretely: it's not up to the person saying anything to decide whether or not the thing they say conveys disrespect or harm. It is up to the people harmed by those words to decide. You can, of course, choose to ignore the harm done and continue on as before.

That said, I'm sure the OP's intent was innocent enough - this is the kind of thoughtless use of the word that I (and many other people) work to problematize. I had intended to do so publicly but without much fanfare (one quick sentence), to draw attention to this fact in hopes that we could all work to shift the language.

Speaking subjectively, I find it troubling that the notion that basic decency toward other humans who have a relatively simple ask (use "terrible" or "garbagefire" or "shitty" instead of "r_") is viewed as a "liberal US coastal" practice that should be avoided out of sheer tribalism. Not sure there's much else to say rather than "troubling".

This whole thread is OT at this point, but I'm simply not willing to let this go. The lexicon has plenty of synonyms for "is terrible and unintelligently designed and frustrating to use" that we can afford to drop one.
My Blog Post about Complexitiy in IT-Projects
What do you think about my blog post about Complexity in IT-Projects?
https://steemit.com/project/@thomasred/complexity-in-it-projects

First I want to put the (for me) most important sentence that's associated with Project Management at the beginning:

-Important is that a project can count as successful for the project manager, when all goals are met but it still can be a disaster for the client. This is often the case when the projects requirements are fulfilled, but they weren’t defined right at the beginning of the project (project kick-off)- (De Wit, 1988).

I would be happy if you give me some feedback :)
Anecdotally, I can confirm that this is probably the deciding factor. I use a Yubikey daily on both macOS and Linux - Linux smartcard support is rock solid, but it's really spotty on macOS.
the web browser?

i can't think of a single "app" which is better than a mediocre web site.
Makes me wonder what other sort of things a given server is participating in without realizing it. I don't see how you could use this exact technique(TCP checksums) to mine crypto, for example, but there might be some relatively common web applications out there that could be exploited in a similar way.
Preface with the usual "I just work here and don't speak for the company", but from my point of view it always just comes down to numbers with Amazon. Make the presentation as pretty or splashy as you want but you're only doing that for your own sake, not Amazon's. You could have sent a handwritten letter with the same information.

Somewhere in the company will be a database. In it, there will be one column for every property of a city, one column for each property of the bid received (tax breaks included of course). I'll bet there will be hundreds of columns. And then there will be a very large formula that takes every property, assigns it a value to Amazon over the next 25 years, and adds it all up.

It's probably quite a complex formula. I have a friend with a master's degree in computational geometry who used to work on fulfillment center placement optimization. Lots of software dedicated to that I hear. Amazon is a data-driven company- it would never leave such problems to human intuition.

Once the data entry was done, and probably a few dozen formula updates were made as new factors were realized and added in, the decision would have been made automatically. The only problem left would be announcing it at the best time to further profit Amazon- another factor the formula probably spit out.

My guess is that we'll know when Q4 results are published. I'd love it to be my home city of Toronto, but I think the lack of tax breaks offered may push it down in the formula's ranking.
I doubt all those technologies will be mature enough in the next 100 years, even driverless cars will not be fully operational any time soon. Some of the technology already exists like auto parking of cars in towers, some is unnecessary like smart contract or crypto currency which is not relevant, the financial and scheduling can be done with regular money or booking systems.
But the main issue in the core of it is the waste of energy and resources. Moving rooms around and making enough road space for those huge vehicles is a crazy waste of resources, not to mention the impact of rush hours on such a scheme.
It is much more efficient to build all those modules in various places in town and let people hire them based on needs while improving transportation and reducing the footprint of it. It is done in many new modern Asian cities but mixing offices with small one room apartments with capsule hotels and with a karaoke room with a restaurant in one location is too imaginary for the typical Australian who is used to endless boring suburbs of detached houses.
XRP
A lot of people here have jaded views. Perhaps because they feel like they missed an opportunity. I believe that the Eth rocket is just about to launch. I recommend jumping aboard.

Don’t fall for the sunk cost fallacy. Just because you started walking in the wrong direction doesn’t mean you have to keep walking in the wrong direction.

Go to Coinbase.com if you reside in the US.

Get in now. Go long, I do believe.

You’ll feel better about your future when you see stories posted on HN like this if you have a coin. That alone to me is worth $1350. Reading the frequently posted crypto stories on HN with joy. Don’t buy the hype. Buy the good feeling that comes with the hype.
disclaimer: not medical advice, please consult opthalmologist

If you are nearsighted and wear your full distance prescription for extended near (computer/reading) work, there is some chance that your eye will adapt to the most dominant distance, eventually requiring a stronger prescription for distance/driving. Rinse/repeat = ever worsening glasses for some people.

To avoid this problem, ask your optometerist for a separate (weaker) prescription for computer glasses. You can get a ballpark idea from http://computerglassesrx.com. Glasses are cheap these days, e.g. online from Zenni for less than $50.

Lasik carves a lens onto your eyes. If that lens strength is your distance prescription, the same issue exists as with glasses. To reduce close-up strain on your eyes, you can use plus lenses for close-up work, which reduces the lasik/contacts "minus" prescription for near distances. Look at the calculator above for an estimate, but consult an eye doctor, as there are variables like age/presbyopia/convergence.

Previous HN thread on Lasik: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9941566

Non-mainstream discussion of plus lens therapy: http://forum.gettingstronger.org/index.php?topic=1115.0
Wonder why PaddyPower does not have Detroit even on their (long)list:
https://www.goo.gl/p55Loa
My experience has been that when you are looking for a job working for other people after being self-employed is that the boss thinks you were "self-employed" - you have to get over this idea (in the mind of the hiring manager) that being self-employed is just a euphemism for being unemployed.

Some things you can do:

Write about technical projects you did for your company... write them up a little like they were different jobs, formatting wise. At least in the sysadmin world it really helps to make sure you include the keywords for the tools you used in those projects.

Remove the apology for the lack of experience... if you can list good projects you did for fractals, you won't need to apologize or plead, it will show what you were doing.

One way of thinking about it, depending on what sort of job you are applying for, is that you are trying to re-cast your experience at your company as employee work. I mean, I technically have been an employee of prgmr.com for the last decade. That's absolutely true, and the IRS can verify, even though I have also been majority owner for most of that time. Most technical jobs don't actually care that you are 'entrepreneurial' - they care about your technical abilities, so recast on that, if you are applying for an employee job.

Fundamentally? that's the problem with trying to get employee work after working for yourself. You need to convince your boss you actually were doing something during your period of self employment - that you weren't just unemployed.

The next problem, of course, is convincing the boss that you will focus on their company and not yours, but in my experience, that comes up after they are already interested. You need to be prepared for the question, though; I've definitely bombed some interviews because I was not.
> The purpose of swap is not running things out of it. The purpose is shoveling unused data out of memory. And for that it doesn't need to be particularly fast.

You can't detect a priori whether data is "unused." If you guess wrong a few times in a row, you get the familiar pattern where your Linux box is unresponsive to everything and needs to be bounced.

If you could detect whether data is rarely used, swap still isn't necessary. Applications can mmap() a file and use that region for "rarely used data" if such is known in advance.

Extraneous functions should be backed by the executable in the common case. In the JIT case, they probably won't be JITted anyway.

I still think the OOM killer is less intrusive than swapping to disk. It kills some, but not all, of the processes on the machine get killed. The system pretty reliably comes back to life in less time than it takes a human to diagnose the problem and bounce the system. As a bonus, no human needs to get involved.
RISC V is certainly not vulnerable to Spectere as all the the real-world chips are in-order execution, meaning post-branch instruction never happen until after the branch is decided.

Out of order variants are still in the design stage, so they may come up with a way to isolate or invalidate speculation effects on branch misprediction.
Been using computers for 21 years. I got some floaters when I was a teenager, but still 20/20!
hard disk xfer is 500 MB/s

You need better disks. The one in the laptop I'm typing this on can do 2GB/s, which greatly weakens your comparison.
There's a userspace daemon that does that: https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom (I am the author)
Not one of them has made a compelling case as to its value.

Say you want to buy something from a Chinese supplier and you are in the Americas. They get the money in minutes and the process of sending them the funds is as easy as sending an email. If crypto was used solely for this purpose it would be incredible value. I know this because when I wire money internationally we are all in suspense for days.
I was doing some home automation stuff with Node-RED and spotted that when I tried to figure out when a Chromecast was online - mDNS using ZeroConf would blow up Node-RED for no apparent reason, using SSDP worked OK. Now I know why...
When is the final decision expected to be announced?
ohh I didn't even notice I was replying to you. :-)

p.s. You said you've done a lot of blogging - where can I find that online?
I'm not sure if it is worth the attention. I think it is technically accurate, but it is primarily a piece of marketing as opposed to a detailed description of the technology.
I don't.

All the services I'm using it on require some sort of backup 2FA method, so I simply use an authenticator app (that I have to use anyway since not all websites allow U2F keys) as a backup method.

Never managed far in messing around to use Yubikeys for GPG and SSH. It's nice and all, but U2F keys are useful without it as well.
Suppose someone would invest billions in obtaining a mining rig that single handedly achieves 20%, or 30% or whatever% of the mining power of the network, then they effectively use that advantage to achieve manipulation of the network or manipulation of the economy via their monopoly/large-entity level oversight of the economy. As you point out, there is no incentive to kill the network, but quite a bit of incentive to manipulate the network. Via modern corporate shells, no doubt people/groups are already trying to achieve this, they do in any market.
The sa 80 was designed by engineers who had no experience with guns
Simple yet effective.
WOW!

I had c. diff (it sucked, a lot) and this really fills in some gaps for me. Before my gut was destroyed by c. diff, I used to eat more ice cream, no doubt containing this sugar. Obviously I can't say for certain, but I can see how this helped the pathogen gain a hold in my gut.
I tried once, I don't think it will replace classic recruiting.
Bitcoin Cash solved the issue by just increasing the block size. Its fees are pretty low.
This makes sense. Changing the keyboard presumably leads to a different set of repetitive motions and different injury mechanisms, giving your musculoskeletal system the opportunity to heal existing damage.

Was the approach of changing your keyboard periodically recommended by a medical professional? Or by something you read?
This breaks the commenting guidelines here.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A fair number of vendors, actually. The first comment in this Reddit post has a list:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6pgxb6/where_can_i...
@artpar can you post some docs on the endpoints and how they should be used. I want to tie this into a speech to text system but i need more api info
This is usually called adaptive traffic control, and has been implemented (minus machine learning, I'm guessing) in a bunch of places, including a part of New York City [1] and, more famously, Australia [2]. The latter system, pioneered by the city of Sydney, has been sold to other countries such as Singapore. Not sure how technologically interesting these systems are. The Sydney system was developed in the 1970s, but has been improved with more modern tech (such as cellular networking) since then.

[1] http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2012/pr12_25.shtml

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Coordinated_Adaptive_Tr...
"Got some"? My ophthalmologist says that everyone has them. Some of us are just 'lucky' enough to notice they exist.
Thanks for the Codenames Duet tip, that looks great for two people! I do prefer Pictures myself too, as I think it lets you be more imaginative.
I think "kak" still would be translated better as "shit", you wouldn't curse with "POO!". But in Dutch you can curse with "KAK!", just as 'SH*T!' in English.
Looks like we found the javatarian!

I had to look up on Wikipedia when Rust was conceived: 2010. It took me another moment to realize that it's already been 8 years.

We should be flying in spaceships programmed with Rust by now. This is ridiculous.
Isn't the goal to have 90fps? 60fps would probably induce nausea.
Yeah, this isn't "obvious" at all. North Korea is not at war with Japan. What could it even gain from it anyway? Just war for the sake of war and have their country destroyed and their government overthrown? This doesn't make sense at all. Don't forget a lot of NK elite including Kin Jung-Un himself were educated in Europe. They know the state of the world.

So when I'll go to Japan again latter this year as a scholar, NK is the millionth thing I'll care. Because the risk isn't real, it's mostly propaganda towards a country that is trying hard to exists. I think the most important thread are actually the US and how they're unnecessarily adding fuel to the fire at any occasion.

In addition, I would mention that the mere existence of NK is a by product of the US intervention in the Korea War. Should the communist forces won like they did in China & Vietnam, the country would not have been parted like it is. And the situation towards capitalism would have started a normalisation like in China and Vietnam.
netlify's ssl is one button plus a dns entry. it's pretty shiny
But they have huge, I mean really, really huge numbers. And their generation time is measured in hours.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is neither a bromatologist nor a pathologist, so as far as I' concerned his speculation on the subject has minimal value.
Not "a" random number generator, but rather trillions of random number generators running in parallel.
Yes, exactly, thank you. The world has sharp corners and it appears that tourists and people who recently moved to Hawaii apparently have no idea that Hawaii's a fucking target. It's the center of the universe in the Pacific. There is an entire division of troops there, and carriers, and planes, and missiles, and nukes and nuke subs. Hawaii is the most tunneled piece of American soil. All of these people crying on the floor in the fetal position seem to have successfully lived out their lives inside a fantasy bubble where nothing goes wrong. I wonder how they would feel if they knew how dangerous it was to drive on the highway. It was actually less dangerous to go to Iraq than it was to drive on American highways. It's clear these fragile souls have no idea what's out there waiting for them.
Any luck calling your credit card company or bank and disputing the charge? Credit card companies actually give the average consumer a lot of clout against shady business tactics like this so long as you have a good history with the card issuer.
For a community of technology enthusiasts, it's surprising to see the amount of misconceptions people here have about blockchain, as it pertains to cryptocurrencies, as well as general angst towards a new technology with a ton of future potential.
I did this strategy just today with privacy.com which isn't a credit card at all but bills your bank account directly.
Does anyone else see a Buy Vive button that does not seem to work? I am interested in buying the wireless receiver (and possibly a vive pro). I saw it at CES2018 and it seems to use 802.11ad. I wonder if it comes with both the receiver and the packet router for the pc or if you need to buy your own wireless router. FYI I'm using firefoxDev edition, the button doesn't seem to pop up for me on chrome.