skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not specific to your project, but I suspect you’ll know the answer: If React code contains sufficient information to infer type, why is a separate type system needed? (Or why can’t the same inference by made at compile time, rather than scattering the code with type definitions and external type files?)
And then it will well and truly be stuck at $0. It would be foolish indeed to buy a coin of any cryptocurrency when all the coins are held by one individual.
Within my own self, I have a dichotomy. When I am on the piano and reading from sheet music, I feel "classical." I am a bit more deliberate and I stumble a few times. When I am on my guitar, I mostly play by ear and feel. I throw on a backing track and just improvise the entire time. Anything accidental slips I have get incorporated into what I am playing.

I have tried to reverse the two (play classical guitar, and improve piano) and I simply cannot, or I look like an absolute beginner.
> I lived through the 80s and early 90s. The difference is that I could do stuff with the early Internet. I could do stuff with BBSes. I could do stuff with early PCs. These things were almost immediately very useful to a lot of people.

You must have hung out with a nerdier crowd than I did :) I was the only person I knew who owned a personal computer until well into the late 90s.

> The reason I've become a bear on cryptocurrency is that I don't see the utility to justify the monstrous amounts of money pouring into it. It's almost 10 years old and today it's actually less useful than it was a few years ago due to runaway fee growth.

So I think cryptocurrency here is getting conflated with the underlying technology, just like Geocities came to be the poster child of the early web. I agree with you that the current systems have much work to be done, and that many of them will be abandoned before they're fixed. But cryptocurrency is not the blockchain anymore than gopher was the internet. Services like Bitcoin built on blockchains may cease to exist in their current state, but just like we still have TCP/IP, I think the blockchain piece will be essential moving forward.

> That and I see a ton of scams. Almost all cryptocurrency projects seem like either scams or delusional vaporware projects akin to badly thought out Kickstarters or over-funded boil-the-ocean startups. These things rarely accomplish anything other than to blow a lot of money.

I get a lot of scams via postal mail, telephone, and the email, but that doesn't negate the purpose of the technology :)

> Want to change my mind? Show me the cryptocurrency killer app that people are climbing over each other to use.

I think you misunderstand my viewpoint. I don't think the technologies of today are the solutions anymore than Geocities was the be-all-end-all of the web. My comments are more directed toward those who believe this technology leads to a dead end and that reducing the reliance on third party trust is not a problem that needs to be worked on.
No. This waiver would be valid in court. The other cases deal with employee-employer relationships.
Japan national broadcaster apologizes for false ballistic missile alert
Yes, it is a pre-written message that can be selected from a drop-down list. He was off by one, the "no drill" message was adjacent to the "test" message.
> Disney hasn’t been the best in allowing its own works to become part of the public domain

Well that's the understatement of the century.
Deterministic Chaos is a real bastard.

There was a disturbing result a while back about the Navier-Stokes equations in which the existence of non-unique solutions was shown: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10033
Stop doing all the things. Do the things that matter
The military has to have contingencies in place for if all satellite communication were disabled, through some method or another. Should symmetric warfare between modern nations ever break out, satellite comms would be one of the most valuable and ostensibly poorly defended targets. You can't really assume much of anything about the status quo in planning for war.
Why do you think the mortgage derivatives were broadly speaking underpriced?

There are a lot of kinds of risks you can buy that exhibit "picking up dimes in front of a steamroller" risk, and are priced fairly. That is, 99% of the time you get a free dime...
It's a nice talk, but does he have to swear so much?
> You're saying there's no basis for these claims

I'm saying that there is no basis that has been cited for the specific characterizations made in the comment I first responded to upthread, correct.

> The basis is the legal complaint, which is publicly accessible.

Your post in which you made the characterization quoted text from the news article, not the complaint. If you actually have read the complaint and were characterizing the material in it after reading it in context, that was a very poor presentation.

> While I know that the news media will give it their own biased slant, certain things, like her saying that she has the license plate numbers of those visiting his house, or that he has BDSM gear, I believe I can take as objectively factual.

Perhaps, but the characterization of their relevance to the legal causes of action at the center of the case would require knowing, for instance, the details of the alleged manner of intentional infliction of emotional distress and whether or not the arsenal of BDSM equipment was integral to that. Which you could not get from the news article at the head of the thread; you could, presumably, from the complaint, but I see no evidence that you have seen it.
Do yourself (and to other e-mail users in the hacker community) some good and use something like Mutt or Gnus. Sth. like Thunderbird is not worth the hassle if you can edit a configuration file and read a man page (most folk here, I'd guess), and who can't is using Gmail and/or the app on their phones anyways.
I am going to quote him:

> giving to other engineers features that I would like to do myself" [...] I want to give my team members the interesting work and not hog all the cool stuff myself ...

It even implies that they are fully capable and that he trusts them to do those tasks. It also implies that he indeed would like do that task, because he finds doing that task "cool".

Both are marks of good leader and so is being self-aware. None of them implies him team members need to be taught or that teaching instead of doing task them would satisfy his wish to do the cool thing.
How we wrote and sent the “best cold email ever”
> Seems absurd to me.

i'm really interested; what do you think the alternative is?

would you be happier if you had to mail in a signed copy of the contract?
Once the SSDs became standard (or a reasonably-priced option, I forget), the Air hit its stride, I think. I had a 2010 that I did dev work on (iOS and Mac), and it was great with plenty of power for what I was doing. My wife still has a hand-me-down 2011 that works fine. Getting a bit long in the tooth, and she sees more beach balls than she should, but it does what she needs it to do.

I can’t imagine having to work with one with the old iPod drives in them. Those things were dogs what with a small amount of RAM and a severe penalty for hitting disk. But, hey, I’m glad it served your needs! :-)
Yup. Quantum Jubilee is coming. But interestingly, even just the credible threat of Quantum Jubilee could have devastating effects on Bitcoin classic. Banks might be better prepared to switch over to quantum-resistant encryption since they're already centralized.
What is the general thinking on what the right properties of cryptocurrencies should be to give them nonzero value? (e.g., cheap, low volatility, low transaction cost (in time and expense to transacting party), reliability of transactions, lack of central authority?)

To motivate this, there are many reasons for gold to have become the physical currency of choice, outlined here: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25255957

I would imagine that the long-term cryptocurrency will have comparable benefits (whatever those benefits are for cryptocurrencies).
> While I fully agree that most cryptocurrencies are grossly overvalued...

Could you please explain what “overvalued” even means in this context, and how one might go about determining fair value for cryptocurrency? I’ve yet to receive a straight answer on this.
Saved for posterity: https://web.archive.org/web/20180116200308/https://www.ycomb...
It's a developer agreement rather than an EULA. Unless you're just a hobbyist messing around, you should definitely be reading those.
Exactly. The GameCube/Wii emulation scene does not have any of that drama like the N64 scene has, which leads to everyone in the scene being happy to work together on one single emulator instead of everyone working on their own projects.
It wasn't a test drill, it was a system test. Like a heartbeat test. The test message is automatically processed by the downstreams as a test.
They’re not difficult to find with electric current detection and maps indicating the general vicinity.
Yes, miners will receive transaction fees. But have you run the numbers on how much those transaction fees would have to be to match the current block reward?

The endgame seems completely untenable. No one is going to pay a huge amount per BTC transfer. So what do you think will happen to all those miners, with all their mining equipment?

We currently have a monstrous block reward every 10 minutes, and yet tx fees are already $10 to $20. Imagine how much the fees will be when there's no reward.
With a roll of film nearly a foot wide and lenses that can pick a gnat off a flea pointed at the target, the pilot can get instructions in the air immediately before penetrating "contested" airspace and get crystal pics of everything on the fly at any speed he wishes. Max potential velocity over the target is mainly to insure survivability; it doesn't affect photo performance.
Yes, that's what I meant to write. Note that those are not my personal opinions (as a pedestrian, cyclist, and non-car-owner, I'd like to think I'm as real an American as anyone else), but I do think they are common opinions in America.
>So, it would have been equally OK for other nations to invade the US in the interests of the black slaves, the native Americans, the other peoples all over the world it harmed, etc?

Depends on how you look at it, the North certainly invaded an independent CSA (the South) over slavery as most of the war was fought in the South. Obviously the North thought it was ok and the South didn't. Also, the UK nearly join the war on the side of the South. "OK" is such a simple term, I think we are having completely different levels of discussion.

>You'd be surprised. That's how Americans tell it themselves, and also how, via Hollywood, they taught modern historically illiterate people to see it. In surveys and polls the decades just after WWII, when the thing was still fresh in memory, most Europeans placed the biggest role in defeating Nazi Germany with USSR, not the US.

So my statement was Europe wanted the US to enter the war (which they most certainly did.) You are arguing that the USSR was the most responsible for defeating Nazi Germany. Do you see how those are two different things? I know you want to win the argument, but at least counter argue what I'm arguing.

FWIW, I agree that the USSR was the single most important factor in defeating Nazi Germany. Russia was also was one of the factors of the rise since they signed the Soviet-German non-aggression pact, then both Germany and Russia invaded Eastern Europe. Oops.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-08-21/pact-between-hitler-a...
I think it would be more appropriate to ask:

This conditional evaluates to `true`, but how?

If you first ask, 'Is this possible?', then most of us, who have long forgotten terrible coding standards, would say no, out of hand. I would have thought the interviewer was testing to see if I was an idiot.

I find once I resolve myself to knowing that the bug is possible, then I can find and fix it.
with transaction times of several minutes (hours?) how can people even trade that stuff?
The thing about these ideas is they seem to presuppose starting from a blank canvas as opposed to starting from the current system of corrupt governments and corporate influence. Any implementations of Basic Jobs/Basic Income would be as rotten as the foundations they're built on, it's not going to go all rainbows and pixie-dust all of a sudden. Lobbying, self-interest, need of a hierarchy to rise up in and look down from...

Apologies for my cynicism. Workfare in the UK hasn't been very fluffy.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jul/06/workfare-sch...

http://www.boycottworkfare.org
"Workfare provides free labour for businesses and charities, enforced by benefit sanctions."

http://www.solfed.org.uk/catalyst/the-great-workfare-scandal
"What boss would want to employ a worker they have to pay, when the government will give them someone off the dole to do it for free? The aim of workfare is simply to drive down wages.”
Automobile ownership is dumb, but ridesharing isn't the answer either. Cities need to invest in public infrastructure, especially fast efficient public transit. People should also rediscover the joy of human power (walk, bike, run).
It is your job not to destroy evidence that you have a reasonable belief is about to be lawfully requested by law enforcement. Shutting down your computers is destroying the contents of RAM, so if you have a reasonable belief that the police are about to request access to the contents of your RAM, then you have illegally destroyed evidence.
This week I had the battery replaced in my mid 2013 Air. First time I’ve had a computer for anything like this long and not wanted to bin it. A bigger SSD and more RAM would be nice but it remains my ideal laptop. They were definitely on to something.
Do you seriously think anybody would confuse this snippet for production code?
Sorry, my mistake. I assumed that the excerpt in HN was sufficient to understand the question.

(Or if you're saying that HN is where I'd find the "javascript" tag, I'm somehow not seeing that in my browser.)
It might have only become clear to her at a later point that it's actually criminal rather than just unethical - if she was able to tell from the beginning it is illegal, she would probably be a lawyer or a paralegal, rather than a nanny.
Check out Friedrich Gulda (he's both a classical and a jazz pianist as well as a composer).

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=friedrich+gulda
+1 - I use this for my personal site - it's great.

The only thing I found is you can't have any orphaned pages (like hidden ones) from the homepage. As it scrapes down if there aren't any links to it it won't find it. Small problem, definitely cuts down on the work I need to do for my personal tool site though.
Alexa, We're Still Trying to Figure Out What to Do with You
I can't wait for it to throw angry popups at me if i fail to use a neutral gender...
Most who bought stocks after the 1929 crash and held made very good money during the depression. The average dividend yield of the S&P index during the 1930s was about 7.8% per year.
That is a wild assumption.
If you provide candidates a live debugger, I'd say this tests debugging skills (which I think is important to test.)

I'm not sure what this tests if it was on a white board.
Google's IT professional certificate lunches on Coursera with 10K scholarships
Sure, but it's clear that you're overriding a method. In Js you're using an operator for which there's no explicit overloading, and instead you're exploiting 'coercion' rules.
I hope they don't go in that direction, I like my emails compact on 1 line.
>You lived through the 80s and 90s right? I can't count how many times in my life I was told no one would ever need a computer in their house, we've gotten along for decades just fine without them. No one will ever buy books online, that's ridiculous, you can go to the store and have one right now. The internet is just a niche chat program that will never have any use in business, etc.

Why do you assume that Bitcoin is one of these few winners, rather than the multitude of losers? The default position should be "failure"; it's not irrational.
I found the TypeScript contributors very responsive on GitHub issues. Maybe I'm just lucky?

I just submitted a bug[0] on Jan 5 and it got fixed on Jan 9.

Another bug[1] from a couple years ago was submitted Aug 4 and fixed Aug 5.

I'm pretty satisfied ;)

[0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/21031

[1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/4155
This is also possible under c, assuming a is declared volatile, or if the compile chooses not to optimize out the always false statement and tests a 3 times in sequence.
This type of information about the candidate can be gotten in a much more evenhanded way by rephrasing the question: What's the trickiest bug you've ever had to fix, and why? Follow up as appropriate with specific questions about the actual bug they solved.
Why? I'm curious because sometimes I use a "trick" question (trick in quotes because this really isn't a trick question either) to gauge someone's ability to think on their feet. A "trick" question being one I'm fairly certain there's no answer to floating around and which requires some thinking. The goal should never be a pass/fail did they know the trick question, but someone who can think on their feet and work through one is more appealing to me than someone who throws in the towel.
And to extend this hypothetical a little: the nuclear arsenal of people attacking the US is not as good as the one in the US.

Odds are anyone dumb enough to throw a nuke at the US is doing so with some really cunning plan in mind hoping for retaliation, and doing so with a nuke that's far from optimal. Russia and China are better served by eating up the US economy (and government!), than balls-to-the-wall war, so it's more likely an country that 'also has nukes' than the players with the real budgets.
The first missiles (V1) were basically ramjet engines, so it’s not exactly unheard off. The advantage of such an engine is that it doesn’t need to bring its oxidizer along like a rocket engine would need to, so depending on how the engines weight compares to a rocket engine, it would allow for more payload at the same total weight which might be interesting in various places.
"The best engineers I've worked with know a ridiculous amount of these kinds of "tricks"--that's a big part of what makes them the best."

Nah, no way. I work with some great engineers and they do not do "tricks" in their code. You write clean code that works within known conventions and patterns, so that it has long term maintainability. If you need "tricks" like this, then you're probably neck deep is some trash code looking for hail-marys to save you from yourself by causing side effects that you desire in the short term.
> transparency is of higher value in such debates compared to strategical opaqueness

I want to put this on a plaque and hang it in every public office.
https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs is the full list of WebAssembly languages and their current status.
Atlanta, and the surrounding suburbs and exurbs, saw significant drops like this as well in many neighborhoods and cities. Same with the Jacksonville, FL area.
This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 188.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
1> (defstruct incster nil
(val 0)
(:method equal (me) (inc me.val)))
#<struct-type incster>
2> (let ((a (new incster)))
(and (equal a 1) (equal a 2) (equal a 3)))
t

:)

Equality substitution: http://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-00790C76
Should be pretty easy to do in C# as well.

private int _a;

public int a { get { _a++; return _a;}}
Maybe your problem is you hired developers that write code with tricks and gotchas.
Is there an alternative Identity verification besides FacebooK?
> any updates published by any AS may arbitrarily re-route/disrupt traffic

Fortunately, most ISPs are doing strict filtering on announcements on customer ASes. It's when mid-to-large ISPs fuck up (or neglect the filtering part) that it becomes a problem.
Being able to 'find all references' of a variable, do a safe global rename, and 'go to definition' saves an immense amount of time.

Not to mention preventing tons of run-time bugs which saves a ton of times having to figure out.
New Mac malware hijacks DNS and compromises internet traffic
Intel underfoot: Floor sensors rise as retail data source
Ok, about this we will release soon a new feature where users will be able to deploy their static site on a custom ftp/sftp server.
Adding a git repo as destination won't be a problem :-)
> Why do you assume that Bitcoin is one of these few winners, rather than the multitude of losers?

I didn't state that Bitcoin would be a winner, and in fact stated in my comment that Bitcoin may cease to exist as a software product. My criticism is more directed toward those who don't believe the blockchain is a useful data construct and that the research taking place today into blockchains and cryptocurrencies are a dead end.
Drug prices don't dip when the government outlaws them. If anything, the need to outlaw crypto validates their utility.
Being rubbish at a task, at our house, results in you getting more. My youngest's crappy/lazy vacuuming job on his own room, for instance, earned him some "practice". :-)

We just don't have that much hand-washing to do. They are still rubbish at the task even when made to do it.
I'm not sure but I've seen Visa terminals that behave as if they enter some kind of offline mode when their ancient GPRS connection in the middle of the woods time out. In this mode you can only do smaller purchases and they are then later sent to the bank once the store gets a connection. This is for Visa debit btw, not credit.
So, how does it relate then? What did you add by including it? It's a famous quote, and I remember mentioning it to a college professor when we covered Poe's 'The Black Cat.' I'm all for learning. Please explain.
I didn't drive a lot (or own a car) until I graduated from school. But I do have trouble wrapping my head around not getting a driver's license past a certain point--whether they get one while in school or not. Even had Uber/Lyft existed at the time, I literally couldn't have done my first job (I regularly had to drive hours to a job site) and I would have been at least reliant on other people at other jobs.

Vacations and weekends would be even more limited.

I certainly get not owning a car, especially in a city. That's basically a decision about economics and hassle. But even the couple I know who live in SF without a car use rentals and Zipcar all the time (in addition to Uber/Lyft).
A chord progression is sequence of chords that defines the harmony of a song. A chord is a few notes played simultaneously. Think of a guy strumming a guitar, he would play the harmony with his guitar, and sing the melody.

In western music, chords and chord progressions are constructed according to certain rules (google "harmonization of the major scale") that are now familiar to most listeners. Actually, many pop songs share exactly the same sequence of chords. This contrats with jazz which tends to bend the rules.
Umm... You do know that Zimbabwe has used the USD and South African Rand as its currencies since 2009, right? They abandoned the Zimbabwean dollar due to hyperinflation. All I've ever seen there is USD.
I'm sure people in the US would love to walk to work, but the layout of US cities doesn't lend itself to that. People tend to live pretty dang far from where they work in the US.