skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn’t you make the same argument about total surveillance?

Or, say, forced labor for the entire population. If people experience negative feelings while imprisoned, then maybe we should work on the real problem of those feelings, not challenge the nice neutral forced labor concept.

My point is that power over ordinary people generally corrupts, and the only real solution is to reduce and distribute that power so that individuals have more autonomy. Mass surveillance from AVs is a direct threat to your human autonomy.
> Diversity might be good for an established company but for a startup, it's not important at all

You're right, it's not important - it's critical. Diversity means stretching boundaries, broader perspectives, and greater quality; not to mention playing a huge part in shaping the company's culture and values.

There are a lot more amateur & semi-pro basketball players in the world than in the NBA. Make sure you're playing a game that requires all star gameplay (like space jam!) before setting the bar that high. Most games just need players who are reasonably good. And likewise, beware what happens when a team is packed with nothing but allstars - they all play their own way but not together (and typically lose)
But this is a complete fantasy, right? It's completely at odds with actual capitalism. The cycles your proposing would happen would be broken the moment an unethical company is able to appear as an ethical one, which is not exactly hard.
No more than Match.com do, who run on .NET. Basecamp just uses the standard Rails caching AFAIK.

Templating just isn't the issue now that it was in the days of 1.8. HAML is slower than ERB, but usually neither have a meaningful impact on response time on modern Ruby. ERB is approaching Erubis performance now.
> Biocomposite frame and panels (stronger and lighter than steel and aluminum (George Washington Carver))

"Soybean Car" (1941) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean_car
Andrew Ng’s latest venture is a $175M fund for AI startups
Aren't ability to abstract and experience sort of similar? I don't really consider the ability to write a generic function (instead of copy-paste) to be the same as the ability to abstract. To write a good abstraction you need to understand both the underlying system and the consumption pattern to avoid abstraction leaks, boilerplate, hiding of useful features, etc. You can't really be sure that you're writing a good abstraction without at least having some idea of what are alternative approaches and what are their strengths and weaknesses.
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Yes, not sure why you are called out. You can influence the system to your benefit when you have that kind of wealth
Avalon is awesome. I can live without the rest of the catalogue.
It blocks all third party scripts by default, allows first party scripts by default, and offers a very intuitive and clean interface for selectively allowing frames, xhr requests, scripts, etc. It has a better UX than uBlock in my experience.
Maybe the pricing is to keep out people who would only buy low volumes of chips later?

Sony used to price Playstation 2 dev kits at $thousands. I always figured that pricing was to ensure only rich companies with e.g. marketing budgets were going to develop games.
(Note that they are both well-defined in Rust)
With intel... any number of PC motherboards.
With ARM... any number of quad-core ~1.2GHz boards.

Either of the above can easily be had for a few percent of the cost of the RISC-V board, will likely out-perform it and they're losing money on each one of them.
This approach is cutting off a major strategic artery. Sales & marketing can do much more than just pushing what they're given; they should be a valuable pulse on the customer, and the truest feedback you can get for an upcoming feature is whether or not someone will pay you for it.

Particularly for larger or more advanced features, it makes much more sense to run engineering partly in parallel with sales & marketing (with feedback between the two) rather than in serial. Product and innovation cycles in the company are much tighter that way, and more accurate.
I think there can be different reasons to hire someone.

If I'm running a project and I'm having all kinds of problems to get my node.js performance to an acceptable level I'd look for a programmer that knows how to tweak node.js and all parameters associated with it (scripts, server, OS).

If I'm starting a project and I already have a node.js specialist aboard and I need to hire someone for the long term I can basically hire anyone with the right talents.

But it's a very different story depending on the parameters.
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On the level required to be an effective developer? Yes. Absolutely.
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This is very familiar by now. It's exactly like the Mt Gox situation. Blame the banks and vehemently defend that you're solvent.
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The 382th episode in which a rustacean blames C while he has only practised C++.

1. The (int PTR) cast of malloc() gives you away immediately. No cast in C.

2. > missing free on resize. When the resize occurs, we reassign vec->data without freeing the old data pointer, resulting in a memory leak.

Er... C has realloc() for that. Once again, you do delete() + new() only in C++, not in C.

BTW, you forgot other errors in your "C" program.
When I get stressed I just open my stock vesting page and say "two more years." :^)
But it's the same in Europe. My credit card has that magstripe too. I've never used it, but it has it. And I enter my credit card number in places online. So, I don't see how I'm more protected?
Never said it was going to fail. I just don’t expect it to be more appropriate as a hacker’s OS than OpenBSD or Linux.
Factory farming was literally non-existent in India about 15-20 years ago. And when it started it was advertised and promoted as a "cleaner" alternative to buying from traditional sources.

When morality and responsibility is moved away from the individual, the unscrupulous rise up to dominate the market.

Europe isn't as rosy either as it is often painted. The supermarkets (near duopoly), would sell anything at any price as long as they can get away with it.
The preferred WebView on Android is an out of process Chrome instance. The difference is that the Chrome app that provides that widget is updated without requiring an OS update, which is what we're all wondering why Apple can't do, either because of incompetence (my guess) or malice (the hypothesis of the article's author).
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Yes, every nation in the world has a "big shame", but none of them really face it. They might play "good cop, bad cop" by dividing into several "nations", each with a different policy. Remember, "the Germans" comprise many "nations", i.e. Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Germany was even 2 nations for half the 20th century, and Switzerland was virtually all German-speaking until 1815. Have the Switz Germans really faced up to financing the Nazis?

Or a nation might face up to a big shame as cover so they can nurture many "little shames", like modern Germany's treatment of its Turk residents.
Why is this in a purposefully illegible font? Am I missing something?
Author lives in the Bay Area so he's using Bay Area salary numbers.
It's been a while since I played with Enhydra. Awesome it's still around, in one way or another.
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I am not judging Veganism. I am certainly not doing it on the basis of one extreme example of assholery. But the specific example highlights what is wrong with running around and pissing on other people because you don't approve of their food choices. If vegetarians want to ascribe to themselves the role of moral leader, they need to up their game and figure out how to stop being gratuitous assholes to the millions, if not billions, of animals that are the same species as themselves but don't eat like them.
When Are Nonconvex Optimization Problems Not Scary? (2015)
A grain sprayed with herbicide or a fruit sprayed with an insecticide is going to accumulate in your meat just as well as it will in a chicken, but I agree it will concentrate in predators (like salmon) and omnivores (like humans).

What I don't understand is how the unregulated shipment of of a antibiotic from one country (where it is controlled) for a chicken industry in another country (one of whom was actually bought by pharma company in India) to increase profits of both private companies is "state financed suicide and not at all a free market mechanism". It sounds exactly like laissez faire capitalism exploitation due to bypass of state regulation.
Amazon might not argue, but if it happens too often they might ban you without warning.

And when they do that, it's basically a life sentence. And they also ban your spouse just to be sure.

I've become cautious of returning stuff to Amazon after they sent me a friendly email asking about the "unusually high number of returns" I've had.
Wait. What does retargeting have to do with Amazon’s Engineering culture? Seems like a large leap in logic. Couldn’t it just as easily say “well, that’s Facebook’s caching layer not updating fast enough to remove finished campaigns?”
Or maybe we already have some idea about the product even before hiring the next rockstar ninja.
This feels reductive. Why do side projects have to be "Twitter in a weekend"?

My current side project is a Rack framework for making OpenAPI3-first APIs. "It's certainly not Twitter in a weekend." I learned Swagger/OpenAPI 2.0, so I used grape-swagger; found it frustrating and limited to OpenAPI 2.0 so now I'm using OpenAPI 3.0 and writing `Modern` to properly embed my understanding of it.

If I were looking for a job (I'm not), I would fully expect that this speaks to my understanding of and my comfort with designing and implementing good APIs.
Great. To provide that, all the car will have to do is record all telemetry and upload it to a server farm. After all, it could be months before the cops realize they need a new angle on a crash you drove past.
> Getting integer sizes right is important, and it's not just in cases where you're putting >2G on the heap.

I prioritize on getting their values right :-). So far I have not encountered bugs due to my pretty uniform usage of int. But if they had to deal with allocations >2G, my programs would just die.

Yup, I make some exceptions as well, for example to measure time in microseconds, or to measure the size of very large streams. And of course I try to assert that all downcasts to int are valid, and that my integer operations don't overflow, etc. (why do CPUs still not support overflow exceptions?)

I'm pretty sure we could get rid of quite some historical baggage in terms of integer types. For example, I'm currently working on a network module, and there is a type socklen_t which is to indicate the size of a socket structure. I might be missing something, but to me there is no good reason not to use simply int.
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Abstract of a talk with the same title by one of the authors (Ju Sun; coming up at Duke University on February 5th, 2018):

Many problems arising from scientific and engineering applications can be naturally formulated as optimization problems, most of which are nonconvex. For nonconvex problems, obtaining a local minimizer is computationally hard in theory, never mind the global minimizer. In
practice, however, simple numerical methods often work surprisingly well in finding high-quality solutions for specific problems at hand.

In this talk, I will describe our recent effort in bridging the mysterious theory-practice gap for nonconvex optimization. I will highlight a family of nonconvex problems that can be solved to global optimality using simple numerical methods, independent of initialization. This family has the characteristic global structure that
(1) all local minimizers are global, and (2) all saddle points have directional negative curvatures. Problems lying in this family cover various applications across machine learning, signal processing, scientific imaging, and more. I will focus on two examples we worked out: learning sparsifying bases for massive data and recovery of complex
signals from phaseless measurements. In both examples, the benign global structure allows us to derive geometric insights and computational results that are inaccessible from previous methods. In contrast, alternative approaches to solving nonconvex problems often entail either expensive convex relaxation (e.g., solving large-scale semidefinite
programs) or delicate problem-specific initializations.

Completing and enriching this framework is an active research endeavor that is being undertaken by several research communities. At the end of the talk, I will discuss open problems to be tackled to move forward.
> They shouldn't be held to a feature because some salesperson promised it to a customer.

This is taking the most extreme end of the spectrum as a baseline, and suggesting the polar opposite (sales & marketing get no leeway) as a response. There are benefits in the middle of these two extremes, where you can have sales & marketing discussing potential features and also have a well defined strategy from PMs.
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That's a good way to sell half a dozen boards. :-(

It may work to bootstrap a larger market, but this board will not be a hot seller.
It makes for a convenient headline, however I fail to see how Bitcoin takes that crown versus Cisco in March of 2000. It was overvalued by a solid $450 billion, and that's coming up on two decades ago (for inflation adjustment purposes).

Alternatively, there's PetroChina's trillion dollar valuation during the peak of the commodity bubble:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/business/worldbusiness/05i...

And if we're not talking about more individualized entities, the mother of all bubbles goes to the global real-estate market in 2004-2006. Or, possibly, the bond market today. The global real-estate market was overvalued by tens of trillions of dollars at its peak before the great recession. That rather comical gap between Bitcoin's value at the top and the overvaluation in just the US real-estate market in the Summer of 2005, speaks to the dramatic tone of the article existing solely for clickbait.

If Bitcoin goes to zero, it will not matter very much on a global economic basis. It impacts exceptionally few people, fortunately. When the real-estate bubble collapsed, it nearly took down the global economy. That nearly bankrupted half the largest banks on the planet. It has taken until just the last few years for much of the developed world to truly recover or begin properly recovering.
Many penalties have been scaled to compensate for the expected likelihood of getting caught (so as to keep the expected value of the crime negative.) Even without the radical overhaul it sounds like you're suggesting, we'll definitely have to update at least a few things.
What a great quote, thanks for sharing!
Yeah, can someone change title to [2017] ?
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lisp is modern
But quality side projects are quite helpful in identifying a valuable engineer. A lack of them is not a warning sign either.
Given how many bad sites and bad ads there are out there, I think the list would quickly grow even if Google had the best of intentions.
Or even a car. What percentage of car purchases are financed as opposed to bought in cash?
It's half and half from what I'm reading. It checks a local list for the sha-256 hash or partial hash. Then, if found, it phones home with the partial hash it found.

If you don't want to read [0], I think the Golang parser/lookup at [1] is a reasonable interpretation of what they're doing, but not sure. You can see there that the hashes generated are of different-host-combinations + different-URL-path-combinations. They do the partial hash check in a DB (local, downloaded periodically). If there's a partial hash in the DB, they phone home w/ that partial hash for the full hashes and check if it matches.

So Google gets the partial hash of a URL it had told you could be bad. They return the full hashes for that partial hash. We can hope (and see) that the partial hashes do not match a broad set (and they are host possibility + URL path combo possibility). Surely Google has something that maps the hashes to actual URL patterns, but like the other commenter said, the partial hash you send is only sent when it matches a local DB already.

0 - https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/components/safe_browsin...

1 - https://github.com/google/safebrowsing/
Out of curiosity what breaks compatibility?
A taste for the beautiful: How evolution shapes attraction
So are its compilers and toolchains, would they fit in that amount of memory/disk?
I still resent being pushed into two phone apps for FB.
People seem to conflate Bitcoin with cryptocurrency as a whole. It has been clear for a long time that Bitcoin's pace is unsustainable, especially with the exorbitant transaction fees and mining costs.

But if you look at other cryptocurrencies like Etherium for example, you'll see an interesting differentiation. Not all cryptocurrency values are tied to Bitcoin. Etherium, at the time that I write this, is up 2.4% over a month ago while Bitcoin is down 37% over the same period.

So, while I do think Bitcoin especially is pretty much definitionally a bubble, crashes and volatility are the nature of the game right now. We should be careful to lump digital currency as a whole into the the same category as Bitcoin. Bitcoin was the first, but probably wont be the last and certainly isn't the best.

I think there is value in cryptocurrency that is difficult to see for many people past the black market stuff and the gambling aspect people put to it. If you've ever transferred Etherium to a friend to pay them back for the pizza they bought you, you'll feel that value in a small way.

I'm certain there is a reason these currencies exist beyond the sketchy reasons and I'm quite sure they are here to stay, bubble or not. There was a massive housing bubble, but we still have houses and they are, mostly, recovered above the peak of that bubble ten years later.

It's not hard to imagine a (near) future where cryptocurrencies are a primary means of monetary transactions.
Why not just put all of this learning code online? A side project doesn’t have to be Twitter in a weekend.
This is why the recent proposal by Bunnie of trading transparency against liability would be so important.
That was also used when compressing the drive with DoubleSpace or whatever it was called on 95. Windows would reboot into a mode where the windows had win3.11 style and perform the drive conversion.
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It un-amps itself when I load this.

Even the print trick doesn't work, it just prints the current page, so for a 6-page article you'd have to print 6 times (and each virtual page probably takes up 1 full paper page + 1 line of a 2nd paper page...). Although, who still prints articles anyway?

Guess whose article won't be read past page 1...
Yeah, but we already knew this. Of course they will collect all the data they can all the time and store is as long as they can. What I'm more interested in is how they plan to treat the vehicles themselves. In an autonomous vehicle world, there should be no more moving violations and being pulled over a thing of the past, especially if the vehicles are not owned by humans. Or not, who knows? That's the kind of information that would be much more useful and would potentially save many more lives from ruin than the accident avoidance technology.
They should probably stop investing so much in an engine that requires fossil fuels to operate.
Storage is cheap, this data will have a value. Precedent that gets set now is very important.

Also don’t forget Google’s substantial investments in both AVs and ad-surveillance. They have a strong incentive to make cars phone home the whole time, with as much as possible. And so will their lobbyists.
>Roubini said the sharp fall was the beginning of a crash that would see the value of the digital currency plummet “all the way down to zero”.

It's really hard to take someone seriously when they say the price is going to literally go to zero. It's possible to imagine crashes of 90% or even much worse for an asset like Bitcoin, but a market price of zero would suggest not a single person in the world is willing to pay anything at all for a Bitcoin. Absent a world-changing event like hashing being completely broken, the price will never be exactly zero. I can guarantee this since I myself would be willing to pay at least 1 cent for every BTC that exists, and I know that many would be eager to outbid me with that offer.

If someone is so good at calling the exact extent of this crash, then they should place a short on Bitcoin. You don't have an excuse anymore. It's on regulated markets, unrelated markets, and everything in between. If you really think it's going to zero then put all of your money in a short and make sure not to close it until it gets there. Options are also available for some investors, which should be even more lucrative for you.
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Just put it context and it's fine:

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>It’s a difficult and socially valuable job and they earn their money.

I was not implying otherwise, if that's what you thought.
> not getting any revenue from the company not being located there in the first place

This has to be balanced against the cost to the municipality over the years the company would have been there. The tax breaks and incentives may generate revenue, but as the story notes, the fully burdened cost to the government may wipe out any additional tax revenue. It is proper to ask "what additional costs did taxpayers bear that they wouldn't have if the company had not located there?"
Roubini was also advising to stay out of equities following the post crash recovery in 2009...
Ask HN: How did Amazon hear me say I needed masking tape?
I haven't used the internet to search for masking tape at all recently. Last night, I asked a relative if they had any masking tape around. The closest devices around were a Roku smart TV, an ipad, and that relative's iphone, none of which have ever been logged into or associated with my email address, and my phone was down a hallway, perhaps in listening distance. Lo and behold, a few hours after saying masking tape, Amazon sends me an email listing masking tape sellers. Now, my phone might know my email address. Despite never logging into my email on my phone, I signed up with T-mobile using that address. I know Alexa is always listening and recommends products that it hears people discussing nearby. But I don't have Alexa. Is this an extremely convenient coincidence, or what might be the explanation?
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Coming a bit late to the discussion, but out-of-vocab words and small amounts of labelled data is the exact kind of problem that word embedding vectors are meant to solve, and they do so exceedingly well. Of course, you need a good, large source of (unlabelled) data, preferably approaching the gold standard of "everything that has ever been written about your problem domain" to train the embeddings, and that takes some effort, but then the out-of-vocab words must be exceedingly rare (i.e. only if it's a genuinely new word that has never ever been mentioned before, or a very very rare term that you've discarded), and even that can be solved well with character-based embeddings.