skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their customers aren't really the end-user, but advertisers. They just want to appear to be the good guys.

Perhaps they should offer a paid customer support service just so that they're finally incentivized to help the end-user.
You wouldn't be blamed for thinking that. The entire Rogue Valley is fairly conservative except for Ashland (and to a lesser degree, Talent).
> It's the most difficult part of the project

I'll agree with that heartily.

> the IRS tax code can be consulted to verify the functionality

You're not wrong, but the problem is often not that. The tax code helps when verifying the system end to end. But it's not like there's one single program that "does the tax" that you can verify that way.

The individual bits they're trying to replace are probably more like "fetch all these records from this one mainframe with format X and convert them this way, except if it's Feb 29th in which case fetch it from this other server and convert it another way and then pass it along, except for resident aliens which come from an entirely different place, fetch those from tape storage". This is much harder to get right without formal specs, which there almost certainly aren't.

In this case what we have is a "reference implementation" (a.k.a the implementation is the specification), and you can guess how well those go.

All this is not to say that they shouldn't have been doing what you're suggesting, but to say that you're making it sound easier than it is now that they're here.
Yeah I'd say that hurts the people who want to stay there too. If I search for a specific town I want places near the town not places near the biggest hub.
Oh I know.. trust me. I used to work in the team that handled that very problem and yet right now I can't get google to stop spam processing mails that fetches from my private IMAP server for my wife's gmail account. Everybody I know that was in that team has abandoned Google in the decade since I was there so I no longer have an easy in to figure out what is going on.

The problem is that for every single technical, competent person trying to reach google, there are 20 technical incompetent people who "know exactly what the problem is" (and don't), and 1,000 people who have a legit support problem that can be resolved with a google search, and 1,000,000 people who are just going to waste your time completely. =/

The moment you have direct support you have to respond to all of the above. There is no way to create a support team that just handles the clueful people.

I was on the dns contact email address which should be relatively hard to find right? Yea it was spam central with free energy devices, complaints about the government, etc. Its impossible to provide human support at the level that google is playing. =/
So, in your world view, if tomorrow a catastrophe destroyed half of the productive capacity of the USA, the US Dollar would double its value?
CloudFlare hit with a piracy lawsuit after its abuse form fails
I'm not a big fan of Apple, but this is one obvious side benefit to the company that writes your software being the one that sells you your hardware. User experience extend to more than just the feel of you keyboard.
> not yet known if evil

A decent heuristic would be whether said corporation manufactures flamethrowers. Wait...
>(I say "gesturing" because you don't actually know the physics; it is completely different than either stimulated emission or the photoelectric effect, which you could tell by reading the Wikipedia articles.)

Well, clearly you're a fucking idiot. See, I can use ad hominem to make a meaningless non-point as well.
Poach said junior devs from the Bay Area to LA or in general? Sort of confused with your second statement. The crazy thing is that every one of my CS major friends I graduated with at USC moved up the coast to the Bay Area or Seattle, or to the east coast in NYC.
Except if you don't exist on Google you don't exist at all for ~75% of searchers. That's what I'm thinking the person was saying.
One thing I'm surprised at, is how long it's taken for someone to actually solve this problem!
+1
Read the zipline source, I learnt a lot in how to structure trading code / solving common problems.
No, it wouldn't be. See, even if google's super duper AI will deliver 99% match in real world setting, it still means that remaining 1% will still spoil your experience. Imagine, you order your phone to call your wife, but it will call in-laws instead.
The SCRAM SASL authentication mechanism
See also: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/topic.html?topic=College%2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanzhai

"Historically, "shanzhai" is sometimes used as a metaphor to describe bandits who oppose and evade the corrupted authority to perform deeds they see as justified."

Seems to be a bit like the Robin Hood mythos in western culture.
Friends use Dyneema and Spectra to make bowstrings (primarily for crossbows). They don't mind getting wet, don't stretch, and are extremely strong.
the fbi is law enforcement. behaving as secret police is not a positive alternative.
The FBI is not warning about students, but about government agents posing ad students, I.E. "operatives".

Here, they have access to learn and potentially influence our culture from within. Most importantly, if the FBI is correct and they exist, they most likely do not have your interests in mind.

That said, I don't know how one would deal with this without causing McCarthy style hysteria and sweeping up innocent students along with operatives.
Xenophobic paranoia, a gift that keeps on giving.
If consciousness were a phenomenon no one had a memory of, would we even know it to exist?

Absolutely. We have awareness in the current moment. Memory is not required. In fact, if you think about what memory is, it's a current, internal experience that we associate with a concept called the past. All memories are actually experienced in the present, making awareness more fundamental than memory.

Without memory, the contents of awareness would be very different, sure, but it's not a prerequisite for awareness itself.
The Shakespeare analogy is perhaps more apt than the writer imagined. A popular version of Shakespeare’s plays have the original text on the left hand pages and commentary and definitions on the right. This is what I imagined what your interrupt handler looked like.
I don't think this tells the full story.

There are of course examples of individuals who do very well without a post-high-school degree.

A big part of it, in my view, is how driven the person is. Some people are not very driven. If you're not driven enough to go to (and get through) college, you're probably not driven enough to do much more than low-skill, low-paid work. So taking for argument's sake that statistic is true, it doesn't say anything about cause and effect.

If you're driven to succeed, you'll find a route to success, whether it's college, military, vocational/trade school, self-teaching, or other non-traditional paths.
Reminds me of this story from last year:

But those [Chinese] students often bring to campus something else from home: the watchful eyes and occasionally heavy hand of the Chinese government, manifested through its ties to many of the 150-odd chapters of the Chinese Students and Scholars Associations.

The groups have worked in tandem with Beijing to promote a pro-Chinese agenda and tamp down anti-Chinese speech on Western campuses. At Columbia a decade ago, the club mobilized students to protest a presentation about human rights violations in China, urging them to “resolutely defend the honor and dignity of the Motherland.” At Duke, the group was accused of inciting a harassment campaign in 2008 against a Chinese student who tried to mediate between sides in a Tibet protest. More recently in Durham, England, the group acted at the behest of the Chinese government to censor comments at a forum on China-Hong Kong relations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/us/chinese-students-weste...

Also reminds me of this recent news, of Mercedes Benz made to apologize to China for posting a quote (in English) by the Dalai Lama on Instagram, a platform banned in China:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/07/mercedes-apologis...

EDIT: damn, downvotes are coming fast for this one. I wonder why :^)
Put another way: Google's users are the product. Apple's users are the customer.
Author of the post says

> The next billion users are not becoming more like us. We are becoming more like them.

If we are to take his words on face value, then I would imagine so ...
* Find a short term sublet so you can look for a more permanent place once you're on the ground, or take a week(end) to fly up and look at places. Taking a place remotely is a gamble.

Always, always find short-term accommodations if you can afford it. Trying to find an apartment in a week in a city you're not familiar with is a huge source of stress and you'll most likely end up living in a sub-optimal location.
> Maybe don’t state it? It’s their job to do something about it,

You're presenting a curious case here. You want the intelligence community to respond to threats from state actors, but without ever telling the public that's what they're doing? There are two problems with this:

1. Government transparency - I want to know what the FBI is up to. You are advocating more opacity in their operations, for uncertain gain.

2. What if "doing something about it" requires cooperation from the public? The specific issues under discussion is the Confucius Institutes being established at various universities, but these are not illegal and the FBI has no power to get rid of them, nor do I want them to have that power. All they can do is point out the threat and leave the ultimate decision to the university administrators.
The FBI’s remit includes domestic counterintelligence.
As an alternative, consider founding a non-profit. I did it last year and I will never go back to a salaried job. George Bush was right when he said that a thousand points of light will outshine a single star.
> Renewable energy is now at 36% for electricity

Great, but my point still stands. Would I like more renewables? Of course! Would I prefer running the nuclear powerplants we already have instead of coal? Yes.

The surplus is great, but just illustrates the issue with renewables. I just wish we could be a bit more truthful about the surplus. Large numbers are nice, but that’s manager level detail. A surplus when you don’t need it and have no way of storing it is useless, and you end up paying people to use electrisity, which has happened. And that’s with only 36% renewable energy. This problem will get worse, not better.

I guess electric cars will be able to store some of that by charging during the day and overnight. But we’re still far away from 100% renewable without electric cars, and just because we’re not burning petrol or diesel doesn’t make electric cars environmentally friendly.
Seriously? On my technician practice exams, I aced the physics stuff ("What's the wavelength of a 7.255MHz signal?" "Let's see, the speed of light divided by 7,255,000 is...") but the FCC regs part was an utter black box. "What's the maximum permitted power on a 20m frequency?" A lot of that was sheer memorization.

- KM6OCD
It's often referred to as "two space stations flying in close proximity". One Russian, one American. 28VDC on the Russian side, 124VDC on the American.

Rumour has it that there's bolts with imperial thread on one end and metric on the other holding them together in the middle..
How CSS Grid is non standard? It's defined by W3C: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-grid-1/
Very nice! If you want to take it into the next step of waveform/signal processing, Kevin Reid (kpreid) built an amazing interactive lesson a few years back. Left / Right arrows to navigate the slides, click drag the graph if you like:

http://visual-dsp.switchb.org/presentation
Here's where this statement is poisonous: I'm not sure if the FBI is actually being honest, or if this is some Trumpist bullshit that confirms how racist the current administration is.

Either way, I find it hard to believe. If its the former, its not shocking. If its the latter, it's disappointing but not at all surprising.
>Google (and especially Facebook) are reaching a point a where they need these next billion

Except the next billion is already using Weixin.

They are so concerned because they see that the next 1B is the only remaining userbase reserve that can possibly feed their probable contender.
> Apart from Berlin and maybe Hamburg people tend to live more in the outskirts.

That's why there are huge integrated public transport regions around the cities.

In Hamburg the public transport system reaches a metropolitan area of around 4 million people. Some 750 connections are being offered, which reach far into neighbour states.

I've been a long time user of the public transport system here and never has there been a more extensive service and a simpler handling of tickets than what we have now.

Any complaints are from a very very high level.

> We returned from (another) vacation by plane and took the train back home from the airport.

In Hamburg you drop off the plane, head to the public transport S-Bahn at the airport and in 20 minutes you are in the center of the city. The S-Bahn comes every ten minutes until 11pm and then the S-bahn is still providing public transport throughout the whole night.
I agree. Add a few of your own drops, the Pineapple guy did his part and then some.
Anecdotally, I see people not pay the bus almost every stop i use it. Muni is anarchy.

Not to mention that the way to pay for cash doesnt give out change, which means taht if you dont have a clipper card, you just dont pay anything at all.
Those explanations for the x86 register mnemonics were great, thanks!

To me the MIPS registers seem pretty logical too, though: $zr for zero, $sp for stack pointer, $a0-3 for arguments, $t0-7 for temporaries and $s0-7 for saved registers. Much better than the plain numbered registers on some assembly flavors.
i740 I had it. Was a piece of crap that rendered with a lot of bugs.
Also I have, after, a card with Trident 3d chip.
Later I grabbed a Creative GeForce 2 MX DDR. I managed to ran Doom 3 over it at a barely playable 20 FPS using some paths to allow Doom 3 ran over Voodoo 2 (mainly resizing textures ...)
presumably the language classes are not the activity they are worried about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Confucius_Institu...
I would say that even by calling someone a "social justice warrior" you may have fallen into a trap, which is judging people by the first thing you see.

Due to the way social networks work, the first thing you may learn about someone is their political opinions. They might be expressed rather strongly and uncharitably. But for most people, politics is not the most important thing in their life. It's just the first thing you see of them on the Internet.

When you see someone driving badly, it's natural to assume they're a bad driver. But all you know is that they were driving badly on the day you saw them. It's fairly unlikely that they usually drive that way.

The technical term for this is Fundamental Attribution Error [1]. I find that keeping it in mind helps a fair bit with the forgiveness of strangers. It's always good to remember that you don't actually know them and that first impressions are sometimes misleading.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_erro...
> For federal government employees, salary only represents about half of their total compensation, which includes a lifetime inflation adjusted pension and medical benefits.

No, nowadays you have to pay in for retirement and medical benefits. Retirement money is partially matched, but health care generally is no cheaper than a good private plan.
If you even get a reply in the first place.
50% monthly inflation is a common definition. It's around the point where inflation doesn't tend to ever come down again.

Iraq has had 300% a year at one point and it came down.
Its a criminal offense not to pay a public transportation ticket?

Damn. I really was like Jason Bourne.
Being a programmer, I gifted this to my girlfriend on Valentine's day :P
Interesting but I Don't see anything about physical hardware or timelines in the articles, can someone do a TLDR summary?
It's a 20th century mechanical device and still the gold standard for transferring data from a human's brain to a computer.

Mobile is not a replacement for that, yet.
My understanding is that the MS properties don't map 1-to-1 onto the standard CSS properties, so I don't think this would always work, hence the question. That said, I assumed Autoprefixer didn't support CSS Grid for that reason, so thanks for pointing out that it does.
It seems to me that it's not uncommon for upper management to try to goad developers (and others) into becoming managers.. The catch is that it involves lots of free work by taking on increased responsibility with no increased pay. So I suspect most developers will think that it's not worth the hassle.
You should try to get as much as you can for your family. But the best way to do this is to move up the value chain, not keep trying to squeeze blood out of a stone. You seem dead set on getting more compensation for bringing the exact same amount of value to the table.

My solution to your "fact" is to not work for a bunch of dicks. I've never gotten fired "as soon as it makes sense" once I transitioned into development. You seem to work for a lot of dicks. Stop doing that.
Working code is king, but in the IRS's case it's a very expensive king.

A huge amount of fraud happens by exploiting a timing attack against the batch processing architecture of the existing process. The system only has visibility into data from previous batches, it's blind to what's been done during the the currently processing batch. One exploitable artifact of this is that if you try to claim someone as a dependent (and potentially get child tax credits, EIC, etc) and they've already been claimed in a previous batch, your return will get rightfully rejected. But if multiple returns claim that person in the same batch, and they haven't been claimed in a previous batch, they'll all get accepted. The IRS will catch it after the fact, but by that point they've already paid out the fraudulent returns. If it's something like a misunderstanding between spouses on who claims a kid, it's likely they'll straighten it out and get their money back. If it's outright fraud, then they'll probably be out that money completely (plus investigative costs).

That's just one example, but there are billions of dollars worth of fraud that happens every year which could be prevented by migrating the IRS systems from offline batch processing to an online/real-time transactional architecture.
I'd argue that the term itself is left intentionally poorly-defined.

That's a large part of Antonio Gramsci's concept of cultural hegemony: A special type of agreement, in which the person who's agreeing doesn't necessarily understand what it is with which they're agreeing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js8E6C3ZnJ0

The notion of "rugged individualism" you'll often hear touted ... is in fact a political slogan produced by Herbert Hoover in 1928. This is highly evident from its Ngram trace:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=rugged+individ...

If you look at the early discussion of the term, you'll find much of it is critical. H.L. Mencken speaks of the "curious conception of rugged individualism. It would be much more appropriate to speak about our rugged collectivism."

And yes, it's also true that "American Individualism" predates the term, though the latter is by far the more prevalent today, and both can be traced to what is essentially corporate propraganda.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=American+indiv...

Emma Rothschild (yes, one of the Rothschilds) makes the explicit point that Adam Smith's "liberal philosophy" was one of material liberty, that is, of an abundance of material wealth at the individual level, which allows for a freedom of actions without catastrophic consequence. Several recent modern commentators have noted that the chief characteristic of poverty is a lack of choice: if there's only one way to do things right, without consequence, you have no freedom.

Which may not be much by way of an answer, though it is an endorsement of the question.
A tutorial on how to make a complete game from scratch using Lua and LÖVE
What kind of company is 3M? Or IBM? Or GE?

Management is responsible for the strategy and long term success of a business. Pivots are necessary and a core part of successful strategies.
$5k over the course of a year. It's not a lot of money.
I would work for the government (I did, a couple times) on projects I think will benefit my fellow citizens. This tax reform is not like that.
There's several tiers of indexing in Google Search (it's a pyramid, with Instant near the top when that existed), and lots of social stuff is refreshed very frequently at the top of it. That is how recent Tweets show up in searches, as well.

I'd be curious how often Googlebot hits HN.
It's not quite DO caliber but this gist was sufficient for me: https://gist.github.com/mtigas/565718bbb928ce439e95

It was very simple. I think what we really need is web server integration like we are starting to have with TLS.
1. We’re not actually learning about what the FBI is up to, just a vague and unhelpful warning of infiltration.

2. The issue of infiltrating US institutions seems separate from overtly running ChiCom schools on US soil.
Some helicopters have a part called a Jesus nut
...it's difficult to see why you'd still want to occupy your hands...

Bandwidth. You have several degrees of freedom with each hand, with each finger. You have one linear stream with voice.

Latency. You can flick a switch in a few milliseconds, but saying "turn off the lights" or "lights off" takes half a second or more.

Privacy. You can overhear a voice command. You can't overhear (very easily) a buttonpress or touchscreen swipe.

Accuracy. Even with perfect voice transcription, people misspeak easily more than they mistype. And mistyping can be corrected within a few letters, while misspeaking will require interrupting the stream to switch the voice UI into editing mode or something.
Tapping the cable coming out of your house is about a trillion times easier than cracking HTTPS with properly set up endpoints.
I'm as salary focused as the next guy. But my approach to earning more is to bring more value, not to play the zero-sum game of hardball negotiations.
I agree with your general point, monetary policy was the cause of much of the inflation and had they not mismanaged their oil industry they may have been able to survive with the bad monetary policy much longer. And better monetary policy may have put them in a position to handle the issues in the oil industry. But the immediate need to print more money was the drop in production capacity and price, which is what led to the hyperinflation at the end of 2015 to present.

Hyperinflation is usually very, very high inflation. Original definition was 50% monthly inflation (this would be 600% annual, higher actually since it would be compounding). 30% annual inflation isn't hyperinflation (though it's certainly not good, and after several years could be catastrophic on its own).
And Google Assistant is not going to be using facial expressions or body language as input any time soon. I mean, it could, but I'm not sure how people would appreciate their phone saying "you look mad, would you like smooth jazz?" or "you are pacing and seem to be anxious, may I recommend breathing exercises?"
This is by far the best and most cogent answer in the entire comment section. Pity it's so far down the list.
This maybe isn't a project management "best practice" but one of the things my team does that is great is that we insert JIRA ticket links into changelogs. We also put revision numbers as well, it makes it really easy to cross-reference stuff and let people know when something is fixed.
Yes, my thoughts exactly!