skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the command line, using spaces to delimit words is also quite natural; that's why they get used as a delimiter:

mv old-file new-file

Spaces separate the verb, the direct object, and the indirect object. Using commas or colons instead would painfully artificial.

So the question is whether you will favor naturalness on the command line or in the GUI. It's no surprise that a Unix build tool favors the command line.
Curiosity Tests a New Way to Drill on Mars
Ah, I see! That makes sense.
You can't fire a boss, but you can fire a customer.

You also can't fire investors. Remember that before you go "work for yourself" and take seed money to do it.
Well, the goal of a promotion is to both enable the employee to get more responsibilities and the company to get more out of the employee.

If you're already putting in as much as the senior folk without being one the company has no upside in offering a promotion with the exception of employee retention/reducing employee turnover, so it is fitting that they'd offer it when you are about to leave.
I think "terrible" is overstated with respect to wages and living conditions in most cases. Yes, you can generally make a salary several times larger working outside of academia. However, faculty positions still generally pay reasonably well, especially when compared to those living in conditions of poverty.
Collectors in Java >= 8 are quite reminiscent of these "beautiful folds", so much that I have wondered why the standard library lacks a proper Applicative-like composition method, which is so useful for avoiding multiple traversals of the data.

Something like it can be defined: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30210547/grouping-by-obj... although the signature is a bit ugly.
I find interviewing unpleasant. Triplebyte's interview wasn't an exception, but it was less unpleasant than most. Even though they choose not to move forward with me, I thought the feedback was valuable and I don't regret having gone through the process.
Xen Orchestra
Ok a leaf? Or a piece of toilet paper.
I have a very similar situation. I started taking pitch calls and then ran the numbers on what it would cost our family to move to San Francisco / Silicon Valley, and it didn't work out. But their process was fantastic, and if my situation is different in the future I'd absolutely use them again.

Edit: By the way, you should email them about the bug with your profile, they'd probably want to know about it / give you another shot.
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In the north-central part of town (Garland 'hood) I'm getting 40Mb service from CenturyLink and it's generally pretty reliable though throughput really drops during the mid- and late afternoon. I didn't know that Comcast offered such high data rates here though so thanks for the tip.
For anyone who thinks that Paul Graham is still a YC partner: he has retired from Y Combinator.

https://www.ycombinator.com/people/
You lost me here. I consider any art sacred. I don't see why would not there be an article for any artist that recorded anything.

How about "2013 Richmond Raiders season"? Apparently this is more encyclopedic? There are no specialized sites for this?

I would say you did not carry your point across.
I went through the process about 2 months ago, and I really enjoyed it.

After the initial quiz, I had a ~2 hours interview with a human, which included a 1h "pair programming" challenge, random technical questions on my field, general CS questions and architecture (system design) type of questions.

Once I passed that step, my talent manager (the person who helps facilitating the discussion with the companies) told me IIRC that about 1 in 5 passes the human test.

Based on my skill set and preferences, the system "offered" some 30-something companies, and I chose to have an introductory call with ~10 of them. Each company has some background information, what they're good for (in TripleByte's opinion), their general size and their engineering size. Some companies (the bigger names) have additional steps before the on-site, like another pair-programming session or take-home exercises.

From those calls, 5 on-site interviews stemmed, and 4 of those resulted in an offer.
TripleByte also helped arranging the on-site all in the same week, so if you're remote you don't have to fly back and forth all the time.

Top notch service, imo
> Definitely Franz Kafka is alive and well as Google's messaging PM.

Thank you for this!
Show HN: Video Intro to the new 'vgo' dependency tool for Go
The tools are not the same on every platform. That’s reason enough for me to not use it with my JavaScript projects.

The bigger reason though is that it’s not very idiomatic for JavaScript projects to use Make. It sounds like the only reason that some people go out of their way to use it is because they actually don’t want to learn something.
They apparently have a “certificate wizard” that will generate the certificate and corresponding private key for you. Of course that’s practical for the end user (generating a CSR can be cumbersome), but obviously insecure.

They’re not the only party to do so either, e.g. DNSimple (which is otherwise a great company!) also provide APIs to have them generate and store certificates including private keys: https://developer.dnsimple.com/v2/certificates/#getCertifica...
In the thread at https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/mozilla.dev.securi... is this tidbit:

> We have purchased thousands of certificates using Trustico as a reseller within the last years. Back in these days Trustico created CSR / Private Key pair within their online platform (Yes, you read it right - you can create CSR/Private Key on their webpage !!!) which was the default at this time and it is still possible to do so in their web interface.
My thoughts exactly.

Just because somebody is paying the amount of a coffee, that doesn't mean they're marginalizing your efforts. It just means we've reached a point in our technology where now paying barely anything is possible across a large number of people.

Also "buy me a coffee" is much more palatable than "help pay for my house". If you say "help pay my rent" people might feel cheap for giving you $4/mo and choose to give zero
Apparently they had a web front end where customers could request private keys...

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/968834765888589825
The word was complicated, not difficult. It is not difficult to handle spaces, it is more complicated.
If you converted the rules to be powers of 2, each coin representing a binary digit, it shouldn't be too bad

24d10 becomes 0-240, so change it to 0-256 and you've got 8 flips (8d2?)

Distribution won't be correct but hey, 8 flips
But how will the corporate prisons earn future profits if prisoners reform in jail?
There's a particularly irksome reference in this article:

> took out roughly 75% of LittleThings' organic traffic while hammering its profit margins.

From my admittedly limited expertise this would be called "Social" traffic. In a time gone by, even "Referral" traffic. I don't imagine that the frequency of links appearing in private news feeds would lead to any change in organic traffic.

It may well be an editorial error, but if it's from the horses mouth it's almost as worrying as the marketing strategy itself.
To clarify our views:

The words and sentences are inside the file. The filenames are identifiers to the files. Identifiers' purpose is mainly to identify, rather than to communicate.

On the other hand, we could imagine a user interface that users don't see (actual) filenames at all.
>My question is: are the people who are tagging these articles for deletion field experts -- mathematicians or whatever -- who can actually understand the relative importance of individuals, or are they running through a checklist? If they're just running through a checklist does their checklist just reinforce old stereotypes? For example, old newspapers would not bother interview women engineers, scientists, etc, and even if they were historically women were absolutely kept out of those fields, so even if interviews were random, statistics would ensure low public visibility. Hence relying on the existence of published biographies is not sufficient, and is arguably less relevant than the Erdos number.

Exactly, these are the things you need to analyze before making such a claim. If for example we look at other confounding factors and find that these explain most of the variance, then we can discuss why these other factors might be influenced by gender (e.g. less interest from contemporary news publications).
I had the same experience. I thought some problem with my internet connection
Is there an open way of accessing domain availability information?
I'd say it's still too early? I mean, Tesla's factory is only a fraction built and at a fraction of capacity.
Well, Trustico is a reseller. There's very little to stop them doing anything they want, since they are not subject to CABF regulations.

For example, consider this page: https://www.trustico.com.au/ssltools/create/csr-pem/create-a...

The best part - it doesn't even use browser crypto. The private key is generated server-side and then rendered in the server response.

Private key generation on the reseller-side - what can go wrong.
The best line for me was:

“Just because the FCC claims it has the power to preempt state laws doesn’t mean that it actually does,” says Hansen. “I can claim that I have the power to manifest unicorns on the Washington State Capitol lawn. But if you look outside right now, there are no unicorns.”

I hope it succeeds.
The right-wing contempt for local control is going even further nowadays. After the 2016 elections, counties in my home state of Iowa are no longer allowed to set a minimum wage that is higher than the state's level (which is, of course, $7.25)[1].

By traditional conservative thought, a county would only be hurting themselves by setting a minimum wage that's too high; companies and their jobs would leave if it wasn't competitive. Of course, if raising the minimum wage didn't kill jobs, others could point to it as evidence that it may be feasible to increase it statewide. So it's gotta go.

[commentary: I grew up in a conservative family, but I don't recognize the modern Republican Party.]

[1] http://www.thegazette.com/gov-branstad-signs-bill-to-roll-ba...
The problem is dishonesty. I've never worked for a company that would at least admit "our primary focus is selling rather than software quality". I know it should be implied, but when work is advertised as "looking for ninja pro engineers dedicated to their craft to help build top notch software", no wonder people get misaligned on values.
Now every single new feature is a new app. Every app has ONE killer feature.
No, there are no good reasons for sites to be blocked on the net.

Also no reason for valid articles to be deleted from Wikipedia.

I am against corruption and this is awful. Nobody should be reasoning this.
This quote from the TechCrunch article was to me the most striking element of this story. They already yield double the rate of good candidates:

""The metric that companies care most about is what percentage of on-site interviews convert into hires, and the industry standard is 20 percent. Triplebyte’s placement rate is 40 percent," says Taggar."
Their whole point in mentioning that is that humans already do it. Look at their second paragraph. Not sure how you thought someone else didn't know that.
I went about my day and just got back. I had no idea this would strike such a nerve. Yes, here is my citation, though it's unlikely to be seen now that I've been massively flagged for pointing out something relevant. I think anyone who is genuinely curious would find some very interesting things in this treaty between the government of Malta and the SMOM.

https://foreignaffairs.gov.mt/en/Treaties%20Series/Documents...

Beyond that there is a rich history of the relationship between SMOM and the government of Malta, the SMOM and other orders that reside on Malta, and how they connect to the Vatican/Rome.

Really it was something I noticed when researching the history of the OSS and CIA, that so many CIA people were also SMOM. That's what led me down the path of reading up on them.
This has been true everywhere I’ve worked in tech. It is far, far easier and a straighter path to “level up” to a different company than to get promoted internally. Without a single exception, and even in the depths of two tech hiring downturns.
This is great. Finally people should accept me how I am.
If it also included music streaming, I would buy one.
A criticism by way of criticism of an article pushing it - https://fair.org/home/the-radical-dishonesty-of-david-brooks... - from a "co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC" FWIW.

The overall thrust seems pretty damning (given how much technology improved recently, why hasn't that turned into more income and leisure time improvements for many?), enough to seriously dampen my interest in the book itself:

> The problem with the Brooks/Pinker story is that we expect the economy/people to get richer through time. After all, technology and education improve. In the ’50s, we didn’t have the Internet, cell phones and all sorts of other goodies. In fact, at the start of the ’50s, we didn’t even have the polio vaccine.

> The question is not whether we are better off today than we were 60 years ago. It would be incredible if we were not better off. The question is by how much.

> In the ’50s, wages and incomes for ordinary families were rising at a rate of close to 2 percent annually. In the last 45 years, they have barely risen at all.

-- from a bit later:

> Should we celebrate this reduction in poverty rates over the last 33 years? Well, the [child] poverty rate had fallen from 27.3 percent in 1959 (the first year for this data series) to 14.0 percent in 1969. That’s a drop of 13.3 percentage points in just ten years. The net direction in the last 47 years has been upward.
Bank of America Hopes Safety Officer Can Keep Its Ads Out of Internet Cesspools
Even though the section on cards mentions that "many prisons" do allow them, what the article is trying to emphasize there is that playing cards can be used to simulate dice if the prison happens to allow them (while also implicitly demonstrating that the rules against gambling are often inconsistent and arbitrary). The implication seems to be that there are more prisons that disallow cards than that allow them, and indeed earlier on the article quotes a prison handbook that explicitly mentions cards as contraband.

Furthermore, even if cards are explicitly allowed by the rules, that doesn't mean that cards (along with pretty much anything else) can't be confiscated at any moment. For those instances, it's good to have a backup that involves materials that are always on hand.
My point was not that you can't have misplaced faith. But rather can you have misplaced faith in the notion of evidenced based conclusions. If your conclusions are based on evidence, then it isn't faith. It may still be wrong, but it isn't faith.
Yes, sure, you're working for them; but it's still better (IMHO) to have clients than bosses. A boss is someone that uses you to look good to his own boss, but doesn't really care about what you do. A client, most of the time, actually needs what you produce.
> I have read the description of what INTERMEDIATE does at least a dozen times and I still don't really get it.

It took many reads, but I think I get it.

As a toy example, consider the dependency chain:

foo <- foo.o <- foo.c
^^^^^
`- candidate to be considered "intermediate"

Depending on how we wrote the rules, foo.o may automatically be considered "intermediate". If we didn't write the rules in a way that foo.o is automatically considered intermediate, we may explicitly mark it as intermediate by writing:

.INTERMEDIATE: foo.o

So, what does "foo.o" being "intermediate" mean? 2 things:

1. Make will automatically delete "foo.o" after "foo" has been built.

2. "foo.o" doesn't need to exist for "foo" to be considered up-to-date. If "foo" exists and is newer than "foo.c", and "foo.o" doesn't exist, "foo" is considered up-to-date (if "foo" was built by make, then when it was built, "foo.o" must have existed at the time, and must have been up-to-date with foo.c at the time). This is mostly a hack so that property #1 does not break incremental builds.

These seem like useful properties if disk space is at a premium, but is something that I have never wanted Make to do. Rather than characterizing it as "a hack on the fact the underlying model isn't rich enough", I'd characterize it as "a space-saving hack from a time when drives were smaller".

----

If, like me, you don't like this, and want to disable it even on files that Make automatically decides are intermediate, you can write:

.SECONDARY:

Which tells it 2 things:

a. never apply property #1; never automatically delete intermediate files

b. always apply property #2; always let us hop over missing elements in the dependency tree

I write .SECONDARY: for #a, and don't so much care for #b. But, because #1 never triggers, #b/#2 shoudn't ever come up in practice.
You could add in deferred revenue from previous quarters.
I just din't see any value in such limits. Do you? As long as article is well-written and not a self-promotion, it should be in.
Failed intercept at Dhahran caused by a software error in handling of timestamps
Had? Have.

https://www.trustico.com.au/ssltools/create/csr-pem/create-a...

Generated server-side.

http://termbin.com/eu4c
> does the test successfully identify the people who have the best portfolios of things they’ve built previously

Even with an algorithm doing the identification, any data produced is still going to be highly subjective (based on the "best portfolio" ideas of TripleByte and whoever worked on the algorithm).
My own plugins, all with a free version that's hosted on WordPress.org. The free version of my most popular product has hundreds of thousands of users and is what brings in the bulk of my customers.

No paid advertising. I tried but it never really got to a point where it was worth it.

Sorry for being a little vague, I'd rather not state my revenue and product together. And sine I've already mentioned my revenue, I won't mention the product. ;)
Make has dated syntax and conventions. When developers use emojis in command line, support for the spaces and other quirks look worse than a decade ago. Despite all of its expressive power and speed, Make is not going to attract many frontend developers.

If the concepts behind Make are repackaged in a more hipster way, the resulting tool may get far more appeal. Shake https://shakebuild.com is a build system library that can naturally express even the dependencies that require Makefiles go meta and generate new Makefiles. It can be a robust backend for any build system DSL.
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The ECMAScript standard actually has a section on "Context- Free Grammars". In that section and subsequent sections there is discussion of tokens, terminals, nonterminals and productions. If a web application developer using Javascript read these sections of the language specification and became curious enough to do a little outside research on the terminology, then perhaps it is forseeable she might encounter the notion of a "state machine".
Very thoughtful feedback, Subhobroto. Good to have you on board.

Save button UX is a known issue, although we never thought of it as a 'bug' to fix it. We'll reconsider this. Thanks for noticing.

Thanks, and happy to be your first supporter on BMC!
The problem is much more about underperforming teams than well or overperforming teams. In order to dissect the problems of an underperforming team, they need some objective metric (even if it doesn't tell the whole story) to look to, or else you have to deal with people flinging accusations around and poisoning the entire culture.
I wonder if the machine will tell me accurately if I’d like to hang out with the candidate after work for a beer or two. I’m not sure about that
>I think you are being downvoted because your last paragraph is unnecessarily derogatory. Rather than having a preconceived mindset, I think she's being honest when concluding that it's an open question: "I cannot think of the Erdős Collaboration Graph without also thinking about who is represented and who is not, and why."

You're probably right. I don't need to bow to PC culture here though. Honesty on her part doesn't preclude her from being biased though. With a topic like this it's very difficult not to be biased. I just wish she had at least assumed her maybe being biased and analyzed the statistics a bit to see whether her intuition stands up to scrutiny. I think it's somewhat probable that it does! But you need to show it.
I was waiting for the article to mention using those 6 sided pencil stubs in the first image as dice. Seems like a good way to disguise a die.
> faculty positions still generally pay reasonably well,

Not in certain fields when you consider opportunity cost

> especially when compared to those living in conditions of poverty.

I really hope that we're not going to set the baseline of comparison at poverty levels for the people that can obtain faculty positions in CS.
It is certainly possible to make it as an indie and solo maker. This has never been in much doubt.

The question is for how long?

What does an an indie maker who has "made it" do next? What do the next decades of their life look like?

Will you ever team up with someone?
They are still effectively subject to the CA/B rules. The issuer of the certs is subject to the rules, and they must ensure compliance of any companies they delegate to.
Interesting. I'm trying it out but getting "You are not allowed to get a DomainDescriptions you did not create!" after creating a custom Data Selector.
Hiring more Adjuncts is not the solution. Having good teachers is, though. Sometimes an adjunct is a good teacher, and when a university finds someone willing to be an amazing teacher for such abysmally low wages, then they hire that person.

For perspective: I used to work at Walmart as a cashier and then a Customer Service Manager. 15 years later, I'm finishing my PhD in CS. Let's just say that my mental capacity far exceeded the requirements of the job. Walmart, however, was not willing to pay me more, though, just because I was smart, because there were others that were willing to do the job for that amount of pay.

You are right in that many see adjuncts as a way to save money. The only way to combat that, then, is for no good teachers to take a position as adjunct.

Thankfully, many Universities have recognized this problem with adjuncts (and some are even embarrassed by their part in it), and have begun to move away from the Adjunct model, except in cases of emergency, and even then for only a limited time (e.g., one semester or academic year).

The most important thing for a university (from their perspective) is to have good researchers. The most important thing for students (from their perspective) is to have good teachers. Sometimes these two overlap in a single professor, but often not. Should a teacher be paid less than a researcher? Universities historically have thought so, which is why they have paid teachers so little. I don't know what it will take to change the tide, but I'm really, really positive that the solution is not for more people to become adjuncts.
Why I normally would not reccomend such a thing. The punchline is funny.
> They offered me a promotion and over 90% raise but I simply did not care anymore

What this should tell you is that they indeed could have easily promoted you and given you a raise but deliberately chose not to because they bet you’d work for below market. Only when they realized they were wrong did they suddenly admit they could treat you fairly. You made the right decision clearly.