skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Code is objective and apolitical.

Hardly. Code can be intensely political (competing standards championed by competing companies, etc.).

> An open standard can also be studied by anyone. The secret rules and customs of regulatory agencies are only privy to those who worked in the agencies.

Regulatory agencies are for the most part incredibly transparent organizations. Nobody has any insight into what happens when a Google executive talks to an Apple executive about a web standard. But when an industry executive meets with a federal agency commissioner to discuss a new rule, a detailed notice and summary of the ex parte contact will be published. Agencies conduct their business in intensely public notice-and-comment procedures.

> I suspect that is not the main reason industry players support regulations. I think it's far more likely that their support is motivated by a desire to create regulatory moats to competition.

And your speculation is based on?

> This supports the 'lobbying for regulations as an anticompetitive measure' thesis.

A lot of regulation is bad. E.g. zoning regulations. But for the most part they're bad because regulators and constituents have bad ideas, not because there are shadowy cabals at work.
The main benefit may be that users can more easily use the code if they can read it. If you can see the code then you can understand how it works exactly, without relying on documentation to be accurate. You can also more easily debug your application if you have the source of third-party libraries.

For writing clones or alternatives, it might be better not to read any proprietary code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
Apparently Windows doesn't "please" either! :)
Going public is not success if you’re hemorrhaging money. You’re just a pyramid scheme with better marketing, not a profitable business worthy of public investment. That’s my point.
From the article:

"...bitcoin deposits were usually handled by outside agencies, such as BitPay, which then transferred cash to the charity’s bank account."
A missile will cover a fairly large distance in a few seconds.

In fact, it's entire flight time could be a few seconds. Imagine an air-to-air missile fired by an aircraft at another aircraft.
Based on what exactly?
The new mechanism uses Native Messaging[0], with the native application being keepassxc-proxy. The old one used HTTP, with the server (the password manager) listening on localhost.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Na...
Do you have any info on the growing aspect of private prisons.

The last time I looked they were statistically insignificant. Even then I don't agree with the concept but if my hazy memory is correct it was close to 5 percent
What you're talking about - the erosions in the US system - is an extraordinary distance from where China is at already. You can't talk about Winnie the Pooh in China, or mispronounce the "ping" part of Jinping in the media. Those aren't jokes, that's indicative of China's rapid regression backwards. Over the last five years they've curtailed the few freedoms around business and expression that had been gained. Their economic & business agenda has entirely shifted as have the rules. Dictatorships have historically tended to only go one direction, and China is already a very, very low-rights nation.
When I think of Google, I think of search. And then there's Hangouts which has no search at all. Mark text or calls as spam in Google Voice? They still come through on Hangouts, the only way to prevent it so to find the buried block option.

Google and chat is the Peter Principle in action. And everyone who has tried has failed. The idea anyone's been promoted is hilarious.
I deal with this shape of problem quite a bit. After using scons and make in the past I recently tried using ninja, and it really works well.

Specifically, a python configure script using the ninja_syntax.py module. This seems like it's a bit more complicated, but has a lot of nice attributes.

File names with spaces should just work (unlike make). The amount of hidden complexity is very low (unlike make or SCons); all the complexity lives in your configure script. It's driven by a real, non-arcane language (unlike make). Targets are automatically rebuilt when their rules/dependencies change (unlike make).

It's more difficult to install than make, but only marginally.
Argentina on two steaks a day (2006)
I would guess that without an established price there will be a very large buy-sell spread to start that will eventually converge at a price as people lower their sell bids and raise their buy bids.
From what I understand--yes. They would need to "settle" their transfer on the blockchain and then open a new channel. The solution to this from what I've read is an IOU mechanism and a third party that has a channel with almost everyone. If the third party is rich then each channel is theoretically huge.

ALICE --(IOU to bob for 10k)---> CAROL --(IOU from alice for 10k)--> BOB
works in bash:

> touch "with<Ctrl+v><Tab>tab"
She didn't get the weight from the batting, it doesn't add enough.

She used weighted plastic pellets (like beads). As she added the batting, she would sew in pockets throughout the blanket and add in the pellets in a precisely measured way so that it would be evenly distributed.
You should stop being a manager. Or get training to become a better one. Seriously.

When a member of your team can't perform because he's not given the proper
resources(access, help, info, etc), it should be your number 1 job to find out
why is that the case and do everything in your power to rectify that.

One could argue that it's your only job actually.
unpaywalled: https://outline.com/YPct
Perpetual license on the core of my service, not the code and not the whole SaaS, I will provide the core service inside a virtual image
Sure, it's a subjective measure, but it's a start.

Keep in mind there is ZERO data available for this type of analysis at the moment.

Even if it's subjective, the analysis can provide the employer with candidates that are good based on the same subjective criteria.
You could pay in bitcoin and give fake details too, however if you get your domain stolen proving your ownership becomes difficult.
Can confirm. Countries in Latin America are getting plans for the equivalent of $1.5
Preloading Your JavaScript Code Chunks
wow kinda reminds me of groovesharks dj feature, missed that.
About a week ago, I did some A/B testing. I completed their online screener twice. Once answering all of the questions as good as possible. The other answering the questions with the third option (multiple choice). In both cases, I passed the screener. (shrugs)
That was a while ago. Today he said he closed all positions in Herbalife (stock and options).
Detect which cryptocurrency an address corresponds to
My YC App: Software WORX – Reduce AWS Bills with AI
I found your last paragraph especially well phrased!

You're also on point regarding the CAA records. But to me the current system still feels too reactionary. I'd love to see a system where we need to put less trust in all third parties playing by the rules pinkie-promise. Diginotar, StartSSL and Symantec are all examples of CAs gone wild, and I think we've just seen the tip of the iceberg yet.
I would not say it is uncommon though. AFAIK intrusions into major companies like Google also happen to stay unnoticed for months.
Yes, that was from us :) Glad you like BMC, @sidyapa!

Drop us a line when it's up on your side projects, would love to give it a shout out – https://twitter.com/TheBuyMeACoffee
Decode Like It's 1999: MPEG-1 Decoder in JavaScript
As faculty you can still consult. Since you are faculty companies like you especially at a prestigious school. Professors make very good money if they play their cards right.
And cynically this is how a bill becomes a law forever

I can't find the relevant video clip, but it's from a school house rock parody
Eleven uses of the word free, all used in the gratis, not libre, sense of the word.

'Open' is in the same category for me now as 'cloud' -- too nebulous, too little consensus on what it actually means, often used in a 'don't worry about the details' hand-wavy way.
What do you hate and why can't you automate it?
I was in Mexico not too long ago at a friend's hacienda. Our conversation turned towards the frequency of multi-generational housing arrangements in Mexico versus the U.S. His explanation? Trees. The U.S. has always had an abundance of cheap lumber. Not so in Mexico. Consequently, houses are built of stone (or, more recently, cinder block) in Mexico. They have the potential to last centuries. The U.S. houses, on the other hand, are stick-frame wooden structures that won't last even the lifespan of the owner.

The upshot is that there is no great attachment to the home in which you were raised for an American; it will be eaten by termites or blown over in a storm long before your kids are born.

In Mexico, though, the house in which you were raised will be standing long after your parents are gone. And, if you stand to inherit it, there's no point in moving out.

Just one of many factors, of course. But, I enjoyed his immediate answer... it was very obvious to him.
Spotify adds value to my life, I hope they are a wild success.

Also, RIP Rdio.
They're going to need to pull off some kind of revolutionary advance in touch keyboards to sell this

I actually appreciate the thought though. It's innovation. Sometimes your keyboard isn't in use; sometimes you only need a subset of the keys. Taking advantage of that would be possible with a second screen. There is potential in the idea
No Windows support is more of a feature than a downside.
Should you Rust in embedded yet?
It appears that police are still building profiles themselves by sifting the big data for terrorist-matching patterns.

The next step is to let AI do it all. We don't even have to know what is being matched on what, just that Citizen A's "profile" is sufficiently similar to Terrorist B's "profile".

This is how AI takes over the world without requiring sentience.
This is true, but IMO it's not a great replacement. I imported my old Rdio library this way and it's effectively useless. I've had to become a playlist-first user as well, but boy I miss having a browsable catalog of all "my music"...
So you're right that the quiz does try to be harder if you're doing well, but it'll also give you easier questions if an incorrect answer lowers its confidence in your ability estimate. We have a pretty sizeable bank of potential questions to ask a candidate, but the quiz tries to strike an optimal balance between appropriate difficulty and maximum informativeness. For example, we wouldn't want to as you a particularly difficult question unless we're confident that it's a) a good fit for your estimated ability level, and b) will give us more information about your ability than any other question in the bank.

You're right that tailoring question difficulty to ability level can drastically increase a test's accuracy. But while a logistic regression model works well when you have a fixed quiz or a low number of questions, it isn't flexible enough to work with a fully adaptive system like we have at Triplebyte. Our models are loosely based on the kinds of systems that the MGAT or GRE use, but we've implemented significant extensions on top of those approaches to fit our needs.
I had multiple Maemo devices — the 770, 800 and N900 tablets.

I really tried hard to like the system, but let's not exaggerate its strengths. The open source software was mostly amateur ports from desktop Linux.

I remember back in 2008 demoing my Nokia 800 mini tablet to someone who had got a brand new iPhone 3G. There just wasn't any contest. The Maemo software felt like a product of the '90s, and the hardware clearly wasn't by Nokia's "A Team".
I could not agree with you more, the hype to reality ration surrounding blockchain is beyond ridiculous to the point that a mental heuristic saying "any blockchain headline is bullshit" becomes more accurate with each new article...
> weak public signal like GPS

i'd assume it could, since GPS is military, and a mobile missile system is exactly the sort of thing that wants to know where it is, so would have the keys to the (higher resolution) encrypted GPS signals as well.
Google has fielded 2.4M requests to be forgotten in Europe
It takes a certain kind of person to interpret ""I'm blocked" as "I'm blocked, woe is me" instead of "I'm blocked. Can anyone that sees this help me?"

Those people should never be managers.
Universities need to start incentivizing lower down the chain to pump up their graduate level programs.

The common understanding is that grad school is hell and this is quite systemic in that the environment pretty much becomes a form of hazing. This toxic "survivor" mentality persists and is further enforced and romanticized which each generation of graduates.

If you're the masochistic type you might as well hop into the startup game where the upside in financial / social / and prestige capital is much higher. Going to grad school and not surviving is a greater stain on your record than founding a company and failing.

If you're looking for something low risk and stable then grabbing an entry level engineer position wherever is a much more pleasant step and there are legitimate pathways to equally respectable positions, even in research, without going through the academic gauntlet.
From that thread, as a snarky aside: "I know from dealing with Let's Encrypt users that people can get some ideas about what's going on with the Web PKI that bear no resemblance to reality, and although we have no formal duty to teach them better, there's no benefit to the world from pretending they're right."

oh snap, as they say
Based on a previous experience being in their sales funnel and speaking to their reps at re:Invent.

They have an incredible product that I can't live without, it's just incredibly painful trying to actually pay them money for something.

Honestly, I think their real play here is getting community contributions to fix stuff that's very broken and also to edge out Siren Solutions. SearchGuard, Kibi and Sentinl are all _very_ good tools.
What kind of company or culture is that, when someone asks for help from a group
and no one volunteers to even suggest to them a person that would be the best candidate to help them?

I've never been at such a company and I hope I never will.
> basically nothing outside of C/C++ uses it

That's how it has always been, though. In the '90s you didn't need to run Perl or Tcl through it because you weren't compiling anything. The Venn diagram of "Platforms that have make" and "Popular compiled languages" comes up with only asm/C/C++.

Many languages want to do things their way, such as Erlang, Common Lisp, Java, etc. Ruby and Python are interpreted and also don't need a build process. JS, until recently, was interpreted. Lots of NIH going around.

> And even those are moving away, see Cmake & co.

Cmake is closer to autoconf/automake/libtool. If you have serious cross-platform needs, then Cmake is a fine tool. But it's hardly less archaic than make (and only slightly less so than autoconf) and I'm dubious that too many people are really moving away rather than just picking up the newer, shiny tool for newer projects.

If I were doing a small static website or something that required a build with standard *ix tools, vanilla make would be my tool of choice, hands down. Tools like autoconf and, as the author pointed out, webpack provide a more specialized need.
Language Learning for the Dispassionate
Have they solved the distributed routing problem? I watched many videos on the LN, and it's never addressed, it's always this hand-wavy explanation that a route is somehow found, on a network that changes, potentially, thousands of times per seconds, and has tens of millions of nodes.
Acknowledgment versus agreement
Spotify planning to move remaining compute and storage onto GCP
Your reference to fxp just made me incredibly nostalgic
And forking the BTC blockchain.
That tech is open to people of all backgrounds, even self taught, is awesome but it has its drawbacks: it's harder for the interviewer.

I disagree that there are objective measures and the vast amount of e-ink spilled on interviewing practice debates is proof of that (tech interviewing also doesn't correlate to the actual work being done!).

I'm on the "tech should be open to all" side but it _is_ harder for companies to filter out potential bad candidates. That's why they make up their own filters like "we only want seniors".
From the document:

> Unlike an initial public offering, the resale by the Registered Shareholders is not being underwritten by any investment bank. The Registered Shareholders may, or may not, elect to sell their ordinary shares covered by this prospectus, as and to the extent they may determine. Such sales, if any, will be made through brokerage transactions on the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) at prevailing market prices.

So essentially early investors will be the ones [potentially] selling. The pricing should be highly volatile.
Ask HN: What is your experience with third party recruiters?
The more I work with them the more they seem like used car salesmen: stupid and sleazy. I've honestly not much respect for them at this point.
I am quite surprised at 100x amount. In the enterprise industry, companies usually have set SLAs and amounts written in the contract for violating SLAs. Did slack really write in 100x repay in the contract or is it overpaying enterprise customers (very weird)? Even if the paid amount is small, wording like 100x amount is bad for the enterprise industry.
The Scandinavian Destiny (1953) [pdf]
Evidence for evolutionary shifts in fitness landscape of human complex traits
> Windows Phone 7...was managed-code only.

D'oh! I didn't know that. (I was laid off right before the Windows Phone switch was announced, so never had any reason to look into it.) Welp.
Google always was one of the few companies I wished to join. That feeling has decreased over the years, and now this article might have killed it completely.

I'm happy with what I'm doing anyway.
buymeaLOTofcoffee.com?
While I like the idea, I think there are presently cultural barriers in the way of that succeeding, mainly the Western view of IP vs the Eastern view of IP.

Bunnie talks about it on his blog here: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
> However, faculty positions still generally pay reasonably well, especially when compared to those living in conditions of poverty.

Not compared to the income one can make by ditching Academia and entering the workforce. The pay is terrible, full stop. Comparing it to poverty is a pretty bad idea as well.

Clearly academia doesn't want to pay for the talent, so they shouldn't be shocked when they can't get talent.
1/3 of a second in 100 hours is basically 1ppm, or TXCO levels of accuracy, so pretty good i'd have thought, even for a submarine INS?
A Finn I know complains that Nokia innovated, and better, most of what Americans take for granted in smartphones, but that no one seems to remember how Nokia did it first often a decade or more ago. The Scandinavian destiny! :)
Why do you believe there MUST be a political game?
Their coverage of indie labels and the dance music underground still sucks. Plus I don't think their streaming is lossless and you can easily spot the difference with something as simple as a pair of $100 wireless headphones (NOT beats) hooked up to a $100 USB headphone amp.
You'll probably enjoy this essay "Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil" https://km-515.livejournal.com/1042.html
Good question. Turns out it is spelled out right there in their SLA.[0]

If we fall short of our 99.99% uptime guarantee, we’ll refund customers on the Plus plan and above 100 times the amount your workspace paid during the period Slack was down.

[0] https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/204113126-Service-L...
Cargo cult data science.
Folding laundry.

Robots are miserably bad at this, so far.
And in my experience, it much depends on industry. There are truthfully awful places to work. Google doesn’t sound like it qualifies for that rung. I would be willing to bet many startups do.
And the blockchain history.
Please bazel, buck or pants?
> Purpose without existential risk of failure is not usually perceived as genuine.

Says who? That may be associated with lutheran ethics of hard work, but doesn't look like an universal nor an essential requirement. Was Mother Theresa devoid of purpose because there's no way she could fail at taking care of people?
Thanks for the tip. FYI the address looks to be kalzumeus.com instead of kalzumeus.org
I run https://dndemail.com -- do not disturb for your gmail.

I launched in 2016 and have solid growth. It is the 3rd web business I have launched. My first was in 1998.
I will never forgive the computing world for abandoning files in favor of streaming.

We've gone from digital citizenship to digital serfdom...
Yes, this is really in their SLA: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/204113126-Service-L... .

However, it's not a cash repayment, it's just future service credit. For example, if Slack were down for 30 minutes, you'd get 50 free hours of Slack.
Behavioral Data – The Unfair Advantage in the Digital Era
Those are the same arguments that Microsoft attempted to make as IE was pushed to the masses, and that was a disaster for the web and everyone involved.

If you don't learn the history of technology, you will be doomed to repeat it.
I think this is quite good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OJEae7Qb_o

although if I knew more about Bayesian methods I would be in a better place to recommend it.
> “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” -John Maynard Keynes

Or it can stay irrational as long as it has a wealthier billionaire backing it.

People forget that HLF was headed for collapse until Icahn and a few other billionaires backstopped HLF.

There is a reason why Ackman is worth $1 billion and Icahn is worth $16 billion.
Is there anything close to replacing grooveshark? I loved the coding station, plug.dj that tried to replace that was just some guy playing tons of video game themes
Oh good, just the East German system.
I didn't get the impression at all that mentioning US exceptionalism undercut the video creator's argument, or that they were really trying to argue that nationalism isn't an effective way to establish order.

The creator went to lengths to describe how powerful of a force nationalism is. The point is that it's remarkable how much effect it has, given that it's a concept without a clearly defined delineation (categorizing languages, shared history, culture, ethnicity, and even borders is a whole other thing) that didn't exist a few hundred years ago.

Taking umbrage to how the author uses the concept of "existence" or "being made up" as basically a philosophical shorthand in the context of deconstructing what national identity really is seems overly semantic. Is the issue really just that it's controversial and click-baity to say "national identity isn't real" as a headline out of context? Because that's irrelevant to the thrust of what's being said.
The numbers are normalized for geography and family size.
How long was the off/on cycle? If it was short it would be reasonable to do it periodically.
I don't think one can pin the blame on the vendor alone.
Interesting. That (obviously) contradicts what I heard at the time from folks I was still in contact with, but I'll take the book's word on it. What you quote doesn't entirely contradict the notion that Microsoft offered what Nokia considered a better deal, though, especially if Nokia wanted only their services rather than "side-by-side" services. (Although Nokia traded away a lot, anyway, as it played out.)