skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upvote if you knew immediately where this "CEO from Microsoft" is headed.
If saving the animals = more profit, then more animals will be saved. That's the argument, at least, not saying it's feasible.
But is it the world we need?
How are they profitable? They made a loss of € 1,235 last year.
Yes saw that in the logs and actually already wrote you an email. At the current point in time, we do not allow to change DomainDescriptions other people created. In this case, we save the one the user wanted to save and log it (that the work is not lost) and then incorporate the changes our self. This will change in the future. Sorry for the inconvenience.
> "In case you’re wondering, Chat is compatible with Hangouts and works with your existing contacts."

Well no shit. A "contact" is a userid at a Google controlled service. If they'd managed to not be able to address their own siloed users, that'd be pretty sad?

Also: with email, you can email people.

> "To get started, go to chat.google.com on the web or download the app on your desktop or mobile devices."

So no Gnu/Linux client, only a Android/Linux client. Why am I not surprised.
Regardless of stream fusion, it will always be one pass in Haskell because of laziness.
> The Patriot missile battery at Dhahran had been in operation for 100 hours, by which time the system's internal clock had drifted by one-third of a second. Due to the missile's speed this was equivalent to a miss distance of 600 meters.
> The teaching positions might be different

They are very very very different. You have the normal "applications close on / for full consideration submit materials before [month] [day]" thing. But if you submit your application on that day (or anyways, pretend you did) then the typical schedule was something like:

* phone interview the next week
* onsite between one week and one month from phone interview
* offer within a few days/weeks of onsite.

Actually, my teaching job process moved much faster than my industry job process.

Maybe at least in CS we need to move to a "rolling basis" style.
Are you a junior dev or was the work in a domain unfamiliar to you?

If not, you should be able to at least start debugging. You should get some error message (maybe that indicates some env variables not set, something not installed, etc). It seems odd to have not spoken directly to your supervisor or product owner to say "hey, this isn't working because X. What do I need to do / who can I talk to for help?"
Oh, interesting, did not know that! I guess I only now just realized that 24d10 is 10 dice with 24 values (I just read the GGP and thought, oh 240 uniform is easy to make)... there's probably some nice way to emulate that with 1-bit RNGs in expected finite (ideally small!) time.

EDIT: I screwed up again, 24d10 is 24 dice with 10 values. Oops. Point is still roughly the same!
I get your point, but BuyMeACoffee is more than just a tipping platform. Creators can reward their supporters, showcase supporter comments (which is often more rewarding than the money itself) and much more.

MrDots is a game developer who gives away game codes to supporters. He raised $1300 within a day after sharing it with his audience: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Zc2ryTOpw.
This is just one of many use-cases where BMC can be used effectively :)
They already drove everyone I know to FB messenger. A long time ago.
I've heard this referred to as having a 'rabbi' who can help you navigate the political seas of a company.
Why Your Smartphone Gets Hot and Drain Battery Quickly
I don't really understand the point - in most interpretations of artist I've come to find, the creation of the art is detached from the financial reward, thus it neither contributes to or detracts from the artist's worth how/how much they take as contributions?
>We'll also be expanding to support engineers and companies in new locations.

This is the most exciting thing to me. I would love to use Triplebyte to try to find a position, but relocating is just not an option for me right now.
Oh, gosh. Really?

It makes me kind of sick imagining that call.
Congress has the power to declare war.
Excuse me, but Spotify is not profitable, or I miss something?

"For the years ended December 31, 2015, 2016, and 2017, we incurred net losses of €230 million, €539 million, and €1,235 million, respectively"

How is it better than Twitter?
Can you name a profitable tech company or unicorn going public who is profitable?
I don't generally agree with Noam Chomsky (on some things I do, but that should hopefully be irrelevant to the point I'm making here), but I don't understand why this would be controversial to say.

Our biggest problem right now is intellectual laziness and "being on the team.". We need more speech, not less. We should be reading and listening outside of our comfort zones. Let's started engaging with the strongest arguments of each side! Steelman over strawman!
>Join a company that has great mentors.

Why?

I have had people say this to me before but I think it is silly advice for where I am at. No one has really explained what a mentor is supposed to do in regards to a software engineer who is mid-level.

When I think "mentor", I think "hand-holding". I don't need hand-holding. I just need to be on a team with peers who push each other. Is that mentoring? What does "mentoring" look like when someone grows beyond a junior role?
I think the idea is to take the common good and make it, to some extent, a private good so that there is a profit motive behind keeping it intact.
No, you can't pay your ISP to get "faster internet", only to get more bandwidth between your wall and whatever backhaul provider owns the physical fiber lines. There is no way to make the internet "faster" other than reducing the number of hops you have to make to get to the destination, or by increasing the speed of packets on the networks, which should already be roughly speed of light. Therefore if they are proposing "fast lanes" it isn't about speeding you up, but rather about slowing everyone else down.

Net Neutrality doesn't prevent ISPs from selling more bandwidth to netflix, it only prevents ISPs from treating the traffic differently due to the identity of either the sender or the receiver. This means that Comcast can't slow your traffic down just because you are sending data to and receiving data from netflix instead of using Hulu (which they partially own).
Software engingeer needed at Fast Radius startup in Chicago
Fast Radius is the leading industrial-grade 3D printing and on-demand manufacturer. Strategically partnered with UPS, Fast Radius enables fast production of industrial parts at global scale. We are the end-to-end partner for companies looking to embrace additive and on-demand manufacturing: supporting clients with product design, engineering, testing and validation – all the way to global manufacturing and supply chain. From functional prototypes to real engineered parts produced into the tens of thousands, Fast Radius guarantees quality with the fastest delivery times in the industry. We embrace the full suite of on-demand manufacturing technologies, including the newest innovations in additive manufacturing from Carbon and HP, as well as rapid CNC and injection molding. The company can be found online at www.fastradius.com.

What we’re looking for:
As a member of our engineering team, you’ll have the unique opportunity to build a robust software platform and product roadmap from scratch. You’ll be collaborating with everyone – the dev team, product, client services, clients, manufacturing operations – to innovate and create a differential product.

Experience in manufacturing or 3D printing isn’t necessary. You must be creative, self-driven and always looking to innovate and improve. We’re looking for someone who’s excited about an opportunity to continue to take his/her skills to the next level. Full job description is at https://www.fastradius.com/join-the-fast-radius-team/
What are some good examples of that? Specifically something that has malicious intent or an abuse of some TOS. I can think of a number of examples from companies like Uber. But maybe I missed something from Facebook.
Neither dark star nor black hole are apt "models" for the objects. These are phenomena of space-time, not just of gravity. Light cannot escape a black hole because escaping a black hole is impossible. And it's impossible because the space-time inside an event horizon has no trajectories that go forward in time which go farther away from the singularity. Black holes are like pocket universes with one-way roads connecting them to our Universe, this is why light doesn't leave the inside of the event horizon, the path between there and here only goes one way, unlike the rest of space-time.

"Dark star" is also a misleading term in that it implies the object is a star or something physical at all. In fact to us it doesn't matter what the object is inside the black hole, and its structure is essentially unknown to us (at present), because we can't interact with it. We can only interact with the space-time phenomenon that it created, the event horizon.
Unfortunately, my experience with TripleByte was terrible and a waste of my time. I completed the interview with a very high evaluation across all categories as provided by the interviewer.

There were certain areas where the interviewer messed up in their evaluation, e.g. they felt I "was a little weak at hashmaps and API design", which is probably because they did not know what I was talking about when I described the details of advanced hashmap implementations. There seems to be a bias to discredit the interviewee if the interviewer lacks knowledge in an area.

Either way, despite getting great evaluations, I was matched with a total of 5 companies most of which were highly underwhelming early stage companies with minimal traction. Furthermore, I was matched with full stack companies despite begin evaluated as "weak in API design", which is perplexing. I was able to get higher quality offers in my own search and it seems like the TripleByte pipeline consists of many mediocre companies.

If I had known, I wouldn't have wasted my time with this service and invested more time in my job search.
>Tor, Monero, etc all suffer from basically the same problem.

Is the desire for freedom from censorship even actually a problem?
Did you ever try using it? It was awkward to use and slow. Even on the hardware that was specifically designed for.
> Even their cross platform support is the best.

Even if it's based on Electron, their Linux desktop client at least exists and this is reason enough for me to keep being a subscriber. The web player is working but is missing features and has some major bugs (e.g., I cannot "dislike" a song on a playlist). My one wish would be for it to get on the same level of playlist management that Amarok, Foobar2000 and similar music players were on like 15 years ago...

Amazon Music's desktop client, despite also being Electron-based, is only available on Windows and Mac and its usability is so bad, I cannot even describe it. There is a reason why Amazon Music is a lot cheaper: it's worse in every metric beside costs that I were evaluating.
Rational.com... what do they know about programming?
> Recommended payout method was "Stripe" for me even though it was disabled due to not being available in my country.

This is a good catch! The problem though is BMC will now have to keep the country data updated from Stripe, unless Stripe provides it over their API
Actually wrote this morning Airtable to maybe also create a scraping extension for them. Still waiting for an answer.
Did you mean unprofitable? Spotify lost $1.5B last year.
Wow, that sounds great for small/new artists.
Based on the article from earlier today [0], my new theory is that engineers at Google have realized that the best way to get promoted is to launch a big, shiny product (regardless of need, market fit, etc), and the easiest way to get a big, shiny product is to just re-launch the same projects over, and over, and over. Who cares about long-term product strategy as long as you get your promotion?

Seems like a classic case of employees optimizing for local maxima, at the expense of the global maximum.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16483241
The package deals are for multiple years. The package is only cheaper for the first year.
Yeah there is a tool that is like this app with a Touch of Eve and some AI = https://www.dohnny.com/
I think a lot of people thought that the larger screens available in each generation after the 5S were a must-have hardware feature.

The camera has improved a lot since then, too. The 5S didn't have 802.11ac. The 6S was the first iPhone with more than 1gb of RAM, I believe.

edit: originally this comment said that the 5S lacked bluetooth LE, but I think my source was incorrect about that.
They've gone from 28 million to 71 million premium subscribers in 3 years with a declining, single digit, churn rate. I'm impressed.

I'm a happy Spotify customer, I hope they continue their growth and become a pillar of the music industry.
Diggernaut and Death by Captcha = easy captcha bypass during web scraping process
"Nobody forces you to use Facebook."

"Please provide your Facebook profile to continue with your employment application."

#WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong?
Yeah, but we're special in regards to human morality. There's nothing wrong with giving your own species a higher moral weight. It derives quite naturally from us being the result of self interested genes.
And yet somehow Pidgin with GTalk still works on my desktop.

I really have no idea how. I'm pretty sure Google said they would completely kill the GTalk plugin over the summer. But I'm not asking questions.
I didn't say that being able to do calculations implies understanding did I?

Now, understanding implies being able to do calculations. And you said that you could understand without maths, which means you can do calculations without maths. So try that and let me know how it goes.
How could he possibly refer you if he's never met you and doesn't even work for them any more?
"Minority Report"
Wish App Data Use May Be of Concern to Wireless Carriers
Does it actually work? Or are the "criminals" just social activists?
¿Por que no los dos?
No need for ugly sed error-prone trickery.

Use on the Makefile:

MAKE_TARGET := /some/path

And invoke

$ make MAKE_TARGET=/other/path
Using Efficiency Metrics to Monitor Public Cloud Costs
ahhh, I see the distinction now ... you can get into that super deep squat when you're just chillin'. But if you're squatting at a rack, you would maintain a different form.
We used these at school. We punched indentations in the sides using a compass point. Obviously that isn't going to work in prison, but you could make marks with a fingernail easily enough. (Of interest, note how the pencil is short in the photo - makes it harder to use as a shank.)
Yeah GRE does that. They just use your answers as some sort of dichotomic search: they start giving you harder (or easier) questions until you are answering correctly ~50% of them.
This is a popular request. It was deliberate not to offer multiple currency support. We believe having a unified payment flow will go a long way in improving conversions. Higher conversions = happy creators :)

However, we're currently looking into paying creators in their currencies, which will solve half the problem (+ a lot more payment options like Apple Pay, Android Pay, Bitcoin, etc.)
Um. Craigslist is ads.

(There are, yes, parts of it which aren't. But ads are the prime motive.)
All property is 'doomed', though. All beachshore property will inevitably become either (a) water or (b) not beachshore. (And probably more the former than the latter.) Doesn't make them a bad idea. Even if it's not near a beach, the house will wear out and either need to be replaced piece by piece or in its entirety. And sand may get more expensive, but it's never going to 'run out'. The World may have high maintenance costs, but most mansions, yachts, and private jets do too. If you're rich, you can afford it.
It is not a global statement :)
What a load of nonsense. If time did not exist, then change would be impossible. If you remove time, you would have to claim things like "I am standing and I am not standing" which is a contradiction.
Do you mind linking any of those resources?
Learn with Google AI: Making ML Education Available to Everyone
I think one more interesting number is churn of premium customers. It seems to be dropping over time and seems very good: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1639920/000119312518...
National Identity Is Made Up [video]
Show HN: Testing for augmented reality
You're not even curious to see how it was dealt with and how the issue was expressed to the vendor? I'd never be in a meeting regarding deaths of users of my software, because I just make internal webapps, so I just cannot help but be curious as to how one of those meetings would go.
Was it bad enough to abandon all investments made into its development and jump to the less successful competing platform instead of incrementally improving MeeGo/Maemo?
Yahoo was already dying quite well on its own while she was still at google.
>What I found most off putting, was when meeting my skip-manager (your managers manager) for the first time during my exit interview, all doors for a senior level promotion were suddenly open, to incentivise me to stay.

Did you meet anyone who had taken that option? I thought it was commonly viewed a bad idea to take a counter offer, since most companies will lay you off or never promote you again due to perceived disloyalty?
Google and Facebook were both profitable when they went public.
Ask HN: How to play the politics game at your company?
Inspired by the quitting google thread, I was curious how a new programmer can excel at a company. That is, on paper.

How can we better play by the rules and earn raises instead of having to switch companies?
Where will you expand next? Which cities?/countries?
I've often wondered, considering the supposed low accuracy of Scud missiles, (wiki gives it a CEP of 450m) how much of the casualties from that incident were more due to the bad luck of the missile actually hitting its target.
How to Attend a Conference
Same thing exists on Windows Phone, BlackBerry, WebOS, even all the way back to Symbian I think.
Just a note if the original guys are around- in your website main page, "keep it's looks" should be "keep its looks".

I know someone finds this annoying, but it's your website front page so..
Q: Why KeePassXC instead of KeePassX?

A: KeePassX is an amazing password manager, but hasn't seen much active development for quite a while. Many good pull requests were never merged and the original project is missing some features which users can expect from a modern password manager. Hence, we decided to fork KeePassX to continue its development and provide you with everything you love about KeePassX plus many new features and bugfixes.
No, I said that if you have a strong enough intuition you will be able to recreate the math from that intuition. But knowing the math does not suffice to give you the intuition.
The top result on Google just says, “A data breach is a confirmed incident in which sensitive, confidential or otherwise protected data has been accessed and/or disclosed in an unauthorized fashion.”
Only the most dense of people would think that isn't a cry for help.
Definitely, thanks!
To quote my grandpa (who started off with nothing and retired as a millionaire): money doesn't buy happiness, but it sure makes it easier.
And if IRC is not enough we could get back to Pigeon Post[0] running over "IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service"[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_post
[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549
As a distro packager, Autotools may be a mess, but debugging a package that won't build is fairly straight-forward. If the package uses CMake though, and there's a weird build issue, debugging that can be a nightmare! Everything is so opaque, with tons of implied complexity! CMake may be nice to write, but it's hell to debug.
Note that RDS supports, before 10, streaming out logical changes. Support for that was added to postgres 9.4. I stand by my statement that it'll be problematic for Aurora to support this.
This is untrue, gravitational collapse does not overwhelm fusion pressure, fusion stops, that's why neutron stars are created.
Can you elaborate on what you mean? What definition of "faith" do you think is meant here?
way cheaper
The state-of-the-art arrived at triple-paned by now.
> "... this approach resolves all the well-known quantum paradoxes of quantum foundations. In particular, quantum mechanics is local and consistent with special relativity."

This is a very strange thing to say if you are familiar with the Dirac equation, or quantum field theories. The unification of those laws gives us all the beauty and extreme-predictability of modern particle physics. I'd say they are pretty consistent already.
Huh, their operations have been turning out cash since 2016 (page 11). Curious what they got for their €400 million of 2017 R&D spend (page 10).
Yea, it's tough work. We're hoping to invest more in the conversion library (and support the Engrafo's team to do so).

It's going to take a lot of time and elbow grease to get it to where it needs to be!
Is this net income (after taxes, and possibly after 401k [or equivalent] savings)?

I would say that having no debt, or at least having manageable debt, along with knowing you are saving enough for retirement, and making enough that you don't have to second-guess if you can afford every purchase you make, is the real cutoff.

For example, if you don't have mortgage debt then you are probably renting. So I consider mortgage "manageable" debt, along with any short-term debt that you can pay off within a year.

The other thing to consider, is life is full of stress-inducing "things" (situations, people, material objects, etc). Often times throwing money at the stress makes the stress lower or go away. So if you make enough where you can throw money at most of your stress and not break the bank, then that would greatly impact your happiness.
By the way, I think it's a cool product!
I like startups actually producing things
Containerized App Deployment on Kubernetes (K8s) with Nutanix Calm
Spotify files for direct listing
Recommend Publir:

https://publir.com
You did not read the whole text. The author affirms that time is a river, and that he is this river. Moreover, the text is written poorly on purpose to mask people like you. He mentions that his argument is based on Berkeley and Leibniz, and mentions Leibniz only once. I laughed at this genius joke of his affirming Leibniz's indiscernibles. There should be a hacker news where people who do not read what is linked are banned permanently.
Converting CRLF to LF for all files in a Git repository
You're correct.

make foo

or

make foo.o
I haven't reviewed yet but from the synopses above, it sounds like they are generating FCF / are cashflow positive? "Profitability" can mean many things (FCF, NI, EBIT, EBITDA, OIBA, GAAP-figures, non-GAAP, etc)... But cash is king in reality so FCF generating isn't a bad meaning here.
Very valid point.
Another content parasite cut loose, what a shame, how will we continue on with our lives? potential retitle: Big Things Crush LittleThings