skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What reason did they have to fire you? Other than downsizing your team or something, what possible reason could they have had to fire you 2 months into your paternity leave?
Thanks a lot! I might take you up on that. I was planning to learn a bit of Python anyway.

I love what you're doing. I hate the way corporations are monetizing our private data. People should be able to have both privacy and convenience.

I would be happy to pay for an Evernote/Google Docs clone with an Android app where everything is client-side encrypted and possibly self-hosted so our data remains ours. What I want should be pretty simple really, but there's always the trust issue so I might have to write it myself!
Flames, dripping blood, and an under construction sign. Definitely from the 90s! Thanks for sharing :)
I ran D&D games as a DM for the entire time I was in prison. Socially challenged inmates tend to gravitate towards those games, and I welcomed them into the group. D&D was a great way to help them learn to interact and work with others.

We used a cardboard spinner with a push tack for the pivot.
ten bucks you will still be able to buy fake nests on amazon

and any fake or pirated app on google play
You'd then have different social platforms for different countries.

Instead of run by the state, governments could choose to give out vouchers redeemable only at social platforms that charge users directly for their services instead of relying on the advertising and data-sales game.
Does look good in Netscape though...

https://i.imgur.com/zpZh3HW.png
The guy asked a question, can we stop making these assumptions? It's childish, it's more constructive to provide the statistics the inquirer asked for.
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As a young but properly funded company (raised $25M two months ago), we do test our software, have a flexible vacation policy, very competitive packages including tokens and equity, enough runway for several years, and are potentially open to remote workers for some positions.

We believe in fair interview processes so we won't ask you to whiteboard your way out of a red black tree, but will make sure you can perform on the task. We also won't do more than two rounds of interviews, as we're respectful of your time.

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For backend positions, some experience with Rust, fraud management, or telecom software would be a nice plus, but not necessary.

We also welcome interns.
Lego goes sustainable with pieces made from sugarcane
Great, more censorship and them determining what is "fake news"
Highly recommend anyone interested in this topic check out some direct-from-horses-mouth media from EFF/Ramaphosa/Malema

https://twitter.com/EFFSouthAfrica/status/969221090378764289

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8mMA4ptzcU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy8qeOEJg8o

The rhetoric has become extremely heated to say the least.

"We are not calling for the slaughtering of white people ... at least for now" - Julius Malema, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrrlLQFbVOs
That is sweet! And then there was hell.com and associated sites. But I find no video :( Basically, once you paid $100 to repurchase your soul, you got lifetime access, and a hell.com email address :)
That’s not what they’re doing now?
Not to be confused with https://www.ecocoin.com/ , which is what I did.
Thanks for sharing that, Bob. I really like your site's design.

I also think that the name of the site is more awesome than silly. Not that silly is bad. A bit of silly makes life much more enjoyable! :)
Coding Bootcamps vs. Computer Science Degrees: What Employers Want
Tbh, I was hoping for an embedded midi file with no sound control. :)

My favourite part of this experience was my reaction to seeing your ICQ number. It was 'dang, he was a couple thousand ahead of me.' Somehow I still remember my ICQ number, though I don't think I've used it since 2001.
In all likelihood it's a pretty poor substitute for a gun. Consider that this weapon is suspected to cost around one dollar per shot (not including capital costs, I'm sure.) Figure that the navy generates energy pretty expensively and assume that means ~3kW*hr. Wikipedia says somewhere in the range 15-50kW. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Weapon_System).

I'm not up-to-date on the latest and greatest in batteries, but I think a person would have a hard time carrying the energy supply for a laser weapon that is comparable in effectiveness to the many forms of relatively compact guns in their many forms, whether we're discussing anti-air, anti-tank, or anti-personnel.

This is the navy trying to be able to deal with the asymmetry of a battle field in which the most credible threats are swarms of cheap drones. Consider that there are navy ships where the cheapest weapon on-board costs $0.75 million per shot, and it's not surprising that this would be exciting for them.
Amazon should be split up soon. Im a believer this is why Alphabet was formed.
As Syria’s use of chemical weapons has shown, those treaties simply aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.
http://www.dcastle.org/

They've existed since 92 and had in game currency bought with cash since around that time.
What is the value proposition of electronic voting machines?

I'm not an expert on the technology but I would say that in 2018 and for the forseeable future there is no way to make an electronic voting machine that the public will trust.

Arguably that is far more important than the tech stack.
Sounds more like an antitrust issue than a censorship issue to me. My local grocery store doesn't carry Daily Stormer magazine, but I doubt that'd be cast as "corporate censorship" by anyone.
This is really neat. Would love to see a version for guitar as well, but would be a little more difficult to display I imagine.
I'm not sure what the options look like today, but immediately post-apartheid there was a significant influx of white South Africans into Australia and New Zealand. In many ways, these would be the two cultures that white South Africans would probably feel are most similar to their own.
Or just have a thin layer of ablative armor designed to maximize laser bloom. We either need a lot more power behind these beams, better adaptive optics, or best of all really responsive phase conjugation to overcome realistic countermeasures.

I’ll take a wall of tungsten carbide, steel and lead over something that can be defeated by a foggy day. The promises of DEWs are enormous, but we’re not there yet.
That is what they do for Chromecast, https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s?k=chromecast
The author points out that tech companies filed amicus briefs on behalf of the credit card industry.
But 32-bit was an improvement, and something that developers actually desired.
Ultima Online launched in 1997, but development goes back way before that. A core part of the game economy was gold that could be used for trade between players, as well as NPCs (non-player characters).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_Online
I agree that the title should be changed, as it isn't reflected in the article.

With that said, for anyone who wants the context that likely lead to this current headline: The pioneer of this motion, Julius Malema, was quoted in the same speech as saying: "We are not calling for the slaughter of white people - at least for now".
Lunarcrete
Just consider this, Amazon refuses to sell (some) Google products because of their whims from time to time. Maybe this extends to other brands/companies other than Google that I haven't even heard about. Isn't this bad for the consumers? How has Amazon been able to make this decision without any consequences?
LinkedIn Down
Is it only me or LinkedIn is down ?
Is there any paper describing how this extends to objects containing N pointers without blowing up the number of bits needed?

Like say we are marking a vector containing pointers to objects. We need a state machine which tells us, on each visit to that object which tells us: "we have marked index [i]; now mark index [i+1]".

A list of 256 nodes doesn't have this problem: it has the marking bits in each node!

Also, how do we design the API for extending the heap with new kinds of objects. With the recursive traversal, you just provide a handler which traverses your objects and recurses down the pointers.

Perhaps we need some complicated protocol now whereby each object has methods like "init_traversal", "get_next_pointer", and "finish_traversal". In init_traversal, it receives a backpointer that it must store, and it returns a pointer that it would like the caller to retain (the one that is bumped to make space for the stashed one). In "finish_traversal", it gets back the retained pointer, in exchange for returning the stashed backpointer. Something like that.

Actually a protocol like this could perhaps clarify the algorithm.
Interesting. The reviews at the time claimed that it was slower, but not slow.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/ios-11-on-the-iphone...
Tie Fighter collectors edition (Updating to 640x480 iirc, also including enough missions to last like months of gameplay) was a mainstay for me for years.

X wing vs tie fighter was much later (1997 to tie fighters 94). It was both inferior gameplay IMO and a bit graphically behind, being not really much better than tie fighter while other things had gotten much better (descent and quake and mechwarrior 2 all better imo while half life and unreal werent released much after XWvTF)
I think you’re being too generous. Even if the creators didn’t know what you’re describing going in, and as you say they almost certainly did, they’ve had plenty of time to learn. Yet, they’ve optimized for conflict, for clicks and maximum engagement. All as you say, to sell more Coke and shaving cream.

The most frustrating part is the tendency of these companies to frame their callous and destructive business model in terms of Orwellian positivity. Everyone who is making a new app to record and share the sounds of your pet taking a shit is “changing the world.”
That would be cutting the nose to spite the face.
don't be fooled by the media. Trump supports legal immigration and is allocating more quota to legal immigrants. As a result, tons of legal immigrants support Trump.
I wonder how much winblows.com is going for.

Edit: I’ll update in 24 hours when a BuyDomains expert responds to my spam email address.
>maybe what we think of as conceptual understanding is just as much simple interpolation of our experiences as our neural networks...?

Possibly - we don't know. Sure if we could train one of these imagenet type classifiers with a million or billion images - close to all known objects in the universe, it may well be able to "recognize" everything. But that still doesn't solve the problem of abstraction or meaning, much less of intuition and generalization. Humans are able to generalize to new domains based on internal models of the world around us. The models used in RNNs for encoding word embeddings, seem to a bit closer to representing meaning. I agree though that NNs are evolving - we are in very early days, and who knows the NNs of the future may reveal that what we consider as understanding is no more than simple interpolation, as you suggest.
We don't need paper to trade.

I get paid in Bitcoin Cash and same with my employees.

Buy and sell goods for BCH. Why is there a need to convert to these papers, metals (, and cotton, etc)?

Don't see why I should pay above a 1c fee to send money from point A to point B.

Also do not understand why I must drive to an ATM where usually homeless people sleep.
Here is a direct link [1] for easy access; maybe Dang can change the link.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/131vjr4DH6JFnb-blm_uRdaC0...
You should look into federal and state labor authorities; while a lawyer not being paid upfront (one who would be taking a contingency fee) may balk at a case without more up-front evidence, public authorities may be willing to open an investigation with just a basic colorable claim. There will still need to evidence that you were fired for using paternity leave, but you may not bear the burden of uncovering it.
A.D.I.D.A.S.
Holy shit it's Wolfey. It's me, Patrick from Meteor Games.

Lemme go through my rolodex of lawyers and see who owes me a favor. In the meantime, look into legal insurance. You mind find an affordable solution to drive these cunt fucks into the earth for cheap.
Just to note: a dollar a shot is not very far off from the current retail price of rifle bullets.
To be fair, I was 17 and fighting the man was the cool thing to do. :)

I see you're a fan of Elm. Me too! I'm also slowly working on an Elm side project. Sadly, I don't think it'll ever get as much attention on HN as my 1999 website has over the past few hours.
This is really cool concept! But how to support this universally?
Whether technical or creative writing, todays writing cannot be replaced with a full time job. Unless of course you are writing for a huge publication.
What is hate? Is there an unbiased 3rd party that acts as a hate checker? Alternatively with a few rhetorical tricks I can turn anyone's beliefs I don't agree with into "hate". I like wearing blue shoes, so anyone wearing red shoes are blue shoes haters - ban them!
This has been the single most useful math resource for me as a programmer: https://github.com/Jam3/math-as-code, especially for working through CS textbooks like CLRS.
This.

I started salivating at the thought of hopefully grabbing BTC, BCH, and ETH at a discount like we did recently
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16123393
Copying collectors can handle foreign pointers. Why? Because foreign pointers can be managed via handle records. Those handle records are GC objects with a type tag and all that; they hold the foreign pointer as an opaque machine word in one of their fields. The handles themselves can be moved around by a copying/compacting allocator. Of course, the foreign objects aren't. You typically don't even know their size. They could be things like a library handle returned by dlopen(): don't even think about moving that. They could also be pointers into the middle of some object; a displaced C pointer can enter the GC world as a foreign pointer.
I think there are at least a few of us here on HN!

Feel free to send me an e-mail if you'd like. It's in my HN profile.
ESports.com just sold for seven figures
Garbage collection isn't really a problem because no CPU architecture supports garbage collection- the compiler is generating code to implement the GC regardless. The issue is that WASM doesn't really resemble real CPUs at all. Basically all modern CPUs are register machines, but WASM is a stack machine.

Say you have the code C=A+B in your program.

The generated assembly for a real machine looks something like this:
(R* denote registers and A-C are memory addresses)
load A->R1
load B->R2
add R1+R2->R3
store R3->C

WASM looks more like this:
push A
push B
add
pop C

This alone makes the approach to code generation and optimization quite different.

WASM does lack some features that you would find in real CPUs, most notably the ability for execution to jump to arbitrary memory locations. They had to work around this to maintain the behavior of goroutines. Functions also live in their own address spaces which necessitates a change to how the program counter works.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16457582

60+ comments
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Tech Group Says U.S. Unlikely to Back Off on H-1B Spouses Rule
When all the stores price match I have no reason to shop online unless I can’t find it in store. Amazon app is used almost exclusively to price match on my phone. Saved $1000’s
This seems to have some potential, but I feel like there are a number of services that at least overlap with what you're doing. The challenge might be differentiating yourself and figuring out how to gain mindshare.

A few thoughts on the site itself:

1. "domain named servers" should probably read "domain name server" or just say "DNS servers".

2. "Easely" should be "Easily"

3. Regarding collecting emails... how do you do that? Do you just capture them and let the user download a file, or do you provide any sort of distribution list service, or is there a way to easily integrate with something like Mailchimp, etc? My point is, if you're going to collect emails, ideally it would be very easy to turn around and send a message out to all of those collected emails.

4. Some of those templates you have do look really awesome! It might be interesting to put a carousel on the front-page with some thumbnails of those, so people can get a quick look without having to click through to the template list page.

5. Profit??
Isn't everyone trying to police what people say online now? Least of all the nytimes and the rest of the media? Europe does it. We do it. The media advocates for it. Is it just bad when the chinese do it?

90% of the time everyone here seems to support censorship and control over social media. Then the story is about china and everyone is against it.
DroneShield has a much cooler solution. Watch the video: https://www.droneshield.com/dronegun.
For one thing, because the recursive approach is debugged. If we can show that the new code doesn't change what the old code is doing when that case is not triggered, then then we can be confident that a bug hasn't been introduced.
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/linkedin.com
Also do not understand why I must drive to an ATM where usually homeless people sleep.

Is this some kind of anonymous performance art? I have trouble believing that people like this really exist in a form that knows how to turn their computer on.
I mean, I don’t think it’s something you can draw a firm line on. Some cases are obvious and egregious, like children being raised in cults. But every way of raising your child is ‘your way’ of passing on your values, and you could find at least someone who considers it abusive.
Neat! Would be cool if you could also reverse the input, generate the chords from selecting the keys. Also, it would be nice to hear the chord being played (a library like MIDI-js would suffice).
I don't understand the praise it's getting.

If I'm shown a keyboard I expect to click it and make sound (thanks, MYST). This does nothing.

The only instructions "e.g. Cm7b5" means nothing to me. I can only assume its target market is the people that understand whatever this notation is, in which case they don't need to learn.

FAIL.
There's been a lot of progress nonperturbatively defining quantum mechanics and quantum field theory using resurgence lately. See, for example, the very recent https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.10441
I'd rather not publicly tie my email address to my hacker news profile... Is there any way you could reply to this comment with a download link?

I would also be happy to tip you some bitcoin for your trouble, if you give me a bitcoin address
When I wrote Route50.net with a friend, we tried to keep that somewhat alive - to either good or terrible consequences.

Route50.net has:

* Moveable widgets
* Easy theme styling
* Optional complete CSS customization

And then, since one of the main points was an artistic gallery - we allowed users to share their CSS in the gallery, and other users could preview it and install it

Ex: http://route50.net/base/navarr http://route50.net/base/navarr?style=12675
Charles Schwab does by request.
Pretty sure death threats aren't protected speech unlike other hate crimes like intentionally misgendering him.
Speaking as a donor to SPLC, they are getting a bit ridiculous lately. Just reading the literature they send and everything they identify as hate is looking more like they are reaching too far. Pretending they are an unbiased arbiter of hate is just being dishonest. They clearly have a political bias and strong views. Nothing wrong there, but it's good to call a spade a spade and not something else.
I would argue that it isn't an investment. It is an indulgence.
I thanked your top level comment, but this whole thread is great. I fond my self worth data that sounds like yours. I'm excited to try fast text.
Perhaps uBeam has a prototype deployment after all.
One way to be more meritocratic is to not allow certain kinds of information to influence the hiring decision. For instance, suppose the ones making the decision are allowed to know what the candidate's skills are and what they've done, but not allowed to know where (or if) they went to school, and they're not allowed to know if their previous experience came from an employer or if it was something they did on their own, or how many years they spent doing those things.

Making the hiring decision would be harder because there's not as much information to go on, and it's not too hard to fake a superficial understanding of some technology. Presumably one would rely more heavily on rigorous aptitude testing (i.e. more of those whiteboard exercises everyone seems to hate and probably have bias problems of their own).
I’m curious to understand how you came to this conclusion, that it has “no effect” on their lives. It so obviously does. Should someone of the Catholic Faith wish to express such an opinion they risk social ostracism and, perhaps, their job. If you meant that two gay people getting married doesn’t have a material effect on someone regardless of their opinion on it, well, there’s a certain pastry chef who would disagree with you.

I don’t really have a dog in that fight one way or the other. What I’m trying to point out to you is that these things are most definitely not “settled” issues if you think about them for more than the fleeting moment it requires to let everyone know how progressive you are. They likely never will be settled - unless you get your way and the “wrong” opinions are banned.
The insurance being used to fight the patents seems good: it's effectively a way for the group to pool resources towards not paying out to patent trolls. The success of the insurance company should be based on the reduction of payments to trolling, even when counting the insurance as paying to patent trolls

What'd be most disheartening is if the insurance was just to pay off the patent trolls
"Alexa, why doesn't my daddy agree with Emperor of Mankind, His Excellency Jeff Bezos?"

Next day, daddy doesn't come home from work, kid never sees him again.

An intentionally extreme example, but this type of thing is certainly within the realm of possibility, and gradually making small encroachments.
Zombie Jesus and pillars of fire and smoke both sound like bad sci-fi. Angels and demons and falling stars, lakes of fire, beasts rising from a bloody ocean, Jainist cosmology, Mormon theology, spirit journeys, being smothered by ghosts in your dreams... all old and established religions.

The veneer of credibility is a pure function of time. They all started toxic and singular, and only time and being forced to adapt to others changes them. So no, the beliefs are all batshit, but eventually the behavior of the group deviates from the ideal enough to concede to reality. The ones which don’t undergo that transformation don’t survive.
Ah yes the 90s...

https://web.archive.org/web/19990223201901/http://members.xo...

That really brings back some memories.