skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's mind-boggling to me about this is to take such a risk over such a paltry (for a C-level) amount of money.
Great point! Glad to see other skeptics already arrived.

I'd love to see a concept like this work but it is very difficult to truly align the incentives between recruiters and candidates or companies. Like you said it's just like real estate, a turnover game where the broker doesn't really care about optimal outcomes for the transacting parties.

That said this could still add a lot of value for students - I certainly had no clue about career paths when I was in school. So I hope they figure out a way to make it work for everyone.
Very similar to my use case. My parents would have a glass of wine with their dinner every night. My wife enjoys the same. I don't like wine or beer because I get a headache and it doesn't really ease stress.

Smoking (via vaporizer) a little bit before eating is awesome and good weed doesn't give you a hangover or drowsy feeling the next day. I'm so much more in the present moment, my daily stresses melt away, I can connect with my wife. When I go on camping trips or leave the hustle and bustle of the city, I don't smoke. I get peace by being out of the grind and being around people I love.
Study: identical twins' DNA differ after one spends a year in space
IBM/Lenovo can do it too. Custom fabric for affinity of Lambdas and in memory S3 on the same rack for insanely low latency. Killer is an MPI Broadcast primitive over a tree network and other bare bone equivalents of fundamental MPI operations. DOE alone will stop buying CRAY when they can use commodity low latency racks for HPC.
Another +1 for Newsblur. I have been a paid user ever since Google Reader shut down. Its design goal was to fill just that gap, so for those who loved the workflow of Reader, Newsblur was the obvious choice. Of course, it has far exceeded Reader's feature set since then. It has had some performance issues in the past, but the developer was quick to respond to them.
The issue is that many in group 1, baiters, intentionally and effectively mimic those in group 2, earnest people. So sadly, although they are different, there is no way to reliably distinguish them from their posting behavior.
In countries with decent engineering standards, broken glass and items falling from above such as light fittings and ceiling panels cause the worst injuries. Giving people a minute or so warning could be very helpful to prevent these sorts of injuries.
C tools are not more complex than Javascript tools and they don't change that often. However, after few years in JS land I feel the rust.
Inside the obsessive world of the home tech early adopter
> These are "computer nerds" taking aim at an American company from outside the US. I do not think they will find many willing to practice the restraint we would see if we were dealing with a typical wealthy American white collar criminal. Such behavior is normalized in some circles, but it is still seen as aberrant for any 'outsiders' to engage in the same behavior.

1. That they are "computer nerds", in your words, is inconsequential. Their in-group will not be a deciding factor, for better or worse. This isn't high school, and the SEC has a minimum level of professionalism it does adhere to.

2. Your characterization is, more broadly speaking, not well-founded. Activist investors are not, as a rule, white collar criminals. in fact they're not typically any sort of criminal. The SEC doesn't need to practice restraint or extend arbitrary leniency (something the SEC is not known for, for any group), because the activity tends to only rarely overstep legal boundaries.

3. This behavior is not seen as aberrant for any outsiders, and it's not normalized to only some group in "Big Wall Street." For example, I'm an outsider to activist investing, and I find nothing aberrant about it at all. In fact I think of it somewhat positively.
Node implemented native ES modules behind a feature flag, but it is just awful. They introduced a new file type ".mjs" that gets special handling and has a bunch of arbitrary rules that determines how they can interact with normal node modules. I though I had been following this discussion, but this slipped under my radar for months. For some reason they felt the need to cater to some bizarre dynamic async importing edge cases that no one actually needs.

There are better solutions and NPM developers have implemented one to prove that it just works. It's OK to raise an exception at runtime when a developer tries to do something ridiculous.
When you take charge of an organization, and reap the benefits from being in charge, you accept the responsibility as well.

How could you not hold the CEO criminally responsible for this much damage just because they neglected to get informed on these topics or get expert opinions if they didn't have the ability to become informed.

If that's the case every company should have a head "CEO" who knows nothing and just does what a shadow CEO tells him to do. Then no one would be responsible ever!
it's not just the social factor, it's that there's an immediate benefit to using it - your code can be run in a web browser. that solves the bootstrapping problem with your shiny new WORA bytecode spec being unattractive until there are already a bunch of implementations, but there won't be a bunch of implementations until people are actively using it.
Also, I believe the newer fast.ai course uses Pytorch, and the prior used Keras?

I would like to know more from the article about setting x,y,m1, and m2. Any explanation is appreciated.
They clarified that this is part of their system.

It's the best single system labelled "SV1" in Table 2 in our research paper.

Results are pretty good but definitely not human quality yet.
Black: Python Code Formatter (for Humans?)
And so the wheel turns...

Some choice quotes from the launch of Digg Reader:

> "Free products on the Internet don’t have a great track record. They tend to disappear, leaving users in a lurch. We need to build a product that people can rely on and trust will always be there for them." [0]

From a Wired slobbery puff piece:

> "The Digg team certainly has a shot at cracking that nut; their progress so far is astonishing, and their relentless enthusiasm makes you almost believe they can accomplish anything. But they also might melt the wax on their wings, come crashing down into the hard crust of the real world, and lose an astonishing amount of money. It almost doesn’t matter." [1]

From Gizmodo:

> "Where Google set us adrift, Digg threw us a life-preserver. While it's exciting to see what the future might hold, right now, it's nice enough just to have our heads above water." [2]

And the prize for winning HN comment from 2013 goes to @nothxbro:

> "It looks good, but I am wary of using any of these guys stuff based on how fast they 'pivot' and shut things down." [3]

0: http://blog.digg.com/post/49264812779/were-still-learning

1: https://www.wired.com/2013/06/inside_digg_reader/

2: https://gizmodo.com/digg-reader-hands-on-your-google-reader-...

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5894290
A lot of it is easy UX wins left on the table.

"git revert" would have been clearer if it were identical but just named "git retract". It's a more natural match because reverting usually just means going back to how things were, whereas retracting can and often does mean to announce that you are going back. After a newspaper prints something untrue or unfounded, they issue a retraction.

"git checkout -b" is confusing because the main and most significant thing it does is create a new branch, and checking it out is secondary to that. If it had been "git branch -c" instead (create a branch also check it out) that would have been more natural than "git checkout -b" (check out a branch that, incidentally, you will have created).

"git reset", as you mentioned, does two things. This could have been made easier by just splitting it into two commands. Perhaps the first two forms could be called "git unstage". The git book ( https://git-scm.com/book/id/v2/Git-Basics-Undoing-Things ) explains it under a heading called "Unstaging a Staged File", which suggests that it's a more natural term.
Detroit used to be, probably still is up there, but maybe not as bad as it once was.
The new Zircon kernel now from Google fuchsia is being coded in C++ with some C interface for user program.

Giving the great design it have and the leverage of Google on mobile phones, it will probably get a massive deployment in the future.
Exploring Lithuania as a FinTech Hub
Could also post electronic signs on freeways that warn motorists to stop and pull over immediately, particularly before hazardous areas like bridges, tunnels, viaducts, and onramps. IIRC most of the civilian casualties of the 1989 Loma Prieta & 1994 Northridge earthquakes were from viaduct or bridge collapses that pinned cars underneath. With a minute's warning, you can prevent any more cars from entering the bridge and get most of the existing traffic out.
The article is about the insider trading charges that were filed against him today, so yeah.
Feedly is nice on desktop web site and mobile app, though it is missing some of the social features of Google Reader and some functionality can be more difficult to find in the UI than it should be.
You could have a blockchained production process- every supplier confirms that his part was used in the product, the end result is a product that is nearly reliable.
Indeed, I'm a big fan of SmartGit: https://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/

SmartGit isn't an oversimplified GUI designed mainly for beginners, it is very powerful. It gives you a direct view of the state of your repo along with high level tools to manipulate it.

Taking a couple of examples from this thread:

> Stackoverflow top item on how to redo a commit (one of most common things a new user may need to do):

$ git commit -m "Something terribly misguided"
$ git reset HEAD~
<< edit files as necessary >>
$ git add ...
$ git commit -c ORIG_HEAD

In SmartGit you just edit your files and commit again, and in the commit dialog check the "Amend previous commit" box.

Or the reflog. Ah, the reflog. You get this list of hashes and commit pointers and commit comments. Now what? Which was really the commit you were looking for? If you're like me you may have several commits with the same comment as a result of rebasing and amending and generally fooling around. How do you see the actual diff for one of those commits?

In SmartGit, you open the log window and click the "Recyclable Commits" box at the bottom of the Branches panel. Now everything from the reflog is displayed as part of your commit log, just like any other commit or branch. You can click on any of those commits to see the list of changed files, and click on any of those files to see the diff.

This is orders of magnitude more usable than the command line reflog. And yet, I often find a tool like SmartGit a tough "sell" when I'm talking with other developers. One very talented developer told me, "I would never use a GUI, I'm much more productive in the commaand line."

But the same developer also told me they never use rebase or amend a commit for the reason that you could lose your prior commits. They'd heard of the reflog but never used it. And really, who would want to if you could avoid it? It's a real second-class feature and very awkward to use.

In SmartGit, you just click that box and the entire reflog becomes part of your normal log with all of the tools available.
I think the radial scales on which galaxies are frisbee-like (i.e., the tangential velocity is roughly proportional to radius so that rotation period is constant) are much smaller than the scales on which we notice the discrepancy from naive expectations that suggests dark matter. The discrepancy in the velocity curve is at radiuses where both dark-matter and non-dark-matter models predict that velocity increases sub-linearly with radius. (It's true the dark-matter models are closer to linear than the non-dark-matter models, both are clearly distinct for it, and hence show whirlpool-like motion rather than frisbee-like motion). See the third figure here:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/134159/what-is-a...
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16584980
Perhaps the bug you submitted wasn't worthy of a CVE. It's impossible to know from a single anecdote with basically no details.

What I do know is that, to my knowledge, there has never been a single verified publicized breach of any AWS systems that were due to a vulnerability in AWS itself. Care to provide a counterexample?
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes charged with $700m fraud
You generally don't have enough time to get into an open field, even if you aren't in a city. If you happen to be right next to one, odds are you're in a single-story building with few weights in the attic. When these buildings fall down the doorframes are often left standing. Plus if you're running out while the ground is shaking there's a significant chance that the unsupported ceiling will fall on you, the building wall will fall on you, the windows will be flexing and shattering, cutting you...

Generally, standing in an interior doorway is a far safer move.
For the geologists in the house:

I live in a new construction home with a post-tensioned slab foundation about 4 miles from the Hayward fault -- in a vertical line straight down.

How worried should I be?
Someone could make good coin from developing one and selling it to private equity firm.

72h before big quake they start buying put options for insurance companies and firms most affected.
But most of us aren't version control engineers; we just use version control as one of many tools in our toolbox. I think a more accurate analogy would be that a taxi driver doesn't need to understand how an engine works.
In isolation that sounds fantastic. When looking at the greater market dynamics, it's not at roses. Professionals tend to form opinions in the interest of their self preservation, whether consciously or otherwise.

By shaving off the time it takes to keep the books, a percentage of clients will decide that the time it takes to keep the books isn't worth outsourcing. The shorter you make the time commitment, the more the cost/benefit analysis leans that way.

You've also made it easier for other bookkeepers. Now they have more room in their day for more clients, plus the barrier of entry for new bookkeepers is powered by the easier software. All of a sudden you have negative pricing pressure driving your rates down and next thing you know your client base has gone up but your rates have gone down and you're making the same amount of money but with more client management overhead due to additional clients being serviced.

Then at some point, the ease of use shrinks to the point where a critical mass of the client base have decided to do it themselves, and you start finding it hard to source enough clients to fill all 8 hours a day, and have yet more negative pricing pressure to make up for it. What started as making your job more efficient evolved into making your job so efficient you weren't needed.
I’m not sure the servers could handle that little traffic.
Well, 'prosecute'... no one is going to jail. White collar crime is normalized and expected in upper class circles. A single case like this is a drop in the bucket. While certainly not a majority, there are absolutely people in this world that believe if someone will not come to you and put a gun to your head, back you into a cage, and lock you in it, then whatever they are doing is fair game. If people really wanted to stop them, they'd take it that far. So they see any other standard as frivolous and silly to pay attention to. Ethics? What ethics?
Ask HN: Databases/disk access for server-side apps - still a bottleneck?
I've read many times in comments here on Hacker News that the speed of your server-side programming language matters much less than the speed of your database or disk access. Given that SSDs are now commonly used by many hosting providers - is database/disk access still a bottleneck for server-side web apps?
You could say it's somewhere between Wix and Photoshop for user experience.
Still point and click interface but much more granular in its features. Try a sample project and get a taste.

Then you can export what you need.
Okay, I don't understand the point of highlighting something without explaining why. Could you explain what role that data point plays given that they hold over 90,000 patents?
> I'm not even sure a worldwide nuclear war would take Google offline

All the major power generation systems in the US and Europe that Google needs to operate, would likely be taken down. They're well known and those would all be intentionally targeted. Google as a shell of its former self might stay up briefly, that wouldn't last long outside of some stray regions. Further, they'd have those stray regions severed by local authorities who would divert the critical power to more important uses (literally keeping people alive). Any resistance by Google at that redirect of their power use would be met by military equivalent force.
But what if we human/compare ape guts with true omni guts (bear/wolf/swine), or true carnivore (cats) mammals?

Would you say this kind of chart is not true?

http://creationislove.com/wp-content/uploads/comparative-ana...

Just being inquisitive here... I want to learn.
You're definitely looking for reasons to be offended.
Hah. I didn't get more than a D in any high school math course, failed 2 of them and had to retake them in summer school, and didn't go to college.

I work in cryptography engineering today.

The routine algorithmic work we do in the industry may be rooted in somewhat sophisticated math, but in reality even if you're doing somewhat advanced work you're not engaging directly with that math. If I read through the OCW 6.006 curricula I see lots of topics that are important in practice, but none of them really involve deeply understanding complexity math.

If you have an intuition for why sort tends to be nlogn and search logn, I think you're probably doing fine.
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Satoshi told everyone his fork was Bitcoin and Vitalik told everyone his fork was Ethereum. The fact that more people disagreed with Vitalik than people that disagreed with Satoshi doesn't change the fact that the same thing happened in both cases: a central authority told everyone which fork was the right one.

At the end of the day, when consensus breaks in unforeseen circumstances-- whether through a bug or an attack (the difference is purely syntactic)--people turn to the developers to tell them which consensus ruleset to follow. If you disagree with the developers, your chain gets called something else, as we've seen with Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum Classic.

With the 2013 Bitcoin fork, there were 2 ledgers and the network could not find consensus until the developers realized this and told everyone what to do 4 hours later. That's the developers controlling the system.

And who controls the developers? Their big bad State.
I guess the average person doesn't have very much life insurance (<$100k on average per person). Looks like about 100 people have died from earthquakes in the last 30 years in CA, so maybe that gives you $10M in life insurance expenditures.

Health-wise, let's say every injury has cost $30k on average (IMO a very generous estimate). Looks like there have been about ten thousand injuries or so over the last thirty years. So that's $300M.

Let's say for the sake of argument that an early warning system reduces losses by 50%. So that gives us $150M in value over thirty years. Or about $7.5M per year in value. (Less, really, because value saved in the future has to be discounted.)

That doesn't really go very far even toward maintaining an existing system, to say nothing of developing a new one. (Assuming the last thirty years is representative, that my napkin math is good, etc.)
> Or fueling the creation of alternate tech hubs.

It's basically the unspoken reason for Amazon HQ2, isn't it?
Setting aside the distributed nature of git, if I delete a tag and add it again to point at a different commit id, how can the tag be considered immutable? If I step away from my desk and come back and look at a commit id, I know it is exactly the same thing as before. I can’t say the same thing about a tag.
It's really tricky because while you're absolutely right, they generally don't indict innocent people. So when like 90% of these cases are guilty or a plea, it's way too easy to just forget about the 10%.
Walmart has got their fingers in a lot of pies too. I am not sure you meant to use them in that sentence anyway because they don't do "car stuff."
It would be hard to punish Holmes worse than Shrkeli at this point. 7 years in a male prison has much more potential to destroy a life than 7 years in a female one.
Watch closely and you'll get to see Reddit do it in real time over the next 2-3 years.
You abd I might be talking different services. They did take our ID but charged us nothing. This has happened at several locations where we had a broken down car nearby. Maybe the policies vary by store or state. This was both in TN and MS.
>why Git should be treated differently

well for starters, git is free, while Photoshop is made by a for-profit corporation that has always charged quite a lot of money for it.

>a desire to understand every program's internals

You don't need to know its "internals," but you should understand how it works. That is not a lot to ask. Just like with Photoshop you need to know how to use the lasso tool, how layer masking works, how the difference color tools can be used, how to change image sizes and the limits of what you would want to do, how to preserve source images and work as lossless as possible, or 1 or 2 of the 5 different ways that you can accomplish a specific task with the program, etc, etc... to use git you need to know what its commands do. Photoshop is more equivalent to an IDE, which is usually paid for and usually comes with robust tools for managing a VCS like git, anyway.

>how Photoshop stores the 30-layer document

Yeah, and a lot of terrible designers don't care enough about the benefits of working with layers to bother with that either. No, you care about the opportunity for a massively improved workflow efficiency, so you bothered to figure it out. That is the equivalence with Git.

>being a programmer implies having a desire to understand

what does being a programmer imply, then?

Anyway, starting from 0 familiarity, Git is just as easy to start using as Photoshop, and both can be just as complicated as you need it to be.
Just because other places are worse doesn't mean the US is good. The US legal system enforces the law, not justice. It does a lot of work to make it more equitable but it's still obvious that if you have money you live by a different set of rules. The majority of the population couldn't pull off what the affluenza teen did, beat up their girlfriend publicly like Chris Brown with little to no affect on their career, or rape a kid and only serve 60 to 120 days in jail[1].

Every one of these instances of injustice degrade people's trust in the system

If I was an average person I'd rather be tried in the US, but if I was rich it seems like it doesn't matter. Our legal system seems pretty equivalent in outcome for the upper class. You only get more than a trivial punishment if you manage to upset someone with more money or power than you

[1]http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-06-07/news/sns-rt-us...
The Opus codec has an impressive amount of testing behind it as well:

https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/82/slides/codec-4.pdf