skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re going less than 2000 feet up, what’s wrong with an airplane?
My experience has been that devs who struggle, will struggle with a simple for loop. This seems consistent with what I've heard from an Amazon bar raiser and the existence of fizz buzz. I'd be reluctant to give up this one sanity check of asking in real time a for loop question for whiteboard, or paper, psuedo code prefferably.
Is that why I'm getting all these downvotes on the comment above? Dudes and dudettes, that doesn't work on the side mirrors, which also have that effect.
Go is memory-safe. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_safety
It is also trivial to convince technically unsophisticated users to over-ride these security settings to get some ephemeral (and probably not even true) benefit. On the front page of HN today was another story describing how Facebook harvested a large chunk of contact info and text messages because people _gave it permission to do so_ when the app asked for it. Expecting these same users to be sophisticated enough to know what they are actually opting out of in this case strikes me as being a bit delusional.
Can't really fault him for literally studying "the natural world through observation and experiment" as opposed to blindly taking some else's word. But, he should probably spend his time understanding what others did to "study the natural world through observation and experiments" and realize it's not so blind to look at their conclusions.
Your point is valid, but we still live in a world where we can call Verizon phones with AT&T phones; send e-mails to Gmail users with Yahoo; and send mail with UPS instead of USPS. With those means of communication, we still have control over our providers.

There is no control within Facebook's ecosystem. Similar with AOL, if you don't use Facebook, you're necessarily out of the loop, and I don't feel comfortable with that.
How Not to Get Sick on a Plane? Choose Your Seat Wisely
Looks great! I've heard of Godot quite a bit and have been meaning to check it out.

Boy do I feel like a dummy though... I thought it was "Go"dot and it was built with and/or uses Go(lang). Can't say I wasn't just a tiny bit disappointed!

In any case, I just checked out some of the videos and the IDE in particular looks pretty amazing. Will check it out for sure.
It's the same kpart, just in a different UI shell. Dolphin has some overly simplistic defaults, but you should get the most (if not all) that you can get with Konqueror out of it.
Many artists had day jobs. For example, the composer Philip Glass was a plumber, the poet William Carlos Williams was a doctor. The article explores whether a day job gets in the way of your art or feeds it in some way.
Fuckem, until I can also claim my loses they can come find me!
Would you mind sharing what it was ?
Host your own. I trust medium like I trust Facebook - they're a walled garden and the walls are getting higher.
What data collection are you referring to? Apple collects crash log data if you opt-in, which can contain logs. It also collects "device analytics" using differential privacy (not containing logs); this is stronger than anonymized data because it retains some privacy even if it is de-anonymized, and is also opt-in. Is there another practice I'm not aware of?
Wow, thanks a lot!
Userland is the part of the OS that is not the kernel. It is the part you actually interact with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_space
Yeah, but then if you yourself were situated high enough to see the curvature of the earth, it's just because of whatever drugs they distribute via the contrails, and not actually real.
> truly caring about privacy tends to go along with caring about freedom

Only in your opinion. A non-free system whose vendor has an incentive to protect privacy may also provide even stronger privacy protection for the masses than a system that meets your version of 'freedom'.
Stdlog.net now supports RSS feeds
Yes, but do you really want your cryptocurrency gains to be taxed as ordinary income?
That was never "the whole point" of Ask HN posts. The standard is, and had been for years, to just post your question in the submission. That being said - I don't see anything in the guidelines addressing that.
Can you help me understand how I can help "broaden the application pool to include neurodiverse candidates?"

We're only in private beta now, but the goal is that when we launch, it will be open for any person to apply to. I don't see our model ever being some that "panders to the credentialist notion that rote leaning to get a piece of paper makes you the best candidate." It's the exact opposite, really.
I use Coinbase and yes, it was that difficult. I didn't receive a 1099 from them, so I had to use their "Cost Basis for Taxes" report.

That might've worked, except it doesn't delineate short and long-term gains, and even worse it counts every transfer to GDAX as a sale. That meant hours of pouring through GDAX's even more bare-bones reports to figure out which coins were sold, which were kept, which were transferred back to Coinbase or to other wallets, which coins were held for longer than a year...

That process, across several different cryptocurrencies and thousands of transactions, took 8 hours of work. At the end of it all you're left with the sinking worry that you overlooked something and are overpaying or underpaying.
Skipping over why do you think "likes to code" is important metric when evaluating candidate for a _job_, is it common in your company to interview people on weekends?
I use dict with "gcide" and "moby-thesaurus".

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dictd#Hosting_Offline_D...
You pay for all three.
How old are you?

I'd try not to spend it.

I made good money when young and as a result did not appreciate how hard it is to get. So I spent it, assuming (reasonably, but incorrectly I think), more would come.

I wish I'd hung onto it.
I assume not? That's not very common, you can't even buy most alt-coins with fiat. It's usually bitcoin for alt-coin.
I interview in the same way and have never had a problem with false positives. I think you overestimate the ability of people to bullshit their way through without triggering any red flags for the interviewers.
We're just in SF/NYC right now, but this model travels well. Hopefully you'll see us a in a lot more places by the end of the year.
While the rendering time is minimal, the rendering code still blocks to wait for the underlying processing code, making the throughput low.
I'm getting a bit frustrated with the talk about interviews, as we repeat the basic message every now and then, but nothing changes. I feel we all agree that the current status quo is not good, but so far there has not been any good alternative:

- Whiteboards are unnatural. Besides, you don't want to check their knowledge of university-grade algorithms or data structures.

- Problems to take home are an artificial setting - you can't be absolutely sure that they did the work themselves, and you have no idea how the mesh with other people. And you probably get some false negatives because they're stuck and can't ask their colleague.

- On the other hand, if you're using real code from your project, you're just asking for unpaid work. And paying every candidate is a significant expense.

- Using a proxy measure like HackerRank or a Github portfolio excludes people from minorities or who only want a job and not a mission.

- Not doing any coding opens you up for people who can talk, but not code.

Have I missed anything? Is there a good alternative to find the right people? I'd love to improve my company's interviewing process, but sooner or later we always hit one of the mentioned problems.
Deep RL – Policy Gradients – Lunar Lander
I personally don't care since I attempted HFT, my holding times were 10-30us.
A sharing model where the content you create allows you to access content is viable (see Bittorrent ratios). Facebook created a side market where they made markets to trade user data and targeted ads. That should have never been part of the bargain. It's like getting an ad toolbar from installing Java.
Thank you so much for all the valuable & interesting comments! Much appreciated! :)
So do I. Sadly, we are not living in that world.
A tax CPA I used in the past advised me with (hundreds of) short term equity trades to just present the before and after figures, since that represented the true income. They explained that in their experience, that was satisfactory to the IRS.

It is unrealistic to expect people making frequent trades to carefully document every trade (unless perhaps that is their profession). It's even worse for cryptocurrencies, since the value of the outcome of a trade is entirely relative to some other more established asset (such as US Dollars).

If you trade USD for BTC, then some time later trade BTC for XRP, then liquidate that for something more obscure (like cV), determining the value is really difficult. You would have to lookup the currency pair rates for each pair in a given trade, as well as some chain of currencies which can be associated directly with USD. Not only would that be highly inaccurate, but it could easily be argued very differently depending on which exchange(s) you used (since at any given moment, the difference of rates on different exchanges can be very significant).

I think as far as the IRS is concerned, unless you're obviously getting rich, if you can just show you made reasonable effort to assess and report what you earned, they'll be satisfied. But if they think you're trying to fool them, they make take personal offense and put far more resources into nailing you than you think it's worth in lost tax revenue.
- Mono's license prior to the Microsoft/Xamarin acquisition was LGPL, which is open ended and doesn't allow e.g. discriminating against Unity; Unity would not accept it under those terms

- Xamarin did offer a commercial license to Unity; Unity would not accept it

- MS began to release their own .NET implementation under the kinds of license terms that Unity wanted years ago, but Unity didn't budge

- In the meantime, MS then relicensed Mono itself—the .NET implementation that Unity actually wanted—under the kinds of terms that Unity wanted, but still Unity didn't show signs of moving until very recently

The whole it's Mono's fault that Unity sucks was essentially a successful PR attempt for Unity to disclaim responsibility for their shortcomings, with the (maybe not unintentional) side effect of directing public ire towards Mono for not doing enough free work (to benefit what was already one of the industry's most successful companies!)
The Shipping Container Is a Blessing to All Humanity
I tried to paste all the content in but it exceeds 2000 characters, I thought providing my experience might help generate more discussion.

Does it make more sense to paste the link into the body of the text and just ask the question?
Correct. Them being shat on (along with others) was timed to disrupt their influence.
> Perhaps you're young and haven't known life without Facebook? It used to be that people just lost track of each other all the time.

Sure, but now many seem to loose track of people they are sitting in the same room with and maybe even choose to not be in that room due to a social media addiction.

As creators we have a lot of power to design experiences that amplify behavioral patterns. Maybe we've gamed them too much in this case and need to more balance?

> Facebook (and other social networks) allow people to maintain orders of magnitude more weak links than before.

I am old enough to remember that. :) Most people would still at some point settle into a social circle and routine that build healthy relationships where they lived for a while. People move, but few people move so much that this is not possible.

I think weak links are a poor replacement for a person that sits in the same room as you in an engaged conversation.
Yeah what he did was definitely cool. But if you just want to test a hypothesis, it would be much easier to send a camera and not a whole person. Also a balloon could obtain a higher altitude than any amateur rocket. And people have filmed the curvature of the Earth with just balloons, they can get quite high.
It’s time for a digital protection agency
I think good visibility to quality content is the problem. Maybe why many of us are here on HN to get interesting content not on our social platform.

Google would seem to want this a more open web. I suspect they're starting to fear everyone using Facebook for everything, thus investing in Wordpress. Though they haven't been big supporters of their own blogging platform.

A lot of the social media Giants like you to keep your content on their own site, basically the longer your on Facebook/twitter the more ads they can show you. Google drops ads all over the web (except Facebook and twitter) so they don't care where you go.
It doesn't really imply that. He just says, a bit stridently, that he thinks the book is targeted at people who will make maths the primary focus of their study. The other stuff is mostly you extrapolating a lot from a single offhanded remark. Reviews are not office hours. Going out to cherrypick additional 'data' doesn't really make your conclusion more sound. The dude wrote some sentence you don't like and next thing you know he's Vinz Clortho the Keymaster of Office Hours.
A job as a developer is making technology do things people want. It is important to both like people and technology -- and be able to work in both seamlessly.

Whenever people are available we can see how they'd work out. Sometimes it's a Saturday, sometimes a Tuesday. I think you're reading far too much into my comment than was intended.
Yeah, BLE beacons aren't particularly accurate for an IPS. I worked on this problem a few years ago at FB, for the purposes of helping employees find themselves + meeting rooms on a mobile app. We really only needed 2-3 meter accuracy, so people could figure out approximately where they are. BLE signals are crazy noisy, so you need to tack on a lot of filtering (kalman filter, etc) and it really helps if you have multiple data sources (wifi signals, gyroscope, RF, etc). We could also kinda cheat by adding a track to the center of each hallway on the map, then magnet users towards the track.
I’m unclear if you were asking this tongue-in-cheek, or if you really were interested and simply used an arbitrary asset for your example, but in case it was the later, here’s my understanding:

Do you account typically report FIFO or LIFO?

You can register a capital loss of $100 if you account last-in-first-out, but will be on the hook when you sell your $10 gravel on the future at any price higher than $10.

You’d register a capital gain of $90 over cost if you account first-in-first-out.

AFAIK, in either case you have to account for all of your transactions the same way, for the year in question. It’s not pick and chose to gain the best benefit.

Tax rate in either case would be calculated based on how long you held your gravel.
That's exactly what it was. He was trying to raise money before and didn't succeed so he tried this angle.
He’s doing it for money. He’s a daredevil and borderline con man who tried and failed to raise money through Kickstarter. When he realized he could exploit rubes to make a buck he started doubting scientific consensus.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/22/565926690...
You still need the fiat exchange value at the time of buying/selling the cryptocurrencies (unless you only assume "token for token" trades), which is not stored on the blockchain.
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> the three original voices were his own for the male voice, his wife voice for the female voice and his daughter voice for a child voice, they were named Perfect Paul, that was the default voice, Beautiful Betty and Kit the Kid.

Don't forget the whispering Wendy. Who was that?
Mastodon does everything signed and unencrypted. This includes followers-only and private messages.

I can't in good faith recommend Mastodon.
> ... I'm looking to get birthday party pictures and the occasional meme from my existing friends and family.

Noted. Mastodon really is a twitter substitute, not a FB replacement. For these things you're right - there is currently no FB substitute (at least not that I know of, I'd be happy to be proven wrong).

We wonder if Mastodon can become that.

> I treat anything I post on facebook as 'public', regardless of my privacy settings, and I really have no reason to believe some other service run by volunteers will be capable of protecting my data, or respecting it at all.

People are reporting that their FB data contains all their cell-phone call details - are you also happy with that?

> I'm paying for facebook by looking at ads and having 'someone' know something (maybe a lot) about my public facing self. I think for most people that's been a reasonable trade.

But it's not just the things you are explicitly saying are "your public face."

> ... I haven't seen any options yet that are attractive enough to be worth the cost of switching.

... or indeed, at all.

> [edit] for what it's worth, I didn't downvote you :)

You can't downvote a reply to your own comment or submission, so I know you didn't downvote me.

> ... the idea of crossposting is a valuable addition to the conversation.

Cheers.
It's everything the kernel doesn't do. In general, that means the surface with which you interact as a user. So if you're used to using a terminal, your SSH connection, your Bash session, are all userland programs (that use kernel features to do things). You can think of it as kernel is a framework like Rails and userland stuff is developers using and expending the interfaces... sort of.

When your computer runs headless, the init/process tree system is userland. Background (cron) jobs are userland, daemons are userland. Etc.
Hey, look. Someone who didn't read the article.
Even if it were true, couldn’t a company argue that they want to put users before shareholders to prevent a public fallout like we are seeing with Facebook? Which could be seen as risk management.
French here. I think there are several points in the way we approach food here in France.

There is a long tradition of gastronomy. Not saying we are the only country in the world with a good gastronomy, of course not, but it's in our genes. I think we are one of little peoples that are talking about food when eating.
When you eat with other people, there is always a moment when you start talking about a restaurant, or a time, where/when you had a great meal.

We are also obsessed with our traditional meals or food. For example, close to each dairy farm have its sort of cheese. A lot of them will never cross the US border:-) There are moe than 1200 sort of cheese [1] and even protected ones, meaning the recipes and origin are protected by 'law' [2].

And that's also true for ham, delicatessen (and we love those), meat, poultry, and everything coming from unindustrialized farms (or not too much).

That's something we really care about. And because those foods taste something, there is no need to add sugar or other in it.

Of course, that's for the tradition picture. But we also eat junk food, microwaved food (even more since the 70's crisis where working or finding work became harder and harder each year). We just went 3-4 decades eating bad, especially in cities, and the obesity epidemy is somthing real in France too.

Fortunatly there was a wake up call in the middle of the 2000's and more and more people try to come back to less industrialized processed food.

And in conclusion, there's something true for French : we LOVE to eat !

[1] List in French : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_de_fromages_fran%C3%A7ai...
[2] Short list in English : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_cheeses
The things they ask you to code too... anyone who would ever let you commit that code to the codebase isn’t someone you’d want to work with.

I’ve been trying to cook up plausible examples but it’s a challenge.
J’s Low-Level Obfuscation Leads to Higher Levels of Clarity
It’s harder to get flat earthers to give you money for airfare.
They do something about blinding lights, but not about shooting unarmed citizens? I'm a bit skeptic...
He exhanged a storage of value from one party to another on a set date. There was an agreed upon value at the time (bitcoin to USD and then USD to altcoin).

You can’t convert your real estate into stock without paying taxes anymore than you can one crypto coin to another.
That looks useful. Thanks!

I can use it via DuckDuckGo too: https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=symbolhound
Difficulty in learning is mostly a function of age. I learned how to make game hacks, x86 asm, pretty much 90% of the software engineering knowledge I possess before the age of 15. Now I am learning higher level mathematics because I want to solve some specific problems that have million dollar prizes attached (but I am not doing it for the money.) Fortunately, I never felt like I was doing something for a distant goal when I was young - I had awe and envy as if I was constantly saying Ahhh! This next bit of learning is arduous and often times detached. At least my early learning was in programming, something I still love and find useful. But learning late will never be as easy as curious youth learning. What we learn as youth seems to be unguided and incidental. While reasons for learning as adults are mostly consequential and dependent on some other thing that we desire. Secondary dependencies are frustrating to the brain. Sometimes you can feel like that awestruck kid but itll never match being in that state 24/7. Being precise and directed in ones' goals is almost like a death knell and anhedonia for enjoyment and ease. Oh well..
The kinds of things in your comment are the kind of things that make me consider actually installing Oni rather than just going "oh neat, people are making Neovim frontends" like I did when I first saw this post.

The only thing that makes me hesitate is because I run FreeBSD on some of my computers and FreeBSD support wasn't quite there yet for Electron apps last I checked. It may have changed in the meantime.

If I were to begin using an Electron app, I need to be sure that I will be able to use it on my FreeBSD computers also. This is especially important for editors and IDEs given that writing software is rather central among the things that I do. Currently I use Neovim for a lot of things and I use PyCharm for bigger Python projects.

I am wondering though, would it be feasible for one person (me) to rewrite Oni so that one can use it from within their web browser instead of with Electron?
Of course Google will tell you that cigarettes cause cancer and climate change is a threat: they don't sell tobacco or drill for oil! They're just looking out for their own interests.

Apple actively chooses to not pursue these revenue streams even though they have the resources and reach to do so.
Zuckerberg takes full page ads to apologize
POODR - Practical Object oriented design in ruby. Changed my way of coding entirely, brought me to a completely different level and pushed an even bigger growth
It's hard to measure this in hindsight. Someone would have to do a controlled study.

That said, Given the number of voters that stayed home in 2016 (over 10% in the key states of WI, MI, OH, and PA) and the number of people who voted "against Clinton" suggests it was highly effective.

Cambridge Analytica and similar firms have a data set of how emotions can impact certain kinds of people. They have openly admitted they do this for conservative causes. Their patent company is seeded financially by some of the most conservative people with wealth and now we know they are also supported by conservative British politicians.

This is a massive conspiracy to undermine governments that are supposed to be for and by the people. This is what happens when dark money is allowed unfettered access to elections.

Democracy. Real democracy....dies.
I'd assume I'm going to live another 35 years. That means I'd dump most of it into a variety of savings, and live off $70k a year.