skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Another question does occur - if it's such a big deal for them, why is/was Tibet listed as its own country in their system that prompted the liked tweet in the first place?

The survey was outsourced to an outside company.

>And even in this specific case, where a low-level Marriott employee in Omaha clicked “like” on a tweet thanking Marriott for a survey designed by a third-party vendor, the hotel chain got in big trouble.

Marriott clearly has zero training on geopolitical issues so the third party vendor didn't have a template to follow, likely they just Googled "list of countries in the world" and copied the list. Marriott needs to be providing a list of countries to all outside vendors.
Comedian Byron Allen Buys the Weather Channel for $300M
Would research-related industry experience help me get a PhD position in AI?
I am graduating a few months and I want to apply for a PhD in AI in US. Would an AI-related job in industry with some research element involved help me get a good position or academic research is much more valuable for competitive programs?
I doubt that is the problem the parent was referring to.
I'm not familiar enough with the details to deny that she didn't "spearhead" the Iraq War. However I'd like that a person that was involved in the wrong side of decision making for torturing people[1] and defending massive surveillance [2][3] to be as far as posible of a backup company. I suggest to visit http://www.drop-dropbox.com/ and https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/rice.html for more arguments against Rice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice#Role_in_autho...

[2] http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/18/bush.nsa/

[3] https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/05/14/condoleezza-rice-defe...
Zig is great. It is my C replacement right now, and I guess it would be 'revolutionary' by the definition on the C for All site.
My employer (large tech company) never offered (and AFAIK still doesn't) low-ER index funds in their default 401K investment options. The best was some company-assembled "retirement fund" crap with an ER of ~1.5%. That was the best.

Luckily, after a few years, they finally enabled a brokerage account option, which allows me to purchase index funds (of the iShares type) at low ERs..

You must be lucky, because I don't think my experience is all that rare.
Spotify Saved Music. Can It Save Itself?
I studied the documentation, basically 80 percent of what is added is not what is needed for C to become better, in my opinion.
Are there any plans to make them happen this year?
http://www.drop-dropbox.com/
OK, well, if your exegesis of the Constitution begins with citing the Declaration of Independence and includes rants about armed insurrection, I think it's safe to say it's not that well thought out.
Programming Language for Non-English Speakers. Bato: A Ruby Port for Filipinos
tl;rd Marriot employee dealing with 1000s of tweets liked:

>Friends of Tibet congratulate global hotel chain #Marriott International for listing #Tibet as a country along with #HongKong and #Taiwan. pic.twitter.com/SXKWb20v3e

China freaked out and

>forced Marriott to suspend all online booking for a week at its nearly 300 Chinese hotels. A Chinese leader also demanded the company publicly apologize and “seriously deal with the people responsible,”

Maybe Marriott could quietly hire him back.

The Chinese are a bit touchy over what I think is the largest military invasion and land grab of the last century by area.
The HACMS program: using formal methods to eliminate exploitable bugs
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5597724/
What does this mean, besides the corporate garbage?
Seriously. It's this kind of thing that gives right-wing nut jobs ammunition, which they then spin into 100x worth of toxic propaganda. People who haven't listened to right-wing radio or the worst of Fox News don't understand how this works. These people are primed to adopt the slimmest possible excuse to align with the lunatic GOP platform in its totality.
A) this was not a midlevel management position.

B) Your life is made more convenient daily by people who do jobs that you don't want to. This guy has the nerve to _like_ his job and that bothers you?

The article states that the guy had a rocky background and then the job had quickly brought him newfound accomplishment—but even if he was the heir to a major bank and a Mensa member, why can't he enjoy what he's chosen to do?
Dimensions (Css tutorial)
For Tesla, Cars and Cash and Credit and Convertibles = Crunch Time
Great question, and one that’s of particular importance in our design. Many IoT-type systems make use of on-device data analysis in order to minimize the most energy intensive process: data transfer. Our hardware focuses instead on getting full audio streams up into the cloud in near-real time, continuously, 24 hrs a day. This requires an exceptional amount of energy, as well as the ability to pool energy to continue operating at night and during poor weather. That said, we’ve really overcompensated on energy capture and storage—we operate under the assumption that we should be able to support 1.5 watts of continuous power draw 24hrs a day (normally it’s closer to 50% of this). But that means we try to be able to generate 35-40 watt-hours of solar energy for each day (on average).
This is further complicated by the shady/infrequently lit conditions of the tree canopy. So, when direct light shows up (sometimes for moments or minutes only) we want to be able today capture as much as possible (high charging amperage and ample solar panels).
Our batteries (LiFePO4) must be able to support this, and not decline over 1-2 years of use being fully discharged and recharged each day).
We also designed a type of solar array that is specifically intended for the tree canopies. If this is interesting I’d be more than happy to elaborate more!
are you doing anything to get them off Facebook? recommending alternatives at al? I gave up fb long time ago, suggested telegram to all my friends and have looked back...
The HACMS program: using formal methods to eliminate exploitable bugs
As an intern in a Google training program in Brazil, they gave us the project to make a crawler, without any c++ libs other than curl.

It was difficult, but we really learned a lot.
Film unions don't regulate anything - 'indie' films can/do use union crews, although under a different contract that pays less according to budget.

Large budget films use unions because we are the only ones skilled enough to do it properly & professionally; you just can't find 200 non-union to pull it off, not without someone getting hurt in the process, or having a terrible end result
If you're trespassing in the role of a journalist, it will greatly behoove you for your journalism to strongly take the point of view favoring those who are trespassed upon.

That's the only way you can hope to obtain "retroactive authorization to have been there" from the property owners. (I.e. they have the charges dropped.)

You're likely not going to get that from the property owners if you side with the trespassers; then you're as good as one of them as far as they are concerned.
If aren't prepared to argue your point don't expect people to take you seriously. There are no lack of opinions on the Internet nor in the world. If you can't justify your own despite the ever larger resources available to do so chances are you are wrong. The reason why people on HN don't isn't because they don't have to, it's because they can't. That is why they are drawn to places where people agree with them so they can sit and "not understand what is happening" without facing their own ignorance.
It is, but your own client obviously has access to the conversation (how else would it display it on your screen?). So learning your interests can be done on the client-side, rather than server-side. Then your list of interests is reported to the server.
Freemind
Employees in social media teams should not be clicking LIKE in anything. It’s too risky to the business, and it conflates your personal preferences with corporate business goals.

You cannot be yourself on social media anymore. You just have to be inactive, a fake, or pretend to be like what the echo chamber asks you to be.
Undeniable that much of Bumble looks like Tinder.

The fact that the Bumble founders came from Tinder, of course they stole whatever IP and concepts they could. No question.

But there's still a long way to go here. And squabbles like this distract companies from making honest feature advances.

The core issue with Bumble or Tinder is that they aren't designed to help make matches, rather give people the perception of options.

This plays out in that men essentially swipe right on every woman they come across (we're forced to in order to have any chance of making a connection), and women end up bombarded with more choices than they can meaningful sort through.

I matched with 1-2 women a day, but my close friend who introduced me to Bumble matches on 70+ guys a day.

I have to craft witty, funny, and sexy messages... all under the pressure that I only have 2 choices that day.

She gets to disqualify guys if they take too long to write back, write too much, or for any reason she wants... knowing she has 70 more to choose from. (Worth noting that despite all the options, she's still single...)

Anyway, the whole thing could be a lot more efficient... lots of ways to go about this. Dating and finding love takes effort, compassion. These tools should, ideally, help make it less of a numbers game.

# First feature request

Let anyone pre-approve in bulk. "Pre-match me with anyone who is between this age rage in this zip code who mentions hiking..." simple as that. If you really want to go all out, just learn my type from my swipes and pre-match on that -- plus gives me incentive not to just swipe on everyone as it's learning what I like.

# Second feature request

Let users block based on rules. "I don't ever want to match with anyone who works for my company, Dynacorp, and I don't ever want anyone from Dynacorp to see my profile."

# Third feature request

Only show people to me I have the potential to match with. "I liked her... but unknown to me, she only likes guys who are older than me... she'll never see my profile to match back... why did I see her in the first place then?"

# Fourth feature request

Don't show people who have already swiped left. "I see her... but unknown to me, she's already swiped left on me... we'll never be a match, probably best to just not show her to me."
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Yeah, ok, I may look like an idiot.

But I've read a lot of comments, over the years, to the effect that non-ionizing radiation simply can't be a factor, because it doesn't remove electrons and break chemical bonds.

And my own, very limited but -- for me, at least, elucidating -- educational experience has been that that is not the case. Non-ionizing radiation can affect chemical reactions.

So, if cell phone radiation is not risk factor in cancer, the argument needs to go further than, "It's non-ionizing."

Your mention of the energy level / quantity of the non-ionizing radiation involved in the link I managed to find, I find to be a pertinent difference.

Anyway, sorry for any annoyance.

P.S. I upvoted your response, by the way. I appreciate it, and I didn't mean to come across as confrontational, if I did.
You can apply for the Low Budget Agreement on an indie film (defined as being under a particular budget amount I couldn't find), but it isn't required if you are in the guild. It was mainly created to protect individuals from larger studios - can't imagine much benefit from leveraging what are essentially personal projects.
Ask HN: Best way to spent money to become better programmer?
I know the title sucks but I have no idea how to say it better in just a few words - sorry for that.

Here is my situation - my current employer is giving every single employee around $1k per year for "self development". It can be almost anything related to IT or self development in general (for example learning foreign language). Some people buy hardware, online courses, licenses for IDEs or for example they simply go to conferences.

Two years ago I bought HTC Vive using this budget because I wanted to play around with VR technology and learn something new. One year ago I bought few Unreal Engine 4 courses (as a followup to the HTC Vive purchase) and few lisp books.

I wonder what would be your ideas for using this budget for self development. I want to be as good software engineer as I can so if you have any suggestions or experiences I would be more than grateful for sharing them with me.

Probably most of the people will start by saying "well... it depends what interests you" so here is a quick summary.

I used to code in C++ (03 and 11) for living for almost 5 years. Currently I am a project leader so I do not work with code anymore. I do it during my free time, mostly in Common Lisp or other Lisp dialects (Scheme when going through SICP or ELisp when trying to contribute to Emacs). I am fascinated by Lisp and I am really interested in this language. Still a newbie though.

I though about spending some money on learning functional programming and lambda calculus. Already bought few books about this topic. I also thought a bit about buying some commercial Lisp implementation but for now Emacs and SLIME works perfectly for me and I am not limited by this setup at all.

As a software engineer maybe you are able to think about your best purchase or self investment so far?

Thanks a lot!
The accident was ~590ft after the speed increase.
It doesn't have to be all or nothing.

I've installed plugins to disable my newsfeed and it's been great. Can't really think of a downside to it as it previously was a waste of time and only promoting superficial forced relationships through superficial comments.

You can totally stick to using Messenger as it still promotes 1-1 intentional relationships, and messenger is relatively easy to migrate off of as you can always get your closest friends to add you on alternatives.
Their reporting is less likely to be seen as a public good, but I imagine that paparazzi are charged for trespass and/or assault with some frequency. Just as not all trespass is a like, not all reporting is either. I think a judge would be more sympathetic to trespass that reveals, say, prison corruption than a celebrity affair.
New computing device would let microprocessors go ‘all out’
> There's nothing stopping them from opening an account with Charles Schwab

(I've gone through Charles Schwab's account signup) Charles Schwab, for example, has minimum amounts for opening an account; IIRC, it's $5k. There's also ~200 pages of legal agreements to wade through. (But everyone just blindly accepts those, right? So that "doesn't count" /s) It also has tax implications.

It's also not a guaranteed thing that these accounts will make money, and I wouldn't be surprised if that uncertainty affects people's decisions.
Is that how speed limits work in the US? It’s my understanding (elsewhere) that the limit is in enforcement after you past the sign, not at some unspecified distance before it, or when you see it. The sign itself is the only transition point between limits.
They do, and they run many CPU-only applications that will run on the power. See the talks at gtc.
Scientists Use Big Data to Awaken Stem Cells and Heal Brain Tissue
I'm not sure what other term to use. Whenever that site communicated with me I got the impression that I was talking with a manipulative gaslighter.

It doesn't necessarily result in one questioning their own sanity, but it's definitely an attempt to manipulate the realities of the users by showing them different information that result in certain behaviors. One person is shown one thing that makes them behave a certain way. The other person is shown the results of the behaviors, assuming a different cause of the behaviors, which is not exactly the reality.

None of those people I was shown will miss me. They have no idea that their likenesses are being used to try to manipulate me. Very few people know that it is happening at all, because each person sees a different thing.

I think of it as "perception fencing", where barriers and openings are created to manipulate the information you consume and the behaviors that result, but I'm not sure that people would know exactly what I'm referring to if I use that term. If you have a better term, feel free to suggest it.
Wow, talk about the fox guarding the henhouse!
Yeah i don't get this sentiment but i see it a lot here. Not a programmer but have coded websites since the early days. Css aint perfect but as long as youre not doing extremely complex layouts, its easy. You could learn enough css to get by in 2 hours. But for whatever reason, programmers don't bother to learn it, and that's how you get stuff like React.
This template follows where mine has ended up. I forget where I sourced the material from but it suggested listing the worthy contributions to the company with action verbs like "integrated large payments system responsible for millions in revenue". It's a very concise sentence that clearly explains the value you brought to a previous company. I used to have a resume like 'proficient in MS Word' which some companies do care for but they can usually suss out important things during a phone screen. We're also the types that largely self learn though so the "what you know" becomes more irrelevant than "what value you brought to the company based on what you know or have learned along the way". It's a subtle change that seems to have much greater impact.

My resume is ultimately more than one page, not much more, but it reads very quickly. In the source material I vaguely recall you have seconds, like maybe 30-90 to really hook the reader. Long paragraphs read much more slowly than concise yet robust bullet points. If you want to pack absolutely everything on your resume, keep the unimportant stuff towards the end. I list time travel as one of my interests at almost the very end of my resume. Getting comments on it let me know someone was either skimming for an interesting phrase or really read all of it.
Mistake seems like a harsh word here. There are lots of partners that aren't in the competency tier that do perfectly fine work. But we try to highlight the ones we can somehow quantify as 'top tier', which is competency. It's imperfect just like any other subjective rating.

AWS definitely cares about any bad experiences. It's the way we improve things for customers, so let us (or me, or anyone at AWS) know the details.
Me too. The product was great but it was too much to take in. They didn't just learn anything from the Snowden revelations but instead put people from the government in the board. I'd rather prefer to keep using my pendrive, thank you.
Even in a purely profit-driven mindset, as a Marriott executive in a pinch on this decision, I would give a sizeable severance and thats it.
The Bread and Circuses of Space Exploration
As an engineer, "But it's totally easy, you just..." is my least favorite phrase. "Just" in particular. You can obscure so much effort with 4 simple letters.
Cute, but for anyone who thinks China and the US are similar, please research the persecution of Falun Gong.

Here's some heavily sarcastic coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_cURws4UaY
Yes that is the way it works in the US, but as a practical matter most people start speeding up as soon as the higher speed limit sign comes into view. And of course conversely they don't start slowing down until they pass the sign posting the slower limit.
In my opinion, what C is lacking isn’t primarily language features - it’s:
1) a common, readable style standard that people can agree on
2) modern agreed-upon idiomatic ways to write readable and safe code. There are certainly common C idioms but many exist for historical reasons and not because they’re necessarily the best things to do, and
3) a standard library that exemplifies the above two things, provides common functionality needed between projects, and fosters a sense of community

Efforts like those of the poster don’t really address these things.

When I tell people I like C, the response differs depending on experience level. Less experienced people who haven’t spent time in C++ either will say “Gross, pointers”. People used to C++ will say “what about templates and constructors/destructors”, and “are you going to write your own library for vectors and maps every time?” And people who are experienced (more experienced than me) and like C have generally said that the main things they miss from C++ are constructors and destructors (and mostly destructors), and templates (but only for container types), but that they can live without them.

C is a small language that can be relatively easy to write (once you pick/write a suitable stl-equivalent), and extremely easy to read (and to the extent that you can look at a line and know exactly what’s going on under the hood). IMO it should stay that way.

Take a look at zproject [0] for what I think is a good effort to standardize C style and project structure. Even if you disagree with the particular design choices, the spirit of it is what I think is needed to keep people from just assuming C is for dinosaurs.

[0] https://github.com/zeromq/zproject/
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"If the game industry is so rough, then why don’t workers quit and go work in non-game software or design?"

they do, iirc after about 5 years, typically.
OP here:
"Call a good friend for a coffee face to face."
"Go outside and get some fresh air and enjoy life. "

This kind of advice came up repeatedly but it doesn't answer the initial question at all.

I'm fairly new to active HN but I followed passively and had the impression, that we are supposed to interact with reason and logic. These were emotional responses which triggers an emotional answer because it implies OP would be anti-social and the question would be unnecessary at best.

I am not a FB addict. I don't use the apps I hardly use the timeline, I scroll around when I'm really really bored (and that didn't help, ever), but my hoarder soul feels relieved to know that my past encounters with people from all over the world are listed somewhere and even when phone numbers changed due to country hopping or emails changed due to finishing university I'm still able to say hello when I feel like it or need a place to crash.

Maybe this context helps to stop the lecturing bullshit.
Is there another country that has "at will" employment to the extent that the US does?
US Military Aims to Start Using Laser Weapon That Produces Voices by 2021
I honestly don't care about companies. But I don't care about union bosses either. Unions do just as poor a job as employers in preparing workers for tectonic shifts in employment patterns.

For example, when the ACA passed, unions were more concerned with their constituency and their carve outs than with decoupling employment from healthcare. Same story for all the business interests.
As a near-Boomer (early Gen-Xer) I do believe I fell into a lucky time. I left high school, then a quick college-paying stint in the service to a red-hot economy in 1990. (Ronald Reagan was to thank for that, and Bill Clinton kept it going.) I started in Programming then, it's been a great ride to this day.

I think kids today have it harder, the opportunity isn't there. AI may take the programming jobs, I'm not sure. (Kids today also have to be exceptionally well-grounded, I think there's a lot more ways to go astray.)

I wish the Millenials good luck-- they'll need it.
What makes you think that all written law is unambiguous?
Great Pacific Garbage Patch now three times the size of France
The Chinese Communist Party (note: this is not "China") doesn't demand firing of anyone. This is just Marriott's way of sucking up to the Chinese Communist Party and management dissociating themselves from their mistakes
I'm not referring to the fear of missing out. I posted another comment about it in this thread.