skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar experience a couple years ago. The interview was pretty hard, 6 hours of pair programming in Go, a language that I have only passing familiarity with. The interviewer seemed impressed that I completed the entire task with time to spare. Then it got to talking about salary and that's when things seemed to go sideways. I make top of market for my area, because I've been doing this a long time and I have a history of success so past employers have rewarded me for it.

I think the thing is that in consulting, the equation is "margin = billable rate - salary". The higher the salary, the less profitable you are. Feels to me like Pivotal mostly hires mid-level people to hit the sweet spot of experience/skill/salary.

It's a bummer because I went on to work with a company that engaged Pivotal Labs and I loved working with the Pivots.
Thanks, and honestly, a software person not remembering what silicon even is is not too far from my point :)
"strict" only applies once they've been punished for violating those rules, which has not happened with those Irish regulations as far as I am aware. Facebook gives some information out, but does not give it all[1]

[1]http://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-releasing-your-persona...
Microsoft to ban offensive language from Skype, Xbox, Office and other services
This doesn't make a lot of sense. If you are a SaaS provider that has the option of selling your software as on-premises, you are almost certainly a processor not a controller.

Put another way, when a consumer goes to a consumer site and gives it personal data, that consumer site is the controller. When the controller uses a third-party SaaS to process or store the data, that third-party is a processor.

If you are a controller you need to ensure that your processors are capable of handling GDPR requests, e.g., they can delete specific data for a user or provide a dump for a user. The processor (third-party SaaS) will have to write that capability into their software.

Bringing that SaaS software on-premises doesn't change much. It eliminates the processor, but if I'm a controller purchasing some big SaaS-like product to run myself, I'm going to insist it have GDPR features built-in. The third-party SaaS vendor will have to write GDPR feature whether they sell it as SaaS or on-prem.
Let's see where this gTLD thing goes. I can probably see an ICANN or EU intervention in case of a self-mandated requirement of this kind. But, as long as the market stay healthy, more competition can't be nothing than good.

After all, DOH is mainly a technical answer to hijacks (and monitoring). Some ASes seem to have a policy on that... Once it's ready, if it's enforced, you'll have a way to provide a custom resolver you control.
Phactor: an implementation of the Actor model in PHP
> Please help me understand. You're saying the NYT has some agenda to keep artists from quiting their day jobs? If so that seems implausible.

NYT doesn't specifically have it out for artists, they just are owned by capitalists and advocate the viewpoint that labor should be subservient to capital. Therefore they tend to publish viewpoints that are aligned with their internal ideology. They do publish some dissenting views, but by fraction this is their predominant viewpoint. If you'd like a sophisticated and detailed analysis of this, please read or watch Manufacturing Consent, a seminal work in this area.

> For many artists there is no other choice. Art won't pay the bills but for a small few. I for one enjoy the freedom that comes with having a day job. I don't have to worry if people will like my art (because it doesn't need to make money) And I often get good ideas for writing and music when completing some monotonous task in the office.

Note that this conception of freedom is bound up within the capitalist system. People that do not labor for wages are strangled until they comply. It can be that the particular conditions of wage labor are suitable for your individual situation. That is fine, but is not a comprehensive view of how art and society should interact. Real freedom would be for you to be able to work on your art as you please without want for shelter, food, or transport. Public funding of the arts is one way we can help create those conditions for artists.

It's considered notable that the British system of the dole is what created the conditions for the Beetles to develop. If you want really good art, you have to let artists practice their craft consistently.

> About your first edit... I think it's absurd to think you need to be jobless in order to question society. In fact, having a job gives you a front row seat to everything wrong with us.

That's exactly what I said. Having a front row seat allows you to be a mirror of society and allows you to develop particular kinds of criticisms. However, it is not the bounded conception of all possible kinds of art, many if not most kinds of art have nothing to do with developing a mirror. Instead, perhaps they imagine something totally different. Even producing a mirror does not necessarily require participating every day. Many times, just a taste is enough to develop an idea. Interviewing people can help you develop ideas. Importantly, the latter is inhibited if you have other things to do.
A high-bias, low-variance intro to ML for physicists
Davinci resolve is free and runs on all three platforms but is also fancy.
What I wonder about this: What should we make of it about the people who "are no longer in the market." The people who have been unemployed based the cut-off.

Unemployment is measured in a length of time since their last position. Not the total amount of unworking people.
Property tax should be:
- based on value of unimproved land; to encourage development
- include a tax-rebate per full time resident living there

Positive incentives are responded to better than a vacancy tax.
As I was skimming the article, I was thinking some sort of system like this could be made, and I was pleasantly surprised to see the approach has a long history. This is one reason I like Hacker News.
>the issue would be if it were provided by a foreign entity without compensation so that it is essentially a campaign donation

Have you ever tried to write off open source work as a donation? I don't think this works the way you want it to. Software isn't a donation. Software is speech. Phil Zimmerman proved that rather nicely when he printed PGP as a book.
I don't.

9-to-5 is fine. Not great, just fine. There's a lot of money sloshing around in corporate America, and it's pretty easy to tap that pipeline. A lot of people do pretty well by having a "day job" to pay the bills, and then working as a creative in their remaining time.

While I am loath to crap on your dreams, because I was a kid once, and have some of my own now, but avoiding the truth won't help you. There is nothing special about you. Statistically speaking, there is nothing special about anybody. Artists get paid peanuts in our society, because they are a dime a dozen, and a lot of them produce mediocre crap. None of them make it big, until someone else with business skills finds a talented one and works out a way to leech off their skills. Rarely, the genius also has the business skills, and promotes their own work.

If you don't have skills in math, or even like it, you will not be able to handle back-end programming or have a deep understanding of 3-D rendering. If you want to be a creative, you must also develop a "money skill" for your day job. In that vein, programming is a decent day job, but be aware that your progress in it will be limited by lack of interest in math.

It sounds like you have already figured out that you don't want the thing that you do to define your self image. That's fine. But everyone has to pull at least some of their own weight on this planet, one way or another. You won't get what you want unless you help other people get what they want. If you happen to know of a thing that people want and know how to provide it better than anyone else, that's great: gather some investment capital, start a business, and be your own boss. If you don't have a clear idea on how you're going to make enough money to pay your planet Earth rent, you'll have to do what everyone else does, and take a job until you figure it out.

You might never get there. That's okay; a lot of people never do. There are roughly seven billion of us that have no idea how to break free from the crowd and be individually awesome.

To put this in perspective, I wrote a novel. It took a few years to finish. I think it's pretty good, but that's because I write what I like. It has earned me about $25 in revenue so far, and probably won't ever bring in another dime. My day job has brought in more than a million dollars over the years--most of which was spent the week after the checks cleared--and it most likely will still be there tomorrow.

Stay in business school. If you like engineering, and can't math hard enough to do it yourself, learn how to manage engineers. Be creative from 5:01 PM to 8:59 AM.
Yes, the industry has absolutely standardized on a single scheme: manifest plus lock as separate declarations, SAT solver, single dependency version per compilation unit.
What I’ve Learned about My Company and Myself from 2 Paternity Leaves
Those people are universally wrong
> Maybe we could employ some sort of thing we could all wear if we're ok with a random conversation or something?

It's called a smile.

:)
> The real difference is that the EU and it's member nations actually enforce their regulations and don't let situations happen like Uber/ISPS/AirBnB just ignoring laws until they had enough money/influence to force changes to the regulations

I mentioned this in a sibling comment – a good example is the EU enforcing VAT laws actually, vs. in the US many online stores simply being located in a state without sales tax and not paying any in the state where the customer lives either.
Most of the EU litigation has been against Facebook.

They have spent many millions in EU GDPR projects (such as the ability to download all records, which is in the news cycle right now).

Under the current legislation, they can be sued by each regulator in each country separately (this has happened to them multiple times). Under the GDPR, they will mostly be sued by just the Irish Data Protection Authority (other EU regulators will funnel issues to the Irish DPA first).
> People will benefit from those extra 11 hours, but they'll also be hurt by the lower accuracy

11 hours without a CGM is a much greater risk than marginally lower accuracy. As a potential user of this system I've been unable to locate research to convince me otherwise.
It could also be that the issue isn't the magnitude of the absolute error.

It may be that the device is more highly variable in the first hours giving the impression of spikes or drops where there are none.

It's hard to tell without the raw data.
I think it's two sides of the same coin.

I've heard go described as a language that doesn't try to solve any hard problems. Let's set aside for a moment whether or not that's a positive or a negative. The bigger problem is that they also seem to completely ignore everyone else's existing solutions to hard problems too, which leads to the criticism that it's stuck in the 70's.

Sure, a lot of the existing solutions to some of these problems aren't perfect or involve tradeoffs that don't work for everyone. In general though, more recent solutions have built upon the lessons of previous approaches and now we've got languages and tooling that get a hell of a lot right, straight out of the box (I'm looking at you Rust / Cargo).

But go isn't doing this. They appear to be trying to come up with de novo solutions to problems from the perspective of the 70's. Whereas everyone else is "standing on the shoulders of giants", they insist on discarding the lessons we've learned over the past fifty years and running one by one into all of the same problems that led us to the solutions we have today. As an observer from the sidelines it's painful to watch them relearn these same lessons the hard way.
> Most places are pretty good about sending unsubscribe links these days.

Yeah, sure, nevermind that there is a new list you have to unsubscribe for every month.

I never do a second buy, sometimes I have the energy to do a 1 star review for anyone that sends me mails that I couldn't avoid during the purchase.
If you were right, Apple wouldn't be printing money as much as they do.

Android users will ditch google and switch to... What? Apple? Where you can't install anything at all except through the tightly controlled Apple app store?
When I was in Vermont an ancient geezer explained to me that
there is nothing wrong New Hampshire, except its upside down.
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"Collapsing into the downward spiral of poverty and homelessness" is not an appropriate outcome for not being frugal, and a system where this is the case is probably not very good. Again, circling back to the idea that focusing on frugality as a solution to poverty ignores the larger systemic problems actually keeping poor people poor.
Even on Linux things don't always work as intended. The reason I am familiar with the EDID information is that my display stopped working after a kernel update and I tried to figure out why. It turned out that my AV receiver didn't like the VIC field being sent in the HDMI infoframes[1]. There is a surprising amount of communication which goes on between the graphics card and the monitor in a modern system.

1:
Bug 50371 - [BISECTED] HDMI display blank unless VIC set in AVI infoframe

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50371
It's probably any of the five big cities with a public transit program.

No demand, no program. Ride a bus in a large city, and you'll see a majority of bus pass users.
> It's something the rich choose to do, in collusion with politicians,

So legislation purportedly for employee protection backfires by making direct hires uneconomical and you call this " something the rich choose to do, in collusion with politicians"?
Oh yeah, we call that the "canon digital" and it sucks. Goes to few rich artists and it's not even stolen since they just keep it legally.

It was specially ironic when I was a teenager with a music band, we recorded some CDs of our own music. We were paying extra for the CDs in case we were pirating, so this money went to the SGAE and the like for artists while we were of course the artists who had to pay more! Talk about abuse of power.
Are we talking megabits or megabytes here? I'm guessing bits, but I would be a little surprised that this can stream at 1 megabit per second.

And I second @sokoloff—I've never heard of a plan that had an order of magnitude greater for upstream!
well as custom ROM user for 7 years all I can say it's I survived without gapps for years in China and I was fine, I will be fine if they won't allow me to sign in as well outside China, after all only two Google apps (with UI) left on my phone are Play store (Yalp store covers that) and Photos (well, there is no real alternative for unlimited backup but Flickr would do it and sharing through some messenger)

only thing they will accomplish by locking their ecosystem it's they will have two less users when I will remove gapps from wife's phone as well
Yeah, I was referring specifically to the myth quoted by the parent, "There is no promise that a company can make to its users that outweighs the fiduciary duty that obligates them to maximize profits by any means. The only defense of this is legislation and consumer choice." I don't think that people believe this about private companies.
Why do you think the small guys comply? The calculation that I’ve heard made is that by being a tiny fish you won’t be pursued.

Even better question, why do you think the big companies comply? I’ve seen some egregious compliance snafus at that level, too.
> "Another issue is that there is no “standard” set of security questions. This means I can’t just memorize a set of 5 answers that I use for everything."

That's because if a "5 questions standard" existed across the industry, your answers would be the equivalent of a single password that is identical across all services.

(ie: if one service gets breached, you are exposed everywhere else)
Realistically, you need a couple thousand dollars at an absolute barest minimum to open a company and strike out on your own.

Incorporation paperwork and filings, even for an LLC in an inexpensive state will be a few hundred, with an Inc generally more. Annual filing fees run $800 minimum in my state; that's if you do all the calculations and paperwork yourself.

Then, you need adequate capitalization for the company (to avoid it being regarded as under-capitalized should the question of piercing the corporate veil ever come up).

This must be used for working capital for inventory, WIP, raw materials, utilities, salary/living expenses, perhaps rent or transportation and needs to cover you between the time you start and when you are cashflow positive. You may need a license or permit from the town/city/AHJ to operate.

Telling someone living paycheck to paycheck to "just go start a company" is fairly unrealistic I think.
Really? It is not so much what they should have done but what they should not have done: they should not have made the decisions which led to their companies ending up in this quagmire. They should have behaved ethically, something which is sure to have been mentioned - even if only in passing - at the Ivy League schools they attended.
Bitcoiin founders and brand ambassador Steven Seagal depart after raising $75M+
> Without giving them plenty of time to pullout?

These things take a long time. Google was abusing its search monopoly before the EU started a seven-year investigation that resuled in a $2.7 billion fine ... which it is now appealing.

Google settled with the US in 2013. It agreed to change some of its search practices and got away without a fine.

I'd be surprised if Google didn't know it was abusing its search monopoly. I'd assume it calculated that it was more profitable to keep doing it until compelled to stop.

Either way, a seven-year investigation provides plenty of time to prepare for exit strategies, if required, and it would grossly incompetent not to have prepared for them.
When I think of authoritarian Presidential actions, I think more of drone striking U.S. citizens without due process. [1] However, you're right the bump stock ban does feel like an overreach of the executive branch.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
> Lastly, I thought it was funny that both Yegge and Bray can agree to take shots at JavaScript. There's another thing you'd think nerds would get tired of already.

Why? JavaScript is really, truly, awfully horrible. It's a local maximum which could easily be escaped with just a very little bit of effort, and the fact that no-one has done so is one of the strongest-possible condemnations of our industry. JavaScript is a shame, an embarrassment and a squandered opportunity. When one thinks that we could have had Scheme, and instead thanks to a benighted Netscape executive we're stuck with JavaScript forever — it is to weep.
AI Cardiologist Aces Its First Medical Exam
Hi, great interview and congrats on your success! My question for you guys is specifically about search-ability of end credits.

Apologies for the self promotion, but I'm working in the same space and built and launched https://www.spoiled.tv last month. I live in LA and know a lot of film people and one of the suggestions I often get is that I should add a feature where people can download/view/search entire film credits. Since you guys are knee-deep in this, do you (a) think this is a good idea and (b) know where I could grab this information freely (barring OCR methods)?

Again, keep up the awesome work!
A robot’s biggest challenge? Teenage bullies
The NIMBYism isn't coming from nowhere, but that doesn't mean it's a good or valid thing.
Scientists try to study bacterial membranes, end up killing bacteria
This is an extremely unconvincing argument
This statement about software talent appears to be in direct contradiction with software development history:

"But as technology advances and provides us with more advanced software components it devalues and commoditizes what we’re working on and at worst makes us redundant."
I don’t think it’s a pedantic point here; it’s one of the only times this statement is truly relevant to the conclusion you’ll draw from the data.

To rephrase Yegge’s original question with this lens: is Google focused more on generating revenue from its customers (advertisers) by hooking users into their service ecosystem? Or are they being unwarrantedly distracted by “competitors” of their offerings, when users’ interest in those competitive offerings isn’t actually decreasing their attachment to the Google services ecosystem at all?

See? Very different question.
I think that's an inaccurate/misleading framing: the typical criticism is that it has seemed to ignore innovations from elsewhere, there's no suggestion that it needs to reinvent them. For instance, people consider generics a solved problem as there's numerous schemes invented by other languages, and critics think one of them should be able to work for Go.
Fortunately (with rare exceptions) nobody uses well water in Santa Clara county (see https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1182/pdf/05SantaClaraValley.p... ) and a lot of these chemicals are relatively low toxicity, the greatest danger seems to be vapors released from the soil.

As far as risks via things like gardening, I actually wonder about the levels of arsenic or mercury in the soil, compounds of which were used many decades ago on fruit trees (which were very common here).
> Remember when sexual assault and harassment were routine, and powerful men could do what they wanted with impunity?

Like, when you could brag about benefitting from that, and still be President? I remember that like it was the day after yesterday...
This article keeps trying to make fun of the concept, claiming it's not real.

And yet, I know several people who have done exactly that (more quietly obviously). And several who tried and failed.

The difference? It's debt.

If you can avoid debt completely this really does work, but it takes a LOT of sacrifice on your part to get there.

It's basically a real life form of min-maxing in games. Minimize all pleasure and ease at the start of life, and never get into debt.

Then once you are past that part suddenly it's all easier.
This is too much trouble. Also, Facebook has intrusive ways of extracting information you choose to not share, like asking your "friends" what your current city is. Better to just delete it.
I disagree, I enjoy programming in JavaScript, and I've been around the block. Language and ecosystem improvements have made it a productive (if somewhat quirky) language. We use NodeJS as our backend language at our (serious) software company and it's well tested, clean, and maintainable.
By an reasonable comparison to other wealthy economies in the developed world, no such labor protections exist in the US. What little protections are in place have been systematically under attack since at least the 1970s.

If we we're talking about somewhere like France, perhaps this argument would hold water. Otherwise, seems like a strawman.
> Steve says An­droid is Google’s most im­por­tant chan­nel. That’s on­ly if you don’t mea­sure by mon­ey. From a busi­ness point of view, AdWords is five times more im­por­tant than any­thing else.

How is AdWords the channel? It seems like the product to me, while Google Search is the vehicle for delivering them.

>My per­son­al opin­ion is that An­droid orig­i­nal­ly ex­ist­ed to pre­vent Ap­ple get­ting a monopoly lock on the hand-held mar­ket and lock Google en­tire­ly out of mo­bile ad­s.

Apple's business model doesn't lend itself to getting a monopoly lock on any business they're in. Apple was always destined to having a nice chunk of the premium market, but someone else would have sprung up to serve everyone else. It could have been Symbian, Blackberry, Microsoft, etc.