skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been using Dropbox since the service started. In my business, we use it every day. Although Google and Microsoft and Apple now offer comparable services, I have to say Dropbox still has the best user experience. So long as they keep on top of that, they will have me as a customer for many years to come.
Are you kidding? This is Warhawk 101 stuff. PR has its origins in the military industrial complex. Public relations and the generation of modern propaganda on a mass scale were born during the world wars of the 20th century. Read up on Edward Bernays: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
It sounds like Marriott wanted to be in a position to say someone had been fired, and he was offered up.

Either way, pretty shitty on Marriott's part.
...or accidentally sending a missile warning to Hawaii.
> They're making some weird assumption that only people within China could possibly support the Chinese government on the issue.

That's not how I read it. I read it saying it's odd that a platform banned as bad by a government is so readily used by those who support the government. I won't even address the end of your post in detail because it's unrelated to governments punishing businesses for liked tweets.
Hmm. RF power density in free space is a function of V/m: W/m^2 = (V/m)^2 / 377. The constant at the end is the impedance of free space. If you wish to compute the power absorbed by a rat you'd need to know its impedance, or perhaps the impedance of some specific organ.

That's probably a tough thing to calculate in a definitive manner given the number of conceivable variables. And does it add anything to the conclusion? All rats are likely to impede about the same at some frequency, so whatever the answer is it's effectively a constant; one that a rat can't do much about while remaining a conventional rat. Why not simply rely on the easily measured/reproduced V/m and assume that all such rats are experiencing the same power flux?
I'm interested to know what attracts Python programmers to Rust. It's a very different language so I'm surprised to see so many python programmers take it up. What are your reasons for working with it?
I’ve been thinking a bit about wearable computing and pervasive encrypted communication. I think personal encryption could become more necessary in an age of deep learning enabled fake video and audio. Wearable computing could take readings from your body and environment as a sort of timestamp and fingerprint. It could also enable an easy way to type messages to others privately.
You’re putting an awful lot of faith in the amount of work executives will do. Not to disparage all C-level executives. But I’m not surprised at all that “China is mad at this tweet...Fire the person on the other end of it.” Is as far as they were willing to dig. They usually fix symptoms, not problems.
Python Job: Software Engineer at Moz
Which question am I begging? I wasn't talking about abuse of power.
I was thinking about paying out in fiat, but crypto is so much easier because of no fees, instant transactions, and not having to deal with various currencies.

While something like Stripe Connect may be useful, the fees are unreasonable for smaller transactions. A quick hack to cash out to crypto is to use your Coinbase wallet address as the payout address, and just sell off the crypto the moment it hits your wallet.
If anybody needs reasons to at least partially support Trump, this is it.

Nobody else would counter china

Hillary's team was getting Chinese money from Terry McAullife.
It's unfortunate that countries do increasingly exist to serve markets. In my opinion that's a real inversion, although subtle, that's been taking place.

Which leads us to a bought political system, at the moment at least.
They never explain what happens with things that are still scarce. There are several episodes where mention is made of valuable artworks. Peoples time is still scarce, for example holodeck programs take time to create. Starships are clearly not free, and therefore neither is interstellar transport.

Like much of the Star Trek universe, it seems that the writers threw in a neat idea and never gave it much thought.
Car keys and house keys could be implemented as U2F tokens. A person could carry a single device, which could be a discrete token like a Yubikey, or virtualized in a phone, to authenticate to work, home, car, and computers.

I wish Tesla would adopt U2F. They already have something that seems to be BLE/NFC for the Model 3.
Or fire whoever stamped the paperwork for Mariott to become a corporation!
Solid playlist!

It's very slightly different than the vibe of some of these songs, but here's a song I throw on loop for hours while working. You might enjoy it: https://open.spotify.com/track/1IbNYr8ByXsgwGbmOxLBXP?si=Rij...
SF is the only literary form to focus consistently on politics and economics. This goes back past Heinlein to the pulps of the 30s and 40s.
Another example is the collapse of 38 Studios in Rhode Island - half their workers were brought in as contract workers; After 2 weeks without pay, the company finally collapsed: only 'full-time' workers were able to attend an emergency job fair the state created.

The rest of the employees, many who had moved to the area specifically for the job, couldn't even collect unemployment - I met one girl working at Uno's Pizzeria so she wouldn't become homeless and stuck in a distant state.
Concepts like finite integer sizes (aka integer overflow) and finite floating point precision (1/3+1/3+1/3 != 1) aren't PhD-level concerns. :)
But there are alternatives, and they're thriving...alternatives include the very popular mastodon of course, but also gnu social, hubzilla, friendica, movim, pleroma, postactiv, etc. Mastodon alone has about 800,000 users across all of the servers, and the other platforms have many user communities as well.
Does netflix use a lot of pivotal stuff? I always thought of that as a plus as netflix is a pretty strong engineering org.
Should have fixed the easier problem first. The 'searchability' of the language name.
(CA:LA) Hiring iOS Developer (Small Jewelry Company)
Great article. Hacker News paydirt!
> I see no problem with game workers unionizing

yet you immediately come up with a completely made up problem.
Yup. It's really only the first part of the comment which had tunnel vision.

(Which does of course raise the question: were people upvoting for that part, or despite it? We'll never know)
"That depends if you think some Americans would be offended if you claimed Hawaii was its own country."

Do you have an actual example of someone being fired for claiming that Hawai'i was its own country?

Edit: apparently you don't. Your analogy does not hold water.
Were we a squeakier, more collective wheel it might be different. I had a similar thought a few months back actually: https://github.com/cretz/software-ideas/issues/66. But I can't be bothered to go run around on Twitter, Yelp, business-shame-site du jour all the time. It's why companies with self-imposed principles instead of purchased ones fare better in the long run, and it can't be quantified.
I think the upperclass mostly "controls" lawmaking decisions for their own interest, and are almost entirely unaware of the condition/state of mind/customs of the lower classes. They don't understand how it works, and because they don't understand they feel superior, so they make decisions on behalf of the lower classes with the intent of nobly showing the masses the way while serving their own interests.

There's also a lot of superior moralizing etc.
They tell us there that 319 customers paid $259 million between them in fiscal 2018 - so on average each customer pays $800k/year. They'll have outliers in both directions from that average - But my gut feel is they probably don't have many customers spending less that $80k/year. (Same as I'll bet there's not too many $8mill+/year ones).
Maybe he's talking about Mongolia. :-)
> Replacing functionality is the easy part. How do you replace volume of people using the system? Scandal or not - Facebook is still where "everyone is".

I actually do know people who strongly prefer their friends not to have a Facebook account. So this is a feature and not a bug, since it is a strong opportunity to sort out to whom of the Facebook "friends" one really wants to stay in contact with.

Or to give another argument why this is a feature and not a bug: About everybody who has used Facebook for a long time also has collected "friends" that one would love to drop from the friends list, but has not done for politeness. This is finally an opportunity to get rid of them in a much more socially accepted way.
I want to delete my FB profile but I'm reluctant because it opens the door for someone to start a new profile with my name and pictures. Perfect for social engineering.
Because the super special programmers think they will negotiate a better deal on their own when facing companies that have literally engaged in wage fixing in the recent past.
Yes, the primary utility is to understand how discriminative your features are. There is no meaning of what each face represents.

Checkout the Chernoff Fish demo posted below by the user meagher here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16664051. Play with different features, say for example, 'performance'. When you change the value of 'performance', the eye size changes. However, the eye size doesn't mean anything except for you to visually understand variations in data. If 'performance' was mapped to, say, fin size, it doesn't change its meaning.
Bitcoin's scripting language is Turing complete, paper shows
I must admit that I stopped watching this video at the scene where the prisoners are getting whipped because I found it upsetting. I watch Game Of Thrones and have played violent video games. So I'm not your Mom. :)

Perhaps the audio is just too clear ? Or perhaps there isn't enough going on scene-wise to distract. Or just the fact that the whipping is perfectly periodic and programmed to go on indefinitely. I don't know.
You can list your computer for as long as you like! It's up to the ML/AI researchers to decide which machines they want to use based on the specs they see, and for how long.
Lets be real about America's relationship with China. They are our enemies. Both parties seek to dominate the globe even if nobody is anxious to do so bullets and bombs. Both parties have values that can never be reconciled.

How do you reconcile the notion that man ought to be free with a society that believes in lifelong servitude and a mans proper place under each others boots. A society that poisons its people and executes the parties responsible only when it becomes a public embarrassment. That dissembles undesirable portions of its populace for spare body parts for more affluent and desirable portions of its populace. That rolls over its people with tanks when they dare to disagree. Americans may be at many times poor examples of the values we hold dear but our society is at worst working towards living our ideals.

China is nothing but a more tractable, predictable, and sane North Korea and nothing in our lifetimes or our childrens lifetimes is going to change that.

A company that holds itself to be an American company shouldn't bow its neck to terrible people or ask Americans to do so.

I am aware that they are a multinational and may not wish to be seen as American which is just fine by me. I just don't wish our government employees or leadership to patronize them and strongly suggest that those who feel strongly about America also abstain from giving anyone affiliated with Marriott their money.
"But do you really think it is so unrealistic that many Americans would be offended by such a statement? "

You can't control whether someone is offended.

You can control whether you fire someone because someone else is offended.
Hm, I wonder how much a company's Slack culture affects memory usage. I've never seen it eat more than a few hundred MB, but then my coworkers almost never post GIFs.
Open for mortals was $29.00

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DBX?p=DBX
Your entire posting history is devoted to obscure conspiracy screeds whenever Russia is involved – it's truly remarkable your account has persisted this long.
Every person under capitalism has to sell their labor in order to survive. This means that the employee and employer are not on equal footing - I cannot reasonably refuse to work and live a comfortable lifestyle, which means I have to make certain sacrifices (ie, working 40 hours a week in order to survive). This is all fine if I feel like I am treated well and compensated fairly, but if I feel like I am not, as an individual I have very little power. I can quit, but if I feel like most workers in my industry are not treated fairly, there's nowhere to go. However, if I organize with other workers, I have the bargaining power to make certain demands: suddenly employers realize if they want to employ people who have my skills, they have to meet certain reasonably requirements with regards to hours, compensation, etc.

Things like the 40 hour workweek aren't just a result of market forces. Market forces by themselves literally worked people to death - life expectancy in Liverpool during the industrial revolution was 15. It was through organization and struggle that workers achieved the rights they have today.
You can learn a lot from old TV.

I saw a Miami Vice episode a while back, the Bad Guy noted that the Dow Jones was about to break 1400.

It's a constant upward trail, with peaks and valleys along the way. Don't bet against it.
What about then, like some other languages?
>How do you prove [...]

Email archives of PIP goals and the like. But that doesn't even matter. All you really have to do is prove you didn't fire them because they asked for OT pay they were owed.
If every dev was equally responsible or thorough, we would be fine with just 1 reviewer. But the reality is that devs are different, and can have good/bad days. Operationally, in every mission-critical workflow, usually at least 2 people need to turn the key, fly the airplane, press the button, sign off, or what have you. There is good historic precedent for distributing responsibility and reducing errors.

> If you have three reviewers, no one feels personally responsible for checking it line by line and thinking about the code in depth.

in my experience, this is already happening. When you get pinged to review PR after PR and have your own work to do, it's easy to skim. Requiring 2 reviewers operationally has often meant i'd get a chance to look and take a deep dive after someone caught the glaring issues.

When it's ok for just one dev to sign-off, time and time again that's how i've seen bugs/debt sneak in. I think giving organizations this option is only a plus, and is not really something we need to have a public debate about; it's an organizational decision to use or not use this that github has facilitated.
Account size and pricing are two different things.

The question is: are the $800k customers getting good value for that subscription, or are they looking at projected costs and thinking "we better switch to a competitor before this gets out of hand".
Sigh. I guess I'm not surprised at the negativity here on HN about this, but I'm still disappointed. If you take offense to the effort to dismantle masculine posturing as it's practiced in corporate culture, or see a meaningful effort to rebalance gendered power structures as sexist, maybe you should check your blind spots.

Gender has everything to do with it, because gender is a cultural mode of expression (and it is most certainly not a tribe you have to defend, so just calm down, guys). On many many dating apps, that expression is extremely lopsided, especially in terms of abusive and otherwise unethical behavior toward other people - namely women. I'm personally much more likely to look into this platform now that I know that they take a principled stance.

(Edit: typo)
The government of the United States does not demand that mainland China relinquish control of Tibet. Nor does the USA insist on censoring mainland controversies or on punishing foreigners who say inconvenient things. This difference is essential.

You are free to criticize America. People, including politicians, regularly do so. China, despite claiming to be a strong, ascendant power, is remarkably sensitive when it comes to such fictions as there being one China or the historicity of their nine-dash line.

Also, though the USA certainly was a conquerer -- few powers on this violent planet were forged in peace -- it's also the foremost defender of the modern rules-based order. There are Hawaii and the Mexican-American war in its past, but there are also Japan and Micronesia closer to today.
I saw people on the Reddit thread saying the Ubuntu requirement was a showstopper for a lot of them.

You might look into the Win 10 linux support, Ubuntu is one o the supported distros. Not sure if it would have full access to resources, have just used it a bit at work and setup was super simple.
I see a lot of comments talking about employees butting heads with managers and somehow a union will protect them. I don't really see what role a union has in that particular case.

I just want those poor bastards in QA to get overtime or full time benefits.
Seattle's New Normal: Homelessness Is Now Middle Class
CNCF is current tracking 8 projects/products in the serverless tools space, including Thundra and IOPipe: https://landscape.cncf.io/grouping=landscape&landscape=tools
Note that it is "game workers" not "game developers" - this seems to be more along the lines of an "industry union" rather than a "craft union" - so this will tend to devalue technological skill.
Both BMW and Mercedes run self service car rentals (ReachNow and Car2Go).
I didn't say they were the same, or even equivalent.
It was an honest mistake.

The only mistake he made was accepting a job at a company that turned out to be run by spineless bootlickers.
This website has a pretty good calculator:

https://whattomine.com

Just replace your miner earnings with the earnings listed on http://vectordash.com/hosting
It should have been the guy that allowed all low level employees access to the official Marriott twitter account.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16656604
You're right! They did miss the larger point about centralization.

With that said, is it perhaps possible that they're writing for a more general audience that isn't particularly interested in the overhead that comes with administration and decentralized platforms? People want one, simple, clear, drop-in replacement for a given use. They want it to be one that's as easy to use as possible and trivially easy to get their friends to use.

Most of all, people want to use something their friends are already using. Isolated, un-federated systems that require some level of technical skill (i.e., my late-90s grandma can't figure out in two minutes) to use are a hard sell.
You were being overpessimistic: Python's GC handles cyclic references perfectly well.
> I just don't wish our government employees or leadership to patronize them and strongly suggest that those who feel strongly about America also abstain from giving anyone affiliated with Marriott their money.

I feel kinda bad for Marriot: Chinese boycott them for liking the tweet, and now americans are furious that they apologized.
"Answer a survey to continue reading this content."

No.
gRPC Web Finally Comes Out of Hiding
I agree with what you said, partly. And I agree that there are serious problems with chinese culture and government (at least, from my perspective). But, why should the US government be any better?
All savings and investments should be tax deductible. Then you don’t need this bureaucratic nonsense.
Games is a very seasonal industry with a lot of large studios exploiting this by putting ramping up before Christmas and laying off before bonuses in Q2. It also attracts a lot of young people that don't know their rights.
Context: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/8682#issuecomment-375840.... Notable that it was hidden for so long yet granted so many requests for access (I am not a fan of hidden development of open source initiatives personally).
This would be super timely for me if it supported Python, but even without that it's interesting. Coming from the world of servers (virtual or physical) I find the logging latency and the lack of "observability" in general quite maddening in Lambda.

Two things I wonder about this:

1) The "no code changes" part implies it's adding another layer of code somewhere, which means another thing to trust and probably not be able to audit, which is not automatically OK outside the "move fast break things" world. Am I misreading it?

2) How can you add metrics with "no overhead?" Surely there must be some overhead... and then it would be nice to be able to measure how much.

For me personally, #1 is a real issue and #2 is just hypothetical, but I would expect it to be the other way around for a fast-growing startup.
To people who use Tinder or Bumble, would you prefer matching yourself or have an algorithm do the matching for you?
The rational and nice thing to do for Marriott is to fire the guy, give him a nice severance and a wink-wink apology, and hook him up with a gig at Starwood Hotel & Resorts.
Not only can we, but now with the CLOUD Act passed as a rider to the budget bill those countries have even more options since the law will,

>Enable foreign police to collect and wiretap people's communications from U.S. companies, without obtaining a U.S. warrant.

>Allow foreign nations to demand personal data stored in the United States, without prior review by a judge.

>Allow the U.S. president to enter "executive agreements" that empower police in foreign nations that have weaker privacy laws than the United States to seize data in the United States while ignoring U.S. privacy laws.

>Allow foreign police to collect someone's data without notifying them about it.
I just signed up for a Schwab brokerage account and it didn't cost anything. They may have updated their policy
"Country" is a loose concept anyway. A country isn't necessary a sovereign state, since places like England or Aruba are considered countries. If it wasn't for the whole offending China thing, few people would care if Tibet was classified as a country or as a "historical region", as Wikipedia has it.
Armed insurrection is exactly why the US exists and is not subject to foreign law. Labeling discussion of that a rant does not distract from your failure to back up an unprecedented claim. /rant
Yeah actually I think that's the way almost anyone would have described it. Just like you say "my office" for the space your company leases and you work in. But I also agree that it is part of what the news media is supposed to do to point out that the satellite wasn't actually owned by Facebook.
The term "libertarian" was first used by anarchists and syndicalists in Europe.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Libertarianism#/History

Furthermore, modern day "libertarianism" in the USA has more to do with Objectivism/Egoism (Ayn Rand) Individualism(Individualist Anarchism). https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Libertarianism_in_the_United_Sta...
It's not Scrum. It's Extreme Programming. It works fantastically well, even when you're __fixing bugs__. The whole idea is that you need to be paired so that two people can understand and problem solve around the bug. You end up with twice the understanding that you had before. It's worth it.
Altered Carbon treats the brain as a computer that can have its hard drive swapped out. That's really stupid and a good reason to ignore it. It's also particularly poorly written.
Having health care tied to the employer-employee relationship has worked out poorly.

The less the safety net is subject to the whims of business, the better off we will all be -- including businesses.