skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "High-level primitives"? "Use APIs as easily as if they were functions"? Honestly, sounds like using AWS services with Boto.

No that's what they are doing, you just use the new language.
Excellent! It hadn't occurred to me before that PyPy's parser error messages could be different from CPython's; I must have forgotten that they rewrote the parser [0].

[0] https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2009/08/pypy-gets-new-compiler...
I'm pretty sure that CryptoKitties are only successful because they are one of the few ways for criminals to directly deposit crypto currencies in larger quantities without using mixers to launder ransom payments from crypto viruses.
> Apparently when some very incompetent bank workers ask your security questions if the frauder says "oh it was just a random string, I do not remember" they give access to your account.

This has actually worked for me more than once, so...yeah.

I find nonsense/ridiculous answers to be safer than than random letters.

Make and model of first car? 2047 MAIBATSU MONSTROSITY

Where did you meet the love of your life? A METH-FUELED SWINGER PARTY IN A CHEAP MOTEL

etc.
It's bullshit because it isn't a real issue. Apple is just acting as a patent troll, inventing fake problems for the sake of filing patents.
This looks neat, thanks for sharing!
The broad question you're asking is called adaptationism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptationism
Throw in Heroku and Firebase and we're nearly there :)
Research paper alleges big airlines use earnings calls to collude, reduce seats
Let the user make up a question and remind them that they might need to answer it over the phone so they don’t choose something embarrassingly personal.
Related: https://wip.chat/
>The difference is that there is no loss.

In this thread, we recognize the existence of supply / demand.

It is exceptionally ignorant to claim that increasing the supply of a relatively scarce thing has no economic impact on the creator / owner.
You could have predefined mappings of characters to strings so that they appear non-random, e.g.
SBNLWPXMZ -> Seattle Boston Newcastle Lagos Washington Paramaribo Xanadu Montreal Zagreb.
i take enormous pleasure in this, its great to see a fraud go down, simple as that
Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress
Step 2.66: Manufacturer pokes you until you let him upgrade...
The issue is people who in the past would have went to wall street are now going to Silicon Valley solely for the money and it has poisoned the culture. Tech companies shouldn't have pushed the coolness factor so much and instead let people continue to think tech was for nerds
Heh, so, $3000 for 1 month of alpha testing your buggy product, essentially... or roughly $19 an hour?
A Taxonomy of Tech Debt
I've had very good experiences with reviewing complex changes with less experienced dudes. You have to approach it with a different mindset though.

With more experienced guys, I give them code and they fire back "Yo, those 10 things look bad, those 8 things are easy problems, those two things are probably broken, and you turned your brain off in that test".

Less experienced team members can be intimidated by code and standing and you have to overcome that. But I've had great experiences by handing them change sets, give them some time to read it until they are ready and comfortable to ask me questions about it and to tell me what it does, and then we just talk about the code.

This resulted in a really cool situation. I was working on a lock-free, cache friendly tree implementation in java and had relaxed a couple of locks and it was some really tough stuff. So we ended up talking about style, and then digressing into explanations of java memory visibility, concurrency, lock-free algorithms, several square meters of whiteboard painted over several times, and then this girl says "Yeah so if I get this right your code is slower than it could be, and wrong in a case. Let me show you". And she was right, and I was floored.
... That was a very nicely structured sentence.
How do I read this file on Windows?
The funny thing is the search space for most of these questions is so narrow. I mean, they ask for colors (how many are there? how many average person can name?), city names, personal names, baseball teams, school mascots, etc. How easy is it to compile a dictionary for all of those? Probably won't take more than a day.

> I've always given false info to those, when I bother to fill them out at all

Average person, not trained in using password managers, won't do it. In fact, most password managers don't support those, so you need secondary secure storage. Chances of a layperson setting up one properly and consistently using it is close to zero.

> Nevertheless, my attitude is that I'll just make sure to retain the password.

The problem is, on some sites, if you know these questions you can just reset the password. Which is insane, but unfortunately happens.
there was a Scientific American article on this a few o months back (sadly paywalled).

Essentially they can ringfence the potential masses/energies of axions based on other things, if they exist, this device contains a resonant cavity that should be able to detect them breaking down across most of the theoretical energy range
> I am skeptical of targeting an array language to a VM that requires a type check on every element of the array. Numpy handles this by performing all its actions in a C library independently of the CPython VM.

If arrays are implemented as binaries then you should be fine.

> For example, summing an array should invoke an action in the VM that adds together all of the elements of the array with only a single type look-up.

Erlang makes it easy to add NIF when you want sum to be a little bit faster. I think this is the last problem anyone needs to solve though, the elegance of array-language solutions is far more important than their performance. That they're also performant is how we know all other languages are wrong :)
It's one of those rare books where you laught while reading it. The whole reason he ends up in Brazil is just so relatable to me, pricesily because it's absurd and so realistic at the same time.
> They're giving it as an example of something that is backend-heavy that they don't want your product to be like. You've got it backwards

Yes, it's clear enough that they don't want you to be a member of that list. But what characterizes the elements of that list?! In any grammatical or intuitive reading of

"This probably isn't a good fit if your product is not backend-heavy, such as: ..."

the "..." is a list of things that are "not backend-heavy". And the first element is "iPhone game", which is certainly an example of something that is "not backend-heavy"!

> (Your product is (not (backend-heavy, such as: ...machine-learning models)))

Oh no! That's horribly confusing and not how lists are used in English! If that's what they meant, the post needs rewording. The correct way to say something like that is e.g., "Your product is back-end heavy but is not [insert delineating characteristics], such as: [insert original list here]".

To return the substance instead of grammar, IMO the "[insert delineating characteristics]" portion of that sentence is exactly what's missing from this advert!
There's a namespace clash here; I'm quite amused at the idea of basing my startup on https://esolangs.org/wiki/Dark
>The most impressive people I know have strong beliefs about the world, which is rare in the general population.

I guess this speaks to how little Sam interacts with the general public. The vast majority of people I know outside of tech have very strong (and varied) opinions on the world.
Do you really think that supply / demand only applies to tangible goods? Do you really think that there would be no financial impact on Microsoft if they removed all of their license / activation technologies and relied on honor code?
For one thing, it's much easier to buy drugs on the internet now. People can use it to skirt capital controls. It may have some uses in money laundering. You can gamble with crypto much more easily than with a credit card. These may or may not be positive things, depending on your point of view, but they are things that have changed.
It seems more likely that Apple is checking serial numbers or some kind of embedded meta-data, to verify that the parts in the phone are authentic Apple parts.
The animations on the front page are way to fast, no chance to figure out how it works.

In many cases, pulling out phone, selecting bot, typing in e-mail adress (hopefully correctly), ... seems like a lot more friction than just handing over cards.
It was $1900 per instance last year.
I found the discussion on the topic interesting.
Environmental regulations are a great example of legacy spaghetti.

Legislation not passed by a suitably large majority should automatically come with a 10yr sunset provision.
It’s just that this device is completely pointless to me. So I’d only be interested if it was an attractive curio.
This comment was made before they changed the title. Previously it claimed you could log in without passwords, which is just plain wrong.
https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok

https://github.com/ngn/apl
No...humans are terrible at remembering passwords given inane “security” requirements that vary from site to site.

I have yet to see a site allow me to “correct horse battery staple” my password for instance (xkcd), which I’ve found very memorable.
Stealing one account at a time is small time hoodlum level sh*t.

The pros just download the entire user table in one go. They don't care what your first pet's name was.
Great ideas that should be backported into CPython. Especially the message when forgetting the colon!
Sorry, the data sheet is now @ https://secure.nic.cz/files/turris-mox/datasheet/MOX_datashe...
My problem with that is remembering and generating it. First problem is easy to solve with password managers but you still have to generate an ideally long car name with no bias. If you put some bias, then it might be backtracked. You can have a dictionary of possible car names but then you're open to attack if that dictionary is found or predictable enough that someone else can compile that list. It just doesn't feel secure enough to me.
> I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips.

This is probably just self-delusion of the emperor-has-no-clothes variety. A lot of investors think they're funny, smart, insightful, good writers, tweeters, and super productive.

Why? Because they spend all day being followed and flattered by courtiers seeking favor.

A common saying in Silicon Valley is "if you want money, ask for advice" because it's well known that many investors make decisions based on ego stroking.
The Average Person Is Worth $1.7M in This Small Country
Why is that a golden rule? Genuine curiosity.
Someone needs to auction off the remaining office furniture and lab equipment, and renegotiate the lease. If they had thousands of employees at their peak, a couple of dozen seems reasonable.
I had never heard of the chill pad before. That might be a game changer for me. I'm in Austin, TX and for about 100 days each year, my poor A/C can barely keep my house at 77 degrees overnight.

I asked our HVAC company about replacing it with a giant unit and they advised against it. Apparently it would create condensation and then mold whereas a "correctly" sized unit might struggle to hold the temperature, but it will also keep humidity down.
Hmm betting your future on a platform that has unknown chance of success for 1/7 of 1 eng. comp package/year is a strange risk to take.
I don't know which annoys me more, the easy to guess security questions or those with mutable answers.

Things like: What's your favorite vacation spot? What's your favorite food?

Often you're stuck having to choose between something other people know or can figure out (where you were born) and something that may well change over time.
What happens to your passwords if you stop paying for the cloud version?
I would have to agree with the person you are responding to.

The other examples (iphone games, embedded systems) are not back end heavy.

I think what they mean by "back end heavy" is actually CRUD heavy and they put all these systems together under that non-CRUD heavy banner.
There are 2 other major ones in 2011 and start of 2013, so sample size 4.
This submission is about DNS over TLS, which is a ratified standard. You're talking about DNS over HTTPS, which is super cool, but not yet a standard. :)
I don't know, I can't imagine Theranos looks good on your resume, especially if you worked there after all this came out. For your second point I feel like having a higher position makes you look more culpable.
Sorry that wasn't super clear to begin with — we have added a banner when cost basis is still updating now so that you can see when the updates are done.
You pay a consultant to understand your problem and sometimes solve it. If you've hired them and they don't know your domain then you're going to need to give them time to learn.

It's on you for hiring someone that didn't already know everything. Don't expect them to put in free time to understand whatever infrastructure and code you have in place.
> What your asking is for Apple to support third party knock off chips in their firmware

They're already doing that for some other things.

For instance, some (mostly cheap) Wifi access points are known to have buggy implementations of 802.11 that require firmware workarounds in phones and laptops. Manufacturers have to support these devices for the benefit of the consumer and to maintain their own reputation. Customers aren't expected to understand that it's some other piece of tech that's at fault.

Granted, it's a bit different since this is a separate device. But this is still one example of Apple (and every other phone manufacturer) supporting other's people buggy code for the benefit of the users.
At least at CapGemini and Cognizant, yes, so I assume this happens at the other big out sourcing firms.
We're learning that in the debates over public education funding. For some reason, at least in the US, public education is justified if and only if it creates a more productive workforce. Why the government should subsidize the cost of training employees is rarely stated (probably for a good reason).
Hey Sam!

Regarding sleeping, I've had really bad sleep problems since I was a kid, to the point where I pulled all nighters a couple times a month just because I knew I wasn't going to get to sleep that night.

I fixed all of my sleep problems over time by taking a low dose of melatonin (1g, low doses are more effective than high doses) and wearing orange glasses at night to block out blue light. It took a while for melatonin and the glasses to work consistently, so I occasionally took sleeping pills as well, but now I go to sleep consistently without sleeping pills. I'm down to one sleepless night every 3-4 months, and it usually happens when I don't do my routine.

Regarding protein, it's likely you don't need as much as you think. Unfortunately, I don't have great resouces to cite, but I'm vegan and I lift weights 3x a week, and I never think about my protein intake. I may be a bit biased, but the things I've read say that we emphasize protein too much in our diets and don't need as much of it as we think we do (https://www.vrg.org/nutrition/protein.php). You might want to try cutting our your protein shakes to see if you really need them.
How I made $100 million playing powerball.

"How I lost my life savings on irresponsible gambling."
I only looked at the Python part, and no, it's not good.

Documentation for the random module¹ prominently warns:

The pseudo-random generators of this module should not be used for security purposes. Use os.urandom() or SystemRandom if you require a cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator.

¹ https://docs.python.org/2/library/random.html
sounds great, i'll follow up this project and chek his social media.
I think there are some additional internal costs with ETFs that cause it to have lower returns over time. At least, I remember seeing some comparison graphs to that effect.
According to this random 20 year old study I found, taking Vitamin D supplements is better than light therapy:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10888476
Tangential to the post, but the pages on darklang.com are really fast. They load instantly. I clicked the Medium link and it took a couple seconds to load what was essentially a blank page.

The darklang.com homepage took 70 msec for DOMContentLoaded and was only 25.5 KB total page weight.

That's even including two fonts!

Hacker News is usually my gold standard for a lightweight fast page. And while HN is only 13 KB (no fonts), it's >400 msec for DOMContentLoaded.
No I think locking yourself into financial servitude to some entity is just about the dumbest thing you can do. If you fail you wasted time getting experience not applicable elsewhere, if you succeed they will bleed you dry.
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This is probably FB people sitting on a few million bucks who have stayed due to inertia. Now being at FB looks icky to their friends and they have enough $ to say fuck it.
In Polish there are different words for free as in free speech and for free as in free beer. But, interestingly, the words for "free" as in free speech and for "slow" are the same, so "wolne oprogramowanie" can mean both "free software" and "slow software" :-) If I remember correctly, the etymology for both words is "wola" which means "will" - if you were free, you could act on your own will, but you also could do things on your own pace. Slowly, that is. But I'm not completely certain if I remember the etymology right, so take it with a grain of salt:-)
I get the point about the noise being balanced, I just personally wouldn't default to trusting it.

But most of my experience is analog conditioning for microcontrollers - more sensitive, higher frequency noise, and admittedly single rail with today's op amp technology. An extra component doesn't necessarily add complexity like in software, but can actually simplify one's mental model of the circuit - nice stable supply rails.

If you look at that original circuit, how much did the regulator cost compared to say the transformer? Eliminating the regulator would have required changing the transformer, at least.

I'm just trying to get across that it's a bit of a red herring to prioritize cost-optimizing the circuit if you're setting out to build a one-off clone. Even hobbyist debugging time is worth more than a few ten cent parts.
If somebody has the ability to force me to give up my fingerprints, I am also going to give them my password. Hard to say no to somebody with a gun.
But it will tarnish your ability to do virtue signaling, which is the basis of many peoples identity today.
Don't forget JPEG with 12-bit color depth. It's not clear to me if anything supports it or not, and I haven't been able to find any image files that claim to use it.
You can create read only API keys in most cases, and revoke them once you upload your transactions.
Hmmm . . . so two questions:

1. (serious) What recourse do customers have when the company says your warranty is void because you broke the seal? Because the tech on the phone isn't going to have the power to do anything, he's reading from the binder. (Edit really asking: I'm sure someone here will already know the formal complaint process) /edit

2. (sarcastic) How long before the companies get the law changed de jurie instead of just de facto?
So it's basically what webp is to webm? Also how does it compare to my favorite image format, FLIF? http://flif.info/
Could you share an example to feedback@cointracker.io?
I want to provide community funded VPN and VPS, eventually more services for those in need. Rather than do a startup or nonprofit I think it should take the form of a physical open to the public church resembling an internet cafe, but with development environments and such.
There was a great ceremony when burning in the single-speed days where the hard drive could barely keep up. Vibration, buffer underruns, loud noise, they could all trash your burn. You'd set it, then watch, on the edge of your seat, hoping it'd succeed. Then you'd carefully hand this golden artifact to the next person.

Later you'd burn a single PSD on a CD-ROM because it's almost cheaper, faster, and more reliable than printing it out.
1,2) Yes, agreed.

3) You're totally right: we're concerned about this and have been thinking about it a lot. Obviously, vendor lock-in is a disadvantage for us because it will hurt adoption, so we'd definitely prefer this wasn't the case.

4) Bear in mind that the editor only targets Dark, including our infrastructure component, APIs, and language. So this is substantially less work than say, building vim or Atom.

5) We're targeting way way easier than that. Literally you should be able to call an API in one line (including all the retry logic, backoffs, rate limiting, auth, etc).
This article aged so well: http://time.com/3822734/elizabeth-holmes-2015-time-100/
You can replace facebook with google, apple, ms or amazon and you have the same picture though.

And they got the best projects and the most money.

Yet when I said to my relatives, 5 years ago, that I refused an interview from google and facebook, they questioned my sanity.

I don't pretend to have the moral high ground here, as i made enought bad things in my life, but this kind of pondering work opportunities doesn't happen enough imo.
Post a new topic about it as you make updates man! People here would eat that up.
It is always important to consider the impact of your job in society.

Sorry for the following link. Sure, it is not the same, but this is the great debate of "following orders":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem

I'd also like references about the ethical debate about the Manhattan Project where the greatest minds of humanity gathered to develop WMD.
> Why this pressing need to maximize productivity?

Because this maximizes your happiness. We're happiest when we produce, not when we consume or when we're idle. Think of productivity as a rate of positive change you inflict on your surroundings, or as a unit of feedback you receive from the world acknowledging your existence.

Re-arranging the world towards your views is hugely satisfying and it could be as simple as cleaning up your bedroom, working on your garden or as complex as migrating a country off fossil fuels.

If you accept this definition of productivity the rest of the blog post makes perfect sense. Why are we here? To be productive! :)
Atlassian’s CIO: On Getting More Women into Engineering Leadership
Why the Brain Seems Mostly Dormant (2015)
My understanding is that Lehman Brothers still has a few employees left. Mainly to sort through the mess of paperwork left behind. Here's an article from 2013 where they still had employees working on liquidating the assets.

[1]: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-lehman-fiveyear-people/you...
Value store, which will come in handy after US defaults on its debts.
Even for a lot of people in technology, getting a new job isn't something you do on your lunch break as some people seem to think. Yes, people who have popular skills, are younger, and live in areas with greater employment density may be able to get something relatively quickly but it's absolutely not the norm for most people who lose their job.
But the whole point is it isn't in Jacksonville. It's in San Francisco, where $3k will pay your rent and that's about it. So you'd really want to reconsider not taking other funding or debt.
Are you kidding? Those are terrible passwords, and there’s already some script kiddie out there with a password list containing the top 10 billion book, music, tv show, and movie quotes.

A good password has entropy, which is not a property of the alphanumeric string but of the process used to create it. Could your password generation method plausibly have produced 2^60 alternative passwords with equal probability? Probably not.

Also, never reuse passwords.