skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article lists that hand curated selections have been replaced by algorithmic recommendations, pointers to DVD sales on Amazon are gone, columns are gone. None of these things sound like a plus to me. Especially given how their algorithms seem to optimize for something (me spending time searching? watching particular movies that clearly aren't a match but Netflix has done incentive for me to watch? No clue) that's not me easily finding the best matching movie. Their interface at least on PS4 also makes it annoying to just read a description of a movie without anything starting to play. Their ratings seem all inflated and useless. I have to go to IMDb or rotten tomatoes to get useful ratings. The best interface for Netflix I've ever had was a Ruby script that used their API to give me a list of movies ranked by their prediction of how much I'd like them. The startling thing was that when that still worked their own interface showed me movies they predicted I'd dislike and didn't show me movies that they thought I'd love. Since the API is gone I can't confirm this anymore but it certainly feels like it.

Edit: way back they even used to have a page that was in essence a table of movies that was sortable by rating. That was so useful. Unimaginable today!

Edit 2: I'd love it if someone knew and could explain what the Netflix UI is actually optimizing for. I can't believe that it's that they cannot do better. Are they trying to hide lack of content? Are there different money implications of I watch movie A instead of movie B?
One man restores house by house an entire historic Detroit neighborhood
What about steel? Carbon fiber? It’s hard to imagine that fossils survive while a million tons of steel framing for a skyscraper would not.
Surprised you're downvoted, but perhaps it's tangental to the discussion. It's also the weekend, so eh.. :)

My personal biggest takeaway from Naples was a question of what happened between Italy and America that the food lost something. This is probably true of all cuisines that migrate to new countries and don't have access to their original ingredients. After Naples and Amalfi, I became that annoying friend that comes back from Italy and raves about how great the food was over there.

In terms of sightseeing, the things I still remember a few years later:

- Madre is a great contemporary art museum there and they were featuring lots of Italian artists when we went

- We really enjoyed the Piazza Bellini neighborhood both during the day at night. There's an art school there and it just has a really good vibe. At night it's also a popular spot.

- We did two underground tours of their cisterns. The one that meets in front of Caffè Gambrinus [0] feels more grassroots (like a couple folks who do this as a weekend hobby) and hopefully your group will only have 2-6 people. The larger one is at Via dei Tribunali. This one has a more corporate feel as tour guides are seasonal staff that know how to speak English. The sights are more stunning here, though.

- We rode the funicular up to Vomero in the west which is a wealthier neighborhood, hung out in the park there, then climbed up to Castel Sant'Elmo. Poked around its lovely courtyards and art collection, and walked down the backside while enjoying the view

- Pizza. Pizza. Pizza. Lots of blogs have written about this. Get there early, otherwise don't go at all because you'll waste half your day waiting.

Lastly, you're in the middle of everything. Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii are right there. Or take a ferry to Sorrento and explore the Amalfi Coast. The only thing is that it's super popular in the summer, so you'll need take in consideration dealing with the other tourists and higher prices.

[0] Gambrinus - http://www.lanapolisotterranea.it/orari_ing.htm
C++ adds metadata to binaries all the time, via name mangling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_mangling)

noexcept is part of the function type since C++17, so it will be encoded in binaries (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46798456/handling-gccs-n...)
In Gene Wolfe's SF/fantasy tetralogy The Book of the New Sun, set very far in the future, he refers to corpses preserved by extreme means and rendered essentially indestructible and basically just cluttering up the world.
> "that’s not [the] good corporate citizenship I expect.”

You'll noticed that corporate citizenship is absent from Eric Schmidt's description of what makes for a successful internet venture - https://www.slideshare.net/ericschmidt/how-google-works-fina...

Compare it with old HP Way, which has an objective, "[t]o meet the obligations of good citizenship by making contributions to the community and to the institutions in our society which generate the environment in which we operate."

Of course, HP isn't a successful internet venture.
Domain knowledge is the uncontrollable here. A junior is still probably a junior 3 months in but they are a lot faster for their domain knowledge (codebase, business rules etc). Day 1 (I.e. Your proposed interview) there would be little observable difference between various experience levels/quality of engineer since the overhead of domain knowledge will dwarf anything they already have in their head. That is, unless the problem you pick is so isolated that there is no domain knowledge required. In that case you have expensively reproduced fizzbuzz without the mass memorization of code golf style answers.
Show HN: (django-autoscroll) Minimalist automatic scrolling of div elements
I don’t buy that that is any longer a significant contributing factor. Unadulterated societies should graduate from barbarism as they move up Maslow's hierarchy. That the most secure civilization (economically and otherwise) in human history has not managed to completely do so is almost surely the consequence of artificial intervention.

If you compare military ads for example, you’ll see that in the US we glorify and Hollywoodize war (because they know the Call of Duty aesthetic will lure kids into joining) whereas in a place like Ukraine it’s positioned as a grim and unpalatable necessity.

I’m not saying we don’t need a military btw. I am saying it’s potentially an order of magnitude more bloated than it needs to be. Biological aggression alone hardly serves to explain that. Cultural and political manipulation are the dominant explanatory variables.

And this should bother us, because while we’re busy fighting the wanton perversion of our democratic system in this and various other ways, other countries committed to a state-sanctioned technocratic agenda are running laps around us. It’s stupidly tragic.
Long since buried by moon dust.
Does it covers software companies ? Does this mean a software engineer will be an government employee ?
Hi nickpsecurity,
I always like your posts, that's why I bookmarked your comments page and check it every few days for changes.

What stands out, that these papers and articles are pretty old. It seems to me that these are pretty academic examples. I don't understand why we can't see a lot of software in the wild, following the state of the art practices of building secure software. Maybe these practices are still relatively impracticable to the average programmer.

Maybe research on secure software development should check their ideas more for psychological acceptability (Saltzer/Schröder).
Either this survey is biased, or Zuckerberg and FB are outright lying when they say they have not seen a noticeable increase in deletions. My money is on the survey and media who push these headlines being BS.
When a language designer takes their project seriously: http://docs.racket-lang.org/hackett/index.html
You can't delete 'Search', a lesson for 'Social' and why it will always lose to Search. Just ask AOL, Geocities, friendster and MySpace. Doing something that's easy to duplicate makes it easy to exploit and rarely pays off in the long term.
I down-voted your answer because those are only 4 ancient, general technologies.

I’m sure the list is much longer than 10, that’s why I asked for the top 10. I’m talking about IP from the last, say, 20 years.
You can also search the "search results tab" using single file search. Sublime is such a great tool.

> I use Sublime for notes too... I always have a window with just my notes folder open, and I make a new file for each day I take notes, named after the day.

Nice, we've converged on the same solution. I do daily plain text note files, and organize them into weekly folders. I sometimes create multiple per day if I'm working on more than one thing, or I want to dive deeper on one aspect.

For example: "4-12.txt" (the general one for the day), "4-12 Foo Schema.txt", "4-12 Baz Feature List.txt"

Sometimes I'll use markdown files instead of plain text if I want better readability. I'll switch from Sublime Text to the Typora markdown viewer/editor for those files. Typora is a pretty impressive tool as well. The nice thing about markdown that these files are still readable in Sublime, so I can switch between the two tools easily.
NASA International Space Station Operatating an Outpost Ebook
Maybe a monolith? ;)
Maybe after the next election we can have content regulations for gmail too.
>...as a whole, Americans are not getting better at reading

And this fundamental miss-understanding of the point is why misleading titles are such a pernicious problem.

The contention is that no, Americans are actually getting better at reading, but more low achieving students are now being included in the test. This is dragging down the recorded scores, even though students who would have been included previously are getting better scores now (which is the only really meaningful comparison), and also those previously untested demographics are almost certainly also doing better than they were when they were dropping out of the testing regime.
But git didn't force its use on anybody, lol. If you need a scapegoat, try GitHub!
There was a story that checking ID's on plane tickets was at the top of the airlines lobbying wishlist after 9/11 so they could curtail the practice of people selling unused tickets to another (same gender) person.
Brexit: aviation hurdles
In England (I can't speak for Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland) we call it 'Dripping' regardless of what animal the fat was from.
do they have some kind of dock that supports a two external monitor setup?
I don’t want to take a side but the parent is almost certainly going to point out that academic papers != innovation (especially with the news that lots of papers from China have falsified data, paper mills, etc).

What are actual innovations made by China in the past 20 years? On demand bikes comes to mind as one example.
So what do you do?

option A:
“I’m working on really cool / inconsequential shit. But I can’t tell you about it. Maybe we can catch up next year and I can tell you what I did”

option B:
“I work at Apple”

option C:
just stay home.
The fall of RNN / LSTM
Agreed.

There are trade-offs between choosing typed and non-typed languages. It’s not wrong to prefer one or the other. But to accuse the other side of selling out or not having objective reasons for the choice is naïve.

Don’t assume that everyone who disagrees with you is stupid. It only demonstrates that you lack an important skill of critical thinking: the ability to consider others’ perspectives and understand them.
Thanks for the memories Art. Sleep well my friend.

In the 90's we would spend all night hacking and/or gaming while listening to Coast to Coast AM with Art. It was time to wrap it up after 6 AM when "America in the Morning with Jim Bohannon" came on.
67+Free+Printable+Activities+for+Preschoolers
There is some information on typhoid vaccination on this page from the NHS website:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/typhoid-fever/vaccination/
Completely OT:

Unfortunately I can't hear that song anymore without picturing the opening scenes of CSI Miami.
That's the theory at least.
Our Dental Insurance Sent Us “Free” Internet-Connected Toothbrushes
Amadeus is ok, but Man on the Moon I never liked.
My father was in the Marine Corps; about a decade too young for Vietnam, but I kind of assume he picked it up from Marines who'd been in the service at the appropriate time.

From my perspective, for a long time it was just another one of those weird-sounding words that only Dad used (which turned out to be French, German, and Spanish).
> Typing of the .unwrap() makes me acknowledge it could be None. You know, the effect "Oh crap, I better handle that too, right?". It forces me to fix my mental model, and not write the bug, instead of fixing the bug later on.

How does this work for Mutex::lock()? Do you actually try to handle the case where taking the lock fails, because it has been poisoned?
The greatest problem of the article critiques is that China economical politic is working. They aren't just the almost slave workers now, there are tech and innovation.
Stripe.com

Simple, Consistent, fast , effective.

There are many other listed here as well. They mostly follows the same layout and pattern. What separate them are wording and graphics. Using simple words, and shortest sentence possible to describe your SaaS, and choice of graphics, which really is a matter of personal taste.

I think Stripe manage to do this very well.

Off Topic: Did Stripe ever talk about their Ruby Stack?
seeing something that you said show up on the front page of a popular website... and knowing that it was you and only you, with your underutilized expertise in your under appreciated role, that made that possible...

you can’t really buy that
The US airlines industry is a public utility that attempts to operate (poorly) as private corporations.
Antonio Garcia Martinez, former Facebook Employee Interview
Right, I had fossils like that as a kid too, and even had a friend with a ranch in the East Bay that had an exposed fossilized seabed with lots of fossilized shells.

But typically those are extracted from deposits with lots of similar pieces, like the three-foot-long slab of fossilized seabed I had. Professionals might carefully carve something like that up and turn it into lots of small fossils of fish, but they all came from the same chunk of rock.

That's what I meant by "large communities of small things".

So, it's possible that some bunker of physical storage of wealth, with gold bars for instance, will survive a hundred thousand years longer than most of the rest of our civilization. Or, maybe one of our many many landfill deposits will end up with just the right conditions to preserve for a long time the preservable stuff. But I don't think bits of gold jewelry will just be sifted out of the dirt.

Come to think of it, the best bet for evidence of our civilization a million years from now are currently the bits we've left behind on the moon, and Musk's roadster! (The latest calculations have a 6% chance of it crashing back to Earth within the next 3.5 million years -- but it will continue to swing back around every hundred years or so until then.)
Why isn't it feasible for C++ projects?
I'm not a Microsoft hater but I also haven't needed their software for my job in quite some time. I am however a Microsoft Project hater (don't ever try the auto-level resources function). But someone was demonstrating (Terraform I think) using Visual Studio Code and I fell in love with the editor. It's now my primary IDE, it's Microsoft and it's completely OSS.
I think it's very unlikely that (today's) Chinese will become a dominant language because it's too hard to learn. The writing system is just awful. Maybe if they manage to adobt Pinyin or something similar as the official way to write Chinese it has a chance. But until then I doubt that many foreigners will start learning it.
"Oops"

That is really funny. Real life writes better material for Silicon Valley.
Did they also delete their Whatsapp and their Instagram, their browser cache and their current mobile phone number? Otherwise it probably doesn't matter much.
Snowden became one of the most famous people in the world, and a hero to millions, and a villains to millions. Without knowing his personal utility function it’s hard to say whether he feels that this was a net positive for him, but some people care deeply about their legacy and “going down in the history books.”
I have not seen Amadeus, but Man on the Moon was great!
Sadly, those space wasters apparently sell better on touch devices, which is why they’re so popular. Most designers also prefer them.

The alternative of information dense interfaces is generally prefered by hackers, which are accustomed to scary things like tables and lines of code that will make the average user run for the hills. We want magazine covers and picture books, not War and Peace.
Universal Postal Union terminal dues
Thanks for the kind words and support.
Another important distinction is that absolutely not everything is even close to visualizable in short sweet diagrams.
Wide-band WebSDR – tune a radio receiver simultaneously with other users
Note that mafia also spilled its influence up north, to south france, Marseille and Lyon. These guys apparently initiated a lot of dark ops of the day, that reached common practices in national governments (cutely named security forces). Mafiosi also imported drugs from northern africa to distribute over large cities suburbs. And lastly, it seems the CIA enjoyed their support for intelligence (french connection). My memories are blurry, so I may have listed twisted facts, but there are documentaries about the matter.
A Brief History of JavaScript by the Creator of JavaScript
Is this a problem? If you are trying to launch a prototype or even a first version of a product and you want to be as productive as possible use what you know. I love Node.js (and React for front end) and don’t see how I would benefit from switching to other frameworks I’ve used in the past. It’s not like it’s hard to learn something else, as long as you understand the fundamentals of server/web/client it’s the same stuff done slightly differently.
Do you have a citation for the chinese matter?
"nothing had tapped these cheap and easy sources of energy before" ... they were available to tap.
If you have an interest in the history of programming methodologies, this talk is fascinating:

Procedural programming: it's back? It never went away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAcmD6XEEE
Highly amused at how you have illustrated the bovine predictability of the HN hivemind. The HN crowd smugly pats itself on the back as being smarter and more enlightened than the average bear, yet in practice is tremendously narrow minded and hateful of anything that goes against its prevailing norms. The diversity agenda apparently does not include diversity of thought.
Drawing Venn Diagrams
The percentage increase in price shouldn't be any greater than the percentage probability of getting bumped from a flight, which as you point out, is relatively low. If every hundredth seat is overbooked on average, then you've got 101 passengers for 100 seats. If they all paid $100, then you could offset the lost revenue from the 101st passenger by charging the remaining passengers $101 each. Not exactly a game changing cost increase.
You make an excellent point about nationalization being an inaccurate metaphor.

China sees it tech industry as a strategic asset the way the US and Russia see their defence industries as strategic towards advancing their goals as super/regional powers, so in a sense, militarization is probably a better metaphor.
I doubt it’s legs but it’s useful so it’ll get traction and then get sued.
> I'm not watching any of that shit.

Even if the best academic papers on the topic are likely to have less obviously incorrect information, you'd probably still learn a lot more by just sitting down and watching all the videos. I haven't seen the Joe Rogan thing that comes up, but I doubt that watching it would magically make you dumber or whatever.
Google is always listening: Live Test
> Saying x=0 and that x is an element base ring means that x is the element 0.

I never said that x=0. I said that x could be 0. More specifically, I stated that the statement x^3+4x=0 AND x=0 is not inconsistent.

All I have shown in is that (assuming we are working in C), the statement x^3 + x=0 implies that x \in {0, 2i, -2i}.

I suppose you could complain that I have not defined a sense in which {0, 2i, -2i} is correct while {0, 2i, -2i, 7} is incorrect, as it is still a true statement that x^3+4x=0 implies x \in {0, 2i, -2i, 7}.

However, you can easily make this intuition rigourous by saying that the question is to compute the set {x | x^3+4x=0}. Sure, this is invoking machinery not explicitly present in the statement x^3+4x=0. I will even concede that we do not make this machinery explicit when teaching highschool students. However, it is far less machinery than your approach.

I am not claiming that the algebraic approach is not rigourously sound; merely that it is not the only rigourously sound approach.

As far as I can tell, you are claiming that it is the only rigourously sound way of stateing the question.

>You can't logically say, in a consistent manner, that x is in R and x^3+4x = 0 and that x is 3 different values.

I believe I have made this point clear, but I never claimed x is 3 different values. The claim I made was that x is a member of the set {0, 2i, -2i}
I'm no expert on the matter, but I hear that they have excellent supply chains and extremely flexible assembly lines.
Trump launched an attack on Syria
Connectome: Wiring Diagram of the Brain
On Stripe I really like that you can see the logs of every API call you've ever made with the request headers and body and response body... It makes working with it much easier than Braintree.
Can you find any reference to the idea gas law as a “formula?” As far as I can tell, equations without a single variable on the left side are referred to as simply equations, while solutions of such equations in terms of one variable are referred to as formulas. This seems to be the case for every well-known identity I can think of, like the quadratic equation/formula. Can you think of any counterexamples?
From site: "We will provide access to the code and dataset soon."
Author of "The Helix and the Sword"? Just ordered a copy.
> This Founder Lived with Bipolar for Years. Today His Company Tackles the Stigma

Click-bait title
I can never understand why people want to stop others from choosing where they repair their products.

The fact that you keep saying things like this, when I've said nothing indicating that I believe such a thing, is a clear indicator of willful dishonesty on your part. You get no more of my time.
"Yeast came from China" is the HTML doc title. That's also a legit choice.
I’d just like to point out that no Lingua Franca has lasted forever. It was French before English, till post WW2.

Also this doesn’t matter as much, but, English is one of the more difficult languages (compared to Spanish say) due to all of its spelling inconsistencies and large phonetic possibilities. I don’t know if a tonal, character based language will be any easier though.

I say it doesn’t matter because it doesn’t seem to be the difficulty of learning the language that matters, only the strength of the language in terms of economic opportunities.
Thanks for posting the article. I have been a software engineer for 15 years who has been struggling with issues due to being bipolar (and undiagnosed until a year ago).

I've had a hard time accepting my diagnosis but have taken steps as of late to start moving forward with treatment.

The few people who have found out that I am bipolar (and who don't know me well) claim that I am making up my illness as I seem fine on the surface. I think certain people believe that I am not bipolar because I am a skilled engineer (obviously anyone with the ability to reason knows this makes no sense).

Certain family members have cut me off after the diagnosis as well.

The poor reactions I've had are forcing me to keep silent about my issues, so I'm glad to see other people coming out with theirs.