skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "Bob" scenario happens all too often. Sometimes the "slow and sure" developer gets a lot of grief from pathological management that doesn't realize that developers who seem faster as short tasks might go in circles for years on bigger projects.
I don't think they're at odds. They are definitely not 100% overlapping though.

I would disagree that the only way to become a good entrepreneur is to become unemployable. The best way is, as you say, to have knowledge and skill to create a useful product. Then, having a market that allows you to easily get paid for your work helps.

I mentioned high school specifically because I know that I would have loved something interesting to work on. It's a perfect time to work on skills rather than assessment signals. Lots of kids don't even bother with the assessment signals...
Their front page shows "pullrequest [bot]" commenting on a commit. Very curious as to exactly how they're making that work.
I agree that the incidentals like tracking and form will matter a lot.

I think however there is no "proof of existence" of any software or capability that would compel even early adopters to use a 100x100 display, even with all the other physical issues being polished to a high sheen.

Looking down at your phone or smartwatch seems far more likely.

The "maybes" that people frequently suggest require a staggering amount of unwritten software infrastructure (sometimes up to and including sentient AI).
I think it's possible to create visually stunning and unique designs without relying on (IMO) low quality brutalism.

Take the following couple of sites as examples:

https://www.designbetter.co
https://dropbox.design

I wholeheartedly agree that we should resist homogeny in product design.
We have faced this in a perverse form with some of our Python web apps behind Apache HTTPD and mod_wsgi. Apache itself will generate a 500 sporadically due to its internal TSL or HTTP/2 proxy code tripping over itself. If we capture one of these responses, it has the default Apache error page HTML structure, instead of the error page our own web framework would generate for a 500 if an uncaught exception leaked out.

This 500 response to the client can occur before or after our service has been invoked, and our service logic doesn't know anything went wrong. Our service might even log successful processing, meaning that it made its own ACID commit and started to generate a success response. For very small responses like "204 No Content", we might never know there was a problem. For larger responses, the WSGI layer may produce errors when we cannot generate a whole response before the connection is lost.

In our AJAX apps in front of this service, we have had to resort to treating 500 the same as a lost response, doing backoff and retry without assuming we know whether the first request succeeded or failed.
But how much does it really buy over VR if you only use it in the same setting?
Sounds like a job for Comic Sans!
this is exactly how R syntax works
Sources: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague, confirming part of dossier
Why parents should worry about Facebook (it's not the lack of privacy)
Thus solving Go's dependency management problem once and for all.
The news industry is already in trouble. This seems like it could backfire in a way that news services might automatically be de-listed from many services and simply lose ALL of their traffic. Seems like it's meant to save them but could sink them by accident.
> And why shouldn't they be allowed to do that?

They are perfectly in their right to do that, it's just shitty.

> They're not stopping anyone from doing the repairs

Actually they are by bricking devices later for having non genuine parts or unauthorized repairs.

> I don't understand why anyone thinks that Apple should be compelled...

Who said anything about compelling them to do anything? I just said they were dicks.

And how would allowing people to service their own machine hurt Apple's brand anymore than people currently making unauthorized repairs?

Giving them access to genuine parts would just increase the likelihood that the repairs work.
'sctb did state that they are "working on" a way to decouple the content from the username/email which should allow them to delete user accounts without removing their content: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16661687 (plus the context two comments higher in the thread).
Especially with upcoming features like GC, threads, exceptions, polymorphic inline cache, and more[1]. Looks somewhere in between ASM and something like bytecode for a VM.

[1]http://webassembly.org/docs/future-features/
A terrific paper on the problems in drug discovery (2016)
My point may seem facetious, but wouldn't ensuring (through proper catches and guards) that a 500 doesn't happen at all inside your own systems be the best resiliency? And when you experience one, it's a red alert and you harden that component to whatever failed immediately? I guess that's just the school of thought I've operated under.
I got mine booked for the 16th. Do they usually do this video call before the interviews? If so what do they ask?
I'm not sure, but I think it's denoted by the "also sold by these 433 sellers" line (or similar) below the price.
Visitez la Lune en une seule vidéo 4K et dites merci à la NASA
OK. Downvotes happily accepted; but I think we all operate in "peephole" mode now; the cost of tracing sources back to the original is significant.

There is no karma to be had from complaining about HN's software, and yet it is so very inadequate.
How Each Zodiac Sign Shows They Care – Astroligion.com
You gotta love when real headlines are indistinguishable from The Onion
> Although in this particular case: seems like it would still not qualify iOS as a monopoly?

Maybe. Market / pricing power is not sinple to assess, and I'm not sure if device / OS side or the application distribution side is most relevant to the browser bundling decision. I'd say it' seems to me more likely that the Apple has pricing power in the App Store that in iOS devices (it doesn't sell iOS as such, so that's probably not the thing to look at), and either device or app store market power, if it exists, could be leveraged against competing browsers with the policies restricting them.)
Honestly, that requires a pretty gullible leaker. If the person leaking information cross-checks what information coworkers got and doesn't leak identifiable documents (others mentioned unique watermarks) it's probably going to be hard to track them down
thanks! was just interested in finding out more about him
In my experience, being an entrepreneur is all about taking on and managing risk well. An entrepreneurial spirit almost enjoys risk. At a firm, you usually don't get much material risk exposure to manage, so entrepreneurial individuals end up seeking out opportunities that can give them a more direct handle on their risk exposure (and any subsequent rewards). More often than not, this means starting a company where you largely decide which risks you're comfortable accepting, and which risks you prefer to avoid. The thrill is in navigating those risks using your guile to deliver value much above the expected risk premia for your domain. I worked in an investment bank for a few years, but the risk environment was too restrictive for me to really make a mark (from a job security perspective also, I'd often see lifers get the boot, so never really felt comfortable, even though on paper I should have been). Thus I quit, started my own company, took on a great deal more risk, but still experienced more work satisfaction. I think what I like most is the ability to take your professional future by the horns without any artificial constraints holding me back. For me, what it comes down to is this: entrepreneurs despise restrictions, and modern companies can't seem to exist without them.
They did not, that is (perhaps implicitly) part of the problem description. It never says the honest miner finds block N, it asks when they are expected to implying it hadn't happen up to that point. Also, the dishonest miner found the "next block" but did not broadcast it at t=0, which is essentially irrelevant information because it doesn't matter whether the honest miners know about the hidden block or not, either way it will take them an EV of 15 minutes at any given point in time regardless of knowledge
W3C process dictates that two implementations exist, not that all major browsers implement the whole standard. Thus, a W3C fork of the standard is of no practical use to “conservative app developers”.

If you need to target specific (probably legacy) browsers, you check caniuse.com. By the way, the WHATWG HTML standard integrates little boxes with caniuse.com data. That is indeed useful to developers.
Watta jerk.
Would you guys please stop it with the vote collusion and submission collusion?
Similar notation is already used for mappings in general albeit from left to right with the bar arrow, and obscures one of the necessary characteristics of recursive functions, which is a mapping to the natural numbers.

Edit: Misunderstood, thought you were talking about math, not programming languages.
No one wins when someone dies... I'm sure your right that Tesla employees are torn up.

My concern is that it looks like Tesla is 90% of the way there to full autonomy and the way the feature is marketing will lull even engineers who know more about how these systems work into a false sense of security and end up dying as a result -- they'll trust a system that shouldn't be trusted. There isn't a good system for detecting a lack of focus especially when it won't take more than a few milliseconds to go from good to tragic.
I do freelancing. Three times in the last few months I’ve had to sit in front of coderpad to attack a problem I’m not familiar with and come up with a solution—with one or two folks watching, the clock ticking, my family’s livelihood on the line, next to ~two hundred grand in a suitcase. I write well tested code every day but can’t perform under these conditions.

It’s basically the scene from Swordfish, and just as ridiculous.

Two of the three groups seemed to realize it’s a poor test, didn’t have high expectations but went through with it anyway. One seemed to think I was incompetent because I didn’t have his trick memorized about keyword args making closures possible in a loop in Python.

I don’t write clever code on purpose, and certainly not enough to have it memorized to use under the gun.

The 'shortage' is a myth and I blame time-wasting hiring practices such as these. Am thankful a smart guy like Luu is highlighting the bullshit.
I think 4. applies to Native apps -- if we look at the App Store and the dreams of wannapreneurs it's mostly an App for that.
Bet 98% of the apps on the App Store get a $1k in revenue/month
I wonder how many ex-intelligence-agency counterintelligence people Apply employs. Probably at least a few.

Question for those who've gone through CI training: Do Apple leaks all fit into one of the MICE categories? I don't think there is any new motivation.

(Money, Ideology, Conscience, Ego)

Would be very interested to see what programs they have developed to intentionally generate false but plausible information internally, get it into the hands of specific people or workgroups, and see if/where/how/when it leaks. Usually done for the purpose of identifying specific leakers or compartments that are leaking.
Think about the equation

x + 3 = 1

Typically we write that the solution is "x = –2". This to me is the most abusive form of usage for "=" in mathematics. The solution to the equation is –2. The solution to the equation x = –2 is also –2.

Solving the equation x = –2 is very easy. We can solve it just by looking at the equation. What we are really doing when solving an equation is transforming the original equation into a simpler equation with the same solution set. Tt gets tedious to write this all out so we just say things like "the solution is x = -2" when we've transformed the original equation to x = –2. This is weird because x is not the number -2. x is a variable that can assume a myriad of values. The only value of x that solves the equation is –2.

As the article states the abuse of the = sign in mathematics is rampant. We do it mostly without realizing it. In this sense mathematical language mimics human languages. All human languages are prone to abuse of rules and to shifting with the times.

The notation in mathematics, while much more precise than spoken human languages, is abused frequently and the purpose is to make things cognitively easier. The ancient Greeks didn't have symbols for numbers and in their mathematics they wrote everything out in Greek. This makes it very hard to do tedious calculations. Using symbols in lieu of writing out all the minutia makes doing math easier provided you learn the contextual meaning of the symbols. Over the centuries symbols have been introduced as a shorthand for complex ideas/objects/operations. If you want everything precisely stated then reading Principia Mathematica ought to cure you of this desire. Mathematics is written by humans for humans.

Code is written by humans for computers and hence the notation needs to be rigorously defined in the language you are using and why your code needs to be commented.
Most everything is crap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

Just find what you like and revel in it.
As most routes in a normal journey are a repetition, maybe the car could learn from an human first. The owner drive a few times in their normal route and the car uses this info to train the autopilot in the same route and paying attention to the differences between what the car would have done and the human really did.
You could call it Pandora Nexus.

This reminds me of Zuckerberg naming his bot "Jarvis" - which I learned about a week after learning the dev lead on my team made a bot named "Jarvis". Unoriginal names are a pet peeve of mine. We have numerous pantheons and fandoms, yet everyone uses the same handful of names.
The title implies (and some commenters seem to believe) that this is about an actual magic leap product, not a speculative recreation thereof. Can we get a title change to something like "Recreating a Magic Leap device" or "The view through a magic leap recreation"
I don't know about browsers being slow these days ? WebGL2 and the various JS engines V8, Chakra, JSCore
Betavoltaic device
Anything to get away from this boring, corporate sanctioned influence of web design! Please!

The web used have identities, you KNEW you were in Vimm's lair. Now it's all the same bootstrappified muck.

https://vimm.net/

The question is, how do you convince management to allow this direction?
Thanks for sharing that comment.

That action in itself would not be enough to be GDPR complaint. User generated content is associated with a user. To be compliant, all user data would have to be removed.
It would be really simple for FB to be GDPR complaint if all that was required was to delete a user profile and none of the respective user activity on the platform.
Casting stinks. Generic classes are worse
GDPR is not about stopping the spread of free information. its about personal data. You are completely mis-characterising the nature of the GDPR legislation.

Regulators are not enemies. Regulators are the enemies of established companies, and operate in favour of civil society as civil servants: they are subject to oversight, and are imposed to create oversight over entities who are not equilibriating in favour of wider society. They are anti monopolist.

Your response is really strange in this regard. Freedom of information is not an absolute. You have a right to privacy as an individual. If you hold certain digital assets like domain names, you are losing some of that privacy to have a WHOIS record, and GDPR is restoring some of it. If you browse web pages and entities hold onto your cookies and create value by integrating over sets of cookies at different websites GDPR is returning to you, the individual, some control over that.
Was it an official navy blogger or just a person in the navy with a blog?
> >I’ve never understood what the employee gets out of it

> The intelligence services have done a great deal of research into the persona of the press leaker/Wikileaks leaker

Taught in a counterintelligence 101 type class, there's generally four types of intel leak. Not always mutually exclusive, sometimes there's a combination of factors influencing the behavior of any single person.

MICE

Money - for financial gain. Robert Hanssen would be one example.

Ideology - Typical cold war stuff, a person that deeply believes in the political ideology of power group A becomes a mole inside opposing political group B.

Conscience - Something happening is deeply wrong and unjust in the view of the leaker. Snowden.

Ego - Sometimes combined with the Money part. The persons receiving the intel find a way to flatter the ego of the leaker, about how important their role is on a grand strategic level.
Spam is still an issue. When you set up a new mail server, you are likely to be filtered by big providers because they will consider you as spam.
I've personally had issues with Microsoft and a local provider. This makes self hosting or running a small email provider hazardous, which is problematic. I never had issues with Google and Yahoo though.

I guess spam and spam filters also have an ecological impact even if spams don't end up in our inbox.

And there are false positives too. Because of spam, we are likely to miss a legitimate message one day or another.

And I regularly see phishing on my professional inbox.

So spam is still an issue even if it is hidden, for several reasons.
I just received a fake usb c hub from Amazon, sold by them, but clearly commingled with counterfeits.

Seems like these problems are just getting worse over time.
You misspelled 'carburetor'. You obviously are not a great mechanic.
As most routes in a normal journey are a repetition, maybe the car could learn from an human first. The owner drive a few times in their normal route and the car uses this info to train the autopilot paying attention to the differences between what the car would have done and what the human really did.
This 'assumption' always bothered me when studying for DS roles because it's something that you're expected to know if asked, but isn't really true/accurate. Another is the non-collinearity assumption between variates, which is violated all the time in ML tasks but an 'assumption' of the model nonetheless.
IMO one of the most irritating abuses of notation that I've come across given that it requires no additional effort to use the 'is an element of' symbol instead.
Watch Dogs 3 sounds great.
That it was a quote from the article seemed clear in the post in which the quote was presented, so while I agree that it can be difficult to clearly present quotes in some situations on HN and a good blockquote formatting facility would be preferable, I don't think that's really a problem here.
DOM access is planned. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1079. (first bullet point)
This is a classic example of the "E" in MICE.
Dynomite Remediation
Traditional skyr is made with rennet while plain yogurt is not. The rennet helps breakdown casein and form a thicker yogurt.
No, you are a manufacturer. You are producing a product from raw materials with the goal of turning a profit. The issue with this model, when applied to digital products, is that the tolerance for execution is diminutive. A good idea for a game with great art and music can easily turn into a failure if some of the game mechanics are off (See no man's land). Video games are one of the hardest products to produce.

It's important to keep in mind that selling shovels and being a middleman are not the only options. There are certainly others. Its just that my exoeriences and studies have pointed to those two being the most profitable in the current cultural setting.
Seems entirely reasonable; using a nuclear reactor to pump vast amounts of air into the water. While you can have high volume, it is restricted to a relatively small area only. To have noticeable impact on agricultural runoff, we need similar devices in river delta's. They can probably be less powerful; simple windmills probably could have a local measurable impact already.
As of a CI would respond haha
With this proposal they want to impede freedom of information while at the same time get some of that sweet tax money in the pockets of their allies.

This sounds plausible but do you have evidence that it is actually true?

An equally plausible reason for the proposed change is that European leaders see what media consolidation leads too. Too many people relying on too few sources for information. Perhaps this legislation is an ill thought out way to try to counteract the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica controversy.

Newspapers, and magazines are dying. They are no longer able to do the sort of investigative journalism like in the past. Consolidation has led to a degradation of quality and has caused too few people to control too much information. Witness the shenanigans of Sinclair Broadcasting recently.

I don't know the merits of the legislation in question but without evidence it's a hard sell to ascribe its passing to what you claim.
Offering bonuses for bringing other people into the program is a Pyramid Scheme tactic. Ponzi is specifically in cases where there's a portfolio manager or something controlling the entire operation and allocating returns to early investors through distributing the capital of the new investors.
Ask HN: Do I risk getting “pigeonholed” by accepting an Operations Engi. role?
Sorry if this is the wrong usage of "Ask HN", I'm not sure if this is the right usage or not.

Anyway, basically I'm a 4th year CS student who will graduate sometime next year (so basically I'll graduate around year 4.5).

edit: oh and this is a full-time internship, not a full role since I'll have to go back to school for 1 or 2 quarters after summer.

Anyway, I applied to a company; I heard about the company from their senior director of engineering - basically the guy came up to talk to us during a "poster session" at our school's "capstone" competition that my team won (basically 4th years form teams and try to create products).

Anyway, since I have experience on my resume in general scripting, writing simple integration scripts with sed/awk, computer security and the like (aside from traditional dev experience), I ended up getting interviewed for an operations engineer role.

The onsite went well and I should be receiving an offer soon, but basically my concern is, if I accept this role am I likely to get stuck in it? I like stuff like continuous integration, containerization etc but more from the development perspective (so I guess what you'd call devops, as much of a buzzword as that is).

I liked all the engineers I met with, and they made a point that operations works closely with development, but obviously don't write any production code, just the scripting/general automation coding around it.

I'm kind of rambling now but I think experience with AWS, kubernetes, network administration etc would help round out my skills, but I'm wondering if it's a better idea to focus on development and learn those skills as part of development rather than sort of separated from it.

Thanks for any advice
TL;DR: It's small and performant.

But the thread is an interesting read.
> As I was reading the memo in TFA, I thought "I wonder if this memo has slight differences in it based upon who is viewing it".

> Specifically, I noted one place where I thought a comma should normally have been. Perhaps it's "paranoia", but it seemed like that is one possible "variation" that could have been used.

This is one of the methods taught in "counterintelligence 101" type classes at intel agencies. Create something hot and surprising, salt it with specific phrases, grammar or punctuation, and then leak it into a number of different compartments. If you have access to where the intel is leaking to, obtain a copy after it gets leaked, and figure out which of your compartments it came from.