skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do mind, but I'll buy you TotalFark if you can figure it out from my posts. :) (Besides, it's niche and technical.)
Gradual Generics
Are you sure it was a fake Nutribullet? They are sold on TV via infomercial, made by Magic Bullet. They're pretty much junk manufactured by lowest bidder factories with quality problems.

If you paid slightly above retail, it seems even less likely it was fake, and probably just shoddy QC.
I really wish WebAssembly didn’t use the word “Web”. Its best usecase is for the server. It just happens to also be great for challenging JavaScript in the browser.
Sure; I think we’re in violent agreement here, it’s absolutely the case that people write the simpler version when the meaning is clear from context. I’ve definitely done that a bunch.
While valid, only a fraction of the population would know to do this, and then a smaller fraction would believe it's worthwhile. It's an added inconvenience that has to outweigh the disadvantages of not doing it.
It’s because WhatsApp doesn’t have anti Putin interests unlike Durov.
> Edit: huh, this got downvoted too... First rule of fight club is we do not talk about fight club?

FWIW, there are multiple points in the guidelines your comment crosses.

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation... Assume good faith."

"Eschew flamebait."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals"

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How much does a major leak of apple inside information cost?

$50,000

$100,000

$200,000

more?

I am assuming they dont leak the information for free. And if they do it for monetary reasons - the amount has to be large enough to justify risking your job (freakonomics 101). If they do it just for their ego boost (oh i got approached by so and so i must be very important) - then they are dumber than i thought.
Sometimes we even leave it as "i" instead of "0 < i < n" or "i = 1 to n". Sometimes the range of the summation doesn't even need to be determined in intermediate steps.
>>I strongly disagree with your second point. There are quite a few very successful entrepreneurs who have started companies while being mired in terrible financial circumstances

Textbook example of self-selection bias and survivorship bias.

Even if you compiled a list, it would tell you nothing about the number of people who would have started companies had they not been mired in terrible financial circumstances.
Yeah, sorry, I didn’t mean to split hairs. They’re definitely both in use. I do plenty of work in Zp and I feel bad every time I don’t write \equiv or the \pmod for that matter :)
What are some building I can visit around Portland?
I really don't think you can declare that any success of the process is due to chance or "other factors." That particular point is completely unsubstantiated. The process is inefficient, yes, but I really don't see any basis to call it meaningless except for personal dislike.

Even if the process is inefficient (many false negatives), if it yields a population with fewer false positives than the general population it is meaningful. This is an important distinction because many people seem to be unilaterally declaring these hiring practices to be useful due to dislike and anecdata. Of course they're not ideal and there is a lot of room for improvement, but there's no empirical reason for us to act as though the entire system is arbitrary just because we don't like it.

The primary question we should be looking at to inject some empiricism into this discussion is how many engineers end up being fired once hired, how long it takes to fill each technical role on average and how many candidates are turned down. There seens to be a false dichotomy at play, where people are only able to damn the process in its entirety, but it can still be bad and retain some signal. That shouldn't be a controversial point, it should be a minor preliminary observation.
There was a previous discussion based on a similar article from Creative Commons a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16810999

c3o (Christopher Clay), who works in the EU Parliament according to his profile, posted several informative comments including one explaining the backstory behind the proposed legislation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16812099

> The back story of the law may shed some light.

> First, it's no secret that the intent is to prop up the business model of struggling publishers by getting internet platforms to pay them for spreading (links to/tiny snippets of) their content.

> After a "link tax" law was introduced in Germany, some publishers decided to waive it. Google reacted by removing snippets from those who didn't in Google News, making their links less likely to be clicked on. Afraid of losing traffic, these publishers then granted Google a free license.

> The government of Spain looked at this result and decided to implement the idea as an inalienable right, to make sure some publishers couldn't opt out, and Google would have to pay up. In response, Google shut down Google News altogether in Spain.

> This is the version that the Parliament's chief negotiator now wants the EU to implement. He believes that Google (and Facebook and Twitter, which have been added as targets) wouldn't dare shut down a service across all of Europe.
'Gold rush' for Wi-Fi on board planes spurs innovation
Yes, google can’t immitate the courts. So they just have to honor the request.
Besidde people heavily intetsted
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Personally I'd be ok (it turns out that everyone poops!), but I realize I'm in the minority and get your point.

My point is that it depends on each culture's understanding of "freedom" and "privacy".
Hey this looks really great, any plans for an API or already have one? Couldn't look at the site for too long sorry if it's an obvious answer.
If that’s what you’re covering or expecting from code reviews you’re doing it wrong.

The only right answer here is automated code formatting and linting.
Poe's Law. There are legit coin "truthers" out there who would say that without a hint of irony.
1. Once you have a job at a company it's often possible to move sideways into another team at the company.

2. It's just an internship, you're not choosing your whole career.

1+2 suggest this may be fine opportunity to get regular programmer job at this company. Just make sure you spend time with people in other teams too, and if you like their roles better you can, at end of internship, go talk to them about getting job there after school.
By becoming “authorized,” repair companies have to pay Apple a fee (and buy parts from the company at a fixed rate.) They are also restricted from performing certain types of repairs

...and likely upgrades too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16780181
Electronic store for soft Textbook solution keys and Test banks
From time supporting a real estate website host - I call it 'debugging by error' - the error code tells you which part of the stack is broken.

400 - URL/client side.

401 - Permissions. If you have IIS, maybe the web agent service account password is expired.

402 - Pay your bill.

403 - Permissions, or a deeper error.

404 - Missing file.

500 - Code error.

502 - Load balancer has no good hosts to service request. Or, if you have IIS, this is the Windows kernel saying no worker processes are working.

503 - Database overloaded or down.

504 - Server or load balancer not responding.
It would buy a lot more if it wouldn't only be in the same setting, but I think pretty much all current day AR headsets are too dorky to wear on the subway anyway. But it would still help a lot with office work, being able to continue working and doing small chores is still a big pro that VR can't fulfill.
Javascript can be as fast as C, but generally isn't in practice. For games, there is no practical portability benefit, as most of the game developers write things so that most of the game is common code that calls into some wrapper around the native phone APIs.
Is anyone really surprised by this?

We (America) just signed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act into law last month without so much as a blip from The AP or Thompson Reuters.

The internet is sorta like the printing-press but more important. Of course it's threatening the powers-that-be & of course they're gonna' try and get that under control.
Facebook Takes the Punches While Rest of Silicon Valley Ducks
Leaked Apple Memo: 12 employees were arrested last year for leaking secrets
Public documentation is hard to impossible to find.

It was discussed on Bruce Schneier's blog, on which the topic of camera detection comes back regularly.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100611052640/http://nexgadget....
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/04/detecting_bei...
Disagree that Intel is a dead man walking. If they see a serious threat in the number of 1U size ARM servers actually going into production at scale, which is not happening yet, they have the ability to make 50% price cuts on 16/24/32-core xeons to make them competitive again. With no new r&d money.

You cannot yet buy small to medium sized quantities of ARM motherboard from any of the top ten taiwanese motherboard manufacturers. Intel and AMD have advantages of massive economy of scale.

If you look at the global server market for individual bare metal hypervisor platforms priced from $900 to $11000 each, x86-64 is literally like 99% of motherboards shipped. The other 1% is probably spread between arm, power and other even more esoteric platforms.

I would dearly like to be proven wrong. If anyone is aware of a $400 arm board I can buy right now from MSI, asus, gigabyte, supermicro, tyan, quanta, or others please post a link here.
You're taking about the ease of validation. Everyone else is talked about the ease of writing.
I'd love to know how many code reviewers are developers who are performing code-reviews during their 9-5 job.
+1 for hooktube! I now use a greasemonkey script to auto-redirect all youtube.com links to hooktube instead.
You must have a really short memory to say that "regulators are not enemies". Just look at any history book, tell me what you find.

Since English is not my first language, it tires me to write in it, so I'll give a little example that will destroy the "GDPR protects privacy" once and for all.
If I make a website with a comment system, or maybe a forum, I need to reveal to the world my identity otherwise the EU will go after me.

You see, before GDPR I could put up a website, put on WHOIS privacy using a company unreachable by the EU, and then create a cool forum where I criticize the stupid policies of the european governments (and I can tell you, there are a lot).

My identity would be REALLY protected, and even my political stance. "Who is this guy explaining people why we're so bad? Damn him!", would say the evil bureaucrats while stroking his Stalin-inspired mustache.

Instead now I need to write a stupid page where I say "[MY NAME] will manage your data this and this way". So, the government will know my political stance and my opinions, will have a complete name to easily link to the website. But there is more! After that, not only they'll have my name, but yet an extra set of law, with wide space for interpretations, that they can use to persecute me further. They can drag me to court because "I didn't treat data right", and it doesn't matter if I was complying or not, the risk of going to court is enough for many people to just not open the website.

Of course, I make the political example, but think about sexual fetishes forum and things like that. The EU wants me to reveal to the world what my sexual preferences are, with all the risks that come with it! That's what the GDPR is. I can't even make a website to discuss my sexual tastes without telling the world who I am!

To sum it up:
if you create a website, your privacy will be lost, and everyone will be able to know that you are the creator of that website. Then, many people won't create websites because they'll be scared of being dragged to court. Small, indpendent, websites will die and only big companies will rule the internet.
This is the reality and I don't know how people who supposedly use the internet in a professional way can't see it.
“How finance companies own your money”

“How transportation companies own your commute”

“How food companies own your meals”
Why would you use this and not GC-free C bindings? (Clang can compile to WASM).
Thanks. I plan though :)
Framing a Design Challenge
True. And thanks for confirming my supposition. It's rare to see this mentioned in coverage of the issue. For reasons that are understandable, I guess.

The EU has pressured Google to censor its results globally, as I recall. But Google has prevailed on that, at least. So far, anyway.
I have seen it used as something akin to universal. See e.g. https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/ecumenical

But it definitely tends to be used in the religious sense.
I think we need a user friendly social network that is not greedy for profit
Oldster here: It's definitely possible that there will be an effect. I've done both "dev" and "ops" over the years--I have broad skills--and I've definitely noticed that I seem to be typecast to whichever I've done most recently. It's almost bizarre in a way, but if you're currently in an ops role, many people become unable to see your programming/math chops and vice versa. Good luck.
This again misunderstanding what I'm saying. I'm arguing for background checks that allow employers to make reasonable decisions based on those checks show. and then act within the normal confines of employment law.

I've been through background checks for business, I'll probably have more in the future. They are extremely intrusive and uncomfortable, but I don't have a problem with them, because they are pertinent to the business, and conducted by professionals that are accountable for what they say about me and what they do with my information.

Google combined with any tosser that can put up a their side of a story on the internet is no substitution for a background check. This is a joke. People hitting the front page of google with my name are accountable to no-one. They aren't required to notify me, nevermind ask my permission to gather this information. They have no incentive to report back clear unbiased information

By conducting background research this way you sow distrust. It is not mutually consensual, controllable or fair. I wouldn't go near a company that was doing this without very good reasons. I have no problem with the EU making it difficult to abuse search tools in this way.
Ultra-Rare Working Commodore C65 Prototype Pops Up on EBay for 25K Euro
You might be interested to read about what happened with that, I was pretty surprised when I read the full story.

Basically, publishers started off by suing Google, until they realized that it would probably generate a lot of new revenue for sales on books that were out of print, and that weren't currently generating money. With that in mind, they continued in their lawsuit, but started trying to use the lawsuit as a way to help Google instead of stop them - by using the mechanics of the class action suit, they could default opt in all authors, with the onus being on the authors to opt out, and then they would settle with Google for a nominal amount, thereby getting the permission of all the authors of those out of print works to be included in Google Books without going through the nearly impossible task of getting each author's explicit permission to participate.

This was looking like a great legal hack until Amazon and Microsoft complained to the Federal government (the FTC IIRC) that it would be unfair if this was allowed to happen, because only Google would get this permission.

So, counterintuitively, it wasn't really the publishers that stopped Google Books.
If I had an out of warranty Honda, I would probably stick to an independent mechanic. I have an in-warranty Honda though. My dealer is so-so. By which I mean, they have fixed the (significant) problems that came up, and not destroyed the engine/car in the process, although there were some glitches. They don't overcharge for oil changes, nor did they weasel out of the warranty when I needed it.

On the other hand, I also have a 30 year old German sports car and limited ability to work on it myself (not having a house/garage) and I felt an independent European car specialist was taking advantage of me, so I tried a dealer of the marque. Keeping in mind they only want to replace things and charge incredible rates, it still seems like the best option for some repairs, to get it done right. When I had a fuel leak, I was happy to have the dealer replace the fuel pump and filter. Maybe somebody intrepid who charges half as much per hour could have just disassembled it and changed some seals, but how much labor is that and do I trust it not to result in setting my car on fire? I certainly wouldn't trust myself to do it.

Sometimes you want OEM parts and sometimes it doesn't matter so much. I'm going to continue to choose what to do on a case-by-case basis.

If you have an unusual old car, a lot of independent mechanics may be horrified at the prospect of working on it, plus the factory manual is out of print plus there's a very limited number of specialist mechanics. So, I'm not saying the cliched advice about avoiding the dealer and going to a good mechanic is completely unfounded, but it's of limited use if you haven't found a good independent. The good mechanics only survive because they're cheap and attract cheap customers, and don't specialize too much, so I say to myself - how can I expect them to be better than the dealer? If I was an employee and I was any good, why wouldn't I work at the dealer? Lots of dealers are terrible, but I infer that independents operate under really harsh constraints. The fact that their labor rates are so much less makes me paranoid both they are padding their hours and that they can't retain good mechanics.

As far as a battery clamp, I can order anything I need mail order, and I can compare mail order prices to the dealership and see if the markup is less than shipping costs. I can choose an OEM part or not. This really is just a separate choice, not a factor in deciding to go to the dealer. My Honda dealer will charge you a ridiculous price to put in a new cabin air filter, which costs almost nothing and is trivial to replace. But that doesn't mean I don't trust them to work on my car at all. Just that I'm careful to double check whether any given thing is reasonable.

But also, a major metro area may be different. I live in a three-city area that has about a million people combined, so it isn't in the middle of nowhere, but it's not like Seattle.
That's a simple one: because they already deliver manuals to the service shops of their choice.

With regard to your circular reasoning: it goes nowhere. You should know that all devices used to come with service manuals and some still do today.
I definitely appreciate now that there are good algorithms to make your random bits more random, and hash functions can help, but regarding calling johnson noise quantum mechanical: can you give one reference of a description of finite-temperature johnson noise in which at least 1 observable necessitates a quantum mechanical treatment? (I don't think it exists, given that it is a thermal phenomenon, but maybe I'm wrong...)
Lots of wisdom here but much of this is easier said than done.

That said a lot of the Erlang ethos covers this(things will fail at scale so do something reasonable).
No, you hire the ones who seem interested, skilled “enough”, and intelligent (possibly in reverse order of importance). You can very safely make a cut against some very likely poor candidates.

But yeah, you have a light filter and then let them grow and evolve. You can’t possibly learn in 4 hours anywhere near what you can in 2 years. In college recruiting, you’re looking for “could be solid” and you get the raw material for that a lot. Some happen to turn out great.

Finding greatness in industry is driven mostly by asking some of your best employees to search their networks for their best ex-colleagues and otherwise by dumb luck (someone tried a startup that went bust and no one in their network had an opening, someone is moving to a new city with no network, etc)
I think a big use case could be letting non-technical project owners get insight into whether their project is on-track and good. Really important for people who outsource projects on Upwork or something.

However, it does seem like the bigger need is the right code the first time. Of course, that's impossible, but this seems like a secondary need rather than the primary issue.
It's a little sad how hard it is to find yoghurt in the US that has more than trace fat content. Almost everything in the grocery store is fat-free, or 2% fat. In my area, the only acceptable Greek yoghurt is the unflavored Cabot, at something like 10% fat - they don't have to add flavorings and extra sugar to make up for the lack of fat content.
>I really get annoyed when terms like "brutalism" are co-opted as yet another buzzword/trend/fad.

Along with native and real time.
How to be a kick-ass co-founder
This would only matter if you’re profiting from your fetish forum, which seems unlikely. Plus you’d need to have an EU presence, otherwise who cares and who would force you? There’s nothing stopping you from ignoring GDPR in the scenarios you describe. Being a small hobby forum pretty much let’s you pretend GDPR doesn’t exist, while being the likes or FaceBook makes it impossible to ignore.
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"

The model I've consistently chosen (Decision Trees) may not be the best model. Need to get pushed outside my comfort zone.

I could put in the months/years like a proper Data Scientist and optimize the model. Or let a magic API tell me the best model. I'm lazy, so I prefer the latter ;-)
Game on!
(Also, the Punycode in your profile is missing a domain extension)
On something of a tangent I suspect that large parts of the GDPR will be comparably moot.

Many companies including Twillo and Delta have rolled out their tracking controls behind feature flags. If you decide that you'd rather not be tracked they make you stare at a spinner for ~100 seconds while your privacy settings are "being applied".

Keeping privacy as inconvenient as possible is big business.
>Just how much can we expect Bloomberg might pay for a copy of this memo?

I'm guessing that it's very much against Bloomberg's ethics policies to pay anything at all.
Everything with a monthly recurring subscription revenue stream is now the MS core product. Office365, etc. This is why windows 10 is effectively free to license, so you will see it on $85 tablets and ultra low cost PCs.
They chose to accept Uber's deal. Don't strawman
Does Math Make You Smarter?
Tracing objects in the heap (and/or stack). The GC has to be able to find all the outgoing pointers from any object, and usually the types of the objects pointed to by those pointers as well. Different language runtimes store objects in memory in different ways.
Talking to people on FB and Hangouts with single XMPP account on my server, via transports.

The Facebook's XMPP gateway has been disabled for a long time already, while Hangouts' one works, but poorly. Plus using gateways still requires you to configure multiple accounts wherever you want to chat. Transports solve that.
That's an odd position to take.... If there was nothing special about the code you worked on, then the product is probably not all that significant.

I mean, why work on something if there is no technology differentiating you?
And for games, becoming a middleman like Steam is where the profit is. They have less risk since they are just facilitating connecting game "manufacturers" to consumers. They aren't heavily invested in one game. If it's a flop there are others.
They are at the top, they employ who they like, and being generally ignorant psychopaths they employ people who will pander to them. It's too bad the population won't elect people who understand stuff in the first place.