skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I was used to coming back to the lab at Apple after dinner, to see if anything interesting was going on and working on various extra-curricular projects."
Admittedly most of my phone-screen solutions aren't tuned for performance; they're tuned to make people scratch their heads.

My code for "detect if a number is a perfect square", though, is O(sqrt(n)) time and O(1) space and uses no floating point operations. Which isn't quite Newton's method, but also saves me having to memorize an implementation of Newton's method and appropriately causes confusion. Here it is in Python, with obfuscation help from itertools:

https://github.com/ubernostrum/interviewer-hell/blob/master/...

And slightly less obfuscated C:

https://github.com/ubernostrum/interviewer-hell/blob/master/...
Researchers frequently seek publicity just as much as journalists look for stories. I don't think too many journalists would complain if researchers were required to deliver to them all the data they used in their research. Don't think that's a sustainable model though.
Very cool resource! It looks a little spartan now but hopefully this is just the beginning.

For other folks looking for free/libre music, here are a few other resources I found:

* Starfrosch https://starfrosch.com/

* CCTrax https://cctrax.com/

* Free Music Archive http://freemusicarchive.org/
Linux Kernel 4.15 Reached End of Life, Users Urged to Move to Linux 4.16 Now
API Evangelist: My GraphQL Thoughts After Almost Two Years
The framework he is talking about is trash compared to modern JavaScript UI frameworks.

There are very few established patterns and each team seems to make up their own rules. Some of the worst code I've ever seen was a result of this framework.

The code-splitting is probably the best feature and worked great when this was released, but smart lazy-loading of bundles is much easier in 2018.

The most frustrating thing is that the framework developers consistently point to benchmarks created over 3 years ago to show how great it is.
The existing URIBLs are great at this (without having to upload every web page you're looking at).
obsidian.systems (that's a url :)
You think that even in this day and age, anytime you're getting hit with a billion dollars in fines, you'd sit up and pay attention.

I'm not saying WF (or more importantly, their shareholders) actually cares. But you'd think that they would at that level.
I got the idea to create a new line editor
Yeah, sorry, I will try to make a long story short.

For years I've had Bundler set to just run jobs equal to the number of cores on my system. However, I noticed it was running one less so I assumed I was doing something wrong. After hours of banging my head against the wall, I finally found that it Bundler subtracts 1 from the number of jobs you pass to it, but this behavior has been removed from master (for eventual 2.x branch). A bit irate, I engaged in the following exchange w/ Andre, in which he accused me of violating their CoC for posting a bit of a kneejerk comment, which I apologized for, but questioned what I possibly could've violated in the CoC, in the process making a wisecrack about the ridiculous term in it about "making casual references to slavery or indentured servitude." Anyway, if you really want to dig in, here's the github thread:

https://github.com/bundler/bundler/pull/5808#issuecomment-38...

In the end, he banned me (it says 24 hrs in his comment, but it seems permanent) which has now prevented me from submitting a PR to document the very "feature" that threw me into this rage to begin with. Way to run an OSS project!
[video] Fighting Pop-Under Tricks – Reverse Engineering Obfuscated JavaScript
If the producers refuse to drop prices when thy can, then the first person to break into the market doing something different will get crazy profits

Market entry is difficult because it's gated by spectrum availability. It's hard for new competitors to offer wireless services. The market for wireless services in most countries is very cozy - it's usually one or two incumbent carriers that are about the same size, own about the same amount of spectrum, and don't work very hard to take market share from each other. I would argue that in a lot of cases, wireless services markets are stuck in a Nash equilibrium.

Smart regulation that might fix this would be to outlaw service contracts and cancellation fees to allow consumers to exploit pricing 'mistakes' (which is how you'd break a Nash equilibrium), and maybe force the carriers to re-bid on their spectrum every 5 years. Unfortunately another common problem with wireless services is regulatory capture - in my country, all the regulators who watch the wireless industry also end up working for it.
Baidu to Test Self-Driving Food Delivery with Meituan
It's also easy for them to make a very specific, narrow list of locations where the data is needed.

Just look at the raw GPS measurements and look for signs of trouble (high uncertainty, coordinates "teleporting" users around unnaturally, etc.). Maybe you only need it on certain particular streets within a city.

There are commercial LIDAR drone services you can hire, so worst case they just pay some of those people to give them 3D models for the specific areas where they have the worst problems and the highest traffic, and they get a huge improvement.
Cool, congratulations!
I don't think Hamilton was quite thinking of the duel as a way to stop this plot. For one thing the timeline doesn't quite match up there, the duel happened in 1804, the conspiracy seems to not have come to light until 1806. Maybe Hamilton was aware of it before, but I haven't seen much evidence of that. My understanding is that it was more the other way around, killing Hamilton discredited Burr as a public figure and the only option he had left to hang on to power was to essentially create his own country that he could be President of. It was quite ill-conceived and accomplished nothing but his arrest.

That being said, Hamilton did know going into the duel that Burr would permanently mar his reputation if he slayed him, Hamilton. And thought that this would keep him safe. There is a 3rd option in duels, which is both people shooting into the air, maintaining their honor without casualty. This was actually the most common outcome of dueling at the time, though reading history it's easy to get the opposite impression. Duels that end with pistols to the sky don't get discussed as much. But Hamilton was in many duels leading up to the Burr deal that ended that way.
Is your idea good enough to start up? Lessons since leaving Google
> never learnt the alphabet

By this, do you mean that you can't read? Or you can't remember the ordering of the letters? Or that you can recognize whole words but not as being made up of individual letters?
> Everyone was on Gmail all day

Not everyone is on Gmail. There a untold millions of users who aren't interested in creating a Gmail account. Those users will never be reached with any "just use your Gmail account" strategy.
It's even codified and part of ISO standards [1]. It's not a conspiracy, it's simply Discovercard putting a UI around data that's already being collected.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_category_code
Finally Flickr will no longer be the neglected stepchild of a corporate parent and will receive some much needed love. Even though a lot of time has passed I'm optimistic that Flickr has a real chance to reassert its domination of online pictures.
ANZ does most of this, though you’ll have to set up the logic yourself. Oh and US banking may be too primitive.
This article isn't about the framework though. It's incidental.

This seems a very out of place comment.
Individual/startup applications for Quantum Machine Learning incubator open
The case for hydrogen-powered cars
> If the sun absorbed radiation in this way, you would not be able to see it

This isn't an explanation, it's just a restatement of the problem. The radiation process itself is time reversible: the case where the sun emits and your eye absorbs, and the case solution where your eye emits and the sun absorbs, are both valid solutions of the equations describing the physical laws. Saying that the eye has to absorb radiation to see it just restates the fact that, in our actual universe, we do in fact see the sun by our eyes absorbing radiation--i.e., that that solution of the laws is the one we live in. It doesn't explain why that solution of the laws, and not the time reversed one, is the one that's actually realized.
If you like to speed up the content don't click on the audio option.
> For instance, I should be able to partition my money into several lightweight accounts - one for groceries, one for home expenses, investment, etc - and automatically have fractions of my deposits sent to those accounts so my budgeting and money management are handled without any effort on my part.

This part probably can reasonably be handled with a spreadsheet at home, so if you can't find a bank that supports it you can still get the benefits. Plus, that handles money that is not at your bank, too. For instance, many people prefer to use specialized firms for investments rather than their bank. For example, an index fund from Vanguard probably has lower fees than a fund using the same index from a bank.

> I should have lightweight cards available for each of those accounts with online card management (request/terminate cards, track per-card spending); multiple cards per account so I can give my wife full use of "grocery" card, and alerts/notifications when I am spending too much in an account/not efficiently allocating the full amount/potentially using a card improperly; financial projections; and so on.

I can't think of a good way to handle this at home without bank support, at least automatically. You might be able to do something using prepaid reloadable debit cards. E.g., you give your wife a prepaid reloadable debit card specifically for groceries, and you handle loading it from the grocery virtual account.
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I was more thinking that C# and Java are close to identical.

I know they have some different features and can feel a little different, but they’re much closer to each other than ML and Haskell, say.
If people did previous work, you should look at it. There's a way to do that. Now, if you can't because of the industry's propensity for using the law to hide information, then it seems that may be the cause of the industry's inability to find relevant information about potential employees.
Because now his friend is forced to be a customer of Bank of America unless he goes through a refinancing process. Even then, unless he's very careful, he could end up refinancing with a company who turns right back around and sells the mortgage back to Bank of America. The same thing happened to me. I've had two mortgages through other banks who then sold my mortgage to Wells Fargo forcing me to have to deal with them and I had absolutely no say in it.
Agreed in the UK I used to have to fairly regularly do London to Scarborough for conferences I always used to prefer to go up on the Friday on the flying Scotsman to York (and eat on the train).

And have Saturday and Sunday as time to prep for conference and have some me time in a cool uk seaside resort
Apple’s Kill switch actually has dramatically reduced fraud rates.

https://www.igeeksblog.com/apple-kill-switch-reduced-iphone-...

Short of Google building something like this, with all the concerns and disputes that would lead to, it seems like the carriers almost certainly need to build something like this for Android phones?
It isn't "spreading fear", it is just reality. Google bans AGPL-licensed software internally: https://opensource.google.com/docs/using/agpl-policy/

I know that multiple other companies have a similar policy (either a complete ban on using AGPL-licensed software, or special approval required to use it), although unlike Google, they don't post their internal policy publicly.

If someone works at one of these companies, what do you want to do – spend your day trying to argue to get the AGPL ban changed, or a special exception for your project; or do you just go with the non-AGPL alternative and get on with coding?
I don't want to scrap it all, just the parts that require hefty subsidies to serve places that have realistic alternatives. US households usually have cars and for those that don't, intercity buses tend to serve even very tiny burgs. So most people most do have realistic alternatives.

Trains are the right solution in some cases. Commuter rail often makes sense. And in some densely populated regions, intercity trains make sense too. But in most of the US, because of the distances between cities, cars and planes work better.
> Equifax data breach: The number of victims may be impossible to know

Just assume all of them. Every last customer. Probably closest to the truth.
I don't know how to estimate their reckless from the outside, but it is simple fact that however sensitive, they only had one waveband and so no real way of estimating the foreground contamination. I think it is also well established that the foreground estimation was made by looking closely at pictures from a presentation showing preliminary Planck skymaps of the dust emission, and then building a foreground model from that.

They also put out this adorable video as part of the announcement, maybe not the greatest show of caution ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfIVEy_YOA
LTE is materially different from 3G, because the protocols are different AND the radios are different. For example, you can make an all-IP network with LTE. You can't do that with 3G. Ironically, though, most phone calls, even on LTE networks, are still 3G circuit-switched phone calls.

Also, this article is correct that there is no similar difference in "5G." There is really no such thing, outside of carrier marketing, as "5G." One could try retrofitting meaning to "5G," like "OK now we'll really do packet switched phone calls" or something like that. But almost all the technologies that come under the heading 5G were foreseen and often standardized when LTE standards were first written.

LTE stands for Long Term Evolution. It's meant to be a durable, evolving set of standards for wireless communication.
(Addition to my other post made just now)

I think the point is also valid that has been raised by others in this subthread, that the argument about emission vs. absorption of radiation is also valid classically, so it doesn't explain why you need to bring in quantum entanglement for an explanation.
"most people." lol.
I’ve often wondered: Should the number of Nobel prizes awarded scale with the population? There are far more scientists working today than 50 or 100 years ago, and cappping the number of winners makes them more prestigious over time. Perhaps they will become TOO prestigious...
What is the Knowledge Economy anyway? I hear people talk of it every now and then but don't understand what it actually is.
America's nuclear headache: old plutonium with nowhere to go
So Amazon's business brings a bunch of low-skill jobs to depressed areas of the country that have been hit by decades of job loss and wage stagnation. (Driven in recent years partly by the Internet's effects on retail, led by Amazon itself.)

Why is it surprising that they're so flooded with applicants that they can get away with offering not much more than minimum wage?

Why is it surprising that people who work such low-wage jobs can't make ends meet without government assistance?
> You ask why not just have a central database for it? Well, the answer is simply "why do you think there are so many directories already?" The field is littered with directories that aimed to be "The single master directory for everyone!"

How does a block chain solve this better than any other solution? You still have to get all of the participants to adopt it, and that's an organizational problem that doesn't seem to me to be any easier than with any other solution.
Go read Hossenfelder's review instead, its a better teardown. The fourth paragraph is:

> “Losing the Nobel Prize” is well written and engaging and has a lot of figures and, ah, here I run out of nice things to say. But we all know you didn’t come for the nice things anyway, so let’s get to the beef.
The BA LON - EDI route always used to have awesome cream teas on the evening flights to London :-) and being able to rock up show your card and have a drink and be on a plane < 30 mins later

Then again I Was on full ride and was staying in the Balmoral or the Cally
> I don't think so, but I guess it's possible.

The classical laws are time reversible, so the time reverse of a solution that describes, for example, two gases mixing together, is also a solution (and would describe the two gases separating themselves spontaneously).

The usual classical argument for why we don't observe the time reversed solutions is that they would require such precise initial conditions that in practice they never happen.
I never imagined using the word "beautiful" to describe pixelated design, but wow, those cards are really beautifully done.
There are developer releases through 2019 as well.

So it's not like it won't be used until 2020.
Ha! You've never worked as an air traffic controller. That job attracts type-A personality jerks like honey attracts flies. I've met dozens of jerks at one time. And not a single one of them would call me a jerk. Okay, maybe one or two of them would. It's such a toxic environment—I had to resign.
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I use Wells Fargo for one purpose: obtaining foreign currency. I keep my actual money in savings and checking accounts with Ally, and the minimum $300 in my Wells Fargo 0.01% APY (lol) savings account (so they don't charge me $5/month fees).

In exchange for this, if I'm traveling out of the country and don't want to rely solely on ATMs and credit cards, I first transfer some money into my WF account, and then I can go to the bank and pick up some, say, Canadian dollars, only paying the exchange rate (which last time I did this was equivalent to the rate on ATMs and credit cards). If it's not CAD/Euros/Pesos, I just call and they can order it for me.

When I was a teenager, my WF account was my main account, and every single time I went into the bank they tried to sign me up for a checking account. Wasn't surprised one bit when the scandal hit. (Fortunately, they never created any accounts for me.)
I think his response, except for the ban, was appropriate
Do you have any ideas why Racket has not had the commercial success of Clojure for example?
Good insights. In addition, there are good reasons to think that the value that programmers produce isn't even measurable in any practical way.

A couple of years ago, I spotted a latent bug in a piece of core infrastructure software that would have caused a lengthy world-wide outage of the company when triggered. I can see that that saved the company at least $10M. But how can managers/HR/etc measure such effects? And how can you account for it in compensation, even if you wanted to?

Programmers--like many other professionals--are simply paid the least possible needed to keep them in their seats.
Cars are really essential things: lose your car and you may be unable to take a child to school, unable to shop for food, or even unable to get to work. It's a pity that can't be undone.

There's an app called Getaround (https://www.getaround.com/) which works really well for this, if you live in a big city.
>Everyone ends up using English even in comments. It's just easier. Everyone knows it. And it's where most resources are.

I wish. I inherited a project full of third-party libraries that were commented in Cyrillic (I assume Russian).
It’s a shame iOS just doesn’t seem to provide this level of data using public APIs as far as I can tell. I’d love to be proven wrong, or for Apple to be a bit more transparent regarding how they perform similar enhancements to location data.
So what framework is it?
> there isn't enough information to know whether that was unfair

How do you get from "we don't know if the reviews were fair" to "everyone who's worked for IBM for 30 years has to be a deadweight"?
It's not really mistakes that is the issue though, its more the fact that they got reeeeelly close to outright fabrication.

They had a very shaky estimate of an important background (the foreground) and instead of being cautious they put out a video like this as part of the announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlfIVEy_YOA
I get what you're saying and maybe I'm being harsh, but the whole backdrop of the article is this supposedly amazing framework that was built. It undermines a lot of his points that it is poorly used.
That's... somewhat hardcore for most applications.

Also it's also not what most people mean by "untrusted". From a low level hardware standpoint though... assuming user-land code isn't trustworthy IS a good guideline.
It's been in use for a long time. I remember seeing it in the 70's in colleges that taught immigrants English for free in night classes.
Whoah, there. Some people are extremely comfortable with complexity and yet are still zealous about simplicity and elegance.
That revolution was fought because there was no representation in the body that levied the taxes. We do have representation in the body that levies taxes now.
Oh wow! I'm cautiously optimistic that Flickr can be brought back from the dead. I loved Flickr's platform to share my photos and find other photographers to follow and get inspiration from.

C'mon SmugMug!
It's surprising that SA would publish something so lacking in context.

Of course opioid prescription fills are falling in cannabis-legal states; they're falling everywhere due to increased scrutiny.

The article doesn't even compare stats for non-cannabis states with cannabis-legal states, nor does it isolate those who actually used cannabis at any point (to estimate numbers for those changing from opioid use to cannabis use). It's like pointing out that temperatures have increased with the removal of lead from motor fuels.
Flickr agrees to be acquired by SmugMug
It's 156 in the world by GDP per capita PPP (purchase power parity) with under USD 8000 (USD 2200 nominal), so cost of living is taken into account, and a HDI of 0.624 (131st in the world).

Many positive things might be said about India, but the notion that it is not a poor country is objectively quite mistaken.
agreed, it's the ban I take issue with. felt pretty power-trippy to me.
CIA: Haspel ‘acted appropriately’ in destruction of torture tapes
Developing an Interactive Web Toy in ThreeJS
I have a computer running in my car that I use mostly to play music, and it also has a little GPS receiver and a display which shows the song title/artist, or speed and coordinates on my dashboard. (I intend to get into connecting to the car's CAN and the like at some point, but I have very little free time to play with it.) I use the same piece of software to control my home automation devices and interact with a couple APIs, as much as possible is designed to operate without depending on the Internet. It's less sophisticated than either the average in-car entertainment system or the average smartphone, but it does what I want, not what other companies want, so I'm kinda fond of it.

Collecting location data every second is (mostly) useless and creates a lot of excess nonsense (even Google only keeps it like, what, every five minutes?), but at some point I'm looking to figure out some fun ways to visualize the GPS and speed data table I have just endlessly growing. It'd be interesting to see like... a heatmap of where I go, or a heatmap of my average speed on given areas of a road, or whatever.

Regarding accuracy, I've found if I let my foot off the brake and move up a foot, the GPS receiver's velocity will tick upwards briefly, it seems to be pretty freaking accurate, at least in the less urban environments I drive in. But given the 4 meter accuracy GPS allegedly has, I didn't expect it even could be as precise as sometimes it is. Not sure what the receiver I'm using does in the background, may have it's own accelerometer and the like.