skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's true. But then I tried to learn at least "please" and "thank you" even when I was visiting in the 80's.

It does actually seem that it's the same people who would've refused to speak Russian before who are perfectly happy to do it now. Not that I would blame them at all, just find it amusing really.

Mantas I know is ~40+ years old, so probably not because of a movie.
Sorry. Was just irritated by all the negativity on this one.
I've always been surprised that even intelligent recruiters don't seem to realize that one of the things that a good candidate will find most off-putting is a recruiter trying to have a technical conversation or asking technical questions.

To be fair though, I thought his answer about inodes was wrong. Seems to me the candidate was defining an inode number, not the inode itself.
Isn't running someone else's image as a privileged container a terrible security practice? Or do I misunderstand what the --privileged flag does?
By "site", are you referring to the actual site, or the EV indicator? Because the site itself doesn't look anything like Stripe's[1].

[1]: https://stripe.ian.sh/
On EV certs, Troy Hunt rightly pointed that no one really cares about them and many major websites (amazon, youtube, facebook) don't even bother:

https://www.troyhunt.com/on-the-perceived-value-ev-certs-cas...
they went straight to the CAs

Is there any evidence that Stripe had anything to do with this?
Your comment also reminded me of something I saw. Some guy put the photos of a male model on his profile then started messaging women with really crude/direct messages that there is no way the average guy would have got anywhere with or would have been shouted down - from what he made out nearly all of them sent him their number straight away
trixter.oldskool.org may be the greatest personal URL of all time
Here in the UK there is another problem with EV certs, there is no way of registering a "trading name" or "doing business as (DBA) name" against a company so you can only have an EV cert issues against your actual registered business name. If that is different from your trading name and what you use as your domain name then they are less than worthless. For example, if the company is "Widgets of London Limited" but trade online as "Widgets Online" with the domain "widgetsonline.com" they cant get an EV cert with "Widgets Online" as the name - even if they own the registered trademark of it.
>template can trigger hundreds of db calls

I'll take what is caching for 500, Alex
> Why Quicksort is the best sorting method?

This must be some kind of joke. That's first-year student level of naivety here! (And I'm unfair to most students.)
I remember learning about sorting functions, when I was a teen (in the 80s), and even in the book it was NOT written that it was the BEST method, and it was an entry-level book, for beginners.

> Recruiter: I have to check that you know the right answers.

Sums up the whole thing I think. It's impressive.

Why do they even need a HUMAN then? Just use an online test, it won't be worse.

> You should learn the Linux function calls, how the TCP/IP stack works, and what big-O means to eventually qualify if you are interviewed at a later time.

The level of arrogance and stupidity is stunning (especially after the previous questions/answers).

If this is exactly what happened, and not an exaggeration, it's incredibly embarrassing. If it had been me, I would not have hesitated to have a few strong words and would have put the interviewer to his/her place. Sheesh. That attitude of theirs is almost beyond belief.

I'm almost reluctant to believe that it really happened, especially in a big technical company (even if the recruiter is a third party). Unfortunately, after many years in the field and meeting a HUGE number of arrogant & clueless people with bad attitudes, I suspect it is probably true.
except all the existing users of airports.
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Doesn’t meant that thankfully.

Apple added Time Machine support for SMB (Windows) shares in Sierra IIRC. So no need for a Time Capsule or any sort of netatalk/avahi Linux setup to emulate one.

See here for details:
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/releasenotes/Net...
10.13 added support for Time Machine over SMB (https://developer.apple.com/library/content/releasenotes/Net...), I don’t think network TM support is going away anytime soon.
A change to the TM format to take advantage of APFS would be welcomed though
Ugh, my comment, alongwith a whole bunch of others, was moved by @dang from this post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16936533

...which is a less detailed article.
A couple where both can produce sperm is unlikely to produce offspring either. Still don’t see what that has to do with anything.
> the felons have shown they commit crimes

That's not a thing. It's innocent until proven guilty; it's legally impossible to gather evidence because they're guilty to use against them. Hell, innocent people's fingerprints can be, and often are, collected at crime scenes. The police can use innocent people's prints to establish a timeline or figure out what their role was.
There's only one purpose of good brand identity and that's to be remembered. I don't see how this is more memorable than the beloved Gopher.

Edit: Gopher is still the official mascot, though. So that's good.
But how would that help? Both Stripes would have a valid first class identity with valid keys. How are clients supposed to then check?
That’s the trouble with these jobs, there are not a lot of them to go around.
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How many times are we going to repost this?
Perhaps this new brand was just a psychological experiment to see how easy it is to bait Hacker News into a 200+ comment thread on bikeshedding?
That's even worse for you case, I suppose.
In case of a usual VC funds it's about the returns, but corporate VCs also look for some potential synergy. They probably were looking for some ML startups that they could utilize later.
The logo also appears to have lifted several elements from the podcast Jordan, Jesse, Go [1]. The font is almost identical. It has the white text on almost the exact same shade of blue. It has the three lines trailing part of the logo.

EDIT: Here [2] are the two logos side by side. The number of similarities would make this one hell of a coincidence.

[1] - http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/jordan-jesse-go

[2] - https://i.imgur.com/0KkdFR1.png
Wow. This is bad. It looks like a tire or automotive company logo for some reason. It seems like someone with no real design intuition was in charge of picking the final logo.

Why not make several ones and ask the community for their favorite one?
It's on Reddit, was just about to submit it.
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The person who has lost job or does not have a good job is not likely going to have much of a life either even if he is cured. If he has hope of having a good life he might as well borrow some reasonable money.

This might sound evil but what is really evil here is the US government and FDA that has put regulations which essentially say you will either get best possible treatment or none.

It is not clear to me why the prescription system is so ridiculously regulated. Not clear to me why people having opioids is such a big deal and why we can't have more of health workers giving minor treatment instead of just doctors.

In country like India there will be lot of quacks who are not real doctors and yet serve in villages where no real doctor would work.
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I was trying to correct what seemed to me to be a miscommunication (I thought my parent post misunderstood something about what GP comment was saying). I wasn't trying to endorse or condemn any particular system for evaluating procedures, in my earlier comment; just pointing out that the system wasn't flawed on its own terms in such an obvious way.
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The purpose of a demonstration token is for a group of people to express to the world their position, feelings or thoughts on certain matters of importance.
Yeah thanks, the content is exactly the same! Good work! /s
No, it’s rather devastating for female sanity. It gives them the illusion of choice, and many women build false expectations, feeling that they could settle with any of those Don Juans, which is false. When they hit the wall at 30, they start noticing that the top 10% men keep dating the younger ones, and they’ll never be able to settle with a Perfect Man anymore. Enters depression and weight gain and they settle with a second-class, a man that is not beautiful but at least is willing to do anything possible to provide to her, give her children and make her happy. But they internally despise the fact that he’ll never match the men of her 20ies. Among the 55% not divorcing, a lot (30% depending on the calculation) of couples don’t have sex and/or beat each other. Perhaps 10% comes to peace with loving the husband they actually matched with.

Tinder and the illusion of choice during the 20ies is devastating to female mental health, and to family balance. Plus men who marry will get the girl at 30 and will never have known her during her prime beauty.
Just checked how much I’ve spent on Amazon last year. It was about $4500. Cost of Prime is 2.7% of that. Most purchases were more than $35 anyway. Maybe I’ll pass on it for the next year. $10/mo is a significant psychological barrier for me.
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There is also the Irkut MC-21 which will be a direct competitor to the A320. It is currently going through testing and certification process.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irkut_MC-21
This seems to be sponsored by the drug manufacturers, which makes me wary. Don't forget about for example Nestle giving doctors money to tell new parents to use Nestle products instead of mothers milk. Mothers milk is the best for children and is very important for their immune system. I'm all for saving lives, but there are some very greedy people in the world, and to some account Hanlon's razor. Antibiotics has side effects, such as killing all bacteria. Our life depends on many of the bacterias living in our body, especially in the digestive system.
DRAM prices have increased by over 200% since 2016 (more than tripled). Hopefully these new fabs will bring prices to more reasonable levels.
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5 years from last device sold. That’s standard for all Apple hardware.
I hope so as I just signed up for a mortgage after years of waiting for prices to drop.
I agree with you and it looks like suc a person was in charge of choosing the new logo, so it’s still bad...
The car is disposable, meant to be sent to the crusher once its out of warranty. Really screwed up business model IMO, but people seem to be buying Tesla's still.
Correct. I agree with you
Time Machine Server is not on the list of deprecated services for fall 2018. That should mean it is continuing to work with third party solution.

""The most popular server features—Caching Server, File Sharing Server, and Time Machine Server—have been bundled with every installation of macOS High Sierra since its release in fall 2017, so that even more customers have access to these essential services at no extra cost.""

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208312
I have a dissenting opinion.

Rather than getting two more fabs, Chinese state funds have just launched two more barely working ones that add to a long long list of their failed attempts to achieve self sufficiency in memory supply.

There were numerous attempts by Xinhua University Group in the past to launch memory businesses. Judging by that those fabs stand dark for years, none of them succeeded, and a lot of taxpayers money just got wasted again.
Sure, as long as they bring current industry-standard QC processes to the party. I'm skeptical.
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I've heard that list of questions before. They sound very old.

Some of the answers are out of date. It's been decades since "stat" actually returned the contents of the inode structure on disk. There are lots of different file systems now, with different internal data structures. "stat" gives you a standardized result regardless of what's physically stored. Does ZFS even have "inodes"?

TCP packets don't have "types". They have 9 bit flags.
SYN, FIN, ACK, and RST are the important ones. There are others, PSH and URG (obsolete) and NS, CWR, and ECE (congestion notification that never really caught on). That field is not an enum.

Quicksort does not have the best "big O". There are pathological cases for Quicksort. There are binning algorithms that can beat O(n log n), going back to SyncSort from the 1960s.

Bit counting by table lookup went out years ago. If you make the table big enough to be useful, you cause cache misses. There's a population count instruction in CPUs with SSE4, which by now is almost all x86 machines in active use.

MAC addresses are traditionally 48 bits, but the IEEE is pushing EUI-64, which expands them to 64 bits. Traditionally they were 24 bits of vendor ID, 24 bits of serial number. Address space problems. They also were once fixed in the hardware, but now big shops change them dynamically to make cloud routing ("software defined networking") work.

Somebody has an answer sheet from about 2000.
For interest sake, can SQLAlchemy run on PyPy; pgsql driver support? thanks,
Well, yet. Resistances are on the rise. It will probably get a lot worse before we start using antibiotics more responsibly.
When the $ spent on importing chips is more than the amount spent on importing oil, you know full well that that there is no real alternative but to invest heavily into the semiconductor industry. In 2016, $227 billion worth of chips were imported by China [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-chips/chi...
Most people who got into Laravel did it because it was pretty.
My office has a mail shelf that overflows with Amazon packages every day (medium-size tech company). Similarly, my local news agent is now mostly an Amazon depo with a HUGE stack of Amazon parcels behind the counter awaiting collection.

I myself spent over £6000 on Amazon last year. I also use AWS at work...basically Amazon is my life.
> There were numerous attempts by Xinhua University Group in the past to launch memory businesses. Judging by that those fabs stand dark for years, none of them succeeded, and a lot of taxpayers money just got wasted again.

That is the exact non-sense talked by many people 10-15 years ago regarding BOE and its state backed investment. Look at what BOE achieved in mid/long term.
> Do toxic communities produce better content?

I don't think that's the right way to think about it.

Rather, I would say that tightly-moderated communities of experts tend to produce better reference material ("wikis"). But this type of structure is "toxic" to discussions ("forums") and novices.

The SO founders and key contributors built a wiki. The site's incentive structure pointed in this direction so everyone was complicit in this outcome.

Now, site management seems to be saying that they want a "help-everyone" forum. They are -- like all big orgs with something to lose -- soliciting ideas, forming interdisciplinary committees, and giving "<3"-warming (yuk) speeches.

Given how ingrained the current culture is, I believe that meaningful change would entail significant risk.
Seems like you can, by registering a DUNS number, e.g. "Trade and DBA names are verified directly with registration agency or through a verified third party database such as D&B, Bloomberg, or Hoovers." (https://support.comodo.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/...)
There is this notion that only 'younger' people can be innovative and the more experience you have the more your 'neural network' is solid and using 'proven' solutions, which limits outside of box thinking. - this is what I have read some time ago in a piece about 'Ageism'
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> I find it's a valuable heuristic simply to try to make your code short (in tokens, of course, not characters).

Make it short in characters as well.

Fitting more code on the screen makes it possible to see common subsequences and methods of abstraction not otherwise possible. It has dramatically improved my programming, and I recommend anyone who can to spend 6-8 months practicing it.

For more on the subject:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571159

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10872782

- http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10500700
The Tweet shows part of the site as identical to Stripe's: https://twitter.com/iangcarroll/status/940281927789146112

I think the current look was updated later.
Sounds like you should dress and pose like a model.
FWIW, I'd love to see AIX support for osquery. Wondering if there is any interest from others.
Great article, just one small nitpick: sklearn actually does support encoding text labels. I just tested with your dataset to reconfirm, sklearn.preprocessing.LabelEncoder() has no problem encoding labels correctly.

It probably makes little difference if you use map or LabelEncoder but I tend to prefer LabelEncoder to avoid typos and make it more concise (those dicts can become very long if we have a lot of labels).
If this were to come before the CJEU[1], it would not be clear-cut at all. There was a landmark case where home CCTV was ruled inadmissible in a robbery by virtue of the fact that it included footage of a public road, and the thieves did not consent to the use of their personal data[2], i.e., the recording of their images in public using a home CCTV system.

And the definition of personal data extends to any data that can be linked to you. For example, if a server records a log entry with your name and IP, and the server also records log entries with just the IP, all of the log entries are considered personal data, even for dynamic IPs in some instances[3].

There are some exceptions around criminal justice and the protection of persons and property, however, I still wouldn't be surprised if this DNA evidence were ruled inadmissible in the EU.

[1] Court of Justice of the European Union
[2] http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=160...
[3] https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-...
Django was the main reason I started with Python. Really loved it more than Wordpress or Rails. However, Flask is just much simpler to get started. So nowadays, where I mostly have to achieve the most bang for a given set of bucks I usually choose Flask.
If we stop running a military empire we probably have enough peace dividend to provide a $45,000 a year BI that would truly make a difference. To do it we have to end standing armies and let all of the non-violent offenders out of prison. We would have to make deals with all the other countries to put an end to standing armies as a thing and use the UN to cooperatively resolve conflicts. The amount wasted on the military and war is staggering.
Related: Jevons Paradox.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Dry, the beloved country
IDN homograph attack should not be an issue in your address bar - unicode letter trickery e.g. pаypal.com with a cyrillic а should be shown as xn--pypal-4ve.com ; it's something that can be solved and is being solved on the UI level.
No, Unity came before Windows 8.

And with Windows 8 noone actually used Metro, the real desktop environment wasn't really touched so you always had a polished desktop-oriented UI one key stroke away. Not so with ubuntu that single-handedly obliterated the desktop Linux market dominance it had.
South Africa’s fertility rate has dropped in the last few decades and is now 2.34. It was 6 in 1960.

Your own link shows a fertility decline (look at the table at the bottom of the page).

There is no reason to suppose that this won’t happen in other African countries, as education, immunisation, and urbanisation take effect.
New Turing test-like challenge...

Build an AI to automate this process using the same guidelines.
At least it could allow automating retrieving public information of the actual entity by whatever system checks the certification. Now, how to interact with the user to improve cognisance of the entity considered based on the newly available data is another problem.
It's hard to make a balance between "anybody can ask anything" and "usable for professionals to quickly find the best solution". In my (many) years online I've seen a number of great dev forums becoming popular and then quickly becoming overwhelmed with newbie chit-chat and same questions asked over and over. And I don't mean there's anything wrong with it, it's a natural progress of things, there's always many more beginners at any given time so they overrun the space and that causes the level of discussions to water down. Of course beginners deserve their space as much as anyone else, if not more, but problem is that interests of those two groups don't overlap much, you just can't a balanced mix of newbie and advanced topics that both side will appreciate equally, it never works. I think it's the best (only?) solution to draw a clear line, make SO Start and SO Pro, and then relax the rules on the Start side, and make them more strict on the side meant for experienced users. And of course, don't tolerate assholes on either side. Just my $0.02.
If there are people who need an answer, and people happy to provide that answer ... what is the downside ...?

Turnover/churn. If a Q/A site allowed basic questions then the site would be flooded with them since the population of novices greatly exceeds sophomores or experts. Moderation would need to keep up with silo-ing these Qs into the 'novice area' you propose. Experts would need to sift more to get to the interesting, challenging or novel Qs if moderation can't keep up, which might affect the retention of these users, thus diminishing the resource pool available on the site.

To me it's clear that tact and grace is called for, and is currently mostly missing, when directing askers of basic Qs to existing answers, whether on- or off-site but there is such a thing as tragedy of the commons. Some stewardship and curation is required to maintain an acceptable SNR.
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Yes, one of the best Linux distro reviews I have read!

Actually gives a feel for how it would be using it rather than descriptions of cosmetics. Also it gives constructive and relevant criticism which can be of help for future development.

This is a common problem with reviews, rushed out to be first, but not sure what is the optimal time spent for reviewing the product. Also, many times I get a feeling people reviewing distros are not really qualified, as in contrast to this guy who seems to know both what is important and also have technical knowledge, when needed.
Ask HN: Anyone using Paddle in Germany? How do you deal with taxes?
I recently started a saas business in Germany and decided to use Paddle.com as a payment processor.

Then my tax consultant asked to provide all invoices sent to clients as PDF files.

Paddle doesn’t support pdf export out of the box and their advice was to go through invoices and save as pdf manually.

Another issue was that Paddle doesn’t provide country of transaction when exporting balance. Tax consultant needed countries as well.

So anyone using Paddle in Germany having the same issues? How does it work for you? Should I switch Paddle or tax consultant?