skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point, the courts still hold ultimate review of patents. The new law just moved the point when review switches over from the executive branch to the judicial branch.
Ask HN: Are MFN (Most Favored Nation) common in SAFE notes?
An investor has asked about a "Most Favored Nation" [0] clause to be included in our SAFE.

I've read how MFN work in the SAFE primer, however the "standard SAFE with cap and discount" (the one we have used with 9 other angel investors) doesn't include one. It seems that MFN are common only for "no cap, no discount" SAFE notes [1]:

Do you have any experience, or opinion about this?

[0]: https://www.upcounsel.com/most-favored-nation

[1]: https://medium.com/centrally/safe-vs-kiss-the-evolution-of-the-convertible-note-4859d42a867d
It looks like the page is embedding a YouTube video with a specified start time in an iframe, with that specified start time based on when the page was loaded.
I know it's unreasonable but I'd really love to be a fly on the wall and somehow be able to see, in an alternate reality, how / where / when / why that money they'd be paying would be spent. I'm just purely curious.
I figured it out after a few minutes poking around.

You'll need some way to set "secure" settings – if you're not rooted, the easiest way is via a Tasker plugin called AutoTools. Once you've set that up, create a task with an action of "AutoTools Secure Settings", then configure it as follows (under "Custom Setting" in the AutoTools menu):

- setting type: secure
- name: accessibility_display_daltonizer_enabled
- input type: toggle
- value: 3

That task then toggles greyscale mode, so you can hook it up to an application context or whatever. (Switch the value to 1 if you want a task that always enables greyscale, or 2 to always disable.)

If it doesn't work, diff the output of `adb shell settings list secure` from a PC with greyscale mode enabled and disabled, and use whatever name you get there.
The majority of those planets are unsuited to anything we can imagine being alive, or only suitable for very simple unicellular life. Most of those plants are gas giants, or blazing hot gas giants. Some are rocky, but many of those are in orbits like Mercury, which would alternately bake and freeze them. Of course, part of the reason for this might be our detection methods, but as of now, we’re not finding. I hope like Earth, Venus, or Mars, while we find a lot of Jupiter’s. Maybe we’ll disocver that something like bacteria is ubiquitous, but that doesn’t imply much for our prospects of finding intelligent life. For all that we know life is common, but multicellular life is incredibly rare, or maybe it isn’t rare, but intelligent life is.
Amazon now delivers packages to your car trunk
even in terms of sheer dopamine, i find it rewarding to see a bunch of new notifications at once. to me push notifications feel more like an annoyance than a dopamine hit. i keep them turned on for sms because it's useful as a way to contact me immediately, but they're off for everything else, including email. (i never turned them on for twitter or facebook because i discovered back in the 90s that i was happier turning them off for email)
You are absolutely correct. I'd guess nearly every time I google for a question and I find the answer on an SO link, the question has been marked closed.

Then I wonder is Google correcting SO's bad moderators? Do more people find the closed question useful than whatever duplicate, on-topic or whatever question the moderators must have preferred?
> The book was printed with wide outer margins and very narrow inner margins.

The typical rule is to have the inner margins that are half as wide as the outer margins, so that the two inner margins, being adjacent, visually add up to the same space as one outer margin. This is complicated by the fact that the inside of the pages are folded and vanish in the binding. In a well typeset book, this is compensated for by adding a “binding correction” to the width of the inner margins. The result is very aesthetically pleasing. It sounds like with your edition the typesetting was done independent of the binding, and hence didn’t properly account for constraints.
I don't read anything about OP's post as saying they think people should memorize or that this practice is okay, as evidenced by their final sentence that it's sad that you could do so and pass many technical interviews.
3) If you don’t ace the coding test under the gun, you won’t proceed, with 100% certainty in my experience.
Ask HN: What do you nerds spend your money on?
As software engineers, on average, we earn a lot more money than a lot of people. Hearing that a fresh college grad is clocking six figures is normal at this point. I'm only about 5 years into my career, and I make more money than I could ever imagine to. A good portion of the industry might ask me why I'm not making more, but that subset of professionals probably come from more privileged upbringings.

I'm a Black man, in my late twenties, and I come from one of the poorest areas of New York City. To boot, I don't even have a college degree. I've been extremely lucky, and I'm ridiculously grateful, but I don't know how to manage what I'm making and how I should think about what I earn going forward. My parents and other close relatives can only speculate, and like many others in similar positions, I don't know who to trust with guiding my reality. So I'm curious: what do you do with your money, generally? Buy a lot of video games? Books? Courses? Food? Real estate? Stocks? How do you generally split up your expenses? Are you shocked at all by the money you're making? It sounds like a weird problem to have, and it's sorta embarrassing to ask, but I'm starting to feel overwhelmed by my growth.
> To a very average proletarian parent in Russia or China, and likely in much of the world outside of nanny state countries, it is glaringly obvious that Goog runs an equivalent of a slot machine business. And they take a 100% right conscious decision to block apps and google pay on their children smartphones.

[citation needed]

I'm extremely skeptical that any population as a preternatural ability to detect novel forms of scams and exploitation. The smartphone slot machines are novel in that they steal your attention, which people were not primed to be as sensitive to as attempts to steal money.

While I'm not very familiar with Russia, I have a little more familiarity with China, and I don't detect anything there that makes me think that the Chinese are more resistant to smartphone addiction. If anything makes them different, it's the preexisting cultural emphasis that children should be studying or cramming for high-stakes tests pretty much all the time to the exclusion of pretty much everything else. That has nothing to do with a "more acute sense for somebody trying to abuse, fraud or attempt to extract money from them."
Agreed. It’s the feature
I’m most excited about.
Is Y (Greek I) a vowel?
It's mixed. These proceedings (along with other reforms, like limiting venue) have been very bad for litigation billing, as disputes are fewer and disposed of faster. But I think the consensus is that we're better off taking this hit than losing even more support from the public for patents and facing something more severe.
MyEtherWallet.com hijacked on Google public DNS
This is strictly a content issue. I wouldn't apply demerits to the concept based on the selection of content available.

It should expand, but forced limitations on available content make sense -- it concentrates students into "rooms" while the site's traction is still light, allowing the desired levels of collaboration to come to fruition. Too much content while the site is small risks running only one or two students per room, which keeps the true purpose of the site from showing itself and may even defeat the concept before it has a chance to thrive.
The IP lawyers who prepare post-grant patent petitions are happy with this ruling. Wouldn't you rather represent Google at the PTAB than represent the troll in court?
That's surprising - ill have to give that a go later this evening as I have been thinking about going back to development form a consultant non coding role.

Took me less than 10 seconds to come up with an approach that would work oh just though of a more efficient one but that would use a regex :-)
Relax,and breathe before you answer. Ask them questions about what they do, anything to get them talking like in a conversation and not an interview.
I'm pretty sure the EU law underlying this was in force in Ireland before the taxable events, so no, it's just a retrospective determination of tax owed under law in force at the time of the act.
I think it would go standard European way - build an institution by a top-down directive reflecting political will, shake each others hands, then a few years later cry that you have all this outdated infrastructure but no inventive people working for you nor any bleeding-edge results, as all relevant people are snatched up and overpaid by industry giants.
I think OP is asking because he thinks that WeWork is closer to a startup where it will either grow quickly or fail. And that bonds don't look particularly appealing to a investors for a company like that unless they have significant real assets that are worth money in the event of the company failing.
Oftentimes this is the "CS degree from a good school" stick. But we don't have an easy way to check those claims, nor to evaluate what constitutes a 'good school'.
Also, expectations of coding tests should be upfront. E.g. we're looking for the most optimal solution, not the one that is most convient.

I was declined for a position at a trading shop for a C# backend role because I used linq to do something. I didn't have unlimited time for the tests, so I went with expedient over performant, for which they did not care. Fuck that, set clear expectations for interview "tests".
Do these drives feature power-loss capacitors? I'm still wondering why most manufacturers think it's okay to offer SSDs that lose data on power loss (!!)
It depends on the program.
Show HN: Find integers in Pi
Image Caption Generation with Deep Learning
> 1. The job search takes much, much longer than it used to.

This is so true (also in Bay Area). I am still in the process of job hunting. The first onsite was in mid March. I thought my last onsite would be last Friday, but no, a few more are still being scheduled (I probably have to withdraw some applications).

Also the negotiation with HR easily takes weeks. Despite I have offers from some companies, I just couldn't get to the actual compensation numbers. (I call this "HR Tai Chi").

> 3. Coding Tests Can Trip Up Even Good Engineers

I have found that the interaction with the interviewers matters more here. If you can solve all tests, then fine. But often times you may get blanked or just stuck somewhere in your solution, and a good interviewer will be able to guide you through and work out the problems collaboratively. I wish companies would spend time educating and training interviewers. (I have had bad times in my interviews where the "obvious" solution just didn't come up during the interview, however much the interviewer hinted).

> 5. Every company’s “process” is different

Yes, the good part of this difference is that "some are pleasant", and obviously "some are annoying". But you get to experience the company culture and how much they value engineers by their difference.
I started on this path recently with email by using the Astro app, and only getting notifications for "Priority Emails" which are intelligently chosen.
Putting aside the philosophical implications, on a technical level this is still a complete fantasy. A good heuristic I like to apply to these kinds of sensationalist articles is to ask how much of the human brain we really understand. The answer is almost none, so recreating it in digital form, faithful to a specific person is science fiction.

What happened to Quartz? These days the articles are such crap.
My car isn't a hatchback but obviously there's a huge problem if you own one.
"... contains a representative sample of 1 percent of the Milky Way’s orbs ..."
has anyone tried to compare geolocation accuracy of this solution vs Maxmind? I would assume Country-level will be very comparable (its easy to do), but doing city level accuracy is not trivial
EU members companies.

Come on about rules tho, man. History is messy. People are stupid and evil ( as well as good, obviously ). We live in an age where we have a great pretence of goodness, but really our nature is the same. I'm sure there a lot of double dealing happening behind the veneer of rules. And I think you're naive/uneducated in history if you think not.
I guess he implied mundane on a scale level :)
Live now on periscope
No my 'of course its not' was sarcastic.
Testify !
Exactly. And provided that premium class cars are now a quarter of the price just a few years ago, who in their right mind would get a new Kia vs a 3yo Audi/BMW.
Show HN: Online tool to encrypt and decrypt text using AES encryption decryption
Checkout our phone www.blloc.com .

I think its exactly what we thought of, dumbing down the smartphone to the bare essentials without missing out too much. we don't have it perfectly communicated (working on it), but we're trying to find the middle between a "smartphone" and full blown detox.
We got inspired from some of our friends who went "dark" and didn't work out; we were as product designers sick of snapchat, gaming and the addicting viscous cycle however we still wanted to be in touch with some news, use uber and be sometimes reachable on whatsapp, messenger or telegram. We re-designed notifications to make it less distracting easy to turn off per app and most important functionalities reachable. Mainly theres no lock, you can lock some apps, but its ready to use (I was about to throw my iphone everytime it showed me 4 popups before i can use it).

check it out let me know if it would make sense if we create the possibility for people (or you) to extend it and build their own integrations / functionalities.
@vrbelli that's super insightful/useful! A sense of "shared purpose" is really difficult to create and impossible to "impose" (or worse "buy"!) I got the feeling (just from visiting "The Collective") that none of the people who designed/built the place had any intention of living there themselves ... It looked both "glossy" and "sterile" at the same time!

Do you think it would be better if there were fewer people like 50 instead of 500?

What about if existing residents got to "filter" the new "applicants"?

What are your thoughts on having an enforceable "code of conduct" to set the standard for interaction? (like some tech conferences and software projects have...)
Turn the Pi Zero into a HDMI dongle computer (version 2)
Not a big fan myself of VCs, I prefer organic growth. But I understand it's not for everyone, as it's much slower. Just my opinion...
I love living next to the M25, but the unreliability of trains sucks the joy out of certain things. Zone 6 (on the tube) might be manageable though.
Any links to help me get started?
moment doesn't have a modern API. It's a bloated, non modular and mutable mess. It's also pretty much abandonned.
The cycle continues :)

PS: I use date-fns, which is the flavour of the day.
The PRO "doesn't rely on SLC write caching".
Interviewer: "Can you think of any way to do it in smaller big-O?" Me: "I would first google it"

It annoys me that the good answer if you actually encounter the problem during the job is never accepted during an interview.
Even at an academic level, far too many people feel entitled to attribute absolutely every human outcome to society and culture.

Not only do we have philosophical, logical, and biological contributors affecting this, but "society" and "culture" can have logical and biological components as well. From a purely philosophical standpoint, what if I had come to the conclusion that a part of myself would live on through my children, and I am in despair at the lost opportunity to do do so? From a biological standpoint, I have lost access to one of life's greatest pleasures, but am also subject to the same physical drives without any release.

Now to expand that to "society," what fault is it of a partner who similarly has a philosophical drive towards procreation, or a biological desire for certain pleasure?

Some things just are blamelessly tragic, I'm sorry to let you know.
Meh? NPM only started to get better after yarn was released so this is over several years of experience.

Yarn also solved major speed and reliability issues. I'm not sure why that keeps being glossed over but NPM often had problems with reproducible builds and generally keeping things working. Just check the top comment on this page to see the outstanding bugs.
sucks if this service will be exclusive to subscription services offered by car manufacturers.
Cant amazon make a dongle with a simcard and/or wifi that plugs into ODB2 port to enable remote lock/unlock?
Netflix Wants to Buy Its Own Theaters, and That's Honestly a Good Idea
It would increase the value up until the point where people leave the ETH network entirely and move onto an ETH fork...
Bitcoin is the greatest scam in history
Why do you agree with Brown, if original intent is what matters? At the time the amendment was passed, the legislature and courts were clearly happy with a separate but equal doctrine. The Morrill Act of 1890, for example, specifically allows separate but equal universities as an alternative to integrated schools. The Supreme Court also upheld segregated schools in cases like Berea College v. Kentucky.

If you think that everyone before 1954 was interpreting the amendment incorrectly, that's equivalent to saying that the generally accepted meaning of the text changed, and therefore the law changed without any legislative action.
Yield, an equity stake in WeWork doesn't pay anything. If WeWork stops paying its bonds you can assume shareholders aren't going to be doing any better.
From the app's site:

"Whenever you want to focus, plant a tree.

The tree will grow in the following time.

The tree will be killed if you leave this app."

So probably, yeah. I assume there is some point at which the tree won't be killed since it goes on to talk about keeping a forest of trees representing stretches of time not using your phone to do anything other than run this app - hitting up its app store page describes it as a pomodoro timer, so about 25min gets you a tree.

My inner paranoid says "wow, what a great way to get people to help you mine cryptocurrency" but I will choose to assume that they're happy with the money they're making by selling it for two bucks, plus the occasional "sunshine elixir" IAP.
The executives and employees of banks can definitely go to jail if they screw up hard enough. Those in tech aren't excluded from this.

(Context: I am the Head of Engineering at a bank.)
> even in terms of sheer dopamine, i find it rewarding to see a bunch of new notifications at once. to me push notifications feel more like an annoyance than a dopamine hit.

The social networks understand this. I've read that they have algorithms that will batch and spread out your dopamine hits for maximum re-enforcement effect.
"very soon they will release kubernetes as the manager instead of yarn"

Do you have more details on this?
Hoping this reduces used 960 EVO/PRO prices. Not a whopping improvement.
Last paragraph is a hidden gem, should be pinned at the top of the page. Perhaps a blog post? :D
Microsoft Authenticator Acc Backup and Recovery: Coming Soon to an iOS Near You
you should talk to more normal people and fewer high yield bond traders
Comprehensive List of 20 Email Finder Tools
Intro to American Fuzzy Lop – Fuzzing with ASAN and Beyond
Definitely a back door, friends on the inside to bypass the BS.
Right, this would place the value of the ETH network at $8.8 million if it were processing all VISA payments. Something is wrong with the author's math or conclusions on that point. The value of processing as many transactions as VISA should be self evidently worth billions.

Another factor in crypto is that especially with proof-of-stake coins (like ETH is heading toward), part of the security of the protocol is in the expense of doing a hostile takeover of the network. A paltry $8.8 million valuation would presume that someone with as little as that could buy up all the supply (or 51%) of ETH and take effective control of the network.

You're right that attempting to do so would drive up the price, very rapidly.

Another sweeping point the author makes without backing up is the idea of "infinite competition" in the crypto space. Yes, anyone can fork BTC or ETH and make their own coin, but miners, stakers, exchanges, users, app developers, etc, won't necessarily flock to it. "Trust" is not built into the protocol.

I have no faith that someone who clicks the "Fork" button on Github necessarily has any idea how to run, maintain, secure, and grow a blockchain into doing something unique or novel. And I wouldn't stake my business or assets on it, per se, unless I was convinced that a team of people and a community was able to spring up around that blockchain.

Network effects matter, especially in crypto-assets. I trust the BTC network, because it's gone 9 years without a major exploit. I trust it because of the community, network, and ecosystem behind it. To act as if a fly-by-night crypto can swoop in and steal that crown so easily is foolish. Anyone can make a Linux fork, doesn't mean you're going to dominate the desktop market.
One thing I’d add: don’t ever check the box that says "Yes, I'm disabled" when applying to a company. Ever.

Unlike declaring race or veteran status, admitting past or present disability can only hurt your chances at getting an offer. Some employers may appreciate the honesty, most of them will automatically and quietly hold it against you at every step of the hiring process.

And they'll get away with it. Easily. The laws "protecting" disabled candidates are essentially toothless, since "illegal" reasons for rejection are often not written down or, at least, hidden from you and the goverment's.

[1] https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/disclose-disab...
[2] https://medium.com/@mshannabrooks/this-is-the-lie-i-tell-on-...
This sounds nice but shifts to a different set of problems. Any kind of job guarantee is bound to create lots of filler jobs, jobs which don't really need to be done by a human whatsoever, but, gotta make sure everyone has a job!

Safety regulations? add more until you need to hire someone whos 'qualified' (Gas pumping for example)
Quick Facts About the Silicon Valley Microschool That’s Disrupting Education
How is proving self study ability relevant to a job? Doesn't my resume of wildly varying projects and my ability to competently talk about them prove that?

It sounds to me like a way to weed out pesky applicants who have families or who are simply older.
A ~4 hour on-site (or google hangout) technical interview and discussion. The first 30-45 minutes is usually us selling you on the company, followed by 2-3 hours of technical stuff. We do throw a few more coding questions at you (ones that are technically trivial, but made more difficult with interview jitters etc), but go beyond that and ask how would you design an API, how would you think about the technical requirements about business problem etc. After that, Q&A, and more selling you on the company.
Drawing fractals in the browser with L-systems and ES6
I remember interviewing a candidate that didnt even know what a binary tree was (context was big-O complexity of algorithms). That interview was really bad. Left the candidate in tears (which was not intended, but I think of their realization they werent going to get the job), and me annoyed at the waste of my time (should have been caught in phone screen instead of on site).
The ticker for one of the largest High Yield ETFs (SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF) is JNK.

The term is often used in the financial press: http://lexicon.ft.com/Term?term=junk-bond

https://www.wsj.com/articles/near-junk-illinois-to-sell-more...