skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use a service called SkillSurvey for reference checks. It asks the candidate for references in an automated fashion and then the feedback is collected fairly anonymously.

We try to be respectful of people’s situations — EG: it’s never appropriate to contact a current employer without permission. We don’t do that.
Okay, so how do we use these kinds of tools to monitor our own personal machines?
The cool down is based on calendar day. I can see a movie at 10pm and 10am the next day. Not sure about 10pm and 12:30am or something like that.
Wasn't that hoard located on their own property? I think that simplifies the provenance issue significantly.
not sure FP handles fuzzy categories better than OOP

isn't fuzziness why we have topic models and, more generally, ML?
I totally agree on SQLAlchemy. It’s very good. As is Alembic.

I feel like most using Flask would consider “Flask components” to be equivalent to Flask extensions—e.g., Flask-SQLAlchemy vs SQLAlchemy proper. Maybe it’s a pedantic nitpick, but I’ve never heard anyone refer to SQLAlchemy as a Flask component in 5+ years, hence my comment about the distinction. But yes, many of the Flask-compatible Python packages you mentioned are quite a joy to use.
Likewise. Don't regret the decision.
Would love to see your formulation of it!
Can this still be done? I can check-in to whatever random movie, but walk up to the counter and ask to pay for a ticket to something else? I haven't received any emails asking for my receipt to be photographed. Unless they have some way of tracking the movie title on a debit charge (which my own Visa debit card doesn't even do) then you can just load a ticket for whatever movie and then request tickets from the actual employee to the movie you want to re-watch.
This is an advertisement for an O’Reilly book.

Maybe it’s a useful and interesting book for this community, but do we really want to see a brief three paragraph advertisement for a book?
Nothing. It seems the secret to success in software is shipping as fast as possible, and so far the market has proven that users are extremely forgiving of bad quality. And bad security. And hostile privacy practices. Users suck.
How did they spend three times their annual revenue on advertising?
I kept getting flagged for that kind of thing, had to start using a proxy to make my actually legitimate purposes.

Though looking at it from the other side, using a proxy should probably count against you a little.
You encounter dozens of bugs daily? That doesn’t really pass the smell test.
High volume in this case indicates that the product has reach a high level of quality in terms of defects per million and yield. 10nm is probably in the customer sampling phase, HVM means you can go to Best buy and get a 10nm laptop.
"Both sides" are not equivalent in any objective way.
Would a customer complain to you because of a paypal doesn’t cater to them ?

In particular, credit card setings are multi-step and all done on the paypal site, I wouldn’t imagine going back to some merchant site to complain about that process.
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How can they be certain the improvements don't have side effects or downsides. If every iteration of software is an improvement, we would have bug free software!
Cool, makes sense to me.
What about the single atom transistor?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-atom_transistor

A silicon atom is 0.210nm in size. Even if we cannot each single atoms, we have at least another order of magnitude in die shrinks left. Also, given fabrication companies’ marketing, it would not surprise me if we hear about a 0.13nm fabrication process.
Seconded! And also the sequel, Freedom. The basic premise of the story seems entirely plausible in the near future to me.
Across multiple services 5hat seems right. So much stuff has broken or buggy UI it's not funny.
In the beginning the consensus view was that we were heading for an imminent "ice age" and then that view changes to "hockey stick global warming" and now to cover all bets, climate change.

I have questions that I have posed to climate scientists and if a reasonable answer comes back then anthropogenic climate change is on the cards. But in fifteen years, nary an answer to those questions have come back, so, any prognostications by climate scientists based on their models are, as far as I am concerned, worthless.

As far as the evidence is concerned, it may or may not support an anthropogenic causal regime. But, on the basis of that evidence, I lean towards a non-anthropogenic majority cause for climate change.

As far as how science works, climate scientists make many assumptions about their proxies that have not been verified as being conclusively accurate. There is sufficient evidence, if you actually look around for it, to say that the interpretation of the proxy evidence is either incomplete or wrong or meaningless.
Maybe related to MySQL's 3-byte "utf8" charset which doesn't actually support unicode properly? (you are supposed to use "utf8mb4" nowadays though a lot of material still refers to "utf8")
The loss of incandescents made human habitats into colder, harsher, less welcoming places. We’re turning our nighttime cityscapes bright blue. We’ve almost completely erased the joy of coming home to warm soft lighting from the human experience (and no, the piss-yellow emitted by “warm” LEDs isn’t a substitute). We aren’t stuck with darkness, at least, but something very real and valuable was lost and not replaced.
Exactly, you could be killing a baby for each HTTP request and they wouldn't care, as long as its useful and don't costs them a dollar.
Just came across this. SpaceX seems to use Siemens NX pretty extensively:

https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en/about_us/success/c...
Talking smack about quadrants and media savvy highschoolers is certainly simple. Coming up with a relevant example to illustrate your point: that seems surprisingly less simple. The differences between factual and non-factual, direct statement and quote, hyperbole and metaphor: curiously elusive!
What class of errors do you think this would catch that aren't already covered by CET? Simply bolting on another equality check doesn't strike me as all that useful. The type has to live with the code or data, neither one strikes me as easy, both have huge downsides.

And what about CET's shadow stack is deficient compared to a "totally separate return address stack"?
Show them your passport. I'm sure that would clear the whole thing up.
Facebook made an ad about how bad Facebook has become
I remember the transition, and “A/B testing” different rooms in my parents house as our last incandescents died, quite vividly. It was awful. It still is, but people no longer have good quality light for comparison.
>Pursuing someone's personal details

He posted a HN comment that referenced an explicit link. That is not "personal." It's a publicly stated position, and one that sheds light on his true motivations on this subject.

I think this statement is disingenuous.
>Don't make this into something more than it is. This will not break your business, but making it a big deal when you don't have the power/resources to do so could.

This is correct. I totally forgot about them until one of our customer pointed out an email they received from the other startup and wanted to know if we shared our customer's contact with third parties.

It's impossible for us know what's the correct answer here. We have to share customer information for due diligence but does that mean investors are third parties? What if the investor uses this info for their startups?

> on one of your oversubscribed funding rounds

We are not in the silicon valley or even in North America.
Now this... This is the pinnacle of software engineering blogs. Shitty grammar and masturbatory bragging, interspersed with unnecessary expletives and abbreviations, topped off with a weak blog engine and zero citations is exactly what I love to read. Aaron Swartz, I'm sure, would be proud.
Radiation at 13nm cannot use normal mirrors or lenses for guiding/focusing the beam. The ones we know of reduce the power significantly such that your light source has to be very powerful. Generating this radiation is not easy.
Interesting point, though if there were buses every few minutes with no congestion why didn't you use them?
If you want to read the reasoning behind it, this is the appeals ruling:

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Wa...
When Microsoft treated their customers as beta testers... It was a bad thing.

When Tesla treats their customers as beta tester... It's a good thing?
Buyers automatically win all disputes though. And every though PayPal thankfully split from eBay the buyer wins there too.
Hmm. Isn’t this some pretty well-known malware?

See https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2015/11/has-macupda...
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It will be, because birth control will affect the evolution of our mental traits. Given the high effectiveness of birth control, this evolution is likely to be rapid.
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Logic programming has no learning component. It's an AI algorithm. Learning is based on datasets or dynamic environments.
Find creative expression that you feel excited about and act upon it
Hannity isn't a journalist. That's not (merely) a jab at him; it's something he himself has said on multiple occasions. He's a talk-show host; an entertainer. He explicitly does not not believe he's bound by the conduct standards of journalism.
The Shirky Principle (2010)
Rejecting one form of organization doesn't preclude all future organization.
They're not interested in bad public transport. Why catch a bus when it is caught in the same traffic as a car?

When a bus is faster than a car, including the last mile time - hopefully people will make the rational choice. This is why I think dedicated bus lanes are important - they are a cheap and cost effective method of increasing transport ridership and also increasing throughput.
From the article:

> Victims include a landscaper snatched in a Home Depot parking lot in Rialto and held for days despite his son’s attempts to show agents the man’s U.S. passport.

So, carry your passport on you personally at all times? And hope you never lose your wallet/purse?
> Since the first published citation to Emma in 1978, Jane Austen’s works have been invoked 27 times in American legal decisions, including references to Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and, of course, Pride and Prejudice.

Please add (<=27 judges) to the title.

The article was neat, but the headline is clickbait.
Nobody can write perfect software yet, as far as I know. And popular software has a bunch of engineers that need something to do so they often change/add features for no great reason. In the process they add/change/remove bugs.
There’s truth in this when many publications will offer an entire year’s worth of print for $5-$10.
The US and most of Europe had the same problems up until the early 20th century.
Q-Link was great for its time.
Constructing with {} uses an initializer list and the () is constructing by setting the size. See more details here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33185543/delegating-cons...
Great documentation, those of us that are curious do appreciate you sharing.
people griefing in online games (hacks/aimbots) often run with nicks like ||||||||||II||I|||||||||||||II1111|||||||IIIIIIIIII||||||||||||
Well, cfndsl allows us to write our cloudformation templates in YAML instead of JSON. Those can also get easily checked into git.

We are also trying out some stuff with serverless.

But we are an AWS-only shop, so terraform and other cross-cloud tools are not of interest. And we are also not interested in anything that can’t take full advantage of everything AWS offers.

And we are particularly uninterested in anything based on kubernetes.
> Do you intend for that position to include personal property rights?

No I don't.

A sense of boundaries for a person or small community does strike me as so completely contrary to nature as an authority which claims dominion over an entire continent.
Here's a huge list of chess variants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_variants
There are no lenses which are transparent at 13.5. This means you have to use mirrors instead, and even that's a challenge. 13.5nm was selected because it can be reflected by special Molybdenum/Silicon mirrors, but even these mirrors only reflect about 70% of the light. This means that for every two mirrors you add to the system, you have to double the brightness of your energy source.

As I understand it, the EUV light is produced by dropping little drops of tin in front of a laser, which turns it into a plasma that emits 13.5nm light. However, tin particles scatter everywhere and eventually damage the collector mirror, so it's hard to make these machines robust.

I also imagine with these high energies and 30% absorption, you have to cool all the mirrors to keep them from deforming, but I'm no expert.
A similarly lulzy but much more sinister-looking bug happened at Facebook, where an index into an array of users was mistakenly treated as a user id, so the message intended for user 4 in the array ended up going to the user with ID 4, aka zuck.
ICE needs to be completely torn down and replaced.
The same research findings exist for television. Shall the studios be busted and up and regulated into the ground, or are you just an apologist for Big Media and its billionaire owners? (What an awful rhetorical tactic...)
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Do they have offices in EU? The US has very strong freedom of speech rights. EU's are weaker. So it makes sense for them to only be based in the US.
This is not a news headline, it's a piece of analysis (the original reporting it's based on is linked in the body). Although I don't see the hyperbole, let alone innuendo in it at all. Unless you consider the mere use of a metaphor to describe Trump's legal engagements to be some sort of innuendo.
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I first started using Twitter in the late 2000s and got my friends using it with SMS. We used it similar to a group chat/hangouts.

..it did get annoying after a while.
I don’t see what’s wrong with using a scripting language to extend a data store. Regardless, Redis now has modules so that you can implement these extensions in native code instead of/as well as Lua. In fact it seems the author of the post already has done so with https://github.com/brandur/redis-cell
I'm so glad I don't have to sit through design presentations anymore. Just reading the first few words of the "Brand Book" made me die inside.
Here's a "meat grinder" all the way into 1943.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Rzhev

Zhukov was a commander. Read about the ammunition famine - 3 bullets per rifle. Sounds like a meat wave to me.
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I asked somebody who used to work there, and the answer I got was that there are a bunch of accounts from back before validation was as tight as it is now.

Which seems reasonable to me. At-replies were not something that Twitter started with, but instead were community-driven with software support added later:

https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2008/how-replies-w...

It's a good reminder that it's always easier to relax restrictions than to tighten them.

But then again, if Twitter early on were run by the sort of people who were inclined to lock down everything, it might not have evolved enough to be really useful to people. I hazily remember the Friendster guy getting really mad that people were creating accounts for non-human things that they loved, like cities and bars and companies. I think he went on a banning spree. Instead of saying, "Look how much people love my platform! Let me support them in their efforts."
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> E-waste recycler loses appeal on computer restore disks,

That's not the same at all. That was consumer fraud.
And to show you that 280 characters they need to download about 6 kbyte css, 4 kbyte javascript, 17 kbyte Google analytics, 26 kbyte jquery, 1.5 kbyte favicon, and some images... Total about 100 kbytes.
Hello, OOP (2018)

I just recently wrote a Lisp compiler and assembler (for VM) using OOP.

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/share/txr/stdlib/compil...

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/share/txr/stdlib/asm.tl

Even abused inheritance for logic re-use: see defopcode-derived macro in the assembler.

The OOP system is my own---now compiled. :)

It's a pleasure to use and makes the code look good.
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Don't forget about Sergey Aleynikov [0]. To quote HN user blackbagboys [1] as they quote Vanity Fair [2]:

> I read Michael Lewis's article in Vanity Fair about this case back in 2013, and I remember being struck by this excerpt in particular:

> [Goldman] called the F.B.I. in haste, just two days before, and then put their agent through what amounted to a crash course on high-frequency trading and computer programming. McSwain later conceded that he didn’t seek out independent expert advice to study the code Serge Aleynikov had taken. (“I relied on statements from Goldman employees.”) He himself had no idea of the value of the stolen code (“Representatives of Goldman told me it was worth a lot of money”) or if any of it was actually all that special (he based his belief that the code contained trade secrets on “representations made by members of Goldman Sachs”)...The F.B.I.’s investigation before the arrest consisted of trusting Goldman’s explanation of some extremely complicated stuff, and 48 hours after Goldman called the F.B.I., Serge was arrested.

> That, as the complaint highlights, the FBI instinctively acted as Goldman's punitive arm rather than conducting an independent investigation into the facts of the case is disturbing, regardless of the merit of the allegations.

So yes, the police act as hired thugs in the US too, if you are wealthy enough to be able to afford it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9045313

[2] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman...

EDIT:

Even better example: Louisiana school board hires a cop to be present as security officer during a meeting. He then proceeds to arrest the teacher who protested the board's decision on the issue being discussed. Many of the people who watched the video (me included) believe that the cop was there to do exactly that--intimidate teachers into silence and use force on those who could not be silenced.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/10/577010534...
I'm not sure it applies. Streisand effect is more when one person/group wants to publish something and another more powerful group wants it hidden, people want to root for the underdog. In this case they're both the same group. When the original group says they made mistakes, it sort of taints how much people value it.
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Vanilla chess is tremendously captivating. I think only a narrow segment of hyper experts crave a variant.
This is a really silly counterpoint. I am not even sure what point you are trying to make. How can pasting some program show how long it would take someone to reason out how to write it?
You should have stopped at the 50th application without response, and asked for professional help. As the saying goes, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." A career coach could have helped you figure out what was wrong.

Without knowing the details, I'd guess that the age prejudice is in your head, and instead your resume just raised a bunch flags. One common mistake is listing several disparate skills, with no coherence; recruiters need to be able to categorize you in one of their "boxes" - SRE, engineer, Unix sysadmin, Windows sysadmin, security analyst, leader CTO-type, etc. Jack-of-all-trades are usually the first ones to be dismissed.

Other common flag is lack of consistency in your trajectory. Candidates jumping between jobs too quickly may be a problem, unless you're looking for a short-term contractor.

Also, after you've been out of the market for a couple of years, it gets harder to get back in. So it's natural that now you're having to turn down offers. Again, another proof that age had nothing to do with your low success rate.
I feel the same about really modern poetry. Sometimes I feel like they're using unconventional grammar/vocabulary or simply incorrect grammar/vocabulary for the purpose of being unconventional.
>If a newspaper makes a mistake, they have an enormous degree of flexibility to paint their reporting in less negative light if they can just summarize what happened

But they can't do that, after the newspaper is printed you can find a copy of it with the original story, likely at the library. Similarly, copies of this story are still available online, just not on the NPR page. The equivalence of your suggestion in a newspaper would be their printing the entire story again in the next edition with a retraction, and I assume you could see how that could cause confusion.
If you read to the end, you’ll see the government didn’t let him keep the settlement, since they only give you two years from the date of the arrest to sue, which he couldn’t do, since he was still in custody.

I’d expect minimum statutory damages for this sort of thing to be north of $10K / day, paid up front, and garnished from ICE’s payroll budget. However, I don’t make the rules.
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“We have all become such suckers for a bargain that we take the low prices of our foodstuffs for granted...”

This is spot on, but it elides the arguable good that low food prices bring.

For full disclosure, I grew up on a working beef cattle farm, and my side hustle is to raise a flock of twenty sheep with my wife, who is a veterinarian, in the Maryland suburbs. So I'm sympathetic to small farmers and local agriculture. But the story is more nuanced than that.

American agriculture, like much of American industry, has optimised for the highest possible production at the lowest possible prices. This has a lot of side effects, some good, some bad. The good, of course, is that food is far less expensive than at any time in history, and real famine is almost nonexistent - true, there are local famines, and those are horrible, but they're cause more by politics and war than by farming practices. Historically, people who weren't farmers soent something like 40% of their income on food. That number is now closer to ten percent in industrialized countries. Don't overlook that fact when thinking about hunger in America. It exists, to be sure - but it would be a lot worse without industrialized agriculture.

The downsides, of course, are numerous. You have to have massive economies of scale to compete, which means more and more farm land is in the hands of fewer and fewer farmers - who, often, are working land owned by investors or corporations. It not only encourages massive use of pesticids and chemical fertilizer, it actually demands it. It degrades the soil. It contributes to the existence of plant diseases, both by its focus on planting monocultures and by the pesticide use, which breeds resistant parasites. And it reduces genetic diversity in crops.

Animal agriculture is also affected. Corporate farming produces poor quality of life for livestock, reduces genetic diversity in livestock, increases public health hazards through antibiotic overuse and zoonotic disease outbreaks, and encourages overconsumption of meat.

And both contribute significantly to global warming.

But, unfortunately, most people vote with their pocketbooks most of the time. What would you do if your grocery bill went from $150 a week to $300 or more?