skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's still three choices, how does one choose which one?

Back in the 1980s, Japan was having a major economic boom, and it was thought that everyone should learn Japanese. Since then, the Japanese economy has been rather sluggish, and now people don't think that so much any more. China is booming, so now people think they should learn Chinese instead. (Although, I think learning Japanese is easier for native English-speakers than learning Chinese–no tones to worry about.)
UBI might be able to happen on a blockchain by taking a percentage of the rewards and sharing it.

One problem facing such a system would be sybil attacks. POS systems avoid this by weighting in regards to coin ownership, but in a UBI chain you would not want this since the whole point is to give to people equally.
I thought it was a joke but then I talked myself out of it :-)

Yeah interviews have been rough this time around. Before this I hadn’t interviewed in 10 years.
"So can you come pick this hairbrush up and give it to your cousin?"
Haha, okay I will bite. What's the name of your SaaS project?
Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games:
https://medium.com/@donhopkins/designing-user-interfaces-to-...

>Other people wanted to use SimCity for the less noble goal of teaching people what to think, instead of just teaching them to think.

>Everyone notices the obvious built-in political bias, whatever that is. But everyone sees it from a different perspective, so nobody agrees what its real political agenda actually is. I don’t think it’s all that important, since SimCity’s political agenda pales in comparison to the political agenda in the eye of the beholder.

>Some muckety-muck architecture magazine was interviewing Will Wright about SimCity, and they asked him a question something like “which ontological urban paridigm most influenced your design of the simulator, the Exo-Hamiltonian Pattern Language Movement, or the Intra-Urban Deconstructionist Sub-Culture Hypothesis?” He replied, “I just kind of optimized for game play.”

Constructionist Educational Open Source SimCity:
https://medium.com/@donhopkins/har-2009-lightning-talk-trans...

>I’ve programmed a plug-in church with a plug-in agent: the Church of Pacmania, and the PacBot. The church spawn PacBots on the road next to it, which eat the traffic on the roads (lowering the pollution and raising their score, of course). So naturally the Church of Pacmania generate a lot of traffic, to attract and feed the PacBots. I’m going to have a “Tax the Churches” option, too. If I lower the taxes, then more people will come in, and the churches will recruit them, and they’ll all drive to church. So then there will be a lot more traffic for the PacBots to eat.

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/blob/b0c5a3f495ebabb...

https://github.com/SimHacker/micropolis/blob/b0c5a3f495ebabb...
Ignoring practical issues with obtaining the sample, I think a good lawyer could probably find a way to sue you for any damages that you caused. As for whether it's a criminal act, I think that it might be a form of assault, maybe.

I know it would violate certain state laws regarding biometric data, but the penalty for violating those laws appears to be civil by and large, not criminal.
Set the dpi? A caveat, I'm not sure if setting different dpi across multiple monitors really work.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/197828/how-to-find-and-chang...

See also:

http://blog.jamiek.it/2015/04/manually-fixing-multiple-scree...

(i currently have two HD monitors, and/or stand alone laptop monitors, so same scaling for multiple screens isn't really an issue).

Please reply if this (doesn't) help.
The right answer to this is to edit the question: fix the formatting, write a good title and select a good set of tags.

I feel that if I do this, maybe the questioner will learn from the edits for their future questions. And even if they don't, at least I've made the question potentially valuable for other people coming along later, which is the main point.
Marijuana can be detected in a urine test for 3 days after use for a non-user.

If you're a frequent smoker, it can last be detected over a month after your last use. Even longer in hair tests.

Obviously being high at work isn't a good thing, but neither is being drunk at work. But you don't get fired for having a few beers on the weekend.
http://archive.is/bOjVZ
This is a common problem with investors.

Others may differ, but I think it's a red flag, if they want you to starve. If you're dependent on the company, you'll become desperate to stay with the company. This opens up the door for all kinds of acts, legal and illegal, to screw you out of the share that you didn't sell to them.

I would have never believed it if I hadn't seen it firsthand, but it's amazing how many in the moneyed class would often rather have 100% of nothing, out of principle, than let an investee join the moneyed class by generating a massive financial return for investors and entrepreneurs alike.

No deal is too good to walk away from.
MPEG LA
Then move on and don't respond at all. Leave the begging to the users that want to help new users get better. There's a genuine complaint that responses to new users are often harsher than required. "I shouldn't have to beg for information" is not a valid response to that criticism.

Answerers have no idea about the skill level of the people asking the questions. Their english might not be so good. This might be the first time someone is programming and they don't know which line in a stack trace is particularly important. They Need Help. If you're not willing to help users at that skill level, then don't. But it's totally unfair to criticise them.
> I volunteer to charities and I provide business class high tech services at fractions of the prices of the competition because they're ripping small businesses off and I am attacking them directly. I would be willing to bet my contributions to the world are more positive and far reaching than any cop anywhere in the world, no matter how great they are (and most are not), in fact.

I too work for charities, but that does not entitle me to look down on people who make less than I do (monetarily).

You of course have the right to judge behaviour as you see fit. But I also have that right and I exercise it by openly stating that I think your comment is demeaning.
Quart is another option. Even more of a "drop-in replacement" than sanic.
There's nuance here. There are plenty of cases where individuals ask XY questions, meaning they've gone down a strange route to solve X and now need help solving Y, and it's always been debated within the community on whether you should solve X or oftentimes go to great lengths to solve Y. I've seen many questions where a solution to X is answered and heavily downvoted. I'm not sure how you resolve that.

Question: How do I #include a 500MB text file in my C++ code as a string? My compiler explodes when I do this!

Me: Don't do this, your compiler isn't designed for this! Consider loading the text from a file instead!

Comment: -1 Dude this isn't helpful. What if it's code golf and you need to include a 500MB text file!? You never know. Get over yourself.

Stuff like this has happened to me so many times.
We (a big newspaper - 5k-10k visitors at any time) run on Flask. Quite a big application.

It was the biggest reason why I choose this job, as many python shops seem to run Django which I'm not a fan of.
http://archive.is/aQ2x3
Jesus christ that site is bad.

It's like they tried to tick every box in the "obnoxious and annoying" category:

* It's inexplicably large

* It's slow af

* Scroll hijacking

* back button hijacking

* There's elements that appear when I scroll, but they disappear so you don't actually appear to be able to look them any more than in passing. (Notably the colourful logos for Google and Priceline).

* Did I mention it's slow? Scrolling is slow. Clicking on things is slow. Animations are slow.

* ~Half the code isn't even minified and a coworker pointed out that some of it doesn't appear to even be used.~ Nevermind, some of it does appear to be minified/resized.

* 3.8+ Megabytes of JS, really? Really really? Why?
This is one of the issues called out in the original post.

And little makes me sadder than comments on answers saying, “Don’t answer questions like this – it encourages them.”
I don't know if SpaceX will do aviation other than the long-haul Mach 20 BFR type, but Elon Musk has expressed interest in high speed electric aviation as well. If Tesla and/or SpaceX end up being too successful, he'll probably guide one of them to that space.
As an adult you need to choose between a immature desire to smoke weed or abuse alcohol and your work where the health and safety of others is at risk.

If you’re lucky enough to get into the union, I doubt you care much about the luxury of making less money.
The idea of finding suspects based on DNA is not without problems, is it?
Big difference is Google does the entire stack and also has scale to conceptually be able to create a better solution. But that is theoretical.

Here we can see the results where the Google TPU gets almost twice result per dollar over Nvidia. But then Google should be able to iterate more quickly.

Take the move from using CNN to using capsule networks. The idea for Capsules came from Hinton and Google is going to be there first to optimize in hardware. This is the benefit of playing in all layers of the stack.

Or the using NN for text to speech and offering at scale. Google just has inherent advantages over Nvidia and now we get to see a little more concrete results. But hope we get a lot more similar and see if the Google advantage holds up.
"When a city has grown so overlarge and crowded that it is in immediate danger of collapse...when food and clean water flow into the city at a rate just sufficient to feed every mouth, and every hand must work constantly to keep it that way...when all transportation is involved in moving vital supplies, and none is left over to move people out of the city should the need arise...then it is that Crazy Eddie leads the movers of garbage out on strike for better working conditions."

From Niven's "The Mote in God's Eye"
Do you say that because of the bidding mechanism itself, or is there actually a culture of wagering on bridge games? I wasn't aware of that.
> That being said, you can use Swift through WSL, but not directly on Windows.

I thought so too, but i've checked the instructions to build on windows, and now there's a way to build it natively using Visual Studio cl(or clang-cl).

Following the instructions here, it worked for me.

https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/docs/WindowsBuild...
No one claimed the answer was offensive. It's unnecessarily condescending though. If you, as a senior developer, spoke to a junior developer on their first day at a new job in the same way, they'd be very unlikely to come to you for help in the future.

Learning how to interpret error messages and extract the important information is a skill. What may seem obvious to you may not be obvious to someone with barely any experience.

> was just a standard dry answer like you hear at any top university everywhere

Which makes it OK? If university lecturers are speaking to new students trying to learn in this way, they shouldn't be teaching new students.
The thing about asking questions under an unfamiliar topic is that the asker isn’t knowledgeable enough to ask the appropriate questions. While this may seem like pure ignorance from a reviewers point of view, it’s much different for the asker. Unfortunately, these types of questions don’t work well in a q and a format.

I’ve actually came across a few very good questions where the author answered his own in a very concise manner. and guess what? He had over 1k upvotes. Those are the questions that SO is catering. Which leads me to believe that by design, SO will never be able to fulfill their wishes in the blogpost.
That's not what I'm talking about. Your DNA can end up under the fingernails of a murder victim with no connection to you. Your name cannot. There was a Wired article about this the other day:

https://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/
I know you mean well, and I don't mean to put you down, and I'm sure the technology behind this is impressive and is making some people's lives way better, but this is exactly what I was getting at above.

LZX file system compression is objectively not a killer feature. If it was a killer feature, Windows wouldn't have had to run an aggressive campaign to trick users into upgrading - they would have upgraded themselves so they could get the amazing new feature that they cared about.

It's certainly good that Windows supports it, and it's definitely an improvement. But improvement isn't a one-dimensional scale - it's possible to build a product that's technically better in some ways that's still overall a worse value proposition for a large portion of its users.

It's like if I poured coffee on your jacket and then said, "well, let me make it up to you by shining your shoes." That's very kind, but the gesture is unrelated to the problem.
That's a neat tip. Do you know if the compression triggers stuff like Blizzard's Warden or Valve's VAC (I think it's called that).
An inspired artist in other mediums would spend comparable time.
Such is the way of Capitalism. Profits over people. Otherwise you'll get eaten by other capitalists (or Oracle), since you have less 'growth'.

People in the industry needs get people to pay more than full price whether they like it or not.
Sounds like real life. Trains of poo leaving daily from new york, for example.
For those interested in seeing Glenda:

https://blog.golang.org/gopher
> as far as some of the treatment I've seen and read about on SO, this is downright courteous

> so literally what the fuck did she want

Help? Perhaps it was their first time writing a program, and they can't interpret error messages. This is exactly the kind of elitist behaviour people are discussing - and if you're unable to see how the answer might keep people away, then you have no business trying to help new users.
> A lot of people who get rich these days do it via equity, not salary.

Yes, true.... but many more take pay cuts for equity that ends up being worthless. Equity is the way to get stinkin' rich, if you are lucky. But a salary, alongside proper savings and investments, still gets you rich enough to not have to worry too much about money later in life.
Most interesting thing I've found on HN in several days. I think that artistic expression through technology is underappreciated.
I run engineering at a medium size startup. I don't like hiring C++ programmers with less than 20 years experience. Ironically the Ukrainian outsource team I once used to find talent quickly now supplies me with "senior devs" that are 5 years out of school. I'm in my mid-thirties myself.
It depends on what you’re trying to accomplish, but commercial distributed endpoint protection would not be in my top 20 projects for any startup I can think of working with.
I'm okay with people saying something is "dumb," I just request they have a well-reasoned argument for that position, and that they defend their position vigorously if it's important to them.
I doubt it was snapshotting. It is common to force OS updates. For macOS there are tools where the employee will be prompted to update, and can dismiss for a while, but eventually they will be forced to restart. My guess is that the Facebook employee had ignored update prompts and was then forced to update. Every day does seem odd, I can't think of an update type that would require restarts/logoff every day. At least a couple years ago Facebook and Dropbox were managing their Macs in similar ways, with similar tools, I'd be surprised if they changed to something that required daily restarts.
Note that some services will allow you to upload a spreadsheet of SNPs which you got from another testing service. If the police had access to a non-commercial lab, say a state-run lab in California which can sequence a similar set of SNPs, then they could upload the results to those sites. For instance, FamilyTreeDNA allows raw data uploads, as does MyHeritage, and the non-commercial site gedmatch.com.

Edit: or of course they could have sent a saliva sample to one of the genealogy sites, assuming they had enough to part with some, and it was in suitable condition to work with the site's test equipment.
That quote has reminds me of the classic short story: Lamb to the Slaughter [1].

[1] http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html
Yawn. Privilege. Women. People of colour....yawn. Getting a bit boring hearing this lame virtue signaling everywhere...
Movies should be an artistic expression, not a mathematically-optimal plot to maximize repeat viewership wrapped in as many special effects as they can pack into 90 minutes.

We've reached "peak special effects" - raytracing has been used in movies for decades, and we're very close to having realtime raytracing in videogames.
Your rule of thumb is fine. That's roughly how much large-scale solar farms built a few years ago are producing over the course of a year in the California desert. As module efficiency goes up the number will trend up a bit over time in desert locations, but as costs fall more farms will be installed in less-sunny locations as well.

Unlike my sibling poster, I don't expect solar thermal to do significantly better on areal efficiency. The captured-sun-to-electricity efficiency can be higher, but the mirrors need to be spread out more than PV modules need to be separated. Ivanpah covers 14.2 km^2 and generated 719398 MWh in 2017.

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

Annualized, that's

(719398 / (24 * 365)) / (14.2 * 1000 * 1000) * 1000000 = 5.8 watts/m^2. Solar PV farms in a similar climate are doing significantly better.

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

Desert Sunlight's annualized generation was, using the wiki data again,

(1346282 / (24 * 365)) / (16.0 * 1000 * 1000) * 1000000 = 9.6 watts/m^2.

I know that Ivanpah has been troubled. I'd welcome annualized areal power figures from a better-performing solar thermal generating project if anyone has them.
Isn't much of workplace drug-testing related to lower insurance premiums? Or is that an overstated myth? I've heard this repeatedly, but haven't read anything definitive.
"... smallpox and other alien ailments into their population, decimated the Tsimshian..."

It annoys me when even should-be scholarly sources so badly misuse that word.

"...in the 19th century alone, Tsimshian numbers fell by 57 percent..."
Do you have any tricks for making rds really cheap?
Because they know how to lay pipe
I second this! I've looked at GNUStep in the past for a few different things, but it always looks so woefully unmaintained.
I think if you rule out CS majors at top 20 (ish) schools/progams, I think that you will find the number of CS major sophomores getting these types of summer internships rounds to zero, and the exceptions exist largely due to pre-existing personal contacts.

I would suggest that most CS majors at top 20 schools/programs grossly underestimate how hard it is to do what they have done.

I know plenty of Cal State CS majors who only dream of jobs like this. These relatively lucrative jobs aren’t really that common for mediocre students at mediocre programs.
In support of the article, and in contrast to the “assume equity is worthless” HN conventional wisdom, at my current job I’m vesting seven figures of equity every year at our current valuation, and have been since the day I started. What worked for me in my latest job search was focusing on companies that had a very small headcount relative to their valuation, although there are other filters you can use like those Jessica mentioned.

The nice thing about working for a company that has raised a bunch of money but is still quite small is that you don’t necessarily have to sacrifice salary either. When I joined I got a 50% raise from my previous base salary at a big 5 tech co without negotiating.
Consider this creepy altrnative: You have a drink at a bar. Stranger swabs it, or steals the glass, collects DNA, sends it in, now triangulates who you are from your relatives.

I don't know if it's that easy, but something like this may become possible.
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I don't know if that is true or not, but fingerprints can't (as of yet) show familial connections. I suppose fingerprints could harbor DNA though.
None of that makes him a suspect.

Lots of people in the DNA databases are relatives to someone who lived in Sacramento.

I wonder how many close DNA matches did they find, and eliminate because there was no viable relative who could be a suspect?

DNA is useful, but factoring up the probabilities in this case is not easy. Good luck trying to explain that math to a jury.
From an old Reddit post of mine:

Your reply has been Cursed to Hades for not being stack overflowy enough, even though it was the accepted answer, and has received hundreds of votes. Also the whole question has been Excommunicated for not being mumblemumblemumble enough. Even though it was the highest voted question of all time, with thousands of responses from beloved members of the community. You both should feel ashamed of yourselves.

-by Vlad The Impaler, Feb 2 '14 at 20:41

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2c59xe/what_i_...

I love that they wanted to be an answers site. I hate that they forgot sometimes the answers people desperately need are, "What do you think is the right way to do this?" Or, "What's your favorite solution to this problem?" It could have been another Stack Exchange site, sure. But they just didn't do it. And they should have.
(so are most psychologists)
My family found an estranged relative from a one off affair in another country through Ancestry's "probably related" tool. It was an incredible experience.
BBVA issues corporate loan using blockchain
Wait so you're saying I get a free house because I took a loan I couldn't afford?
Ok, let's imagine for a second that I offer a service. I will deliver any item you want to your door in two days, and I will also supply you with as much manure as you want.

Most people would like the first benefit more than the second. If you're a farmer, maybe you want the manure, but to most people that "benefit" doesn't apply. Is my average customer sarcastic in claiming that all my service offers is two day shipping? No. That's just the only part of the service they would ever care about.

I would bet that most prime customers are interested specifically in the shipping, so to them the fringe benefits are irrelevant.
I had gazillion encounters when senior engineers/managers were unbelievably condescending, especially when they saw a capable competitor in you. The keyword is resilience, are you going to gain this virtue, or are you going to complain everywhere and cry on all available shoulders, and then once you get what you wanted, start backstabbing anyone that helped you to keep them down and forget about what put you there? I was one of those "useful idiots" that was helping to my utmost capacity others, wasting time I could have spent working on bigger projects helping humanity. Every single case when those people got what they wanted stopped recognizing me and called me only when they needed something. I am no longer than person.

If you really want something, work on it to the full extent of your own capabilities, get ready to be beaten from left and right and figure out how to move forward. Don't expect help from around you. When somebody shows generosity to you, treat it as a wonderful bonus you try to return somehow someday, not a requirement.
For the specific example of Nintendo, the codephrase for their exploit-closing patches is 'Increasing Overall System Stability'[0] which has spawned a beloved meme.

[0] http://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a...