skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but why? Is there not an arbitrage opportunity here? Are European advertisers paying less? Are Americans more gullible?
That's not entirely true. Companies like BioMarin take advantage of the Orphan Drug Acts to make drugs for rare diseases. Then they get bashed for charging loads for these drugs. Damned if you do and damned if you don't!
For me it would be a small tool I made called easy Gmail scheduler (https://github.com/RayBB/easy-gmail-scheduler). In retrospect it wasn't that complicated but it was my first fully completed project. When others started making pull requests I knew that I had made something that was actually useful to people and that was exciting for me!
I hate to break it to you but computers are pretty much junk all the way down to the silicon level at this point. Ho hum.
Partially agree. OTOH, giving 20% attention is a much harder task than giving 80% - we (people) suck at multitasking, which means the larger task eventually gets 100%, and the smaller slip towards 0%. Lethal.
Not quadruple.
You know that there are restaurants in towns across America, right?

I'm about to go vote for taco makers to have the pleasure of not living in a big city right now.
ABP is old and busted and bought-out. ublock Origin is one of the new hotness plugins you need.
I doubt the 17th-century Dutch were all reading the same issue of Tulip Investors' Weekly.
Yep, I don't believe any industry/science deteriorated during years of "usage" as much as IT did, software development came to the point where I am ashamed to say to the people I am a developer. Not becoase of my knowlidge but due to all the garbage that universities through out to the streets. =/
I think the proportion is more realistically 2 haters who moved to xfce/mate, 1 who likes it and 5 people who shook their head in shame and went straight back to Windows or OSX.

Edit: just to back my point up; most of the people who I have seen who have tried to move to Linux have done a relatively sharpish 180 when the UI pokes them in the eye (gnome or unity)
ABP is pretty widely considered compromised, i.e., sold out. Switch to uBlock Matrix (or uBlock Origin for a drop-in replacement for ABP).
Hangouts Meet is entirely replacing Hangouts video calls in May
Unfortunately in the music production world, Windows or OSX are the only options if you want to customize your hardware (sequencers, synthesizers, etc) or import patches/presets. I think this is largely because no major DAW has Linux support.
Basically doing the work of the same IDEs we’ve been using for decades?
He did lie. He lied anyway. Bush implied that Iraqi intelligence was involved in 9/11, in order to conflate the case for war with Iraq with the justification for war in Afghanistan. He stated that "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa," a claim based on forged documents.

Cheney even stated that the administration was going to invade Iraq regardless of the evidence. It's clear they weren't intending to make a case for war in good faith so much as spin the public by any means they could.
> Me: on which kind of CPU? Why not let me compare my code to yours in a benchmark?

While I agree that this is the right answer, questions regarding "Big-O" are trying to find out whether or not you can evaluate the complexity of an algorithm. If you can, you have some hope of writing different useful benchmarks that could be compared, where sometimes you can see orders of magnitude of improvement. If you can't, you might be just blindly tweaking the code to get 1-5% improvement from compiler flags, assembly optimizations, etc.

In practice this recruiter might be bad at their job by binding themselves so rigidly to the script.
thats just coz we are too lazy to change from it due to having other things to do with our work time. I disliked Unity but now I appreciate the effort. Too late of course.
I always find it funny how hardware manufacturers most of the time ship a bunch of drivers with their components. Windows drivers for wireless cards, motherboards, graphics cards, etc. Never needed any of those for Linux (The open source AMDGPU driver is good enough).
It isn't their company...
Whatever you are about to say was likely covered in the existing 1000-comment thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12701272
Would you need a constant connection? Auto-uploading to the phone if it’s in range after each recording would drain the battery faster but with their advertised ~2 day battery (one week of use on 4 case charges) it doesn’t seem impossible, it seems like a trade-off they decided not to make.
Bikking on the sidewalk is illegal, which might be why pedestrians don't expect it to happen.
I know and in case it wasn't clear, I was expressing my opinion.
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I don't know if we are 10 years or 50 years away from there being no more software development jobs but it's gonna happen.
If anything, the pricing likely benefits Google. As in Google may be more profitable with the TPU usage, even at 1/2 the cost of Amazon's V100 usage.
nvidia's binary blobs cause headaches on all distros -

this isn't really a distro/linux issue.
Inb4 "don't buy a Tesla then" - this is not limited to Tesla customers, but extends to anyone in the vicinity.
We've done some testing and found many inaccuracy in Google LB Geo-IP results, anyone know who is in charge and which channel we can feedback to Google?
I would have hung up about halfway in when the recruiter said there was a best sorting algorithm. That is patently false, and the best algorithm depends heavily on your needs at the time which is where engineering comes in. Whoever wrote that test didn't seem to understand what engineers do, but what makes a competent engineering organization.
What that list should really have in it is:

1) A female employee complains of harassment: what do you do?
2) What is an effective devops approach for an Android app?
3) How do you build a culture of teamwork across teams versus a zero sum culture.
Great stuff. I followed the thread when he released the challenge and enjoyed reading the comments and quibbles people had along the way.

Also, strongly agree on zero overlap between bulldogs and theorem provers. Those who were assholes didn’t make a single effort to contribute productively to the discussion. A good reminder that jerks (no matter how brilliant they think of themselves) can be safely ignored.
Conveniently, articles like this always leave out how some European nations directly and knowingly helped Saddam with his chemical weapons programs, such as Germany and the UK. It was a united effort by the West, just as the vast destruction of Syria has been.

"As part of Project 922, German firms helped build Iraqi chemical weapons facilities such as laboratories, bunkers, an administrative building, and first production buildings in the early 1980s under the cover of a pesticide plant. Other German firms sent 1,027 tons of precursors of mustard gas, sarin, tabun, and tear gasses in all. This work allowed Iraq to produce 150 tons of mustard agent and 60 tons of Tabun in 1983 and 1984 respectively, continuing throughout the decade. All told, 52% of Iraq's international chemical weapon equipment was of German origin. One of the contributions was a £14m chlorine plant known as "Falluja 2", built by Uhde Ltd, a UK subsidiary of a German company; the plant was given financial guarantees by the UK's Export Credits Guarantee Department despite official UK recognition of a "strong possibility" the plant would be used to make mustard gas."

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

https://fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/cw/az120103.html
Huh what? AI isn’t a magical wave in this direction wand. This is a simple routing algorithm at its core.

Consider also the “you’re going up against google in terms of development resources and compute power.” That’s not a fight you will win.
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That was posted in 2016, so this submission qualifies as new content. (it doesn't feel like over a year though!)
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IRL the misinformed question author wouldn't include an "E" as a possible answer and that's your cue to select C.
You can also just press enter and type your password like normal.
Do you cite software?
There are people that I follow in the publisher/subscriber sense that aren't Friends so aren't in the mercifully clean section. Instead, I would have to wade through the random ordering in the tabloid section to find them.

It's too bad they didn't take content curation a little more seriously (or personalized, at least). The in-app content seemed almost revolutionary in the beginning, especially those from more serious publishers that explored one topic over multiple high-design pages. It turned into AOL before it had time to mature.
> People seem to forget that Ubuntu is just the front door. You can totally turn all their crap off, run some other window manager, and avoid all the turdburgers.

soo... run debian?
Google hiring has been fubar for years now.

I think many of us here have been contacted ( unsolicited ) by Google for job interviews in the past.

My Google interview story ends with me stopping the 8th interview ( 4th technical interview ) half-way in due to the frustration of listening to my interviewer loudly reply to text messages on his phone while I'm trying to write very complex source code into a shared Google Text Document using no other development tools.

At one point the 8th interviewer asked me if I had ever used Github before. Considering Google cold-contacted me on my public Github email address and half my resume was Github projects it was obvious this guy didn't even look at my resume...
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What makes you so sure it is all the silicon difference and not just AWS pricing their product at a more profitable price point?

These costs also ignore transferring and storing massive data sets in the cloud. In general the cloud is a huge pain and I'd avoid it like the plague unless I was caught and really, really needed the scalability. But even then that only works if you have a scalable implementation of the algorithm you are working on.
> Baseball cards became a thing because Americans already had too much money.

This reminded me that I should start collecting the Panini stickers for the upcoming football World Cup. The only issue is that I've read recently that they doubled in price and I had a hard-time convincing myself to throw money their way even they were cheaper, much less now, with the current price. Which is a shame, because I first collected World Cup Panini stickers 25 years ago, when I was a kid.
What makes them incompatible? If they’re approximately the same size and speed I don’t see a reason they can’t share the same paths.
is this pronounced f*n go cloud?
... and have a couple spare weeks if you're inexperienced with Arch and don't have an intimate knowledge of the entire Linux user space stack. Sure, if you're experienced with Arch it might appear to be just some written instructions; otherwise, it's more like 1,000 page text book on Linux.
> I crawl back to xubuntu and XFCE in the end every time as it does the service of getting out of my way.

I started using xcfe when KDE replaced 3.5 (which was nice) with KDE 4 and onwards. I've tried GNOME and Unity but didn't like them much. Xcfe works the way I like it and most importantly it does feel a need to remake itself few years to pursue whatever is the latest fashion in UI design.
AI Software Writing AI Software for Healthcare?
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I have learned from experience that most people cannot differentiate cause from effort or fact from truth. As such I suspect any published opinion will change many the opinions of many people without any rational consideration.
Same experience here with the trivia questions. They called me out of the blue about 10 years ago and said they wanted to interview me. So I said OK. Later, during the interview, the questions were largely trivia. How do you remove a file using the rm command when the file is named -f?

I was like, what sane person would name a file -f? Anyway, after I got over the shock of the question... you can ./-f, use the absolute /path/to/-f or -- -f and maybe other ways too.
Think of the implications for the old fashioned advertorial[0]...

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertorial
I've spent the last four years helping produce a IMAX/Giant Screen film featuring 7.5 million images from Cassini, Hubble, and SDSS with no CGI/VFX.

http://insaturnsrings.com/

I spent most of that time writing the software that downloaded images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, located the galaxies in them, cut them out, and placed them with the correct location & scale in the animation software. The best part for me has been getting to work on a project I really believed in, even though I had absolutely no experience with films or astronomical imaging. I just jumped into the deep end and had to learn as I went.

Writing code that puts things on a 6 story tall movie screen is such a different experience than pushing code to an app server to serve up banking apps. Hopefully the work I did here will go on to inspire someone else to have the same love for space that I do.
I'm curious -- why do you want to record the moment?
As long as I have the old-school styled MATE Desktop I'll be fine (XFCE is ok too once configured, just not my preferred enviro). Honestly, the UI should be err on keeping it simple and fast, animate IFF it is minimal and gives user useful feedback, always include 'open terminal here' contextmenu (be proud Linux), file browser should have up, back, forward buttons and a way to copy the path, and a bar to place oft use applications, and multiple desktops. That is all I want. Simple,no?
im sure there are mixed opinions on “chapo trap house” as a whole, but i think they have filled a somewhat novel niche of lampooning oped writers who have no business being listened to. i feel like opeds are passive accepted / groaned at, but giving them renewed attention and scrutiny has reminded me how little weight i should give most of the writers opinions. in many cases, they have no more expertise or knowlege than a layperson on the topic, what business do they have being read by millions?
To be fair, if any company hired you based just on your app, it would be unfair to you and the company. Most software companies thrive because of generalist SWEs who need to demonstrate consistent performance.

It might be that the app was a foot in the door but might not be applicable past that initial point
This again? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Google%27s%20%E2%80%9CDirector...
I had a similar experience in 2013, which while I passed the screen it only ended up matching me to SRE roles. I have PhD in CompSci so that was pretty disappointing so I did not bother scheduling an onsite.

My more recent experience was a lot more positive, the screen is much more conversational and coding-based and not a test of wrote memorization of CS trivia.

I don't know if this is due to changes in the past 5 years or the recruiters being from different teams.
This sounds like an old post. Google recruiting was really terrible 10 years ago but these days it’s just bad or okay sometimes. I would be shocked if they asked potential directors of engineering these questions today.
I don't hate it, but KDE Plasma is so good, that I can't use anything else anymore.

I recommend others to try. Also, shout out to OpenSuse if you want a good KDE distro.
> there is a trade-off between organic community and both inclusion and state intervention in private arrangements.

I think this line becomes heavily blurred in a democratic society where laws are authentic expressions of people's preference for how their society should be ordered. The laws surrounding marriage being the obvious prototype.

You can see the proposals to abolish marriage in the wake of the French Revolution as a recognition it is the ultimate intrusion of the state (and Church) into deeply private affairs, but one which we as a society tolerate due to long practice and because we ultimate recognize that the necessary freedom to enter into a binding commitment is more valuable than, say, the freedom to be able to change your mind at any time (modern, unilateral no-fault divorce notwithstanding).

I agree that the way freedom is defined strongly matters and I attacked a bit of a strawman, but one that represents a trend. A naive conception of freedom, where all rules, traditions, and authorities are seen as inherently limiting, ultimately leads to normlessness and anomie.

I'd say that what many modern societies lack are meaningful commitments, freely entered (strong, cohesive communities being one aspect).
Could you find the source for this?
Surely this is gambling, at least.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/MTG-Magic-Repack-BLACK-LOTUS-booste...
>I bet with systemd it is even higher, 100:1 or 1000:1, but the few haters are extremely noisy.<

this comment... lol..Its always the same reply about haters from systemd fanbois. never an actual recognition that QC is shoddy at times.

The post stated the QC (Quality Control)) was an issue. Its not about for or against Systemd. That argument is over. Its here whether we like it or not. But posting reply's like this when people question, and RIGHTLY question QC of systemd is pathetic.
Just in case you thought that screenshot looks fake: https://web.archive.org/web/20160210013242/http://www.huffin...
Before I answer the question: My most fun job was when I tried starting a company. Unfortunately, the company was a disaster and I never made any money. Thus, it wasn't fullfilling.

My most fulfilling / rewarding job is my current. I'm the desktop client architect for Syncplicity. We do enterprise grade file synchronization.

In 2011, I went looking for a good alternative to Dropbox and I found the industry, as a whole, immature. I decided the only way I'd use such a product was if I worked on the product itself, this way I could personally fix the kinds of bugs that I anticipated such a product would have.

There were ups and downs, but life is never perfect. Overall, I genuinely enjoy working on the product, and the people I work with are great. I've been able to find new challenges within the role, both technical and social. Unlike when I ran a startup, I'm actually getting paid!

IMO, my advice is: find a kind of product that you want to use, but where the product space is very immature. Join a company (or start a company) where you can make a tangible impact on the product itself so that it suits your needs.
Sigmoid is one option. Overshoot/crash another.

And, in the short term, exponential may be a reasonable fit. Doesn't make it a long-term guarantee.
Nothing about that sounds substantially addiction producing. Just flashy and designed, like anything else in a video game. Is there a proper study on that being a substantial addiction causing effect compared to card games and such? I've seen people lose ridiculous amounts on completely boring gambling games like SatoshiDice where all they do is push send. The fact that you get the random outcome seems much more likely to be the primary culprit than any flash effects around it.

I get the impression people saying that are just making excuses because they don't like loot boxes as a business model for games. Would you be accepting of it if they replaced it in the game with a simple click and get the result system?
Guess we found the Google Finance developer on HN
The worst programmers I know are night owls, with one exception. Birds of a feather flock together...
I make it a point to not read resumes unless I'm supposed to be asking questions about their contents, to avoid bias.
I'm old to remember the excitement over AMD's K6 processors, which were quickly overtaken in speed by Intel for a decade. I just hope that AMD continues to be competitive.
Voyage open-sources autonomous driving safety practices
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Maybe he is too busy with work related thinking to enjoy the actual moment and want to save it, so it can be enjoyed properly at a later time.
I've been wishing we'd come out with a few new email expectations, like email in json format or something. It sounds insane I know, but right now all email is human intended, right? Yet, I love the distributed medium over email.. I want more of it.

I realized I want more when, a while back, I saw someone working on a social network over email. I realized that it's a brilliantly low-tech solution to a problem people are trying to solve in fairly complex and inventive ways (like Scuttlebutt). Social network posts as email would be an interesting approach to the problem.

Back to my original statement, data emails would allow users to carry a pile of application data (like their social net feed) with them. Since email is something federated, backup-able, migrate-able, etc - users would own their own data. I like that idea.

Fundamentally I love the idea of email. I do of course have reservations with the idea of introducing non-human oriented emails, but I hope you (reader) can look past that and onto the intent - offering slightly more feature to a robust, tried and true platform.

I say "slightly more" with care. Lest we make email a steaming pile of innovation like we always do.
> Honestly reading the notes (and not knowing anything about the team) they need less DevOps and more SysAdmin/DBA.

Having had problems in the past with Postgres and managing their database[1] I wonder why they haven't switch to a Postgres-as-a-service solution like Google Cloud SQL or Amazon RDS. It seems they are even running the site in their own hardware [2].

[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-database-o...

[2]: https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/11/proposed-server-purchase...
fwiw, the "TPU instance " has more than one tpu chip on it.
If anyone wants an experienced remote Python /Django dev you can hire me remote for a bargain.
This startup hopes to keep barf bags out of self-driving cars
All launches of a completely new automobile by any automaker will tend to have quality problems. It’s unclear whether Tesla’s quality issues are significantly different from those experienced by more established automakers.