skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I mean I'm with you, but again: the NSA is not charged with preventing domestic crimes. It's a foreign intelligence agency.
It's weird, with all the time and money and brainpower invested over the last 10 years, I still find Heroku to be the lowest maintenance.
10 Minute Survey of Judy Arrays
It is short sighted having one big player leads to spin offs to give a non tech examples from the UK.

Games workshop set up in Nottingham years ago there is now large number of spin off companies in the metal and plastic moulding - its even called the lead belt.
You forgot being able to buy a house. If you're content with renting forever it's not an issue, but if you ever want to buy you'd better hope that both you and your partner work in tech.
Low latency IO and computational performance isn't always needed.
"According to police, a Honda sedan traveling eastbound on Chandler Boulevard had to swerve to avoid striking a vehicle traveling northbound on Los Feliz Drive. As the Honda swerved, it continued eastbound into the westbound lanes of Chandler Boulevard and hit the Waymo van."

Waymo car appears to not be at fault.
This is a well known issue and Apple will replace your screen free of charge when you take it in. The catch is your laptop will be in service for a week or two which is very annoying if you depend on it for work. You can always buy a new laptop from them while they repair it and return the purchased laptop to them once you get your own laptop back
I suspect that he sees that Apple has a lot of customers who don't want to move away from the Apple ecosystem, that Apple products have large profit margins, and that Apple has a
huge boatload of cash and keeps making more. Apple's products occupy a different market segment rather than competing directly with all the low-margin hardware companies such as HP and Dell.

It appears be the sort of company that in the worst case will slowly fade in profitability over time as its loyal customers drift away and it whittles away at its cash reserves, giving plenty of time to slowly reduce the stake in the company. In the best case, it will continue to build its huge cash pile.
Thank God someone acknowledges this.
"I don't claim it's the only workable way. Do us the same courtesy."

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend. As I said - I'm genuinely curious as to what you feel makes this method better. I wouldn't be wasting my time asking if I didn't think there was a chance I might learn something that would make me change the way I work - that's how I picked up vim in the first place, not to mention every other improvement I've ever made in my life.
>We have not been made (substantially) safer.

How do you know that?

>Were property crimes up significantly prior to the installation of the ANPR readers? No. Are they down significantly after? No.

I get that this comparison sounds similar, but it really doesn't make any sense. The most powerful nations in the world are constantly trying to gain as much access to our secure systems, communications, and infrastructure. Even though these efforts are almost entirely hidden from every level of the public, we still have plenty of stories of things like Stuxnet or the Chinese obtaining classified engineering data.

The NSA exists to combat this. They aren't fighting crime. They aren't fighting what is essentially an economically guaranteed statistical effect (property crime). They are an intelligence gathering and signal analysis agency tasked with thwarting foreign actors, which we know are actively pouring massive resources into activities hostile to us. That is why they exist, and that is why their successes (and failures) are almost entirely unknown to the general public.
In software, these three are not exclusive, they're in fact three rungs on the same ladder. In the words attributed to Kent Beck: make it work (effective), make it right (elegant), make it fast (efficient). http://wiki.c2.com/?MakeItWorkMakeItRightMakeItFast
> it becomes economical to ship the crabs overseas for picking, and then shipped back for selling

If their goal here is to stop importing labor, then a government that wants to prevent that outcome could simply impose a tariff on processed crabmeat.
The problem is clearly not just about completely pointless jobs. Among jobs that actually have a purpose, we find many that are: required to deal with the problems generated by bad practices/inefficiency (the article mentions duct-tapers. Commenters here also mention how in computer science we deal with a lot of technical debt, even when many times we know there's no way out unless we rewrite from scratch), or even worse, generated by the own inefficiencies and 'stupidity loops' in a system (see a good deal of bureaucracy, supervision and reporting taks, goons, etc.)

Of course we can't remove inefficiency completely, but these are big problems with big consequences. I'm really saddened by it: I regularly see a lot of comments from people that seem to be very capable but end up doing dull jobs, for dumb bosses, wasting their potential when they could be adding so much more value to our societies (and also be happier with it). And I don't intend to blame anyone here, it's not like we have much better choices in many cases. Sometimes you even think we would be able to achieve more with less man-hours if we didn't spend so many of them on nonsense.

The need for jobs for everyone has also been discussed. UBI as an alternative, etc. To me it's clear the number of jobs we need/will need in the future will fall. And that's a good thing (we can produce more with less resources), but it also has very negative consequences, due to the way our economic system works and our need for money. But there's also a social problem. The concept of work is so valued that society rarely stops to reflect about the positive consequences of needing less work. And without this, it's really hard to build towards that society with less jobs or less work hours sanely. The difference between "work" and "paid work" is very important, and I feel we don't talk enough about it either. Work is important for humans, even necessary. But we can't keep repeating nice quotes that are actually referring to "work" and applying them to "paid work" to evangelize the concept.

The whole situation is very frustrating. I'm quite young, and I think about it pretty often. I don't really like the perspective for most jobs I could do. What can I do? What can we do? Ignore the rest of the world and just try to find the best place for yourself? Try to live with less? Get in politics, start a business? I find it really hard to ignore so much waste of potential and useless pain.
I do full-stack but focus mostly on backend. I work in any language, platform, or framework the job requires. There aren't that many remote jobs, so being flexible on the technology side helps me get the best. I find Go to be very much in demand right now. C++ is making something of a comeback ever since C++11.
I'm always a bit taken back when visiting the toilet at clubs and some restaurants when I'm in the UK as there's a gentleman sitting by the sink handing out towels and stuff. Very strange and utterly useless. Not sure if he's paid by the club or lives of tip, but it makes me really uncomfortable. I just want to take a piss and wash my hands, not have an awkward conversation with a towel handler.
Yes, and the fact that capitalism created the conditions that allow people like the ones who pontificate on HN about the messiness of capitalism to exist at all should go completely unmentioned.
that did make me laugh.

user: i would like to order ummmmmm....a GPU
seller: we got this high performance gaming GPU that is compatible with direct X, uses DDR5 8gig memory and base clocked at 1600 MHz, memory speed is 10gbps, supports open gl has high bandwidth memory. we call it {asus/msi/...} GPX10000000x
user: i just want the one with Nvidia Pascal. thx. ;)
The Day of the Triffids sort of counts here I think
Alternatively, write your own kernel!
Wow, I find this fascinating, the government effectively used a large-scale project to seed a town/city. There was another HN post a few weeks back that was asking about if governments should create more cities. This story provides an interesting case study on the efficacy of the federal government to do so.
It's at least gratifying to see that the top two root comments after the dust settled were ones that got it right. Though I suppose some of the upvotes may have come in after this information was available. (Edit: I checked and it doesn't look like it.)
The secret (and possible barrier) to doing something interesting with ML is to have an interesting dataset. It’s definitely accessible if you’re willing to put in the effort.
https://www.mailpile.is/

“Community funded and supported”
That is true, but the phrasing is a little aggressive. Assigning "lines of blame" makes it sound like it is about having someone to point to after the fact. It is really about every part of a project having a single owner who is accountable so nothing slips through the cracks of bureaucracy. A way to rephrase that without the negative connotations of "blame" is "when everyone is responsible, no one is responsible."
Puppy stolen by Amazon delivery returned to owner after he emailed Jeff Bezos
My sales taxes have doubled since my childhood. I am back in the same jurisdiction and they have gone from 4% with no local component to 7% state, 1% local. Nearly a tenth of everything I spend goes to taxes, and that's on top of federal income tax, social security tax, federal unemployment tax, state unemployment tax, state income tax, county income tax, property tax, fuel tax, excise tax, cable and internet tax, phone tax, restaurant tax, and probably a dozen others.

Other localities in other states are worse than that.
For a second I thought this was a metaphor for software projects...
Yes, in the long run maybe it reduces the amount of data sitting around in honeypots for both state and non-state actors, but I don't see much change this year (unless you see mass 'forget me' requests).
How .... large?

I thought my 50k-70k inbox was huge, but I just typically order by date reversed ...
I hear you, I don't really like remote either. I go to local programming meetups to get some of the socializing I miss out on with colleagues. But at the difference in income, I can't justify doing it any other way.
Aren't you describing GraphQL Here?
The 2017 keyboard seems to not have any of those issues. The touchbar can sometimes be really annoying when I accidentally hit the Siri key when typing fast.

Overall I prefer my 2017 15" pro to my 2015 one mainly because it is thinner, supports USB-C charging, and the screen is much much better
Fun trivia, it was built on pretty much 100% freebsd, before Microsoft acquired it.
In the engineering context it means that. But in the original context, it meant both.
I'm not sure I agree with the conclusion about the universality of censorship in this era, and I think you're arguing a position that's sufficiently extreme that it hurts your cause. To the extent that your cause is better information through freer speech, I agree with it.

One of the resources I rely on when considering even applying to a company is Glassdoor. Although I've experienced what seemed to me like similar censorship on one previous occasion with an interview review submission, they do not seem to be averse to negativity and have a history of protecting anonimity.

I'd argue that GD is a better forum for the critiques you're suggesting, accusatory of doing something "wrong", but I don't feel that strongly about it. What I'm most sad to see go are the "time waste" warning comments, since that can save someone a significant investment of effort doing further, even basic, research on GD, LinkedIn, Crunchbase, and elsewhere.

Lastly, I disagree that a post-only forum implies equality or absence of wrongdoing. It only implies they posted according to the rules (or haven't gotten caught breaking those rules yet). I'd go so far as to say that technically enforced silence says even less about the posters than "voluntary" (really chilling effect but which could seem voluntary to a naive reader) silence. That's why I asked for a technical solution instead of vague policy enforced with arbitrary moderator punishment of detachment and marking off-topic.
Show HN: Chrome extension that shows a random definition when you open a new tab
> Democrats haven't proposed a bill which purely targets legal immigration.

Perhaps, but conservatives have frequently put forward bills (or, when in the executive, instituted executive policy without Congressional action) that further restrict currently-legal immigration and non-immigrant entry and privileges, which is more significant sign of opposition to legal immigration than merely voting against expansions to legal immigration, whether pure or not.
I'm in the process of hiring for our company / startup and you hit the nail on the head here. I'm amazed at the number of people who have done 0 research on us, yet tell us how impressed they are at what we've done.

My favorite line to follow up on these empty complements is: "Thanks for the kind words. What do you think we're doing that is unique? What would you do differently if you were in my shoes?"

In that past week, 2 of 8 interviews have had this empty praise. Neither of the 2 could provide a meaningful example of how what we're doing is truly unique... and it is in the job ad clearly spelled out. One of the 2 hadn't even been to our website.

Interactions like these make you want to put up huge filters to weed out the people using a "resume shotgun" interview process but in my experience the amount of effort you invest in hiring pays dividends once you do hire.
Heroku does everything every new platform hopes to achieve and has been doing it for years…
Give me a break. Healthcare in the US is a joke, but if you're on an engineer's salary and benefits plan, you're probably paying nothing for any of these things.

Protip: "treble damages" is not a thing California invented in order to pay legal fees
There articles are so incomplete and always make it to the top on HN... I need some explanation.
Assuming you have a clueful and attentive upstream ISP and a static /29 or something, running your own mail out of your closet with proper rDNS, spf and dkim probably has better chance of delivery success than the same software setup, but on a dedicated server sharing a /24 of IP space with clueless and occasionally abuse-generating neighboring customers in the same netblock.
I wonder if Apple is being subtly sabotaged by competitors who have double agent employees that wormed their way into Apple and gained access to Tim Cook's ear.
My ThinkPad X1 is as good as any generation of MacBook, it is certainly more serviceable and has a better keyboard. You might prefer MacOS to Linux or Windows, but I can assure you that there are very decent hardware alternatives.
This seems like an odd thing to say, in that I didn't say we should try to avoid Manhattan.
As someone who's hired a lot of engineers at a startup, a very simple and yet highly effective thing you can do is to address this head-on in your cover letter. Just say what you said in your post: that you really loved working at a startup and specifically want to go back to one. That makes a big difference by telling me that a startup isn't your back-up plan if you don't get hired by a big company; it's your first choice.

Also, (and sorry to promote our own stuff) but you might look at workatastartup.com, a website we built to help engineers join YC startups. I'd be happy to look at your application and give you some feedback if it would be helpful.
I am sure the cell carriers would have been excited to charge a very hefty premium for that service, if anyone bothered to use it.
Max Brooks' version of zombies have the ability to vocally signal other zombies, then they spread out, creating a detection net. It means that if you want to kill zombies, you better do it quietly or prepare for the horde.

My thought was to use this as an advantage... Make beacons along the coastline to attract the horde. The target beacon would make random loud noises once per second. Within earshot of the target, beacon #2 would make loud noises once per hour. The next would be once per two hours, then four hours, etc. It'd corral them.
With such keyboard you can't rest your hands on the keys anymore. It's not possible to work that way for any non-trivial time.
You won't find one since it's all under NDA, but the timing does not look like a coincidence.
500M in all of 2017? Oh, come on!

We found out that Verizon -- just Verizon -- was handing over "phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily" in June 2013.

500M might be an official number that they're willing to release but (without any way to prove it, obviously) I'm certain that the REAL number is much, much higher.

For an organization who has vowed to "collect it all", it just doesn't seem likely that the NSA voluntarily went from "an estimated billions of records collected per day" to just 500M per year.

Or perhaps it's just 500M according to their own made up definition of "collect"?
Ayup.

My favorite one is where adding debug traces causes the heisenbug to disappear because the printf() inserted a memory fence somewhere deep in the logging library.

Nothing like debugging via atomics.
Then most of them will have to admit the object was looted.The items that are legally acquired are always losted with their provenance.
ADHD students could be taught to concentrate with new wearable device
I think Machiavelli's was worried that the mercs would take over. Which is effectively happened in India princes and kings hiring foreign mercs from France and Britain.

Another example is the Janissaries in turkey.
> able to fetch over $500,00 USD

By far this not the case. Most will be around 1/3rd that (according to the salary reports i've read) .
IMHO if you do network engineering it's worth knowing the intricacies of modern SMTP setups. It is not that hard to build a wholly self hosted Postfix setup that has:

Working reverse DNS

SPF

DKIM signing

TLS1.2 transport to and from other smtpd, negotiated opportunistically. You can use a letsencrypt certificate.

Is definitely not an open relay

Requires TLS1.2 + SASL auth of your username and password to send outgoing mail (I use the same account credentials that are also my dovecot IMAPS account)
H1B isn’t an immigrant visa, so of course the wait times are long — it’s the wrong visa for immigration.
I may be understanding Seurat wrong but I think its more than just that. I think they bake a surface light field and do some form of image-based rendering against a much lower-poly version of the mesh.
No state income tax though!
This piece seems to have predicted a very active field in everyday software development since then.

What are the alternative paradigms that have actually become common use? Coroutines, async/await, that's what I hear about online but what are others? I've seen people who touted zmq-communicating-processes with standard patterns as the solution to all problems, and I'm happy not to have to maintain the results.

Have we effectively “solved” the concurrency problem, and if so what's left as an exercise for the future?
You two are talking past each other. Yes, the NSA is a foreign intelligence agency. But then why is it spying on citizens? Ostensibly to prevent bad things from happening. Yet bad things are happening, that could presumably be stopped with information gained from said spying. But no one is using the information that way. So why should we let them continue spying?

I think that sums it up.
It's funny watching what is essentially the equivalent of the Yankees getting criticized for not scoring enough touchdowns this season by people who are dead serious and consider this topic of grave concern. If these people aren't even able to Google the NSA before venturing their opinion on something so complicated, then it seems unlikely just giving them the basic facts is actually going to do something. People should feel bad about this level of willful ignorance.
Was really disappointed that the movie had nothing to do with the book. I think they just wanted the name. The book comes across as more of a comedy, though. Sending in little dogs to get zombies out of tunnels? Pretty funny stuff.
For a second I thought you were talking about Google. Food for thought.
I enjoy reading the problems and solutions but every time I am trying to answer a question I get the "You don't have enough karma" lol. I just smile and move on :)
What is the expectation here?

What's yours? Is there something to gain from a post that effectively just says "you're wrong"?
Will partners need to include the GeForce name as part of their product names, in addition to the product numbers?

They already do and have all along. For example, if you search for something like Strix (a gaming brand) every product has either "GeForce" or "Radeon" in the name. The "transparency" that NVidia wants already exists.
So... what fit the bill?
>16. The previous people who did a similar analysis did not have a direct pipeline to the wisdom of the ages. There is therefore no reason to believe their analysis over yours. There is especially no reason to present their analysis as yours.

>19. The odds are greatly against you being immensely smarter than everyone else in the field. If your analysis says your terminal velocity is twice the speed of light, you may have invented warp drive, but the chances are a lot better that you've screwed up.

Learning how to better thread the needle between these two is been one of the most important things I have learned in my career. Just because this is the way it was always done doesn't mean we have to do it that way, but the people who did it that way probably had some reason for it that is worth exploring and fully understanding.
Sounds like Only Fools and Horses :-)
You said why not 'get a contact list', not 'ask them to contact people for you'.
Real-estate (in addition to associated construction) is bigger for than mining and oil:

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/g...
I think it's fairly safe to say that we've entered a new era: as MOBAs superseded MMOs, so BR games have superseded MOBAs.
Oh yes and a bet a large number of readers fell in love with Mariko
Well I'm not sure how Telegram does it, but I get messages pushed instantly, it doesn't use Google spy services for that, and it's super low in battery usage rankings.

I might be wrong but isn't it simply about building a tcp connection whenever Internet is available or changes, and the server will push whenever there's something new? You don't need a single thing polling (which would indeed save power) if the server is pushing. Recently I learned that sleeping (power-conserving) clients are even part of the WiFi spec, so that an access point will hold onto messages for some time until the client is listening again. I assume this is just some ms, but still.
I grew up in the PNW, and I absolutely agree, I hated nothing more than feeling like I could never do anything outside because you can't count on the weather being acceptable unless it's between July 5 and September 5. It's not that it's bad that often, it's just so unreliable.
totally unportable and undefined behavior
Reflective Search Relevance Testing
> Squirrelmail had this nice option where I could set a BCC for every email

I can see such an option in Roundcube 1.2.3. Under Settings/Identities/[WhateverIdentity] there is a “BCC” field, which seems to be exactly what you want.

(This is not an endorsement of Roundcube – I use Gnus myself.)
> H1B isn’t an immigrant visa, so of course the wait times are long — it’s the wrong visa for immigration.

The wait times referenced are the wait times for an immigrant visa, whether you are applying for it as an already-resident H-1B holder (as permitted by it's dual-intent nature) or as someone who is not yet resident in the US.

The wait times have nothing to do with the H-1B not being an immigrant visa.
That's a great insight. That's probably why it's 2X slower in changing spin direction.