skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can “go with your gut” and include that in your information to potential employers and wonder why you can’t find work OR you can alter your approach given the HN advice and increase your chances.

Here are a couple of reasons to remove that “hobby” from you job pitch:

- It makes you seem like you like to give “all your love” to multiple women - at the same time. Now this may be acceptable to some but, generally speaking, this comes off as duplicitous since it might be assumed that the women don’t know this since most women would not agree to such a relationship. While this may not be your intent, it is a reasonable interpretation.

- If I was an employer, the fact that your wrote this would make you seem like someone who might “hit” on my female employees. The last thing I need to hire someone who might make my workplace “toxic”.

If you have some good friends who are better at “this human stuff”, ask them to look over your resume/CV/cover letters and help you. This is great advice for anyone really.

Good luck with your job search!
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What if there are false positives?
I do not really see the difference between the app-store model and the distribution repository model, at the end of the day both are models that teach the users to only download stuff from a specific place. This introduces gatekeeping middlemen that personally i'd rather do without. But if there is going to be a central """trusted""" place, i'd prefer it to be distribution agnostic.

(although even that isn't ideal since in practice it ends up with the major popular distributions pushing agendas to the smaller distributions through whatever requirements are there for "compatibility")
> this is a better solution than plain submodules, for many reasons; Transitive dependencies, diamond dependencies, semantic versionion, can't forget to submodule update --recursive, etc, etc.

Well, one could argue that diamond dependencies are just bad design, transitive dependencies are just submodules of submodules, leading to conclusion that using submodules is like pinning entire dependency tree to a particular commit. So for a given commit there is only one way to download entire tree that is cryptographically secure, without trusting third parties.

I still wouldn't recommend submodules if your build system have packages but it's an interesting idea nonetheless.
Transferwise is good but its network goal is to make money out of the transfers.
Cryptos network doesnt share this goal
Performance experiments with matrix multiplication in Rust
Office managers cant tell the company is doing better just by looking? How about asking for a simple report if it's really that hard.

Or... they could just not change things and waste money unnecessarily because they feel they have to. If there's nothing else for them to do, then is there even a need for an office manager in the first place?

I've seen way too many 20 person startups that have more HR/office staff than actual product related people.
Are you really equating women (i.e., humans), with guitars?
Asking smart questions is a good way to start a discussion. The reaction to his questions here are quite emotional. Why so? If they're irrelevant anyways, why not stay cool about it? I find his questions interesting. Why didn't they demo it why Sundar on the other end of the line for example? What's the name of the shop owners? I can see why people pose these questions.
In Firefox:

- about:config

- Find dom.webnotifications.enabled

- Set to False
Bringing up this story usually results in an argument about whether or not it is even true.
That would be fairly neat, although I think there might be some problems. Who is to blame when a voice assistant fails to pass on the call when somebody speaks with the wrong accent?

On the other hand, I imagine a system where you could speak in your native language and have the report passed on as a transcript may also save lives.
I have a similar feeling about this to how Comcast/Xfinity and Disney promote their services to help reduce screen time for kids. It's hogwash, since they are actively trying everything (including AI) to maximize screen time / watch time and any other metric. Their efforts seem token.
I just tried this with IAR for Cortex-M3. I didn't check thoroughly, but so far it looks like right-aligned bitfields of eight bits or less generate an LDRB (8-bit). All other bitfields generate an LDR (32-bit), even if they lie entirely within a byte.

I see the makings of a fun trick to play on a colleague. I don't see anything I'd be too inclined to use in production code.
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This sounds like the worst situation to use it in, unless it's actually better at English than humans. Even if 99/100 emergency calls are garbage, you want the best responder on the line immediately for the one call that might save lives.

And if it decides to hang up on an actual emergency? That would be a special kind of fail.
SoftBank seems to be all over HN this year; I see it mentioned in comments all the time, as some very well known and important player. But I swear I didn't even know that name when this year started. So what's going on? Is it me just not paying attention? Or did something change, and suddenly made this company interesting?
We're not that far from that thing being a reality.
So, you clearly don't understand the hypocrisy behind Google's efforts? How naive can you possibly be? People at Google are having a job which is essentially having only the interests of the company in mind!

No-no-no, do not try to spin it like that! Corporations are made of jobs. People have obligations working those jobs. Sure, they are people, but only in the sense that they have human rights as well.

What Google is trying to do is not "positive change", it is an effort to make the user responsible for their addictive behavior instead of being responsible selling addictive tech themselves.
This argument isn't really valid, because Bitcoin also goes up by 10% within a day.

That's why this bank can calculate this factor in and have a small off-set budget for daily fluctuations.

Of course, there are also weekly 30% drops, but there are also weekly 30% hikes.

Across a span of a year, all of this volatility cancels each other out.
What is also funny is when you have an obvious spelling mishtake in a Reuters article and for that spelling mistake to be copied and pasted into many, many places.

In this way you can tell which newspapers actually have people reading what they publish and which ones can't be bothered.
When you're working with ISO week numbers, and you want to know the year that the week belongs to. Lots of companies do that, for example for work schedules in all kinds of industries.
They’ve been around for a long time but the Valley historically doesn’t pay attention to non-Valley players until they reach Valley shores. Softbank, after all, was one of the only very early investors in Alibaba. Alibaba wasn’t even on the Valley’s radar until they IPO’ed. Californian tech folks can’t help but see only within a 100-mile radius.
You go to the doctor to get a physical checkup to see if anything's wrong, then get it treated.

This is exactly the same thing, but done for newborns who are much more fragile and vulnerable to make sure they get care while already in the hospital, especially for any potentially severe or immediate issues.
Iota, Skycoin, Nano. The first 2 also offer linear/near infinite scalability, that is, the more nodes in the network, the more TPS can be handled by the network.

That's why one of the first 2 will probably replace Bitcoin until the end of 2018.
I transferred some money on Thursday from one uk bank account to another at another institution. Took less time than to log on to the second bank to confirm it had gone through.
Prior to this warning feature, I wonder what would have happened if during the phone call the hairdresser had asked "are you a real person?". Would the Google assistant reply "Ummm... I'm not real" or would it lie?
I don't think accusing someone, a person in particular (Sundar Pichai in this case), of fraud without any evidence whatsoever constitutes as asking smart questions.
Yubico sent marketing email to address submitted for product replacement
On point 1: That's often one of the big selling points of new (and therefore patented and more expensive) medications. It is much easier to convince doctors to prescribe medications that doesn't risk causing addiction, which in turn means that profits can go up.

If the trend is towards people being more cautious of the addictive properties of tech, being able to offer a less addictive alternative could be a selling point in the future.
What about a warning telling us to look away from the phone every 20 minutes of intense use (eyes staring at the screen continuously) ?
That "improved SQL" was already defined in the previous century, and has been implemented as well. Your ignorance drips off of every word you write.
Google may be the first to release a system like this but it won't take long until there are equivalent services, which may not warn that it is an AI. How long until those fun calls to automated systems start with a captcha?

sidenote: how long until the Butlerian Jihad?
Not jaguars. They have much stronger bites proportional to body size than the other big cats, and kill by puncturing the skull and brain.
Miners don't get paid anymore?
Surprised no one had mentioned John Nash and A Beautiful Mind. I won't spoil it for anyone that doesn't know the story but it is very reminiscent of the woman in the article.
I understand going after each and every website would be impractical, but imo a disclaimer with a button - most probably after the fact the site already transmitted a handful of cookies - does not comply with the spirit of the regulation.

[1] https://www.cookielaw.org/the-cookie-law/
> So what's going on? Is it me just not paying attention?

It was you not paying attention. Softbank has been doing this at a big level for ~23 years now.

They had a $40 billion stake in Yahoo at the peak of the dotcom bubble (first stake was purchased for $2m in 1995) and had invested into at least a hundred start-ups back then.

1999, Forbes, Master of the Internet

"Venture capitalists scoffed when Christos Cotsakos hit the road in the spring of 1996 to round up $9 million for his fledgling on-line brokerage, E-Trade. It took Masayoshi Son's venture firm just 30 minutes to agree to fork over the funds."

"All told, Son has invested $1.7 billion in more than 100 Internet companies. Softbank and its venture capital arm have sunk $906 million into eight Internet firms that have gone public, an investment now worth $14.1 billion. Son is now about to invest at least $1.2 billion more in the next few months. By Son's count, Softbank holds 7% to 8% of the publicly listed value of all Internet properties"

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0705/6401146a.html

https://nypost.com/2000/06/02/yahoo-softbank-cashes-out/
Submissions and comments now display a date when they have been posted sufficiently long ago. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1

The cutoff seems to be more than a few months, though.
Heechee
Doing the tests is one thing. Keeping the samples, and telling parents that the samples can't be destroyed, is something else.

Also, do we know if this actually results in lower mortality?
If it's a public project - You can host it on GitLab.com and enjoy all paid features for free.
Stories – The key to high impact presenting
Looks like it's due to triboelectric-related effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboelectric_effect

so with the tape I'd assume it's due to the friction from unraveling the sticky side from the non-sticky side

also related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescence which the scotch tape demonstrates as well
Love this post, for very personal reasons. My family were German Jews living in Germany for generations, and in the 1930s before it got really bad, they moved to the USA and started a water cooler business.

Back in the day, water coolers were expensive to manufacture, roughly $500-1500 per unit. The company was ostensibly a water company, but would sell water with a minimal profit. Their real money renting out the water coolers at $10-20/month.

Then in the late 1990s / early 200s China came online. Those $500 water coolers all of a sudden were being sold for $70. Obviously, it's pretty difficult to rent out a $70 piece of equipment for $10/mo. So the business had to shift from making money off of equipment to water, a much lower profit margin business.

A few tips for any entrepreneur going into this business:
- Obviously sell hard during the summer when it's hot

- Asian folks often prefer hot water to cold, so have some solution that caters to them.

- The bottles themselves can become a relatively large expense. Think about how to deal with them.

- Moving heavy bottles of water is extremely labor intensive. Your workforce will eventually become unionized, build that into business plan.

- Drinking spring and/or purified water is often subject to trends. Have a plan for when municipal water becomes "hip" or when customers demand that you reduce your carbon foot-print and stop shipping in water from out-of-state.

- A common complaint about water coolers is that people find bugs in their water. More often than not, this has nothing to do with you water, and has everything to do with the location in which it's placed. You won't be able to fix every situation, have a plan for this.

Good luck! You're up against some heavy-weights!
Ask HN: How do you 'think' through path problems?
Running a laravel homestead VM using vagrant. Had to install Node. Node expects to use

"/usr/lib/"

when in reality its
C:\Users\Me\Homestead\code\learn

here is the exact error:

npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/safe-buffer

Google hasnt fixed my issue, but I'm sure with enough time it will.

My question is- Is there a way to think about this and solve it without/minimal google?

Ive ran into many path problems in my 10 years of programming and it seems to be trial and error google chase.

Current thinking is that there is some file in Vagrant VM, like homestead.yaml, Vagrantfile, maybe a .json file. I would need to add something to specify that node.js has the correct folder mapping.

How do you solve these problems?
I finally found a use case for git submodules: We have a git repo which provides a wrapper around compiling and packaging the Linux kernel for RISC-V, and we use a submodule to link to a specific release of Linux. (https://github.com/rwmjones/fedora-riscv-kernel)

However this also reveals the awkwardness of submodules:

* Everyone who clones the git repo either forgets or doesn't know that they have to do 'git submodule init' (and maybe update too? even I'm forgetting ...). So everyone asks us on IRC why it "doesn't work" and has to be told what to do. IMO git clone should also clone the submodules and set things up.

* You cannot add downstream patches to Linux this way. For a while we needed a small bug fix which wasn't in the Linux submodule (it's controlled by another company) so we had an awkward workaround in the build system to copy the whole submodule and apply the patch before building.

* The link is to a non-fast-forward branch of Linux, so the commit hash sometimes becomes invalid, which we don't notice until someone is trying to build it from scratch. You'd think that because both the module and submodule are hosted on github, that github wouldn't garbage collect the old commit hash, but that's apparently not how it works.

I don't know if there's some tool which solves this use case better, but git submodules are what we have.
Great that all those exchanges aren't charging any fees and there's no transaction cost for Bitcoin...

I recently did a lot of EUR-USD transfers and have evaluated several options. I came to the same conclusion as other posters here: Services like Transferwise and Currencyfair are all very cheap, and do the job well and without risk.

Going through Bitcoin was not even close to competitive.
I just viewed the stl-files, It's about 300x300x170mm
Hi @isalmon,
I can definitely solve your problem.

To put in context, we, at Idea To Startup (https://ideatostartup.org/), have helped startups from 5 different continents around the world create the best remote team in the shortest time.

Let's discuss this over chat. What's the best way to contact you?

Thanks,
Nikhil
Except for cookies are already transmitted to the client device in far too many cases before the disclaimer is displayed.
Also I'm not sure blanket agreeing to all (tracking)cookies will be in accordance with GDPR.
This kind of testing isn't about that kind quantative, QA type testing; it's about qualitative feedback, for example:

- "We have these wireframes of this new major feature, let's get a group of people from our target demographics in a room and have them react to it and give us early feedback"

- "We think we have an idea for a new product for managing widgets, so we want to talk to professional widget managers about how they currently manage their widgets; and test our hypothesis that this is a better way of doing it"

As the previous poster pointed out, this is something that isn't easily or readily generalisable into AI.
An Old World and the New Universe
So $33B has been invested. What has been done with this money, besides mergers and financial stuff? What has been built that wouldn't have been built with regular sums of money ?
> Putting $4.4bn into WeWork, a provider of shared workspaces, valuing it at $20bn, is another risky bet. The firm leases office space, redesigns it to create a hip vibe and sublets it to startups, freelancers and some big firms. The worry is that WeWork is little more than a commercial-property company that is unjustifiably trading on a tech valuation and will soon be rumbled.

I was impressed by how fast WeWork expands. In Berlin it now has 7 co-working spaces all fairly close located. They recently bought meetup.com.
>they have to do 'git submodule init' (and maybe update too? even I'm forgetting ...)

`git submodule update --init --recursive` to combine init and update and also recursively.
I'm not sure it can be dismissed that easily. If Google stick to "providing tools" and let others decide how to use them, maybe they will do better.

It's when Google product managers stand on a stage and tell us how their technology will make our lives better, that I cringe. I don't want Google telling me how I should live my life. Just provide the tools and tech, and let us work out how best to use them for ourselves.

There will be situations where this "warning" will be unwanted. Google should not be dictating when or how the warning is delivered. That should be at the discretion and option of the business or individual.

I can see this tech being useful in the reverse scenario they demonstrated. That is, the bot answering calls on behalf of the restaurant and accepting bookings. Often when you call a restaurant, it's noisy and you just know you've interrupted someone from doing other tasks.
For those interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosafety_level
Also - http://www.jaeger-lecoultre.com/eu/en/watches/master/master-...

It's a little pricey though ;)
Speaking of using non-ASCII and non-English names in program, I'd suggest not to use them. People who don't know the alphabet/language will understand literally nothing; it's much better to use English names.
Git is already too horrendously complex. At this point, any feature whether worthy or not, has to be weighed against the learning curve required by new git users (already formidable).

Can't even count the number of times that we brought on a reasonably decent programmer, wrote decent working code, but that didn't have a clue about git, which resulted in the work being a mess of commits across multiple branches and forks.

To make git more powerful, the developers should make it easier to learn, not add power-user features.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School...

It was pretty bad. Especially because an intern raised concerns beforehand, and those concerns were dismissed as alarmist.
I'm surprised your's is the only comment even mentioning tracking…
> Final point: If you’re struggling with K8s swallow your pride and buy a managed solution, then learn as you go.

Can you make vendor recommendations, please?
I don't think real issue here are the currency exchange fees, but the transfer fees charged by banks and the logistics related to doing bank-to-bank cross-border payments.

When transferring via Bitcoin, you only to get the recipients Bitcoin address and that is. Do a bank transfer to another side of the world and you need to find out bunch of information for the recipient (their bank details, probably address etc). There's also a chance you will get some of this wrong and then there will be a manual hassle to sort things out.
I'm using cash in my UI framework [1], using a jQuery-like API instead of the native methods is pretty nice, and I need some of the abstractions provided, like event namespaces.

[1] https://github.com/svelto/svelto
> I kind of wish that a mainstream language would just adopt git submodules as part of their de facto package management strategy and build the tools on top of it we need to make it livable.

Every language has a package management system already. Git should be made easier to use, not harder. I see the utility of submodules to power users, but they're not so necessary at all, but increase the complexity of git by adding yet another abstract concept.

Love you git, but you should be working on removing features, not adding them.
Goold old "create the problem and the solution"
This was my first thought too.

Don't get me wrong, I truly think Google wants to be the good guy here if possible. But if they can combine that with even more tracking (= more money) they won't hesitate for a second.
Why does the BBC think we should read three times that this is “horrifying”?
You can try requesting Netflix have them on for season 4 https://help.netflix.com/en/titlerequest
She raises a very valid criticism. The Java SimpleDateFormat has a similar gotcha concerning %k vs %h ('What do you mean, my program only works in the morning'?)

I don't think her solution is right, however:

A better fix is to get people away from using format strings altogether.

What do you propose instead?

have one person get it right, [...] then ban all other attempts to use the strings directly

Thats basically part of an in-house library for something simple. In my experience, contractors either flat-out refuse to use it ('reinventing the square wheel, har har har'), or don't read the docs and rewrite it using the API. Then they extract common code from their application together with some half-baked framework, declare it a new in-house library. so when the next contractor comes, he has one more reason to ignore the well thought out library. In-house libraries work fine for complex problems, but large collections of small utilities get rewritten by everyone.

No. Learn the details of your programming language, libraries and frameworks. Even their gotchas. Read blogs, listen to coworkers, learn the idioms.

As a result, you don't store this knowledge in your current corner of some random company. You store it in the ecosystem of the language. It will influence future languages, and slowly the gotchas either disappear or become an near-universal standards.

And I guess that's exactly what this blog post helped to accomplish. Thanks, Rachel ;-)
Netflix has worldwide rights except USA. Amazon has US streaming rights. The production is done by Alcon entertainment who should either find another network or convince one of the two streaming giants to foot the bill.
I don't think it's not going to continue.