skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would compose a witty reply, were I not too busy drinking and brooding.
> If e-mail deliverability providers (MailChimp etc.) are involved, they usually try to either educate or fire customers who misbehave, since they don't want to get their servers blacklisted entirely.

My experience with Mailchimp was decidedly not like that.
Not related to tech, but "A Guide to the Good Live" (https://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/A-Guide-to-the-Good-Li...) , "Unconditional Parenting" (https://www.audible.com/pd/Self-Development/Unconditional-Pa...). These have really been mind altering. Both the books have challenged my beliefs and they make a lot of sense once you read them completely.
Finland is cold but Finns most definitely are not -- 5.3 million people and two million saunas [1].

[1] https://finland.fi/life-society/bare-facts-of-the-sauna/
In 2016, we shutdown one of our websites where around 11% of our userbase was still on IE6.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.--Samuel Johnson
What's up with the hoarding and secrecy of medical data? It's real possibility that AI starts to work and solves all diseases in the next few decades. Maybe that's the point? To horde life-extension and immortality inventions.
Why, how? In what sense?
Good point. I'm not familiar with the American copyright law, but you're right, nowadays in most countries even if a piece of art is sold to another person, the artist still holds the copyright (the right to make copies) unless copyright transfer is specified in the contract.

But another way to look at this is, if the artwork is commissioned by the company for commercial purpose - much like if someone is commissioned to create a logo for a company - then the copyright is generally transferred to the company.

In the absence of a written contract, one can argue both ways, which I think is why the lawyers didn't think there was a strong case.
Ah, appealing to the "gesundes Volksempfinden" to get rid of unwanted people?

> It seems that Berliners

No, it's just some racist people operating a web site. They even suggest shooting Google ("bullets for Google", https://fuckoffgoogle.de/wp-content/uploads/photo-gallery/Ku...).

I'll wait a bit to see if they will make the connection to the Jewish world conspiracy (often refered to as "wall street", "financial elite" in such circles).
YOUR computer sends your data. YOU let it do that. If you don't want your computer to do it, don't surf internet or configure your browser / install extensions
> This has the same format and value as %Y

When I see a line like that, I check %Y immediately.

Unless I'm tired, in a hurry, or just not paying enough attention.
The endgame for this, IMO, is GUI tools that generate and manipulate text-based file formats. The tool Lyx does this; it's a kinda-WYSIWYG Latex editor. I'd like to see more of these, e.g. for Markdown, Graphviz, and OpenSCAD.
The tragic longing is part of the romance.
Something like this showed up in our gym about a month ago. Individuals pay $6.99/month for fancy water. The dismay says “9 bottles saved from landfill”.... ouch....
My definition of "doing our best" involves empathy as one of its core components.
That's an argument for different display formats, where UTC offsets aren't the worst thing in the world but actually you should just display whatever your users want, which will often just be a time with no TZ indication at all.

For storage of future events, use a proper TZ entry, or suffer like Microsoft did when the US decided to change the date it started summer time and everyone's calendar entries were off by an hour for a couple of weeks.
> since it doesn't come with cross-platform syncing or modern GUI

Nope. My side project literally solves that: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/nuage/wiki/Org-Mode (it's open source as well)
I found this to be an issue with Node 10, did you happen to be running that version? It was already fixed and a new version will be released soon (meanwhile you should be able to play with Node 8).
I don’t dislike Ruby - you can do some very clever things in very little code with it. But it is far from high-performance!

Early Tcl was slow - but it was being compared to pure C. Recent Tcl is as snappy as any HLL.
Sure what is money for but to be spent
I'll play devils advocate and disagree. I'll claim that deep learning is the greatest hammer I have seen in my lifetime and it can tackle all nails you throw at it (universal approximation theorem). Additionally it is easy to apply and get very reasonable results. At least for me it's easier to whip up a Jupyter Notebook and use some basic heuristics and a library like fastai than to struggle through Excel.

Assuming that the data is available and curated (I'd argue this is a hard and very value creating task).
Ask HN: How does one choose a programming specialization?
How did you choose how to specialize in frontend/backend web development, mobile development, security, ML, etc?

How long did it take you from when you started programming, or started your first job?

What advice would you give to someone who's tried many things but can't seem to decide which to commit to?

Thank you.

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A bit more personal information:

I switched from Art to CS at my university halfway through, and thought I was finally specializing and that everything else would fall into place.

At the end of college I got an offer to be an Android developer, declined it to work for my university's NLP department, then got a job as a platform engineer at a startup in San Francisco, then was offered a 50% raise to become a full-stack but frontend-leaning web developer at another, became unhappy there and started looking for a new job but realizing I didn't know what I wanted to do. Now I'm attending the Recurse Center in a week.

This has all happened in the last three years, and now I'm seriously looking hard at my career because the pattern seems unsustainable, yet none of those roles stands out immediately. I've even considered not being a developer anymore. In college I had done a lot of photo, video, and animation work. I think I'm over that though, that work is too repetitive and the software pay is too good.

To throw another wrench in, I visited Mexico City and was awe-struck at how inexpensive it was to live there, and how people at my hostel lived - remote working a few hours a week and just traveling and enjoying life. I could become a freelancer and have the same. It's appealing, but I'm worried that this is just another shiny new path that'll dull quickly, and I'd still have to decide what type of work to do.

I've been trying to talk to as many people as I can about this in order to narrow down my decision space, but it just seems to do the opposite, new options keep appearing.
For some time John Ousterhout was part of Sun Labs and Sun invested quite a bit of resources in it and bridges between Tcl and Java. The original idea was that Java was going to be the universal systems language and Tcl the universal scripting language. That was scrapped at some point because the messaging was too complex and it ended up being "Java for everything". Arguably we would have been better off with Java + Tcl than we ended up with Java + Javascript.

When that happened JO went to found Scriptics, but it never got the traction it should (not helped being branded as "parasites" by Stallman)
The submission of today was [flagged] and [dead] for a while. Probably the mod unskilled it.

[I agree that it's not a good idea to create a conspiracy theory every time an article is flagged.]
Well, a Google search finds a number of articles/posts on the topic which make the observation that more nuance is needed in the conversation. So you are probably right that it is typically lacking, though the word nuance isn't totally absent from the discussion.
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Have you not ever wondered about people that are as much of a virgin and unloved as you are and yet are naively mirthful and genial with an unconsciously callous disregard for societal value around love and desire?
Great money but assuming that's not a 250+ day/yr billable utilization it's not substantially better than working for a major webtech company, and a lot more grueling and dangerous.
This is something that Spain also has (and is being phased out). I live in Barcelona, I pay 1000 euros for my two bed apartment, every 3 years the rent has to be renegotiated. My lovely neighbour who is 92 pays under 100 euros for the exact same flat opposite mine, she is on guaranteed rent protection, my neighbours below who are in their early 70s pay around 250 for the same flat.

The fact rent protection is being phased out makes me really sad, speculation will become even more rife (I can understand that extreme rent protection like above may not be workable but something in between is needed imo).
This is exactly like moderate drinker complaining about AA programs, R.I.D.E. stops[1] and Smart Serve[2].

It's not about you. Stop humble bragging about your lack of an addictive personality and simply move on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduce_Impaired_Driving_Everyw...

[2] https://www.smartserve.ca/
Isn't there something about how general aviation pilots mostly die flying if they don't retire from it young?
Hmm, someone downvoted me. Can the downvoter explain what was wrong in what I said?
Honestlyntheu dont make them dark ages. Usa is in dark ages of customer finances services.

I travel to europe extensively and on my trip to what most people dont even know a country name Poland, in 2012 they had near-field contact debit and credit banks. All card use them! When i gave them my swipe credit card a clerk couldnt stop but mention he hasnt seen one in probably five years. I told him within few years USA will switch to chip cards, to what he told me they had those circa 2010. I seen friend using near field card it was a tap of a card to the reader (no sliding no alignments) in literally 0.8 seconds his card got read and authorized. Within seconds with his personal settings he got text message confirming purchase. We then went to ATM cause he owned me money. I said we probably need bank for that kind of amount. He just smiled at me and withdrew $8,000 worth of local currency (PLN) from an ATM!! Just like that. Meanwhile just yesterda for mothers day Bank of America just again block my debit card “due to suspicious activity” despite the fact i been using this specific BOA ATM on my street for last five years, and was taking only $350 usd. I called up and told them few months ago i raised up limit to your max of 1,500. I was explained due to my own security thos limit is reset every 6 months.
I can read, I don't see the link with the discussion.

I know people who are not on facebook. They made the decision. They have free will.
You're in good company.
Linus Torvalds wrote
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsurface_(software)
My counterclaim would be that doing ML in code is actually easier these days than doing stuff in Excel (and a 1080 is sufficient). So why not solve the problem with a sufficiently easy to use tool?
Your other point is valid. If it can be solved deterministically than you should probably do that (but I'd probably not reach for C since I don't need the C-efficiency hammer right away)
just give me emacs and a decent terminal with ssh and git on chromeos and I could live on it.
I just ask them to talk about the projects they've worked on recently and any issues that arose, and how they dealt with them.

If they can communicate clearly what happened. I've never had that fail me as far as them being "technical enough" for the position as no one knows everything, can you figure it out is the bigger issue.

Then I typically just have them tell me about what they liked and disliked at prior jobs and what environment they would like to work in.

After that, what are their goals for their career and how can we help them achieve them.

If the interviewee can demonstrate they have anything in those areas, I've never had an issue with someone I've hired. I don't care if you can program everything walking in the door. If you've got a can-do attitude, we can work together to get you up to speed on our crap code and the whys behind it.
The term that popped into my head was "tribalism", which seems related to but distinct from partisanship.
What is air for but to breathe? Still don't want to breathe it faster than you can make it.
Yeah, sorry if that wasn't clear. I didn't write Free42. Just a happy user.
Maybe I was reading too far into your statement. But in general terms, politics (and conflict in general) stems from a struggle over the power to allocate scarce resources towards conflicting conceptions of what is “good” or “deserving”. Often times, statements against privileging your own group to the detriment of others—and I concede you didn’t make that case directly, but I’ve often seen your comparison invoked in such arguments—implicitly assumes that politics, too, should be transcended. There is a sentiment that politics is a vestige of irrationality, and that if everyone was properly educated and could see the greater good, they would necessarily favor that over parochial group interests.
How much the opposite gender in their society values them vs. the resources they can acquire.
I'm in the same boat. People have used my gmail address when opening bank accounts, buying cars and even buying apartments! It has an upside though. If you try to map my email address to a real identity you get a great many "verified" wrong answers.
Dont use transferwise or worldfirst. Both have very bad reputation of closing down accounts adn freezing money. Just google both you come up with frustrated customers from literally hours ago. . I had nightmare scenario when needed to pay 120,000 eur to a contractor in England. They blocked the account for 30 days and made company almost go flop. We were forced to open extra credit line not to go bankrupt. Transferwise is a new trick of old dog PayPal (most hated company in the world) founder Peter Thiel. Same tricks just a different company name. Lookup Transferwise twitter they have people complaining constantly.
It’s always been employer paid for me.
I agree, the interview format isn't sufficient if it's algorithmic trivia.

The parent comment of yours identified the right need for them (a person who can come up with a solution when the time comes in the real world), but the method of toy algorithms means you could end up with the following scenario:

Person A: Spends months drilling solutions on whiteboards to memorize the answer. They pass as they can regurgitate every toy algorithm possible without thinking. They pass the interview.

Person B: doesn't deal well with interview situations and doesn't get the chance to talk in general about how they'd approach it in real life. They freeze up as they're stood up in front of a panel of people holding a whiteboard marker and being stared down. They don't progress in the interview.

Perhaps person B was the person who would sit at their desk for 20 mins in silence and come up with:

"ok if we're not deduping these on the inserts for our system, I guess the least we can be doing is maintaining one of those in-memory bloom filter things, I read about those one time as a good probabilistic data structure, might end up being a part of solution. I'll ask the tech lead if we have any memory constraints as I see that our AWS instances are compute optimised instead of memory optimised, anyway, we might get an off the shelf solution"

Person A: "which question in my 'interviewing for algorithms' text book does this belong to?"

You want Person B, you optimised your interview process for A.
Some of these are actually good ideas that would sell. The Mort clothing line would be a huge hit in the pomo shock art crowd.
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> Many things won’t have a bright line “

Agreed.

Though how often have you found autoplay by default makes YouTube useful?
Those are good words that work to talk about certain specific concepts. Do you have any word better than pussification?

What about SJW? Do you like the word "baizuo" better?
I'd looked at Noteplan previously, and it is a nice implementation.

They may want to re-read the first review that they have posted on their site, meant to support the product. It says, "Well thought through, nicely designed and untuitively to use."

Untuitive is not a word, however it is also listed as slang in the urban dictionary as the opposite of intuitive. "I couldn't figure out how to use that web app, the navigation was untuitive."

I'm sure the review meant intuitive not untuitive, but being the very first review listed on their home page, it may make sense to fix the listing in order to not to give people the wrong impression.
Cute. If I had a dime for all the times this has happened to me since the 90s...
I'm reading this book right now and it's glorious- it goes into a ton of detail on the history and design of early mechanical punchcard tabulators, sorters, multipliers, etc, in order to get you to the motivation to make it all electronic, etc.

Highly recommend it.

Also- this "printing" is really more a xerox of the original- and the "print" quality stinks. I got an older hardcover version off of amazon that was actually typeset and much easier to read.
Microsoft and a few other companies have done this with the email I used when interviewing :/
Try seekingarrangment to experience flirting in real life without anxiety. You'll gain the skill and will be able to use it in regular interactions.
To expand further, oxygen is toxic at 1.6ATA. For those unfamiliar, pressure doubles every 10m (33ft). So if I tried to breath 100% oxygen at 33ft (aka 2.0ATA), I’d die pretty quickly. At 66ft, that caps you at about 40% oxygen. At 99ft, you essentially can’t breath any higher oxygen concentration than natural air.

As such, nitrox’s purpose isn’t to increase depth. It’s actually used to increase bottom time (at a loss of max depth) without needing decompression. You get this increased bottom time due to lower amounts of nitrogen.

I’ve logged hundreds of nitrox dives from 28% - 60% oxygen levels, but never bit the bullet and gotten into more advanced air mixtures like Trimix. Trimix and other specialty blends are hard to get air fills for at the places I most commonly dive, so I keep pushing it off.
A better example would be a dangerous job where women are overrepresented, not underrepresented.
Colly goes 1.0
Either you disagree with the network effect, or you don't understand it. I assume the latter.
It's not out of print, Amazon will happily sell you a copy.
It's such a joke that the actual payment routing is only discussed in a 13 line paragraph in the Lightning Network whitepaper (section 8.4) [1]. Routing is the actual real-world problem that is in need to be solved before LN could be considered working. Instead, the whitepaper states:

> It is theoretically possible to build a route map implicitly from observing 2-of-2 multisigs on the blockchain to build a routing table. [...] Node discovery can occur along the edges by pre-selecting and offering partial routes to well-known nodes.

That's it. The word "routing" also only appears once outside of that section.

There are several proposals that all eventually end in "use payment hubs with high liquidity", which are just the equivalent of banks. It doesn't solve any of the problems that the Bitcoin crowd wanted to solve in the first place: Fees will still exist as nobody will altruistically commit thousands of Bitcoin into thousands of LN channels, decentralization is out of the window, and anonymity (or rather pseudonymity) will be easily reversed due to the need for long lasting LN channels to make efficient use of the LN.

All of the above is not even considering that you need to commit a large amount of Bitcoin into LN channels to be able to make use of LN's advantages (not waiting for block confirmations) effectively - which you have to constantly monitor to not lose your channel contents.

LN is an interesting technological experiment but it has no practical uses outside of test environments due to the limitations I laid out above.

1: https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf
Possible Autopilot Use Probed After Tesla Crashes at 60 MPH
I apologize for my imprecise diction. I should have said, "disability that holds each of us back from doing his/her best". I have edited my previous comment accordingly.
> Blood testing is not a field where people accept mistakes.

I don't think this is true. There are blood tests that don't always work. Lyme disease is one that is not accurately detected.
How does LN do routing currently? Why does it fail so often?
So... we use the SortedSet provided by the library?
That's not how opt-in or JavaScript works together with law. If a hostile website serves hostile JavaScript code, it won't be "it was your computer who ran it"; THEY served it.

The standard experience will need to adhere to privacy laws. GLHF with GDPR in 2 weeks :)
Thanks, good to know. And is this at a smaller company (e.g startup) or larger, established company?
Especially, mobile devices like laptops, smartphones etc will then have to send probe requests constantly, even if youre away from home... informing any eavesdropper around of essid and probably also bssid.

Most OSes do this anyway to speed up the connection process (try to attach to last n networks and see what sticks). Can be abused to learn about past locations of that device by asking one of the wifi location api databases (iOS, win, google/android):

https://www.mylnikov.org/archives/1170

Edit: couldnt find good links about rapid wifi connecting procedures but here's an older article about Apple's rapid dhcp mechanism:

https://cafbit.com/post/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do/
It appears to be well paid. And as a kid that grew up poor if the choice was 3 weeks of parental non contact or mayonnaise sandwiches for dinner, well see you in a few weeks, mom!
"And I would have gotten away with it if not for you meddling kids."
I'm guessing XML doesn't count as a text-based file format? Otherwise, that's what every office suite (technically a zip file of XML files, but that's splitting hairs), vector editor, and graphical HTML editor already does.

Anyway, I especially like the `sc` spreadsheet format and editor as an example of a GUI tool that works with text-based file formats. Despite the giant disclaimer at the top of each file saying not to edit it, it's shockingly human-friendly.
I like performance. But. OpenBSD supports hardware versions a long way back. So you either break compatibility, ship more versions, or have to detect features on the fly, which works but has costs. On the other hand, if all x86_64 (amd64) supports a feature then it seems like a better bet.
Tim Draper probably understands, privately, that Theranos is an unrecoverable loss. Privately, he has probably learned a lesson about doing better due diligence going forward. Publicly, he is doing what he thinks will benefit him the most: he is signalling to all prospective future investments, that, "If you take my money, I will stand by you through thick and thin." Some future founders might be turned off by this, but some will probably see it as invaluable.
Probability is also based on what you know. Nobody believed NSA was collating information about Americans online the way they did, so using probability you don't reach the correct answer. The CIA is smuggling drugs and has committed lots of serious crimes across the world. Again, what is the probability of this?
I'm looking for an organization tool like this.

I don't currently use any of the big programming text editors (no emacs) so am pretty much starting from scratch.

Is org-mode great enough to invest in the learning curve over something like this, or over microsoft one note?

Most of my work is in windows using excel/word/outlook + SAS, oracle SQL, and R (using enterprise guide, toad, and rstudio resp.).
Ah, I thought we were discussing snail mail.
I started reading (well, listening to the audiobooks) after watching S2. Highly recommended.