skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lync was always unreliable with many issues. Then they slapped on a few skype interface horrors to make it a truly bad product.
Because F16s are developed in USA and used only by US military ? /s
I can't speak to all of the things you want to learn, but I've learned some of them on my own. For calculus and linear algebra I'd go with Khan Academy, especially since it seems like all you need is a refresher for calculus. Graph theory and discrete math I did with MIT EdX courses. Their discrete course is pretty nice and I found it very easy to follow along with.

Constraint solving and optimization problems aren't things I self studied, but you can find a variety of resources to help with those based on how you learn best. For me, I did them by taking a class and relying heavily on my textbooks.
It wasn't a great example, and I don't manage a team, or work at a Microsoft shop. I think I was trying to say it's easier to avoid making bad hiring decisions than it is to work on making good hiring decisions. It's probably also hard to practice hiring decisions at all, which doesn't help in reducing the learning curve.
I think the issue with the current hoverslam solution is that the timing of the rocket relight is critical to the rocket hoverslamming (and not just regular slamming). I don't have the answer to this but imagine that if an engine fails to relight at the correct time there's a much smaller (or maybe non-existent?) margin of error.

A plane on the other hand has two engines and can also generally just glide to the ground in the event that neither of them are working.
TIL Tom Wolfe was still alive.
Having a filter would improve the feed a lot for me. Excluding Google/golang spam would make this site a lot more enjoyable.
I agree with other guy, that is a useful distinction and I didn’t know that’s what it was called.

I’ll still argue for ultimate cause because if it wasn’t Snowden it seems likely would have been someone else.

I’m a firm believer in don’t shoot the messenger, even if they are flawed.
I wouldn’t say that developing military hardware necessarily negates the “don’t be evil” principal (especially if the developed articles are dual use, for both military and civilian applications). The western world, our principals and values have prospered for more than half a century in Pax Americana afforded, in a large part, by the prosperous US Military Industrial Complex.

I totally get the objection to developing combative AI - that’s a separate ethical question - but you can contribute to the military and still maintain your humane values.
What does the ride hailing service and infrastructure (platform?) have to do with the drivers beyond screening them to the best of their ability? It's like saying Mcdonalds, the post office, or any large employer should be held accountable for the crimes of their employees.

I googled the most trivial of searches and got dozens of responses, here's a few. In any of these cases, is it really fair to say any of these were Uber's fault? Or Lyft's? I do not think so. Do you?

https://nypost.com/2018/03/05/woman-raped-twice-trying-to-ta...

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/davie/fl-sb-davie-...

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rape-victim-suing-l...

https://www.theindychannel.com/news/local-news/boone-county/...
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17064776 (98 comments) (discussion of the Gizmodo article thats the source of this article)
Uh, Google very often keeps grinding on stuff that doesn't succeed, although often the brand dies and either a new one is born or the tech gets rolled into something else (sometimes, even before the old brand goes away).

Sure, e.g. Nexus Q never got a general release after the I/O preview model under that branding... But instead of “Nexus Q 2” we got “Chromecast” and “Nexus Player” and...
Google does not hire AI people exclusively.
Mozilla has an extension so you can do this without Nightly. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

I mostly use it to manage the 3 google accounts i use daily
VSCode, Teams, Skype, (Office 365 using browser) are available on all platforms including Linux.
I do not know if it is cheaper, but we build our own desktop machines. We just always have.
Just in case you didn't see since they commented after you, smilliken describes the nix process at their company https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10714102
I don't think your example backs up your point about it being easier on the eyes. This would also work:

"$foo bar baz"

Since there's a space after foo, the braces don't actually do anything and thus _can_ be eliminated. Your other points make a decent argument for _not_ eliminating them even though you can, but removing extra characters makes it much easier to read.
It would be puerile for a Swedish person, far from it for an American. The fact that it’s the military of my own country has little to do with how evil it is or isn’t.
Python keeps evolving -- great ! and also, consider support for a stable Python 2.7 LTS .. you know, for more than five years from now?
It's not directly killing people. That's like saying helping improve GPS satellites kills people because weapons systems use GPS and would benefit from increased accuracy.
Back on my first computer a 486, I had a flat Trinitron monitor. So at least in my case, the curvature would actually make the experience less authentic if I felt like reliving the Doom and Duke3d gaming of my youth.
I found your explanation a lot more weird and a lot less simpler than the parent.
Corollary: plenty of skilled engineers with fewer moralistic constraints will jump at the chance to do interesting work for high pay. For a company as large and wealthy as Google, they can continue to raise offer salaries until they are adequately staffed.

There is a school of thought that recommends “moral” people doing “immoral” work because if those people left then other “immoral” people will take those jobs and more readily implement “immoral” features. So the “moral” engineers have an incentive to stay and act as a front line against “immoral” actions, or at least have an insider’s position for whistleblowing.

Military drones are here to stay, and whether or not the US builds them, other military powers certainly will.

Ultimately, I don’t think this changes anything.
"Facebook Container" is just a simplified version of https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... (both are made by Mozilla).
Dat timeline.
> “Quantumn mechanics is just such and such theory in dimesion 1.”

Well, quantum mechanics is "just" 0+1 quantum field theory which is actually a good insight and not at all dismissive.
+1 to Khan Academy. Explanations are super clear. Their website allows you to work through practice problems too, which I think is the most important thing.
If it has a headphone jack (rumored NOT to be the case), then maybe I'll still have an upgrade path on iOS. Not sure I would willfully move to a device without one.
Ask HN: Examples of Company UX and Design Interview Questions?
Looking for real world examples of design and UX interview questions, or design challenges companies use in hiring.

Found this one from Github: "Critique the interfaces and flow for creating a new pull request on GitHub." - http://joelcalifa.com/blog/how-i-got-hired-by-github/

Looking for others.
Great interactive demos.
The Strange Economics of Crop Insurance
I doubt lyft will follow suit. They have the same rate of incidents on their service with the ability to defend themselves as well (less screening, no human support #s, less emergency support systems than Uber).
Does anyone support financially unsuccessful products? I think Google gets a bad rap because a) it can kill products with large amounts of users that still aren't valuable enough to the bottom line or company strategy, and b) it can't seem to focus behind one way to solve a problem. Whereas we don't knock hardware companies as much, because the thing has a finite lifespan and more or less continues to work for its useful life.

Windows RT — were there any users to miss it? I loved Windows Phone, but I was surprised Microsoft didn't kill it sooner.
Take refresher classes at community college. This is what I did. I did all the calculus and linear algebra classes on offer. For me this was very valuable. My goal was to be able to read mathematics in research papers.
Crisp, Clean News with Archive
Meet the Members of Congress Who Play Video Games
Well, I love and hate bash at the same time.

I love the way of writing scripts. You start with a simple command and keep piping and saving the output to other functions and commands until you reach the desired outcome. While doing so, you can simply wrap every command into wrapper functions and have the entire arsenal of cli applications at you disposal. While not having to care about such esoteric/complicated/efficient stuff like data types as everything is a string until you have a command which knows how to interpret it otherwise.

But at the same time those scripts tend to be very slow, lavish about resources (e.g. compared to compiled languages C/Go/Rust) and the practical/secure syntax is just awful. When simply saving the output of a command to a variable uses six special characters, you know you are coding (s)hell:

a="$(echo fun)"

Another very deep misconception is the test command in form of the square bracket '[' which leads to the very error prone concept of simple if commands which are very picky about whitespaces.

Despite the rough syntax I really enjoy writing bash scripts. Maybe its just that I am able to solve everyday problems with just a very few lines of code.
They've been assisting with govt/.MIL intelligence tech forever.

The artificial part is just the nature progression of such.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "easily monitoring everyones phones"? Physically tapping the phones is easy, but doing anything meaningful with that amount of audio is anything but.
Yr n0t 'lone :v
It at least makes a statement. It may not prevent the work from being done, but at least these people have washed their hands of it.
Cassandra Query Observability with Libpcap and Protocol Observer
RoboFly: The world’s lightest wireless flying machine
There's a bit of bias in that you're most likely to really notice something's in Python when it breaks... And the AWS client is terrible itself. And then you have a lot of stuff like Deluge where you'd never notice it's in Python until you checked under the hood.
You are correct, no contract can be "above" the law. However, now that you "signed" a EULA, the onus will be much more on you proving this is illegal, costing you time and money, and the person enforcing the EULA has a legal team. So they knowingly write these contracts knowing they are unenforable, and get away with it most of the time.
Would there be article if company in question would not be as large/influential?
Ask HN: How to become a better coder?
I've been a software engineer for over a decade, worked at startups and established companies and built a variety of systems at scale - frontend, backend, db and client. I consider myself quite technical and a quick learner, and able to pick up pretty much anything I apply myself towards.

I recently I interviewed at Amazon, Facebook and Google. I received and accepted an offer from Amazon. The other two declined and basically gave me the same feedback - that I had excellent communication and design skills, but had to improve my coding.

I consider myself a good coder, but I would like to take this as constructive criticism and actually improve on my craft.

So, question is - how would I go about doing this in a structured, planned manner? I realize this is a never ending process, but I would like to incrementally improve over, say, the next 12 months. I have a family and other obligations, so would probably prefer something that could be consumed in reasonable doses.
Google should not be in the business of war [pdf]
Hiring a whitehat is one thing. The NSA is gray at best.
I was on mobile, so I didn't get the exact name right. It's actually "Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext".
The Feynman Lectures on Physics. I found 50th anniversary hard-bound edition at the Los Alamos book store. Very readable. Feynman explains things like no other. The audio recordings are out there, though video should have been made of these. A real loss for humanity.
But how do I learn math/physics in 2018?

Jokes aside, try https://www.coursera.org/ or https://www.khanacademy.org/
Thanks for the tip- do you work in this area currently?
For those wondering what a finite element model is:

> FE models are computational tools developed by breaking an object down into simpler parts (finite elements) and assembling them into a larger system of equations to model an entire structure—this facilitates the efficient analysis of design changes to that structure. FE models have been used to improve designs in many engineered products, including those in the aeronautics and automotive industries.
Ask HN: How do phone spammers know my location?
For the past month my cell phone has been receiving the same robo call from various phone numbers. This is normal. What's new is that the calling number changes based on my physical location. I took a trip to Massachusetts and the spam calls were Massachusetts numbers. I spent a night in Washington DC and the calls changed to Washington DC area codes. How does the spammer know which phone number to "call" from to match my location? Is this likely a malicious app, are websites tracking my IP address, or is there some other path for spammers to behave this way? How could I even find out how this information is leaked?
> Thinking that the military of your own country is "evil" seems a bit puerile to me.

How true this is in a specific case depends on what that country’s military is doing at the time; categorically dismissing the idea that a nation's military can reasonably be seen as evil by a citizen seems more than a bit naive to me.
He inspired others to do as he did -- and he added a nice story to the universe.

That's more than non denying others the chance to read a specific book at the library -- which 99.999% wouldn't have read even if they could anyway.
Is this possibly a Prius only flaw?
The epitome of what you want is to find a mentor, a chalkboard, and 3-4 hour chunks of time you can dedicate to learning. Repeat about 2x a week for a year, and do independent study with a book on one side of the table and a notepad on the other between classes.
This article title is false and extremely misleading.

The Facebook Container and Multi-account Containers addons are great, and I would highly recommend their use. I've been using Multi-account Containers since they were first released. However they do not "stop Instagram and Facebook from tracking you online". They significantly reduce the extent to which they can track you, but are a long long way from complete prevention.
Whether it's their fault or not, I believe a person should have a right to sue and lose, especially in cases of rape. You are right that Uber/Lyft/etc will likely be found not at fault, but then there is the case where Uber stole a customers medicals records in one of these rape instances [1] in which a lawsuit is more than fair for the victim.

[1] https://www.recode.net/2017/6/7/15754316/uber-executive-indi...
Is China’s creative industry failing to keep pace with its technology sector?
What federation issues?
I'm having Apple iSight flashbacks. MS should just embed 4 cameras into the frame.
Few bits of different perspective (with a background in corporate strategy).

Microsoft has commoditized their ecosystem, look at all of the equivalent PC makers, equivalent Silver/Gold/etc. parters, LARs, VARs, number of anti-virus vendors (and other software companies, etc.) all replaceable and Microsoft drives them business through an overlay sales and marketing team. They are the best in the world at this, Cisco has been the 2nd best.

Facebook is more vulnerable to loss of 3rd party content than the article states. They have many categories of content now and they've done an excellent job of building deep hooks making their platform the ideal place to publish so the moat is deep and wide but it isn't an invincible business. The # of DAU and the amount of activity on the platform would drop if Facebook lost any of it's third party content sources (1) publishers, (2) businesses, (3) community organizations, (4) topical groups, (5) marketplace sellers, (6) event organizers, (7) .., (..) .., (N) .. [I could go on for a while longer on all of the different ways Facebook is a platform within a platform fighting on multiple fronts, the 6 give a good enough of an idea to get started..]
Get a real pen and paper, get a real physical book, sit and solve problems with pen and paper for hours every day for a few months. Then you will pass the exams.
The RNA can turn off and on production of proteins no? If so, then surely the ratio of proteins can affect the touch response sensitivity?

After all, it's not like he transferred memory of a complex maze.
You really need accurate material models for this to be any use. Without being able to validate the baseline condition using the same non-linear, anisotropic, material behaviour profiles, there's no way to develop new geometry and/or use novel materials, and actually prove it's better than before.

They would ideally release their own, repeatable analysis files of their own benchmark condition.

I suspect the best helmet for blunt impacts is probably a one/few-time use deal with crumple zones to absorb the energy of the impact and increase the time of the impact. After it's crumpled you would have to swap it out for a new helmet.

Curious why they wouldn't just drop their funding on a grant for research in any top10 mechanical engineering department - the knowledge to develop this is readily available and the problem space is a fairly solved one. That being said Tesla has improved crash safety over what decades of safety engineers could do so maybe there is always space for improvement.
Building Go Applications with Bazel
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2018
Completely Silent Computer
'The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby' absolutely blew me away as kid in the UK - tremendous verve in Wolfe's writing, wonderfully descriptive and illuminating and contributed not insignificantly to my life long love of car culture...
I agree with Calrbolite103, a very accessible starting point to Wolfe's style in short chapter/article/stories. Most of what he wrote was great IMO, most especially about the late 60's to the 80's...
> And what then? We can't have them rewriting, or even reinterpreting it, that would be a huge increase to their power.

But it is already up to the courts to interpret the law.

I really don't think it's a stretch to say "look, we think this law was written poorly, but we think that this part of the law could have been written just fine, so we're going to go with that".
The company I work for mostly uses Gentoo.
Beat me to it! I started whistling it just as the video ended.
Archimedes approximation of pi
http://www.goodtheorist.science/
Yeah, I'm not following that one. 2-space tabs are visually difficult.
it's interesting that the criterion was the size of the company's gross revenues. (i.e. if a company has gross revenues greater than $20 million, it will be assessed a tax of $275 per employee.)

i guess it's desirable for the city to focus the tax on high revenue companies because, presumably, they're large and would have a hard time leaving Seattle.

OTOH, i would think it would be more fair, in some sense, to base this tax on overall profitability. i.e. tax the companies that are the most profitable, or the most profitable per employee or something.
What works for me is purchasing and reading textbooks (look for online college syllabuses for good ones). Probably the best way to read maths texts is to work the problems, but what I do is read it through once or twice. Then switch to a different text on the same subject. Things will slowly start to click, although of course you don't understand something until you can explain it (i.e. write a blog post about it) to someone else.
Towards Distributed Clouds
Microsoft’s Surface Hub 2 is designed for an office of the future
For motivation, if there is a nearby university, start attending the relevant departments' colloquia. They are generally open to all, and will start to get you up to date on what's new across all of math/physics.

My favorite undergraduate students when I was TA'ing were all students who had returned to school after spending time in the world. They knew why they were there, knew that the material was worth learning, and asked lots of questions.

Go get it -- start small, don't stop.
The telecom industry's identity crisis
Because no one would consider it, or because careful expert analysis isn't enough and no one would trust it? In the latter case, how does one get on the trusted list, and if NSA is on it how on earth does one get off?
Watching too many movies and too much TV has the converse effect - for the most part, visual media is full of nationalistic ra-ra nonsense.

The US military (As have all other militaries that have done anything of note) has done some ridiculously evil things. The drone strike program isn't the worst of them by any means, but it's not its brightest moment, either.
The $60million dollar in funding shows the NFL is taking the issue more seriously than it ever has. I suspect there are individuals in the NFL organization that care about the health of their players, but most individuals see this as good PR and risk mitigation. If the NFL does nothing to address it's safety profile they are vulnerable to external regulations.

I'm unsure if this sport can be played safely with any equipment, and playsmartplaysafe.com does little to assure me new changes to helmets are coming to sharply reduce concussions. It does show me that the NFL is open to changes in their helmet design. I'd be interesting in listening to people active in the helmet industry, physicists and doctors about this new platform.
As long as software is executed in the real world you have side effects, including "side effects" coming in from the outside, like bits flipped in RAM. Yes. So let's just be practical. We can have the equivalent of a middle ages theological discussion or one rooted in this world :-)
Creative Nonfiction[1] typified by Wolfe, Gay Talese[2] and their ilk is not at all similar to what I think you're referencing in our current climate of agenda-porn masquerading as news

From TFA:

> In an author’s statement for the reference work World Authors, Mr. Wolfe wrote that to him the term “meant writing nonfiction, from newspaper stories to books, using basic reporting to gather the material but techniques ordinarily associated with fiction, such as scene-by-scene construction, to narrate it.”

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

[2] https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a638/frank-sinatra-has...
No gif will help. There is no visual explanation that will help was my point.
Summarizing: "Because this activity is so dangerous, and results in many head injuries, we've spent $60 million developing a framework for manufacturers to make helmets that will mitigate the injuries from the this entirely voluntary activity."

Umm, has anyone considered just not doing this activity? I don't mean to be trite, but that's what it looks like from the perspective of one who has little interest in football. If so much protection is required to not turn participants into literal mental cases, the logical next step would be...

Sure, the same could be said about, say, motorcycling. But at least my motorcycle takes me places. OTOH, no one is paying millions in broadcast rights so that people can watch me ride a motorcycle on TV.
Take a look at brilliant.org. They teach mathematics in small chunks with practice.
https://brilliant.org/courses/#math-advanced
https://brilliant.org/courses/calculus-done-right/
https://brilliant.org/courses/linear-algebra/