skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NLP-generated summaries could replace traditional headlines
The article has a form to fill out to submit additional anecdotes; you should encourage her to do that if she's comfortable. I bet Google would really like NYT readers to think this is only a thing that happens at "other companies" and people need to know that it definitely isn't.
stop saying the reason why u quit in job interviews
Before you look for a new job, go to your manager/boss and say: "I think I'm ready to take on more than I've been doing. What have you got?" That way, you don't have to pass an interview, and you may get mentoring or other company-paid training that can advance your career.
As popular classic saying goes; If you have to create a project to save a file then it’s an IDE.
Right, this is what I was getting at, but you explained it better :)
The answer is no. The answer isn't yes their working devices didn't work.
Well, it was only yesterday that I learned that having a single set of struts is less stable. I always assumed they were two because they wanted to keep the middle of the bridge clear for the road.

This was my exact point: as a Joe on the street you just have to assume that the engineers got it right. A two set strutted bridge can still fail if the struts are two thin, or not of the right kind of steel/concrete. Do you really evaluate all buildings when you enter them, especially the modern weird and unstable looking ones? Have you ever avoided entering a building just because it has a crazy unstable looking design?
This feels like a keyword stuffing exercise to capture searches like "Fuchsia release date" even though it doesn't have one.
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Indicted on Fraud Charges
What? It’s paid leave. You get your whole salary, but you don’t come to work.
People sell stuff with art on it?
The description of this article should be updated with the date (1999).
And fraudulently sell a service designed to secure said network from future intrusions. And when you were short on money, went back and set up a situation where they needed to give you more money. How are you rationalizing this as "kids will be kids"? This is Extortion.
I see you live in the same local area as I do. Would you mind if I could have a chat with you? I have worked about as long as you have, and am technically freelancing, although not to the point where I can make a sustainable living. I also can't grok interviews which is one of the inspirations from making this thread.
Techradar is the place that always appears in search results when you query for rumors of X for every X.
Generally I think you're right, but Seneca may have said that before Oprah did.
Sympathy is better than the other thing.

The fact is that we don't know what actually happened, only what the government and media want us to know, even if it isn't so. They look guilty as hell, but so do innocent people.

Trial by jury is better than trial by media, so I'll take the high road and reserve my judgment until then.
It is, for handling assets.

It starts to break down for child custody as well as medical directives, end-of-life decisions, hospital visitation. You also don’t get marriage related tax benefits or the ability to hold title to real estate or financial accounts as “tenants in the entirety” (which is permitted only in some states, solely for married couples, that protects joint assets when only one person has claims against them), which is important depending on the creditor laws of your state and how they handle claims against a member of a multi member LLC.
Recently, I was helping out a friend in analyzing some RNA samples for her work. These samples are huge - like nearly a gigabyte of data. There was this tool which was recommended for the job - mirexpress. It was a small job, perhaps 10 minutes worth of effort. To make my work easier, I provisioned a beefy (and costly) machine on Azure to do the job, took a quick look at the clock (it said 11 PM), ran the tool, and relaxed. The tool crashed while reading the file.

In an attempt to fix the bug, I opened mirexpress's code. And all my confidence in my programming ability vanished when I saw its innards. I understand that the code may have been written by scientists who had no experience in programming, but I have never been so utterly _disoriented_ by bad code. Anyways, after hacking away at the mess for about 3-4 hours, I realized that this was a fool's errand and thought I'll just phone it in the next day saying I couldn't do it. I went to sleep thinking that it was already late and I'd get late for work the next day.

- 5 minutes later -

I woke up with a start, recalling this nifty tool called awk. I had last used it maybe 3 years ago, and before that only in college. But I could see how awk could do some of the things which mirexpress was claiming to do. So I fire up my computer, write an awk script - 2 lines only! TWO FUCKING LINES! And it runs like a charm - eats away at megabytes of sample data and gives me results I can show. So then like any rational person, I spent the remaining hours re-discovering awk and forgot to sleep. Pissed away the whole next day (and some part of the day after that too!) :-D

It's really fascinating that this nifty little tools invented DECADES ago are still going strong, and there's been no _evolutionary_ leap in areas where tools like awk/grep/sed excel at.
The best version of it is Oberon System 3 with its Gadgets framework.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&key...

Unfortunately the book describing how it worked for current generations is priced as collector item and very hard to get by.

There are however some working web sites still and the Citeseerx paper version that is related to the book edition.

http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ethoberon/tutorial/

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.472...
>If you were the PoTuS, you want to help the Rust Belt, and you have both houses of Congress and the American people behind you, what would you do?

I wouldn't lie and tell people we can force the world to give a damn about American cars like it was the 1950s all over again, because the world has moved on from that economy, and thanks to automation, even if we brought the factories back, there would be few if any jobs for human beings. We can't look back, we have to look forward, and prepare for the actual future. The coal mines aren't going to open, the days of lifetime employment at the steel mill or auto plant, two cars in every garage and a chicken in every pot are dead.

Beyond that, I don't know. It's a complex problem, but failing to recognize complexity, as the President seems to, doesn't actually make it simpler.
That was a thing? I would think that making an enemy of a bunch of billionaires and political figures would have excerbated her downfall.
The only reason other people will pay for my social security is that my contribution is used to pay for previous generation's SS.

The scam is that I'm paying for their much better retirement that I will have, considering how population evolves.
I'm a physician and use these services often. They are inconvenient. Using Google translate is much quicker. But obviously if the translation needs to be correct, you have to rely on a real person. (not that via phone people get 100% accurate translations, but you can be more confident that the intended time comes across more closely at least)
Here’s one example. Apparently RIM’s employees collectively thought it was impossible (to achieve the stated battery life); I think they count as experts:

> RIM had a complete internal panic when Apple unveiled the iPhone in 2007, a former employee revealed this weekend. The BlackBerry maker is now known to have held multiple all-hands meetings on January 10 that year, a day after the iPhone was on stage, and to have made outlandish claims about its features. Apple was effectively accused of lying as it was supposedly impossible that a device could have such a large touchscreen but still get a usable lifespan away from a power outlet.

http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/12/27/rim.thought.apple.was...
Not to be a debbie downer but... just in time for floor traders to become completely irrelevant. But I guess it wouldn't be news worthy if are you counting the women running the trading bots because they have been around for a long time now.
Ask HN: Who struggles to hire, fearing loss of control?
It is actually quite self-explanatory: if an action that is intended to protect one party (US electronics manufacturers) at the expense of another party ends up instead harming the former, then by definition said action is good for no one.
Per day every day?
Off topic: Are the Yellow Pages still a thing?
It would actually be pretty cool if this was actually a service offered by those major services. Obviously very rate limited.

Say example.com/.well-known/password-check

You provide a username or email and a password and if you get it right it will let you know and lock their account and require a reset when they log on next.

The someone like haveibeenpwned can run a meta service to check every service that registers with them.

I haven't thought through the security implications of this but it seems pretty mild on the surface. I mean there's denial of service potential but only when their password has been compromised so... good?
Minds, machines, and centralization: AI and music
Could you please increase the amount of information in your comments?

Edit: thanks.
It is an evaluation. He is not impressed so he doesn't look further into it.

Unfortunately, the over-hyped cyberpunk community is on a bandwagoning trip of dismissing all criticism as gating or ignorance, even elevating the remarks of a handful people on the internet as the main criticism against the game, e.g., cyberpunk on a day is not cyberpunk.

Personally, I find the direction the developers are taking refreshing, but that doesn't mean they haven't missed opportunities or made no mistakes.

The main argument of those happy with the trailer's cyberpunk style is that the later is not a mix of cyber with outrun or vaporwave, but as the term states cyber and punk. Hence it is not limited to the dusky, rainy scenes of Blade Runner.

They forget, however, that ironically cyberpunk is also more than the sum of its parts. Even if you wish to progress this very visually demanding genre into a new direction, we still have to able to experience the feeling of low life, high tech that is so essential to cyberpunk.

So to claim that you can't do cyberpunk on a day does indeed make no sense. But to imply it is of no concern how you present your day scenes and the color pallette doesn't matter, that is even worse.
It wasn’t entirely speculation, since he had firsthand experience.
It would be great to move a bunch of technology/manufacturing back onshore, but that's a different conversation.

This appears to be done for political reasons: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-was-angry...
> nroff = "New ROFF"
> These are descendants of "roff", which was a re-implementation
of the Multics "runoff"

Wouldn’t it have been cool if nroff was “nuroff” so that run was spelled backwards, and “new” was represented phonetically?
> I am hoping same paradigm (and similar abstractions) are adapted by MS toolchain for desktop and console UI in .NET-based solutions.

You're at least a couple of decades late, there, and the other way around: instead of `Winuser.h`, it's `react.js`.
Old curse: I wish you sue and win.
I'm sorry, the tone of this article is a joke."How do we deal with all these fake wannabe influencers cold emailing us and asking for free stuff."

I don't know, maybe do what all of us do and filter out spammers, delete emails, and follow up quickly with anyone who seems promising?

Or maybe ignore all of the requests? I mean damn, it's not like a hotel manager is a demigod.
She certainly is not a good person but a lot of blame should be put on the VCs and board members. They could have figured things out if they had bothered to look.
Based upon what you said, there is just one flaw in your pmm. I know how to fix it. Unfortunately, I can't tell you. The secret is proprietary, and I need to make sure that it doesn't get corrupted, so everyone can use it for free.
I hire freelancers frequently. I never ask them what their age is, I ask for their portfolio and what they are skilled in. Maybe you should look into contracting.
It's not the same as the veins, and varies a lot between fingers and location.

It is well known to any diabetic, or to anyone who played for a few minutes with a blood glucose monitor.
The parent of the post I replied to was about Haskell, Ada, Pony and Go. And the thread is about Crystal (with lots of mentions for Nim).

All of those share one thing in common, something which Erlang doesn't have in common with them.
I believe in proportionate and fair punishment for crimes committed by anyone, let alone my worst enemy. Bureaucratic hell seems more than reasonable for the crimes committed by Theranos leadership. And I'm sure the trial won't be as bad as prison.
Yeah but I bet the implementation brushes up against things that have been used to come to a conviction under CFAA. I'm no lawyer but it seems like a big liability to me.
The defaults in Perl, especially the default variable.

(For those not familiar: $_ is the default variable in Perl. Many operations use this variable if you don't specify one. You can use $_ like "it" in English: "Read in a line of input. If it ends in a newline..." In most languages, you would have to deal with "Read it into where?" and "If what ends in a newline?" But in Perl, if you don't specify where to read the line to, it goes into $_, and if you don't specify what you want to see if it ends in a newline, it checks $_, and so on...)
I recall Carreyrou (the journalist who wrote this article and exposed them originally) saying a few weeks ago that he thought it was a bad idea for them to keep operating the company, that it was probably antagonizing the DOJ. This is just a hunch, but it may be that they (the DOJ) were convinced that if not indicted, they would try to do it all again (find a new bunch of investors to fleece). If so, I think they might have been correct.
The US failed to achieve a South Vietnamese gov't that had reasonable support from the general populace, which was nominally on the list of US policy goals since the beginning, but was gamed at every step of the way.

Until such was achieved, we had _always_ lost the war. Winning battles, paid for with American blood, was only a means of temporarily staving off the likely collapse for another year or two.

As for "abandoned", what does that even mean? The South had: large material advantages in artillery, vehicles, and AFVs; a significant air force (2000 craft), plus >10 years of a huge US training effort.
Sweden: 'It's Fun to Build a Mosque'
Ahhh - thanks for getting to the crux of the matter:

The military objectives were 'gamed' by using 'body count' which mislead us in terms of progress.(Actually, they were not 'gamed' so much as the old metric of 'body count' was not useful in this type of insurgency - so more a matter of 'lack of insight').

BUT - the strategic objectives did not fail for this reason.

The military objectives of defeating the VC and North Vietnamese were still outright successful. Despite all the challenges, it was a definitive military victory for the US: VC wiped out, North Vietnamese totally neutralized. The North Vietnamese basically surrendered their objectives and a 'peace treaty' was signed.

The 'failure' in Vietnam was a geopolitical one - once the US withdrew, the North Vietnamese rebuilt their army and waltzed into the South.

My point is - the two are separate issues.

The now accepted view of 'body count was misleading' actually did not fundamentally affect military outcomes. It was a bad measure, but the US still one. It affected some things, maybe a 'shock' to public opinion, but it was not existential in terms of changing the military outcomes.

The 'failed objectives' were simply due to (arguably premature) US withdrawal. You can see from US casualties [1] during the war that the war was 'won' (about mid 1970) several years before US withdrawal and even longer before a resurgent North Vietnamese invasion after US withdrawal.

Hence the confusion.

There were so many civilian casualties, so many geopolitical bits of ugliness, the US casualty rate was high enough, the terrible massacres on both sides - that all of this leaves us with a clouded view of the events.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties
They are starting. You can get routing for Underground in some cities.
But if you check OSM there is a lot of data. I think that all what is missing is a algorithm to make the routing.
Some friends, other friends like Canada can apparently be beat up no problem.
The Danish word for “read” is “læs”, which is close to less in pronounciation, so in a way it makes sense to us.
> The short answer is her Jobs-like "reality distortion field" -- she was exceedingly good at convincing ...

Considering this and the lack of substance behind her claims, I would personally bet money that she is a clinical psychopath.

The most disturbing thing I have ever observed about human beings is our tendency to follow psychopaths. Psychopaths seem to have this gravity around them and people just fall into line. I've observed some spectacular examples. A psychopath can say the most questionable or even absurd things and people will just believe, whereas people will be skeptical of even very sane things that come out of the mouths of non-psychopaths. It's as if clinical psychopaths have some special instinctive ability to generate body language, vocal cues, and linguistic patterns that manipulate others very effectively.

I am not claiming that everyone with a "reality distortion field" must be a psychopath, but I've definitely observed a positive correlation.
> The word is concatenate.

Catenate is a valid word, and synonymous with concatenate. Plus, "cat" makes a better 3 letter unix program name than "con", right?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/catenate

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

Googling the difference (hint: none) I found this lovely ditty:

I never concatenate strings;
I just catenate those little things.
Of syllables few,
I'm a man through and through.
Shorter words? My heart joyfully sings!

David Gries

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/JavaAndDS/files/catenate.p...
They did start with legitimate attempts at implementing th technology needed to microfluidics (though apparently Holmes knew nothing about the field and didn't even know anything about existing players such as Abaxis, who actually had working machines).

However, they could not get the technology to work and abandoned several development paths in favour of a less ambitious approach that, among other things, involved doing blood analysis the old-fashioned way (manually in the lab), and only pretending to be using new tech they'd invented. They knew it didn't work, but kept selling it anyway, which is where it went from just faking it to outright fraud.

Most of their money was raised after they failed to develop their blood analysis technology, but to the investors, to the press and to their clients (such as Walgreens), they were still claiming to be using their proprietary technology [1].

[1] http://m.nautil.us/issue/60/searches/does-theranos-mark-the-...
I disagree. Vue is just a view layer, as is React. Angular is much more. Also, a lot of people are saying Vue and React are so different, but to me they actually seem very similar. They require the same kind of component-thinking and they both let you declare your view as a function of state in a similar way (JSX vs DSL). They both have similar problems with similar solutions.
Scheme's expression comments are really quite handy, but only possible to implement in languages where everything is an expression.

For those not familiar, you can have the reader just discard an expression, so like (list 1 #;2 3) becomes (list 1 3), but you can handily comment out a giant function call or if expression or something while you work on it.

Scheme's nestable multiline comments are also nice. I'm not sure which language was first, but I think more languages are getting them now (Kotlin has them IIRC).
Very cool. So are you doing the investment on your cash, others, or a combination of both?
Rather than merely downvoting perhaps people can actually try to argue the point and answer the difficult questions. What are the unintended consequences of this kind of legislation? Should the domain of women just be in big companies and government? What is the relative cost of losing jobs due to pregnancy (with some compensation from the government) vs not being hired for certain jobs in the first place. Do we end up favoring the less law abiding managers with more legislation? I believe so and indeed for this kind of morally dubious individual it makes sense to promote these kind of unenforceable laws.
I am assuming they had some of the best people in the field working on these. Makes me wonder how much the employees were aware of the company's situation, and the infeasibility of some of these goals.
This is also interesting game from technical side: vector graphics, runtime is virtual machine interpreting custom bytecode.

There is also runtime for modern platforms using SDL, reverse engineered from DOS binary: http://fabiensanglard.net/anotherWorld_code_review/
So I mean like, fraud is definitely not a good thing, but COUNTLESS government contractors committed outright fraud and embezzlement during the Iraq War, and none of them were ever held accountable.

One of them even made 8 billion USD completely disappear from the "Iraq Reconstruction Fund".
I had the first iPhone. Let me just say that the official battery life was somewhat aspirational.
The article doesn't specify whether or not the encryption was "broken", or whether Cohen is simply cooperating. My hunch tells me it's the latter.
I am a victim, offering highly pertinent experiences to inform the opinions of the HN crowd. It doesn't matter if my tone offends your sensibilities.

I feel like you're playing judge, jury, and executioner. Leave the pitchforks and torches for the judicial system in this country.

What if they get found not guilty, or more likely (but still unlikely) the feds quietly drop the case?
I had my tonsils out at around age 8 due to chronic ear infections. I don't know how bad it was before the operation, but my respiratory health has been abysmal since the operation. I've recently begun to wonder if oral probiotics could be a missing part of the equation. Tonsils literally have "crypts" - the quality of your oral bacteria must play a huge role in how they function. http://www.blisk12.com/what-is-blis-k12/
Non-mobile links:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/catenate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenation
I hate to say it but tariffing their own food supply is not a tenable position. Granted they likely have some pretty fucking large stockpiles of foodstuffs and grains, but they are still very dependent on US agriculture, especially in concerns for their beef production which is super expensive there. They don't have the land to grow alfalfa and grass for their cows, but they do have large empty cargo ships regularly sitting in US ports that we normally pack to the brim with grass for a few extra pennies.
True, but you're talking about a one in a million chance of having to hit the 'generate' button more than twice.
Faster than Python 3 means little and the discussion is mainly about languages which compile to native code and have certain features.

Erlang is a super cool language and were I doing an app which needs millions of concurrent connections over many cores and/or machines, I'd choose it in a second. But Crystal is more of a (potential) replacement for Java or C++.
I wonder why there few single character Unix commands? Was this intentional?
I wonder if medman77 was talking abut the glue dispenser here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349808