skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Highly recommend Glassdoor. Also, I work with people who attended coding bootcamps and then used the connections and new skills (front-end development) to join an established startup.
Creating Web Components in Go and Wasm
While I may not agree with the subject matter, thank you very much for making this more accessible to others.
Work for yourself. It will improve a bit the relationship with the others (customer instead of boss, partner instead of colleague...).
http://voronoi.surge.sh/

Recently, I was working on a WebGL version that renders all 54,000+ airports and got it working again today after seeing this.It's quite pretty and runs well but needs some love.
Runs perfectly smooth for me in chrome at 1440 x what ever 31" is in pixels...
How do you protect your IP in beta stage?
I am building an app and I want to launch as quickly as possible so I can get some user feedback, but I am paralyzed by fear that someone "bigger" with more money will scoop up my idea/methodology and build the same thing more quickly than I can. How can I protect against this?
Don't forget about Freespace!
You're playing with english so it's a bit pointless this thread, but you'd have a better argument if it was actually extrapolation, but as said it's not, it's interpolation.

Do you consider it a guess that we know Mars will be at location X,Y,Z at 5:00UTC next Wednesday? (extrapolation)

Do you consider it a guess that if we know a star was at at a certain location 10 years ago and now it's at a certain location today that we know it was at location X,Y,Z halfway in between time wise?

Because you're using english and not scientific words this comes down to grammar and in english this is not how the word 'guess' is used.
This seems like a way of saying Uber does not actually have a possible business model.

(Not saying I agree or disagree.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17341742
> The App Store has pulled in $100BB over 10 years which is great

More specifically, they've payed out $100BB to developers
It's funny how you can just adapt and work with whatever is available, and that becomes your norm. Especially when you don't even realize there are other options out there.

Another example of this, also quite relevant to the article, is the 64K address space of a 16-bit segment; to anyone who is used to HLLs, 64-bit address spaces, and gigabytes of RAM, it seems impossibly small. Even more so when you take a modern C++ compiler with all its default settings and produce a 72KB(!) "Hello World" binary.

One of the things you quickly realise when you work with Asm is that it's not impossibly small; everything is os just horribly bloated --- piles of abstractions upon abstractions, using gargantuan statically-linked library functions of which a tiny fraction of the bytes is actually executed, etc. Try writing a nontrivial utility in 16-bit realmode Asm, where a "Hello world" is around a dozen bytes, and you'll find that 64KB is actually quite a lot already. In particular, look at the 256b and below DOS categories in the demoscene:

http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type%5B%5D=32b&type%5B%5D=...

Those effects were accomplished using fewer bytes of machine instructions than the text of this post, which is already over 1KB. Really makes you think.
Using Alibaba ExpressConnect for Hybrid Cloud Computing
Touché. Kind of. I don't doubt there are things here and there, but if what an HN knowledgeable can come up with is 'Oscilloscopes' ... well then you might have made my point for me.

I am perplexed by the lack of Chinese tech that we use and I think there must be some reasoning behind that.

Our markets are 'mostly open'.
I get that they are using cell tower triangulation. I'm wondering what API allows AAA to get that information from the incoming call. Do they have some system talking SS7? Can smaller players build something similar?
I just hired 3 PAID interns that can turn full time, and they have 0 experience in the industry. These positions are out there, go knock on as many doors as you can. I've also hired many entry level developers.

What do I look for? I look for "can you code" as an entry level developer. I don't expect you to understand design patterns and all that crap. Can you hack your way around and get the damn code running? Great, you are better than 50% of the candidates. Have you taught yourself any new tech recently? Great! Do you know more than one language? Great! Have you finished any online course? coursera, udacity, udemy, whatever, just something or a book? Awesome. Can you show me some of your shitty code for a silly side project? Awesome. Are you passionate and willing to learn? Great! Do you know other things that you need not know such as Unix, DB, RESTful API, git, etc?

You already met everything I need in tech. The only other thing is to at least pretend to be a decent person during the interview be nice, polite, respectful, punctual, clean.

Go knock on doors.
I spent half of my first 6 months working as a full time dev fretting that someone would find me out - as I couldn't do more than an hour or two of proper dev in one day, I couldn't make my brain do more and a lot of time was wasted.

But over time I spoke to my colleagues and _nobody_ does more than that really. We end up spending the other time doing less intensive, administrational stuff where possible, or just slacking off. It's fine, if the work output we were doing wasn't enough they would have fired us forever ago.
Is it possible to make money by convincing everyone to short your company and then pushing the rug in under them by making earnings projections? Musk's recent announcements have been suspiciously suspicious.
Unix programs use it quite frequently. Photoshop requires multiple modifier keys, you can't get away with just a single modifier because there are too many keyboard shortcuts.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17342126
A space force without a way of getting men into space?
This is exactly what's happening with Pro Evolution Soccer.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17339972
> Facial recognition is not a hard problem

Low quality facial recognition is easy. High quality facial recognition is hard.
I too have a journey-focused interest in studying the code, heh. I must admit I'm mildly sad about the secrecy (and requirement to participate, presumably to deter lurkers with indeterminable motives), but I suspect it's mostly because K itself is used in finance (eg, http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10501320, ^F "brightly", end of that paragraph and all of the next small one), and it's reasonable to consider that if it doesn't cost a lot of money that'll categorically impact its relevancy :)

I guess this is also why Kona is generally regarded dismally - I wonder if that view isn't carefully cultured/spread for similar reasons. In any case the implementation is heavily tied to the success (which is interesting in and of itself), which also ties the implementation to the niche, and I guess I lament the impact the language's resulting general accessibility and reach because things won't be changing anytime soon. Eh, I guess the selfish(?)/survivalist(?) view is to clear the calendar and say hi while Whitney's still teaching :P (I've been meaning to do exactly this, but my, er, calendar (life, really) doesn't permit me the confidence to say I'd definitely be able to keep up.)

In the video it's mentioned there's not much optimization in kos. That's mildly encouraging, from a general systems perspective and also from an architectural standpoint (eg, functional programming can be interesting/novel/weirdly-aesthetic and "efficient enough" (or even more than) with eg UI latency).
They tried. It doesn't work. People want the license.
I've dug through their minified files and from what I can tell other than dependencies they use i.e. Backbone, underscore, jQuery, bootstrap, D3, etc I believe a lot of it is custom coded. It's truly incredible.
Ask HN: What are good resources/guides for architecting telemetry?
For our app, our team want to figure out things like what buttons are clicked the most, what percent of users engage with the product on at least a weekly basis, how many taps it takes to go from one screen to another, etc. Are there any guides/books/resources on attaching telemetry to web apps/mobile apps?
What was the last time you exchanged fruits for an iPhone?
Even in orbit it might be easier to grow your own.
Checking if you’re pwned (with Django)
Meditation, in ancient and present India, is a tool for spiritual development, contemplation on the true nature of self and an aide to allow for detachment from worldly matters.

Its not meant to be a method to calm down workers so that they will produce more profit for a corporation.
That's because developers didn't care about Macs, they were and remain to have a tiny market share.
Short sellers lost over $1 billion dollars on one day a couple weeks ago. Money talking, bullshit walking.....
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/06/shorts-against-teslas-stock-...
Apple US fined $9M for misleading some Australian customers
>I don't understand where it is coming from

~$10B in shorts...
I lived/worked in New York when financial service companies handed out car service vouchers to those who had to work late (and to everyone at any official event involving alcohol). That was equally weird and more wasteful.
Find out how your competitors have collab with your influencers
A few days back, to allow me to download the software I had just bought, the site kept putting up those damned pictures for me to click on. Street signs were the first three, I apparently got all of those wrong (even though I got them right), shop fronts was the next lot (that's a little harder to work through, I can't tell Chinese shop fronts from Chinese warehouses by text alone) and I had two of those, then more street signs, and finally cars.

It took longer to confirm I was human than it did to download the software. My partner came through to see if I was alright, after I was shouting abuse at the computer for an extended period. She sat through one of them with me, confirmed that I had it right, then swore and walked away when it decided I was wrong.

If I'd known that it was going to screw me over that much, I would have recorded it and put the video on YouTube.
I love Elon, and he has been seeming a little more random lately. Shortsellers lost over $1 billion dollars in one day earlier this month, I know Elon is paranoid, but is he paranoid enough?
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/06/shorts-against-teslas-stock-...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17339972
"In the same breath you complain that they don't pay their drivers enough and that their service is too expensive."

You seem to present that as a contradiction, but the obvious conclusion is that the GP believes Uber keeps an unfair share of the ride fees.

Based on my vague internet research, it appears Uber keeps 20-25% plus various fees, like how credit card settlement charges work, which can add up to 40%+ for some rides.
"it is good to have as many software developers as possible steering away from unethical work."

Is it unethical to track down violent activists?

Is it unethical to check for people crossing the border illegally?

And this thing about the tech being used to single out 'people of colour' I think we can dismiss that out of hand - the tech won't be used for that ... though the application of the tech may disproportionately affect some groups (say the cops create a 'watch zone in S. Chicago' but not elsewhere).

But at least in the former scenarios, it's fairly grey thing.

At border crossings, I can see this could be very reasonable.

Walking down the street in 'wherever USA' tagged for something I can see ethical problems.

It depends on how it's used ... we need some new laws ...
This reminds me, I actually still play Tecmo Super Bowl and actually prefer it over Madden. There is a large fan community and they put out a ROM patch with updated rosters every year [0]. The same for NHL Hockey '94 [1].

[0] http://tecmobowl.org/files/file/550-tecmo-super-bowl-2018-pr...

[1] http://www.nhl94.com
Runs very well for me (Firefox 61, Linux x86_64, AMD Vega 56 / Mesa, GPU load ~30%).
Here in Greece, we recently lost Uber. We're back to taxis. It's incredible how bad an experience those are after going back to them.

Cars that smell like cigarette (that's if the driver isn't outright smoking in your face), don't have AC, are old, dirty and with uncomfortable ripped-up seats.

Send your lower-quality drivers my way. I miss not wanting to vomit whenever I take a cab.
Depends on what type of business, nothing is stopping you from say, writing a novel or something.
The point the commenter is making is that Uber is just providing access to it. They aren't training all those drivers, buying and maintaining all those cars, building and maintaining all the roads, etc. BART does all those things for their rail system.
Just wait till the each sport decides to move things in house. Subscription model with live updates. TV streaming of out of region games included as well.
I agree with you. My previous comments were directed at those who believe that there's nothing controversial about evolution. The example I gave was we don't understand enough to explain why it works so well.
If we got a deans' detention at my high school in New Zealand, we had to write numbers for 1.5 hours on a Friday, starting at 1000 and going up. There was a minimum you had to write too, if you took the piss and didn't write anything you'd get another detention.

I always thought these kinds of busywork are completely useless, and don't do anything to stop you from getting into trouble again, they never did for me at least.

There's always been an element of sadism in commonwealth country's schooling systems. We had to wear shorts to school until 5th form, even in winter when it hit sub zero temperatures (at least it didn't snow).

At least they got rid of the privilege of prefects being able to hand out detentions after the entire school collectively told them to fuck off.

As someone who has issues with authority, high school was a very difficult time for me.
'No Secrets' [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film)
I completely sympathize with where I think you're coming from, but the conversation will be more interesting if we avoid hyperbole.
As an Intercom customer, I just wish we had been proactively notified about the issue. I completely understand that deliverability problems will occur, especially when IP addresses are shared across all customers. I just want to know about the issues when they come up, which didn't happen in this case.

Granted, this could be a great opportunity for Intercom to roll out dedicated IPs and other options for customer to purchase add-ons to not be ensnared in these issues when they emerge.
Not for long: https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/16/pes-2019-champions-leagu...
I feel as though the speaker's point that pedophilia is a sexual orientation is invalidated by her multiple uses of "preference" when describing the condition.
Yeah NFL Blitz was awesome and still play it with my brother to this day.
I agree with the comment about "a bit of column a, a bit of column b"

By default we are immersed purely in illusion. I'm sure you have your own mental image of a person who is entirely immersed in the illusions presented by media etc etc. Often these illusions are driven by needs/wants which are interpreted as all being needs. Full Buddhist perspective is that all but the most basic for survival are wants, not needs, but that is at odds with capitalism and the survival of the species. If we don't have some way of technological advancement, we may live happy simple lives, but eventually something cosmic will happen that the species can't handle and thats it. With technology that can change, which is where capitalism comes in. Capitalism reminds that in the bigger picture, there is a need for anything the helps survival.

Given that, at least personally what I take away is, capitalism motivates us to do things we don't "need" to do, but may be very important one day. To the extreme, it implies that everything is needed and anything short of perfect may as well be death. The other side of the coin is nice but vulnerable. Together - use mindfulness to stay rational and aware - and pay attention to capitalism to understand and situate yourself into the future. Together they are quite powerful - I feel I live a pretty happy life enjoying the benefits of both.

TL;DR stress motivates, but sucks. mindfulness is good but doesn't build the future. together in the right balance they're amazingly powerful
I made a couple of sheets in advance once, as my teacher always said to write 50 lines before you could leave for recess. The look on her face when I just pulled one out of my desk... to her credit she let me go!
I’m not saying they’d “dig into their files based on the word of someone”.

Here’s what I am saying: ICE runs the fingerprints of everyone they arrest, and the system will show a match for anyone who went through the legal immigration process.
The whole aesthetic of 2K was great. They really made it look like an ESPN broadcast, complete with the announcers. I remember once my dad was confused as to why the Broncos were playing on a Wednesday night. Was legitimately surprised when I told him it was a game.
Well perhaps they will come back in VR form?

Also, I know it's not exactly the same but at least there are awesome driving games.
Uber most likely thinks you're a habitual user, so it gives priority for newer riders. Uber dynamically prices rides based on the person and your ride history[1], as well as factors like your battery percentage.

[1]: https://therideshareguy.com/uber-is-ripping-off-frequent-rid...

[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/20/11721890/uber-surge-prici... - while it was only a study in 2016, in 2018 this is definitely true. Your upfront fares are hiked if your battery say 5%.
The Commonwealth Club of California had a pretty good session from the reporter:

https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2018-06-07/theranos-...
In my experience, the location I choose is often lost in translation between my Uber app and the driver's maps app. Sometimes the difference is egregious.
> If Facebook is such a problem then people could just stop being part of these social circles. It really isn't that difficult.

No, it actually is that difficult, or more precisely that undesirable. Very few people are such anti-Facebook activists that they're going to dump valued friends and acquaintances in order to dump Facebook. That's why Facebook is going to hold on to a lot of users, and why it'll end in a whimper and not a bang.

The only case where it "really isn't that difficult" is if you have no valued relationships that have a Facebook component.
React Fragments – the end of the wrapper div
Same as nowadays, the finance sector.
I probably over estimated a bit, and I only reboot about once a week or so.

I only have the one disk to decrypt, and one key. When I was setting it all up I did run cryptsetup benchmark to choose the best hashing algorithm for my architecture. It ended up to be aes-xts sha256. Has enough iterations for about 2.5 seconds.
Hm, Dracut looks like a userspace framework for building initramfs. I was wondering more about what's going on at the kernel level to switch the root. What depends on / ? Do any processes survive whose CWD is in the initramfs? Later in the article it's pointed out that systemd(from initramfs) passes the torch to systemd(in final root) while preserving state, so are any processes/ressources from the initramfs leftover or is everything cleared?
I made this same comment on the other discussion.

I find it concerning that one person was able to push malicious code to 'production'. To me, this suggests that Tesla, a company building highly sensitive software, does not employ basic branch policies. How is is it that these changes could have made it through a code review process and get deployed?

If a company like Microsoft or Google announced that a disgruntled employee was able to push some code that, say, stole user information, I think the general reaction would be "why was this allowed to happen?" I'm not sure why Tesla gets a pass in this regard
> Unfortunately

Bimetallism can never work, because the amount of silver relative to gold is never fixed. It has all the fundamental faults of "pegging" one currency to another.
Uber is becoming more and more like public transit. Just took a few billion dollars and lots of hype for us to realise that...
> I feel like, if passed, it will encourage individuals to host their own content and share it via links to URLs they own.

If you look at the mastodon ecosystem there are a lot of small instances but these belong to a club/city/group of poeple and all allow registration.

So should everyone of the users host their own instance and disallow registration? What to do about federation?

Article 13 makes all of the worse for alternatives because Google and Facebook will use either algorithms or people to filter this and they have the manpower to pull that off but all of these federated spare-time / volunteer projects are now even greater risks than before for the individuals running them.
Musk Says Tesla Hit with ‘Extensive’ Sabotage by Rogue Employee
It's so expensive to run these days ($1 billion +) that who wants to invest and fund a loser?
Dust Storms Worsen India's Air as Part of Deadly ‘New Normal’
The source podcast ("Madden's Game, by 30 for 30) is itself very interesting for covering the development of the Madden games. Gets into great technical detail, such as how Madden refused to put his name on the game until developers could figure out how to make the game (in the 80s) have 11 vs. 11 players, as opposed to 7 vs. 7. Development stretched past 4 years and Madden's first game was predicted to be a financial failure.

https://30for30podcasts.com/episodes/maddens-game/
Uber's driver and rider acquisition costs (marketing, promotions, ads, etc.) are astronomical.

They can't easily scale these efforts back because the value of the service plummets for all parties if they lose their economy of scale.
tl;dr futhark is a DSL for transpiling non-graphics parallel submodules for other programs. Which is to say, if one were to write a N-queens futhark program, it could create C, C#, or Python modules for use in a larger program that would leverage OpenCL for parallelizing the chess moves.

This blog post declares some culture boundaries. Namely, the team intends to keep the dsl targeted at this domain, rather than expanding to general computation in some far future. This enables them to focus on common target language constructs and keep their documentation efforts toward similar experts. They acknowledge that this demands more of their users, for <example all> external imports must be in the same folder when compiled, but allows for simplicity and clarity all around.

Hence, the author uses the analogy of a desert creature that survives in an environment of constrained resources.
Once I had an Uber driver get me from manhattan to Williamsburg with no GPS and I was SHOCKED.
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