skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...they have false confidence about areas they have zero expertise in, purely because they feel they can figure it out.

The antidote to this effect: pick any object around you, and set out to make it yourself from scratch. Or just set out to make the precursors. An object as prosaic as say, a window. A lot of people who suffer from this effect dismissively wave away such a challenge, saying in more words that it's beneath them to attempt because it is so pedestrian, or of course they could do it, but they don't have the time to.

Those I know who are scary smart, are the ones who will more frequently pick up the challenge, and boy, are they fast at picking up what they need to know to meet the challenge.

Me, I just feel dumb every day, but have a heck of a lot of fun along the way. I also stick to far less lofty aims. A few months ago I had never owned a chainsaw before, and a few weeks ago I processed half a cord of firewood with a chainsaw, maul, wedge and sledgehammer into smaller chunks for my smoker. I respect the hell out of the woodsmen who walk into the mountain forest for a full day of work with nary but a milk crate of supplies and those machines, and the experience makes me appreciate just how vast an efficieny improvement they represent over hand sawing.
Why did Henry Ford pay his workers enough to buy Ford vehicles?

Why is paying higher wages while keeping the money in the community/country a "disadvantage" exactly? Aren't you looking only at consumption without considering production?

Honestly, this sounds like parroted ten year old globalist propaganda. Craft beer has already shot this entire line of argument down, and other industries show signs of beginning to follow that model.

And the sharply increasing cost of long haul as manual truckers exit the industry is hastening the trend in 2018. Historically transportation costs exceeded any efficiency of "comparative advantages".
According to the John Carreyrou book, not so much her parents, but an early and enthusiastic sponsorship from an influential Stanford professor, combined with a truly outlier ability to network with and impress powerful people. She accumulated an amazing amount of social proof, which she used to stockpile more social proof, ad infinitum.
While this starts strong, a heads up: it peters out quick. There's only about an hour of material here, and the last of the three parts is unfinished, in the sense that there are gaps, not just an abrupt ending.

After finishing this I jumped over to wadler/kokke's programming language theory in AGDA:

https://wenkokke.github.io/sf/

Which is also unfinished, but generally more comprehensive and better motivated. It also stands a much greater probability of being continued.
(Sorry for late reply, woops)

Hm, thanks for the manual reference (heh, should have gone and looked). Now to go figure out what "xs head" means...

I think the tokenizer choices are pragmatic and interesting. They make the language less simply annoying and irritating, and thus more accessible to learn.

The idea of a systems language with Kitten's focuses sounds good - oddball alternatives always serve to (slowly) influence the mainstream, let's hope that happens here :D

The approach to documentation is reasonable too, if unintuitive at first glance; providing a language that implements the 95th percentile of what is advertised is actually not that bad of an approach.
Electron 2.0.0 is Out (May 2018)
I understand this to mean that the blue ocean opportunity is one where competition is scarce while a red ocean opportunity is one where competition is fierce and margins are tight [1].

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Ocean-Strategy-Uncontested-Compe...
I've heard about _The Awk Programming Language_ but could get my hands only on _The GNU Awk User's Guide_ by Arnold Robbins, since it's available as Info pages on my Linux box. It's also free online

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html

It's a pretty good book which teaches you both techniques and the nitty-gritty. I recommend this.
Reliable? How does one measure that from a recent graduate during an interview? What people get rejected for is astounding to me.
The (short) article makes it clear enough that they aren't targeting the plasmodium directly:

Its red beam can detect changes in the colour, shape and concentration of red blood cells - all of which are affected by malaria.

So that particular line of cynicism is more illiterate than it is cynical.
I'm surprised (or maybe I didn't read through all the posts in detail) that we aren't trying to solve the root cause - finding you a job by clearly and correctly understanding your skills as an engineer. I honestly want to help and I have a few ideas but I'm not very good at this mode of communication (I have always used hackernews in readonly mode and this is the first time I am commenting here - I actually had to create a new account). If you'd be willing to reach out to me (systemicdent at gmail dot com) I'll do whatever I can to help you get out of this situation.
If you were transporting quite a stash of meth and weren't confused about what the police were asking or about your right to refuse, wouldn't you just say no?
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In all likelihood, this is simply a result of them seizing the phone and pulling off the history. No decryption necessary.
What the hell, who on earth thought that behaviour would be a good idea?
It's not a matter of being poorly trained. A "melee weapon" at 15 feet is a credible lethal threat, full stop. You don't mess around with that.

Probably the guy had no intention of using it as a weapon, but cops do deal with people prepared to attack them, and had only subtle clues that this case might be different. Given that they already had guns drawn, a clear signal, the deafness is almost irrelevant. Either the guy was coming after them, or just not tracking the situation. Only in hindsight is it clear that it was the latter.
By this metric, extremely few interviewers are good, and candidates should assume an interviewer won’t be good and instead do the esoterica homework & trivia memorization, as there won’t be economic returns to one’s interview effort otherwise.

If I had known this as a high school student, I never would have studied math and computer science. Easily one of the most anti-inclusivity and self-defeating aspects of tech.
> emacs is ... difficult but possible

Have you tried remapping the search key to something else?

> Android studio emulator had some weirdness with it not being amused at attempting virtual machine hardware acceleration on a vmware image of a windows box; probably depends exactly which version of studio you install and when you installed it...

Did you expose the CPU virtualization extensions to the outer VM? VMWare has an option per-VM, but it's off by default.
Arguably not original UNIX but: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, aka Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister aka `perl`
>I thought Apple maps is actually quite good now.

It's pretty good in most places and straight up terrible in others. Google maps tends to have higher lows even though there definitely are cases when Apple's highs are actually higher. But you have to remember: users are using this for going to new places. They don't know they're getting the lowest of the low quality results until it's too late. After a few times getting burned, most people just give up on it which means their most recent impression of it is probably post-failure where-the-fuck-am-I panic.

>What would it take for that impression to go away?

Raise those lows up. I almost think it'd be better for it actually give up and say "I don't know" instead of possibly routing users incorrectly. Users will still think it sucks but they won't be stressed out about the sucky-ness and might be willing to try it again later. From my experience, Siri is a good example of this. It's probably the worst "assistant" out there but it's pretty good about knowing when to give up so users can just Google something.
It could be providing value even if only used by a small percentage of the world by serving as a price floor on electricity.

It de-risks and incentives clean and cheap energy generation like solar.
> However, we don't live in a world where a business is spared the cost incurred by that.

We also live in a world where the stock market ceases to exist if there isn’t a new generation of consumers and workers. (Facebook’s stock price is predicated on the idea that 1 years from now there will still be young people to advertise to.) Children create internalized costs (to parents, to businesses that hire parents), but large positive externalities.

We address that situation by categorically prohibiting discrimintion. Yes, businesses aren’t spared the costs of dealing with peoples’ parental obligations. But it doesn’t matter because that is a cost all businesses have to accommodate (just like the cost of providing for bathroom breaks and lunch breaks and other accommodations for human needs).
If Harvard admission criteria leave out the best applicants to other colleges, and they go on to create powerful companies like Google in large number, will Harvard’s prestige decrease despite continued support from the elites?

Doing well in tech entrepreneurship needs brilliance more than great personality and political connections (they should be above a level but you don’t need a very high level of them).

Politics is still the surest route to power but billionaires are also powerful and have longer influence. If next generation moguls are educated elsewhere, the colleges with more merit based criteria should emerge as more elite.
We don't want them to re-offend, but we won't give them meaningful work either. Terrible cycle
... especially after the BB leadership bragged about helping law enforcement backdoor into things...
Why creating an element and afterwards setting it to invisible, will never end with a 'blinking' element.
Fair point! Thanks for looking out :)
"This article is about parental care in animals. For human parenting, see parenting."
How much risk do you expect police to take on? This man threatened them with lethal force, in the face of drawn weapons. Even if they were to attempt to subdue, they would be risking severe bodily harm.

At some point I believe a human being momentarily forfeits their right to life when they show reckless, deliberate disdain for the life of others. Deadly force was met with deadly force. The power imbalance is irrelevant, considering how much damage a man can do with a pipe, and the fact that he was fully aware of the situation.
Plus all the good one character commands were already taken by the standard text editor, ed(1). It would have caused confusion.
"Harvard doesn't need anybody's money, but they sure aren't going to use endowment money to make things free."

I thought Harvard did make it essentially free to attend if your parents have a middle class income.
BB used to run a custom QNX-based OS, not Android.
The origin of `/etc` as the place for configuration files is also interesting.

It was originally meant for any files that didn't fit into any of the predefined categories like `bin`, `lib`, and `dev`, hence the name "etc".

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/56172/295743
How Apple can fix 3D Touch
I hate to be rude but why are you surprised? Companies are not a single person and that goes extra for big companies. It’s possible for all of the above to be true.

Don’t forget local managers and do things against company policy which causes weird stories like the above.
Signal encryption relies on a password (last I used it, which was a long time ago). Typing long random passwords in a phone is nothing if not impractical.

It wouldn't shock me to find out they just brute forced the password.
It's very frustrating having all of these tools only support Windows.

Despite all the wonderful work Microsoft has done with CoreCLR, the "IDE" debugger is still only available under a license that only permits use with Visual Studio and VSCode [1] and mdbg is still nowhere to be found for CoreCLR [2].

1: https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/505
2: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/1145

From what I've gathered, the best you have right now for doing command line debugging is the "SOS" plugin for lldb, which seems to require building the lldb plugin and sometimes even lldb (!!) yourself [3][4].

3: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/Documentation/...

4: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/sasha/2017/02/26/analyzing-a-ne...

Not very fun if you're not using Windows.
>I thought the American system sounded better when I was a high-schooler in India with not good but not great marks

You would probably have been lumped in and compared to the other Asian high-performers and would not have even gotten an interview.
If you have a named function, rust lets you do

a.map(succ)

as well, since functions can be used where closures can, as long as the types work.
Very glad to see the NPVIC getting the attention it deserves. It's surprising how few people know about it despite it having been around for so long.
It would be mean-spirited to want that to be the case, it’s somewhere on the skeptical-cynical spectrum to think it’s likely. Don’t be so hard on yourself.
Why is there such pressure to get a number to present at rounds if you know (and I assume the more senior staff would also know) that the finger-stick tests would likely yield inferior results?

Could you not have replied with something along the lines of "still waiting on lab tests, saw no reason to subject patient to unnecessary finger-stick test"?
I feel similar about stories about George W Bush's painting hobby. We're still trying to extricate ourselves from the aftermath of the totally unnecessary invasion of Iraq, which is responsible for a couple hundred thousand dead there, and likely ultimately led to ISIS and many of the worst parts of the Syrian crisis.
Copy-pasted the contents of the article here for you:

Misleading headlines and clickbait make it difficult to efficiently browse news feeds. Natural language processing and recurrent neural networks could soon be leveraged to generate unbiased, accurate summaries of articles and may replace traditional hand-tailored headlines.

A 2015 Stanford paper[1] describes a process for generating headlines from the text of news articles using recurrent neural networks. The process described in the paper utilizes the first 50 words of an article, and concludes that most of the time, the summary is valid and grammatically correct.

In the years since the Stanford paper was published, several open source projects have emerged that simplify the process of getting started with automatic headline generation[2][3]. The software is readily available - the next step is for developers to include these open source tools in their own consumer-facing applications.

It’s unlikely that major news outlets are going to adopt NLP-generated headlines any time soon, and even if they did, it’s unlikely they’d be employed to benefit the reader. Even so, there’s a place for these programatically generated headlines: in the hands of consumers and software developers working in the realm of news aggregation.

NLP-generated headlines could still be optimized for clicks without compromising their accuracy. Several versions of these headlines could be AB tested without any manual effort required on the author’s part. It’s also worth noting that journalists at major media outlets generally don’t write their own headlines anyway4, it’s usually done by editors.

Headlines could even be tailored to each reader: a technical reader may appreciate a more sophisticated headline that contains jargon, but a layperson might appreciate something more simplified. News reader applications and content aggregators seem like natural fits for this type of technology.

With the amount of time people spend scanning through headlines every day, a more effective way to summarize content could drastically improve the reader’s experience. Google became the best search engine in part because it trusted the PageRank algorithm more than webmaster-supplied summaries. In a very similar sense, it’s become difficult to rely on the headlines provided content creators, so it's quite possible that the concept of traditional headlines is ready for disruption just like to concept of search was 20 years ago.
Given the absolutely massive and technical amount of features that aws requires, it's not surprising (or even worthy of condemnation) that the interface can get somewhat convoluted. That said, I wonder if there is a stripped down version of that interface that would better accommodate a hypothetical cohort of extremely common use cases. I would bet there isnt, which is why the interface is so.... Deep.
This is why I don't do anything on the Internet under my real name. It is too easy to find yourself the target of a mob - especially in this day of easily offended SJWs.
I did. I had three years experience as a software developer (full stack, but it was 2004, so it wasn’t a big stack) and leveraged an active consulting business that I would do after hours into a full time thing where I made enough to pay another employee and myself.

The problem is that I’m a shit manager. I’m a shit business manager, I’m a shit sales manager, and I’m a shit engineering manager. So, the company didn’t do well. But at least I learned that I shouldn’t be in charge of people!
Sourcegraph used to be an online vscode, simply the coolest back then, but seems no more, they suddenly changed direction, possibly due to conflict of interests with Microsoft?
Nope. Doesn't change a thing. Nor should it. That startup's CEO could be in the right place at the right time and convince a VC to fund them.
> It's not just women that experience discrimination

> Moral of the story, it's not just women that get discriminated against. If you're a father to be, be careful who you let know and how you handle it.

I have heard so many stories along these same lines, I think it's just accepted as normal in the industry.
Yeah, it would be nice to disable it selectively -- just silence it for this one boot. It may be a false memory, but I think this used to be possible at some point in the 00s, by holding down the mute button on the keyboard. Also possibly in the late 90s it went through external speakers if they were hooked up?
First... people with bad soft skills don't have the ability to self-reflect and admit it, as you have. Give yourself some credit.

Second... the dire circumstance means any entrepreneurial venture will only be successful if you have the humility to work on problems the clients don't want to do.

I would suggest poking around on Upwork, Fiverr, or other gig economy sites and experiment with some short-term engagements.
> ES6 shims a.k.a. things you don't actually need

Though it sounds a bit jaded— can confirm. I've been asked to re-implement `bind` before.

I gave it a shot but ultimately shrugged and explained that I'd rarely ever extend a native object and would rather use a community-supported polyfill. Nevermind that in my current field we haven't had to support ES3-capable browsers for ages.

I'd certainly be better off knowing, but rarely would I need to know on the spot. There is more beneficial knowledge to have up front.
Interesting timing as Preet just had part 3 of his Criminal Justice mini-series as part of his amazing Stay Tuned podcast [1]. This episode focuses on the experience of a defendant Preet's office convicted of insider trading in the Galleon Group case. He speaks to the entire process, how he felt throughout it, etc.

Highly recommended to everyone.

[1] https://player.fm/series/series-2249929/criminal-justice-par...
I still pause to remember that I have to type 'if=' and 'of=' and 'bs=' instead of just remembering the order of arguments.
PM me your info (my email in my profile) and I'll mail you some gift cards to your local grocery store.

I have a T240 with 8gb of RAM you can have.

There is a lot more said here so I won't repeat.

I'm struggling to to find a job in my area as a c++ dev, but I can help out another human being.

If you ever get to Upstate NY you and your wife are welcome to stay with us. We live on a lake with lots of trees. Might eliminate some stress while you rebound :-)
There was a reported case of a virgin birth during the US Civil War, where a bullet passed through a soldier’s testes and ended up in a young lady.

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Attention_Gynaecologists!_—....

It’s generally considered to be farcical, but I’ve seen it passed off as real.
Of course, my pleasure :) I'll send you an email too just to say hi.

So, in my case, I was living in Chile and I had booked tickets to Thailand and Japan (Ironically I ended up moving back to the USA for a full time job that I wasn't planning on landing!!)

In Chiang Mai Thailand, specifically, you can book a 1-3 month apartment for about $150 a month USD cash. They speak english, there's no lease, no craziness. And only a few guest houses offer these types of prices and terms, so you really had to hear about it from a friend of a friend type situation.

So I wanted to build a site that was a "curated list" of these apartments. And I didn't even have firm data, names and numbers of landlords, availability, etc. I just wanted to make something that looked and felt like airbnb, but was light-weight and mobile friendly (text, css, and basic js only. site load files of just a few KB not MB!!!)

So, I mocked it up, and made some posts to some reddits and discords where I was only sort of a contributing member. I basically said, "guys, all of us are having a lot of problems finding legit landlords with good terms and prices abroad. I have a list of a few that are good, but I want to scale it out and make it available as like a public service to our channel. Is this something you guys would read? aka, is it worth my time to do this for fun?"

And the response was overwhelming. "YES! I want to see this list!" and "Thank you so much!!! I'm having no luck booking a room right now". and etc etc. People I've never heard of messaging me for months, "Did you finish it yet?"

From a technical standpoint, the site was a success. It looked and felt like a responsive airbnb that worked on any device. The problem was that it was extremely, extremely difficult to collect data of any kind. Language barriers, not network effects, nothing. These landlords are so hard to find, they're like ghosts!!!

So the product fell dormant because of an inability to scale to the level of service needed for it to be useful. But the demand is there, and the grassroots method I used to discover that demand was really successful and mostly by accident ;)
Around 20% don’t pay tuition I believe. But keep in mind that Harvard tilts heavy toward grad student population, and selects heavily for students that win fellowships and this brings in outside money (that is how I got to attend) and master’s students who typically pay full tuition. Among my PhD cohort, it was a common joke to say that 1 graduate student was funding X free undergrads in the department (given that we were all supported fully, including insurance, by outside funding).

20% of undergrads going tuition-free is just part of Harvard’s marketing budget. It’s not philanthropy, just the cost of doing business if your business is elite status signaling.
> rules out an awful lot of the offerings,

there's already very few that have an unlockable bootloader
That’s an amazing, if terrifying mini series that I finally watched earlier this year.
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> You don't mess around with that.

Riot gear? Use those man catchers the japanese have? Retreat if he doesn't pose an immediate threat to anyone else? Pepperspray?

Other countries manage to detain physically violent people without shooting them. Unless the US is governed by different physics that make steel pipes more lethal I think there's no solid argument why police officers can't just handle the situation the same as everyone else.
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