skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, when I ask for a role, whereby I expect to be placed in charge of the project, I expect exactly that. Not some fluffy title, with a cushy salary.

I expect to be able to destroy the scrum process, hang the scrum master. Toss agile in the garbage. Ask the product owner what they actually want. Do that, in about a month. Finish the project 6 months ahead of schedule single-handedly, because web apps are fucking easy.

At that point I get to make doing nothing look like my job, because I put myself ahead of the game. Finishing in weeks, what would have taken months of multiple people wanking a daily stand-up ritual every fucking morning. While other people waste time on acts of contrition, defending their thesis from hecklers in a public square, I'm getting shit done, making computers do my bidding. (not people)

But no. It doesn't always work like this. And sometimes you just have to quit so fast that you make some dipshit's head spin. Because he was so fucking caught up in how to make the perfect outlook invitation, by clicking the proper button in skype.

Fuck stand-ups. Fuck one-on-ones. Fuck code reviews. Fuck performance reviews.

Concentrate on working in a library as silent as a tomb, and fucking destroy shit. That's how programming works.
Much like the Latinos in the article talking about the newcomers who are “just ruining the community.”
Oculus Go is here for 200$. I’ve been telling all my friends to get it. Got one for my parents.
That’s not what’s happening. There is plenty of land to build high rises and plenty of developers with land to build it on, it’s just illegal to do so.
TFA might be right about Rails but completely wrong about Spring. Spring is absolutely a web framework--templates and all. With Spring Boot and modern Java, the productivity is probably in same ballpark too.
Short answer, yes, it can remain in soil attached to root vegetables and be taken up into the tubers themselves, less so with leaf material, and further less so with fruits. It depends on the concentration of lead in the soil, the type of soil, and so on. The primary worry is soil-dust contaminated with lead, which can go airborne.

"
Do not grow leafy vegetables or root or tuber
crops (carrots, potatoes, beets, turnips) in
lead-contaminated soils. Grow them in raised
beds filled with clean soil, where the clean
soil cannot become contaminated with paint
flakes, chips, or dust.

Fruits that are marketed as vegetables, such
as tomatoes, peppers, beans, cucumbers, and
squash, may be grown in lead-contaminated
soils will not accumulate significant
concentrations of lead.

The primary risk of lead consumption from
eating a plant grown in a lead-contaminated
soil is from ingesting lead-rich soil that
adheres to the surface of the plant. Therefore,
washing and peeling greatly reduces the risk
of ingesting lead deposited on surfaces of
vegetables and fruits
"[0]

[0]http://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8424.pdf
No, they're not designed specifically for US companies. They're specifically designed to target the major players in the market. In some cases these companies have a de-facto monopoly which makes them basically the only ones the laws are targeting - because they are the only relevant players.
The fact that these companies mostly are US companies is of less than zero relevance here.
You can't export de-facto monopolies to other countries and then complain that regulations in other countries are only hitting the monopoly you're exporting.
> maybe a subway

Mass transportation! Oh, the humanity!
Yeah, the real effort is this site not changing into that.
Intel Hyper Threading Performance with a Core I7 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
PubCSS: Formatting Academic Publications in HTML and CSS
I'm sure that the Cupertino that was there 300 years ago is vastly different to the Cupertino of today. Things change. Places change.

That being said, there are ways to can solve this to protect the 'natural charm' to an area. There's a middle ground between "free-for-all non-existent building regulations" and "say no to everything". Sydney, for example, has a gradient high limits imposed on the CBD to ensure there's a gradual rise, and limits to ensure natural light corridors still exist where they need to.
I don’t see how the SF Bay Area is more geographically isolated than other regions in the US, could you elaborate?

Rent driving lower income people out of the area is possible, but these articles can paint an exaggerated picture of what’s happening. The areas where techies are moving in en masse are not everywhere; SF and Mountain View are neither the entirety nor representative of the SF Bay Area, they’re just what you’ll see articles on here about most often.
Well, credit card fraud prevention relies on data like this. I don't really have a problem with the credit card fraud service being able to find my location around the time of a swipe.

Beyond that? It all looks pretty shady, and I'm afraid this is one case where the slippery slope concept applies very strongly.
Oculus Go has zero setup.
Multi-family homes = poor people. Purchasing land for wildly-inflated amounts (remember, if you're not forcing someone to sell the seller has ALL THE LEVERAGE) and renting out to low-income residents isn't exactly a sound business move.
I always feel so conflicted about these overly specific human interest takes on this topic.

- The rent increases are choices made by landlords, not Facebook.

- Even as quoted in the article, residents seem to believe that living in a place for a long time entitles them to continue living in that place longer at a price they find agreeable. I personally have been priced out of neighborhoods I loved living in twice in my life, once after living in the same place for 8 years and feeling a huge sense that it "was my home." It's sad and upsetting, but nobody is entitled to live in some place just because their family historically has lived there a long time or they personally have lived there a long time or theyhave some cultural identity to that place. It's not a nice part of reality, but that's just how it is. Playing on sympathies by hearing people say, "but we've lived here 10 years and Facebook doesn't care" is just an ineffective way to look at it, for all parties.

- As usual, the group of people most impacted (displaced tenants) is the group least capable of financially weathering the changing circumstances or politically lobbying for their preferences to be protected.

- If I were a Facebook employee, I would feel some measure of resentment towards the property groups doing this. One reason is because the property managers know the bad press will be flung at Facebook, not them. Another reason is that the property managers are essentially looking at the wages paid by Facebook as something they (the property managers) are entitled to (by raising rents to adjust for higher salaries). The landlords are not improving their value-add in any way, just raising prices to capture more of some other productive person's wages.

- And, of course as others have pointed out, it's largely driven by lack of new housing or high-rise housing.
"The new company will be based in Boston."

Just wondering if there's a big regulatory benefit to being in Massachusetts.
queue up does not work
For illustrative purposes, you could think of a static binary kind of like a Docker container. Like a container, within the binary is all of its dependencies, meaning that you are free to install conflicting libraries on the system.

If you use dynamically linked binaries, you rely on the system to have the version of the library you need, and hope that your reliance on those libraries does not break other applications which may rely on different versions of those libs.

Static == everything you need bundled up
Dynamic == relies on libraries present on the host to provide aspects of functionality
That something is possession.
> which doesn't exist

I grew up in Cupertino. There are still tons of empty lots everywhere. (Same in San Francisco.)

Note that when I say "empty lot" I don't mean "park". It's just un-owned plots with garbage and grass everywhere.
Exactly this. It’s usually much better to refactor/rewrite small pieces at a time where you can rather than taking a scorched earth approach on the entire codebase, and usually that involves including some of the “hacks” until you can get a better grasp on what the right design is.
It'd be less pathetic to make it clear that you think that babies should be taken away from mothers that have merely crossed the border away from an official port of entry.

When did I say that? I just think that mothers shouldn’t be bringing their babies to illegally enter the country in the first place.
I'm claiming that many/most news companies that formed their culture in the pre-internet days have failed to find stable business models, and they are looking to legislation for a fix.
As a user of AirBnb I would be so happy if they just stopped updating the app. They are making it worse and worse. When I travel and I arrive at an airport, I do not need spiffy animations and "fun things to do" in the city I am in, I need a way to quickly find the address of the place or a way to message the host. Stop with all this experience stuff and give me the facts I need right now
As long as there are people who are desperate to somehow feed their family there will be someone doing underpaid jobs. Even if they have to commute three hours in each direction a day and need to take three of them. That's what happens without a social security net.
It's been great every time I've used it, I think it has a relay server as a last resort if it can't get a p2p connection. Never had problems with it.
I was just about to mention that podcast episode! He clearly has a good, realistic grasp of what can be done to improve healthcare outside of the political mudpit. I was skeptical when this company was announced, but I am now extremely optimistic.

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/atul-gawande/
Simplest explanation I can think of:
Static binaries have no dependencies. They should just run and not bark about missing (shared/dynamic) libraries, nor require you to install them.

Of course, even static binaries rely on some basic level of compatibility; typically system-level things that don't change much.

Dynamically-linked binaries have the potential to create a massive dependency graph that can hard or even impossible (for a given o/s installation) to traverse.
Fair enough. But I don't see rage posts at the top of HN about how Blender can't get a free ticket at SIGGRAPH.
Amazon Prime Wardrobe officially launches to all U.S. Prime members
I find it hard to believe any company with significant cash reserves is "spreading it across as many banks as possible." The FDIC limit is $250k. Storing $2bn in chunks of $250k would require 8,000 bank accounts. That sounds like a logistical, and possibly legal, nightmare.

I'm no CFO, but I assume the standard practice is to either setup an investment office to manage cash reserves (ala Apple), and/or to invest cash in stable assets, hopefully with returns greater than inflation.

Actually, how do funds, investment vehicles, etc store these amounts of money?
Whoa! Whoa! Are you suggesting that the end experience with a programming framework might depend on the details of your specific project and should not be inferred from general blog posts? That's insane! /s
Any open source project with open bugs (that's most of them).

Proper logging: that's a complex subject and it took me a good chunk of my career to figure that out.
.. decreasingly so.
The European Coal and Steel Community was explicitly started to stop war in Europe. As the original proposal of the community said directly: "The solidarity in production thus established will make it plain that any war between France and Germany becomes not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible" [0].

Steel and coal (or more generally energy) are necessary in order to to wage war. Pooling these things in a super national organization makes war between the member states impossible.

[0] https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/symbols/europe-day...
I live there.
White House now examining options for European-style privacy protections
Yes, which is why I explicitly said it was fine for pilot programs.

My objection is not to better testing. It's to bad comparisons. Including, as here, with somebody handwaving at data that, at best, couldn't answer the question.
I'm a contractor in France, the treatment depends on where one is working. Canal+ and PSA were bad, but the current situation is good, there's no difference between myself and the employees.
> The human tendency to defer to authority may never be as terrifying as when that authority is held by an uncaring machine with a couple bugs.

To this observation I highly recommend E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops, first published in 1909(!).

[0] http://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Machin...
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Does anyone know of a publicly available resource one can use to determine how likely a number was randomly generated by a human? Wired [1] had a high-level approach and it seems like this paper [2] has some interesting ideas as well. Humans are truly poor at creating random numbers [3] and I wonder how well 1,968,538,584.82 and 576,528,652.00 would do in such a test.

[1] http://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-to-detect-fake-numbers

[2] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

[3] http://www.loper-os.org/bad-at-entropy/manmach.html
I was asked in an interview "What is the first thing you will change?" (I was interviewing for a Manager position, but I think this applies no matter the position you are being interviewed for.)

My response was - "I don't know. I need to spend time getting to know the team, understand our product, and better understand priorities."

I try to use this question in interviews with senior people, be they Developers or Managers. It can expose someone who will quickly blow your team up should they join. I like working with people who have great passion and will stand up for their ideas, but understanding the problem first is alway wise!

Getting to know people, products, and customers, (not that customers aren't people) with listening and questions makes everyone better.
Unless you are storing hashes, what would prevent someone from writing a script that simply reuploads the file to your service after downloading? That would increase the share limit.
Oracle cloud growth slows, and – Surprise – it stops giving cloud numbers
Tech Industry Condemns Migrant Child Separation Policy. But What Will They Do?
You didn't counter the point. An Audit isn't some pinky swear. It requires an external accountant to review not only the account balance but how it got there.
At first glance it seems like a more visually friendly version of a digikey/jameco style parts interface. In order to be comparable however you need to have more categories of information per part to help sort them. That might go against the design feel, but from a normal workflow on digikey/jameco, I'm personally very used to finding the general category and iteratively adding more constraints until a few parts are left.
Calling the report damning is quite the exaggeration. The IG concluded that Strzok and Page created the appearance of bias with their texts, but also says that he found no evidence that they acted on the apparent bias. He does think that their bias hurts the credibility of the FBI, though.

The only other issue the IG had was with Comey's public statements about the Clinton emails investigation. Even there he concludes that Comey wasn't acting out of political bias, and instead just somewhat mishandled an extremely unusual case.

I would hardly call those conclusions damning.
Blockbuster drug patents expiring in 2018
They should stop beating around the bush and pass a law that says, "Google must share ad revenue with all links returned by the search that generated the revenue."
Yes, but that would be more amazing than lead exposure explanation.

There certainly are other factors, but lead exposure seem like the strongest.
While we're at it, has anybody else noticed that StackOverflow now artificially constrains the center column's width, so that many code examples are now totally unreadable due to unnecessary line-wrapping? Meanwhile, I've got a boat-load of whitespace on the left side of my monitor.

Edit:

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I have a few Rails gigs listed on my linkedin from years ago, and I constantly get recruiter messages looking to fill RoR positions despite not having used it for years. I've been told by the recruiters that I chat with that senior Rails positions are increasingly harder to fill with each passing year.

Whether that means the Job Providers in my sample simply aren't paying enough, Rails devs are sick of maintaining legacy Rails apps, or a combination of both, it seems like everyone I know who spent years working nearly exclusively with Ruby has now moved on to Go, Elixir, or Node.
Tether hires firm co-founded by former FBI director to prove reserves
No offense, but have you been there lately? That entire valley is packed.
Thanks. I spend most of my time in South County, so I'm not exposed to a lot of the accents you're talking about.
Actually, I prefer that only red-haired grandmothers with a life-long track-record of being nice, who enjoys Star Wars and Harry Potter, and have at least two pet dogs, to use my software.

However, making such narrow closes would be impractical and stupid. When I faced this dilemma, I was suffering severely from post traumatic stress - caused by abuse from the Norwegian government. The thought of giving my work to them - to any government - was literally painful. Therefore, I put in a clause to block out the bigger evil. Not for anyone who has ever beaten a puppy or pissed on a grave, or who happens to have the Wrong Religion or sexual orientation.

When it comes to immoral corporations - I vote with my money. And of course - I don't work there.
What are you going to do next time the UK parliament passes a law you don't like? Dissolve the United Kingdom?
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The demand is still huge if we use this flawed methodology to measure it ...
Having played with geospatial a lot in the past, both "manually" and using libraries like cesium.js (which a lot of this is based on), my gut reaction is "I have no idea how hard it is." ;)

Joking aside, I'm not sure. As you know, the math in the libraries and the datasets are tightly coupled to the projection model (e.g., on earth, things come back to ECEF coordinates, what cesium calls FIXED, and models of the planet like WGS84). So, I would suspect that this work could serve as a model, but a bunch of the internal math would need to change. Assuming there is a well defined model of Mars that can be used, akin to WGS84, and you can massage all the datasets into a form that can be reliably mapped to it, like AGI/Cesium has done with the geospatial data we are using, it should be possible.

I know we would love to see someone do this, inspiring projects like this is one reason we release things in the open. Heck, you could imaging a new set of options for the a-terrain component that specified the globe model somehow ("WGS84, MARS18") and a base URL for the data server ...
This gives me hope for the US health care system. Gawande’s ‘Being Mortal’ really helped me understand what was happening when my dad was dying. Highly recommend it
For me a democracy polity should be more then a structure and the ability to vote. I would wager that most people in the EU have never even heard about this fundamental change to their lives, or even speak the language to understand the debate.

Look at how the EU handled the economic crisis. Nothing democratic about the decision making. But many of the decisions still implemented under EU cover.

The European parliament should not easily be allowed to make laws for everybody. Many countries didn't even get to vote popularly if they wanted to join.

> And I don't see how being in Switzerland will save you from any of this since this law will almost certainly also apply to Switzerland if it comes into effect. Only difference being that you don't have any say on the matter.

I was not talking about this one law, but rather in general.
The opposing view is that the people of a country have a responsibility to protect every citizen of their country. By enacting prohibition on certain substances we attempt to protect our citizen from that substance so they can live a more full life.

I do agree that drugs should be decriminalized and that the money we spend on enforcement should be instead spent on public education and rehabilitation to prevent people using them and help people stop using them.
Simple really: "BigMedia" want me to pay to link to this, so here's the same topic on SmallMediaSite.

or

I wanted to link this, but "BigMedia" want me to pay, so now I'm not even mentioning their title of the topic.
"The best outcome would be if Google would refuse to link to any content of European publishers."

Not so much sure that's the "best" outcome as the only possible one. As rich as Google looks, when you start dividing their income by multiple multiplicative factors it doesn't last long; the log of Google's income isn't all that large.

On the other hand, Google definitely has a lot of cash to weather what to them will be at most a partial disruption of their money making system (as this is back in the linear domain rather than the log domain), whereas the online publications that get delisted from Google will be devastated.

I would predict with some confidence that if this does pass all the way into law in the EU that it would be unlikely to last very long as law. But it can cause a lot of damage in the meantime.
> have you been there lately?

Three weeks ago. Once in a while, the lots fill in and houses are developed. But there are still tons of empty lots there, at least in Cupertino.
I don't think that is true. Even without memory bandwidth constraints, jumping to instructions that aren't in cache is going to incur memory latency. If the instructions are all packed together, the next instructions could be prefetched and already be in cache.

Also low cache levels have less latency and yet are much smaller, the L1 instruction cache is 32KB. Any linear access of memory will prefetch and minimize the latency of memory access.
more detail on why `defer` can/is more expensive (and not equivalent) to unrolling it: https://blog.golang.org/defer-panic-and-recover
Machine Learning models on the edge: mobile and IoT
It is easy to assume it's about race, but I think it's more a class issue. They would be doing the same thing if it were poor white people I would imagine.
My mother had a pharmacy and she often called the doctor to solve this issues. The doctor is a phone call away, and the pharmacist job is to do whatever he cans to improved the patient's illness.
The article is written, I think, to criticize the reliance on machines—not this individual company. I don't think he wrote it out of a grudge.

Even if he's legally entitled to the money, bringing a lawyer into the mix is likely to sour his relationship with his client (he's a contractor), and—rightly or wrongly—could give him a bad reputation in the local community, making it harder to find work in the future.
I consider myself a lazy programmer who is also very hardworking.

As in instead of solving the problem at hand I'd rather spend a week working on my own framework so that I could save 5 minutes should I have to deal with the same thing again in future although the chance of it happening is 1 in 100.