skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the countdown in pubg

Care to explain?
I expect it would condense in the Rio Grande or Mississippi basins instead, for the most part. Arizona isn't exactly known for its high rainfall.
More likely that Chrysler offered the car to MCDonalds as a way to promote the car. I suspect Chrysler thought the car would be a hit for being unique and retro. But when it flopped they hat to scramble to make it into a hit or cancel it and take a big loss.
Reminds me quite a bit of this, which also includes FOL: http://proofs.openlogicproject.org/
"i"
Shut the fuck up
"esc, w q"
Have the team meet me for a meal and/or drinks to get a feel for each other. If my resume looks good enough (make sure to set the bar realistic or even a little low), and I seem to be a culture fit, bring me on, but make it clear that the first 30 days is the second half of the interview process. Maybe make the first 30 days only 30-hour weeks so the company doesn't have as much cost to hire me and so I can continue to look for other jobs. Or 'contract' with me for 30 days 30 hours/week if that's easier for the company. As soon as the team knows it wants to keep me, make it official, no need to wait the full 30 days.

In theory this sounds good to me, but it might be terrible if I needed a full paycheck right away, idk.
I want to be interviewed in a manner similar to how almost all other professional job types experience interviews.

- The vast majority should be technically probing conversation that digs into the specifics of my expertise and work project history. No whiteboards, no live coding, no take-home tests. Just technical conversation.

- The interview should weight my ability to speak clearly about my technical expertise and work history highest by far. This should be weighted drastically more highly than performance on coding tests.

- Code tests should offer the candidate whatever combination of tools they feel most comfortable with, in terms of editor, mouse/trackball, language of choice, access to basic documentation.

- Code tests should mostly be about talking with the interviewer. They should involve no “gotcha” trickery to see a shortcut. Getting the naive, slow time complexity, memory-hungry solution with a clean writeup should count as a fully complete solution, not scored any lower than a solution from someone who happened to memorize a dynamic programming trick, etc. The basic fact of being observed in an interview means that if you observe someone only able to complete the naive solution, it does not tell you anything at all. In a non-interview setting, they might easily work out an advanced solution. Or, if someone overfitted their knowledge to memorize these types of interview solutions, in a real work setting they might not generalize to ambiguous, unsolved problems. Observing anything other than the basic solution truly cannot tell you anything useful. It’s sheer hubris to believe otherwise.

- The entire interview process, expectations, and precise timeline should be explained to the candidate at the start. Each interviewer should clearly explain who they are and how to contact them later if needed. And each interviewer should have knowledge about the candidate, their work history, etc., and place a higher value on learning more about those items than hurrying up to ask their favorite trivia questions.

- Rejections should always be sent out in a very timely manner after the interview. It should include meaningful feedback about all relevant factors that went into the decision, and should offer the candidate a genuinely sincere option to provide feedback. Even if the candidate feels hurt, bitter or angry at the decision, you should thank them sincerely for taking time to help you by pointing out ways your process might have been unfair or suboptimal.

One way to sum all this up is to say interviews should be humane. Use common sense about being humane to this person. Additionally, if you believe detailed code trivia or tests gives you better quality info about a candidate than technically probing their experience and skills in conversation, you are wrong, and this mistake will totally corrupt your hiring process.
Ask HN: What great (business) ideas do you have that you won't pursue?
We've all got great ideas with either not enough time or not enough motivation to execute on them. Might as well toss them up here and hope someone else rides with it.
bullshit. still a fraction of induvidual ownership.
Buy after a crash when market low. Sell before crash when market high. Rinse and repeat.
There was a similar game with the F/A-18. It had a 250 page manual. I read that whole thing. It was probably the most I read when I was 14.
> To be fair, they aren't--or shouldn't be--looking for one thing.

Right, but profiling using these specific patterns will lead to a lot of false positives, which might make this entire exercise a waste of resources, and there is no guarantee that a "terrorist" might exhibit these patterns.
Now how about a more complex example?

bdP = bdA / pow((1 + bdr / bdm), (bdm - bdt));

bdP = bdA.divide((ONE.add(bdr.divide(bdm))).pow(bdm.subtract(bdt)));

Obviously the first is more transparent than the second and this isn't a particularly complicated equation. Mind you that this can be mostly mitigated by splitting up the equation but that can sometimes make solutions quite opaque comparatively.
How about I run it for you give you a big percentage of the profit?
I’ve searched local circles to see if there’s someone I’m not best friends with, someone I can argue with, with no long term feelings in the line, and can feel I trust.
That's not what I meant. I meant whether Servo the engine is likely to be a standalone product (on its own merits along with Gecko).
> so it’s not a question of “how likely” it is to be used in production.

I believe you misunderstood the comment unless it was changed. The commenter questioned the likelihood of it being developed into a product and you responded as of they had questioned the likelihood of any of it being used in production.

Fwiw, I agree with the commenter and am unsure how likely Mozilla is to develop it into a product. They do seem to incorporate pieces though.
3. The mother is a genetic chimera whose womb has differing DNA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Fairchild
>at this international student event, a guy goes up and says he's going to do a song from his home country, Taiwan. He doesn't get much farther before a Chinese student runs onstage, grabs the microphone away from him and yells into it "Taiwan is not a country!"

Sounds like battery to me. Should have had this student arrested, charges pressed, and ooops - criminality makes you lose your student visa.

Fuck anyone who abuses America's hospitality to try to take away someone's 1st Amendment rights.
This type of scam can probably be much easier to spot with Facebook.

Any lottery game or house raffle with little transparency should be suspect.
Liars provide more details because they get bogged down in the story, whereas truth-tellers give you a broad overview and can still provide a coherent story when pressed for details.

One study found this by analyzing insurance claims [0]

[0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1316234/How-s...
35 - lately i've been learning about arcade machines. how they work, how to fix them, etc. Ive fixed two so far back to perfect working order. My next project is a small repair on a EM(electro mechanical) pinball machine from the 70s, kinda of excited about it.
If you still interested in that kind of thing. Digital Combat Simulator (DCS) recently released the F/A-18C Hornet: https://www.airdailyx.net/article/f-a-18c-hornet-released-fo...

Here is a video of a tutorial on CASE 1 carrier landings in the Hornet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuigBLhtAH8

Some of the DCS planes are study sim level (The A-10C Warhog, The KA-50 BlackShark, Mirage 2000, Viggten etc.) and the Hornet is going to join them (It is currently in beta and not complete).

"Study Sim" here means that you could learn the game using the real life documentation for the real aircraft. (Although they do have game specific guides).

A cheap'ish HOTAS (EDIT: See
llimllib's comment below, the last link has examples. A Thrustmaster T-16000M is about 100 bucks ) is all you need harware wise.
Heh. I got 97%. I like to think I have a good face memory, but some of the noisy images felt like guessing. Also: weird that the test consists entirely of remembering the faces of white guys.
try replying to some recruiter spam explaining your situation and see how they respond. some of them may try to connect you with whoever would be involved in that sort of decision making at their company.
Precisely the key, you need in my opinion:

1. Someone you can trust
2. Someone you’re not afraid to speak up with or against, without fear of repercussion personally within reason (ie, if you call each other crap every day, you’re not a good match most of the time)
What I was trying to say by “value” is that it’s not my job to determine the worth of a particular position to a company. i.e. it’s above my pay grade to decide what a web developer is worth vs a backend engineer, etc.

Judging the quality of someone’s work _may_ be my job if I’m asked for peer feedback, but even there I disagree. I feel it should be up to a manager to determine whether his or her reports are doing good work. (I’m not a fan of peer feedback for a variety of reasons.)

Of course if someone is incompetent, that’s a different matter. How I’d deal with that is too circumstance specific to outline here. I’ve been fortunate in that I can only recall a few such people.
That’s like saying “we hired the getaway driver, we can rob the bank now, right?” You’ve identified the first step of the plan. There are about nineteen more, and the theoretical network of conspirators required to accomplish this Oscar-winning screenplay would be quite large, which always spells trouble.

To that end, I’m amazed it took that long for the FBI to take down the network in the article. The more people who are read in to criminal activity, the risk exponentially increases, as anybody who has been on either end of investigative leverage can tell you. I’m stunned one person in the early days of this scam, particularly when it started involving colorful people, didn’t flip as a bargaining tool for other things they were into.
A car hookup (e.g. OBD2) that tracks your driving stats and then gamifies it.

I know certain insurance companies have car hookups that supposedly can help you get a discount for safe driving but it would be more interesting to give feedback to the driver, put it on a scoreboard, and share it. Then you should be able to see how you can become a better driver (e.g. less abrupt stops, etc).

There would be a varying number of stats you could have, based on what kind of sensors your car has on it.

Ultimately you could use this to integrate with insurance companies but that's secondary to gamifying safe driving and actually improving driver safety and abilities. Instead of taking the focus off of driver skill, like self-driving cars, this would improve road safety by emphasizing the importance and skill of the driver.
Interesting how that stuff was apparently known to cause health problems by the people stripping the plane, but it also apparently wasn't to blame for folks getting sick at Groom Lake

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/area-51-burning-revealed/
I kind of like your project just for the simple goal of not hiding complexity. As it is through hiding complexity that we get products whose minds we can not read.

As your approach is "Browser as IDE", have you thought of.. actually putting tabs next to tabs, inside of the main window?

Like Jupyter Notebook, but for websites?

After all, we all mostly do research and there is an action that springs out of our browsing activity. If that action is 'writing stuff down', why not do it directly in the browser?
Engagement it is. Odd.. that I spotted a two letter flurp elsewhere and missed that one.
I remember seeing a documentary that had an interview with someone involved in the development who said it was designated F (Fighter) instead of B (Bomber) because it handled more like a fighter than a bomber so they wanted fighter pilots rather than bomber pilots.

No fighter pilot would have applied for the B-117 so F it was.

Don't really believe it but it is a funny thought.
McDonalds was dumb for entrusting the security of this system to one person. This is like security 101. If you want good physical security, you can't trust it to a single person.
How fail2ban saved my bacon
>It was probably the most I read when I was 14

True for me too. I remember that game. Reading the manuals for all the Jane's and Microprose's games, and taking them very seriously, was definitely a childhood highlight.

Btw, I found that GoG has F-117A and the reviews are awesome. I hope these are genuine reviews because they definitely echo my experience :-) Here is the link: https://www.gog.com/game/f117a_nighthawk_stealth_fighter_20

"...it will keep you on the edge of the seat.."

"This game is in the top three of all PC games I have ever played."

Definitely echoes my colored-by-nostalgia-memories :)

Edit: I have a question — what is the best way to play this game on a MacBook? (Without installing windows or Linux)
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or "pubg" is a popular but somewhat shoddy battle royale multiplayer shooter, widely criticised for bugs including several to do with the countdown that takes place as players are loading into a match.
I have read, re-read, and reflected on your comment, but I still do not agree. Whether for specific ballot initiatives instead of elections, or for electing people to effect policy change, it can be in your best interest to abstain from voting if you are not knowledgeable about the issues.

You keep saying your comment isn’t about elections, but that actually doesn’t seem relevant to anything you’ve said, particularly not the original comment claiming that abstaining is never reasonable for people wishing to have their point of view reflected in the outcome of whatever vote.
They are still sold. Lattice MACHXO2 and MACHXO3A series boards.
I got to see one in the lates 90s at an air show in Montana. It was the only plane guarded (was also a B1 present) by at least 6 guards with SMGs.

Still, was amazing. I didn't get to see it fly; it didnt fly during the show, only for delivery and departure.

Also, +1 for "Skunk Works". Great read.
... “This generation right now and maybe the next 15 years or so, there’s going to be a lot of shocking results coming out. I’d say in 20 years’ time it’s going to dissipate,” she predicted. By then, our expectations of privacy will have caught up with the new reality created by the rise of consumer DNA tests.

This reminds me of a discussion in which people were speculating about things that would not exist in the future.

There were many candidates: cancer; hunger; racism; and so on.

By far the most insightful comment came from the person who said "privacy." I don't think most people are ready for that future; it's almost unimaginable.
Thank you for this nostalgic throwback. I loved this game so much, I wrote a book based on it in second grade, illustrating one of the missions lol.
Yeah, that was weird too. I don't know how reliable this would be for someone who hasn't primarily been around "white guys." At minimum I was expecting some pictures of female faces, but there wasn't even that.
Safari Extensions from the Safari Extension Gallery still work, but standalone ones don't.
To me, foo.where(...) looks a bit cleaner than a function call such as filter(..., foo). But writing foo.skip(4) instead of foo[4:] is just silly.

This library consists of very thin wrappers around functionality that's available out of the box in Python. Are these wrappers worth an extra dependency? I think a cheat sheet for people coming from .NET would be more useful than implementing a similar API.
Sick burn.
Bringing Google Pay to PaymentRequest – Chromium Blog
A little OT and most here probably already know, but genetic genealogy(GEDmatch basically) is starting to be used to solve rape and murder cases.

Here's a recent murder case solved a couple weeks ago they announced just on friday that they used genetic genealogy: http://providencejournal.com/news/20180727/how-dna-and-tatto...

And here's the first instance that I know of of a non-fatal rape case where the technology was used.

https://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/2018/07/28/79-year-ol...
When I see an interviewee list out a bunch of things they have "experience" with like that, I assume they actually mean "I used this once".
The youtube/fb/ig/snapchat generations might not even expect it
i just finished Never Split The Difference (https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-De...) and they also tend use different pronouns (they do not use I as much, but use other pronouns more often)
Show HN: enex-dump – Extract notes and attachments out of Evernote exports
There was a great let's play a while back for the A-10 sim from gamers who don't normally play sims.

Don't have the link handy right now but they basically caught the plane on fire before the could learn how to takeoff correctly.
> how does any of this relates to epigenetics?

Epigenetics is the study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression. If these articles are to be believed, then these tRNA fragments positively influence the expression of regulatory factors. It seems like an example of epigenetics to me.

> It seems like they are trying to sell a classical misconception.

I don't disagree with this assessment. The study I cited¹ said something about tRNA fragments being a conserved response to oxidative stress. The news article apparently takes this and somehow turns it into a "your children will feel the consequences of your bad dietary habits" argument.

There is some discussion and references about diets and epigenetics in the scientific text but that's not what the article is about. The articles say (1) the epididymis sends some RNA to the sperm cells, and (2) that the lack of this RNA can compromise embryo viability. It's interesting and all, but the clinical relevance of this information has yet to be determined: I'm not aware of any evidence that supports the notion that bad lifestyle habits will affect this sperm maturation process in any way.

¹ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21976287

> Accumulation of RNAs of 30–35 nucleotides that correspond to tRNA halves were first reported in Tetrahymena
thermophila, and subsequently shown to be a conserved response to oxidative stress in a wide variety of eukaryotes.²

² https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2553748/
I'm not the GP but I'd like to add my two cents.

A great deal of advertising is about attaching desirable lifestyles to a particular brand and paying attractive celebrities to endorse the brand.

None of this is information. It's psychological manipulation targeted at the natural human inclination towards group affiliation and status seeking. I consider it unethical for the same sorts of reasons that I consider microtransaction mobile games and gambling unethical.

Unfortunately, this entire set of practices seems to be eating the world. [1]

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
Iirc Electrolux was working on a fairly similar concept back in 2012-2013. Can't find the exact link for the touch screen one but these demos should be fairly similar:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dK1IVk_NiGY#

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qboMSdgxZ4s#

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QSJzq8rbR2c
Gzipped and minified, React with React DOM is 32k bytes. Which is fine for most apps.
Built a python tuplespace around '06. Realized it was really just a task queue and / or RPC abstraction with a database.

Now mostly just use RPCs and queues directly, depending on whether I need something now, or later.
Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez tells the author's story as his company is acquired by Twitter and he goes to work for Facebook. It's an really entertaining read and he includes a bunch of asides on how the Silicon Valley M&A pipelines work (or at least his perspective on how they work).

https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Monkeys-Obscene-Fortune-Failure...
I don’t have one, but based on your request - I’ll write one.

The biggest issue is OS X version limits. I’m on a version two points back due to the NVIDIA hacks needed. There’s a whole community forum on egpu.io that goes into details.
One could use hash signatures to detect a problem.
Forecasting a headline risk: NetSpectre
Former founder, software investor and banker. Email me directly for some free advice on this one. You’ve got some options and good approaches - I can point you to some friends who work at shops that help companies like yours. Cameron.mullen@gmail.com
I did the same thing to one project a few years ago. It was a major win. Even with decent library support, keeping data synced and indexed from PG <-> ES was such a burden.
It gets 70-80% performance. I’m not sure about throttling. It’s definitely not 1-to-1 based on my desktop, but it’s so much faster than the CPU.
Now the question is: were you watching my comment for activity, or do you have a bot checking for name drops.
I use question marks because I'm asking questions. By having you consider what the answer would be, it would lead you to understanding why you were wrong, rather than me having to be explicit. It is an attempt, albeit possibly a poor one, to teach you something by getting you to think about it, rather than being told. If you would rather I just tell you why one-time pads don't solve the problems of PKI and the additional code bloat of using OpenSSL, I will gladly do that.

I use upper case because your responses are frustrating me, because you continue to insist that your suggestion is being dismissed simply because you're not into crypto, when I have said over and over that it was dismissed because it is simply not a valid solution to the problem originally brought up.

Your claim that I keep trying to change the subject instead of agreeing on the problem is baffling me. Which problem are you referring to here?
If it is so good, why don't you open source it?

Edit: not sure why this is being downvoted, I am genuinely curious.
A Taste of Linear Logic (1993) [pdf]
The idea was less "browser as an IDE" and more "browser GUI like an IDE's GUI" meaning maximize organization and quick context switching in lieu of hiding everything. Granted IDEs often have tabs on top too, I just chose not to.

While I update it to newer Chromium versions regularly and use it as my main browser with great success, the lack of community interest in the project limits my desire to put much work in to new features unless I really want them.

This article and the idea of tab history solidify an approach that I have always taken to browsing that I've dubbed "immutable browsing". I ctrl+click every link to make a child and only purge the roots of the tree to roll up the children when the roots habe no value to me anymore. On a Wikipedia or Github project spelunking expedition, I can get many levels deep, sometimes ctrl+clicking dozens of pages as background child pages from a single page.
> Incidentally, Mark, you are now 34 years old, which is "old" by Valley standards. Shouldn't you be quitting?

Oh you know, this only applies to the rank and file. Management positions don't mind if you're a bit older, but if you didn't spend the last decade building out teams and people managing and just wanted to spend your career coding...tough cookies.
21st century water wars: The Renaissance Dam crisis
Arc does, fwiw. And that’s an important design goal. There is a lot of progress left to be made in this space.
If you're in New York by any chance, FE International is hosting a public happy hour tomorrow at 307 W 47th St @ 6pm (https://www.facebook.com/events/267494074059745/). Could be an opportunity.
Yes, everyone who's spent two minutes thinking about designing a decentralized prediction market has spotted that weak link. Hence that's what Augur is designed to address.

Think it won't work? Go get your bug bounty, or even put in a massive short and then break it.