skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's less a matter of misinterpreting the topology, and more that the Windows scheduler isn't prepared to handle the somewhat exotic topology; whereas the Linux scheduler seems to be more intelligent about handling the memory-less NUMA nodes.
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This is the correct answer. Anything that has a use to someone has intrinsic value. The price is what they offer to pay in hopes of convincing the current owner to give it to them.
Mind-body duality has nothing to do with the question of whether mental illness is a useful term. Every character trait, whether it's called an illness or not, has biological roots.
It is if you know ruby. Me, I know perl and honestly I do not grok most of the ruby examples given here. I am quite sure that I could learn them about as fast as somebody not knowing perl and knowing ruby could learn perl.
Journalists need to realize that likely every app is doing this. Look at the companies providing this data (FullStory, MouseFlow, AppSee etc etc), they are industry agnostic. It's as easy as installing a library or adding a few lines of code and voila, you have this same data.
> Suggestions are welcome for good alternatives,

I'm in the move away myself. Here's some services I've started using, in many areas I'm still looking for other replacements. Hopefully others can help.

1. E-Mail : protonmail.com, I really like this one, great service.

2. Video Calls : I'm currently using signal to some extent, not very happy though, would really like something like Hangouts.

3. Browser : Firefox

4. Phone : Apple

5. Things I'm still looking for : Google Calender, Drive, Chat, Backup Storage services.
You can buy this dev board to play around with and learn FPGA for $75, and it has extensive documentation and resources to help you

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11953
The "while using" permission does allow apps to continue using your location in the background, but you get a status indicator when that is the case.

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203033
Your statistic is not apparent in the linked information.
> Just got coffee from 711

Is 711's coffee any good? Always curious but reluctant to try.

On a more serious note, are you able to share more about the product, its pricing, and who you demoed to?
Read chapters 2-5 of Skiena’s book, then do leetcode eight hours a day until your interview. Start with high-pass-rate mediums, then work your way up, and try to solve some hards. Spend about half an hour on each problem, and if you can’t think of an answer, look at the solution, reimplement it, and think hard about the underlying concepts.

This will not guarantee you a pass — honestly, some people spend months preparing for the big 5 interviews — but it may give you a fighting chance, and either way it will give you a good foundation for future interviews.
China is more of an authoritarian aristocracy at this point ruled by a few really powerful red families. Xi’s is only one such family, the others have power and will often duke it out in various factions.

I still don’t think Xi is as powerful as even Jiang Zemin was, he definitely isn’t at Deng’s level yet.
I just checked. First hint is the "GPS icon" on every Search entry and the location is displayed when you click on "Details".

Second, on the Activity Commands, you just have to click on the link to See More and it's explicitly stated that the location is stored.
Guernsey resident halts roadworks with ancient plea
> I know that "when it's free I am the product" but the problem is that this is not very obvious when you buy a device.

If you buy a device, then it's not free!
I also got annoyed with "closest pair of points" problem [1]. It needs some geometry observations to prove how time complexity can be achieved. I was just thinking "Are they testing me geometry?"

I don't know how questions are created and filtered for interviews.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closest_pair_of_points_problem
LOL... my mother was in a hospital more famous than Mayo and it’s a lot different than you might think. My mother got 1000% better care than her roommates that didn’t have 24/7 family coverage.
Almost all of my friends are this way now. They just gave up on any sense of privacy and accepted it. I can't say I blame them. They have different needs / wants than I do, but I will admit it's pretty disheartening too.

I haven't given up yet, but it's such a pain in the ass if you don't keep up on it. I ended up just ditching any service that doesn't respect my privacy or at the very least, stick with ones that say they respect it.

If there's anything real important I have a few friends who usually let me know. I still do miss some events but I figure if no one remembered to ask me, it's not important, or I'm not that important. Either way, it's not my issue.
I think there'll be many people who would find a comment like this suspicious and question its overall validity.

There's a lot of stuff the US government (and NSA) touches that isn't suspect - do we need to start making a list? Because if we do, just one item alone would invalidate the (not uncommon) point you appear to be drawing here.
> You can still roam wild places in the Steppes of Mongolia, wonder for weeks in search of Shangri-La in the Himalayas without seeing anyone.

But others will see you. I traveled through Mongolia with some locals, and one of the things that was striking to me is how few people were there. At some point, I mentioned this, and was laughed at by the locals. They were surprised that I thought it was empty when there were plenty of people around. They pointed out someone on a horse on a hill several ranges over. They said that if we got closer they would make sure to stop us to ask why we were there. There were also gers far away in other ranges. And everyone knew where everyone else was. It was like their personal bubbles had a 2 km radius
Similar data (but for a wider range of problems - not just object classification) was tabulated by the EFF's AI Progress Measurement project [1]; I made an alternative interface to visualise it [2].

[1]: https://www.eff.org/ai/metrics

[2]: https://jamesscottbrown.github.io/ai-progress-vis/index.html
I'm finishing a book about what makes products "premium." It's cool because a) many people don't know b) if they did, they could make more money per sale.
Same, except about 1 year ago instead.
Turkey’s Erdogan Fought Coup with His iPhone. Now, He Wants to Boycott US Goods
How does the state not get involved in forcing medical treatment on an adult?

Even if a relative is designated as a guardian, if the person refuses treatment what happens?

Forcing an unwilling adult to regularly take medication is not a simple thing to do and in many cases will require physical restraint or violence (or the threats thereof).

Even getting a young child to take medication can be challenging (try getting a 5 year old to go through a 2 week antibiotic treatment w a liquid antibiotic that tastes bad...).
I suppose the math checks out, but I disagree with the model: the whole point of doing multiple interviews is to get a variety of opinions based on the knowledge that bombing an interview just happens. You're assuming that bombing one disqualifies you, but that's not true.
Offline Apps Are Hocus Pocus
You can tell if there was a CLLocationManager framework call to startUpdatingLocation() depending on the color of the location arrow in Location Services settings. AFAIK, it is not possible to use location manager without first registering a location authorization type (When in use, always, etc).
But that age isn't 18, and this holds true of other groups yet we still allow them to vote. If we are going to be applying some rational test where only people who vote for the 'right' reasons vote, then we should do so uniformly and not discriminate based on a demographic that people have no control over.
But that's not a high performance FPGA. Believe me, I have a ton of FPGAs at home (starting even cheaper than that), and I write about them all the time: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/?s=fpga

However if you're doing the sort of work which isn't just hobbyist stuff, you're going to spend 1000s on a board. This is the sort of thing commercial developers will be using: https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/ek-v7-vc707-...
Interest is sinful in all Abrahamaic religion. The Quran mentioned that lending money is social act and shall not be made a business.

You can sell items by installment directly, but you must be the direct seller and the buyer actually pay to you, not to the bank who covers the buyer money and paid it to you.

Theres a lot of verse in the Quran that explain about how to trade, loan, etc.
> 5. Things I'm still looking for : Google Calender, Drive

Fastmail provides a DavCAL calendar and some storage space with their email offering. They also have a wonderful browser client (much better that gmail at least for me).
Those are just normal what aboutisms. Either side will feel like they are the underdog anyways, critical-China will complain about too many pro-China posts, pro-China will complain a bit too many anti-china posts. There is still enough of the latter because HN has plenty of Chinese readers and hasn’t been blocked in China (yet).
> guess if you want some weird 19th century idea of the past you might want to talk to an economist

The myth appears to be that economists believe in the barter hypothesis. It was prompted by Adam Smith and subsequently disproven. Using the barter hypothesis as an argument against economics is like using Haeckel's embryos as an argument against evolution.
Social networks are global. public goods are local or national. Would the rules that apply to non-citizens or non-locals apply to outsiders?
Have you ever used a government website?

With the exception on gov.uk, they are all god-awful. I suspect lack of talent within the government is one major reason.
How to Design for Thumbs in the Era of Huge Screens
Much unlike today's social media networks, which have never had any massive privacy or security scandals.
Ask HN: Our prototype is ready (a visual programming tool). How to proceed?
Since the beginning of 2018 we have been creating a visual programming tool we call "Slang" (short for stream language). Now finally, there is a downloadable version and some example applications. It is free and open source.

But, here is our problem: we don't really know what our target group is. Slang is very powerful and universal (just like any programming language) and in our opinion it is easier and faster to use in a lot of scenarios. But there is just not this one apparent use case where it stands out.

We would very much like your feedback to improve Slang and make it more usable. So my question is: how can we approach this? Of course I hope some potential users hang around here, so if you have feedback we would very much appreciate it.

Here's our website: https://tryslang.com
The author isn't aware apparently of over a decade of work done in FPGA/CPU integration. Both in more sequential languages like System C[1] or in extended instruction set computing like the Stretch[2]. Not to mention the Zynq[3] series where the CPU is right there next to the FPGA fabric.

For "classic" CPUs (aka x86 cpus with a proprietary frontside bus and southbridge bus) it can be challenging to work an FPGA into the flow. But the problem was pretty clear in 2007 in this Altera whitepaper[4] where they postulate that not keeping up with Moore's law means you probably end up specializing the hardware for different workloads.

The tricky bit on these systems is how much effort/time it takes to move data and context between the "main" CPU and the FPGA and then back again (Amdahl's law basically). When the cost of moving the data around is less than the scaling benefit of designing a circuit to do the specific computation, then adding an FPGA is a winning move.

[1] https://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/vivado/prod-adv...

[2] http://www.stretchinc.com/index.php

[3] https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/soc/zynq-ult...

[4] https://www.intel.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_US/pd...
Can we rename it to "<Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC> product poorly named"?
India Aims for the World's Biggest Health Care Overhaul
On Protonmail: I've been using it for about a year now and their spam filtering is terrible. I was thinking about migrating my yahoo account to them but it does nothing to prevent the huge amount of recruiter spam I get. I also am not a fan of how little space you get with them.
Sounds like you might like to read the book!

I think preferences is an interesting way to describe this, as it assumes a choice, which I don't think is true. But I do believe that the DSM-[x] is a description of deviations from social norms, and psychology/psychiatry is a way to help people adhere and integrate into society through therapy and drugs as their deviation makes it problematic to exist in society.
For video calls, you should try zoom.us. From what I've seen, they have the best streaming infrastructure of any of the major players (FaceTime, Hangouts, Webex, GoToMeeting). Apps for all the major platforms, too. The only bad thing is that if you're on a multi-way call, they limit you to 40 minutes.
There is something in that. You have to establish relative worth in order to assign a money value. That is, 1 pig is worth 10 chickens, or whatever. And 1 house is worth N pigs, and so on, assigning relative value to services also.

It makes sense that relative value is established first by barter, but it is not such a stretch to think that people could work the same out relatively quickly, once the money value of one common thing is established.
I have no experience with data centers, but a little bit of experience with ecological impacts of pass-through nuclear cooling, i.e., water is pumped in from a body of water as cooling for a nuclear power plant, then pumped back to the body of water.

My guess would be that the heat diffusion system for the data center could be designed in such a way that you could have a very large installation without a large ecological impact, as long as a modular footprint like the one pictured is used (think of reef systems that spring up around shipwrecks). However, this will very much depend on the ocean currents at installation to quickly transport heat out of the area.
Most species can handle a couple degrees (Celsius) variation in water temperature, and given the pure huge heat sink that is available by being completely surrounded in water. Species that prefer slightly warmer temperatures would probably establish a new foothold in the areas around the datacenters.

As for the "why it is important" bit. My conservation stance comes down to the precautionary principle. We still know so little about the ecosystem of the ocean that has been working pretty well for millions of years. We should endeavor to change as little as possible because we don't want to disrupt the complex feedback system that exists. Despite all the environmental impact studies that would be performed, we don't know what the possible cascading effects could be, if any.
If you already have an apple phone the apple calendar is competent. Keybase is a potential alternative to drive (if you don't use it on mobile much). Signal for chat
Did they tell you this? I feel like a lot of candidates think they nailed it when really they missed important things. I'm not sure I've ever had a candidate solve my question fully and optimally. This of course is nowhere near necessary to get a good score but I think that thinking "yep this is as good as it gets" is a common error.

The hire rate is also super low at the majors so it could have also been noise.
I think they means the latter. We (well, I used to be one) have a reputation for being salty, though we are just very critical having lived the life and seen things for real.
> CS theory and problem-solving skills are the important things, the difficult things, and if you know them, everything else is easy.

Wow, this is really fascinating to me, because yes, I absolutely thought that - this blog post is the first time I've ever heard anybody suggest otherwise. A smart software manager would be working to pair up people like her who are good at and enjoy algorithmic puzzle solving but not as interested in the code with people like me who aren't so great at solving riddles but can apply stuff like a mofo. Instead they insist on trying to save money by finding a one-size-fits-all solution to every problem and end up losing more than they could ever save churning through people they see as pawns and expendable resources.
It might be more fun if the problems are a bit more game like. I got my start with Euler Project which I was doing for fun looooong before I even thought about interviews. There's lots of other resources out like that now I think. I've heard people mention hacker rank.
Social networks fulfill all needs.

That is why the ultimate form of punishment in our society is to isolate the individual from all human contact.

Humans do terribly in an environment without other people.

Why does it matter that the medium is digital?
And it would be certified secure.
> The worst time to buy is when everyone else is buying.

It's also when everyone is selling. Nothing says this can't go lower.
The meme that (all) government is terrible at technology is getting tired. It is not necessarily true that a publicly run system will inevitably be crap/inefficient/archaic. A good example is the British gov.uk group, who have made some well thought out, usable and technologically sound systems.

Please stop perpetuating this lie. You can, and should expect better of your public digital systems. Don't let them use "Public tech must be bad" as an argument.
Using ProtonMail too. Very happy, and you get to use ProtonVPN too.

Also install Privacy Badger extension (or other tracker-/ad-blocker) in your browser and block Google Analytics etc.

And for site-owners that use Google Analytics now: there are alternatives, like e.g. Matomo.
Same. Solved chronic back pain by performing sun salutations 15 minutes every day.
I have no info about whether Google/Facebook programmers can solve whiteboard questions easily so I expect this comment to be down voted but ...

I'm consistently surprised by the fact that, despite hiring programmers who are the world's most elite, Google's products and services are just kind of ... plain/average/boring. The products and services are far less amazing than Google's engineers.

It's like Google takes in geniuses but outputs kind of boring, standard, average quality products and services with a surprising number of problems and deficiencies.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SovRom
I mean I'm surprised you don't see why this question is plain stupid.

I've had to deal with an algorithm problem of this difficulty once in my entire work life and I was given a week time to go figure out the best way to go about this.

Your problem creates an unrealistic standard of a software developer. You don't get to see something like their coding quality which is a lot more important in a candidate than their ability to solve an arbitrary algorithms question. Especially since these algorithm quesstions are now being studied for the sake of interviews. Rather than to learn something.

It's shocking to me how many engineers I come across that think having an algorithms based interview actually gives them good results.
SMS could and should be expanded to include more social primitives within the protocol. Lately, I find myself using group chats in SMS more than any social network. Facebook and Twitter have a dis-incentive to do this, but Apple and Microsoft both make phone operating systems and don't have large social networks to compete with an open protocol. It is really annoying whenever I run up against walls like 'You can only have 10 users in 1 group chat ... unless they're all Apple' situations. The protocol should be device/os agnostic akin to http => browser. But I'm not seeing a lot of movement in the SMS protocol as late, just more messaging apps.
Funny how many financial headings are needlessly alarmist, using words like "panic", "plummet", "scare", "sharp". They look made more for scaring the masses than actually inform.

This also happens with currency exchange rates, at least here in Mexico. Some times every news outlet reports a 15 cent slide as "the peso plummeting", seemingly inciting people to buy US dollars. Then, after a week or two, the exchange rate is not important anymore.
Yet another bridge design felled by over-reliance on concrete for structural integrity. A lot more bridges are going to fail around the world because they rely too much on concrete, and on dangerous designs without sufficient redundancy.

I like ancient Roman bridges because they're both complex and simple, but my favorite thing about them is how utilitarian they are. At least the examples we have today were clearly not undermining their integrity for the sake of a cool design (2 prestressed concrete tension beams? what the fuck?). Pretty much the only thing that would fell them was the force of flooding rivers. Some fell apart over time, but we're talking over a thousand years. Bridges today barely last 100.

We have to stop letting architects design, and cities then build, hipster bridges. Their primary consideration must be their integrity and longevity.
This article is in the business section of the newspaper. That's not exactly the optimal section if your intention was to "start a privacy panic about every damn thing."

Many people including myself were not familiar with the companies mentioned in this article or the use of their software for fraud prevention, these are the thrust of the article not hysteria.

Your conspiratorial assessment of this article seems to be misplaced.
All of the big resorts in Las Vegas are going through a period of change regarding security. It's been a very traumatic 10 months for that industry in that location.

Caesars, and the other hotels, are trying to find a balance between the security needs of the guests and the security needs of the staff. It's going to take time to work everything out.

Just a few weeks ago, the hotels reached an agreement the maids union to provide every one of them (20,000, at least) with wireless panic buttons that geolocate them down to the floor and room. Even Google doesn't have that kind of granularity.

And all of the security changes have to be worked out between the property, Metro (the regional police force), the FBI and others. It's a complicated process.

What happened to a small number of people at DEFCON is sad and wrong. But chances are it's wasn't malicious. On a busy weekend, 350,000 people visit Las Vegas. The number of people affected by what happened in the blog post is less than a rounding error. Mistakes happen. Security people are still people. Life will never be perfect when you interact with wetware.

For the record, our room bill at Caesars alone came in at over $50K

$50k is nothing to Caesars. You see bar receipts for more than that discarded on the floors of the nightclubs there.

/Written from a nearby property, overlooking Caesars
>I'm just puzzled that this wishful thinking that economic prosperity is necessarily connected to political freedoms still persists.

China is doing well for now. In the long term it's going to suffer because the free flow of ideas is suppressed. And without that there's a double whammy of no innovation and learned helplessness.

Most formerly communist countries suffer from this to an extent.