skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“My wife is a compensation consultant specializing in tech jobs, so I’ll ask her to run an analysis on your open position”.
"In an unprecedented operation, Swiss military pilots launched the world’s first rescue in the high mountains from the air,"

Cool video. The rescue plane was a Fieseler Storch.

Edit: there were a pair of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_C-53_Skytrooper_crash_on_...
I think it would be pretty cool to use Cloud Functions as a Selenium Grid, sort of like Zalenium (https://github.com/zalando/zalenium) does with Kubernetes. If you could parallelize end-to-end tests enough, you could get massive burstable capacity to run parallel tests.
If anyone should want to ban Muslims it would be me – but I don't
> ‘Be a philosopher,’ advised Hume, ‘but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man’

...is by far one of my favorite quotes of his, and I'm glad they included it in the article.

EDIT - they also got ‘Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions,’ which is another one of my favorites that I'd forgotten!
What value do you get from ads running on Netflix?
I feel you lost a good candidate. I think he negotiated all those things because it had to exceed his current level. Having a VP with that negotiation would have been good for the company.
I also find their player misses little things that Hulu and Netflix understand, like that whether I want subtitles can depend on what language the content I'm watching is in.
Define experienced engineer. I've seen many on-paper experienced engineers who would be worse than a junior engineer on a project.

>oh yeah I've seen that before, lets not do that here's why

Which can actually be a pretty bad way of going about it imho if you only use your own direct experiences for that. Just like science, basing your decisions on a limited number of anecdotes is problematic because small biased subsets are not representative of the whole.
Ads in the paid by me streaming? Off to torrents, see 'ya (or rather not).
Cancelled. Made sure to state the reasons why, too.
Well, if you see that thing as the only one that stops people from killing each other, I can see how one could stretch ethics to be ok with this job.
Yep. I've done a few of these and it takes me about 3 days before I no longer feel the need to eat. I'm also the type of person who frequently forgets to eat lunch and breakfast.
SK will never do it because it might destroy the progress on NoKo. Japan would, EU probably not. Germany might, U.K. won't until EU exit deals are done, Canada might, Australia won't, not in their interest. It'd be interesting!
It would be a great idea if there was a good alternative in low population density areas.
Last update was 16 years ago. I'm not sure this particular page is in any way relevant in 2018. We could have a discussion about the question posed in the title, and I'm sure some might anyway, but we won't learn anything useful from the posted article.
I always thought it was about babies, and I'm a native English speaker.
You have to make a decision based on something. Experience isn’t a bad heuristic if evaluated correctly: this is why in most serious technical interviews today, you will often get asked about your past experiences.
Kinds of types in Scala, part 3: embedding some more info in a type
It's blatantly false and bizarre as a claim. I grew up during the early pop 90s, and rather drowned in that culture day to day (it was still peak MTV). It's far more likely that few people thought it referred to having a baby. If it had been taken to mean having a baby, the song never would have charted. Referring to someone as their baby romantically, was and is extremely common. It was routinely referenced in R&B songs at that time as well. I don't see how it could have been missed.
Most of the complaints I'm reading are about how this is the sort of thing that harms user experience while improving the kinds of metrics that are measured in an A/B test. Maybe they'll put in a lot of effort to undo it for me, but chances are this is just a way my life will be slightly worse from now on. Should I be positive about that?
I am getting a different price from GCP calculator. Almost $2000.
In your example, 10functions por Second, so each function is taking 1000ms to finish.
2592000s in a month * 10invocation = 25920000 invocations month, running with a 1GB function and 500kb of network bandwidth (out).
https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=555e1af7-c8...
"... fix issues as I went along. Without unit tests or automated deployments, this took almost a year."

One of the first things he should have done was to get them Joel-test compliant, otherwise he's wasting the money they pay him.
There's an awesome 99% Invisible podcast on this.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-vault/
Not only one of the most creative talks I've had the pleasure of attending, but also a good showcase of what happens when you fire this foot gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7WraVE8rY8
The visa stuff for US is quite easy. Just a few forms and some money.
Part of the reason why open codecs was going to win over HEVC is the multiple patent pools, which H.264 did not have. A lot more effort is being spent on open codecs than in the olden days too.
Vue-cli 3: Game-changer or barely useful?
The premise of the title is a bit odd, because technically anything a lisp can do assembly language can do. The bar on being able to do 'anything' is so low that many things accidentally become Turing complete.

Can lisp programmers still feel smug about using lisp? No, because it never was and never will be productive to feel smug.

Is lisp still the best language for expressing a programmers thoughts? Yes, because it has basically no syntax, so any program will be a direct representation of a programmer's mental model for how their program works. No language with syntax will do that, but the average programmer is probably best actively discouraged from utilising this freedom because they probably have flawed mental models of what is going on.
BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen has left the company
Their UI/UX is /awful/. Probably purposefully bad, to hide how shallow their back catalog has become, but regardless.... It’s so bad it makes amazon UX seem tolerable in comparison!
The second I see one of these ads I will unsubscribe. No ads, and being able to watch things on demand are the two features I pay Netflix for. It's unthinkable to me that they think this is a good idea.
Self-abnegation can work for people who don't have to worry about their family or retirement.
That’s because they have set something up and ironed out all the bugs so it will take some convincing to move them to a different stack.

There’s no easy way around it. In fact I’ve seen some teams too eager to rip up existing production workflows every time some new technology becomes popular and that’s not productive either.
I think there's a world of difference between "the company is out to screw me" and "I want the best possible result". And I think that the throwaway account you're agreeing with has trouble differentiating between the two (see my other responses to him).

It is absolutely reasonable to enter a negiotiation with the intent to base the resulting partnership on mutual trust. But "I will renege on this offer if you attempt to negotiate" doesn't scream trustworthy to me.
I had the same situation with multiple services:

1. ultrasound cost around $300 with insurance...$150 without

2. ER visit cost $4K with insurance....$900 without

3. specialist visit with insurance cost around $200...$150 without

And don't get me started on labs.

It's really a rip off to use insurance for anything other than:

1. general doctor visit (cheap co-pay, pretty expensive cash option)

2. really expensive shit (c-section w/o insurance runs $25-$30K -- cost me around $5K with insurance)

Anything in between seems to be cheaper when you pay individually.

As a disclaimer this is "gold-level" insurance coverage which costs around $1200-$1300/month for a family of 4.
so the lead scientist didn't die trying to save the seed bank, he was arrested " in 1940, charged with serious crimes that were fabricated; then was tortured, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death by firing squad. Later, his sentence was commuted to 20 years in prison, but his jailors starved him to death in 1943. "

.. then a year later nine other scientist died of starvation

according to the Soviets.

Yeah call me a skeptic on this. I bet they just sentence his fellow scientist with the same crime and then later when they found out he was right, re-wrote the story. Again, serious doubts.

Source #14 in the wikipedia article
The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov
https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Nikolai-Vavilov-Stalins-Persec...
Watch "drug Short" on the "Dirty Money" series on Netflix. It pretty enraging, and you are likely already familiar with the story, Valeant Pharma and Martin Skrelli....

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80149535?trackId=14170289&tctx...
I was only about ~9 when the song came out and always thought she wanted to get pregnant.

I still thought that up until I read this...now feeling very stupid.
The use of baby as lover is well known, but not when phrased like this. I think its because 'baby' needs to have ownership attributed to it to imply partner.
Disney or Amazon.
What is the difference between Micro.blog and Twitter?
The top search for my name is a kid in England who is serving life in prison for murdering his girlfriend when he was 16 and she was 14. Obviously not me, but I always wonder how many potential employers have a visceral aversion to hiring me after a quick google search.
Actually screw it, I'm unsubscribing now. Whoever thought this should even be trialed should be fired.
This is the problem that credentials supposedly solve - degrees, certifications, professional body membership etc.

You don't realize the difficulty of the problem until you must hire someone outside your own areas of expertise.
I've always been a big fan of David Hume and, in general, empiricism. It's nice to see that there is attention made to his point that a healthy human life consists of a 'mixed kind' between higher intellectual activities as well as common mundane activities.

Often times, at least in academia, his philosophical skepticism is presented as the main and only point. From my perspective, his skepticism is way of targeting those already reading philosophy (and thusly more likely to favor pursuing intellect over the body) in the hopes of persuading them into more healthy balance. Because of that tho, I almost never suggest reading him as a first introduction to Philosophy for new students. Instead, he seems a nice counter point to the works of philosophers who are better suited for introductory texts (Plato, Descartes, Aristotle, etc)
CSS single-file stylesheets that you can drop into an HTML5 document
Files are associated with inodes, which have nonzero size. They are also segmented into multiples of the block size of a filesystem, so even a 1 bit file effectively takes up 4KB if your block size is 4KB.
"Why does the US still embargo Cuba when it's no longer a military threat? Do you think that Cubans in Florida play an outsized role in US politics?"

That's complicated but the Cuban regime is still to this day fairly totalitarian and are openly hostile to the US, which is not some little diplomatic thing.
And if I meet you, what if I eat you? I am the tiger!

Hey, you're right.
Last Week in Pony – August 19, 2018
I've always felt that First Aid Kit, who have mastered American country-folk musical styling, lay it on a bit thicker than necessary with idioms. It's a bit like someone showing up to a cowboy bar wearing spurs.
I think honestly my biggest problem is just lack of familiarity. I don't do a lot of front-end work, and when I am doing front-end work it's probably a side project that I'm not getting paid for. If I'm working on my own time, the back-end stuff is more interesting to me so I spend as little time as possible on front-end.

Order of precedence is the hardest thing for me to figure out, if I have three nested <div>s and a couple of <li> elements and all of them with a conflicting fontColor property, which one takes precedence? If I think really hard and trace back all the code, I can figure it out. Or I can put an !important on it and future me will deal with the consequences.
You usually set up a system where you have constant feedback, like daily stand ups, weekly ( or bi-weekly) sprints etc. before closing out an issue have the devs demo the feature so it’s not based purely on word of mouth.

Personally: I would advice getting lunch with them and getting to know them better. Set up a 1:1 if lunch isn’t possible. Everyone likes honest feedback, or at least a chance to talk about their difficulties in getting tasks done.
I am tired of hearing about this study when there are so many valid criticisms of its methods and conclusions, and it has never been replicated. In particular (as this article highlights) there's strong evidence that Zimbardo explicitly coached the "guards" into treating the "prisoners" harshly, as opposed to the meme narrative that everybody fell hard into their roles organically.

Ignoring the ethical questions (which are many), this is just straight up asking experimental subjects to help you reach a conclusion, which is . . . a no-no, experimentally speaking.

The Wikipedia page has a pretty good overview of this and other issues: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
oh good, maybe that will help reduce the general reliance on CDNs... (me dreaming)
My sense is that "baby" is a term of endearment that is typically addressed to someone in particular. Similarly, you might express affection for someone by calling them "dear" or "honey," but it would be weird to say "I want a dear" or "I want a honey."
I was in high school in the early 90s and heard this song a bajillion times. To the extent I thought about the meaning of this song lyrics (I tried really hard not to), I always thought it meant child, not lover.
There is plenty. The most famous example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGDgnp7-uck
that's it...im moving to GCP

sorry but Rekognition rekt it for any type of computer vision on AWS.

Great infrastructure...after all I do have an AWS Solution Architect Associate certification....which means jack shit

Great move by GCP, I'm also very pleased with Firebase and it's integration with cloud functions....

BUT my biggest reservation still in 2018 when it comes to serverless is the cold start up time...

I built a token based API on AWS Lambda and registering, signing up took forever when the app was not at peak. that was 2014 tho.
Honestly. I don’t know where you’re getting your information. Given your out of date information, and a cavalier toss about using nuclear weapons, I don’t think you’re nearly as well informed as you think you are.

FYI: China has a no-first use policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_weapons_of_mass_dest...
AKA become expert.

I wonder if the people who become fantastically successful simply have the ability to evaluate expertise, without having any of it. i.e. by "reading" people, in some sense.

This relies on the "expert"'s own evaluation of their expertise, which mightn't be accurate, because of Dunning–Kruger, or conversely, self-doubt. So, one would need to "read" those too.
>> because it has basically no syntax, so any program will be a direct representation of a programmer's mental model for how their program works

That's actually a problem with Lisp, because every programmer would have different mental model and without some syntax rule imposing at least basic structure most of Lisp programs would be PITA to maintain by the unlucky next programmer. It also seriously limits the scale of teams of Lisp programmers (is that even a thing?), because every one of them will have their own "right way" of doing things.
Or they could use sqlite or even access, both of which are single files and should take about the same admin overhead of a new text file. Speaking of text files, they might be a better option here too.

If it's being handled by excel already then sqlite would be overkill.
As someone who lives in Toronto, there are some very aggressive drivers here who do not follow the rules. 4 days ago I was clipped by a driver that ran a red light and drove straight into the bike lane without stopping or looking. He then gave me the finger and took off. Not all drivers are like this of course, but I've almost been killed by quite a few.

That being said, I think we should keep anecdotal evidence and personal biases out of the discussion about how to save lives, and stick to the stats, which are abundant and clear.
I'm really not sure what you are trying to say. As far as I can tell, the featured article doesn't claim he was one of the people who died protecting the seeds. It just claims he founded the seed bank.

He died gruesomely. So did 9 scientists who starved to death. This seems to fit perfectly well with the idea that scientists were treated pretty badly.

Would you like to more clearly state what you think is untrue here? Because I'm quite baffled.

Thanks.
nah. scene stuff operates within it's own alternate reality. 10 bit x264, and 10/12 bit x265 are either the default for some scenes (anime) or popular in others. there's zero hardware support for them yet, so in my mind they haven't won. AV1 will win if cheap decoding chips flood the market.
I am Swedish and I always thought that that lyric actually didn't make any sense, and that was intentional.

So much many music lyrics is just a sequence of unrelated words strung together in a way that sounds good, and this sounded just like one more case of this.

That said, I never listen to lyrics in music, and at best I know the first line of the chorus even in songs I've listened to many times, so perhaps I'm wrong and there is a deeper meaning to hit songs.

Oh, and with regards to the Ace of Base song mentioned in another thread here, I always interpreted that sentence in the literal sense, that she wanted to become pregnant.
It's rather jarring to read "Can lisp programmers still feel smug about using lisp? No" followed by "the average programmer is probably best actively discouraged from utilizing this freedom because they probably have flawed mental models".
This is an English speaking forum, so the submission will probably get ignored of flagged, unless it has some very interesting material that is not available in English.

Did you build it? Do you have a version with more details about the construction? Do you have an English version? With a little of luck a more technical post in English will be more popular here.
Right, taxing large corporations more and making their takeover of the city slower would have slowed the increasing demand for housing. SF's government could have chosen to not sell it's soul entirely to big tech while still supporting smaller startups and businesses. I would argue that the policies have not been left wing enough despite the perception that SF is very left wing. Reality is that the leadership of the city is in the pocket of the tech industry.

Let some of the money go elsewhere and boost some other city's economy rather than having it all focused in one place to the point of it causing major problems.
And when that moment arrives you will know that the transformation from the "old cable TV" to the "new cable TV" is complete.

There was a time when there were no ads on cable too, seens almost incomprehensible now:

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv...
1) Investors and their money. It's much easier to get angel/vc money in a tech hub. Investors either are there already or frequently travel through the tech hub. For companies with investor money, investors generally prefer to be able to come into the office and see everything. Most of these investors are based near tech hubs.

2) Partnerships. If you're in a tech hub, it's easier to find companies to partner with, even by happenstance. It's also easier to sell yourself if your from SF, NYC, Boston than if you're from Boise, unfair as that is. Lastly, it's easier to convince a company to acquire you if they already have an office in that metropolitan area.

3) Talent Pool. This is really about two things: tech workers and seasoned execs. Generally speaking the talent pool is much higher in the tech hubs. The average engineer has been to multiple meetups, best practices have filtered down from the FAANG alumni into the general engineering population. Anecdotally, the people we turn down at my current job would have been "rockstars" at my previous jobs in CT and Westchester (the NYC suburbs). Execs are more likely to have been part of a high growth startup or at least have exposure to tech best practices or tech in general.

Outside of tech hubs, you're really committing to hiring junior engineers and training them, hiring consultants to fill key exec or management roles, hiring engineers from consultation companies (many of the hires that are willing to travel are international) and if you want truly great hires your going to be flying in a lot of candidates and many will still decide that they don't want to move anyway (they essentially need to decide to move away from their family, friends and work connections and rebuild that. It's a hard decision and many people back out late in the process)

A good technology analogy is that starting a company in a coastal tech hub, is like being able to use AWS cloud services. It can be cheaper to build your own data center, but being able to spin up server clusters at will and outsource database management, etc increases a company's velocity significantly. You can build a tech company outside of a tech hub (see ExactTarget), but it's harder to scale up past a certain size and exiting is much harder. Getting venture capital is harder and may be on worse terms. Finding good engineers in your stack nearby is more difficult (anecdotally it's a frequent occurrence to find companies using custom frameworks and/or best practices from 3-5 years ago, including the regional "success" stories)
All hail; the epitome of what it to be human.
Ask HN: How do you measure productivity?
Thanks makes sense it would be based on use case. Not sure who is petty enough to downvote my comment.
CSV would also defeat the entire point as the goal is the presentation and familiarity of Excel.

But if it's possible to export to a plain XLSX (looks and functions identically but all the data values are hardcoded) that'd be great.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin

> Martin is the songwriter with the third-most number-one singles on the chart, behind only Paul McCartney (32) and John Lennon (26). In addition, he has had the second most Hot 100 number-one singles as a producer (20), behind George Martin, who had achieved 23 by the time of his death.

Podcast where I heard about MM: http://www.switchedonpop.com/24-searching-for-max-martin/. If I remember correctly, they praise his lyrics as having a certain musicality to them, even if they're not always perfect English.
Am I the only one confused by this series of stories?

BitTorrent isn't a company, it's a protocol. Whatever happens in any private or public business anywhere in the world for years to come is going to have absolutely zero impact on the public's usage of the bittorrent protocol.

Why would you even have a business named BitTorrent? Would you name your business "E-Mail"?

It makes zero sense, it has zero importance, and for some reason it keeps making headlines? I'm calling shenanigans. Get your brooms. (SouthPark reference. :) )
It's funny because the situation you speak of with China is purely hypothetical while there are plenty (too many to count, really) modern day examples of the US military striking civilians all around the world.

But hey, at least America has the decency to agonise over it, right? Very civilised indeed.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_U.S._...
That wasn't my post.
The CEO of one of the companies I worked for hired without any consultation with technical folks. The company barely exists, and he is no longer the CEO.