skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I'm reading "considering how good Wine was getting" was because valve was paying devs to work on it.

Also, it's nice because basically they've given this all back to the open source community, so it doubly reinforces "freedom-from-MS", because you aren't actually shackled to Steam either.
Open Source voting is a great start. Transparent voting is better. Random auditing is a complete solution.
develop branch [0] is very active and the community is quite active and plentiful in real time on Gitter [1] (it's mostly friendly and helpful, so don't be shy).

[0] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/tree/develop

[1] https://gitter.im/syl20bnr/spacemacs
That's the joke XD
I'm sure there are places where housing is unaffordable, but that was also true in the 40s and 50s. The people in that time couldn't just live anywhere they felt like. They did have to move to specific places to find that housing that was affordable, just as is true today.

It's interesting how we are so quick to ignore the uncomfortable details about what home ownership in the 40s and 50s entailed, only focusing on the fact that it was possible, then thinking we can apply that to our ideal living situation in 2018.
This isn't what I'd call "the cure", though. This is the "privacy" equivalent of those bullshit cancer "cures" that prey on poorly informed or desperate people.
It's actually more because the Communist Party has invested a great deal of political capital in the idea of Taiwan being a rogue province that must be brought back into the fold. It is a source of national shame not just for the government, but for the public, due to years of propaganda.
Prosperity may have increased a lot for those at the top, but there's never been so many people living on freeway on-ramps until now. For the low end, it keeps getting worse-and-worse in the real world while academic happy-clappy about how "great" everything is. UBI or French Revolution 2.0, so far the majority of rich have chosen social upheaval, Holocene exinction and climate obliteration.
I think just as many people will get the message that they shouldn't tweet like this in the first place, if they want to avoid such drama. I think it will be evident to most people that Hickham is doing something extraordinary, not that this will be standard operating procedure moving forward.
And yet if you sign "I have read and understood these documents", how can you claim in court that you didn't?

BTW, I didn't have a lawyer review them. But they are not hard to understand. Probably a century of lawsuits have shaped their contents, and they are shaped by judgments against the authors of them when they are ambiguous or confusing. In fact, they're fairly standardized.

I've never had trouble with mortgage documents, but I have had trouble with car loans, repeatedly. The terms we verbally agreed on were altered in the final document, always significantly in the lender's favor. I always make them fix it, and they'll lie and say those were the terms we agreed, or those terms are their policy, or those changes are immaterial, or they don't have the time to fix the documents, all kinds of crap.

I.e. it's not that the documents are hard to understand, it's that they slip altered terms in them.
This is an interesting yet disturbing case of blackhat SEO and phishing, where the site owner hijacks the back button and sends visitors to fake sites where he can observe their behaviour.

FTA:

Here’s what I did:

1. User lands on my page (referrer: google)

2. When they hit “back” button in Chrome, JS sends them to my copy of SERP

3. Click on any competitor takes them to my mirror of competitor’s site (noindex)

4. Now I generate heatmaps, scrollmaps, records screen interactions and typing.
It's crazy efficient. When you walk in someone with a tablet takes your order, and by the time you get to the cash register your food is ready. Works so well because the employees are able to catch customers at the end of the line.
I'm unemployed.
I'm in a similar situation (small company, less than 50 employees, 4 engineers on the core system), but I feel fairly comfortable tackling it as I've done similar work in the past - basically rewriting from within. For me, key is dont throw it all away and try and start from scratch. Do the rewrite from within. Identify problem points and tackle them one at a time. Try not to get too ambitious. Try and keep the scope small. Doesnt always work, though. Thought I started a small scoped change a few months ago, ended up with a +600 file commit, the code was that tightly coupled.
I agree that some kind of disruption of this space would be great, to reward creatives.

...but practically how do you do it?

The parent comment is quite right, going from 'pay x' to 'pay y' is one thing... but from 'pay nothing' to 'pay anything' is a massive and difficult step.

You can't make it mandatory; theres a glut of stuff out there, and people will just move on to the next free (perhaps crappier, but free!) version.

'business innovations may help' is just a nice way of saying 'well darn, nothing we've tried in the last 10 years to fix this has worked... hm. Don't really have a solution for this, but it'd be great if someone figured one out!'

...which I totally agree with, sure, but its not really helpful or practical.

Seriously, nothing people have tried (tips, patreon, foundations) has worked very well.

No one is going to solve this problem any time soon.

Of you're an open source library author/maintainer, you've got to acknowledge you're not just magically get rewarded for your efforts; you have to work for it, and (probably, for most people) your attempts to monetize it will fail.

The same is true for all creatives.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17821253
I have a pretty personal beef with the idea that language can simply be contorted to supposedly mean whatever someone feels like it should mean, as heading down that road is basically abandoning meaning and communication altogether, and is wholly incoherent.
To add to this, it's really easy to add your experiences to the database.

If you get a game to work, take the time to head over and add your experience.
The headline is accurate and concise. Not just in the chronology, but the likely cause and effect. Note that Hickam may not himself have caused the firing, but someone at NASA likely saw the controversy (because people started dogpiling both Hickam and Naomi H and tagging @NASA) and made a decision based on it.
Good grief. We've banned this account.

Would you please not create accounts to break HN's rules with?
I must be lucky? but I never get any stamps. Then again I'm never asked more than a few basic questions.
Related https://vectorspace.ai/recommend/datasets and the periodic table of elements correlated to stocks https://www.kaggle.com/biomimic/periodic-table-of-elements-m...
Ask HN: What questions to ask to evaluate a tech lead?
I'm good at interviewing engineers, but what questions do I ask to determine how good someone is as a tech lead / people manager? For example:

"Tell me about a time when someone under you came to you with a problem they couldn't solve. How did you solve it?"

What other questions to ask, and what aspects of their work to probe?
Haha, it’s rare on HN that someone gets a joke right. Well done!

Edit: it was worth the downvotes, would do again.
This type of playstyle adjustment by Pain is just standard Dota strategy tbh. When your team is losing teamfights, you avoid teamfights unless you know you have an imminent advantage (terrain, towers, initiation, numbers, etc.). A big part of avoiding teamfights is splitting up and putting pressure on lanes so that the other team has to split up to defend their towers. If they are split up and defending their towers, they can't group up and force fights at objectives (Roshan, towers, w/e) that your team would have to group up to defend.

Not to take anything away from Pain--just making it to TI is
enough to prove that they're excellent Dota players.
It will never work. He's a man of the world, and her family are a bunch of cave dwellers.
What we should have instead is a cryptographically secure voting system where no one can prove how they voted but can verify that their vote was counted properly.

The trick is just to have people scan a QR code when they register, to make sure it’s one vote one person.
*Elo, not ELO :)
Wow, I cannot upvote you enough.

> The problem with what the EU is doing is that they aren't interested in applying a rigorous standard.

Yeah, this is what I and a lot of other people have a problem with these EU antitrust laws and even GDPR . In the google case, they literally had the android play clauses set from day 1 when they had 0% market share and instead of telling google that they could no longer bundle chrome/search to the play store now that they reached 50% market share in mobile OS (their magic antitrust metric), they waited 7 years and then threw a ridiculous fine at them. If the laws were clear, this wouldn't be a problem.
Can confirm, have tried to cook up a crow over the campfire for giggles, and it was not something I'll do again.
Part of knowing your vote was counted properly means knowing what votes were recorded for you.
What else matters when choosing a car hire?
Whether Denisivans and Neanderthals are different species is mostly just a matter of semantics. We have had a pretty good look at the DNA of each and it's clear that the two were evolving in isolation for hundreds of thousands of years resulting in genetically distinct populations. The difference between Denisovans and Neanderthals is about half the difference between humans and either.

It's not at all unusual for two different species to be able to interbreed. Lions and tigers for instance or horses and donkeys. Mules, the offspring of horses and donkeys are sterile, though, so the two populations can't mix. Ligoers, the offspring of a male lion and female tigers, aren't entirely sterile but have very low fertility. With humans and neanderthals there are portions of the Neanderthal genome related to reproduction that were very heavily selected against in a way which seems to indicate that male hybrids at least had moderate fertility problems until those genes were removed. So it's not black and white at all. We have zero evidence for any reduction in fertility between Neanderthals and Denisovans since we have very few examples of hybrid offspring and this sort of analysis needs lots of data - so who knows.
Modern web browsers have already solved all these problems.
I'm curious how likely it is that driving sequence (on real roads, not the track) from the Bloomberg video is as real as it looks. If so, is that impressive? It certainly looks more advanced than other demos that have come out, but it's unclear what they didn't include in the video.
Yes we do have the DNA of Denisovans and Neanderthals (extracted from bones), but more importantly we have the living descendants of both (Eurasians in the case of Neanderthals and Melanesian/Australian Aborigines in the case of Denisovans).

The issue if Denisovans and Neanderthals are different species to sub-Saharan Africans is complex (nothing in biology is simple). Looking at the gene flow into existing populations it appears all Neanderthal and Denisovan genes came in via the male side. This suggests that the offspring were subject to Haldane’s rule [0], which is a strong marker for interspecies not intraspecies hybridization.

More importantly, the three homo populations fit all the criteria for being different species that apply to the rest of the animal kingdom (i.e. genetically isolation and genetic adaptation to different environments).

We should not forget that different does not mean inferior. Lions and tigers are different species of the genus Panthera, can they interbreed (Liger) and are subject to Haldane’s rule. Despite this one is not a better cat than the other.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haldane%27s_rule
I hope that as part of the design, it will also [optionally] enforce some form of voter identification (passport, drivers license, passport card, or even a credit card with a chip or apple pay for all I care).

I suspect above might be unpopular idea. Especially since obvious downside is that if poorly implemented (or exploited) it could allow establishing who voted what and in any case allow establishing who did and didn't vote. And no, I don't think voter fraud is widespread, or has had any impact of consequence to overall results. But in this age and day, I think we should have a system where a registered voter is first identified by the system before presenting them with the ballot. This way, assuming systems were interlinked, one could vote anywhere in the country, and be given the right ballot for where you live.

And then the obvious next step would be allowing voting via browser. One vote for one registered ID. If system thinks your ID has already voted, have an escalation mechanism to re-cast the vote and investigate.
It's a trust, not a monopoly. Antitrust law should apply.
What makes you think the 30% cut is to pay for the bandwidth of the file transfer?

The entire platform the app runs on was created by Apple. The hardware, the OS, the programming language, the SDKs.

Thousands of APIs used to build the apps, maybe a million pages of documentation on those APIs.

All the toolchain to develop, build, test, and deploy apps for purchase in hundreds of countries including customer profiles, billing, and support.

Billions of dollars of iCloud infrastructure for backend services to support everything from push notifications, data sync, backup, automatic updates, etc.

Then you get into the actual app store and you have all the work that went into the UX there for discovering, installing, buying and reviewing apps. In-app purchases and subscription services to support different business models. Family sharing, parental controls, parental approval requirements for kids’ phones.

I could go on for hours and probably still miss huge swaths of functionality that Apple invested millions of dollars into, just so that you could pull up chair and with a few lines of code start writing an app that can reach billions of devices.

Not to mention all the marketing and training and support Apple does to prime their customers to be big users of the App Store.

Yeah, and the bandwidth to download the app as well.

Personally I think 30% is a steal for what you get in return.

Oh, and I’ll just add one more thing; you can distribute your app for free and you pay Apple nothing (or nearly nothing) for the benefit of all their hard work and infrastructure and support.
I don't think it's Singapore specifically, seems like all flights incoming to the US always have to pass through some sort of secondary security. For example, MUC->DUS->JFK required additional security when boarding the JFK bound plane (and it was additional even for those entering the airport at DUS).

JFK->SIN though we could get off and didn't have to worry about any security or immigration.
Might do, might not. Either way, we need to plan for it.
No major issue requires a signature since April. Some places still ask for one because there was no real need to update software over it.
Salon, Slate, and a History of the Tricky Business of Publishing Online
You should read The first 3 chapters of Martin Folwer’s Book on Refactoring. Also, if you have a product owner work with that person so they understand the situation. If you have a lead the week their guidance. Lastly, learn from the last person’s mistake and document the code so you can move to the next project. Likely that part of the code is a mess too...
From Apple's App Store Review Guidelines:[0]

> 2.5.14 Apps must request explicit user consent and provide a clear visual indication when recording, logging, or otherwise making a record of user activity. This includes any use of the device camera, microphone, or other user inputs.

So did Onavo "provide a clear visual indication" whenever collecting data? Somehow I doubt that, because it would have been a constant warning.

0) https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
Valued at 3.2B USD, by investors who have just fired him...

It's a sign of how crazy things are when 300M USD can be considered a small amount of money to spend on technology development (particularly for a product that doesn't actually require anything inherently very-very expensive, aside from staffing costs).
> Pursuit of it, however, has killed more people than war in the 20th century.

How so?
Your link is broken - I think it's because their TLS configuration doesn't support the non-www hostname. This link works though:

https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/
Random person inserts themselves into the conversation trying to be a moral compass - Good intentions, but not ok.

He was not trying to be a moral compass and he was not some random person. He is on the National Space Council that oversees NASA. He recognized the fact that NASA wouldn't want it's name associated with such language, especially when used by a new hire. He was trying to politely give her the heads up. That's it.

If you publicly announce you work for such, then you need to be aware that you are now representing them in some sense.

What she did was both obnoxious and stupid. I don't really think she deserves Mr. Hickman's kindness here, though his actions have impressed me and I've now followed him on Twitter.

I'm also thinking I need to try harder to swear less online. Cuz (reasons). Though I already make some effort to clean up my language and I cannot imagine cussing someone out in the manner that happened here.
Positional key layout only matters pedagogically. I type dvorak and use emacs + evil (vim keybindings). To maintain the positional correspondence I'd have to swap bindings around and make my setup even weirder, so I just learned j=down, k=up, etc. Muscle memory doesn't care about rhyme or reason.
I think it’s a decent proxy, since evolutionary/reproductive success is the only motive we can attach to every organism.
> not saying it’s a good user experience

Why do you think that is?
When we first identify partners or clients, the interview is not unlike a job interview, but one where both parties are the applicant and interviewer. I cannot count the times when someone from the other side tells me about best practices in coding, CI, covering tests and version management, after which, on inspection of their codebases, they actually do none of these things. The guy at the meeting stage was a higher up tech manager/C(TI)O usually who read all the books and articles but the team is not following those same practices because of various reasons (usually intense time pressure).

We now have to demand to see the codebases we are going to work with/against first. Even if we only touch the API in some cases; if the API is built on quicksand then we risk spending a lot of time building something that is not viable but that might not be immediately clear.
6% profit after paying the salaries of everyone involved in manufacturing, marketing, and administration, including retailer profit, is quite a lot.
As a system matures it is easy to see common code and abstractions. Don't blame the previous guy.

Don't be tempted to start a new shiny clean system. This almost never works (unless in demise cases) and you'll be playing catch up with features on the original system for the next 10 years.

As others have said. You have to write tests, this will cover your back and you'll understand the codebase back to front once you have -
Testing/Interfaces/Simplify/Naming.

Remember, all the business logic is there. At least you don't have to do the hard part... this is a cleanup operation.
We wrote almost exactly the same thing :)

One nitpick it is not male hybrids that had reduced fertility, but following Haldane’s rule it was the male SSA (sub-saharan african) and Denisovan/Neanderthal female offspring that were infertile - the other way around were fertile or else there would be no descendants of the Denisovans and Neanderthals living today.
Ark Invest Letter to Elon Musk
> had more heros this time around

They had a fixed draft from the above pool with 1 new hero:

Crystal Maiden, Death Prophet, Tidehunter, Gyrocopter and Lich

vs

Lion, Necrophos, Sniper, Witch Doctor and Axe (the new one).
Bootstrapped Tuft and Needle Acquired by Serta Simmons in $200M Deal
Life expectancy declines seen in U.S. and other high-income countries
You're also forgetting that most of the popular formats just store the bases as 1-byte per base "GATC"= 4 bytes, when 2 bits per base would be fine if your data only has the 4 unambiguous bases. You could fairly trivially drop the storage of most of these formats by just encoding as 2 bits per base.

Another weird thing is that not all possible k-mers appear in DNA and k-mers of most lengths will repeat somewhere at least once. It would probably be best to just pick some useful k-mer length and build a lookup table and just store the byte-encoded indexes that map to the kmers then just gzip that whole mess. You might be able to save more space if it turns out that the indexes turn out to be reusable across genomes and just leave them out of the file.

It may also depend on your application, if all you want to know is "does k-mer==GATTACA" exist in my genome, you can just dump all the kmers into some persistent bloom filter and do searches and lookups really fast. Those would be quite small compared.
Reminds me of the concept of a stone mason's folly. I built one in the desert with dry stone masonry and two bbq pits. Fun project.
Wow, I really like some of those. I'm surprised that I've never even heard of that company.

There are more pictures available at the source:
http://www.siteenvirodesign.com/content/best-products
Even if this is true, pain is one of the unpredictable teams that can take a game off anyone. They went 3-1 against Liquid at the Birmingham Major.

Actually, "weaker" (top 20) teams regularly do take games off better teams so I don't think there's much evidence for an exponential skill increase between teams.
> > ...more people feared The Affordable Care Act than the threat of nuclear war.

> Every single day my belief that people are amazingly stupid is reinforced.

Really?

ACA: Has definite impact on daily lives. Every US resident has had to make at least one decision about their health care in the years since it took effect that was directly affected by the ACA.

Nuclear war: No impact on daily life. US-developed ICBM defenses are critically upsetting the balance of Mutually Assured Destruction, but almost nobody is aware of that. Individual decisions are completely unaffected by nuclear weapons or defenses against them.

Given that reality, it seems perfectly expected and rational that more people will feel threatened by the ACA than nuclear war.
The weight, not the price.
I use my NUC without HDMI plugged in, and I assume Chick-fil-A does as well. ;)

They do actually make a dual NIC NUC, but it's a little overkill for most uses: https://www.amazon.com/Intel-Machine-NUC8i7HVK-Radeon-Graphi...

On the other hand, my NUC has plenty of USB 3 ports, and an Ethernet dongle will run you about $7.
Your Plain English Guide to Gartner Magic Quadrants
Almost every company uses tactics like these. And for good reason. Most factors that actually matters in hiring (GPA, college you got the degree from, caliber of your prior companies and work experience, interview performance, general intellectual & problem solving skills) are all banned from consideration when explaining why you didn't hire a local. And once you water down the job-requirements to exclude all of the above, if even one "qualified" person applies to that job, you're hosed. Dysfunctional laws invite creative workarounds.