skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we’d ever had somebody crippled by interview stage freight, I make be able to take that seriously. The coding skills you need to pass our test is writing a for loop that mutates a dict. We’ve never had anybody forget how to do that in our interview, but we have had people come up with remarkably inefficient solutions to the problem.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to say that people’s problem solving skills (which is what we’re actually testing) become exponentially less efficient during an interview. But even if it was, the test is still doing it’s job, because what would we expect to happen when we give a person like that a deadline, or ask them to review a PR?
For the First Time in 50 Years an Astronaut Candidate Has Resigned
If by outsourcing PCI compliance entirely, they mean "ensure you don't store cardholder data by tokenizing it and we store the real stuff" this is very much not a new solution, so I'd struggle a bit to see the value of a new entrant.

There's already quite a few payment gateways where an e-commerce site can iFrame the payment page (or similar) to ensure that they never see the real cardholder data.

(the fact that this shouldn't really make them out-of-scope for PCI is a different problem)
Using similar logic, you could argue all countries need to get with the program and speak English.

Or use US dollars.

Or (yikes) Microsoft Windows.

America’s quaint and annoying reliance on feet, inches, miles, and pounds is culturally important, even if it makes engineering a pain.
In my region of south eastern Canada the summers seem to be hotter and seem to be lasting longer. Today for example 27C and 80% humidity. Normally 15C to 20C and low humidity would be normal this time of year.

With the cost of fuel oil (common here) many people have installed supplemental heating in the form of heat pumps. The side benefit is they also have cooling capabilities.

My point, the local power company said in a news release power use during the summer took a big jump. But even with all the A/C units in use power use is still 20% lower than in winter, heating uses much more energy (and many people also supplement with wood).
The article says that scientists fear that trade tensions will worsen the problem, not that the problem sprang up out of the ether a couple of months ago.
Did you know that most Google ads have a button you can click in order to tell Google that you don't want to see the ad again. Even advertising videos on YouTube have this option. You can tell them when an advert is not relevant or you've seen it too many times. Oddly Google doesn't publicise this much even though its probably a feature which improves their profitability.
"Criminals are always looking for the next tech that gives them an edge and know immediately when the police can exploit it."

Some, but the vast majority of criminals do not put that much effort into their crimes, and among those that do, most wind up botching things. When criminals gravitate toward a system law enforcement agencies have trouble with it is more survival of the fittest than active planning.

Law enforcement fought to keep stingrays a secret for two reasons: pressure from the manufacturer, and a desire to avoid public scrutiny (which is likely the reason the manufacturer pressured them to keep it secret). The police would greatly prefer that the general public not spend too much time thinking about stingrays to avoid the risk of a stricter warrant process being required. It is also helpful if judges and defense lawyers are not familiar with the device and do not know what questions to ask.
How I Start: Clojure
By that logic, then currently, if you want cool generics abilities, there is Java for you. No need for Go.

But then there's this spec for generics, so obviously one wants to develop Go further. And I think it's a valid question why generics in particular is chosen instead of other ways of solving the same problem.
It also would need to be salted
TimescaleDB can’t do distributes joins like CrateDB as described in this post.
You should fit your service in a single AWS Lambda function
Thus my point: until bug bounties are calculated to approach or exceed the black or grey-market value of exploits, they can't strongly push people towards ethical behavior.

Right now bug bounties seem mainly to serve as a way for skiddies in the third world with burp to make for-them-bank on trivial XSS vulns and for serious professionals to make a little extra money. And, y'know, to serve the PR purpose of being able to say you have a bug bounty program.
Be sure to look into cob and strawbale construction. Quite a bit hippy, but also a better process for the first time owner-builder.

There's a book called The Hand-Sculpted House. Also Google "cob house" and "strawbale house".
You are right, I was searching for words and couldn't find the right one.
Same here. The two interviewees really did a good job and the whole story conveys Dutch biking lifestyle really well. One note: they did pave over some canals in Utrecht back in the day, but they are being opened up again as we speak.
From the linked page:

"largest effect is in southern California, where the urban heat islands blur together to form an “urban heat archipelago” with average temperatures up to 19° F higher in the Riverside-San Bernardino region at the eastern end of the basin."

If it is really 19° F higher in Riverside due to urbanization(hard to believe that really), I can see why correcting historical temps for urban heat island effects is so necessary. How to do that accurately must be fiendishly difficult.
I think this is pretty common. If you get a hospital bill and the insurance already paid a lot, call up the hospital and complain, and it will often be lowered. This happened to me once, a $15k bill was reduced to $3k. The insurance had already paid $50k or so. Hospitals don't really seem to care about the extra portion the patient is supposed to pay. The try to get it, but don't make much fuss when you challenge it, since they already got what they really wanted, the insurance company's money.
No, you had it right. You need to cool the freezer because you put it in the store. The more you heat the store (and the freezer is heating the store), the more you need to cool the freezer.
I believe in countries/cities like these its safer to not use a helmet. Drivers see that your being unsafe and give you much more room and are more aware of you. Less accidents and less deaths in total by not wearing a helmet!

I couldn't find the study that was posted on hn, but there are lots of articles.
I imagine the police would use their radios to call for help, if there are not already paramedics standing by.
So what? If you don't like how the algorithm sorts search results then use one of the many competitors. If you think the competition is inferior then you're by definition saying that the google algorithm is preferable to the competition despite whatever political bias you see in the results.
One reason they do it that way is that if you don't pay for screenings and small problems, people tend to skip going to the doctor for them, and you end up paying for more big, expensive problems.
Thank you for sharing.

I agree, this is a rotten system.
Thanks! It's going to get a little more abstract in v6 (but only where the abstractions carry their weight).
Very select cities are pretty good for biking. Boulder CO, for instance is pretty great b/c most people there bike. But yeah for a lot of places it's a nightmare.

Also our metro areas tend to spread out quite a bit, so to get from one area to another typically involves biking >5 miles.
If a construction technique is unusual in a particular area, it's usually unusual for a good reason - cost or impracticality or both. For example, in Minneapolis where I live, every house has a basement; they're required by code. The reason is deep frost cycles in the winter. But in Houston, nobody has a basement. It'd just be flooded all the time, and there's no freeze cycle to worry about.

Standard house construction in any given area is a product of what works well and what is reasonably inexpensive. You can see this by era, too. Like my neighborhood is almost all 100 year old bungalows on basically the same floor plan. They were state of the art in 1913, dependent on the new technology of manufactured nails for their cheap 2x4 balloon frames, and stucco for the sturdy weatherproof exteriors. But they're also designed for hand tools and, um, inaccurate measurements. No reason to build that way in an era of power tools and prefab.
I keep empty bread bags for my pack lunches. It saves having to buy sandwich bags.
Even better if the bag is greaseproof paper

Keep butter wrappers in the fridge and use them to grease oven trays for baking.

WD40 to clean audio jacks with a Q-tip
> The article points out the issue with AC isn't energy/CO2, it's refrigerants.

Well, it's both.

There is great potential in so-called "natural refrigerants", primarily CO2, ammonia, propane, butane. They can be ~as efficient as the various F gases, without leaving nasty chemicals in the environment, and have pretty low GWP's (CO2 equivalent).
Sometimes it feels like there's a secret competition to see who can author the next infamous "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."-style comment.
Assuming the caller uses check as well it will continue on. Seems the same as checked exceptions to me.
TIPS is like buying fire insurance from an arsonist.
It wasn’t always this way.

There’s an interesting clip from a documentary in 1972 about the neighborhood De Pijp in Amsterdam, when it was still very much a car-centric city. At the time children in the area protested how dangerous the streets had become and how they lacked safe areas to play.

https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/amsterdam-chil...

Compared to the situation now, it’s vastly improved. Fortunately the car did not win and the city did not destroy itself with a highway through the middle.

Edit

Here’s another (recent) documentary you might find interesting:

https://vimeo.com/123480693
I think it’s because of the cool name
> But it doesn't mean you get to harass people, send death threats, post people's private information (doxxing), and spread nude photos that were never supposed to be released.

That is accurate and there are legal remedies for that.
For instance, Kurt Eichenwald, a person on the receiving end of most of the activities you mentioned, collected the evidence and used the justice system to secure a Grand Jury indictment against his harasser [1], [2]

Here is the abridged transcript of the indictment:

> CRIMINAL COMPLAINT I,

> On or about December 15, 2016, in the Dallas Division of the Northern District of Texas and elsewhere, defendant John Rayne Rivello, with the intent to kill, injure, harass, and intimidate, did knowingly and intentionally use an interactive computer service and an electronic communication service to engage in a course of conduct that placed a person in reasonable fear of the death of and serious bodily injury to that person and caused, attempted to cause, and would be reasonably expected to cause substantial emotional distress to that person;

> in that Rivello posed as Twitter user Ari Goldstein and used his Twitter account @jew _goldstein to post an animated Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) on the victim's Twitter feed, knowing that the victim was an epileptic and knowing that the animated GIF was a strobe bearing the message "YOU DESERVE A SEIZURE FOR YOUR POSTS."

And here is the central point

> In violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(2)(A) and (B), and 18 U .S.C. § 226l(b)(3). This criminal complaint is based on the facts set out in the attached affidavit.

Most of the activities you describe, online or whatnot, are already in the US Code as actual crimes. I do not believe private companies should take over the role of the government in policing speech through prior restraint simply out of the possibility of potential criminal activities. It creates a chilling effect on legitimate speech and a dangerous precedent of private companies (potentially in collusion with the government) being in position to stifle speech.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kurt-eichenwald-case-te...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/949676/downlo... (pdf)
For a broad definition of generative art, computer games. These are wildly popular I hear.
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> - Things seem simple from the outside, before you do them for the first time. They are in actuality quite complicated. Even something as straightforward as painting a wall will be hard when you are doing it for the first time. You will make mistakes if you do it yourself. Try to do it yourself only in areas where you can tolerate such mistakes.

I'm not a home-builder but I am a home-owner. Let me add that any work you do yourself the flaws will be about 10 times as noticeable and annoying to you as if you'd hired someone to do the work and it had the exact same flaws.
I have not, so this information may be outdated.
Trivially disproven by UK's health care system, which consistently ranks #1 in the world by outcomes and employs price caps for health care suppliers.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/press-release/2017/new-11-c...

> Mandating supplies must be available at-cost to consumers is just a stupid cost-shifting game.

That's not what I suggested in my post at all.

Also, if it reduces costs for the end consumer, what's the harm? Why should consumers subsidize hospitals with cutthroat billing departments who make up numbers out of thin air?
Though the authors have clarified that the "2" in "Go 2" is just for marketing purposes, and that the actual release would still be "Go 1.x", and shouldn't break any existing code (so it won't restructure the stdlib in any major way, unless they want to do a huge mass-deprecation).
>By that logic, then currently, if you want cool generics abilities, there is Java for you. No need for Go.

Java has one of the least good generics implementations of modern languages. I suggest C#, or even better, F# if you want to make heavy use of them =)

Generics compared to templates keep the language simpler, solve the most common cases of code repetition, and can easily provide good error messages and runtime performance.
"listing every conceivable illness and injury"

No. Just the ones that are true emergencies where you won't have time to do any shopping around ahead of time. Why is this such a hard concept? Think of all the times you've seen a doctor in your life. How many of those were super time critical? Big accidents and heart attacks are. Having a cold or flu isn't. Heck, even cancer isn't super time critical, you could take a few days to shop around treatment centers. Shopping around for most medical care shouldn't be that weird of a concept.

Another option would be to only have insurance for those critical time sensitive events, then you don't have to be super price sensitive for those, and the free market could drive down prices of all the other medical care we get.
I'm thinking the point was to make the OP think about this question, not to given an answer to the comment.
> Someone needs to pay for it

Or you could pay less for it.

There are many studies that show how the US system has incredibly high overhead that simply isn't needed.

Just an example: in the US, a primary care physician usually has a nurse and somebody who handles paperwork, insurance BS, and what not. Most European countries simply don't have this, mostly because there is no insurance BS to deal with.

There is insurance related overhead every step of the way.

And that's not including the free-for-all pricing of $500 saline bags.

Your 20% tax increase is ridiculous. It doesn't have to be nearly that high (and it isn't.) And even though I'm in the highest tax bracket, I'd gladly pay 5% more if it meant quality medical care for everyone without any risk of bankruptcy.
> inflation risk

This is somewhat mitigated by TIPS.

> interest rate risk

At least personally, I'm reading article as an alternative for a subportion of my portfolio, where the options are basically CD ladders and savings accounts. Which have roughly the same interest rate risk as bonds of equal duration. The more interesting question from this perspective is comparing interest rate risk versus the premium you're earning. Ally savings' APR is at like 1.8, their 'no penalty' CDs are at 1.9, and 1 year treasuries are at 2.5. How far would rates have to go up before the risk outweighs reward, etc.
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Why isn't the problem that Google has a monopoly on search?

IF (a big IF) Google was actually biased, you could go to their competitor. But if there's no other real competitor then IMO the solution isn't to regulate Google, but to fix root cause problems which led to there only being one company controlling all search (AKA breaking up monopolies)
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> I wonder why the industry isn't reconsidering

For some depressing reading, see https://theintercept.com/2018/08/25/chemours-epa-coolant-ref...
True. But like I said, there's not a lot to burn... just furniture and the kitchen cabinets. Everything else is concrete and metal.

Of course, if there's a forest fire, you don't want to be on the mountain regardless.
I don't think there is any lack of clarity about your List example; that is clearly forbidden. The example that is less clear is the one that generates a million types and then stops.

A similar issue arises in C++; the C++ standard says that there is an implementation defined limit on the total depth of recursive instantiations. Perhaps Go should do something similar.
This is a much discussed subject in the electronics community. I just love soldermask too much. Not only is there potential for colors and art and a bunch of other aesthetic reasons, but the improvement of my soldering makes it all worth it. Cheap PCB fabs from China do default 24 hour turns + 3 days of delivery from DHL...so yeah, I just do that.

If you're set on doing them in house and aren't budget constrained, I usually recommend an Othermill (Bantam) or a Nomad 883 or a Roland (all of which will easily get you above $2K). If you're cost constrained, I'd stick to etching boards using the toner transfer method.

But fast, easy, clean (and cheap)? Order them from a PCB house. If that's not of interest, I suggest you get very specific with your budget.
You have to do that yourself—this is only the editor component. There's things like https://icecoder.net/ that provide a more web-ide like thing on top of CodeMirror, but I don't know them intimately so I don't know which one to recommend.
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Five and ten year US bonds have had lost less value than the three year bond in the past 8 months, so that doesn't seem sufficient to explain it (i.e. it makes the difference worse).

That said, I was very loose in my calculations. Without exact knowledge of their holdings and careful calculations, I'm not surprised that the numbers don't fully add up.
I saw that comment when it was first posted on Slashdot all those years ago. The original iPod was overpriced and it only worked on Macs with FireWire. It really didn't take off until they had a USB model working on Windows at a more reasonable price.
Whether they actually violate visa laws really depends on particular circumstances. Getting paid Ukrainian salaries actually makes it more likely that what they're doing is completely fine from USCIS point of view. Employees of multinationals such as Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Intel etc. who live and work outside of the US routinely travel to US on B2 visa for various work purposes. It really depends on how long you are planning to stay, what exactly you are planning to do, etc.
Are you guys internally talking about bid caching/etc? Curious if its on your radar/in discussion or just a non-point.
It seems to me the assumption that energy consumption per person has peaked at the current European level and not increase in 100 years wildly false. Compelling new uses for energy will be found and other cultures are less likely, I think, to restrict personal energy consumption as much as Europe does currently.
There is an interesting fork of OpenLDAP called ReOpenLDAP - https://github.com/leo-yuriev/ReOpenLDAP
When you grow up with it, it's not so bad. Celsius may be easier to work with but it takes longer for me to grok "15C" or "27C" ...

If anything, you have less granularity with celsius, as each degree of temperature represents a wider range of values.
I think it's 100% ok for a big utility library like boost or std to have complicated internals to support a variety of use cases. The go standard library likewise is big and complicated (although perhaps not quite as). My main concern is that user code can be written simply. And to be clear, I'm not holding up C++ as an example of a great language. In fact, I'm kind of looking at it as a worst-case scenario. I'm only saying that most C++ programs I've been exposed to are relatively free of creeping genericity.
> That's not geography, that's urban planning, or a lack of it.

You're basically right, but it's land use regulation. We have plenty of 'planning' in the US, and it mostly keeps in place what's already there. If you look at the places built in the US before zoning codes and 'planning', a lot of them are actually quite nice because they were built more to adapt than things these days, which are "built to a finished state" to borrow a phrase from the folks at Strong Towns.
Like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17861667
I wonder if the fact they didn't have a significant car industry helped with this.
I agree because unfortunately scientists do not know very much yet.

I like the talks by Lisa Feldman Barrett although it might seem to contradict what I wrote.

https://how-emotions-are-made.com/notes/Barb_Finlay_on_the_t...

https://how-emotions-are-made.com/notes/Triune_brain_myth

https://how-emotions-are-made.com/notes/Criticisms_of_the_li...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WFPBey02b0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gks6ceq4eQ