skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an example, there were technically 4 basic programming classes and a few trade focused ones like A+ certification, web design. Catch is, almost all never had enough people to be offered so when I convinced the requisite 8 people to join (3 later dropped the class after the first week), it became a very "plan and you your own thing".

Compare this to what the elite private coastal schools have, nothing would have been better. Those schools good CS students out of top master's programs with a penchant for teaching. It's no surprise that IOI champions come from these places.
I absolutely didn't mean to single out solo entrepreneurs here - the comment I was replying to talked about solo etnrepreneurs starting thousands of businesses, I was just making the point that most of these are not "startups" the way I think of them (as per the rest of the discussion).

I may have given the mistaken impression that I was bumping on the solo founders bit, but that has nothing to do with it - I just reused the phrase.
I'm not going to wear a dorky-looking yellow vest even if it does make me safer, but it is very useful to assume that I am always effectively invisible. If you expect that drivers will constantly cut you off, pull out in front of you, and even merge directly into your lane, motorcycles are nimble enough that you can generally see the problem coming and react in time to avoid catastrophe when it inevitably happens.
Good overview video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O7blSSzpI
Since the key doesn't have wifi or anything, how can the private key flow back to China? (This is a serious question - is there enough wiggle room in the U2F protocol to allow the device to reveal the private key to a Chinese website, if they can trick you into visiting it, or something?)
This was very uplifting. Thank you.
Well, I took the bait. Time to go through an unsorted vs sorted array on an iMac17,1 with 4Ghz Core i7 (not sure which CPU exactly).:

* 1MB: 6.52ms vs 2.16ms (3x speedup)

* 1GB: 5.73s vs 2.25s (2.5x speedup)

Tested with this C code, called as "bpredict-time [size] [sort]":

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

#define SIZE (1024*1024)

int cmp (const void *val1,
const void *val2)
{
return *(uint8_t*)val1-*(uint8_t*)val2;
}

int
main (int argc,
char **argv)
{
uint8_t *array;
size_t size = SIZE;
struct timeval start, end;

if (argc > 1) {
size = atoi(argv[1]);
}

array = malloc(sizeof(*array) * size);
if (array == NULL) { return -1;}

for (size_t i=0; i<size; i++) {
array[i] = random();
}

if (argc > 2) {
qsort(array, size, sizeof(*array), cmp);
}

(void)gettimeofday(&start, NULL);
int cnt = 0;
for (size_t i=0; i<size; i++) {
if (array[i] < 128) { cnt++;}
}
(void)gettimeofday(&end, NULL);

printf("N ints < 128: %d\n", cnt);
printf("Time: %f\n", (float)(end.tv_sec-start.tv_sec)\
+(float)(end.tv_usec-start.tv_usec)/1000000);
free(array);

return 0;
}
A Rust pattern: iterating over an Rc&lt;Vec&lt;T
>I strongly concur with the sentiment laid out: never, ever, ever accept a marketing job offer where the yardstick is delivering the moon and more every Friday like clockwork.

"Hiring a growthhacker" is just code for "we don't have the money for a marketing department or even an agency so we want you to do everything yourself and find magic solutions to why our product isn't taking off and we really hope you have a friend who works at Techcrunch or we're all going to think you were bad at your job."
Why the Tiny Weight of Empty Space Is Such a Huge Mystery
Well the obvious example is anything related to VC fundraising. Almost all startups (as per Steve Blank / pg) will at some point require venture capital. Most other businesses have no way of raising venture capital, instead having to to rely on other means of fundraising, like a bank loan.

Other things are more domain-specific - I know lots of lessons in my own field (professional services), some of which apply equally to startups, some of which don't at all.
I took DiffEq as an EE undergrad and, to my surprise, aced the course. For some reason, the concepts just resonated with me unlike other math courses where I had to work to gain an understanding of the material. A few years later, after graduating, I was taking courses leading to an MSEE and Partial DiffEq was offered as an option that I took. Thinking it was going to be similar to regular DE, I was soon in way over my head. Totally different material and concepts. I did end up passing the course but I can honestly state that I don't think I deserved it.
Reminds me of "embrace extend extinguish" except google skipped the "do as you're told part"
Usb-a (or -c), and NFC will be available. Price for NFC should be around $30-35, to be confirmed. Plus various Kickstarter discount.

We won't have bluetooth, at least in the first iteration. The chip we chose is pin-compatible with another one with BLE, so it's not excluded in the future.

Honestly, I really hope Apple will announce a more open NFC next week.
Mobile spyware maker leaks 2M records
Lots of people are moving to Instagram because it's new and quicker/easier to digest.

But I see Instagram going the same way as Facebook. Eventually it will not be "fun to share when mom, your aunt, your employer, your future employers, law enforcement, the TSA, the NSA and foreign governments are going to read it." As another has said.

I abandoned Facebook because the connections I have that are active only use it to post baby photos or political content. To me political content is the worst because it is mostly whining and people feel like if they whine on social media they are being heard and therefore validated. Not to mention the postings of 20 pages op-ed pieces they clearly didn't read. And then one of their random acquaintances decides to disagree and then someone else feels compelled to "set them straight" and then its like 100 comments of bickering. Dude fuck that...

I especially despise the people who use "Instagram Stories" for political content because they basically trick you into giving your entire phone to them for 1-2 seconds for their political message. Yea no thanks. Unfriend...
Lol, I laugh because I am going through a phase like you. Idk if this is any solace, but many in this industry go through something similar to your phase. Best advice I can give you is network internally if your company is large enough, talk to your manager and voice your frustration in a professional manner, or lastly spruce up the resume and look else where
If you work for Google, could you please quit.
The advantage that the EU has in this situation is that it's better able to "negotiate" as a bloc of 450M people, than (to use the upstream example) eg. Malta, with 440,000 people.

If individual countries want to require a local content quota, Netflix/Amazon/etc will simply cut them off. When it's a massive market, that's vastly less likely.

Giving individual countries an opt-out from the EU-wide rules just provides an opportunity to divide and conquer.

Australia has similar content quotas for broadcast television, but hasn't tried to apply them to streaming services yet. Of course, for 25M people, our leverage is substantially less.
Yeah, outliers. The rest of the US where costs of living are radically lower 120k is a reasonable expectation. It's actually a bit lower for subsets of those skills here in Columbus,OH. Mostly with large corps like Chase, Cardinal Health etc.

But you only have a 1400$ mortgage for a three bedroom home here so it's all relative.
Thanks for the link! I am in EU.
I think it's saturated. Lean goes best with the easy to execute ideas--where a viable product is possible in days or months.
Take an animation software program designed for professional artists: it's not possible with only a few features, because it wouldn't be competitive with existing products. You need such a large array of polished features to have any staying power. Let's also say you want to make a product with better core functionality which can't be done with 3rd party add-ons or working with existing software.
There's still a lot of opportunity for people willing to work on something for several years before releasing, as long as they aren't taking gambles with their primary value proposition. (Would hate to be wrong after spending that much time)
There are still untapped niches where lean works, though, I bet, if that's your calling.
My backup, if I'm making a product that people don't use, is to be my own customer, and open an animation shop which uses the software to make animations to sell to people. So if you're not going lean, go for a product you will use (and obviously a product that is useable by only one person[not a social network]) to make money, if people don't buy the product itself.
(Ie, if you're making software that makes it easier to host websites, make sure it's software that you would personally use in the case that you can't sell the software, but can still sell the hosting)
New York Times Publishes Anonymous Op-Ed by Trump White House Official
I will second this. I'm currently in my second year volunteering and I absolutely love it. I get to help with both the CSP (intro) and CSA (Java-based) classes. Last year I went just two days a week but this year I'm going three. Honestly, if it wouldn't be such a pay cut I would seriously consider quitting my current job and get into teaching full time. (I know money isn't everything but still).

TEALS is great because it realises that unfamiliar teachers being thrown into teaching CS probably won't turn out well for anyone. But having 'real' engineers from industry in the classroom to help teach and explain things is an invaluable resource. Plus, I've been able to get to know some of the students really well and talk to them about their college plans and beyond. I was a little nervous when I first started but it's been one of the best experiences of my life.
Taking machine thinking out of the black box
If we're considering doomsday scenarios here, the answer to your question lies in the traditional tactics of tyrants.

Hypothetically, Zuckerberg is going to have family members of the people guarding him locked away somewhere as hostages with other people set to guard them with the original guards kept out of direct communication with anyone but Zuckerberg or his trusted lieutenants. Cousin Eddie isn't going to take over when it means Cousin Franny gets to live less than or equal to how long Zuck lives.

Horrible? yes. Rational? Also yes.

EDIT: Remember this is a hypothetical. I'm not saying anything about Zuck's character or motivations here.
Not sure getting an M.Sc. will help, except put you in more debt.
Typical WordPress Developer Shopping for Plugins
Gusto is excellent these days. There are a few other entrants that I'm not terribly familiar with; the market opened up a lot around 2012 or so.
And you can't use BLE with your laptop
I'm wondering, can you set up those sorts of trusts for adults who have not been deemed incapable of handling finances?
Chinese whispers.
Yawn, words mean things in context... yada yada.

That said, the details about old school punch card sorting is pretty neat.
JS is OOP, although does not have classes. It has prototypes
I don't understand what's the point of this article, people want to go to a good neighbourhood so their kids will be able to be in a good environment with other kids who are same as them. It is not an investment property, it is investment in the next generation. If the value is kept for the next 30 years it is perfect, after that the kids are out and the parents can move to some other place.
I don't get your point, you want affordable housing but without government intervention ??

The housing market is same everywhere in the world and generally suited towards nuclear family because they are ideal tenants (in terms of money and stability).

Homeless ness is a global problem that exists everywhere in the world. Its not a US only problem. You can dismiss my opinion as "oh this foreign guy , he knows shit about my country and he is touting opinion like he is some genius", but you are trying to overreaching in your "if only the housing market was perfect" solution.

And rural America is not a hell hole. You need to see real hell holes in life my friend. Good for you , you came out of poverty to get a stable job but please don't undermine others peoples experiences judging them from a narrow lens.
It's a USB device, it already has the ability to do terrible things[0] when you plug it in.

0. https://www.wired.com/2014/07/usb-security/
I was temporarily excited when I saw they had a link to their methodology. I always want to know how questions were phrased in surveys like this, since phrasing can affect the answers. Unfortunately the 3-page methodology doc didn't cover that.

Like many such surveys, there's selection bias here in that it's people who have a land line and will agree to answer a survey about Facebook. This is going to bias toward people for whom something interesting has happened recently in their relationship to Facebook. Additional bias comes from the fact that the only participants invited were ones who previously agreed to answer a political survey.
I agree that syntax highlighting is the only thing they should do and I think that hiding technical details will inevitably lead to its own security risks.

The same has happened with Microsoft hiding file extensions from users in Windows by default, which leads to malware hidden in party.jpg.com email attachments or similar things. It's one of the first things I turn off, when I'm on a new Windows machine.
Drone Racing League launches $2M autonomous drone competition
I'm not exactly sure how this could even be implemented.

Take the sharing economy into account:

Lyft/Uber
InstaCart/Pizza Delivery
Seasonal Workers such as Amazon Warehouse associates
McDonalds/Walmart flex scheduling shifts "involuntary part time"

Say an average person for this particular sharing economy example include two or three part-time jobs throughout the year.

The person starts the year as a seasonal worker for amazon (christmas rush into new years) 160hours total, they then receive unemployment payments for a period of time. Later they become a part time employee of Walmart stocking late at night (400 hours). Finally they drive for both Uber and Lyft depending on customer volume to fill in the time they are not receiving shifts from Walmart (250hours).

According to this bill, there is no logical way to split the federal benefits as defines (school lunch, housing subsidies, SNAP and medicaid. The unemployment is paid from employer's insurance. Is the total amount of tax for each employer simply divided by the number of hours employed? Seems like its being left up to the IRS in order to figure out the implementation.
Go see a medical professional. They can connect you to a counsellor, someone who can give you more evidence based actionable ways to get yourself back on your feet.
Thanks. And yes, Laplace was the third one. I think even your simple categorization would have made things much simpler for me. Or maybe I was just an idiot as an undergrad. :-)
> Did literacy kill the careers of priests and monks?

Actually, it did!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation#Literacy

Literacy was a major factor in the reformation, and the subsequent decline in the status of clergy. Look even further, and it becomes a crucial factor in modern atheism and the further deterioration of clergy of all denomination.

> Or unlocking a massive engine of productivity to raise standard of living across the economy.

Sounds great! Just remember the rules of supply and demand. As the supply of programmers increases, since demand won't change (at least not immediately), their price will decline.

That means programmers like you will have to settle for a fraction of their current compensation.

Couple that with tech employers' known fondness for employing the young, and you'll lucky to have a job at all.
No, I say they're unwilling to in the way described, and cite examples of how specifically it usually works.
I would love to see his Latex template for this as well as a few samples of markdown.

I wonder how well this method would work for something like an illustrated children’s book?
How the EU may force all artists to use Youtube forever
Blood testing fraud Theranos is closing
The cult of WeWork
This is true for multimode, anywhere outside short distances in datacenters you use singlemode where light does not bounce at an angle. A singlemode fiber acts as a waveguide, the signal travels in a single mode, this is mainly why it's good for longer distances, no modal dispersion.
If you think about, how this simplifies anything, you will start to understand the mess that is the FF codebase (not that chrome is noticeably better, particularly if you try and build it anywhere outside of ubuntu/x86_64).
That's quite a leap. Most people don't have USB C, it makes sense to ship A/B and call attention to that unless you're making accessories for specific laptop models.
No, that is not the same thing at all. Not even close.

A rolling black out is an involuntary action. It is also an action that results in total loss of power, hence the term "blackout."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_blackout
I setup a 3 billion plus document ES cluster using AWS Elasticsearch Service. As a whole it works really well, and it's nice not to have to manage individual EC2 instances. With that said, there are some very annoying things. Previously if you modified the access policy of the ES cluster, it would completely rebuild the entire cluster (create all new nodes and copy all data), which can take many hours.

Recently I turned off some slow query and slow index advanced logging options, again AWS completely rebuilt the entire ES cluster when these options surely should be able to be applied without copying all data.
As irrelevant as Australia, Japan, Canada, South Korea?

I think I could handle that.
Huh?

Elastic Cloud runs in either AWS or GCP. You get to choose but it's just between those. Unless you mean you were using AWS's ElasticSearch service... which is known to not be all that great.

You could build ES clusters on AWS directly on EC2 and it would be cheaper than Cloud, unless what you're really looking for is that support contract.

I spent a few months of my life learning ES inside and out and would choose this option every time. One of the best tech investments I've ever made.
I've installed it and I like it. Much easier than having to install tmux and built-in copy paste. I'm not a power user but I will certainly be using this. Good work.
What? No. In case anyone wants an update on this case from 2015, that general was fired. He was not implementing some sort of secret presidential policy with his remarks.

The A10 is an example of Congress imposing civilian priorities on the military. Despite its declining military utility, it's a popular plane, so Congress won't let the military sunset it. It has nothing to do with the president ordering the military to lie to Congress.

You're not even legally correct... while the president is the commander in chief, Congress has oversight of military spending under Article I, Section 8. An order to lie to Congress about spending would be an illegal order, and military personnel are not compelled to follow illegal orders.
> This is a pretty compelling U2F solution. It matches the price of a Yubikey

Not really. The $50 Yubikey does a lot more than these (e.g. storing PGP keys, etc). If you only want U2F, Yubico sells their blue key for only $20 (or a 2-pack for $36):

https://www.yubico.com/product/security-key-by-yubico/#secur...

I've been using them for years and see no reason to switch.
A push to switch over to manufactored sand would work well enough. I'm sure once the technology improves and the big players successfully vertical integrate it into their own process than the demand for natural will drop, like what happened with paper companies switching over to their own tree plantations over harvesting random forest
There have been books like The End of Work in 1995 that have talked about this. The big question is, what will become of the majority of the worlds population when this happens on a massive scale?
The USB one looks just like the ePass https://www.amazon.com/Feitian-ePass-NFC-FIDO-Security/dp/B0...

Is there any reason to believe at least the hardware isn't rebranded?
Ries did co-found a company in 2004 and that company is still around (14 years later). It’s not a unicorn, but it’s not dead either: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/imvu

Many good methodologies can develop a cult-like following, not just in tech. The “Innovator's Dilemma” was largely that for business schools and MBAs. It doesn’t mean that you cannot apply the ideas postulated, but nothing is a panacea.
Why your product and not Ubikey?
Government intervention and government projects are not the same thing.

But I don't really see any point in trying to hash this out further.
You can delete comments if they don't have a reply and you're still within the editing window. Click the timestamp of the comment and you should see a link to "delete".
I believe that getting rid of URLs will further take control away from users of the web towards search engines, which is likely Google's actual intension behind these efforts. If you have a full URL that you can write down on paper, there's still a way to get around the search engine. Once we lose the technical detail of URLs, that won't work anymore.
Facebook - a place where you can share photos of your fugly children and comments of your low-meaning life.
>So Google's suggestion is that, if you've already chosen to offer an AMP page, that page shouldn't have intentionally worse usability than the original?

Google is using its dominance in search (again) to force sites to offer AMP versions. Like a "reader view", and lacking evidence at the moment, I bet many sites are building AMP versions with faster load times but reduced features to comply. Now Google is saying "Build your entire site according to our spec, or we'll de-rank you on search".

That is a very bold move, and one that would be making front-page news if they said it straight-up in a way that Buzzfeed could write about.
tldr:

a) city population density outweighs most other factors at producing overall prosperity.

b) suburban development is a bad roi for public financing

c) therefore, a lot of seemingly affluent areas (think gated communities) are actually going to ruin, because the roi on public financing can't keep them affluent.

the article is interesting, but light on quantitative analysis. you're supposed to accept that the author ran the numbers.

in particular, i doubt that misallocated public financing is the main reason for a city to grow or shrink. the global economy is too strong.

there could even be reverse causation -- all the best urban planners left cleveland as it shrank, which resulted in waste...
> who cares

You will.

> As long as the code works, anything else is just gravy.

These attitudes are really making some projects collapse like hell. If you agree to it, you need to stop writing code unless it's just for you.

> I'm sure you'd find less than stellar code everywhere

If this makes you feel proud of writing shit code, you need to stop as well.
This is some crazy graph of bodybuards guarding each other's family members. If you kill your client then why on earth would his other employees give a shit and kill some defenceless wife and child to avenge their former master?