skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my case the question has often unearthed things about the team culture that may work well for some and not so well for others. One example: a person I had an interview with told me that he wouldn't recommend a candidate to join the team if said candidate e.g. wouldn't get along with the typical "tech bros" team culture, which obviously wasn't something mentioned in the job description. For me that was clearly a no-go, for others this wouldn't be much a problem because the job in general was a very interesting one and very well compensated, too. OTOH, I've also heard non-trivial things in other interviews which were not mentioned in the job description but weren't a show stopper for me.

I also use the questions to learn more about the person and culture: if all people say "there is NOTHING I would change, this is a dream job" there is a very high likelihood that this is an environment where you don't speak openly about ways to improve and where individuals keep their criticism for themselves.
I get that for really rare books, but in general markings/notes aren't bad, and can be very interesting to future readers. I think in a book borrowed from a friend, inherited from a relative or otherwise obtained from someone I know margin notes etc are quite nice to have, giving an insight into what they thought when they read it.
There's a v2[0] of the same board that includes a USB<->SPI to make it even easier to program.

[0]: http://gnarlygrey.atspace.cc/development-platform.html#updui...
> sued on the way out

Extraordinary - on what alleged grounds?
Obligatory: https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/rfc-default-package-control-...
The Ultimate Speed Limit and Effect of Time
I agree that raising children is taxing. However, the mere fact that you _chose_ to do an activity that is taxing does not, to my mind, entitle you to impose costs on your fellow employees. Volunteering for the Peace Corp is taxing, caring for elderly parents is taxing, climbing Mt. Everest is taxing. Yet, alone of all those activities, parents think they deserve to be subsidized.
New Beetle introduced as a concept car in 1994 at the Geneva show, New Beetle rolls off the production line for sale as a 1998 model. You were saying?
I shudder to think what would happen in some places if a father actually took paternity leave for a newborn. Probably get fired or downranked in some way with long term advancement consequences.

Hopefully more directors do research on the matter. Maybe it could help with that “skills shortage” they are so often complaining about.
Did not know that, thanks.

Back to satellites, then.
Meh. So far, on-line education hasn't disrupted that much.

Just this year the University of London has launched a fully on-line BSc in CS, but the MOOC movement has started in 2011 that is seven or eight years ago.

So far, the MOOC movement has basically failed to truly deliver.

In the end Udacity is selling something called "micro-masters" which is a nicer term to indicate "industrial certifications".

If this is how it proceeds, my opinion is that in ten years most universities will still be where they now are, safe and sound.
Thanks. The dictionary I tried didn't seem to have a definition which fit what the article was alluding to, but urbandictionary did!
I've also been writing a lot of Go professionally for a long time, and I've used every part of the language extensively, and I disagree.

There are many times I remember where I've had to implement some sort of application specific data structure that's not built into the language, and generics would have made it a lot nicer. I made it generic by using interfaces, but then you have the problem of throwing away type safety, so to preserve it, you need wrappers which cast.

It's not a given that adding generics would ruin the ergonomics of the language. I hope that whatever form generics do take in the end, that they remain simple. If I see template meta-programming in Go of the sort that occurs in C++, I think I'll scream, but that meta programming was to work around limitations in C++'s typing system which Go doesn't share.
Aviation’s Largest Piston Engine (2016)
I'm not trusting those starters will remain up to "modern standards" for longer than couple of months.
I will say this: I think a lot of people believe "this time it's different" without realizing it or explicitly saying so.
Back endLab: create a no-code web/mobile app back end in minutes
I'm currently validating an idea for a new BaaS solution which will allow you to build and host a web app backend without writing a single line of code.

The app is called BackendLab and the landing page is here: https://www.backendlab.app/

The idea is that it allows you to define your database models by specifying what fields to include and BackendLab automatically creates a CRUD API which you can start using straight away.

You'll also have the option to implement additional REST methods which allow you to join together a number of pre-defined actions, e.g. integrations with various third party services, as well as applying permissions/authentication

At the moment I'm about 1-2 weeks away from launching the public beta. If anybody thinks that this could be of use to them, then please get in touch. I'm planning to make this free for life for the first 100 or so early adopters/beta testers.

Thanks for reading
20K miles is pretty normal for new cars, some Japanese and German brands will go higher, even for a first interval.

I don't know any modern brands that are using non-synthetic oil.
The infotainment system should only be allowed to read values from the modules related to the actual driving. Configuring things like traction control will just have to be done via a system separate from the infotainment system.

I understand that it a little wasteful to not use that big touch screen in the center console to do configuration of the driving experience, but there's no safe way to do so.
A Brief History of Time, by Hawking
The correct way to do this is to use memcpy, as was pointed out in the article. Given a half-decent compiler, it will give the most portable, standards-compliant, and often fastest code. Please just use memcpy instead of limiting yourself with "defined (__GNUC__) && (defined (__x86_64__) || defined (__i386__))".
It essentially cuts life from the pads, it does not change your braking distance.
Kilauea earthquakes and eruptions video: 100 days of crazy activity
I can't get past the paywall, but the info looks a lot like the survey that circulated this summer. In that study, the researchers went through tax data and used tech companies that hired at least one employee as their proxy for a "startup."

This seems wildly flawed. It's the same methodological quirk that makes Kauffman data not so helpful.

I'd like to do a study that looks at some of the more common metrics of success in the startup community.

+ Top 100 companies tracked by Gartner

+ Top 100 Apps on Apple Store

+ Top 100 Websites measured by Quantcast

I've looked at sample that's pretty close to that and the average age is much closer to 30, and even artificially inflated by serial entrepreneurs who are on their third companies.
It definitely is! Though, I've found not enough people know it well enough to make it useful in any distubutrd environment, since it just confuses everyone who's already used screen. And it gets worse because everyone who knows tmux has their own config and workflows. So it's kind of a lose-lose.

Screen also has some much better defaults.
California just replaced cash bail with algorithms
Nike slips on the ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick
In cards, stocks and tennis, we can map the system thus:

1. Decision about action is made
(Firm decides on merger during board meeting/Roddick decides to serve a topspin/Dealer decides to deal in alternating order)

2. Action occurs
(Firm announces in press release/Roddick serves/Dealer deals)

3. An observer relays info about action
(Stock trader instantly reports shares beginning to soar/Courtsider pushes button for "it's a topspin" and potentially "point scored"/Card-counter relays number of cards in dealer's hand to player or himself)

Insider trading is when a person who was present at step 1 performs step 3 (relays information) ahead of step 2 (Action).
The analog in tennis would be if Roddick (insider to his own playing) told someone he would serve a topspin prior to serving it, or worse, if Roddick told someone he would lose a match on purpose.

Courtsiders, unlike a typical inside trader, have no special inside knowledge about what kind of serves a player shall make, and they certainly cannot influence a player's playing. Just like a stock trader, their only power is transmitting the events that do occur at lightning speed.
Rapidly counting the number of cards in a hand after they've been dealt (action) is this, too.

As you can see, insider trading is the wrong analogy to make.
Could someone explain the math here. So amazon is worth almost 500 times their income!? That doesn't make any sense even if they are growing like crazy and investing their profits or something.
The undefined behavior was that casting an uint32_t * from a char * requires the char * to have pointed to a uint32_t * before, which is not possible for an unaligned pointer.
Why not drones?
Laws of power is nice but what always bothered me about it is that there doesn’t seem to be a system to the laws, it merely sums up a bunch of them without investigating underlaying foundations.
the math is sound, I can't argue with that logic.
Gobekli Tepe may be comparable to Stone Hench in time. That was not a permanent settlement. I think this was not, as well. Seclusion and secrecy is part of religion, so it wouldn't be reasonable to build amidst a sprawling cohort anyway. If it was started as a central hub, the need was maybe not originally religious but it would have been in a good position to be cultivated religiously once the need became obvious.
Does Alexa Have a Liberal Bias?
In the wake of Iran's unsuccessful Green Revolution, the government was able to use the tracks left on social media to identify and hunt down dissidents. Libya at present is fractured, but as we see in this article, the same thing is happening on a regional level.

While social media makes it possible for people to come together more easily than in the past, it also serves as an omnipresent surveillance tool.

Is the age of popular uprisings coming to an end?
I mean, those movies being played on the back of seats aren't being run through a serial port. Given the move to an "on demand" scheme, they're not one way. The data diode is clearly meaningless when there's obviously two way traffic.
SciHub started long after the move towards open access was underway. The campaign, and ongoing incremental steps by funding agencies, has been going on for 15 years.
Congress' Chief Tech Watchdog Is Not Happy with Google
code sample + name (and already dealing with SIMD alignment issues) told me what the problem is.

Pointer casts are ALWAYS bad in C. Try to avoid them. Reply and down vote you old hat C programmers who will defend this. Your old practices are actively harmful to people learning the language.
No, headlights are only required to be turned on in dark and rain. In the state of WA, your car is to have two forward-facing front headlights. Though the law does not specify that they must work, I assume it is implied that word "headlight" means it will produce light at any given time.
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Senior Java Engineers & Full Stack Engineers:

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hewy is hiring for our Customer Technology team in Boston, Massachusetts. This is a high-profile position that will have exposure across the entire business, influencing the vision and implementation of designs and features for this critical platform. As part of a dynamic team, this role offers a tremendous opportunity for professional growth in the leading online pet retailer in the US.
I'd say it's perhaps more like the DSLR/Mirrorless war that's raging right now.

Sony (Tesla) snuck in and have cornered the market on mirrorless (particularly full frame) over the last 5 years and now the big incumbents are launching their responses (Canon tomorrow actually).

Sony are definitely here to stay, they have enough lead time and mind share to back up their techincal offerings, I'd imagine Tesla will be too, even as the big players join the market.
You aren't thinking about AI drones, other people are. Project Maven was a first step towards securing broader DoD contracts. Pretending drones were not part of the picture is either naive or disingenuous.
Agreed, this method sounds nice. The only thing I'd like to find on top of it is some software to manage apps across container resources and physical resources. Ie, I've got some non-cloud old windows boxes that I want to deploy to, so ideally I need a mechanism further abstracts that. I'm currently looking at Nomad, though i'm very early in research.
I'd rather have the enjoyment of being able to think in normal English speak rather than Yoda speak just to fix one edge case that appeared decades after they came up with the syntax.
You can synthesize a 6502 on an FPGA just fine and can probably do it on this specific chip. There is a project I've seen (https://danstrother.com/fpga-nes/) where someone did synthesize the 6502 along with the rest of the hardware on a Spartan 3 which does have more resources available to it. Looking at the utilization report in the comments on that page, it would be too much for this little Lattice chip. There are other FPGA development cards out there similar in size that would work better for your idea. You would be better off getting a larger development card for designing and then moving to some custom PCB that fit only the components you need at the size you want.
Speed =! Acceleration
That reveals part of the bigger problem, though - it would be nice to live somewhere homes were affordable for people who don't work in tech (or the few other high paying professions out there).
Until they get hurt, when they're cast aside like yesterday's trash.
WOOOSH
I'm glad you posted this. The thread is mostly full of anecdotal claims, which makes sense since few people clock enough time in enough cars in a lifetime to claim statistical significance. However if we're talking about maintenance costs, it's really about average value and standard deviation.
I really appreciate this thread and I think this should be one of the monthly posts by /user?id=whoishiring .

However, if the poster is really looking for part-time jobs, my advice is to answer in one of whoishiring's post.
> When has there NOT been a technological revolution?

The Middle Ages, for one. Most of human history has been characterized by episodic innovation bookended by centuries of zero growth.
The 1830 revolution is also missing, or the revolt against the 1851 coup... Yet minor incidents from last year protests are on the list.
I don't believe a lot of people in City Government honestly care about fixing the problem

You don't know anybody in city government, then.
The first provided link is extremely useful as it lets you jump to declarations, files, and line numbers in the current Linux Kernel source. For digging up kernel code snippets it it is extremely useful.

Also like the kernel is fairly sanely laid out. Its a project with literally hundreds of contributors so keeping the code base organized is important.
The last update of the first post says that this was fixed in v1.10.0, and the release notes concur: https://community.ubnt.com/t5/EdgeMAX-Updates-Blog/EdgeMAX-E...
Agreed. There are many business opportunities in "niches" . I met a founder who became a VC after she exited her company that did interior design for office buildings. I think I offended her when I called her 8-9 figure business a niche but I had never even imagined that that need could have possibly existed until she told me.
FCC chairman says Twitter, Facebook, Google may need transparency law
I wanted algebraic datatypes, purity, safe JS interop. Elm satisfied all of those nicely. I've spent a year on an Elm side project and a few months on production Elm and am more convinced than ever that it's the language/ecosystem I prefer for front-end.
Phone-Based Key for Google's Advanced Protection Program
>That wire goes into a component that holds the previous value for the pixel

Wouldn't that need at least 24M flip-flops in the FPGA (assuming 8 bits per channel color)? I don't think anybody makes one that big.
The slow introduction and adoption of EVs, and the high cost of repairing them should even things out.

Mechanics are going to start having to learn EV repair, and they will be able to charge an arm and a leg for it.

Also cars are getting a reduction in mechanical complexity in exchange for an increase in electronic complexity.

That's going to mean less work on parts like engines and a lot more of swapping out dead computer modules and batteries. That's easier work for less money.
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>but it doesn't sound like this one case was caused by NIMBYism

That's fine, I'm not interested in #notalldevelopment reasoning because my point was not to ascribe all of the behavior to NIMBYs. I was only countering the idea that "politicians, amirite?" is the problem.
Man who threatened to kill Ajit Pai’s children pleads guilty, faces prison
I think it's going to be really hard to do the study in a rigorous way. Solid data would be nice, though. Then we could stop guessing.

My best try at a data point is that Lisp was #4 on the TIOBE index back in the 1980s. Now it's on the fringe. I assert that people had been exposed to Lisp, it was widely used. It became less and less popular. It's not that industry didn't know Lisp; they knew it and turned away from it.

Of course, the big flaw in my argument is the growth of the industry. A huge number of new people came in. Did they know Lisp, even at a college level? Maybe, maybe not.

My counter-argument to that is that industry knew Lisp, even if the new programmers didn't. If industry wanted them to learn Lisp, it could have made knowing it a job requirement, or trained people.
In the aggregate, random posters on HN don’t matter. Enough of the world doesn’t feel that way to make Amazon a very successful company...
To give an idea of how much pro-bono review costs the rest of the system: A thorough review of a journal article takes 6-12 hours. If the paper develops novel theory it is more likely to take ~ 24 hours to understand and check properly.

The average return on 1 hour of grant writing for a PI or experience staff researcher is ~ $300, averaged over the year. One 10-hour review therefore has ≥ $3000 opportunity cost to my lab.

Looking at the opportunity cost to my funders due to spending time on a review instead of on research, funders presumably believe that research is at least as valuable as the how much they pay to support it. At the rates I'm familiar with, the opportunity cost to them is therefore at least $800 for a 10 hour review. Worse, a portion of every grant from the NIH or NSF is filtered through the university system as "indirect costs" and paid to the publishers as journal subscription fees. (The amount paid in subscription fees is hidden behind NDAs.)

There are 2-3 reviewers per paper, and a paper may be rejected and resubmitted 2-4 times. Reviews don't follow a paper between resubmissions—the whole process starts again from square one with new reviewers. So multiply the per-reviewer costs above by somewhere between 2 and 12 to get the total cost.

One could counter that review generates similar value as other research activities. I doubt this. The cost-benefit tradeoffs involved in review strongly incentivize cutting corners or delegating the task to inexperienced workers, which lessens the average review quality. The median review is a list of gut reaction bullet points rather than an evidence-based critique. This promotes an adversarial relationship between reviewers and authors. Of course there are many idealistic people who fully commit to the process anyway, but the system as a whole is costly and wasteful.

(All of this is based on my experience doing academic biomedical research in the US. It is probably laughably wrong for other fields or other countries.)
I mean, can you point to one example of another country that we'd consider part of the free world that makes toddlers represent themselves in any sort of court proceeding? I can't exactly prove a negative here, and am willing to hear non theoretical arguments.
It said the astronauts used an epoxy to plug it, but I don't think it required a space walk. I assume it was doable from inside.
Maybe because they don't understand it.

Lisp has syntax. More than any other programming language.

What you think Lisp syntax is, are really simple function calls like

(+ 1 2)

which are based on the function + various args pattern.

But something like Common Lisp has a few dozen syntactic built-in forms. For example the syntax for LET is in an EBNF (extended backus naur form) form:

let ({var | (var [init-form])}*) declaration* form*

Then Lisp has macros. Zillions. Each of them implements syntax.

Lisp has a two-stage syntax:

1. stage are s-expressions, a data format: symbols, numbers, lists, strings, ...

2. stage are Lisp forms. They are written as s-expressions. But they have to follow a defined syntax. not every s-expression is a valid Lisp form.

(let ((a 1) (b 2))
(declare (integer a b))
(+ a b))

Above is a valid LET form.

(let ((a 1) (b 2))
(+ a b)
(declare (integer a b)))

Above is not a valid LET form, because the syntax requires that the optional declaration is directly after the binding form.

Without parentheses it might look like:

let (a 1) (b 2)
declare integer a b
a + b

You would think that it has a syntactic structure. Just because Lisp uses s-expressions as a base mechanism, does not mean Lisp has no syntactic structure - but it is on top of s-expressions.

Since Lisp has user-programmable syntax, there is basically an unlimited amount of all kinds of syntactical constructs.
Only those having children are choosing a taxing activity that essentially everyone who hopes to retire is depending on, since—public or private, defined benefit or defined contribution—virtually every retirement option relies on the economic activity of generations after those of the retiree.
Yes, and SciHub single-handedly achieved more for the cause that all those other efforts did for the past 20 years. People working on those efforts admit it:

http://sci-hub.tw/http://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1116
Sheryl Sandberg Leans into a Gale of Bad News at Facebook
Three Patterns for an Effective Cloud Native Development Workflow
MIT fusion collaboration receives renewed funding
> what makes AWS successful

Hype, and a general misunderstanding of an overly generic term (cloud) ?
Because Americans think if you have a need for this type of government support, well you just haven't worked hard enough and you're "part of the problem" (whatever that means).
> those that enjoy learning

That was a couple of centuries ago. Now universities are mostly for youth storage.

(And room at the DOD facilities is comparatively very limited.)
CPU's like the ones that include Intel ME, AMD PSP or ARM TrustZone are not embedded in ASIC's. A ASIC is meant to perform a single task well, if you need or if there even could ever be a usecase for a OS or processor like those examples then by definition it isn't an ASIC anymore.
Zillow, Amazon, Nolo, Priceline, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, LinkedIn, vsrious car sites, etc.
I evolved my own AI MineCraft bots and they started to vandalize my server