skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe formal classes in good universities certainly help. You end up learning things that you would think are too boring or not directly related to your job. But in my 15 years of working and dozens of interviews, no one ever asked me about my courses or anything related to my education. I never asked anyone I interviewed about what they lerned in college.
History and the technology we all use today disagrees with you.

NASA (really NACA) wouldn’t exist today if the Soviets hadn’t launched Sputnik. Competition and fear spur quite a bit of innovation and public reason for funding research projects.

Convincing large amounts of people to give you money without reason doesn’t usually work. War is easy to sell, people can conceptualize the risk easily. I’d argue you’d see more funding and research for preventing climate change if it were as easy to conceptualize risk wise for the general public.
Select Mac Apps Breaching User Privacy Taken Down
Ternary operator on the LHS
Rust procedural macros are just regular rust that runs at compile time. You get vector of tokens in, and return a new vector of tokens out.
There are a lot of conspiracy theories in the replies to you, but IMO it is yet another example of the weird outcomes generated by an incredibly complex system which is heavily influenced by starting conditions and path dependency.
No they aren't. A macro solution is always less readable and less performant than a proper compiler feature.
But you can't get a compiler feature for everything. People have different needs for different tasks and doing all of it in the compiler is just not going to work. Macros allow programmers to implement features that would otherwise take years (if not decades) of standardization to be accepted in a language.
Nice, a lot of people at my work use http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/caffeine/ for this same purpose.
The technology has certainly reached a point where you can quickly put product prototypes together, the current regulations around the world finally allow for commercial use of drones, companies are beginning to invest more in the many drone verticals (some of which are still being defined, like delivery), and communities are being formed to host industry collaboration, I think this is a great time for the "Drone industry" regardless fo where you are. I work for the Linux Foundation, I'm the Program Manager for Dronecode (dronecode.org), we host some of the most successful open source drone projects and give companies a vendor-neutral governance where they can freely collaborate. At our core, the project that runs this community is our autopilot, PX4, the project was started 10 years ago in a lab at (surprise) ETH Zurich by (now Ph.D.) @LorenzMeier (Github), the autopilot is being used in some of the products you see every day, has an ecosystem of tools, all of which is actively being maintained. You can find more info on the autopilot on px4.io

To @KirinDave point, yes this technology is available and you can start working on Drones now, the Drone community is very welcoming, I think its a side effect of having to apply technology from other communities, like computer vision.

https://www.dronecode.org/

https://github.com/LorenzMeier

http://px4.io/
They have my picture, but they don't have my name. But when the airports get the passport photo database to implement this photo check-in, then they'll have my name too.
Not a book but a nice article: https://tomaugspurger.github.io/modern-7-timeseries

He points to books (including this one) as well as python libraries in the "Resources" section at the end.
There's at least one project to resurrect the original (Lisp) reddit: https://github.com/tamurashingo/reddit1.0
What about the contrarian view that the Pax Americana has brought the greatest era of peace, wealth and standard of living to the world?

That's going to come with a big side order of "citation needed". To Americans? Yeah, arguably. "To the world"? Eh, there are a lot of non-Americans that might take issue. We can start with polls in Central America and the Middle East.
Usually you do it by giving the same response for an invalid password and a non-existent email. I wanted to see how that particular page was leaking but the site wouldn’t load for me.
> It's like military academy (or fraternity) hazing. You've been abused, therefore you want to pass the load of that abuse on.

I really cannot imagine why people have this behavior. I was often treated unfairly in life, so I try to architect systems that attempt to avoid my perceived unfairness so that the next generation does not have to suffer similarly (ideally in way for which correctness can be shown in a mathematically rigid way).
Oh, that is how they do it. /s
>According to RiskIQ, they also acquired a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificate - which suggests to web browsers, not always accurately, that a web page is safe to use

Looks like the article got updated
> I simply can't risk getting counterfeit safety-critical goods.

That’s a good call. I usually buy direct from someone like Black Diamond when it comes to things like that.

Also, like with most industries , it helps to have a friend with a pro deal, if you’re trying to save money on important stuff.

I’ve found that AliExpress is good for cheap electronics that I don’t mind waiting for, but not much beyond that. I haven’t used the site in months (though, I haven’t used Amazon during the same time either)
This is why more people need to use it for everyday stuff.

(I do occasionally, but it's a bit slow for some things)
Embracing the Experience Economy with a $300K/mo Photo Booth Startup
Isn't this plain ole rational skepticism?
> Isn't that the definition of bankruptcy though?

No, it's the definition of insolvency, which may or may not least to bankruptcy. But, in any case, the Social Security Trust Funds can't be insolvent because they aren't real distinct entities, just accounting structures within the US government, which is not even remotely suspected of being unable to pay it's current obligations out of current revenues any time soon (nor is it anticipated to have much trouble continuing to secure financing for lavish discretionary spending on top of actual obligations.)
B&H has been around forever. I bought a good pair of binoculars from them when I was a kid. My mom had to drive me to the store to get a money order so I could mail my order form to them. She thought I was crazy.

Yes, I still have and use the binoculars.
Now sure, but what about 40 years ago?
Truthfully, I think we should be discouraging having children. There's too many people working too late in life that my peer group struggles to find meaningful work.

A generation ago, people retired in their 50s and opened up jobs to the next generation, then died 10 years later and left family money to the next generation that could be used for housing.

I don't have a single friend in my peer group who can afford housing, let alone has the income to raise children, if they don't have family money. Upward mobility into the well paying jobs is non existent, with 20 years of people in between them and executive level careers.

People aren't going to stop having kids. It's too engrained in our society and genes. But with automation and an increasingly elderly workforce, job prospects are bad now and will continue to get worse for kids born in the last 10 years.
That’s true love and care
The research in this article (2010) tells a different story: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22FOB-wwln-t.htm...
The original poster said the trouble was cleaning up after the closure is no longer needed. That's clearly not the case as this thread has covered. I thought the previous poster was the original poster, so just replace "your original claim" with "the original claim".
How AI can compose personalized soundtrack music
I think nothing can beat minikanren (or microkanren) to query a quad store. It make recursive queries easy.
I realize that the study was specifically talking about brainteasers, but I wonder if irrelevant algorithm questions have a similar motivation? I was once asked at an interview at a FAANG company to come up with an algo for finding the longest palindromic subsequence (!). At another I was asked to get all partitions of an integer (https://www.whitman.edu/mathematics/cgt_online/book/section0...).

I'm pretty certain I'd never be working on problems of that nature as part of the role.
Ganja cures the Babylon mind sickness.
If they are consistent you can probably use your ad blocker's element picker to selectively remove them.
Look, this isn't an argument, it's just contradiction.
'Ground-breaking' diabetes insulin drug trialled in Cardiff
That is indeed where the analogy starts to crumble. The reason is that space itself is curved. It is curved by the matter inside it. Still the property holds that if you travelled far enough fast enough you’d come back to where you started.
Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon Wear 3100 Chipset for Wear OS
I failed a google interview and it is frustrating. Emotional speaking, the rejection was hard but also other rejections as well.

At least at google i got feedback, audi did not. No feedback after coding project and 2 interviews sucks hard...
No, I don't really like react, and it's probably bound to have the same problem as Nuxt. The issue is that the site, at least with Nuxt, is pre-rendered to HTML, right, but it still needs to have Vue (because usually you would want to then use it to then refresh the content). The thing is this, apart from having to have Vue and a bunch of JS, it also adds your posts inline to the script (because Vue can't just extract the content from the DOM (well, it technically can, but this would be a mess for varying reasons). This is a bunch of bloat since I want the site to be static to be fast. You can delete the script tags after the rendering (using something like cheerio), but this gets rid of all your scripts (which I still need some small ones to for example, lazy load images). I could keep them separate and then insert them back in but then I lose the pleasure of using Vue. It's kind of impossible to solve as far as I see.
> I don’t think he does

You don't think "Government is the eoforcement of the social contract on a large scale" is a naïve view of government?

> your alternative based on childlike assumptions

So you think thugs actually do work together in productive endeavors? Isn't not doing that the definition of a "thug"? Thugs might make use of things that others have already produced, but they don't produce anything themselves; if they do, we don't call them thugs.

> maybe it’s time you lay out in detail how you get from Earth 2018 to pdonis’ anarchy at some point in the future

I have already said, in response to several other posters in this overall thread, that it's quite possible that we can't get there from here. But, as I said to those posters, that's a problem with us, not with anarchy.

> Convince us.

I can't convince you if you refuse to even try to imagine what an actual functioning anarchy--a society with no government, no entity with a monopoly on the use of force or the right to make rules that everyone must follow whether they want to or not, but which still is populated by citizens who understand the benefits of social cooperation and are willing to regulate their own behavior to achieve those benefits--would be like. I agree this task of imagination is a very hard one, because all of us have grown up in a society which has evolved for centuries, if not millennia, under the assumption that a society has to have a government, and in which over time governments accrete more and more functions and people come to think of them as having to be done by governments, even if they could be done better by private entities. That's why I have several times referenced David Friedman's The Machinery Of Freedom, which is a serious attempt to undertake this task of imagination in some detail. It's not something that can be done within the scope of a HN comment.
Oh for sure. It's tough in the services business here though where a lot of us find ourselves in when we're building products on the side. We have to build on what our customers say a lot. One thing that helps over here at Rockstar is we simply encourage and orchestrate things like bringing in actual users to play with mockups and such.

And some things are really hard to just observe without asking. In the interviews I mentioned, we really wanted to get into the psychological state and emotions people felt while they were shopping to understand what our brand even meant in the marketplace. It's impossible to observe that well unless we get into paying attention to what these folks say in interviews. And then we find ourselves having to interrogate those responses like I mentioned.

What are your favorite ways of observing customers? I've been a fan of Heap Analytics. Any others out there catch your eye?
I don't know of any, but are very happy about this announcement because of this reason.
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And how does that address this issue?
> every dictator in the world now knows that apart from the threat of nuclear war, the American military's capabilities are far more limited than some perhaps had thought

Every dictator in the world fears an American military attack, because they will undoubtedly be overrun and dethroned. Look at how Ghadafi and Saddam tried to bend over backwards to show that they had no WMDs. American military prowess is second to none by a wide, huge margin.

A small occupying force like those allocated to Iraq/Afghanistan after the initial invasions simply can not defeat guerrilla warfare. The lack of post-invasion plans doomed these conflicts, but the initial dictators/governments had no chance of survival.
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This is interesting but I don't think you can assume this phenomenon applies to a whole county's wage growth.
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Wow, making Sept 11th about respect for the military.
Converting a WebGL application to WebVR
the unique problem with macros (at least in the C/C++ world) is that they can be used to invent new syntax. Now when you join the company, not only do you have to learn the code, but you also have to learn the language extensions at the same time. If there's a lot of them, you're effectively learning a whole new language with likely minimal intentional design, with all the potential problems that a new language comes with (unintentional/hard-to-understand side effects, performance issues in the output, poor domain fit, etc).
Firefox has the dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled pref which can be used to prevent a lot of web naughtiness however it does break a couple of legitimate use cases.
I am also not about to renew my Prime membership. You list gave me a lot of confidence.

But one of important benefit I use Prime for is Amazon Photos. Unlimited backup of your photos. When I look at other solutions such as Backblaze, they will all cost at least $50 a year.

Then another benefit I like is Prime Music. Which again is going to cost money if I get music subscription from Spotify or somewhere else. So when I add cost of these two benefits on their own, Prime becomes pretty good deal.

What's your opinion on these benefits?
Probably because satiety isn't a constant thing...our bodies adapt. As an American, whenever I spend time in Europe or Asia, I spend the first week feeling hungry. But after that, I adapt and I'm fine. And when I get back to the States, I spend the next month making two meals out of every restaurant portion I buy until my body eventually adapts back.

In America, we stuff ourselves without realizing we're doing so.
It's sad that Amazon was perfect IMO years ago, and I assume was very profitable even then. But continuous changes, mostly after the introduction of Prime, have just drug the core product down. I still use Amazon for some items just because the selection is still the most outrageously huge, but I'll also go to Walmart, Monoprice, Newegg, etc. and the prices have generally been better there.
Ah yeah, byteorder would be the right call.

> Perhaps Steve, for the benefit of myself and thread parent, you could point us to some better-edited literature for the various iterator methods?

I used that page to find this. I knew it was "chunks" or "windows" or something, so I just looked at them (I guessed windows, but I was wrong).
> Worst case for social security is that no funding changes are made and payouts stabilize to around 70% of what was promised.

No, worst case is that dishonest political propaganda convinces people that the no action scenario has worse results than this, leading to action being taken which itself has worse results, such as dismantling social security in favor of mandatory investment in private defined-contribution retirement products.
If it was an engineering role I’d definitely call it a brain teaser. But for say a marketing role, an interviewers wants to see that you understand the way money flows through the business and what the parameters therein are. Maybe it’s still a brain teaser but I would say it’s relevant to the job.
I see BA is using Google Tag Manager, which is another handy way to inject $RANDOM_JS into a site.
Professor Christensen says it better than I ever could: “Motivation factors include challenging work, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth. Feelings that you are making a meaningful contribution to work arise from intrinsic conditions of the work itself. Motivation is much less about external prodding or stimulation, and much more about what’s inside of you, and inside of your work.“
"massive rift" is a bit of an exaggeration. Most Python libraries have Python 3 versions and it's not at all uncommon to see libraries that don't have support for Python 2 (see Django)
“Beget from noble routes” to me can be translated:

Accomplish your goals in an honorable way.

Something akin to:

“The ends don’t justify the means”.
I agree but after seeing a lot of these think some of their presented facts were from someone higher up - though maybe informally, maybe pasted from a internal FAQ.
I agree w.r.t. languages -> libraries -> apps, but I would say that macros are part of a library, along with functions, methods, datatypes, classes, interfaces, etc.

A typical library should usually define more functions/methods than datatypes/classes, more datatypes/classes than interfaces and more functions/methods than macros. The exception is libraries which only provide some particular macros or interfaces or whatever.
How do I view the PDF with my javascript-disabled browser?
"Estimating it from the taxes paid to the state, I would say 0€." (Yes, that’s not the kind of expected answer)
100-fold enhancement in far-field radiative heat transfer over blackbody limit
I used the element picker, "##.acs-private-brands-container-background" seems to block the "Our brands" element.
The single hotkey press is virtually never applicable though. If all you need to do is navigate to the definition, after the single first time you find it, it’s a matter of ctrl-b <file> enter.

At least in my experience, 99.9% of the time, I need a fast and organized way to see all the places where something is used or mentioned. The one special case of the definition is only a super tiny fraction such that the difference between a hotkey or an emacs key combination is utterly meaningless.

I do also think that being transported to some location of some file is a context switch that requires you to stop and think about where did the hotkey take you, what part of the source tree, what else is there.

When you git grep and open a file of your choice, the experience is just different. The path there aides you in understanding what to look for or do, at virtually no extra cost because it’s so fast and easy even in large codebases.

Maybe there is some slight benefit of the IDE handholding and hotkey approach in a codebase you literally never looked at before during the first few times you search for something. But that “burn in” effect isn’t enough to offset how the UI gets in the way, features that have to be accessed by menus or clicks, inevitable failures of integration with linters, compilers, or runtime programs.
Did Lehman run index funds? What happened to their customers?

What would happen today if a firm like Schwab or Fidelity suddenly went bankrupt? Would their S&P 500 index funds (Such as SWPPX or FFFFX) drop to zero, wiping out customer’s retirement?
I am not so sure about the tooling situation, at least with Lisp macros you can run the macros and work on the underlying, generated code.
> which of two identically sized and timestamped files is the least corrupt image

What I've found on my older hard drive backups was file corruption due to bitrot or file truncation.

I use `jpegtran` to validate JPEG bytestreams, `dcraw` to validate RAW images, and ``ffmpeg` to validate videos. At least for my quarter-million-file corpus, those tools detect corruption sufficient enough for me to want to skip the file. I actually had to write a bit rotter to write tests for this, and do glitch inspection.

> To offer "principle of least loss" for mass merge of diverse collections, this would have to be figured out

Every unique SHA gets copied into your library (if you have copies enabled), but any given asset will have 1 or more asset files (that are merged in the UI and DB). To minimize risk from bugs^H^H^H^H "undiscovered features," PhotoStructure never moves or deletes files excluding it's own cache and db.
The future of the Home of the Future
I've never heard it about airplane tickets. However, I will definitely look for that the next time I need to travel.
> SQL to generate the JDBC/ODBC wrapper

SQLAlchemy has an ORM but it has a neat feature to exactly this: it can take a DB connection and build ORM objects from the schéma metadata.
I returned to University in my late 20s after spending several years in industry. After three years, I completed a business degree (with a major in marketing).

While I can't claim that I learned many things that have actually changed the trajectory of my career, having the paper has certainly helped me get the first round of resume selections. It's really just a credential and checking off a box.

I did gain a tremendous amount from the students and (especially) professors I met. Three years in University in my late twenties has had a tremendous impact on my network. To this day (11 years after I convocated), I still reap the benefits from that network.

When I went back to school, I was quite a bit older than most of my fellow students, so I gravitated towards professors and older students. Being in business, many of the older students had huge amounts of experience in industry.

Three caveats:

1.) I studied business, not computer science.

2.) I studied in person and not online.

3.) I focused on building my network.
Surge
I find it weird to say-

I'm excited to see what Walmart does in the next decade...

but seriously, Amazon has gotten big enough to be 'bad' to customers and get away with it. The moment I saw an item was Prime only, I realized I needed to shop at the competitors.
I wonder if it would be cheaper for small-time sellers to cozy up to brick and mortar store representatives than it would be to fight for space on Amazon.

Does Amazon lose market share... back to brick and mortar?
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Which is fine, but don't frame it as a safety issue, because that's just straight up lying.
Wouldn't directly supporting people also produce price inflation?
"That's one thing I never really understood about Amazon in Europe. Why not simply rolling out a generic, English Website to countries without localized content?"

People don't speak English
I recommend Nordstrom Rack for shoes.
> Add miserable weather

Is this true for the whole country?

Also, what about the healthcare? (compared to US)
Get population estimate for all countries with adword revenue, get adword revenue for each of these countries, fit to a linear model, predict italy. Or calculate adword revenue per capita and apply.