skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an amusing point of view. WeChat is really the worst messenger out there from a technical standpoint. No attempt encryption at all (who knows if they even use SSL?) and the stickers and social networking features still resemble 1st gen. messenger apps
Sourcegraph does this quite well if you need.
yeah, the overhead at evernote is still way to high.
I’ve seen this brought up in several threads online. I really don’t care about that. The app switcher is not a task manager as you say. The reason I compulsively close apps is the same reason I keep my chrome tabs small. It’s a pain to find the one I want if I don’t
I think you're missing 'volatile's in your casts
I'll preface this with I've not had a look at any Kaggle competition, but I always assumed Kaggle competitions was on par with programming competitions in terms of how the skills transfer professionally. A great programmer is not necessarily great at programming competitions after all.

Am I way off here?
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I had a sales job like this for a while at a small VAR. We were an HP, Netapp, cisco, etc Gold partner, but my boss didnt care if I sold any of that, only that I generated enough profit to cover my base salary through literally any means.

Ended up writing my own software to interact with the Amazon Marketplace sellers API and all our distributors nightly inventory data and just drop ship stuff in mass, and send a couple product I had the best pricing on to Amazon for FBA.

I got it down to maybe an hour of real work a week and was crushing my numbers. After a year or so of that I got bored and jumped shipped though because I didnt see any additional personal growth to be had at the company.
I loved a manager I had who would listen to all arguments and allow himself to be persuaded. He also said sometimes "you're right, but we have to do it my way this time", and had earned so much trust that, when he said it, I knew the reasons were good.
The zero-ness of NULL is a good example of the phenomenon I'm talking about. How much time have people wasted over the years tweaking and worsening code afer somebody pointed out that some platform at one point might not have used the all-zero bit pattern for NULL? In how many cases did the program that was changed get anywhere close to such a strange, special-purpose, and likely obsolete computer? I'm guessing the answer is "vanishingly close to zero." Being exactly ANSI C correct (as opposed to relying on POSIX's stronger guarantees) comes with an engineering cost, and there's no sense paying that cost unnecessarily.
It would be a lot cheaper, in that case, to not acquire Tesla and just let it collapse.
Those companies had to obtain ICP licenses and participate in forced partnerships and open up their servers to the government.

Your claim of fairness here is simply quite laughable
I sometimes wonder if programmers instinctively overcomplicate things in interest of collective job security. Some of the stuff I've seen in (particularly awful) Java code bases is perplexing to the point where it seems intentional.
I'll name the best manager I ever had, since she unexpectedly passed away nearly three years ago to our team's (and company's) great sadness. Margaret Thielemann was a QA manager for nearly 10 years at Esri (she previously headed up QA at PeopleSoft before its acquisition by Oracle), and I reported to her for all of those 10 years, during which I learned and mastered web development by scoping, designing, and building several internal web apps. She hired me as a kid with little corporate experience, straight out of college, and took me "under her wing" and patiently taught me the ropes of thriving in a corporate environment.

Margaret had all the hallmarks of an incredibly great manager. She hired for potential (not past achievement) and gave employees every opportunity to grow and pursue our passion as developers. This allowed me to pivot and grow into web development, which was not in my job description or past experience. She never micromanaged, even when a deadline was approaching. She never demoed a project or took credit for something she didn't build herself. Like my teammates, I had to demo every product I built -- which was challenging but forced me to grow in public speaking skills (and she coached me the first few times). This also allowed me and other team members to gain recognition throughout the department.

She very effectively protected us from HR and whoever else wasn't on the team so we could focus on our work. A few times someone tried to ask us for help with someone else's project without asking her first--she was furious. She also fought (very effectively) with HR and management to get us raises that better reflected our increasing market value.

I owe my career and present livelihood largely to Margaret and the opportunities she provided me. I'd be remiss not to acknowledge God's obvious provision to me in her. Thanks so much Margaret, and thank you Lord.
I think I'd be happy in a job if I could have self-direction and work on whatever I find interesting or important. That's a lot more important to me than working remotely or having a flexible schedule. I really don't like being told exactly what to work on and having all my ideas shot down.

I'm a solo founder of a small startup, and I really enjoy the freedom to work on whatever I want. I'm making lots of mistakes and not growing as fast as I could be, but I'm learning a lot and I enjoy almost everything that I'm working on. I'm even enjoying the marketing, sales, and support, because it's fun to talk to people and personally solve their problems.

I'm not sure if I ever want to bring on a co-founder or hire some people, but I think it could be interesting to work with a small group of generalists where everyone just works on whatever they think is important. There's a famous quote from Steve Jobs: "It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."
I don't think it's a very radical idea, but I don't know if many companies actually put it into practice. I think that kind of decision-making is usually reserved for cofounders or C-level executives, and it probably breaks down after 10+ employees. But would be fun to try with a small team.
What would happen if say, Foxconn no longer assembled phones? How would Apple, for example, recover their supply in any reasonable time? You can't just spin up that capability overnight.

Seemed to me that if China wanted to amp this up and play hardball, they could just give Tim Cook a phone call and tell him they won't be making iPhones anymore. Estimates I've seen is that about 40% of Foxconn is Apple products. They could probably replace this demand with more Japanese/Korean/Domestic IHVs, combined with banning domestic sale of iPhones and accelerating the marketshare loss that's been ongoing.
When compared to the hiring pools for iOS and Android devs, the size of the web front end pool is certainly larger, because that’s what’s currently hot and has the lowest barrier to entry. You’re right that quality is just as hard to find, but given the performance issues that continually plague most modern web apps (with apps like VS Code serving as evidence that it need not be that way), I’m not convinced that quality is the highest priority with these hires.

I will concede that I am a bit bitter. It’s frustrating to watch the industry push ever harder to render specialized developers unnecessary.
Clarification: I though this was well know, but apparently it isn't, so I'll explain it.

`malloc` doesn't have to give you the same pointer the next time the program is run - and sometimes it doesn't.

In that case, the ordering of the hash table on iteration can change.

Particularly, release build `malloc` and debug `malloc` are likely to differ, leading to bugs in production that don't reproduce when debugging.
Commute for hours every day and live in crappy shared housing for a couple decades so that eventually you can walk away from all your friends and colleagues and start over somewhere worse.

Seems like a pretty obtuse way of obtaining a Midwestern house. You could also just mortgage one, like everyone else does, while working any white-collar Midwestern job.
I agree: CL is a wonderful language but you have to embrace the whole environment/philosophy if you want to adopt it. And the language is not so easy to embed which prevents many "enterprise"/application development use cases.

As a matter of fact the only game in town for embedding CL code is ECL which:
1) relies on the Bohem garbage collector
2) is LGPL licensed

Both points have cons which might discourage embedding of Common Lisp code in other applications.
Matters would be different if there was something like a CL to C transplier adopting a generational GC distributed with a MIT/BSD like license.
I'm building the 2D interactive graphics engine for mobile platforms. The focus is on authoring all of content on phone/tablet.

Instead of using bitmaps/meshes, the user starts with single primitive (y < 0 half-plane) and applies series of transformations (wrap, intersect, linear transform...) to sculpture it into desired shape. This scene description looks and behaves both like JSON tree and S-expressions.

For interactivity, I would like to have a lisp-like language that's visualized as tree. The user would execute 'macros' to modify existing code, for example to wrap a function into a loop or to make a mirror reflection of existing graphics. The host should make sure that code is always syntactically correct and should provide default primitives when constructing new code, that will be replaced or modified by user.

Here's some WiP screenshots:
[0] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmiskovic/arbo/master/medi...
[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmiskovic/arbo/master/medi...
[2] https://i.imgur.com/qzb6cC0.gif
She helped me with my strengths and weaknesses. She told me my career limiting weakness. She talked about my feelings which is rare in backstabbing C-Level executive country of large enterprises. On top of that she was very bright, very demanding and very analytical.

I would always work with or for her again.
I can kind of see what they're getting at. Women are under-represented in the tech industry. I don't think many people would disagree with that.

But this feels like a blunt instrument for a highly-nuanced issue. If diversity of experience is a core value at Duolingo, why not recruit everywhere and tailor the interviewing process to favor candidates from non-traditional backgrounds?

While they've achieved an important milestone, I'd be very worried about the line of thinking that led to this decision if I were a Duolingo investor. All the diversity in the world doesn't mean much if they can't find a way to keep the lights on.
If you keep posting uncivil or unsubstantive comments we're going to ban you, so would you please stop?

The idea here is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

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You really have to do something about your website. You get nearly no info nor simple stuff like screenshots. Is there a way to help you out in that regard?
Specifically means the budget that will be spent on the ads, vs any kind of personnel, agency, etc cost. Budget alone would be more ambiguous.

At least that's my recollection, though I've been out of ads for like a couple years now.
Stephen Moore also predicted tax revenue growth and reduced deficits for the Bush tax cuts (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/09/06/tax-code) and Kansas' recent tax cuts (https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/07/14/...). Maybe he'll be right this time....
The single reason I switched from Evernote to Onenote is that it is expensive. 5$/month for a note taking app? Seriously? With 6$/month, I can get a full office suit, an email with no ads, plus 1 TB of OneDrive. Evernote is a sort of app that should make money at scale by offering extremely cheap deals.
How easy is it these days to create web, smartphone and tablet-UIs with Qt and those other frameworks? Cross platform is not limited to desktop anymore.
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> way too low resolution to read text

Latest Vive should be decent.
What if employers create a different ad for men and for women, targeting both, but appealing to the target more effectively? It's often cited that the wording of a neutral sounding job ad can have a huge effect on the percentage of women that will apply.

There's nothing illegal about what facebook is doing, although there is potential for misuse.
Posting uncivilly will get you banned here, so please don't do this again.

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Why do they need so many jobs to begin with. It is a nice product and good for a small company. It is not right to pursue the path of being a company that big.
Maybe get 2D right before dabbling with VR?

Firefox still does not support hardware encoding of videos on Linux. So when I watch Youtube videos my CPU usage goes through the roof and I cannot watch HD.

xkcd even made a comic about it: https://xkcd.com/619/
That sounds amazing. Did you have an equity stake in the projects, or was it just for an hourly rate/salary?
Perhaps via youtube's search and recommendation algorithms optimising for misinformation as an engagement strategy?
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How did those small stores get “killed?” Who’s fault is that? The town voted to kill those stores when they stopped buying from those stores. Nobody forces you to go to a large store. And, if the public actually wants cheaper products, how do you have any right to oppose them optimizing for their own situation? That’s democracy in action: people vote with their wallets. If they cared about their kids buying a liter of milk, they’d have their kids still buying those liters of milk. Big stores didn’t put the small stores out of business — the people of your perfect little town did by exercising freedom. And you seem to be arguing against freedom to assuage your selfish nostalgia? Perhaps vote for lower taxes so people could afford to shop in overpriced small shops? Perhaps vote to eliminate all tariffs so that consumer products could be cheaper? Perhaps vote for fewer regulations so small shops wouldn’t be crushed by taxes and Byzantine labor laws. Try starting a small shop in France and see how hard it is to even open the doors, let alone make a profit. But the same people that lament the death of the small shop have no trouble voting for leftist politicians that create the very regulatory environment that makes those small shops unprofitable.
A dosing method and use it as treatment will surely help "depressed" patient as it may alter one's mind into positive outlook towards life. It has been used many years ago and have been tested and proven among others. Patients must be monitored and have them observed. Magic Mushroom taken with other substance may cause different effect if not monitored. It has been banned on Amsterdam because many people experiment it with other drugs and alcohol. If one is getting treated with mushroom, it only has to be mushroom and nothing else.
It's an online teaching class to improve the English called mmmenglish.. The tutor named Emma is so amazing, you can also see her video through below link-

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRiVfHqBIIvSgKmgnSY66g/
Foxconn is a Taiwanese company. Even though many of their factories are in China, the company also has factories across the world, with headquarters located free from Chinese government control.

It's also apparently the largest private employer in China. It seems like it's really easy to shoot yourself in the foot with this trade war stuff...
It's the tvtropes of programming.
The comment was killed by HN's anti-troll software, which is tuned more aggressively for new accounts and unfortunately gets some cases wrong. Fortunately users tend to vouch for those, as happened here. That unkills them.
So this is a link just to have something to hang this comment on.

I have been using this ios git tool to write a book - the text is on github, and i just wanted to pull, edit and push while on a commute.

Today I logged in and got presented with a "sorry : you bought the pro version, but (unclear rationale probably moving to subscription model) and you need to transfer your data to the free version with in-app purchases.

Now most devs would have left it at that - we are end of lifing this app, move on.

However I got treated to a decent example of how to use coding to improve UX - nothing fancy, just workmanlike.

Link to app store for sibling app, then when opening that, the app knows it is mid-merge and verifies my purchase, triggers the other app to begin a data swap, transfers some files and marks it self to be deleted with a new icon.

It was far less painful than i suspected. And I guess the developer put in a week or mores work to get it right.

Most would not have bothered, and it was good to see a decent attempt being made.

I would have done the awkward path anyway, but As you can tell, the time i saved has been lost writing this.

in short, someone (and I think he is a one man band) took the time to develop something that took some pain away from his users, and it was noticed. as I am more stuck in the belly of corporate beasts, such things seemmimportant to remember

NB I am in no way affiliated with Working Copy - in fact I pay them. Just to be clear.
If there was a limit, I'd immediatelly gather my whole extended family (15 persons) and send them to every store to buy as much as possible.
I don't think so.

Per my observation, the most 'interesting' part of a data scientist's job is story telling, that is using data analysis to draft a theory to push forward for product direction. Some of the ML engineers works under Data Scientist umbrella, but since the DL thing happens, they are now putting under even fancier titles like AI Engineers or such.

So data scientists are really product manager/owner with analysis skills. Is this job interesting? For sure, when it follows this definition. Interesting? That only depends on the problem domain, not the title, IMHO.
do you know where one can find typical frequency or impulse response plots? both for total input control to energy network or partial (control -> heat, heat -> turbine etc) responses would be interesting, for real/typical systems
Just as an FYI, in the past few hours there have been reports on some big Facebook advertising groups people are getting notifications about their anti-discrimination policies regarding jobs. As a matter of fact, they've, for a while, had an extra step for advertisers to verify they're in compliance for housing, lending, and career opportunities.
Damn, Sourcegraph is very close to something I've been thinking of building.
> What if your boss is a woman?

Then I would write "she" instead of "he". But Fabio is a man.
No, the bad practice is on the side of standardisation commitees and all users suffer from it. Recently, I got burned by the removal of the symbol CLK_TCK from a header (https://github.com/Orc/pdksh/issues/1). If you have access to a RedHat 5, you can observe it with the command /bin/pdksh -c "time sleep 5". I think we should work to replace the C language because all its weaknesses have been worsen by standardisation commitees.
I think it's because the boot sequence is always pretty much the same on a given architecture, but process management is where things start to depend less on the hardware and more on the OS design.
What little management experience I have (3 years as team lead for 2 different teams) tells me most people are masochists deep down inside and crave a dictator to order them what to do.
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So, if the unions conspire to limit wages, it's in the interest of all workers, but if the companies do the same, it must be made illegal.

Particularly interesting is the contrast between this paragraph...

"Today's inequality crisis is America's worst on record since statistics were first recorded a hundred years ago — the only comparison would be to the era of the railroad tycoons in the late 19th century."

... and this one:

"Google, like the others, used a "salary algorithm" to ensure salaries remained within a tight band across like jobs. Although tech companies like to claim that talent and hard work are rewarded, in private, Google's "People Ops" department kept overall compensation essentially equitable by making sure that lower-paid employees who performed well got higher salary increases than higher-paid employees who also performed well."

So, more equality would be better, except when it's worse.

Those poor exploited tech workers with their six figure salaries, not being able to freely choose between working at those Fortune 500 companies at ever-more astronomical wages. The government absolutely must step in to protect them!
Wow I have a lot more respect for Duolingo now. That's great!
Ah, sorry – quite obvious upon inspection! Yes, I will concede that there was a time when this sort of thing was a regular practice and I could have clarified that here I'm speaking about art in the modern context. Perhaps there are artists in the past 100 years who somehow involve their patrons in their work, but this is quite apart from what we witness with this project – the patron, dignifying himself sans-artists or art.
Within a few days of taking the reins, the first company-wide email from the new CEO was a reversal on an issue about paychecks and tax donations. It was to be more flexible. (This has been a mildly contentious issue.)

What a great way to say “I’m running the show,” without stirring things up or causing debate. I was immediately impressed by the degree of awareness this person displayed.
Would you please stop posting ranty comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot lately, and crossing into incivility too.

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Nope. Kaggle just covers the modelling part, which is normally much easier than figuring out how to solve business problems using data.
Very insightful.
QNX 7 disable aslr maybe because of ASIL support.
On my case it works when I force enable it, but it leads to occasional X crashes.