skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I shared this naive outlook on life. Everything in manufacturing is a compromise. Just because the up-and-coming Chinese and Indian car manufacturers aren't as big on safety as the "Western" world doesn't mean that our car companies don't cheat at it and cut corners all the time. We just had a much bigger head start at it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/science/nasa-webb-telesco...

Basically it will be launched in March 2021, if at all.

By the way, every-time the launch year approaches they delay it by a good 2 - 3 years, and this has been the case almost forever.
7 Cool Uses for Docker: WINE and Tweeting from Terminals
Lewis Carrol is actually really fun in just a pure markov chain; usually the diction is sufficient to put someone in the mood for Carrol, which means nobody really expects it to make sense anyways.
> Most "techies going to work for google" or any other tech firm, are not going to get rich, in the Bill Gates or Larry Ellison sense.

I can't speak for the OP, but there is absolutely a sense of getting rich working early at a tech company. The market for startup options is a direct indication of this. Google and Facebook both made, what..1000 millionaires each when they IPO'd? Point is, yes if you get in early to a world dominating technology company, you can absolutely become rich and be set for life.

> Everything about how good techies have it could be negated during the next tech downturn.

Disagree. Downturns force productivity and technology fuels productivity. If anything it's going to force more investment in technology to replace humans so businesses can maintain profitability. It's the sales & marketing folks that are usually in trouble, because many of these high growth companies will simply turn those functions off while we wait for the economy to swing back.
You're both right, although you more than the other guy being a dick. libuv uses a thread pool for asynchronous I/O for everything but network requests, which are handled on the main thread - presumably because they're already asynchronous by nature.

http://docs.libuv.org/en/v1.x/design.html
Veggieburgers are one thing but I think I would wait for 10-20 years of other people eating frankenburgers before I’d be willing to switch.
I mean, I think we're talking about developing good software, not whether the unwashed masses can live a decent life.

Regardless, merit != absolute perfection. Most people are bad at lots of things and good enough at one or two.
> Why is desktop computing the true computing that identifies whether you're native or not?

It's the one platform that allows you to be really productive (at least in an office context).

I personally already struggle when trying to write some proper longer text on a smartphone or table. I don't think I could comfortably write some nice Word letter with maybe some custom design on such a device.

It maybe works out if you are some artist... Idk.
He or she was probably referring to property tax. Illinois has one of the highest property tax rates in the US.
Is it really unworkable though? Shift work has always been common in factories. Outsourced call centers in Asia sometimes work during US daytime hours.
What if you don't have a facebook account at all?
I think you haven't heard about all the latest protests in France? Between the new work code (loi travail), the Notre Dame des Landes airport and the recent transport strike, there are still organized protests here.
I agree. The core tools that allow full remote teams to even function can make a remote team more productive than the average team. Things like: documenting everything religiously, ditching physical location-specific security VPNs, recording everything, letting employees observe every meeting, cloud tools, etc.

For centralized teams, it's difficult to get to this point because it requires willpower and discipline to not take the "easy way out" and just talk about it in-person. Remote teams have an advantage here because there is no easy way out.

But, that comes with obvious drawbacks; it's not easy.

You're right that the worst case scenario is "semi-remote", even if that just means two centralized offices trying to collaborate.

One of the ideas I am warming up to is centralizing (say 75% of) hiring around specific cities, and paying for specific coworking space membership in those cities. You can remain a remote company, but employees have the freedom to organize days when they want to work together in those pre-selected locations.
Even if the map isn't authentic, to quote the original article "Archeological discoveries at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland confirm that the Vikings had settlements in the Americas long before Columbus set sail".
A closed and self hosted family social network without the marketing momentum would be great. Self hosting removes the need for marketing and data sharing shenanigans that most companies require for growth.
You've never heard of this as a dog whistle? I really want an answer from you on this - are you completely unaware of the way the phrase is used by right wing nationalists?
this is what I can't believe. Three people thought violently taking down a man with Down's syndrome was a reasonable thing to do.

Not one went to the manager and said: "he's not hurting anyone - leave him be"
Thus the problem with the philosophical masturbation that goes on in threads like these; the moral busybodies come out of the woodwork to drop wisdom like "business should be about the betterment of humanity." I mean, sure, that would be great, but it's painfully vague.
I enjoy my job (a lot), but I work to live, not live to work. As long as my job pays me well enough and I am only work ~40 hours a week with a flexible schedule I could care less what I am programming most of the time.

My passions can live in my free time.
I've managed to get a remote gig at some point, and i'm sure i can go 100% remote at my present employer. Seems to be the best way like someone above mentioned is to get a non remote job, prove yourself to be a valuable asset and then negotiate remote, never failed in my case.
Well it could. We find in practice that it's easier to just have a server running "somewhere" (locally if you have the resources) and push applications to it. But if the feedback shows that the first-run experience needs to improve that's definitely an area we would be looking at.
Can you provide a citation or test on a website such as wikipedia? Try pinching to zoom the text size.

(Incidentally, Apple invented (https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/30/3279628/apple-pinch-to-zo...) and tried to patent this gesture: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2045461/us-patent-office-rej... )
> but I believe this to be false:

>> open source projects tend to have less diversity than other software organizations.

You won't find some high school student or a stay at home mom have real impact in corporate software projects, but that's not the type of diversity that's measured these days.
What are "sramps"?
Dialogue is hiring (dialogue.co)
Who wins in the late internet era?
Advice for new programmers: become comfortable with Git rebase now
In my experience, wealth management is mostly about having great people skills and being able to have a conversations with anyone.

Not saying everyone here is bad at it; but it's an extremely social industry.
Saw this video years ago.

The Israelis that designed it have been trying to monetize it forever, they don't share at all, they wanted like $5,000 to sell me a disc alone.
Of course, the US Gov't gives these people more money from our taxes than any other nation on earth.
The YBCO is atomic deposited in a vacuum chamber, super thin on a silicone disc, same as used to make chips
sales people have no problem with cognitive dissonance, they do it all day for thousands of years now.
> Facebook doesn’t listen to, view or keep the contents of your Portal video calls. Your conversations stay between you and the people you’re calling.

It's not entirely clear from their wording if the calls are E2E encrypted or not - "doesn't" isn't quite the same as "can't". I wish they would be more clear about this.
The lead organizer is a close friend of mine. My withdrawal from the event came after a long dialogue about exactly this. The circumstances around ZendCon and diversity are a longer, known issue within the PHP community.
I'm going to be blunt; there is no reason for there to be so much HUMAN SHIT on the ground.
Just straight up HUMAN SHIT.
I have gone to countries all over the world, and even in the most desolate and rural areas there was an unspoken rule of not shitting in the streets. Urination is one thing but having to keep a lookout for human shit is just...I felt like i was taking crazy pills!
but... we have javascript! [0]

[0] https://hackernoon.com/js-wtf-with-number-5cd73514befb
I have a relative in the car industry here in the UK who keeps telling me that Teslas keep bursting into flames and there's some kind of massive cover-up. Surely if it were true we'd be hearing a lot more about it? They can't seem to cover-up their crazy CEO's antics or the autopilot issues, so how would they get away with this?
A hired thug who doesn't care who his master is.
General Relativity explained like you've never seen before
This is the first time I’ve ever heard someone say Orkut was a time monopolizer. Can you share a bit about your background and use for this network?
What language is this? I was surprised to see that

averagePosition /= count;

apparently means

averagePosition.x /= count;
averagePosition.y /= count;

I think?
“Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
You then need to try and connect via SCTP and then fallback to SCTP-over-UDP (given Windows/macOS don't support SCTP and you need SYSTEM/root access to create a raw socket to implement it in userland, which is a non-starter), which has a performance cost in a common case (falling back).
Greater Boulder Area, CO.

_If you can survive the winter_

- It's college town with good departments (talks and other activities).

- Decent startup scene

- Some research orgs exist (NCAR/NREL)

- Local incubator

- Options to pursue an active life
I wouldn't take it even for free after their last data leak scandal.
macbook air 13" it's all the power I need for web development (Rails/Laravel) and I can buy two for the price of a pro. Once the keyboard issue is resolved and the esc key is back I might go for a pro next time.
It's terrible when everyone else can use it to get ahead.

It's smart when I use it to save a few bucks and get ahead.
How to reduce the impact of JavaScript on page load speed
Their product is a computer-based design collaboration tool. It's hard to work remotely, but that's the exact challenge they are trying to confront.
Linux has a meritocracy of patches not people, Reddit was the great meritocracy, unfortunately Reddit played the game and Linus didn't.
Classical Verification of Quantum Computations
Just one example is https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab-mobile.html
What about trimming to a stubble, was that ok? Or does it have to be razor blade shaven?
I see Indian soldiers with beards helping people in Palu last week, so perhaps Indian Army also allows beards?
This. Vegetarians can have a hard time when going to restaurants too. As a non-smoking vegetarian, I wasn't having a great time going out.
They sure have strong opinions about working on Government projects but none of them have any issues creating tech that intrusively monitors and manipulates people for the purposes of serving them advertisements. What heroes they are...
This is a strawman argument. The poster you're responding to did not say that.
They used to be, they filled an unmet need in the design tools space (clickable prototypes) for years. Lately tools for interface design (Figma, Framer X, Quartz Composer, Origami, etc) have Invision’s main feature baked into their software (where the work is being created) so there‘s less need for designers to use it. Invision intended to get into the creation tools market, but suffered a poorly-managed rollout of their application, and has been floundering since.
This. Lots of places are great to vacation in and terrible to live in. I grew up in one.
Pittsburgh:

- low cost of living

- 20+ universities

- city successfully transformed from industrial to knowledge center

- young talented workforce - constant influx of young people

- CMU: top notch research university

- UPitt: UPMC - top medical school & center

- Tech companies always looking for a foothold there: Intel, Microsoft, Uber

- Passionate sports fans: Steelers, Penguins... maybe Pirates

- Cheap housing: you can buy entire homes for <$50k (maybe needs some capital improvements)

- Eclectic mix of restaurants (foreign cuisine), bars and decent nightlife
I think remote works well when the company caters to remote employees as a main priority (maybe through adoption of remote friendly processes). I've worked in teams where i was the only remote employee and everyone else was in the office, suffice to say that i missed out on a lot of important information.
The good, the bad and the ugly of machine translation for customer service
YouTuber trolls Twitter,“Beautygate” sting using iPhone XS Max photos as Pixel 2
Even UI developers often get exposed to Invision, especially if mobile is involved - it’s a very useful tool.
The business case for serverless
> it is odd contrasting vehicles which are up to seven years old.

How so? Some of the top 50 safest cars are seven years old, hence they appear on the chart.
For most professionals? Yes.

Now, if we're talking early morning and late night conference calls--even on a semi-regular basis, that's one thing. That's pretty common for a lot of co-workers I know. But day-to-day office hours that are in the middle of the night? Not so much.

It's relatively straightforward to schedule some overlap between the Americas and most of Europe. But there's no way to also do APAC in a way that isn't really painful for someone.
I've lived in Ann Arbor for the last 4 years, and rent is shockingly expensive for a college town. The food scene also kinda sucks. There a couple great restaurants, but most are overpriced and mediocre.
Ask HN: Some questions about Banksy's self destructing painting
In regards to this video posted by Banksy (https://youtu.be/iiO_1XRnMt4), and this thread on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/instant_regret/comments/9lxtch/what_really_happened_with_the_banksy_art_piece/)

1) In Banksy's video they claim they put the shredder in a few years ago – how could a battery last that long?

Theories:

a) (reddit) the painting is plugged in to an electrical outlet to power on board lights. This cannot be true because the painting is easily removed at 51s, and the light is a spotlight, not built in.

b) there are two power supplies, one long lasting battery powering the receiver and a more powerful one powering the motors. When the receiver detects a signal it could turn on the other system to shred the painting. I have a hard time believing a sim module / wifi card could be powered for that long, so I'm assuming its some other sort of low power receiver. We also know a person in on the whole thing was there as the timing had to be perfect. I guess this is technically feasible.

2) The blades seem to be pointed in the wrong direction (https://youtu.be/iiO_1XRnMt4?t=5)

Theories:

None that I can think of or know of!

Any thoughts??
This is a little light on details - but it's good to see some more "happy words" on remote success stories. I've been remote for a couple of years and would like to stay that way. Puff pieces like this do help.

What I've noticed:

- When people write things down, communication is improved.
- Ad-hoc communication is far easier with tools like Slack.

My current company is about 1000 employees now. Communication is actually better then my last couple of companies, and I think it's mostly because we have fewer "gatekeepers" of information.
Plenty of real-time whiteboarding tools. Something simple like a shared google doc works well for 90% of it.
How hard is it get a remote working visa or something similar to Germany's freelancer visa?
my problem is:

my home is filled with distractions.

thus if I work remotely I need to go get an office to be as productive as I might be at my best in an non-remote office.
Hackaday has some theories:

https://hackaday.com/2018/10/07/banksys-barely-believable-ba...
I've long thought that this is the way applications should be built. 90% of what we do as app developers could be automated away. This looks really promising.

That having been said, I'd like to echo some of the other comments here. You need better docs.

As an app developer, I want to see some things right away:

1. What's the server written in? Can I see the code? It isn't clear which of your Github repos contain the server. If your server is proprietary or secret, make that clear.

2. I'm not going to install VirtualBox. Just give me a binary that I can install so I can see what's going on.

3. I want to see what a finished app looks like. Either do a video, or better yet, put up a demo site. Don't make me install the Hours app just to see it.

4. What is the Alan Connect app? I want to see it before I install it.

5. Give me a way to escape the system. I get that I don't need to write code, but for some things, I really do. In what language do I write custom functions? How do I customize the UI?

I understand that I could slog through the docs to find the answers for all these things, but your adoption rate will go way up if you make it easier. When I evaluate new software, if I can't find the answers to the big questions in 20 or 30 minutes, I move on.
Or that it sends you to another dimension, or that the people who do time travel know that if they do anything, they'll change everything so that they won't exist ?
Some tech workers. Not all, not most. This is more or less an editorial trying to get tech workers to think about implications, presumably to make them susceptible to politization so they can be more manipulated by news.

China presents a quandary, no doubt. On the one hand we have self determination and sovereignty, on the other hand we have “western values” and so forth. Not long ago “internationalists” argued for the former, but given that that would result in something contra, they now prefer “western values” which they used to argue against (i.e. relativism).
Welcome to Nashville! We love the growth and all the culture that comes with it. Hit me up if you have any questions, been here for 14 years after trying NY, Cali and Florida.
Well ok then how about running MATLAB on your iPad - you could do a lot of productive work using just that.

https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab-mobile.html
That techies were motivated by riches is not hindsight.

Google, pre-ipo, sucked in so much intellectual capital that other startups, my own included, were having trouble getting access to the elite techies at prices we could afford. Their salaries were well above market, and their options were clearly going to be worth more than everyone else' at the time.

And don't even get me started on Facebook. That one of facebook's early investors was the VC wing of the CIA was an open secret. Yet techies still flocked to them for the big paychecks and the options.

And good for those guys. For the vast majority of them, it worked out REALLY well. I don't fault them for any of it.

I just think that you're putting on rose colored glasses here. It was clear long before Google IPO'd, that there was a lot of money to be made. (That much was even clear before keyword auctions as a matter of fact.) And everyone wanted to be in on it. Everyone still wants to get in on the hot startups. Whether those startups are profitable or not. That's just the nature of this business.

Now again, I'm not complaining. That's just how the tech startup industry works. I get that. My issue is with everyone trying to turn it all around and act like a giant gold rush never blinded everyone. As if all those techies flocked to SV because it was all just about making the world a better place. That's just not true.
> But the orientation needs to be not only measured very accurately (to within a few millionths of a degree)

The fact that we can even achieve this level of precision from a piece of hardware blows my mind.
MS announces cloud gaming Project xCloud so people can 'play Halo anywhere'
Specific models aren't really relevant in the comparison are they? The title of the blog says it all.

> Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of any vehicle ever tested by NHTSA

Which makes and models are they comparing? All of them.

They aren't telling you who ranked 4th or 7th or 23rd because it doesn't matter. The graphs are just there to give you a basis for comparison.
I'm not working on much front-end these days, but as of 2/3 years ago InVision was the best option I was aware of.
I'm about halfway through this book right now and learning a lot. Do you have any recommendations for follow up books or simply ways to put the lessons of the book in to practice?
My training required shouting in all of the drills. The reasoning that was given was that it was required to make sure any and all bystanders and recording devices heard you clearly so there would be evidence that you followed procedure and that they did not follow commands.

Perhaps this is now outdated with the introduction of body cams but I would bet it is still taught that way.
I was confused by the words "Go Program" "in the '80s" in one sentence. OP is talking here about the Go board game played by a computer AI.

Not talking about Go language.
Deaf people are being shot by the police, too. Being a Swiss Deaf I wonder whether it's risky to travel to the US and rent a car.
Yeah, I really like that one, it can produce nice dense graphs that display a lot of history at once. It even shows stats about the CPU cores as well.
I think this will be a great way to spend more time with my parents who live 400 miles away. It will also allow my kids to talk to my parents more.

We already use Facebook messenger for this since it’s the easiest for my parents to use. This would be an improved messenger experience in my eyes.
Strangely, Iowa City. Huge University, art and science lectures and events all the time, street music downtown most nights with dozens of clubs and events. Festivals, protests, book readings. Clean and mostly safe (drunks at 2AM can get rowdy). English of course, but a dozen other languages heard in any coffee shop or restaurant (because of the International student population)
To confirm something already stated: back in the day in grad school (90s), my understanding was that clocked circuits were just too far ahead in tooling, so clockless could never catch up in the big, complex domains where it would make a difference.

One of my proofs likenee it to (at the time) ai, where it held out such promise, got tons of hype, then reliably would totally disgrace itself every ten years...
Chasing the Quantum Tantra
I'm in that situation now. Well kind of. I am in the only team member not colocated with the rest of the team.

At the start it was really hard. They would all be in a room together and I could barely even hear them over the phone, much less speak up and say something over their rapid fire conversations. It's gotten better since I've brought these concerns up I'm only on week 4.

We've setup twice a week cisco telepresence meetings and the plan is I fly out every few months for a week.

I'm not too keen on this long term but at least the team is really experienced so I stand to learn a lot. I hope I can take what I learn to my own team soon.
"Also with our tool, it took an average of 30 seconds to get a meeting started."

You must have better phone-meeting tools than my company does.