skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember when Facebook censored my communications with friends and family about the Snowden documents, Bernie Sanders, and Mayday Protests. This was before the current trend of labeling the justification "Russian propaganda" - it was just part of the routine American censorship.
People are waking up, but what they're waking up to is the fact that platforms like Facebook have been used to spread propaganda that villainizes marginalized communities. This has spurred hate crimes and fanned the flames of genocide. Facebook is directly implicated in the purge of Rohingya muslims in Myanmar.

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/11/myanmar-hria/
I haven't designed levels, but playing maps across a few games, I'm constantly amazed at how well small details are thought out. A seemingly random crate actually blocks off a line of fire that would give one team a major positional advantage; a tree breaks up the line of sight between two objectives; a decorative fire provides visual cover in an otherwise overly open lane; a curved passage has exactly the right proportions to give cover on one side while being open on the other, letting players choose when to engage.

In a well-designed map, every part has to play well with everything else, at least within line of sight. Even small changes to the layout result in unbalanced maps that lead to frustrating play. Randomly generated maps might be fun out of novelty, but they won't play well in the long run, at least for games like Counterstrike.
Sad news indeed. I've been doing a lot of "retro computing" stuff lately, including starting a project to build a Z80 based machine. And one of the things I keep coming across references to is the S-100 bus. It seems to have been a key component of a lot of the earlier PC's.

Anyway, R.I.P. Mr. Godbout. And here's hoping we don't lose anyone else to the wildfires.
I was initially reading this as "GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue for Every Employee Working from Home". Now that would truly be a remarkable number as most major tech companies are <$2M/employee.
Great examples. I think algorithms in sites like Facebook did something similar. In order to maximize view/clicks, they themselves created problems like an echo chamber or promoting divisive articles which in turn made the whole experience worse
Unless this has changed recently, DigitalOcean has a physical office in NYC, so they are not fully remote. When I interviewed there a couple years ago, they said more than half of their engineers were at that office.

Edit: Based on their job postings[0], it looks like they have physical offices in at least NYC, Cambridge, and Palo Alto. I'm not sure what the ratio of remote to on-site personnel is these days, but DO is definitely not a fully remote company.

[0]: https://www.digitalocean.com/careers/#anchor--current-openin...
It's very unrealistic: in a real city people would have shit bricks because of the total lack of parking, and forced the planning commission to enact big parking minimums.
You are able to go without tests because you're writing entire apps on your own. You know what each file, class, and module is supposed to do, and how to test it for regressions manually.

If you're working on a large team with a large suite of applications, this isn't the case. Very often I'll need to make changes to code that I don't explicitly own, or that I've never seen before today. If this code doesn't have tests, this is a recipe for disaster. I don't really understand what this code is supposed to do. How do I know that my change didn't break any existing functionality? Is it obvious how or even possible to test the functionality in this file manually? Maybe it's a background job that processes a file off of an SFTP server, how long will it take me to set up a manual test for that?

It's also about iteration time. Automated tests allow to you check the correctness of every single change nearly instantaneously. I don't want to need switch to a browser and wait for a form to submit just to check that my code still works after a minor refactor, or to ensure that my typo was fixed successfully. Tests mean that code is much more likely to be refactored often, and will lead to much cleaner and easier to maintain codebases.
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Show HN: Squally – A Game to Teach Low Level Computer Science
After many months of development, we are releasing Squally as early-access on Steam! This game teaches low-level computer science; topics such as data types, data structures, bin/dec/hex, and x86 assembly are gradually introduced through puzzles and gameplay.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/770200/Squally/

It's still very early in development, we currently have only released a card mini-game that teaches binary operations:

https://i.gyazo.com/0a33bbac5bbb5421f7eb120edd3ff6bb.gif
You kow what would be more fun - is a game with a squad that needs to advance along a path to a goal co-op style taking out hoardes coming in the opposite direction - and the prize goes to longest life of the team.
There was no way to instantly let everyone know at 5 AM that they should stop fighting; some hours were surely needed to get the word out.

If anything the "cute quote", or poetry of the "eleventh hour, ..." phrase helped to shorten the killing. Lloyd George had instructed that the armistice should be set to come into effect at 2:30 PM (so that he could announce it triumphantly in Parliament), but Admiral Weymss, British naval representative in the negotiations, took it upon himself to bring the time forward to 11 AM to minimise the loss of life, as well as for the poetry of the moment. (The Prime Minister was not pleased!)
In Italy the gov't has policies for this kind of situation. The Labour party is pushing for the same called 'Right to Own'.

Personally, I think the employees have the right to get ownership. Nothing gets produced without human labour. They may have ownership of the factory (by some divine reason), but nothing gets produced without labour (including management labour).
i think a lot of the problems you are expected to solve in a CS course are things that are already provided or have workable alternatives in higher level languages. VB and javascript already provide for many different data structures where you might need to know them and be aware of them in the lower-level languages

Also due to the data structures provided in higher level languages you are often less aware of how long something will take to run which i find is a big part of many CS courses
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Yeah, I posted about this above.

The London salaries are passable.
The other ones are comedic.
You can commute to London from Brighton.

Basically you're just forcing your employees to live inside the M25 for no reason. Or get postboxes / fake apartments and lie about it.
Family lost everything they own in the fire. Here is their Gofundme campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/godbouttuckcampfirerelieffund
Web Packaging in the W3C draft was a completely different idea - there's not even a single mention of signatures. The "specification" you linked is actually a standards draft published by Google. And the open source project is again, another Google project that only benefits their AMP ecosystem.
I would bet that Intel has decent statistics on the average number of lanes used, and opted for 10 based on that. Since die space is a premium, they either used the extra space where it's needed more, or shrunk the die by some small amount.
But are the explanations true? Are they deterministic?

If someone took ten minutes of video of you driving in city traffic; could you consistently explain all of your decisions that would be recorded?

It's very easy to tell yourself that your actions are consistent and explainable ( rational ) but if examined closely they aren't always consistent with any one set of heuristics. Following distance is one example; can you explain the decision making process by which you decide how much space to give the vehicle in front of you? Why it varies based on road conditions; weather or your estimate of your reaction times?
I guess, isn't there a difference between the actions of an individual and the actions of a nation state?

A singular politician voicing his/her opinion/rhetoric is one thing, a concerted nation state attack is entirely different.

I think it's interesting people are not making this distinction here.
This is an interesting take on assortive mating, and likely has at least some explanatory power.

I suppose, also, prostitution can skew the numbers. If some people regularly service hundreds or thousands of people, then that could have a similar effect on the total numbers. It would seem like there's less sex, but really the number of sexual sessions is the same or more, just with a fewer percent of the population.
As always, "it depends." Testing is usually about larger teams, cost of failure, and sleeping better at night during refactors.

If the project is small, fits in one skull, and not critical enough to be maintained/redesigned for years on end tests buy you less.

Also, technology can prevent some classes of problems, such as type checkers, linters, etc. One hopes you are at least using these.

#1 gives the impression the author is using a dynamic "scripting" language, which may require a higher ratio of tests per line as a project matures.
Google have locked down viewing of the Chromium MathML ticket
Maybe names shouldn't be disclosed until the actual hiring is done.
I don't apply to many jobs (I've got a tolerable one and am picky about location and other things), but the one startup tech job I applied to didn't do puzzles, they did do a screenshared coding portion, but it wasn't a puzzle kind of thing.
Let's talk about CubeSats
I'm guessing they mean the other ABC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corpor...
Medium comments are up there with the worst comment implementation I've ever seen
Not even that IMHO, but Italy lacks business "system" in terms of different components all trying to create the platform for creating sustainable businesses at scale.
This strategy usually falls apart for two reasons:

1. Some people are really good talkers and some people are really bad talkers, especially in an interview setting. That said, all the software companies that people usually complain about do have part of the interview process dedicated to past experience, more the more senior you are.

2. It doesn't scale. To ask really pertinent questions that can trip up a good talker you usually need someone with a lot of experience. But you also don't want them to spend all day doing interviews. You need some type of interview that more junior employees can collect signal from.
What about residents? Olympic bids for example have been way less popular with the residents then with the officials, recently.
They had disabled commenting on this ticket some time ago, but I find it curious that now even view access seems to be restricted. Are they really that determined to avoid dealing with this issue?
On iOS, SFSafariViewController gets you the best of both worlds. The browser is in-app, but you essentially get a full Safari experience.
You don't think Medium is a good place to publish to reach people on Medium? What site would you recommend instead?
You could design to have repetitive features, ex. you know that any tunnel will always have stairs to a higher level next to a lamp.
Costs are definitely coming down. The OS-1 sensor is 1/6 the price of Velodyne's 64 channel sensor. Ouster has been pretty explicit about our intent to keep driving down prices, and we have significant structural advantages covered in the article that will allow us to do so in the coming months and years.
Far right nutjobs (scarequote kind and real ones) have consistently been against US involvement in middle eastern wars. One of the ways the oligarchy works is associating things they don't like, aka "fewer dumb wars" with generally unpopular ideas.
What defines ‘smart’? I can think & consider & carefully plan — and still do something foolish. Moreover, what you consider wise I may consider foolish. Who am I to judge your choice, and who are you to judge mine?

It would certainly be democratic to give the money back to the citizens, permitting each to spend it as he will; then each would get a vote on what he thinks the best expenditure is.
There kind of is entanglement though!

You 'measure' one cell, and then all the other ones 'collapse' to values consistent with the result, because they have a hidden relationship with the cell you measured.

That's what happens in quantum mechanics. When you measure one thing, all the other things its entangled with collapse somewhat too - but not necessarily completely, it depends on the entanglement they had with the measured system.

It's a metaphor, I'm just saying it's very apt, not that it's mathematically equivalent.
Yeah, Medium isn't great if you're an up and coming writer, or don't have a following on other social media sites. If you need more proof of that, well go and look at the digest emails they send, or the articles featured on the home page.

About 80-90% are from users with a large following on Medium.com, and many of those are also 'online influencers' with decent sized Twitter/YouTube/LinkedIn/whatever fanbases as well.

Oh, and forget it if your story isn't a paid story. About 90+% of Medium's promoted stories are members only stories now, with the home page I got just now literally having every single story outside of the 'popular on Medium' column being a paid one.

If you're not charging for the story and don't have a pre existing fanbase, at best you've got the end of article suggestions and latest stories link to rely on and the latter has about twenty pages of mediocre stories for every good one.

Like on many platforms now, it seems the popular just get more popular, and the rest battle for the scraps or the off chance they'll break out.
Of course you understand why the proposal as you interpret it would not be workable, which is why that isn't what he proposed. He proposed banning discriminatory measures of coercion. IE, you couldn't pass a law that allowed some classes of people to steal and others to not steal. That seems an obvious principle of law. Presumably such an amendment would mean that you couldn't have a military draft that only applied to men and not to women, and it would have invalidated laws that gave preference to men in inheritance or property (the goals of the failed Equal Rights Amendment are a subset of Hayek's proposal). Under most interpretations that I've seen, it would still allow social security, welfare or basic income, and progressive taxation since all classes of people could expect to age or move in and out of different income brackets in their lifetime. It would probably also still allow for broadly applied Pigouvian taxes, but I'm not a legal scholar.

The point in the context of this discussion is that you would nearly require a constitutional amendment to enforce the basic principle that a law should apply fairly and equally to all. Think of it adding the idea of equal obligations to balance the idea of equal rights. If we want an antitrust law that applies to businesses, then it should also apply to the business of baseball [1]. If we are to have a copyright that expires, then there should be no special exemption for the works of Mary Baker Eddy, but as a matter of legal principle not religious freedom [2]. It would challenge all sorts of special exemptions for specific companies and industries, and reduce corruption by making a large amount of lobbying pointless.

[1] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/07/why-does-basebal...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/23/us/christian-science-text...
> The company owes nothing to early employees and some churn is likely.

Given the fact that early employees are usually under-compensated (and who usually thinks of buying out any options right after they are canned, while job hunting?), this is doubly sad.
Miserable news.
2040? That won't fly, next presidents will push that date probably. Current president wasn't even elected.
Are you implying those people are auditioning ironically and know they are bad singers? - No. I have absolutely no idea why you ask that.

It does not seem rude to me to try and change the course of someone's life who is _drastically_ underperforming. - Leaving aside what underperforming could mean - so, if he means well, it's just not possible for Cowell to be rude, no matter what he says? I think that's just not what the word means to people (apart from you).

That doesn't follow the implication that rudeness shouldn't happen; - I can't parse that, sorry.
A good portion of those Amazon workers will already live and work in NY, and leave their current job where they aren't being subsidised to one that is.
A S100 based system from chromenco was the built to the hilt mac pro in todays terms back then pre IBM pc.
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I am upvoting you, but you didn't actually answer the question. Your examples have to do with getting a job, not perceived quality of work once one has a job. Both are bad, and your examples are arguably worse, but it doesn't shed any light on how one's clothes, name, etc. can affect the perception of one's actual work.
Is there an advantage to attaching the filter to the front of the fan so air is blown through it (as shown in the video) versus taping it to the back of the fan so air is sucked through it? Just curious if that would make any difference. It might be easier to get the filter to stay if it's getting sucked to the fan.
Even with the test trains it's it's spotty at best. I work off Greenpoint which is 2 stops to court sq and frequently the trains are backed up/delayed or by the time they arrive it's a clusterfuck.

I can't imagine what's going to happen then the L actually shuts down and people no option but to take the G.
It's not that simple since it's essentially impossible to do a true blind hiring process, due to the fact that interviews happen in person (on video, physically, etc.) and so hiding the name can get a foot in the door but biases take over once the interviews start.
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Yeah, I've heard people talk like it's a huge virtue the way they go around being mean to people, 'daring' to speak their minds.
I've been luring the Dyson hot and cool air purifiers, it's pretty silent from what I've heard, it also serves as both an electrical heater during the winter and a cooler during the summer. The price tag is the reason I've never bought one...
I have seen that. I also seen people openly talking about social skills being opposite of coding skills and literally making implications about others. I have seen people pretend lower social skill then they actually have.

The most common through is assuming that someone with bad social skills is genius in coding with zero grounds for it. Without seeing code or even talking with those who know his code closely, anything like that. Assumption was that that those people are better in coding because got knows why. I suspect part of it is wish to compensate, but part is stereotype.

Open offices have nothing with it, except making people with poor social skills more actively annoying. Which can cancel some of effect I guess.
Local officials are not coming out of thin air - local residents are the ones who are electing local officials.
They don’t need police and fire and roads and subsidized subway and ferry service and building inspections and restaurant inspections and street cleaning and bike lanes?
There's plenty of evidence that science and scientists are easily corruptible and high profile 'results' like "mmmmm GMO corn" are a lie. Example from my own career: some ridiculous smart grid technology which claimed people would turn their air conditioners off when it is hot out because "muh free markets" peak load pricing changes. I actually had access to the original data which pushed forward this ridiculous multi-billion dollar boondoggle and checked the assertions: the PIs overtly lied.
That's not going to work, unless we don't have in person interviews. Since most jobs involve working physically with other people, and, theoretically, you want the interview to simulate the actual working conditions as closely as possible, so it constitutes a valid "work sample test," that doesn't seem workable.
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Which gov't org TOLD them how to moderate? All I really saw was the FBI alerted them to some suspicious activity linked to foreign entities, which FB investigated and agreed that the acct's violated FB's policies and so they removed them. Did I miss something?

The most interesting thing about that article to me was discovering FB uses WordPress to publish them.
>We'd have picked it up anyway when actually testing it.

Why not automate the tests you often run?
The point of a language standard is to have multiple compilers and to be able to write code to some standard. The difference between these points is that with a "stdlib" alternative library, you can still have multiple compilers and write library function calls without following the standard, but simply the library's API. The reason I believe the stdlib shouldn't be a standard is for the same reason that libpng, libjpg, libzip, etc. aren't part of the C standard. It should be the software vendor's choice of which standard library to use.
There's a variant of this in Indonesia too: http://www.expat.or.id/medical/masukangin.html
It's on the page:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqGDxNsAkKE
Not sure, but I'd think it would also help to keep your fan clean.
I've given this thought before, and generally I think the answer is, "yes".

There's something to be said about riding the growth wave in a company or industry that is on the up-and-up, and it usually involves more career opportunities, fatter project budgets, and just a general sense of optimism from everyone else you work with. Of course there are exceptions/outliers, but in general, "yes".

The inverse of this is, "Do you want to be working at a company that is shrinking?" and I think the answer is generally, "no".
I have indeed seen this happen several times.
That's not the majority of the world, population wise. You can offer alternative for the exceptional case, but you should label it as such.
I think it is more enterpreneurs and startup founders who get all the hate, not so much run of mill programmers.
Grey beards no longer allowed at some places, so grab a Just for Men.
What clothes will make my manager and coworkers think I write better software? (Serious question.)

Also regarding presentation improving the perceived quality of work, I noticed that when I started writing my homework assignments in LaTeX in grad school (math), I started getting better grades. I don't think my actual quality of work increased, but I was able to get away with less convincing arguments.
There is the exception of corporate accounts, and peoples’ pets accounts, etc., which would be great if they nixed them too.
> cooler during the summer

Where does the heat go?
Tangential, but as someone in the southern hemisphere it's frustrating when people use seasons for timelines. "Q2 2019" is immediately more understandable instead of having to do some mental gymnastics to convert it.
I will be really interested to see what limitations the service launches with. From what I've seen, they have been extraordinarily hazy about what the cars can actually do (e.g., time of day, weather, locations, dealing with non-road complexity). That makes sense, of course, as it's valuable information for competitors, but I'm still eager to find out.

I'll also be interested to see how much this is them wanting to run a full production service versus an advertisement for their technology. Will it be more like Google Search? Or more like Android, where they maintain a small market share as a demonstration of where they want people to go?