skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Allow me to disagree with tptacek a little:

The OffSec Penetration Testing with Kali Linux (OSCP certification) is excellent and outstanding and cheap.

https://www.offensive-security.com/information-security-trai...

While the course itself is $800, you'll most assuredly need another 60 days of lab time for the certification. I think all-in-all it cost me $1,500 for everything.

The course material is excellent and wide-ranging and very hands-on. If you have a family, it's a serious investment of time. It put a serious dent into my night time hours for a couple months.

The OCSP certification is widely-respected and not just a "paper certification" like some of the others (c|eh). Lots of practical skills. Great stuff.
there does seem to be some disentanglement from bitcoin: https://coinmarketcap.com/
i just like them cause they are a good change of pace for comfort. If im working on code for 5+ hrs, my butt/back gets sore from sitting for so long. Switching to standing for an hour or so allows me to grind longer. In no way do i think that im somehow being healthier for standing
I believe that some of the genius of the show has to go to Dan Lyons as well. He worked at HubSpot for a stint and wrote a book about it called "Disrupted" (https://www.amazon.com/Disrupted-My-Misadventure-Start-Up-Bu...). Really funny, in a sad way.
I might describe it as a rapid descent into Flanderization.
I feel similarly about both CW and RV. This hash war may have been a nice moment of drama diversion but from a professional point of view, it's an awful game to bring to the crypto world and for noobs who have just begun watching.
A battery would work just fine. DC-to-DC transfers are efficient, and fast.
Dick Costolo and Dan Lyons also worked as consultants for the show.
A compression algorithm that works well enough to make a P2P Internet practical seems like a ground-breaking technology that is close-to-believable.

I challenge any of us to come up with something better or an alternative!
For others reading this, you probably know this as ashwagandha.
Except everyone else is going to the same place, so your traffic to and from these destinations is almost as bad as a morning commute.

Then you have to fight the crowds for your activities.
I've been playing with the MAC network demo (https://github.com/KnetML/MAC-Network for the julia version) and this study chimes with what it's got me thinking. I was really impressed when I saw it, but getting it running and experimenting with got me thinking.

The dictionary shows that the numbers in the response system are labels, it's hard to evaluate the spacial reasoning and I (and other people looking at the demo) tend to attribute "near" misses as good efforts rather that mislabelling.

The images in CLEVR are artificial, and the mappings are the grammar that the scene graphs generate, and these graphs are what are being learned and mapped via the images.

Also there are systematic issues; large metal spheres generate reflections that then deceive the classifier, metallic cylinders are often classified as spheres. Blocks that don't present a "square" aspect are often ignored.

The big issue for me is that what seems like a significant capability that might map into a useful tool turns out to be essentially an "exploit" of my psychology, and even a small step towards a "mind" in a machine ends up looking to me to be yet another set of complex transformations over the intents of the humans that built it.
I tried it on Chrome, and it started recognizing after just one line. On Firefox it never did.

Also, it's sad that your drawing gets discarded as soon as you pick a category.
The Problem with Online Reviews
Protobuf is really slow with encoding/decoding and also does unnecessary validation of the data. If you are just starting out with binary data serialization I recommend FlatBuffers instead of protobuf.
>> So now if they add a specific copyright notice on the page that was getting scraped, the court might come back later and rule differently if scraping continues? Or am I misunderstanding.

IANAL but you are not misunderstanding. From all the ruling I've read, the courts tend to address "this case" particularly when they cite specifics. In this case the defendant used the argument that the copyright notice was not on the page the data was taken from and the court ruled in their favor. Nothing appears to be said about how it would have gone if such a notice were present because no other arguments were made (based on this article). I suspect there are other arguments to be made in such a notice were present (data/facts can not be copyrighted etc) but they didn't rule on any of that.
Yes, and some of those may appreciate a direct example or just that it's called out.
FWIW as a consumer Google Shopping is much, much better than it used to be.
Dan Lyons, author of "Disrupted," is also on the writing staff for the show. Not quite Silicon Valley but if you read the book, some of the stuff from his time at Hubspot makes it into the show.

Judge surrounded himself with a lot of different perspectives on all of this.
What I Learned from Making Hot Sauce at Scale – Member Feature Stories – Medium
Samuelson's argument basically comes down to the fact that the investments that maximize growth don't maximize your utility unless your utility is log(wealth), and to him it was completely obvious that people should act to maximize their own utilities.

However, there have been a couple recent developments that somewhat undercut his line of thinking. First of all, to the extent that people's behavior can be described by utility theory, we all roughly have isoelastic utilities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoelastic_utility) with a parameter not too much greater than one. As a result, the ideal investments for most of us are near Kelly.

Second, there's a body of theory that asks what the optimal strategy for investment is given a certain number of years, and it turns out that the ideal strategy is to follow the Kelly approach until near the deadline and then to switch to the investments that maximize your own utility as the time to act grows short. This work is known as turnpike theory for reasons that never really made sense to me.

There are still concerns about Kelly investments, but Samuelson's argument isn't really one of them.
Yeah like he said I'll be working on employing transfer learning for self-driving cars. :)
All of these commenters seem genuinely offended by the demographic representations on the show but I'm here to tell you, it's awful because of the terrible writing, predictable humor, reliance on a laugh track to sell its "jokes" and it's overall just aimless and boring.
I have considered living off-grid out in the "middle of no where" for some time.

One of the things that has always held me back is access to decent internet. Has anyone found a way around this or has set up any major "wireless tower" to get internet from another distant location?
Just the normal agreed-upon fork every 6 months but this time things heated up with the hashing war, which featured antminer pulled all the miners in his pool from BTC into BCH, causing downward price pressure.
Which annoys me to no end. I already have a Fire TV, a Chromecast, and multiple actual PCs. An additional computer that I can't replace or upgrade is useless to me, and it's even more frustrating when it gets in the way of using the TV for its intended purpose.

I don't understand why it's so hard for companies to build 4k dumb TVs. If anything it should be easier and cheaper to not include a bunch of smarts, right?
On Blaming Cosmic Rays
Should you care about XSS in VueJS?
How do you deal with sleeping? Every time I sit somewhere with my head supported, I begin to drift off. Doesn't matter if I slept in, or if I've had two cups of coffee. If my head is stabilized, it's over for me.
I read through this book in a few hours and really couldn't put it down
This has no place on HN
Learning .NET Core if you never programmed before
I found that the first few seasons (maybe first 2 or 3) did a great job at parodying the Valley. They were truly uncanny to watch for me sometimes, and I don't even live in SF.

The past few years, the quality degraded significantly IMO. It mostly turned into "The Office but with developers and geeks!!" - which doesn't make it a bad show, but not as witty and thought provoking. I wonder if it's past the point where it needs to reach a wider audience, just like any other show.
Is it that hard to assume they either like it more or they couldn't use a later version because of a dependency? The only scenario this question would be useful in is if they had no idea the later version exists, which is a boat I have yet to see anyone fall into. Unless, I guess, it's one of those "questions" that isn't looking for an answer, but simply looking for an opportunity to chastise...
And this is why having code reviews devolve into stylistic nit-picking by supposed "seniors" while structure and glaring bugs go unmentioned is one of the must infuriating things in the world. The color of the horse is all they see.
This chart holds only in the sense that the Kardashians play dumb caricatures of themselves. They may cater their brand to the lowest common denominator but they most certainly aren’t dumb themselves. They essentially parlayed Robert Kardashian’s friendship with OJ Simpson into a media empire; there is something to be said for how media savvy they are.
Sure, maybe one day. People were speculating on the coming 'draw death' of chess 100 years ago,[1] but it hasn't really been a problem so far. What was a problem, was players agreeing to an early draw without playing the game out (Imagine, say, tennis players 'agreeing to a draw' after 10 minutes) A lot of tournaments nowadays have rules prohibiting draw offers before move 30, or draw offers at all.[0] The best players are just much better at defending than people were 100 years ago, and they're very good at bailing out to a draw when in inferior positions. Also, computers have taught humans a lot about defensive possibilities, which are larger than people had thought.

The situation in matches is different to that in tournaments, where it's no good drawing all your games if you want to win the tournament. In this match, drawing every game, then drawing all the tiebreak grames, then getting black in the Armageddon game and drawing, will make you world champion. And historically, if a world championship match was tied, the champion automatically retained their title. (Tiebreaks are a recent development)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draw_by_agreement#Steps_taken_...

[1] e.g. Here's Capablanca (world champion 1921-7) writing at length about it in 1925 http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/capablanca7.html

He created a version of chess with 2 new superpowered pieces to avoid the 'draw death' problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capablanca_Chess (that page mentions some other similar variants)
Hello, can you provide an email address where I can contact you? I am very early in my career but it seems we've had similar paths and I would like to ask you some questions.
Agree. Text, Slack, email etc are convenient since they are asynchronous and document things, but carry other problems (for example, since they document things). Keep them to a minimum, use face to face or phone whenever possible.

A remote organization may even have an advantage here, if there is a well thought out internal communication strategy aiming at keeping everyone in the loop and up to speed.
I've seen withgoogle.com before. withgoogle.com is supposed to invoke collaboration, but with google's reputation as a cold, impersonal corporation where everything is automated and there's hardly ever any technical support, I just mentally shrug it off when I see it.

and we also have abc.xyz and domains.google and other domain shenanigans that I forget about.

I just learned that alphabet.com is different company. I wonder if they've clung to the domain as tightly as nissan.com has clung to theirs or if google doesn't want it that much.
Hahaha, thanks. I remembered this site i used to spend time on where people actually collaborated on weird quilt paintings back around 2000 - now this was a lot of fun. Sadly not functional anymore and only as a gallery http://www.ice.org/tiles/ The paintings might be a bit uglyish, but I prefer them any day to the kind of tech fetishization Google is presenting here.
The other method is to rearrange the business model to introduce shell SMEs or affiliates that pay licenses for subdomains (or what have you) to corporate and have very small actual roles aside from being the unregulated party.

The EU added restrictions related to the data itself to prevent outsourcing the liability in the case of GDPR, it will be interesting to see how well they can define and prevent structuring in this case.
A couple years ago I found myself at a user conference party for the funded SaaS company I worked for. The concert was complete with open cocktail bar, Cirque du Soleil aerial performers, and (you guessed it), Flo-Rida.

For a while I couldn't decide if it was life imitating art, or a tongue-in-cheek nod to the stereotype we were seen as. But it wasn't the latter, the founder/president wasn't that self-aware.
Introducing HERE XYZ Beta
Does the show get any better? I stopped around the time they hacked the phones in that conference, I think season 2?

It was a constant the leader fucking up and the gang coming through at the end - over and over and over.
Thanks for building! Just got turned onto XState through a recent Chrome Dev summit talk where it's used to demo a simple stopwatch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg60lf92EkM

Curious what web frontend frameworks you are currently into. Or if you plan to use XState as the basis for something new. Looking at Gatsby, Apollo and other GraphQL based libraries. Appears to be a trend toward human-readable or even visual programming environments. XState could certainly be a powerful statechart management engine for this ;)
Some people actually are short-sleepers naturally. He might be one of them. Or he might just be perpetually exhausted to the point where he's learned to "function" on less sleep.

Speaking from personal experience, you can get used to 4-5 hours a night and think you're okay. Starting getting north of 7 and you will notice a difference after a week. (Unless you're a short sleeper, I suppose they just can't sleep that much.)
> There's this terrible myth that I want to kill; that software engineering is a well-paid field. That's a lie.

For me it's been very profitable.

> Here's something pharmacists, account managers, farmers can afford: 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom houses near where they work.

I can easily afford that. Most software engineers I know can afford that.

> We can't. We're asked to live in apartments in Jersey and commute 45 minutes to Manhattan every day.

I don't live in NYC. I work from home or from an office 5min away from my home.

> Or we work remotely and are expected to take a smaller wage

I work remotely and earn more than most engineers in SF. I save 300-400% more.

> where the company can't wait to get big enough so that it can force us all to move.

I've never experienced this.
It's a fairly traditional laugh-track sitcom with "lol nerds" as the window dressing. It's just fine as a sitcom, if you like sitcoms (I do) but actual nerds love bashing it since, surprise surprise, a network sitcom's characters are more caricatures than actual nuanced characters.
Ask and ye shall receive. Article has a 77 OwlFactor rating: https://news.owlfactor.com/article/0-4279868/4279868-Why%20S... :)
> The thing is, it isn't just javascript eval; any eval is bad.

Eval'ing during macroexpansion in Gambit Scheme is the basis for my book, http://billsix.github.io/bug.html#_computation_at_compile_ti...

It allows me to make a compile-time unit test framework in 7 lines of code
> I've seen countless people leave the restroom without washing their hands

I am not a germaphobe at all (I'll eat food off the floor if it falls), and I agree 100%. The non-washing of hands is endemic.

Fist bump to the rescue!

"I've got a cold, and you don't want it. Fist bump?"
The center is car free and around the periphery you can drive, but even on the outskirts there are still fewer cars than one might expect if you are familiar with similar sized American or English cities.
Exactly. And a drop in hash power and difficulty, which have a lag between one and the other, enables miners with more expensive operations to enter. Of course, they suffer when the reverse happens..but such is life.
"Silicon Valley" is like Silicon Valley, but it goes to 0x11.
Productivity in plaintext (2016)
From my understanding there are two ways this happens. 1) We mess with plant genetics, which creates weak mono cultures. Bananas being the biggest offender I'm familiar with. And 2) We play God and release our lovely designer creatures into the environment to marvel at the unintended consequences.

This one hits me where it hurts though, I wouldn't get through a day without good olive oil.
I used to do this but meetings became unbearable with the urge to pee striking every hour.
what's the application of this? I lack the background to understand it.
Do you have a citation for that?

Hank Hill is ripped straight from Tom Anderson, a character from Beavis and Butthead. AFAIK Tom Anderson appeared on the show very early and the timeline you're suggesting doesn't make sense.
Data would be nice. Open source projects have been studied to some extent looking for communication patterns but, of course, they're probably not representative. The bottom line is that it's going to vary a lot by company culture, what a group does (right now), what type of project is it, historical happenstance, individual preference, etc. I've worked more remote than not for well over a decade but it has varied for a variety of reasons. I've also known people in very similar roles who just preferred to come into the office.
you're right, there is a difference between organs. Tissue make up organs just like amino acids would make proteins.

Here is a clear explanation:

The difference between cells, tissues and organs. A group of cells working together is defined as a tissue and several tissues working together comprise an organ*

source: https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/fundamentals/the-human-bod...
Reverse this. I had no alarm for 5 years and did what my body said: when I was asleep I would sleep. When I felt like waking up I would.

My body immediately shifted to what I already knew: going to bed at 5-6 am, waking up at 1-2pm (I roughly sleep 8.5 hours, sometimes 9).

Never felt more rested.

I now wake up at 10 am. It's ok, but I always feel SO rested when I sleep until I needed. Just having an alarm SET puts me on a bad path, even if I have 10 hours.
Imo whoever made this doesn’t understand how smart and savvy the family matriarch is.
Beavis and Butthead are hugely underrated. I recall people making fun of me for watching it back in the 90’s. It was almost the only TV I ever watched.
Reposting here. At Global Day of Code Retreat this past weekend I was surprised that our Game of Life implementation in SQL was the easiest.

Why are we doing data schema type erasure at the Application layer? The "flexibility" and "encapsulation" aren't worth the manual hell of hand coding it back in all the way to the front end.

Why not expose SQL schemas all the way to the front end? Even if the Application layer makes a view that the data store doesn't know about, everything downstream could benefit through automation.

From there you get into issues mostly having to do with APIs that can be paginated, and how to optimize those connections to balance caching with network latency.
Ask HN: Why did Apple decide to go with HEIC?
There's currently no wide support for it, even Safari cannot open it: https://caniuse.com/#search=heif

HEVC adoption is still pretty low too: https://caniuse.com/#feat=hevc
Are you my cat?
You could also make the same argument about Paris Hilton. By all accounts, she's a really shrewd businesswoman.
Anyone know how they're using it at Apple vs other distributed databases?
http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/stat315a/glossary.pdf
As I assumed, it's purely subjective.

I would argue that almost no one can tell the difference between the highest quality olive oils from the major oil producing Mediterranean countries. So way I look at it is that Mediterranean olive oil > others.
Why do I say that?

That is my experience. Current pay 55 an hour, opportunity for 59 an hour.

Bring on the downvotes.
I don't know, unfortunately.
I haven't watched the show much, as I've lived and worked in Silicon Valley for 20+ years and I don't see much besides a superficial resemblance. I saw a bit of an episode where a few 'brogrammers' were making fun of the main character like it was a 'mean girls' high school, and I thought it was ridiculous. Then I saw another bit where one of the characters was threatening a kid for his Adderall prescription and, again, thought it was moronic. I haven't watched much else.

I compare the show to Entourage: Amusing to those outside Hollywood, but completely ridiculous to anyone who actually works in the industry.
"Nerd-minstrelsy" is a better term
It seems to me that like last year, several countries with very large developer bases are underrepresented. I'm thinking of India and the Philippines in particular, where English is not an issue. I'm an American, but I'd like to get a good global picture.

In addition, it would be good to see other indicators such as downloads, jobs (admittedly hard to measure accurately), BuiltWith trends, etc. Considering the millions of front end developers, this seems a very small sample size.
I will suggest you consider the possibility that this is a feature, not a bug. If you are doing a startup, presumably you are doing something novel. You are trying to invent something new and different that will be wildly successful. You are trying to break new ground.

And the way you do that is by thinking differently from other people. So the very nature of the process means you are out of step with the rest of the world and will have difficulty relating to others going about life in the here and now before you have changed the world and made it different in some way.

So trying too hard to stop being lonely is potentially a barrier to success.

It might be better to blog or keep a journal -- to "talk to yourself" rather than someone else in order to sort your thoughts and feelings. Expect that this will get better after you are through some critical stage and no longer need to carve out the mental space to intentionally think different from the rest of the world.
Another vote for tmux + mosh combo.
Congrats to the team on the release. Using FoundationDB has been one of the most rock solid NoSQL experiences I've ever had, and I've used a lot. After having a few months to hammer my cluster with fairly low level atomic operations, I can confidently say this thing holds up to pretty much anything you want to throw at it. Coming from the land of HBase and DynamoDB, It's ability to automatically (and intelligently) repartition data based on write throughput has been an administrative breakthrough for me.

Looking forward to additional use cases I can throw at this beast of a system.

Kudos to you guys!
It's half random images and half random ones that are starred. So it does bias to stuff that people starred.
Unrelated, but this reminds me of a saying we have in Spain about our fascist ex-dictator Franco whenever someone claims he was dumb: Look, he was evil, not stupid.
My bank even charges $25 or so to receive one

Putting aside everything else, I will say that your bank, like many banks in the US, is frequently found to be taking the piss. For a first world, developed nation, the retail banking sector in the US is in serious need of a bloody nose.
Instead of that, why not just put a tax on oil companies and have them pay the media companies?

I mean, we've already thrown out all pretexts of supplier/consumer relationship. Why not just have the tax be on oil companies instead?