skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually a better way would be be:

if (navigator.userAgent.contains('chrome')){
window.location.replace('https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/')
}
Amazon, Apple and Facebook Once Led the Market. Now They Are Driving It Down
Why are Indian managers so damn good?
Mini-Internet using LXC
The education gap is almost certainly caused by the wealth gap
Seems like the interviewer focuses a lot on juicy questions where Bengio does not have highly developed answers. (Q: AI for War? A: Bad)

Where his opinions are more interesting is the last questions, outside of the articles agenda of "stuff to freak out about."

Asked what new progress areas he's excited about, Bengio (charmingly) responds with slow progress areas he's frustrated with.

Anyone know (or can guess) if he's refering to anything specific when he (I'm connecting dots) using deep learning to "learn causality?"
Supporting our military service members and their spouses
Yes and SV is famously flooded with immigrants.
what does that mean ? binary format ? Well the BLOB datatype in Postgresql is also production ready
Unearthing the Lost City Built by Prisoners of the Famous Trojan War
musl libc?
The one alpine linux is built on top :)
The Real Reason Why Pirates Wore Eyepatches
I would've suggested footOS, after considering that armOS might also upset ARM.
I appreciate how much work went into this, but what a fun job to have. Compared to that writing code is dull and lifeless.
Guwahati Airport starts direct clearance of air cargo
Right, I see. Thank you for the clarification.
Weird. There were quite a number of conferences where Reason was mentioned:

- ReactiveConf (I think Sean Grove talked about it)

- React Rally, or wherever Ken Wheeler talked recently – he gave several talks about how Reason is the shit

- I think there was a conference dedicated entirely to Reason — ReasonConf 2018

And Twitter of course.

I see it referenced quite frequently.
You seem to agree with me that a dictatorship can last longer in a trade war? Your gripe seems to be with what a horrible place China is. That might be true. Having lived there and done business there I think it's more nuanced than you're making it out to be. But let's say it really is that bad. Does that win a trade war before the next US elections in 2 years when US consumers might already be frustrated with higher prices?
I hope they don't give up on the controller - I've got two that I'm a big fan of. Love how customizeable they are.
Deep learning has failed to develop symbolic learning, things like model building and causal reasoning using a model, hypothesis generation and model selection, etc have not seen much of that. This is something Judea Pearl has been pointing at lately.
> I don't understand whether this really means that they collect my browsing history

That's what it means. You can look at the data google is storing at https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity
Agree. We just recently went through a failed employee hire (even though we had a mini project for the candidate) and in the retrospective we came to the conclusion that our whole team was first hired as a contractor and then later converted to an employee. So we’re going to just keep doing that from now on.
> he is asking if someone actively worked against or seriously questioned of a murder he/she is ordered to commit

How could one reasonably produce publicly available documentation where someone refused to execute an unlawful order? Why would someone issue such an order in the first place?

Think about what could possibly motivate a soldier's action: the consequences of questioning an order are far less severe than the consequences of executing an unlawful order. "I was only following orders" has long been discredited as a legal defense.

> Parent is sceptical because of priori contrary evidence that military actions and morals conflict frequently.

Morals are not universal. To which morals are you referring specifically? Some people are morally opposed to violence in principle, the military obviously is not.

[Edit]

I'm still in disagreement as to the logic of the question, but I am beginning to think that the mere existence of court martials in the interest of upholding military law (ie, codified morals of the military) should be sufficient proof that a military body can exhibit a strong sense of morality.
> .. completely flew over me

Thanks for the feedback. We thought that the 'BaaS' part would convey it.

> .. small datamodel to a very complete GraphQL types ..

Given any GraphQL server, you can generate the types/functions (using introspection) to access the GraphQL server in a typesafe/idiomatic way for a language. A project which does this: https://github.com/dotansimha/graphql-code-generator.
Look up lokal laws before publishing anything. In some jurisdictions, you have no right to open source anything you bild on company time or propery.
I'm the author of this particular blog post. Curious to see how this is received by the tech community.
Only takes 19 years of experience to get that salary in Cupertino.

https://www.cusdk8.org/cms/lib/CA02218495/Centricity/Domain/...
Maybe is named after the music band, and it will eventually help to build a (space?) city.
Agreed. Avoid Google services. Wrote a post about how to do it: https://righteousruminations.blogspot.com/2018/09/migration-...
Show HN: Complete UI layer on top of Stripe. Works with any framework.
Thank you for taking the time to write that up. I transitioned from Zoloft to Valdoxan earlier this year. I was taking Zoloft for a little over a year, up to a 100 mg daily dose. It took me several months to taper off from Zoloft. I remember smoking cigarettes hard and being grumpy and tired. I didn't smoke habitually before taking Zoloft, but it made the brain zaps more manageable.

I guess I never thought the grumpiness was a withdrawal side effect, I thought circumstances could just be better in my life. I was just counting down until I stopped getting brain zaps. I tapered down really slowly. I was down to taking an eighth of a tablet every other day. Trying to stop entirely before that (I.e. Stopping after a fourth of a tablet every other day) led to brain zaps that were just too tiring to deal with.
I don't know if it's what you're looking for (it's definitely more short-form at least) but I loved browsing round this site when I first saw it: http://moviesincolor.com/
Huh? Most FOSS desktop software is not commercial to begin with, however there are companies like JetBrains that do sell quite successfully to Linux users, even as their core product is FLOSS.
I don’t like working with ORMs for tons of joins and I don’t like denormalizing in tables, so I tend to write CTE-based JSON generating views for apps. (Yes, these are not high traffic apps...)

Hasura has been such a joy to work with against these dbs that I am willing to try and let the query abstraction do more of the output assembly with joins, etc via graphql.

No knock on the Prisma family of tools, and props also to subzerocloud and postgraphile/postgraphql, but I feel like hasura’s relationship with pg is more natural than anybody else’s. [edit: more compatible with the way I approach pg - YMMV and don’t hesitate to try the others they are solid too.]
How to Survive Black Friday
The purpose of brand strategy
You make it sound like the answer to the student’s question is something like:
“Government debt is different because it’s in a currency that the government can arbitrarily create. The government can force its subjects to use this currency through the power of taxation and in the worst case, military occupation and martial law”
Because...

a. It's really cheap for us to offer that service

b. Lots of those free customers end up upgrading, paying for extras, etc.

Between a and b offering the free service makes sense. We make money from the customers who pay us for our service (https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/), not from doing something nefarious with data. We'd be shooting ourselves in the foot if we did because that data is our customers data. We need to be very careful with that or we'd lose trust and not be in business.

Also, free means anybody can try the service and kick the tires. Often those people turn out to me the CIO, CSO, CISO, CTO, ... of big corp.
Celebrating 50 Years of Unix: Public Unix VMs
The reason I chose $2.98 was that if you follow my strategy then that will lead to you betting $0.99 in the first round. If you win then you end up with exactly $2.98 and stop betting. If you lose then you end up with $0.01. If you were to bet all of it for the next 9 rounds then there is a 1/2^9 chance of you ending up with $0.01×3^9 = $196.83. Since this is more than $2.98 my strategy must have at least a 1/512 chance of achieving $2.98 even if it loses the first round. Since the chance of winning the first round is 1/2 the overall chance of ending up with $2.98 is greater than 50% and hence $2.98 is the median.

I think I can run a computer search to find the actual optimal strategy. I'll report back with the results.
Creation and validation of geometry in Aspose.GIS
In another thread here the OP is quoted as saying Chrome sent the data even when translation is disabled.
Because my email is free of spam right now and I'd prefer to keep it that way, especially without a promise my email is not going to get sold around in a mailing list.

I also shouldn't have to research around to see if a website author is the "type" to sell my email around, that's bad UX.
As a devils advocate for military AI, it might be better in some ways - after all if you are lunching military action do you want it to be unintelligent? The trend has been from blanket bombing killing mostly civilians to precision strikes taking out some bad guys and some wedding parties and in the future AI robots might be able to do things like disable vehicles without killing the soldiers.
Reddit Offline in EU 9am-5pm in Support of Don't Wreck the Net
I just put a fake email@example.com, and It happily gives out the download ! Wait a min, keep this trick private :P
In which Elon tweets a few words and somehow the BBC picks that up and it turns into HN #1.
Myth Busting: How to Become the #3 Product of the Day on Product Hunt
Isn’t the GFW the biggest tariff of all?
Random location generator
Just use a temporary email and call it a day.
AFAIK there is scientific consensus that much of human language is hardwired. It's how infants can learn it so quickly.
Construct-UI a new MithrilJs UI component library by vasil_rimar
They’re making google to pay them by force of law. It’s really that simple.
How China Took Over Your TV
> Additionally the browser can utilize the OS or it's own spellcheck word database: check every word in every dictionary and the dictionary with the most matches is likely to be the relevant one.

Every word seems excessive, especially if a page has an excessive amount of text on it.
Introducing Responsive React Components
However I've been to job interviews where they force me to code live in front of several people and I couldn't get half a line of code out before one of them will chip in with a "suggestion" breaking my train of thought. The code they want me to write is some algorithm that they have expected you to memorise.

This could actually be the test in itself. There seems to be a substantial contigent who believe that this is what a collaborative programming environment looks like, and they might actively want to select against people with a more shut-the-door-and-work-through-the-problem mindset. I'd argue that a pair programming exercise is probably better than whiteboarding-with-interruptions, but setting that up well is more work for the interviewer.

Edit: completely messed up the quoting in original!
No. Predator / Reaper drones are remotely piloted via satcoms link by a crew of two or three, typically pilot / sensor/ weapon operator. They are not autonomous with the exception of auto-pilot functions. The crew are typically embedded in a larger HQ where there may be political / legal cells to advise.

If the target list is wrong it won’t help the targets but the human in the loop may help to avoid blowing up a school accidentally, depending on the amount of collateral damage that can be accepted for a given target.
Lake Winnipeg, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is the 11th largest fresh water lake in the world and became infected with zebra mussels in 2015. Already, things are looking bleak.
This is probably the "inverted Electron bloat" phenomenae: Native Qt/C++ code gets 9MB in size when compiled for the web (refering to the demo http://example.qt.io/qt-webassembly/Slate/slate.html). That's even a lot of stuff to download in the AngularJS era.

However, don't be fooled: Your native C++/Qt application links to a 5MB libQtCore.so, 4MB libQtQuick.so, 11MB libQtGui.so, etc. (or .dll on Windows). But that's of course the price for GUI toolkits we pay since 20 years.

Actually it's quite surpising that they can compile a Qt application to only 9MB, comparing to the size of the desktop shared objects!
It asks permission to show you the translated version.

But does it send the page's content to some Google server only if you agree? The point here is that it seems that the content is sent over to Google no matter what.
Could you describe your diet? What kind of food did you stop and start eating?
Who could forget 'Mr. Zoo'...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMslljAllgg&t=29m45s
Would you mind elaborating on what those egregious privacy issues are for those of us who don't follow particularly closely?
Imports from China are rising

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IMPCH

but the prices of those imports are falling.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CHNTOT

This can mean two things: either the Chinese are cutting prices to cope with tariffs (a benefit to the US), or Americans are displacing expensive Chinese goods for cheaper Chinese goods -- which means the demand elasticity is high and most of the burden goes to the Chinese producer, as explained by the diagrams in your study.
GDPR has already 'challenged' the open internet, by causing many American websites to decide it's simply not worth it, and just block European access, as discussed previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17714152
The lost profits on goods they no longer make and sell = no money to repay, or maybe even service, their debt, or return investments.

This may be a big deal if the amount of stopped exports is significant for a manufacturer.
Technically inaccurate, as others pointed out, but I would have been surprised if they kept BFR as a name. Yes, it includes the joke of "Big F..alcon Rocket", but it sounds very technical and it doesn't carry the appeal like e.g. Falcon does. And whilst some may disagree, I think Musk very much cares about how his products and companies are perceived.
Agreed. No technical detail means quackery, something the field always had in abundance.
This is a great point. The best engineers are the ones working with their teams to get shit done. If someone on the team is more worried about their OSS contribution than getting work done, it can be a red flag that they are more concerned about themselves than the team.
Here's the Radiolab podcast about it (2015)

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/home-where-your-dolphin-is...
Can a captor consent to their prisoner? This is the dynamic here.
There are lots of companies that don't do these kinds of tests.

It's been a while since I've done a job search, but several people I know have done them recently. And they've all found that some companies - mainly big tech companies, along with tech startups of all kinds - use these kinds of tests heavily.

Other companies that hire lots of developers - like banks, insurance companies, and manufacturers - don't seem to use these tests nearly as much. They'll sit down with you, talk about your experience, and the systems you've built.

At this point, if they like you, they'll often give you a small test project to do. And when I say small, I mean small - probably an hour at most. And while these projects can be annoying, these companies seem to give it after they've interviewed you and they're serious about moving forward. I don't mind this approach. There are lots of people out there working as developers who write truly awful code, so I think it's fair of them to want to see something from you before making an offer.

Working as a developer for a non-tech company might sound awful, but some of them are actually really great places to be. From what I've heard from devs I've talked to, many of these old school companies are actually really progressive technically, pay their developers well, and treat them with plenty of respect. And they tend to very sane work hours too. If your manager sees you still in the office at 5:05pm on a Friday, they'll probably tell you to go home. :)
Side-note, this project was one of the inspirations behind the cult-classic Ecco the Dolphin game for the Sega Genesis

This video explains it very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xUvhUK8Dv8
How much sleep would he lose when you realize the very educational institutions which he attended were designed by large to benefit the military's R&D?

Anything we invent or discover can and will be used by the military or intelligence agencies and even law enforcement agencies who are doing real human right violations. Hell, there are graduates that go work for the government because it's stable, or even unwittingly be writing RAT or researching zero days.

The truth is, as researchers, engineers, our guesses are as good as touching a part of the elephant. Everyone thinks the part they hold are the whole, and make the claim, this is what an elephant should be.

When in fact, if you follow the authors logic, we are all complicit. Every walk of life is influenced by the military and for the military. Internet? Designed for resilient military comm against nuclear attacks. Microwave? TV? Radio?

So the genie is out of the bag and now is going to work for the military. Should we feel outraged? Should we stop all AI research because of the authors view that the military kills people so its automatically evil?

What about the people who are ready to give their lives so these researchers can continue living and doing great work? It seems to me that beggars can't be choosers. It's good to have a strong sense of morality so you don't end up writing a RAT tool for a corrupt government that ends up torturing dissidents. But rarely will you even know who is using it and where it's being applied. It's simply designed so you don't have to be burdened with the moral dillemma of how a state should think and behave.

By large, a state is not a person, no conscious, no morals only national interests dictated by the few in power. This skewed power dynamics will remove the decision makers from the burden of making immoral decisions to further "national" agenda. ex) Do we torture an alleged terrorist to extract information that can stop an imminent attack on hundreds? It's certainly not the call of the people who wrote the software to manage torture and it's not the call of those who follow orders.

We are ruled by ideology, the one that sells to us constantly of an unknown, unpredictable threat. If the author has anything to blame, it is that people by far and large have already voted with their money and hearts-ignorance is bliss, gathering material wealth is priority.
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Lack of controlling for anxiety is probably the biggest contributor to false negatives... At least you got the offer though.

On the interviewer side of the table, I had a candidate and there was a stretch of silence after they confirmed they understood the problem which I interrupted with "Is there anything I can help clarify?" (I can't observe internal state!) They asked me if I could be quiet for 5 minutes while they thought about the problem. That's fine, I did so. Maybe you can ask the same thing next time if interruptions come too frequently? If they don't respect the request to shut up, that's a useful signal to not work there too.

Lack of interviewer experience can also account for some of it. Unless everyone in a room with more than one interviewer has their turn at questions, I'd expect the silent ones to either be shadowing so they can interviewer, or be overseeing a former shadow take the reigns. I think an interviewer needs to do as little as 10 of them to run the style range of people who need some quiet time to silently think, to people who ask lots of questions, type some, ask more, type, to people who easily vocalize all their thought processes while typing things; the interviewer may also importantly see that despite the style differences the time to get to the same place (if they get there at all) doesn't vary by much...
Very interesting. Is there any hint as to how much LocalSolver costs? If they're doing 3 minute runs for major optimisation jobs for massive companies on a single server, I imagine the "contact us for pricing" should give me a hint that it's quite a lot.
That sounds like a really neat device. In lieu of that, I segregate traffic with VLANs by SSID at home, which helps prevent mDNS spikes and other inconveniences from disrupting the rest of the network.

It's pretty common for people to buy into IoT without preparing their networks, and there's no networking hardware that I know of that's a seamless experience for managing what having an IoT integrated home brings.

I guess Ubiquiti's Unifi line is pretty close, but it's not what I'd imagine a plugnplay "Google Hub" automated router/switch with SDN manageable from Assistant.

Although, I haven't used Google WiFi, so I don't know if it already works like that.
I notice that your analogy ends with the collection of the semen...
Politics and public opinion are major aspects in these disputes.

If a country slaps tariffs on your products it is very difficult not to retaliate. That's true in general and that's especially true in China regarding any foreign action that may be painted as unfair (For historical reasons this is always a big deal).
Yes, I think is fairly well known in the optimistic family of concurrency control algorithms you can get into situations where aborts are not necessary.

https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2016/yu-sigmod2016.pdf

Section 3.4 of this paper covers another example of this.
Would you say then an online persona doesn’t matter much? I think about this a bit as an undergraduate hoping to land a gig in a few years. I could care less about having a technical blog or a tailored Github/Gitlab account contributing to open source or having an LinkedIn account, I just want to build cool stuff and become a good programmer and not have to worry about showcasing that on the internet like a clown in a circus. But on the other hand, it seems like companies look for that kind of stuff or at least give you the upper hand for it.
Why not just ask applicants to bring in some code they have written to discuss?

If they have written it they should be able to discuss it and answer questions easily.

If someone else wrote it and they have understood it enough to discuss it, you probably have an even better developer, especially if the job involves working with some legacy code.
France is working hard to avoid becoming a digital colony of the US or China
A diesel generator set that can output 100kW continuously for fast charging starts at around 2000kg / 5000lbs. You can fit a lot of battery capacity for a lot less weight that that!
Closest thing I can name is the Roku4.
FWIW I appreciate the balance hasura is going for re: RLS. I balked at the interfaces I’d have to maintain to get strict pg-user per profile row access. It is nice to have a ramp.
Try emailing the author. You'd be surprised how flexible single-person companies can be. Maybe the new price is a temporary test so your email would be valuable feedback.
In that case, you shouldn't expect this information for free.

If you want free stuff, you should be okay being advertised to.
But has anyone claimed that they could build it themselves in a weekend?