skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To find the answer, I would ask, Why are there conferences for other technologies? What are they for?

And I think the answer is probably 1) get useful news about recent and upcoming changes and 2) to socialize. I'm going to guess--possibly just projecting--that most C developers are older and not terribly interested in meeting new "C friends" or jumping into some hot, new "C startup".

That leaves #1. Web/AI-ML/cloud/mobile tech conferences feature speakers from the big tech companies that might reveal, in a talk or a hallway chat, info about which of your problems they are about to solve or to cause. Independent speakers serve a sort of journalist role of gathering intel from the big companies, organizing it, and revealing their findings. It's all about "tell me what I need to know so I can decide what to do".

But there isn't much news about C that most C programmers will want to know in order to make decisions. It's almost like news about algebra or, yes, hammers: mature, slow-changing technologies whose changes seldom impact more than a small percentage of users.

So without reasons 1 or 2, the answer to why aren't there C conferences is basic and boring: what important purpose would they serve?
Favorite Ted talk: https://youtu.be/ORp3q1Oaezw

Good luck with your Ted talk!
What are the best (non tech) job interview practice resources?
having recently been through interviews for jobs globally after a 7 year gap, it seems that there arent very good, tech-enabled resources. Can anyone suggest some, or ideas for some that they would have found personally valuable?

Particularly, practice for behavioural, hypothetical and analytical questions for non-tech roles - there's heaps of resourcing for technical/coding interviews.
Seems like you missed the horrid bootlooping issues of the Nexus 5x, the bad battery firmware on the Nexus 6p, and the bootlooping and flakey charge controller on the OG Pixel.

Your choice in devices of the Nexus/Pixel series is very lucky, you avoided the defective models nearly entirely. I have no faith that I will be similarly lucky.
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I'm not mansplaining, I don't even know who you are. You don't know who I am. I'm attempting to make the comment digestible for a broader audience and not only for you. You're not alone on this website. I'm sorry for doing that then.

Tbh I find that accusation incredibly rude.
And 30% of accessible addresses not 30% of traffic.
Spatial subdivision with fast indexing on a sphere is quite useful for mapping. We want map tiles to be of close to constant size and shape, and find the tile for any point on Earth.

Usually, subdividing the faces of a Platonic solid is the way to go. This post describes tessellation of triangles on the faces of an octahedron. The dual approach is squares on the faces of a cube. A good implementation of this is s2 [1].

[1] http://s2geometry.io/
The coal companies making Europe sick
FIRE: live frugally and retire decades early
The US will always seek to control Middle East oil, it’s a huge lever on the rest of the world.
Has anyone tried this with resumes? Embed the pdf with white text at a tiny font size so machine read the keywords, but then they never show up for a person reading them. Not sure it would get you anywhere, but gets past the machines or something. Not that I think this is a good idea, just curious what would happen.
I am the first to admit I don't know much about the field. However, I did notice this last week, when looking to skill up. Would love to here the jury out there on whether it's useful?
https://www.udacity.com/course/robotics-software-engineer--n...
The main reason the US cares about "military strategic advantages in the middle east" has been oil, at least since the fall of the USSR.
Considering the privacy focus that Apple brings, Duck Duck Go could be an interesting play to reduce Google’s presence from the Apple ecosystem.
I mean, sure. But Texas produces almost 3x as much as Norway.
It’s unfortunate that we’re in a glut of oil and the price is going down when we should be trying to use less oil. We’re not running out any time soon and there’s lots of coal too, so it could be very dangerous for the planet.
Yeah, I started using python around 2.0 and stopped using it because of 3, but from the beginning of my time using it, there always was numeric or numpy
At high altitudes there’s also a lot less ground.
Shipping accounts for ~2% of total US oil consumption so that's a tiny little chunk.

Source: https://3kpnuxym9k04c8ilz2quku1czd-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/w...
Check this list out: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Yv_9nDl4ocIZR0GXU3OZ...

They used to have a ratings column, but it doesn't look like its there anymore : /
The history of GNU true: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=histor...

For clarification, you are using coreutils 8.26 which includes true among other things.
IANAL but I believe copyright infringement cases if the infringing party is found guilty, the damages are based on the lost revenue or other damage inflicted by the use of the material.

If patents used the same process, the invention could be used by other companies as long as it did not harm the business of the patent owner.
Im still mad at Microsoft for making me say 'Hey Cortana' instead of just 'xbox' when Im using my kinect to control my home entertainment system.

Alexa also has a couple different ones you can pick from. I liked the 'computer' one the most.
Make no mistake: Big oil, coal, etc. will move to "green" energy. However, this is how they want to do so:

- Maximize returns on existing investments: Mineral rights and leases and options and equipment.

- Maintain and gain control. Renewable energy is just fine, then, as long as they are in control and profiting from it.

The problem is, this screws over a lot of people and environments, in the meantime. Slows investment -- the U.S. has already lost much of the technology lead and even more of the manufacturing lead, to overseas. And, it vests the least progressive elements of our society with control over our energy future.

Oh, and environmental pollution -- not just CO2, but the outfall of CO2, heavy metals, radioactive byproducts (yes, from fossil fuels), continued support of authoritarian and criminal regimes...

Oh, yes, they can actually slow deployment, as well. Such as trying to get state legislatures to "outlaw" self-sufficient home deployments. Fighting, as they did for some time, end user feeds back into the grid (that can require grid upgrades to handle, at scale).

Anyway, these are not the people and organizations I want in control of our future energy production and distribution. Nor, in my opinion, do they deserve to profit from it.

But that's their goal.
Maybe. At high altitudes, the ions can be accelerated to much higher velocities before losing energy due to molecular collisions. Higher acceleration of the working fluid, more thrust and higher efficiencies. Much like a rocket. There is also a lot less drag on the rest of the vehicle.
Across the of people I know from poor to wealthy, the percentage of people who do not work stays more or less the same in each bracket. Lazyness and motivation are pretty evenly distributed.
Because it has no basis in reality, as evidenced by the fact that, in the examples provided, he's demonstrated more morality than anyone else in politics.

I'm not really sure why this is confusing. If you think he doesn't think things through, you have to explain the counter examples.

Otherwise you're just ignoring reality and cherry picking facts.
Keep reading. The piece is satire.
Not the parent, but do we have to start every sentence with "IMHO"? To me it was clear that they were stating their opinion, not trying to establish a standard for what one should care about.
It’s also not as economical. If your competitor uses shipping that’s weeks faster and more reliable, then you’re not staying in business long.
Sort of, but they seem to be selling user data trying to catch up with Google.

I don’t think there’s much revenue in it according to their 10Q, but all their releases send stuff to the cloud (Xbox, Cortana, windows10, etc) for things that don’t need to.
"refineries in the US are not designed for the same oil"

"oil is fungible on the world market"

In the medium term, these two statements contradict each other. If all it takes to avoid a 1970s-style OPEC crisis is to update the facilities at a few refineries, that job will get done. Actually, that job will probably get done anyway, because after all, shipping oil overseas isn't free.
Kind of. On the one hand, I've never regretted working on a project because it's unethical, and the only one that could even remotely count as that was something related to gaming those cookie law pop ups.

But I've definitely regretted working on stuff for other reasons. A couple of sites were simply poorly managed, designed and coded, which meant hours wasted on implementing things that should have been in the brief weeks ago due to a manager not really knowing what the customer wanted and requiring the whole thing to be rebuilt at short notice.

Quite a few instances of trying to fit a square peg into a round hole there. Like using a shop for an events system... for some reason I can't quite grasp.

There are also a few game design (well, mod design) disasters, and I regret the poor difficulty/design decisions involved there. Hopefully one of my current projects will consign those terrible old ones into the history books.
Here's a product idea. A service that would automatically screen-scrape any URL of a blog (using heuristics and/or machine learning to figure out the layout and where the posts are) and then outputs an RSS feed.
This is the fundamental problem with languages that don’t have a good story for user-written compiler extensions: either they don’t adapt to new use cases or the standard gets horribly bloated or else, like Haskell, one implementation becomes the de facto standard.
I also find it weird that bloomberg articles keep popping up and being upvoted here. It's not exactly clear where bloomberg stands quality-wise (whatever happened to those tampered chips that nobody found??). Doubly so, because bloomberg has a tight grip on investors and can directly manipulate markets, which should make them a target of regulation. I don't even understand why bloomberg changed its model from being exclusive to pursuing becoming a mainstream medium.
There's a wildlife park just out of Bicheno that raise and release orphaned Wombats.

They also have an insurance colony and breeding program for devils.
Three significant paragraphs from the article->
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Most people struggling to pay off their debts are not graduates of four-year colleges. They are instead non-graduates — people who attended college (often a for-profit college) but never received a degree. They have the worst of both worlds: debt and no degree.
[...]
The average four-year college graduate who takes out loans ends up with less than $30,000 in debt. That typically translates into monthly payments of about $300 — or about 7 percent of the starting salary of a brand new college graduate (which is more than $50,000 a year). Over time, this percentage declines, as the graduate receives raises. No wonder the overwhelming majority of college graduates repay their loans on time.
[...]
A recent Brookings Institution study by Judith Scott-Clayton found that the loan-default rate for borrowers with a bachelor’s degree was less than 8 percent. The default rate for borrowers without any degree was a miserable 40 percent.
I have a friend from the Netherlands and his bike was stolen, despite having a lock on it, the very first week he was in the US. He was completely dumbfounded, the idea of a bike getting stolen was just ridiculous for him, growing up in a such a high median income, highly developed country. And when he was in the US he was staying on campus at a presigious University. As far as my + his anecdotal evidence goes, the Netherlands is just much much safer in terms of not getting your bike stolen.
Elliot Schrage on Definers
Which scene? You still learn C to get work done with hardware, like it on not.
But again, if electricity is cheap enough, why not electric trains like we do in Europe? Or hydrogen if you need some energy storage on board? See http://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/could-hydrogen-train...

I bet that this would be much better for the environment than algae.
I don't have a specific question but I would be interested in reading any books on Bell Labs' culture at the time if he or you are aware of any.
I'd love for someone to go through and do this with education research. It's an absolute joke, and I'd argue it's worse than psychology research. And it doesn't help teachers are making students refuse to use old literature (or maybe I'm just pissed I can't quote older studies in my 'literature review' for my 'research paper'...)
It's more like putting your money in a bank. Yes, anything you use the bank for, the bank knows; you don't expect a bank teller to keep anything secret from the rest of the bank. And yes, the government can find out your transactions with a warrant. Still, people do keep their money in banks.

Banks are more regulated than Internet companies, though, so maybe there is something to be done there.
I'll change my comment from not -> hardly.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

While your number seems like a lot, it's really just a drop in the bucket. The US consumes close to 8 billion barrels of oil annually. I was, however, surprised that it was still as high as 0.5%.
I was going to say synesthesia. I'm not sure I heard every ship I remember having sound.
Is it true that there's no such thing as a perfect vacuum? How much 'stuff' is in vacuum on average to make it impure? Sorry if these are stupid questions.
That's great to see even if it's still early days. Thank you also for being a great proponent for the Rust community, your thoughtful and considered answers here have helped convince me to look into Rust more over the longer term, whereas the foam-at-the-mouth types completely send me in the other direction.
Realistically speaking comparing a hevc (x265) run and a dav1d run producing a video of similar quality but ~20% smaller, what is the difference in encoding time?
If the location of HQ2 hasn’t even been announced internally at Amazon, I don’t think any employee would know for sure they are relocating there.
This is a good example. C made the transition from "hot new platform" to "infrastructural millstone" before conferences on trendy programming topics were a thing.

The original Bourne Shell was written in an odd preprocessed dialect of C called "Bournegol". I'm sure this was analogous to the kind of innovative techniques people present at conferences today.

http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/bournegol.html

Maybe someone else can comment authoritatively on how ideas and techniques were disseminated in the early days if Unix and C. My guess is that it happened through listservs and Usenet, thus reaching even isolated Unix installations who wouldn't have been funded to attend a central conference, if that had been thought of. In Ireland I know that in the 70s there were local meetings of DECUS, for users of Digital Equipment Corp hardware and software. I don't know about Unix.
When ratings column was there, as far as I remember this was the higher rated talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_cre...

And the lowest rated one, I cant find it, but the presenter made a put with word "shit" in it or something like that and kept repeating to get a few more laughs out of the crowd, but he kept doing it (4-5 times in a span of 4 min), he stopped when Chris Andreson lost it and spoke up from the audience saying he won't ever present on that stage again.
Intelligence sharing, mutual distaste for Iran, strategically placed ally, arms deals.
That’s a very broad and speculative reading. Insider trading is about regulating the securities market, not about keeping all transactions by the insider information-balanced.
How many IT Phase Points you have?
"Computer" would work fine for me, makes me feel like I'm in TNG!
This is the funniest thing I've read in a while. I remember the rest of the world mocking the American model for cell phone plans (contract lock-in with high monthly rates in exchange for cheap uogrades) and praising the model used in the UK and most of the EU (no contract, incredibly cheap rates but phones are purchases outright). American carriers finally came around to adopting the UK/EU model in the past few years as people began to become more accepting of the idea that the latest smartphone is worth keeping for more than 2 years if it means halving their monthly service payment and now you're telling me the UK has adopted the old American business model?

I find this to be hilarious for reasons I can't quite articulate but going from a model where service is decoupled from hardware to a model where you're contractually obligated to pay a set bundled fee is a 180 degree switch too inexplicable to ignore.
This doesn't really sound sane to me. In this particular case, it would mean that if you throw away SBCL's compiler, SBCL's standard library, SBCL's extensions, and replace them with something completely different, you still get the same Lisp implementation because all of the aforementioned elements aren't a part of what you call the implementation.
It seems like they just analyzed a million resumes and then try and make your resume match theirs. Doubt they graded all million of them thoroughly, so whats to say the quality was good? Why should you want to match those million resumes?

Also, if you are using ML to try and make your resume closer to the ones that are analyzed, aren't you making the resume more average, not making it stand out more? If everyone uses the service, and adds all these keywords to it, then how are they of any value?
I made my first Android game with Lua
Even though Norway is the perfect country where it makes sense to go full EV, few countries would gains from switching to electric (even from coal)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_tailpipe#Carbon_footp...

And all grids get greener every year. And this accelerates, so your argument gets weaker over time.
Voltage doesn't kill, current does. One can easily take 10s of thousands of volt across the the heart if the amperage is low, but a car battery putting out 12 volts and several amps can. Personally, I've taken leads from a 240V, 3KW solar panel array from hand to hand and not felt a thing. Have so same 2 leads touch the same hand, you're going to feel it. For me, felt like a snake bite, minus the venom. Left a few small red mark on my hand that cleared up in a few days.

Mind this is all in reference to DC current. AC is another beast.
The 'English speaking world' is to clarify that the Religion and Marriage Status fields are heart-attacks to any HR department in the US/UK/AUS/NZ/CAN.(Granted I did not pay them, so they may be telling me to take those things out).

I know in other countries and in other cultures, such questions may be routine. For example: in Japan, blood types (O+/-,A+/-,B+/-) have been included in interviews: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/02/04/in-ja...
The one thing you probably haven't been doing is having friendly work-oriented talks with your boss. A couple of times a week you should have been raising some easy issue just as a "heads-up" so the boss is up to date.

The idea is to break down the social barrier between you two and make sure he knows you, feels relaxed around you, and knows you're competent. A related important goal is to make sure the boss knows that you two can work together as near-equals as part of a team. That's what being promoted really means, from the boss's point of view.

You've run into a colleague more of a predator than an engineer. I've also been pushed out this way and was foolishly resting on my technical laurels.
How big of a gap is a "big gap"? I have a 6 month gap before my current employer (of 2.5 years) because I spent some time doing stuff other than work with my savings. Should I fill that with "freelance, travel, and open source" or some such (even though I didn't do all that much freelance work)?
A brief summary is enough, I always jump from feedly into Chrome for the articles I'll read.
This technology is inherently less efficient unfortunately, because the ion velocity is very high. The thrust-to-energy ratio goes to 0 as exhaust velocity increases:

mv/mv^2 ~ 1/v

You could lower ion energy by lowering the voltage, but then the thrust-to-weight is going to be prohibitively low (and at one point you won't be able to ionize air anymore?).

High efficiency flight means either wings or slow moving propellers (and aircraft itself preferably). You'd need to look no further than a glider to fullfil the potential claimed here. Overall flapping wings are probably superior though, since they allow vertical takeoff and high manueverability; but they're much harder to develop and maintain.
These days you can just use clang on Windows. Latest standard supporting frontend + MSVC ABI compatibility.
Don't forget that much more of the code is #if'd for different architectures compared to lisp.
Tempted to try "Hey Siri, wait not you"
Thanks! This is better than the current HN app I am (was) using.
> To be fair it's not much (less than 5%)

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

Here's a better source. It's 0.5%. I felt that was enough to warrant using "not used in developed countries," but fair enough.

>Be careful about blanket statements unless you're an expert in the area because other HN readers are experts.

Easy there hotshot
Edit: it takes around, or less, than 1.5 mA across the heart to kill
> Intelligence sharing, mutual distaste for Iran, strategically placed ally, arms deals.

It's the snake that bites its own tail, because these all go back to oil.

About the alleged common "distaste for Iran", for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization_of_the_Iranian...
My guess? Super easy.

You go to Facebook.com from mobile web.

Your friend or an acquaintance at a party does too.

Both of you are on the same wifi network or a very similar region - maybe one that you visit often or one that you're not normally at (both are interesting for different reasons). You can easily get that from IP or other network characteristics/cookies. Facebook also has your friend graph so they can tell whether you're connected in some way to some Nth degree.

That's all it takes.

It's probably not some fancy machine learning or AI (though I'm sure that's sprinkled in somewhere to get a confidence level). It's also probably not some evil scheme to trick you into sharing your location.

The sheer scale of the network alone is enough for even simple methods to be highly effective and I think that's the crux of what people underestimate and instead gravitate towards conspiracy theories.
I've been enjoying The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner. It's well written and covers the history of Bell Labs from the early days.
More importantly, every job posting or resume may mention stuff like "git", "CI", "Docker", "OOP", and whatnot. But I would argue that for many roles it's hardly an important thing to list on your resume. Just because it's mentioned doesn't mean it's important.
Hey sorry for slow reply - rate limited with the new account. Thanks for the feedback.
In January we are relaunching all our platforms account for music playback improvements. We have large files / long songs and ios and android get a little funky for streaming songs over 5 minutes we find.
We are working our best to fix it!
Ps. I love my QC20s too.
A few comments:

* It would be wise to stick an `https://` in the example URLs.

* Starttls is not used when sending, which ought to be fixed.

* For anti-abuse purposes, you ought to include the caller's IP address in the headers somehow.
Paren party
..and name and Social Security number?
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