skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there are always new product people joining the company. And what the heck are they going to do to get recognized and promoted

Maybe I don’t get it, but it seems weird to me that everyone needs to get promoted all the time.

Where I live you get employed in a position and most people stay in that position for most of their career.

You may climb the ranks, but that’s not something everyone does all the time.
The mandate is to regulate monopolies. Regulation is always easier if the company isn't a key player in your own economy - just compare the fines against Volkswagen in the US and Germany. And honestly, I don't think this is ridiculous at all. At least not more ridiculous than the case against Microsoft for bundling IE with windows. The only ridiculous thing is that the US has stopped any pretence of regulating monopolies by itself.
Assuming that care/medication is resonably priced, like in some countries in Europe, Asia, etc. I wouldnt mind my taxes creating a buffer for vulnerable people. One day it might be me or you. In the US, prices are being over inflated because of the insurance system, so yea unless that issue is solved first, nobody would want their taxes going to an overpriced/corrupt health care system.

When I was a student in the UK (not a UK national) I had access to capped prescription medicine at 10USD max price. Even though I rarely used it, it's a great relief knowing you won't go bankrupt if you have a health issue. When I cut my hand once, I was treated in a UK hospital for free, no questions asked. Whats wrong with that?

Again this could only work if things are priced fairly. A blood test should be free or super cheap (<$50) if there is a legitimate reason to do so (relatives with heart disease), etc.
>> not all people have the same sized dam wall and depth of stored courage.

> analogy seems deeply flawed from my personal experience.

Indeed.
I was asked for a copy of my transcript, which includes my GPA, a few months ago.
Yes. If you bring someone in for $50K but their market price is $90K and it's easy to switch, why would that person not switch jobs ASAP?

When that happens, the company takes a hit and is less likely next time to bring in more people because of the associated costs of HR, interviews , visa fees, immigration lawyers, onboarding, time wasted on getting them up to speed on the project etc.

It would be a huge blow to body shops.

This results in fewer people coming in unless they are really needed.

Right now H1B employees are stuck in jobs without normal pay hikes for years and can be forced to work longer hours. That's how the companies make their costs back and much more.
You might want to try Michel Thomas.
What happened is Mozilla got a complaint and pulled multiple pay-wall bypassers.

Source:

https://github.com/nextgens/anti-paywall/issues/109

"It appears that your Add-on violates the Firefox Add-on Distribution Agreement and the Conditions of Use. Both prohibit Add-ons that violate the law. Your Add-on appears to be designed and promoted to allow users to circumvent paywalls, which is illegal.

...

We are responding to a specific complaint that named multiple paywall bypassing add-ons. It did not target only your add-on."
Right, my point was that no matter how hard you try, no matter what you do or what you say, there will always be people who assume malice from it all.
I’d imaging getting hit by a buggy carried a significantly lower risk of fatality. Not to mention a horse is a better computer than a Tesla. But I agree with your conclusion of course.
The regulatory bang-for-buck is pretty high, though -- no complex rule-making, no significant change in procedure, just a 16% bump for practically nothing.
check this:
http://musicforprogramming.net/
No. It's "IP protection is mostly a racket at this point, and instead of promoting research & development, it often slows it down".
So funny, I also first leaned English from Leisure Suit Larry. I remember being stuck on "TAKE OFF CLOTHES" for the longest time.
A friend of mine does that regularly — as early as three months ago. She even asked about where to have capes made because it gets cold if you don’t wake up when you are in front of the barn. Her relationship with her horse is a little closer than you’d expect though: she writes poems to him. The horse tells her when it’s time to go home.
You'd have to use "volatile int n"
Every large old piece of code is "bad engineering" to the next generation that looks at it. That doesn't mean throwing it away and throwing away all the users and starting over is a rational path forward. The new engineers will just fuck it up in new and exciting ways and won't have all of the experience of the old version built in (and will have to learn those lessons over again, probably).

If you're Google, you already have APIs that serve client applications (there's no such thing as a monolithic Google app, because Google can't launch anything at small enough scale to do a monolith). If your engineers really fucked up the first one so bad you can't fix it and improve it (which I don't believe to be the case, nothing that bad would survive production at Google scale, particularly for a popular product like Hangouts), you just rewrite the damned clients, call it the new (version 2, whatever) Hangouts, and don't confuse your customers (yet again) with a maelstrom of wacky new chat-like products and force them to choose to install and learn something new (again).

But, it seems like a real stretch to say that Google secretly has a bunch of unskilled hacks working there, despite all the evidence to the contrary. And, it's even weirder to suggest that if Google is secretly a den of incompetence that starting over from scratch would be a good idea.

My point is two-pronged: Starting over with a new confusingly named/positioned product is bad business. Throwing away the old, functional, product, to launch a new one that is very similar (how different can a chat really be and still be useful and recognizable?) is bad engineering.
If sometime in the future self driving cars reach the point that they are better drivers than the average human driver then it will be better if the non drunks too let their cars do the driving.
How is it an opportunity? There used to be a whole selection of businesses in those niches. Some great, some terrible, some American, some European. Google have been continually adding niches to their web search over the years. All the way back to Froogle that became Google Shopping, that went from a comparison search to paid listings only.

Are most people still going to search for price comparison sites when it's right there on a Google tab? Are most people aware that tab may be ad only, when Google have constantly done their utmost to disguise ads, "highlighting" them in almost invisible colours?

Not a very compelling business opportunity to enter a market where 90% of the clicks never get outside Google. Half of those who were doing fine in those niches are forgotten, or closed. Just because some search monopoly decided it wanted to grab all those other pies too.
A significant amount of so-so candidates gets rejected at the executive review, which happens after hiring committee and host matching. When the executive rejects a candidate the recruiter often appeals the decision. That appeal can result in extra interviews or other ways to get more information. In this case it seems like the extra information was an explanation for the low grades and the explanation was not enough. Most likely the candidate would have just gotten the offer if the candidate did better at their interviews.
https://www.iso.org/standard/68004.html

https://github.com/iipc/warc-specifications/blob/gh-pages/sp...
Yes they are an American company.
Wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecheap
Or at least tone them down quite a bit. It's fair to have some degree of protection over an invention that required years of work of possibly multiple people, and a lot of money. But I don't see how protecting it for longer than ~5 years is justified.
I didn't understand dead elimination until I wrote enough macros. It is a lot easier to generate code and have the optimizer fix it than to make sure to always generate efficient code.

This is also how compilers do things, but it is only that we schemers can see the intermediate result much easier using simple source->source transformations.
Being bombarded in a trench for days and still being partially functional as a soldier is pretty much the gold standard for courage. Nevertheless 'water behind a dam you call on [with different sizes for different people]' is a very arguable metaphor.

There are vanishingly few people stupid enough to subject themselves to stress and fear voluntarily just because. They either see themselves as having no choice (possibly correctly) or because they perceive a reward to be had (possibly one related to validating who they see themselves as). It basically follows (handwave) that courage is a combined ability to either not feel stress (or fear) in some situation - which does not run out - or to push or regardless of stresses in pursuit of some higher goal.

In the latter case, once someone decides that it isn't worth it they aren't going to come back again, acting a bit like a dam running out of water. But their ability to act courageously will change depending on the circumstance, and in some instances they may be significantly more courageous if they don't really see themselves as having a choice. Eg, a parent defending their child vs a parent defending random strangers would be completely different in terms of how much punishment they endure.
Suddenly I really hope Bob Zemeckis reads HN.
Capture WP plugin activities
What have we come to when a tired silly meme is called "spot on" in the top comment on HackerNews.
I’m not sure how much of a libertarian Elon Musk is, but similar stories would give voice to demand that Telsas be able to recognise a Police car flagging you, and pulling up safely unless over-ridden to keep on by the driver.
I think the article is confusing someone who's at the tail end of their life, and no longer interesting in continuing, with depression among people who'd otherwise go on to live a radically different life.

The two are not the same and treating anyone who is done with living as depressed or needing psychiatric intervention is short sighted.

I'm all for helping people who want help. Some people don't want help - they just don't want to break the hearts of those who care about them.

Suicide is not some grave sin and there is no God watching over us. It'd help to realize some folks get dealt a hand they don't want to play out to the bitter end. The stigma around somebody choosing to act as they see fit, including suicide, really needs to be released. Not so much for the folks who go through with it, but for those around them, that feel guilt, shame and all kinds of negative emotions as a result.

I do wonder if normalizing suicide as an option would cause exploitation based systems to implode. Imagine those miserable sweatshop workers. If they said you know what - I'd rather die than live like this, they'd actually have leverage to significantly improve their living conditions.
Yes, definitely.

There would be unrest, rioting, insurrection, and finally, civil war. Europe would be torn apart, the economy reduced to primitive agriculture. The European people will offer their prettiest daughters to Page and Brin, draped in blue, red, yellow and green veils to win back the favour of their distant and angry masters.
Agreed.

We’ve been running large Elasticsearch clusters as our primary search/analytics engine. While it’s overall very stable, stuff does occasionally happen that requires an index rebuild. We use HBase as our primary store and index via map/reduce or Spark Batch.

As much as I love Elasticsearch, I definitely wouldn’t be able to sleep at night knowing it was the primary datastore.
So why the outcry against Russian interference? Double standards?
By their own admission they got to use this product for over a decade, and somehow that's unacceptable. We also have no idea yet what the migration will be, and no matter what, your data most definitely won't be lost.
"My gpa was high for two years, then I fell in love and realized that I was young and missing out on life too much. I'm very good at prioritizing the essentials and following through on my promises."
This is tangential but this is the second post recently using fancy ligature fonts in code examples and it's... jarring.
This means AWS would keep a beam instance running for you the entire time? I doubt that
How free is free love? How polyamory lost its allure
Helsinki doesn't need flood protection, but we have a large (~25000 cubic meters) underground lake right in the center of the city for heat management: https://gizmodo.com/helsinki-built-an-underground-lake-to-co...

The local energy company is also converting some artificial caves, originally dug for oil storage, to similar use: https://www.helen.fi/en/news/2018/Gigantic-cavern-heat-stora....
Might be mistaking them for other flexible display contenders there
Whichever number you have working through the Android Messages app on your phone. messages.android.com just connects (via Google) to the app on your phone, displays your messages from that, and lets you compose and send messages via that.
Plane autopilot doesn't have to deal with obsticles. It has to fly in a straight line with very gradual adjustments. Driving is magnitudes more complex, contextual data, inconsistent behaviors of other drivers, etc.
They are moving Skype4business to Teams anyway.
Hack Behavioural Questions in Interviews
>Competing on IP alone is very risky.

Honestly, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop in the IP industry. But I'm not sure it's going to be the Chinarmageddon scenario we always hear about.

Plenty of countries are net losers in the IP-based economy... they're paying for foreign-owned patents and copyrights but have little of their own to sell. The balance is probably worse the less developed the country is.

Unlike most third world economic problems, though, this can be resolved by the stroke of a pen-- withdrawing from the legal and treaty frameworks that support the copyright and patent systems. Someone's going to try it, probably with a marketable justification of "if we void the patents on foreign drugs/fertilizers/seeds/infrastructure tech, we can make it cheaply for our own consumption" or "we can't afford to be paying for foreign software."

When it happens, I expect to see it ripple quickly. It's not something you can militarily or economically retaliate for (the optics would be terrible) and the only losers are the countries that staked their economy on convincing everyone to treat infinitely-duplicable knowledge as scarce.
pretty sure autopilot in airplanes just monitors rudimentary sensors and follows a gps course.

i dont think most airplanes even have active radar, let alone cameras/lidar and randomly moving obstacle avoidance at milisecond latency, road sign recognition, etc.

comparatively boring at 35k ft. many orders of magnitude complexity difference.
Nice article!

Something along these lines is still present, I think, in HtDP, at least in the Chapter about abstractions (16.1, 16.5, and 16.6).

Basically, when designing a function one can use existing abstractions (or, I would add, design her own abstraction) whose whole signature, output included, matches the purpose and signature of the function to be designed.

So, if the problem at hand is to design a function that takes a natural number and produces a list, that calls for using the built-in `build-list`, whose signature is `N [N -> X] -> [List-of X]`. Or if the output of a function on lists is a Boolean value, one has to keep an eye on `ormap`/`andmap`, etc. So the output is also essential to choose the suitable abstraction.
"The resultant whirlpool sucked in the drilling platform, eleven barges, many trees and 65 acres (26 ha) of the surrounding terrain."

It's remarkable nobody lost their life.
I assume it'll cold boot one up for you if you didn't already have on running on first request, keep it around for a while, and when it becomes idle for a while, shut it down. There's a lot of blog content out there to try to ping lambda enough so the instance stays around to avoid the cold boot issue.
>The government is offering a program to bring in the best and brightest to fulfill jobs that we can't otherwise fill.

Show me where the H1B program or mandate says anything about the best and brightest. Perhaps you confused H1B with the O-1 visa program or the EB-1 priority green card employment category?

>or doesn't believe that regulation is affordable or a good use of tax payer money, than the government should rescind that program.

The program isn't run from tax payer money, it pays for itself and then some.

>How is the Uscis funded?

>Funding. Unlike most other federal agencies, USCIS is funded almost entirely by user fees. Under President George W. Bush's FY2008 budget request, direct congressional appropriations made about 1% of the USCIS budget and about 99% of the budget was funded through fees.

On top of the application fee that funds USCIS, there is a visa fee to fund the consulate visa process. And top of that there is a $500 anti-fraud fee per application. On top of that there is another large fee that is used to fund job training for citizens which has raised billions of dollars so far that has been used to help train citizens. On top of that some types of employers are charged another large fee to fund.... border security with Mexico! shrug. Just the fees can cost $4000 to $5000. There is also yet another $1400 on top of all this to process the application faster, otherwise it can take 8 months to more than a year. Google it if you want to find out the details.

Sorry, but it is clear from our conversation that you don't have the first clue about anything related to this topic. I won't be replying anymore until you try and bring yourself up to speed on what you're ranting and raving about based on one off anecdotal bad experience.
Notepad++ is written in C++.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus
This will probably encourage more and more fake universities to offer "Masters" programs. ex: [1]

[1] https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/04/24/international-t...
I highly recommend https://aiven.io/ which has lots of managed services including Kafka. Their pricing might be better at low-end.
I recently used this[1] node package for the same end.

With that I can cron my Christmas lighting. Pretty cool.

[1] https://github.com/konsumer/tplink-lightbulb
They make changes to address each of the issues as they crop up, so the question they need to ask is whether the EU will keep finding reasons to hand out record fines. I guess that boils down to the degree to which they attribute the fines to their own behaviour, and the degree to which they attribute them to European/Vestagerian animus.
This Tesla saved the life of a driver who fell asleep (drunk) behind the wheel, as well as the lives of others on the road around it. Having seen first hand what often happens when people do that I don’t understand what everyone’s complaining about.

People drink and drive. It’s a huge problem in this country. If Tesla autopilot made him drive drunk then needle exchanges promote drug use. You can’t have it both way folks. It’s either a public safety issue or it’s not.
Why the RDBMS is the future of distributed databases, ft. Postgres and Citus
I am sorry for your downvotes.
This was another hit-and-run by globalist manipulators and their far-left islamofascist pawns.
Usually the company intern defenders of custom protocols have a easy time swinging those to defend against compatibility to another protocol.
"You do not want to implement XYZ- Standard, or the hostage, aka the USP-Feature, doesn't get it. In addition we would have to do work to re-implement basic feature ABC- so we do not just look like a broken client. Lots of work, to arrive at same point, so lets have a locked in garden until all the users walk away."

Instant project death.
Also:

Glory to the m$pire.
Open-source software is free, that's the point. If you wanted to make money with it then don't make it open-source. This entitlement is just silly.

Many vendors make money by selling services on top, and there are at least a dozen that offer managed Kafka right now.
Indeed - according to that definition I was basically the real world zero cool as a kid.
Aeroplanes have ATC keeping multiple miles of separation, and thousands of feet of height between vehicles, and regulations requiring a pair of awake, sober and aware humans on board.

An aircraft autopilot can be quite dumb and remain safe.
What Is the Difference Between Public and Permissioned Blockchains – Codementor
Finally a thorough answer and not just a clickbait-ey article.
EchoSign was one of the originals, and there is also SignNow, HelloSign, and many other smaller vendors. It's becoming rather commodity for most.
Idiot. U had to post this crap three times to get noticed and make it a discussion
The best move would be to start following the laws and regulations governing that market.
Is Google Chat really an Electron app? If it is, then I wonder why it cannot do OTA update or why it has to open a browser for login (instead of opening the page in the Electron shell).

Long story short: It's either a really badly written Electron app or no Electron app (well, still obviously not written for 2018).
Russian government is less likely to have any interest in you unlike your own government.
He's in the very first sentence of my post...
I had the pleasure of taking a functional programming course taught by one of Liquid Haskell's core contributors. Since then even relatively robust type systems have always felt a bit lacking. Strict/static typing allows a compiler to provide certain guarantees that dynamically typed languages rely on manually written unit/integration tests for, and liquid types take this a step further by allowing inline narrowing of types and specification of invariants.

The emergence of technologies like this and Rust's borrow checker have me dreaming of a future where the writing tests is increasingly unnecessary, as your language requires that you specify your invariants etc up front. That combined with something like QuickCheck may make manually writing test cases a thing of the past.
Depends on the length of your password, really, and how and where you enter it. All it takes is a keystroke logger to get your master password, and this can be done even with copy/paste.
Hey nobody271 - don’t be so hard on yourself. Working on failed personal projects is a rite of passage for programmers, and believe it or not, failed projects are important

They teach you about limits, they teach you where you over abstracted, they make you practice other skills (reading code, debugging, deployment, evaluating libraries, making technical decisions and trade-offs) you might not be fully consciously aware of all of this, but while you were building it, you were improving all of this.

your design on the site is top-notch, really good work. You have something to show for your time.

For us highly ambitious, it’s easy to get caught up in the negative aspects of why something didn’t succeed - but that’s only because the self doubt that us creators have (that is neccisary for us to critique our own work) needs to be kept on a leash.

You’re not one of the 99% of society eating Cheetos and watching TV all night, you’re building your skills. You have come out of this a better developer, and that is success in itself.
Sierra games did not use SCUMM. That was LucasArts (the MM stands for Maniac Mansion).
There is an air of arrogance to the article that isn’t explained. Why is the implementation so weak and how should it have been done? Or rather: are passwords at risk? Is there an actual possible attack? Is this explained already and am I missing it?
A company of rockstars without audiance.
Do you know what is ruining natural wonders? People are.
FFS, summon a Lyft/Uber.
Google keeps failing to understand tablets
The US also stole to get its leg up in the world in the 18th century.