skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The teams were selected to compete.

I wonder if a team heavy on industry experience would have been selected compete.

Also, I wonder what Amazon gains from this? My cynical hat wants to think Amazon would have made the competitors sight over IP rights etc, but I haven’t looked in to the conditions of the completion so I’m spectacularly.

Does anyone know how this is likely to pan out for the students, and not only those who won? Each team was given US$250,000, so it’s sort of paid work?

I don’t particularly have a problem with a company fielding skills in that way, just pondering.

1. https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/9f406f35-c997-...
For electronics there's Geizhals in the EU. That collects prices from most online stores and gives you the cheapest offer for any given product. It's also nice for researching gear in general, since it has tons of filtering options.
'How our society values accomplishments/fame...'? It does of course. How much was Lederman's $100,000 in 1988 (360,000 shared with two collaborators) in today's money? The interesting question is how much more should society single out for further special consideration those who have accomplishment and fame over and above the great mass of folk who have neither?
Care to guess how CIA did it? I think MBS knows he's a target of secret services...I doubt he sent a normal, unencrypted sms text.
See my response above, it was indeed a typo from my side. I am sorry to hear that it spoiled the rest of the post for you.
Has anyone tried this with Go?
The more I read about the js ecosystem, the more it seems the inmates are running the asylum

It's a long time since js needed a good stdlib.

Everybody was using this package but apparently no one but an adversarial player stepped up to actually maintain it.

(And don't get me started on "let's always get the latest version of the package")

> You want to download thousands of lines of useful, but random, code from the internet, for free, run it in a production web server, or worse, your user’s machine, trust it with your paying users’ data and reap that sweet dough. We all do. But then you can’t be bothered to check the license, understand the software you are running and still want to blame the people who make your business a possibility when mistakes happen, while giving them nothing for it? This is both incompetence and entitlement.

Not surprising. Not surprising in the least. "Oh wow somebody 0wned the package I needed". Maybe because js projects have an order of magnitude more dependencies than a Python/Java/Go, etc project. Maybe because in the extreme opposite of NIH, people feel the need to import a module for every small thing they want to do? "Stack overflow programming", "how do I add 2 numbers using React, is there a module for that!?!?!"
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Over decades, yes, but that is moving the goalpost.

The vast majority of healtcare problems are dependent on using the right known technique (medication, surgery, etc.) and of course the problem is finding that, so diagnosis. Handing out morphine is not a solution in the genral case.

Long-term health is sadly largely independent of acute healthcare providers' work. It depends on genetics, environmental factors, behavior (exercise, diet, lifestyle) and a stochastic factor of acute problem solving (as the body breaks down more and more depends on doctors, and the fast and correct identification and application of the best healthcare technique).

So healthcare has two categories, the first is the common flu, I have some gastro issues, refer to specialist, manage chronic illnesses (diabetes, pain, low/high blood pressure) and the other is usually the problem for specialists, when they have no or wrong idea what's going on and thus an acute problem becomes a year(s) long trail of tears.

Now, that said, I'm not advocating for ignoring the edge cases and just use this one simple magic formula to decide who can play doctor. But we are still stuck in the dark, because we focus on the complexity, the long term, the human component, the expertise, yet fail to do the most basic thing to get at least somewhat reliable data.

And I'm aware of the problem of fishing for signals in data, but without it we can't even start the trial and error process, we can't differentiate between the two cases, and on average let's say we end up doing nothing.

Furthermore, we know that the obvious solution is to refactor the system. But that rarely presents a real possibility for education and human long term health. (You know, the small stuff :)) It'd be easy to ban smoking and alcohol and give less damaging stuff for people instead and spend more to treat addicts, and introduce negative income tax as a form of basic income to help poverty to reduce stress and help mental health to reduce number of smokers. Similarly it'd be easy to reform schools, and do all of the above to help parents to have more time for their kids so they get a better nurturing youth overall, which makes them ambitious and motivated to learn, study, explore and understand. And it'd be easy to do all this, but that's not likely. Hence the proposal for simple but maybe vastly effective changes.
They probably get away with calling it autopilot for several reasons.

#1: Autopilot is mainly two features (Adaptive cruse and auto-steer) that must be enabled in the settings screen, and the driver must click “I agree” on the screen listing the limitations of the feature in reasonably large print.
#2: When engaged, the car reminds the driver to pay attention to the road. To engage “autopilot” the driver turns on cruse control, then turns on auto-steer.

Probably when the car can do level 4 driving they will let the driver just engage autopilot, but until then, they should keep having the driver jump through a few hoops to help remind them it’s not complete.
No, not really :) More like Iran and Israel when they want to resolve a difficult situation in Syria where fighting is not preferred by both of the parties but they don't have a trusted 3rd party to handle the orderly resolution.
> python 3 (unless compiled with UTF32 support but the default is UTF16)

Not the case since PEP 393 / Python 3.3.

Also pretty much all Linux distros used wide builds.

> Also default in Java (including Android userland), C#, iOS & OSX, python 3 (unless compiled with UTF32 support but the default is UTF16), Symbian, OpenOffice, QT, most XML parsers (e.g. Xerces), and many other languages, libraries and frameworks. Even JavaScript uses UTF16 strings.

Most of these don't actually use UTF16 but UCS2 with surrogates (sometimes nicknamed WTF16).
I'm also drawing a lot diagrams and the best tool I found is yED. You have to input diagrams manually (no hand sketching), but it's fast and resulting diagram is impressive. Just learn the keyboard shortcuts. For example, with Ctrl+W you can quickly create new connected block, and with arrows you can navigate existing blocks.
How do you define what make of the software is? If Zuckerberg writes a loop when on a trip to France, can we say that Facebook is now partly France made?
Well copying in itself helps them gain some more skill and 'mutate' the designs with knock-offs if they are doing it with any level of understanding. I've heard accounts of Soviet copying being caught done as very verbatum to the point of leaving in designer signatures in a computer chip's unused circuit mask space, and an extra rivet hole in a wing (although to be fair given the sheer expense it is probably worth adding an unneeded hole than finding out that the hole was a fix for some obscure issue that could cause the plane to crash).

One systemic advantage is an anti-oligarchic one in that it prevents abusing the IP incumbent from abusing their position too greatly - often seen with prescription drugs. If they charge so much that it would be cheaper to just reverse engineer it and start producing it locally (not a cheap or easy task) - well that is what they are going to do, thus encouraging more reasonableness.

The third potential advantage is highly situational and an ironic opposite effect of the reduce R&D incentive. If the market is hot enough to sustain it a constantly changing market is a working strategy to encourage maximized innovation - if anybody can just copy the previous one in say a year but a superior product can be made by then it means that a constant cycle of innovation keeps them on top. As opposed to a protected situation which would allow for innovating only when someone else might catch up on their own or the protection expires. While the later would be better for them it would be worse for the world if say Moore's law behavior applied only every decade.
Doesn't seem reasonable to me. At the stake is not just press freedom, but its integrity.

Canada is also a signatory on UDHR, they can't violate terrorist's fundamental right to privacy.
The answers on this question are naive and harmful. It is common for contractors, agencies, etc to negotiate for keeping the IP of what they work on. Many businesses use this as a tactic to convert from a services company to a product company. There is no straling or unethical behavior at play here. If you can reach an agreement with your client, everything is fine. Just make sure to have a lawyer draw up the contract, as it sounds like you haven't done this kind of arrangement before.
I'm stuck on question 1. As in "I don't think I understand the question"

Is there a list of frequencies I starring me in the face, that I am failing to see, which needs to apply to zero?

Am I supposed to suss out the pattern for how frequency change occur as a function of current frequency from the two examples?
You can? When did they promise that? What is stopping them from throwing away history next year?
Given the long-term consequences of overthrowing the Iranian government, I cannot help but wonder if people involved in US foreign politics secretly wish that the operation had failed. It might have saved the world a lot of trouble later on.

And somehow, this seems to be a recurring pattern in the foreign politics of the USA (although I suspect one could easily find many examples for other countries, too) - "solutions" that in the long run cause far bigger problems than the ones they were meant to solve in the first place.

On the other hand, that pattern is hardly exclusive to politics, so maybe it is just human nature at work.
The problem is, they haven't even launched anything to replace Hangouts!
> The mozilla add-ons site actually rejected the version with tracking (the post acquisition one) for some years due to the tracking and still featured the old version without tracking.

Is there a source you're using for this info? As I visited a couple times during that period (including mid this year) and saved a personal copy of the Versions URL which listed multiple versions post acquisition available [1].

[1] Specifically: 2.1.1 (2017-10-31), 3.0.1 (2017-11-10), and 3.1.1 (2018-05-23).
Interesting. I suppose your value add could be EMC, packaging, support and infrastructure on that.
There is zero evidence for this accusation. The regulations against monopolies are neither new, nor are they enforced in a discriminatory manner against foreign companies. The EU administration is just doing a better job than it’s American counterpart. Which is a shame because historically, the US was pretty good at reigning into anticompetitive monopolies.
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> Tesla still insists their cars have fully self driving capabilities on www.tesla.com/autopilot

No they don't. They say they have the hardware for it, but the functionality will only become available once it passes software validation and regulatory approval.
Agreed. People get a little antsy when I bring it up for some reason, but the sheer _amount_ of people tends to be a root cause of many issues. It’s not instagram, it’s many, many people
That refers to features that are specific to the plug. On/off and energy meter functions are generic across the family of devices, so are also supported on the HS100.

(Context: I wrote the initial support for bulbs in this module, the plug support already existed)
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Don’t forget goats. I can’t imagine how many goats Larry and Sergey would be the proud owners of after this stunt.
That's not my design, lol. I just grabbed a template off the internet so that I had something to work with.

https://w3layouts.com/grocery-shoppy-ecommerce-bootstrap-res...

I had never got to the point where I focused on making the dialogs themselves look good. I spent all my time fixing the animation not aligning with the actual dialog and not being able to get an image to animate that wasn't blurry. By the end I had tacked on so much temporary code to work around those issues that changing anything was a guessing game.

I know you're right. I'm still looking for what I learned though.
Just wait :)

If you look at the really cheap multimeters based on the DT830 design root they were originally derived from early Fluke DMMs circa 1985. Fluke hired Intersil to make the ASIC, Intersil second sourced it, the Chinese cloned it and cost optimised it, and then more Chinese guys cloned the target devices (panel meters and DMMs) and built mass production lines. Optimally they even optimised out the DIP packages as they were expensive and bonded the die straight to the PCB.

Down from $500 a pop to $2.
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Yes I guess developers never really took to MongoDB, Memcache, Redis and such.
Not to mention object stores like Amazon S3 which are also a kind of NoSQL database and are totally useless.
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A head of state such as SA, known to buy latest tech and hacking tools, to use un-encrypted messages? I'm wondering if CIA has a way in encrypted chats and only uses that info in rare instances--and even then without confirming anything. But MBS knows what he used...
> Cure is simple. Get rid of the dumb counts (views,clicks,upvotes,likes etc etc) next to every thought/comment/image/video.

Do you really think it would make any difference? People used to get in all kinds of flame wars in the USENET era already.
The biggest concern I have is that he justifies it based on the idea that “he was pushing boundaries”... but really, he wasn’t: just because something doesn’t exist doesn’t mean it should (or would be interesting if it did), and at least from his description, it doesn’t seem like he made any real use of the vr medium. He just... wrote a pc game(?) and slapped a vr interface on top.

Vr chat pushes boundaries. It plays with the medium in a fashion that is only available to that medium. A VR computing environment would be pushing boundaries. A VR mirrors edge might be pushing boundaries (kinda; its more like mirrors edge was a game that imagined what vr would be like, and executed that vision under pc constraints. Now that vr is actually available, transferring over would be the obvious thing to do). A vr god game might push boundaries, if they do it right.

But cookie cutters and VN’s? I don’t see how you'd get anything out of vr in a straightforward port. By the time you actually got the medium doing something useful, it’d probably look nothing like an “incremental narrative game”
The cynic in me is saying that JS is the new PHP. Ironically, both are very capable and suitable languages, but the sheer freedom they offer attracts crowds of wannabe developers who think they are gods because they know how to shave off 10% of execution time in some small part of their overengineered and unmaintainable mess. And give talks about it, write blogs and post clever twits.

However developing robust software is possible in JS, the same way it was possible in PHP. You just need to take some time to vet dependencies a bit better and not use every fad when it surfaces. Common sense and experience help a lot. But it's incredible what can be built with modern toolchains and how maintainable it can be. Don't let the anti-JS feeling scare you from trying React / Vue /..., just don't forget that state management, separation of concerns and similar concepts are still valid.
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I think copyright and IP in general is important and both extremes are bad. Sadly this is one area where there are seemingly no easy solutions.

Fashion seems to cope well without IP protection except trademarks.

And arguably a lot of human endeavors could be done less adversarially (such as pharma research, battery research, etc) but the lure of potential future profit drives a lot of R&D there.

So maybe the solution is to reserve IP for things that seem to work well only in a market race setup, but drop it to a few years in all other areas. And as we set up X prizes, a regulator/committee could designate specialized R&D races. (Or other kinds of IP incentives.)

Though who knows. Would Netflix produce new series/content without the 70 years of copyright? Well maybe not, but probably there wouldn't be a Netflix either if all that content were just p2p available from the Library after 4-5 years.
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Am I the only one thinking of the first episode of knight rider? Where Michael Knight fell asleep while driving and had to prentend he was a deaf guy with a bad neck.
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I am really surprised these kinds of printer "hacks" are still possible in 2018.
Reading this made me finally understand one benefit/need for China's tight information control.
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I've been saying for a while that Lambda (and serverless in general) should just be a compilation target, not a Radically New Computing Concept(tm). This is another inch towards that.
Did you learn that getting animations exactly right and pixel perfect is an extremely challenging job, and is almost impossible to get working across all resolutions, all devices and all conditions without an exceptional amount of work?

There’s your lesson - in reality is something is not pixel perfect most users won’t notice and most of the ones that do notice won’t care.

You took it way too far down the rabbit hole, pushing resources (time etc) into things that don’t matter, you learnt this was a mistake, and you’ll never make that mistake again.

I learnt this lesson too - making the same mistakes you did. Every programmer learns this in one way or another.

You learnt better resource allocation.

Level up!
At this point, US tech should go political full court press on the EU. Just bait Trump into action based on European protectionism and “national security”, sit back and watch it burn.

The ironic thing is that eventually, the EU will push out US tech but it will not be replaced with Euro tech. It will be replaced with Chinese tech and good luck to Vestager on squeezing one single penny out of Xi.
It's not like this wouldn't have a precedent though. China has been ignoring IP laws for years.
Ah, so you are using 'narrative game' as I would use 'adventure game': one where the gameplay content is puzzles rather than combat or strategy? Okay, then I agree, that is quite niche these days.
At Google, promotion does not change your position, it changes your "Level", which roughly rewards you for having wider-ranging influence as an engineer. You don't get promoted to management or anything like that. You stay an engineer.

Disclaimer: I work at Google.
No I’m implying that whataboutism isn’t an interesting, or useful line of inquiry to respond to.
I'm installing a similar enterprise version of this tomorrow. [1]

It's a 10 plug power strip. It's got an ethernet connection with a WebUI and each outlet is individually switchable. There are two independant input power cords, and it switches automatically if one side fails (UPS dies). Really cool. Need to reboot the NAS, but it's frozen? Remote power cycle it!

1: https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/pdu/pdu15sw10atnet...
The way the hole text is written, and even your response, makes still not clear for somebody not involved in the project what actually works, so please take that as a hint for somehow presenting the information that you have so that the others can easily understand it. I know it's a small thing directed to maybe a small number of potential users, but maybe you still lose someone valuable due to the confusion.

By just reading what's there it gives the impression that, surprisingly, that project has less basic functionality than the bash script.
Not knowing much about node.js, wouldn't the most logical step now to make a standard node.js library that implements the majority of the functions of those ~400 packages? Vetting one package is easier than vetting 400. I guess that's what Rails did in the very beginning, I keep on discovering in-built magic
This mostly boils down to using OAuth for login.

>What happened to sending my login info over an HTTPS connection in the background and getting a session token back? I guess that's too simple for Google.

Not exposing an HTTP endpoint that easily lets you check if a Google account with said credentials exists (because it has to work from anywhere) and not maintaining an API that supports all the weird edge cases to logging in to Google (2FA, showing notices, locked out accounts, requiring additional authentication).

You essentially want this mess with application specific passwords back?
That's a stereotype of highrise. Many residential highrise can have a small park or at least a leisure area built nearby. I'm living in a mid-rise in San Jose, the experience is way better than living in a common crappy SFH in Bay area.
Safely guarded by private patrol, zero break-in, no annoying solicitors. Dedicated locker for your Amazon packages and free coffee in the hallway. Utility bills are much lower too. Double gated garage. Located next to lightrail. And standard amenities such as pool, gym, lounge etc.
The same with AOL with everyone thinking the same thing. Sorry but charter is toast, it will be either a brand name and see me infrastructure, but entirely controlled by twc.
Why this change though, instead of changing to a pay-based system (give visas to the 85k workers with the highest salaries)?
I was curious to check out your source because I'm 5'8, 130 ish pounds and my 10 min mile 5k only burns a little bit less than 250 calories, which I thought wasn't a big enough calorie difference for the difference in weight. I put your stats in for an 18 minute run and it came up as 350 calories. Am I putting something in wrong?
This just makes me think a primary design goal when writing software is to Optimise for Deletion.

Everybody says that they emphasise ongoing maintenance when writing code, but the best way to take that to extremes is to optimise the ability to remove (and replace) code en masse.
Then you'll love https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37361145/deoptimizing-a-...
On the other hand, if you set an airplane autopilot against a mountain, it will happily go there and crash. And try to make an airplane in autopilot land safely in the same way they did with this car.
EC2 ?
I honestly don't understand the purpose of this reply in regards to the original post. It literally has nothing to do with what I was referring to.
> I may be wrong, but in the millions of downloads of event-stream and it’s 1.5k dependent packages, there should be at least 5 companies involved which, had they spared 1 dev-hour per week each, should be more than enough to keep event-stream kosher.

This is a really good observation. If you know some important transitive dependency your job depends on is missing a maintainer, tell your nearest supervisor you'll be spending an hour a week taking care of that. Or a similar amount of time helping a direct dependency get rid of the broken transitive one, whichever makes more sense.
If you sum all the numbers in your input do you get the right answer?
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