skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laxative artificial sweeteners have the problem that people don't dose food as carefully as medicine. I'm reminded of the famous Haribo maltitol gummy bears, which when eaten more than about 20 at a time would cause a...powerful laxative effect.
HBS invented “leadership” industry–and produced generation of corporate monsters
> I don't know if the oath comparison works out so well for development. Let us not forget that each physician is directly responsible for a life every time they see someone

I commit every single day of my professional life as a physician to do my best for my patients, and to do the absolute least harm possible. And over the entire course of my lifetime, I will not achieve the scale of harm - or benefit - that a developer can achieve with a few months or years of concentrated effort.
The Virtues of Writing Maintainable Software
Repl.it is a pretty neat solution too, don't get me wrong.

And IDLE has always left me unimpressed relative to the terminal... but using Unicode on Windows, suddenly code pages get involved, which no one should ever have to know. There is a long series of subtle, unpleasant tradeoffs.

Writing short Python scripts when I traveled with a Chromebook was messy, I leaned on repl.it as one option... It was super easy to dive in.
Surely the correct counter-move for Google would have been to say "We will respect the DNT flag in all browsers except IE".
I don't think so, as I had a negative reaction to your comment but don't have children. People can disagree with your choices without it being due to guilt.
Absolutely. We're not only feeding ourselves, we're feeding our gut. Get either one wrong and there's going to be problems.
That stood out to me as well. Palm inward on the peace sign is considered offensive to some and the looks on the faces of the guys with the gang signs do not look happy at all.
I think they’d be obliged to change the name every six months after the acquisition when they hire a new department head. Obligatory 15x price hike will also he implemented with no notice like Google Maps.
Upvoted for "None of this stuff is mutually exclusive". I tend to see a lot of "Steve Jobs was a genius!" vs. "Steve Jobs was a complete asshole!" competing narratives, when I always thought it seemed pretty obvious both were true.

Also, not only is this stuff mutually exclusive, but I think it is also (mostly) orthogonal. I get aggravated when I see or hear folks trying to emulate Steve Jobs' management style and they seem to focus on the asshole part but don't necessarily realize they're missing the genius part (see Elizabeth Holmes).
I don’t understand. How is this possible? The POSIX API is not implemented for WASM. Non web embedding have not yet been standardized, nor threads. How have they implemented this? Are they implementing a non standard embedding and pthreads?

https://webassembly.org/docs/non-web/
I worry this will lead to a further reduction in privacy for average users, as Slack is pushed toward "enterprise" features which are basically just giving your boss the ability to read all your private messages.

That said, I think it's naive and foolish to have an expectation of privacy on your work slack. Should you have privacy? Yes, absolutely. Do I expect it? No, not at all.
"LGBTQI"

The fact that this acronym keeps changing and growing underlines how absurd it is to try to classify sexuality.

I don't think there's a winning move. Let humans be human and hope that the advertisers will come around eventually.
Our desktop app is an Electron app that adds features to our web app while “containing” it.

The justification for pure native apps just isn’t there. Engineering effort + maintenance costs are too high.

That, and NS* frameworks just kind of suck. Apple is trying to change that with the UIKit port to macOS but the apps that use it look and feel terrible (Home being one example) right now.
Mind if I post this comment on google wave?

Or talk?

Or hangouts?

Or plus?

Or... fuck, i honestly don’t know what Google is pushing for chat today.
I am by no means a TED fan but this one by Ron Finley is amazing / inspiring.

"It's like printing money."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EzZzZ_qpZ4w
I've checked https://myaccount.google.com/purchases

"You don't have any purchases"
> These days the competition is about being the first to sell your story to the retail investor before the hype cools down

That's an obviously false narrative. Companies are preferring to stay out of the public markets for longer than ever, hence the rise of the unicorn.
Both games were among my favourites growing up, for very different reasons. I always wondered why a “sequel” was so different from the original - fascinating to learn the reason 25+ years later!

I might have to fire up Dune I again. Unlike Dune II, I suspect it is still quite playable today, even if much less known.
That’s very interesting I did not know that Convict Savings Accounts could be spent at local farmers markets.
Keyboard shortcuts in slack are also terrible. Trying to paste a snippet of code simply isn’t possible with the keyboard, for example
I don't agree with "if I don't perpetrate this harm, someone else will, so it's okay" because that pattern can be used to justify any harm. If I don't perpetrate this harm, and someone else does, the moral culpability rests with them and not me; and that makes all the difference.

I'm saying that doing business with people who oppose abortion isn't the perpetration of harm. We as a society do not economically ostracize people who hold a pro-life position. There is no need for some random software developers of some groupware to be doing that.
If you're fully bought into the Apple ecosystem, iCloud is pretty decent. I don't ever use the web interface, but CalDav is CalDav.
You're the one who doesn't know the problem it solves, as many times as I've explained it. It loads pages instantly, not merely quickly. That's the whole point of the technology and the whole reason so many link aggregators use it.

I showed you that your first link didn't understand this either. Your last link isn't even about the same technology. I didn't bother clicking the other because that would surely also be a waste of time.

I have patiently explained this to you over and over because I can't stand people spreading conspiracy theories. That's how the US ended up in the mess it's in.
Vitamins and minerals are absolutely nutrients: http://health.gov.au/internet/publications/publishing.nsf/Co...
I've been wanting something like this for my di.fm likes and shazam song finds.. I don't want to be each track each time - but it would be nice if every three months a system would put up a list and show what it would cost to buy each song and an option to get the whole album for each / any as well.

I'd gladly support them and desire to have offline availability on demand - but don't want to do it one at a time. Batch quarterly, even yearly would be fine. I guess a monthly option would be cool too and used by some.
Hi Peter,

on H1B, can I do any business at all? For example, can I earn from adsense on my personal hobby website? Can I own rental properties?

Thanks
You're acting like all the engineers at Google work on search algorithms and incredibly research-focused work.

I bet you they still have the footsoldiers out there building consumer facing products. You're telling me the guy who built Homebrew can't sprinkle some awesome dev ux to some of Google's tools?
$120 billion? Wow, so SoftBank 3x’ed their $7bn investment in a year?
> Most companies disclose what their process is up front

That's funny. You should do stand-up.
Currently #1 on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18633211
> “I was so used to seeing death that I didn’t know how it’d feel to see something grow,” Trent said. “To see plants grow full of life, from something I control, it’s probably the best feeling in the world.

This made my whole day, maybe my whole week. I can also say I agree wholeheartedly. There's something magical and healing about plants, and getting your hands in the dirt. I highly recommend it.
This is definitely within my skillset but far from user-friendly. I'm just remarking on how simple it is to put a toggle in the settings to show/hide the tab bar and they haven't done this because they're pushing a particular look that is very similar to the design choices for Chrome.
That is insanely broad and vague. You can be responsible for knowingly designing a system for abuse, or if you give it to someone you know, or have reasonable cause to suspect, will abuse it. But what you're saying here is that if you ship anything at all, and someone somewhere finds a way to use it for some nefarious purpose, then you're responsible. That's not how things work with anything else; why should they work that way with software?

That aside, in US specifically, there's already something that is more narrowly tailored to our current reality. They aren't accepting new signatures because of how many there were, but you can still make the same pledge (and e.g. share it publicly to have some skin in the game):

http://neveragain.tech/
Because law makers are still trying to wrap their heads around the Internet. That means tech has to self regulate and we just haven't set ourselves up for that. I don't think that lack of diversity helps with that.
Any company could have pivoted to be Instagram. But Instagram was at the right place at the right time with the right product. Flickr did not have time on their side so it didn't matter if they had the other two.
If you’ve been out of school for awhile and have real world experience, if you’re anywhere outside of Silicon Valley and the West Coast, you shouldn’t be competing for jobs where they are asking you to “invert a binary tree”. I don’t think I had a single leetCode technical question for the job I have now.

I am supposedly a senior developer, but I was asked:

To whiteboard a system that I designed and asked me how I designed it for high availability, scalability, etc.

How would I improve the current process to bring in CI/CD.

My theory on automation testing.

My previous job interview was similar, I was interviewing for a lead dev position without knowing it. He asked me 30/60/90 day plan to create a software development department to ship some green field projects and to rescue a project that had gone off the rails.

Any company that is more concerned with whether their senior developers can write algorithms than whether they can ship features and architect systems is not a company I am going to work for. It’s probably a company full of architect astronaughts who couldn’t ship if their life depended on it.

Then again, I don’t live in SV but so do live in a major metropolitan area.
Although, I will add; it's new to me. Godaddy has been known to front run domains. This would be the first time I have heard of it from namecheap.
Disagree. This is a technology that can be secretly or openly deployed in businesses for the sake of emotional exploitation via dynamic displays targeting specific emotional states. I'm against turning the world into anymore of an emotional hunting ground than it naturally is.

http://eqradio.csail.mi.edu
I really hope the politicians in the US champion a GDPR law here. Unfortunately I'm not optimistic.
Global Status Report on Road Safety 2018 [pdf]
Its because the engineering tollerances on new appliances are tiny, I recently installed an oven and the sheet metal couldnt be more than 1/16' thick (1.5mm). I was stunned by the fact i could probably punch through it.
I have. I do my damndest to avoid palm oil & friends.

There's definitely local meat that's fine for the planet. As far as I'm aware, the trouble is the bulk of the market, the high-volume bottom-dollar part of the market. The industrial beef grown on soy & corn. It's the McDonalds patty, not the quarter buck in the freezer at grandma's.

As for your sheep field, pasture is not really the most carbon-rich soil. But, maybe it's not much worse than pine forest. The best are wetlands, bogs, & frequent fire areas.
One very important difference between the big bang and the interior of the black hole: Within the event horizon of a black hole, there is always a singularity in your future. In our universe, that singularity is in our past.

One interpretation: the big bang theory describes a white hole -- the time-reversed version of a black hole.
The real cynic would say that Microsoft knows that this stuff is coming in legislation anyway (because too many people are too pissed off by now), and those who are on the bandwagon early - and actively helping to push it forward - will be rewarded with positive PR, while also helping to sink competition that's not so fast on the uptake.
Fair enough. Is there anything you particularly recommend reading?
Why should an employer not be able to read messages that employees send to one another for the purpose of doing their job?
‘60’s era Porsches are are joy. Only problem is, the motors are wearing out. There are few people casting new cases. You could build one up for 30K. If the car is clean, I mean super clean it will go for 175K. So you have a great car but the motor us shot. Converting to batteries might just be the answer.
Say that to all the cosmetics companies, ThyssenKrupp, IBM and so on
Uber Files Confidentially for Initial Public Offering
Wasting money on infrastructure is better than wasting on wars. The government of the U.S. need to learn better.

The problem with war is that no matter which side wins, both side will always in some way hate each other (Once war started, it will never end).

While even in the worse scenario, locals can still benefit from the infrastructure. Booming strategy is something Chinese people play very well.
Something I've thought about throughout the day is karyomapping, which has been repeatedly successfully used to screen out heritable diseases, but absent from this conversation...

The discussion in the news could really benefit from reminding people what techniques we are currently using, to make it clear how this technique increased risk without advancing outcomes, and to make it clear that the objections aren't simply against all genetic tech.
It's a computation. Laws against it are unenforceable in general, absent draconian restrictions on computing devices.
Some cats do better with a companion, some are much happier when they are “only cats”.

You have to know your cat well enough to know which is right for them.
That already exists. The CEO of my last company used it to weed out dissidents.
> These equations tell you that like masses attract and unlike masses repel. We don’t normally talk about this because for all we know there are no negative gravitational masses, but you can see what happens in the Newtonian limit.

I feel like I am misunderstanding what the author wants to say here. It seems to me that this would only be the case if you change the sign of the gravitational mass (F[-m_1,-m_2]=F[m_1,m_2]), but not of the inertial mass?

In the Newtonian case you get that the force is proportional to m_1m_2, so ++=+, +-=- and --=+, but then F=ma flips the direction of the acceleration, right?

++ gives F>0 and a>0, so attraction.

-- gives F>0, but negative inertial mass yield a<0 and hence repulsion.

+*- gives F<0, so the positive inertial mass sees a<0 and is repelled, while the negative inertial mass sees a>0 and is attracted.

What am I missing here?
For those saying this IPO is happening now due to market slowdown, Uber's CEO has been speaking of a 2019 IPO for a while[1]. I am not an investment banker, to me this seems far more pre-planned than a last minute rush before a heavy correction, no?

For those who do know the space well, how far ahead would one be able to plan to time this right to happen to coincide with the current trends in the market?

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-uber-ceo-says-company-could... , Aug 30, 2017
This just looks like a list compiled from invoices/receipts that were sent to my gmail from various vendors that has been parsed. Actually there's a lot of stuff that is missing.

Seems pretty tame actually, but I also don't use gmail for my whole life.

I'm a big advocate of privacy, but I think Google is pretty open about what they do. If you don't want this, there are usually ways to opt out and still use the service, but of course you can always use something else. I've been really enjoying Proton Mail.
We can grow food in buildings with hydrophonic systems. The problem is not land but energy.
Its use can be detected by people who implement it, and if it's actually illegal, then you'll get whistleblowers every now and then. It's not perfect as far as enforcement goes, but most things aren't.
Can you give a couple examples of when / how Jetpack has to be a single plugin, instead itself being a suite of individual plugins?

If the knock on that product is bloats, and the compromises adoption, how is X a benefit to those who refuses to abopt the whole alphabet?
If you use FastMail, they're actually native push on iOS Mail because Apple allows them to be. Any other app would be IMAP polling.
I think Tesla is actually a tech company, where 'tech' refers to 'technology', not just software. They have developed a whole bunch of cool new tech, and they use it to build cool new products. The specific flavour of tech and product is window dressing to the core methodology.
Beijkaifap
Kind of like big mining companies aren't actually mining companies, they're finance and investment companies. The actual mining is done by contractors three or four tiers down in the contract stack.
I’m really excited to use it in C++. When it’s in Python, it becomes much harder to embed into other programs and is susceptible to Python version issues when sharing code.

This reduces barriers to use in addition to improving performance and portability.
It’s not really that difficult.

I have a simplified skeleton of class that is similar to the problems we solve every day and failing unit tests.

They have to make the unit tests pass.

Then I give them a second set of requirements and they have to make the second set of tests pass without breaking the first set.
> There are already several anti-bias and discrimination laws on the books. Why does facial recognition warrant additional regulation?

Mainly because many companies doing it are arguing that when their models produce biased results, it's not their fault, it's just "computer thinks that way". So far as I know, this approach hasn't been properly tested in court, but it might just fly, if courts decide that you need to have intent to discriminate (and that training on real-world datasets, that are always implicitly biased, does not constitute such intent).
I think this needs to be changed. What is a public space has changed drastically. What you can do with technology has changed this drastically too. Like where do you draw the line of what someone can do without a warrant?

Follow you?

Video tape you?

Video tape an entire public area constantly?

Have Arial footage of an entire city?

All these things exist and are being done. There's good uses for all of them too. But where do we draw the line? Do the good uses outweigh the bad? Personally I'm not convinced. And that's before we include the internet as a public place, which I really don't think people internalize it like that.
If you’re willing to share, why were you meeting with Amazon’s general counsel?
Dongguankaifapiap
I've seen this happen a couple of times with Namecheap in the last 3 months. The last case was literally yesterday (as I explained in the original post)
That sounds likely, my VMs definitely don't have hardware acceleration.

That said, it's clearly possible to build a nice editor purely on the CPU, so it's a shame that VS Code can't run well in the same environment. Sublime Text handles dozens of tabs and windows under emulation.
At $10/year it would cost $800 for your lifetime. Not too shabby to put control in your hands
To be fair, that's the hope of every company.
For one liners, you can just surround the code in backticks a la `int counter = 0;` (i.e. type first backtick, paste in code, type the second backtick).

For code that's multiple lines long and where you don't care about syntax highlighting, you can surround the code in triple backticks a la (i.e. type first set of triple backticks, paste in code, type in second set of triple backticks):

```#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
printf("Hello world\n");
}```

For code where you want syntax highlighting, I do think you either need to drag the relevant text file into the Slack window or use the '+' button to the left of the text box.
Check skimfeed.com but only has top stories of last +48hrs
It honestly feels like choosing a laptop today is trying to make the least bad choice.

MacBook? Piss-poor keyboards and external device support.

XPS? Poor support.

ThinkPad? Windows 10.

<Laptop> with Linux? X software is not available.
I think it's time to acknowledge the impact of culture in our oaths. It IS how we're all naively programming ourselves and others, so we might as well address it.

If my tech is used to do harm, the responsibility to heal is shared between myself, the cultures involved in leading to harm, the perpetrators of the harm, those harmed, those witnessing harm, and those in denial of responsibility. I'll do my part while encouraging and believing in others' willingness to grow together.
Well if its called a private chat... It's kind of expected that it'd be private.
I have no idea how this whole idea of doing something 3 times gained any momentum.

Do people not realize that you can use cross platform C++ libraries and essentially get the same program to compile on three different platforms, then just write it once? It really isn't that difficult. Use Qt, or Juce, or FLTK, the standard library and a couple of cross platform libraries for things like networking and you are in the clear.

The idea that anyone is actually maintaining three separate versions of a program is completely detached from reality.
What’s the objective or rationale here? I don’t understand why this is interesting.
How Linode Screwed Me
Their eschewing of this obvious move paints a picture of their respect towards web users.
From Google Translate: "Beijing Invoicing [Electricity. Talk/Wei. Letter; 15914158529 Lin Manager] Where is there, where can I open, ten minutes we will be able to "quality first, service first" concept for you"
Atom, the ethereum wallet (worst software I've ever used) and many many more
I'm just kidding but it is really expensive to hire and fire a poor performer.

Using the simple Joel Spolsky criteria for hiring, “smart and gets things done”, the only thing that testing whether someone can do algorithms is testing is whether they are smart.

There are plenty of people who are smart but don’t have the follow through to get things done and are always distracted by the “ooh shiny”.
From Google Translate: "Dongguan Invoicing [Electricity. 话/威.信;15914158529林经理]--Where there is invoicing. Project scope; value-added tax, advertising, accommodation, service, construction, leasing, building materials, labor, office supplies, consulting, materials, Engineering models, conferences, machinery and equipment. Uniform national tax network inquiry, cooperation and win-win. "
Cats are not kept indoors to keep them from running away. Cats are kept indoors to keep them from killing birds and other small creatures, to keep them out of traffic, and sometimes keep them from breeding.

You can't make blanket statements about all breeds of house cats like you do. These are domesticated animals, even if they do still have some wild instincts and capable of becoming feral. Cats have been living on tiny boats for literally thousands of years.
Maybe depends on how they though it would play out in the media. Unfortunately the whole opt-in vs. opt-out is too complicated to be explained in most reporting. Google might have worried that not respecting Do Not Track for IE could be interpreted as an Anti-Mircrosft move that would run afoul of monopoly law.