skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3 is still understandable, as long as it's a genuine appraisal. I know Amazaon doesn't want couples giving reviews on the same item either, I guess you could apply the same ruleset to companies too. i wouldn't be surprised if there was a rule about that.
Why did you ban commenters/voters based on comments that seem to have validity behind it? Did you inspect the comments that were lauding the product and not find it odd that OP was only responding to them instead of this highest voted feed?
Did you solve the problem using a list of words you needed to find in a long string like "cowsgoformoosomethingelse"?
Oh, go figure. I stand corrected on my first point about immediate platform lock-in. Longer-term, I still believe Apple is refraining of heavily supporting the web to keep overall control of its platforms.
Lost to what? What's in it's place now?
I was a half-pack smoker and I feel the same about you smoking a pack a day.
Sometimes, but shutting down the server can also harm users, if it is providing services that those customers rely on.
I recently considered a role there, on a security team no less. I've never had a Facebook account and agree that the product as-is is fundamentally destructive.

However, there's some value in "running towards the fire" so to speak. Facebook does not seem to me to be fundamentally evil, just willfully blind to the problems it causes. It's probably worth a few years of someone's life to try to steer that ship in a better direction.

In the end I didn't take the job because the position eventually offered was too low to do what I described above effectively. But I bet there are other folks here who might get better positioned if they took the time to interview.
> Finally, I realized my brain needs more time than the average programmer to find patterns in this type of problems.
> I gave up on my goal to land a job in one of these big corporations.

Maybe we are just not good enough.. And maybe it's sour grapes for having been rejected by them, but honestly I don't feel I would be a good fit for Google or FB ideologically. I value user privacy and freedom too much. In my eyes they are both evil-corps.
using firefox at 1044 x 687, the purple box next to the github and nytimes box... has "67 comments" visible.. kind of looks like something is supposed to be above that, shows something when I highlight the line.

inspecting the element, it's whit text on white bg.. "Poll: Would you prefer"

I'm sure this is not a common breakpoint and browser, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Everything else is pretty cool - I did not know there were so many of so many things.
I can corroborate that we were unable to activate a wechat account for my (western) friend. Not payments, just a normal chat account.

Upon registration, Wechat asked him to get someone to confirm/sponsor his account. I tried to, and was told that my account couldn't verify other accounts because my account was suspicious.

I then solicited my spouse's help. She managed to go through the process of verifying his account, but when I told my friend to try logging in again, he said he was still marked as "suspicious" and wasn't able to log in

Edit: this was recent (last week)
Constant slowness and down times. Bad logging that did not provide enough information. Database backups would take an ETERNITY to dump, and even longer to restore.

We once had a 5 machine cluster. We decided we needed to re-balance the cluster. The thing COMPLETELY CRASHED and went up in flames, caused us to have to stay up all night fixing it.

It was the same day we decided to rewrite our application to not use rethinkdb. Best decision we could have made.
I don't think this is true. I've been using Wechat from US. I can see all the people's moments in China and in some groups fine. All the services I've tried so far have worked okay.
> all their regular farmworkers are illegal aliens

How do they keep an arm's length away from that hot potato? Contracted through a temp worker agency?
Oh, yeah touche.
> Why do people assume ancestry results from these DNA tests are "accurate"?

Years of highly visible advertising by these companies which implies they're accurate? All of those “discovery your ancestry” posters they put up around here had specific countries and locations.
That was a factor for me when I applied to Google. I asked for 4 weeks to interview - I should have asked for 4 months. I hit the algorithms textbook and I did CTCI questions, but I just wasn't ready.

Whether I could get ready is an open question, I don't want to claim I necesessarily would have passed had I studied intensely for a longer period of time.

But yeah, I have kids in school, a job, I was a baseball coach at the time, there's homework, music lessons, all that.

Honestly, I do wonder if maybe part of the purpose of the interviews is to filter out people like me who can't drop everything to prep for an interview. I'm not trying to be glib here. My inability to prepare for a white board exam at this level actually does tell you something about how much time I am able and/or willing to devote to work.

But yeah, it's a bad feeling, I'm with you there.
This might be a good roadmap for pure math, but don't use this for guidance on how to be a statistician.
> targeted with government-exclusive spyware.

Honestly, who can even say that? What makes something "government exclusive"? These types of comments are a legitimacy stink to me. What type of narrative are these people selling?

Reminds me of the "proof" the DNC was hacked by the Russian government was because guccifer email was... sent through a random Russian email relay???
I had created something similar using Spotify and Youtube to replace a need for a spotify subscription - https://www.livejam.com

Now I'm thinking about turning it into a desktop app coz its a pain to keep a tab open for playing music.
Are you referring to the "An Inequality for Gaussians on Lattices" paper? They cite my paper, but it's to give an example of an application of their result (which I use), not because they built on it. But anyway, I think it's very fascinating that the people who discovered a key result that I needed for that paper, which could probably be best classified as arithmetic geometry, are mainly computer scientists!
I can see how easy would it be to misinterpret “No swimming alligators”.
Depends on the complexity of the GUI you need and on other factors.

QT is OK if your GUI is very complex and you're targeting a desktop OS.

For simple GUI QT is just too big.

For GUIs without a desktop OS (mobile, embedded), QT is not a good fit either, not enough mobile support, and their embedded license can be prohibitively expensive.

I have positive experience building moderately complex commercial quality GUIs on top of this: https://github.com/memononen/nanovg
Evaluating the GCHQ Exceptional Access Proposal
To Honor Murder Victims, Stop Fixating on the Race of Their Killers
In the "good old days" I used to know a woman that would always be smoking. She would light the next cigarette with the last of the old cigarette. I have no idea how many cigarettes she would go through a day, but it must have been more than 4 packs.
I don't have anything written up in a blog post.

I try to work on soft skills during the interview, I found those to be way more important than knowing to invert a tree.

How does one converse through a problem? How would you go about solving this bug.

I usually do something really simple like

logMessage(from, to, content) {}
searchMessageBySender(senderName) {}
getMessages() {}

Have the candidate fill in the interface and walk through what the choices are and what are the ups/downs of their solution.
This is very plausible. Consider how the rise and fall of tetraethyl lead in gasoline corresponds perfectly with historical incidence and subsidence of violent crime, with the exact delay you'd expect to account for the time to physical maturity of a developing person.

Can you link to any example videos of symptoms to be aware of?
CAM can take a lot of time and need considerable computing resources. Not that much of issue today, but still, why do the same computations over and over again? Also, you will want to inspect the toolpaths before running them on real hardware.
> "The judge agreed with Facebook’s request to keep some of the records sealed, saying certain records contained information that would cause the social media giant harm, outweighing the public benefit."

What could possibly be more harmful than what has already been released? It's a bit mind-boggling.
FWIW, this is not unique to Texas.

New York City vs. New York State, Chicago vs. Illinois, Las Vegas vs. Nevada, Milwaukee vs. Wisconsin, Seattle vs. Washington, Charleston vs. West Virginia, Philadelphia & Pittsburgh vs. Pennsylvania, etc...

California, too. But there it’s a little more complex.
Chickens are given neither hormones nor antibiotics.

It's been illegal to give chickens growth hormones for a long time. Most major chicken brands (Tyson and Purdue, who are #1 and 2 in terms of production) do not give chickens antibiotics, unless the flock gets sick. In that case, the flock is treated and then sold as a different product- usually either as pet food or an off brand.

I don't know why we use hormones and antibiotics for pork and beef but not chicken.
There was an article on HN, where the author stated that they didn't like to write own algorithms "like in '90".

In this context, the Arseny's article should be titled: "How to be old-school and tailor algorithms & data structures to your needs". I have this haunting feeling that people nowadays are afraid of "reinventing wheel" even though it'd pay off. A recurring argument is that the standard library or boost or something available on github is better than a custom solution. But as we see, there are cases where saying "nope, I'll do better job myself" has sense.
Print out your code. On paper
> I personally did work myself up to the graduate in math during the last two years of High School & first year of college.

...how in the world did you manage to do this? Did you actually self-study, or were you placed in a gifted program? Self-studying all of undergraduate mathematics is more impressive than actually studying all of it in a four year classroom setting. Doing so as a teenager is amazing.

The most gifted person I've ever known in mathematics is actually a physicist who entered Harvard at 16. He was already taking undergraduate math courses at 13/14 and had mastered all the undergraduate material by the first semester of his undergraduate degree. For the remaining years of his undergraduate degree he took graduate math courses.

But in order to do that he needed to not only be gifted; he was placed in a program for extremely gifted kids sponsored by Stanford University from his preteen years. I don't think your anecdote is a great comparison for the OP's expectations (or for calibrating advice they'd benefit from).
Sounds like you disagree with the author about the implications of the news. So read from a paper with a different editorial angle. Having different political opinions than the author doesn't make it fake.

As to your question, fake news is news that is fake. Made up, fabricated.

Here are some examples of fake news.

Nancy Pelosi was thrown out of the House for being drunk. http://archive.is/CNjNG

President Trump donated a billion dollars to the border wall http://archive.fo/dnstc

The Democratic Party of Arizona revealed to be a front for a child sex trafficking ring. https://archive.fo/D8w9E

The NFL has banned the national anthem. https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2016/06/13321907_101534732086...

Obama banned 4th of July fireworks. https://www.truthorfiction.com/4th-july-fireworks-canceled-d...

Pokemon's creator admits the game was invented to promote satanism. http://www.p4rgaming.com/pokemon-creator-admits-games-aimed-...

George HW Bush was indicted post mortem for human trafficking (this one is weird) https://www.docdroid.net/S6vrLhN/hv1-indictment-george-herbe...

The UN is taking direct control of all American cities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxWj0LySPB4&app=desktop&fbcl...

Chinese artillery is shelling the US west coast: San Diego and Tacoma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-unBq8QCqCU

It's not so much of an issue any more, but crap like this was ALL over the internet in 2015 and 2016, especially in conservative circles on Facebook. I lived in a heavily Republican area at the time, and had a lot of conservative friends who got taken in by it, and some of them never broke out of it, still believing that Snopes is a Jewish NWO front or whatever else the Macedonian huxters told them with an authoritative-looking website.
Operating System in 2018
Mouth cancer though. Horrible stuff.
there are sockpuppets rings abounding, likely there are black/grey hat SEO spammers trying to elevate thier live[valid,working] link count to game the g00gle search results, and then there are people that want to comment, civilly and substantiavely but have been somehow cut off from doing so, thus create a throwaway login for that purpose just to make thier voice heard. and then there are trolls and the indignant that just like to derail a normal conversation because its "funny".

I have to deal with these on my chat board often but not at large scale. There are of course, normal users that are trying to have a constructive discourse, i believe there is ample signature to flag the differences to a discriminating mind, or someone with admin/mod status and access to the management tools.
Then IRS should have information about foreign accounts. And guess what, they already ask for that. It's fine.

The other way around is what I find concerning.
I joined a game studio as a Generalist Programmer, I started writing infrastructure tools and doing things that nowadays people refer to as “Development Operations (aka. DevOps)”. Then, I continued collaborating to game-specific projects, improving bits and pieces here and there. Thanks to my background in C++ I was able to make significant contributions. I also have built a few mobile games for my children to play with, but I’m not a game designer and don’t have artistic skills, so I try to stick to the algorithmic part of the projects.
> my brain needs more time than the average programmer

Well, maybe not even the "average" programmer, but just the elite of the elite Google-tier programmers ; ) I feel the same way. When I was young, I thought that absolute mastery was within my grasp but after 25 years, tons of self-study, a couple of college degrees and yet still a lot of surprising rejections, I have to concede that while I may actually be very good at what I do (I'm among the most respected and most sought after everywhere I've ever worked), there are still people out there WAY better than I am, and that's OK.
There Will Not Be a Beige Future
Stop using Gmail and they won't have the data.
Can confirm. I’m not an IMO gold medalist, but I come from a very competitive nation that fetch five or more gold medals on most years, and I almost made the national team, twice (failed at TST, which selects 6 out of ~30). And I graduated with a math degree from one of the top institutions. There’s no way I would have completed undergrad plus entry level grad math in the last two years of high school — those took me three years in college (of course I was doing other things, but still).

Unlike programming, mathematics isn’t something you can pick up in a weekend.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, you can probably bang your head against, say, Lang, for two years, “digesting” a big chunk of it, earning you the bragging right of “working yourself up to graduate level math”. That won’t give you the breadth of a good bachelor of mathematics, and it certainly won’t prepare you for quality research.
Super curious why you support a flat tax over our current progressive system.
I have to agree with you on this even in 2018. I have been fortunate enough to travel to many places in the world and China definitely struck me as the most strange in terms of development.

I constantly hear about China being an econ powerhouse, the future of the world, everyone wants access to their huge middle class, etc. But for my one week visiting Beijing and Shanghai I was confused to say the least.

The most impactful thing I have ever seen was on the high speed train between Shanghai and Beijing (about 5 hours at 190 mph) and I have never seen more highrise apartments completely empty in my life. In fact, at some points, I would look out the window and see over 200 of the exact same highrise perfectly spaced and all very clearly empty. I would say a lower bound on the number of 20+ story apartments I saw in 5 hours is somewhere around 10,000. I could be off, but I was pretty attentive to it the entire ride. Most of them were empty(given the lack of any humans, vehicles, or clothes on the balcony around them).

The wildest thing was seeing some of these highrises plopped in the middle of a farm. Nothing around, not even a cement road, and just an unoccupied apartment, 20 floors tall, surrounded by fields of whatever crop it was.

I started to hypothesize that the massive construction SEO's in China were used to subsidize jobs for rural workers and nothing else. It seems like construction would be a good industry to try to bring lesser educated and rural populations to higher wealth due to the high need of labor. This is total speculation so please don't blast me, but it seems possible.

Anyways, I was shocked at seeing this and I wonder if anyone can add other anecdotal evidence of something like this in another Chinese region. The great wall was pretty cool though:)
It may be that your situation and priorities do indeed restrict you from making the time investment to get good at whiteboarding and FAANG-style interview practice. It doesn't necessarily follow that you're stuck hard doing what you are now.

If you're using the term "trapped" to describe where you work, I'm inferring that you want a change. It's hard to get specific without knowing all your priorities, details, and life choices, but it's almost certainly worth taking a step back and evaluating if there's ways to get what you need by an alternative path that doesn't involve slotting yourself into a process that's optimized for smart single twentysomethings.
I just flashed my Ender 3 using the latest Marlin version and I deactivated ARC support manually on it to save space. Considering how pretty much all 3D printers use a Marlin firmware, seems like ARC is supported pretty much everywhere.
Many in Myanmar and Philippines might disagree.

Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebo...

What Happens When the Government Uses Facebook as a Weapon?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-07/how-rodri...
The creator of ruby on rails wouldn't pass a whiteboard interview. Ruby on Rails had more of an impact at Twitter, Github, Airbnb than BFS is my guess

DHH's tweet https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1085987159406927872
I'm in this situation -- when my mom passes, me and my brothers will inherit the family farm of 320 acres in central VA. As far as I can tell there's no inheritance tax involved.

Just in case, decades ago my dad put the land in a family partnership of which me and my siblings each own 19%. So even if inheritance tax was a thing for family farms, there are ways around it.

We'll have to pay property tax on it, but that's around $3000 per year.
The technical interviewing scheme is not great, but I haven't seen another system that works.

> I cannot help but think that these big tech companies (FAANG, et. al) are missing out on diversifying and increasing their engineering expertise by passing over developers like you.

I think this is certainly true.

> I often think what would Google/Facebook would be like if they hired in some experienced engineers that may not be able to whiteboard a BFS tree or can tell you Djikstra's algorithm, but have proven business track records of getting projects done, on budget, and on time.

Well... how do we find these people? By looking at their resumes where they claim this? By contacting references who will attest to it? By trusting the intuition of subjective evaluators of the candidates?

Practically speaking, FAANG companies do hire such individuals, they just do it through acqui-hires. If a person works at a company that is good enough to be worth acquiring, then we have a good signal that they are effective employees even absent a direct evaluation of their technical abilities.
Real CNC machines have limit switches, they monitor the load on the axis and spindle servos etc etc. But that doesn't prevent running your cutter into a fixture at positioning speed and ruining the spindle bearings.
You need to do lot's of exercises.

Shaum's Outlines has lots of cheap math books with exercises and solutions. You can use them to complement other books

https://www.mhprofessional.com/9780071623667-usa-schaums-out...

https://www.mhprofessional.com/9780071635349-usa-schaums-300...

https://www.mhprofessional.com/9780071383929-usa-schaums-out...

https://www.mhprofessional.com/science-math/math/topology
Although the numbers are 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha, Inkscape has been good for a long time. The release notes for the 1.0 alpha release (https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0alpha0/) look very much like what I would expect for say a 6.0 or 8.0 version.
Oh really? The ones I cliked through to did!
Nigeria had the highest rate of deforestation in the world in 2005. Apparently a lot of it is really people cutting down wood for fuel and desertification stepping in, so essentially its woods replaced by desert.
As well, govt. doesn't have much regulations on stopping people cutting wood.

Sounds like a tragedy of the commons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_Nigeria
Why though? By ancestry, I'm 25% Italian and a whole lot of other stuff. By percentage, I think I'm probably either mostly French or mostly English by ancestry, but that doesn't matter to me at all. What matters to me is that I grew up learning to cook from my Italian grandmother. As a result, in so far as I have any cultural identity other than "American", that identity is Italian, regardless of my genetic origins.

It's hard for me to imagine why anyone would feel any significant connection to an ancestry that they needed a DNA test to know they had.
I honestly don't mean this in a snide way.

Can you give a few concrete examples of how a deep understanding of BFS that can't be googled and read in 10 minutes at the time you need it can help you ship profitable software products faster than your competitors?
Podman – rootless containers, Docker-compatible command line
"It's a false sense of higher morality to claim "ethical reasons" for not buying those chicken."

Who are you (bunny ear) quoting?

Costco's investment is to get better pricing.
> I have no idea what IT had to do to that laptop after the trip to make sure it was clean.

The most cost-effective solution? Put it into a blender.
It is harder to walk away from a subpar offer when you have no other job to fall back on.
BFS is common sense. It’s what you use when you’ve lost your car keys for example.
Quickly check each room in the house, then if no luck go one layer deeper in each room.