skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similarly, a former SAP executive was busted for printing his own fake UPCs, applying them to Lego sets, buying them, and reselling them on eBay in 2012.

https://venturebeat.com/2013/08/03/former-sap-exec-faces-30-...

https://www.wired.com/2013/08/langenbach/
Orbital Display: Low Earth Orbit billboard for 7B people
As a LEGO enthusiast it would suck if LEGO turns to the next tulip (nobody mention the c-word..!), except LEGO can just react to hoarders and ruin the "futures" market.
The article covers the use-case of making small modifications to the build. react-app-rewired[1] and customize-cra[2] give you access to tweak the webpack build indirectly. While babel-macros[3] in CRA 2.X give you access to the babel transpilation step without having to eject. While it's not exactly what you're referring to, it does get you a little bit closer to the build.

[1] https://github.com/timarney/react-app-rewired/

[2] https://github.com/arackaf/customize-cra

[3] https://babeljs.io/blog/2017/09/11/zero-config-with-babel-ma...
JavaScript Utility Libraries You Should Know in 2019
I stole it from someone else :) they actually use Alexa and have the kid say “Alexa set a timer for 5 minutes”. Works for a five year old, not so much for a two year old.
I like to shop online and stay out of stores partly due to the time savings, but also because of anxiety. I agree that buying online is a luxury and a reasonable premium is attached to that, but I disagree that the price should be comparable to in-store.

For a company that is essentially the manufacturer and retailer, there should be quite a bit of overhead removed for them. I'm really disliking this trend where ecommerce-based manu-tailers are seen as premium brands and can increase their margins more than the other guys and make hand over fist. To me, it's even worse than slimy car dealers or furniture stores.
When I was a direct report for a CIO of a fairly large multinational (40+ countries) my boss spent most of his time on the road travelling - he had a gruelling job. He was completely hands off when to technology - although he was actually fairly technical.
att.com is broken. Surprise, surprise.
How I as a support engineer I wrote our most-used orb to date [CI/CD]
Bitcoin has taken off like the Spruce Goose.
wow what odd way to promote his startup. super disingenuous. I hope know one ends up applying there after seeing this.
4 Lessons from Scaling iOS CI/CD
I found that running workshops was the most effective way to teach git. I wrote a set of tools against the github api to spin-up and manage a large number of repositories and students in a way that would result in merge conflicts (and doesn't require knowledge of any programming language).

https://github.com/probinso/ABC
LetsEncrypt v1 and v2 ACME servers outage
The Brain Is a Context Machine
Write your own kubectl subcommands as plugins
I'm not offended, but I really do dislike it when people compare something like US police force enforcing crappy drug laws to the Gulag. It just undermines the suffering and horrors of those who actually experienced the Gulag.

I know we're all quite libertarian when it comes to drug law here, but a lot of people are still unsure about legalisation. In my country I can only go 70MPH on the motorway. I find that stupid, but I'm not going to break the law and then complain when I get pulled over for "only" doing 20MPH over the limit.
We have got a child using her grandfathers Lego. The early wheels have rubber that doesn’t seem to last that well, but other than that, it’s excellent.
Agreed. It's becoming harder and harder to justify managing your own React pipeline, even in the rare cases where something might be missing that I want included.
not really. the day a robot can create new dish consistantly that has good and unique palate quality is the day they have taken over. this does not mean theyhave taken over apocalyptically but that they can really take over preaty much very endever we can do.
Underducks, in this case.
Not to mention the lack of physical activity.
Hi Paul,
I'm CEO of the company which has created this list. As you might notice, it is voting for the most popular SaaS company among the Fastest Growing.
How we found which companies are the Fastest Growing? First, we took a list of Nathan Latka, who hosts on the most popular SaaS podcast and has a huge database of SaaS companies with their metrics. Second, we took a list of the companies that have shown massive growth on Linkedin in 2018. And we also added the data provided by Similarweb.
It sounds very simple, but it took more than a week of our team just to make this list of TOP50 companies the most accurate way. Now we welcome everybody to vote for the companies from this list.
Hope that helps.
Vlad
The fallacy here is that you are actually getting to observe people's problem solving approach when asking them questions like this (vs their ability to talk) and that your subjective perception of someone's problem solving ability in those situations maps to actual job performance at all (vs your own biases).
I wonder if the humble ones are the ones that will adapt best to robotic surgery.

If that ends up being case then 'choosing a human' may quickly become a Market for Lemons situation - you might have gotten better outcomes from human surgeons except the only ones still doing it by hand are full of themselves and too proud to admit they are human and make mistakes.
I stopped using Google due to intrusive ads, if you have someone in your family that have a chronic disease and you've ever googled it, get ready to be blasted with ads reminding of that every-time you watch youtube/browse the web. There are just some things I don't want to be reminded of Google !
Thanks for telling me about meek. I'll warn this might not block visibility at least for domestic TLA's. If they record metadata, they can just work backwards from exit nodes or known relays to whoever is connecting to them. That would map out most likely users of Tor. Then, they can apply whatever passive or active attacks they have. Most probably aren't running OpenBSD, HardenedBSD, QubesOS, etc. ;)

Still good for the many, many, other threats out there.
TIC-TOC technology moves Tactile Internet a step closer to reality
It is funny how people question democracy when they get results they are uncomfortable with :-)
Averages hide alot. Most of my friends who went to private colleges (graduation 1998-2002) left with ~$100k in student loans. At that time, "sticker price" was $25-30k.

I was fortunate to attend a state school before the tuition exploded.
But isn't Amazon hiring similar people as Google SREs? So they are not really looking for sys admins but more of a full fledged programmers / dev ops people who can write software, not just bash scripts.
Also, any half decent Lisp dialect can tell you where an unbalanced parenthesis lies; you shouldn't have any difficulties hunting for this in a large file.

$ txr unbal.tl
unbal.tl:8: syntax error
unbal.tl:8: unterminated expression
unbal.tl:8: while parsing form starting at line 5
$ pr -Tn unbal.tl
1 (defun foo()
2
3 )
4
5 (defun bar()
6 (let (x)
7 )
I think that depends on what you think his new job actually is, and if that actually aligns with what they think their new job is.

Every manager has different ways to lead, every person has different behaviors that make them more or less likely to follow someone who is leading. The whole team needs to work out the right dynamic and be truthful with each other and managers need to be truthful with their employees as well as with themselves.

It may turn out like it often does, great developers who understand the product and project inside out don't automatically make them great managers
Works for me. Link to a query?
Same here. I read it 3 times and am still unsure. Leaning towards sarcastic, though. I think it's just really subtle satire.
Fast forward two years and after Google promised they would not spy on the students like they do on the general population to get the contracts they did exactly that.

Lobbyist and fools can get past most logical objections and cloudify anything.
Yeah, just pile on another layer of code you don't understand. And then wonder why it's slow or doesn't work the way you expect.
What do neural networks learn?
Yes, we do think about them differently. Uber and Instagram are wildly successful but not ubiquitous. The ultimate test is "will grandma use it?"

Grandmas use Google, Facebook and Amazon but generally have not adopted Uber or Instagram yet. Winning over those kinds of customers requires a different GTM strategy and different marketing than your first couple million.
I’d also say the problem with hypermedia is that the production values allow someone else’s vision to swamp out your own imagination and creativity. If you’re reading a static book, you have to visualize your own world. With digital works you can get the full sensory experience. You don’t need to use your creativity as much.

It’s as if all of the movies are using special effects drenched in CGI all of the time.
Matt Levine today: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-17/the-co...

"Sounds great! So if I am running a $10 billion institutional portfolio how much of it should be in Legos?

">In one extreme case, a kit for Star Wars Darth Revan that retailed in 2014 for $3.99 went for $28.46 on eBay a year later -- a 613 percent premium.

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. So the extreme case is making a profit of … $24.47 over a year? I mean, I guess you could buy … a million … of those Darth Revan sets … and … put them somewhere … but … no, I am going to say no, this is not a strategy with institutional capacity. (And you can’t use it as an additional signal in your multifactor general model of what stocks to buy, because they are Legos, not stocks.) I suppose if you are a perverse sort of finance professor though you should be using a factor model to trade Legos in your personal account; let me know—and, more importantly, brag to your students constantly about—how it goes."
We need to add some nuance to the way we talk about student debt.

My wife and I had $120,000 in student loans, which we were fortunately able to pay it off in 36 months. Granted, we didn’t do much else.

University degreees are not created equal. Having six figures of debt isn’t a problem if you have a reasonable expectation to have six figures of income.

On the other hand, my cousin went to a private liberal arts college for a $90,000 Communications degree before returning to RadioShack. He may never pay his loans off.

Student loans become a problem when they are used to subsidize high-tuition schools teaching skills which don’t connect to a wage-premium.
You are right, I used the wrong word. It shows the persons who work in each company (comparing to other lists, where only the logo of the company is being shown).
The short term effects are increased salinity and reduced oxygenation for water in the immediate vicinity of the desalination plant, which is enough to drastically alter the biome (aka “kill all the sea life”).
> Average house (detached) price is over 1.3 million.

The popularity of wanting to live in Toronto makes detached housing for everyone who wants it untenable. There just isn't enough space.
That's hard to do in California (for good reason): for speed limits under 65 (and outside school zones) there's a presumption that drivers know what they're doing.

So the speed limit may be 25 but if the prevailing traffic indicates that everyone thinks 40 is OK then you can't get ticketed for keeping up with traffic.

I see this issue come up all the time in Palo Alto where I live: people want the speed limit enforced on, say, Embarcadero Rd, but if the the city were to do so they'd have to do a traffic survey which would actually tell them to raise the limit on the signs.

There was a wave of sensible lawmaking in California that was sadly abandoned in the Wilson+ era and has never come back.

+ I don't mean Wilson was the cause, though he was a bad one; he got elected in part because people forgot about being sensible in the regard.
New Feelings: Selfish Intimacy
That is definitely not good for my needs. I'll be sticking to Atlas over DocumentDB or simply plain Mongo latest. Thank you for the comment.
Why? The !bang is a referral, if you get enough traffic you can charge the site you’re sending traffic to
Note, walmart has a wide selection of extremely cheap mail-order mattresses. No idea if they are any good, but if you are looking to save money on a mattress, it's probably worth doing some research.
I think developers complain way to much about the interview process. The fact of the matter is that it's very clear what type of questions will be asked for most technical interviews and there is a wealth of resources available to prepare. The ROI on spending a couple of weeks preparing is definitely worth the possibility of a substantial raise at a big technology company.

I can't think of another industry that is as high paying as software development, with such a low barrier to entry (formal education matters less and less) with such transparency regarding the interview process (books, blogs, literal guides from the company itself). And HN is flooded with a couple of posts like this every single month, is it perfect? No. What is? At the end of the day this just looks like entitlement.
I have my own domain name through Google apps and use a naive mail client to access gmail. As soon as the handful of people I talk to exclusively on hangouts migrate elsewhere, I'm ditching Google as a back-end. I'd never have predicted this in 2008. Back then Google still cared about UI speed.
Although there is a remark about the potential legal issues in the US, it should also be noted that capturing and storing MAC addresses without explicit consent is not GDPR compliant, and not legal in Europe.
Thanks! That's certainly helpful!
I am happy to do this regarding furniture, but mattresses is a tough sell for me. Aren't you worried about bedbugs?
I’m not saying that given a scenario, I couldn’t figure out a way to do it, but at the level of a job that I would be applying to after all of these years, would a company really be more concerned about whether I could write a breadth first algorithm or how well I could design a highly available, fault tolerant, redundant system, write maintainable code, my mentoring and leadership capabilities, my experience with Domain Driven Design, my years of experience designing and developing “cloud first solutions” (yeah I grown a little bit when I write that), and certifications?

My current employer asked me no programming questions even though I supposedly came in as a “Senior developer” in my small company.

He was more concerned about everything I mentioned and how could I help mature the organization.

Heck, he didn’t even care that I didn’t know any $cool_kids front end framework.

Whenever my last day on my current job comes and I don’t expect that to be for a few years, I’ll probably end up working for a consulting company as an overpriced “digital transformation consultant”, “implementation consultant”, or “solutions architect”. Do you really think they are going to ask me about my leetCode capabilities?

The same should be true for anyone at a certain stage of their career.
Dynamic vs. static. Less FPS. No sound. Little interactivity.
Thank you! I had never heard of startpage. I am a notorious !g-er.
I don't think you read the whole article--both premises were clearly stated and extensively supported. Hoarding has long been considered a disorder, it was just rolled into OCD. However, enough of the patterns are differentiated from OCD that it can rightly be classified as a distinct disorder:

"at least 80 percent of people who engaged in extreme hoarding didn’t meet the criteria for OCD. They were more prone to depression than those with OCD. They had more difficulty making decisions. They were far less likely to be aware of their behavior as a problem. Genetic linkage studies showed a different pattern of heritability than OCD, and brain scans showed a different pattern of activation. Drugs that were successful in treating OCD were not effective for hoarding."

As for the on-the-rise component, there are multiple explanations offered, but this part struck me:

"In other words, something has changed—in history and culture—to cause hoarding to emerge as a prevalent psychiatric disorder. Objects have taken on, for those who hoard them, individual personalities with outsized emotional significance. They cannot be casually discarded; they are woven into the person’s very sense of self..."
The Philanthropy Con
Camera inside alarm clock will pass all these tests.
I still have the opposite feeling. For a lot of things that I search, google still presents me more relevant results. Although DDG is catching up. Until recently, it always presented me with old.haxe.org results for some reason instead of the current version, but now it works fine.

The reason why DDG is my default url-bar search is because of the 'bangs'!g for google, !yt for YouTube, !w for Wikipedia and !t for thesaurus (when looking for variable names ;)), !gm for google maps, etc. Very handy.
About https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18931957 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18932740

Don't repost too much, read the part of the FAQ about reposts https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

If you repost too much the mods may notice and ban your account, your site and other nasty stuff.

Also, try to stick to the original title https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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About this post: I think it would have been better to use another title like "How to use browser interpolation to reduce smooth mage size by 93%". The current title is misleading.
Thanks! I had to look up "broadcast domain" to understand the last paragraph, but that helped illuminate some things. Thank you!
Wild speculation: It is the founders that have developed a deep understanding of both computers and people that are likely to be successful. These two domains are very deep and take a long time to learn well (say twenty years at a minimum). Studies suggest that generally people focus on one or the other (men generally focus on understanding things and women focus on understanding people). Find those people who did both at a young age and give them some resources to run a business and they might do very well. As Paul Graham said somewhere, these types of people are only likely to want to start a business as mundane as "make file backups really easy and reliable" if they will be very successful and that success will let them hang out and work with similar people.
There's certainly a lot more to life than work. Doubly so in your 20s.
If this is your project maybe it's better as a Show HN.

The parent commenter though was saying you can't really brand something Airbnb Hell, as that is potential trademark infringement. I don't know enough about trademark law to tell you if they are correct but it's certainly plausible.
The Google results are tailored to you, so if you do lots of technical searches, Google has a lot of technical results.
20 percent of home sales are due to a sign in the front yard. Open houses are statistically a waste of time. Simply not worth the effort for the agent or seller. It usually is the nosey neighbors that come through.
I'm going to join in and say: you should be able to puzzle out the pseudocode for a BFS, not from "memory", but by thinking about the structure of a tree and asking yourself what would be required to touch each node at each level before moving on to the next level. It's not fantastically difficult, and if you can figure it out just by reasoning about trees then you're a smart problem solver that I'd like to work with.
No, because Kodak is not a free service. Xerox or Kleenex are closer, obviously, but neither of them is free to use, so there's always room to come along with something cheaper, moreover, Xerox and Kleenex at least have unbranded, one word synonyms for the commodity they produce, photocopy and tissue respectively. Google has "search the internet for", which you will never convince the average person to say, so dethroning google in "search" is at least as difficult as getting the word for "to google" changed.

Furthermore, no one can compete with Google on price, since it's free, and it's very unlikely that anyone will be able to compete on quality, unless they start disallowing adblock somehow.

The best you can hope for as a competitor is to carve out a niche of conscientious objectors, and google doesn't really care about those people either, because they are intrinsically difficult to monetize.
Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis
Lining the pockets of the investors that own my labor is a reward in and of itself.

E: Just thought of a cool startup idea. Every day you and your coworkers can calculate (it might take some guesstimating) the surplus value you create and try to beat each other on a leaderboard. I'm imagining a possible JIRA integration.
Just because something allows someone to make more money off of it doesn’t inherently make it good.
Yep. Discrete Analysis is perhaps one of the best known of those.

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/discrete-analysis-an...

https://discreteanalysisjournal.com/
I approve in principle but currently the speed limits, especially on freeways, are unreasonably low (and that's the reason everyone breaks them, including cops driving in non-emergency situations). If the speed limits are brought up to be consistent with traffic actual speeds then I am all for automated speed ticketing of people who go much faster than the natural speed of traffic.
I don't disagree with your point, per se. But...

>only spotted 2 black women

>a person of colour to join and be the first and only one there.

Based on just guessing from the photos, ClickFunnel, CloudCherry, Instapage, Proposify, Chargify, and quite a few others have women of colour.
We have a strong YIMBY movement going in Boulder, but I've never seen a model based estimate of how many additional housing units would be necessary to actually lower the cost of individual ownership.
What Skeptics Get Wrong About Full-Stack Engineers–And Why We Need Them
From everything that I've heard about this (being an wire copy compatible with Cassandra) and it's performance. I'm pretty excited about this!
Maybe not the ones we know about, but there was a time in the 80s when AIDS suddenly spread like wildfire and we didn't know what caused it.

This can very easily happen again, and you subject yourself to this danger by receiving blood transfusions.
We Don’t Need More Moral Elites. We Need Less Powerful Ones
I did something similar using my jobs open network, a raspberry and nmap. I was able to correlate devices to people, and depending on which floor they were on they had different DHCP IP ranges. I then made a webpage out of it that let me see who was where. People changed devices too often and I was lazy, but if I could have figured out how to get people's hostnames I could probably make the process a lot simpler.
Yup, I have one (I won't say which brand - they're all pretty much the same idea) and the reduction in movement transmition was amazing. My partner gets up in the night usually, and the reduction in disturbance from that was huge.