skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All joking aside, candidates do reject jobs and if you are interviewing for a job, you should be thinking "do I want to work here" .

When interviewing someone to be my manager I asked him since he spoke with such joy about his current job, why he was leaving... It was money. We found out the company he was at got funding a few days later, and although we made an offer he rejected us.

I've interviewed at a company where the environment didn't seem good at all. I always ask whats good about working at a place, and what isn't so good. I found people to be honest about it. I didn't think it was a good fit after thinking about it a bit a decided not to continue.

So when interviewing don't be arrogant. You need help, thats why you are looking for people.
When interviewing candidates, my main criteria are:

- Can this person help us

- Can I deal with working with them
Are officials objecting to it because they know it will expose their dirty deeds?
> "Dislike mobs", these are people who, if upset with a certain creator or video, decide to execute an organised attack where they downvote or negatively review the content into oblivion.<

this sounds uncannily familiar. Now where have we seen this problem before ? I think any dislike, or demerit should also require an articulated reason for such action, rather than the anonymous coward enabling situation that is current.
All I can say is, despite my pro-MIT bias, my experience has been at best mixed, on this dimension.

(BTW, among things I’m glad that MIT has done, open courseware is top of my list. Glad you used it!)
Very enjoyable game! I'm quite interested in procedurally generated puzzles so looking forward to that blog post. I've experimented with generating and ranking Sudokus automatically in a way that attempts to reflect difficulty for a human. The goal, of course, is a Universal Puzzle Generator. I'll let you know when it's done...
Masterscore? Wasn't too much into MIDI back then.

GFA Basic was a popular Atari ST replacement

Calamus? Although it never struck me as horrible as PageMutilator.
We tried Mattermost a while back. Slack is just way more polished, especially the mobile apps. We use the API to interact with Slack a lot. Mattermost was fine, just not nearly as nice as Slack.
Agree... intentionally getting in front of another driver with "over-acceleration" then slowing faster than normal torque converter coasting levels without activating your braking lights is asking for a rear-end collision.

Not to mention, it is delusional to consider this style of driving "efficient" because of regeneration. You're paying a premium for acceleration speed, and then being taxed by regneration efficiency...
An application that lets you chat to other people from your computer is valued at a quarter of a company that puts stuff into space.

(Yes, I appreciate it's not a unique observation, and that reality is slightly more nuanced than that, but nonetheless, prima facie crazy.)
I imagine its a lot like living in a city with Uber or Lyft and not using them.
I really hate the "don't comment, good code is self explicit rule" personnaly. It's self explicit for the person who wrote it 10 years ago and had the spec and the client at hand, surely.
Thanks! I'm writing a blog post now about how I got the majority of bash-completion running, so I'm now using OSH myself. This is the biggest milestone in a long time!

It exposed the slowness issue though. I have a plan for that, but it's a bunch of work.

It will help me if people try it and give feedback -- I'll give details in the post.

I definitely agree about Python 2/3. I think you basically can't overestimate the amount of inertia a popular language has. I'm sure there will be patches floating around for Python 2 for a long time after the core team stops maintaining it next year.

Another example is all the compile-to-JS languages. I think TypeScript is the most popular in part because its transition path is the easiest, i.e. it's a superset of JS.
It could’ve funded the pension fund instead of performing share buybacks, no?

It can’t be said they didn’t have that $10 billion. They had it.
I think it's still reasonable to fear some ambient level of this stuff could do us harm over time despite being marketed as 'harmless'. See: asbestos.
> FWIW if the car is >= 25 years old, most of these regulations go away.

Most of those are only required to sell a new car; a car previously legally sold in the US (and maybe one sold after being legally imported by a consumer) doesn't need many of them, though it will have had to have met whichever were in place when it was first sold.
On the contrary, political structure is the only way to explain 5-10x costs.

Consider the following simple hypothetical - imagine that a project requires a single person to implement, and that person costs $100k in yearly salary (and assume for argument's sake that benefits that benefits, cost of materials, etc. are all free), and after a year of steady work, the project will be completed. Such a project would have a projected cost of $100k. Now let's assume that this person is distracted - they need to get their every decision approved, they have to pitch their work to stakeholders, etc., and as a result, the project now takes two years. Just by virtue of the project taking more time - all other factors constant - the project now costs double because the project now costs two years' salary instead of one.

When you have a political structure whereby Federal funding mixes with environmental review mixes with state funding mixes with private funding mixes with local permitting mixes with multiple state and local bodies each with their own permitting setups etc. - you have a guarantee that the process will be slower than molasses.

Then you have foreign countries with transit authorities having sole oversight and dedicated funding getting projects done in a fraction of the time.

You can argue that having three people paid $60,000 each to do the work of one foreigner making $10,000 a year in Asia is a 18x increase in costs. And you would be correct if labor costs were actually the majority of the overall cost. But they're not - administration is.
It's a good question, and the answer is very likely "yes". I have no doubt they will be to export these systems to other politically- or economically- or militarily- friendly countries, once they've developed the datasets and trained the models and such.

They could probably even do it as a lease, and keep the most important stuff (key parts of algorithms, training datasets) at home--Surveillance As A Service!

ANd yes, if their economic continues to grow like this, your observation is a great one--there wouldn't be much stopping them from requiring participation in such leases as a condition on economic or military support.
I notice a lot of junk from Facebook comes from "re-shares"; people sharing stuff from these crappy third-party groups that exist simply to make things viral.

I tend to block on sight, but wish there was a way to say "Automatically block shared posts containing videos/photos that don't originate from the poster or people in my Friends."

I'm sure there are people that save these meme/viral pictures on their phone and re-post it, rather than just blindly share from these stupid groups, but not very many from what I've seen.
For those that are thinking of the product rather than the company Slack - theinformation ran a great piece on Slack's financials:

"Slack had revenue of $221 million in the year ended January 2018, and was projected to grow by 76% to $389 million for the year ending January 2019, according to the early 2018 documents. Revenue was expected to grow by 64% to $640 million in the year ending January 2020. The financial details haven’t previously been reported."

Link / Paywall: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/slacks-financials-ah...
You might also checkout zulipchat. I've been advocating for us to use it internally (over M$ Teams) for a while now.
> A music composer that took advantage of the MIDI ports.

Cubase or C-Lab Notator.

> A BASIC interpreting environment.

GFA BASIC.

> A desktop publishing application

This may be Calamus. Interesting fact: "an Atari Desktop Publishing system consisting of an Atari Mega ST computer, mono hi-res monitor, SLM804 printer and desktop publishing software cost less then an IBM or Apple laser printer alone." [1]

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/16bits/printers/laser/s...
Reinforcement learning for the birds
Do you have your laptop? Good. Write a program that does this while I watch you code and criticize/ask noob questions.

(checks watch)

We don't use that old version here. Sorry, we don't have any company laptops available with it installed. No, install the latest version of X/Y/Z on yours. Let me get the wifi password for you.

(checks watch, leaves room for a really long time, comes back with password, checks watch again)

(while it's installing) So, how long have you been writing in X/Y/Z? Do you have any questions for me?

(checks watch, showing 20 minutes elapsed)
Looks like my 30 minutes are up. I'll go check with #RECEPTIONIST and see if there's anyone else to interview you.

(later, at the wrap-up meeting) I didn't think they had the experience necessary to do the job. They couldn't write a program in X/Y/Z.
Since op is the github owner I guess this should be a Show HN?
I'm not sure if this is anything for me. I guess I would have to put in more effort remembering if I accessed a directory before than to simply be able to use this...
But have to take a look how fast this thing really is and what it can do and how it compares to ctrl+r and globbing
GTK isn't any more "native" than Qt -- they're both abstractions atop X (or Wayland, or Broadway).
Whatever protocol Facebook is using internally to interoperate between their thousands of servers, with some additional authentication and authorization layers put in?

I mean, not sure how sensible that would really be, but I think it's worth considering that Facebook is not some PHP script with a small local MySQL database behind it either, but rather a massive distributed system in itself, even if under the administrative control of a single entity.
Let's look at this from a global view, one country's funded software may not be forced to be shared by other countries unless they paid their dues? As code in the public domain is for the whole earth these days.

Yes nations do compete. The whole one-government funded software should be published to internet is _false_, in a technical sense.
OT but, I've always thought the true and false summaries would make great t-shirts and inspirational posters. "do nothing, successfully" sounds zen, and "do nothing, unsuccessfully" sounds like a sportswear slogan.
Will we ever again break up a monopoly?

The attempt instantly becomes a political battle. The moment a politician takes sides, the other party opposes, and the initial politician's party backs him up. Politicians collect lots of money. There is then a highly politicized court case which the company drags out until there is a change of political power. Once political power changes, the government purposely sabotages their own case until the company wins.
Startup buys your home, rents it back and lets you profit if the value grows
It is interesting that HN has caught the attention of the 50 cent army.
On pages that I go to specifically to play a media file, yes. Maybe a reasonable middle ground would be that each page can auto-play a single video element?

There are probably uses that I'm not thinking of (or don't partake in) where this would still be a problem for people.
Lada 4x4 is an extremely outdated car. They are started to manufacture in 1977 and did not change much since then. Only engine was upgraded to conform to modern ecology standards. Crash test is terrible, it's probably worst car in the world in that aspect. Also it's extremely unreliable car.

That car makes sense in some areas of Russia (or similar countries). While it's unreliable, usually it's easy to repair and spare parts are very cheap, so for some people it's not a big problem. With its 4x4 drive, excellent geometry and low weight you can drive over very bad terrain and that's important in some rural areas in Russia. And of course it's dirt cheap, so for low income buyers it's much more practical choice than spend 5x money on some brand.

I have no idea about US, but honestly I don't think that many of those advantages would apply there. Also I've certainly saw those cars in US, you probably can find one in second hand market. It might be called Niva.
The specific island involved, North Seymour island, [0] has the following species: frigate birds, blue footed boobies, sea lions, marine iguanas, swallow-tailed gulls, snakes, herons, hawks, sharks, rays

[0] https://www.gogalapagos.com/islands/north-seymour/
Plenty of ST BASICs mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BASIC_dialects

Atari ST MIDI stuff, with screenshots: http://www.atari-music.fddvoron.name/timidi.htm - Cubase was the famous one, but since the ST had MIDI ports built in there was no shortage of others.
Even if it were legal (which it should be IMO), I can't see anything other than a cat and mouse game happening where the primaries change their authentication patterns on a daily, hourly or minute to minute basis. Consider all the things that facebook does to mess with scrapers right now - every single letter in a div, multiples that are hidden, etc. Its a complete mess.

"Forced open APIs" is an interesting idea in terms of actually bringing value to users - its almost on the level of nationalizing a company though in terms of being anti-business. Why Facebook would front the cost of running a service they can't monetize though is a big question.
You could probably roll your own with Riot & Matrix, but it's probably not as feature-rich as Slack or Mattermost.

Past HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17031306
Woah! Even after so long on HN, I'm surprised by multiple downvotes for even a question that merely implies an interest in inclusivity for non-cis people.
Was in the same boat at my previous company, we used Mattermost because of privacy concerns with Slack. Eventually moved to Slack because the mobile options were not great on MMost and Slack was more polished.

Boy, I mentioned Slack a lot.
Wouldn't "boring" results be good for Spotify? Rather than having tons of people selling right off the bat?
Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2018 Results
> which could explain why it costs more than 3x outside China.

Yeah, this has to be more than just western-market markup:

>> Kaiyun will start selling its “Pickman” electric pickup in the US, Germany, and Italy as soon as next month. The base Chinese model sells for 16,800 yuan ($2,500). The US version will start at $8,950, Fox News reports.
If you know of any coding rule that is universally true, I'd like to hear.

Maybe... Don't use goto to jump to the middle of a different block of code? I don't know any exception to this one, but it's also prohibited on all modern languages, so I don't think it's a "coding rule" anymore.
You're absolutely right. Usury as sin is not in any way a novel idea. You are also unquestionably correct that it can be helpful to learn from the past on the subject!

Is it perhaps possible that some might opine that the historical context of an idea is worth knowing as part of reading the end of the book? It just might be worth considering that the historical implementations of policy around usury could not be divorced from the abstract reasoning.

In a way, it's like discussing historical Communism and Communist thought while pretending Stalin, Lenin, and Mao never existed. They all form part of the historical context that really needs to be considered an integral part of the whole.

Again, you're completely correct. There's a great deal to be learned from history!
You're making some kind of distinction of a web developer just being someone who splices designs in Dreamweaver or something.

It's not.

Every web developer or frontend engineer I've ever worked with in the last decade has been a software engineer in every sense of the word. Focusing on web based applications or architecture is just what they have chosen or fallen in to.
What’s more feminist, more female CEOs or eliminating CEOs entirely?
Per POSIX you are expected to produce no output.
Navigational difficulty increases site stickiness, and I hope nobody is going to try to say sites left that idea behind 10 years ago, because they haven't. I think any UX/UI person opining on this topic, by mere businesswise proximity, is behooved to contribute understanding of BizDev and Marketing's role in all of this.
You are incorrect. Toolkits like Qt are exactly what people are talking about when they say "native". How many apps do you think still use X11 graphic primitives? Did you even know they exist? How many programs use native Win32 controls? Not even Microsoft does that anymore.
If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. /s
Facebook bought Instagram because Instagram was beating them at the social network game. So it is possible to create a new social network and win. BUT the interoperability is key. I think if they just legislated that part of it, it would be a win for consumers.

Maybe we can get the EU to pass some data probability laws and force Facebook and Google to share...
> Like I'm sorry but it's essentially IRC.

It's irc with emojis, 2mb animated gifvs, embedded hd video and other complex content rendering. Of course it's using as much ram and cpu as a browser.
Another unworkable posthumous wish was Albert Barnes, who was a patron of many impressionist painters around the turn of the last century: Renoir, Matisse, Degas, etc.

He bought thousands of famous works and arranged them to his taste, tightly packed on the walls in a tiny building in Merion, PA, USA. The good news is the foundation could bring out now priceless masterworks on easels to compare close up for art classes--my grandmother attended one--a rare opportunity anywhere, and anyone could tour for free.

The bad news was his will stipulated the works needed to stay as he arranged them, in that building, where there was only room to display around a tenth of his collection; the place was cramped, difficult to view the works, difficult to secure them, and probably a fire hazard for the works and the visitors.

Ultimately, after much debate and lawyering, the collection was moved to a modern facility down the street from the PMA in Philly. The letter of his will was overridden, but the intent--clearly public access and education--was followed.

https://www.barnesfoundation.org/
Underwriters only get to keep shares if the IPO is undersubscribed by the public. A bigger part of the problem is that many retail brokerages don't allow IPO participation or require huge account balances to do so, so people can't, or think they can't, buy shares until a new offering starts trading on an exchange.
The elephant in the room with Istio is that the more functionality you move into sidecars, the harder issues become to to test and reproduce. This is because Istio is transparent to applications and runs out of band so it is much harder to write tests to verify your application works with the latest Istio manifest that is deployed. In theory great for operators as they get more control over network comms & security but bad for developer workflow.
Forcing open APIs isn't anti-business. It's pro-competition and pro-startup. The only thing it's anti- is big incumbents, which is the point.
Hopefully they have read the Jargon File:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html

> Warren Teitelman originally wrote DWIM to fix his typos and spelling errors, so it was somewhat idiosyncratic to his style, and would often make hash of anyone else's typos if they were stylistically different. Some victims of DWIM thus claimed that the acronym stood for 'Damn Warren’s Infernal Machine!'.

> In one notorious incident, Warren added a DWIM feature to the command interpreter used at Xerox PARC. One day another hacker there typed delete * $ to free up some disk space. (The editor there named backup files by appending $ to the original file name, so he was trying to delete any backup files left over from old editing sessions.) It happened that there weren't any editor backup files, so DWIM helpfully reported * $ not found, assuming you meant 'delete * '. It then started to delete all the files on the disk! The hacker managed to stop it with a Vulcan nerve pinch after only a half dozen or so files were lost.

> The disgruntled victim later said he had been sorely tempted to go to Warren's office, tie Warren down in his chair in front of his workstation, and then type delete * $ twice.
IntersectionObserver in WebKit
Let's revisit this comment once the US leaves the middle east.
Or, why not build open source alternatives that are as good as Facebook?

Back in the day AOL was the Facebook. The first browsers were ehh, but the idea of owning your own domain really appealed to people and the Web killed AOL which is no longer around as the world’s centralized social network.

That’s what we are doing at https://qbix.com . Watch the video there. We are inspired by Wordpress which powers 30% of all websites - we just wanted to build a true alternative to Facebook, not just a blogging platform.

Example app: https://davosapp.com

PS: I see a few steady downvotes every time I suggest that we need an open source alternative to Facebook and link to meaningful efforts in that direction. I would definitely prefer to hear what is wrong with what I said, rather than silently downvoting.
Given that much of this apparently comes down to the likes of Visa and Mastercard, perhaps these types of companies need breaking up or regulating. Maybe also large enough payment processors like PayPal.
Its from the " invasive lizard clean up plan" on the simpsons.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2743879

https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=That%E2%80%99s+the+be...
cars parks next to roads, and drive on roads, that take a huge chunks of space forcing us to walk or ride bikes and scooters on a tiny space. I see people are pro-cars here.
I’m not saying you can instantly change the way your brain works on a dime, but you can make it happen given time. Read a good book about the history of hip hop. Put Warren G’s Regulate album on in the background while doing something you really enjoy. Intentionally listen for parts of the music that you’ve read about, and be proud of yourself for recognizing them. Suddenly you’ll find that hearing a sample from a song you heard before gives you a dopamine hit, just like a Star Trek reference feels for a sci-fi fan.

Appreciating the world around you is a skill, just like criticizing is. And it’s a skill you can get good at if you apply yourself! Smart people who suffer from depression and anxiety automatically get really good at criticizing things. It may not be worth the effort to learn to appreciate hip hop, but it is definitely worth the effort to learn to like interacting with the people around you.

Antidepressants are like a performance-enhancing drug for appreciating things. They make the positive thoughts last longer. My psychiatrist tells me I should try to wean myself off them eventually, so maybe training wheels are a better analogy.
Which is the native GUI toolkit of Linux/UNIX? Athena? Motif? GTK+?
It is you that should consider to stop shoehorning a term with now two common meanings into the one that you prefer. Once upon a time hacker meant nothing of what you are referring to, now it is 'dual use', no need to go overboard in the other direction and forbid the original one. For reference see 'The hacker from MIT'.
>How many programs use native Win32 controls? Not even Microsoft does that anymore.

So because Microsoft has lowered the bar, now everything can be called "native"? There's a reason many people hate UWP.