skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hire people who work remote, I pay for co-working space at a mutually agreeable co-working location for everyone who wants it.

People who work from home, we buy the equipment they need. Laptop, nice chair, whatever.
That's a cool use case to have in mind, mariusz331! I like that idea a lot and would totally do the same with my stylist - maybe a member benefit could be to get automated reminders to make an appointment.
Guitars can imitate any instrument – this man proves it
Milo is an "edgy" comedian. His shtick is to be provocative. I can't imagine he's dangerous in any real way. Offensive, yes, but not dangerous.
Their claims of independence are irrelevant - they are funded directly by NATO. Its a pity the Hacker News woke crowd is so hostile to the 1st Amendment - a sign of the times.

http://www.thinktankwatch.com/2013/02/atlantic-council-relea...
There is nothing in the law that would permanently prohibit the IRS from creating its own Free File program. Your first article even suggests that one modification would be to simply add that a sentence saying that the IRS is allowed to do that, and the change is that simple because that sentence would not contradict anything else in the bill, as Wyden initially explained.

The concern is that putting the Free File program into law would somehow make it less likely that the IRS would create its own program.
Why Ruby Developers Like Elixir
So it is that you have a better handle on who is "dangerous" and who is not than FB does.

Why do you feel your analysis is any more valid than FB's?

Just as a matter of full disclosure, my position is, FB's private property, FB's rules. Just like my house, or yours I suspect, if you don't like the rules you have to leave. So that's my position on this whole thing. I'm just wondering why you think we should trust your word over FB's?
Love what you did!

We resently were exactly in a situation where we had to do heavy processing of ~4000 items each running between 1-10minutes.
To speed the process up we ran it on lambda. That means our process went down from 10h++ on a single core computer to about 15min running it on 4000 lambdas.

Your library would have saved us quite some work as it would take away a lot of Aws config, deploy, etc....

Btw: I'm thinking of building a similar library for multi core/webworkers for node.js. currently a lot of boilerplate is required on node.js to make a loop run parallel on all cores.
We don't need free speech on Facebook, but we do on the Internet. That's the difference in Russia and China, etc.
Ask HN: Programmable Door Locks
I want to create my own smart lock. Ideally I could communicate with the lock using Wifi to update codes for it.

Has anyone here on HN done something like this before? Have any tips?
The spire was rebuilt in the 19th century because the old one had fallen apart. As far as I can tell from Wikipedia, it was a replica of the original one.

As for why people are talking about redesigning it? I think this is down to Europe's rejection of classical art and craftsmanship, whereas in the United States, imitating classical art remains popular. That's what American 2D animation studios such as Disney did, for example. The only art school in Italy that teaches Renaissance painting techniques was set up by Americans. Go figure.

To a European who views himself as a cosmopolitan with sophisticated tastes, creating such pastiches is seen as vulgar and even grotesque. The past must be rejected. Post-modernism, abstract art and oddly shaped buildings, is where it's at now.

I'm from Europe myself and I reject this bizarre way of thinking and admire the old masters. Judging by all the hideous architecture being created, however, I am swimming against the current.
Show HN: Bitwise, a curses based bit manipulator
How to Guix for those who don't
“P is for Power”–Android engineers talk battery life improvement (2018)
1. Is there evidence that they've actually incited hatred and violence? If so, then they've violated the law. If there's no such evidence, then what justification would you use now?

2. Where's the evidence that hatred and violence are spreading?

3. Where's your evidence that censoring is successful in "stemming the spread of hatred and violence"?
Post author here:

My new company helps companies fill contract software positions. We're a lot like a recruiting or staffing agency, but trying to do it in a new, less spammy way. It's been REALLY frustrating working with hiring managers. I used to be one of these frustrating hiring managers so I guess I had it coming.

I had a hiring manager tell me that he can tell in the first 15 min of an interview if someone is a great engineer or not. I remember thinking the same thing. I felt like I had this special intuition that I had developed over the years. That's just total BS. There is NO WAY you can know that and you don't have a "special gift".

I don't have a great solution yet, but for senior engineers I've come to trust previous work experience the candidate has much more than my gut, my culture fit questions and my stupid coding questions. We had a hiring manager that was looking for a strong back end engineer turn down the engineer that built the search backend for yelp because he didn't like his answer to "how would you program the code in an elevator."

So my new company Facet (www.facetdev.com) is basically built around helping senior engineers, with strong experience building products at scale, find contract work.
Kite used to be cloud-powered which meant users had to trust us with their code.

In January we announced "going cloudless" -- we moved all processing back to the client and code is no longer sent to our servers. (You can find the blog post announcing this here @ https://kite.com/blog/launching-line-of-code-completions-goi...)
TL;DR: Snobbery.
This is the same conflict in every marketplace exchange, and something a blockchain doesn't address.
ZFS sync/async and ZIL/SLOG, explained
Michael Stipe discusses his new photobook (2018)
The government has weather weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Modification_Con... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_warfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Popeye

Chemicals in the water are turning the frogs gay.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-potomac/sex-c...

For Mueller, Sandy Hook, and Pizzagate, Alex Jones speculated and reported on these existing conspiracy theories. He did not invent them. He apologized for Pizzagate and Sandy Hook, and blames his rants on psychosis.
VS Code Remote Development
Very excited to try this out! Would be so nice if you can just checkout some repo and have a completely ready to go development environment available directly. No more hassle with versions of linters, runtime or whatever to get a development environment set up, but be productive from the start.
Chalk of Champions (CNN video, May 2, 2019)

https://vimeo.com/333758769
Oof, I love this — thank you thenewwazoo!

I gotta get to sleep, but will either update the post or add a note in the morning.

And of course, will do this in all future rust projects :D
And yet when a company tries to reduce a candidate to a consistent set of objective criteria as best it can--meaning, the ability to understand programming problems and solve them in a structured interview--people get upset because it doesn't account for the "big picture" of the candidate and unfairly excludes people who'd otherwise be a great fit.

The reality is that any interview procedure is bound to have some false positives and some false negatives, and there will always be people who see themselves as false negatives (correctly and incorrectly) who'll complain loudly about any procedure.
Milo, the Brain-Controlled Wheelchair
Me too, then immediately searched it on HN but unfortunately t seems it's not getting the love it deserves!

I can think of a ton of use-cases for this... Using a light notebook for development; keeping project files on a secure remote machine; debugging for Mac, Windows and Linux on the same device.

This extension, Live share, and code-server together really turn VS Code one of the most adaptable editors currently available.
The article talks about how blockchain is good at handling money transactions but in the same breath says that logic doesn't apply to supply chain management? Their analogy was extremely weak. Secondly, smart contracts? Does the author not know smart contracts are applied to supply chain as well?
Yes, to some extent you have to accept that you could end up passing on some candidates whom could have turned out to be good employees. Couple thoughts though:
1.) It's still only in hindsight that you could say something like that (ie. "wow that person really did turn out good")
2.) If you're still hiring good employees at a decent rate, does it matter? Short of being 100% efficient (which is an inappropriate goal anyways), you'd only need to address this if you were somehow not hiring anyone or hiring way below industry pace
Ahh, perhaps I was misreading it a bit. I did not think there was any transfer of information other than something along the lines of UPlay saying "Hey Genba, this guy got a key?" and Genba looking it up, replying "Yep", and UPlay letting you move forward.

Will give it a re-read
It's ambitious, but it reads like he's taken most of them already.
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/live-share/issues/74#issuec...

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview
Be surprised.

https://vimeo.com/333758769
OneDrive and Sharepoint (Microsoft) Down at the Moment
https://downdetector.com/status/onedrive

It began with enterprise OneDrive issues, now it is also affecting OneDrive personal. Nothing showing in Microsoft's cloud monitoring (service health) reports.
> I wonder if facebook was around in the 1950s would they be banning prominent homosexuals?

Of course they would. There's even a bit of that happening today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/10/03/faceboo...

And this is before we get into the question of malicious application of the "real names" policy to trams people.
Is Slack Down?
>Your [sp.] totally within your rights to not want to discuss your daughter being a whore...

And do you believe me to be violating a "...moral principle..." by refusing the discussion? Or, more precisely, do you feel my daughter and I have a moral obligation to openly discuss such subjects? Are we "...absolutely violating the moral principle..." of Freedom of Speech by bouncing the loudmouth?
I guess it's only logical if you have no regard for human life, and just care about profit and technological advancement. I suspect they can find many prisoners/falun gong practitioners/Uyghurs/Tibetans who will gladly 'volunteer' (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_...)
I actually have never wondered before: is it ever valid to use pointer 0?
I think the main drive of the article is "just don't even try to move here" which is very anti-competitive. Sounds to me like writers in NY have a hard profession, and do not want more people competing with them for lower wages.
I also guessed that the lack of dedicated maintainers is due to a lack of volunteers, but that's something that stops me from using either guix or Nix at least from handling the critical part of my OS (kernel and base system).

For development environments and other stuff, both are great tools, but I guess the real power comes when you manage the whole system through any of these managers.
Help me learn how to learn more efficiently
What are you saying that this unilateral and overly simplistic declaration of his views used to advocate for his censorship may also be inaccurate? Who could have ever predicted that was a possibility?? Oh well too late, I guess we should let that be a lesson to us all not to even try to buck mainstream narratives.
No.

https://status.slack.com/

Edit (from 3 minutes later): maybe.
Alleged Russian spy whale is refusing to leave Norwegian port
I wrote a little shell script that lets you move the mouse around with your voice, ask what time it is, etc. My thinking for future applications is that specific appliances should take specific commands, so there would be little intelligence needed. Oven: preheat to 350 degrees. Lights: on. Music: off. Etc.
Location: California

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, R, MySQL, git, Linux, docker

Resume: https://github.com/DarkestFloyd/resume/blob/master/resume.pd...

Email: nischal.bhatewara@gmail.com

I am a new graduate with a MS in Data Science and am seeking an entry level position in a technology company. I have a very strong programming background and can iterate over solutions easily. At my internship, I regularly communicated results to doctors and researchers at Harvard Med and can create effective dynamic visualization in D3 and dashboards in R shiny.

Above all, I want to work to make change. I am open to non profit work too.
>That the field is awash in unscrupulous characters who stretch the outer bounds of legality and morality, individuals willing to secretly record targets, pay off sources, hack, and steal, all covered by what one due diligence researcher calls an attitude of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

Outer bounds? Is there a single place where those aren't crimes? Where do they find these people?
I need to integrate with food POS, any advice there?
I use these guys:
https://www.freetax.com/#about

There storefronts always looked a bit skeevy to me, but they've never charged me a dime for this product and I've used it for 3 years.
I'm not sure how best to put this, but I'm not so sure detaching is the answer here, at least not long term. I can detach pretty easily and start daydreaming even while I'm on social media. If what I'm looking at isn't interesting enough, I start skimming. While I'm skimming my attention is divided between trying to find stimulation and whatever thing that's got my larger attention, usually some personal thing. I might bounce back and forth between these things many times while I'm social media'ing.

Work is the same thing. My mind switches between active problem solving, and detachment, while my subconscious is working out a solution. Work usually isn't maximally-stimulating, so I'm always dividing my attention there too.

For something to commandeer my full attention, it has to bear down heavily on my 'main life loop'. Social media often manages to do this, with some really smart person's Quora post incisively dissecting a topic I'm intensely interested in.

My mind 'forages' through social media looking for stimulation. No distraction can literally steal ALL my attention, I always have some left over.

I've altered all my computing environments to avoid any kind of unwanted animation. Animations on computer screens do manage to snatch me out of my current mental loop. If social media did this, then it wouldn't be useful for me and I wouldn't bother with it.
I think it would be interesting to make a patch that turns a viable Linux kernel and glibc into just such a system. I'd want to run it off of the work of KSPP though.
Where's the proof that they are intentionally and maliciously hateful rather than simply being mistaken about those you think they hate?
Write-Protect for Userfaultfd()
Glad to help! I am a huge huge fan of Rust. I'm almost always hanging out on ##rust and ##rust-beginners on Freenode if you want to ask questions synchronously. :)
He’s rich stop talking about him
Also, for the curious, the post has had nearly 1.5M views so far. This is the first time I've ever experienced anything I've posted go viral. It's been interesting to watch the acceleration over the past few days.
Facetmobile FMX-4 Research Airplane
Sorry, that name is reserved for the next step in the project - a parentheses-heavy input syntax for Rust, or more plausibly, for the simplified representation thereof known as MIR. Its biggest impact on the tech industry will actually be to significantly broaden the appeal of the Rust Evangelism Strike Force; indeed, it's expected that very few programs will ever be written in Lust, and that even the programs that are written in the language will be largely toy examples! But the overall effect has nevertheless been considered to be highly worthwhile, so the project will go forward.
>you better damn well be able to keep it protected

There is no 100% security.

Some companies do a lot better job than others at protecting their systems, but it's only a matter of time before they are breached or information is leaked, especially a high value target like Google.

If a powerful nation state wants to breach a corporation, they will.

So, the real question is this: is an affinity for targeted advertising really worth creating the most detailed psychological profiles in history on billions of people if it is inevitable that this information will be compromised and used for more nefarious purposes?
best: synonym -> elite
This is interesting, thank you, I will give it a try!
There was no "analysis" there, it's purely a political move, don't get confused.
Over 800 have been banned including Anti-media and Police the Police. Here is a list of only a few:

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/social-media-purge-top-ten...
Heh. The last couple time I've seen a candidate rejected for "poor culture fit", it was because the candidate themselves demonstrated ageism or racism.
Yes.

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=news&q=slack&sr...
Assuming that were true, wouldn't it be a massive existential risk to Google? The finely tuned ML model that classified everything correctly before might catch fire and explode if the thing generating its data changes.

In practice I assume that data has highly marginal value for them so the small percent of people who bother to use this won't matter much.
Watch Joe Biden Admit to Obstructing Justice
Can you explain to me how Milo is dangerous? I can see the case for Alex Jones, who spreads the kind of misinformation that leads certain individuals to "take action".

But Milo? He's basically a clown.
I'm interested in where the break-even point is. With some interview processes now stretching over 15-20 hours or even more, it seems at some point the process is not helping make a better decision and just demanding extra resources from both the hiring company and the interviewees.
I do get an error 500, trying from Brazil.
You've jumped the shark here.

Facebook or any similar website can not be expected to vet every single piece of content. There is simply too much and mistakes will be made with automated processes. But what they can do is vet individuals who routinely post inappropriate conduct.
I did Strang's linear algebra course[0] (link goes to Youtube playlist of lectures) several years after graduating and recommend it highly. I was looking for refresher but I gained a deeper understanding of several important concepts; in particular it's fair to say I barely understood, or perhaps even misunderstood, SVD until Strang. If you're not sure if you need something like that, I suggest doing something like testing yourself on this video[1] or the MIT problem sets[2] it's easy to tell yourself that you "know" linear algebra when it would be closer to the truth to say that you used to know linear algebra, but can't answer even basic questions today. After Strang, Golub's book on Matrix Computations is also really incredible.[3]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3O402wf1c&list=PL49CF3715C...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cll03FUxjuk

[2]: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-650-statistics-fo...

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/Computations-Hopkins-Studies-Mathemat...
> Wakefield's license was revoked for actually legitimate reasons. For his actions in falsifying data, not for expressing the idea that vaccines cause autism.

It's useful to read the entire thing.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/25983372/FACTS-WWSM-280110-Final-...

But imagine a doctor that merely says "Don't get vaccines, they cause autism" but doesn't falsify any data. That doctor is probably going to be erased from the English register.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8090759
Looks like a mustard-y yellow on my screen. Definitely a darker shade of yellow but not very orange to me.
When driving five hundred miles or so, taking a quick break ever few hours to take a bio break and something to eat, is perfect for me. When I get back to the car it is ready to go again. No problems with payments, hardly a broken charger, not crowded (in Sweden). Friends who have other electric cars have big issues with these things. The Tesla Network makes a huge difference for me.
Alex Jones popularized a propagated the myth of "Crisis Actors" and that Sandy Hook was a hoax. Trolls on the internet telling parents that their children aren't really dead, that they should exhume their bodies to prove that they really died, that they are being paid by the shadow government, that their grief looked too fake - all of this is real harm. We can talk about the doxing and the stalking and the harassment, but inflicting pain and suffering on people in a terrible situation is real harm too.

When you have a platform and you use it to abuse people, real damage is done.
Autonomous Parking Comes to Maryland Airport
aaand it's back
I admire your determination, really.
Blockchain's present opportunity: data interchange standardization
I feel there's a special type of irony in criticizing a Lisp implementation for not being sufficiently type-safe.

(Or maybe it's just a generic irony ... I can't tell yet.)
Able to access now, but I was getting error 500.
is there evidence that Yiannopolus associated himself with white supremacists? because every piece of material I’ve seen has been about free-speech and social-justice, often questioning the said association created by media
That's also a likely issue too. I live in not the best neighborhood, and I've noticed that there are a lot more higher end cars then I'd expect for this area.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Alex+Jones+sandy+hook
Amsterdam wants to ban gasoline and diesel cars in 2030
yes, from san francisco
No sane interviewer says "write Fizzbuzz" as if you should already know what the name means. They give you the specification.
On the other hand, his video about Joe Biden and the situation with the kids and touching people was worth watching.
The new Microsoft is good and Nadella is awesome.

The one product that really sucks from this Microsoft is Azure. I commented in a thread before Azure is the absolute worst cloud provider amongst the big three after we thoroughly evaluated all three. AWS is the best and GCP is next.

But due to management pressure we had to go with Azure.

Unfortunately the best product does not always win in the enterprise. (That is why Steve Jobs never wanted to sell directly to enterprises).
Confirmed down in Florida here.
Yes, and here is an example: https://github.com/andrewrk/clashos/blob/91f45cff49128b3322f...

When the raspberry pi 3 hardware boots, it jumps to 0x0. So this is the part where the bootloader loads the new kernel image into memory... starting at address 0!
Yep! https://status.slack.com/2019-05/6d7541f932dd628c
This is neat, but would be more useful if it could deploy cloud functions made in language {x} and provide local js proxies for them.
Had a glitch but seems to be working now (NYC)
This. Also, I'd like to add: being kind to yourself.
It's a punchline from a joke that Reagan told repeatedly around the time of US-USSR weapons treaties. It's supposed to be funny.

Something along the lines of: "Q: Can we trust these guys to uphold their side of the deal? A: Sure, trust but verify."

Edit: here it is, it's actually a funny Russian proverb that Reagan was repeating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
There is no genuine debate to be had. No one who has the ability to not be autistic, would choose to be.

This is yet another example of how our toxic modern culture turns everything into an "identity". Some people are less healthy than others. That's potentially sad, potentially not a big deal.

Neither way is there any excuse for this faketroversy.