skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my biggest concern. One of my favorite mobile games (high stakes, I know) was originally produced by a small indie dev with a strong privacy policy. A year or so ago they sold to Zynga. I've not updated the app since then because I don't want any Zynga apps on my phone. If this forces me to update to the privacy-invasive, user-hostile Zynga version, I'll have to uninstall one of my favorite games. :(
I always find I slightly unsettling when the Mail gets frothy mouthed about the same things as Hacker News.

Don't want to get stuck in that news bubble though....
My wife had a great interview, everything was going well and they were showing her around the office. When she got to the team that was hiring, the hiring manager indicated that they like to shoot Nerf guns at each other, and they hope that is OK.

My wife showed a sign of mild disapproval, and that was it. She was rejected for "not a culture fit".
It includes video and is also available on the Daily Mirror website.
I originally had a simple vim shortcut that would open my did.txt file but switching computers made this less universal so I created a server to accept "dids".

This is v1, any suggestions or feedback are super welcome!

* Heres the original VIM shortcut that is still super useful https://theptrk.com/2018/07/11/did-txt-file/
Totally agree with you. By the way, your user name checks out.
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> I am heavily using Google Photos (paid account), but it’s frustrating how slow uploads are

Are you sure that's not your connection? I just uploaded 2000-3000 photos last week via web. Only took about 15m. I'm on 100/100MBit.
Great, glad this was confirmed as I am about to solve a similar problem and my expectation is that Apache Arrow will be needed. So pyarrow = Apache Arrow.
Lynx[0], a text-based browser (now primarily) used for bash scripting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
Take your time. Overnight success is a myth.
Spend more time on marketing than coding.
Talk to users a lot.
Heroes sold as socialist in the US are typically communist: Marx, Stalin, Lennin, Mao, Pol pot, ...

The new wave of socialism in the US cherry picks instances of the ideology that is somewhat palatable with the West's notion of individual freedom. Denmark and Norway are sold as socialist meccas, but equally socialist China, Russia and Venezuela are conveniently ignored. The truth is that communism is a superset of socialism, and socialism in general tends to put the collective above the individual, often time at the cost of civil liberties.
No, the current "leader / management" culture in MBA America is toxic. MBA speaking. They are toxic to their peers and double to their disposable employees. The "enlightened caring manager" is also ridiculed as a "libtard" and never promoted. Young managers are selected for their superior manipulation skills and lack of empathy.
Reasons for Pair Programming
That is an early stage draft, not a RFC.
>Bad answers had the exec consolidating power and crushing opposition. The worst answers had the exec killing people to achieve their goals. Not joking, I had several answers that where "I would find my rivals and kill them".

You cannot placate a place like Libya without violence. Thinking otherwise is first-world delusion. It's worse - it's the same line of thinking that plunged the country into chaos under the guise of liberating it from a dictator. That's not a defense of Gadafi - it's a reality of things going from bad to worse.
> > The example relies on using global variables.

> It could as well rely on local variables with static lifetime, though.

For those following along, static local variables are the same thing as static global variables[1], C just enforces a scoping restriction as to who can access it at compile time. Most compilers will emit the same BSS section entries for both (though they will mangle the symbol name). It's basically compiler syntactic sugar for most compilers (though I'm sure the actual standard itself allows for some weird exotic use cases where they get handled completely differently).

[1] Static global variables are symbols that are restricted to a compilation unit (as opposed to regular global variables that can be linked to from another compilation unit). If you run `nm` on them, they'll all have a lower case letter indicating it's type.
Uploading Images to S3 from a React SPA
I strongly disagree. Financially supporting a charity is an extremely good way for someone with a lot of money to give back. The charitable person may not have expertise to distribute the money effectively, whereas a group who are familiar with the needs and thus where the money should go and how it should be used will use it well.

IMO, what you're saying is akin to saying: Criminals on the streets? Why pay to hire more cops when you can physically go out on the streets and BE the cop?
I'm sure we can find a lot of things more horrible than Iraq. Like slavery as you say, or bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the war in Vietnam...

But what I think OP meant, is that the bad things which happened in Iraq were not the intended outcome of what the US did. Those other, more horrible things were intended consequences, not mistakes.
I'm having a hard time parsing your comment.

You seem to be equating "redistributing wealth" with "any government action". It is certainly true that almost any government action changes something and thus can affect the economy in general but that doesn't mean those two phrases are interchangeable. For me, your formulation is just confusing.

You are also throwing up a straw-man argument of "unfettered capitalism". Advocating for a limited government with proscribed powers that don't involve a primary goal of "redistributing wealth" is not a statement about "capitalism" or advocating for "unfettered capitalism". It is a statement about the role of government.
Nobody is born into it. But there is a ton of education that can prepare you. And always aiming for minimum expense and maximum revenue is NOT that education.

You need to sympathise with people and honestly, I very rarely see that in any executive. So the selection process right now is definitely broken.
Mono's use was very limited because it was an out of date and slower implementation of .NET. It's used in such niche contexts (Xamarin and Unity) that it was easy to determine if the team you are applying is using MONO or Framework.

.NET core changed the ability to make the Windows assumption. Almost everyone has received the memo by now, but there was a period of time between .NET core 1.0 (June 2016) and the release of .NET core 2.0 (August 2017) where the platform was changing so much and the performance wasn't as good as framework that anyone without a simultaneous interest in Linux rightly ignored it. After the release of .NET core 2.0 the entire community began accepting it as a faster platform that runs comfortably on cheaper servers. A larger and larger portion of new projects have been running .net core. Now, with the planned release for .NET 5 next year .NET Framework is dead. However, if you were interviewing with a .NET team before June 2016 even asking the question "What operating system will this run on?" would have been a sign of incompetence. Of course you'll be building .exe and .dll files. Of course the webserver is going to be IIS. Those were the only things .NET was good at building.
> Even using gear from 30-40 years ago, it is possible to climb with relative safety, the new gear is mainly only an incremental improvement in safety.

Yes, but isn't that also roughly when modern sport climbing started?

Nylon ropes for climbing were introduced about 55y ago, though, I don't know when they became wide spread. Same for modern harness, modern bolts and quick draws. So your ~40y ago might be roughly correct.

Modern sport climbing started, I would argue, around that time. For instance, Red Pointing was popularized in the 70ties [2].

Also interesting is, that Phoenix, the first 7c+, the grade of the route in the Free Solo movie, was climbed in 1977 [3,4] and first free soloed in 2011 (also by Honold).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernmantle_rope
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redpoint_(climbing)
[3] https://www.emontana.cz/climbing-milestones-from-6a-to-9c/
If you got it close enough you could probably do it with a pretty low power transmitter. (Radio on a drone or something)
Absolutely, I once wrote an ELF loader for the Atari ST (never finished, but almost), and the documentation on relocation was absolutely arcane.
Give them a link to a Public Github repo on my account...

I always get a reply from those... surprisingly.
Might say 'first hover'.
For many developers, UIs are often the most rewarding part of code to work on, the impact of making a change is immediate and obvious, and hey, pretty stuff is fun to make!

That said, the learning curve before HTML/CSS is "pain free" to develop with is huge. Especially compared to mobile frameworks, a native UI widget is easier to style and place on the screen. Also it'll probably keep rendering properly for the foreseeable future. (Or write a Windows app and it'll keep working until the end of time! :)

I've struggled a bit when I have to switch over to writing back end code for my startup. Some of it is mentally rewarding, writing a scheduling system for example, but other parts are just tedious, especially the CRUD stuff.

Of course worst of all was writing the scripts for and documenting how to do deployments. People who enjoy DevOps are kinda weird. ;)

As an aside, awhile back I threw together a simple WinForms app to do some trivial CRUD work in my DB. I have full Auth + Data Binding + UI working in ~2 hours. I hadn't used C# or Winforms in a few years. Porting that same UI over to the web took way too long. Getting the tooling up and running was a day! I hit a bug involving a release version of some NPM package that took hours to debug and then the framework I installed was using the globally installed version of Typescript instead of its own local version which took while to figure out and, well, a few more things like that. :/
> They presented three design challenge options to pick from, with a weeks notice and advised that we should spend no more that 3–5 hours on the task (wink, wink)

I know this self-selects for people willing to do extra work for no extra compensation.

However, let me play devil's advocate for a minute as a thought experiment. I would actually worry that this issue is also a self fulfilling prophesy. If I'm told to do X in Y hours, but it takes me 10 x Y hours perhaps the employer really does expect it to take only Y hours. Maybe the typical workload at that employer is for someone who really can do X in Y. As long as that is properly compensated, I see no problem with that. If the employer is asking for an extremely high caliber developer, and will also compensate as such then it's no issue. However, an average developer applies and thus has to lie about what they can achieve in that time-frame. Let's say they get the job and then when the workload is dumped on them it obviously takes longer than the 40 hour work week and they cry about "self selecting for people willing to work extra for no compensation." When in actuality, the employer expected, based on a false presentation, that it was within the average developer's abilities.

Of course, I'm being somewhat satirical and without knowing the exact position and compensation being offered (as compared to average) no one can say if this is the case.
They're just "protecting and serving" their fragile egos.

What society needs is genetic engineering to ensure no more micro dick, low IQ, braindead thugs are born into the world to play grown-up wunnabe nazis.
To provide a slight counter example:
1. Employee A produces 20 widgets an hour
2. Employee B produces 100 widgets an hour

There is a wage where employee A costs more than the value they create. By mandating a wage that is higher than their productivity they are simply not hired, they do not get a chance to gain experience/knowledge, they loose the chance to be as productive as Employee B.

The result is they are now on welfare/unemployed/etc. They lose the chance to get on the employment ladder.

In general people improve so we you shouldn't be making the low wages for long. But what do we do about people who don't improve - either we push them out of the workforce or we subsidize their lifestyle to meet a minimum threshold.
why should the candidate just apply for software engineering jobs? Isn't focusing on one field just enforcing their bias to a particular industry? Shouldn't we enforce basic rules that candidates apply to a diverse gamut of other jobs, such as truck driving, painting, and customer service? And shouldn't we shame them if they decline an offer for a labor job by calling out their biases? Shouldn't we require candidates to apply to more than one company? I mean, if they focused on one company at a time, that clearly enforces their bias (either unconsciously or consiously). How are we going to contain this blatant bias in job applicants?
Cashiers helping one customer at a time are a bottleneck in a fast food restaurant. It's not that those jobs are eliminated, food still needs to be cooked and served. Kiosks allow up to 2, 3, 4 times the number of customers to order food at the same time (this also includes food delivery services who can order remotely). Kiosks are just the last part of efficiency that fast food restaurants have been developing over the last 50 years.
Very wrong analogy, sorry. You are misrepresenting what I said.

You are also very generously assuming that charities actually do what they are supposed to. Here in Eastern Europe where I live this has been proven to be false, many times. Are you convinced it's better where you live?
Those terminals were going to happen anyway.
We've empirically found it harder. It's completely disconnected from everything else, and covers a wide range of things, and so it's very easy to get lost in the shuffle.
Possibility of $250k+ total comp plus excellent benefits? It's worth it for many people.
I worked at a pharma sales company for a bit that was losing money. This was shortly after a startup I cofounded back in the 90's was sold, and was my first (and only) "senior exec" position after that transaction (afterward I went back to engineering). I remember attending a nearly four hour meeting where the senior executive team and CEO spent the entire time strategizing ways to increase the executive bonuses. I noted that perhaps we should address that after we solved the "losing money" problem, and you would have thought I had suggested kidnapping the CEO's mother. The lesson I took from that is that senior management can be _amazingly_ out of touch, and one hundred percent convinced of their own merit and entitlement, regardless of what's going on with the business.
‘Darwinian’ cancer drug program aims to deliver step change in cancer treatment
It's a lot smoother than stable RLS, but type resolution is practically nonexistent for futures-based code due to trait support still lacking. Definitely excited to check back once that's resolved though.
Is it me, or is NatGeo derp com just one big ad-fest? Wow ..
I think we interviewed for the same job. I did the same thing, and got the same response.

It was such a short timespan that I assumed it was a trick question, and they wanted to see if I could come up with a creative solution that technically met the requirements but was extremely simple. I implemented a board which you could put pins on, and a text-based chat system using websockets. The idea was that it would work like a table-top simulator.

Nope, turns out they wanted a real solution. I wonder how many companies who use these examples actually attempt them before using them to hire people. My guess is they might be more realistic if they did.
As a counter example to your good old times consider the financing of the Suez Canal.
Yup. Bullet.dodged.
There's been a years-long discussion about how to get a good code sample, and we've never found anything satisfactory. Short examples don't show anything interesting, and interesting examples are too long. Nobody was happy with the old code sample, and nobody was happy with all of the suggested alternatives.
Well said that we are the last free generation.

It so weird how much of our freedom and privacy we are giving away. People used to fight for these stuff.

And then you would think how far this can go in near future if this is just the beginning.

After all, all these fear and mixed feelings about security and conflicts are caused by a long chain of reactions and consequences of bad decisions governments are making themselves around the world. And it is sad that normal people end up losing their privacy more than responsible ones do.

It requires a fundamental strategy change that is not going to happen in reality. I wonder what kind of destructive side effects it will have for the future generations specially to the culture.
the Github link gave me a 404

update: you made a typo, should be https://github.com/dfcf93/MSMARCO/tree/master/Conversational...
This is an issue, but I wouldn't be too alarmist. It probably wouldn't crash a plane though, just severely cripple an airport. (Cause all take offs to be cancelled, all incoming flights diverted, and the planes in the air land one by one in order of fuel urgency using line of sight.)
I'm sure they're fine with engineers who don't ask to be payed for random tasks encroaching their private life.

Snark aside, it can iffy to pay someone for a task at your company when they are still under contract in their previous job. In that sense, while your point is sensible, it can be difficult to go that route from the candidate side.
Very good point, I missed that
The localizer (lateral deviation indication) is going to be harder to spoof due to the beat/squeal that it would introduce when broadcast alongside the legitimate localizer. The pilot (or PNF) will monitor the audio signal for the Morse code that identifies the localizer and the squeal will be apparent.

The glideslope signal (vertical deviation indication) would be easier to spoof. Set that up 1/2 mile short of the runway and aligned to intercept the proper glideslope shortly before the true glideslope intercept point (Maltese cross on the chart). That has a chance of working and going undetected. If you're able to get an aircraft onto the rogue glideslope lobe, even when ATC gets a low altitude alert, the crew is likely to report they're perfectly on glideslope. I'm not sure this is as practical an attack as simply firing on an aircraft on approach, of course.
The goal is often to hit "ramen profitablity" as soon as possible.

If you're doing enterprise, get that one customer who's paying you enough to sustain yourself, and make them very happy.

For consumer facing, find something you can build 10x better that people are already willing to pay for. Then beeline towards building and selling it. If they aren't buying it, it's not valuable enough.

There are exceptions like reddit, but you can't really bootstrap those. Anything with network effects needs a very long runway.
The reason Russia loved Putin is because he cleaned up low level violence and corruption. It's hard to have democracy when people are getting shot in the streets. This is something you completely fail to understand. Furthermore, it's hard to have a "democratic government" when everyone is poor. This is so glaringly obvious that it's painful reading your post.
Look at just about any resume writing service. They make you come up with ways you have "added value" at your current employer.

So, yeah, it's out there.
That is devaluing the word abuse. A voluntary optional task which you can decline at any time, is not "abuse" no matter how you spin it.
Nobody was happy with losing i18n, and it's on its way back, there were just some delays.
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Even you can't believe there is a hen in world's biggest animals
See the video
how they looks and what they do
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Very funny dog using toilet
Try to control your laugh
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Cute dog doing exercise like humans
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Even you can't believe there is a hen in world's biggest animals
See the video
how they looks and what they do
https://cutt.ly/1rOU7Q

Very funny dog using toilet
Try to control your laugh
http://bit.ly/2LVSNSG

Cute dog doing exercise like humans
http://bit.ly/2Jq3rz.
Doesn't appear to differ from previous Tesla autopilot accidents where the vehicle couldn't detect a tractor trailer crossing the path of travel with cameras or front facing radar. Interesting that Autopilot had only been activated for 10 seconds prior to the incident occurring.

I am not a domain expert. Front facing radar and cameras alone is clearly inadequate for forward facing object detection [1] (unless we're going to mandate radar detectable skirts and images superimposed on the sides of tractor trailers for vehicle detection). Would solid state LIDAR (essentially laser ranging I suppose, as you're not building a 360 degree point cloud) solve this particular edge case? Some automakers are including laser headlights in their vehicles [2] (although I don't believe this is yet approved for the US market); would it not make sense to convert the headlights into front laser ranging sensing systems along with their illumination function?

[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a24511826/safety-featu...

[2] https://www.osram.com/am/specials/trends-in-automotive-light...
I can't find "accredited investor" anywhere in the site, and IIUC for the type of deals that this is aimed, it will be a requirement.
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> This is what I don't understand about the hard-line 2A advocates. They're so concerned with being able to "defend against the government" if needed but guns are no longer the government's biggest source of power over the people.

They also fail to realize that the 2A already failed, and that it's premise wasn't that gun ownership protected against a tyrannical government. It's that gun ownership was necessary to the militia-based security posture which was the alternative to relying on a powerful standing military and armed police forces for external and internal security, and that preventing the creation and reliance on those large standing forces in the first place was the safeguard against tyranny.
didn't know that.how would they measure chinese share. these days with trust funds i imagine it's pretty difficult to know exactly who owns something
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Venezuela's vice grip on the internet leaves citizens in the dark during crises
Oh hell yeah I would, but I sleep better knowing most of YOU ALL are making websites instead of nuke-drones. :P
I want to clarify something, I'm not attacking you or your comment. I'm really asking for clarity. I appreciate what you've stated.

It's funny, we assume everyone uses the same definition of a phrase or slogan as we do and just by reading through the comments on this I see that's not the case.
Anything goes for speed ascents of The Nose, so long as you do it fast. There are aid sections, it's not entirely free.

Alex Honnold has not freed the nose with or without a rope. His nose speed record partner, Tommy Caldwell, is one of only a handful of people who have.

Lynn Hill's first free ascent of The Nose was a monumental achievement, for a woman or a man.

It's confusing because The Nose describes both the feature on El Cap, and the route that takes the plum line up that feature. Honnold's Free Solo of the Nose was on a route called Freerider.