skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn’t work, they don’t care. I mailed+twitted to many among which were Dropbox/HumbleBundle/Packt etc.. most just ignore me or came back with canned responses like “we value security blah blah improves security blah blah your data...” :(
From the twitter thread - seems like the problem was resolved.
What do you mean by "throughput" and how do you measure it ahead of an interview? Given 50 resumes for an open position, how do you select whom to interview? Does your process scale to many dozens or hundreds of open positions per year?
I’m certainly getting downvoted for this.

Not at all trying to blame the original posters and victims:

While they seem great for hobbyist and small business sites, there’s no way I’d trust Fortune 500 client business to something like DigitalOcean. I just don’t see the benefits over a more established operation like AWS, Azure or GCP. Saving $50 here and there isn’t worth it.
My big issue with vague laws is that decisions with colossal impact in the United States are determined by 9 people.

And sometimes laws simply get reinterpreted, after hundreds of years precedent.
Something related I've been thinking about lately is combining something like this with plagiarism detection tools to weed out code duplication. I have no idea yet quite how, but it would be interesting to explore.
Magnetic really seems great for connections, I wonder why it isn't used more.
I'm not above being corrected on acronyms, I bow to you being the king of the hill.
Pretty cool! Reminds me one of my favorite games

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liero
Oh yeah, I agree with that - but that's not job being "interesting", that's just job security.

I wrote my comment because I felt some disingenuity in the OP saying that jobs with modern tech stacks are interesting for him. It means that he's either genuinely intersted in following the tech frameworks threadmill, and jobs with modern tech stack allow him to do that - or, he's lying to himself that he's intersting in it, to make getting up for work every day a little bit easier.
I don't think the book and others with similar thoughts suggest anything like being paralyzed with fear, so we should be OK here.
Don't be snarky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I remain hopeful that projects like this are a way for commercial interests to funnel money and development to the upstream open source project owners. Purism talks a big game about being a social purpose company. Lets see if they can follow through with their self-imposed commitments. Thus far, it does seem like some the greater mobile gtk toolchain has benefited as result of these efforts on the librem phone, but that's a pretty small niche right there. It doesn't seem like they are integrating with the upstream projects as much for these social/communication services as much as they are with their mobile stuff.
same here - regular hi res took overnight sometimes.
If you will notice, Assange is not being extradited to Sweden, he is being extradited to the USA.

Or in other words, this fear of being extradited to the US was completely justified, and everyone who thought otherwise was wrong, including you.

You are wrong. He is being sent to the US. That proves you wrong, and makes everything you have to say about Sweden incorrect, because he is being sent to the US.
You seem to be under the impression that this didn't happen before 2018.

This has been going on for a very very long time.
> Sometimes it does so to resolve conflicting rulings among lower federal courts on an important issue; other times, because a case raises important issues of public policy. Don't know if this case will fit the criteria

It will. The CAFC's rulings are in open conflict with the normal court that would handle this, the ninth circuit.
At USC, they had multiple mandatory writing classes and I felt that the people who did well in those classes did well in engineering too. I think there is a high correlation between being able to clearly write something down and explain it and understanding the concepts.
Because everything relating to nuclear waste is a rational decision coming from a carefully evaluated risk-benefit analysis.

(and because cancer is a much more significant danger for humans than for wild animals)
What kind of progress has been made in crypto currency adoption?

After 10 years there really is nothing to show for it.

I mined a few coins in 2011 and they were quite useful in the 2013 boom when there were various merchants experimenting with adoption.

Since then the merchant adoption has only gone down.

Bitcoin will continue to have value because of its use in very shady transactions:

* hard drugs

* avoiding capital controls(China, Russia etc)

* extortion, blackmail

* crypto scams

* pure speculative/gambling vehicle

Sadly, there is no cryptocurrency which is useful as a general purpose e-money.

That is: as a buyer you get no protection and pay more as compared to regular credit card. Why in the world would you use it unless you want to use it for something shady?

Now one could argue that capital controls and hard drugs should be legal but that doesn't change the problem that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies only exist to serve markets that nation states deem illegal.

Compare this to regular gold and cash.

Finally, the big problem is the energy use. If BTC runs to 50k-100k then the energy consumption used for mining will surely surpass that of a medium sized country.
If speculators push the price of BTC to say 500k, then the whole world will stop and half the energy will be used to mine BTC.

It is ridiculously silly yet dangerous.
Suicide in the American West
Assuming QC == quality control, I find that attitude highly ironic.

Measure twice, cut once. Take the time to write carefully up front and proofread, before you submit it to a lengthy process.
How to run a tech swap shop at a conference
It's probably because they're afraid of even more frivolous lawsuits coming from Medium.
There are big risks to it from what I've read.
Unfortunately that's already the case with many long running projects. A friend of mine that works on JWST recently fixed a mistake that was made by someone who retired 10 years ago.
Also, are they simply overpriced? Is this "Instagram influencer" simply delusional about the value of their name?

She claims she only needed to sell 36 to "kickstart her brand" but is that 36 at $10,000 each? She's not Coco Chanel, you can't arbitrary decide to start at the top.
Wait! Don't stop, tell us the rest of the story...
On the pop-psych Jungian scale they (we) would represent the INTP type.
Sun didn’t give it away for free. They charged manufacturers for licenses for J2ME - Until google came along and blew up their business with android.
There are two kind of authors at Medium. There are those who try to earn money directly from their writing and those who just want to write and maybe monetize in other ways, maybe not monetize at all just make their writing a gift to the humanity. The second kind of authors hate the paywall.

What is worse is that there is a negative selection among those who want to earn from their writing - those who really know writing try to get into real journalism and the Medium authors are mostly those who try to earn money. That is not to say that there are no good writers, just last week I have eventually paid the Medium membership only because one author, but I am disappointed about the whole package. I presume there is better stuff written by the fist type of authors who write because they want to say something - but they are not recommended by Medium because they don't want the paywall. So being recommended is mostly a negative sign - it is often even written quite well - but with no depth.

I really wish Medium all the best - because the traditional media are failing and we as society, we have to find a way to support journalists. But the Medium experiment is probably failed one.
An expensive lesson learned in redundancy.

It's a shame to see things play out this way, but sometimes a lesson is taught in a brutal fashion.

I imagine the author will be more careful in the future regarding off-site backups, additional technical partners, contingency plans, etc.
My take on that idea is that it would be running away from the hard problem of having an internet forum that doesn't suck.
One doesn't always get to meet people, sometimes and tbh quite often it has to be on LinkedIn,via email or even a letter.. Ability to do it well sets you apart and also brings confidence to those you try to communicate with.A well written proposal to a VC is 100 times better than some mish mash of words.
If you read Factfulness, you'll find that it's not a strange way to engage at all. One thing Hans Rosling proved and taught is that even well-educated, caring, attentive people are incredibly wrong about simple facts about global economics and health - so much so that, on his multiple-choice questions, every group he examined performed worse on their answers than if they simply guessed at random.

So yes, "Is this belief feelings-based?" is an incredibly important question.

So how does the question of the rapid reduction of extreme poverty relate to the "compounding power gap"? First, it shows that progress is being made, that the poorest of the poor are doing much better than they were as recently as two decades ago.

But more importantly, I do not believe you have demonstrated with facts and evidence that there is a "compounding power gap". You believe that there is compounding power gap, based on the fact that there is a power gap at all. But actual, fact-based evidence suggests that power gap (measuring by dollars as a proxy, since you didn't offer a standard of measurement for your power gap) is decreasing, and rapidly. With some exceptions, the poorer nations are increasing their wealth at a far faster rate than richer nations are.

Consider this chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_real_GDP_...

It's a list of countries by GDP growth rate. I assume you're familiar with the miracle of compounding, since you used that word.

The first European country on the list is Ireland, at 13. The next is Hungary, at 40. The first former colonial power is the US, at 107, more than halfway down the list.

If you don't think that economic growth is a reasonable proxy for "compounding power gap", then what is?
I don't think the commercial department gets access to the data collected under lawful intercept regulation.
Using Osquery for Remote Forensics
I think it's a heuristic signal. Old tech stacks are usually used in old projects that solve old problems.

I doubt the OP would mind building a J2EE project from scratch to solve a novel problem. But nobody does that -- usually if there is a J2EE job, it's maintenance, which can be less interesting. And if there is a novel problem, it will likely be solved with the current status quo ("modern") technology.
This is obvious. Start your app on Digital Ocean or Heroku, and when it becomes a viable business get that shit on a grown up platform.
The code that ends up getting executed is formally equivalent to the JVM bytecode, but the method signatures completely disappear.
The article is completely focused on the US. In that context I assumed the person I was replying to was talking about relatively rich or poor US cities.
Cool watching this in real time. Co-founder just intervened and got it back up. Still....
As a hiring manager, I don't agree with this. Frankly, although I always look for a person's education history, the only time this actually matters is if it allows me to make small talk with them during introductions.

Additionally, a person with a hard science BS from a small college may well have received a far superior education than someone graduating from a top tier university in the same discipline. It makes a huge difference for many students how engaged their professors are in teaching, vs research.
Everything everyone else has said. However, if you don't have a budget for this, you can do a few basic things that will greatly improve the usability of your site.

First, can you navigate your entire site without using a mouse (including any widgets, forms, embeded stuff)? You should also have a "Skip to main content" button that is the first element you hit when you tab into your page.

Next, download the NVDA screen reader, which is free, turn off your monitor (or close your eyes), and navigate your site using it. I recommend using FireFox for this.

Finally, use a color contrast analyzer plugin for your browser to ensure you have enough contrast between all of you elements.

From there, you can review the WCAG 2.0 spec to get into the fine details. If you have the budget, hire a consultant/contractor. What I described above doesn't make your site pleasent to use for a disable person, just usable.
This is an interesting post. I don't think the title does it justice, I wouldn't have opened it if I wasn't sitting on the toilet and the all the other links were purple at the time.
Indeed. The NRO - rumor has it - has been launching satellites to observe the earth in the infrared for years..
Interview with Reid Hoffman
> Selective eating and food refusal occurs in about three quarters of children with ASD

I’m sure there are differences between ASD and non-ASD kids in terms of diet, but picky and selective eating is present in a lot of children that are never diagnosed as ASD.
Isn't it more scary to think how many people are so cavalier with sharing their online banking credentials with a third-party app like Plaid?

I don't think enough people realize that when you authenticate with Plaid, even for apps that don't provide "Mint-like" functionality and have no need for your transaction history, you're giving that developer permission to pull your transaction history, personal information, account balance, etc without any additional permission at anytime.
This reinforces my gut feeling that companies like DigitalOcean and Scaleway are fine for hobby usage, but for any serious business operations, I'd go with AWS.
SiGe is a serious competitor to GaAs and InP. It doesn't typically have the power density of Ga derived microcircuits, but has good channel noise performance plus linearity and can operate at higher frequencies than GaAs as long as you don't need high power density. GaN has amazing power characteristics but has all kinds of issues with signal purity that are still being worked out. Eventually, I believe GaN will eat everything's RF lunch just out of sheer power efficiency gains with the last hold out being cell tower base stations, where spectral purity trumps efficiency by a mile. InP gets used into the 100GHz+ territory.

These processes are mostly larger like you say, but they are also used in high end data converters (ADCs and DACs) and some processes are in the mid to low 10's of nanometers now. Which is almost exactly where silicon was a decade ago.

Silicon of course isn't used because of it's performance, but rather, because silicon is the easiest of the semi-conductors to manufacture and get good yields out of. It is also comparatively very low cost. These factors have led to the lion's share of research dollars being spent there as well.
How's that? The last tweet from him I see is asking them for their data still.

https://twitter.com/w3Nicolas/status/1134529379701334017
Yes. I agree. It was started like this.

But now Typescript 3.5 is also influenced by F# which is close to ML.

Just look at those advance types and their allowed composition which Typescript supports in its latest release and you will understand.
Not even giving the account a warning is honestly enough for me not to go with DigitalOcean for even small projects in the future. Their prices are not that good for fly by night VPSs if that's how they're going to act.
Conversely, I don't see how a company like DO can afford to offload their customer support to automation for these "we'll shut down your business" kinds of tickets. Tweets like these generate a lot of press.
IMO copyright protection is way too strong and long lasting for this type of thing.

The creation of something like Java should be protected by the patent system which at least has an expiration time of a couple decades rather than a century like copyright.

Google taking Java and reimplementing it without paying a penny to Sun (who was requiring a license to other manufacturers at the time) does seem unfair. But I think the law should provide something like the “FRAND” standard for patents, or the mandatory mechanical license for copyright, to prevent a company from blocking interoperability.

As far as who’s actually right on the law today.... the SCOTUS decisions will be interesting to read :-)
Will definitely try it when it comes out.
Well Bitcoin mining could "break SHA-256 and render it insecure" by:

1. exploiting cryptanalytic weaknesses in SHA-256,

2. successes in new computing paradigms such as a large scale quantum computer using Grover's algorithm.

3. or turning the local galactic cluster into computronium for SHA-256 miners. Although at that point we have bigger problems. =)

If you think SHA-256 will not be broken anytime soon then that suggests that you believe that mining difficulty increases will slow down.
SO is undermining community standards by promoting an off-topic question
According to the thread the company is 2 people.
> 2) If this case goes Oracle's way, does this set the precedent that ANY re-implementations of an existing API are in violation of copyright? I don't know who now owns the original rights to Unix, but if they decide to come after Linux where does that leave us?

We can't know until a decision is made, but this could likely start a precedent for any re-implementations.

The curent copyright holders of UNIX are Micro Focus, who acquired it via buying Attachmade, who had bought Novell, who had bought UNIX System Laboratories from AT&T. Micro Focus mainly sells COBOL and is apparently hellbent on ignoring UNIX as much as possible (multiple people have tried to reach out to them about Ancient UNIX and possibly licensing some missing parts like PWB/UNIX and System III, but the best they've had is a salesperson being confused and trying to sell SUSE Linux). If they ever regain their institutional knowledge that they hold copyrights to UNIX and this decision happens, well, it's open season for Micro Focus v. Red Hat.
DO's cofounder seems to have intervened.

https://twitter.com/moiseyuretsky/status/1134547532149854208
I can appreciate that position and the fortitude behind it.
To paraphrase Henry Ford, wouldn't you end up in a situation where people ask for and get a horse carriage when they really would have wanted a car?

Personally the media that has had the greatest impact on me was also some of the most unexpected or unfamiliar.
Problems with the college system aside, why get an MBA without any work experience? Every successful MBA I know became a domain expert before pursuing theirs.
No, I understand what you're weighing, but you're still weighing it wrong. You're looking at individual deaths. What is the maximum number of deaths/injuries that can be caused by a solar power accident? Two, maybe? Now, what is the maximum number that can be caused by a nuclear accident? Millions.

Someone stumbling off a roof will not cause the evacuation of a city. Period.
me too. writing concisely has helped me throughout my career, but that wasn't always the case. i undervalued writing growing up and slowly fell behind my peers. that finally caught up to me in college where i struggled to distill and express the often conflicting ideas squirming around in my head.

but a love of novel ideas led me to take extra liberal arts courses, accept the resultant mediocre grades, and ultimately improve my writing. becoming a teaching assistant for an engineering writing class was where, in comparison with my younger peers, i could finally see that i'd indeed improved (and hopeful that the poor writing i graded wasn't indicative of future skill!).
Nationalism does not represent receptivity, curiosity, and information exchange. Assange does.
This website works even with uBlock Origin with disabled JavaScript option. 9,81 bits for me.
NY Investigates Exposure of 885M Mortgage Documents
Why Do the Startups Prefer NoSQL
It's people relying on the market to fix everything. It works quite well for some things but not so much as a social contract. CEOs in the past were not making the same kind of percentages but most of that was not based on the market, it was based on push back such as unions and not wanting to appear greedy.
> Insisting upon a set of rules for otherwise commonly understood words (an RFC defining "MUST") is usually a pedantic waste of time

I would agree, except the field of programming seems to have a very large number of pedants. Unfortunately, earlier in my career I was in the room many times where the lead or programmers told the PM or stakeholder "well it didn't say that exactly."
Rather unfortunate customer service experience that you can't get help from the actual support and you can't get help from the official Twitter account. You just need to pray that your Twitter thread gets noticed hard enough for the actual co-founder to notice it so they can make the call that saves your company.

Also, even the co-founder doesn't seem to know exactly why the service was suspended, even though he clearly managed to arrange things.
> I’d have to say BASIC for the 8080, because of the effect it’s had, and because of how appropriate it was at the time, and because we managed to get it so small.

My first thought was "ah, it's nice that he places such an emphasis on simplicity and elegance", and then I realized that he literally means small, as in, takes up fewer bytes. It's so strange to think about optimizing memory footprint on the level of characters of code.
If all your backups are in the same account of the same cloud provider then you have no backups.
Reminder that most banks still don’t provide an oauth api for granting read only access to your account info, so we end up with scraping data and problems like this to solve. Plus there is a ton of completely unnecessary risk created here by forcing users to furnish full access credentials to their bank accounts. It’s beyond stupid.
How is that going to work when most of the users are behind NAT/Firewalls? That's a connection model that just doesn't work well on the modern Internet.

I'm also kind of baffled by the need to install a Blizzard root cert in the cert store. That's normally only necessary for people who are too cheap to get their certs signed (Blizzard makes enough money to do this) or who want to MitM encrypted traffic from your host.
If you think irrational hate isn't rooted in misunderstood morals and ethics then you need to sit down and listen to your peers a little more when they discuss the reasons they hate companies associated with Silicon Valley.
It's a good point. One of the problems with media is that it can shield you from realizing that your life is not going so well.
Haskell and ML languages look like symbol soup when you're used to mainstream/C style languages. Once you understand some of the basic syntax they become quite readable and easy to reason about as a series of transformations.

Step one, which applies to most functional languages, is knowing how to read a Hindley-Milner type signature [1].

Armed with that you can often gain a surface level understanding of what some function does - and what the program does in aggregate - just by reading type signatures and seeing what calls what.

Hoogle [2] is a good resource for figuring out Haskell syntax, like what's up with all of those $ signs.

Converting OCaml to ReasonML syntax with sketch or reason-tools [3] makes OCaml less foreign.

With basic knowledge of Haskell and ML syntax you'll find many FP languages readable.

[1] https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide-old/cont...

[2] https://hoogle.haskell.org/

[3] https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/extra-goodies