skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the focus is just pure jealousy just the same way people are jealous of those who are 10x income earners.

There are 10x engineers out there who not only product great work, but solid work that doesn't need support, they test, they document. They might not be a pleasure to work with for most because their thinking level is completely different and they don't subscribe to modern software rituals. They focus on what it takes to get it done.

I can't agree that we are way past the point where a single engineer can't make or break the company being a 10x. Sure for most enterprises, but startups and small companies those are still valuable if they can get one.
I don't get why IRL mail spam is still allowed. It's a fucking nuisance. 95% of the mail I get is junk mail. Another 4% is recurring bill notices or something similarly low-value (yeah, I could probably make some of those go away by logging into whatever-it-is and checking a box somewhere, but it's overwhelmed by the junk mail anyway). Maybe 1% is something I actually care about. And I get a lot of mail.

I'd pay a fee for mail service if I must. Worth it. Just end unsolicited bulk mail, and make solicited bulk mailers ask me to opt in again every year or so, and stop on a negative response, or none at all. It's not free speech, it's my friggin' mailbox, and others shouldn't be able to damn near DOS it just because they want me to know about their special offer or lie to me about politics. I get that the postal service needs that money to stay afloat, hence my being cool with a fee of some sort replacing the bulk mailing.

For that matter, I'm not sure how a good portion of junk mail isn't fraud or false advertising or something along those lines. I get a lot of really deceptive commercial mail, pretending to be things that it isn't, like official notices, bills, credit cards (god those fake card advertisements are stupid), and so on.
I already did, elsewhere.
It's interesting that nobody even bothered to check whether the bias was illicit. They found something that sounds bad and the immediate response is "OMG bad PR, pull emergency shutdown."

They just assume that "women's" is coding for female candidates and not something more specific, like gender-segregated activities that may legitimately produce lower quality candidates than the equivalent integrated activities that exposed the student/candidate to a more diverse cohort population. Probably also doesn't help that some of the biggest gender-segregated institutions are penal in nature, i.e. "reform school for troubled girls" or "women's correctional facility."

Did anybody even check whether it also penalizes words like "boys" and "gentlemen's"?
Also the fact that there is zero privacy.
"What got us here today will not get us where we want to be tomorrow". - A quote from someone smarter than me.
> Anyway, there are other ways to gain that freedom.

What ways do you have in mind?
Are you using it on iOS as well? It "helpfully" migrated my upgraded $9.99 or whatever it was for the iOS license to a subscription plan. Would've been fine with the standalone version, but there isn't multiple applications for 1Password on iOS.
I kinda wish there were similar programs for non students ... even older folks who have transitioned to a career coding.
There’s a slight problem with Russia’s proposed Federation spacecraft
So... I think there are two issues with this.

(1) This doesn't actually reduce market share, since each of these are basically different market categories.

(2) Almost all the revenue is from search. That company is the revenue generating arm for the other ones.
That's an interesting thought. I agree with you that most of those products are loss leaders for data mining and thus advertisement.

But my thinking was that if you simply cut off advertising all the products still have massive marketshares and could lean on each other, as long as some succeed. Not to mention investors probably willing to prop up such a massive aggregate marketshare (one only has to look at Uber).

If you 'silo' them, success of one division of previously-Google won't lead to all of them dominating.
* instead of respecting the idea of equal/diversity of opinion.*

Going to go out on a limb and say I don't respect "Hitler was a bad man" and "Hitler did nothing wrong" equally. Individual employees are allowed to have opinions...even opinions I don't agree with.
Even though the NFL only holds absolutely when problems are closed under permutation, that doesn't imply that most problems are a good fit for a particular algorithm:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.08913.pdf
Going from convicted criminal to celebrated on bank notes by the SAME government in less than 100 years is pretty notable!
Those searches are unlikely to be unique.
Well, that's kind of the point: it's not scientific, but it's relevant. I believe this was also the example that was recently used in a Project Veritas video, with the same results.

I searched from a Firefox private window over a VPN from the Netherlands. But since the results are the same (regarding presence/absence of "email" as an autocomplete term) I don't think it matters much.
too many 0.01x managers.
The planes they built before the current era of management should be ok. I've heard the 777 has the best safety record of any plane flying, but it was engineered before the current management.
The Euro is still here, it has not failed, and is the currency of 350 million people, with an additional 240 millions using a currency pegged to the Euro.

It is currently the second most traded currency after the USD.

But "haters gotta hate" I guess...
How to structure your day better [2017]
Absolutely! As a thought exercise, what sort of non-trivial tree traversal is possible without recursion or looping?

I do use recursion quite a bit but always honoring the JPL coding rule (I can't find it) to put some form of safety fusing in recursive code to avoid inadvertent stack blowouts.
I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account
>For some insane reason they're competing with Instagram and

Reddit's management is driving the site as a business, which means doing things for the purpose of maximizing revenue according to the perception of what's "successful". Facebook is evil but successful at it, Instagram is (was) successful.

The path they see to making money is to try to become the next XXXX, where XXXX is the "successful" social media site of the month.

Reddit was originally driven by user need and the desire for functionality, and innovation and working with the user community helped it grow. Not so anymore.

Ultimately, someone/something has to pay for the resources such a site uses, and finding a working profit model that can keep businesses like Reddit functioning is not easy.

Reddit is a zombie at this point - there's no solid alternative to it, despite what some people seem to think, so there's nowhere for people to go. Once there's another option, Reddit is going to rather quickly become a ghost town.
Ask HN: What proportion of generics usage is collections?
This is a question for those who use languages with generics: what percentage of generics use is for generic collections (and maybe streams) vs. other, non collection applications?
Leo: IDE, personal information manager, and outliner
I agree that political ideologies are similar to religions and that protections may be extended to them (although they should already be covered by what is in the constitution). What I don't follow is why it matters that platforms are becoming publishers.

The government has never had the right to meddle in what publishers decide to publish (with exceptions for regulations on pornography and classified information). I can't imagine the government forcing Mother Jones or The Nation to print conservative viewpoints. If the platforms become "publishers" their power to select what information is available increases. They become liable for more of the content on their sites, but they also gain full control over content.

The only way I see to protect freedom of access to information would be to declare certain spaces (Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, etc.) as "privately-owned public forums" where suppression based on ideology would be heavily restricted.
Odd not to mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_%26_Carol_%26_Ted_%26_Alic...
But what is a 'recursive' data structure? Recursive describes execution, not data. Data in a tree is a heirarchy. Traversing a tree can be done with a stack, since that's what recursion is doing in a less direct way.

Immutable also describes execution and is really just a way of hiding what is really happening under the hood. There isn't anything that recursion enables.
Airmail suddenly requires a subscription for push notifications
Isn’t this unusual for British tradition? If I understood correctly, the bank notes are issued under the authority and guarantee of monarch which is why they carry her picture. This applies to any country which has also accepted her as their queen as well (Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc). It is being said that the queen doesn’t carry passport or banknotes because both are issues under her name. So there is big symbolism there which will be gone?
Querying an index isn't a solved problem, building it is.

It's easy to gather the necessary data, but it's hard to know which parts of that data are the most relevant for finding good content and avoiding bad content. Is it more relevant if key words show up in links or titles than in the body of the text? If so, SEO spam sites will include a bunch of keywords in links and titles. Is it more relevant if keywords show up in the first 200 visible words of the page? If so, spam pages will make tons of pages with relevant keywords at the top.

The hard part about building a search engine isn't indexing the internet, it's adapting to spam. Spammers are continually adapting to changes in the algorithm, so the algorithm needs to adapt as well. And the more popular your search engine is, the more money you make and the more able you are too adapt to spam (and the more spammers focus on your engine).

So, the problem isn't that Google has a better index (though I'm sure it does), the problem is that nobody else has the will to spend the money necessary to tune the search algorithm to stay on top of spammers. When Google started, companies didn't care as much about improving their index and instead focused on building their other content (Yahoo, MSN, etc). Google saw the value of search and got a lead on everyone else in terms of curating results, and now they have the momentum to stay in front and have shifted to building content to improve monetization. Nobody else has the monetization network for search that Google has, so they'll continue having the problem that other companies had (Microsoft wants to point you to their other services, DuckDuckGo is limited by their commitment to privacy, etc).

In short, Google wins because:

- it was better when it mattered
- it makes money directly from search
- its other services improve their ability to understand what users want, which improves search quality and ad relevance

You can't make a better algorithm by being clever, you make a better algorithm by having better data, and that's hard to come by these days. The only way I can think of a competitor stepping in is if they target an underserved demographic and focus data collection and monetization there, and DuckDuckGo is close by targeting privacy conscious power users.
Capitalism Is Not the Problem
Same, I can't recall ever receiving something like that.
Heh, yes, they do. Which is a reminder that devs are not "typical" users.

As a developer, I search using keywords; for example, if I was looking for property for sale in Inverness, I might search for "property Inverness", whereas I've seen and heard "typical" users use something like "find me a 2 bedroom house with a garden for sale in the North of Inverness" - much more verbose, and containing stop words and phrases unlikely to help (I think!).
But GPS can run up to 60 days with no ground station contact at all.
> figure out if he can get more responsibilities and a raise

Not sure about other parents, but when we had our baby, I was less ready for additional responsibilities than at any other point in my life.
Don’t see this as a Pakistan-specific problem. Driven by the law of large numbers and regression to the mean, the intelligence of an average member of society is expected to be roughly constant across all countries i.e. the average person in Pakistan is about as intelligent as the average person in the United States or elsewhere.

Controversies and conspiracies go viral because they capture the human imagination. They appeal to an innate tendency in us to trust a more detailed version of the event with embroidered descriptions over a simpler version where incompetence, coincidence and happenstance determine what truly happened. If there are signs of a grand master plan linking the reported event to other significant events, then all the better. It requires the capability to apply sober second thought to deconstruct such narratives and dissuade oneself, which most people lack either by virtue of talent or training.

There are those who would take advantage of this gullibility to spin narratives completely devoid of reality, these elites that you refer to. And as long as their mission is to enrich themselves at the expense of others, they will continue to do so, and society will suffer as a result.

Education of the masses is the only solution.
Realized after submitting that the more useful link might be this one: https://leoeditor.com/preface.html
Mary Njoku interview after ROK is acquired by CANAL+
Did people in Mason City seem to be on edge from being around too many other people?
Some architectures make it easier to combine data than others. In one big database it’s relatively easy and quick to look at data from a different angle. If your data is distributed over several systems it’s much harder and takes longer to implement.
Apparently the binary spells out Alan Turing's birthday!
The Queen is on the other side of the note.
> It's just that the people who generally teach Scheme are hell-bent on recursion rather than irritation.

Freudian slit?
Ya, the belly port is ridiculous.

After long distain, I finally adapted to the Magic Mouse:

Movable trackpad.

I now nudge it around a bit and then take my hand off to do the gestures on the top surface. Previously, I tried to continue holding it while doing gestures, and it's way too small for my hands.

I still prefer the trackpad, but now the Magic Mouse feels usable.
Yes. I think it is appropriate to call this fearmongering.

The planes with the faulty software are grounded and won't be flying until they new software is proven to be safe. The re-certification process will likely be stricter than usually is. Thus, any fear about flying in those planes are unjustified.
Exactly, when prices are set by what the market will pay then being surrounded by people who are able to pay more for a product will drive that price up and out of your relative reach.

Also, never understatement status-seeking when it comes to motivations for crime, even if your current conditions would have been considered high status 100 years ago, if you are seeking social/sexual relationships you are only going to be judged by your relative status today.

This relative status-seeking is why even rich people will still risk their positions and jail over felonies that will only make them 5% richer.
So a guy who sits on the FB board and runs his own US defense contracting company says the US Government should investigate the direct competitor of his companies, after donating large sums of money to the campaign of the current US President.

A person who has so much faith in the US government that he has purchased citizenship in New Zeland.

A person who has questioned the US 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

Why should we listen to him?
So his initial code was a "10x" achievement, accomplished in literally 1/10 (or less) of the time it would have taken the team.

....but the legacy of his "10x achievement" was an increased maintenance burden. So the overall gain was less than 10x. Perhaps it wasn't even a net gain in the long run.

This is a good example of my main beef with the whole "10x" thing. So many superstar developers are lauded for banging things out quickly, while everybody else is stuck cleaning up 10x the mess.

I truly believe that there are 10x developers, but identifying them is nearly impossible unless the person doing the identification is (a) a pretty savvy developer themselves (b) is intimately familiar with the choices made by the "10x" dev and their long-term ramifications.
What we need for enforcement are honeypot records seeded through the DMVs: fake people registered at PO Boxes that would allow another agency to prosecute companies spamming them w mail.
Yup. Try his lecture notes for Adobe employees - much more pragmatic and useful approach.
Alan Turing Chosen to Feature on New £50 Bank Note
What? I definitely learned Photoshop, CAD, Dreamweaver, Office (and several PCB design software suites I no longer remember) when I was in a USA high school 10-14 years ago. My younger siblings learned far more than that too a few years later (accounting software, Eclipse, and a video editing application if I recall correctly). That's completely normal depending on what electives you take.

Am I misunderstanding this comment?
I think you would just use recursion to implement loops.
this guy doesn't understand search, google or reasonable policy. thanks for the lawls
It's a cynical publicity stunt.
It's not an excess of caution, and it isn't one issue. This whole debacle has shown that safety is not a priority at Boeing at all, with misstep after misstep; we've only scratched the surface of the cancer running deep within this company.

Remember, when the first plane crashed, they tried to blame the pilots. Then the second plane crashed, and they continued to insist it was safe. All the other nations' air safety agencies had to ground the plane before the FAA would. Then after that they continued to refuse to admit fault, they wanted to make a small, lame patch to the MCAS software instead of making it triply redundant, they didn't want to retrain pilots, I could go on and on. In short, they didn't really want to fix the issue completely, they just wanted to gloss over it and get the planes back in the air as quickly and cheaply as they could, which proves my original point: safety is not a priority with Boeing today. And they certainly haven't fixed their internal management or engineering to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen again.

So why would you trust this company at all at this point?
While Turing did practical crypto work during WW2, I think Tutte's work on the Lorenz cipher was more impressive:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._T._Tutte#Second_World_War

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Lorenz_ci...

Everyone talks about Enigma during WW2, but the Poles had mostly figured things out pre-War (for which they're generally forgotten), and it was largely a matter of brute forcing things during the War IMHO.
Good for you. Would you like a cookie?

Should we expect to see another post where you resubscribe for a discount or reduced shipping costs?
It really isn't that unusual. The five pound note for example has Churchill on one side and the Queen on the other.
"Open source discourse typically encourages certain practices for the sake of practical advantages, not as a moral imperative."

The line between practical and moral adoption of F/OSS continues to be interesting to me. Has the tide shifted toward practical at this point, or is that perspective still a minority?
There's also http://www.youhole.tv/ which is pretty great
The plan is to keep the current functionality free and add premium features for remote teams in the future.
I had a trial membership for 3 months and it was nice to get a couple of orders super quick but far from worth the annual cost.

Spotify beats them in music, Netflix beats them in videos and if really need an item on the same day, I can just go to the store.
It's also cheaper to pay for shipping once in a while rather than pay for an annual subscription. There is of course something about paying for shipping which makes you feel like a great injustice...
I built a search engine that was able to crawl Amazon and Yelp. The toughest sites were reddit and facebook.
I'm not American, but I don't recall anything similar. Feel free to post specifics, rather than generalities.
Things Devs Should Learn in College
Yup, we were warned about this beforehand, and saw it too.
Txt2json – Alternative to YAML, TOML, Hjson
For a project where we decided on a JSON DSL, I made a preprocessor to create JSON files in a simple, human readable, text format.

https://github.com/mjkoster/txt2json

I use YAML also, but wanted something closer to JSON syntactically.

Then I discovered HJSON and TOML in the config language space and thought I would share my results here where there has been some discussion.

The main feature of txt2json is blocks:
"" - quoted strings for use when a string looks like a number or boolean or contains whitespace
{} - JSON object
[] - JSON array
// - Comment block, removed in output

see examples in the txt2json github repository
Mallory tends to come up in the context of interactive protocols and non-malleability; for example, see this paper on SPEKE:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/585.pdf
I'm not sure for overseas, but in the UK he is by far well known for his contribution towards cracking German transmissions and helping towards ending the war.

The Turing Machine is something else he is known for (as an aside for his contributions during WW2) but I suspect if you were to ask the average person, they'd suggestion foremostly he cracked German transmissions not built the precursor to the computer.

Perhaps more recently he will have been known to be gay and had committed suicide, because in recent years there has been a lot more about him in the media.

I've got to confess I didn't know much about his later life and suicide for a long time and only really knew of him in regards to WW2 and his part played in computing history.
As an aside, it must be really nice to get major press coverage of you expressing an opinion. It's like a superpower.
While not a math wiz myself— I understand why you would want proofs, but that can easily be taken to the extreme. Should you be measuring the gravitational constant every time you need to use it as well?

Seems like a good path to learn high level abstractions. As you progress in understanding you dig deeper.

Maybe I'm even still too much a sprite—but when I first learned anything about computers the first program I wrote was in a high level, simpler language. I wasn't moving bits around with explicit knowledge of where they were going.

Then again, maybe it's not a fair comparison on my part?
In the UK most of these smaller places got card machines with the rollout of contactless (which has lower fees), there are still some places that only accept cash, but it's not many anymore.
Show HN: NeuralDraw, an AI-powered speed-drawing game, on your iPhone
I also cancelled Prime a while ago. Wasn't really worth it and after Amazon bought Whole Foods, the tracking and data linking desire just became too obvious to me.

Now a year later, I am positive I made the right decision- and it's okay to wait for an item a few days for delivery. Really makes no difference in grand scheme of things.
Agreed, that is a much better direction to go.

In this particular case you could combine map with filter instead of hiding the filter inside "action"
Unfortunately, it's pretty hard to avoid the 737 for a lot of routes because it's so ubiquitous. Also, most of them were engineered and built before the current management, and have proven themselves with a good safety record so far, so they really should be OK. It's the new MAX model you really want to avoid, and it's probably a good idea to avoid the 787 as well.