skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Astrophysicists students associated to this telescope are condemning the arrests and ask for a pause on the project.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/hundreds-of-astronomers-denounce...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YR8M4eboRjJSsfvVtmukb6dD...

They also apologize for being descendants of people who conquered native territories:

> Finally, we acknowledge some of our positionalities as settlers occupying unceded ancestral territories of multiple Indigenous groups on the continental US (including but not limited to that of the Chochenyo-Ohlone people and the Tongva-Gabrielino people).

It's impossible to do science in the West anymore. The idea that if I say something is offensive, then it is has thoroughly infected universities. So it takes just one person to say "it offends me that you painted the building blue" to shut everything down. Hopefully Russia/China/India/... will pick up the baton.
This is a disgusting comment. I have family members at the protest site. They are non-violent Americans protesting what they believe in.
Very insightful analysis of the asymmetry in this situation. I also conclude defeat is the only option. It's too bad TMT couldn't have cast this in some sort of positive light, emphasizing how the observatory is a tribute to the spirit of native hawaiians, how the mountain is providing again to the people of Hawaii, but in the form of scientific results instead of water, food, or whatever it provided before.

I also wonder how much of the protest is in truly good faith versus wanting to show indirect displeasure with the conditions Hawaiian natives are currently living in. I don't really have insight into this, but it feels like this is more a protest against mainstream US culture, than it is against the scopes themselves.
I'm pretty sure it'll be personally guaranteed. The bank takes a flyer that the stock will be worth something, but they are in first place to get paid back if things go south.

It's no more "funny money" than me taking out a HELOC against my own house. WeWork clearly is worth >0% of its current mark-to-market, so as long as the bank picks a good ratio of loan-to-asset-value (10% of a 1B asset? Maybe), it's a decent risk for their loan capital.
Brave New World with such people in it.
Why stop at immigration restrictions then, just jail and confiscate all the goods from immigrants.
The full call stack is available in Go but it is up to the developer if they want to include it or not which they can do by creating a custom error type and implementing that to be part of their type. And having the choice seems like a benefit to me.
Burn it at both ends at once?
1 - Of course not, but its a requisite to strong social bonds isn't it? The point is that that the discussion around fulfilling bonds is fairly underspecified to the point that it isn't practically useful from my perspective.

2 - Apologies, I was misusing the word
Thanks for the article and discussion that sprang up around it!

The question I'm trying to ask is how I should express (part of) programs on paper using math when I don't see how they are related to math.

Example: How could I easily express a function that takes a string as input and outputs the string capitalized using math notation?

I understand that the problem you solve in the post should probably be put on paper first before you began writing any code.

My problem is to express programs in math when "calculate" isn't part of the problem description, like it is in the example in the blog post.

Edit: Changed example question.
For reference

The code is here: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/blob/master/caddyhttp/h...

The paper: https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/interception-ndss17.pdf
The nice thing about Netflix for the consumer was that you could go there to watch a lot of things you were interested in watching. You didn't need five (or more) different streaming services to get most of what you wanted. As the article mentions, that's all changing.

To that end, I expect it will be difficult for some of these new services to stay alive for very long if competition continues to increase. In particular, if each network or major media company winds up with a paid streaming service, I imagine consumers will not be interested in signing up for many of them.
Thanks for the article. I know you mentioned at the end of the article that there will be a future article with more details about your recommendation to use Rust. Can you expand on your reasons for this a bit?
Something like I'd like to pretend people don't make technology choices out boredom, but I'm tired of pretending.
The noise mainly comes from the tip of the rotor blade [1]. Reducing the noise from these tips is an active research topic and some progress is established [2]. However, it seems difficult to maintain high efficiency when attempting to reduce the noise levels. In any case, scientists and engineers are trying to tackle it!

[1] "Noise Pollution Prevention in Wind Turbines: Status and Recent Advances", https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/4/6/1104

[2] "Reduction of Wind Turbine Noise Using Optimized Airfoils and Trailing-Edge Serrations", https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.38888
I don't understand why this is getting downvoted. IIRC it's the entire data-backed thesis of Elizabeth Warren's 2003 book the Two-Income Trap.

CityLab recently documented the rise and fall of the SRO:

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-...
Thank you for explaining so succinctly what a 10x engineer is. In fact, that's a 10x for many professions that lend to high creativity and experience.

This out of the way reply to a comment on a post that's a reply to a twitter storm.

This here, this is a major issue I have with 'news'. We are many times busy discussing crap, which is well defined and easy to understand. But the mundane, easy explanation fails to be bait worthy.

Instead what gets picked up is the most extreme, strident and far out explanations. And these seem to dominate public commentary.

jimbokun summarized what a 10x engineer is, in an off hand comment, better than all the fuss that started his comment.
It's probably completely unrelated.

DoH is easy to block. They can look at SNI and cut DoH connections.

Being able to access all the content is far more valuable than hostnames.
It's called collateral. Most illiquid assets are "funny money" until you go to sell -- including a home. Banks determine an intrinsic value (and risk) and lend accordingly.
If they don't send such noticed then years later somebody could claim they don't enforce their trademark and thus can loose protection.

I'd say your use is sarcasm of the larger industry and protected use. A hypothetical airbnb-sucks.com containing an anecdote could be protected as free speech.

Looks like a pretty standard bulk email in a larger process (some clerk going through hundreds of matches in an Excel table).

Airbnb could take the issue to court. Or file a motion with ICANN(?) or your domain registrar to take over your domain. That means a third party will have to establish if there's really 'likelihood of confusion among consumers'. Clear no.
Interesting. So basically no one can ever use the letters "airbnb" in a domain ever again so long as Airbnb continues to exist? I get companies need to defend their copywrite, and a site called airebnb.com that's mean to look just like the legit site definitely crosses the line, likely has malicious intent, etc. This just feels a little bit like a stretch considering how different the domain is.
I have no idea what it takes to be a VC, but having looked at the tweet author's linkedin profile, he has a Master's in CS from one of the top schools in India and a PhD in CS from a US university, also has a solid work experience. People usually do not magically reach positions of power in an industry.
They're likely piggybacking on the HBO brand that has, for years, been some of the best long-form programming on television (even their serial shows).

The fact that they'd jam a bunch of re-runs and television shows into a product whose name is literally "Home Box Office" shows how little AT&T/Warner really understand HBO beyond "it generates piles of money."
I tried to make a udemy course a few years ago, same topic. My biggest issue was that I needed a complete course for that. Maybe my goals are too lofty, but I got 5 or 6 modules in and lost momentum. I wanted a place where I could post as I made things.
Recently the Go team introduced the xerrors package for improved error management: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/xerrors

So using these functions is becoming part of what good Go programmers do.
- PGA Tour, European Tour, Asian Tour
https://medium.com/@ClubFriendly/golf-tv-the-open-championship-2019-en-direct-119d9545a41

https://medium.com/@ClubFriendly/regarder-tv-british-open-golf-2019-en-direct-streaming-26b02ee7348f

https://medium.com/@ClubFriendly/regarder-le-british-open-2019-en-direct-e930b8c93e9f

https://medium.com/@ClubFriendly/streaming-le-british-open-2019-en-direct-59b0c928d638
The rich also get the protection from competition from abroad. There is an unlimited visa for nannies, but limited for doctors, lawyers and software engineers.
Maybe nesting wasn't considered important for the use case?
Also it's not good branding. I immediately thought this was LiveLeak, which is a different site than LiveVideo.

But you're right - there are lots of players who carved out niches on the market to be profitable, since hosting video content is expensive. Vimeo, Twitch, even LiveLeak, cater to specific content while the generalist Youtube burned money for over a decade. When all the other generalists were pivoting, LiveVideo plowed ahead with something that wasn't profitable. This post-hoc rationalization and finger pointing feels like sour grapes.
You have to see how laws are made in the US. They are written by lobbyists/corporate lawyers (the lawmakers have stopped pretending otherwise these days). For the company, it totally makes sense. They spent something upfront (H-1B fees and uncertainties are non-trivial), so they want a guarantee that this person cannot change jobs easily. That the lock-in is for 6-years is just pure power-play.
Yeah, I've heard of Disney having to do similar things. Not allowing kids to make home made tshirts with Mickey Mouse on them, etc or someone else could claim they aren't defending it and do something worse.

Agreed it feels like a canned message and I'm tempted to ignore it since I clearly have no ill intent towards Airbnb.
The last time I investigated this this, several years ago, I found that several SSL libraries simply ignored the extension entirely, whether it had "critical" or not. Older OpenSSL did so, for instance.

Doing some additional research, it looks like the situation has improved significantly now, and name constraints might actually work as designed if you don't care about older systems.

That still doesn't address the ability for a browser/administrator to apply such name constraints to a CA that didn't ship as part of its certificate, though.
Get the fuck out of coding. Get an MBA and if you must remain in tech rather than doing productive work: become a product manager. Preferably not in the US.

Being a coder means being a commodity; you're competing with people in countries where the GDP per capita is less than $2k. Unless you can quote chapter and verse from Knuth, and since you're mentioning Javascript, you probably can't, you're human chum to be exploited by oligarchs. Find something better to do, even if it's bullshit.
We need H1B's for the next generation of scientists, chip architects, and encryption researchers. We should be able to hire an American for a QA role.
Equality under the law and all really goes out the window with this thinking.
actually amazon linux is basically a CentOS fork.
JMTCW, but since I generally program Go in GoLand with the debugger, I have full access to the stack all the time so I have not found this to be a major concern. But YMMV.
> HK is not a frontier of any 'cold war'.

It is the cold war between free capitalism–supported by the United States, most of Europe, and many others–and state capitalism–as exemplified by China.

For a discussion of this tension as the root cause behind the trade war, see the speech by Gao Shanwen at Tsinghua (in Chinese [1]). The main thesis behind the speech is that, China with its State-Owned Enterprises are competing with an unfair advantage against foreign enterprises which do not have the same state-level backing, which is a tension behind state-boundaries and enterprise-boundaries.

> What is happening is that some forces are trying to use HK to create problems for the Chinese government because China is getting too powerful for the established powers.

On the other hand, some forces in China are trying to create problems for Hong Kongers by introducing the extradition law, which would undermine Hong Kong’s status as a financial hub, a concern many foreign businesses have voiced out. They are doing this while Hong Kong is still influential to China, because more than half of Chinese foreign capital inflow and outflow go through Hong Kong [2].

> In the end the victims will be the naive young Hongkongers who are used as pawns.

Young (and older) Hong Kongers are fighting for their democratic and financial future [3], by leveraging external pressure (from Britain, Europe [4], the United States [5], and elsewhere). They work together with foreign pressure when it is mutually beneficial. The bottom line is that Hong Kongers fight for themselves, regardless of foreign motivations.

[1]: https://www.xuehua.us/2018/08/15/高善文在清华大学的发言：中美贸易战的本质图/zh-tw...

[2]: Quoting “Economic and Trade Information on China” of HKTDC (https://hkmb.hktdc.com/en/1X09PHBA/hktdc-research/Economic-a...):

Hong Kong is the largest source of overseas direct investment in the Chinese Mainland. By the end of 2018, among all the overseas-funded projects approved in the Chinese Mainland, 46.3% were tied to Hong Kong interests. Cumulative utilised capital inflow from Hong Kong amounted to US$1,098.1 billion, accounting for 54.1% of the national total.

Hong Kong is also the leading destination for China’s FDI outflow. According to Chinese statistics, by 2017, the stock of FDI going to Hong Kong accumulated to US$981.3billion, or 54.2% of the total outflow of FDI.

[3]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/24/hong-kong...

[4]: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/07/18/european-parliament-de...

[5]: https://time.com/5607043/hong-kong-human-rights-democracy-ac...
Dell Latitude 7440s are terrific machines which run Linux beautifully. They're better Linux machines than the XPS, which is severely over-rated in my opinion. I've had an XPS laptop as my main machine since 2014 and I recently replaced it with a generic small-form factor PC (I mean tiny) from AliExpress. Delighted to be shot of the XPS.
> That makes it esoteric, not random. If the Linux kernel really did produce "random output" there is no way it would serve as the backbone of the global computing infrastructure, the financial system etc.

To the extent that Linux is useful, it's not written in C. The particular binaries produced by GCC with particular flags have particular behaviour, more or less, but considered solely as a C program in terms of the C standard (i.e. behaviour on the C abstract machine), Linux does produce random output.
A big chunk of YouTube's dominance comes from Google's other lines of business including online search and online ads. See the other post today from a former competitor[0] for an example.

The reasoning is that stripping YouTube of Alphabet's deep pockets from advertising would give competitors a chance to monetize as well as YouTube, without fearing that Google will choke off their air supply to preserve YouTube's dominance.

It might not be enough, but it would be a start.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20472351
You must learn how to learn. You need to be able to teach yourself new things. Professors will only be around for a brief moment, and in the real world you'll need to be able to teach yourself new things from the internet and books. So whatever it is you decide to learn, try and teach it to yourself using available materials.
I believe WeWork wants to compete with LinkedIn.

After initial signup, which includes charging your credit card, they force you to enter your personal information, your company information including company contact and phone number, and at least one skill on their list of approved professional skills before you are allowed to cancel.
You mean, like those bananas?
Absolute morons. They will break windows updates. You cannot easily mitm Windows updates. There is additional undocumented check that the CA is from Microsoft. One needs to hotpatch the windows update dll’s to enable it. That’s almost certainly one that won’t be intercepted.
Wow dude, you’re so above people who leave the shitty sites you like.
https://itslikeairbnbforyourdog.com/ is a single page with a couple of "It's like <company name> for your <other word>." No product or business and imho no possible confusion with the airbnb brand.
The article that is linked to incorrectly says that Microsoft is considering Rust as an alternative to C# when it is C/C++ that Rust is being compared with.
An H1-B visa holder is, under the statute, a "non-immigrant alien" who is "temporarily" in the United States to perform a specialized occupation. 8 USC 1101(a)(15)(H)(1)(b). The fact that it's tied to a specific job is by design. H1-B is not intended to be an immigration path for skilled workers. (The fact that it is often used that way is just a by-product of the fact that the U.S. allows almost all non-short-term visa holders to apply for a green card. But H1-B was not created as a stepping stone toward that process, and its requirements are not really geared toward making it easy to serve as a "staging" ground for green card applicants.)

Does the U.S. need a real skilled immigrant visa? Maybe. That's really a separate question.
Many fonts, characters, languages and low quality scans.
I thought this was about dynamic programming. Maybe the title should be changed?
Read (and converse) voraciously and follow the directions it may lead you... Into art, philosophy, psychology, business, politics, literature. This will help you to find things you love, it will also give you insight into adjacent topics that will allow you to shine in an area of CS that is right for you. You will never have such a perfect chance to do this as your university years.
Libraries, at least in the US, are mostly silence zones apart from information/checkout areas. There are still a few independent bookstores left, and those are good. College is still the preferred and most popular setting to meet a quality spouse. Online should be considered one of many tools as an adjunct to IRL, but not the primary source.
This is no different to Codility or Hackerrank which both do the same automated assessments that this also provides. I'm afraid that this is yet another useless screening tool that unrealistically judges engineers based on 1 - 2 hour long programming sessions which doesn't help in finding qualified candidates.

I'd rather just stick to asking candidates about their open-source patches / contributions to large projects to cut the 80% of those who don't make it, than to use these tools which are a waste of money.
I get that this is a legitimate privacy concern, and that it fits into the larger narrative tech, but as an American I am just wondering when we are going to get over our Russophobia, I mean the Cold War has been over for more than a quarter century now, and although I do agree that Russia isn't a particularly moral international actor, and their current leader exhibits a more than questionable concern about how human rights are viewed I am having a hard time believing that every single thing done by a Russian person is inherently a security risk.

I see this more as a Russian guy figured out that people like apps that show them what they would look like when they are older, started a company and is now trying to make a quick buck; but I could be wrong maybe this is a nefarious attempt by the USSR to compile a database of US pictures the CEO of the company is actually a KGB sleeper agent and the ultimate plan is to march down Capital Avenue waving the Hammer and Sickle and singing the anthems to the glorious Soviet motherland.

Am I alone in this, or is anyone else feeling that this is getting to be a little over the top?
Practice building things from start to finish. Figuring out how to start and keep intellectual "blinders" on to keep yourself focused and making progress is a really important skill that's hard to develop otherwise.

Go to meetups and well... meet people and potential investors / founders. If you do this you'll have a good set of potential mentors and likely not have issues finding interviews when it's time to look for an internship or job.
Neil and Buzz
It's not the full story but is definitaly part of it. Without birth control and legal changes, women would not have been able to follow their ambitions; it's difficult to work when you're pregnant for the 8th time and anyway are not legally allowed to without your husband's permission.
Two ants walk into a bar...

Maybe they do and we just don't know it? (anthropocentrism)
Why should anyone sympathize with someone who came here on what was supposed to be a non-immigrant visa tied to a particular job and then changes their mind about immigrating / the job?

The whole immigration system sucks, and especially H1-B, but let's not pretend only some of the players are gaming it. Everyone is.
An implant is not necessary. Intel ME is embedded with the CPU and has access to everything.
San Francisco pulls controversial “IPO tax”
You are in the wrong here, you are "trading" on their registered mark and you need to fix it. You cannot use another companies registered trademark this way. If you mentioned airbnb in a marketing piece and had respected their trademark in the material (e.g. shown it is theirs) then you'd be in a different position. But this is almost a text book example of what not to do, IMO.

Good thing is if you respond and say you are fixing it and give specifics with a date, then I doubt this goes any further.
Extremely interesting account! Regarding plan B, just to point out that the people in Roque de los Muchachos (primary alternate site) here in Spain, is organizing in favor of the TMT: https://www.facebook.com/queremoselTMT/

Here's a comparison of both sites: https://www.tmt.org/page/site
Something Is Coming (2016)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
Im amazed at the level of protectionism expressed in this thread, in this community.

I will make an argument for the cynics that believe they should be protected from competition: that immigration restrictions and caps like the H1B curtail the freedom of Americans to buy services from who they want to. American people that run American businesses are prohibited from hiring people they believe to be best suited for the job.

There is not "gaming" the visa or "outsourcing companies". US consumes software engineers from abroad at 100x its software engineer immigration, only that they don't pay taxes to the US and export close to 100% of the their trade. It would be much better for the us to bring the people inside America to pay taxes and provide more value for Americans.

Incredible to see software engineers buying an apple phone made in china and argue that Americans should not be able to employe chinese software engineers.
The Facebook login flow requests permission to access your "photos". Does anybody know what that entails? Can they freely query your photos edge on the FB API?