skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got any specific examples of these works?

> Let me challenge you by with one problem with the whole copyright system. Right now there are many works that were produced decades ago, are still under copyright, but cannot be bought at all because its not economically valuable for the copyright owner to produce a few dozen/hundred copies a year.

AFAIK in the music world, people are usually pretty happy to license out the rights to do a new vinyl/tape release. Seen it happen plenty of times recently (I've bought a few of them!). Get in touch with rights holder, ask how much they're willing to license it out for if we were to do a run on this, see what they say.

But they can say no if they want to, of course.

Then again, I buy weird stuff. So...

> Society is worse off because the above is true for possibly millions of works, and while not having access to one individual work is not that concerning, in the bulk it is. A significant part of the cultural heritage of our society has been lost because of the intersection of copyright law and economics.

Millions seems like a high number. Especially considering it's so cheap to put things up for sale on digital stores like iTunes.

Yeah, this is an issue. There are so many barely known 80s LPs I'd love a repress of, but such is life really. If it isn't going to make someone somewhere some money then it just won't happen.

> Not to mention most of these copyrighted works at this point are held by Big Media companies and not the actual creators of the work.

This is not usually the case, at least for music.

Creators of a work will negotiate with their publishers for a share on both the Performing and Mechanical Right. Publishers usually get a bigger chunk of the mechanical right, whereas creators get a bigger chunk of the performing right.

The royalty shares on all the Beatles songs are SUPER-COMPLICATED. There's so many different entities. And 90% of them are to do with the estate of the members of the Beatles. Not big media companies.

So I'm not sure what you mean by "big media" completely own the rights to the works instead of the creators, because 99% of the time that's not true.
I cannot assume that since most of my (personal, anecdotal) experience has been "rehashing cs".

I did have one fun test, but it wasn't live; it was a do-overnight thing, creating a URL shortener using Elixir and GenServer. I learned a lot, and I actually enjoyed solving the well-defined challenge. But that's certainly not something I've seen in a 1-2hr live coding test.
I can feel your pain, but that is really not what this is about. It is all about the rules/laws :-)

Your's is an pretty edgy case. All people I know which have been employed dependently by a foreign company, have been employed by a local subsidiary (and I can understand that your foreign employer won't open one just for you).

Just a wild guess: If you are above the minimum income for dependent-employees allowed to be privately ensured, I assume all should be good. But I would still do the "status feststellungsverfahren", or maybe just call them. I think they have a hotline.

(In general many answers/threads here may not be really relevant for you as they are focused around self-employment. What you really want is to be a "dependently-employee-in-a-foreign-company". I have no idea how that works, maybe just do make an appointment w/ a work-lawyer).
A situation in which I've used mocking well: testing parsing of data coming over a serial port. I have had several situations to need to parse common data formats coming from hardware over a wire and mocking that data with recorded streams is super helpful for making sure your parser is working right.
The person replying to you isn’t necessarily the person down-voting you so don’t take it out on them!
I agree, but I'm sure you can identify with having high standards for oneself. It's rather demoralizing to be very experienced and feel like a moron for a good part of an hour in front of someone who _must_ be skilled or else they wouldn't be giving you the coding test.
Buy yourself professionally written CV. Get nice looking template and hire someone to check content and help with personal statement. Create linkedin profile and start building network.

Do some actual training towards role you want: Udemy, Coursera, Linux Academy etc.
This important as it would help to prove you have right skills and "passion".

Instead focusing on your responsibility you should focus on business impact. I would avoid grading your skills. You do not have enough experience to objectively measure these skills.
Give me a floating HUD please! And I don't just want a clock, I want a calendar and a map please. And that's just the lowest common denominator stuff. I imagine different groups could use other stuff.

Maybe blood sugar for diabetes sufferers? Maybe some stuff that integrates with sports/games?
The Aedes mosquitoes that are invading Los Angeles will apparently breed in an upturned bottle cap or "in the depression of a wrinkled old bag of chips that gets hit by a sprinkler.". Good luck finding all pools of water that big on any significant property. (LA Times semi-paywalled article: https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-aedes-m... )
...curiously, which three aren't particularly bad?
Oooh. That's a cool idea, thanks! You can then also send those apps through an always-on VPN for filtering/analysis.

https://developers.google.com/android/work/requirements?api=...
> Zubrin is a neocon type who works in the defense industry. For all we know this could have been commissioned by some oil company types, or maybe he's just being cussed. I don't disagree with the over all message though. You'd have to change a lot of major infrastructure to make hydrogen work for a portable energy source.

This credibility attack doesn't wash at all. Zubrin is a conservative thinker, yes, but he's not a spokesperson for the defense industry. He is a staunchly independent aerospace consultant whose project is humans-to-Mars. He's actually worked against industry interests since his plans are vastly less profitable than the cost-plus boondogles the traditional industry lobbies for (SLS, etc.).

I think he might be speaking outside his element here, but I also think the date (2007) is very important. This was back in the middle of the worst parts of the Iraq war, with rising oil prices. Oil we got then was mostly from the middle east. People felt we needed to get off oil for economic and national security reasons, not because of climate change per se. The predictable result was blue-sky research into the hydrogen economy on things that really couldn't be deployed at that time (and still are barely deployed now, 12 years later). Zubrin's argument at the time, which this essay is a part of, was that we should switch to "flex fuel" engines which can take diesel or biofuels. Then we wouldn't be dependent on the sweet crude from the middle east.

Now, in 2019, most of the oil we get is from relative friendlies in Canada and Venezuela, and we have better refineries for converting poor-quality crude from these sources into gasoline for cars. Improved battery efficiencies driven by mobile phones and notebooks have made electric storage for cars actually feasible. Solar efficiencies make locally produced energy economically viable. In short, energy world in 2019 looks nothing like 2007, and I don't think this article is very interesting at this point in time.
Uranium One is exactly the type of company Hillary Clinton loves. Solyndra is exactly the kind of guy Obama loves. Both parties are the same.
Google took themselves out of the running a long time ago.
Then you have a loose, inclusive culture- right? That's not the case everywhere
Funny - one out of four doesn't seem particularly bad to me - I wonder what the overlap is.
If you think the risk of debt is too high, then require banks to be capitalized higher against that kind of debt. Don't ban them from funding certain kinds of debt.

There are no banks that failed due to defaults from LBOs.

Besides, the plan goes well beyond banks. If a private investor wants to lend money for an LBO, this still prevents it.
I think if a developer has nothing in the public domain nor can demonstrate some code they have written to you in person then that is the only time a code test is valid. I agree with many here - I have over 2 decades of experience writing code, I see no reason why I should waste an hour of my time writing something asinine that I probably did as part of my university course (Palindrome detectors etc) when you could easily see my capabilities online, hell I have even linked to them all for you on my LinkedIn....
so was it planned then to use P65 (fully automatic) for Apollo 11?

It's still not clear what the actual impact of the messed up command queue had - none, a few wrong thruster firings or getting the landing phase trajectory completely wrong?
I read that Steve Ballmer was much more cruel. He forced his kids to use Windows phones.
Ask HN: Pre-Seed Investment Calculation
Imagine there's a 1.5 trillion annually Total Addressable Market - TAM in the AECO (built environment) industry worldwide which there are few players in the market with infant solutions (for instance the bigger one is a series D startup with $350 million total investment) and your solution in the pre-seed stage is better and have the potential to become a unicorn in short time 1-3 years. How do you calculate your value? And how much should request from the investor in the pre-seed stage? and why?
As someone who has built and led many engineering/product teams interviewing & evaluating for/on culture is super important.

One key thing though is making sure everyone on the team understands our culture, and applies is somewhat fairly.

Personally I define "culture" as following the values set by the company and the department.

At my current place what are the core culture concepts we look out for (in a nutshell):

- Valuing the delivery of functional & sustainable products over checking boxes or coming up with impressive/resume-building solutions

- Everyone is expected to support, teach, and grow one another and everyone has something they can teach.

- Valuing receiving & giving honest, direct, and valuable feedback.

Many engineers would NOT fit this culture and in some interviews that becomes very apparent. We also send our values to our interviews before we bring them on site and reiterate them strongly before giving an offer letter... Thoes who have ignored this have never lasted to 6 months due to clashes with deliverables and with other team members.
Name directly translates to "break it break it". For some reason author didn't bother finding out.
Yet, a great deal of it can be sidestepped by simply avoiding social media. I can empathize and understand, but having trouble sympathizing. “This thing that I voluntarily do makes me unhappy.” Well, stop doing it!

Someone right now could be bullying me on Facebook. Someone might be targeting me with a Facebook ads. They might be sending me links to the latest fashions. None of it affects me or my mental health at all because I have not used Facebook in close to ten years.
This website is great and well worth a donation if you've benefited from it in the past.

As a "next level" site, also give https://rexegg.com a look.
I notice that the title on HN is "Why a mock doesn't work," which could be interpreted as "Mocks don't work." My title was (and still is) "Why your mock doesn't work." I don't know if that is the source of the confusion.
I like Clojure for many reasons, the main one is obviously REPL. When people say: "Python has a REPL", "nodejs has a REPL", etc. they don't understand what is it so special about Lisp, why Lispers claim that other (non-lispy languages) don't have "real" REPLs. You have to be a Lisper to understand what makes Lisp REPL more "real" and the others merely "interactive shells". Being able to evaluate any structure without any preceding ceremony is invaluable. Add immutable data structures on top of that and you'd understand why people choose Clojure.

Other reasons:

- Spec - people dismiss Clojure because it is dynamically typed, without even checking out Spec. You can do things with Spec that most static type systems simply can't do. Also property based, generative testing derived from specs is so cool.

- Clojurescript. It is probably the most "production" ready alt-js language. I've used Coffescript, Typescript, Livescript, GorillaScript, IcedCoffescript, GHCJS, Babel, Traceur, looked into Purescript, Elm and ReasonML. Clojurescript today is truly the only practical choice.

- Stability. I don't know any other language ecosystem, where you can grab any old library, update a bunch of dependencies and still have a high chance for everything to work.

- Consistency. Clojure's standard library is pretty nice and predictable. Nothing can really compare to it, even Python's famous "batteries". Javascript doesn't even have standard library, instead you have to choose from lodash, immutablejs, folktale, rambda, crocks, sanctuary, fantasyland, etc. etc. Sometimes people keep them all in the same codebase. Because of that consistency in clojure.core functions, you can actually share code between front-end and back-end.

- JVM. People dismiss Clojure, because it is hosted on JVM, but they overlook the fact that JVM is very mature, extremely well-done piece of technology. Try deploying, maintaining and scaling nodejs clusters. It's not fun.

- Syntax. Do you know how big is the precedence table in Javascript? It's like over 25 items in it. Clojure doesn't have a precedence table. No need for it. Do you know how many things can be falsy in Javascript? Six. In Clojure - only two. Javascript has 64 reserved words. Clojure has none. This all makes things so much simpler.
The shootings themselves are off-topic for HN; however articles discussing the tech related to the shootings appears to get flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20608584
candidate showing some glaring interpersonal issues (I once had a guy who used the word "fuck" during an interview like 100 times)

That sounds less like interpersonal issues and more like a tic disorder.
The market value of oxygen tells you how much your own production of oxygen is worth, even if you don't sell it on the market. If you could replace that O2 by buying it, its value to you is no higher than that replacement cost.
Anecdotally I've seen "not a good culture fit" used to fail an interview when the applicant was so stunningly incompetent that it was too awkward to tell the truth.
That's a good idea. I think a blog post explaining the strategy further could be helpful for a lot of devs.

To be frank though, I really don't have time at the moment. My typical blog post takes a few days to write, and I'm completely swamped with work for the next couple months. Like 12-15 hours a day, no life sort of thing...

With that said, I'd be open to chat with you or someone else about it, and they could run with it on their own.

My email is hello --at-- michaelfrye.me
Yeah, that's the other niggle, it's feels like a never ending stream of upsell/spam once you do make a page.
Amusingly lithium is also really energy dense too. The difficulty is it's only 2-3% of the battery by weight. Upside of that is there is a lot of room for improvement. Not that it's easy low hanging fruit though.

For transport hydrogen suffers a lot of the same issues as lithium. The storage systems are all heavy. Compare with an empty gasoline tank you can lift with one hand.
Is it possible to have interlocks whereby a pump will refuse to dose more than X ml over Y hours or is a fatal dose for some people in some scenarios less than a therapeutic does for others in other scenarios?
Umm...you know that all the laws are made by rich people right? We just had the biggest tax write off in history and you're coming in here with this BS? WOOOOWWWW
> I can only imagine how worse it must be for people in poor countries.

Ironically, much better because they tend to have a much better mobile infrastructure. For example, in India someone pays "less than $3 a month for unlimited free calls. With that he gets 42GB of 4G data, at 1.5GB a day, which he uses for viewing videos and for WhatsApp calls to his family and friends in the state of Bihar"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47537201

Even if you multiply that by 4 to account for purchasing power parity (with the US), that's dirt cheap for such a plan.
Companies don't have cultures. They have ways of demanding more of workers though propaganda.

That's why this stuff always feels hollow and twisted.
I'm proud of the people who are and have been a part of our team. For such a small company we do fairly well. And although there's little managers can do about it, we like to stay aware of cliques too. They are so corrosive. I believe that plays into what is described as "fit" as well.
Well, that's just a clever PR lipservice move. They couldn't win the contract because they didn't have the ability to, so rather than failing embarrassingly, they blamed their exit on their brand-new AI principles to make themselves look good. This was the consensus on HN at the time.
If the passwords have leaked it's safe to assume the salts have, typically they're stored side by side.
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I also learned regex from that book and had the same experience as you, so although I can't remember how that book worked it's magic (it's been nearly 20 years) I can corroborate your recommendation.

I also found the various perldoc pages on regex to be very helpful resource that I referred to frequently back when I was writing perl. Notable pages are perlretut [0], which serves as an intro to regex, perlre [1] which goes into considerable depth, and perlreref [2] which is a handy quick reference for day-to-day work.

[0] https://perldoc.perl.org/5.30.0/perlretut.html

[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/5.30.0/perlre.html

[2] https://perldoc.perl.org/5.30.0/perlreref.html
Unite-shell – Gnome 3 extension
You're not worth hiring unless
In this specific case a single entry visa was used. The visa paper in the passports doesn’t show the itinerary stated in the visa application. Also all itinerarys and the flight tickets were made with either booking.com and immediately cancelled or with a fake flight ticket generator. Worked like a charm..
I literally typed nytimes.com into my browser moments ago, right after typing in news.ycombinator.com.

Granted, I'm sure I'm an outlier but it was an entertaining coincidence, especially as I don't typically read the NY Times.
> I think your definition of a burner phone is different than what the article describes.

A burner phone is Any phone that you can pay cash for and buy air time on it with prepaid air time cards (also for cash). Therefore No One knows who owns it.
You know, I've been in some data centers and top 50 HPC clusters ... I don't understand why the US government doesn't run it's own cloud systems, except for the appropriations. There are enough computer scientists in the larger org to field a major distributed systems engineering group.
Spend more time with them. I grew up in the tropical Fijian bush and never noticed mosquitoes. I left for a few years and when I went back, every mosquito bite left an itchy red bump that sometimes got infected (turned into a boil).

After a couple of weeks of this, I redeveloped my resistance to them and no longer even notice them anymore.

Of course this doesn't apply if there's an ongoing mosquito-borne epidemic in your area, but that doesn't happen often. When they're not carrying a disease (which is most of the time), they're pretty harmless.
> You have a bit of money you might use to hold out until one better fit comes along.
> What can you afford?

I've done contracting work in between W2 jobs. In the full swing of contracting I make ~25% more money but I prefer the stability and simplistically of working a full time salary position (guaranteed two paychecks a month, better health insurance, fully clocked out by 6pm). I absolutely won't go into a full time salary position unless the company and culture is a very good fit and the pay is competitive.

If you know how to code and have something that proves you do (CS degree, work history, github etc) you should never feel stuck at one place. If a company isn't treating you with excellence you can make more money as an independent contractor.
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I’m aware.

It also lacks compatibility with a lot of important C gems (not only or even predominantly because of the lack of a GIL, of course), which I’m pointing out has always impacted its adoption.
The same is true for free-spacing mode and comments, which can improve the readability of regular expressions a lot: https://www.regular-expressions.info/freespacing.html
Flexible Glass
If the alternative was better for the stockholders and the Board disregarded it, then the shareholders will sue, and win. There were some recent cases where Delaware courts awarded some pretty significant damages using hypothetical valuation models that were extremely favorable to the shareholders (Dell is a famous recent example [1]).

PE firms, once they own the company, can strip all the cash they want to from the company they own. There’s no law saying a company can’t be harvested for its assets if the shareholders believe that’s the most effective way to extract value from the asset.

[1] - https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2017/12/19/analysis-of-delaw...
Or at least showing an ad that they don't host themselves. A first-party hosted ad wouldn't give away any user data.
This is the game theory end result of any matching system where one side is far fewer or more selective than the other. It’s why most of us apply to 200 jobs, then select from the few who get back to us.
A live search example – Angular and React solutions
Interesting. Misunderstood in what way? The definition used in The Wire is the only one I've heard.
Certainly worked that way for me. Taught me a lot about injecting code into running apps!