skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never really feel like these can get off the ground because they immediately go too broad. Realistically most cross platform apps will talk to a central API that does most of the logic processing, so really all you are looking for is a way to implement UI that can be re-used.

But I always find that the differences between how we expect a Web App, UWP App and Mobile App to work and behave are too different to really share a UI. Even between Android and iOS, there are paradigms that belong in one but not the other. I feel like you end up writing enough special case code to just handle one platform that it really defeats the purpose.

That being said, the one benefit is being able to write C# on any platform. But is it really that hard that if you want to write a mobile app, to learn Swift?
The State Dept is run by the executive branch.
The ice is forming inches below the rocket engine.

“The steam is cooled by the cold engine nozzle, condensing and eventually freezing at the nozzle exit to form icicles.” https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/multimedia/...

In other words both sides of the base of the nozzle is cold.

PS: Though presumably closer it combustion it may still get hot on the inside.
I'm a salaried software/database guy for the last 10 years. I ceased programming for personal pleasure before github was invented and haven't done anything more complex than a minor tool on my own time in years.

My personal website is a wordpress blog we've I've dumped some photos of the hardware stuff I do as a hobby.

I'm curious to hear how this factors into your views on what to look for when hiring people?
I am not sure. Not everybody is driven by money. I know a few people that turned down insane job offers because, as they said, "they are not interested about money." I see the "good guys" saying "I would have report this bug even for free" and the "bad guys" "If I hold on this in the long term, I could be able to keep (or eventually) [put your mad science plan here]"

I guess on average it will reduce those holding on. But it will not eliminate them.
I really would love buying that yeast eventually to experiment with it, good business opportunity for them if the lab tests they are doing pans out.
I liked the smart title of this article!
Totalitarian governments do not care too much about their people or what they're eating. For them people are mere means of production, just like tractors or medieval peons. They only care about exports and hard currency. If soybeans are used to feed what becomes exported goods (cattle, beef?), then it's a problem. If there's a shortage of soy sauce, no so much of a problem. Most of that would go to exports anyway, while the majority of Chinese people will use something else in their food.
What's the likelihood on this changing the industry as a whole?
> Groovy should be taken out and shot and the idiot who foisted it on the Android build system

I think your beef there should really be with Gradle, or at least, how it is using Groovy. The way Groovy is implemented as a DSL for Gradle is, in my view, toxic. Almost everything is implicit behavior, crucial aspects rely on totally incidental "magical" features that just make things happen when you invoke some cryptic incantation that has an unobvious connection to its context.

Groovy itself is pretty good and IMHO much better than Java for most purposes.
Soybeans account for about 2.5% of China's total imports and almost 10% of their imports from the US.

Even though, on the whole, China exports a lot to the US and imports little (about 4 to 1 I think), China is a big food importer and the US is a big food exporter. When the US starts hitting Chinese companies with tariffs or through license restrictions, China doesn't have much space to retaliate because they have already closed off as much of their market as they can and only really import food in large quantities for consumption inside the country. They can't restrict imports of integrated circuits because we are doing that to them on our end and that basically leaves advanced medical technology and petroleum as strong retaliatory targets for China which China desperately wants.

Of course, the consumer ultimately pays for tariffs, or scarcity in this case, so we can expect the costs of food to rise in China. Couple this with the slowing economy and the recent devaluing of Chinese currency it could be a squeeze on the Chinese middle class.
I use Home Trust like the other poster, but Rogers is also an alternative if you can deal with their weird forex structure and the general unpleasantness of dealing with Rogers. (2.5% forex fee and then 4% cashback on forex transactions, so you still get hosed on forex if you ever get refunds on the card)

Home Trust has a few annoyances too, most notably a 10-transaction per day limit that you can run into when travelling.

Otherwise Scotiabank Gold Amex recently dropped their forex fee and might work for you depending on spending habits.
Once you have a certain amount of experience, I don't think a person's website is going to matter anymore.
Interested in hearing if anyone out there has any insights on the acquisition. Why would Nike acquire a data science company that has previously raised $30+M?
Australians only: somebody definitely got rooted.
> Families who've owned properties for generations can't keep up with the mega-corp style of farming

You'll notice that families who've been cobblers for generations can't compete with Nike on price, either. Economies of scale and international wage arbitrage really matter.
Stanford's financial aid is /generous/. Most students aren't coming out drowning in debt, despite the high sticker-price.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20634546
Stack MasterCard or Koho Visa, you just have to be aware of their withdrawal limits.
Think that this is indicative of the state of the US Air Force as a whole?
Hi Evan! It's Brian - I helped out on the internationalization issue. Just here to say I'm glad to see this showhn and good luck on everything!
If only that argument worked for individuals.

I robbed this house, but it was only the house-robbing part of me, go easy.

But no, the unfair jerks put all of me in jail.
Sure! This is how Heroku works. Although, if you also mean change management (issues, code review, browsing, etc), that's a much bigger lift, especially if your intention is to outdo GitHub.
please do write about Agriculture economics. It is a fascinating topic.
He needs to remarry her.
I suddenly realized what made reading old Linux books feel so nostalgic - in at least one of the books I still have, the terminal commands were all printed using broken bars for pipe, etc. You really don’t see that nowadays, but I remember it from text-based browsing, horizontal nav bars often used bar/pipe characters to separate links, and still probably do in footers and dusty corners...
yeah yeast hates salt.

humans are kinda salty.
Big Tech’s Harvest of Sorrow?
If you want to compress the frames, RAM bandwidth will be an issue.
Maybe Free Service X should avoid breaking State Law Y.
In my experience, learning a new UI framework is harder than learning a new programming language.
Ordering inspections such as this is common airworthiness practice - only noteworthy here because of the number of aircraft involved.

It's a bit misleading to say they've been grounded; typically what you'd issue is a special/out-of-sequence inspection to be carried out before next flight, which I suppose to someone outside the industry amounts to the same thing but there's semantic difference.

These aircraft are being inspected to ensure they are airworthy and conform to the approved type design; they're not really being "grounded" which would imply they're not airworthy or not compliant with the type design (which is the case for e.g. the MAX 8).
> Wankel’s T. Rex, also known as the “Nation’s T. Rex,” was on display in its home state of Montana at the Museum of the Rockies until 2014, when it was shipped in 16 crates in a custom FedEx truck to its new home at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History—after the museum had arranged a 50-year-loan with the Corps. In Montana, Wankel’s T. Rex was displayed in a death pose, its bones arranged to show visitors what actually emerged from the dirt. But at the Smithsonian, the tyrannosaurus will stand up for the first time, craned over a fossilized triceratops.

The new fossil hall at the Smithsonian is open now, so if you visit DC you can come see this T-rex (along with a ton of other fossils).
Do noise cancelling headphones work without music?
FBI wants to monitor Facebook and Instagram for domestic threats in real time
Saw this today when I was updating eslint dependencies on a repository. I prepended all the lifecycle methods for the time being which caused errors with `eslint-config-standard`'s camelcase rule. Had to add the following to our `.estlintrc` file:

"camelcase": ["error", {
"allow": ["^UNSAFE_"], //regex syntax
}]
the neural network I'm using is the same I used in this project:

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/digitRecognition

I'm planning on realising it soon
The press release specifies that the $1000000 quoted figures are minimum payments for the given category of bug, so the actual amount paid could be anywhere upwards from that.
Speaking from the same perspective: I don't really care. I rarely look into github repos, unless they mention something during the interview/screen or sounds interesting in the CV. Even then, I spend a small amount of time there (less than 15 min). The noise-to-signal ratio for github/gitlab links is really high.

source: I've been a hiring manager for large companies (and a few startups) in SF for the last 8 years.
It's very interesting and Microsoft is THE BEST at creating those ecosystems.

I'm sure there are warts but the current develop, deploy, debug(in prod!) workflow with Azure and VSCode is supposed to be pretty awesome.
In my last startup we received 5 bitcoin from Coinbase finding a relatively minor security bug. Prices were pretty low then though.
For the naive guy that do not know how the trade of exploits really works and keep hearing of "black markets," do you care to explain in realistic terms how these things work?

Where are the trades happening? Is it the exploiter putting out something like "kernel exploit for iOS xx.x" ? Or the exploiter bids on people offering money? How is the seeker of exploits going to be sure that the exploit is working? How do the people keep their anonimity? And how does the money is exchanged? Crypto currencies? And how was it working before crypto?

Are governments bidding but they also want to convict the exploiter so they get the exploit for free? I remember watching one or two movies where the hacker was caught and was sentenced to jail. Government stepped in and said: "You can either be in jail for n years or work with the good guys for n/2 years" Is it just science fiction?
My fantasy company would promote their wonderful new Al method of doing X, where X is just done by some guy named Al.
Unique device IDs are app-specific.
This is a good point. Many people on this website have learnt to "dog-whistle" as an adaptation strategy. It doesn't change the substance.
I thought I would get a simple noise cancelling headphone with nothing inside so I can't play music. But then I figured there's this thing called active noice cancelling (ANC). I don't really need music but it's an added welcoming feature. Should I get a headphone with ANC? Or do you think rubber padding will work?
You'll probably find with some digging that the "prevailing" attitude depends on time of day, changes completely from similar submissions from one day to the next, and might start out one way in a story only to wildly shift after a certain amount of time or comments.

This is likely for any of the following (non-exhaustive) reasons:

-Different prevailing opinions of people in different parts of the country/world combines with common participation times.

-How likely the title is to attract a specific ideology (or both).

-How long or dense the article is combined with when it hits the front page, as it may get passed around some subgroups informally prior to that point.

-The lag time between early comments and quick agreements and the group of comments that come later in response to those comments with deeper thinking of the topic and/or substantive facts or anecdotes that crystalize opinions on the subject.

Just think, how many times have you read comments about how "all the comments here seem negative, but..." only to count only 3-4 negative comments out of almost a hundred by the time you're reading them? That's because the nature of the discussion changed over time or as people decided it was worth posting that positive comment they hadn't thought worthwhile. It's fairly common.
Apple prob had enough of ppl screwing themselves from burns and brunt phones. I have hand an iPad messed up in weird ways after a battery swap from some local cheap places. This is actually pro consumer in my view.
I had a weird situation where Amazon.com refunded me some import charges some months after the amazon.ca visa was closed, and the money seemed to just disappear into the ether. Amazon.com ended up just issuing me an Amazon.com credit for the amount after I complained.
lol lot of downvotes. hard to understand. i was just searching about farming. want to point out randomness. wat astonished me, even this is not hot topic, somebody submitted same link to HN just few hours ago. didnt get why too many downvotes to point it out for fun.
Well, I'd argue that using templates as a base is OK. Especially if it's just gonna be a page containing your portfolio - looks more presentable that just a plain github account.

Using templates can be free, or low cost, compared to writing everything from scratch yourself. There are other things I'd rather be doing in my spare time.
This is why I prefer a fixed width font when it can be ambiguous. They don't typically have the ambiguities between "l" (lower case "L") and "I" (upper case "i") or even the number "1", similarly between the letter "O" and number "0".

Personally, when handwriting, I got in the habit of striking a hyphen through the number "7" to disambuate against a possible number "1". Likewise, I'd strike through the letter "Z" to disambiguate from the number "2", and a diagonal strike through the number "0" to differentiate from the letter "O".

My handwriting is terrible, and it has saved me a lot of grief over the years, but especially in my engineering courses in college.
To be clear, she doesn't want the money, she's paid by Google, but I believe they've said the companies can give the money to charities. Now we see if Apple will payout her prize to charity. She may not have found a $1m exploit, but a lot of those 10 she found are pretty serious.
Breakthrough prize criticized for rewarding ‘failed ideas’
Attacking a 'carbon tax' worked for the conservatives in Australia to take down a centre-left government. I'm sure conservatives in Canada took note.
You shouldn't just mention her full name like that lol bruh
I'd change that to say machine learning practitioners take pride in performance. If the best method of predicting planetary motions is to model them as a hierarchy of triangular epicycles then that's exactly what a machine learning practitioner will do.
This is really confusing, I wish Matt Levine would take it up. Could someone perhaps explain exactly what’s going on here? I get that they use the names of these children, but they didn’t say if there was more to it. If it’s just the names it could be anyone. How does it tie specifically to each child?
You seem to be implying that being apolitical is a political position in itself, much like how atheism is a religion too.

Do you consider baldness a hairstyle?
Protest doesn’t work unless it it causes extreme inconvenience. You’re telling the protestors not to protest.

Americans have a completely impotent understanding of protest. Protest and asking nicely are NOT the same thing. You do the former when the latter doesn’t work.
Liars who make money on their lies are fraudsters, and fraud needs to have criminal repercussions

Yes, LOTS of people lie to make money. Yes, all those people are doing something wrong. And yes, that wrong thing is bad enough for society that we should punish it.

"Everything" is not fraud. Telling lies to make money is the definition of fraud. If you think that describes "everything" that happens in the economy... Well, stop telling lies.

And yes, lots of fraud is impossible to prove because the actors know the law. Patent trolling comes to mind.

And yes, lots of powerful people commit fraud throughout their career in impunity. Fraud is normal.

However, the normalcy of fraud and of getting away with deviancy does not make fraud acceptable.

I'm routinely astounded by how surprised people are to learn that telling lies to make money is illegal.

Tech in particular needs to do something about the fact fraud has reached meme status in our industry ('fake it till you make it').
I was just thinking this would make a great plot of a spy novel. Since it began so long ago, I think Robert Litell would be perfect
Ahh hahahahahahaha!

Sorry. I had a more substantive comment but it drowned in ignorance and inexperience.
I think seeing cracks on ONE plane and deciding to review all of them speaks to a pretty high standard.
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It is a lot easier to collect this kind of data as well.
Playing the numbers game is their job. Logistics win wars.
Why sell something that is free?
Used to be the federal government offered sweetheart deals on loans to people who wanted to be farmers. I'm talking $300k+ in the 70s.
Does it matter really? They already do that, don't they?
You can now buy a robot spider
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I say this as someone who is generally pro China, in context of US hegemony and great powers security competition, Trump is fucking up hard by conflating security concerns with trade concerns. It's vexing a lot of people on the hill. The cost benefit analysis of cheap Huawei hardware is favorable for many countries, but US is not one of them. Smacking nuclear sanction arresting Meng is the kind of calculus that appeals to his base that would rather see blood than sensible policy.
> I know of no one who drives for Uber/Lyft who doesn't think they are doing well.

Maybe because they didn't do the math on the depreciation of the vehicle + maintenance + car insurance with ride-sharing waivers vs. the income they receive from ride sharing. Then maybe we'd see a different opinion from drivers.
I can't even tell if it's satire. But if it's not: I haven't see it be done easily over several hundred engineers. If you have that kind of charisma, hat off to you!
This is actually a fairly insightful. My original comment assume there was a central media source making all the statements and commanding the military. What you're saying is these are all separate entities?
You’re literally just calling SJWs stupid in a roundabout way.
Maybe people should stop using Facebook.
I am pretty sure at my school in the 90s we were shadowbaning on IRC. No one thought it was anything else than a trivial idea.
Ah thanks I missed that on first scan
One will give you a grant (if you're lucky), the other will give you a multi-million dollar funding.
For anybody who has used a Vt52, H19, or similar terminal, there is no mystery. Before we had bitmap graphics, we had fill-in forms with ASCII graphics. A vertical line made with solid bars looked uneven, but the gap in the bar was the same height as the gap between a bar and the one above or below it, so it made a pleasing vertical dashed line to match the horizontal lines of actual hyphens and equal signs.

Nowadays, of course, if you want a line, you draw a line, so the gap no longer has a purpose.
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Not in the standard yet, but good incoming examples are decorators and private fields. They are not bad in all languages, but the way they are getting pushed in JS is awful.
Understandable? Two words: statistical significance :P I've seen university employees who still don't understand what it is and can't explain it...and just about everyone who uses it gets it wrong...
The original article was posted in December, 2011

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shadow_banning&ol...

There it was originally called "Hellbanning"

Patents are a joke.
I wonder if this is related to the rule against perpetuities; basically in some jurisdictions you can't have a trust that exists forever even though that doesn't really matter for an ETF.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities
I don’t get it. Why did the line look uneven?
Perhaps it’s just a matter of degrees. Cooperation with inquiries is different than mediating the pipeline.
I had that idea first! You copied my idea! Look, I'm here I'm here!!
You would need to play the long game here. Maybe use a balance transfer with a promotional rate a couple times to kick the can down the road, and then file for bankruptcy.

If this is constituted as a preferential payment, the clawback period is 90 days, if it's considered fraud, it would be longer. However, if someone lets you borrow money unsecured and you use it to pay a non-dischargeable debt, and you can't make the payments on the new debt, that's most likely the new lender's poor judgement.
The classic explanation is Lei Breiman's 'Two Cultures' paper. He was a statistics professor who left for industry, came back, and tried to get academics to adapt industry approaches. The paper is very readable.

http://www2.math.uu.se/~thulin/mm/breiman.pdf

An oversimplified version may be:

Statistics focuses on fitting data to formally understandable models, whereas data science focuses on solving problems -- even if that means using techniques that aren't formally understood.

Leo Breiman is also known for pioneering random forest and bootstrap aggregation.

I think of machine learning as a subset of data science where you trick linear algebra into thinking.
One actually knows what's going on.
Saying that something is apolitical is like saying someone is speaking with "unaccented English". By definition, you can't say anything in any language without an accent, it's just that some accents, by virtue of being default, get promoted to the status of "unaccented".
People would just shift their holdings to SPY2 or something before the expiration and there would be no effect.
I totally got a Robert Ludlum vibe.
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I thought “pentestpartners” was writing a self post-morem based on that company description
This exactly. Some people keep saying that gitlab is open source when in reality it's open core.
4D checkmate incoming.
I totally agree with you.

My first impression was that these kinds of degenerate SJW messages just serve to further infantilize the world.

I created a crappy grease monkey script to get around it:

// ==UserScript==

// @name Fix Duolingo

// @version 1

// @require http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min...

// @grant unsafeWindow

// ==/UserScript==

setTimeout(function(){ $('.cVLwd').click(); }, 500);
the common knowledge in the industry is that most companies have found a way around it anyway so it doesn't much matter...
Why do you assume selling the debt would be profitable? It depends on the price.
It sounds like Chase wants out of Canada. If they sell or discharge the debt, they can extinguish their business. Discharging the debt probably gets them to the end faster, since there will be less requests for records going forward, and it should be reasonable to destroy the records sooner in that case.