skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see what you mean, but totally disagree, the important is not necessarily to pass those challenges, if at least there are interesting ideas presented.

You could say, why not giving Sudokus, or chess boards challenges to candidates? It's not totally bad either, it's just further from the context

All this is not incompatible with knowing other engineering fields, networking, security, data structures, code patterns, which are indeed more useful in day-to-day work.

Students are often selected the same way in exams, which won't really matter in their future job/life if you look at their content. But the process matters, school teaches you to learn mostly, like those small logical/algorithmic challenges trains you to think, visualize, reflect on data and more
Here we have a native speaker of Japanese being downvoted for giving an opinion on their own writing system that HN readers don't want them to have.
>By no means do I feel entitled to equity

I think she does come off as entitled. I also think she has every right to feel that way. #17 is really early. I'd go so far as to say she deserved it.

It feels like ops people are generally under-appreciated in tech.
Her personal story aside, which I can imagine must feel a bit bitter, I am of the opinion that equity should only ever be given to employees who have a crucial and direct impact on the success of a business. If I join as a COO into an early startup then I take risks, play a crucial role in it's evolution and therefore deserve some equity to incentivise the best performance I can do. However, if I'm an account, even if I'm employee no 2 I would never expect equity. Doing accounts is not crucial and has nothing to do with the actual startup itself. If they pay a normal salary for an accountant then any accountant could just take that job and replace me. Why should the business owners who must have taken huge risks themselves ever give a piece of their hard earned cake to an accountant? Doesn't make sense, they get a fair salary for their work and that is all they deserve.

So there's always two sides to everything. Not everyone always deserves what others have. That's a common misconception today where everyone looks for reasons to claim how they've been treated unfairly.

EDIT:

Before more people jump at my throat, I want to clarify that I am not talking about not compensating employees well because of a stupid reason like they can get replaced or something. That's not at all what I'm saying and I thought that was pretty clear. EVERYONE should get a great salary and great work/life perks, BUT when it comes specifically to giving away OWNERSHIP of one's business, then IMHO just being a great employee is not reason enough. I just don't think that everyone should own some % of a company just for rocking up every day and being nice to their colleagues. That's all.. if you disagree with that, then fair enough, but then say that, and don't try to teach me that people should get compensated well, because I never said otherwise.
Hacking the Sonos IKEA Symfonisk into a High Quality Speaker Amp
"I want to agree with you (having spent many hours learning kanji and feeling like after I've learned the kanji, they're valuable to my comprehension), but having learned Korean I can see how you can eventually get along without them and in the end I feel like it's equivalent to Latin and English. Knowing the Latin makes things easier, but I didn't have trouble with English before I knew the roots of words. My understanding now is just richer nowadays."

Quoted from my other reply.
Foreseeable future, yes. Short term future (<15 years)? I wouldn't hold my breath. Might happen, but probably not.
I read imap description long time ago, and I know what it does in principle (along with issues itt), but can someone explain what value does it serve today? I have two confusing thoughts.

First, imap seems to be an overkill for a line wider than 64kbps. Texts do not consume much traffic and an entire mailbox can be served easily to everyone. There are some huge mailboxes out there, but messengers have this problem too and they solve it somehow (I suspect trivial &last_date=... from programming tg bots).

Second, and this may be due to bad clients (haven’t seen good however), imap is just sloooow. It doesn’t update instantly, but instead I have to enter every folder and pull down with my finger to update it. It can show outdated messages which I deleted on a pc for ten seconds before it figures out that they were deleted. My guess that it has something to do with an infinite number of roundtrips which this protocol is based on. Occasionally it shows N unread when there is none. Even push notifications fail to work properly most of the time (same server-side issues?) And with all these complications, I still have to download every attachment by finger. How come that heavy sites/forums/boards/messengers always instantly show new data and mail cannot? I know that I can simply use webmail, but wtf?

I’m a developer, but when I see software, I always try to evaluate it from user-only perspective. And from that, mail tech seems simply incompetent. I wish there was a port smtp->tg and tg->smtp, and special per-subj chats, so I could leave all that legacy for someone else to deal with and just talk to them without missing messages or waiting for updates.

(Not even considering mail message formatting, spam mismatches, size restrictions and non-delivery laws)
Please don't downvote this comment. There's a huge difference between short term trading and investing. And yes for short term trading (minutes/hours/few days) fundamentals matter rather litte - after all you can be a successful trader of Bitcoin, which has pretty much no fundamentals. Except on volatility events like macro data releases, earnings, FED decisions, surprise news (looking at you GE) etc.
> The trick is making it cheaper

Honestly, this is a problem with a lot of technologies. Especially in the green sector. That doesn't mean we shouldn't keep funding research into it and trying to make it cheaper, but also a reason to be cautious.
Which, when you paid $8 for fancy lab equipment that would cost $800 normally, is fiiiiine.
lightwave, Softimage are pretty much dead.

3ds max and maya are both owned by autodesk. So the former is better for architectural stuff and product design, the latter for modeling, rigging, animation etc. Blender is fairly close to both. Especially with useful addons. A lot of major players customize things like their rigging so in that sense blender is far from being able to remove maya's position. Objectively, I would say blender is even slightly better at things like modeling. Blender's animation tools are good, rendering... is in some ways really good with the new eevee engine. Cycles is horribly slow.

I would say the real standouts are probably Houdini and Substance3d with kind of zbrush. Houdini is just a step up in simulations and particle effects. Its insane how good it is at the things it does especially with its procedural workflow. Blender's materials and painting system is there, but even with tweaking its only somewhat as good as designer+painter let alone the extensions that allow to export materials to unity/unreal. Even though the painting is primitive, the material node system is fairly powerful if used with textures instead of procedural generating everything. So depending on the workflow its still pretty powerful and can achieve the same results.

I mentioned zbrush for sculpting, and it just has a way higher ceiling. I don't know if most people will reach it, but zbrush can handle way more polygons and is just a way better tool for sculpting since that's what its main purpose is. Blender's sculpting can still be used to sculpt complicated things, but it probably has to be planned a little bit better by separating the mesh up. It has things like dynotopo to add details and the brush engine can do a lot of the things zbrush can do so its possible to make things. But you quickly have to start using textures and normals to simulate details whereas I've seen people just sculpt those details directly in zbrush.

tl;dr Blender is a jack of all trades and covers a lot of bases fairly well. Its good now, but it will be an absolute beast once the kinks get ironed out with eevee and the painting + sculpting tools get improved.
Venture Deals (by Brad Feld) provides a great overview of startup finance matters. It is intended for founders and covers things other than employee equity. It’s an extremely useful read because it provides a holistic overview of the overall fundraising process and enables one to think about equity in a systematic way.
> Why not romanizating all the Japanese literature? Surely almost all the reasoning in favor of getting rid of Hanzi can also apply here?

The difference is that removing kanji from Japanese profoundly changes it, in that tons and tons of words that were previously distinct become indistinguishable. Hence people arguing about getting rid of kanji are arguing about the benefits of the language being easier to learn, vs. the drawbacks of having huge masses of distinct words that are all written the same way.

Whereas, using kana vs. romanization isn't really an important distinction. Nobody argues which is better because they're basically equivalent; anyone who knows one could learn the other in a matter of days or weeks.
Do you really not understand the difference between calling a man these words, and a woman? This is literally how you sound: "I'm not racist, I call white people N-word all the time too!"
> one of the developers

Wasn't the game developed by a single dev (Frédéric Reynald)?
A rogue crazy-totally-legit-not-virus-ad-company.xyz can put movie.wmv.exe in the list.
How can you pack so many wrong things in one sentence...
Amazon Says Those Weird Ambassador Accounts Defending Company Are Real Employees
My take is that they didn't want to invest resources into making the FTP client secure in Chrome because it's usage is low, so they just decided that it'd be better to just remove it entirely. Whatever.

Anyway, it's not like Chrome couldn't send the URL to a dedicated FTP client. Hell, it could even be another browser like Firefox. It's not going to be the end of the world -- just not as seamless of an experience and one would like.
Here is a list of credits, and to be honest I can't recall who it was:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/alone-in-the-dark/credits
Please don’t lose sight of the fact that this discussion is occurring in the context of Mozilla reprimanding an extension developer for not putting a big enough warning label on what they view as an extremely dangerous—but ultimately allowed—action.
In the US, I would say affluence actually allows you to have children, if you want to provide them with life in a good school district and a single family home in a suburb close to burgeoning city. You have to borrow student loans, then work to save for a down payment, then save for childbirth and health expenses. Now you have structural costs of student loan debt repayment, mortgage debt repayment, daycare, property tax, retirement savings debt, and possible vehicle debt repayment. And now you’ve advanced in age, and you can only have 2 kids.
yes it was Frederick Raynal who made it. I don't think he was alone, a team called Adeline Software (a wink at Delphine Software) worked on it for the first episode at least.
A man who can hear Wi-Fi wherever he walks (2014)
Mostly experience. Sorry.

I started getting a “wrong pay” by a shark in Luxembourg, I was unhappy. But then, if you asked compensation for now knowing how to negociate this contract, how do you know how to negociate a contract for nuclear weapons or for the biggest commitment of your company?

You don’t. You never do. The only correct way is to repeat. And thus, if you sell billion dollar contracts, go lower and do it more often, never go for the biggest ever. Or at least, progress step by step, so you know most of the major tricks. But if a major contract is your biggest ever by a multiple, then you’ll always br cheated on tricks you don’t know yet. And on smaller contracts you’ll cheat the weaker person. Don’t abuse it, but it’s part of the contract theory.
This title is disingenuous, the part open sourced is a client for the Google Speech API, not the actual speech engine (eg: the interesting bits that Mozilla is trying to build with Mozilla Deepspeech).
If that t-shirt was in a film, you can bet there would be someone in the legal department getting the right permissions...
>The world makes a lot of concrete, more than 10 billion tons a year, and is poised to make much more for a population that is forecast to grow by more than 25 percent by 2050. That makes sand, which is about 40 percent of concrete by weight, one of the most-used commodities in the world, and one that is becoming harder to come by in some regions.

And the more concrete you make, the more sand you get. What's not to like? Could this be why the US government is currently trying to buy Greenland, perhaps?
I can't compare it to Mandarin or Chinese, but as a non-native English speaker, I'd say it depends. Mixing up their/they're, lose/loose, fair/fare, cue/queue, etc, is understandable for me just fine. Having to know that "parody" sometimes means "parity" is when things start getting surreal.
I thought this was going to be about why diesel and gasoline don't have differently shaped nozzles, so you can't screw up your car engine with the wrong fuel.
Sometimes police cases drag on for months, or years without closing, so Uber waiting would essentially put people out of work.

I don’t think it’s their responsibility. It’s the governments. If police do not think he is a danger to society that must be arrested, then he should be treated normally by his employer.
People are missing the point of your post, which is a bit of a shame. The point is that `foo p n` returns an integer when `n` is the sum of two positive integers that both satisfy `p`. `bar n` holds when `n` is prime. Thus `foo bar` always returns an integer iff Goldbach's conjecture is true. You point is that no one knows how to prove Goldbach's conjecture therefore no formal methods can prove that `foo bar` never crashes.

If the dependent typing proponents in this thread responded to your point rather than picking holes in your usage of the words "composition" and "terminate" then they might make some interesting counterpoints. For example, they might say

1. "We don't expect dependent types to be able to prove everything (of course), we only expect them to be approximately as good as any other proof method for almost any property of interest", or

2. "What do you mean "you can easily prove almost any property of interest about each of them in isolation"? Does "property of interest" have a specific definition? How about `bar (factorial (10101010))`? Is that `True`? Is it not a "property of interest"? Is it not "in isolation"? How about "there exists n such that `bar m == False` for all m > n"? How would you "easily" prove that?

Personally I'm not a dependent typing proponent so 1 is just my wild speculation. I am interested in your response to 2 though.
Pretty cool protocol. I've been following this for a couple of years. I had already written a library for an earlier version of JMAP (back then references worked differently / didn’t exist); and it was interesting to see how that improved in the IETF process.
I wrote a library [1] and a POC email client for Android [2] earlier this year. It takes a moment to fully understand a now fairly complex protocol but when you get the hang of it it becomes very powerful.

Sadly the server support isn’t really there yet. The support for Cyrus hasn’t been released yet (you need git) and some vital functionality like push [3] is still missing. Also no word from Dovecot yet.

[1]: https://github.com/iNPUTmice/jmap

[2]: https://github.com/iNPUTmice/lttrs-android

[3]: https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/issues/2714
DosBox or you can also play the console version on the 3DO. I believe GOG has a proper installer that packages Dosbox for you on Windows.
Maybe they can fire him after an arrest?
Actually a MitMable channel makes the "it's just cryptographically signed" thing into a heap more trouble.

Bad guys can now replay old drivers, which were cryptographically signed, as the latest drivers.

So then you need to build cryptographically signed metadata structures, so that you can tell that these were the latest drivers as of some recent moment. You need to have this idea of freshness, and a mechanism to ensure it's kept up to date.

There's a period of several years where Linux distros split into two camps: One camp used HTTPS and so it was fine, and the other camp would have a bug where bad guys could cause something unexpected with a MitM attack, and they'd patch it, and then some new bug would be found, and they'd patch that and repeat...

It isn't _impossible_ to get there, Fedora can safely update over insecure protocols today as far as we know. Or, you can skip all that noise and just do HTTPS as RHEL itself had been doing for many years by that point.
Whatever the reasoning, data shows wealth and income gaps increasing, and the ones with capital are the on the winning side.
If its true that everyone else at the company got options but her thats pretty upsetting. If she was reporting directly to the COO and they had a good working relationship then that person should have fought for an exercise grant or eliminated the position.
Could people please respond to pron's actual point rather than nitpicking terminology? If it helps I've tried to elucidate here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20722887
I have a simpler explanation:

They let the IT guys handle the graphics.

This small company did the software, probable not a lot of UX/UI experience there, so get something together that ""looks good"" and most importantly was done without extra cost (well, maybe GIMP or an "unofficial" PS version * wink * ) and voilà

The receipt screen looks nice because it's probably "native", meaning, there's some SDK for the ATM/dispenser hardware that makes it easy to ask questions on the interface
How do you check your coverage? Or even how many words you know?
I think it's common for young people to not understand: your employer is not on your side.

You are making a legal contract which your employer is trying to extract a maximum amount of profit from, while passing on risk, and has more experience and understanding of how to negotiate to that effect.
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OK.

Was wondering if that was research based or just personal experience. The hypothesis makes sense, but I'd love to see it substantiated.
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> Anything Rust gets the post to number 1 spot

This is bunk. Simply run this search[1] and behold the stream of Rust related submissions that get no play at all; zero comments and no more than one or two up votes. These instances of highly ranked rust stories are actually the exception; no more than one or two a week typically. The rest of the Rust stuff is seen by almost no one.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=rust&sort=byDate&prefix&page=1...
Indeed; by the same "security" logic, why not get rid of HTTP too then? (Or SMTP, for that matter?)

The point of "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" is to do precisely that: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful -- long tails included. But I guess for them it's not...

(Also, I can't believe the Chrome team is so strapped it can't afford to support or harden the feature, as some in the bug tracker suggest [1]. This is Google we are talking about, not some tiny open source project!)

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=333943
I didn't come to it easily myself, and I would have thought my degree would have taught me something, but somehow they gloss over a lot of things in business school.

These days there's a lot more online that you can google. Here's the rough areas of coverage I'd go for:

- Corporate fundamentals. What is limited liability? How do I make a co in my country? What are the different types of co available? (GmbH vs AG, LLP vs Ltd, C-Corp vs S-Corp, Charities?)

- What are the financial and taxation setups? Basically, how are entities related to each other? Can I borrow money from my co? How are dividends treated. This is a thing you want an accountant to tell you, because they know the praxis, not just the headline rules of your jurisdiction.

- Finance. What does capital structure mean? What's the difference between equity and debt? What's the difference between your mortgage and your credit card? What are options and warrants? (I spent years trading vol, still there are differences between listed options and employee ones, esp wrt tax). What do junior and senior mean? What are preferred shares, and what are convertible bonds? Since we're talking here, HN people have written a load of articles about SAFE notes and similar. They are quite good about also explaining what your interest is in these situations, because it's often not obvious to a newbie.

Interesting article from a couple of days ago was about Toptal. Those kinds of articles should be read.
Anecdotal sources, so take that as you will. I didn't go to Oberlin but have a fair amount of friends that did and they have talked about this case extensively. They all agree that Gibsons frequently racially profiled students but that the students and university overstepped here and made the matter much worse by organizing protests to support students that were very obviously in the wrong. This case aside, it's not an outlandish claim that a store in an isolated semi rural area would have issues like this, and I don't doubt that it happened.

In addition to whatever racial undercurrents are present there's a strong students vs townies tension in the town of Oberlin and the store, again not surprising with a very activist liberal school in the middle of nowhere. Car ownership is actively discouraged and most students don't have other options for shopping so despite there being no love lost neither party really had other options. Students needed the store and the store needed business. General consensus among my friends is that the university's egregious missteps gave Gibsons an opportunity to cash out of a business they didn't particularly enjoy being in and they took it.
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I couldn't figure out how to play it, I just kept dying constantly but I was intrigued none the less.

I plan to one day give it another go as an adult :) Fortunately it's available on GOG! [0]

[0] https://www.gog.com/game/alone_in_the_dark
How can I pick out the Medallion Fund of the coming thirty years?
79MHz, so you will need 4x $100 HackRF (price for bare board, no case/cabling). https://www.ebay.com/itm/HackRF-One-1MHz-to-6GHz-Software-De...
> With international debt, the debtor holds the cards.

I think this sentence needs "if the debtor has equal or superior military capabilities". Some small country owing to the US certainly isn't in the same position.
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Sure. You can't easily replace the driver with a self-written, malicious driver without exploiting some sort of deep Windows vulnerability. However, executable code can perform all manner of mischief without being a driver. Anyway, I don't think HP's TechOps underachievement is going to convince anyone to switch their browser. Instead, HP'll just have someone spend a week or two setting up an HTTPS file server and everyone will move on. It's better for their users and it's less effort than trying to have a battle to defend FTP of all things.