skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like Google's play store is doing well with 24.8 Billion dollars of Worldwide gross app revenue [0] as of 2018. Awhile ago Oracle gave an estimate of 31 billion dollars as an estimate of total revenue [2] but that seemed like a high estimate to me.

0-https://www.statista.com/statistics/444476/google-play-annua...
1-https://www.statista.com/statistics/281106/number-of-android...
2-https://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-android-generates-31-...
I'm confident that if you poked around the software of the vast majority of organizations in this world, you'd find "SQL injections galore". There is just limitless amounts of old code that no one has the resources to address. Should the information on students be well protected? Of course. Have you ever seen the software running your local dentist, doctor, insurance office? It's just impossible to spend money and fix things that already work.
Happy to do so; thanks for the head's up. I use Firefox exclusively and an increasing number of people I work with do as well, except for testing.
How do those conversations typically go in the real world? Is it an actual meeting w/ a buyer agent there? An automated message?

If a live conversation is it a fairly hostile "look at all the sales we're driving for you. Give us this price or they go away because we have all the leverage here"? Or is it a bit more of a back and forth?

Curious to hear any real world examples of how that typically goes.
I was attempting something like this but the company paying me to do it lost patience around 30 days where I was only able to identify widgets visually from mockups from past training data. This was a nice step but going to know what to do with those widgets contextually got pretty rough.
Survey: Americans have more confidence in Amazon than government or press
It's somewhat sad that we choose ignorance to placate our anxiety. This has to be a symptom of feeling oppressed and under a tyranny that suppresses the people asking for change. People are apathetic because there is nothing they can do, so they turn off. The world is flooded with so much noise, no one can be bothered to figure out the signal any more.

It's perfect for government because they can now be elected and govern based on lies and no one cares. Lie your ass off to the remaining people who care to vote, say you'll do everything to fix everything and then just do whatever you want when in power.

No one can compete with that, so other candidates have to do the same.
Does incognito mode change your IP address? I wouldn't doubt google still "knows" it's you
An approach to eliminate the blind spot seems apparent; identify a "purpose, goal, or reason underlying the universe and Nature." Should you do so and your proposal survive scrutiny then science will have occurred. Everything else is Not Science and scientists are free to remain indifferent and probably wise to do so.
Employees aren't sophisticated investors, particularly new grads entering the workforce.

If it was clearly monopoly money that was never going to be going into their pockets, why did the CEO bother to offer it to them? The obvious and accurate answer is he knew they would value it at sticker price (or, at least sticker price discounted by the usual startup lottery shenanigans) while it would never cost his company a cent.

The fact that he managed to con a bunch of people using what amounted to insider knowledge is likely legal, but we still call a legal con a con.
> works closer to how humans actually learn

This is a little dubious; humans learn by positive and negative experiences, but also by imparted doctrine. Neural networks and other supervised methods are certainly analogs to an aspect of human learning.
john @ curtisdigital.com , thanks and have a good flight!
Nice find. That's along the ideas of what I had in mind.
I see what you're saying, in this case there's real benefit to doing it one way rather than the other. But if that was enough to get people to change we would all be using better languages and tools, eh?

I got lucky I think. The first time I saw "yoda" conditions I had an abreaction. But then I realized the programmer who wrote it was "a foreigner, with ways different than our own." That somehow made it alright again.

Virginia Satir said that people would choose the familiar even over death. She said the strongest human drive is for the familiar.

Jef Raskin pointed out that the way we use the word "intuitive" it really means "familiar". The first time he handed a mouse to someone to try, who hadn't previously seen it in use, she turned it over and used it like a little trackball.

I'm pretty sure the only reason we don't all use Lisp is just human drive for what's already familiar.
It is quite possible to setup a global CDN overnight. Spin nginx reverse proxies in all AWS, Digital Ocean, and Linode POSs, and you'd have a good enough network. Throw Inna control panel and you got yourself a contender in the budget CDN sector.

Cloudflare was rather innovative, with their authorative and recursive DNS, peering agreements with many ISPs including the ones that others didn't bother about, free SSL (Which they offered with Comodo even before Let's Encrypt), etc.
I'm surprised WeWork locations are so few and far between

Where are you located? They have 562 locations, In many large cities, (SF, NYC, Phil - in Mexico City too) at least you can't go a more than a few blocks without getting a WeWork. Its pretty ubiquitous for me when I travel, but I've got a limited circle of cities I hit
Map of Amazon Ring Partnerships
Just as a data point: I read the paper and thought "that sounds like it might be fun, so let's have a go" and wrote down a (correct aside from an off-by-one error) O(n) solution in a couple of minutes. I am not a faculty-level algorithm specialist at CMU. I don't recall seeing a solution to this particular problem before. I am a mathematician working in industry doing kinda-algorithm-y things, though. There are at least two other people working at my (small) employer whom I would expect to be able to find an O(n) solution fairly quickly. (To quantify: >=75% chance that they find one, given 20 minutes to think.)

The fact that the first couple of people to consider the problem didn't find efficient solutions doesn't mean that finding efficient solutions is a super-hard problem. Grenander wasn't really interested in the 1-dimensional problem but in the (I think distinctly harder) 2-dimensional problem, and I don't think he was really an algorithms guy. (That's not a polite way of saying he wasn't very smart; he clearly was, but I don't think finding optimal algorithms for things was what he was most interested in.)

For the avoidance of doubt, I don't think you're likely to get much insight into interview candidates by seeing whether they spot the most efficient solution to a problem like this unaided -- even an extremely strong candidate might just happen not to think of a good approach, especially under stressful interview conditions. (It might still be a useful question if a less adversarial approach is taken -- discuss the problem with the candidate, get a sense of how they think, and nudge them in a helpful direction if they get stuck -- or if the only question is whether the candidate can find and implement any approach, which for this problem I think any reasonably competent software developer should be able to do since you can basically just translate the question into straightforward but inefficient code that does the job.)

I'm not sure whether we actually disagree or not, but I do think you may be overstating the difficulty of this particular problem.
Call your broker. They might have shares available.
I largely agree with your post, but I was only clarifying how sole ownership of a corporation is different than sole proprietorship.
Heh. 14.5 years.
Developers mentoring other developers
This makes sense in principle, but I'm seeing a bunch of legal/technical/transparency issues on selecting the third party over the globe.

The root problem is a trust issue and I still don't see how Google can convince bidders that the auction is run by some entities which won't do any (implicitly) good for Google in return of selecting them, especially Google still owns a full control on picking the "third party". This can be solved if a state picks the third party, but now we have even bigger problems; you will have to enforce the same policy on most of the platform holders with similar issues (virtually every single major tech firms)
This is quite interesting - I haven't looked at this in any detail until now, but I have done a bunch of home automation related stuff using Home Assistant and Node-RED.

Looking at the user guide[0], it looks to be a simiplified Home Assistant type UI with a simplified Node-RED like rules engine. I'm quite impressed and need to dig into this some more.

[0] https://iot.mozilla.org/docs/gateway-user-guide.html
Fair enough, but there may be a small middle ground between "guaranteeing a return" and "never made a dime in profit and in fact is burning through millions or billions of dollars annually with no expectation to stop any time soon"
Another weird thing I've noticed recently (in the context of Brexit and the relaxing of standards but hey) is that people can simultaneously think:

1) They wouldn't let X do Y.

2) We need less regulation.
Twitter is at best a representative of people in the West. And only a small subset of those people.
>Because as far as I can tell, conditions in the world are better than ever before but I have all these signals telling me that I’m totally wrong about it: I’m surrounded by fear and anger and depression.

I have a hypothesis comprised of two ideas.

First, people have been encouraged more than ever to be expressive of their feeling and emotional states. That's the same reason there's a lot of self-deprecating humor with Millennials and Zoomers: it's a way to publicly cope with how you feel while also signalling to others that while everything isn't perfectly alright, let's laugh about it.

Second, people reacting to current events expresses feelings towards a particular thing. It is not necessarily an overall indicator of mood or mental health. I'm happy that it's my birthday. I'm upset that the other team won the championship. I'm sad that my grandmother died. Those things tend to be temporary emotions. I'm personally am upset with a lot of things the current US administration does, but it does not reflect my overall status. As I've seen explained: you can cure being alone by leaving your room and taking a stroll in a park; you can be lonely while surrounded by friends and family at your own birthday party.
You hear a lot about successful companies, and the numerous quantities of startups that don't make it, but you don't really hear much about founders of companies that don't make it. Do they typically get "regular" jobs? It would be interesting to see where they end up a few years after the failure.
maybe the disk filled up?
Private hate groups online prove difficult to police
Actually, I'd say he was more of a fraud. It's been well known that under his administration GE earnings growth was basically linear and returned to typical volatility after he left, suggesting he was manipulating the figures to make it work. Meanwhile the company had sold off most of the businesses it was known for with the exception of light bulbs and aircraft engines.
Sure. His luck started by being born to a pediatrician and a math/physics teacher, rather than—say a couple of itenerant agricultural workers.
> just using Cloudfront is temptingly easy

IMO this is giving way too much credit to AWS
Aside from them both being spikes how exactly are they similar, and why would that be interesting? The same could be said about pretty much any spike
It's really both. I think the biggest issue that some have is that Cloudflare has no real competition at this point for those that cannot afford the more expensive options. And combined with that, they control a very large portion of internet web traffic and are in a position where they could potentially be heavily influenced by government actors.

I'm not saying that it's happening, or even that it is the biggest concern for most. But it should be a bit of a concern to some, and one may want to think about if they really want to use them in this context. It's a matter of knowing and evaluating all of the risks involved.

Does it really matter for a static blog that only publishes a few articles a week? Not so much.

Does it matter for a media company that publishes articles a government doesn't like and initiates contact through it's website? Probably.
Maybe that employee has a case for relying on that statement to his detriment if it was a misrepresentation or an outright lie. On the other hand, it's possible that Du Val had a good faith belief that the conversion was going to occur. Who knows? We'll probably never find out unless there's a lawsuit.
Should PCI compliance include client-side protection?
that's why you should learn how to read financial statements before making investments in instruments like stocks.
They make such a big deal of getting this from a cell number, but none of what they listed is very difficult from simply a name and general idea of who a person is.

I recently found a lost wallet. The only things in it were cash and some credit cards (and a Kohl's loyalty card). The person had a semi unique name, only 4 in my state, and it was easy to find all of the data listed in this article about them. Whitepages-style sites usually have age, relatives, sometimes phone numbers and addresses, and you can put together the pieces from different sites:

I found the wallet at a Dude Perfect Tour show with my kids, so out of the matches I found, I assumed it was less likely to be the 67 year old. Another came up repeatedly for crimes: Domestic Assault & Battery, and drug crimes. I doubted this was the owner, and wasn't sure I wanted contact with anyone like that. Anyway, that left two people. The first one I called had lost the wallet, and I mailed it to him.

Again, all I needed was a name.
No, even the original language was pretty LISP-y.
Yeah, I misremembered the moral of this list. Ah well, my karmic price has been paid.
Disclaimer - I'm a VP E at Engineer.ai

To clarify, while we intend to use AI to solve a variety of different problems, we're not using it for actual code synthesis (ie. building apps). Instead we are leveraging code reusability and programmatic stitching/merging for our software assembly line.

In addition to that, we are leveraging various AI/ML techniques throughout the rest of the product development lifecycle, for areas such as pricing/specing/ideation, infrastructure management/scalability, code reusability itself and matching, creator (developer/QA/design) resource matching, sequencing and dependency prioritization, and more.
Joint lubricating fluid plays key role in osteoarthritic pain, study finds
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Map–Territory Relation
>Elite actors of the world are extremely rare, talented individuals. They compete in one of the most cut-throat fields I can think of. How is that analogous to a textile worker?

The textile workers replaced by automation were also once extremely rare, talented individuals. Rugs were once prized works of art, infused with culture and artisanal techniques passed down through generations. Now you can buy them at Wal-Mart. Unfortunately, the post-industrial market doesn't optimize for skill, it optimizes against it.

>People are fascinated with artists because they demonstrate a spectacle of skill and a genius which we don't have.

Most people aren't fascinated with skill and genius, they're fascinated with celebrity. Art isn't made to be appreciated nowadays, it's mass produced to be consumed like fast food, with little regard beyond the immediate satisfaction it provides, and the familiar comfort of mediocrity.

Sure, there will always be a place for human artists, dancers, musicians, etc, just as there is still a place for people who can weave rugs. But I do believe that most mainstream art will be automated as soon as the result is acceptable to the mainstream, and that includes automating the persona of the artist as well.
Let's just say that the fact you thought it important to mention the height of the person in the ad is the first of several clues that your comment is... suspect.
The final test to become a Shaolin Master [video]
> to be considered for an offer from a FAANG company.

I don't disagree with the main point, but FAANG companies' interview questions are available all over the net. In many cases (most?) they'll literally tell you what they are ahead of time, so it's a lot more of a filter for grit than a filter for computer science aptitude.

Eg: I know for a while Google was pretty keen on asking about A* algorithms. A friend who worked there mentioned that to me. Not having a CS degree myself, my first reaction was that was a very "either you know it or you don't...maybe you can figure it out, but that's not gonna be fun" kind of situation.

At some point i saw the material Google gives out. A* was literally listed there as something that they were likely to ask.

Now, it does mean preparing for a very specific interview, which not everyone (or even most people) would be willing to do. And today I don't think Google has the reputation to pull that stunt off for much longer. But a couple of years ago, if you really wanted that free cafeteria? Its a small price to pay.
Like any other job hunt, it all comes down to networking with people you hope to work with. Blindly learning techniques won't get you anywhere if you don't have anyone who will vouch for you/introduce you to other people
Compact Fluorescent Lighting?
DNS for sites protected by cloudflare are on cloudflare's DNS afaik.
I'd be interested to know if BBC checked any 999 call handling centres to see if this was common advice.
As with all things, it's a matter of demand and offer. If a potential CEO has a choice between a company that pays well no matter what, and a gamble which could leave him out of a job and without money, he'll choose the sure outcome. On the other hand, a good CEO is such an important thing that companies will bend over backwards to meet their demands. So they do that. A few million bucks is cheap change for potentially higher earnings.

You might argue that incentivizing CEOs should be more important than getting a good one, but you'll have to ask shareholders at major companies why they don't insist on that instead.

Whether this is "deserved" or not is irrelevant. What matters is profitability, not fairness.
I haven't had much trouble sifting out the bullshitters. There are patterns to their resume and their conversation. You just need to ask the right questions and be able to understand the answers. No coding problems required. I mean, if you can't tell weather a person can actually do what they claim to do when you work in the same field, you have to work on your people skills.
It's not impossible, but I'm not sure a one-price-fits-all makes the most sense. Let's say I travel mostly in the mid-west. I go to lots of co-working spaces for my three-hundred-per-month. You, mean while, live in new england. You travel to lots of spaces, too. Here's the difference: it is significantly more expensive to operate a space in new england. Food is pricier, land is much pricier, the list goes on. For a unified price, I would 1. have to charge mid-westerners more and coastal customers less, and 2. Lose some money from mid-wester customers which could have been made from them.

Better price discrimination -> better profits; businesses seek to do this every day with tiers, regional pricing, etc. Why would I throw all this away?
It's an analogy for the second law of thermodynamics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics. The point is that it's “challenging” and that complex events “evade a straightforward explanation”. That “challenge” is our intuitive experience of the directional arrow of entropy. A similar analogy would be to consider the difficulty of un-cracking an egg. Also, imagine comparing one bowl of soup to another bowl which was made just from tasting (or distilling) the first. Intuitively these are not likely to taste the same, otherwise a notable episode of Seinfeld would be invalidated.
There are non reversible temperature and moisture sensitive labels.
Well, it just goes to show you, it's always something — if it ain't one thing, it's another.
Anyone remember Spinvox :

https://kernelmag.dailydot.com/features/report/2573/spinvox-...

My eyes popped open when I read who the author of this was ! Utterly Loathsome - but apparently doing some journalism in 2012.
This bug is a design smell.

They have a "Player" module that can likely be controlled by a human or by an "AI" module. This is good design.

The problem here is likely that IO is tightly integrated with Player and every other module as a dependency. This is what can cause the bug to occur.

Proper design is for the "Player" module to never depend on IO as a dependency...

1. the player module should be able to output the next gamestate of a game given the action and previous gamestate.

2. The AI should calculate the action when given a gamestate.

3. IO should be a function that when given gamestate, it displays it on the screen, or saves it to the DB.

4. All modules should be unaware of the other modules.

No dependencies.

Likely the fix that the poster is doing doesn't involve separating the "Player" module from all knowledge of IO, but the fix he is doing is making AI a special case in the "Player" module. This speaks to all kinds of wrong.

Following these design patterns over a long period of time leads to code that is "tech debt" heavy and messy. It's an inevitable consequence for programmers who don't know how to design things. Also note that this is normal. I would say 99% of programmers don't know this and are likely doing some garbage like using dependency injection to make every module in the system depend on IO.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/12/investing/ticker-symbol-confu...

> Bankrupt electronics retailer Tweeter Home Entertainment soared nearly 1,000% in 2013 after Twitter (TWTR) filed to go public. That's because Tweeter's ticker was "TWTRQ" and Twitter had registered for "TWTR."
I'd say that's something Python does well. Many people don't realize because they don't need those features. If you can do with simple code and patterns, go with that. Rust on the other hand, hits you with all the complexity from the start (or a lot of it). I'm not saying this is necessarily bad, or that having a lot of "hidden complexity" is always good, the use-cases are different, but in many cases it's kinda good to not need to know about the things you don't need to use.
> ... but you can't reason someone out of a position that they didn't reason themselves into.

I'm living proof that this isn't true. I was a Young Earth Creationist for nearly 30 years, despite having an engineering degree from one of the world's best universities. I no longer believe in anything supernatural. It took a very long time, but I was eventually reasoned out of a position I wasn't reasoned into.

When people incorporate ideology into their identity, challenging the ideology directly is often interpreted as a personal attack or something else not worth honestly engaging with. A far better approach is to examine the methods people use to reach conclusions. There's a conversation technique called Street Epistemology that does exactly that. IMHO, it's the most productive way to have these kind of conversions.
None of these links are bypassing the paywall unfortunately.
Skips over the fact that a big chunk of people work remotely because they want to work from their homes, not sit in an office.
That's true. But it's not this guy's problem. He's super rich and therefore isn't interested in raising more money. I guess it's sort of like a tragedy of the commons type situation.