skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have to think some part of him knew that it was a bullshit valuation

After reading some of the stories, I'm minded to believe maybe he didn't...
The main thing I'd miss is GitLab CI. The documentation is great, it was pretty fast to learn, and it runs on every push to remote.
I would say that at least the elixir ecosystem puts a very high priority on making sane security very easy, especially Phoenix and nerves
On a project I contribute to, we ask people to register on our main website, which has a pretty good anti-spam. We do that in part to get to know our contributors more and better engage (after all, we develop a FOSS CRM). Gitlab uses that authentication source as an LDAP server.

So far in the past 2 years, we have had only 1 spam merge-request.
I would be real curious how this passive radar design helps in an actual war environment.

Even if you discount all the possible issues like the F-35s not being in "stealth operational mode", having reflectors, etc.. this is not a real world test at all.

In the real world test there will be a massive amount of ECM energy hitting this passive radar... it might totally blind a sensor like this. In addition a lot of the civilian radio frequencies/transmitters will be getting knocked offline and it won't have it's energy sources.
any resources on finding and staying long term in cabins/houses like that? I would love to stay 4-6 months in cute little cabins. Vacation rentals aren't really it
I remember going to Barnes and Noble and buying a programming magazine because it came bundled with a beta version of the .NET framework circa 2001.
Zoom [1], Cloudflare [2], and Datadog [3] had a fairly warm reception on HN and they're solid companies with high gross margins.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19465860

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20706702

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20781610
why not just do it in a video game instead
> This is wrong. The reason is a bit technical. The issue here is that about half of the emissions going into the atmosphere get soaked up by natural sinks, e.g. the oceans. However if you take carbon dioxide out of the air the reverse happens: The oceans and other sinks re-release the carbon.

This objection doesn't make sense. The article is talking about the total estimated amount of carbon dioxide generated since the industrial revolution. That's an absolute number. It doesn't matter where that CO2 currently lives, and it's not saying 2/3 of what is in the atmosphere.
Furthermore, while human life was "nasty, brutish and short" dying "in a blaze of glory" made some sense, trading just a few years. But as we live longer and and happier lives, that trade will be viewed as pathologically short-sighted.
This is wild extrapolation from Dr. Gagliano's already controversial results [0]. Her findings are interesting [1]. Our own immune system has memory and responds to its environment [2 and 3]; does that make it intelligent.
The bioacoustics work [1] is way out of my expertise, but is non the less interesting and compelling. I have not kept up with it to see how well it has held up. Dr. Gagliano has some strange opinions and her work is often subject to these kinds of extrapolations.
[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29214474
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22445066
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK27158/
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunological_memory
Image segmentation and 3d pose estimation are not new. I'd like to see how the new deep learning approaches compare to the existing state of the art.
Fakespot CTO here. Care to elaborate on your lack of trust in Fakespot? Just curious.
Seemed pretty inevitable. IPO is all about market confidence and that was simply not there regardless of how much the ibank and SB try to prop it up
What was your PhD in? How did you go about studying distributed systems? I'm really curious about this topic and appreciate any advice on getting started.
People ~5 years ago were certainly using Black Scholes where I worked, just with a lot of caveats. The volatility smile you describe only really applies to out-of-the-money puts - people trading with black scholes as a signal will look at the at-the-money strikes.
No, I was stationed as security for a PsyOps team in Gardez, Afghanistan for four months in 2003.
It's also easier to have rewarding high paying career in the industry.
Being a good Bayesian would entail taking the evidence as-is, only adjusting your estimate of the "true" value after the fact taking other measurements into account.
'The Island'
Thanks for the free pack just downloaded, will be checking it out later this evening, but would be nice to have the preview on the website. Nice site btw thanks again
Black Scholes isn't a bad approximation for pricing short term call options that are either in-the-money or not too badly out of it. For anything else, the assumptions that go into it mean that it's wildly inappropriate. It needs to go away, and if this is the final nail in the coffin, then that's a good thing.
It seems unlikely to me that emissions will continue to increase, exponentially or even linearly. We are at a point now where renewable energy is actually cheaper than fossil for electricity, and electric land vehicles are well on their way to being cheaper and more practical than fossil-based vehicles. At that point, market forces take over.
Your first paragraph reminds me of the "Go Fever" phenomenon associated with the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster[1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_fever
Taking a closer look at "The No Asshole Rule", I'd say it's an opinion piece, and it runs the risk of enforcing something like Newspeak and a conformist atmosphere.

They argue with a single example of how getting rid of a salesman at a company, who was an asshole, but had great results, that the following year, the company's revenue went up (correlation does not imply causation). Then, OTOH, they argue that every company needs a "token asshole" citing Steve Jobs as an example (in direct contradiction to the previous cited example).

On the whole, there doesn't seem to be enough scientific evidence to support the anti-asshole sentiment, just a bunch of opinions, hamstrung with authoritative arguments.

I'd refer again to the drill sergeant as a hyperbole as to why some people are assholes, and how it serves the greater good in defiance to the brunt of people having to accept such assholery.
That quote kind of goes both ways. Claiming that your plane cannot be picked up by any form of radar might be an even more extraordinary claim. In particular Lookhead makes it really hard for anyone to verify this claim. While it seems like Hensoldt was very willing to demonstrate their capabilities at the air show.
This fact is luckily slowly leaking into higher education of finance, and is preventing hundreds of poor finance students from attempting to reinvent the wheel.
Also seems verified is fairly correlated with certain political ideologies - kind of feels like twitter is trying to direct conversation without taking responsibility for bias.
How could nobody reviewing that see any of the red flags that were obvious?

The Emperor's New Clothes is not just about rulers and their fashion choices. I've caught myself doing the same thing with much smaller investments that are rolling over tits up. I wanna believe, because the alternative is most unappealing ("You were wrong, Mr. Mikestew, and you are going to lose money on this. Most of it, in fact.") So I'm guessing when reviewing the S-1 when your financial testicles are lying on the block, you can easily skim right over the uncomfortable parts.

Of course, the rest of us with no financial stake, or other incentive to look at the S-1 with only one eye, look and ask, "WTF?"
It's amazing how they could even delude themselves into thinking they're a tech company.

The only "tech" part of WeWork is their app and related community. Which is a ghost town used mostly by businesses to spam their services to uninterested members.
Then pass laws that immediately confiscate the entire ship upon verified environmental violations and sell them off at auction, the proceeds go to increase the size and scope of the environmental police agencies . . . .
Costco.

Wait hear me out. I haven't tried jackets or outwear they sell, but they always stock up of decent quality underwear, t-shirts and jeans. Their Levi's last me about 4 years.
I actually really like Goodfellow & Co. (Target's clothing brand).

The men's clothing are on the cheaper side but still feel like decent materials. I mostly just have t-shirts and a few polos. The t-shirts have lasted at least a couple years so far and have gone through many washes.

Most of the styles are nothing to write home about, but if you just want a simple shirt that looks decent and doesn't fall apart, I've had good luck. I think it might be US-only being that it's Target?

For pants, I've put a couple pairs of Lucky Brand jeans through hell and back and they barely show any wear. I'm sure there are more durable ones out there, but these are by far my favorites.

For jackets, it's either Goodfellow & Co. again or a couple of Polo Ralph Lauren zippered jackets that I got for a good deal secondhand. They are soft and feel like they'll last a good while.

This whole comment feels like an ad, but you did ask for brand recommendations. I'm sure someone will tell me how H&M or F21 either owns all of these or use the same factories. I've at least had good luck with them.
Short selling: can hedge funds make a fortune from no-deal Brexit?
There are a lot of benefits, like you can have a 'test' that just helps you avoid aggravating scenarios by rejecting pull requests with messy code because the linter failed. If you have to discuss how random pull requests can be improved to meet your standard you are going to waste a lot of energy.
How to Make Good Code Reviews Better
CRUD Spreadsheets
Macmillan eBook restrictions and the current state of library eBook purchasing
I always thought it stood for New IO.
As a related aside, I once put together a "wiki" of one of Borge's short-stories as a fun/short day-project:

https://tlon-uqbar-orbis-tertius.fandom.com/

His work is "inherently hyperlinked" so i thought the format may suit it well...
TikTok's owner had $7B in revenue for the first half of the year
In the future, due to advances in radar tech, satellite and others. Skirmishes between highly advanced nations will likely emphasize the use of swarm drones to serve as a battalion and a distraction against the more technically advanced and less defended solutions (e.g. F-35).

Whenever someone looks at the F-35 and others, you should aim to build a holistic picture of what 'X' feature serving sub-optimally could entail, not just "Invisibility cloak has weaknesses under these specific conditions, therefore it is a failure" and whether the group behind optimizing the aircraft is aware of it and accounts for that when upgrading and /or sending it on missions.
Where there are no existing civilian emitters, such as FM stations, it would seem possible to deploy transmitters deliberately to create a hostile RF environment to assist the passive radars.
I should also point out that we do already use mass weapons in the form of cruise missile strikes.
Now you are basically saying "what if overtraining is good?"
This elevation of the credibility of snopes and politifact would make it more damaging when they choose to editorialize.

People who share political ideologies with these sites tend to overestimate their accuracy and underestimate their displayed bias.
Snowden in the Labyrinth
Yes but then you need to commute an hour instead of 15 mins. Meanwhile that $5k rental oftentimes is in a brand new luxury building with full amenities and is very nice, and also has the 15 min commute
very fair - my apologies :)
You Are Not 'Innocent' Program Stellarwind Will Make Sure of That
A sibling comment already mentions Pulumi. There is also mgmt, which is a statically-typed, functional, and reactive configuration language. In mgmt the configuration is a function of the system's state. Configuration is automatically recomputed and reapplied when the relevant state changes. This is something I have on many occasions wanted in a configuration management tool. For an introduction to how it works you can read https://purpleidea.com/blog/2018/02/05/mgmt-configuration-la.... Mgmt is not yet production-ready.

I expect the trend of YAML configuration with templating hacks on top (which comes in at least two varieties: templates producing YAML as text like in Salt and templates inside YAML leaf nodes like in Ansible) to be seen as the early 2010s equivalent of growing an ad hoc programming language on top of XML. It tends to happen, since complex configuration needs to reuse values and contain expressions and it is easy to implement in a backwards-compatible way. The users will appreciate it if they had nothing before, but it locks them into a path of writing code (because it is code) with an ugly error-prone syntax, complex two-layered semantics, and little abstraction. I have got good mileage out of Ansible, but I would enjoy using it a lot more if the playbooks were written in a restricted subset of Python, for example.

You can do better without types, too. Writing Scheme, Lua, Tcl, etc. code as configuration even predates the XML craze. (Tcl and Lua code can be sandboxed and limited in the number interpreter instructions and wall-clock run time. Tcl in particular has extensive sandboxing capabilities built in with "safe interpreters".). The appearance of restricted configuration languages like Starlark (https://github.com/google/starlark-go), Jsonnet (https://jsonnet.org/), and Dhall (https://dhall-lang.org/) looks like a reaction to the trend of JSON/YAML templating, and it is a welcome reaction.
I just ate 6 pieces of monster flavoured spicy jinjja chicken
Throttle Position Sensor
My apologies for misinterpreting!!
If this is true then this is bad.

I always warned that the F35 is a one trick pony. Can't fly fast, can't fly far, can't carry much load, can't dog fight, needs ton of maintenance and may or may not be invisible.

By definition, no plane can be invisible. It is a questions of frequencies and angles you look at it. This plane was not build to bomb Syria or Iran. If the German radar can see it, they Russians and Chinese can detect it for sure.
The vast majority of hidden yelp reviews I've seen are filtered out due to account age/connectedness (8 out of every 10 hidden reviewers I've seen on some restaurants had only one review or 0 friends on their account) or very low effort content. I wouldn't be surprised if there's also a date-based filter involved in the algorithm to detect brigades or coordinated efforts to attack a place. I'd like to see hard evidence of claims that Yelp actually provides review inflation.

It would also be very hard for organizations as big as Yelp or Google to provide this service while covering up evidence of its existence.
This guy is poor because he is lazy as hell. The most important thing about programming is constantly learning new ideas, tools and paradigms, solving new problems, improving as a person and learning as much as possible. If you don't do these, don't like to think or solve problems, you will stay indeed poor.
I honestly think Uber has over-invested in engineering. The problem they're trying to solve isn't so complicated that it needs their current engineering force. They don't have to add new features at as rapid a pace as a true software-focused company like, say, Stripe.
I disagree. I mean, it's fine that Einstein's estate is tweeting under his name, but that shouldn't satisfy Twitter's definition of verification. Verification means:

The blue verified badge on Twitter lets people know that an account of public interest is authentic. [0]

It's not authentically Albert Einstein (which is objective), nor do I see how his estate posting science news from who-knows-where is of public interest (this is subjective, and there is enough grey area that it makes for a weak policy).

If an account is verified, Twitter should also explain why. This explanation could be in the users' bio.

0 - https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/twitter-ve...
Losing your job is never the end of the world; no matter your indebtedness to a bank.
Whe you read the entire article they state they don't know the output. They're not sure that would make significantly change.
Its strengths lie in its concurrency, simple message passing, distributed design, and robust VM.

The really interesting part is message passing and easy peasy baked in communication that allows to to send messages to other erlang nodes. So building applications that talk to each other over networks is just a normal function of the language and not a higher level dependency such as a library.

The concurrency is also pretty neat as erlang treats all threads of execution as an erlang process. So merging that with the distribution and simple message passing you can easily build stuff that scales without much external tooling.

It's almost an OS unto itself. There are two interesting IoT systems which use it to such length such as GRiSP which is erlang beam ported to bare metal using RTEMS and Nerves which runs beam directly on top of a Linux kernel making beam the serspace.
Is there a non-hosted version of this?
Yea, coal kills on the order of a million people per year [1], here and now. Is also a huge contributor to global warming. But a lot of people seem more concerned about their neighbors stake or vacation... It’s a paradox, I must say.

1. https://endcoal.org/health/
I get where you're coming from. I was around then too. :)

Then this happened:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=sticky%2...

The popular usage of "sticky headers" had the opposite meaning of "sticky" compared to "sticky footers." The usage of this word to refer to the header behavior won out and was formalized as position:sticky in CSS3 Layout.

The problem now is when people use "sticky footer" in the former sense, it's misinterpreted. Note the other comments on this story.
I think the shenanigans they were pulling (crazy governance, conflicts of interest enriching the founder and wife, bad acquisitions) were obvious to the HN and analyst community, but possibly they hoped it would be over the heads of retail investors.

Now obviously, in this case, it was too blatant and stunk bad enough that even retail investors shied away.
The concern isn't that this person is writing posts on behalf of the British government.

The concern is that he influences editorial policy for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, while at the same time having a side gig with an agency that uses social media to shape conversations. It would unfortunately be very easy for his side gig to influence the decisions made in his day job, or at the very least very difficult for him to argue with impunity that it doesn't.
We already have an integration feature with Bugzilla using git hooks and some keyword in the commit message.

This feature looks interesting, but this feature is sadly only available in enterprise edition.

This is my problem currently with the move from Phabricator to Gitlab, we are losing tons of features: review approval, meta project (documentation, visual design group, promo, website, ...), mockups, meta tasks and more. And those features exist but only in the enterprise edition, that is not open source.
In the Middle Ages, I understand that if you survived childhood then the demographics were largely what they are today. Its just that today, more people are surviving to adulthood?

So it never made 'sense' to die in a blaze of glory. Except for the immortality part.
Your whole comment comes off as exceedingly arrogant. OP is pretty clearly talking about retribution, so calling this out as one of the "actual" reasons is condescending and a non-sequitur. Moreover, assuming that somebody will agree with you after Googling something implies the only source of the disagreement is another person's lack of knowledge - this is again exceedingly condescending.
I think the pure tech plays in 2019 are doing just fine. Zoom, Cloudflare, and Datadog all look like good companies. They're just not over-hyped and overinflated.
After a while living in an echo chamber of yes-men, you start to believe your own bullshit.

Also, valuations are so nebulous and ungrounded in reality at this point. Who is to say what anything is worth. You put something out there and someone is willing to pay billions for it, who are you to say that isn't the right value. There are a lot of problems to pin on Adam, I don't think the valuation is one of them.
It's worthwhile to note that while passive radar might be able to detect stealth aircraft, there's not much that can be done other than that. Passive cannot guide missiles, and active radar is the only method used to guide missiles. So even if you detect a squadron of stealth aircraft, what can you do about it?
IANAL. Clearly reservists are an important group that I did not cleanly address. I originally meant full time employment.

> My military service is what I did one weekend a month and has no connection to my tech job, other than providing me with people leadership experience that readily translated into my day job.

This, to me, is a key distinction. What you describe is similar to a second job some folks hold -- no problem for 99.9% of the population, but starts drawing much more scrutiny when people climb into senior management at either job. IANAL. Just my 2c.
There are in fact a few unicorns with recurring revenue that is close to their operational costs. You just don't read about them on the news unlike the trainwrecks. Good news leads to no news.
"Thinking about" - It's in development, around 85% complete. It's definitely a showcase to spark interest.
“There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter, or cheat.“

-Margin Call

SV ran out of the first two because they are much harder. We are left with the dying gasps of companies trying the third way.
I think vast majority of game developers, no matter single or not, use visual studio. Tools like GPU/CPU profilers/debuggers are easier to use when part of the IDE.
That does sound like a wonderful weekend. We are relatively new to the Bay and still trying to find out way and people. How did you get connected to everything / find things to do and people to hang out with? We have a few month old baby
Why not just quarantine every email that fails SPF?
"Good PR" is also seen as the lack of bad PR. Like when we drop a bomb on a school and kill a bunch of kids. PsyOps are the ones who pay off the village.
They're a tech company in the sense that their internal and client-facing operations are enabled by custom tech, and they have the scale that that stuff needs to be pretty mature. But I wouldn't necessarily assume a WeWork engineer is doing cutting-edge stuff (not that they're not; I just wouldn't assume it).
Deep learning approaches have been the state-of-the-art for these tasks for several years now. Other techniques just cannot compete.
Sure, there's a pretty reasonable answer about regex flavors with recursive extensions and how that makes them non-regular, which transitions nicely into a discussion of why you should just use a standard parser.
I do whole program analysis, and the host is not interpreted. The costs are mostly about the data structures used to store the intermediate values. Automatically selecting whether to make some values contiguous or not is difficult, and the types are a bit complex (basically option types).

The sheets I'm working with have around a million expressions, and there are large sparse regions, so the data structures have to be a bit compact.