skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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YEG - Edmonton

YMM - Fort Mac

YYC - Calgary

Just seems random naming to me.
I doubt it was deliberate. Q isn't exactly a well-known language outside of the financial sector.
Zenefits using SSN as member IDs
Long story short..

I had to signup for Zenefits recently. On selecting medical benefits, I got a welcome email with SSN in plain text. It seems like they're using SSN as member ID for insurance. I'm not sure if they're f`ing retarded/stupid or both to email SSNs, but I'm pretty sure it's an epic violation of PCI compliance guidelines.

ps: throwaway account, posting here cause Zenefits is a YC rocketship (apparently with no regard for user privacy).
Well, and there you have exactly why this topic is so toxic. Everyone is so convinced they're right that they're more interested in digging in and painting caricatures of each other than actually having a discussion.

At this point, there's no way for anything constructive to happen with the valid concerns either side of this has because all the focus is on the worst elements of all involved.
I challenge you to ask around you this question:

"If basic income were to be established, what would you think people do ?"

As owenmarshall said, you can perfectly have both -- establish basic income for "survival" needs, and let people have work if they really want to. Basic income doesn't mean abolishing all kinds of work, it just means making sure humans don't have to work to live.
It's a great idea. But, what code base is this autocomplete going to run off of?

If they are thinking of sourcing the internet itself, there had better be some kind of omniscient, all powerful proofreader in place, because there are a lot of people that submit a lot of code that is HORRIBLY insecure, inaccurate, prone to breakage or just plain spaghetti.

I'd hate to be working on a missile guidance system, only to press <tab> to complete a code block and end up getting some Intel Pentium FDIV instructions.
Hmmm, can we call that a modem? Maybe? Anyway it seems similar to all those credit card readers.

https://squareup.com/reader
A profit-driven insurance company will of course use every means at their disposal to get out of paying out. That includes using every piece of information that might compromise your claim. Like the telemetry your own card is supposed to be keeping.

And further, how on earth can we even know they aren't lying? If the telemetry is kept remotely by some Other profit-driven corporation, and delivered to their buddies at the insurance company.
Grants like there baffle me. Having worked for the university, it is a lot about how you phrase the proposal so you can get the approvers to issue the grant. Someone had suggested ya-snippet and it already solves many of their goals. I am skeptical about the auto-correct feature
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It's not running out, it's unwinding.
And? They make a tool that is useful and multiplies my productivity. If my boss wouldn't buy it I would, and then I'd start looking for a boss who is willing to spend a reasonable amount on my toolset.
Active with:

(http://tractionengine.co) A small SaaS for publishers/websites that want their direct ad sales automated (window shopping, purchasing, serving). Runs on a subdomain or root of your liking, branding plus). Works with several payment gateways (we no touch your money), allows real time previewing of slots, publishers can customize the look, texts and wording on the site, got an API, plays with DFP etc. Growth so far is strictly word of mouth (hence no attention to the marketing site), caught the attention of some massive publishers hoping on now. Paying customers. 0 hours/week for most weeks. [AngularJS/FatFree/GoLang] About 8/9 months in.

A news aggregator engine in python for anyone to build their news aggregator upon. Scores using social media vitality, hits & age. Example user http://www.topnews.co.zw [Python(flask)] Runs well on Heroku. Work on it here and there (by span of months)

More brewing...
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Oh, and I guess it's not obvious from title, right now this is Ruby only, but open to ideas and requests to make it cross language, or to a plugin architecture to make that easier
Yeah, but I would never provide that as an argument for equability. Charging from a 110 volt outlet typically provides as little as 3 miles of range per hour of charge, and I have personally experienced the FUD factor from various business owners when I have tried to make charging arrangements on a long trip, including one RV park owner who insisted that plugging my car in to one of his RV outlets would likely cause an explosion or at least set fire to it. :/
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Every single role I've had as an "independent contractor" through a third-party has involved contract verbiage substantially similar to this: "Contractor is an employee of ConsultancyX. Contractor is not an employee of WidgetCorp. Contractor will perfom duties on behalf of ConsultancyX as assigned by supervisor employed by WidgetCorp at the times and places specified by WidgetCorp using tools and equipment as directed by WidgetCorp". I've been required to work on-site, using the client's equipment, during their normal hours of business, and been required to adhere to and sign client's various compliance standards: that is, I've been acting in the same capacity as employees of the client, but been required to sign documentation explicitly denying this fact ("contractor agrees he is not an employee of WidgetCorp").

That is to say, it's a farce. The consultancy pays the employee/contractor, but the contractor is acting, by any reasonable interpretation of the relevant laws and regulations, as an employee of the consultancy's client. The involvement of the third-party is superficial and, in my opinion, borderline fraudulent. There is such an imbalance of power in the US that very few employees would actually dare to challenge it, and as a result the downside for challenging it (implicit blacklisting) carries far more weight than the upside (marginal compensation for the disparity in treatment).
On windows, Logparser 2.2 is a fast implementation of a similar idea.

Does Q handle typical aggravated CSV symptoms such as commas in speechmark delimited strings, speechmarks in speechmark delimited strings, strings that contain carriage returns, etc?
From this article, I have absolutely no idea what this software will actually do.

Can anyone enlighten me as to what they are actually trying to do, from the perspective of an actual software developer?

Or did they just successfully string together the correct sequence of buzz words to unlock the grant money?
Regarding your first paragraph, I'm right there now and proud of it.

And that's exactly how it should be.

I will say that this time is only available from ruthless automation and organisation.

I spend the other 20 hours making sure I only have to do 20 hour weeks forever (startup).
Ylem said he's from the US. It's a documented fact that in some states (for example, New Jersey¹) police have had a policy of racial profiling: of pulling people over because they are black. Of course both black and white cops were expected to conform to the policy. There is no context, no other relevant detail. Everyone is driving on the same highway. The cops are told to pull over the blacks and search their cars because blacks are thought to be more likely to be trafficking drugs.

¹https://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/driving-while-black-raci...
"PLINY is part of DARPA’s Mining and Understanding Software Enclaves (MUSE) program, an initiative that seeks to gather hundreds of billions of lines of publicly available open-source computer code and to mine that code to create a searchable database of properties, behaviors and vulnerabilities."

I feel that the reason DARPA is willing to fund this is because of that last part: "vulnerabilities".
Introducing db.py
http://ssbkyh.com/works/fadtcha/
A Judge Ordered Microsoft to Split. Here’s Why It’s Still a Single Company
I've got a Debian system that I've got a couple of Debian VMs running on under qemu-kvm. I don't want Docker-style containers for specific apps; I need "full system image" virtualization - I wonder if this would be helpful for my use case?

Running the same kernel/version of OS is fine across my host system and the guests.
that's why 2.0 is complete rewrite - exactly to eliminate all these bad parts.
Almost every person I'd consider very good at and passionate about their job is different. I presume your judgement of her "passion" is based on her not fitting in with the team's culture -- that's silly. How you dress, what music you listen to or even what you like to do outside the job has nothing to do with how good you are.

It's even worse than that: although I think it's easier to tell whether someone is passionate about technology if they are obsessed with technology outside their job, that doesn't mean that is a necessary or even sufficient trait.

This may sound disappointing, but even being a geek is not a requirement for being excellent at what you do, not even in tech.
This doesn't address the larger region, though. Some of the development on the outskirts of San Diego counts as San Diego, whereas anything outside the 7x7 grid of San Francisco wouldn't show up in the numbers.

Take some of San Diego's more historic neighborhoods that were build a long time ago, and track the home value. For instance, how much has a 4 bedroom 3 bath spanish style house build in the 1920s near La Jolla Cove (or in Mission Hills, if you want to keep it in SD proper) changed in value? That would be a better basis of comparison to SF.
The thing is we already know that some languages are much more error prone, than other languages. But languages are not entirely to blame. Before we can find out proper correlations we should answer the question: how these errors came to be?

For example, what caused a typo in a sting somewhere, that now contains "foo" instead of "bar"? Likely cognitive overload, because the code was too complex to keep entirely in memory. I.e. author was to busy processing the code in his head to notice the typo he just made. Therefore code with lower cognitive load is likely to have fewer bugs like this or even overall.
Some programmers have learned that there is a way to prevent string typos with appropriate test cases and some programmers keep their code as simple as possible, i.e. with lowest cognitive load. So, we should see correlations to which languages such programmers prefer and which languages encourage such coding practices.

This is a complex subject that has much more to do with psychology, than with technology. And it should be studied as such. Trying to study bugs without touching psychology is pretty much bs.
I didn't think drug enforcement was a duty of the Coast Guard. Usually anything related to cargo and crew is the CBP's responsibility, while the Coast Guard is about safety (life-jackets and -boats, certifications, search and rescue, etc.).
> Ignoring GamerGate is basically tacit approval.

You know guys,that's exactly why some people dont want to hear about that stuff,because of people like you saying insane things like that.
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Pros and cons to the team doing the hiring aside, this 2-3 day thing is almost definitely a deal-breaker to anyone who currently has an actual job (you know, the passive job seekers everyone says they're desperate to hire).

But for the perennially unemployed, sure, why not? What have they got to lose?
Makes sense - 30 min a day is manageable for sure. It's just a matter of actually sticking to it. (I realize how ridiculous I sound right now)

But I think you are quite right about finding motivation with visible progress.

I better get crackin!
VisualStudio has a similar plugin: https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a1166718-a2d9...
that's basically exactly what they're talking about. Though deployed in house it could be a nice way to see if the code you want to write already exists in a similar function elsewhere (and therefore perhaps should be refctored to run in both places). It might also catch copy pasters before they ruin a code base too. But otherwise yeah, shitty SO bot.
Wow. Are you saying that you adhere to the Libertarian/Ayn Rand philosophy of personal responsibility, equitable rewards for creating value to society, and all that jazz? You know, the type of philosophy that purportedly values personal integrity and creativity above all else?

... And yet you happily pull down a six-figure paycheck for a job you believe is worthless?

Because, if so, you should know that the sense of moral superiority that you seem to share with most modern Randroids is outstandingly hypocritical.
This looks pretty awesome. I like the idea of a limit on the amount of bad code. Rather than having a hook that fails any time the code doesn't pass. Since that leads to you disabling it in emergencies and never turning it back on.
I see on the http://brackets.io website, just below the download button there is a link to a version without Extract.
I'm curious as to how the Washington-Oregon border will be treated, since both states now have legal marijuana. Will the states allow marijuana from the other to cross over? Does "crossing the state line" make it easier to enforce federal anti-drug laws?
YouTube copyright claims used by Islamists do doxx critics (Google Translate)
From the q file on github:

# Name : q (With respect to The Q Continuum)
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I think these are great ideals to strive for, but they seem lower priority than a couple things that they can get in the way of if you're not careful.

First, in your quest to show me the latest info, please please please don't introduce race conditions into my interface. I don't want to go to hit a button or a key or type a command, and have what that means change as I'm trying to do it.

Second, it's often important to me what has happened locally vs. what is reflected on the server (especially if that's public). Please do update the interface optimistically in response to my actions rather
than sitting and spinning, but please also give me some indication of when my action is complete.
Here in the UK you can pretty much pinpoint where a person's from down to a 10 mile radius if you know the local accents, sometimes finer than that. It's fading a bit and accents are becoming more homogenised, but it's still a thing.
I am currently in the process of hiring myself and I don't think there is any way senior engineers will go for such a prolonged process.

What we do instead: filter through resumes, pick ones that we like for a 15-30 minute phone screen followed by a 1 hour conversation with the entire team if we decide to move forward.
Mozilla: We are sorry we said stuff you disagreed with. We know we published two opposing articles, and by being vague about this we hope you will assume that we're apologising about the one you personally disagree with. That was a terrible, terrible article. Unlike the other fantastic article. Which you agreed with. And we agreed with. Obviously.

Now please - for the love of all that is good - Can you please stop emailing us? Can you please stop tweeting us? Can you please leave us out of your petty ridiculous argument. Even though we agree with that argument. The right one. The one we agree on.
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> To add insult to injury, every time OneDrive encounters a file whose path is too long, it just shuts itself down and completely erases all of its settings.

I have no idea how this was missed in QA.
What's between a kite and a string?
all those millions are given for explaining stuff with that papers and not laughing once.
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Most of them can, but few would, I for one feel it's outrageous to expect candidates to work 3 full days as a recruitment process, I'm sure I can find something better without having to take half a week off.
probably autocorrect from 'swin.' 'S' and 'w' are very close.
I didn't see this until now, the problem is that when you spawn a new thread space for the stack needs to be allocated. Since the stack can't be reallocated easily in C/C++ it also needs to be "big enough".
The current implementation is to allocate several megabytes of stack for each thread, since memory accounting isn't strict this doesn't create problems because unused stack doesn't really take up space.
If you start accounting memory you will also have to be stricter with allocating stacks for new threads, limiting yourself to just a page or two wherever possible. This is not an easy task.
Manhattan is expensive, but I think you benefit a bit more from the efficiencies of extreme urban living. With the exception of a few neighborhoods, it's much harder to get by in SF without a car. In fact, SF is sort of in the worst of both worlds - dense enough that it's quite difficult to own a car, not so dense that it's easy to get by without one.
Show HN: OJ – A Clojure library for talking to your database
That's a great idea and execution. I'd consider a "Show HN"-posting on its own, so it won't get buried.

I'd add a captcha though to reduce potential misuse.
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>Just like with Tinder, Twitter was a giant success (by any measure) when the CEOs were pushed out against their volition.

Isn't this a core operating tenet of VC investment and one of the key reasons for taking a board seat? It is pretty well known that "founders" are generally not very good managers/executives and the investors know that and plan on bringing in new management ASAP.
Do you have strong TypeScript tooling? I feel like that is the biggest reason for me to use IntelliJ right now.
Actually, I think twitter is a prime candidate for a JSON-driven client-rendered application. It's a pretty static shell, with a static tweet template iterated over large amounts of tweet data.

You could completely eliminate a huge number of round trips by just getting tweet data and user data after the initial pageload. The user data is quite cacheable and you could create a single endpoint that allows the user to precache the required user data (display name, photo url, id, etc) for everyone he follows in one round trip.
It's a drug and you're in or operating a vehicle I'd say it's no different than having an open bottle of alcohol.

Police in my province have been trained to spot DUI of drugs (besides alcohol) mostly pot since it seems many people think it's OK to drive stoned.
C# Autocomplete Demo Using Bing Code Search Engine
The fun part is, in a couple of years it basically won't be possible to drive a car (on a public road, anyway) that isn't "connected." If the legislators don't bring this bold new tomorrow down on us, the insurance companies will do so on their own.
In the Gulf of Mexico and the area around Florida, the Coast Guard does an enormous amount of drug-traffic-policing.
Yes. We use Visual Studio at school, and I can get it for free from their website. But looking at how much do the premium versions cost, I try not to get used to any of the features too much.
Are you 100% sure it wasn't coincidence?

I don't have a connected system [e.g. it doesn't report anything because its a certified used car I got for $11k where damn near everything is manual :P] but the dealer was able to guestimate within a few months of when I would hit the mileage amount I'd need to take it in for service.
You're not really disagreeing, except on terminology. You're defining "specialist skills" as "narrowing down your work away from (do everything that allows me to live on my own)", whereas your parent meant "specialist as opposed to <easy>". For example, someone working the checkout in a shop is technically a specialised job (by the definition you're using), but in the context of our current culture it's easy enough that a vast majority of people could "become specialised" in it almost immediately.
By air, as at airport security, has been policed as a local issue, not federal.
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Autocomplete + the Internet already erodes many programmers skills to the point where they can barely write code without help. I can't imagine what this kind of tool would do.

Not that there is anything wrong with autocomplete. I certainly use it, but I've seen a lot of programmers that barely understand the code they are writing.
Alternatively, you can save your money and use one of the myriad of backtesting tools built into existing trading platforms using a demo account.
Sure, if you're a sole founder with control of the board, you can do that. If you're someone like Rad, selected to head up what is essentially a subsidiary of a public corporation. Most CEO's have the favor of the board, but don't have so much pull that they won't be replaced if they become a liability.
I did this recently, the results were surprisingly good! https://github.com/darkFunction/PolygonPainter

Edit: Roger Alsing's implementation was a single entity population (mutated then reverted if the mutation was no good). I copied this approach in my first implementation, but found that much better results could be achieved with a breeding population of genes.
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This post has some threads to pull for people wanting to get a picture of the research:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/no-silver-bu...

The post takes a negative view on anonymised data, but there are credible comments on both sides of the discussion.

(I posted it here a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8010061 )
A lot of programming is repetitive. It would be great if we could make some advances. On iOS, for example, Apple will generate a lot of code for you if, say, you want to create a uitableview. I could easily imagine we could tell it a few things and the entire method could be generated.

If we look at duplicate code across all projects on the Internet, maybe can simply pull from a larger database.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/191614/how-to-detect-code...

Anyway, it's easy to say that it can't be done. It's probably more worthwhile to try and tackle the problem and make some forward progress.

[Update]

Just saw this HN submission.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8562635

Microsoft can now autocomplete C# code by using Bing Code Search Engine based off of your comments.

///how to read file pth line by line<TAB>

Pretty slick.