jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
While sometimes the Lex Fridman conversations are really great, sometimes I find myself wondering if Lex is a smart guy who pretends to be dumb, or a dumb guy who pretends to be smart.
Their careers business has the opportunity to be a revenue generator for the company. The starting cost for a job listing is $495 per 30 days and goes up to $1499 per 30 days. In my opinion, the profiles on Stack Overflow careers allow developers to present themselves much better than many other career sites.

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/products/listings
Like most JS concepts, to me it's a "use it or lose it" situation. When I have to use them they are fresh in my head, when I move on to another project for 6 months that has no complex modules or uses a framework like Angular, there is no way I'll remember the intricacies. That being said, there is still a different between having used them and simply being aware of their existence, which I suppose could be made clear during an interview.
> The Series D round, which also had participation from existing investors ... Bezos Expeditions, ...

Is there anything Bezos doesn't have his hands in? (I mean it in both a good and bad way)
I had a great experience about 3 years ago. It was amazing.

First, SO Careers 1.0 came to a halt, they made a few changes in 2.0, they changed it to an invite-only system as opposed to a premium subscription service. They best part of all, they reimbursed everyone who had previously paid. Here was the blog post about it: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/02/careers-2-0-launches/

It was great, I was getting several requests per week for a while, and it even helped me land a job across the country.

All that being said, I haven't kept my SO Careers profile up to date lately, and haven't had many inquiries in a while.

I do highly recommend it.
I have struggled with the same issues. Most work involves fitting into a social hierarchy and being rewarded by managers for preserving the appearance of tribal unity.

I finally had to leave corporate life for good. I discovered that what I do compulsively, other people compulsively avoid, and so I marketed it as my special skill. I also had to choose a field that encourages churn, so that I could be competitive as a freelancer. Eventually I found a job with an institution that gave me more autonomy than I would ever have in the corporate world. Ironically, my commercial skills have helped protect me from institutional politics. But I may get sucked in by ambition.
One word: Marketing
Ever since reading Snowcrash, i've wanted my own personal nuclear umbrella. Not enough to actually do anything about it, of course. It just seems like the ultimate in "an armed society is a polite society."
I watched the first one live. Hopefully the Atlas robots perform better this time around. I'm most excited to see the next iteration of Schaft, which Google now owns.
Your question has been closed as off topic.
I think you misunderstood my comment regarding the internet. Many people think that just having a website will magically triple their business revenue. That's plainly not true.

The internet is a medium. Just as any medium used to deliver and communicate to users, you have to utilize it correctly.
Consider the possibility that people who disagree with you are doing so in good faith and for a well-thought-out reason, not because they're sheep following a manifestly "wrong" culture.
Is this common in the states? In Denmark, employers usually ask you what you expect to be paid for the job you're interviewing for, but they never ask what you are currently being paid. Ofcourse, you should always dodge the question to let them give a number first and take it from there, but still, I've never had anyone ask me specifically what I make at my current job.
Thanks, did FB ever release anything more from Primer?
https://gist.github.com/376039

Or is this it? I didn't see the comment.
No one has time for it.

Why not take something like oneforty and embed it into twitter.com, and make the apps more like plugins. I'd straight away install anti-spam.

They could even model this system after a combination of wordpress.com and its large userbase with customization options, and wordpress.org self-installations, with a new nicely integrated plugin directory and manager.

I'd go far as to say, if I could start a startup tomorrow with many resources at my fingertips, I'd compete with Twitter in this way. (well I'd hold onto Twitter at first, but then let go once I have enough momentum. I'd also try and ride FB.) It's a no-brainer (at least to me). If they want to make Twitter ubiquitous (as was envisioned by Ev or Biz), it will need to improve in many areas, one even being a possible network layer.
I would recommend Asterisk. You can set up "hunt groups" so that Asterisk will try to route the call to one of your volunteers. However, you would need multiple phone lines, otherwise your callers will be greeted with a "busy" tone.

In the UK, there is a company called AQL which will provide you with multiple distinct telephone numbers, all of which can be routed over the internet (via AIX) to your Asterisk box. This solves the "busy" problem, but it does involve some cost. Perhaps there is a similar telecoms company in Pakistan?

If not, you will need to rent multiple phone lines, all of which will have to be physically connected to the Asterisk box. You will need two lines for each concurrent call you plan to handle - one for the incoming call, and one for the outgoing call to the volunteer's mobile.

Keep in mind you will also need to pay for the calls to your volunteers' mobile phones - if they have suitable internet connections then a SIP softphone (or Skype) would remove the cost of outgoing mobile calls.

In fact, doing this via Skype could be quite effective - your Asterisk server would be aware of all of the volunteers' Skype accounts, and could route the call to whoever is online at the time someone calls. If no-one is online, it could route the call to someone's mobile (to ensure someone always answers a call).

AsteriskNOW has a graphical interface which will let you set up all of these features without needing to maually write dial plans: http://www.asterisk.org/asterisknow/

My email is in my profile if you have any follow-up questions, or would like more detail. Good luck!

I also second the other advice on: Affiliating yourself with an institution, ensuring all volunteers are suitably trained, and investigating any possible grants/funding from NGOs.
I remember they used to (and as far as I know still do) use a java applet to bulk upload pictures to photos.

It lets you pick multiple pictures from a directory on your hard drive, rotate them if you need to, and then I believe it does some compression before finally loading them up
This is cool. But it should be noted that it has already been proven that there is a minimum amount of entropy associated with a single irreversible bit flip, and as a result Maxwell's demon cannot actually violate the second law of thermodynamics.
A man's still gotta make a living.

Also, for every book sold he's giving away a copy to a child somewhere in the world: http://veryawesomeworld.com/foundation.html which seems like a pretty decent thing to me.
Thank you so much for your adice...this is actually a really interesting perspective. I am thinking myself of affiliating my self with a university so that they can help me in providing training to volunteers. Yeah, i am thinking of eliminating mobiles phones from the whole scenario and focus completely on an internal PBX system. As for the funding, i hope that i can bank roll it myself...i am not so sure right now, but considering the increasing number of difficulties faced Pakistanis i think i need to start this as soon as possible.
My point exactly. The demand for other languages is clearly not big enough for people to have hacker together an implementation of it on top of what's there today. It can be done, it's just that very few people are busy doing it.
One trend, if you can even call it that, that I really like is version controlled virtualized dev environments.

Tools like Vagrant (a toolbox for Chef + Virtualbox pretty much), (http://www.vagrantup.com) Make it possible to version your stack alongside your app and only require one person on the team to maintain it as new requirements for configuration or software get pushed to dev VMs with their regular git updates.
...uh... aren't programming languages religions already?
because that can become a rather expensive query when traffic increases on the site. And while the "expectation" is that the number is in real-time, even caching the query might not help much taking into account traffic patterns.
They were talking about the upper right corner of the screen. It's still on profiles.
Hmmm, this combination works correctly in Office 2008 on my MacBook Pro (used almost daily in Excel and Word) in Office 2008 [ver. 12.2.3 (091001) on OS X 10.6.4].
Very true. Most people need social proof before they do a lot of things, except, of course, those with deep understanding and experience in the particular arena. I like the number 30 of prospects needed to make one deal. Its not astronomical but communicates that you've got to be building a pipeline to your front door.
it's a miniseries: *, the Good Parts

http://www.amazon.com/Java-Good-Parts-Jim-Waldo/dp/059680373...

http://www.amazon.com/PHP-Good-Parts-Delivering-Best/dp/0596...
Sorry, I'm just the sysadmin here. A lot of the JWST work was done before I got here, but we still help support them. I'm sure there is detailed information on the web about the detectors in use on JWST.
I don't really understand the emissions argument, though? If I'm trying to break the law (either tax law or emissions laws), why would copyright law (or laws around reverse engineering) deter me?
Jon, this is something which should really be better promoted. I follow most of the interesting .net peeps on twitter & have listened to Scott H's pod + Herding Code for years.

This is the first time I've seen this, which is a shame, because it solves a lot of my misgivings with Azure..
Don't you have the same problem with ill-specified binary protocols?
All of those things have intrinsic value in that they bring people some measure of joy. Bitcoin, by comparison, brings people very little joy in and of itself (you might argue it provides entertainment value, it certainly does for me).

Not saying Bitcoin is worthless; it's a currency and it has it's uses, which makes it worth something. However, I think the belief that "it's scarce, therefore its worth something" is a false one and leads a lot of people to speculate wildly on it.
Worse off. Feeding their family is probably a higher priority than a shitty job.

It doesn't change the fact that the job is rubbish.
As I understand it, Apple can subvert the privacy of future messages by silently adding themselves as another "device" for your messages, but this does not allow them to intercept and decrypt messages that have already been generated (i.e. before they add themselves). Correct?
Torvalds is being dogpiled . This is the third or fourth article I've read in the last month that has tried to conflate Linus Torvalds sometimes being rude with the horrendous, persistrent, ongoing harassment/abuse that is being carried out by completely different people, in completely different industry.

If Torvalds is going to be used, is it too much to ask to stick to the things he has done and not lump him together with death threats, SWATing, etc? Like, catalog what HE said, in their context, and discuss those? Because I really don't think they are comparable, and the conflation is disingenuous.
I don't quite see how the radio would have had any effect on this incident.

The only thing I can think of is potentially getting a crisis negotiator on the ground to attempt to talk down the man in the cockpit. I guess thats something.
>..clearly paints philanthropy as beneath him..

Wow, I did not get that from the quote.
Sure. The two most popular examples are the C Plus Equality repo and the Operation Disrespectful Nod repo, which were a satirical programming language and a Gamergate resource list for contacting advertisers, respectively.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/14/1618239/github-takes...

https://pipedot.org/story/2014-10-04/github-staff-jake-boxer...
There's a nice quote from Randall Munroe on context with numbers that I think applies perfectly here.

> A good rule of thumb might be, “If I added a zero to this number, would the sentence containing it mean something different to me?” If the answer is “no,” maybe the number has no business being in the sentence in the first place.

8,450-megawatt power plant. 130 million metric tons. 850.9 micrograms per cubic meter. Etc... They're still just groups of symbols to me.
Nice. I'd like to have that highlighting feature in the read-article part of my app:

http://blanqd.com
> There is no slavery on Foxconn plants[..]

While it's not slavery in the traditional way, it sure is when you pay workers virtually nothing for a product that's overpriced.

Think a situtation where you'd be an administrator for Amazon and you're getting $10/day just because you live in <x> country, while your other _only_ option is to - as you said - "go away and grow some rice".

While this is a completely legal action, would you say that it's also ethical?

But no, whenever a f*cked up situation is not near our own precious asses, it doesn't matter. They can go out and grow some rice.
Well, there's an additional tax on the negative bet: if you lose, you lose $100k. If you win, you get no money.

The first question for this bet is "How much would I pay to make Sam donate $100k to a charity of my choosing." Would you pay $10k to make that happen? $1k? $50k? $100k?

If Sam donating $100k to charity is only worth $20k to you, and you think that Sam is 80% likely to lose his bet, then the bet has an expected -$4k utility to you.

EDIT: Sorry, my model above does assume that paying $100k to a charity of Sam's choice has 0 utility to you. If, for example, you strongly expect to donate $100k+ to charity in 2020 anyway and aren't very choosy about which charity, then obviously the bet is a pretty sure winner to you.
The added difficulty over the (for instance) Enron scandal is that this time, we don't have a nice set of publicly available SEC documents to look through (obviously not talking about GOOG/FB/TWTR). But with so many firms growing huge on private capital, we don't have the same opportunities for investigation that were available with many of the previous scandals. Most of Enron's malfeasances were documented, everyone was just so exuberant they didn't bother to look that closely. Once people did (a key short seller and a few journalists), Enron collapsed in about six weeks.

Finding the scandal will be much harder this time, but I agree it's out there. Cash prize to the one who finds it.
As I have 1gbps symmetric connection I serve some API right from my basement. One API in particular has no problems serving hundreds of requests per second from the NUC with the exact parameters you just mentioned. As for backup I use 2 things:

Internal scheduled backup to hard drives that will be physically disconnected most of the time.

Standby redundant synchronized server deployed somewhere else for peanuts. It is not as performant as said NUC but will do while the emergency is fixed on main one.
I agree that they shouldn't have tried to squeeze the last cent out of it, while the pandemic is costing much more.

But would it really have changed things if they didn't?

There wouldn't magically have been more factory capacity and it's not like the UK/US would allow for a substantial part of their capacity to be exported.

Then there was also the unfortunate failure of the Sanofi vaccin and the late arrival of the Jannsen vaccin which was just really bad luck for the EU.
The answer is Yes. People have things going on in their lives, so I prefer to not look at a college transcript until after I do a phone interview and have a sense of who they are now. I have passed on people who did OK in everything but the transcript was a mess. I have overlooked a weak transcript if someone has some years of experience or other significant skills. I hired a coder who didn't go to college and is largely self taught.

Life is complicated and a transcript alone captures none of that complexity. As an example, I married someone whose father died of ALS while she was a college student. Helping care for her Dad, and comforting her Mom through his passing, had an impact on her college experience. I look for the A- candidate who perhaps worked during school, took challenging classes and has a passion for their craft, over the A+ candidate who coasted along and who has done nothing. Steel sharpens steel. Resilience in face of challenges is important. If the poor GPA is because you were partying and half-assing your work and couldn't be bothered to apply yourself, then please be honest with yourself and don't send a resume.

For the interview in our group, we will sit you at a keyboard with the OS, language and tools you selected, and we'll give you a coding project that exercises the skills you reported on your resume. And then we'll see how you work. If you are unproductive in that environment or spend all your time using google and stack overflow, then you are not our candidate.
> "For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed..."

[Citation Needed]
After the last month of non-stop pouring rains in Europa?, no water vapour at sight. All is cold impacts targetting the nape.
I don't see why, though. It's much safer to start with a secure setup and then have the user disable the security explicitly (hopefully knowing what they're doing). Yes, username/password auth is not that common, but isn't it better than having no auth at all?
I can relate. Last year's tax return put income at around $600K. So I'm not poor. I have found it very difficult to find a lawyer who is actually interested in getting to a solution rather than dragging it out forever.

Here is the cost of filing an agreement negotiated between me and a counter party: $5K.

$5K for you to call someone and send over some paperwork. Sure, i can do the work myself but I could do it wrong, and judges don't like that. In fact, a judge initially rejected it until we had a lawyer.

Can I even get someone on retainer? No. Because the retainer is used up in the first phone call. Useless waste of money.

In my mind, lawyers have gone from people who used to be the bedrock against tyranny and are now rent seekers.

Unbundled services are a step forward, but then you lose the benefit of context.
A C-SPAN for social media isn't such a bad idea though.
Gee, then I hope they figure out a viable biz model to fund all that producting.
I do respect your experience and take on the matter, however, let's replace this statement:

"I'm an eye surgeon and self-taught machine learning practitioner, I started to learn Python in 2016 when the deep learning hype was at his highest."

with:

I'm a [machine learning researcher] and self-taught [ophthalmologist], I started to learn [ophthalmology] in 2016 when the [clinical medicine] hype was at his highest.

In this hypothetical situation, I bet you would instantly discount what I would have to say about ophthalmology because I clearly would not have the depth or experience to have an informed opinion on ophthalmology.

Over the past few years with the ML hype, I have noticed quite a few clinicians who have self taught some deep learning methods claim expertise in the subject area (not targeting you, a general observation). I feel like many clinicians do not understand the breadth of machine learning approaches. There is just so much to know! from robust statistics, non-parametric methods, to kernel methods. Deep learning and deep generative models are by no means the only tools at our disposal.

I absolutely agree with you though. Applied machine learning practitioners have been over selling their accomplishments -- which I believe is detrimental to progress in the field.

I would highly encourage you to collaborate with ML researchers who have spent a decade or more working on hard problems. From the other side, I can tell you I gained a lot discussing ideas with domain experts (neurologists, radiologists, functional neurosurgeons). They have insights that I could never have picked up by self teaching.
Same case here in India, Sucks to have these apps despite knowing what they are doing just because your School or College groups are on these platforms. I tried educating my fellow mates about this but seems unlikely that it will have any effect.
This was essentially my first blog.
I think the scaling limitations were well known at the beginning. If Bitcoin were to get as large as visa/mastercard the blockchain would be growing at a rate of a few gigabytes per day, which would kill decentralization.
The point I was responding to was saying that they wanted to get away from USD and that this was BTC's killer app.

My point is that you can't "get away" from USD, while the BTC market is effectively tied to USD.

so if the USD supply is massively inflated, and people can use those USD to buy BTC, the tie is still there.

If and when people denominate their goods and services in BTC without any reference to a fiat amount, then they are decoupled and BTC loses the tie to USD.
This is another thing they do in Washington D.C. that really annoys me. GPS tells me that I need to turn left ahead, no problem I work my way over to the far left lane. However when I get near the intersection it turns out I needed to have turned into parallel side street a quarter mile back. Other times those side streets are really long freeway ramps or turn off before the left turn. Other times they stop traffic at the intersections and you have to turn left across multiple lanes that don’t turn left. It’s a wildcard every time.
Yes, we probably were doing something wrong. That's the point of the post: to explain how easy it is to get into a situation where you are making little progress, and our story of getting out of it. I sincerely hope that others will be able to cope better when faced with a similar situation.

It's easier said than done, though. Development takes significant ramp-up time; if you spend 10 hours a day on it, you get much more than 5 times as much done than if you spend 2 hours a day. We already did what we could in terms of distributing workload amongst people to minimize context-switching.
Yes. The guys at Heroku were incredibly helpful, to name just one example.
Marking a newsletter you signed up for as "spam" seems pretty harsh.
Sorry for not explaining, maybe the following will convince you. When an application generates a password, about how long/secure are these passwords? (on average, and remember, we're staying user friendly...) Probably about 8-10 characters, alphanumeric, MAYBE a special character.

Now let's say you had to only create a link as I proposed. The length of the "secure" token can be as long as you want! Because the URL is not entered manually, you don't have to worry about being so "user-friendly" (as long as your url doesn't break in mail clients..)

If you fed a secure PRNG to an HMAC-SHA256/512 hash or a UUID... These values would be much, MUCH harder to guess than any password you could generate for your user. As a result, the following is not true:

> They could "guess" the reset key just as easy as they could "guess" the new generated password.

You bring up a good point about the password delivery over cleartext (though HN doesn't use SSL anyway, I didn't consider it at the time of posting). On a side note, does HN even have account lockout?
I am surprised that there are people that actually unsubscribe from newsletters. I never to that. Instead I filter out the sender from my Gmail

ummm, why surprised? why have your email in a database you don't want to use, or why have it send emails you won't read anyway? I think unsubscribing is fair for both sides.