jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You are trying to measure what?

I'm going to assume your answer is "on the job performance". If not, this is going to be a difficult conversation, and I'd ask why you are trying to measure for something you aren't going to be paying for.

The best predictor of on the job performance is ... on the job performance. Everyone but the most junior person has experience. Look at that.

All of these exam type questions usually rely on knowing a trick, or being recently well versed. I TA'd a graduate course in Algorithms. That's rather relevant, I would think, since you aren't offered that if you don't have ability. Yet you know the last time I've done, say, dynamic programming? It's been awhile. I know about it, I know when to decide whether to pull it out, but ask me to do it, in a high pressure interview (all interviews are high pressure), and well, I'll probably fail. I'm working on other things like Bayesian inference. Bet you'd fail doing that stuff, even though it is just simple multiplications and such, when you get down to the implementation. Unless, of course, you are working on that sort of stuff right now.

I find the situation in SV somewhat ridiculous. To go out and interview means a lot of prep. Google recommends spending a month reviewing algorithms before applying. You know, I have an actual job, and I have open source side projects, and I have a family, and hobbies, and an old dog I want to spend all my time with. It is trivial to find out my skills by looking at what I have done and asking me questions about it. Have me give you a 1-2 hour tech talk, for example (I like public speaking, most don't so that is not a universal solution). Have me write some code with you, if you must. I work at a very high level, but I am not necessarily 'clever' at seeing the right trick in 10 seconds under pressure in an interview.

Also, how important is that sort of thing, really? For some jobs it is, undoubtedly. If you want me to write a load balancer for your cloud infrastructure, there are some algorithms I need to understand. Even then, not knowing something now is not evidence I can't do the job. I can learn - it's how I've done everything up to now. I can learn your thing too. More importantly (to my mind) - am I a hard worker? Can I mentor others? Can I lead a team? Can I put a schedule together, and recognize when that is appropriate and not appropriate? Can I make a budget? Can I talk to clients? Do I meet my deadlines? Do I solve problems - not implement the cards in this sprint - but see friction of some sort at work and engineer a solution? Do my peers like working with me? Do I get shit done? Is my code maintainable, readable, modular, commented? Can I write? Can I teach? Can I work with the CEO?

I've been to so many interviews where they don't even try to learn any of that latter stuff, where they show no interest in what I have done, where they don't try to figure out if I can do the actual job they are doing, but are deeply interested in if I can program a smart pointer, from scratch, to some arbitrary set of requirements. It is all just deeply puzzling to me.
Dunno why you were downvoted. It sounds cynical when you phrase it that way, but I know many people who don’t think to ask for help when they need it.
As a DC resident, I agree. My wife got a ticket for parking illegally, but could not find a sign (among many) that prohibited it. She took pictures of everything and went to court. They upheld the ticket under the argument, "the sign must have been there somewhere".

There is also a disconnect between intent and enforcement. For example, I live by a school. No parking M-F, 8am-3pm because busses have to get through. Makes sense. But neighbors have been ticketed on the Friday after Thanksgiving: they're violating the sign, but not the intent of the sign.
I remember how it was taught in high school math class. It was some variation on the "rice on the chessboard" story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem
CDC budget for FY '18 was lower than FY '17. Source: https://www.hhs.gov/about/budget/fy2018/budget-in-brief/cdc/...
That's such a waste if you really only need something that will fit in 8 bits. Especially limited register space.

Also what if I want to deal with something like screen pixels that packs nicely in 8 bit boundaries, but maybe I don't want the first 8 bits?
> After Ziemer’s departure, the global health team was reorganized as part of an effort by then-National Security Adviser John Bolton

From https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/dems-misconstrue-trump-bud...

> Morrison objected to claims that the office was “dissolved,” writing in the Post on March 16 that the administration “create[d] the counterproliferation and biodefense directorate, which was the result of consolidating three directorates into one, given the obvious overlap between arms control and nonproliferation, weapons of mass destruction terrorism, and global health and biodefense. It is this reorganization that critics have misconstrued or intentionally misrepresented.”
We have been doing the census for hundreds of years and it seems to go pretty okay.

If someone wants to map your name to your home address, they already have the voter registration database for that.
Cyber news has done many of these stories.
For what it is worth, Marx spoke of the expenditure of "nerves and brains" as well as simple physical labor. As for the means of production, the game has clearly changed in our sector, where the most important tool has come down so far in price. But still, there has been no complete transformation. For example, the startup I work at needs every scrap of capital it has, as servers and bandwidth are not cheap. Neither is the feeding and housing of all the engineers, and the sales team... You can wave your hands about the ready availability of capital, but generally speaking, it will be in the hands of others, available for use only at their whim. Young people with no dependents and some bravery and disregard for their health can build an idea on a shoe string budget, but there is still usually a large gap between the product of this kind of endeavour and a self sustaining business. For the vast majority of software developers particularly those with a family to raise, the deal will be the same as it is for anyone else. Freely barter your skills and labor with those who would employ it - the holders of capital. And surely enough, the profits from these labors will accumulate with these same people, those who hold the capital. The trade off is sustenance, "security", in exchange for all profit.

If you think capital itself is a virtue that is entitled to the profits of all labor, then I suppose you are in turn entitled to hold that opinion. So long as the lives of those who are in thrall to capital have a "reasonable quality of life", yes? I won't even go down the road of opportunity inequality here, but I will just say I disagree with how readily you discount environmental factors in the development of people, and how readily you discount the influence of privilege.
I remember in 1998 spending an afternoon debugging a C++ program that kept crashing for no reason. In fact at some point the windows NT 3D screen saver had crashed, and brought down the complete 3D stack with it. The program worked perfectly after a reboot...
Let's suppose it's legal.

What do you hope will happen? I can't imagine a sequence of events that starts from your scenario and ends in changing copyright laws.

What sequence of events do you have in mind?
and then what? TSMC falls over itself because oh no, Merkel sent a letter, full focus on automotive chips? I doubt that has very much influence in how production is balanced.
7% doesn't sound insignificant and is roughly comparable to other highly developed European countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Switzerland

Also, local reporting on Swiss poverty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yI4ygNr5Mg
The rest of the world is doing the exact same thing. Sovereign nations should control their own technical infrastructure and not rely on American, Chinese, Russian or European technology.

Open source is certainly a big step in the right direction toward a world where we can better rely on technology. But we're not there yet, when it comes to hardware.
can you point us to that single line of code? is it stored in a git somewhere?
Heh, I've started to use it in https://ossia.io just two weeks ago. Works fine for what it is.
Chinese intelligence defectors, even very high profile ones tend to not live for very long: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/business/hna-chairman-wan...

Place bets on how long this guy will survive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdR-I35Ladk. I strongly suspect he won't last a year.
What kind of threat / challenge this kind of open source initiatives represent to dominant EDA players (Synopsys/Cadence) and their long term survivability? Synopsys in particular has been killing it with their stock performance, but I’ve been concerned for a while that this industry might be ripe for disruption. Alas, I think I lack technical expertise to fully appreciate complexities of EDA platforms and how to value that.
If you pardon my interruption - you shouldn't be so hostile and rude to people trying to convey their point. I'd say don't be rigid - be openminded and look what people want to say.

As someone who have a lot of first hand experience in Japan I must say most of "liberation" that government declare are mere declarations. This applies not just to visa or enterpreneurship policies but to most of local matters as well. And then some people are surprised - government did something so why no-one is coming?

> If what you all said was true, why do foreign enterprises profit in Japan then?

If we look at list of companies that left Japan and compare it to list of companies that succeeded, the first one would be much longer. You still need to be a part of keiretsu to operate, to open a bank account, to get rid of all those ridiculous requirements business usually fights with, and so on.

> They've opened up the gates.

That's a very strong definition of what is happening. I'd say they reduced the code from the lock from 48 character password to 24, but still keep the passphrase :)

Despite declaration of "opening", Japan still preserves all possible barriers for emerging business and protecting it's own, largely inefficient, keiretsu companies and businesses.

> But not the infrastructure or trust and safety.

While it's debatable, it's not an exclusive thing. Singapore, Hong Kong, offers better safety with significantly better taxation.
The counter-rotating wheels probably don't touch the ground.
Sadly it's another IE6 hangover.

event.preventDefault() does not work in IE6, you have to use event.returnValue = false;. To not break standard compliant browsers you have to have if(event.preventDefault) event.preventDefault();, but by then you have three lines doing what one could do, you give up and use return false;. (and not use child click events).

Fortunately with IE6 usage under 5% now, I'm sure your boss wouldn't notice it.
Looks like O(n^2) growth to me. If we take month 0 as being in late 2009, then it looks like at month n they have about 19x^2/162-5x/6+2 million subscribers.
> $1 for a contemporary novel seems like I'm paying someone to take 20 hours off my life.

I am genuinely a bit confused by your comment. You're saying $1 is too much? If you view reading 'contemporary novels' as a waste of time... well, don't! You could read HN or watch TV or read lots of classics for free. It doesn't seem like the price point is the problem, but that you just don't like that kind of book.
Credentials are still an indicator. Not of the intrinsic validity of the piece and its arguments, but of the author's standing and history.

Can Joe Blow put forward a good argument on any subject? Absolutely. On the other hand, is it more likely you'll get a coherent (or even slightly relevant) argument on ecology from Joe Blow or from a trained biogeographer who's been working in the field for decades?

It should not be used to dismiss the argument itself (if any was put forward), but if the article looks like a long rambling of generalizations, new-age insanity and groundless anthropomorphization... well in the second case you'll probably take a closer look to check if you've missed something (or if the author has gone completely off his rocker), whereas in the former you'll likely just drop the text and put the author on your blacklist.
Raskin is wrong and John Denker is right - a wing is a pump:

http://www.av8n.com/how/htm/airfoils.html
How did you test a bike staying upright on its own?

Being stable only requires the bike to resist some reasonable force that would knock it down. It takes much more force to tip a moving bike than a stationary one.
Apparently the crowd-wisdom of voters begs to differ! At any given time the HN home page is a menu with 30 choices to pick from. I'm never interested in more than 20% of those but these are always worthwhile. You came here to state your opinion rather than simply ignore the article? Bordering on trollish?...
I'm not understanding what the community has gained from this, or what would be gained if the same thing happened to other projects like MySQL.

You could fork before, you can fork now, right? How is ceasing of commercial development a net positive? It just seems neutral.
B.. but that’s communism! It’s unnatural!
what this tells me is:

1. for employees, startups are a lottery where an ipo is no longer a prerequisite for winning

2. for the rich and well connected, there exists an entirely separate and privileged market for startup equity.

3. the world isn't a fair place and complaining about it doesn't help. be luckier or do your own startup if you want more money.
The wtf level would probably depend on with what and how Ford contacted you.

If their message went: "We saw you drove to XYZ using our model Y", addressed to a private contact line of yours, then that would also lead to quite a few "wtf?" along the lines of "What data is Hertz sharing with Ford?"
This should get you started if it is a Mike Hamburg comment: https://keybase.io/bitwiseshiftleft
I think requiring payment is a bit too strict requirement to define a customer. Your users still agree to your license, so there is a relationship established, you may just not get any benefit from it (monetary or otherwise). Even in your license you likely have to be explicit that "software is provided as-is" and you aren't responsible for it misbehaving - otherwise your customers/users could try to sue you. Just because you don't pay for Ubuntu doesn't mean Canonical does not get anything out of you deploying it. Do they gather any kind of data about users' behavior?
You're right, but when HR says "diverse candidate," they mean a woman or minority. I have no idea how you can be diverse in n=1.
No, I mean I am aware of all that and certainly the script change isn’t the only reason that Ottoman Turkish is inaccessible.

Even if there were good reasons for the change, it’s still unfortunate in my mind. It’s a bit like if American documents like the Declaration of Independence or Gettysburg Address were in language other than English. Sure, translations would be available and the actual speeches use words most contemporary Americans probably don’t know anyway. But something would indeed be lost, IMO, if the connection were severed.

With 3, as far as I understand it, that’s essentially just because of language reforms and educational choices designed to distance the new Turkish language from its Ottoman past. Certainly not an inevitable conclusion.

Regarding 4, the Latin alphabet isn’t particularly suited for writing English either, yet here we are.
> The bandwidth rate is between 8-16 bytes/sec depending on the protocol parameters.

This makes me wonder - what's the ideal channel capacity for in-room audio with cell phone mic and speakers? And what are the limiting factors? If you had some really sophisticated channel coding, how good could the throughput ever get?

In the 90s we could do 56ish kilobits/sec over PSTN. What's state of the art now? Unchanged because of a lack of a market?
I believe you'd get a handful of early deaths, some mediocre outcomes, and maybe 3 or 4 successful people tops out of that experiment.
Its dangerous to talk to anybody out here. I feel like I am taking a huge risk even posting about it.

If someone is close enough to talk to you they are close enough to hurt you.

To your point I had reached out to a collge girlfriend after my accident in 2017. She asked for my address and I gave her c/o Chrysalis which is a work help program here in Santa Monica. Unfortunately, she wanted to do somethinf nice so she sent a care package of shampoo and other things but I will never know. Chrysalis kicked me out for 'abusing' their mail service. I never even saw the package she sent to me. I received 2 dentist bills, 0 responses to the resumes i was sending out, and 1 unannounced care package. I am so clearly not an abuser of anything except possibly myself somehow.

Thank you. I would upvote your comment but havent yet found out how.
I think it's likely that certain types of diversity produce better outcomes. My problem with the research is publication bias, publication bias where finding the opposite will cost you a career, most of the experiments being contrived, social science being a joke field, and the sort of people who are attracted to social science.
Honestly, the solution is to wait for ES6 'let' scope - CoffeeScript's scope issues exist because it is, by intentional design, similar to JavaScript, and JS has scope issues.

When ES6 is a viable option, CoffeeScript can incorporate lexical scope in a backwards compatible way, and its scoping will become much less unexpected.
Teaching is made of two components: access to knowledge, and motivation. Today, access to knowledge is almost entirely irrelevant: pretty much all knowledge is freely accessible from anywhere, anytime. You just need the motivation to look it up. Teaching yourself can be easy, if only you have the drive to keep at it.

It wasn't the case in our past. In the middle ages, before the printing press, teaching was 99% passing on knowledge, and motivation was assumed to be a given. Today, in the post-internet age, access to knowledge is a given, and teaching is 99% motivation.
So it might surprise you to find out that it was a very small percentage of that industry that caused that. The fair housing act did more damage than any individual banker in that event as well.
I really like the 9 values, i do seem to align. Except for the "analysis paralysis" bit. It perfectly describes two recent weeks.. so i put the coin-phrase on a sticky. :)
While I disagree with the author that this is the penultimate goal that should be overriding all other concerns. I'll bite for the sake of discussion. If that's the goal then Javascript was obliterated before the OP woke up to write this ill-conceived blog.

What people are building with Python on Kivy (chose the nearest example)-

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/deflectouch/id505729681?mt=8

Vs.

What people are building on the webstack (also chose the nearest example)-

http://prog21.dadgum.com/203.html

I do give the author credit for not contorting the page into an eye cancer causing abomination like most web developers are doing these days. While he's espousing JS, oddly enough he may share my preference for a web that's as JS-light as possible. :)
But our professor does already have something to show his friends! So download your full blown games, accepted into the AppStore (or Google Play) to show your pals what you built. Then pass out your little URL. Let me know how thrilled they are then.

In sum, if you're looking for a great general purpose PL to start with and maybe grow with, with plenty of ways to build cool stuff- Always Bet On Python.
Please let me know if there are any concerns/comments about the article.
The road is a single lane in each direction with fairly regularly spaced turn out lanes where the car could safely enter without slowing down a lot and let a few of the followers pass them. What happens in practice is that many professionals like truck drivers use them and most tourists do not, so you end up going with the speed of the largest RV.
Yes, poor people would be better off without access to loans.
Plenty of people believe ridiculous things, story at 9.
Highly unlikely Go will be more performant than the JVM.

Why not? C still beats Java in many cases (e.g. numeric code) thanks to compiler optimisation and I see little reason why (outside garbage collection) Go cannot achieve similar compile time optimisation (in fact, inlining should be easier than in C).

Besides that, Go gives more opportunity for optimisation since it has value types.

Also, in my personal experience (having written a fair share of natural language processing tools in Go and Java), they are approximately in the same ballpark performance-wise. More synthetic benchmarks such as the Computer Language Benchmarks Game seem to confirm this. And there is definitely still more low-hanging fruit in Go optimisation.

Why not use Java or .Net instead of Go?

Because I value the Unix tradition and like small standalone binaries with quick startup time more than dragging around a JVM (although I use Java to for projects)? Because it has value types? Because it is easier to call C from Go? Because I like its profiler more?
Perfect list for naming servers.
Finally some high-dpi support after a lot of ( https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-114944 , https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-124304 , https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-117729 ) complaints for about a year and a half.
Can anybody tell me, why the SIP chat protocol is so under used?

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3428.txt

-based on open standards (SIP)

-supported by most VoIP servers (so we have full interoperability between vendors such as Cisco, Huawei, Siemens, Voipswitch, Mizutech, Jitsi and others)

-simple and extendable

-lots of free services, free/open source software. You can also host your own or integrate into your company PBX

In the previous years, we always see the same path for messaging applications:

1.	Startup company add messaging based on open standards (SIP/IRC/XMPP/other?)

2.	One the company has significant user base, switches to a non-standard / proprietary protocol

Already happened for Skype, Yahoo, Google, Facebook
I definitely agree at least with the xps13 part however
Id recommend against the Dev edition, or at least depending on where you are buying it. When I bought mine (the old one) the "regular" same hardware version cost the same as the Dev edition, but you got a windows licenses as well.
And even if you don't use windows regularly it's always nice to have an extra license.

Hardware wise I am extremely pleased with the old version and can't really see any indication that the new one should be worse in any way.
A nice sentiment, but not really logical. An outcome in Pao's favour would have been taken as evidence for institutional bias; by conservation of probability, an outcome against must be taken as evidence against.
>OJ was acquitted, after all

Do you know something that the jurors don't? Reasonable doubt. That's how the system works.
"instead of what we actually see, which is that matter and light get completely sucked in"

We actually never see that

"Due to this effect, known as gravitational time dilation, an object falling into a black hole appears to slow down as it approaches the event horizon, taking an infinite time to reach it. At the same time, all processes on this object slow down, for a fixed outside observer, causing emitted light to appear redder and dimmer, an effect known as gravitational redshift. Eventually, at a point just before it reaches the event horizon, the falling object becomes so dim that it can no longer be seen."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole