skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Does OMEMO support synchronizing conversations between multiple devices? Being able to jump seamlessly between laptop/phone/desktop is musthave for me, last time I checked that stuff was very much unfinished in XMPP (I think the relevant XEPs were "carbons" and "MAM")
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For those on OS X, `brew install libressl`. Note the actual binary is still called `openssl`, but you can tell because it's half the size.
Weird, when i looked it wasn't available. Ordered mine later that day though, thank you
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You have me in tears, these are priceless.

The more you delay the recruiters, the more it costs them and the less they pursue it.
I completely agree with this. Boredom is an indicator. Just that. If the light turns on it indicates you have to do something about it. the question is...is it good or bad when it turns on? That depends on everyone I mean, there's not a standard for that
These are all remedies for the symptoms. The actual disease, which is considering the framework part of your core business application, remains.

Decoupling from your persistence (and presentation, fwiw) brings a lot of benefits, not only faster tests. I'm sick of people saying "why introduce a layer here if we'll never change the database?". The answer is simple: yes, you will change the database, specially when testing where you want to plug an in-memory store.

Again, I get that Rails gives us conventions so we don't keep bikeshedding, but how often do we challenge these conventions? How often do we question whether the problem we're solving fits the CRUD/MVC patterns?
Since when does "disabled" mean "completely unable to do anything"?

Mirriam Webster:

> DISABLED: incapacitated by illness or injury; also : physically or mentally impaired in a way that substantially limits activity especially in relation to employment or education
What's to stop someone from reimplementing this with some other license?
The problem with the "drug war causes violent crime" theory is the timeline. Here is a graph of U.S. violent crime rate from 1960: http://www.newgeography.com/files/cox-crime-3.png. Here is a graph of just homicide rate since 1900: http://madeinamericathebook.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/homi.... Violent crime was steady up to about 1960 then started spiking up in the 1960's until about 1995. The homicide rate at its peak in the 1990's was only about 25% higher than what it was in 1900, long before prohibition or the drug war.

The modern controlled substances act was passed in 1970, and drug war spending started ramping up through the 1970's, and didn't really get going until the second half of the 1980's: http://blurbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/drugs-vs-spe....

So what does the data tell us? Crime started spiking up about 10 years before the drug war even started. The big jump in drug war spending in the 1980's happened after two decades of rising crime, when crime rates were already near their peak. So if anything, the federal drug war (or peoples' appetite to wage it) seems to be a reaction to rising crime, rather than a cause.

Now, you could also say rising crime was the result of prohibition itself, not just the drug war per se. But narcotics began to be heavily regulated and effectively banned in 1915: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/cu8.h....

Now, compare crime rate to incarceration rate and the timeline of the drug war: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/U.S._inc.... The incarceration rate is basically flat until 1975. By that time violent crime had increased by over 2.5x. The mind-blowing thing is that our incarceration rate doesn't catch up to our crime rate until after 1995! I.e. even though our incarceration rate quadruples from 1950 to 1995, in that time violent crime more than quadruples.

It's only after the big drop in crime in the late 1990's that our incarceration rate started to become disproportionate to our violent crime rate.
On Human Nature by Edward Wilson is supposed to be a classic on this subject (the mix of biology, evolution and sociology).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Human_Nature
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Insurance is a large-scale perverter of the market, because it muddies the direct relationship between the cost and the value of the service and makes the pricing all screwy. Creating this opening for pencil-pushing middlemen to profit off a service to which they provide no value is a big problem.

This is blatantly apparent in the health industry, where if you're a cash patient that knows the right magic incantations, you can get 90% of the bill waived, and if you don't know those incantations, you're forced into bankruptcy with hundreds of thousands in medical debt. The American health system is despicable and must be rectified.
Unless I missed something, no. You can't go too far (on HN, Reddit, etc.) without seeing some recruiter shaming and explanations of what not to do, but how often do you see a post that says "I just received the most interesting introduction from a helpful and highly knowledgeable recruiter, and here it is"?

What you linked isn't so different from OP's post. We highlight the bad, but have you shown recruiters what they should be doing instead? The only thing I see in your piece that is potentially constructive is "treat me like a human being" with local jobs and applicable technologies.

If we're not complaining about relevant tech and geography, it's the list of too many skills (or not enough). Or it's not enough information on the company (OP's link is way more info than most recruiters would give, and the more common complaint is lack of info).

So we can agree that location and tech need to be relevant. Does that make for a good intro? "You look like a good fit for $COMPANY, now hiring $LANGUAGE developers for positions in $CITY. Let's discuss."

Is that going to catch your eye?
I'd run from anything like this.
Looks great! Would love understand how it compares to ZenHub.io.
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Is it childish that I'm not able to take a "presentation" which is a collection of JPG images in static HTML pages, written in colorful comic sans, seriously?
They do if the app uses Safari View Contoller (new in iOS 9).
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Lobbying in the UK sure sounds like lobbying in the US to me.[1] So does Volkswagen's lobbying of the EU parliament.[2] Do you have an example of a functional democracy that doesn't have lobbying like this?

[1] http://www.lobbyingtransparency.org/

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It's an interesting concept. But I'm not sure how it could work. Resizing introduces artifacts so best quality is always going to be achieved by reencoding for different resolutions. Also, how would the client know when to stop downloading?
I like!

One thing that I am hoping for however is some kind of notebook-like interface for doing small, ad-hoc data analysis projects. This looks fairly close to that.

Mathematica pioneered "the computational notebook" concept, and now we have similar stuff with R/Rstudio, IPython/Jupyter, matlab, and jmp. Those are all really nice and powerful, but they're somewhat large in scope and very ambitious.

It would be soooo cool to be able to just make notebooks that contain spreadsheets, related manipulation and analysis code and also text that can render to well-formatted html/pdf documents with really nice tables.

This tool looks like it can get there... if it can develop the ability to render documents sort of like Knitr for R.
>Health insurance will inevitably start to care about what you eat and how much you exercise.

Doesn't the ACA prohibit this. I thought they were now only allowed to base price on Age, Sex, and smoking status.
That's not quite true. I feel like you missed the whole point. The audience is their contemporaries. "Good" slave owners gave an excuse to their contemporaries to allow slavery to exist. If other people only saw "bad" slabs owners his argument is slavery would've ended sooner️.
You might find this interesting: http://blog.plover.com/prog/haskell/probmonad.html

Doesn't produce "closed-form formula", but, well, those tend to scale to programming-sized tasks poorly anyhow.
Cemetery places in Italy are not permanent - they get recycled and the remains dumped into some kind of common area. I think it's supposed to happen well after anyone who would remember the person is still around, but... still, I don't much care for the idea.
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> albeit this is a much nicer interface

And, if I understand correctly, this could be rolled into something like Jupyter. Which would be awesome!
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Out of curiosity, what's the background that lets you be so dismissive of a Fields Medal winner?

At this point I see a blog post written by a well respected mathematician whom I feel comfortable trusting and it's being brushed aside by I don't know who.
homoiconism is a feature of the lisp that has important consequences like tail-call optimization. Replacing the use of macros or recursive algorithms leads to terse OO equation that is not as readable as the expression of the same "algorithm"/"intent" using macros and recursion.
Apparently not, judging by very similar comments on another OpenBSD slideshow yesterday. ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10306611
ProPublica has some great material on techniques for data journalism, including scraping and transforming unfriendly data formatting:

https://www.propublica.org/nerds
> That's what actuarial science is founded on.

Oh, you mean "that branch of science that everyone ignores because it's politically unpalatable?"

"Gee, we promised the moon for our pension obligations and funded them at an absurdly low level, and now we're bankrupt? I don't know how this could have happened!" ~ Municipal governments
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Or cases where an initial arrest for something non-violent (such as drugs) resulted in a drastic change in life course, such as losing their job and making it very hard to find legal work, after which (combined with what they learned in prison the first time) resulted in them turning to property/violent crimes?
Is `openssl` a symlink to `libressl`, which acts differently based on argv0?

I'd love to get away from some of openssl's arcane flags... :-)
> Can't recommend it anymore

would be positive or negative?
They probably do it deliberately. It's an excellent filter for people who are bikeshedding, vs people who have something to say about the actual content.
I reply to recruiter often, though it rarely leads to me being ready to submit an application for a position. However, I'm just really friendly and eager for new opportunities. That being said, as others pointed out, think about what email would actually be refreshing in the inbox of valuable talent. They are humans - ask lots of questions what's important to them.

What kind of work do you like to do?
What are important elements of company culture to you?
What motivates you? What leaves you feeling accomplished?

Stop telling me what the company needs and stop guessing what I want and listen for a change.
So would Facebook be asking people to share credit scores constantly? How do they plan to get said credit scores? As far as I know, no one can legally access my credit report without my permission. For people with multiple accounts, which Facebook account do they use? What if I don't have an account? Will I just be denied all loans?

If they do manage to get the data, what makes them think this is a valid way to rate people's creditworthiness? It seems like an extremely random metric that measures nothing but is convenient for Facebook because of the type of data they collect. I don't see the moral angle because this is far-fetched speculation not rooted in reality. There are other companies who have tried to replace the current credit scoring with systems based on social data and they haven't gotten anywhere. Perhaps that might be because the best indicator of financial performance is past financial performance and nothing else?
Yes. The literally reason LibreSSL uses ComicSans is to troll the "HN Crowd" according to their early homepage. It started as, "help us reach this donation goal to remove comicsans".

By this point its just to troll people. Since using comic sans will trigger at least 1 discussion about the font itself. This is actually a good filter community wise. If you won't suffer certain fonts your certainly not gonna stomach hand reading OpenSSL code to figure out its indented goal.
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Aren't age and sex federally protected attributes? How are insurance companies discriminating against people in this manner?
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When I drive slower and quit smoking cigarettes, I very much am reducing my risk of getting into a car accident or dying from lung cancer.
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> Test selection algorithm is not perfect yet (it may produce false-positives and false-negatives)

I haven't read the code, but the associated document explaining the method makes no mention of accounting for line renumbering as a result of changes.

The accuracy with which changes are identified depends on the diff algorithm. I imagine it is more likely to generate false positives than false negatives (which is preferable), but I am sure there are cases where a line is unchanged textually but is different semantically (e.g. by the insertion or removal of an 'else' above it), and the diff program will consider it unchanged.
what's interesting to see in the US data is that Ageism seems to exist. the most experienced person gets paid less.

Also it's interesting to note that every UX requirement these days asks for substantial coding experience (on top of everything else non-code related) yet the salaries are at par with a junior coder.
Do you have any further links or information on these magic incantations ?...
That might make you the biggest company using Rust? Very cool, I hope you write it up.
What measure of proof do you require?

$1 million isn't even really that much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullock_paradox
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I have not worked for the US market the last five years, but as far as I remember there is a law in the US that a bank cannot take adverse action on a existing customer holding the bank's product based on credit history from another bank - so for example, my bank cannot decrease the limit of a card because the customer defaulted in a personal loan held with another bank. Of course, at the time of origination of the credit card, we can use this information.

The whole point being that just because data is available does not mean I can use it even though it may be statistically significant for me to use it.

Again, I am not sure of insurance regulations so there may be a possibility around using more data, if available, in insurance models.
"If you find it uncomfortable that lending institutions and insurance companies might act in the most rational, efficient manner, consider whether you're really comfortable with capitalism."

Basing credit scores off of other people's credit scores is about as rational and efficient as basing my temperature and blood pressure readings on the average of my friends' readings.
> The "mechanism", if you can call it that, is the wave function, which is a complex valued function

I think that's where I originally disagreed. I wouldn't want to call that a "mechanism", just a model, but I can see how these words become less useful as you examine them further.

I'm now thinking that there isn't such a difference between the word "mechanism" and "model". They're both synonyms for a way of perceiving a part of the universe.
I don't think so, but I haven't fully explored it. I would love to implement it if I can. I know it's kind of a hack but your organization can whitelist 3rd party apps, which is probably a good idea if you have sensitive data.

https://help.github.com/articles/about-third-party-applicati...

I'd love to explore this further with you.
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Most prisons may not be 100% private, but how many private sector companies provide very important services that create nearly the same problems as private prisons? Does it matter if Guards-R-Us are supplying guards to Private-Prisons-R-Us or to New York's own prisons?
Look up "redlining" for one consequence of not being able to get loans.
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$90,000 is "at par with a junior coder"??? Maybe today, in San Francisco.

At my first dev job in LA, in the mid-2000s, I was making $57,000.
Indeed. Agda and Coq are excellent examples.
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I appreciate the insight, and I should probably add that I've been recruiting for almost 20 years so my question is more geared towards helping those in the industry improve and not for my personal use. Shaming recruiters is so easy and trite.

The telemarketer comparison is interesting, but telemarketers aren't generally offering things that change someone's life. Being "offered" a job is significantly different than being offered pet insurance.

It's hard to determine how a job will help your career until we learn more about you. I don't know if it will pay more money until I know what you make.

I agree that most people don't want to hear about the nonsense that you've listed. But the things you want to hear about, or at least a couple of the things you listed here ($, leadership, help your career), are almost impossible to determine via a GitHub, LinkedIn, and even a short conversation.
The fact the font choice is always the biggest subthread in these stories really says a lot about HN...
Not enough uses of coding ninja, -guru or -rockstar.
Something doesn't feel right about all of this.

I think that's because our societies have evolved over many centuries with the basic truth that past indiscretions would tend to be forgiven and forgotten in time. For the first time ever, in literally the space of one generation, we have created both mainstream infrastructure that allows unprecedented monitoring of individuals and mainstream infrastructure that never forgets.

It's going to take further generational change to adapt to those new possibilities and decide how -- and even if -- we should use that technology. In the meantime, sadly, varying degrees of bad things are going to happen to a lot of people with varying degrees of innocence through little or no fault of their own.

My greatest concern is that many people in our societies who have the loudest voices in the media and the greatest power through running governments and to some extent big businesses also have very little understanding of the technology and its implications. They have bizarre incentives that promote doing some bad things with it, and little accountability for (or maybe even awareness of) the potential risks they take on our behalf, and worst of all they're convincing ordinary people who don't work with the technology and understand its implications that this is all OK and to be expected.
I remember so many people in the open source world angry or annoyed with the OpenBSD team for forking LibreSSL. The fact is it's more than a year later, several more high-risk vulnerabilities discovered, and OpenSSL has yet to make any noticable changes. Meanwhile those same vulnerabilities were fixed in LibreSSL due to code cleanup and removal.[1]

No matter how you feel about the forking or the openbsd team, there is something to be learned here. There are times when forking, deleting old code, and major clean-ups can be very useful strategies. Sunk cost bias can be an enemy of progress.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreSSL#Security_and_vulnerab...
Regardless, uBlock results in more performant web browsing.
What percentage is publicly owned but largely privately ran?
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I'm guessing that is much more a product of the value of the car you drive.

Statistically, you're extra experience (and safe driving record) makes you a much, much safer driver and insurance companies know this.
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