skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Who should be responsible for developing talent? On one side, we have enthusiastic, curious people without much experience. On another, we have employers who want experienced people but don’t want to invest in the training themselves. And between them, we have colleges that offer students educational groundwork in computer science but don't want to transform into coding trade schools."

I would also like to add: We have employers who want highly skilled full-stack developers with 5 to 10 yrs experience but don't want to pay top dollar for them. Instead they scream about a tech talent shortage in order to push the expansion of H1-B to get cheaper labor.
> That's a low standard for the government to meet. "Preponderance of the evidence" means that the government doesn't need to prove the property is subject to forfeiture, just show that 50% of the evidence indicates that it could be.

Preponderance of the evidence is the standard burden of proof for civil cases, whatever actors are involved -- the side the wins is the side that proves that its position is most likely to be correct.

The higher (beyond a reasonable doubt) burden of proof in criminal cases exists as a safeguard because of the greater consequences to liberty of a criminal conviction.

Its the same standard used when pretty much anyone wants to use the legal system to take your money or other property via a lawsuit, so I don't think its that outrageous that it is used for civil forfeiture cases.
The essence of a representative republic is that these horrible leaders would still be checked by the minority of non-horrible leaders.

In a direct democracy, the mob only needs 51% of the referendum. In representative government, a minority of representatives can prevent disastrous legislation from happening, through the threat of filibuster or by holding a more valuable (to the opposition) bill hostage.

In 2009 when Democrats held a Congressional majority, they didn't get everything they wanted. Now in 2015, Republicans hold a Congressional majority, they still don't get everything they wanted. Whichever side you're on, you must admit that these checks prevented the "bad guys" from prevailing.
It makes little difference. He's still doing exactly what he did at CoreOS: going to conferences and meetups giving Kubernetes demos.
I am looking for any SC verdicts justifying this horrendous Nazi styles practice. I am unable to find any, so I think this law is open to challenge.

Here is a brilliant John Stossel episode about this law and how it is destroying so many innocent people.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ399EBlqBE
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiGRMD4NXVA
Bower development is stopped. Move to npm, if you haven't already
Tor hacked with FBI bung: CMU “researchers” got $1M, it’s alleged
I like having an intuitive, easy-to-use WIMP system for my common tasks. I don't want to read my e-mail in a terminal window, or use some X11 chat app with a programmer-designed UI.

I also like being able to get a terminal window to fiddle with the guts when I want it. Some tasks are better suited for that interface, and some powerful tools are only available there.

During those better days, Apple fully embraced the UNIX nature of their OS, without compromising the usability of their GUI layer. They got Mac OS X certified by The Open Group. They started opensource.apple.com and distributed enough of the OS's guts that you could actually get a full Darwin OS up and running entirely from source, even if the result wasn't super useful. They gave out a full suite of developer tools free of charge that you could use to build powerful apps for the system, and were in fact the exact same tools that Apple used.

Then iOS came. No more open source, except the absolute bare minimum they're required to distribute for open source licenses. (Their open source archive for iOS 9.0 contains a whole six packages, of which five are various parts of WebKit.) No more visibility into anything. Everything runs in a sandbox that you can't bypass by any means except finding a security vulnerability. The developer tools are still free, but if you want to actually use them to ship anything, or even run anything on real hardware locally, you have to pay and agree to their terms. (The "run anything on real hardware locally" bit has changed with Xcode 7, which is what f.lux was briefly taking advantage of, but this is new as of just a couple of months ago.) Apple suddenly wants to play gatekeeper to everything; if you want to ship apps to your customers, you have to first let Apple review and approve it, and they'll reject you if you don't follow their rules.

The Mac retains much of what was great about it before, but it's slowly drifting the same way.
Am I overlooking something here? See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/3snpdl/php_7_floating_...
You know, government debit can grow until it's not sustainable anymore. And seems to be doing exactly that world around for the last couple of decades.

I know this disagree with mainstream economics, and almost all niche economics theories. But it's happening again and again, so fuck the theories.
I always focus on hiring for Attitude and Aptitude.

If you have a bad attitude I can't help you with that.

If you have aptitude and a good attitude we can teach you whatever you need to learn to be successful on our team.

What I know about every person ever is they came into this world with little to no knowledge, they had to learn to eat, walk, talk, run, etc. If we focus too much on a candidate's experience and background we miss out on their potential future value.

One of the greatest employees I ever hired was a pool man, literally cleaning pools for a living when I met him. He was a hobbyist computer hacker and I asked him how he'd like to do that full time. He learned and turned out to be an amazing asset to my team. I have many stories like this over my long career. It's not about the school you went to, or what social circles you hang out in, in the end it's about your passion and ability to learn and get shit done.

All this said I do worry that our systems are not creating the space for people to find their passion while they hone their skills and find a career path.
The landing page offers a better explanation: https://cosmicos.github.io/about.html
I'm really tempted to switch but do they have an iPhone app? It's quite useful to sync my photos with my desktop using btsync
> the engine of capitalism starts to drop in efficiency because it's choking on too high a amount of misrouted investments in some areas, and not enough in others.

The "misrouted investments" you speak of, are only possible, on any large scale, by an ever increasing money supply provided by a central bank. To put in other words, there can be no bubbles, of any kind, without the expansion of the money supply. This expansion in the money supply is decidedly not capitalistic.
Nobody needs 70 mb/s for basic internet access. I think the cheap lower/end is 20-30 /month. I pay $30/month for 50 mb/s and it works just fine for HD streaming videos.

I would love higher BW but while I could afford it I already have my own cable modem and to upgrade would need to get special equipment from my ISP, which I would have to lease and deal with the inconvenience of giving back at one of their far away locations. It's been annoying the past so decided to pass.

But for anyone who is price sensitive doubling/tripling their internet bill is a non-starter.
This is huge, considering how simple the circuitry is.

Based on the prototyping process, they have gone for an expensive impedance analysis DSP chip with 0.1Hz resolution and a relatively wide frequency range. If this gets adopted by a major manufacturer, you could spin an ASIC for pocket change at the optimal frequency (40KHz empirically derived by researchers). Additionally, put the multiplexer on the same chip and make a single chip solution.

The paper is focused more on the machine learning aspect but there are obvious points to improve on the electrical bits!

I'll be waiting until this appears as a Myo-like form factors for hackers to play with.
Shucks you beat me to it. This was about a year go... It's only now that main stream media is picking up on this scam by the police.

This type of aggressive policing (excessive jaywalking tickets) was also happening in Ferguson.

We know how that turned out...
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Same here. Been pretty burned by this.
Anecdotally, we switched up our process some in an attempt to be able to hire faster (mostly by avoiding false negatives). It used to be standard whiteboard style; we switched to a mix of that and more real-work style interviews. False positives went up pretty significantly, and even after shedding those the general quality was of hires was a bit lower.
We might be using "fantasy" to mean different things.

I'm describing the libertarian fantasy such because it doesn't reflect any history, and it doesn't work out the way it's supposed to wherever it's been tried. As best we have it, evidence simply doesn't support that libertarian policy ideas work the way they're supposed to.

As for "statist fantasy," well, here we are: through a long, slow process of democratic engagement, we have agencies that protect our environment, improve road safety, keep workplace hazards minimal, and work to minimize discrimination in the workplace. None of them, of course, are perfect, but they all came about in response to something, some perceived imperfection in the world. People voted in politicians who reflected their values, and that eventually filtered into what we have now.

But, you know, nothing's ever perfect, and it's always a process of refinement. The difference between my "statist fantasy" and the libertarian one is that I see that, by means of government, we're slowly getting the world we want.

Giving free reign back to big business, to turn the environment and workplace back into a free-for-all, how much sense does that make?
I wrote implementation of Treyfer today out of curiosity but haven't completely optimized it. https://odzhan.wordpress.com/2015/11/13/asmcodes-treyfer/
(goes to jove.com)

(clicks one of the videos that sound interesting. start hearing about stem cell marker something-or-something)

(popup! "please register to continue watching")

No thanks. I'll take my pdf.
I'm not saying you'll fail. Please understand that.

That startup playbook that just came out, and countless other sources, anecdotes, etc all say the same thing : work with people you know, that you know well. Friends, former colleagues, etc.

It is quite a barrier to meet someone and jump on a project with them as a co-founder. Especially as a side project where the commitment level is low. I think you should think seriously on that.
It probably did restrict him, he still works in the industry of his apprenticeship. The point is, what if he realized two years in, or five years in, that he didn't want to be a programmer?
It's cool you got to do these kind of things years ago. I like IRC as well, however slack has gone mainstream. Therefore these kind of bots should be adapted and implemented for everyone to enjoy!

Do you happen to have the code available for the bots you did? I could look at it for inspiration on other slack bots.
For example, 30 is divisible by 10, but 1/30 is not represented cleanly in base 10.
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The subsidy should come from the state, as it does for other forms of education. Honestly I think apprenticeships should start at 16 (and if I had my way, 14. I live in a generally rural community and kids in the sticks learn how to work a tractor pretty young).

Ultimately, people's competitiveness comes from their investment in their own skills. As Ron White taught us, "you can't fix stupid." What you can do is ensure that people will be working (instead of claiming welfare, etc), and that if their skills atrophy or their job is automated away, back to a new apprenticeship. Better than getting a new 4 year B.S.
it's the false positives that worry me more - that is, the well-practiced whiteboard coder who cannot actually design a maintainable system or the sociopath or brilliant jerk who nobody can stand to work with.
Yes, but is that because of Java compatibility (which has been generally exemplary) or maybe because of other issues (I'm thinking of Oracle vs Google)?
Incorrect. Reagan's 1986 tax reform actually eliminated the tax deductibility of credit card debt. While U.S. household debt did increase in the 1980s, it grew much more rapidly during the 1990s and first half of 2000s.
Actually, I think I am wrong. The price HAS risen, but lots of people can't or won't pay. This doesn't meet the technical definition of a shortage:

In common use, the term "shortage" may refer to a situation where most people are unable to find a desired good at an affordable price, especially where supply problems have increased the price. "Market clearing" happens when all buyers and sellers willing to transact at the equilibrium price are able to find partners. There are almost always willing buyers at a lower-than-market-clearing price; the narrower technical definition doesn't consider failure to serve this demand as a "shortage", even if it would be described that way in a social or political context (which the simple model of supply and demand does not attempt to encompass).
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There's no competitive advantage to not polluting, or we wouldn't ever have needed an EPA in the first place!

There's such an imbalance of power between employer and employee that there's no meaningful competitive advantage to a safe workplace; if employees really were all self-empowered free agents, and not scared and hungry people with families and children to support, we wouldn't have needed an OSHA in the first place!

All the regulations the libertarians want to turn back, they all came about in response to the world working so imperfectly that it had to be changed with force of law.

Undoing that, on the basis of a theory with absolutely no real-world evidence of working? That just doesn't make sense.
What about digital goods? Does it handle a download interface?
"Talent" is one of those words that we should erase from you dictionary. Personally, I don't believe in "talent".

The industry thinks you're "talented", usually, if you're a jack of all trades and managed to get things done without having in consideration if understand what you're doing or if you're just a tutorial driven guy ( aka the design who uses a js hype framework and become an engineer in 4 weeks). For me this heart breaking because I actually enjoy my work despite the bad days everybody faces at it.

Every 3 years or so you need to reinvent yourself and learn new stuff and still be productive! People think that getting you of college means that you're production ready and that you don't need time to learn or even 1 week off to be updated.

The "talent" shortage is just another way of saying:"We don't find enough cheap jacks of all trades out there that can handle everything. It's quite bad because we need to hire expensive managers that won't train then and make (force) them solve to tickets no matter what."
Why is there a big black line on the top of HN?
> A suspected bank robber gets arrested when the money is kept. The outcome of the arrest is a conviction or an acquittal, which (automatically) determines the fate of the money.

No, it doesn't. An accused bank robber could be acquitted of the crime of robbery and still found liable for the tort of conversion of property, and have to pay the money back to the bank.

(Additionally, either criminal or civil forfeiture may be available against the specific money involved, only in a criminal forfeiture case would the acquittal of the defendant on the criminal charges be dispositive. Generally, as I understand it, criminal forfeiture applies to a broader and more distant class of property relations to the crime, and therefore isn't used for the types of property to which civil forfeiture could be applied.)
Pundit is excellent, it doesn't tie you to any one model of authorization, it just gives you a standard way to implement your own in a very light-weight fashion.
Comments that take a discussion onto a generic ideological tangent tend to produce low-quality threads. Comments that engage with the specific content of an article lead to better-quality threads. Since on HN we're trying to optimize for signal/noise ratio, please prefer the latter.
I didn't know you had to sign up for homebrew and provide all your personal info including an authorized credit card, and then you are forced to randomly re-authenticate with the central authority and verify that your credit card is still valid in order to continue using the apps. Also didn't know homebrew could remotely invalidate an app.
I'm also a self-taught developer and contributing full-stack and with devops, and I've got a year to go to that 5 years XP mark. I'd say I'm pretty productive on a day to day basis, but I do lack certain skillsets that are "required" in some interviews but don't effect my day-to-day (I learn things as a need arises):

Low level considerations: Its extremely rare with todays tools and libraries especially to have to dive super deep into compilers or engines. I have to do it once or twice a year to fix some terrible bug, so spending years learning about the intricacies of building my own compiler isn't that useful for me to actually get work done. Granted I"m not doing groundbreaking computer science work but I AM getting a full stack of performant secure and load-balanced services and servers up and running to perform core business work.

You can hire Jr. people absolutely - just make sure that whatever they have grown in first is something that you use a lot, while they grow into other areas. If you don't have the budget for super senior do it all people, or if you are on a large team or company where a super senior do it all person would be slowed down there's no issue with hiring B-level or Jr. people - in fact, you'll probably get a lot of good work done out of them. If nobody took a chance on me then I'd be nowhere now.
> Apple quickly addressed the problem by issuing a new certificate with an expiration date of 2035

2035?

>The new Mac App Store certificate was using the current, strong SHA-2 algorithm. However, some apps were running receipt validation code using very old versions of OpenSSL that don’t support SHA-2.

I sure hope it's not a SHA-1 expiring in 2035...
If we were talking about a contract dispute where one of the parties is a city, state or the federal government, you're totally right.

If we're talking about the police alleging that you have money because of criminal acts, we should switch to the criminal standard.
How does that solve anything? I still don't know if you meant KiB = kilobit or kilobyte.
Yea I thought the same thing when reading this. Pundit is already well adopted and covers this use case, this seems like re-inventing the wheel a bit atm.
That's not necessarily a bad argument, but the theoretical basis of the criminal burden of proof is that the kind of consequences resulting from criminal conviction are different than mere property (which is routinely at issue in civil cases).

So, the principle on which the existing distinction is based really doesn't support it being applied to forfeiture actions.

And, while there might be a good argument for changing the principle underlying the distinction, I don't see a clear reason for applying specifically the beyond a reasonable doubt standard to forfeiture (or even a higher standard that would apply in any other civil claim.)
Asked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10559216
I think the reason why these venture-backed companies are shutting down is because they can't live up to their investor's (as well as their own) expectations, EVEN IF they're doing pretty well. It's kinda crazy thinking about it. Nowadays if you don't get hundreds of millions of users AND if it's not growing exponentially, people call you a loser. Look at companies like Dropbox and Twitter. It's not like they've failed but people compare them with the newest hot startups like Snapchat and Slack and call them "the next Unicorn that will probably die". But I don't think that's true. You should keep working on what you believe in, and whenever you see something like this, congratulate yourself for staying in the game and keep going. You never know what will happen in the future, markets change and things change, and as a result your product can become very attractive to certain groups of people, and when that happens, if you're the only one standing in the arena, you win.
Wonder if/what usage caps would get applied to this.

Given a 300GB cap like many providers have, it would take 26 seconds to reach it.
>whereas the transition from Java 6 to later versions is proving to be next to impossible

Well, we are running and further developing code written for Java 1.4 on Java 8 now. Zero problems.
Seems very handy! Thanks for releasing this.

Something that stood out to me in the examples was ambiguity of units. Is "G" always metric, 10^9 bytes? And is GB always GiB, 2^30 bytes? Worth documenting if it's consistent from the library, or if it's OS-specific.

That, and OSX's lack of reporting the drive model/name. OS limitation?
Hmmm, This sounds like a standard whose time has come. Web pages that easily transform to a nice printable form, or perhaps multiple transforms. Occasionally I will be on a web page that has a "print format" option, but most of them suck.
Now, How to monetize???
First thought is to be one of the new open science publishing platforms funded by donations and appropriate advertising.
Your comment was downvoted by regular users. No one can downvote replies to themselves.

I doubt that we insulted you, though it's plausible we told you that your HN comments are problematic, and sometimes people interpret that as an insult.
I feel your pain. I've managed to do enough interviews that I no longer appear to be nervous, but my brain still just does not work correctly when in an interview situation. Hell, I once used a goto during an interview for a C++ job because I was so stressed out I could not recall the concept of loops.

I have literally hung up the phone after a live(remote) coding interview and had the answer to the problem that had stumped me pop into my head seconds later. Similar things have happened with driving/flying home from an on-site whiteboard interview.

My best-ever interview performance came after a year of looking for a new job. I was so beaten down and emotionally exhausted I showed up for a coding interview knowing I would fail, and I just did not care. No stress. Got the job.

So I guess that would be the secret for me, I have to not care if I get the job or not. Easier said than done.