skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author of the post. I think that this is exactly right. I don't know what motivated the companies to put that policy in place (they just told us that they had this preference). But I can speculate. There is an epidemic of interest in ML. Four out of 5 college grads we speak to list it as an interest. I think that interest has grown to the point where it's no longer any kind of signal about technical strength, and perhaps a signal that the candidates will not be flexible about what they work on.
So what were the domain names queried?
Less wide effects – nobody's turning it into a worm – but potentially much deeper. This seems like a great way to escalate from a compromised desktop to taking over someone's Active Directory infrastructure, which can take months to clean up.
Sure, I agree. My comment was in context of the "voice" as presented in the article, and how in some videos – from the same producers, no less – I find it enjoyable and in others I find it so annoying I can't continue watching regardless of other qualities such as whether or not the subject matter is interesting, production qualities, participants etc.
Yes, on HN reposts do not count as a dupe if the story hasn't had significant attention yet. In fact we invited the submitter to repost this one, which we sometimes do when a story seems like it would interest the community and deserves a second chance at attention.
We are also having problems not being reported in the status page, like network connections dropping trying with GKE and container registry.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean when you say that "biology is much, much shallower". Shallower than what, and in what way? What might it look like if it were deeper?
This reminds of psychological study about superstition. They studied fishing habits of South American Indian tribes; the tribes that fished in lakes, had consistent and reasonable rules about when/where to go fishing. However, the tribes that fished in the ocean, where you cannot predict the catch, had rather random and superstitious rules about when/where to go. This is due to our brains seeing patterns in randomness.

Also, it's perhaps understandable why companies don't want to reveal their preference. If you do it, you open yourself to being gamed. I think it's also better to have unreasonable requirements (looking to give genius programmers some boring product work) than be sorry. Again this happens in absence of actual test (other than wait and see) of who is a good candidate. Females do the same thing when mating.
Not really. Taking a lower-paying job not only avoids taxes, it lowers your income (both pre-tax and after-tax).

With charitable giving you can avoid taxes but still retain exactly the same after-tax income (assuming that you were going to gift to charity regardless of whether you got deduction or not). That is, you can gift $100 to charity, deduct the gift, and so avoid (say) $30 in tax. In this case the gift to charity effectively results in you having $100 less than before. Or, for same net result to you (minus $100), you could gift (after-tax) dollars to charity, say $70, and pay the $30 in taxes that you avoided in previous scenario. Only in second case you ended up giving only $70 to charity, because $30 goes to government. In first case you gave all of the $100 outlay to charity, avoided the $30 tax.
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New sensor chip pulls power out of the air so it never needs to be charged
I ask for five weeks/year, even if it means I have to forgo some pay. I have yet to be told no.

I don't think you've ever experienced the passive aggressiveness that comes with using "unlimited" vacation time.
So, random.

Also the company interviewing the first candidate, couldn't they just told him that they wanted testing?
Udacity Announcing Three New Nanodegree Programs
You're mistaking a language for a framework/library.
Hillary Clinton’s ‘Freudian Slip’
Wow, that's the same 15kT displacement as the USN's first nuclear cruiser, Long Beach, on a hull that is 100 feet shorter and 10 feet wider. That can't be good for the fineness ratio, a bit like pushing a barrel through the waves instead of a cone.

Presumably that's why it's classified a ( fast-sprinting ) destroyer rather than a ( long-distance ) cruiser. I wonder what its endurance at '30+ knots' actually is...
Google Pixel C review: Too clever by half
> usually at least two to three generations behind on every technological trend

It's easy to refactor (or completely rewrite) for whatever the hot new fad is when you're dealing with small codebases (<100k loc) that haven't been around very long and most likely won't continue to be in use for long. That's not productive when you're working on a product that has millions of lines of code and has been in use for years (and most likely will continue to be so).

It has nothing to do with "pointy haired bosses" - believe it or not a lot of us [enterprise developers] care more about actually getting stuff done then bragging to our friends how we're playing with whatever is hip this week.
Appears to be fixed.
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Surprise Mozilla just launched an ad blocker for iOS
Was just having this conversation -- is there any precedent for offering different teams and/or differing levels of tenure different vacation packages? My husband used to work at Groupon and said it was really challenging to give all entry-level sales people unlimited vacation because they tended to abuse it. However, unlimited vacation may work well for more tenured positions or even for different types of teams (engineering / design?) We thought this might be too tricky to administrate / unfair, but it does seem that it can be a useful and underabused perk for some and a disaster for others.
Twitter Is Monkeying Around with the Order of Tweets in Your Timeline
Erm, are we talking here about the same disconnect which offers paid VPN services on iOS & Android and a free content blocking extension for Safari iOS?
Also, a large percentage of ML/AI projects are scams. And even the people who aren't scammers tend to massively underestimate the amount of work required to make something good. It doesn't surprise me at all that interest in these technologies could be a red flag on multiple levels.

Sure there are plenty of great startups built with these technologies, but both also tend to be the 'and then a miracle occurs' of the tech industry.
NFL All Access is $100/year. It doesn't show live games streaming, but you get the full replay after the game AND the option of watching the 'condensed' version which cuts out all of the crap. I haven't paid for it yet, but I've seen the condensed games elsewhere.

Not being live will hurt that option somewhat, but since most sports I watch are time-shifted anyway (F1 races in the middle of the night, Football games whenever I can find time to watch, etc), it's not that big a deal.

Actually, right now, there's a free week trial and an $85 for the remainder of the year option. For the free week, you have to cancel or they bill you automagically. But I'm thinking of giving it a try (I don't have cable, and I'm a fan of an out-of-market Football team).
Well, it is JPEG, after all. So their focus is most likely photographic pictures. As evident by sentences as »contributors to this challenge may want consider contribution of their technology as input to the ongoing JPEG activity«.
This is oddly reassuring. Imposter syndrome is practically guaranteed when there is a 99% chance that you only got (or could only get) a good job by a failure of the interview process, since so many companies proclaim to only hire the top 1%.

Goes to show that there is a far-greater-than-1% chance that you're legitimately in somebody's top 1%.
Well, I think it just as strongly implies that American technology companies are increasingly engaging in illegal behavior. (Though this implication is no better then the one you've gotten from it.)
> I would expect that because I am paying for the storage, they would be happy to let me write data to their machines as fast as I like.

I don't understand why you'd think this. You're paying for storage, not an SLA as to how fast you can fill it.

> I'm paying a premium for gigabit fiber to the home and you really can tell who over-promises and under-delivers quickly. Fortunately my 'roll your own' backup + sync works well and is price competitive so I'll stick with that.

This is the preferred solution if a) commercial services are too slow for you and b) you're willing to spend the time to implement and manage it. It appears, based on commercial services out there, that there is no competition based on upload speeds.
The problem is to my boss "unlimited" might mean 15 days and to me it might mean 4 month. If we come in with wildly different ideas about what is OK, we're both going to end up very unhappy.
Information on who visits WikiLeaks - and what they read and upload - is an incredibly high value target. I don't see how you can argue otherwise, when Britain's top intel agency has an expensive line item in their budget just to get at that info.

Given these known security flaws, it's not a stretch to assume anyone who can see the GCHQ's Piwik server can have that data too, regardless of whether they are authorized.

See below for a small preview of what an attacker could exfiltrate (dissident IPs redacted for a reason):

https://firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2014/02/piwik2.png

While we're talking about poor security practices: the privileged username in the screenshot is apparently still the default ("admin"), so I hope the password isn't still "changeMe" ... http://piwik.org/faq/how-to/faq_191/
This is just how google docs/scheets/slides etc. works on every browser and every OS.
A article I wrote on attempting to do this yourself (without cloudflare/other services) is here: http://harknesslabs.com/post/38104429912/fighting-spoofed-sy...

Its much easier to use cloudflare, but sometimes it just not possible to use them (it wasnt for us, due to needing hardcoded IPs in our DC)
Patently false. Just because you get hired every time you have experience with a companys tech stack doesn't mean a lot of us has to jump through a lot of hoops without knowing why.

Me? I have wondered if I should make job applications a hobby regardless if I want a new job right there or not.

(oh, btw: I have had good work, without time between since 2007, when I had a few weeks between two jobs. I'm just so tired of wasting time on the recruitment process.)
This is definitely true. The filters that companies and recruiters use mostly trend in a meaningful direction. There are a higher percentage of good programmers among MIT grads than SUNY Potsdam grads. But this fact does nothing to help the good programmers who look bad on paper who everyone is ignoring. This is precisely the problem that we're trying to fix with Triplebyte. We want to make actual technical evaluation (not credential evaluation) cheap and accurate, so we can just interview everyone.
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Why would that be a problem?
Has age, race and gender discrimination been looked at?
How about installing WiFi jammers on aircraft? When they're flying high enough the jammers shouldn't interfere with normal civilian use but they would immobilize any approaching drones.
Yeah, it's like they left out the story and only presented the fluff around it.
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Depends on the actual information, doesn't it?
I believe the salary transparency requirement for CEOs was the best thing that ever happened to them. It's easy to negotiate a raise if you know what the other guy is making.

This will be unpopular but I think all salaries should be made public. This would allow a lot of people to negotiate better salaries.
>> have 10 days a year vacation (pretty standard)

Wait, what?

Is it really this bad in the States?
Security Update for Microsoft Windows DNS to Address Remote Code Execution
In big companies, doing it by tenure with the company is common. A typical schedule is something like: start at 2 weeks/yr, and get an extra week/yr for every 5 years you stay with the company, topping out at 6 weeks/yr. That model has run into trouble as people change jobs more, and is uncommon in the Valley where people change jobs even more than that. Some companies have ditched it, while others will negotiate giving you credit for past jobs, e.g. I believe if Exxon hires you away from a 20-year career with BP, they'll often give you equivalent seniority at Exxon for benefits purposes.
A number of those languages are not in mutually exclusive categories. Take Chinese, for instance, we have Mandarin and Cantonese listed separately while having another category called Chinese.

As a Cushite, I also know we do not have a language called Cushite. What we have, instead, are Somali, Oromo and other similar but not mutually intelligible languages.

Also, we do not have a language called Sudanese - it should have been Arabic, I believe.
love it! good to see hype machine still around
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This is where I got the info: http://space.stackexchange.com/a/1400

Your sources seem more credible, but it's (obviously) hard to get concrete facts on military applications of the shuttle.
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That silo is still aggregating data. Trying to argue its "less" centralized by using quantification of the amount of centralization is still akin to dissonance. Clearly people here don't agree with this, but that's to be expected when the topic is so polarizing. Traffic analytics must be important, so we rationalize our actions, or inactions around how we collect them.

Any centralized solution, at any scale, can possibly violate someone's privacy. Period. If we want to really fix things, we should stop circle jerking ourselves and do something about it.
Out of curiosity, on the taxonomy of programmers, is that supposed to be mostly exclusive, or can they overlap?
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How much of that is from "entrenched economic interests," and what's the number for fossil energy?
I made a bet to myself about 30 years ago that the mechanism for gene expression would be found to be describable as a non-linear system. It doesn't sound as if this is a solved problem yet.
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I definitely see what you're getting at, that there could be yet-unknown/unmeasured variability in the sun's output that could be affecting the average global temperature.

I fail to see, however, how this fact in any way discredits the research done by other scientists.

You have a hypothesis that is untested, that is not necessarily mutually exclusive from the already tested hypothesis.

Until that hypothesis is tested and confirmed, I will live my life by the already tested and confirmed hypotheses.

What really confuses me about this whole issue is, what exactly are people afraid of us doing if we operate under the assumption that climate change is man made? Why such vitriol (not from you, but others) against the idea that humans can/have contribute(d) to a changing climate? I'm honestly asking.
"I don't even store my shell history on private computers."

Any particular reason for that? It seems devastating to usability, for unclear benefit...
It's definitely done. A traditional method is that the longer you've been at a place, the more vacation you earn. Another technique I've seen is to have a divide, eg "VP and above get an extra 5 days per year."

Facebook, Google, etc commonly use the contractor technique, where anyone you want to work for you but not give benefits becomes an independent contractor, or works for a vendor. Eg, the cooks in the Facebook kitchens.
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Why does Twitter struggle with UX so much. It's as if they don't understand their core strengths or brand.
I've replaced Google Analytics in all my projects with my CouchDB-only web analytics service, Microanalytics[1], which I could access from a CLI[2] and worked very well.

But then I started to fall short on disk space for storing too many events. This is a problem.

[1]: https://github.com/fiatjaf/microanalytics

[2]: https://github.com/fiatjaf/microanalytics-cli
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Another great thing about the country I work in ATM: 5 weeks "paid" vacation each year (of course this means salaries are slightly lower, but nice anyway)

Edit: And, you are supposed to use them. Not making sure your employees spend their holiday days can land at least the company if not the employee as well in legal hot water.
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As soon as I read that part, I wanted to apply. I am as much as an American as it gets: some of my ancestors fought in the Revolutionary and American Civil wars. But I speak Russian fluently and I've been living in Siberia for a few years. As soon as I read that, I realized that I would instantly be "best buds" with the Russian astronauts on the ISS because I don't just speak their language: I also (kind of) understand their culture.

Unfortunately, I don't have any experience flying jet aircraft. So the challenge is meant for someone else...
The fact that all of those players were in college makes them above average to begin with. Show me the D&D groups made up of high school dropouts.
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What are hot skills that are currently in high demand? Would you look to programming bootcamps to get a pulse on market?
I linked to Disconnect’s apparently abandoned open-source project (https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect), which I presume is the basis of Focus’s blocking.
I think we are getting there. It's not easy to build an expressive and efficient formalism that combines structure and uncertainty. New approaches like Markov logic are promising.
Yup. 10 days paid time off is the de-facto standard for just about every company based in this country.

Some people negotiate additional PTO as part of their compensation package but I don't need to tell HN that engineers are notoriously bad at doing this.
This is awesome! If there was a similar blocker for Mac, I'd totally use it. Although, I'm not sure why it is called "Focus".

But hey, this way I can share my Firefox plugin called Focus ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/focus-by-caba... ) - it lets you block websites so you can focus on your work :). Also available for Chrome ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/focus-by-cabana-la... ) =)
If they really wanted to increase their take they could have that fed identifying system running on the content server as well. That way they can show inflated prices to feds, have the feds try to buy, then walk away with a bigger haul.
Of course, if one plans things well, one has the leeway to leave one job and take a few weeks off before finding another...
What's funny is, I felt the exact same way -- I cut the cord SPECIFICALLY to choke off ESPN. I want unbundled content so I can pay for the channels I value.

But, ironically, I realized the main reason I watch video content is for sports. It's just sports that the ESPN world doesn't value. I watch every Formula 1 qualifying and race session, but ESPN doesn't care, and anyway, F1 coverage in the US virtually died with the death of Speedvision/Speed Channel.. it's only now coming back, but it sure ain't on ESPN.

About the only other thing I care about these days is the occasional NHL game and live football game, but I follow an out-of-market team and ESPN doesn't help me much there anyway. 99.9% of their content is drivel -- I simply don't care about the analysis or talk shows or sports center.

So, I guess I do value sports, but I sure as hell don't value ESPN, and I'm happy to cut off their funding.

Bring on unbundled content so we can vote with our dollars.
I think this is much needed. Currently, devices try to make requests to "special sites" [0] and compare the responses to hardcoded expectations.

The WiFi operators usually try to redirect to (or inject) the captive portal site, where the DNS server and/or gateway do some MITM. If you use DNSCrpyt, or if they only MITM on HTTP and you use a custom DNS server, then you'll simply end up with connection errors. Connecting to a site with HTTPS (intentionally or due to HSTS) will also fail because it can't be redirected.

The only way to fix this is obtaining a valid SSL CA cert to redirect HTTPS traffic (not really :) - or this approach via DHCP/RAs.

0: e.g. http://www.google.com/blank.html, http://www.google.com/generate_204
Here is a Ted talk that addresses those questions and more:
We can now edit our DNA. But let's do it wisely
http://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_doudna_we_can_now_edit_our...
What do you use as a front-end?
I can't speak on their behalf, but I can see how this would be interpreted as a negative signal. If someone is really excited about ML stuff, and you aren't going to hire him for your ML team, then I would be afraid that the person will be disappointed that the work we give him/her is less about solving complex problems and more about getting stuff done. There's also the issue that this person is probably going to jump ship the second he gets an offer to work on ML stuff.

As someone having a strong interest in math and theoretical computer science, I think their bias is fair. I think I'm a pretty good programmer, better than most I've met with similar experience, but I'll admit that I don't care as much as people who are really passionate about building stuff. They will write sloppy code sometimes, but they'll also focus on getting stuff shipped, whereas I naturally want to focus on solving interesting issues like that bug which only seems to happen 1/20 unit tests but no customer has reported.

It took me some time to learn how industry differs from university programming, and if I were recruiting, I don't know if I would want to deal with the hassle. Obviously now that I know I accept industry for what it is and make sure I do my best, even when it doesn't align with my own interests necessarily, but that takes some maturity (not that I am particularly mature), and I can see why hiring managers would rather avoid the risk when hiring and firing is very expensive and annoying.
Write a bartering app?
Indeed, it's an issue when interviewers believe that the best candidates will feel a compulsion to test their code without being prompted. I worked at a company that was big into TDD without ever having done it before, it was no problem and I wrote lots of tests, and so did everyone else on my team who didn't have a TDD background before.

On the job people will tell you if they expect tests, so why interview people in a different situation?
Or you could have a straightforward discussion with him/her about your expectations.

The real issue with unlimited PTO is that many people are so conflict-adverse (except on the internet) that they cannot initiate basic conversations about how much vacation time they think is reasonable. And instead of taking responsibility for communicating their expectations like adults, they stew in resentment against their employer for shifting that responsibility onto them.

If your employer balks at your idea of reasonable time off, then you might think about switching employers. But if you balk at the idea of having some input into your employer's expectations of you, then you need to take more responsibility, or move to a company with a less collaborative culture.
Thanks for this overview and analysis.
You inspired me a new blogpost, which might be seen as an answer to your post: http://code.alaiwan.org/wp/?p=84
For ease of access, the links to the conference and tech mentioned in the article are http://www.techfugees.com/ and http://www.geecycle.org/
doesn't help much if most your new users are searching to correct a mistyped brand name (hipmunk? hipmonkey?...)