skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just say "I really appreciate your time so far but I have other offers which I am more interested in and don't wish to continue any further with your interview process"

Just be polite and don't waste either your or their time any further.
Can anyone summarize what the performance reviews will be replaced with?

I admire the intentions, but I'm a little cautious about what comes after. Tried to read the article, but got tired of the words/marketing slant, and the hbr link posted in a different comments wasn't working when I tried it.
How Zuck Just Defined His Generation
Look at the Obfuscator from PELock

https://www.pelock.com/products/obfuscator/screenshots

it does even more anti-re damage and it's been on the market for about 5 years?
This sounds like a bug. How do you repro this? I started on the note when logged out and clicking "Chan Zuckerberg Initiative" brought me to that page with no dialogs about logging in.
How is this at all related to Bezos?
So would "the people" know of a better way to deploy Zuckerberg's fortune than the man himself?
I don't think you are getting the point. It is not just a stylistic issue! The code is hard to understand and reason about because it is written like a book.
Or - it is okay depending on who does it.
I sounded like a useless thing until he actually pledged the resources to do something. But it does indeed sound crazy, even if it is I hope that it does something positive for the world.

In some ways "how can any two people actually have the power to fix so many problems" is somewhat defeated by the fact that these two people have 45 billion dollars and not to mention plenty of influence.

There are plenty of people/companies that seem to be working very hard to do make inequality worse so it's nice to hear a powerful figure say that are somewhere from neutral to positive.
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Did the money dry up because you got too expensive or because the dot com bubble burst?
Good point. It's hard to keep it small AND find a way to keep it going with some sort of revenue stream
"it" comes with the linguistic/cultural baggage of being associated primarily with inanimate objects, which I think you can understand is rather disconcerting to those who are genderqueer and very much alive.
ISIS/ Muslims
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> I've had the opportunity to rub shoulders with a few billionaires over the past few weeks, and it's remarkable how differently they think about money than the people who don't have it.

Yah, I don't necessarily disagree with their mindset. I've crossed a lot of spectrums, including chilling and rubbing shoulders with the rich to scraping by. I definitely do agree with a lot of the lofty 'moon shots' and some of these people have achieved remarkable things not just for themselves, but for society as well.

But, with Zuck, I just don't know. Gates got rich off operating systems and crushing opponents at all costs (a success story for capitalism). Zuck, from advertising and selling 'your' data. It's admirable that he's giving 99% away, but, I just don't get a warm fuzzy feeling about it.

Time will tell and I hope it turns out good.
If you think British English is as pure as you claim maybe you haven't spent enough time outside of southern England or listened to too much BBC. Just go hang out with some chavs for twenty minutes, and I'm sure your world will be turned upside down.

England is full of bad English speakers (and, no, that wasn't some jab at immigrants). In particular if you aren't middle class or above.
The problem is "better" is subjective, and its probably preferred that the majority of people determine what better is instead of the small minority of people with billions of dollars.

I like the future Bill Gates and Elon Musk want to bring. I do not like the future the Koch Brother's envision.
Or you can use Numba to write gil free imperative code as well.
I guess we lucked out that our wealth proclaimed leaders are benevolent
>Our generation grew up in classrooms where we all learned the same things at the same pace regardless of our interests or needs.

What are honors classes? What are remedial classes?
Facebook's Zuckerberg to give 99 percent of shares to charity
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Works fine. You can switch between IMAP accounts like switching between folders.
This seems more like PR than a genuine letter to a child. Which is fine, but I wish they'd treat it as such.

They talk about facebook, donations, improving the world, their beliefs, etc. but very little on how to be a better person or how to enjoy life. Maybe I'm projecting, but what would you want to find in your pillow after moving in for your first day of college?

I hope they wrote their daughter a real letter. One directed to her and not something that will be tweeted by hundreds of news organizations.
I wouldn't exactly call it a huge industry, it's been shrinking for years as indie devs shifted focus to mobile and steam. FGL.com the main marketplace for monetizing flash games has scheduled shutdowns [1] of all their flash services to focus on their mobile services, they also announced their ad revenue as one of very few providers was collectively down to $50/day [2] when they announced that was shutting down last month.

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[2] https://www.fgl.com/blog/2015/11/fgl-will-no-longer-support-...
> The response explicitly acknowledges that they're trying to make people feel bad.

Let's start here: The point of Christianity is to make you holy, not to make you happy.

When you teach something like I Corinthians 13, if it's going to help anyone's life instead of being merely an academic exercise, you wind up saying "Yes, you really are supposed to love like this. Do you?" If that makes someone feel bad, well, that's not actually the point. The point is that they recognize that they don't love in the way that they should, and therefore see the need to change.

And if you're going to say that changing your life in that way isn't the job of a university, well, this is a Christian university, and they think it is exactly their job. And if you're a student there, then presumably that's what you wanted, too.

You (ikeboy) seem to want this Christian university to be a secular one. That is not a reasonable expectation.

Now, I recognize that there are lots of ways that "making them recognize that they don't love in the way that they should" can be manipulative and even abusive, but it is not inherently so. And the fact that people feel bad (guilty) along the way isn't a flaw, if in fact they are guilty in terms of the biblical standard. To repeat, the point of Christianity is to make you holy, not to make you happy.
The Koch brothers are the most influential political backers in the country and they spend somewhere in the neighborhood of $200M per election cycle. They are the closest someone has come to trying to buy an election, but even their donations are still only rounding errors in comparison to their overall fortune. Politics is a relatively cheap game for someone with tens of billions of dollars.
Facebook is his thing, and he wants people to be public and share by default. So he is leading by example.
Hmmmm. Is locking down the entire internet worth $45B?
Thanx Mark. Now that your CIA financed endeavour became a money making machine, you find it is about time to contribute some sort of "philanthropy" to the world. It is no wonder the millions of serfs don't waste any time to congratulate you on this great action of yours. Please, a word from the world to American based institutions: Please, stop saving the world. Really, look at what your government is doing to Syria, etc supporting terrorists through CIA controlled channels.
And for God's sake! Read the reports from World Bank before posting this "i will save the world" letter: Poverty and inequality have risen during the last years, not decreased!
He's still left with US$450 million, for living expenses...
I can confidently say this: I'm highly knowledgeable of what several big-name companies are doing, and it's not as big of a difference as they market it to be. For one, there are still ratings behind the scenes so it's actually just making the process less transparent than before. For the other (one of which is named in the title of this post), they haven't figured out what they'll be doing instead, which means it may just be lipstick on a pig.
Did you ask? We can usually give some feedback.

That said, we are still improving our hiring workflow -- I have my own list of pet peeves. We've gone from dozens to thousands in a few years; turns out it's easier to scale software than hiring.

Edit: speaking of asking, I asked some more about our feedback. Sometimes it's hard to give specific feedback, sometimes it's not easy to be tactful, sometimes the interviewer can't point to single concrete examples rather than a vibe arising from tiny observations and so on. On top of that there are multiple people involved in giving hire/no-hire opinions and several people coordinating different parts of the logistics.

On top of that we go through a lot of interviews every week, only a few of whom we hire. The only people with a sufficiently global view of the decision are directors, and they're too swamped by all their duties to give detailed feedback to every candidate.

So on the one hand, we can't always give feedback, so my original statement was wrong. On the other we default to saying no, because even if we wanted to always give feedback, we simply couldn't handle the volume.
Does the Paddle checkout use Stripe?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23900241

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02432287
You'll see this in Facebook, too. Even though they ask for your gender.

But that's because you can choose which set of pronouns you prefer.

(They also have a pretty okay list of genders to choose from, if you're into labeling things)
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What's the problem with not helping your competitor? Telegram can use that ("censoring") as marketing if they know how to play it. People wanting to tell others what to do and how to operate their business calling themselves "capitalists" is hilarious.
I think we both know how hard it is for people to look critically at their surroundings before someone points problems out directly. You might get further with example threads, and maybe a few specific examples of the worst offenders (so no one will fuss too much about you calling them out).
Particularly knife-in-the-gut to those of us who adored trips to SF in our youth specifically because of the seemingly endless number of artists and musicians that populated the city.
Using a threadpool with asyncio doesn't buy you any parallelism, you have to use a processpool, which is fine for a data processing pipeline. Asyncio does not let you bypass the gil but it does vastly reduce the cost of spinning up absurd amounts of sockets and the like.
I've been telling myself to learn flexbox for a while now. Went to check this game out, got hooked, and learned it in about 10 minutes. Tooooo good, thanks webman!
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How much of Katrina's cost was due to their wildly incompetent government failing to allocate even a modest amount of infrastructure spending to upkeep the walls that should have held back that flooding (which caused most of the damage)? Obvious answer: the majority of it.

The US hasn't been hit by a major hurricane in a decade at this point.
> English seems to quickly adopt grammatically/syntactically/semantically incorrect phrases that become popular

If either of the uses of "begs the question" is more grammatically/syntactically/semantically incorrect, its the original transitive use, which is an abomination of failed translation into English, through Latin, of a straightforward Greek description which entirely fails to capture the meaning of the original and was an abuse of the English language at the time it was created. Its only claim to any kind of correctness is its history of use through which a clear understanding has developed despite its problems.

Of course, the newer, transitive use also has a solid (though shorter) history of use, is clearly understood, and, moreover, is structurally distinct from the transitive use, so it doesn't create any ambiguity or confusion with that use.
If Facebook were to pay taxes "where the real business is done" (assuming there is a legal way to avoid doing so), it would probably be considered gross negligence. I imagine the same is true of any multinational.

Besides, Facebook can put that money to much better use than government. All the lowly users of Facebook on the other hand do not know how to best spend their money and had better hand it over. Zuck says so (so do Gates and Soros).
Does it matter whether or not he's a narcissist or whatever reason why he does it? Or Gates or Buffet do?

I say bravo, and am looking forward to the benefits of giga-scale philanthropy.
I like to listen to podcasts.
Here's my list:
Welcome to Nightvale - has to be heard to be understood. It's very strange.

Cat & Cloud - It's a podcast about the specialty coffee world & community

I Brew My Own Coffee - A podcast about coffee brewing, tasting, and lifestyle.

Lore - A Podcast that explores the facts behind scary stories, myths, and stuff.

Radiolab - An awesome podcast that is super cool and rad.

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In Japanese ... his wife is ethnically Chinese.
My Erlang/Cowboy summer
Nope. They were a bit of a jerk (or, at best, indecisive) to leave you hanging that long, and then get back to you. Be better than them rather than vindictive. As pavornyoh said, don't burn bridges.
It could have been even worse. At least it didn't have ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM K177.

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Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10650891 (133 points, 15 hours ago, 26 comments)
Societies deal with their populations of young men by tying them down with employment, classroom education, marriage, or the criminal justice machine. It's harder to attack the guilty pleasures of a demographic when they have purchasing power, social sway, or political clout.
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He earned it.
I wish I could flag your message, but maybe you will delete your comment by yourself?

Base: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10657981

Edit: tone.
The current My Little Pony TV show (and the 3 feature length films) is still primarily put together via Flash 8.
Sorry, to see effects of Kerala model you don't even have to go that far.

Keralites can't wait to leave kerala for greaner pastures. Its no heaven. In fact going by the number of Keralites seeking jobs outside their state to merely make a living, Kerala is anything but developed.
The old word for "safe-space" used to be "mental hospital". Seriously, if you think you can hold the world hostage to your issues, you are sadly deluded, sadly arrogant, and sadly self-centered. It's worse than childish. It's crazy. And no amount of Oprah-style false compassion can conceal that.

As for the horrifying collectivism and grandiose, mobbish character of the comments, direct the dagger inward at your own pride, arrogance, self-righteousness, and depraved views, as a personal goal of your life. Mind your own business. There is no "we".
Putting this on my wishlist for Christmas. It's an interesting project, illustrating a very particular insular type of culture
Many wealthy citizens have only used their wealth to enrich themselves and their families. It is nice to see someone that is focused on making the world a better place.
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"The British heard the haunting sound of Germans singing Ã¢â‚¬Å“Stille NachtÃ¢â‚¬Â (Ã¢â‚¬Å“Silent NightÃ¢â‚¬Â)"

Few things sound more haunting than mangled text encodings.
That's a little nihilist.

Traditionally the state has been a form of wealth redistribution, because while it may not be a true democracy, citizens still vote, and could potentially vote to have the majority of the wealth redistributed equally amongst themselves.

But instead we have a power struggle between those with the means to sway others and the idealists. While I'm sure the idealists will probably never attain their utopia, if they don't continue to share their dream we'll end up living someone else's self-serving one.
You can clearly see that condition is inside a block that deals with images and videos, so it's looking for the "Sent from WhatsApp" tagline.

Also the fact that you're a WhatsApp employee makes your comment a poor attempt at justifying your own censoring behaviour
Over 10,000 people were duped by Bitcoin mining startup, feds say
Masterful, I love it. I can see how you broke this down and it simplifies things a great deal.
Really? If that model is so awesome, how can I ever implement a screen reader for Hearthstone? Or how can I implement a deck tracker for Hearthstone?

Or any other kind of wild shenanigan Apple hasn't ever thought of.

Keep that stuff for mobiles.

If PCs also become grandma only territory, how will really interesting apps ever be developed? Interesting almost always involves "dangerous" somewhere along the way.
Do you seriously not see a difference between the video store clerk recording people who voluntarily information and personal data such as browsing history?

Nobody cares about Amazon using their own sales records and server logs to generate recommendations. The problem comes when technology companies decide that means they get to use any data.

If you're fine with google using personal data, are you also fine with FedEx opening up every package they deliver to you?

> take zero-sum advantage of you

Nobody said "all" or "zero sum", which doesn't apply here, but "take advantage of you:" is pretty much a description of capitalism. On HN, this is usually called "monetizing".
Doesn't matter in the context of the joke. Has nothing to do with his wife, only 'chan'.
I'm in a position where I spend half my time working on "manager's schedule". After a relatively short time of doing so, I adopted the trick of scheduling an all-day meeting for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Then, when people want to schedule a meeting (regular or recurring), and it isn't incredibly urgent, they'll generally default to Monday or Tuesday, days where I primarily handle meetings, email, and short activities. This works well with automated tools that find the next available timeslot that everyone has marked as "free". Occasionally, someone will ask if I can accommodate something urgent on Wed-Fri, to which the answer is usually "yes", but despite that, I tend to have 7-8 hours of uninterrupted time on those days.
I'm not sure that's true. Some people weren't happy about the PEP. Few people are using it in any case, so most are either still unaware of it or haven't used it yet themselves.
There is - software like Splunk, SysTrack, etc. get towards that in various ways.
Would there still be any objection to making money from a porn site if it gave them 40% of their revenue?
>> find others with similar interests, to share things you've made

How would that be different than what we already have... right here on H/N?
Seems to be working again here, but this sort of thing is enough to worry me though.

Same problem as I have with facebook, there is too much critical mass to switch :(