skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the recruiting problem in technology in general is that programmers don't meet and interact with enough different types of programmers in work settings, so they really don't know what they want or what they should be looking for.

I'd suggest everyone start doing this instead:

For anyone who meets basic criteria / filters, hire them at least part time, and put them to work. If they don't make the cut 3 months later (based on some objective criteria) let them go. Then after you've done all your recruiting like this maybe 1-2 years later evaluate what your team consists of.

It's not even a question in my mind. I'm not 99% sure. I'm 100% confident the team will not look like the recruiting team originally envisioned it would look before they started hiring.

EDIT: And I'm 100% confident those teams will consist of an overall better quality of engineer, and putting out higher quality products, than they would've ended up with if they stuck with trying to find what they believe to be the right "culture fit" or some concept of what a "prototypical engineer" is / should be.
Thanks for the link. The timing is suspicious, but it's certainly plausible that while the ATO's actions aren't related to an investigation into Wright's bitcoin holdings, that the Wired article acted as a trigger to move up the timeline of the raid.

If that's what happened perhaps they were moving quickly to preserve evidence of whatever else they were investigating in advance of the hordes of people on their way to break into the house and steal whatever computer hardware they could find hoping to gain access to the "Satoshi's Stash" bitcoins.

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EDIT: Too funny... I posted this and then saw another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702038) by imron (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=imron) posted before mine that described almost the exact same conclusion (nearly word for word). Props to them for beating me to the punch!
English and Its Undeserved Good Luck
> Neuroscientists and psychologists predominantly reject this viewpoint, contending that our comprehension does not result from an internal grammar; rather, it is based on both statistical calculations between words and sound cues to structure.

Wait, is this true? There are people who seriously suggest that we don't have an innate notion of grammar?
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-australian-who-may-hav...

"Under the scheme, a company which turns over less than $20 million is eligible to apply for a cash rebate of 45 cents for every dollar spent on research and development activity.

According to a press release in May, 2015, DeMorgan Ltd succeeded in its application for the rebate.

That means DeMorgan were able to prove to AusIndustry that it had spent $120 million on R&D activities in the 2014/2015 financial year, all while turning over less than $20 million. A 45 cent rebate on $120 million works out to $54 million."
It does, if you consider that bills are always fiat money, and coins could be precious metals. (But nowadays never are ... Because of Gresham's law)
Which is irrelevant because the biggest threat is likely to be from those who won't wait to find out.
> it worries me that Rust is going too far in that
> direction.

Rust is making no steps at all towards anything akin to templates. Can you elaborate?
Not hard at all. Setup a 1 ms timer interrupt (the ONLY interrupt in the system) and fire-off non-preemptive tasks in a loop. Bingo! You have an OS that is good enough to maintain a clock, attend to a serial port, even USB (via FTDI chip or similar), blink some LED's and, yes, control the sprinkler system.

If you have a little more time, setup a FIFO a linked list or some other structure and have the keypad scanning routine issue messages that are then picked-up off the FIFO by a separate message processor routine that parses them and acts accordingly. In other words, not tasks can send each other messages through a very simple mechanism.

And now, with that in place, you can modify your serial or USB port handler to also allow you to place the same messages into the FIFO. What you've just done is enabled full remote control of your sprinkler system with very little code.

Now sensors (rain?) can also insert messages into the message loop and make things happen.

Change the LED routine to pick-up "LED" messages of the loop. Now you can control the LED's remotely through your serial port.

Then you get a little more ambitious, buy one of those Digi modules that turns an Ethernet connection into a serial port and write simple code that allows you to have said module insert messages into the message loop. Now you can control your sprinkler system from any network location at home.

Not that hard at all. No need for Linux. Just start with a 1 ms timer interrupt and the rest is easy as pie.

By throwing a server-grade OS at controlling a sprinkler system people are not learning the most basic things about computing.
By that metric, and considering absolute numbers, there's a good chance that no other language ever produced has been a success. :P
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10701785
Apple's new battery case is awful
My problem with microloams is that they seem rife with dishonesty somewhere between propaganda bullshit and fraud. claims high repayment and "choose who you lend to", but semisecretly distributes money through local loan sharks who charge high interest.
Pokemon Shuffle is available on iOS/Android: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pokemon-shuffle-mobile/id101...

Before his passing, Iwata announced plans for more mobile games (and Nintendo stock had spiked because of it). However, the collaboration with DeNA for a custom branded Puzzle and Dragons (http://www.mariowiki.com/Puzzle_%26_Dragons:_Super_Mario_Bro... ) I hear did not sell well. So we'll see.
Yep we've known about this for years. There are even some guys that do chemical analysis of some mixes that result in some very scathing letters regarding acetoin and diacetyl contents.

The "bad shit" list for ejuice is usually artificial sweeteners, acetoin, and diacetyl.
It's also useful to remember that a business doesn't need to approach the idea of open source as an all-or-nothing proposition. In many circumstances, particularly with the recent emphasis on services and decentralization, companies might be able to comfortably open up some aspects of their core software. Well-built, internal software libraries or components which have good public utility but few opportunities for massive profits could be good candidates; there must be some sort of middle ground between keeping a stranglehold over all extrinsically valuable IP and opening your whole software stack to the masses.
And its not called Taylor?
Yes, there are. Or at least, that we don't have a special-purpose module of our brain devoted just to that.
The common counter to Chomsky's version of innate grammar is that language is the result of the interaction of a bunch of different cognitive modules which all evolved for different purposes, but which when combined happen to make language possible, and have since been under selection pressure to make language work better.

The article doesn't actually provide any support for the "innate" or "universal grammar" hypothesis as it is typically understood, though. This is really about whether the de-facto grammar that emerges from whatever the "language faculty" has a particular hierarchical and recursive structure. And yes, there are people who seriously argue against that, too. The most common alternative model that I have been exposed to is analogical template matching, which actually does a pretty good job at a lot of NLP tasks.
Was erasure necessary to maintain backwards compatibility?

Also what are you doing that you need type information at runtime?
So install an Android launcher that doesn't use icons. They are available.
No, the 0 screen time reflects research from a time before real work on educational television and its effects was done.

Please read the material before speaking up. Much of it is sourced to actual data, unlike your casual dismissal of my parenting skills.
The Trello Tech Stack
Except that the higher up you get in hardware the more everything turns into analog again. All of a sudden one's and zero's are not one's and zero's any more! :)
Show HN: Replace face with rubber duck
I've been through the ATO R&D tax rebate process with a business that had Australian operations, you need audited financials and it takes months of due diligence. As an example, we applied to the ATO with preliminary totals for our 2014 R&D spending in January of 2015, updated our application in March with our audited numbers, answered questions from the ATO for 3 months, had our application approved in June, and the check wasn't cut until September or October.

The credit from the ATO comes in the form of a check, but it's a prepayment against future tax obligations (you lost the tax-loss carry-forward you'd otherwise be able to claim to offset future profits). It's very useful for a startup since it's non-dilutive funding which can be used to get a lot of work done.
The TV show 24 was essentiality US military propaganda.
(EDIT: There are some good points in the ensuing discussion below. I don't know what to think yet, but my comment here was unfair. Sorry, kanzure. And thank you to everyone who responded.)

As far as I can tell, you're bullying gwern. Please stop.

If you have a point, then make it clearly. Leave out speculation about "what would happen if it was a US no-knock raid."

What, precisely, did gwern do? Their replies address your points, from where I'm sitting. What am I missing here?
I could program pascal and play basic Sierra adventure games by 6, on my own. I expect my daughter can surpass me if she gets interested.
Great job wired! Can't leave a guy in peace...
I am having a frustrating time finding a good summary of the position, but the branch that studies this is informally known as West Coast Linguistics.
I like the thoughts here on micro vs macro finance in the developing world: https://www.ted.com/talks/sangu_delle_in_praise_of_macro_yes...

i.e. maybe less gofundme and more kickstarter/angelist can have an impact.
-> Do you think that most millenials are activists? How many do you think are involved in activism? How many millenials do you think have been to a protest?

I think a lot would call themselves activists, yeah. Because like you pointed out the barriers to participation are considerably lower and millennials are an entire generation removed from the the 1960s-70s, so they didn't witness the civil rights movement etc. Now, how many have actually been to a protest? I'm not sure, but I also don't think that matters anymore since that seems hardly the threshold level for participation anymore.

-> I think you're reading too much into the theme of this season -- it's easy to do that when it seems like someone agrees with you. But how does dismissing climate change, gun control advocacy, or the concern of parents over their children's safety relate to free speech?

And we wouldn't want any room for debate on those nuanced, complicated issues now, would we.
Meanwhile, I'm very disappointed in the expectation of abandonment of the email client I've been using for over 10 years.
It's seriously so cool that the Homebrew guy (Max Howell) is behind this. Great fit for him at Apple. =P
In regards to shatter, or "dabs"; It's made by passing a gaseous solvent (often butane, ergo BHO or Butane Hash Oil) through the plant matter that rips the THC off the plant to gather in a waxy solid at the end of an extraction tube. If done correctly, and the butane is purged from the end product.

In general its probably quite a bit safer than combusting plant material, assuming the person that made the BHO did it correctly.

Most of the usage is done with a glass bong, with the metal "nail" used as a method of pressing the wax to the heated glass.
Email is an old technology that refuses to die. In the Post-PC age and the new age of mobile devices most people use the default email apps on their devices to read email.

Even Mozilla Thunderbird is feeling the decline as most PC users would rather use web mail instead of Thunderbird.

Google's new Inbox has cut into email clients like Mailbox.

Most people use social networks to communicate instead of email these days anyway.
What makes you think he has a to change? One of them was a sociologist, not a climate scientist or economist.
My kids, 7 & 2, have never seen Sesame Street. I used to watch it in my youth. My kids jump to Netflix or Mickey Mouse clubhouse on YouTube. May Elmo did ruin SS?
This appears to be the paper in question:

http://psych.nyu.edu/clash/dp_papers/Ding_nn2015.pdf

Also, for more background on the idea of the "Universal Grammar":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar
Crowdfunding and ecommerce order fulfillment
Reviews on Amazon are a disaster. It's a virtual battlefield where dishonest competitors hire hordes of people to post negative reviews about their competitors.

Amazon could very easily put a stop to this by simply requiring that a person must have purchased the product on Amazon and have a purchasing history. Add reasonable heuristics (for example, you can't leave a review for a blender before it was delivered or for a weight loss product three days after you got it) and things could start to make sense.

Amazon can definitely make reviews legitimate and useful again but they are not interested for some reason. I don't know what that is at all. Allowing non-buyers to leave reviews makes no sense.
Pretty dangerous line of thinking when it comes to private keys for a wildcard cert on such a high traffic (and probably high value) target...
Not the parent, but,

>What, precisely, did gwern do?

Publicly accused someone of being Satoshi Nakamoto, which is quote serious, and predictably would have negative consequences.

It's especially bad if you do it with unreliable evidence, because then it's just some poor unrelated person.
Wikipedia and open source software are often used as examples.
He is embezzling money from a 5013c also?
TV was the only dynamic medium back then. We have Youtube, apps now to get the job done. The investment in public tv for education is gone.

Fortunately, PBS Newshour is still tops.
To be fair , the market niche for a phone that doesn't try to imprison you or ransom you to the highest bidder, hasn't yet been served.

In the internet-landscape, Mozilla is the one that tries to intervene on the user's behalf against commercial interests. Maybe they thought they could do the same for the much more competitive mobile market.

The bigger problem i think is that Mozilla didn't make a phone that appealed to influencers - the high tech crowd similar to the early adopters for Firefox. Instead they tried to go for the emerging markets that was already well served by other alternatives, and who aren't ideal early adopters. From what i saw the user experience and quality of their Platform wasn't top notch either (and html apps still suck in 2015).

Ubuntu was on the right track with Ubuntu Edge (the Indiegogo campaign showed that there was definitely a demand for it), but they set their goals too high and since then they seem to be dragging their feet in getting into the market.
Apple stopped releasing Darwin binaries quite some time ago.

They only release the source code now.

I'm not sure if the source code released can be made to make a binary ISO file yet. Apple could have a competitor to GNU/Linux if it released Darwin binary files as ISOs and had some program like apt to download free and open source software for it. It would be a step towards making an OS for PC Clones that can compete with Windows and GNU/Linux.
Money well wasted.
Exactly. If you can't think of a canned answer for that question, there is approximately 0 chance you can navigate the workplace politics of a large defense contractor.
I'm slightly busy this week with the impending launch of Stockfighter and would prefer to not be HN's designated notary public, as I'm just another geek here, but if you want to chat about career stuff my inbox is always open. (Offer good for anybody.)

FWIW I have _zero_ difficulty believing "finance company pays talented programmers $400k" and equally zero difficulty believing "startup folks mystified how this could possibly happen when that programmer hasn't even installed NodeJS."
How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift (1999)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
It's not the heating element that worries me, but the ability to inhale significantly more THC a time. But my concerns stem mainly from observing the behavior of people who do this habitually and is not based on any scientific studies. I'm not sure that such studies exist yet.
The difference is that 3d printed piece will hold up for what, a year if that. There is a reason that Lego cost as much as they do, and it isn't because they are greedy. The tolerances on the blocks that they produce are beyond tight and their blocks are guaranteed to work basically for life. Ever try megablocks, that is what 3d printing your own pieces is going to be like...at best.

Lego is something that was passed down to me and I have passed it onto my own children and the amount of blocks we have continue to grow.
Out of curiosity, when you ask someone to resubmit do you email them or is there some on-site messaging mechanism?
Fair enough - it was a good read.
Hmm, I think you may find different responses based on experience level with something like ML in particular. I'm a product focused engineer (former PM) with a master's degree and an unfinished PhD in machine learning. I've also been a mentor at a 12-week boot camp where students did machine learning projects, so I totally get the "it's sexy but nobody actually bothers to understand it" argument. But with my experience level (several years real world experience and a Big Name) I think I've had more interest due to my specific background, not less.
I was really excited to see Mattt Thompson (AFNetworking & NSHipster) have quite a few commits in the repository. I followed him religiously when he would write for NSHipster and then he just kind of disappeared for a while (or I have no clue where to look). Regardless, great to see Apple looked to him for advice on this project seeing he has produced some of the most popular open source software for iOS and OS X that I know of.

https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/commits/maste...
It is a peer review,but you are judged by the quality of the peers you choose.
I highly doubt you can print lego pieces at anywhere near the tolerances that the real bricks have. Getting tolerances right even on shapes that are relatively simple is a massive problem with most filaments. On most of mine, the plastic expands anywhere between .2 and .6 mm depending on all kinds of factors that are hard to predict. Duplo would probably work well, though.
> And my conclusion is that, while the problem is hard, it can be solved

And yet two of the biggest software companies on the planet, both who have a huge vested interest in getting people to use their respective app stores, haven't just magically fixed it yet.

I'm also calling bullshit on your claim of not being unnecessarily anti-Apple, or giving Google a free pass or whatever. Every single negative comment you've made about this has been targeted specifically at Apple, making literally no mention of Google's App store which has exactly the same "problem".

By your own claim, the problem should be easier to solve than general web indexing, which Google clearly have a lot more experience in than Apple - so if it's "zero motivation" from Apple, what is it from Google, sheer contempt?
I don't consider Wordpress's market penetration a plus, because it makes it a target. On the other hand, I made some money recently (unfortunately only for analysis rather than a solution) because a website that someone I know manages got a virus.
I'll pay you $500,000 to ghostwrite a proof of P=NP or P!=NP.
HTTP Status Codes Visualized as a Subway Map
Ah, I see. I'll admit to not seeing the show for the past few years. Good to see that they're still there!
Raided his out just a little while after these were sharing a theory he was the bitcoin founder. And in the name of the Tax Office? I'm in shock at the speed they moved in to try and catch him for ... tax evasion?
Yeah right, I was excited by the idea that we might be able to download all kinds of cool UI's for our phones.

I was thinking of developing a really minimalistic almost commandline interface for my notes, address book, dialer and calendar.

I would love to see what cool creative people could come up with.
I used to like the guy (this is crossing a line, for me) and I think he has lots of potential, but there's no reason for civilized society to tolerate anons recklessly calling in raids based on the accumulated weight of lots of non-evidence. When you make an accusation that someone is the richest person of all time, you are putting their life in danger and hanging your reputation on it. Standards of evidence here need to be extremely high because raids are going to happen, stuff's going to get stolen, lives ruined, and people are going to get killed. Leaving out and glossing over the lack of merit of the cryptographic "evidence" is ridiculous (even for the extremely low standards we have to hold journalists to); he should have withdrawn consent earlier but to be complicit with that sort of editorial distortion field is, like I said, crossing a line where his behavior needs to be explicitly pointed out. This ain't bullying.
The complaint is that instead of living in the browser Chrome where it belongs , it is creeping into pages.

But I guess this is how * displays its alert bubble too. And recenty has been inserting ads for some "survey" into web pages.

*Uninstall ghostery, install ublock origin.
A few hundred mil would cause a dip, perhaps a pullback for a bit, but not doomsday.
Hasn't that incentive always existed?
There's a melting pot effect, too.
Whether he is or not, he clearly seems to want to be associated with Satoshi. So this is not exactly the Dorian case. This guy practically asked for it at the conference.
This is basically what air humidifiers do, so it should be possible with vape pens. Although the air would be very humid, it's normally not great to inhale that much moisture.
So it's difficult to successfully get it, and there's a lot that could go wrong and, say, prompt a lawsuit or criminal case?
They still ship UUCP? Are they serious?

Maybe it's time to clean out the attic...
Hiring is a critical piece of running a startup. It's one of the few things a startup can control, so hiring choices should be as close to perfect as one can manage. Also, the hiring philosophy at most startups is closer to the 'fail fast' principle than you think. The universal piece of advice is to fire someone quickly when you realize you made a bad hire.
From the project site (vitess.io):

> MySQL doesn't natively support sharding, but you will likely need it as your database grows.

Except, what tiny percentage of database backed applications in the world actually need sharding?

Just like the project that has 10 actual customers and uses dozens of managed resources in AWS/Google Cloud/Azure when a couple of load balanced/failover servers would work a lot more simply and a lot cheaper, this is going to reinforce the idea that a Database with 500Mb of production data needs to be sharded.

Honestly, I think it's entirely apt that Shard is just one letter away from Shart.
Autofocus System (2009)
Email (I've gotten one)
Also:

https://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_...

"Researcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in measurably cleaner indoor air."
I'd be very grateful if I can talk to you about your journey / career path. Could you shoot me an email (mailshanx at yahoo dot co dot in)? I'll be immensely grateful if do :)
Yes, sort of, for example: http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2012/09/what-chomsky-didnt-get-... It depends a lot too on what exactly you mean by innate.