skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how much time it takes, just that they said it's a month long contract.

But let's assume it's 30 hours total. I often turn down contract work because I'm booked full, so I could have worked those 30 hours at $100 per hour. This "interview" will cost me $2250--in addition to the time spend doing the actual asynchronous interviews.

I'm not willing to spend 2 grand for the chance at a job with this company. I might be willing to lose $500 or so in lost income to spend half a day interviewing.

Do companies really want to limit their potential applicant pools like this?
Something needs to happen with tort reform and the cost of FDA approvals. The FDA process is hugely expensive and inefficient. Contrast the FDA with Switzerland.

The patent system is essential for medicines. I know many people don't like that reality but who will invest in pharma companies if their investment could quickly be nullified due to the loss of intellectual property? Would you invest in a company when the competitive advantage that company is immediately rendered moot?

However, there are definitely places for reform, so I am not fully defending the USPTO system, I am simply suggesting that a strong patent system is a fundamental motivator of pharmaceutical innovation.
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does the regular Amazon Appstore have 'free' paid apps?
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Those are most likely regulations enforced on to the banks. By the time it gets to the low-level employee that checks/asks/confirms your address, it's probably morphed a bit, and each employee has their own interpretation of what is "okay" when it comes to addresses.
tl;dr: it's a Scala IDE.
While that is true, it is quite clear that it is not what drives healthcare costs.

Firstly, industry only accounts for less than 60% of research in the medical field in the US to begin with. The rest is made up by donations, grants from various organizations, and about 28% from the NIH that are not part of the healthcare spending.

When you look at the R&D expenses borne by industry you get things like Pfizer, which in recent years have spent about 17% of revenues on R&D. Typically less than their profit.

Given that Pfizer gets a substantial proportion of their revenues internationally (in 2009 this was ~56%), despite massive restrictions on advertizing, while their US sales costs are substantially higher than elsewhere (e.g. in many European countries, ads for prescription medicines is outright illegal), most of their available cashflow after cost of sales/marketing is accounted for does not come from the US, and is unaffected by US healthcare costs.

If this split holds across the industry, then US healthcare sources accounts for 30% of US healthcare medical research funding.
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I believe the right to bear arms has been interpreted not only to mean the individual right to own and operate firearms, but also the right to form militias, or paramilitary organizations.

It is unlikely for a paramilitary organization to compete with the armed forces, but in a state where the country is stressed and divided, I don't think the armed forces would stand as a fully united organization. However, while I do concede that my argument is weak, I also assert that it is not nil.
I remember in some of 8-bit BASICs there were "color codes". Basically, invisible escape sequences, which could be however interpreted as numbers if encountered in the source text. Could be something along those lines.
US customers here must mean that if you sell directly to US customers. If you sell via App Store to end users in US, then this is not needed, because Apple will be your customer (Apple Luxembourg for Europeans), not the end user.
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Amazon aren't being particularly underhand here; a tiny bit of googling will explain how Underground relies on app usage tracking (not location tracking).

I agree that "Joe Average" may not question the free lunch, and that's a problem, but it's exactly the same problem as existing free apps like Gmail, Facebook, etc.

If you're a technical person with an interest in privacy issues, you need to pay a bit more attention.
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There was an interesting experiment done on this at a DEFCON a few years back[1].

Thermite, even the more explosive copper-based variant, is pretty poor at destroying disk platters, sadly. Explosives or cutting equipment seem to be better, although the magnitude of the engineering challenge obviously increases.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bpX8YvNg6Y
The expensive gloves problem is due to cross subsidization and cost recovery. A good portion of the problem is due to under-market Medicare reimbursement rates; another part of the problem is that certain demographics that aren't eligible for Medicaid due to their lack of legal status incur expensive care (via the emergency rooms) that goes unreimbursed. This problem is especially accute in places like Texas.

I would suspect that more free primary care clinics could take some of the burden off of emergency rooms in terms of cost and those free clinics could even be funded by insurance companies from the money their saving from not having to pay for $5000 gloves anymore.

A cash-payment medical system would also solve some of these problems. With opaque pricing, hospitals get away with solving budget issues by overcharging. If you actually saw the menu of what things would cost and you were paying out of your pocket, nobody would ever tolerate $5000 gloves. Market forces would fix the cost overages very quickly. As it is now, very few people actually directly pay for their own care and thus are less motivated to care about price. "Insurance covers it," is all many people care about.
If only this spread to the social sciences. The time to publication there is ridiculous. I'm also a partisan of publishing everything that's valid and letting readers figure out if it's important.
Good thing it was a toy.
Well, "having a better configuration system and nifty graphics" is no small feat. I've been using Emacs since '97, but lately it's been hard to keep up with the configuration of all modern Emacs extensions. Spacemacs solves this easily.
I would suggest working on how to improve your Python tooling; Vim with Jedi, or PyCharm are both great options.

I think Python's module semantics are harder to use and understand, but when you know how to wield them (or reading the code of someone who does) they serve you far better than other systems. Python's module semantics are closer to Java's (explicit packages) rather than Ruby or JavaScript (global namespace), but unlike Java, Python's modules are derived from the file structure and not `package` statements.

The consequence of this is that most Python developers throw everything that should be in the same module into the same file, because that's "easiest". It stops being easy when the file grows large.

What you can do to address the problem of large modules in a single file is to turn the module into a directory of the same name, create an `__init__.py`, then put separate files in that directory to hold sections of the module (e.g. a file for each class if that's appropriate), and then in the `__init__.py` import the classes and whatever else you want to export from the module. Done - and client code needn't change.

Python's module system (and namespace system in general) is one of the largest reasons I prefer it over other dynamic languages. Knowing where every identifier came from in a file makes it so much easier to learn a codebase.
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Surprised that this is missing a recommendation to run 'npm shrinkwrap' and include npm-shrinkwrap.json in your deployment package so that the dependencies you have been testing against (and more importantly your dependencies' dependencies) don't shift unintentionally under your feet. Although maybe this isn't a problem with npm v3?

I'd also recommend including your dependencies in your deployment package anyway to avoid a deployment being held up by npmjs.org downtime.
Huge thanks for taking the time to write and document this process. This is bound to be a great resource for numerous devs in the future.
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From an earlier article[1],

”It’s not a 24/7 market, there’s no peer-to-peer transactions right now.”

So without any P2P ability, is there any value to having a single-server private chain?

[1] http://www.coindesk.com/hands-on-with-linq-nasdaqs-private-m...
This is how it's done, if you truly want a more secure world, that is.
Unfortunately people have started putting the tracking server side.
That's massively exaggerated.

US industry accounts for ~60% of US medical research. The rest is NIH, donations etc.

US pharma companies like Pfizer gets more than 50% of their revenue from foreign markets. Thus if we split research contributions by region, only about 30% of US medical research is likely to come from US healthcare expenses.

Even if you took away all of that funding you still wouldn't account for the cost differences.

But that's not the whole story: US sales costs are substantially higher, as in many non-US markets you can't legally advertise, so the net contribution of US healthcare funds to US medical research is likely less,

It may still be true that the US pays more per capita for to medical research than most, but it simply doesn't make up all that large a proportion of overall medical research.
From the article: "Yes, I know the arguments on the other side. “Football makes a profit,” some claim. To that I would say, so what? Universities could make a profit running a casino too – should they do that?"
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Isn't that the point of the 'hashtags' in edn? If a #png arrives then your program is going to throw an exception unless you've registered a handler that reports success in decoding it?

In effect it doesn't matter than the encoding is arbitrary edn (e.g. a 150KB png could be a solitary bigint literal) because the tags prevent false-positive decodes and keep things "strongly typed".
#_ comments out the form it precedes. You do not need to surround it with an extra pair of parentheses.

Didn't know about the difference in behaviour with regard to invalid code. Thanks for that.

EDIT: Leaving this here for context. I'd missed the fact that they weren't all enclosed in a single form to begin with. Parent's solution is correct in light of that.
Do they intend to keep the blockchain private ? I mean, at some point, someone will break into their private network (partners come and go...) and get a copy of the blockchain... Maybe even add a block on top of it.

This is a serious security flaw.
Pleased to make your acquaintance. I suppose this makes me the second...
Well, they're technically compliant, and technical compliance is the best compliance! :).
> You are hitting the hammer where there is no nail!

Pot. Kettle. Black.

> In this instance, the Dell WEBSITE was hacked ...

I saw absolutely nothing in the article that could even remotely be considered proof of this.
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Credit where credit is due. This is exactly the right approach. If only other governments would follow suit.
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I see what you did there; very cute. :D

Also, kudos for sharing it via mysterious IP address. That kinda thing just isn't done that much any more :(
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I'm getting NXDOMAIN. :(
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Yea, I think they even started bundling them with Mac OS X updates now.
The S-1 filing:

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1650664/0001047469160...

Some comments on the S-1 filing:

http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2016/01/04/eight-things-you-mi...
This reminds me of the time when NSA offered an encryption algorithm to the public...
Surprised it's still up and running.
Does this trolling add anything to the learning experience of the OA?

Esp. after he clearly told that he would really like constructive feedback and stated, that he has no real coding experience.

Why would you play elite and kick someone lower in the ranks his way? It only shows your true colors. And imho they are not really nice in any way.
As someone who never deployed a node app I was a bit surprised to see it doesn't require a server like Apache or Nginx as a reverse proxy ? Is it a commmon practice to deploy node apps like this ?
Still, I always found ASP.NET Web Controls easier to deal with than JSF ones.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10841520

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10837129

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10836988
I'll do it for 280 dollars a week but I'll only work weekends and 2 evenings a week. The reason is that I don't want to quit my job. If you're interested then I will send you my ideas.
The main strength of JSON is that it directly maps to simple data structures that are first class citizens in many programming languages like Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Golang, etc.

XML is a bit more complicated, and often need dedicated libraries to manage. Every time I try to get the nth text element of node X with elementtree, it's bit of a hassle.
This is so yummy.

Wonder if you could do something similar with 3D printed shapes. Using static or something - design the shape of the elements to express an uneven surface charge and then design a range of such shapes to express a composite shape when shaken...
Tesla rival Faraday Future just revealed its vision of the future of cars
If you find it complicated, then you should not use C, nor should you use it for things it's not intended for.

In theory, string handling in C is straightforward enough. In practice, string handling in C is the source of a crazy number of security vulnerabilities and other bugs, even in popular and relatively well regarded software written by experts.

No-one should still need to use C in 2016. We know how to fix many of its problems and create much better programming languages now. Unfortunately, there is so much momentum behind the C ecosystem that in reality there are few practical alternatives yet, at least for low-level systems programming or high-performance number crunching work. Worse, there may not be enough commercial justification for the few organisations big enough to significantly move the industry in a better direction to actually commit the resources to do so, and this seems unlikely to change unless and until influential people start to care about the real costs of poor quality software.
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How does this apply to non-US based app publishers?

Am I legally exporting crypto from the US if am not in the US?
Yes this is true, but lots of people sell directly to US customers. As soon as you do you have problems :)
It's good stuff, I've used this quite a bit, although I still prefer macpaint for 1bit graphics (this is more geared for slightly higher palettes). Love the pixel perfect line tool.
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Pachyderm is looking for our first hire – Golang, Docker and distributed systems
San Francisco -- Onsite only

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github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm

What would data analytics infrastructure (namely Hadoop) look like if we rebuilt it from scratch today? We think it would be containerized, modular, and easy enough for a single person to use while still being scalable enough for a whole company. Tools like Docker and Kubernetes provide the perfect building blocks for us revolutionize data infrastructure!

Pachyderm's is looking for our first hire! We went through YC W15, raised a strong seed round($2M), and are looking for someone to help lead our core engineering team. Pachyderm is just founders right now, so you'd be getting in right at the ground floor and have an enormous impact on the success and direction of the company as well as building the rest of the engineering team.

We pay competitive SF-level salaries along with significant equity, full benefits, and all the usual startup perks. This position is based in SF, but we offer full relocation assistance.

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Thanks! 1972 added.

Looks like it was an appendix to HAKMEM.
Yes, this is explained in Apple's FAQ on the issue - they have servers that are distributing your app from the US, thus you are exporting crypto from the US.
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> Our little publishing experiment was not supposed to go like this. Largely by accident, we created a peer-reviewed outlet with impact that matches the top journals in linguistics, with time-to-publication that is almost implausibly fast relative to peers, that saves institutions money, and that saves authors lots of stress.

in the movie version, a sr executive at Elsevier, talking on his iPhone says "liquidate these two with extreme prejudice"
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So, you want to defraud your employer? Why not just be straight-up and give the actual requirements, and then you know you'll be happy with whatever is purchased, since it'll meet them?
I don't disagree and hopefully it didn't come across as blaming Linode for not handling the DDoS more efficiently.

My comment was with regards to their inability to communicate with customers about on-going attacks and what was being done to mitigate them. There has been (after nearing 2 weeks of DDoS) just one statement on the status page by a network engineer. No company statement, no information on the measures taken, no e-mails, no support tickets. Nada. We have customers in the Middle East that are geo-blocked from accessing nodes in London. We had to find this ourselves. [1]

Furthermore their billing system didn't account for all the downtime. Looking at our latest statement, all instances have been at 100% uptime.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/04/linode_back_at_last_...
So to OpenSSL and not to LibreSSL?
Are you even serious? Of course there would be different formats for every goddamn thing under the Sun.

What really happens there is called Impedance Mismatch

Similar to this, but with XML

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_impedance_mi...

Remember how Scala had XML as a first class citizen in the language? It didn't work out that well.

There are different programming paradigms and I would (entirely serious here) say that XSLT, XQuery, XProc and related XML technologies belong to a separate category. It's mostly declarative and pure, but there are some imperative elements here and there. It's just a different way of doing things, which has XML and XPath at the very center.

JSON doesn't have that Impedance Mismatch with Javascript and languages that support JSON well, that's why it's there.
The title should really be changed, there is no confirmation they were hacked. I have an equally plausible theory -- You used the same username and password somewhere else that got hacked, or your credentials were stolen through some infostealing malware. Account takeover is a huge problem these days, it wouldn't surprise me if there is a tool out there written specifically to validate combo lists against Dell's website.
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> Mature programmers get more done and ship more good code than they can remember, while junior programmers

Excellent insight!
Wasn't OpenSSL quite vulnerable and not recommended to use few years back and people were phasing it out? Or am I mistaking this with something else?
If you really wanted to oppose the government you'd encrypt your communications. Clearly that's s greater threat since government so vehemently wants to deny that (it's in their self interest to increase their power).
The metadata argument is rarely applicable. Metadata tends to be rich, and it's horrible to represent rich data in opaque string attribute values.

Rich metadata is therefore represented as child nodes, giving them similar child/sibling status as JSON children, and the semantic ambiguity of when to use XML attributes vs child nodes remains.
It's worth noting that Dick Smith is going into receivership now. This was an article posted today in my local paper. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&o...
~2015 in review
I think that in order to start seeing the appeal, you have to have seen the alternative. Before angular, I was writing a lot of backbone apps, and generally, they were well organized and easy to maintain.

With angular, I've found that my apps have devolved into a huge tag soup very quickly. It didn't take me long to realize that the templating syntax was a huge part of what made angular suck really bad, and its like the article says: "Angular 2 continues to put 'JS' into HTML."

So to me, JSX is at the core of what makes React feel manageable, since I can use OO and encapsulation techniques of javascript to deal with complex rendering and still keep my code organized and easy to follow.

The more I think about it, angular reminds me a lot of Coldfusion in its approach.
Right here on HN is a good place to start.
There is usually a who is hiring and who want's to be hired thread every first week of every month.
He mentions using two-step verification though. That doesn't mean it's not possible, but that makes a lot harder to get into his account.
I was looking at https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r11&hw=... today for unrelated reasons. Crystal does better than I'd expected, but less well than Scala (Spray being the comparison I'm interested in since that's what I use); F# doesn't seem to have been tested.
I find it funny that, according to the screenshots, the $3,000 USD/month "Power-User Plan" is the "Most popular plan" -- even though (per the article) "the hourly fee will be kicking in tomorrow".

Some people don't understand why I have a, to put it mildly, overwhelming dislike for -- and zero trust of -- sales and marketing people. This is a perfect example: outright, blatant dishonesty.
its a setting in the amazon app, to enable tracking. it doesnt mean it'll be able to track, but it'll work.