skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tech you're talking about can't do anything for the living, it only has potential for the unborn. Either way, there is exactly zero evidence that it's already happening. Kurzweil's claim is pure fantasy.
Home sales is open data in US. You can look it up at Zillow. All you need is an address.
Right?

In my past of applying for jobs as a designer, I had companies that would ask for take home tests. I always refused and of course didn't get the job. Conversely, other companies I worked for offered freelance positions (probation) before settling onto full time which I thought was far more effective and fair method at evaluating me as a long term candidate.
Very interesting, I'm about to start looking into akka.net, does anyone know of an equivalent quick introduction?
Yes, it seems that most companies misrepresent their requirements in job postings. It also seems that most candidates misrepresent their skills in responding to those job postings. There's a certain symmetry there.

Employer: First job out of school pay, requires four years of experience in our exact tech stack.

Candidate: Sure I'm willing to take first job out of school pay (BTW, just graduated in May). Yeah, totally have 4 years of experience, and what do you know, it covers exactly your tech stack!
https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
Will talented people be willing to give up their full time job for a job they may very likely get fired from?

Automattic does something interesting from what I've read. They have you work there as a trial for 1-2 months while keeping your full time job. This is probably pretty stressful but you get the ability to work with the candidate while not asking them to sacrifice their livelihood if things don't work out. Needless to say, it seems a lot of people don't get hired after the trial.
They're not - they're convincing Royal Bank of Scotland or Barclays customers to switch to their bank because it has a better UX.

Mondo is in the process of registering as a bank.
The most salient detail about the way methodological errors compound is that by engaging in more replications, you can beat down the rate of spurious results in the replications. It's of little importance that it is multiplicative with the flaw rate of the original, because the flaw rate of a set of independent replications will go to zero super fast in the size of the replications.

If the flaw rate is >= 50% and the number of replications is low, it presents a case where it's of little social value to do replications, depending on their cost (which is usually high).

From your original comment, the way a naive reader will view it is that replications often don't work, because you primed them with a number you just pulled out of nowhere (50%). That will matter much more than the other detail about it being multiplicative, which doesn't really matter much at all no matter what the flaw rates are, because it all hinges on the flaw rates of the replications and how many replications you do anyway.

I know that you did not mean to misrepresent it with the 50% number. I'm just harping on this because by happening to use a number like 50% it has the potential to distract and do more harm than good, regardless of anything else in your comment or even whether or not the 50% had anything to do with your main point.
This is pretty one-sided. UWP is nice for users because it sandboxes apps that are built for it.

Some benefits:

1. I know the game won't dump save and log files in my Documents folder (that place is mine, GTFO).

2. I know there won't be garbage files or side effects in the registry when I uninstall the app.

3. The game can't install rootkit-like spyware to inspect other processes on my system (hello Warden).

It would be nice if there was a way to distribute UWP apps outside the Windows Store, but UWP apps are way easier to trust than Win32 apps.
Fessenheim nuclear accident played down by authorities
I worked at and bought my house through Redfin. He didn't know where I lived until he looked it up.

In their defense, privacy policy is probably better now.
I don't see any valid reasons for him to end up in a supermarket job.

Generalize much? You know based on the fact that he "worked in software" that that he had no valid reason to need a "supermarket job"?

I hope no awful life event happens to you, but when things are going great, it's easy to say others shouldn't be struggling. Then something happens. Maybe you get sick. Or a close relative needs financial assistance. Or you get laid off. I'm fortunate enough to enjoy a comfortable living, but I've been in some really shitty situations in the past, and let me tell you- anything can happen to anybody. If you're doing well, be grateful, but don't assume everybody is in the same situation you are.
I worked for companies which "hire the best." My experience was always exactly the same - a group of very talented engineers who couldn't accomplish a damn thing together because egos got in the way.

My current company doesn't hire the best, but instead focuses on people who enjoy making impact in a small team, share the same vision and have a bit of an entrepreneur in them. We don't quiz people or give them tests. We just sit down with them and start talking tech. The results are really amazing and make for a great place to work because everyone feels like the project they work on is their baby.
For a city without zoning, Economic segregation is hard, and believe Houston is not the most economically segregated City. The Houston suburbs, I completely agree, no where are gated communities more fashionable than Houston suburbs.
Why do folks use Syntax Coloring in code examples in books and presentations?
Citation needed on malware not being able to be installed without user interaction!

I don't trust CNN to monitor those 41 domains. I don't expect CNN to monitor those 41 domains. The very point of an ad-broker service that allows the highest bidder to inject their own content into a website is that CNN doesn't know ahead of time who's going to provide the content for a particular view.

If a website uses an ad-broker which permits - or can be tricked into allowing - adverts which aren't just simple static content - e.g. allowing javascript, SVG, web fonts: anything which might have browser bugs exploitable by malware - there could be a problem.
This is odd. I had FDE enabled for quite some time on my old Nexus 4 (and now on a OnePlus One) and I've not experienced any performance degradation after I turned it on.

Maybe I was lucky and both phones support hardware acceleration for the relevant crypto primitives.
Do you know any companies that follow that approach? Sounds pretty interesting, I wonder if there's any dara from people trying that.
Perhaps one of these resources can show more advanced use cases:
https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Books

Have you read The Go Programming Language by Donovan and Kernighan?

- Book Site: http://www.gopl.io/

- Book Example Source Code: https://github.com/adonovan/gopl.io/
Maybe just in the UK, in the Netherlands ING does have a lot of offices.
That actually applies for any job at any company. Identifying yourself through your job is dangerous and unhealthy, although good for your career short-term.
Yes, one thing I believe is bad is to mix professional and private life, but he seems fine with it. Well I'm probably not a good fit for Facebook, which is fine.
I immediately thought about the same language. It's clean, safe, fast and explicit, even if a bit verbose. With a quite nice compiler, last time I checked (some 10 years ago), and without "undefined behaviour".
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015/12/05/epic-games-brings-...

Does it answer your question?
I just didn't read carefully enough (missed that you were mostly speaking of potential life span).
What's the point in restricting this to enterprise users? I can make access rules for every other country except 'T1' on a the entry-level paid plan?
I assume that FB calls "jaywalking" a specific kind of policy violation so I think his/her boss could still identify anon. I still think there is a lot of value to his post since the question was "What does it feel like to be fired from Facebook?" not why. The reason why anon was fired is secondary.
It's a German company, and my previous employer (a German SME) had a similar clause, so it's likely not just them.
Study offers clearest picture yet of how HIV defeats a cellular defender
Fortinet SSO IdP – Credential Stealer RXSS
Meanwhile (I posted 3hrs ago but it got no traction)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11223185
http://www.thelocal.fr/20160304/french-mps-back-fines-for-ap...

> French parliamentary deputies, defying government wishes, on Thursday voted in favour of penalising smartphone makers
who fail to cooperate in terrorism inquiries
Fire tablets are $50 devices tied to Amazon accounts that people buy so their children can watch videos on a borderline-disposable device.

Tell me where encryption fits into that use case.
"You can teach everyone to be a great programmer"

You really can't - but it doesn't matter. This has nothing to do with programming specifically.

You can train most people to do most tasks. With a modicum of natural inclination, competent. With a bit of interest, good. With a willingness to work hard, very good.

However, you can't ever train greatness. You can't make it by any method - only they can.

Your broader point is good though. The most predictably effective way to end up with top talent that works well in your structure is to help it develop.
androids suck so bad :(
Ask HN: Which payments processors to use for recurring subscriptions in India?
Hi,

What are Indian startups using to create recurring subscriptions, especially for SaaS sites?

1. Right now Stripe is not available in India (big hopes for Stripe atlas).

2. Paypal is what everybody loves to hate but so far it looks the most promising (unfortunately they prohibit India to India transactions)

3. I used a site called 2Checkout in the past but my experience was horrible. I lost a good amount of money with them because their fraud detection is very poor, and customer support is even worse.

4. Most other services also require a US/UK bank merchant account, TIN number, etc about which I don't have even the slightest idea.

So what other options are there? Right now I'm going with Paypal but would love to hear what other SaaS startups in India are using (especially those catering to a Global audience)
I certainly didn't tell him my address.

Right now I can't tell if people are excited to tell me there are way to uncover my home address or they think those methods are socially appropriate and not an invasion of my privacy.
Show HN: “Attendize” – An open-source ticket selling alternative to Eventbrite
Seems to be the same guy who made cloudflare-watch.com which was actually using cloudflare for a while.
Apple didn't invent Objective C. It has been this way since 1983, before Steve Jobs left Apple the first time:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C
I actually really like the take-home coding challenge, ideally something a qualified candidate could do in 1-2 hours and inspired by a real on-the-job problem (perhaps distilled a bit). It gives me much more insight into your coding style and is a much more low key, realistic test – especially since my team is fully remote anyway.
Almost everyone working in enterprise software is in your same boat. In fact, I'd argue the great majority of software developers outside Silicon Valley are either working for or with enterprise stacks and products & services. Sure, there's indie game developers and some boutique software shops working on small sites, but fundamentally most of their customers are businesses involved in FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) business verticals or healthcare.
?? People should be defined on the actions they take, which is generally the goals, groups (industries) they belong to and work within. Otherwise it opens the floor to losers that think they are defined by whatever mix gender color, disabilities they have. You may think I'm being harsh, but I'm starting to see that now at conferences. "I'm Tina, I'm cis-gendered disabled" It's like they want to put some kind of moral hierarchy on people based on whatever minority label sticks.
I think it's mostly (1). The question is mostly "prove to me you've written code before". I typically let them pick their own language. I'm guessing some are fake-it-until-they-make-it and some are genuine Dunning-Krugers. The phone screen is to filter out category (1).

People that suspect they're in category (2) could come to an interview with some code samples. Personally, I'd even be OK if a (2) contacted me after the phone screen with some code samples and an explanation about what happened. Maybe we could set up another phone call and find another way to assess technical abilities.

Good development requires good communication and someone with the maturity to overcome that sort of problem will fit in well somewhere, maybe even on my team.
Originally I had 200+ images I needed to watermark where I could not find a tool, this made me create a command line tool to watermark my images.

Then a friend suggested I made a product out of it and the rest is history :)
We used to ask "What makes this candidate weird?" during the decision meeting.

It wasn't always a deal breaker, but it was very important that the team would be different after hiring someone. We hired quite a few non-CS grads, whether they came via a boot camp or were just self taught.

We ended up with a ragged team of misfits and it was awesome. I've never worked on a team that was so effective at challenging assumptions and biases and shipping features faster than anyone else. I'm convinced it wasn't through Herculean efforts by individuals, rather the product of clear communication and trust within the team.

Ive tried to explain why this worked. One observation: Very rarely did someone make implicit assumptions. Such assumptions are often wrong, but they happen because individuals are similar enough that extrapolation a partial understanding into a full one implicitly happens. We assume that since we got from A to B on the same path that the path from B to C is likely the same. On a team of misfits, you have to clearly communicate the entire sequence of events because everyone is on an entirely different page to start with. The result is that the final product is 100% on target, whereas normally there are a few deviations as the result of implicit assumptions.
If he feels so bad about it, he shouldn't let Epic have console exclusives or even develop for them.

After all Epic is also profiting from them.

Or it is only bad when the size of the pie isn't as big as one wishes for?
I think this is a very fun idea for a piece of content, but it's important to add context when talking about how mutual funds value private companies, specifically regarding markdowns. I highly recommend anyone interested read this:

http://pitchbook.com/news/articles/mutual-funds-mark-down-un...

"While these markdowns have caused a big reaction from much of the media, the valuation write-offs aren't as overly indicative of an actual decline in the performance of these privately held companies—rather simply an accounting measure these funds have to abide by. Sure, some of these companies likely have their own business issues but the story is a bit overblown, so let's provide some context."
Atri allows you to "block" by domain name or @screen ... ultimately you're in control.

That said, we think it usually works itself out automatically, based on attention.
It's very possible that this never registered high enough on the list of problems to deal with. It's likely that there are very few kindle fire owners that use the encryption.. which is what they say.

The only reason I agree with you is that, if the hardware is the problem.. then why not just say that?

Then this begs the hypothetical question, 'If even only one person used encryption out of all of the devices sold, is it a feature worth keeping?'

I think most people here would say 'yes'.. but would most average company executives?
There are more details on the HSM in the iOS security guide here. https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
> Will talented people be willing to give up their full time job for a job they may very likely get fired from?

Maybe, maybe not. If they are already on the job market, then they probably don't mind looking for a job. If they feel that taking your job and getting fired still leaves them financially covered for an additional 6 months of searching, then they may not care too much.

If that company becomes known for this, then being "fired" from them won't really be a bad signal on your resume (if you even want to list it on your resume at all, depending on how long of a stint it is).

I don't think my idea is perfect. No hiring method is perfect. But I think that businesses should take a perspective that's fundamentally more about investing in getting to know and support someone as they are on-boarded, instead of Spanish Inquisitioning them and if they don't run away screaming then rationalizing that you've hired the best possible person (who, surprise, leaves after 18 months anyway because you didn't assess their fit or how their aptitudes really match up with job needs, you just whiteboard hazed them).
In the Quora article, there is a reply by an existing Facebook senior manager, who confirms the zero tolerance policy, even stating that people get fired at Facebook for accidentally breaking a policy they were either not aware of, or had forgotten about. Facebook really do apply the policy that ignorance of the law (rules) is not an excuse.
The difference appears to be that THC honey actually contains THC, unlike this honey, which merely contains its precursors in low quantities.
> Claiming users weren’t using the encryption feature, and therefore that encryption is unnecessary, is of course a disingenuous argument on Amazon’s part. Users also hate using strong passwords — is Amazon going to encourage users to ditch those too?

I think it's TechCrunch that's being disingenuous here. Disk encryption is a feature, and has performance, maintenance and UX costs, unlike allowing strong passwords.
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This discussion is becoming way to off-topic here. But I was convinced by Aubrey de Grey's arguments, perhaps you will be too. He is easy enough to Google.
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For everyone here who mentioned building wrappers around llvm-c or llvm c++ api: there is a nice tool for automating this job (and many other similar things), it's called "Clang". Or, more specifically, cindex. It's easy to use Python + cindex to parse LLVM headers and spit out nice wrapper library for your language of choice.

And example of this approach: https://github.com/combinatorylogic/clike/blob/master/llvm-w...
No, I write a proper RPM spec file - only takes a few minutes.
My point was that the emotionality of females and males is strongly biological, has likely existed since the common ancestor of all mammals, and the notion that it is significantly impacted by human social constructs is not tremendously plausible in my opinion.

A developing fetus literally injects behavior-changing chemicals directly into its mother's bloodstream for months before it is born. In species without strong pair-bonding, a juvenile may never get the chance to push any evolution-programmed buttons on the father to initiate a parental bond.

So my opinion is that the median human male probably does not experience emotion as strongly as the median human female, because male emotions do not affect reproductive success as strongly or as reliably as female emotions. There's no particular reason to attach any cultural importance to it. Being more or less emotional than someone else is neither good nor bad. But it does affect behavior, and therefore relative suitability for specific work roles.

Evolution does not care if you literally cry over spilled milk, or if you can continue running up the beach even after the hundred men in front of you, to whom you had grown attached in the weeks prior, get torn to shreds before your eyes. It only cares about whether you will have living descendants in the future. But your fellow humans care about that when they are deciding whether or not to hire you into a vacant position. Your emotional programming will make you more suitable for some jobs, and less suitable for others.

But that is definitely not the sole reason why some professions have something other than a 50-50 split between the sexes. It accounts for some of the difference, but nowhere near all of it.
Okay, but I don't see the author's measure of productivity either. He seems to take your definition, as applied over the _entire economy_, and suggests that when applied to the individual wage level (presumably dividing by population) there is a conundrum. My suggestion is that there is a simple (if incomplete) explanation for this. An extreme example can illustrate my point well: if you took the entirety of Silicon Valley's tech workers and air-dropped them with no provisions into an aboriginal tribe in the Amazon rainforest (and they automatically knew the native language), who would be more productive in the local economy?

Can you please clarify for the sake of readers (and me) how it is significantly different in the real world if the market of value-commanding labor changes under people's feet instead of transplanting them to a completely foreign environment?