skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've no idea why this has been downvoted as it's correct.

For the last few years this has been written into law and employees don't get their full employment rights (such as the right to contest an unfair dismissal) until you've been employed for 12 months. (A de-facto one year probation period.)

I should note that employee rights during this probation period are probably stronger than in many US states.
I would love to compare the energy requirements of the AlphaGo and Mr. Sedol. I imagine there are many orders of magnitude in difference between them. Perhaps the most fair comparison would be between a computer that uses no more energy than a human does. Or, to let the human work with a computer provided they do not use more total energy to play the game.
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This could make a whole bunch of interesting things possible.
Especially since so many people can interpret the cause of such a death in so many ways. One person says terrorism, another says work place violence. Not many people argue over describing an accidental death caused by a toddler.
I've only had to do 4 of these, as they aren't that popular in my corner of the earth yet, but I didn't like them, I have a kid and stuff to do and I can't spend my time doing 4 hours extra on the weekend unless it is a job I really, really want.

First out of the 4 I did what was asked but got refused because I didn't clean up the code afterwards ( I thought I'd been cool for demonstrating some lesser known functionalities of the language and API I was dealing with). If I've spent 4 hours doing it, I don't want to spend 2 hours making it really pretty.

Second out of the 4 I misunderstood the instructions so I went in and 'fixed' their code to make it work they way I thought they wanted it ( was maybe too tired since it was late at night after a day of working on a personal project) This was actually a job that was close to one I really, really want.

Third out of the 4 I can't remember anything about it now.

Fourth out of the 4 they really liked what I did and we had a great interview, and then I got turned down because they thought I wasn't really that interested in their company (which was true, I was just fulfilling a job search requirement while getting my startup going)

Aside from that I interviewed at a social analytics startup one time and we ended up talking data mining and they asked me to do a 2 weeks project with them to do a POC of sentiment mining Twitter/Facebook. I gave them what my consulting fees would be, but they seemed really interested in me doing it for free as conditional for pursuing employment there. So I never got to try that coding exercise.
Without ads, people would still put up tons of free content. Not just for the love of humanity, but also because receiving attention is a kind of power. People crave to influence what others think. As long as you have that, you can always rationalize away the lack of money.
So you complain about age bias by invoking age bias?
It's really not, though — see the comments below. There are current approaches which send on the order of magnitude as much data as in one party's address book.
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> What about the criminals in the UK that do not obtain any firearm?

There are likely a greater portion of unarmed criminals in the UK. Since their potential victims are also unarmed, that means that are at the mercy of physically dominating criminals. I fail to see how this is an improvement.

> Someone carrying a cheap pistol is still more heavily armed than someone carrying brass knuckles.

Practically speaking, a person with a 6" knife can do far more damage to a person and have a higher likelihood of inflicting a mortal wound than someone with a .38 revolver.

> I'm not going to go find the facts and figures, still, I'm pretty sure that the incidence of gun crime is higher in the US, pointing out that gun buying criminals in the UK probably buy nicer guns doesn't change that.

Yeah, me neither, and rates don't really factor into this thread. My entire point is that more restrictions means that it's in the best interest of an armed criminal to obtain the most effective firearm possible.
France has 31.2 guns for 100 inhabitants. Also Switzerland's gun control laws are probably more extreme than that of France.
I completely agree that the "curb government power" is a common argument for gun ownership in the US.

However, I've never understood the logic behind it. Do people really think their handgun is going to help them resist a predator drone strike? The US military is vastly more powerful than any gun owner. Do people really think they can compete? What's more, advocates of legal gun ownership often also push for more military spending (though that might be less true here on HN). Am I missing something here?

Edit: To be clear, I certainly don't mean to be dismissive of legal gun ownership - I tend to argue in favor of it. What I don't understand is the argument that gun ownership curbs government power in any meaningful way. Guns and/or shooting and/or hunting seem like great hobbies.
How many mass shootings has France had in the last 100 years?
Idli isn't probiotic unless you eat the batter raw though.
The day WebAssembly is pushed into mainstream I'd use a web browser with no support for it at all.
Question please: Even though there is stated desire to support python etc vm, this will be hampered by the need for the client to download the large VM vs native code that can be distributed itself, correct?
Ageism is a thing in our industry. This may not be it but in other professions it is uncommon for those in the middle of their career to be applying for positions cold, there is usually an intro involved or in the case of the medical fields credentialing does this. As engineers we have poor soft skills that lead to weak professional networks (we think of our selves as mercenaries) and we don't have credentials of any sort.

So it looks a bit weird to them and the thought process is something like "this guy is talented, what is wrong with him that he's a walk on? I'm not willing to find out, pass."
Good question. I'm in no way connected to Google, but I'm guessing this calculator could be a toy held together by string and duct tape, without any deeper thought having gone into its handling of numbers - floats being the default for non-integer numbers, it's likely that they were used; decimals require more coding and attention.
Optimizely and especially VWO are not the same class of products.
Funny eh? Not wearing your seat belt is probably more of an issue than guns, but that doesn't make for dramatic headlines
What do you need a gun to defend yourself against?

In the UK someone did use a gun to "defend" themselves, against two people without guns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_(farmer)
So people in the tech industry stop living in the US. The world's a big place, and the tech industry is full of immigrants as is.
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Also eBuddy. I remember IM-ing late into the night with that and terrible web browsers on the PSP and DS.
I have used/programmed their cards. It was the worst 3 months of my life. I will never willingly touch their stuff again.

Buggy compiler implementing a superset of a subset of C89 with totally crazy macro extensions, and bizarre locality properties (e.g manually declaring if a variable is in a register or in ram), bad impossible to decipher (machine generated!) "documentation", 3 (!!) different and incompatible "standard" libraries each implementing different sets of features, 2 of which were written in assembler and inaccessible from C directly and almost no debugging tooling. e.g I had to write my own locking library because there wasn't one. What a nightmare.
For feedback, this might make a good "Show HN".
No, native won't help you. Native is a red herring. C is not the correct abstraction level to take advantage of heterogeneous parallel hardware. The advantage of Rust isn't that it is native, the advantage is that removes the GC and the pressure on the memory subsystems and the latencies involved in compaction. The Hotspot JIT produces code as fast or faster than a C compiler. One could design a language that is high level and removes the GC through an affine type system. I predict there will be a hybrid language that does gradual-affine typing that marries a GC, escape analysis and use at most once semantics.
You're thinking like an American: bigger is better :)

UK armed robberies are often [citation needed] carried out with imitation or deactivated firearms, as the robbers neither need nor want to kill anyone and it's considerably cheaper, easier to get hold of, and less illegal.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160105160709/htt... page 6 has a breakdown graph into shotguns, handguns, imitation (includes air and BB), and "other".
>I wonder if they limited the drive in software to 314gb and it's just a 500gb drive in reality.

You're probably getting a 500gb or 320gb drive with a lot of failed blocks that would normally be sold through their 're-certified' channel.

I'd stay away from these. Mechanical drives aren't like CPUs or flash media, where turning down the clock or just ignoring the bad blocks means they'll be fine. If there's an issue with spinning drives it probably means there's a larger mechanical issue that will only get worse or lead to an early failure.
Your first paragraph tells the reader you just deceived them by using link bait in your title. The last sentence tells me to trust you, to click to read another post which is supposedly about what your original link bait title was about. Just tell me the info next time.
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I'd also like to point out that in the case of the North Hollywood Shootout, the responding police were able to effectively arm themselves within minutes by requesting the assistance of a nearby gun store.
What about a musket, one chosen purposefully for inefficient reloading speed. Is that more appealing for home protection because we'd be prevented from committing a mass shooting?

"nobody needs a gun"

This is a statement that for anyone to take seriously requires you to say your age and approx geographic location as it clearly is informing your belief.
This sounds hilarious. I would love to hear some stories!
Don't be so sure. We have very little tech representation in the White House. We only have a CTO as an advisor, and a Digital Services team. The DS team is not in an advisory role. They are focused on fixing broken government tech.

We don't even have any tech journalists in the Press briefing room to bring further transparency. In the daily White House Press Briefing on Monday, the 14th, which is the one following Obama's remarks at SXSW, nobody asked any questions about what he said. I'd like to see us get a tech journalist in there.

Megan Smith is CTO of the United States. She is calling for more computer security experts to join her at the White House [1].

> The thrust of Obama's remarks, said Smith, was "making sure that the tech communities are understanding the challenges that law enforcement and their colleagues face so that they're conscious as they're thinking through this."

> So is this still an open policy-making process? "Yes," said Smith. And like others involving "complicated stuff," there's a wide range of voices at the table — including hers. To Smith, the public policy challenges and possibilities raised by the broad range of digital security issues echos the topic she was in Austin to highlight: the need to draw smart technologists to government service.

In other words, the CTO is outnumbered at the table in discussions about encryption.

I'd also like to see her produce meeting minutes for discussions about encryption, or some further transparency. The Digital Services team's self stated founding goal was to increase transparency of our government. However, on this encryption issue, they and Megan Smith have been too opaque. We need more details on what they are talking about. They are our public servants.

[1] http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-tech/2016/03/us-ct...
That's the trouble - the organization isn't simply by date. It was by country - he travelled everywhere. He would actually know what goes where... But my brother (who helped him the first time) might remember what to do.

Will give it a shot.
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> depends on terrorism killing enough people to destroy our way of life

Demographic and therefore cultural shifts do not only occur when a majority population has a high number of killings. They can also occur when immigrant populations are more fertile than the majority population. Terrorism is a signal of clashing ideologies but this in itself isn't a problem for a majority culture unless they believe themselves to be in rapid decline.

If you want to convince a group of people not to be fearful, you should probably show them communities in which different cultures peacefully co-exist, and actively try to lessen their fears that their own culture is weakening as its members grow older and die. Reducing the causes of fear seems to me a better path than misunderstanding it and then calling them ignorant.

The way everybody is going I see the opposite happening, and it's only going to ramp up fear and hatred. I worry about eventual violence.
-Calls most Mexicans rapists ands stands by it

-tweets a statistic that most white people are killed by black people, never apologizes, refuses to backtrack

-pretends he has no idea who white extremist groups or the kkk are when asked point blank whether he will disavow their support

...
The list goes on and on
TrustZone is not equivalent to Intel ME. Software must be designed to work with TrustZone extensions, and that software is under the control of the user (as long as you run open-source operating systems). If the software you're running doesn't use any TrustZone extensions, then the TrustZone hardware will not be used.

Intel ME on the other hand is baked into the hardware, and AFAIK can't be properly switched off, it appears the best you can do is set up a fake Intel MPS Server to point it to:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-business-clien...
Interesting blog on Troy Hunt
I came across this interesting blog on Troy Hunt the creator of 'Have I Been Pwned'. The blog is by someone who seems to cast quite a different light on Troy and his compromised email service. Anyone who is interested in reading can do so at https://troyhuntsucks.wordpress.com/ but I will want some of the posts do not shed a very nice or good light on Troy at all, however at the same time bring to notice some very good points on the legality of what he is doing, in particular pay attention to the latest post which details how the blogger thinks there is one rule for Troy and different for other sites that are created to provide a similar service. I thought it was quite a good read, determine that for yourself.
I applaud your efforts at answering all these questions and providing very detailed responses.
I am a right wing gun nut and I am strongly pro-Snowden, for what its worth. I am a gun nut because I fear government, and the NSA revelations are proof that my fears are justified.

A lot of other gun nuts think like me. Don't assume the Republican party represents us.
So first grade is 1 + 6 = 7 by your algorithm?
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Link to blog on Troy Hunt
Having it learn on human games was just a way of speeding up the initialization process before running reinforcement learning, it didn't limit the state tree that was being searched later on.
The question is where are they broken out? If at all? A bunch will be used for the QPI/KPI interface, but how many will get broken out to play with in the real world? If the slides are correct, 8x will be broken out as PCIe so that's something I guess. But not very much. Which is kind of the point I'm making. FPGA's are great I/O processor devices, but if you can't access the I/O, then that use case is toast.
Thank you so much for this resource! Just the thing I've been studying lately. :)
> You may have dodged the proverbial bullet.

Wish I could upvote this twice! Every rejection I've ever received came with an information-rich sideband that told me more about the prospective employer than an acceptance would have. In at least half of such cases I said to myself: "phew, that was a bullet I was lucky to dodge... imagine how it might feel to work with these people!"
Let's not forget that the UK also doesn't have brown bears, black bears, mountain lions, wolves, coyotes, and a southern border with a country that routinely has horrific murders involving decapitated bodies. Personally I can understand why SOME Americans feel the need to carry a firearm. It's highly unlikely that you would be harmed by the animals mentioned above or even be affected by the violence in Mexico, but it's also unlikely that you will need your smoke alarm or seat belt on any given day. We don't all live in safe urban areas where the police are minutes away.
Nice. Here is what I see if I just consider the pictures: very clean cities and countryside, disciplined and healthy people living their simple lives. People work and serve their country. Everyone is poor but equally so. No apparent inequality. People get education and perform arts. Of all poor places on Earth it doesn't look like it is the worst.

So this is how it looks to me if I put aside the usual "North Korea is evil" media context.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... can't find data for other periods it's a really warren of twisty passages when one seeks out stats without a thorough knowledge of an area.
I don't think WebAssembly is likely to be any faster than JavaScript is it? It's literally the same compiler in V8.
The "no homework" thing is such a red herring.

Companies that do work samples minimize on-site coding interviews, because the whole point of offsite work sample testing is that most candidates can't provide an accurate picture of their aptitude in an on-site coding interview.

No interviewing software developer prefers an extra 6 hours of on-site interview to an off-site coding challenge.

The problem developers have with "homework problems" is really a problem with bullshit companies that won't provide timely feedback on their submission. Nobody wants to do homework that goes into a black hole, only to find out 6 months later that they were in consideration for the role. That's a problem with all hiring companies, and it is orthogonal to the structure of the interview itself.
I've heard there's some V8 changes coming down the pipeline that will end up allowing node to use the serialport package without compiling anything native.

Have I heard wrong?
Because there are plenty of people who can regurgitate things but not be able to do much with it. I've seen it with CS grads from good schools, its disconcerting and confusing.
V8 is the js engine. The one that is so fast because it compiles in JIT, the one that powers Chrome and Node.js, the one that enabled a full range of let's-build-a-full-app-in-a-browser apps.

Also for the worse: the one that lets us include 10Mb of js in a browser.
> All true but my observation is that the companies that put candidates through multi-day-out-of-town interview processes can afford to miss out on the candidates that can't do it.

All companies can afford to waste less money than they need too.
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You still need these languages/technologies and libraries.
He diagnosed it correctly - I was running debug builds instead of release builds. Shaves 80% off my 20 sec runtime without including any of the other optimizations he shared.
No feedback is extremely irritating, but common. I know a lot of companies are afraid to give feedback because they don't want to get sued. I worked at a startup where we did give people feedback, immediately, and they were often very surprised. Companies may reject people who are otherwise a technical match for lots of reasons - maybe there was some personality quirk of the interviewer where he didn't like you. It's also hard to hire someone who is smarter than you. And of course your unfortunate experience is just one anecdote. I hope you found another job that evaluated you better.

My current company was getting some poor candidates who passed the phone screen (the phone screen was the usual 1 hour code something in a google docs while we both look at it) type of screen. So we added a homework problem that takes a couple of hours to pull off. I found when I interviewed I had no interest in coding or following each companies stupid and arbitrary interview process. I do worry that it's too much of a pointless pain - but we have been able to reject a few people at the "homework" stage because they were just atrocious.

If someone has been a public github contributor, that should be even better than a homework problem.
And, should that come to pass, what would your rationale be for going out of your way to avoid it?
> Do people really think their handgun is going to help them resist a predator drone strike?

For a single person, or a small group? I know of no one who believes that.

> The US military is vastly more powerful than any gun owner. Do people really think they can compete?

The US military is composed predominately of gun owners :).

> What's more, advocates of legal gun ownership often also push for more military spending (though that might be less true here on HN). Am I missing something here?

From my perspective, this is almost pure cognitive dissonance. They also tend to support things like NSA spying and restrictions on effective encryption.
Have you tried it without any extensions enabled? Google+ has always performed roughly the same in Firefox as Chrome in my usage — fairly good but not great due to the massive amount of work they're doing in JS. That's improved over the years but it's taken a long time to approach native scrolling performance in any browser.
France may have more guns per inhabitants but it's mostly hunting rifles/sports gun.

Swiss gun laws are definitely not as strict as France's. Look it up.
All you'll get out of B is responses about terrorism and it doesn't count.
Imagine the absurdity of US citizens being told this by their government, who then drafts their 18 year old children and sends them to a foreign land to kill people with the most lethal technology the US military industrial complex can come up with. Paid for by US citizens tax dollars.
> AWD assures you always have traction, tracking means steering, therefore AWD means you retain steering in bad conditions. If you move to a snowy area the majority of vehicles have either AWD or 4WD, the few that don't NEED snow tires just to make it work.

I have lived my entire life in areas where it snows. This is fundamentally not true.

Traction has to do with tires. Good snow tires - awesome traction. Bald summer tires - bad traction. If you need to steer around something, the tires is what matter - NOT AWD or 4WD.

The reason the majority of cars up north have AWD or 4WD is because people are sheep, and believe in marketing material over facts.

If you would like to read more about this, please check out: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2014/12/01/all-wheel-drive-do...
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