skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One can never know the true story of anything based on what you read, but one can perhaps find some truths from the meta.

Before Snowden, there was about 10 years of news regarding the NSA desiring to spy on everyone (coming from such organizations as the EFF, which -- while clearly biased, are usually not pie in the sky fanciful.)

I'm not too familiar with Zero Hedge, personally. My "first impression" (just looking at Zero Hedge) is that it's not your ultra-conspiracy-theory Alex Jones type site. Definitely no Jade Helm 15s or Illuminati here.

However, I do think that the tone of the site is excessively negative and excessively Chicken Little. It also hawks gold in a bad way. Very much a red flag. In the real world, gold tends to be a more emotion driven trade than a logical one -- http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21692942... .

The best time to buy gold is actually during times of good prosperity, when the fearmongers stop pushing up the value. :)

I think many of the subjects Zero Hedge reports on look like real issues, to be honest. ZH doesn't seem to have any solutions other than "OMG world going to end buy gold!". Which is... not helpful (see above). There's too much of the "Evil Elite Wall Street / Politician" angle as well; while we should be concerned about inequality, concentration of capital in markets, etc., casting them in emotional terms isn't helpful either.

Having said that, there was an anti-vax article. Zero Hedge better be careful, that definitely is Alex Jones territory. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-28/why-our-children-sh...

That's my first impression. Maybe I'm wrong, I'd love to hear a counterpoint. From a perspective of where I get my "truths" from, personally I get most of my business news from The Economist and Kiplinger. Even then, this is not really for investment purposes. The best investment advice is relatively simple: invest periodically in a variety of baskets, and hold long.
When it comes to animal anxiety, I always feel bad about very small dogs in public. It seems like 90% of the chihuahas I've ever seen were incredibly nervous around strangers, some to the point of visibly shaking if too close to a crowd - and I can't blame them, given the size difference.
What is the anticipated hardware cost of the proposed prototype?
Of course that's the response. In the article he states this response to an interview will end it without an offer.

But he's saying it's okay to walk away from what you know from the hiring process is likely to be a bad job.

If you're destitute, desperate and dying on the street, this is bad advice.

If you are already happily employed, this is good advice.

If you are somewhere in between, it's something interesting to think about. Almost as if it were in a long-form blog posted on Hacker News.
if you can take multiple people and pull them off their work for an entire day, while having meetings about the meetings you'll be having, there's not enough real work being done.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=rax
Hey,
why don't you talk to the YC company again? Ask them why they advised that, there might be a very different and valid reason, say you're tempted to apply.

Nothing like shining some sunlight on things to clear everything up.
Trying to make your interviewer believe you are like them is fine. Accepting that most interviewers are men, as immutable fact, is not. Telling women they need to be less womanly to get a job is not.
They also started advertising in the docs of Capistrano, and when it launched it had a bug that made the ad appear on every pageview: https://twitter.com/kaspergrubbe/status/704355597429436416 :)
Well done.

You've just demonstrated the breach with reality in Bitcoin-land that is most personally irritating to me--the conflation of democracy with consensus/mob rule.

Democracy isn't (and never was) just "majority preference that is inferred from behavior". It's the regular, structured process of checking in and putting the rules that affect people up to a group decision, i.e. voting on stuff on a regular basis, and exposing the rules of the system to that process.

Having a regular vote on the # of bitcoins? That'd give it an element of democracy. But bring that up, and you get the kind of nonsense you just gave us.

And it's funny, in bitcoin-land, the very idea of democracy seems really offensive, and I think I know why; I think that the hardcore bitcoin advocates look at bitcoin as a way to get into a system and come out on top. The actual levers of power in the world are closed off to most of us, and getting into them is a long, hard process that involves skills very few in the computer industry have (or want to develop). Bitcoin gives its adherents a way to feel like they're going to be kings in the new world order, and suggesting the democratizing of this system would of course threaten that.

No one in bitcoin-land ever comes back to me and says "Yeah, you're right, we should involve more people in the decisions behind how this thing is run." That power's seductive (well, that fictional, imagined power of being a king in bitcoin-land), I guess.
I've been to some of the most honest interviews when a small tech team needs a new member with a slightly different expertise to theirs. Like, "we implemented a major part of our system, but we need someone to help us in this or that regard". It makes a ton of a difference in terms of mutual respect and friendliness.
We had some open positions here at walmart.com in Sunnyvale for manager type roles. A high percentage were from yahoo.

Needless to say my new manager is from yahoo.
Video: watch a robot take another human job, photographer
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You have to use references and iterators, which are just as dangerous.
I have nothing to do with this startup but from your comments I don't think you read the article very carefully. Also it's unfair to blame them for what your browser plugins did.
What is the monetization strategy?
That picture is two years old and custom decals are no longer possible.
Thanks; my mistake.
hey, not sure why you're getting downvoted. valid points, I appreciate you pointing it out. we definitely should look into this.
We'll delete the ones that don't have any replies.
hey, the rules I was referring to were the old rules, not today's article.
uBlock Origin isn't blocking them for me.
What does Apple look like without the iPhone?
Computer Science is a three year degree at least - you can't spend an hour talking about it?

Even implementing something simple and well known (like a breadth first search for example) on the white board can take an hour, if you are discussing it as you go along, and the algorithm has to be tailored and optimized to fit the interviewer's question.
Pretty spot on. Start ups do have to be partially delusional, because if people thought what they were doing was going to succeed they would be doing it too. That said you do well to spot the difference between someone who realizes that every slot on a roulette wheel has a slim chance of being the winner, and someone who tells you the last three spins have all be numbers less than 18 so the odds of a higher number are now much better.

Put differently, the math has to work. There can be unknowns like adoption rate, and customer retention, but at the end of the day the money coming in has to cover costs and give you enough margin to grow.

I recall considering a position at Ning, the team was great and they really wanted me to join, but at the time the path to profitability was to take advertising revenue away from Google for topic specific websites? I could not see any way to make that they could make that true. I pushed them on that point and realized they didn't really have any idea how to make that true either, it was a complete 'build it and they will come' faith play. I passed, spotting the delusion by doing the math. I think it would have been fun to work with that team but I wasn't sure how long it would be around.
>they're the ones shipping grievously broken cryptography to try to "stop the NSA"

I don't understand this aspect of the strawman. Could someone help me out? In the context of the previous two examples of how members of group 1 act, is tptacek merely implying that members of group 1 are stupid?
Really? We added HTTPS to a number of ad-ridden sites and found no noticeable impact to end user page load times, page views or ad revenue.
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Stanford's CS224d: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing uses TensorFlow. Although they have only just got up to the part where they are beginning to use it.

Here's the "Introduction to TensorFlow" lecture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Y2_Cq2X5s

You don't need to watch the previous 6 lectures to make sense of it but it would help if you knew a bit (but not super detail) about neural nets e.g. the terms forward propagation, backward propagation and gradient descent of neural networks mean something to you.

http://cs224d.stanford.edu/syllabus.html
Any data about the user - even simple timestamps - that is leaked is an increasingly-serious problem. Just because you don't have interesting data doesn't mean other people cannot correlate your data with other aggregated personally identifiable data.

edit: Sorry, partial post due to accidentally hitting enter.
Maybe he used to have 'r' as login.
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The huge pro Russia bias just became unbearable after a while. Whatever Putin does is consider awesome, whatever Obama does is considered bad. China coverage seemed somewhat more balanced.
sure I'll see if I can find it, I had looked into this for the Silk Road case, where they hacked into a computer in Reykjavik Iceland

I found it at that point in time
Yeah, I think so. The most common server-side usages of Haxe are the php, node.js, C++, and neko targets.

UFront is a good example of a server-side usage for Haxe:
http://ufront.net/
My other comment covers this. There is actually an upside to spatio-temporal control, which is that anyone who walks into a university library can access the licensed material for that library. Of course in this day and age such physical restrictions on access seem absurd.
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You mean well but this reads like an apologia and RMS does not require one.
It is not always an option to fix things for the employee and the OP did not provide enough context to judge whether this was the case here or not.

And, if both parties parted as amicably as claimed by the OP, how bad can the management have been?
Paypal's Venmo under federal investigation
What's funny to me is the person probably doesn't even realize that's part of the problem they are supposedly against; or scarily they might. Hate speech laws are just used to justify punishing people you don't like or wish to control. Anybody who says a person should be punished for what they say or be punished for what a different person does after hearing speech is a dangerous person.

Imagine how easily punishing someone for the actions of another based on what the criminal allegedly heard could be abused? Have a critic to a high-ranking government employee? Just get someone to go out and commit crimes claiming they only did it because of the critic's speech. Bam! Instance silencing of the critic.

But I'm sure in this age of enlightened human beings that kind of thing would never happen.
Thanks for posting that - keras looks a lot easier to use for mere amateurs like myself.
Oops. They seem to have responded pretty fast though.
sigh I don't know what to say... even though it's probably a stupid idea wrt snapchat, I think the driver is wholly responsible for his actions.
That's a fair point but I think it might be too subtle for this level of discussion. If we ever get HN to the place where we can work on refining discourse to that level, I'll be delighted, but it seems to me a long-term goal.
Ahh, you do web applications. Then you might like my summary of state of the art for that:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/the_security_...

It's due for an update in near future with resources that a few people here shared with me. Still has lots of interesting stuff, though. Might not help in your day job as you can't dictate the stuff to management or dev team. However, you could enjoy doing it in private on FOSS project exploring those tools or improving/cloning them for others.

There's also projects that try to automate prevention of known classes of bugs. If you find some easy to use, maybe bring it to attention of your management showing they make QA more efficient & liability lower while requiring no extra costs on dev's part. Win-win.
I have found recently that reviewers in natural language processing, in aggregate, place negative value on reproducibility.

Perhaps 1 out of 3 reviewers gets it, another is bored by the fiddly and detailed methods section, and the third was subconsciously hoping for a "brilliant", mystifying secret sauce. Oh, that's all you did? he asks. I could have done that.

Of course you could have done it, I just told you how and pointed you to the data. I also compiled that data, and you won't even let me tell you that because of blind review.
Yep this is my experience too.
>I'm also considering not allowing video on the calls also

I've never considered live video of me a requirement in any professional or technical context a requirement unless I was actually doing something visual that explicitly requires it. When on the job I've never even bothered asking if it was ok to not have my camera on, and in interviews I've never thought twice about letting the interviewer know that I won't have a video stream up. Sometimes its because I genuinely can't (either poor internet or the fact that I don't have a webcam for my desktop) or I just don't feel like it. It's not about some high-minded principle regarding discrimination or a tactical decision or anything, I just don't think that video conferences add anything to audio in any situation except visual presentations or personal/emotional contacts (GF or family). I've been in a LOT of live calls in a lot of contexts and I've never noticed the other party having any issue with this, no interviewer has detectably taken it negatively.

I'd also like to add that I don't always have my camera off, just that I don't feel any pressure to justify myself when it is turned off, which is most of the time.
Congratulations to RMS (and ACM for that matter ..)
Flipping the bird to Wall Street
Re: #1, Prime Air would certainly change economics of the last mile: http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8037720011
Will it be possible to set some flag in Cargo.toml or in compiler arguments to enforce "saturating" behavior everywhere is possible? (even by price of some performance degradation).
If a sale of Yahoo were to happen, would it include Yahoo Japan?
That seems like a questionable metric.
Plus they have insurance on it. If something goes wrong, they'll still be ahead. I'd bet money, the insurance is far less than the savings by switching to SpaceX.

The only problem would be a long delay....
I have also decided this past Jan 1 to stop Soda. And I've phased out sugar in my morning coffee. Not being a big juice drinker in the first place, I think I'm better off as a long term goal to limit the amount of sugar i "drink". I'll stick to just "eating" it, focus on cutting out more processed sugar and being smart about balanced diet in general.

I do crave it still tho, I have not found myself avoiding fast food either. With two kids under 2, it just kind of makes life easier when I make them good meals and can pick up something quick.
Your comment has angered me to the point I went out and harmed someone. Be sure to step forward to accept your part of the punishment.
So that's why this transphobic article was on HN to begin with.
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‘Gossip,’ and other words repurposed by Shakespeare
You invite us to try your product then when I click the link it says invite only. I'm not a native English speaker but something is not right here :)
you forgot

4. Whine about it in a blogpost to try to create an internet outrage army
That is so last century, when even monopolies tried to provide good customer service and a quality product. This century 100% of the effort is focused on business efficiency so that larger returns can be made for the shareholders/etc.

This means little reinvestment, little customer service, and a product/service only good enough to keep the conservative party from admitting that sometimes a little regulation is necessary (aka just about never).
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That's pretty much bullocks... Print media costs massively more for publishing costs vs. online publishing. Same wrt television, both of which handle upwards of millions of customers every day just fine.
Well, that was also when Apple gave its guidance, which ended up pretty much spot on.
I truly hope they can bring down the costs, retain their reliability, and compete. If they got into a price war with SpaceX, it will only benefit all of us.
TensorFlow is the machine learning codebase, but typically how do machine learning research teams manage their training sets, dataset metadata and collaboration on these large datasets?
Yes, they're probably getting massive kickbacks from those horrible vampires over Let's Encrypt, who list Chrome as a major sponsor.
That's true +1. I'm sure they don't make every integrated circuit and piece of electrical wire. My general point still stands, ULA do much less manufacturing in house by a very large margin.
OK, then my answer to your original question is: the ability to think and communicate clearly, because you're not doing it right now. I still don't understand the difference between "at events, face to face" and "with people in social settings." Those sound the same to me.
It's not accurate; they don't build all parts, just most of them.
The Brain Dictionary  (or: word2vec for the brain)
Interesting abstract, but what about just asking for donations?

Freenode does that, and so does public radio, but they seem uniquely positioned to do that. If I were running a bunch of STUN/TURN servers I wonder where I would ask for donations.

Makes me wonder how the Internet came to be. Something about DARPA funding?
Indeed, I have too. But it's a far different operation on the internet, and if you're going to attempt it here, you need to provide clear differentiators from garden-variety personal abrasiveness, which is definitely going to be the default interpretation.

From a community point of view, if there's a nontrivial chance of generating an angry subthread, then the expected value of such a comment is negative. You can change that into a positive by putting more care into how you express your point. It's hard, but doable; there are users here who are good at it.
The game Error Prone is cute, but it mostly shows that it's very difficult to keep going a constant speed when your only controls are a binary "Full Throttle" and "Idle".
You can go so much further with these RescueTime data. I recently created a simple vis showing how day was spent:

https://medium.com/@vojto/fixing-rescuetime-charts-458edd86a...

tldr: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*_IbFy8gq6Fqmu1ZZX...

And also keep in mind that hours spent being distracted isn't the only metric. Another important thing is how often you interrupted your work for something unimportant.

For that purpose we built a mini app: http://focuslist.co/escape/#
A robust, fast (think BLAS / LAPACK) matrix library a la Numpy or Eigen, except for Scheme. Something like an R7RS library would be great, however if it only worked on one of Gambit / Gauche / CHICKEN / Guile that would be fine too.

One of the biggest problems seems to be coming up with an efficient / sane way of slicing or passing matrices without requiring explicit copies. It would also need to eventually support sparse matrix operations, as well as complex numbers.

To be honest, recreating something similar to Numpy / Eigen in any language would be a pretty big feat. I've toyed with the idea of wrapping Eigen into CHICKEN Scheme before, however incorporating C++ classes into Scheme can be confusing and cause some serious headaches.

As for why I want this -> I want to be able to do really fast matrix operations with the elegance of Scheme as a language. Outside of fast and easy linear algebra, I've wanted for nothing whenever I've used Scheme.
some papers on that top 10 list are even free on the original publisher sites or ncbi (eg. nejm). so why getting them on sci-hub rather than from the original? ppl don't read supplements any more?
Props to python.

However, what idea has C++ not accepted? It seems for it to be a "new" language, it should at least say "no" to something.
What's the significance of "17.2" in Model Name/Number?
HTTPS certificates are free these days: https://letsencrypt.org/
It's a charming story that ought to be read in its entirety rather than being reduced to a dry, Reuters-like press release.
> he's not talking about the ads not being able to use the users location

The reason for wanting the user's location doesn't matter. It's incredibly irresponsible to send the user's location (or any other user data) over the network unencrypted.
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The problem is that you can't prevent a stranger from sending you something you don't like, unless you block all strangers from sending you messages or block the stranger after they've already sent it. You reported the person to Instagram. In my experience, this works pretty well and the user account will most likely get banned.

I feel like you want a digital 'safe space' like on many college campuses. The real world is much darker than this. There are no safe spaces.

The 'edge case' that you discuss is just reality. The only way around it is to only communicate with a circle of people that you completely trust.
Check out 33mail: http://www.33mail.com/

I believe it's exactly what you're looking for.
You're overstating things a bit. There has never been a "need to learn multiple frameworks in multiple languages." As a beginner, you pick one and go with that (as evidenced by the fact that... you've picked one!). This announcement doesn't change that situation.

Nobody needs to use multiple frameworks unless you're someone (not a beginner) who wants to be able to take the code from research papers or something.
If you complain about CS requirements for software engineering jobs your complaints are going to fall on a lot of deaf ears because people desire competency. Dunning-Kruger is having its impact felt in these threads. If you think computer science fundamentals aren't a requisite for software engineering it's probably because you don't have the experience and skill necessary to understand what engineering competence looks like.
My procrastination has a single task buffer. I find a worse task, put that at the top of a list - then procrastinate this decoy task with the real to do list.
It's going to be one of those SciFi situations where:

(a) Gaia or The Planet is sending her children to stop what's about to kill the rest.

or

(b) The time travel implications of the black holes it might create are having the future push back on it 11/22/63 style.
The problem is that pissed off ex-employees are able to file lawsuits claiming that they were fired for any of a number of reasons that you can't fire them for. (Race, gender, religion, ...) Defending these lawsuits, even when they are without merit, is an expensive PITA. And the process can turn up all sorts of stuff in public that is a PR disaster.

This happens sufficiently often that HR has responded with policies to carefully document exactly why people are being fired. Furthermore they often try to get fired employees to sign contracts saying that they won't sue. These policies make it considerably more difficult to fire people.