skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is changing which is exactly why you have the whole discussion about minimum wage.

It basically affect how employers can make money and it will be the very reason why you would se an even bigger move towards automation of the actual service.

You keep using history as if it's any indication of the future even though the very underlying premise why have been how they have historically is changing.

It's ok you don't want accept this but that doesn't mean it's not happening. Anyone who sits u little further up than the people who work on the floor will tell you that there are in fact plenty of plans to reduce the work force to be able to keep competing by keep making it cheaper.

Ignoring that problem won't make it go away.
> That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if porting those things over from compiled languages to be a part of the library would prove to be substantially slower.

I must have missed something, I thought ImageMagick was a collection of C libraries and C programs, which in turn occasionally called other libraries and programs (such as gs).

What I meant was that a graphics utility should be a c library that exports functions like

scale_image(source_image, target_image, scale)

to be used instead of running a command line utility

convert image.jpg -resize 0.5

That can't ever be slower, but some times likely faster (e.g. to recode an image before inserting as a blob into a db or sending over a netwoek you wouldn't even write it to disk).
I wonder what Descartes would say to this.
Good developer who seeks something different than an internship
Hey there HN! I've been a member for some years and I love the community here! Going to the point, I am a grad student in robotics with a full scholarship. Since if I get an internship for this summer all the possible income I could get from that would be rest out of my scholarship I guess I'd be better working on something that interests me with no pay, and therefore don't get discounted on my scholarship. I live in Worcester MA so I am looking to relocate to bigger city for the summer and live some adventures. I would like to say that I am a fullstack dev but there is so much to learn out there than I'd better say that I am a frontend dev. Having said that I am proficient in Angular, Mongo, Node, Express (the mean stack), extjs, jquery, SockeIO, D3js, Firebase, mqtt, sql, version control (git, svn) and many more robotic stuff (opencv, gazebo, ros, rviz, openrave, etc), I am also learning new stuff every day, like react, mariadb, spark and tensorflow. I also worked as a front end dev in a software company back in my home country. Got a resume to send if you are interested. Then again I am not looking for income just a place to stay and the possibility to work somewhere that I feel passionate about this summer.
TL;DR I am a good dev looking for a non paid internship but only housing.
P.S. California would be the dream! :D
Sorry, I appreciate that you're trying to add value but I still don't see it.

Until you can get the hiring companies to eliminate their onsite interviews and only rely on you to test candidates programming abilities, then there really is no advantage to going through TripleByte. There are only disadvantages.

If I have a bad day and mess up the TripleByte interview, then I'm automatically excluded from a bunch of top companies through TripleByte. But if I apply to each company individually, I get the same chance to perform and a poor performance won't affect the others.

However, if I do well, the only thing I get after doing a TripleByte onsite is to skip is a 1 hr phone screen, which, if I'm good I'll be able to pass anyway. And also I'm still relying on you to give me access to the companies which may or may not be the ones I want.

There just doesn't seem to be any practical advantage to using TripleByte over any other recruiter. I'd in fact skip TripleByte because it requires me to do a lengthy onsite which would require me to take a day off (presumably you don't do this on weekends) on top of the onsites from other companies. And the advantage of skipping phone screens doesn't seem worth it.
I always ask debug questions in when I interview candidates, because it's a skill way too many devs simply don't have. in that situation i'd tell them what you thought was the issue and why, then proceed to prove it through the debugger.

Yes it's tedious, and in real life you fix it and move on, but not all bugs are that simple, and it's an interview so the aim of the game is to demonstrate your ability as a well-rounded developer.
3 Ways to Prepare for Your First Technical Interview
Nope. You have to pay .005 BTC to register a document.
People don't pick words from a fixed distribution in the manner which you wrote. I scanned over 500,000 words I wrote and I never mentioned the word mentioned on the headline of this article. I'm not sure if any kind of meaningful interpretation can be made from the headline, but I think it's an interesting observation nonetheless.
Employers don't actually (in most cases) have a very good grasp of what qualities they select for. It's function of the engineers doing the interviews and the engineering culture, and most companies are not aware how much this differs between companies. We model what each company looks for by sending them candidates with specific attributes and reading their feedback (we get honest feedback from companies after interviews, which is pretty rare). We're then able to see how feedback for the same candidate differs between companies.
You can't have an account on Hacker News that exists just to hate on a specific company—nay, a specific individual. That's a combination of single-purpose account (which we frown on) and personal attack (which we ban people for). I've banned this account. Please don't do it again.
That's what bothers me the most.

If the purpose of copyright is to incentivize new creation, applying changes to it retroactively only serves to hurt the public.
So is git, nuget etc. Either something is just a library, or it's just a command line tool, or it's a command line tool that uses a library (i.e. the command line tool is a simple wrapper that turns command line arguments into function call parameters basically).

I have never heard of a program where the command line program is at the heart, and a library is wrapped around it. I can't even imagine how such code would be structured.
Very nice.

Hopefully it also gets rid of the super annoying "While you were gone" sections.
Could Basic Income Really Work? A Video Chat
Couldn't tell if joking after reading the bit about walking out when you see they don't use git ^_^
“I made 3 CEOs rich – So why am I broke?”
[Disclosure: I work for the team that built docs.microsoft.com]

Thanks folks, we had Segoe UI Light on the blog and have switched it to use the same font as our docs!
I CAUGHT MY BOYFRIEND CHEATING
Or whether this story is apocryphal, being twice removed from the original workers.
They clearly need to hire more engineers.

/s
I don't know for sure, but they are charging 5 mBTC. So if you're right, they could be earning quite the margin!
Surely then it should not be framed as people "killed by medical errors", but rather people who could be saved by improving medicine.

The way this is framed in the media is especially absurd, calling it the #3 cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Many of the deaths in question certainly were from heart disease and cancer. They are not disjoint categorizations.
How to evade the NSA: OpSec guide for journalists also used by terrorists
From an article a while ago, I was convinced that the next generation of computers would be built on memristors... Allowing you to dynamically allocate memory and computation resources in a 3D framework. And photonics would be used to connect multiple computing units.

Is any of this feasible or realistic?
Their argument typically looks like this:
Choosing a candidate pool that is 80+% men (>X years experience as a developer) is inherently sexist. To eliminate structural sexism, we must remove hiring criteria that favors men. Let's tell our sourcers that looking for relevant industry experience is not important.

For school I've been told that we should look if they have a degree or not, and not consider which institution. This explicitly considers all colleges the same.

Every point in the post is an actual suggestion made on how to improve diversity. Obviously not all the suggestions have been implemented, but I'm afraid the committee for improving hiring might do just that.
The best way IMHO is have a good/interesting problem for them to solve. Something they could potentially care about from a developer/tech perspective.

I "earned" my technical co-founder exactly by finding a smaller problem to solve from the really big one I had in mind.

Paid him to do it and made him realize that this was an interesting problem to solve while still a good business to be in.

The smaller problem he helped me solve has turned out to a pretty good business so I can't wait for what the bigger problem will do for it.

Now we are building some really great stuff.
I would love to see some good numbers about how much it costs to do grid-scale storage and how those costs are changing over time
The article is presenting allegations as facts. US Steel has asked the US International Trade Commission to investigate, but Baosteel strenuously denies all these allegations.

http://www.baosteel.com/group_en/contents/2863/81262.html

There is a strong element of hypocrisy. Last year, US Steel was one of several American steel companies who were ruled against in a $103m class action suit for price fixing.

http://business.cch.com/ald/StandardIronWorksArcelormittal10...
I think it would be a better comparison to simply pick 100 other words, perhaps proper nouns like "Communist", "Stalin", "Fascist", "Mussolini", "Khmer Rouge", "Pol Pot", and etc. Do the same analysis with these, and it will tell you if Godwin's Law is telling us something unique about this particular bugbear. (I suspect it is, but haven't run the comparison myself)
I really have to take exception with a statement in the opening here:

> rooftop solar seem systems which are (arguably) little more than green bling for the wealthy

My rooftop solar system (installed in late 2013) is 2.5 years in to what is looking to be a 5.9 year break-even point. After 6 years I will be earning $4-5k/year from it. Even if I had financed this (not a solar lease, those are usually structured so the leasing company gets all the benefits) at a high interest rate, it would turn out to be one of my best investments on a $/return basis.

The fact that basically don't have a monthly power bill (which is substantial in hot parts of PG&E land) is my #1 benefit here, as reducing my monthly budget by that amount makes the rest of my life that much nicer. The fact that I have reduced my 'carbon footprint' is barely on my radar compared to the financial benefits here....

I did find it crazy that the installer/designer wanted to know if I wanted more visible colors, or a portion of the panels facing the from top the house so they were more noticeable. I suppose some people just have to green-signal...
Fitbit continues to dominate Apple in wearables
I Tried Living Like Dan Bilzerian and Realised What His Problem Is
Analysis of Overlapping Technologies Used by Criminals and Terrorist Orgs
Those are all symptoms of a concussion. In my understanding, anxiety attacks are one of the primary symptoms of PTSD.
I searched your Medium article for a link to an online demo for Structor and couldn't find one, perhaps that is letting you down.

Certainly looks like a promising and very comprehensive project. I'm not using React right now but I've definitely bookmarked this to come back to. Good luck!
On https://mobile.twitter.com/ ? I don't have a bell icon. http://i.imgur.com/2xnV1iS.png
Question: I see "x86 versions of Windows are expressly not supported", but does it allow for executing x86 VMs within the hypervisor?
> PS. Interestingly, Google doesn’t seem to care.

That's not fair. They state it's a problem that is inherent to browsers, not that they don't care about the issue.

Also be mindful of Google's warning regarding the author's workaround:

> in particular, clobbering the window.opener property limits one of the vectors, but still makes it easy to exploit the remaining ones.
Submitters: Please don't editorialize titles when submitting stories. The HN guidelines ask you to use the original title unless it is misleading or linkbait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(Submitted title was "Harvard Physicist, Long-Time Solar Skeptic Admits Solar Power Now Makes Sense".)
At the risk of not taking it seriously enough, does this woman sound a little overly paranoid to anyone else?

They call and ask to speak with her, and suddenly she's talking about flight records and backdooring software... admittedly the stuff about having teams in multiple cities looking for her was a little disconcerting, but if they wanted to arrest her or coerce her into something shady they'd have done it, and probably quickly and not very politely.

I'd have just assumed they were investigating a case that was tor related and either 1. Didn't know enough to understand that she wasn't involved just because she contributed to the software or 2. (less likely) Wanted her opinion on some of the tech specifics of how Tor works.

Maybe just show up to meet them, with an attorney (of course!) and if they start asking anything serious the attorney tells you to shut up and you leave.

It sounds to me like the agents were doing their jobs in their normal, properly secretive if a bit ham-fisted way, and this person totally freaked out.
I certainly did Nazi this coming.
> There was a lot of evidence that this was how things were moving a century ago, but the predictions made at the time look more than a little bit wrong. Not only have the sons of the increasingly obsolete production line employees mostly found jobs, but so have their daughters!

No, actually, a century ago there was reason to think things would head that way at some time in the future; now, there is evidence that it is actually happening. Real average hourly wages of production and nonsupervisory private-sector employees peaked in January 1973, and for the manufacturing sector in January 1978. Sure, there's still jobs, but more of the value they produce is going into providers of the capital necessary to do them than the labor, as labor is marginalized.
Sprint deployment / critical fixes are one thing, but for a year I did 90+ hour work weeks on a CPG startup and fried myself. More specifically, I was so burnt out on the very thing that was supposed to catapult me to the next level. The concept of positive burnout is very real..
As someone who's experienced the medical system for the past 6 years (family and personal illness) and know many medical professionals, the level of arrogance, ignorance and lack of professional integrity frankly borders on criminal. It is long overdue to shed light on this issue.

Good doctors are few and far between.

Stories of mind-boggling ineptitude are so common that my only advice is: if you ever find yourself in need of medical care for anything major, your number one priority is to do your own research and micromanage your physician at every step to ensure he doesn't fuck up. Or he will. Big time. From the diagnosis stage to the treatment stage. Question his every decision because your life depends on it.

Trust me when I say this advice could save you from so much pain and sorrow many times over. I speak from experience. No not just one occurrence that left me bitter, but seeing it happen over and over. Being in a position where your life or the life of a loved one depends on people whose judgement you don't trust can be really emotionally taxing.

I would go into specifics, but this is not an anonymous account. I can only say in the medical profession, ineptitude and arrogance are the norm. The stories you read in these threads, they are common enough that I've seen these things happen again and again with my own eyes.
Does finite imply non-quantum?
That's certainly true, but I think that this reflects the extent to which the US is divided into warring tribes -- and so isn't in Bernays' consumption-only state of affairs.
There’s a related bit regarding pilots and copilots. http://www.publicspeakingtoolkit.com/ethnic-theory-of-plane-...

(take w/ the usual Gladwell-grain-of-salt)
Its a really hard choice as on the individual level as there is a lot of uncertainty as to which treatment will work, on the other hand the holistic statistics often lead to strange conclusions such as with the PSA test. Maximizing QALY is non-trivial.

On the other hand punishing a doctor who dropped a salad fork in your stomach is easy. These laws are designed to remove bad actors.
I hope by now it's clear how hard it is to be "overly paranoid" about our government.
Man, that was more complex than I thought. Looks like various methods of doing the coding were patented at different times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding#US_patents All the ones listed there are expired, so that's a good sign I guess.
I tracked that quote down to a MetaFilter post, and it seemed to be intended as a joke about a modern Madden game using antiquated coding techniques: http://www.metafilter.com/142452/Breaking-Madden-2-Break-Har...
Did they provide any calculations?
How come you guys didn't make the runoff?
Thank you. There is only a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAVnGa0HwGU if you don't mind.
Imagine an earth 1000 years from now where countries on one side of the planet help out the other side via solar power through superconducting power cables that have little power loss over 10,000 miles.

Since each side gets sunlight somewhere, no batteries needed. Of course 1000 years from now they could solve the battery problem too where each residence has its own low cost, safe storage.

Or 1000 years from now terrorists dirty-bomb everyone. Sigh.
Do you know whether an anesthesiologist or CRNA provided the epidural? There's a huge push to replace MDs with nurses for anesthesia (to keep costs down) and I've heard of cases like this as a result. Like Nabisco
shrinking a package of oreos from 6 cookies to 4 (for the same price) it's part of the slow dilution of service that we aren't supposed to notice.
Show HN: 198 Bay Area Startups with analysis from angel.co, sortable by fields
> is viewed much differently, in fact until the 70s it was generally accepted that Neanderthals became whites, Homo Erectus became Asians, and so on

Nope.

Multi-regional descent was a theory first proposed in 1984, and of a relatively brief lifespan. Before that monogenism was the prevailing theory. Multi-regional ascent was never the pre-eminent theory.

Now we know we're all mostly descended from h.sapiens, with some minute neanderthal and denisovan admixture.

However, the split between different branches of mankind dates as back as 300 kya. (To put that in perspective, brown and polar bears diverged approximately 500 kya)
LeadGenius is hiring more front-end developers
part of my job search process, inspired by StartupLJackson's final post
I am not sure if these are "wrong", they are just not reflective of what matters to you. Somebody else might have another opinions.
I'm reminded of Hemingway, who was in the last years of his life accused of delusional paranoia, and in part because of that forcibly committed, given shock treatments, and repeatedly attempted suicide (and, sadly, eventually succeeded).

And then, decades later, it was revealed that the FBI actually was constantly watching him, following him, and tapping his phones and communications. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/opinion/02hotchner.html
Being paranoid doesn't mean you should speculate wildly about intent. Maybe they also think she's an alien. Maybe they don't. Without more data, spinning around on it won't help and may possibly make the problem worse.
Downside is you see ads in your stream with mobile twitter which I don't see with desktop twitter.
Sure. After that I have to use their actual savings products, which also pay over current inflation rates. (Or earn 5-12% on a lending product with actual risk associated with it).
Try sticking more than £20k in your mattress.
NoScript it into oblivion or cut it out with a Greasemonkey scalpel.
Couldn't agree more.

There is a very big difference between understanding the technological problem of something and then the business opportunity of that problem.

Latest Episode of Silicon Valley kind of touches on that.
Part of the difference in our perspectives is that I don't think I should need to do any low-level manipulation to get software working the way that I want. It's easier to keep my computer doing what I want it to by altogether avoiding software that wants to claim ownership of the hardware.

I don't have control over what kinds of garbage someone else puts into their program, but I have control over whether or not I run that on my computer. Technically I have the ability to view memory, run it in a debugger, put in shim libraries to capture data, etc, but in most cases where control is a real issue, it's easier to just avoid the troublesome software in favor of an alternative.
Short version: MLK and Gandhi soufht to make peace and unite with their opponents, not attack and destroy them.
Great, thanks for the clarification.
True. As FTC CTO, his able past work in privacy and data security was certainly relevant to traditional FTC interests. As Deputy US CTO, I think his agenda has broadened.

There's already a ton of gov't interest/activity on surveillance and security issues, mostly via the military services and adjuncts. I assume this initiative ain't more of that.

This announcement seems to presage greater federal gov't interest and involvement in how computing might be used toward less defensive/clandestine ends, especially in governance (social good), control, and safety, as well as legal implications -- adding AI as the means to serving gov't ends, so to speak.

If so, great. I'd love to see greater OPEN use of computing in government, especially in gathering unbiased metrics and making better use of them to evaluate the outcome of changes in policy.
I thought this was very well done and hilarious.

However, I'm not sure how I feel about the particular emphasis on mocking people who lift and take protein supplements. It's definitely obnoxious when people define themselves by the fact that they lift, but at the same time, almost everyone I know who exhibits some the "alpha" behaviors described in this article w/r/t working out (like showing up to work in gym clothes) is not doing so in a deliberately show-offy way. They just like working out. If anything, in my experience people who do things like that tend to have serious confidence issues and being "swole" helps them with that.

I know it's just a joke, just seems like a stereotype that's very erroneous to me. And for the record, I do not lift and probably never will. I've always been a more run/bike/swim type of person, although I should probably exercise more in general.
Yes, she sounds quite paranoid. More paranoid than is justifiable from the limited communication made by the FBI so far.

That said, this seems pretty unacceptable. Regarding her attorney:

>Five minutes later, Burnett called back and said, “I don’t believe you actually represent her.” Burnett stated additionally that a phone call from me might suffice, but that the FBI preferred to meet with me in person. After a pause he said, “But… if we happen to run into her on the street, we’re gonna be asking her some questions without you present.”
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Does it mean that uvloop could allow the use of the same event loop implementation on the three major OS?