skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's Professor Doktor, bitte sehr. (scnr)

The sad part is that (except for the Siemens/Telekom/SAP class of companies), companies don't really care that much for all the paperwork - although there's typically some interest in academic credentials.

I often recommend people to fiercely cut down on their application and resume (unless the job ad has specific requirements):

HR doesn't want to read your 5 page treatise on why you're suited to a job they don't know exactly but of which they know that you don't either. They have 500 more cover letters to attend to, no time to read up on your childhood trauma that shaped you into the perfect worker bee.

They also don't care about more than the last 3 years of education (and only if they happened within the last 5 years, otherwise your job history should mostly speak for you).

Sadly, the keyword filter is as strong here as elsewhere (no 5 years of Swift experience? pass), so it's useful to stuff the resume with them (but tabular please, no prose - HR ain't got no time for that). Add academic credentials ("2013: B.A. in Bullshitting at the Agrarian Academy of Bauernhausen, specialization: the qualities of cow manure").

Write a cover letter that shows that you're in reasonable command of friendly, professional German (or English if the position allows for that), and that you read the job ad.
Finally add some bait for the hiring manager that indicates why you might be a good fit, should your application get past the HR screen.

HR will be happy to see a no-nonsense candidate that matches the keywords. Everything else is just part of the lottery anyway.

(to add: as soon as you're playing by the HR rules, be it in your reference letter, or in resume design, you're judged by it.
Once you obviously deviate from that but without creating extra work for HR, you're likely judged for content only. If they take offense at the deviation, that's probably a pretty huge red flag for the company as a whole simply because it reflects on the type of people they did or did not hire.)
At the risk of stereotyping; because he's Dutch? :)
A human being should be able to fly a Boeing 747, run a marathon, design a nuclear reactor, prove Fermat's last theorem, climb the K2, dance the Swan Lake, discover new drugs, speak 7 languages. Specialization is for insects.

Just to put things into perspective. I'm glad we have insects :)
"References" in the US / UK are proof you worked where you said you did, far beyond qualities references. This guide (see linked PDF) for developers on job titles written by a friend summarises pretty nicely:

https://opensource.careers/developers/how-to-get-paid-more/
Yeah Trump Schmump. This happened right now, and it's not the first time either!
The word that comes to mind here is amazing. A shift to electric vehicles would surely have a measurable impact on vehicular death.

I've seen several of these wrecked Teslas and it seems death always escapes the equation, at least in the reported crashes that make news.
HN had a competition. The prize was some money and invitation to HN Fellowship. This was announced here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627

Some people applied. Pinboard applied. Some people felt that Pinboard fell outside the scope of the competition. (Because it's a well known, much used, much loved, site.) Pinboard was included in the poll, here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11615639

Pinboard got a lot of votes. Some of these were from people coming from Twitter after Pinboard announced the poll.

Some people felt that was an abuse of the process; other entries got penalised for doing the same thing and it's a long established convention on HN that you do not ask people to upvote submissions. Other people felt that if it was a rule it should have been more clearly communicated.

Pinboard got more votes than other entries, but were initially denied fellowship and funding. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633270

This caused some anger, annoying, displeasure, etc.

I've tried to write this neutrally, but I may have mangled some of it.
A single study with n=80, in a social psych journal, with a trendy soundbite conclusion? Of course it's not a false positive! The fact that the authors cite a paper by Jens Foerster is icing on the cake.
I agree. He definitely looks like a terrorist. I guarantee you that if we waterboard him enough, he will tell us anything we want to hear about how his cell works. My guess is that he knows people that he'd even be willing to implicate in its operation.
How does the executive branch defund a congressional watchdog committee?
I built a rig a couple days ago; it works nicely both for deep learning and for RAM and CPU-heavy tasks: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GvTGsY - two 8 core xeons, 128GB RAM, slots for 2 GPUs for ~2000$. Currently it has gtx970; likely I'll add 1080 at some point in future.

I've heard 6th gen i7 is not good for deep learning because its PCIe performance is crippled (16 PCIe lanes instead of 40 in previous generations, it should matter for dual GPU use case). Don't quote me on that ;) Used xeons 2670v1 are dirt cheap on ebay now, and they are modern enough. Single-core performance is worse than in modern desktop CPUs, but not too much, multi-core performance is great, and these xeons allow to install lots of RAM.

If you don't want that much RAM then for the same price a single desktop CPU (i7 5th gen?) could work better because of a higher clock rate.
Certainly would be a very odd control group!

Journal article just specifies 80 children, of which 48 were boys, so that would be an arithmetic problem at the WSJ. Lucky they don't deal with numbers on a regular basis :-/
Corrections email address: wsjcontact@wsj.com
Systemd has basically become the enforcement arm of Freedesktop, that in turn is a cover for RH/Fedora running the Linux user space show.
Terrorists 1
Democracy 0
That one curious definiton of "reusable"...
And http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/easyj...

All 3 cases are women reporting men, which is interesting.
Let me fix that for you: Impossible. According to the internet, girls are superior to boys in everything.
And from what I heard: PHP.
Was the difference between HMC and HBM not basically HMC had good latency comparable to normal main RAM like DDR3 plus good bandwith (up to 400 GB/s), while HBM had worse latency than DDR3 (like GDDR5) with a large bus and really good bandwith (1 TB/s)? Will indeed be interesting to see what AMD means with next gen memory.
Don't live there then. And if you're a company, don't put your headquarters there.

DUHHHHHH
Seems like the arena has changed, though. Several hundred years ago nations/societies could operate independently. Now they're in the global web of trade. Regions that were historically very prosperous (what's now northern Syria, for example) are floundering now.

There are clearly ways to exploit globalization to become prosperous - e.g. the asian tigers. But it's not clear to me that historical examples are as useful. There's no way to know but I suspect the American colonies would not have prospered in the current economic regime.
I know; my point wasn't "`brew install git` and you're safe" - it was "Apple don't let you upgrade when you want, and even when they do let you, they don't give you latest."
I'd imagine that many chemical plants and oil refineries have substantially worse failure modes.

I have no idea what measures are generally taken to safeguard them though. My understanding is that the greatest threats are accidents and fire, although it seems highly likely they will have contingency plans for various types of deliberate threats.
I wouldn't call it an advantage, but DP1.4 can cheat on the bandwidth department by using lossy compression.

Their press statements it's visually transparent, but the technical overview[1] says this:

> All of the analyses showed that the DSC algorithm outperformed five other proprietary algorithms on these picture quality tests, and was either visually lossless or very nearly so for all tested images at 8 bits/pixel.

[1] http://www.vesa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/VESA_DSC-ETP2...
Gender discussion is too often framed as male vs. female these days. That's come from 30+ years of flawed output from the social science echo chamber and dogmatic denial of human nature. It doesn't matter if boys and girls do better under different conditions, they shouldn't be expected to perform equally in this way. What matters is that we understand those unique conditions and help children thrive whatever their gender. It's great to see research like this, especially when boys across the western world are struggling in academic environments that are perhaps favouring ways of learning more suited to girls.
Some income inequality is natural and needed. Some people strive for that sort of success. Others are perfectly happy making less because their life focuses on other things - like artwork and family and other such things.

But when income inequality grows to the point that people are having trouble even getting what the "best" have decided is needed to make it in the world, or even having enough healthy food to eat, it becomes a big problem.

And you are mixing things up - it isn't about giving everyone the same grades. A smart student would be challenged more, and the dyslexic student would have education so that they can keep up. The thing boils down to having unequal access to basic things in life and unequal access to opportunities. Health care, choice in healthy foods, which college you go to and the quality of your education are often linked to what your family income is when you are young. Even those sorts of things up, and the inequality in income doesn't matter as much.

In countries that have helped those sorts of things greatly, the bottom level isn't so low. You can still get filthy rich and other such things, but you get more responsibilities in the form of taxes. It just winds up that this sort of system winds up with less of a difference between people's incomes, but if you can do it without fixing the income thing, income itself won't be an issue.
They might also learn that there are different standards between where to put your effort and how much to haggle over some details
> As of May 4, the fire had burned almost 77 square kilometers (7,700 hectares), and its cause was still under investigation. Fire restrictions were in place for most of the province due to hot, dry conditions.

While the cause of this particular fire is still unknown, and there's a whole debate to be had on forest management, the Smokey the Bear PSA is still worthwhile: don't start fires you ain't supposed to. Every year or two in my part of the world there's a decent sized forest fire started by some idiot who couldn't wait for the wet season to burn off his brush.
You're asking whether it's sincere or not? Not sure. But the political support from the public that they need to have power is, i think, sincere because the public is legitimately afraid of all this "risk" they're exposed to.
The brokenness was not the dominant factor of geocities, more the individualism in using a limited set of design resources.

This project should be tuned more into that direction.

Is the source available?
OxyContin's 12-hour problem
A short introduction to neoliberalism
> genesis of many ghettos was in a "war on poverty"

Do you have any source on this?
Because ghettos have been around a lot longer (and many formed around the 1910s): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto#History

Whereas the "war on poverty" started around 1964:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty
> transferred by people (on foot or on horses)

It's interesting because natives didn't have horses at the time.
As someone who used to do (still do a bit) C and Ruby for embedded stuff but now does RoR for an ecommerce site, webdev can be a soul-crushing mind-numbing bore, but there are jobs and it pays. Rails is decent, especially if you are working on a site where server costs are not a significant factor in site costs. It is worth learning.
Or he could post his key signature on multiple media, provide links to them, and not expose his social network ;)
It's not immediately clear to me whether "it's a game" or "it's a test of reading ability" makes it sound more competitive.

"I want to win at the game" vs "tests = boring" / "I'd better do well on the test as it sounds important and people might think I'm stupid" vs "it's only a silly game"

Perhaps one leans towards being competitive about what your peers think of you, and one towards being competitive about what teachers/adults think? Not sure.
> It looks like a really well thought out language

Well, I think it could have been more cleanly designed if it was able to abandon the burden of Objective-C interoperability. (But Apple can't do this, obviously.) The standard libraries could have also been much cleaner if it didn't rely on NextStep. Also, I don't personally like the dichotomy of value types and reference types, but YMMV.
Great point.

I think it's dependent on the saturation. The more pro-gangster things we see, the worse it is. But the first one or ten artworks have no impact. If we saw hundreds and hundreds of Lolita-style works, yeah, it would bother me a bit and I would object as much.

But please don't misinterpret me: I'm not advocating censorship. I'm advocating for all adults to consider the insidious aspect of "cultural acceptance creep" into their media consumption, and make their own decisions.
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Thanks, I'm going to have to take a long hard look at that and the repo. I've just spent a couple of weeks abstracting over async in Swift [0] and where I ended up looks a lot like that - to the point where some of the primitives have identical type sigs (mainly because the patterns used here are not novel - promise/future, async/await, etc). Be great to see this as a core language feature!

At least now we can see stuff coming, I had just finished writing unit tests for my OAuth library when Apple rolled an implementation into iOS.

[0] I'm aware of PromiseKit and co (and read a bunch of their sources), but I didn't feel like I had a good conceptual grasp on their implementation until I could create something similar and understand how it works and how to use it to solve my actual problems. Often I'll bin my own implementation afterward and use an extant library, so this is almost - but not entirely - quite unlike NIH.

Edit:punctuation
Yes, see this example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3idQKi5EqM
Why not just adapt Isso for this? It already has a bunch of nice functionality.

I personally just delegate the commenting to github and render the comments with javascript through github api.

http://ivanzuzak.info/2011/02/18/github-hosted-comments-for-...

Here's a nice overview of how this works.
The guys who work on it do an incredible job, so I don't mind paying for the quite reasonable indie license to help them out.

If I was to do it myself, I would probably end up writing something similar, but not as good and with more bugs.

I work pretty much exclusively with startups so Windows licensing is covered by Bizspark.

Also, as has been mentioned, it is open source.
No word on double-precision performance? Could replace the Titan Z and Titan (black) as a good CUDA-application card..
This also goes the other way around: my boss mentioned an HR system in our company where he can grade employees and the system automatically generates reference letters using that particular formulated reference letter jargon.
The article says that "Germany, alongside with Switzerland, are the only countries in Europe where the employee has the right to a reference letter in which their performance is graded".

In addition at least in Finland, the employee has similar rights to a reference letter with assessment stating duties and performance - and the assessment may not be negative.

In Finland, the law states that "the reference letter must not imply other meanings than what is literally said". That is of course a bit of an impossible requirement. You can always read something implied if there is any assessment, and not having an assessment can also be interpreted as implying something (although it is generally a normal and neutral thing, there is a "long form" of reference with assessment, and "short form" without).

In Sweden, there is also a right to reference letter (arbetsgivarintyg), but it only needs to list duties, not give assessment.

Some years back in Finland, an employer actually went to jail because he refused to sign a reference letter which he considered not true regarding work duties.

Negative assessments are not allowed. The employment had lasted for a few months, but the employee had been on strike for almost all the time, only actually performing work duties for two weeks. The employer, en electrician, agreed to write the reference letter for this two week period but not sign that the employee would have been at work when he was actually on strike. But this was required by law because the employment contract had been valid.

A court case ensued. The employer was sentenced to a couple of months prison and was about to be sentenced again and again for as long as he would not sign the letter; eventually an undisclosed agreement was reached as the identity of the employee also made the news.

This feels rather strange in a country where you otherwise have to do some very graphic violence to go to jail.

Personal references in the US style have become more and more usual here, particularly in white-collar jobs.
The reddit thread was already linked by someone else below. People with flair specifying their qualifications had to provide proof of having them, so only look at those comments.
That "I-know-how-a-terrorist"-looks like thing, is what kept the german RAF going strong for nearly twenty years. They just dressed up like buisness man and walked through every controll.
How does anyone afford the median 1.2M house price? The income multiplier I always considered was 2X annual income which would require an income of $600K per household. I don't know anyone who makes that much as a programmer, even a dual $300K income seems unlikely. Are there really that many startup millionaires in SF?
Pinboard is the best.
Wow. And after the study they went to the cafeteria and ate food from intentionally smaller plates which tricked their brains into believing they were full -- for about a week.

Psychology is so full of lies. Both the content of the 'studies' and the studies themselves (all testing and no theory). Also the motivations for the studies seem to be quite often political. (Presumably this helps for obtaining public money.)

Here's a little study I propose. Have children, don't send them to school and notice how they learn to read without teaching or testing. And how much better adults report they feel when they aren't trying to do these things to children.
I get your point but that comes across as very callous to me, valuing a feature in software that benefits a small fraction of the most prosperous people in already-prosperous countries over the health of a family.

Consider reframing it: With a small donation you solve the problem for a family (where the problem is the risk that their children will die!), and you can solve it over and over just by repeating the action - it's the definition of scalability. You won't have to keep adding different colors of net to make that family safe.

But there's always another software feature to be added, the job is never done - and when you add a feature it's only for the one package! If you want to do it again you have to start from scratch.

Also, when you consider improvements in your projects, you no doubt consider both cost and impact. Compare the impact of the feature-add your donation might make in an open-source project, to the impact saving one or more family's lives.
But that is what I mentioned.

HN and Reddit are a startup bubble. I seldom use most of the cool stuff that gets mentioned here, or see it mentioned in job adverts for that matter.

At least on the Fortune 500 corporate world that we work on.

For example, besides iOS and Android NDK projects there are zero uses of LLVM.
Well, it took me about 5 minutes of clicking through oocities to find this: http://www.oocities.org/tokyo/4633/xindex.html
I'm sure it's awesome (not) to be a recent-graduate from a top university doing tons of mydata.this = theirdata.that, etc
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When I was younger I worked in retail in California, and at two companies was told that it's effectively the same for referrals. If someone calls you for a reference of someone who worked under you, the reference should never be negative, or you're opening yourself up to a lawsuit.

Everybody knew this. "He worked here" as a response to all questions means DO NOT HIRE. People who were caught stealing would be told "quit or we call the police", but you never, ever told anyone calling for a referral about this, even if charges were eventually pressed (which rarely happened). Yes, people who were caught stealing were stupid enough to list their victims as references.

This all made doubly pointless by the fact that somewhere around 99% of people working in retail are stealing things.
If you can write your site in PHP, nearlyfreespeech.net will host it for a total of 3 cents a day including mySQL, or roughly 90 cents a month.

Lambda is more flexible, but not as cheap.
Just wondering, how many GB per second does a modern search engine have to crawl?
The Nature of Reality and Consciousness
I'm not even sure what they tested has anything to do with reading ability. Other than identifying certain kinds of words in a list, it certainly didn't require comprehension or understanding. The task was actually more like a game that involved words than a reading test. So while they may have observed an effect (still a smallish sample) I don't think it says anything meaningful about reading ability.
IBM is betting on it as a programming language for enterprise applications. Expect a Swift EE coming from them.

Microsoft also acknowledged that Swift support is the top request for their iOS bridge.
Thank you! That PDF is pretty good and applies to Germany and its reference letter system just the same. The advantage of the letter is that you know (while tuning the resume) what they'll work with.
I sense that the rule of thumb is that if it's mentioned, and not inside a narrow band between sufficiently complimenting and not ironic then it's negative.

But I'm not a native speaker at all, so I really don't know.
Neat, I hadn't heard of PCpartPicker before. The Xeon 2670 you listed for $90 goes for >$1500 on NewEgg; that is quite a retail / eBay price split! Any idea why there's such a gap?
News discussion: https://stripe.com/blog/bring-your-own-team
Or team have been using ServiceStack for 4 years. We are still locked into the pre-licenced version, but it delivered what we need. It is a pleasure to use. We still use Web API on occasion, but every time I have to use it in left frustrated and longing for ServiceStack instead! Big thumbs up. It is one of the best . net external libraries out there.
I'm smiling now :-)

I thought it was a well intended explanation that just wasn't detailed enough.
If the parents are gendered, how can they possibly present a gender-neutral environment? They would have to cross-dress, vary their speech and mannerism, vary the length of their hair, be androgynous...

Perhaps the parents you're referring to are failing to realize just how strongly gendered their lives are.
Elixir and Phoenix with the underlying Erlang oecosystem is a different world in a positive sense. With Rails you will never get there. If you have the freedom, go the Phoenix way, it will enable you to do much larger things.
And that they perform same way when the problem is framed in a way that's most motivating for them.

That's what intuitively thought about tests. They show a bit of how much you can but also whole lot of how much you care.
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