skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You have to contrast it with new unemployment rates.

IIRC, the concern is that hiring slowdowns tend to lead increases in unemployment. But, yes, the unemployment rate (not just the headline rate, but all of the alternative measures from BLS as well) is still dropping.
Do you realize that this a straw man argument?
> war in Korea was engineered to serve aggregate demand for American goods

What The Flatulence? Did people actually believe that? Do they still?
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What a gross, unpleasant world this article describes.
An open source blockchain technology project...

Digital Certificates Project
http://certificates.media.mit.edu

What we learned from designing an academic certificates system on the blockchain
https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/what-we-learned-from-design...

A DSM for Achievement
https://medium.com/learning-machine-blog/a-dsm-for-achieveme...

The Learning Machine blog
https://medium.com/learning-machine-blog
One of the unquestioned strong points of Golang is how easy it is to learn with not a new concept to be found. It also sits right in the wheelhouse of the problems you currently solve.

Whether these are arguments for or against it being your next language is really more for you to decide.
I respectfully disagree;

when using a VPS you'd also have to trust the VPS-provider. There's no difference between trusting a VPN or VPS provider - both can see/log/monitor your traffic.
Those other cyclists will be the ones who will loose access to the trails. After two difficult decades of finding a balance between hikers and bikers on the trails these new breed of trail ebiker destroy the hard found compromise. As sooner as ebikes are forbidden on trails as better.
The e-bike situation in China is very different from the US. These are people who are moving UP from human-powered bikes, or walking, to their first vehicle -- not buying them so that they can leave their car at home and feel the wind in their hair. Here's a photo of a very typical Chinese e-bike: http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00zsrEyYQIYOqo/Chinese-El...

As you can see, it has a second seat in the back for a passenger, and is built much more like a very lightweight motorscooter than a bike. The batteries are typically lead-acid, not lithium, so they are big and heavy, and probably don't give all that much range. I'm curious how people charge and store these vehicles, since most people in Chinese cities live in multi-story dwellings -- I guess they must lug the batteries upstairs with them at night?

The real reason these work in China is that in most of the cities I have been in, they make up 30 to 40 percent of the traffic on the streets at any given time, and so they become a force to be reckoned with in terms of traffic flow. That makes a HUGE difference in terms of rider safety, especially when compared with the US where drivers are often confused or surprised when they encounter a single cyclist mixing it up with eight lanes of car traffic moving along at 45 mph.

I think it's really admirable that China has been able to get a sizeable fraction of the population riding these silent, lightweight e-bikes, instead of polluting, noisy motorscooters or big, inefficient cars. However, I really question whether this model would ever fly in the USA.
This all depends on who you consider your adversaries to be.

I've been using a VPS as a gateway to the internet for the last 2-3 years (switching providers a few times during this period).

What I gain:

1) I pay bitcoin, and don't use my real name. So the IP (albeit static) isn't liked to me _directly_.

2) This both protects me from low tier adversaries * , and "annoying" stuff that's considered normal-practice (like geolocation).

3) My connection upstream is always encrypted. I don't care what network I use, what country I'm in, etc.

4) I use torrents a lot, and overall this setup is _much_ faster than doing it from your home connection (or shared VPN). I download an HD movie in under 2 minutes, and then stream it directly from the VPS.

* - The low tear adversaries I consider defeated by this approach:

1) Bots (sometimes people) who file "semi-automatic" DMCA complaints against me (usually for the torrents). I get these every once in a while through the VPS provider - and ignore them. If I get banned, I either create a new fake account or move to a new provider.

2) "Non-privileged people" who know my external IP and want to tie it to a real world identity. For example, a "malicious" site admin that is interested in me for some reason.

3) Any (realistic) _dragnet_ surveillance implemented by any local authorities. These can't affect me. Of course I'm obviously getting flagged for doing this. However, this brings me to my main point:

What this can't stand against:

1) Any "real" investigation into my identity. By a powerful corporation / low tier intelligence outfit / law enforcement. And that's fine! Since I'm not really doing anything illegal (or illegal enough for actual people to care about).

2) And in general, this doesn't stand a chance against any active adversary that targets me directly. But neither can you, or anyone else.

And this is a good thing! By doing what I'm doing, I now have a "reasonable expectation of privacy". If anyone wants to investigate me, it is perfectly fine. They'll have to spend some man-hours on it though. Just like old times!
Checking that person's other tweets they appear to be some flavor of neo-Nazi.
Ah, I was assuming foolishly that we were talking about removing or inserting only at the head or the tail. All the more reason to be more detailed in a writeup than simply "Performance: O(n)" :)
I ride 20 miles a day in Minneapolis on my e-bike.

My biggest fear is when we will ruin it for everyone. There just isn't the proper infrastructure for them. Bike paths around here have 10mph speed limit signs and are mostly mixed use. Not enough connecting roads have bike lanes.

It will grow wildly popular once a cheap US based lithium battery supplier appears (Tesla/Panasonic).
Also Go's GC doesn't move objects, which makes the whole problem a lot easier as long as heap fragmentation doesn't end up biting you badly in the end.
Very well said. I don't find it necessary to maximized my result in a negotiation. I'd like to feel that I did well, but maxing out is not necessary. I've done very well for myself with this strategy so it really can work. I've seen the "refuse to say a number" tactic fail for candidates in the past. I distinctly remember hearing a manager on the phone with an agency recruiter saying that he wasn't going to interview someone if they wouldn't disclose their current comp.
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I found this article talking out what someone has to do to secure the rights to make a remake of another work
http://www.movieoutline.com/articles/how-do-you-secure-the-r...

It basically points out that even shot-for-shot remakes are violating various copyrights, especially the copyright for the screenplay.
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A co-worker of mine is an e-bike fanatic who builds his own hardware. He has street bikes that will go up to 40 mph. (He also does a massive trail ride on his regular MTB almost every morning, and road bikes on the weekends).

Once or twice, he did the commute into work using Strava as his speedo ... needless to say, he got some fairly negative feedback when he accidentally claimed the KOM (king of the mountain) on a bunch of routes, blowing away the second-best time. He has since learned about how to use Strava in private mode...
> ... letter they sent to customers ...

Experian's customers are not the people who received the letters. Their customers are those doing credit lookups for various reasons, and paying for it. Incentives matter, and Experian (et al) have an incentive to serve their customers, which is why they gather so much information and make it expensive, difficult, and inconvenient for their data subjects to withhold information.

Unfortunately this state of affairs is going to be difficult to fix with regulation (you can bet they'll lobby hard against that).
You're right it's not a dichotomy, but the property free-as-in-speech is the one that helps here, free-as-in-beer doesn't matter either way in this case (besides it's initial popularity).
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Because my post got too large:

One possibility for this would be to do a pilot program that's more age agnostic. Something in the evenings with students and adults, since we'll have already missed the boat on getting something together for a summer camp type experience.

This will give us an opportunity to experiment and iterate on various concepts, and if other adults or skilled students show up we can possibly recruit them as instructors or assistants for a later, school-age targeted, program.
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You sound like an immature cunt that needs to leave the conversation then
Interesting I didnt know that at all. Your "proper iron was more valuable" comment reminds me of about a little different period from a documentary that I watched that talked about the time around 700BC where Umayyad empires used silver coins while gold and copper coins were used in Egypt/Syria.
“Websites should be changing their password policies to make users’ lives easier. The security degradation is pretty small.”

Security isn't supposed to be convenient. Autocorrecting passwords sounds like a bad idea all-around and will be exploited.
A: No.

Why?

1. Hardcore cyclists are elitists in the US and will hate it and make life miserable for the e-bikers.

2. Non-cyclists will do dumb things in them like ride on the sidewalk.

3. Many state laws require registration and plates for these things.
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Also, the bikes in the bike share program for copenhagen has a small electric motor in it to assist you. You still need to pedal, but it can make the difference between showing up sweaty and showing up fresh.
What percentage of the revenue derived from an employee's labor would he receive, in an ideal world? The correct answer to this is probably something between 30 and 70 percent, depending on a variety of factors. The real-world answer to this is "however little we can possibly share, because we want to hoard it all for ourselves", and personally I find that to be a distasteful reality (I find most investors' justifications for their wealth very hollow, they usually all boil back down to "well, I started with more money than them"). Employees have way undersold themselves; I think objectively, most professional employees would probably still be quite profitable to the company if their salaries were quadrupled. And to answer a likely-reflex response to this, yes, I have run companies with employees before.

Considering that founders are making themselves fabulously wealthy on the backs of their employees, I think we'd all appreciate a little bit more respect than you're showing when you poo-poo employees who want something more closely approximating 1/4 of the share they actually deserve.
It's obvious that they never heard of Hybrid Apps, or just never found them to be secure enough for their applications.
> Side note: Glassdoor is incredibly bad for this kind of intelligence. Their medians lean low and the upper end of the envelope is in my experience almost entirely unrepresented. If you go in assuming the comp envelope is what Glassdoor says it is, you will lowball yourself severely.

I concur wholeheartedly. Glassdoor is the absolute worst representation of salary ranges available. One could speculate as to why, but anecdotally, I've never received an offer that fell below their "reported" top-end.

AngelList is similarly bad for top-end comp representation, with the added twist of permanent anchoring: if you apply to a company that's listed an unreasonably low salary range, even if you know they'll (logically have to) pay more, they'll know that you can be bought cheap.
Exactly, e-bikes are an odd tweener. They don't mix well on bike paths if you're bombing along at 20 mph, and in a lot of places people still just don't feel safe riding anything with two wheels on public roads.

I don't see a lot of people who aren't already comfortable cycling to work (though maybe preferring to get there faster and with less sweat), going out and buying an e-bike.
According to the article, they ran simulations and it only provided a .2% increase in likelihood of a breach
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"Natural differences" was used to explain all sorts of things. E.g., why women couldn't be writers or doctors or lawyers or senators. I think those were bogus. Women weren't allowed to vote in the US until 1920 (and we were early adopters). I'm pretty sure that voting didn't require brute strength before then.

"Natural differences" was also used to justify slavery. That goes back to Aristotle, and up through the US Confederacy. I think that was bogus too.

I also assert that the claim of individual differences can only ever justify individual situations. If a strong person ends up having to carry the coal because a weak one can't, fine. But we're talking about systems where millions of people were judged on hypothetical averages and the crudest of stereotypes. E.g., firefighters need to be strong, but there's no reason to think that the US's weakest fireman was stronger than the US's strongest woman.

And I think that the reason women were forced to do all the childrearing was mainly not biology. Even if we ignore things like cow's milk and wet nurses, dads are perfectly capable of doing all the work once a child is 2 or so. Women were forced to do it because they lived in patriarchal societies where women were nearly property.

So I think we should always be deeply suspicious of any justification that comes down to natural differences. The history of it as an argument is absolutely terrible.
The rest of the article lists Haskell as being original for introducing pattern matching and monads as a new programming paradigm.
The problem is that advice you read on Internet is geared toward the average person, not you. It's true that the #1 mistake people make is to sell themselves short by giving away a (low) salary upfront. So it makes sense for the Internet to emphasize that advice: it helps the most people and therefore has the most impact. On average.

Why can't "the Internet" know that I'm not average? Based on my web browsing history alone, the Internet should know that I have reached expert level in resume and salary compensation discussions. So don't show me the stuff for beginners.

There has to be some startup idea in there somewhere. All the raw data is there. Deep learning is hot. Who will come up with the first usable "Internet persona" or "Custom Internet" concept that actually works?
Indeed. We are in a highly competitive market, and have a number of interesting projects going on to disrupt that market that won't pay off immediately. If we don't manage our costs reasonably well we won't stay in business.

Money is like rocket fuel. If you're accumulating it for its own sake, rather than to get somewhere, I'd say you're doing it wrong - but that's just my opinion...
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bs.. so these people decided to tweet about it simultaneously ? k
some people want interview practice for instance, or if they think that they can talk them up to their desired salary once the interviewer sees how good they are and have time invested into the process.
> Fearful of the bad head of lettuce or banana or what have you

In the UK you simply tell the delivery driver that you're not happy with the item and he marks it for refund. Generally they hand the item back as well, no point carrying it back to the store to be dumped.
Interesting - I hadn't seen libpnet before. I was recently working on an experiemental project doing deep packet inspection in Rust using libpcap, which doesn't have very mature Rust bindings yet - the basics work, but it's a bit rough around the edges. libpnet looks like it has a much nicer Rust interface, and does some more things for you as compared to libpcap, which gives and takes &[u8]s and nothing else.

However, libpnet doesn't have two very useful things, as far as I can see: Reading/writing packet capture files, and the ability to use BPF filters. The first in this case might be useful mainly for testing, but the latter seems like it might simplify a fair amount of their code.
I don't think it would work in the US. Such models might replace the gasoline powered vespas that a small minority of people use. But a car is central to the lifestyle of most Americans: you go to work, get groceries etc.

That said, the more bicycle looking ebikes... I am very tempted to get one. They can be a fun way to explore the neighborhood. But I would still need a car for commuting to work.
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"That unfortunate first impression, plus the mischaracterization in the film The Social Network, was probably responsible for half of the ever present suspicion and paranoia surrounding Facebook’s motives. But occasionally Zuck would have a charismatic moment of lucid greatness, and it would be stunning."

The lockdown thing is interesting, but you have to wade through this blathering, fawning, puff-piece nonsense. There are many more such gag-inducing sections in this piece. Good luck.
say the candidate wants 150 but would take as low as 120. so she writes down 120. she's actually worth 150.

the company is willing to hire her at up to 150. But instead, they say 130.

She gets hired at 125 as a result. If they had negotiated, they certainly would have settled closer to 150. Her honesty cost her 12k/yr. The company profits immensely from its dishonesty as long as they say a number just above the candidate's lowest.
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Randall Munroe thinks the "explanation seems pretty clear".

https://xkcd.com/1501/
Eh, they probably can't legally make you stay, but they can certainly fire your ass for leaving.
The delivery guys definitely- for a while now. Haven't seen that many suits on them. I'm interested what do people in the Netherlands think of them?
> I dunno, yet people do.

Honing the skill to determine whether or not a company is going to be able to pay you what you're worth is hinged on a few (apparently tricky) soft-skill-based assumptions:

- You can assess the company (quality, tier of engineer, etc.)

- You can assess your own market value, apparent worth accurately.

I like to give companies that I believe won't pay correctly the benefit of the doubt: I give a blowout number, xx% more than I believe I am worth. If I'm not met with resistance: I'm wrong and it hurts.
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What would be the benefit of changing your MAC address?
One of my free credit monitoring services, which I received as compensation from a previous data leak, alerted me last week that a few email accounts of mine wound up in a dropbox. A few things I noticed:

The alert only says that the "Potential Site" of where the email was compromised is listed as www.dropbox.com .

The option for changing a password in online mail clients is lost in the menu clutter. In Gmail the process is to click Menu Bubble > My Account > Signing in to Gmail > Password. The issue I had is that at the 1st menu level there are options for Google+ Profile, Settings, Privacy, and My Account which all seem like valid places for the Change Password option to live. Each submenu is similarly cluttered, though when I found the correct path it made sense in retrospect.

I can't imagine Grandma changing her Gmail password this way. Maybe Google could replace the "Dvorak Keyboard" menu (Select Input Tool > English Dvorak) with an Update Password button. Is there a simpler process I'm not aware of?
Url changed from https://www.protocol96.com/blog/gdb-debugger-now-supports-th..., which points to this.
> Was it really a war? I don't believe anyone thought Google Plus would've actually stood a chance

It absolutely was, but Facebook didn't so much as win the war, whereas it was Google who shot themselves in the foot and lost. All they had to do was not be Facebook and they would have won, but they had a lot of missteps. Real name, and google-wide single sign-on caused immediate hesitation and started the fall.
I disagree with the advice on avoiding the "what is your target comp" in current market conditions. Unless the market gets a lot worse- give the number that would make you happy and expect to get it.

Generally, in a startup the last thing I want to spend time on is replacing good engineers because their salary was below market.

In short- If I want to hire the person - I just give them the number they ask for. Recruiting is the worst time sink and better to spend time on retaining the folks you have and improving your business.
Actually, from what I've been following, pedal assist is ok, it is only a throttle that is not legal. I.e., you have to be peddling for the bike to move, and the motor adds in a bit more power.
That's too young to even have a starter Pokemon, so I'm guessing he just avoided the tall grass.~

But seriously, the environment that he was in is just not very dangerous. Sure, Hokkaido can get cold at night, but it's late Spring now. The biggest danger would have been from waterborne diseases and wild animals, and the latter mostly avoid humans, even the snack-sized ones.
I don't find Instacart to be any better than the other services I've used. Peapod is just as good, if not better.
Daily (manual) biker here (~70 miles per week).

These ebikes are a clever hack. In China they skirt motorcycle laws. In the US they can make use of bike paths. You can make good time and your commute is generally the same duration regardless of traffic. At least, that's true in Silicon Valley.

Last I checked (a few years ago) pedaling the ebikes is like pedaling a tank. Batteries and motors a heavy bike make. So you're using the motor and there's not a lot of cardio happening.

I ride my bike because I want to live longer/better. I don't think you get that with these, but there's definitely a niche for them.
I am a recruiter and I will tell you this: you should abandon this advice, for certain.

It's funny - probably the best advice anyone ever gives on negotiation is exactly the opposite of "don't name a number first." It's "anchor high." You should be anchoring to a number that is high but realistic, and negotiating from a position of strength. This is especially true for senior- and late-career individuals who have some experience under their belt.
Is it possible that yahoo can detect how many users are using there service though this reqest?
What's holding me back is what I read about batteries, how fragile they are and how they self destruct if you don't keep them plugged in all the time. Is this still true?
> Yes, religion in the same bucket (and largely responsible for the existence of the bucket itself). Why look for answers when they all are in THE BOOK?

Within Christianity (much less religion more generally), the idea that the answers are all "in the book" (the doctrine of sola scriptura) is a doctrine of a distinct subset of the larger body of believers.
I suppose it's a good rule of thumb while figuring out the dynamics and the influence game of the negotiations.

The best thing I did for my negotiation skill was to read up popular psychology books on influence. It may not make me a negotiations pro but just being able to name some of the dynamics and recognize some of the tactics puts me (or so I feel) at a far better position at the discussions.

E.g. it's easier to play football if someone explains the rules, especially if the opposing team is used to playing against players whoa are completely clueless of the game.

In this context "don't name a number" is analogous to "be aware of the leverage at play, and don't yield leverage to the other side unless you know where the game is".