skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think conspiracy is the right phrase... more like the media understands their advertiser's needs.

Negativity is one thing, which would be shown if they reviewed it and wrote a bunch of gripes.

But a comprehensive car blog omitting a Motor Trend car of the year from its reviews is a glaring omission that speaks for itself. That's not a little slant, that's draping an elephant in the room.
Ok, let's revisit this comment in 8-years and you can either dig me up or down. ;-)
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Your problems, if common enough, suggest a startup opportunity to address this area - on a paid basis. Testing validation / curation of various software libraries and tools for various languages, with comments and ratings about suitability for various purposes, and along different dimensions, such as code quality, performance, docs, etc.

There was a company in a roughly similar area (IIRC) called SpikeSource, co-founded by (?) Kim Polese of Sun and later Marimba. Not checked recently about them.
From the looks of it, that Rust program spawns 20 threads and does the computations in parallel. The C program does it all in one thread and doesn't even utilize sse intrinsics. I know full well that The Computer Language Benchmarks Game isn't a perfect source for programming language speed arguments, but what you can you do.
C lets you deliberately do unsafe memory programming, which is maybe OK if you actually know what you're doing. But C also lets you think that you're doing safe memory programming, when that is not the case.
Weird thing is I was writing the code in my head a I read the instructions. Hard to believe people would fail that but years of hiring have shown its true.
I think depending on the need Neural Network feature detection/description might be an overkill.

What is great about stuff like SIFT and more modern ORB, BRISK and AKAZE is that they are fast and given appropriate implementation they would work just as well as Neural Network would. I haven't researched NN computer vision whole lot, but it seems like it might be slower in feature detection/description compared to traditional approach. If that's the case then for live/near-live video processing NN won't work that well.
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Right, I get that, and I still agree. There are WAY too many features in these things that should definitely exist, but sane defaults would go a long way.

Really, I'm tired of being told "read the documentation" and "You just haven't used it enough" when documentation is given 5% of the energy it should be given.

I'm convinced that the only reason so many SV projects exist because of bad config management in OSS projects.
> League of Legends is a 5v5 team game, not a private 1v1 affair

Does this imply that chat in a 1v1 game is private? That doesn't really follow, since the only difference is the # of immediate spectators

> Anything said in in a LoL game is as sufficiently public as a Twitter account.

I suppose I see where you're coming from, but this feels like a stretch. For starters, the vast (utterly overwhelming) majority of LoL players do not have a real name associated with their gaming handle. They're theoretically similar, but in practice are far from equivalent.
Yes, MCX probably took advantage of the retailers' deep hatred of the swipe fees they pay to the banks.

We had a similar concern about MCX's competitor ISIS (name later changed to Softcard for obvious reasons) because our finance team feared that it might shift too high of a percentage from Debit transactions to Credit which cost a slightly higher percentage.
> I've set it maybe 5 times and practically each one was to $'\n' so I can read newline-delimited input values in a while loop.

Does "| while read line" not do what you want here?
Being passive aggressive is not an issue here; employees calling their customers worthless cancerous trash while on an official company-name-tagged account is an issue and would have you removed from any company regardless.

Almost all of my friends there have separate personal and work ("Riot<username>") accounts, the latter at the very least requires you to set a good example as a company representative
Just started a new WoW character in prep for the movie did you?
I'd like to be able to use something like rust, and maybe I will for smaller projects or for novelty sake, but I chafe over how slow compilation time is relative to C (not C++!) projects last I checked.

On the hardware of yesteryear, a parallel compile could build Postgres in about 45 seconds (750-1305KLOC, depending on measurement) , and user mode Linux (which doesn't compile so many drivers) in about a minute.
I agree with this post. I very rarely consider using a service's API without a client library. Taking the load off authentication and marshaling is incredibly valuable in my development workflow. Granted, sometimes simple REST endpoints are OK if they are public / don't need complicated authentication.

I think the major benefits of client libraries is the ability for a developer to stay within their programming language / business domain and not stray into the fun of HTTP and JSON.

Curious how much burden this makes for providers though and what people have done to streamline the testing of the various client libraries with different versions of the service.
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I think the problem is not whether you can design a 100% awesome tech interview process that will have high precision and recall. That is known. Spend enough time with the person basically to judge him rather than asking few questions to taking him to whiteboard.

But then most companies wont be able to show profits if the start spending that much resources on each candidate. Hence they optimize their processes only for precision and not for recall. That explains why a lot of people fail first few times.
That's not what I got from the story -- he mentions how he got warm referrals (the "who you know") to employers that went tepid quickly after the interview ... but then the same ones suddenly wanted him once he claimed (truthfully, though without proof) that he had standing, big offers from other employers.
So like a lite developer advocate
In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is a magic xylophone, or something? Ha ha, boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Curiously, I think the list of countries that deny you legal counsel are lot shorter than the list of countries that do not.

It's usually safe to assume that you can have legal representation, unless you are being accused of something that is a diplomatic, political, or military dispute.
Love Surge so much. The CLI interface is stellar. We use it for testing feature branches of frontend code. Writing a tool to automatically spin up an environment for every pull request (alongside the CI). Helps the whole team test new features without having to pull down the branch and review locally.
Theranos is probably more mainstream now than Zuck (not Facebook) was in 2010
another HR06 grad here. worked as a customer support rep making $43k/year to $110k/year + 5k signing bonus right out of Hack Reactor.
Riot has a history of doing sleazy business dealings. I wouldn't be surprised if trolling wasn't just an excuse to get rid of these employees.
Maybe. But that's irrelevant to the original question about patent bounties.
I love Amiga fans - they are a special type of awesome/crazy!
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I've seen some examples that don't seem to agree with that. Programmers often don't need advanced math, but the ones that do, such as video game engine developers, seem to get fantastically good at it.

You need a lot of time to master any skill, and few jobs provide that for mathematics. At least, not with any diversity in problems. The degree provides some years of dedicated effort.
Turning parts on a lathe (and machining/milling) fit in my definition of "fabrication skills". (Mechanical engineer and a few hundred hours in the machine shop, but not a full-time machinist by any means.)
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>Yeah, and honestly, that includes hiring managers.

Not just the example you gave -- they also lie whenever they list something as "required" and then hire the go-getter who's missing some of the skills.
This is true. It's an interrogation. If they simply stated we'll ask you these 20 questions, or even that all questions will be 100% relevant to your situation, then you could simply practice until you could lie with a straight-face to any possible question.
There is actually a name for this. The cobra effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

At the time of British rule of colonial India, cobras where a huge problem and rewards for catching cobras resulted in the locals breeding them instead.
Huh? That's not true at all.

A billionaire could fund cases against a media company entirely irrespective of the merit of those cases - the media company would still be forced to pay the legal fees associated with defending themselves, even if it's as simple as just getting it thrown out of court. Do it enough times and you've bankrupted the company.

For an example, Mother Jones was brought to the brink of bankruptcy for reporting an entirely true and legitimate story:

http://m.motherjones.com/media/2015/10/mother-jones-vandersl...
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We only have that P[B|A] = 1/4; we don't know anything about P[A|B] without more info.

It could totally be that all non-fired employees are toxic, and viciously went after their weaker colleagues by having them fired! I guess that would make them toxic, but whatever.
> and ruin the livlihoods of dozens merely because they were embarassed.

Gawker ruined the livelihoods of its employees, not Hulk Hogan, not Thiel, with its scummy behavior.Hogan is the victim here, as much as Gawker's employees, they are victim of Gawker's policy which is profit at all cost. Well now Gawker is paying that cost.
Not illegal. However Liberace gave Thiel legal precedence when Liberace himself successfully sued the Daily Mirror for hinting he was a homosexual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberace_v_Daily_Mirror

http://www.theargus.co.uk/magazine/nostalgia/pastpresent/445...
Big companies often have legacy systems which were architected before password dumps were a regular occurance. You can't just implement strong password hashes on those systems without causing issues or paying a large amount of capital.
You might be able to build a device, while not having the cash nor will to build a company around producing and selling thousands of copies of that device.

I dislike patents in general and software in particular, but that one can invent yet not commercialize is not farfetched.
It is 2016. Development work is pretty much copy and paste instead of rocket science.
Based on this article http://www.recode.net/2016/6/8/11883518/app-boom-over-snapch..., the whole app ecosystem is dying, and less and less people are going to explore new apps. In the short future, people will stop paying the insane amount of money to developers to build the apps nobody is using.
This was my initial thought. But after consideration this would likely to just lead to companies creating holding/shell companies for groups of patents.

Effectively, Big Corp would spin up "Obvious Shopping Cart Patents, LLC", wholly owned by Big Corp, and register their patents for a given category through it. Then they could sell the entire company to another entity without the patents themselves transferring ownership.

The best fix for patents I can think of is simply lowering their lifetime to somewhere in the 2 - 5 year range.
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I didn't get the impression that only company accounts were being audited, since the article ends with mentioning how new hires are forced to share their personal handle.
Yes, she was wrong to use a personal account even though some previous Secretaries of State did. I also lean towards it being wrong for her to be denied the same communication setup made for Obama, I don't know enough of the details to be sure.

She made some bad choices around this but in the grand scheme of things, it isn't that big a deal to me, certainly not to the point of disqualifying her to be President. I would be very skeptical of anyone claiming that they would have voted for her if not for this.
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What kinds of sleazy business dealings? Can you give some specific examples, preferably with sources to back them up?
>Actually the judge wouldn't let Gawker present evidence from the FBI that both Hogan and the woman knew they were being taped.

Why? That seems like an important piece of evidence.
Saying nothing about the practice or the article, but is this title accurate? From what I read, the employees were brought into discussions about their behavior, and were not fired.

(Though the article does present that some fired employees were toxic, it was not insinuated that they were fired based on this analysis.)

Edit: Yes, later in the article, it does suggest some employees were let go.
Recent research in deep manifold traversal may interest you [1]. This method uses deep neural networks to approximate the manifold of natural images, learns transformations that traverse the manifold from one image class to another (i.e. from images of young people to images of old people), and then allows you to transform any source image into a new, automatically-generated image by mapping it to the manifold and performing the transformation. So, for example, the paper's authors learn the transformation from images of young people to old people, and then are able to generate realistic-looking images of the celebrities with older facial features (as well as darken hair colors, change skin tones, and even colorize black and white images). This is somewhat analogous to the way that word2vec vectors allow you to do things like queen = king + (man - woman), with an image's projection onto the approximated manifold being analogous to a word's word2vec vector.

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06421v3.pdf
Though that seems to be how the sentence is actually parsed, it seems odd that that would be true. That indicates that every toxic player worked there, and some of the horrible people who worked there were actually not horrible in the context of the game.
For large datasets simple "Bag of Words" approach actually is not that great since for given set of features you have to compare it to the whole vocabulary. More modern approach calls for use of Vocabulary Tree which represents your bag of words. This vocabulary tree significantly reduces amount of matching that has to be done for each individual feature.

[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~grauman/courses/fall2009/papers/ba...
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That's not the way that Sun worked at all, actually -- and certainly not with respect to DTrace. To the contrary, Sun often deliberately allowed competing projects, believing that the internal competition would generate a better result. (Or, perhaps more likely, Sun simply did not have the command-and-control to prevent such internal competition.) So contrary to your assertion, there was never an executive fiat around DTrace (indeed, there was never much executive fiat at all at Sun), and DTrace had loads of internal competition -- but DTrace succeeded where the others didn't because it was actually useful for solving the problems that others weren't.
Jacob Appelbaum Resigns from TOR in Response to Sexual Mistreatment Allegations
Or by dogsled.
Note that Chrysler sold the first generation Jeep Liberty with mediocre ball joints. They had a big recall and never did fix the flaw. I know because my dad owns such ca. Ive replaced them more than 5 times
>so that I apparently blow through it within days of the start of a new month

Interesting, had the same experience this month, though on my mobile phone's post-paid data plan. Actually in earlier months too, but those were near the middle or end of the month. This time it happened within 5 days of the start of my billing cycle.

You in India? Asking because Fair Use Policy (also has another cynical/realistic expansion given by users) is a term used by Indian ISPs (though could be other places too of course).
How about a differet system? Both parties pay into a pot based on how much money they have. Then the only legal advice can they take is set by random rather than by anyone's choice, out of roughly equal quality legal teams paid for by the money from the pot?

Just make it so money cannot buy better lawyers or legal advice, and the court system would be made far fairer to everyone.
OP is unhappy with HR, though the school is top notch
Note that the OP of this thread also works for MixMax.
New hires share their personal handle because that is the only handle they have; i.e., they have not played games on their company-provided accounts yet.

You don't need to share your primary account, you can theoretically apply for the job with a secondary, or none.

This isn't exactly strict separation of personal life, you are basically working at a specific venue and playing at that same venue just without your uniform; people know and you won't last long in similar situations elsewhere either (unless you're maliken/s2 games)
I hate the question -- I do think about my tools, constantly, but whenever I've been faced with that question, I don't have a "best" and "worst" lined up, and have to think about the question for a few minutes to recall all the moments of frustration, and so anything I give on-the-spot will sound stupid.
Sure they do. But when you say "gurus" and "magicians" these are people who have spent decades with the language and are awesome at it. It's possible that Rust may improve their lives, but it would take years before they have that same level of proficiency. Not because Rust is hard, but because they are so good at C++ and getting that good in anything is hard.

Rust does market to C/++ people, a lot. We just don't market to the super-awesome C++ folks. It's the same reason I preferred Word 2003 over the new stuff for half a decade. I had years of memorized shortcuts, custom macros, and general ui familiarity. I could eventually learn the shiny new Word and become as good, but the activation energy for that is too much and I was happy with 2003.

Rust isn't only going after non-systems folks. The community is roughly half systemsy. But it may seem this way because Rust tries very hard to not alienate non-systems people with jargon and unexplained systems concepts.
As a parent of two grown children, I can tell you that the answer is a big NO.

Make sure your kids have fun and are happy, and develop into compassionate people.
This makes me think of a cached model of settings:
Most used can be configured in-app
Less used need to edit the config
Least used need to be set at build/install
I used to work at a place that tested their software on a >5 year old POS computer, with a <1mbps Internet connection. If their software ran on that computer, it would run on their user's computers. I wish more people would test like this.

Your webapp runs great on a laptop in the middle of SF, but not on my crappy phone in the middle of Nowheres-ville.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to discriminate, I mean it's just sensible to pay a little more attention to a 23 year old male who is coming to London from Syria for the first time than an 80 year old white Romford grandmother returning home from visiting her grandson in Luxembourg.

Yes, dumb-ass, power hungry, bored border guards probably abuse this policy, but the alternative is to treat everyone the same and everyone gets quizzed, or not. It's a bind, what is the solution?

The author was right when she observed that we have done this to ourselves.
this is exactly what HR is like... just because someone breaks up with their girlfriend and goes on a rant doesn't mean the school actually sucks
The term I was searching for is duress. I think duress (involving a lack of consent) is distinct from entrapment. Duress requires an immediate and inescapable threat of serious bodily harm, worse than the harm caused by the crime.

While I agree duress by law enforcement may be a form of entrapment, they are distinct legal defenses with different burdens of proof.
(3) is proof positive the absence or presence of funds has too much influence on the outcome of court cases. If all that stands between a judgment one way or the other is a pile of cash then effectively there is no such thing as justice and this means that more often than not the party with the smallest bank account will lose.

I'm fine with the concept of 'maintenance' but at the same time I feel that there is such a basic unfairness in the various implementations of our systems of justice that some re-balancing is often the only way in which one of the parties stands a chance of winning or losing the case on its merits.

Especially when the other party is a corporation or the government I have no bad feelings about helping to fund the lawsuit (especially a defense).
Betteridge's Law applies to questions in the title. I don't see a question mark at the moment, so it doesn't apply.
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generally speaking, countries don't want you to be in them and be paid by a foreign company.

Curiously, the US prefers this for temporary visitors. If you are being paid by a company outside the US to speak at a US conference, it's fine, but you are not allowed to be paid by a "US source". I guess the theory is being paid by a non-US source means you're "on business" rather than "working in the US".
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A couple of those are vague to say the least, the freedom one in particular.

Are we talking freedom from or freedom to? And how about if my freedom to tramples your freedom from?

The whole thing is yet another example of the feelgood "sjw" stuff that Mozilla have been throwing around in recent years, while turning a formerly potent browser in to a Chrome clone web terminal.

Not even sure if they have tested that site on their own offering, as jumping to and from the tab in Firefox made the whole thing crawl.
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Hi Bret, long time fan-first time commenter! In the govFresh excerpt that led me here you state the 'Federal compliance for a cloud service provider is a tough bar to clear'. Have you discovered the data policy map is in line with US corporate standards (e.g. Microsoft data security) or separate and distinct? I'd like to understand to what degree.gov innovation into the cloud is at parity with existing, more public facing standards or rewriting what we know and observe today.

Haven't read every comment but a quick ctrl+f didn't find any keywords on the topic;) thanks for the insight!

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Thanks for your response.

Given your clarification (alternately, perhaps I misunderstood your original post) I retract my criticism. If you drew a picture and engaged, and he actively wanted a closed form and didn't want to see you work it out slowly, then that's a poor interviewer, not on you at all!

I will note that I do occasionally ask "do you happen to know if there's a closed form" for things, as an extra credit kind of thing, making clear I'm curious and I don't expect a yes. Someone could easily get the impression this is a high stakes question if I wasn't clear it's not; conceivably that was the intent in this situation.

But any which way, sounds frustrating and the interviewer was either a jerk or unclear.
I guess it's good start for implementing reusable authorization system.