skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do you think they have different ranges of first-hand experiences?

Because the professor works at a university, having first attended the university and then graduate school, whereas the person working at Burger King most likely never graduated college, and works at Burger King rather than as a professor at a university. Those seem to me to be rather different "ranges of first-hand experience". I don't see how they could be considered anything but different.
If I were building a tool that parses resumes, my tests would probably begin with resumes based on the default Microsoft Word templates.

I usually layout my resume in something like InDesign and render it as a PDF. Anecdotally, those parsers perform terribly on them.

For instance, a couple years ago Jobvite had a problem parsing tables in PDFs rendered with Adobe Quartz PDF print driver. They wouldn't allow you continue until the parser succeeded.

Their recommendation was that I rewrite my resume in Word.
Yes, you certainly could state that. I think the point is that the french fry cook is much less likely to have an outsized influence on public policy compared to the philosopher/professor/pundit.
"partner in India".... done.

if you worked in india for next to nothing, would you see your clients as people who you wanted to help, or people who wanted to hurt others (others who charge fair prices for quality goods, and pay local taxes) to exploit you? exploiting them back is fair moral play. sell them shit and they'll turn around to hire you to fix the shit. fix the shit with more shit and you've got yourself a career.

you're all idiots.
Factorio is about mining, industrializing, polluting, and slaughtering the locals. It's probably in my top 3 of all time. I have exactly zero need for my fictional entertainment to reflect the values that I align with IRL.
Gear S3 Gets Teased in Samsung IFA 2016 Invite
Isn't CO₂ poisoning in humans supposed to cause a panic reaction which would serve as a defence? Why didn't that happen here?
The video is a well articulated argument, but there are two large gaps in reasoning that are common with this line of thought.

Grey ignores the idea that technology also allows for normal people to do jobs that used to require highly skilled specialists. A big part of this is so called 'brain' labor. A banker before computers had to have amortization tables manually calculated. Now the personal banker who does your HELOC probably doesn't even know basic algebra. If we ran technology in reverse and took away the calculators we would end up with fewer banking jobs not more. Because every banker would have to be highly specialized and costly. The "factory jobs" were originally an invention of technology. A method to take a large number of workers + automation to beat artisans and specialists. If Watson is doing diagnosis, that means that more people with less training can be effective 'doctors'.

Which brings me to my second point. Often when things become more efficient we end up using more of them overall. Jevon's paradox applied to labor. Think of what it cost to transport 20 tons of cargo from NY to SF before trucking and standardized containers. How many man hours were involved? How many different specialized jobs? Now done by one guy with a truck replacing them all. Yet the number of people employed overall in transportation went up not down. IMHO the best example is IT. Think about the server admin ratios in the early days. Perhaps a team of 10 to maintain a single mainframe. Now we have 10 guys in a data center managing 50,000 servers. Yet the overall number of people employed in IT went up not down. As processes become more efficient and cheap we consume more of it at an increasing rate.
How did you get into that sort of lifestyle exactly? Seems wonderful!
If you're not using the API, you won't be contacting Yelp, Yelp will be contacting you, and not in a friendly way.
This article describes a case when close() is _not_ being called in the first place. But indeed, it's very interesting what exactly the application can do after it receives FIN.

I suspect it has 60 seconds tops to send any remaining data, and SO_LINGER could be useful there.
The ability to explore a huge, living world/universe in a game sounds great on paper, but I find that it almost invariably leads to shallow games - the real world is also big and sparse, and so the "alternate life" you end up living in the game ends up being as dull and routine as real life can be.

Density is where the fun is at. The world doesn't need to be big, it needs to be intricate: packed with interesting characters, interactions and stuff to do. Big spaces are good for battlefields and pretty vistas, but don't make for fun "live another life" games. The first Deus Ex figured this out, Human Revolution refined it and it sounds like Mankind Divided has distilled it even further.
I'd rather say 1.2 cubic kilometers is easily visualizable, 1.2 billion of whatever not so much.
What would count as 'authoritative'?

When this came up last, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11370895 , I found papers like http://all.net/ForensicsPapers/2012-12-07-OverwrittenMagneti...

> To date I have found no example of any instance in which digital data recorded on a hard disk drive and subsequently overwritten was recovered from such a drive since 1985, when about 15% of the overwritten data was claimed to have been recovered from an modified frequency modulation (MFM) disk drive.

This in turn cites "Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy" - http://www.vidarholen.net/~vidar/overwriting_hard_drive_data... .

There is even more at http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/13674/is-it-poss... .
Lunch at the Hewlett-Packard Cafeteria
With 48v and several hundred amps behind it, that's not a hard thing to do. You won't shock yourself with 48v, but when working with DC batteries that can source those kind of currents, you need to be very careful. If you cause a short upstream of a fuse that is a very dangerous thing. Even with just 12v automotive batteries people get hurt from time to time by accidentally shorting them.
Not to mention one of my favorite games, Noctis: http://anynowhere.com/bb/layout/html/doors/local/frameset_no... Which, as far as I know about No Man's Sky, sounds like a very similar game, but made many years before, without combat and inventory.
The problem is I've worked with companies with a lot of "process rigor" (as you phrase it), which in theory should result in bug-free quality software. But it doesn't.

The process rigor encourages checking stuff off of lists, but discourages the little ad-hoc fixes that make a product good. Nobody's going to fix the minor bug in the date entry field if it takes 4 hours of "process" to write the 4 minutes of code.
You're taking that out of the context of the article. The author clearly knows the difference.

> Alphabet is a weird company. Only one part of it makes significant profits: Google, whose revenues are humongous. [...]

>Wall Street seems to appreciate the Alphabet structure. In the last year, the stock price has risen over a hundred points and reached a record high this year, at a market cap of almost $550 billion. Its revenues virtually all come from the Google division, of course.
Quantum effects are part of brain activity because they underly all electrochemistry--that's never been in question. The question is whether those quantum effects impart any non-determinism to the brain system, and the link you posted doesn't make any claims that they do or don't.
perhaps refering to this? http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/1/myth-eric-brewer-on...
Like that service where you can spin up a fake, but usable email...hm. I like it.
GPL enforcement action in Hellwig v. VMware dismissed, with an appeal expected
a white or pink noise generator may overcome this, seems strange to consider, but then again, the vector even sounds trange.
> Linux on the desktop is a somewhat pointless goal, and the community would benefit from embracing that fact.

Please no. Linux works great on the desktop, even for casual users. I have installed Linux on a few friends old laptops and they've all loved it. Distro's like Elementry, Manjaro, Mint and Ubuntu make it easy for casual users.

There are only 2 problems with Linux on the desktop remaining.

1) Games. A lot of gamers would love to switch but love their games that are currently Windows only at the moment. This situation is slowly improving.

2) The fact that almost everyone uses MS Office. MS works hard at making sure it doesn't follow standards so LibreOffice et al. won't be 100% compatible with it, so most businesses/people just revert back to MSOffice due to compatibility reasons. But if they all just switched to LibreOffice they'd get just as much shit done.
Curious observer here. Since he's not a Yelp partner or customer or anybody, why does he have to worry about their TOS?
> This link is in first position, was submitted 20 minutes ago and has 14 points, yet the host is unreachable.

I suspect that that sentence would have been just as accurate with "and so" replacing "yet"... The various errors (I got a 500 when I first tried to read it, but got through later; others have reported DB errors) are because the infrastructure can't handle the attention.
Anybody who's been subjected to Lotus Notes is well-aware of the average quality of IBM software.

I found this headline kind of amazing because I was like, "reputation at risk? This has been my impression of their reputation for decades."
https://www.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/
Needle – A modular framework to streamline security assessments of iOS apps
I've been contracting for 5+ years with the last 2 years as a nomad. It sucks if you've committed to full-time-ish hours on a project or If you're actually employed full time. In these cases, I don't really do anything different despite city changes - get up, coffee/breakfast/emails in a cafe, work for the day in a co-working setting, dinner, maybe a drink, bed. Anything except this would result in a loss of productivity.

However, when I only have small contracts, I love combining the novelty of a new location with the freedom of working on side projects or researching something new. It's most definitely a desired creativity catalyst.
I am a US expat living in Asia for the past 7 years. Being a digital nomad from my home here is great. But I dread taking trips to hotels, or working in coffee shops, or perhaps the worst place ever -- on a beach in Koh Samet Thailand. The problem with all these places is that internet connections can be spotty (at home I have 300 MB up) and the surroundings are distracting (who wants to work on a beach in Thailand anyways?).
I've done it for 4 years now.. and love it.. for the most part.

We (my wife and I) do it in an RV around the US and I know that a backpack lifestyle would not be for us. We have enough of a "normal" lifestyle with our own bed, a full kitchen, 9-5 hours.. that it works extremely well for us.

There are plenty of downsides. I miss having a large workspace to do hands on (non computer based) projects. Friends are harder to have. Weather sometimes is a pain. Connectivity. (Camped out at Starbucks at the moment since the Airstream in the parking lot was too hot today).

My wife does a blog: http://watsonswander.com
In my experience it's been difficult to convince dev's about the whole "product/market fit" growth hack mentality. I noticed you said that you think product is more important than marketing. Could you expand a bit on how you at Augur, are finding the balance? Your example with the video was great and Im glad it worked out well.
Which is why he did it, and sounds a lot like you posting this here.
Streetfoto founder Ken Walton arrested at gunpoint
Indeed. "Rotten Tomatoes" next to "Restaurants" is an unfortunate combination of words.

Unless you like Icelandic-Italian fusion cuisine, maybe.
Get a remote job and take the leap.. What else is holding you back?
Why Are So Many People in Northern Illinois Being Sued for Downloading Porn?
In some places it has been.

Man I sometimes wished I had a valid mechanicans or electricians certification during the oil boom here ;-)
> Many people believe that free will and determinism are not incompatible (compatibilists).

Could you explain how that works? I'm unfamiliar with that, but I suspect that they may be using a different definition of "free will" than I am familiar with.

> Personally, I'm not even sure introducing non-determinism matters much. What would it even mean? That beyond determinsitic actions defined by our precise history, we get a bit of randomness permuting the whole thing? Does that really make it any freer?

I think free will and randomness are both forms of non-determinism. Non-determinism doesn't prove free will, but it allows for the possibility that it might exist (and post people intuit that randomness could be indistinguishable from non-determinism).
Introducing Tank, a very high performance log
But if what the professor is theorizing about is, say, labor conditions for the less-educated and less-well-off worker, then the Burger King worker knows in a way that the professor doesn't, no matter how many statistics the professor looks at.
Time since last commit, as well as average size and type of the last few commits would also be useful ensure meaningful features or bug fixes are probably being made.
I've read that .doc/.docx/Microsoft Word format is the most desired. I've had recruiters tell me this, and I've seen posts on reddit about this. It all comes down to metadata and formatting -- the automated resume parsers do a lot better with Microsoft Word, especially if you use the templates.
That quote is not complete nonsense, but it wasn't the text at the time I read it (which I cut and pasted in my post, you can compare.)

Its been rewritten to be somewhat less nonsensical (though the last sentence of that paragraph is now both redundant with other parts of the article and a non-sequitur in the paragraph it is included in.)
I've looked at that, but it doesn't fit my use case.
+1 ditto. :(
Then you also start to run into spurious correlations.

Track enough variables in a population and you're bound to get correlations.
While I agree with you, I think you're forgetting how little competition there is as far as desktop OSes go. Microsoft is practically trying to run Windows 10 into the ground (disable pro features with the anniversary update, then force everyone to upgrade to Enterprise, for example), while Apple will never officially allow OS X on anything other than their products even if hell freezes over. This leaves Linux as a serious competitor with significant advantages in its community driven design, that allow a group to fork and existing project and make a modern desktop OS suitable for the average user. The problem is mostly that no one has bothered to do that, or done so successfully (Chrome OS was a great try, and I think it's here to stay, but it's still a little too locked down).
Not on passenger cars. The fail-closed thing is only done on larger vehicles. There is a reason. Fail-on systems have a max applicable force. Basically, they are some sort of spring pushing the brakes on 24/7 and the control system fights against this spring. So when the system fails, the brakes default on. But that means that stamping on the brake pedal harder and harder doesn't translate into greater braking force. The spring sets the max force. That is OK on a truck or train where human muscle is irrelevant, but in a passenger car or motorcycle human muscle is more than enough to lock up the tires (ie go beyond maximum braking potential).

Large vehicles also do not have the same performance envelope and so can generally survive a braking system that suddenly fails "on". A truck+trailer can lock its trailer brakes without, normally, going out of control. So too with a train or even an aircraft on landing. If that happened on a motorcycle, the rider would die. No questions, just death. Cars are somewhere in the middle. Some cars could survive but many would become instantly uncontrollable.

(Remember there are limitations on antilocks in no-power situations. They cannot antilock forever and so will eventually lock up.)
That doesn't necessarily mean they've set up autoscaling or any of the other AWS features that would help in this situation.
I'd suggest looking for job opportunities in academia, or perhaps doing IT-related work for non-IT-related companies. These are the types of fields where "the computer guy" is expected to know and do everything.
Cloud Computing Weekly Digest with Joe Kinsella: August 12
That's one of the benefits of UBI over many welfare programs. Because it's universal, it's not cash for not working; it's cash.
>This is why certain people move to a country without capital gains tax to sell their company.

Do you happen to have an example of this?
I looked into this a while back, but bailed on the idea because it violates the TOS of a bunch of APIs. For example, the Google API terms specifically notes that you cannot aggregate their content[1]. There were a number of issues with other API terms as well, such as completely disallowing any caching or storing of data, I can't recall which ones, but if you read the terms, you'll find they're quite restrictive.

Ultimately I decided not to pursue the idea since there's no real opportunity for growth, since all your content comes from your competitors, who can easily shut you down.

[1] https://developers.google.com/maps/terms, section 10.5 (d).
In my experience a lot of US job applications ask you to volunteer your ethnicity.

One example: Stripe asks if you're Hispanic/Latino: https://stripe.com/jobs/positions/engineer/apply .
> I found that I ended up "settling down" in a location and then not going out to experience it as much as I might have liked.

I have made it a point to do the opposite of this. When I lived in a house I would think nothing of just "chilling" after work.. most days. Now I'm somewhere new and different. And tell myself "when will I ever get back to this place?, better go explore it while you can".
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Looks like this judge is out to set it right for the poor victims of copyright theft:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_O%27Grady

"O'Grady is the presiding judge in the current extradition proceedings against Kim Dotcom relating to the Megaupload"
I've never heard of this. Do you have a source?

I recently learned that CO2 is toxic to human in large concentrations. It doesn't just displace oxygen in your lungs.
Thank you for the link !
It is possible to use wifi driver without firmware?
Have you ever taken Uber pool? It's like that, but worse, because you're riding with strangers that you can't yell at for dilly-dallying.
Everyone in finance seems to call it that but thats pretty much the only ones.
Here's the landing page: dscout.com/research/sprint
You need to work somewhere where they have a small web team. Your expertise could help any company step up their web department.

I know people who work as web developers for shoes companies, furnitures companies, etc. and since they are a pretty much a "1 developer + 1 designer" team they need to be very well versed.
Plugging Webpack to Jekyll Powered Pages
I didn't read the article, but is the lock RF shielded?

Also, slides show a 1/4" hole, and then the lock and an EEPROM; could it be feasible to melt plastic enough through this hole that one could then expose and flash the EEPROM with UV, resetting it?
Infrastructure for Modern Web Sites (2009)
When did they "affirm" that? They've said a couple times that "Java at this time is the only way to build apps," etc. They never ruled it out for the future, AFAIK. Please feel free to prove me wrong, but I would honestly be surprised if you found anything.

Having been to the last several I/Os where the question is asked at the fireside chats, the answer has always been "right now...". No one is saying dump Java, but if we could get some native hooks through something like Dart, that would be pretty awesome.
Another Expert Weighs in on Election Hacking
Seems that the author of the article conflates teaching with lecturing and "spelling out" the desired interpretation for the audience.

Kids (or adults) don't learn from lecturing nearly as much as we do from modeling and direct experience.

For me, this article was more about the reaction of someone raised with sterile and condescending media presence now witnessing an experience that does not underestimate children's intelligence.

It is about what USA-nians consider "unhealthy" children's television.
No, that's not really true; the PRC's position is predicated on the claim that Mandarin is a degenerate dialect of Cantonese, and not a language in its own right. They also believe, rightly or wrongly, that acknowledging the multiple Sinitic languages would threaten their status as one cohesive nation. It's also rather disingenuous to take the two component characters of 方言 apart to argue it means something different than it does; telling me it means "direction-speak" is no more illuminating than telling me "telephone" means "distant voice."
It is also possible that a country can spy on traffic that isn't routed through that country's territory. Three things we've heard about in the last few years have been bilateral deals between spy agencies to share intercepted data, compromise of routers, and installation of clandestine physical taps, whether on land or undersea. There might be good political remedies for some of these things, but at the technical level it seems like Joseph Hall's view (from the article) is exactly right.

Edit: there were also reports about different kinds of routing manipulation, such as BGP attacks, inducing ISPs to deliberately choose surveillable routes in some cases, or inducing link outages.
Yes! That'd be appropriate.

However, I still think vulture capitalists will somehow find a way to turn it into an old boys club (made from young boys' dreams) again. Human nature being what it is, we love a hero myth.

I do have to ask why do you need to create "startups"? Why can't you (help) create good SME's?

Have you done your historical research? Who has traditionally created the big, world changing inventions? Startups, SME's, large institutions, or governments?

I ask, because you and many others mention older individuals becoming entrepreneurial, but not needing so much help.

For the best odds might it make sense to get the younger generations on firm ground with solid SME's to gain experience. Then swing for the fences later?
I have a personal Iris, an Indy, an Indigo2 and one of those useless PCs they brought out. Didn't get as far as having an Onyx 'Infinite Reality' at home, however, all of those boxes definitely had coolness that nothing else had during that era. The Susan Kare icons and Indigo Magic desktop with 'cpu-eater' desktop wallpaper was totally awesome, completing the look. Even the fonts were totally ahead of everything else.

In my opinion the Google Pixel is the only contemporary machine that has design edge that is envy worthy. I don't have the 'ludicrous speed' edition (yet), I am slumming it with the 2013 version but still utterly delighted with my '4Gb ram' machine.

The original SGI boxes didn't run any software that mere mortals used - no Photoshop, MS Word or anything else consumer grade. The Google Pixel is a bit like that too, allegedly you cannot run anything but a web browser on one. Mine runs a linux dev stack very nicely so, for me, I am still using 'winterm' style terminal windows with 'vi' much like back in the day with SGI boxes.

With things that are cool they are either cool to those that understand these things or they are cool to a wider audience, e.g. non-technical folk. My Pixel does impress mere mortals with the screen, the sound, the keyboard, the trackpad and the 'chrome' lights on the lid. Nothing else presents such a rich audio-visual experience in the laptop form factor. In mini-tutorials and working meetings I find the Google Pixel helps with the task in hand whilst projecting cool, albeit at a fraction of the awesomeness of an SGI box back in the 90's.