skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not super relevant to the topic, but what's with Xamarin not supporting what is arguably the most important platform? This seems like a huge weakness, especially when you can now build a React app that renders natively on web and mobile thanks to React Native.
This is my concern too. Any person who's gone in for many interviews has seen that the interviewer isn't the absolute measure of performance: we've all seen problems that are just trivia questions, are designed to show off the skills of the interviewer, or (worst of all) where a second solution isn't accepted because it's not what the interviewer thought of. All of these issues can result in disagreements on performance, in both directions.

I would like to see a different analysis: for multiple interviewers of the same candidate, how similar are the ratings?
One morning in college, I was walking to class and saw a cluster of morels growing near my apartment. I checked that they weren’t false morels, and resolved to pick them after I got back from class.

I returned to find that the lawn had been mown, and those poor shrooms had been blown to smithereens. :(
Object Orientation in Ruby and Elixir
Unfortunately, "natural" flavoring doesn't at all mean that you're getting those additional flavor molecules, or that they even come from the plant the flavor purports to be from.

See another poster's comment here about natural coconut flavoring, which comes from the bark of a tree and not coconuts. In many, many cases, "natural" flavoring is literally the exact same compound as "artificial" flavoring, just extracted from a source in nature.
Whether the terminology is technically correct or not, I think it's obvious that it can easily be interpreted in different ways, some of which are incorrect. As such, while it may not be wrong, it is poorly chosen, and may be misleading. A better way to phrase it might have been "A sophisticated backdoor targeting OS X discovered".
Truffles kinda lose their appeal when you have two lagottos digging some up every few days.
As much as I would like to teach my kids that women can do anything men can do, I am sorely tempted to lie, and tell them that women can only have careers that will probably not get them killed or maimed, and that will pay them enough to move out of my house before they turn 25.

Sorry kid, you can't be a lumberjack. Or a lumberjill, or whatever. Women are actually so good at being anaesthesiologists, actuaries, corporate IP lawyers, and electronics hardware engineers that there aren't enough left to let any take the dangerous and low-paid jobs. So keep your grades up, girls.

For boys, I'd just have to come up with some other basis for bullshitting them into preparing for the better jobs. ("Sorry, son, but you can't be an oceanic fisherman if your kneecaps are the same size. You're just going to have to become a plastic surgeon if you want to make one of 'em bigger.")
This is actually one of my interview red flags. For example if I say "I've worked with VB.NET 5 years, but not much C#" and they want 1 year C# experience. If they say that's a problem most of the time they don't know what they're talking about or they're not a company willing to invest in training their employees. I want a job that lets me learn.
The fine fellows over at linuxbbq.org have a few spins where your desktop is Emacs.
Profit motive.

Burn it down and rebuild with a single payer system.
This is an example of a market not being served. I would love to own a nice, hi-definition restoration of Star Wars.
Several of those field mentioned also have fairly high barriers of entry in terms of certification. They try to ensure that folks pursuing those careers have a core level of understanding necessary to pursue work in those fields. Whether or not they're successful in doing that is, of course, a matter of debate (as everything is).

I know understanding CS fundamentals and employer expectations about this are a lightning rod here, so I don't want to apply a value judgement on that here. However, what's the equivalent to the board or bar exams in our field (that lets us compare ourselves to those fields)?
Trust me, if you have a passionate non-web developer he can do the job just fine. And he/she applied for the job so they are interested to learn something new, maybe already started doing so but there is nothing to put down in a CV. They will read the tutorials, the documentation and they will deliver. I feel that nobody wants to give a chance to anybody.
What's funny is Omnihash was right below this post when I first clicked on it. So much nostalgia.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12455305
Don't forget lacker -- he won the Putnam twice (the year before me, and two years after me).
It is currently US only! But registration is good for any US election (state/local/federal).
I posted this blog post on HN. It kinda made me cringe. Is my cringing unwarranted?
>I absolutely judge a company by the interview process and the questions they ask.

And rightfully so.

The term these days is "candidate experience" for the overall interview process, which can include everything from a company's handling of logistics and time spent in a waiting room to the types of questions being asked.

That said, what I'm referring to in my comment isn't necessarily related to the interview process at all. A candidate can be asked questions that he/she felt were relevant and entirely fair for the job at hand, yet if he/she performed poorly there is still a tendency to try and find flaws in the overall opportunity.

My reference wasn't to candidates performing poorly and thus giving a bad review to the interview process. Rather, the candidate might perform poorly and say that the vacation time was inadequate or the commute would have been too long.
Even when the cards themselves were popular it was as a collectible supporting the video game and TV show, not as a primary interest. That their popularity derives entirely from recent innovations implies their conservatism is not what makes them successful.
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Fair enough. I am always tempted to lie about all sorts of things if I think, in the long run, it would help them / keep them alive longer :). Hard balancing that. Parenting is hard!
> You would presumably couple it with a heavily progressive income tax, with the result that people higher up on the scale end up paying way more into the system than the basic income check they receive, and people at the bottom pay no tax at all. So the effective amount of welfare is directly linked to one's income or lack thereof.

This is one of the primary gripes that I have with UBI. You've just described means testing! "So the effective amount of welfare is directly linked to one's income or lack thereof."

We've moved the means testing around a little bit, but it's still there, and it's still open to politicization. The right demands that the threshold between welfare givers / takers be lowered, the left argues it be raised, and we're right back where we started.
"oppose"? no.

though, to me "brogrammer" is a slightly derogatory term meaning a programmer with an "obnoxious frat guy" personality.
Listen, without getting into too much detail, the root of solving depression is always the realization that you aren't powerless and you aren't worthless. You can do things, you can improve, you can add value to the lives of others, you can have the life you want... small steps get you there.

Letting yourself get into that rut, that dark space, it's very hard to get out of that. Medication, friends, therapy, success... if you're convinced you are worthless and that there's no point to anything... it won't matter what you have going since you won't see it.

Avoiding that, through some simple activities, is what I think is helpful. The focus of "curing" depression has to be preventing yourself from falling back into it.

And get a dog. They love you, they force you to get some exercise, and you always feel small accomplishments being able to take care of them.
New Git stash tutorial – stashing work, managing multiple stashes, etc.
You must admit that the price of epipens is an artificially inflated one only possible due to government imposed monopoly, not one driving by true market forces.

Poverty is simply a description wealth and is always comparative. We can define poverty as any level we so desire.

One might argue that any crime is a problem, as long as it causes an issue for society or victims.
You include things like DSA and ECDSA, which are not hash algorithms, but signatures. Is a signature being computed internally? If so, with what key?
Maybe if you've been fortunate to have attended an elite school. For the rest of us no name state school alumns, there's the nice illusion of meritocracy either way.
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GREAT additional questions. My answers may not be the popular sentiment but here they are.

1. No and never have. Other than interest in boys ;) But I also wasn't boy crazy like a lot of girls.

2. Other girls can't relate to me and I to them. I have a couple of very close girl friends that I have been friends with for a long time but I tend to mesh with men better.

I also have 4 sisters all of whom I am very close with. Not one of them have any desire to get into this profession.

Bottom line is many women just don't want to do this and for reasons that have nothing to do with it being a male dominated industry. Does that make it more difficult for the minority of women who are drawn to this profession? Yep! But trying to force more women into it is not the answer imo.

Also - I am not totally convinced it is because of the rhetoric we as females are exposed to. Yeah, that makes it hard for a lot of us that are not drawn to that type of stuff but I do believe many girls are. As an example: I have a 4 year old daughter. We do our best not to expose her to that but she is so drawn to girly things. It is in her DNA. My son on the other hand isn't and neither was I. I believe I am the minority though.

Women and Men are different and are drawn to different things. That is not a bad thing.
Sure, but this doesn't actually send the emails. That's what you plug in Mandrill, SendGrid, SES, or <SMTP-provider of choice> for.

MailChimp charge crazy money for large numbers of subscribers. If your business actually makes money on direct-marketing, that's fine, but their pricing stings if you want your marketing team to manage large lists with only occasional informational emails. And since MailChimp will give you their deliverability for 25,000 emails for $20 on Mandrill, it seems like a win-win for that use-case.

I, for one, can't wait to try this out over the weekend.
Yes, they're going to lose hosts over this. In fact, if they don't, that's evidence that they're not serious about it.

A lot of people hosting through Airbnb shouldn't be.
I whipped up https://gist.github.com/atdt/e84483c70c078a72f5e08ead365c69f... based on the information in the report.
This election feels more polarized then the previous ones I remember. Some people disliked Mitt Romney in 2012, but they hate Trump in 2016.

As an bystander (EU citizen) I find this a very entertaining election. :)
Then start it. You're missing the point. Some people think that hearing from female engineers would benefit others. I (as a white, male, non-engineer) am one of them. That is the point of /this/. Start whatever group you want.
This USB stick will fry your unsecured computer
Do you see any problem with home owners saying no to those that require the assistance of a service animal?
In the interest of full disclosure, I am a contributor to AOO, albeit one who has not been as active as I should have been in the past. Which makes me part of the problem. But that aside...

Rumors of the demise of AOO are very premature. Some internal speculation aside, there's no particular reason to think the project will be shut down. Yes, the ASF board wants to see certain things happen, but none of them are things that all of us don't also want to see. Security fixes being released in a timely fashion? Of course we want that. Frequent releases? Yep. Awesome new features? Hell yeah!

So the question is, can we get back to a place where we can deliver those things? I think so. And here's some reason why:

1. This recent "retirement" discussion has served as something of a "call to arms" or rallying cry for some AOO contributors. Count me among their number, just to show an example. I'd been pretty slack about contributing, but this has motivated me to get off my arse and get busy doing stuff. And I don't think I'm the only one.

2. We've had a number of new contributors, or at least potential new contributors, show up in the past week or so.

3. We're starting a new, more focused recruiting effort to recruit developers to the cause. Perhaps you yourself have given some thought to working on an OSS office suite? Here's a great chance!

4. We have had a release manager volunteer step forward to manage the 4.1.3 release.

5. A lot has happened just in the last week in terms of cleaning up documentation around the build process and clarifying issues there. I think it's safe to say we want to make it as easy as possible for new (or existing) contributors to build and run AOO.

Now the realist in me demands that I acknowledge that we still face a tough slog ahead. But nobody said this stuff was easy. And I feel confident that we can get this project back on track and re-establish it as the world's most awesome office suite.

Anyway, again, please consider getting involved now if you have any interest in office suites. And this is especially true for Mac users, as we could especially use more help from people who can build and test on the Mac platform.
sed -i 's/emacs/sublime-text/g' what_u_said.txt
>How do I know to do that?

The answer, unfortunately, is: you don't - at least not from the docs of all libraries you are trying to use. Maybe from some.

I found it by googling - so shared it, since it might help you.

A less than perfect system, I know.

Yes, I remember that installing pip itself was slightly tricky or involved, a while ago. I think they have made it simpler in recent versions, and it also comes pre-installed with some Python versions, likely 3.x and recent versions of 2.x.
Other people's perceptions are no less prone to error and misjudgment than one's own. It's not polite to challenge someone's interpretation of their own experiences, but to declare it "out of bounds" or somehow morally wrong is a cheap shaming tactic.
Mailtrain allows you to create segments over exact or relative matches eg. "all users where signup date is after 7 days before today" or "users who have custom numeric field value between 1 and 10". There's not too much documentation about it but you an find some from the Wiki https://github.com/andris9/mailtrain/wiki/Relative-date-rang...
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Let's all pretend that Slack is unique and innovative for a moment.

I question the motives of OP in regards to the title change, sounds like someone has a bias.
Check out http://postgrest.com/. It converts your database into a REST-api.
We dropped InfluxDB after they introduced their enterprise version.
Currently, we are running several nodes of Riemann/Cyanite/Cassandra.
It works very well, integration is pretty straight forward.
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I assume netflix is in the dictionary for all word based bruteforce attack. It's just a prefix word in the scheme that is super easy to remember, it's in the url. And an attacker can't know whether it's www.netflix.com, www.netflix.se, Netflix, NETFLIX, in the beginning, in the end or any number of variants that could be used consistently in the scheme. The main part is that I can remember it as "service name lower case" "breaker string" "words".
Yes, in fact the cultivated truffle industry is starting to get going now. In the past few years, farmed truffles have appeared on the market. I tried truffles for the first time a month ago and they came from Australia, presumably one of the new farms there.

The history of this is pretty fascinating.

Truffles grow in the roots of certain oak trees. To cultivate them, you need to plant those trees, carefully protect them from other undesired fungi, and wait 7 to 10 years for the fungus network to mature in the trees roots. Any given tree has an active lifecycle of only about 30 years, so after that, you have to replant. This process was figured out in the late 1700s. By the 1800s, there were over 100,000 acres of truffle farms in France, and truffles were a reasonably priced easily available foodstuff.

Then WWI hit. 20% of the male workforce was killed and many others had left rural areas and moved into cities. Without expertise and available labor, many truffle fields were lost. This is when they became a rare expensive luxury.

In the past few decades, after truffles became fashionable, cultivation has started again. It's only in the past few years that these new fields have begun to sell product. Going forward, you can probably expect real truffles to become more common and less expensive.

Oh, and the truffle I tried was shaved on top of a mushroom risotto. It's possibly the best tasting thing I have ever eaten.
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Please correct me if I'm wrong - I think phrasing the request appropriately is a big part of this, and could mitigate a lot of potential misunderstanding. Something like:

"Would you be interested getting coffee sometime?"

Definitely sounds like a date setup to me, so framing it as (1) more immediate than a planned date, and (2) work related would be much better. Something more like:

"I'm going to grab some coffee in a minute, wanna join?”
or
"I'd like to discuss some work stuff with you, do you have time later today to chat over coffee?"

Again, these are just my initial thoughts so I'd be interested to hear if it doesn't actually make much of a difference.
few days ago had a guy tell me that "relational dbs are dying because google only uses non-relational dbs"
I don't see what's so bad about janitors, though. They do very thankless jobs for not much money, whereas doctors and lawyers and other high-skilled individuals are often well renumerated or offered certain social prestige that your post shows is quite lacking when a humble janitor is considered.
The flavor compounds in truffles aren't oil-soluble. So even if you bought a piece of truffle dunked in oil, you're probably not getting what you hope to. If it tastes like truffles, that flavor is virtually guaranteed to not come from the truffle at the bottom but instead from 2,4-dithiapentane.
What would full Visual Studio get you that VSC does not? IMO, the main awesomesauce of VS, and its advantages over other IDEs and editors, are

1. The first-in-class debugger

2. Intellisense

3. Really good support for Windows-specific technologies like Win32 and COM

VSC has 1 and 2 either now, or on its roadmap. As for 3, why do you want to develop for Windows on a Mac? I guess I don't understand what you need that VSC isn't already giving you, or planning to.
Don't believe the lies a single second.

The truth is, it is NOT tough being 3X-4X in silicon valley.

What is tough is accepting to put up with startups about to fail, long hours, mediocre pay, little benefits and immature coworkers. That does limit the size of the job market.

That issue is faced by everyone, independently of their age. The youngers selves just happen to have lower standards in average.
It's unfortunate to see that the group who named their extension "Vim" is being recognized as more or less the official recommendation for Vim emulation, despite being not so good. The last time that I did a survey of feature completeness, performance, and code quality, the author of the amVim extension had a much better showing across the board--and more active involvement in VSCode extension APIs themselves. Perception and naming do matter.
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Speaking as a customer, I've never actually seen any direct service downtime as a result of a DDOS. Specific services (usually their web manager) have gone down but that hasn't affected my clients' sites running on my servers.

Obvious scope for improvement —and I've no doubt this is a constant engineering sink— but not being able to commission new nodes through the web interface for a few hours hasn't yet ruined my day.
Here's a list of questions that I've used for operations-focused roles: https://www.polibyte.com/2015/02/06/interview-questions/
I'm a co-founder at Crypteron and we're really excited about this community release to help developers without a budget secure their backend applications. It's 100% free...forever...and has no speed limits. In a matter of minutes, with just a couple lines of code, developers unlock encryption, tamper protection, key management and one-click response to data breaches.

I'm really hoping the HN community can help spread the word and join the fight against data breaches. Any feedback is welcome! Thanks!
Seems like it would be right up his alley too. xmonad is my personal favorite, but there are a lot of good ones out there (i3 included)
You should also not use "janitor" as a disparaging term. That would be another good takeaway from all of this.
Most democracies don't have a byzantine process for obtaining an ID, and proving that you're who you claim you are. So if you can make the ID issuing process in US work as well as it does in, say, Germany, sure, there's no problem with requiring an ID to vote.
> why should be whites and men so severely disadvantaged

Where, exactly, would one be able to objectively measure this disadvantage using published data?
I don't really care much about women or race, but ex-convicts and the disabled have it really hard. The disabled at least have legislation like tax benefits and federal priority helping them, but ex-convicts are just demonized and blamed.

Veterans are another good one: Even though the books say they get all sorts of benefits, the government is so poorly run that they often have trouble actually collecting them. Half the homeless in Portland claim to be veterans, and so do some people working at low-paying retail jobs in their 40s. I don't know how much of that is true, but I have a lot of weak evidence that veterans are often in a hard spot as they get older, despite all the benefits they should be getting.

Or even just the homeless directly. It wasn't exactly legal, but I used to know someone who'd pick up homeless, and offer them food, a place to stay, and some money to do roofing on his under-construction houses. It's rare to see jobs directly targeted to them.
It will be a long while but I feel we will experience a breakthrough in ai.
> "docomo"

That would be NTT.
Yes? There are more than 10M of them.
It was only 20 years ago that companies hired a "web master" or a generalist to do everything. But pieces of those jobs became specialized. Now we need UX, UI programmer, general engineers, dev ops, data engineers, a data scientist, etc.

And how many companies are still interviewing with fizzbuzz?
> But the point was to illustrate that Nintendo is in fact a quite conservative company - they've held on to what they started doing well over a century ago, despite having switched focus to video games 35 years ago, after spending 25 years researching and developing new businesses to find the right new direction.

I agree with this, but I can't say it's clear that's a good way of doing business.