skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do we really want those that are so half-hearted about the process that they need great efforts to cajole them to actually participating in our elections? How much time and effort do you think someone that has to be given so many "easy buttons" to become part of the process will dedicate to understanding the issues, the candidates, and the possible future outcomes? I don't think many.

I think voting should be open to anyone that wants to put some reasonable effort into being part of the process. For example, maybe you should have to go to your county clerk's office in person to register. Voting should be in person. Yes, for those that are home-bound or have legitimate extenuating circumstances, they should be allowed to vote or register by mail... but if you're otherwise able and not willing to go to some reasonable effort to participate, you likely aren't going to be the model of an "informed voter" either.

The only reason I think politicians and activists go down this road to making it easier to vote is because they want an electorate that doesn't think too much nor care too much. They want a docile electorate more likely to rubber stamp ideas than submit them to scrutiny. This is about undermining the functioning of democratic systems, not expanding them.... or it's just ill considered.
@Jemmeh I "failed" a similar interview (VB, C#) Don't they know that the VB and C# examples are shown on Microsoft's site side by side?!

The only conclusion I reached is that one should navigate in life in such a way that your well being should not depend on people that are less smart, less experienced, less curious than yourself.
It's not an interpreter of the programming language Python, however. It's a VM for Python bytecode, which is not what most people understand as Python, right?
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Surely a lot depends timing and circumstances. One interviewer said they gave me the job based on asking if the guys accent was Dutch (he was Norwegian and found that hilarious). It was a maintenance programming job and had a high turnover of staff. Other interviews you may have done well but had some serious competition.
I haven't used the Vim extensions specifically, but in the extension "store", you can see number of downloads and an average star rating. Is the "bad" Vim plugin not getting downvoted?
Yes, I agree.

And I think it does it well. Cory Doctorow is a self promoting fear monger, and I think it's a useful addition to the conversation to make that clear.

It lets people calibrate their outrage over his most recent pronouncement.
can recurrent neural networks be successfully applied to stock market?

I don't seem to see a single paper in the finance area.
Yeah. In (short) retrospect, the thing that we're responding too -- the engineer who suggests we should ask them out for coffee -- is a bit strange and maybe missing context. I'm guessing during the interview, the question felt like it was asking for a concrete example, perhaps in a situation where coworkers have worked together for some time. I'd be surprised if anyone's idea of a good activity, when first joining a workplace, is: "Yeah ask me out to coffee and what I feel about being a _____ at my new company".
Ah gotcha. Yeah, for that I just had an implicit mental model of R1C1 without realizing it was physically implemented.

I interpreted you (wrongly it seems) as saying that the relative offsets were confusing and I responded to that. You were curious about the implementation instead.

I didn't care about the implementation when I was learning Excel, and simply assumed a mechanism like R1C1 without much interest in it.
VSCode + TypeScript is an amazing experience for us poor JavaScript developers that never enjoyed proper autocomplete and refactoring in our editors. Writing JavaScript feels like writing random bash scripts with no help now. TypeScript is freaking awesome and you should start using it! :)
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Think of the aggregate effect. If you think that your vote "doesn't count", imagine what happened if everybody except for one stubborn guy in your state voted. If aggregates of votes count, so do individual votes - it's just very hard to measure on the level of those votes. But even if your state is strongly blue or red, it is only that, ultimately, because some people go and vote that way. If they didn't, it wouldn't be.
Clay Shirkey's "Situated Software" http://shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/situated_softw...

It goes on a bit too much so it's not always on point, but at the time I read it I really appreciated it bringing to focus that not every piece of software has to be about millions of users.
Yeah.

But its also the point of shared hosting, which the site hates on.

A good shared host (ex: HawkHost's semi-dedicated) will run circles around a Lowendbox VPS.
I disagree. Diversity is about hiring people based purely on merit, rather than letting prejudices about gender/age/race taint the hiring process.

Nobody's suggesting that we hire under-qualified women/elders/blacks, but they are saying the merely being such is not an indication of inferior ability or lack of "culture fit."
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Refactoring. Does that come with Intellisense? I've found that even 'rename this symbol' is extremely hard to find support for even in static languages.
No, but it doesn't choke like other editors do.
And no one went to jail. It's becoming a bit of a refrain at this stage whenever there is wrongdoing in banking.
This can be used to implement seamless voice performance transfer from one speaker to another:

1. Train a WaveNet with the source speaker.

2. Train a second WaveNet with the target speaker. Or for something totally new, train a WaveNet with a bunch of different speakers until you get one you like. This becomes the target WaveNet.

3. Record raw audio from the source speaker.

Fun fact: any algorithmic process that "renders" something given a set of inputs can be "run in reverse" to recover those inputs given the rendered output. In this case, we now have raw audio from the source speaker that—in principle— could have been rendered by the source speaker's WaveNet, and we want to recover the inputs that would have rendered it, had we done so.

To do that, usually you convert all numbers in the forward renderer into Dual numbers and use automatic differentiation to recover the inputs (in this case, phonemes and what not).

4. Recover the inputs. (This is computationally expensive, but not difficult in practice, especially if WaveNet's generation algorithm is implemented in C++ and you've got a nice black-box optimizer to apply to the inputs, of which there are many freely available options.)

5. Take the recovered WaveNet inputs, feed them into the target speaker's WaveNet, and record the resulting audio.

Result: The resulting raw audio will have the same overall performance and speech as the source speaker, but rendered completely naturally in the target speaker's voice.
Understandable.

As a non-frat guy, I get what you are saying. Even then, I find the term 'brogrammer' hilarious. I think of it as humor for guys.

It's kinda like the series, "Vagina monologues". Many men find it offensive, but it's humorous too right?
>I think interviews would be less terrible if interviewers actually told you at the end that you did above/as well as/below expectations

This happens quite often in phone interviews. My clients have regularly told candidates "We'll be inviting you in" at the end of a phone interview.

The issue with this for on-site interviews is that they tend to be with multiple individuals/groups, and getting those groups together to discuss the candidate's performance while the candidate is still on-site is a mess logistically. It would be ideal, but usually there will need to be some discussions among the panels.
I don't see this mentioned but...I look for happy, non-stressed out interviewers and managers.

I had a nice manager (who was trying get me to work for his company) mention how his hair had turned gray during his last project. I told him "If you're trying to get people to sign up for you diving tour, um, you might not want to show them your shark bites." It wasn't the main reason I passed on that job but it didn't seem like a desirable situation.
There isn't. Initiatives like this are usually attempts to get low-agency voters lacking any motivation and with minimal knowledge of candidates or issues to the polls.

Such people usually end up voting reliably for leftist candidates in the US, which is likely Sam's underlying goal.

(In many states in the US, it's actually easier than you describe - same-day registration with no ID requirement).
well, at that time we had standards...

and on the few places we still have, this is what google is doing with chrome on the w3c.
I explicitly state that in the article.

"Why do we keep running that ad, despite the occasional social media potshots ranging from snarky platitudes to frothing fanboy rage? It’s simple: That ad outperforms every other ad we have tested 5 to 1. "
So much of it is contacts. I'm in that place now.

In my 20's and early 30's every job I got was through contacts.

Since then I've been working solo projects at small companies for a number of years. Fun work, but suddenly it's dried up. I don't have any good recent contacts in the tech sector. So I'm competing with 22 year olds, with little to back me up.

So don't do that. Try to keep in touch with former colleagues, and try to be widely-known in your company for doing good work and being easy to work with.
I think you just haven't played enough games.

I won't get into any comparisons of books and games, but I can absolutely say that I have played games that, at the very least, can objectively (or as close to objectivity as you can get when discussing art) be considered good art.
I didn't down-vote you, but my guess is that others have because you're missing the point and your comment contributes nothing.

You write, "Why leave other important engineering characteristics out?" But no one is saying /only/ female engineers (or their perspectives) matter. They are not "leav[ing]" anything out. The creators of this think it will be beneficial to hear from female engineers. So that's what this is.
"lockless monster" ... Yeah, it's hard to tell whether it's using mutexes or not in the photo. ;)
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I wouldn't. The results they offer are excellent, but the missing points they need to achieve human level are related to producing the correct intonation, which requires accurate understanding of the material. That is still at least ten years in the future, I expect.
When I was younger, I had a co-worker who was quite older than others. I must confess I fell from my chair when I saw him going to his editor menu to perform a copy-paste. He did not know about the most known shortcut ever.

But I kept that for myself despite the itch to insist on telling him to use the damn shortcut instead of going to the menu each time. After all, he was as productive as the younger ones as far as quantity was concerned, and more productive as far as quality was concerned.

Your mouse thing is funny, it makes me think of touch typing evangelist maniacs. They probably allot a specific budget for spare backspace keys. In my experience, that's the key they use the most.
I've never interviewed for a job I didn't get. Possibly because I aim too low. But if I were to present myself honestly as a potential employee, I would enter the interview without greeting or making eye contact, then I would sit as far away from the interviewer as possible and doodle in a notebook for 15 minutes before raising my head and explaining everything I think is wrong about the company.
That to me is a classic recruiting problem in technical positions, data engineering included. Unless you have a manager handling it themselves, the person doing the initial screen really is ticking boxes because they may not know any better.

Once a resume gets to me, and I'm only speaking for myself here, I'm looking for the challenges you've faced and the problems you've solved. I actually care very little about what tech you used because odds are we'll have something different, but we'll need to solve problems. If someone is solid in some related technical skillset, can think critically, and communicate the details of what they've tackled in the past, learning our specific tech stack is going to be the easy part.

Let me put it another way - when I look for interns or entry level hires, the number of those that can do more than spell SAS or Teradata approaches zero very quickly. But if they've solved challenges of the magnitude that they'd be expected to solve with us initially, the tech is secondary to process and problem solving. As we look more experienced, I'd still be limiting myself to candidates from a set of "legacy" industries that prefer these sorts of tools if I insisted on checking those boxes at the outset. I'd prefer to teach a really smart person to use the things that they don't know yet if I have it my way.
Thanks for the food for thought!
Speaking for myself, there are two trends with aging. One positive, one negative.

1. (positive) Big picture wisdom increases. You learn when to call in help, when to use a library instead of rolling it yourself, when to stop hacking, retreat, document, how long to architect, etc. I get a little frustrated with younger people who e.g. over-optimize some aspect of a system before making the whole thing work adequately. I am waaaaaaay more organized and consistent than the young person who hasn't inherited enough code or faced the spectre of their own code when they forgot how it works.

2. (negative) I often forget how easy some formerly difficult tasks have become. Just take a library like three.js.... or building a compiler from source or using a library instead of writing an XML parser or SDL and so on. To stay on top, I often have to check in with others to see what surprising tools "young people" :) have made. This is critical because it affects estimates of time and resources needed to meet a goal.

So it's excellent to be around for a long time, IMO, as long as you are good at forgetting/unlearning some obsolete ways of doing things.
Thanks! will take a look.
I hope this shows up as a TTS option for VoiceDream (http://www.voicedream.com/) soon! With the best voices they have to offer (currently, the ones from Ivona), I can suffer through a book if the subject is really interesting, but the way the samples sounded here, the WaveNet TTS could be quite pleasant to listen to.
I prefer renting places that are lived in homes, but the occupant is away. Unfortunately these kinds of properties are rare.

Before arriving in some foreign place I want to know if the host is reliable. The host wants to know if they can trust me to be in their home. Ratings are helpful but no substitute for finding out what type of person you're dealing with. Even though I'm a pretty private person I prefer connecting with hosts on social media beforehand. I definitely want a voice call, even though all the expectation setting needs to be in writing on airbnb.

Both sides need to show themselves and accept being judged. Hosts need to be able to refuse without needing to justify their decisions. Otherwise there can never be enough trust to share valuable properties.
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and as pointed out so much, is entirely why nobody wants to work for them. Respect these very bright people znd you have a starting negotiation position.
I've never opened those since I bought the phone. Installed the sim and SD card and then never touched it again.

That's why I listed magnetic charging as a key feature ;)
Ok, then what's the code for cup of coffee?
He didn't write anything like this.
Was working with Angular 2 code today. WebStorm: 1.2gb memory used. VS Code: 45mb. WS gives me a few bells and whistles, but I prefer Code's lightness, and that it doesn't have a "screw you I'm indexing again" mode.
Absolutely! Plus: Learning more about the past saves us from what CS Lewis called "chronological snobbery" - the belief that modern opinions (and, may I add, achievements) are better simply because they are newer. In an age without digital networking or even the printing press, a library of half a million volumes is a phenomenal achievement!
Define "suits them" then. Microsoft locks down everything, even the computer itself with Secure Boot. Apple does no such thing.

If you want to run OS X/macOS on your own hardware it's doable. The only trick is finding drivers, not cracking DRM or license protection.

If you want to run another OS on your Mac you might need to fiddle with the EFI settings and/or update that with an EFI mod tool to make it more compatible, but there's no real impediment to installing anything you want.
No. I prefer to watch movies snd shows alone, so attention needs not to be divided.
> having someone stay in your home is a very personal thing and a huge risk.

Yes, but a huge number of AirBnBs are de facto hotels. And hotels mitigate risk with insurance and can't (and shouldn't) discriminate. There's nothing personal about running a hotel (or a whole chain of them as evidenced by the number of properties being managed/run by some AirBnB hosts).
The idea of forcing owners to let people who are not compatible, stay with them, is ridiculous.

I'm Indian and smell of curry (probably... at least a few times a month). If someone hates the smell of curry, they should be allowed to blanket disallow Indians from staying.
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Apparently WF determined that 5,300 fireable people knew about it.

LA Times did an article back in 2013 on the high-pressure sales culture there that lead to these practices:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wells-fargo-sale-press...

This is blatant fraud IMO, this settlement is just a slap on the wrist.
> Assuming your company hires people exclusively based on skill

i would wager the number of individual hiring events that (at least ballpark) quantify "skill" is negligible.
Older people, please: Never "play young" for a paycheck. It's sad as shit. If you're not a professional clown and don't want to be seen as a figurative clown, why would you ever act like someone who is less than yourself? (Along the same line men, don't take Viagra, it's pathetic. Just enjoy and cherish the fact that for once you're not obsessed with mating, and can finally get some damn work done instead of chasing every nice ass. Another perspective young dudes won't understand.)

Turn to crime before you get a FACELIFT (are you shitting me) for any job. Heck, older people make great criminals - they've accumulated cunning and horse-sense which are great for gulling young people out of their money. And young people have many things that can be used against them: enthusiasm, idealism, energy and a tendency to waste it (also see Aikido), insecurities, inexperience, a preoccupation with mating (see above). Best of all, young people's tendency to think they're smarter than they really are, means that you can be the superior adversary while your adversary thinks the opposite (see Aikido again, and Sun Tzu).

Young people if this kind of talk scares you, think about hiring some of these people! ;)
It's almost as if maybe people shouldn't be treating their homes as if they were commercial lodging enterprises.
> phony PIN numbers

Well... some tech geniuses right there! 5300 people. Opse that was a PIN number. Damnit.
Why would we want more people voting, especially if they couldn't previously be bothered to absent a significant amount of prodding?
Anyone else read that as Raspberry Piss at first glance?
Thanks from a user ;) I cannot use any editor without vim keybindings, furthermore I love "relativenumber", however VSCode gives no API for relative numbers (there is some hacky gutter images extension, but it is really hacky, slow and bad looking). I've made a fork with relative numbers built-in https://github.com/alfanick/vscode. Not going to do pull request, at least not yet - unit testing and i18n required.

BTW I do not use TypeScript (or JS), but it was quite easy to write, still I was quite surprissed how messy VS Code codebase is.
I suspect this was a case of first come, first serve.

Why should someone be forced to change the name of their extension simply because another extension with a similar name became more popular or better?
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Apple doesn't have paid astroturfers.
Surely something like, while True: input() would be closer to the mark!
Of course they must. By demonstrating that they cannot find candidates with 100% of the 'required' skills at the price they are willing to pay, the path is cleared to go the route of 'highly skilled' H1B applicants etc. with a small percentage of these skills. It is not, and has never been, about the skills.
The extension has improved quite a bit recently, might wanna check it out again.
Your snark is unnecessary. Had you Googled a bit more, you would have seen that they also share towers with Airtel, among others. Airtel is also a retail telecom competitor.
> Similarly in term of age, I would not rent to couples with young children because it's too risky.

I am not sure age matters with children at all since they don't have legal status and can't enter into contracts etc. So on that basis alone it's a non issue. Meaning it wouldn't be discrimination.

In other words you can't get in trouble for refusing to hire someone who is 10 years old because legally you can't hire them anyway. Likewise if there is some other rule w/o respect to age discrimination (lodging) since they have no legal status (and the parent would be renting) it really wouldn't matter that age was the issue. Would be the same really as "I don't rent to people who wear yellow shirts".
Superbly fast. And the extensions make it even more lovable. Very happy to have moved to VSCode from Sublime.
Calling it a backdoor may be correct, but calling it an "OS X backdoor", particularly with no other context in the title, is not. It's merely clickbait.
I hope the ruff comes back!
and, let's face it, many of them like having the excuse of long hours to stay away from a family they have grown tired of. My brother told me once he had kids he finally understood the joy of mowing the lawn; you get time away from the kids and wife and its so loud they never think to come bother you and it's work so they don't have the excuse that you are just goofing off
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Ask HN: Does the x.ai “wait in line” feel like a marketing ploy?
I've been waiting "in line" to try x.ai for quite a while now. I get teaser e-mails. I go check my place in line. Still 249, the same as when I signed up. They don't say what number group they are up to.

http://imgur.com/a/tlWqM

But then in the e-mail I may get an invite for a Professional account and therefore skip the line.

http://imgur.com/a/6uUX9

While I thought that x.ai would be extremely beneficial, I sort of feel like this was just a marketing stunt to hype interest while they figure out how to actually launch it at a large scale.
Yes, my vote would matter in the imagined world you posit. But I don't live in that world. It isn't actually that hard to measure the impact my vote has directly on the outcome of the US presidential election--it's somewhere on the order of magnitude of a one-in-a-billion chance at changing the outcome.
Basically the same idea as style transfer with image algorithms. Looking forward to Abraham Lincoln reading audiobooks to me.
There's also an `extensions.autoUpdate` which lets you not worry about it again.
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I interpreted that to mean: "sama would not spend his free time on a competitor to a for-profit YC startup, why is he spending his free time on a competitor to a non-profit YC startup?".