skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a philosophical way that might be true, but you are also here communicating that opinion and potentially convincing other individuals to come to the same conclusion.

If you did the opposite and tried to convince everyone else to vote then you could theoretically be correct, your vote or lack of vote would have little to no effect. The cumulative effect though of many voters feeling disenfranchised and not voting will have a massive effect, one which someone in your position could help avoid by helping to convince people who feel the same as you that they DO need to vote.

I can see how some people feel that their vote is meaningless and that there is no difference between their choices in the first place. Be glad that that is true for you - for many people in our country (and unfortunately, even more people in other countries) this is not the case.

Take Bush v Gore - many people did not see much of a difference between them but one resulted in 2 disastrous and expensive wars, many thousands dead (not counting the destabilization of the region whose impact we cannot easily measure) and 8 years of basically no progress against climate change. Could I have observed a difference in my own life if Gore had been elected? Maybe not, I didn't join the military (went to college) and there was no draft, I got a useful degree and a good job, and overall my day to day life is probably very much as it would be had Bush never been elected. Not everyone is so lucky, so please think of how your vote affects the most vulnerable people in the world when deciding whether or not to vote.
no autocomplete. c#, javascript, even python autocomplete is really amazing
List is inherently easy to parse though.
>some portion of interviewees are losing interest in joining your company just because they didn’t think they did well, despite the fact that they actually did.

Wait. They think they didn't do well, got an offer, but turned it down because they think they didn't do well on the interview?
I think what's being asked for is the "none of the above" option. When that is present, and people are particularly unhappy about all the candidates on the ballot, they can express it by picking the "none" options. If enough people are unhappy, that option draws votes away such that no candidate gets the requisite majority. There are several different approaches to resolving the election from there; for example, it could trigger a run-off election, in which the top two candidates may receive a different distribution of votes. And if the run-off sees "none" as the most popular option, it would indicate that neither candidate is acceptable to the populace, so election restarts without them in the play.
I am no expert on this topic but I think HTTPS prevents ISPs from seeing the complete URL you've entered.

For instance, if Wikipedia were http only your ISP would see that you visited http://en.wikipedia.com/really-bad-disease whereas a https url would only reveal that you visited Wikipedia.
i value older developers but ruby on rails, jquery, react, elxir and may more popular libraries are created by guys in their 20s. Of course these tech and build on shoulder of older giants.
yeah, that's the extension that inspired me ;)
If they were offering $300k and still couldn't find attract top talent from other industries, then we could have a discussion about a shortage, but the low six figures doesn't show a shortage situation. It shows a market with plenty of headroom for salaries to grow.
This is bigger than just the math of this election.

Our votes will be analyzed, the platforms of the candidates will be analyzed, just because this election is lost, does not mean that votes for the losers were entirely worthless.

By voting for who I actually want and not voting defensively when I don't support any of the major candidates, I am making my voice heard. Maybe not for this election, maybe not for the next, but my hope is that eventually the main 2 parties will take notice and adopt some of the policies from "lesser" candidates that end up with a non-profit amount of votes.
A jab at Bernie?
This is such a horrible idea, and not the role I want google playing in society at all.
Please clarify the title. It sounds like Apple put a backdoor into OSX.
> Selecting for voters who are willing to navigate a bureaucracy and jump through arbitrary hoops to vote does not give you "informed" voters, just voters with a lot of time on their hands.

I agree with you in principle, but the vast majority of people I've met who don't vote are not just "too busy". They are usually just apathetic. They don't care about politics, they don't want to read and learn. I say we're better off without them voting.
> And isn't there the possibility of collisions, so that even if you find a string that maps to the same hash, it might not be the original password?

Not really. 2^128 is a stupefyingly big number. We'll likely never find a random collision in MD5. We know how to generate collisions in MD5, but this requires knowing the preimage (e.g., the m in `h = H(m)`).
Shhhh! Yes, spending any time at all to vote in races bigger than local ones is irrational and you can skip it without affecting the world in any way whatsoever aside from saving yourself some time, but you're not supposed to tell people that, especially if they might vote for a candidate you prefer! That might affect the election.
Thanks for the feedback. Not sure it changes anything but the double 'aa' is not a typo. The first part of the name 'Baasil' stands for BaaS (Backend as a Service).

My original plan was to pronounce it like the plant 'Basil'. The voice actor in the demo video just decided to call it Bah-sil so I just let it be.
Right, that's why I spent most of my original comment examining the other aspects. Unfortunately only the question of whether to vote (and in particular, whether to vote on the basis of the probability of deciding the outcome) seems to have sparked significant discussion.
Hmm not sure most of the "digital" stuff was not about the earpods but about the wireless ones AKA the "AirPods"
The ones that come with the iPhone 7 in the box are the regular earpods we have now just with a lightning connector, there have also been a few videos going back to july about the 3.5mm connector some of them taken it apart it doesn't seem to have anything in it.
"that expression is too vague to really say anything about"

The same goes for "Ask a Female Engineer" hence I wanted more information about other non engineering characteristics such as her height,weight, color, height, etc.

"this seems non-sequitur or a strawman"

Its not a strawman it was a valid question , why did she only decide to single out her sex. Why not disclose her weight,height,color,etc?
That's not always the case. Talent doesn't exist in a vacuum.

Someone with a natural talent for picking up new development skills will still learn data engineering far faster when provided with proper resources and strong internal mentorship.

I can see how you might make this observation after observing a poorly conducted training program.
A lot of conservatives _hated_ Obama in 2008. They made the same claims about him being Hitler and how he was going to destroy the country, etc. It an old routine.
Do you know if there are extensions that could bring autocomplete for ruby?
> compared to apache where a separate process is spawned

That's not how Apache works. If your glibc is >= 2.3.2 (we're talking 2004 or newer) the default mode is epoll ("event" MPM), otherwise you will get a threadpool ("worker" MPM), and failing that you will get a processpool ("prefork" MPM).

It will never spawn a process to handle a request, unless you forcibly enable prefork mode with a pool size of 1.
The problem is that this is all actually very murky, and at some point someone is going to sue an AirBnB host for discriminating. There's a lot of people saying stuff here, but ultimately liability will be judged and assessed by a court when a case comes up. And to be honest, a lot of these renters are going to look a lot more like independent contractors than anything.

All it will take is one case and judgement against the host, and AirBnB suddenly looks even less attractive. Bad enough your house can get trashed, but for you to lose all your profit having to defend yourself in court or settle out of it won't make it attractive.
Or try World on a Wire (Welt am Draht) ;)
You probably noticed that many of the most talented developers are idealistic and support meritocracy. Then you see the guys that created GitHub and made it lovable by those top guys, getting unceremoniously kicked out. Maybe it's a good business for a while, but many of those brightest developers move away and the best projects will grow elsewhere. So that's for your "regressive circles". It's a simple lack of justice for those guys.

You are probably a high-income white male. Now imagine how your life would be were you a low-income white male with a dadbod-shape. Not everyone is as lucky as we are (for the record, I am affluent, very tall, athletic, popular amongst girls) - I see plenty of these problems amongst my less lucky friends and frankly I reject this stupid game of taking care only of myself and not helping people around me. I know this is un-american, but I couldn't care less.
Me thinks it would be nice to scan for Qt at the `exec()` level. I don't have a huge use for Qt, it would be nice to have to white list apps that use it.
Good write up! Learnt some new points.
Ah, I didn't notice that you were filtering to the top 100 karma scores.
I like vscode too, but that does not mean, that they are in the same weight category. Vscode is "just" an editor, while IDEA is a full-blown IDE. The original poster wanted the full Visual Studio, not vscode.

(However, for some reason, I like the code completion in python mode in IDEA more than in vscode. It doesn't feel right, like the IDEA one does.)
Yeah, I generally categorize those kinds of outcomes as hoping that your enemies will act in your interests. Like, people who prefer differently than you somehow voting for an outcome you want - so I generally disregard them and lump them in with "impossible" just for the sake of convenience. :)

The main problem I have with third-party voting is that it actually increases the probability - however remotely - that the House of Reps scenario happens. (Plenty of caveats apply.)
For every woman on github there are 18.3 men. So yes, "he" way way more likely.
These are the "inputs" I'm talking about recovering (from the link):

"In order to use WaveNet to turn text into speech, we have to tell it what the text is. We do this by transforming the text into a sequence of linguistic and phonetic features (which contain information about the current phoneme, syllable, word, etc.) and by feeding it into WaveNet."

The raw audio from Step 3 was (in principle) generated by that input on a properly trained WaveNet. We need to recover that so we can transfer it to the target WaveNet.

How a specific WaveNet instance is configured (as you point out, it's part of the model parameters) is an implementation detail that is irrelevant for the steps I proposed.
In terms of WebStorm, dont forget to exclude tmp folders and other generated, transpiled content folder to exclude from indexing, otherweise it will be always busy. :)
A company's bad interview process might have nothing at all to do with the rest of the company.

At this point, isn't it generally accepted that all tech interviewing sucks, and companies would do better throwing darts at resumes?

If all interviewing is bad, and all companies are not bad, there's no benefit to judging a company based on that process.
I think people are on a quest to make the perfect IPA.. And make money in the process. For me it's IPA or nothing.
In theory, removing headphone jack is a good thing. This design has survived for decades purely because of compatibility, not technical merit. If we were to design headphone jack in 2016, I bet it wouldn't be this analog unpowered design. Headphone jack should be moving to digital signals and powered one.
Male is the neutral default.

https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/02/16/male-as-the...
There is no analogy to bread or 10miilon dollar salaries.

A company found something it could profit from more if it paid less than current market value. That is all. They are not saying there are no qualified applicants. They are not saying they want 10million dollars.

What is the case is that a business finds a resource (the perfect hire) that they wish to profit from but do not want to pay the market value for it because that would reduce profits. Rather than be satisfied with what would be an erosion of profit (or an admission of an unworkable business model) articles are posted to demand government pressure wages downward.

If you want a bread analogy, it's as if I found a cheap source of bread I can sell elsewhere at a profit but then complain there's a shortage solely because the cheap stuff isn't even cheaper.
The rivalry between these great libraries sounds a bit like the competition between today's Silicon Valley giants -- they even were outbidding each other for talent already back then.

The storage capability of the Library of Alexandria seems so quaint today, when all of its books would fit multiple times over in the Flash memory of a smartwatch... And that makes me wonder how soon the computing capability of today's Google or Facebook will look similarly quaint. I'm sure it won't take 2000 years.

Maybe (hopefully?) these centralized information behemoths are just this era's Greek libraries.
Pretty sure Lewis was upset because he couldn't prove his Christian faith as rational, so had to invent a lot of ways to discredit modern thinkers.

I'd go as far as saying that "chronological snobbery" is pretty much non-existent. Look at all the ways people idealize the past, especially when they talk about the 'good old days' or how things are much worse today.
It seems like you're using WaveNet to do speech-to-text when we have better tools for that. To transfer text from Trump to Clinton, first run speech-to-text on Trump speech and then give that to a WaveNet trained on Clinton to generate speech that sounds like her but says the same thing as Trump.
Hopefully a backend that lets me stay in my own environment and don't oblige me to code on THEIR hosted cloud platform.
I like the WYSIWYG approach, as far as I tried it seems not limited like classic wysiwyg interfaces.

You guys should open source to have the full community behind you to make the Parse that Parse should have been. Easy to use, Open, community driven and deployable anywhere.
> The primary reason for the median age in Google and Facebook being so low is that the median age for programmers is low [1].

Er... you're quoting Stack Overflow study which only tells about the median age of people who voluntarily went to Stack Overflow website to answer Stack Overflow study, after seeing the link on Stack Overflow / HN / Reddit.

That is hardly representative of anything. One hint: 30% people who responded are under 24 years old, i.e. most of them have not yet completed their studies and started working.
I don't think it's effective. Anybody with any understanding of statistics can easily see that your vote doesn't affect the outcome. I think it might be more effective to frame voting as some sort of moral obligation -- "people died so you could vote" "you live in a democracy" sort of rhetoric.
> Or saved enough money to retire or semi-retire?

This. Do this and one of the other strategies. Just save some freaking money. I know far to many people who are up-to-their-eyes in debt and have almost no savings.
How Dropbox hacks your mac
Truffle oil is usually a sign of an amateur chef, but I would disagree it has no place. Most people abuse it and I would include truffle fries on the list. It's a bitter and inferior truffle flavor.

However, I love finishing white mushroom pizzas with by distributing 10-15 drops of truffle oil on a medium pie. Clearly, it's not the same as shaving truffles, but it actually works well when the oil isn't cooked and it's paired with a combination of fresh and earthy flavors.
I think the idea is that they think they didn't do well, decide that on second thought, they don't really want the job anyway, and move on to the next possible opportunity. Then if later they get an offer, they don't change their mind.
I'm sure the same people who get infected by spam emails on wikileaks are the same people who have already been infected by spam emails in their own inboxes.

It really doesn't seem to make much of a difference.
Yep. They had a bad experience during the interview. When they ask themselves "how do I feel about this company?", their main data point is negative.
and some of your errors are caught before firing up a whole web app and a browser!
How alternative credit scoring is transforming lending in the developing world
There are a wide variety of reasons as to why registering to vote should be as easy as possible, and most of them have nothing to do with convincing people who don't want to vote to vote (I mean, ideally, we should live in a society that automatically registers everyone by default. But we're not quite there yet).

People who work 9-5 jobs that are paid hourly (or people currently in school, and go to school during those hours) literally lose money by taking time off to go to a government building and do these things in person, since government buildings operate 9-5 as well (some even open late/close early, because government).

Currently, the people most-likely to vote are either old (retired, with the free-time available to go do these things at their convenience), or middle-to-upper class salary workers (who won't be penalized for taking time off to go do these things).

While the people least-likely to vote are young people and people who work lower to lower-middle class hourly jobs, who cannot afford to take time off to register/vote. Most states don't even guarantee you paid time off to vote on election days.

If people don't want/care to vote, no amount of simplifying is going to make them do it. But people who want to vote shouldn't have anything standing in their way.
No, that's not what he said. After they think they didn't do well, people subconsciously start looking for reasons why they don't want to work there anyway: commute is bad, maybe they won't fit the culture, no free lunches etc.
Median Age / Profession

42.1	Computer systems analysts

44.7	Information security analysts

43.1	Computer programmers

39.7	Software developers, applications and systems software

35.9	Web developers

40.5	Computer support specialists

47.0	Database administrators

41.2	Network and computer systems administrators

41.6	Computer network architects

41.2	Computer occupations, all other
Trance (psy, goa) for code.
I've heard the term "backdoor" used for a long time before "rootkit" or "advanced persistent threat", so it may be a generational thing.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit:

> The modified compiler would detect attempts to compile the Unix login command and generate altered code that would accept not only the user's correct password, but an additional "backdoor" password known to the attacker...This exploit was equivalent to a rootkit.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_persistent_threat:

> Establish Foothold – plant remote administration software in victim's network, create net backdoors and tunnels allowing stealth access to its infrastructure.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing):

> A backdoor is a method, often secret, of bypassing normal authentication in a product, computer system, cryptosystem or algorithm etc. Backdoors are often used for securing unauthorized remote access to a computer, or obtaining access to plaintext in cryptographic systems.

I read all of that as a backdoor being an umbrella term, of which one type is a rootkit, and APTs create backdoors, perhaps of a type other than rootkit (e.g. net backdoor).
Let's put it this way.

The new head of the CFTC says that cyber attacks are the most severe threat to the global financial system and he is right.

The main reason for that is that the kind of attitudes you are talking about are widespread.
Is quitting your job for your own startup idea, when working in tech, really that big of a deal? Especially if you are a software engineer? You'll probably end up doing the same thing as on a corporate job but for yourself while learning a lot of new things about building software (marketing, sales, design, etc.) and about yourself (grit, character, etc.). You are still gaining experience. If shit hits the fan, with all digitalization going on everywhere, finding a new job won't really be that big of an issue.
Thank you very much for saying that. Sincerely. I am a woman and insight into how men experience doing business has been far more valuable to me than most of the stuff like this article. It has been incredibly valuable for me to know that specific negatives I experience are normal and not about my gender and it has helped me move forward on things that matter to me. It helps me sort the wheat from the chaff.
What countries have more open source developers per capita than the US?
Why does the open sources world struggle with timeseries / tick databases so much? I'm a very big KDB fan, but I thought there would be some competition from the open source people at some point, but it seems like every attempt fails. KDB does so well because of its simplicity. Can the OS people not do simple (this is a possible argument), or is it that, as you point out, whenever something is about to be released into the OS sphere the lure of money prevents a full release. Or are they too distracted with the Web and build too many solutions tailored to it. I'm just amazed that a good TSDB hasn't come from the OS crowd yet.