skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it means "provide government-issued photo ID to get a password which can be traced back to you".

The context is if someone using the cafe's internet infringes on copyright, the copyright holder needs to find whom to sue. That is not possible in a "type a random email address" mode.
What's the story behind the staying low from the "twitter police"? https://twitter.com/helpterence/status/774672966961561600
I feel like algorithmic interviews are starting to be a red herring. When we are reaching a point that people need months of preparation and special interviewing bootcamps, we start to experience something akin to Goodhart's law. Correlation with real world skills get smaller and smaller, as people stop honing their "real world" skills and focus their energy on gaming the artificial metric.

Many companies are starting to value good github profile more than "how quickly are you going to implement the dijkstra algorithm on whiteboard". I believe this trend is better for candidates and companies, so it will continue.

I am speaking it from the point of someone fairly proficient in algorithmic challenges and algorithmic interviews (e.g. top 100 google code jam, worked/interned at 3 out of big 4).
Erlang has a good type-checker. You can use Dialyzer and enable some of its more strict options through CLI flags.

Also, the Elvis style-checker for Erlang has some functionality that inspects the AST to look for repeated patterns to help identify places where you can improve your DRY.
> It does seem to me that net neutrality makes it effectively impossible for ISPs to differentiate, because they're all compelled to sell the same product - dumb pipes.

If ONLY they viewed themselves as a dumb pipe, I could actually shop on relevant metrics—price, availability, bandwidth, latency—and I would be happy to switch to the best available ISP in the market. As it is, it's actually very difficult to find any numbers on availability, bandwidth, and latency.

Instead, I'm forced to compare prices and offerings. The offerings are actually an UPPER bound on bandwidth, rendering comparison meaningless for comparing ACTUAL bandwidth. The pricing advertised is often not for internet but some "bundle" of varied services, most of which will drastically increase in price after the first year, and only one of which (broadband internet) I actually want. For instance, I see ads for FiOS all over the damn place—successfully suckering me in, I might add—but in spite of living in residential, downtown city for the last eight years of my life I've never actually found a place I can actually get fiber.

ISPs are already impossible to differentiate in terms of actual value. Selling dumb pipes can only improve.
Not all regulations are the same in nature or effect. The introduction of regulation that introduce restrictions on who can compete has eliminated nearly all competition and most innovation in them. Most areas have 1 or 2 providers that charge high prices for low speed and service. The regulations like net neutrality that eliminate restrictions on what users can do increase innovation in the space.
If you're talking about the long streak of dots it's most likely a plane and the side-effect of a photo-edit gone bad :)
Yes, he doesn't invest in indexes himself, but it isn't just for the little people. He recommends it for his family. The big secret to Buffet's success is not his picking ability, it is his management ability and good business sense. Yes, of course he does pick to an extent, but he also buys large enough positions to sit on the board and install the right people to make things happen. He also uses his already large portfolio to help create opportunities between the companies he owns.

It's unlikely even Buffet himself could replicate his initial stock picking success over a long period of time and he would be the first to admit that.
What about if you sign into one with key based authentication? Does that server now know your key?
"Even went so far as to reimburse people"!? They directly caused those people to lose money! Of course they reimbursed them; the alternative would have been to reimburse them after a slam dunk legal case.

Dress it up however you like, they took $7 million that wasn't theirs.
Though I don't have an MBA, everyone I know that's been through HBS recommends going for one reason and one reason alone: connections. You're there to meet people, make friends, and expand your network.

Since the goal is to network, you want to maximize your time there. I'd elect to go through the full 2 years.
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This is pretty much what my town does for their public electric utility.

I moved from larger town A (has an electric utility, a lot of trucks, linemen, and a yard full of transformers and cable spools) to smaller town B and noticed that while the billing address changed pretty much everything else stayed the same. Town B might have one linemen, but I see town A's people and trucks every time there is a major project and town B's substations are fed from a substation run by town A.
Why can't someone create a competing ride-sharing broker?

How many travel aggregator sites are there?
That's interesting. I'll have to think on that.
I'm in bioinformatics. R is huge, Python is a distant second. So I am forced to use both.

R is a terrible programming language. It's slow and syntactically inconsistent. For interactive statistical analysis it can be OK, but anything beyond a small program becomes unmanageable quickly. In particular, if you want to manipulate strings or hierarchical data structures quickly in R, good luck.

For ML, scikit-learn is almost always sufficient. For statistics, statsmodels is OK but very underdeveloped compared to what is available in R. IMO plotting is equally painful in both Python and R (seaborn is a good Python library to ease the pain if you haven't seen it).

Personally, I write everything in Python and call out to R as infrequently as possible using rpy2, usually only for specific statistical routines or bioinformatics-specific libraries.
Yes; in fact they are preferred.
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Your public key, yes, but that shouldn't be an issue.
It didn't sound like that was ruled out. If the other city wanted to contract with them it would probably be possible.
Well you have to consider matching numbers in that as well. My employer contributes 10%, which is on the high end of normal, but not that abnormal for most highly paid positions. It is easy to contribute 20%+ making over the 33% bracket and not even touch 401k total contribution limits that way(total limit is currently $53k). If you are making that much and your employer is not contributing a lot to your 401k it is definitely worth your while economically to convince them to do so(and when you are making that much you will have the clout to make them do so). Remember, the whole point of 401(k) plans initially was as a backdoor way to compensate high earners.

Also, if you're making that much, even if you want to retire early, the normal % rules of thumb don't necessarily apply, assuming you want to live a normal middle-class life in retirement. You should run the numbers on http://firecalc.com, you will find if you live frugally making that much and contribute the max you can easily retire in under 20 years with a >90% chance of success. If you want to retire to the high life you will either have to contribute more than normal(and invest well/be lucky) or work longer, no matter your income.

Edit: I will say that there is a potentially significant disadvantage, especially for high earners, in having a lot of your net worth tied up in a 401k. That is required minimum distributions, essentially forcing you to take out a certain percentage of your account balance when you reach certain age thresholds. You can somewhat easily get around this by rolling over into a Roth IRA(backdoor Roth), but that could offset many of the tax advantages of the 401k in the first place if you have significant traditional IRA holdings[1]. This is mostly deleterious if you are planning on bequeathing an estate in a tax-advantaged way, but you may be able to get around it with a irrevocable trust. Consult a fiduciary, this is not financial advice.

1. https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Backdoor_Roth_IRA#Caution
The problem isn't monopolized pharmaceuticals, other countries deal with that as well nor is it too much regulation, it's too little.

Other countries simply accept that there is a monopoly and that therefore the prices will be sky high, if they allow the companies to just set the prices to whatever they want, so these governments set prices and negotiate or empower consumers.

The situation in the US would be very different, if you had nationwide insurance agencies and medicare negotiating drug prices and being able to say no to drugs that provide little to no benefit.
Actual answer: Taptic Engine.

The molded piece of plastic is clearly not large enough to replace the full depth of a headphone jack.

This can be confirmed by looking at the photos in the article: the 6s headphone jack extends just past the antenna mark on the side, the 7 plus molded plastic bit barely reaches the mark.

Could the 7 have been designed with a headphone jack, without compromising the function it has? Maybe, probably even. Does the existing 7 have a real component that impinges the area a headphone jack would occupy? Apparently, yes.
The way they're portrayed by the media all over the world is mainly the reason we're all scared of them. A group of fanatics does not make a whole nation or a religion bad (though I don't endorse nationalism or religion - as an atheist myself).
Looks nice. I like it.

But what are the percentages next to your degrees in the education part, like "B.E. CSE 72%"?
Tell me about it:

>Coming from a critic, this confession sounds both imperious and ignorant

Ugh. Nobody cares about your title or your perceptions on what you should and shouldn't say based on it. How about just state your thesis and let the reader decide how to interpret it.

>My small act of countercultural scholarly agency has been to refuse to continue reading or assigning the work of David Foster Wallace.

Swerve, academia. We're dealing with a rebel here.
You've just described how most JavaScript programmers write code.
That is a nifty syntax.
Like many "big risks"* in life, I think earlier is better for most people. But I also think it's very challenging to give advice to other people about it vs understanding my own values and talking about my own experiences. Personally, I joined one right out of grad school. I also joined with the intention of being a founder myself one day, and learning things that would directly benefit that. I think this is a common rationale.

While there is a bias toward twenty-somethings in startups, I wouldn't let that discourage you. I think it's just that the risk of "I might not have a job in 6 months" is more palatable when you're: young, not used to making (much) money, don't have a mortgage, or kids. I don't mention any of these things as reasons to discourage you, just to think about a hypothesis for the bias.

By the way, PG wrote a nice essay on pros / cons called A Student's Guide to Startups [1], which is really practical for anyone considering founding or working for an early-stage startup. While much of it is about founding your own company, there is a ton of overlap between that and joining someone else's early stage company.

*I do not consider working for a seed-stage startup as big of a risk as it's made out to be.

[1]: http://paulgraham.com/mit.html
Even if it is discrediting, which is debatable even if you agree RT is corrupt (and the largest western media outlets are not?), honestly would you not expect Assange to partner with foreign states which can offer support? He is having his life ruined on what looks to be pretty obviously bullshit charges, that no nation state would pursue in the way they are if it was not for Assange being seen as a persona non grata of the west.
This is incredible, I've been using your site for 5 years and I've always wondered "i wonder how much this site profits per month"

Any way I can get this half decade long question answered? :)
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I agree, and I think pretending that incumbent ISPs have free market virtues is that erosion happening right in front of us!

Personally, what I think we really need are better protocols designed to resist inspection by transit providers. The end to end principle fundamentally arose from engineering efficiency concerns, and its original implementation was never meant to be resistant to intermediate parties. But now that the industry is popular and computation has gotten cheap, the expense of a DPI box is dwarfed by the increased profit an SP can make by selling discrete "services" just like the Ma Bell good old days.

Such protocols also need to be widely adopted, so that ISPs can't just block them and still retain 95% of users.
Simple, but...

Energy flows where attention goes
I have problems with interview anxiety too. Fortunately, you don't need to be good at interviewing or algorithms to be a successful software engineer. I think a lot of the good companies realize good interviewing skills and good programming skills don't go hand in hand. Interview practice can be helpful, but my suggestion is to get into actively developing open source software and add significant code contributions to projects. People care about actual code you have in production, contributing to major open source projects is an easy way to get your code in production and tested across millions of servers. The kinds of companies you ultimately want to work for care far more about what you have actually done code-wise outside of the interview far more than any trivial test they could possibly give you in an interview. If your contributions are significant enough, companies stop asking you to do those lame technical interview tests altogether and just hire you.
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Municipalities might be able to create bonds that have tax breaks.
If you want to get into executive management and can get into a top school, getting an MBA is a good idea. Consider going the management consulting route. You'll get a substantial pay increase a couple of years out, and exiting to upper management after being a consultant is not uncommon.

I detect you're a non-native speaker. A noticeable accent is going to be bigger problem if you're gunning for executive management than in tech. I'd invest in some language coaching.
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As someone who is extremely excited about the prospect of self driving cars, I have to say that I love the situation Uber is in.

They're flush with cash, and on a timeline to innovate. They NEED a solution, and they need it soon. An autonomous vehicle is their ticket out of this mess, and they know it
>Things like working time regulations, so that employers across the EU have to abide by the same technical regulations. //

Isn't the point that the capitalist leaders don't want things like the WTD and the ECHR getting in the way of their "right" to exploit low paid workers?

You're right, we'll still have nearly all the regulations but ours won't have to get passed by the socialist countries of the EU and so will be much more Conservative friendly.

Selling in to Europe is the main sticking point as we'll need to abide by the regulations on production in order to make goods ready for the EU market if we get access.
The are limits to what a formal proof system can do (eg. The halting problem).

I also have never met someone who claimed to never need tests because of a powerful type system.
I don't generally think of myself as a victim. It seems that my income puts me in the top 1% for my age (just about any 6 figure salary will do that). It's all my classmates and friends I'm worried about.
I really hope they do. I think it would be a very positive step forward for our industry.

One that comes to mind is Triplebyte (YC S15).
This has now been answered by someone from the team
Wouldn't phishing be more like "make a site that looks like Facebook and try to get people to input their Facebook passwords?" What this person described is more abusing password recycling no?
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> Net neutrality IS a government assisted monopoly but in the favor of consumer instead of provider

Can you explain how that works? Who, exactly, is the monopoly referenced in that sentence?

It sounds like you mean that whatever is being referenced by the identifier "net neutrality" (guessing recent FCC decisions, but it is not clear) tilts the market towards consumers in ways that you believe are anti-free-market, but that has nothing to do with monopolies or antitrust.

If that is what is meant, I completely disagree - it is the legacy telco/cable companies who need a refresher in antitrust issues. They are the only ones I see using the government to restrict competition. Putting a floor on baseline requirements offered by market participants (such as actually offering the service advertised, or not extorting cash from third-party internet ventures) has nothing to do with restricting competition, any more that mandating lead-free paints in cribs or seatbelts in cars. (Yeah, I know some people still rant about seatbelts, but not on antitrust grounds.)

It has to do with constraining market participants who have already had a long history of preferential government treatment to not leveraging that into yet more ways to extract rent.
My problem with the approach is that you may be faking your way into a job you're not qualified for by prepping specifically for its interview. Say you want to work for Company A and get your hands on their interview questions. You memorize them forward and backward and practice until you can spit out the expected answers with confidence.

Great.

On your first day at work, you find you're actually expected to know everything related to that material. You studied for Bayes' Theorem, which is great, but your first bug is fine tuning a random forest exploration. Cue deer in the headlights face.

My favorite jobs - including the one I'm currently at - are the ones I just walked in off the street for. Sure, I did my homework about the companies, their plans, their management structure, etc., but not one second of reading up on the docs of their tech stack. Either I knew the stuff (or had enough related knowledge that I could learn it quickly), or I was honest about my shortcomings in that area. And on my first days at work, I either knew how to do the stuff they asked of me or was comfortable reminding them that I needed to bone up on it first.

TL;DR I feel like studying tech for an interview is like lying to a first date. It may impress the other party but it doesn't last. Be honest, relax, and wait for a legitimately comfortable relationship.
That is not even exclusive of my statement.

I actually support wealth redistribution, and I even buy in to the concept of diminishing returns in utility to increases in wealth, like you said--though, economists do debate whether that's actually true.
“Hey Siri, unlock the front door.”
I'd much rather see a plain resume, especially if I have a lot to skim. Only time I've ever seen more slightly creative approaches have been designers.

I'd be a bit wary receiving something like enhancecv - if you have space for a quotes block, what are you leaving out? I might use something like that if putting my CV on my website, but as well as the boring traditional plain format.
We could have made Twitter with the time sunk into this HN thread. But that's irrelevant.
Yes, the server knows your public key. In fact, unless you have specified which public key to use (via command line option or ~/.ssh/config), the server receives all your public keys. This is identifying information - most people have at least 1 ssh public key in github, and github makes those completely public as well.

Filippo Valsorda from Cloudflare built a demo of this - try running:

ssh whoami.filippo.io

and if you have any of your keys in github, it will identify you.

If you want to avoid this you should configure ssh to only send a single specific key.
Kubernetes for instance bind mounts secrets by default on read only in memory filesystems (and on Red Hat systems, with unique SELInux labels) that disappear on reboot. You can of course use secrets in env vars if you want, since sometimes it is easier. The hard part is a lot of handy public docker images use env by default, so you end up being tempted into env for convenience.
Isn't that like asking "With all the failures in cryptocurrencies, do you all think they serve a purpose at all?"

Well, obviously a senior editor for Bitcoin.com would say they do serve a purpose. But obviously economists also serve some purpose as otherwise why would Bitcoin.com authors refer to some of them favorably? As examples:

"Austrian School Economists were Bitcoiners, They Just Didn’t Know It Yet" - https://news.bitcoin.com/austrian-school-economists-bitcoin/

"From Skeptic to Evangelist: Economist Jeffrey Tucker on the Bits of Freedom" - https://news.bitcoin.com/skeptic-evangelist-economist-jeffre...

"Against the Luddite Mentality: An Ode to Technology and Capitalism" - https://news.bitcoin.com/luddite-mentality-ode-technology-ca... contains "In a brilliant essay by Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises ... expertly identified the consequences of socialism".

If you really think they serve no purpose, stop using them to support your arguments. Otherwise you're just being snide.
If I took your phrase out of context, I apologize. I didn't see any context that would add to the phrase and I most likely misunderstood.

Being an atheist implies a religious belief. It does not imply anything about how you view or judge other people, especially not about how you view or judge their actions.

I did not interpret the top-level commenter as saying that Albanians were not compatible with the refugees because of their religion, I interpreted it to mean that at the sheer volume of refugees coming through, tolerance will be strained in spite of a normally tolerant culture. In particular, I interpreted that to be a cultural issue. While culture includes religious culture, there are many other aspects you may not be comfortable with (such as female genital mutilation, which I provide as an obviously controversial, but culturally grounded, example of western intolerance).

> Does it make sense to deny food or shelter to a family because of their country or religion?

Of course not, but I don't see that happening here, or even generally argued for in this HN discussion. Xenophobia is a powerful force we're all familiar with on some level, and reducing it to a matter of country or religion isn't helping to understand the problems and fix them.
Plain resume (I use LaTeX).

This also filters companies to an extent. I would rather work for a company that values the content of the resume over the presentation.

Resume: http://willem.co/cv/wp_resume_2016.pdf

Template (LaTeX): http://willem.co/cv/wp_resume_template.tex

Awesome Resume Templates (LaTeX): https://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/
To be clear, there is a price for the bond, which is the amount you pay for it. For EE bonds, you pay what you choose, and earn the Treasury-specified rate on that amount. However, this amounts to being priced just like other bonds. If you read the Treasury website, you'll find that they specifically state that the rate for newly purchased bonds is set based on current market conditions (today 0.1%). This balance between principal and interest is why people use terms like 'yield' to accurately describe bonds. An EE bond is no different (because there really is no edge), and if you make any more on it (not much), it's because you're giving up the liquidity of a transferrable bond.
More generally, not having access to the source of the components most critical to your business as a tech company is always a giant risk and should be avoided as much as possible, if not at all costs.