skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't agree more, and I've shaped our hiring policy around the same ideas. I try to be very respectful of the time of both the interviewers and the interviewees, while still providing enough data to make a good decision. I'm sad to say that we learned the most from bad hires: people who were terrible communicators, people who became hostile after hired and their work was critiqued, and people who were expert at talking shop but couldn't produce functioning code on their own.

We typically do a short phone interview first to assess if there is enough common ground to work with. We're looking for huge red flags at this point, such as an inability to talk through very fundamental programming concepts, difficult to communicate with, or a generally disagreeable personality.

Next we do a take home project, where we share a functioning, boilerplate web app, and ask the applicant to spend a couple hours addressing some portion of "requested" functionality. The barrier we're looking for here is actually not very high. We want to see that the applicant was able to figure out was going on in an existing code base and that that they were capable of making a new, original addition to it (even if very small).

The next stage of the interview is an in-person interview with 3 or 4 us. We usually start off with a 30 minute paper test, where the applicant can pick 5 out of 10 questions to answer. Pseudocode answers are expected, not syntax perfection. This is really another datapoint where we're trying to make sure the applicant truly is technically competent.

We then sit down and talk for about an hour. We ask questions about their resume, the project, and the paper test. A lot of this is making sure that they can talk about the things they chose to list on their resume. If they indicate expertise in TDD then they can expect questions about frameworks used and software patterns utilized to improve testability. If they indicate expertise in a particular database server, they can expect detailed questions in that area. This is also an opportunity for them to ask us questions about our company, culture, methodologies, etc.

The final part is a collaborative exercise in defining the architecture of a proposed system. I recognize whiteboarding a solution is tough in such a stressful situation as an interview with people you have not yet developed a working relationship. So we try our best to reassure the applicant, and to make it as collaborative as possible. Sometimes we'll debate different options amongst ourselves to see how the applicant participates and which direction they choose.

I usually close with a tour of our dev area, as well as a few areas of the company so they can see if it feels like a place they could call home.

Interviewing is hard on both sides.
Hmm, so uk rules seem different- allowing even non-internet enabled games consoles.

At which point the possibilities expand ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/31089469/the-surprisin...
This sounds real rad. I'm gonna give this a look soon. Thanks!
Unless the you're one of the 80% of drivers having another job not because you want one, but because being a driver doesn't pay enough. Part time work is allowed, why would reclassification take away the other income stream?

Or if you're one of the many delivery drivers who are only self-employed because the organisation insists. It gives the organisation a means to evade employee regulations and pay despite a 40 hour week, but nothing to the worker.
>From the other angle, we keep asking ourselves "what is it like to be a bat?" or what is it like to be this or that. Well therein lies the answer.

Well, the thing is, I'd imagine that being a bat is probably like the flow of air through your wings when you flap, the sound of mosquitoes you can eat, the taste of fruit you settled for, the relaxed feeling of finding a branch or something to hang on and sleep, et cetera and et cetera.

That is, I expect that "what it's like to be a bat" is exactly what happens to a bat in life, as experienced through the bat's model of the world as constructed from the (exteroceptive and interoceptive) information brought in by its own sensorium and the dynamics of its body.
Show HN: Neodoc v1.0.0-rc.1
For 2016:

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/fq/txrts-eng.html

15% on the first $45,282 of taxable income, +
20.5% on the next $45,281 of taxable income (on the portion of taxable income over $45,282 up to $90,563), +
26% on the next $49,825 of taxable income (on the portion of taxable income over $90,563 up to $140,388), +
29% on the next $59,612 of taxable income (on the portion of taxable income over $140,388 up to $200,000), +
33% of taxable income over $200,000.

US, https://www.irs.com/articles/projected-us-tax-rates-2016 , best case - joint declaration:

$0—$18,550	10%

$18,551—$75,300	$1,855 plus 15% of the amount over $18,550

$75,301—$151,900	$10,367.50 plus 25% of the amount over $75,300

$151,901—$231,450	$29,517.50 plus 28% of the amount over $151,900

$231,451—$413,350	$51,791.50 plus 33% of the amount over $231,450

$413,351—$466,950	$111,818.50 plus 35% of the amount over $413,350

$466,951 or more	$130,578.50 plus 39.6% of the amount over $466,950
The observation about AirBNB that it increases possibilities for travelling without hurting hotels significantly is spot on.

Personally I know students who would not go to some conferences without AirBNB. Staying in a hotel is just above their travel allowance. Less anecdotal is reports from hotel industry in Norway about record levels of occupancy despite growth in AirBNB and similar services.
I'm skeptical about whether they can really account for available financial resources, broadly measured. Not just how much money you have, or your parents have, but how much money your more distant relatives have, and your friends and neighbors and their friends.

This can have implications that might not come out in the statistics. Even if you don't have any money, if most of the people you're connected to are mostly financially stable, they are (1) less likely to ask you for help and (2) more likely to help you if you need it. Being from a poor family in a poor neighborhood will likely have the opposite effects - they can't help you as much, and are more likely to need your help.
Is there any chance you could just pay for him to take the classes? Or find prison correspondence courses ala

https://www.ohio.edu/ecampus/print/correctional/

or

https://www.adams.edu/extended_studies/undergrad/prisoncolle...
That's why I said 'on the whole'.
I'm always happy to see Prolog get some love. Learning it in a university course really expanded my mind, similar to when I first tried FP with ML in another course.

I went to a talk about MicroKanran, another logic programming language, which is embeddable in host languages. I think it shows a lot of promise for implementing decision engines. The biggest downside is that it can be tough to reason about the runtime characteristics of nontrivial programs, right about at the point where the paradigm starts to be really useful for modeling complex problems. It takes some experience to know how to write it efficiently.
I have a side project to monitor the homepage of every domain and I want to detect the type of site - ecommerce, blog, forum etc. I've just started on it and ultimately I want to be able to automatically extract data, such as product information from ecommerce sites. Would these videos help here or is there anywhere else that someone would recommend. I know I sounds very naive here... and I am, but there might be someone here who can give me a steer. I've started looking at AI/ML... or whatever its now called and getting a bit confused!
Stop overfitting.

You asked for an example and I gave it to you a valid one.
McGuinness was an IRA leader and IRA committed many kind of crimes; there are more ex-IRA leaders that are now in the civil life.

If I give you another example you will discard it for some random reason, so this discussion makes no sense.

On the other hand, if you see the signed peace treaties in the region, and in the world, you'll notice that these have generally gone well.

Bye.
Perhaps I am a little bit biased by the situation in Germany. In the past years there was an increasing number of non-voters in elections (typically people who are dissatisfied with the political system). Now in the last years a rather right-wing populist party (AfD) appeared that convinced many of these non-voters to vote for them.

Compare this a little bit to the fictional situation as if Donald Trump would bring many people who did not vote in the last presidential elections back to the ballot boxes to vote for him.
> list price, plan discount (usually 30-60% off), next what the ins comp. covers = usually 80% of discounted price, then what I pay, that is a small amount, 20% * 60% * original price. I recently had a drug that wasn't covered by my insurance, they wanted me to use the generic.

Can you please read/watch linked sources before commenting? The videos go into detail about "plan discounts." tl;dr - it is basically the same trick as the "50% off sale!" in retail.
Is Soylent actually better than an orange though?

For example:

https://discourse.soylent.com/t/phytonutrients-and-all-the-o...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistant_starch

http://www.webmd.com/diet/guide/phytonutrients-faq#1

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4287321/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26757793

There are all sorts of compounds in natural foods that science hasn't even begun to analyze in depth, but which humans have been eating and coevolved with for millions of years. What's the effect if you take them all out of your diet completely?

Soylent's strategy, understandably, is to put in all the things that we think we already understand and know we need, but what if that's only 10% of what the body needs long term? How do you quantify the risk from unknown unknowns?

Also, the comparison isn't really between Soylent and oranges alone, but Soylent and a normal balanced diet, of which fruit is one component.
NGOs aren't used by intelligence agencies as a means of boosting signal intelligence, they're used as a means of boosting human intelligence.

NGOs tend to have overlapping members and social circles as grassroots organizations. They don't need to gather cell phone signal intelligence, they can just ask their staffers "what do you think of these protests?"

Different threat vector entirely.
Thanks. I've only had the problem on the emulator. It worked properly on my phone, but I will use the fix you provided. :)
Personally, Prolog was the biggest "woah" moment for me in learning programming languages.

If anybody wants a challenging and enlightening programming exercise, I recommend writing your own prolog[esque] interpreter.

Surprisingly it still has not been used much in games (well, actually not that surprising given how time consuming and risky it is). I made a stab at [1] but ended up taking more time than I had budget for. One thing I suspect may be using it is the game 1935 [2], although they are vague on the details.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EHKDP2_ky0
[2] https://mollyrocket.com/news_0023.html
Keyboard shortcuts every Maya user must know
Snakebird was excellent. Some of the puzzles there were quite fiendish and many had to be put down and and left to percolate in my brain. At least once I woke up with a solution, and I solved several in the shower. I managed to finish all of the normal puzzles, but haven't made much headway on the cloud puzzles.
My hunch is that it is, because of the lack of sugar bomb involved in fruit. But as mentioned in the other thread, fruit makes me feel like complete shit.

You did suggest a piece of fruit as a replacement breakfast, though. I agree with you in the large, but I think you left this barn door open a bit. =)
And us stupid highschoolers are writing IF engines in Scheme.

And yes, I did write one. It totally sucked, but it did work, mostly.
That's a really amateurish way of distributing information. First, you don't need a torrent file. A hash value is all you need. Here it is, formatted as a link that you can copy and paste into your browser url field to start your torrent client: <magnet:?xt=urn:btih:489b0cef1d7d49fe5ae2ae8cc2f0708b8286cbb3>

Second, the torrent is a 10GB rar file. People have to download everything just to decompress and assess whether the data in the torrent is really worth sharing.
this is a good starting point. however, these numbers don't paint a full picture. The provincial taxes in Canada can be pretty steep.
>In the absence of evidence, invention and speculation don't really help

In the same vein, until I see actual evidence (and not just "Mr. SoAndSo said so-and-so is true), I'll factor in the claims of the US government and media as just hypotheses.

I think its unfair to say that we should refrain from discussing or theorizing about topics when the truth is murky just because we can't test it. I'd test it if I could, but the reality is that we're never going to have that ability (unless we magically achieve complete governmental transparency somehow).
For self-guided study, HTDP (How to Design Programs) is more accessible than SICP.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Design-Programs-Introduction-Prog...
Do you think that hypothesis would hold up to twin studies and adoption studies? Or if you looked at immigrants who moved to countries with no familial ties?
Picolisp is pretty awesomely weird. It has a lot of doc, but I don't find it the easiest to grok. How does the database work? I understand how you can query it with a prolog-esque syntax, but where is all the data stored? Is it just in memory, so this database lives as long as the application is running?
I can only hope you're right. The tone of the OP doesn't directly support either/or however.
The changes are detailed in the changelog [0]. I am posting this pre v1 in order to hopefully get feedback or learn about any regressions. The full test suite passes (with some minor alterations), so my confidence is quite high there are none, but there's been a substantial amount of change to the codebase, so I want to play it safe. The online playground [1] is a good place to start which is running the pre-release atm.

[0] https://github.com/felixSchl/neodoc/blob/2cbdeaf2cba0da9a4bf...
[1] https://felixschl.github.io/neodoc
This seems like a false dilemma. Housing, food, clothing, and most other things are not directly provided by either employers or governments, and yet people are able to acquire them.
The compounding effects of this learning gap can't be overstated.

One of my best friends who is very intelligent and successful came from a working class family that didn't emphasize sound personal finance education to say the least.

He kept his savings in HS in his "sock in a drawer" account.

I came from an upper middle class family that was the opposite. I was given a share or two of stocks for birthday gifts sometimes (often at my request instead of toys) when I was young to educate me on their value and was taught from a very young age to invest, save in a bank, build credit, and live below my means.

While my friend is doing well financially, you can perhaps guess at how much of his money is invested vs mine.

This story plays out in numerous other ways that also can lead to compounding effects with things like education, health, criminal activity, etc.

These things are picked up on by children from all parts of the family. If your family generally has their act together, knows how to be smart with money, etc. there's probably a good chance of that rubbing off on kids which sets them down a certain path in life that might be very different otherwise.
Is the license for Shen still that you own a copy of Tarver's book?
>Blacklists and attribution do not hold that much value

Only because spoofing prevents them from being reliable in any way.

>in which case you want to be blacklisting the resolvers

This approach is idiotic and its the reason these attacks are still a problem. EVERY DNS SERVER can be used if it resolves anything, not just if it's an open resolver. So your blacklist would have to include the root name servers, the .com names servers, etc.

>if you aren't amplifying your attack using UDP protocols you will usually not going to be using IP spoofing in the first place

Completely false. SYN floods and non amplified UDP floods very frequently spoof because it makes pruning attacks upstream by source impossible.

I'm not sure where you got this information, but stop spreading it. It's protecting incompetent network operators, harassing service operators, and doing little to improve the security of the Internet.
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"But then, there should be little variability among successful unrelated families, and that is just not so."

This does not follow from your first statement. It's not a logical conclusion. For your reduction to a binary set of alleles it does, but it does not come close to being an analogy for real life.
Self-driving cars won’t just log miles and road markers; they’ll be logging you
It's a very emotional subject.

Maybe I'm unusual in that respect - genetic differences are not an emotional subject for me. My 3 siblings and I were adopted at birth, all from different parents. From birth, we had the same environment, but the differences between us in terms of intelligence, interests, education, career tracks, The Big 5 - are extremely dramatic. I'd prefer not to discuss my family too much here, so I'll leave an exercise for the reader instead: imagine the largest possible diversity in all of those categories. You would not be far off.

The differences I've seen between my siblings are much, much greater than those I've usually seen between biological siblings. And the studies I've seen have yielded similar conclusions.

My claim in my original post - that DNA and society both play some role in inequality - seems obvious and benign to me.

Honest question: why do you want this to be false? Do you think we have social policies that promote kindness, tolerance, and charity only because we believe everyone is identical?

Wouldn't it be insane to, for example, study the effect of something (anything) on mortality - without asking study participants if they smoke tobacco? How is adjusting for the tobacco confound moral, but adjusting for genetic confounds immoral?

Wouldn't it be better to follow the truth wherever it leads?
I used to write BASIC programs on paper as a child before I had access to a computer.

There are plenty of algorithms you can learn without a computer too, and carry out on paper.

I have no idea what kind of things are allowed in prisons - would a microcontroller running a simple interpreter coupled with a small LCD and keypad be allowed? If so, something like that would be really great for applying programming concepts.
We all emit information constantly by just existing. The only equilibrium is complete transparency. Which, if it was universal, would be a great outcome!
Well, if wikileaks had any thing that shows Trump in a different light, like if he isn't what he claims to be, then am certain they would release damaging reports about Trump too. Wikileaks is not creating these evidences. Some people who sees discrepancy in what a politician says and what that politicians do in private(that concerns people being governed, not private things about their personal life), then people will release evidence of that discrepancy. If they have such discriminating evidence about Trump, then that will come out too. If Clinton is bad person than trump, then Clinton will have more skeletons in closet and chances of skeletons coming to public view is greater for Clinton than for Trump
Ontario

5.05% on the first $41,536 of taxable income, +

9.15% on the next $41,539, +

11.16% on the next $66,925, +

12.16% on the next $70,000, +

13.16 % on the amount over $220,000

vs Oregon

Oregon Taxable Income	Rate

$0 - $3,350	5.00%

$3,350 - $8,400	7.00%

$8,400 - $125,000	9.00%

$125,000+	9.90%
http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/02/02/ebay-platform-exposed-...

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/bidding-on-security
Hipsterize Your Dog with Deep Learning
The app should recognize the last task finish time, I implemented the functionality. Could you confirm that it doesn't work on your phone ? If it doesn't, could you tell me the android version you use ? I would test it against. If it comes to picker, I don't like it. Although, I understand that some people prefer it, so I might add option to choose between standard way of entering time and picker. Thanks for your feedback.
Продажа недвижимости в Кривом Роге – Риэлтор Моргун Вячеслав
At the completion of a thousand-day cycle on this diet, practitioners were considered spiritually ready to enternyūjō. However, most monks completed two or even three cycles to fully prepare themselves.

Oh, come on. You know they just backed out like anyone would a couple times.
These things are always so interesting in their totally inhuman failure cases. It can tell me George Washington was born in 1732, but doesn't know which planet America is on (much less which planet George Washington was born on).

Also, it seems to have issues formatting dates before 1900 (for the bday one, the answer it returns is more of an error message than an answer: "year=1732 is before 1900; the datetime strftime() methods require year >= 1900")
Did you want to say "The compounding effects of this learning gap can't be overstated?"
That does much less than you would think. Attackers just spread the packets out over more DNS servers and still get the same amplification factor.

See why trying to 'fix' this at the DNS level is stupid?
It's about social/economic mobility and inequality. Poverty is very relevant here
I truly appreciate the idea behind Soylent. Long before they sold the product I was already making something similar on my own using the nutrient/vitamin/mineral quantities that the body supposedly requires.

Problem is, many of those quantities (specially vitamins) are a wild guess to medical science. If you go check the literature about certain minerals/vitamins you should consume, the values vary a lot, the effects on the organism from too much or too little aren't well understood, and worst, you can't be sure you are actually ingesting all the necessary types of vitamins/minerals/??? you need to have a healthy life... there are still too many unknowns.

I did that for about 3-4 months (every other weekend I would go to my parents home and had "real" food), and in the beginning I felt good, but after about 2.5-3 months I didn't feel so good anymore.

TL;DR: I really think that something like Soylent (this one, not the one from the novel) will be the future for a good part of mankind, but that will happen a long time from now when medical science and biology advance quite a bit.
Now that is fair, and I'm not suggesting that people not speculate, but there needs to be an element of the reality that we just don't know.
Depends on where he is incarcerated there may be options available and if not he should find ways to bring them to the prison.

1) Edovo is a tablet learning solution that is in many jails (https://edovo.com/)

2) Another group The Last Mile, while they got their start in San Quentin, is working to bring their program/model to more prisons. https://thelastmile.org/

Regardless, I would encourage reaching out to either program to explore their options further. The people behind each are incredibly helpful and may be able to assist you with additional details.
I'm disagreeing with a person I respect on complicated topic rather than offering "disdainful sneers." I do respect how he replies to the disagreement. A scholar and a gentleman he is.
Using his analogy it seems more like you sent an invitation which the fbi returned to sender with a gps device. The FBI didn't search the unsent letters, they returned one that sent itself.
As a teenager, my dad confiscated my laptop in the run-up to exams. Unperturbed, I wrote pages & pages of BASIC by hand, though I unfortunately never got around to typing them up...