skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a low effort reply. Honestly, I expected better from you. This is pure argument from authority without any attempt to confront the fact that there is in fact a very real contradiction between hiring through work samples and investing in training.

For the record, I have done work sample hiring. It's definitely my preferred strategy, but it's also far from a panacea.

But it's also equally true that if you give someone a work sample to build a React app and their entire experience is in backend programming, they will do not very well. Would you really be surprised if someone fails to produce good work in an environment, language, and domain completely foreign to them?

Taken to the extreme, some companies traditionally hired engineers who had absolutely no programming experience and trained them to program on the job. Would your advice to them also be to "hire through work samples (of programming)?" How would candidates who, by definition, need training to even do the work be able to produce a work sample?

Your whole "I know best, so I don't have to provide logic or evidence" schtick is really getting old.
It's the precession of Mercury's perihelion, not the eccentricity of its orbit: apart from the perihelion precession issue for Mercury and, to a lesser extent, Venus, the solar system is quite Newtonian. Also, the first lensing experiment measured the amount of light deflection by the sun, not galaxies.
It's a fact that we have to live in the world as it is, not as we would like it to be. Tips for surviving as a cyclist are not incompatible with trying to change things, but one may make the world a better place in twenty years while the other keeps you alive today. The trouble is when people behave as though that world already existed. It may be frustrating, but people absolutely are ignorant and lazy and that absolutely can kill you. Asserting your rights is great, but better to do it politically than on the road in a way that can get you killed.
Maybe the 'brightest of this generation' should start companies working on 'real problems' instead of stocking soup at companies working on 'trivial problems'. VC money is apparently being thrown at anything and everything, after all.
Very few Dutch cars have tinted windows. Tinted windows are mostly seen with criminal types.
> If libraries were invented today, they'd be declared illegal and shut down

Wow, great quote.
Mercurial has a 'rollback' command, which they've marked as deprecated a few months (years?) ago, but you can still use it when you reach a tight spot.
> Elephants take at least 20 years to start growing tusks but the 'big tuskers' are ~50 years old.

Trees also take decades to grow, and yet tree farms are a viable economy.

> Also, you won't be able to produce ivory cheaper than a poacher who doesn't have to invest into the elephant.

So the elephant rancher shoots the poacher. That's what we used to do when cattle rustling was a thing, and it worked pretty well.

> Also they are an extremely intelligent and social species and one of the species that come up in "non-human personhood" discussions.

Frankly, I don't care. Pigs are pretty damned intelligent too, but bacon tastes wonderful. Neither pigs nor elephants are men, and I'm find with killing them.

> Establishing legal frameworks and enforcing laws in Africa is very easy.

It was easier when Africa was better-run, but it can be done again.

> > Elephants are going extinct because no-one has an interest in keeping them alive. Give someone a reason to keep them alive, and the species will last forever.

> It's a lot more complex than that.

No, that is exactly the problem. Species which are useful to man survive; species which are not die; species which are inimical to man are destroyed. We're talking about exterminating mosquitoes, for Pete's sake!

If you want an animal to survive, figure out a way for it to be in someone powerful's interest. The rest will follow as day follows the night.
I have a feeling it may be related to increasing its COBOL-ness. Both are languages that were designed to be "human-readable".
There's little evidence the trump clip was found using 'new tech'. Most likely somebody in Access Hollywood remembered recording it and it went from there.
For me I think it's the carbonation which makes me wonder how carbonated tea would fare.
> Not sure what you call fake.

I was responding to parent's

> I wish there was a way for people to learn how to do that instead of rely on fakes.

where 'fake' is presumably a prop like the chatbot being discussed.
Thanks. I actually meant eccentricity = craziness, not in the mathematical sense. You are absolutely right about the Eddington experiment.
You'd think that the UK would have learned everything there was to know about just how pointless and dangerous appeasement is.
Got it, but you still need to say 149 for how long. I have no idea if that is per month, quarter, or year, etc.
That's seriously confusing, then, it's such a standard mathematical term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_eccentricity
> Because by the time this plan actually works, humans won't even be driving cars anymore.

They'll still be opening doors and riding bikes however.

> how many people keep 4 seconds of distance, wear their seatbelt, never speed, adjust their mirrors correctly, look both ways for trains, etc.

Most people? Well except for the speed one. But the vast majority of people wear their seatbelts, give a safe travelling distance (although people are terrible at judging it), and are careful at railroad crossings.
There is visionary tech in SF. And for each vision, there are 100 me-too venture capital chasers going nowhere while strip mining the common good.
Make one for graphs too please.
I've been working my way diligently through this very interesting and pertinent thread. But you're the first, I think, to mention this elephant in the room - we really have poor gauges for greatness in this profession. And here's one reason. In many professions - doctors, lawyers, accountants, stock brokers - you can measure success. Do most patients get better, did you win the case, did you beat an audit, did you make money.

I tell my students that if they want to do something where they can be gauged as individuals that they should not go into engineering unless you plan on also getting an MBA and working for a big, stable company with a long track record of nurturing talent.
My thoughts, too. I guess this person thinks that if it's not "open source" then people shouldn't have access to it. And that's not right.
The people who are in charge are making money hand over fist, they've got it figured out. By the time the rest figure it out, there will be little or nothing left.
I don't understand what the employer thinks they're gaining by making you work with two small monitors. I mean they're saving, what, $500? They'd recoup that amount in productivity gains within a week, tops.

Forcing your employees to use blunt saws when sharp saws are cheap is the most shortsighted of false economies.
US carriers halt Samsung Note 7 sales and replacements
Your `/bin` technique works for Windows as well. I run Hugo for a couple of simple sites from a Windows machine. To do this, simply copy hugo.exe to C:\Windows and call it a day.
You are right. I changed it. Hopefully, its not confusing any more.
Been using this for months with mixed success. Used to crash all the time but ever since the last update the bugs seem to have been worked out. Great project
In San Francisco, especially in the southern neighborhoods, they simply park in the bike lanes: pick up trucks, cleaning services vans, even ice cream carts! Park for 15, 30, 45 minutes.
It's hard to take seriously a blog that can't spell the word "its."
Twitter, Facebook, Google, and a bunch of other previous startups do have value.
Also more, like Electronic Arts, Oracle, Intel, Salesforce, Apple, ... It's just that the 1000:1 ratio between startup and final enterprise is brutal!
This has got to be one of the most refreshingly positive responses to a backhanded compliment I've ever seen. Well done!

No offense to GP. I know "backhanded compliment" seems like a loaded phrase, but I use it for the sake of expediency.
The oceans are orders of magnitude more hospitable to mankind & human life than is Mars, and yet we have, to my knowledge, absolutely no undersea colonies. The idea that we'll colonise Mars before we colonise the oceans (a full three-quarters of the globe) is, simply, insane.
Only open this if you like paranoid conspiracy theories (children not remembering where they were), paranormal possibilities (so many Devil names) and lack of critical thinking (no links for most claims), and if you like supporting political fringe websites. Oh and it's 2014.
An error function against neighboring pixels alone probably would not be enough to reconstruct the image (there are information theoretic limitations on how much noise can exist for a certain model before ground truth recovery becomes impossible); however, depending on the type of image, additional information could be gleaned from images that fall into the same category.

For instance, if I assign each pixel a random color and call that my "image", and then scramble all of the pixels, it is easy to see that recovery of the original image is mathematically impossible. However, if I use a photograph of a person standing in front of a car, information gleaned from similar types of photos could be sufficient to allow complete recovery given only the exact distribution of pixel colors. I don't know whether this is true, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is. (Actually, this seems like a fun hobby project. I may give it a shot.)
Local governments have been kind enough to paint warning marks for cyclists, advising them of the safe distance from parked cars and kerbs. Non-cyclists call these warning marks "bike lanes".

Cyclists need at least a metre of space on the nearside at all times. It's your escape route if cars pass too closely. It's your protective buffer against being doored or against pedestrians stepping out into your path. Hugging the kerb gives you nowhere to go in an emergency.

Be brave and take the lane. If you delay other road users, let them honk and shout - that metre of space is literally a matter of life and death.
People who think that its rude for cyclists to be on sidewalks have never been to Japan. Many people there, especially the elderly, ride bikes on the side walk. And I dare you to show me a more polite demographic than elderly Japanese folk!
That's a pretty good list.

Another major reason imo is that in an accident between a cyclist and a car the car is more or less automatically liable.
Rent a couple servers in Russia,
Send a couple of pro-Trump tweets,
Publish this finding,
Media will happily run with it

Voilà, Trump is now implicated
Are there really more? Some similar projects like Monotone and Bazaar are no longer being actively/regularly developed IIRC, and the number of hosting services for something as well-known as Mercurial has been dwindling.
I just think it looks visually ugly. I've heard others think that too, so it's not just me. I don't feel like the problem it solves is really that big of a deal. I can always just clone the second line up since order normally doesn't matter.
That's an enforcement problem. If you did this in Amsterdam you'd likely return to a car without mirrors and wipers.
Clinton Responds to WikiLeaks During Debate, and Blames Russian Hackers
I'm not afraid of parsers - I like them so well that I have to be careful not to use them on problems a regex or two will much more maintainably solve.

But I would hesitate somewhat to join a team which used a language developed entirely in house. As enjoyable as such work would undoubtedly be, it also reeks of overengineering, unless the problem space is so unique that no extant language can effectively address it. Experience suggests that project management software is not such a space, and the maintainability risk of a bespoke language seems therefore very hard to justify.

On the other hand, I don't pretend to be a "top dev", by anyone's definition - top quartile, maybe, on a very good day. So perhaps I'm just not favorably enough placed on the capability curve to understand why it really is the great idea that it doesn't seem to be.
> “If libraries were invented today, they'd be declared illegal and shut down."

Wow, this is such a great quote. Do you have any sources on who said this? I cannot figure from a simple search.
People care about their wallet more than altruistic things.
No real "journalist" should be looking for soundbites. It's the job of special interest groups and super PACs.
What's so amazing about it, when compared to the other SQL DBMS's? (e.g. postgresql, oracle, sybase, db2, etc)

Especially as it's just a re-badged Sybase...
Some say Billy Bush himself was involved, beyond just being in the recording.
I guess it all depends on what you understand by the quality of life. If you are talking about a high purchasing power you get in exchange for your work then US is second to none, at least according to my research. I might be wrong, because I've never lived in US myself, but I was based in both Europe and Asia and it seems to me that IT salaries vs taxes and costs in your country can get you much further than in other places.

Nonetheless, there are still some spots with decent wages like London (particularly strong in fintech, but there's also lots of startups), Ireland (if you prefer to work for a branch of an American big-co), Singapore and Hong Kong if you'd like to change your environment entirely or even Australia. It all depends on your experience and selling skills though, as in most these places outside of US the difference between a senior's and junior's salary might determine your ability to rent a 3-room apartment vs a 100 square feet room in a shared-house with 8 flatmates :)

Most importantly, choose a place that you have a genuine interest towards. The rest doesn't really matter that much. If you pick a crowdy place you'd get a lower life quality in terms of purchasing power and living space, but higher from a cultural/social point of view and more job opportunities as well, so yeah, that's your tradeoff.
Israel. Startup Nation.
The article seems fairly careful to not claim that.
Wasn't that more like 'SPQR'?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR
So, acknowledging the difficulty of finding affordable housing, does anyone have any practical suggestions for a young techie planning to move to the Bay Area soon?
Really nice. I don't program with D but the code is readable. OneDrive, purchased as part of Office 365, is a great desl.
One advantage of using user_id on both the pk of users as well as the fk side is you can do:

INNER JOIN comments USING (user_id)

instead of:

INNER JOIN comments ON comments.user_id = user.user_id
Many people seem happy using the Googler-made commandline client: https://github.com/odeke-em/drive
Comment I replied to was describing the troubles caused by dev machine and server going out-of-sync.
Shouldn't it be the other way around?
> Be brave and take the lane. If you delay other road users, let them honk and shout - that metre of space is literally a matter of life and death.

In a country that already respects cyclists this may work. In a country that does not it will likely get you to wake up in the infirmary (assuming you wake up at all) after being hit by someone in a hurry that assumed you were going to give their 2 ton vehicle the room it needs to pass you.

Taking a militant stance as a cyclist by using your fragile body as an obstacle for large steel objects moving at two to three times your speed is not a winning strategy.

If all they did is 'honk and shout' you'd be fine but some percentage will try to pass you anyway.
To add, craftsmanship is synonymous with experience (gleaned or direct). It means that when you start a project, you know exactly what sort of problems will come up (both for you the craftsman and the customer's use of it), and know what you need to do up front to attempt to mitigate them.

In any craft, watching a craftsman work displays a large amount of vision and foresight right from the very start, knowing what parts to do first, and what rough sketches need to be completed up front. All of these decisions feed both into making the craftsman's job easier through the process, and are tuned around envisioning what the end user wants from the product and might try to do with it even if it's not part of the explicit requirements.

It looks like black magic to the uninitiated, with a bunch of random seemingly non-essential stuff happening, with all of a sudden a great product being birthed at the end.

There's no good way to bring all that experiential knowledge into a simple curriculum. Apprenticeship is the primary way to accelerate bring somebody up to a level of craftsman, after the basic fundamentals are known. This is a primary failing of modern companies; they don't allow for such internal paths of progression. Everybody's expected to be an expert craftsman straight out of university. (cue my rant about university & academia NOT being about job training)
I was hoping this was an argument for the software powering libraries to be open source :)
As a frontend developer it has been quite easy since the industry leaders are all very active on Twitter. My rule of thumb is to unfollow people who tweet out of context to why I follow them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics#At...

'The most serious problem facing Milgrom's law is that it cannot completely eliminate the need for dark matter in all astrophysical systems: galaxy clusters show a residual mass discrepancy even when analysed using MOND.'

'Besides these observational issues, MOND and its generalisations are plagued by theoretical difficulties. Several ad-hoc and inelegant additions to general relativity are required to create a theory with a non-Newtonian non-relativistic limit, the plethora of different versions of the theory offer diverging predictions in simple physical situations and thus make it difficult to test the framework conclusively, and some formulations (most prominently those based on modified inertia) have long suffered from poor compatibility with cherished physical principles such as conservation laws.'

Basically, people have tried to fiddle with the laws as you suggested, but none of actually managed to fit the data better than GR + dark matter, plus the fiddling often just looked like curve-fitting without any good theoretical justification. Of course, the jury's still out.
The Taxonomy section of Hugo sounds interesting [1]. I've been putting up my personal comments and reviews of stories in book anthologies and magazines via Goodreads. I also put up reviews of individual books on Goodreads. I would love to be able to organise what I've written in a static website via categories like story title, author, magazine/anthology appearances, etc. and this looks like the way to do it.

- [1] https://gohugo.io/taxonomies/overview/
TL;DR A deep learning algorithm for searching words ("freedom", "Obama" etc.) in a recorded audio/video clip.

The title is clickbait, but the claim is rather interesting. It says that it has 80 % accuracy for transcribing an audio clip compared to 20 % for speech-to-text.
You don't have to get rid of street parking entirely. Another option is to put a separated bike lane between the parked cars and the sidewalk. This way cyclists are protected from traffic and parked cars (ensure a bit of room for the passenger door).

Also the increased cognitive load of having to pay attention to many things occurring on the road is not necessarily a bad thing. There is evidence that having to pay attention to many things forces drivers to slow down, which is safer and results in less injuries and deaths. In contrast wide lanes allow drivers to feel comfortable which increases their speed and results in more dangerous roads for pedestrians.
To the extent that this is true, it doesn't matter. You could say the same thing about any scary story told by boy scouts around the campfire.
Just fyi, while I'm sure you didn't intend it, I find comments that start with "Uh..." to be rude.

Regarding asceticism in Christianity, I also find its extremes to be disturbing. All I can say is that Christian culture as I understand it, especially Western Christianity, places relatively little emphasis on asceticism. And all these acts happened a long time ago when people took religion more seriously. And if you compare these to Buddhism (say in China) at the same time I think you'll find them relatively tame.
Preferably on the right hand side, that removes the drivers from the equation (most cars only have a single occupant), and it stops cars from having to cross the bike lane.

https://argu-logos.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/4357/Overtoom_Ams...

The bike lane is behind the parked cars next to the pedestrian area (and a little bit lower), you can see a cyclist on the left hand side of the picture.
Cyclists _are_ second class citizens on the roads.

In 2009, the latest year I can find data for, cars were responsible for 3,298 billion person miles, 88.4% of person miles travelled. Bikes were responsible for a little under 9 billion, or .2%.

http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/publications/passenger_travel_20...
What I’ve learned from seeing 20k company pitches
Look for roommates with similar interests and habits and you should be fine.
My understanding is Netflix uses AWS for their infrastructure. Are they not on a similar scale as twitter with similar needs? Or is there a difference I am not seeing, perhaps a different use case. (This is a serious question, I am not doubting you.)
>you'd likely return to a car without mirrors and wipers

what happens to them?
One trick I find helpful is reversing the results of a study and seeing if I still believe it.

This article leaves one with the impression that women are 'better' at coding. So, using the above trick, do i believe men are 'better' at coding than women? Nope. Nor do I believe the opposite. So on that basis alone one should be very skeptical about this link.

I was referring specifically to this site. Outside of reddit and maybe youtube comments I don't remember seeing any offensive comments lately. Maybe it's time to move to some better sites!

No, I'm not trolling you.
TRUMP vs. HILLARY vs. POKEMON GO
> It's reliable enough that hundreds of sites use Twitter as their "if our site is down, check for updates here" alternative.

This has nothing to do with twitter's reliability. It just means companies have said twitter is more reliable than they are so look for our update on twitter opposed to some company specific system status page.
Clearly the solution is to have doors that open like this: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0oV4IVy8tvE/maxresdefault.jpg
Because that forces you into car traffic, a place where a cyclist would rather not be. Straight through traffic on bicycles should not have to cross right turning cars, but should stay in the rightmost lane because that separates cycling traffic from car traffic the most.
Degrees and GPA are primarily a proxy for social status. You have to start by giving some thought to what your screens aren't telling you. A bad screen that rejects 90% of qualified candidates can easily look like a great screen so long as it's not passing through obvious bozos. That's the problem with screens! It's easy to reject most bozos, but hard to let through most solid candidates.
This is a pretty commonly asked question. The answer is two fold:

1. putting the comma before doesn't actually make commenting out columns easier - it just moves the problem to the other end of the list. Just try commenting out `first_name` in your example and you'll see what I mean.

2. because normal convention would be for the comma to come immediately after an item in written English.