skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Background checks are usually related to confirming your education and past employment history and if you have any criminal history. Sometimes they want to know your credit score too which can be a problem for those with a streak of bad luck financially.

Yes you can deny disclosing your previous salary. Usually they will not ask for any official proof anyway so you could make it up or give your expectations.
I can't believe they didn't get Netflix. Really disappointing to me since Netflix is one of the main apps I use for tv and movies.
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Graph of world history: http://histography.io/
So they managed to make the touchpad twice as large, but couldn't find room for a row of keys?
(Sadly) We should've expected this the moment Twitter acquire Vine. The Vine team no doubt brought some amazing improvements to Twitter since 2012. Sad to see it go.

It's kinda fun seeing a front-page of Vine at any date at the archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151202002305/https://vine.co/
If only they had the option to keep the function keys. My 2011 MBP has been serving me well all these years. Going to be difficult to justify giving it up.
Only a foolish "statistician" would count all visits towards population representation instead of unique visits
I can't help but feel that "they broke the rules!" is a hollow argument in a case like this. Most obviously, because it's not clear they did - Vroom's contract didn't prohibit ticket sales, but that was still the grounds for revocation.

More broadly, though, the issue of selective enforcement is a thorny one. If you write a contract sufficiently byzantine and ambiguous, any legitimate use will rub up against the edge of some prohibited behavior. At that point you have a totally broken agreement - you preserve it for anyone whose behavior you like, and revoke it for anyone who crosses you.

It's like the issue of selective policing. We live in a world where "don't commit any rules" isn't a viable answer, because there are endless lists of ambiguously defined rules on everyday tasks like accessing a computer. So if someone decides they truly want to pursue you, they can dig up a website where you mis-entered your birthday, declare it fraudulent misrepresentation, and try to put you in prison.

If everyone is guilty, the only question is how you decide what to pursue. And in this case, it's painfully clear that American didn't pursue egregious violations or frequent offenders, they went after anyone who had taken advantage of a product they regretted selling.
http://aprilzero.com/

When I first saw this site I was blown away. Sure, the level of detail may be off putting to some people, but even from a purely engineering standpoint it's impressive.

Shoutout to Anand for the incredible work.
Congress should make it illegal for a public company to shut down apps that see this much usage, unless the employees are quitting. Some users have 12 million followers.
Are they really pretending nobody ever uses function keys?
Hold on a moment there, oldtimer. I don't know how many minutes you have left, but spare one for a spring chicken if you can. You reminisce your early days of Slashdot and Linux, but indicate it was consensus gentium, as if there is no other worthy motivation behind such interests. Beware the myopia of senescence, lest the ominous and suffocating bloat of Vista flash before your eyes in all its menace, or you find yourself wandering aimlessly in the streets searching for the Start Menu, or mourning the inextricable bubbly mess of Windows 8, or gasping before the telemetric hemorrhage of your personal data in Windows 10. Liberty is more than a fugacious trend, and even Slashdot has an enduring place beyond vernal whim.

Please take no offense to these words. My very dear friend – who is, judging by his similar views, towering wearily above the great sequoias – argues just as you do. But perhaps it should be said as this instead:

Forgotten in dotage, but never forgiven.
Thanks for that counter-upvote.

Probably remaining Twitter employees at work; in the past, it's been pretty obvious on here that some of my posts have gotten mass downvoted by specific cohorts.

The smartest friends that I have that (used to) work there have all already left and moved onto other unicorns. That's generally a bad sign, whenever all the smart people leave.
Their images show an "esc" key on it. vim users may be feeling some relief.
I take it that in Germany when I go to the news stand I hand over my money and the shopkeeper gives me a randomly selected newspaper? Or do I still get to distort my perception by choosing my favorite newspaper? Are the daily editorial meetings of German newspapers subject to government oversight?
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Shh... Didn't you get the memo? We all have to pretend Hillary Clinton works for the American people until the election.
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Here's my hot take. I use a Mac at work, Linux at home, and occasionally boot into Windows 10.

When I upgraded my Macbook Air to Mavericks (10.9), the Wi-fi died. I had to wipe the drive and reinstall from scratch. Not good for a computer that doesn't even have an Ethernet port. When I upgraded to Yosemite (10.10), the installation process stalled for three or four days. Why? I don't know, maybe because I had LaTeX installed, that's the best I could surmise. When I upgraded to El Capitan (10.11), a bunch of my software broke. Apps breaking upon OS upgrade is classic Apple, admittedly, but it's not a good look as a third strike after the previous two upgrades. I've been using OS X since 10.1.

In general, I just don't agree with the direction they're taking with the OS. The low contrast and unreadable fonts. The constant nagging from the software updater. The way they're hiding more and more functionality behind the option button. The severe reduction of functionality in previously wonderful apps like Pages. I understand the feelings of instability mentioned elsewhere. The ship does not appear to be on a steady course, Apple is not articulating a clear vision for the future of macOS, and it's hard to get a read on where the OS is going next. Even Microsoft wins here because you can reasonably expect all your apps to continue soldiering on, and you can see how MS is striving toward an overall aesthetic, even if Windows undergoes significant changes from release to release.

And macOS cannot be considered apart from its hardware, because that's Apple's bargain with its customers. The laptops are nice, but everything else sucks. The hardware is ancient. Maybe that will change today, but how long until the next upgrade?
Taxes and airport fees are easily 20% (and that's just for US domestic) of the cost of a ticket which the airline had to eat every time these golden ticket holders flew (or even booked?).

These fees unpredictably and radically increased over the time since the golden tickets were issued as well. There's more in the soup than just the marginal cost of the physical seat occupation.
But there's still an escape button, its just digital now. If you don't like that, you could just remap the caps lock to be escape.
The long journey of New York City garbage
More info + photo here: http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/lcs-1.htm
Micropayments, again.

Someone tried a broad "pay for all the good sites" scheme around 15 years ago, in the first dot-com boom. Anyone remember that?
Future robots will learn through curiosity and self-generated goals
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If you have followed the scene for the last months they all switched to Facebook (Viral comedy-sketches á la Vine + Facebook Live) and doing daily Vlogs on YouTube. Check e.g. Logan Paul as a reference.
I think conceptually this is really neat, but it could potentially suffer from one major flaw: I hardly ever look down at my keyboard. A flat, digital screen containing changing buttons does not cater well to touch typists, of which you can reasonably assume most are who use a macbook pro.

Touch ID is sweet though.
I much prefer the methodology in Sqitch to the migration pattern.

http://sqitch.org/

While I wish the tool had been implemented in something other than perl (with 10 million CPAN dependencies), I like that DDL files are versioned and organized in ways more meaningful to the structure of the database rather than being bound to the timeline of the database.

If I am going to do migrations, a tool like Rambler would have to compare favorably to Flyway (https://flywaydb.org/), which is pretty solid.
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I'd guess it's the explanations for QM, which all currently fall in the philosophy area of science, as they make the same claims regarding observation, but offer nothing that you could actually test to disprove them.
Out of curiosity, what do you use the function keys for that couldn't be there as a more digital button that can better display the function?

Edit: Also, if you hold down the function key, the function buttons come back.
On replication, this same criticism has recently been directed at physics, chemistry and biology, among others. [1]

Psychology, with view to its practical (non-research) use has not helped me, but at least three people I know say they benefitted from cognitive behavioural therapy. Perhaps in the future, medicine and science will subordinate it to the same role of philosophy to better explain human behaviour and thinking as the latter did in less techical approaches for centuries. [2]

And yes, I am somewhat skeptical of said blog posts that cite some "new study" claiming to explain something only to be refuted or contradicted months later.

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-...

[2] Wittgenstein conceded that philosophy in the 20th century would only be useful in itsapproaches to linguistics and language
I think this is why the idea of teaching resiliency to children seems to have had a resurgence. It's hardly a new concept and I wonder if it's blowback from the stereotypes that are pushed onto millennials (coddled and entitled) as they now represent the child raising demographic.
Twitter has no idea what they're doing and they haven't for a very long time.
I'd agree with that. I don't believe in the efficient market hypothesis. The "market" given his limited information, professorship salary, and the compensation offered him to do other work clearly showed a large spread which he was rational to exploit.

I also believe society as a whole is being shortsighted in creating such a wide spread, but its not within his power to correct it; it's societies failure to think long term and his duty is to his family first.
since there are so many devs here...how do you feel about them removing the function keys?
How many people actually touch-type F7? In fact, how many even use the function keys for anything but the media controls? So in most situations it will greatly increase discoverability for shortcuts. And the only key that was easy to hit blindly, relied on being at the left edge for that – which doesn't change.
An EULA is displayed the first time you turn your PC on (or during the Windows setup), if you had read it you would probably know what are you paying for.

Anyway, I suggest you to read the Open Source licenses before hating on Windows about malware, all of them basically say: "If you break your computer it's not our fault", like the following excerpt from the GPL:

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

I don't condone malware, but it is pretty obvious that the most popular platform will be the most targeted by malware authors. Too many people fall for the "I don't need AV, I don't use Windows" fallacy, but every software is vulnerable.

The best advice I can give you is the following one: Don't run untrusted code.
I respect the pragmatism of your reply. At the same time "distinguish decimals and integers" is about as far from a subtle distinction as you can get.
Psychology as a field has many problems, but subfields within psychology are backed by a fair amount of evidence.
> hasn't this been always the case ?

No media organizations in history have had anything approaching the influence of Google and Facebook, unless you count state-controlled media in totalitarian countries.

> the difference is that now there are new actors and technologies, which are mostly outside of governments' influence, unlike traditional newspapers and television.

I don't see how German or U.S. news media are more under government influence than Google and Facebook.
I hope you can require a password in addition to the fingerprint for protection against physical compulsion by law enforcement.
coub.com? I thought it was quite popular, but apparently that's only in Russia.
Yeah but 80% of the employees aren't in the top 20% and yet everyone is so arrogant as to believe they are. And that's really great, if you're the employer.
Many tech engineers are extremely principled, to the point where it would be impossible to pull something like that off without someone finding out about it and blowing the whistle.
I think his point was that it's great that they're using that power to push for better security measures which benefit everyone.
> Where is the money going to?

That's the big question. In addition, when a professor gets a grant, the university takes a large chunk (40-60%) for overhead.

Anecdote: When I started as a postdoc recently, all new faculty and staff had orientation together. This was the middle of the semester, and there were about 20-25 of us. Of that group, there were no new professors (beginning of semester, wouldn't be unusual), 2-3 postdocs, maybe 5 facilities people (janitor, electrician, etc). Everyone else was administration/communication/finance/etc.

Universities, particularly large ones, are very, very, top heavy (with part of that due to compliance with regulations).
Default action is `fn` key reveals the traditional function keys. May be possible to switch the default case, I'd expect.
No, you're wrong. It's laughable that Apple thinks people would want to purchase things through iTunes. /s
> any legitimate use will rub up against the edge of some prohibited behavior. At that point you have a totally broken agreement - you preserve it for anyone whose behavior you like, and revoke it for anyone who crosses you.

That sounds like a totally fantastic agreement, at least from the issuer's point of view and ignoring potential PR problems.
is there any similar django project but with vue.js instead of react.

I'm not a fan of React license
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Finally, I used to work on Upwork (back when it was ODesk) & found the experience a little frustrating. I now see more people dissatisfied w/ the experience & service at Upwork. Does Devzilla solve for all those issues? I have no idea - I'm just getting started. I do know that it solves for some of the pain - have a bad experience here & I'll pick up the phone, call you and figure out how to make it right. That's a start.

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It's fun that we consider 3 minute clips to be "long form" nowadays. When YouTube was being bought people said that it only consisted of short amateur clips and copyright violations; two things advertisers would supposedly not be interested in.

Now I'm not saying that Vine is the next YouTube or even that it is monetizable, just that "we haven't figured it out yet" is not a convincing argument, and surely its userbase would be appealing to some buyer.
Yes, the example of autocorrect really doesn't seem likely to me - you'd have to be staring at that bar as you type, and the extra cognitive requirement, coupled with moving one hand way away from the home row, would probably cancel out and benefits.
Fortunately I'm an Emacs user :). But were I a vim power user, I'd definitely had it remapped already.
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Waiting for: And we've done away with the headphone jack...
Athletic departments are usually completely self-funded, especially the ones that spend millions per year on coach salaries.
Do the taxes and fees scale linearly with the cost of the ticket? I would guess that as seats become more expensive, the amount taxes and fees comprise of the total goes down.
Is that actually a thing?
Having gone through a lot of what is discussed in the article, I have concluded that academic research careers are for rich people only. I didn't even have student loans, but the pay was ridiculous given how many years of my 20s I spent in school, i.e. not making any income. Retirement is a real thing you know? So is getting old and having poor health.

The comments on the nature.com page are interesting, too. No matter how much you love your career and your research, there is more to life.

Also, you can see how climate research has become a total echo chamber--the people fighting over the scraps of funding will gladly sell their souls to a communist lie if that's what it takes to get by.
Vine "stars" are moving to Snapchat, they'll bring their viewers as well.
Here's the US Government salary table for GS-schedule employees.[1] Pre-Internet, this was available on a wallet-sized card.

[1] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...
I'm 3 months into my first React/Redux project and wouldn't adopt Redux again if I were starting over. Don't get me wrong, it's not horrible, but it's not great either.

Compared with the extreme elegance and simplicity of React itself, Redux is verbose, boilerplatery and the way it integrates with React never feels natural.

I've taken a look at Mobx and had that aha moment of "yes, this is what the solution should look like!" Of course there's a big caveat here: not having really used it I don't know what its problems are yet. I'm comparing the real world warts of Redux with the platonic ideal of Mobx, but still it's definitely what I would try if I were starting a React project now.
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> I'm hoping they're also launching a standalone keyboard in that style.

Intriguing. Though if the touch bar is context sensitive how is your standalone keyboard going to be able to know what context you are in? Genuine question!
> the lifetime unlimited AAirpass, which started at $250,000 ... In one 25-day span this year, Joyce flew round trip to London 16 times, flights that would retail for more than $125,000. He didn't pay a dime.

This is the kind of logic that always sound so wrong. He did pay, twice the amount, in 1994, which in 2012 is worth what, about twice again? So, in 2012 the company is repaying a $250k investment done in 1994.

If this person had spent $250k on air line shares, how much "free money" would he have been given by the stock market (stocks which is restricted and can't be completely sold)? Is it more, or is it less, than the marginal cost on all the travel that he made between 1994 to 2012? It would have made a very interesting article if it included that.
Did Instagram's Stories kill Vine?

Watching https://vine.co/Trench play tunes of Vine was fun content to watch with my 2-year-old daughter.
These days, I always make a distinction between Microsoft, who have good and points, and the Windows division, who I can say nothing good about.
There's documentation! It's very brief, but it's there!
I hope its mappable. If it is, it could be great for debugging like you suggest, interacting with chrome devtools, terminal tabs, etc.
Mobile app probably act as an input. They probably keeping the vine videos for its views.
> My employer's users can be target of phishing attacks, so having all TLS certs in CT is a great source of data to detect phishing sites earlier.

I'm confused. How does CT help with phishing? I thought its purpose was to detect misbehaving CAs.
I think everyone is missing a key point here: those algorithms are essentially incomprehensible to the layperson.

What if you demand full disclosure of the science that drives the accelerator at CERN? Well, it's "disclosed" already, just read the papers. Quantum-electrodynamics-something-something. Now what? Might as well be magic.

This is a core issue with democracy. You're asking average individuals to express a choice on matters that are orders of magnitude above their cognitive abilities.
This kind of reminds me of a couple of situations in the sports world:

Bobby Bonilla[1], middling former baseball player for the Mets, who cut a deal when being released by the Mets that they wouldn't have to pay him the balance of his contract now, but would have to pay 5X as much over 25 years, ten years hence. Thus a baseball player who hasn't taken the field in 15 years is making a cool $1.19 million.

In 1976, the ABA finally collapsed, and arranged a merger with the NBA[2]. There were six remaining ABA teams, but the NBA would only accept four. The Indiana Pacers, New York Nets, Denver Nuggets and San Antonio Spurs were chosen to join the NBA. The two remaining teams, the Spirits of St. Louis and the Kentucky Colonels, disbanded. The owner of the Colonels reached a buyout agreement with the other ABA owners for $3 million, plus another couple from selling off rights to his players. On the other hand, the Silna brothers, who owned the Spirits, cut a deal to fold their team in exchange for $2.2 million, plus a 1/7th share of the television revenue of the four remaining ABA teams, in perpetuity. This probably seemed like a bargain in the mid-70s, when NBA Finals games were being shown on tape-delay. However, as the league expanded in popularity, that TV money exploded, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Bonilla

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Basketball_Associatio...
The psychology replication crisis is much worse than any other field.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/05/if-you-cant-make-predic...
> If the speech Facebook is forced to delete is illegal, there must be criminal investigation, by law.

I agree with that. Facebook should not be the instance deciding what is to be deleted or not. The german judicial system should be involved and offenders be prosecuted within the judicial system.