skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you really want to go after the wealthy, you need to tax wealth, not ordinary income

Trump has promised several more yuuge tax breaks and loopholes to wealthy:

- Repeal alternative minimum tax

- Repeal estate tax

- Reduce capital gains tax

- Reduce business tax rate to 15% eliminate the corporate alternative minimum tax.

A wealthy individual could just make an LLC, and funnel all his money into it and enjoy the 15% tax rate while working folks pay regular income tax of 33%.
Tax authorities usually don't care about a one-off small payment.
If you can't solve a new problem "on the spot", or at least quickly, then one is at least not suited for SRE work.
Evolution is generally characterized by 'punctuated equilibrium', it sounds like you just started on a plateau.
Democrats controlled the house and senate Obama's first term.
Sure I would, I have the $X/h to divide between them for helping me ;)

Seriously though, I guessed that many companies probably must have this kind of laid-back attitude on the matter, since it would be stupid to presume they are ignorant of my original point. Still, I think it might be a little unfair to the people going by the rules-as-written, which somewhat diminishes the consensus of awesomeness of this approach.

That is, if the interview process is not actively trying to choose for hustle... :)
> You can't really divine who a person is by who they vote for.

Can you elaborate a bit on this? Obviously you can't get to know EVERYTHING a person is just from what they vote for every 4 years but I always felt like you can't vote for Trump and not at least be OK with his sexism, misogyny and yes, racism. What am I missing (not being snarky here, not even from the US)
Not bicycles? Children riding bikes round their neighbourhood is a common sight in American films/TV, the most obvious example is Bart and Lisa Simpson.
> The US is experiencing a wave of xenophobia and outright hate right now.

Were there actually any reported hate crimes, or is this just rumors and confirmation bias? People are definitely on edge today, but I felt it more from the Clinton supporters.

(I know of the swastika graffiti in Philly, but that could have been from either side.)
Yes?

It's weird that you prefer the people who have broken your own laws to enter your country, to the ones who have tried to go through your lawful process and failed. Where is your bleeding heart for all the would-be immigrants who tried to go were rejected by your legal immigration officers, who similarly might have no social safety net?

You cannot treat all of the world's ills as your own. You may have decided that illegal immigrants are part of the American identity, but a lot of the voters for Trump have not, and are rallying against that. Unless you convince them to treat illegal immigrants as part of their own, it's unlikely you'll find a "bleeding heart" argument to persuade them.
I found some content[1] on that, but I don't think it affects paying subscribers.

[1] http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/spotify-will-now-let-b...
Funny enough for me it's right opposite. 6 days uptime, Chrome R 5.4GB/W 30GB (?!?!), launchd (R 643MB/W 24GB), kernel_task R 112MB/W 10GB, Cisco Jabber R 200MB/W 5GB.

vs

Spotify R 100MB/W 400MB

What in blazes are the offending programs doing? If it were swap, then one should expect an 1:1 ratio between R and W, but that? Seriously?
The startup I worked in just after graduating (in dev web) last year used to work with UML diagrams. I then moved in bigger companies where it just disappeared.
The title was "Spotify wears out SSDs by writing 100GB/day", which is a ridiculous exaggeration. That's the only thing I was commenting on.
I would say that this was the perfect piece to be published on that exact day. I do fear that the tone of the article is too smug, even for "smug liberals" and that it might have been passed by plenty of people - especially the usual Vox readers.

I don't think it makes the article justice by trying to simply place it as "right" or "wrong". I'd be content to just point out that I think it covers a lot of history, divides and for lack of a better word, emotions or perspectives.

I'm not liberal, but I too constantly need to fight the need to be smug towards others and their choices.

Thank you for posting it. It was a worth the time to read.
that favour the removal of Roe v Wade

You seem to be totally unfamiliar with the actual case and the justices' opinions.

Five of the seven who supported the plaintiff (e.g. to uphold abortion rights) were Republican appointees.
How fascism comes to America
> I simply don't have the time to solve your problems for free just to see if you'd like to invite me over for an interview.

I think that would be misusing this approach.

We build recruitment software.

The recruitment process is a funnel. At each stage, the employer tries to weed out the bad candidates. Simple maths says they try and use cheaper tests early on in the process when there are more candidates.

For example, first stage is often eyeballing the resume and a quick search on GitHub/SO. 5 minutes, costs say $10, weeds out say 65% of candidates.

At the next stage, we use a more expensive test, since we have fewer candidates to filter.

This particular test sounds like it would sit after an initial phone screen and before a team interview in terms of cost.

Personally I would only use it after a first interview, or tell the candidate that you will decide immediately after completion of the first interview whether it was successful, and if so send them away to do this project afterwards,i.e. reduce double handling
Interesting to note how different people are indeed.

I am fine with white board type situations, don't worry about writing code without IDEs etc (in my very first job vi editor was the only thing we had to write code so I still have instinctive memory to be resourceful without an IDE but I love IntelliJ for most things). Happy to discuss/draw out ideas/solutions on whiteboards.

But find it very seriously annoying talking or being expected to talk while I am writing code !

I think the internet-access requirement depends on the problem. If I am expected to solve a problem by first-principles on a core CS topic then I guess internet is of no use ? Online Java Docs for e.g. may not serve a purpose here.

If the problem requires using many different tools/APIs for the solution then I guess you are right, internet access adds value.
There's also this thing that Eliezer Yudkowsky observed

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Arguments_as_soldiers

It includes the impulse to suggest that things we favor have no negative consequences (or reasons to doubt them), while things we oppose have no positive consequences (or reasons to believe them).

In some forms of high school and college debate, you can lose points if you don't rebut every single argument raised by your opponent (but your rebuttal doesn't necessarily have to be good in the ordinary sense of the word!). In policy debate this can lead to spreading, where people speak absurdly quickly because they want to be counted as having formally responded to everything the other side said, or having introduced points that the other side failed to rebut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_debate#Style_and_delive...

This is kind of wacky because it gets into a stylized activity far removed from what most listeners would understand as substantively discussing an issue. And it doesn't seem to admit the possibility that both sides might have some points to which there is no convincing rebuttal (which Eliezer suggests is actually a normal state of affairs for talking about real-world issues).
Says the unbelievably smug guy.
This seems like an over-engineered solution to a non-problem. Formal stock control is only useful if you have serious issues (eg. theft, very large inventory, unidentifiable packages). The author could solve his problem by simply keeping ketchup in the kitchen like sane people.

So in summary there is a barcode scanner, a Raspberry Pi and a screen. Where's the label printer? Not quoted: still more cost! It would have been far cheaper and more practical to install a new shelf.
He said that if any new regulations are passed, 2 must be removed.
What do you mean by productivity lost.

Have you perhaps drank too much startup kool-aid?
Highly doubt it, I have insurance. :-)
I spent the best part of yesterday's afternoon writing a complex SQL query. I could have written a few straightforward queries instead and still be here writing, debugging and testing the code to merge their results. I have this single LOC now instead of 100+. That line is worth 100.
I came here to say fueck offf und die
> We have an extension to the take home done paired on site that usually involves significant refactoring

That sounds actually brilliant. While some might argue that this comes back to the "whiteboarding under pressure", honestly if you have already written the code from scratch you definitely should be in a much better position than with the usual "implement a red-black tree insert, you have 15 minutes" whiteboarding tasks.
Jurafsky & Martin's book is pretty much the standard work on NLP. They are currently working on a 3rd edition and the draft chapters are available from the book's web page:

https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/
EBay fires entire product and tech team in India, except 15
I thought this was post-election but it's just his propaganda from a few weeks ago. Nothing should really be taken any more seriously than anything else he's talked about
> My brother and his wife, and many of the people with whom I work, are not "disgusting misogynistic racist pigs".

I am sure they aren't (well actually I don't know, and as you rightly convey, I obviously CAN'T know just from their pro-Trump vote) but would you agree that people that voted for Trump have to be at least OK with being represented by one "disgusting misogynistic racist pig(s)" without themselves being one? … I really don't want to imply that all or even the majority of Trump voters are bad people (because I don't know any due to not being from the US) but they sure seem OK with having a repulsive person as their prime representative?
My comment didn't have to do with population density or the size of the country, just that it's extremely common in Japan and doesn't happen much in America. Only that.
I disagree. Why would that "trivialize" the work behind building the company? Of course the people involved care deeply about the outcome.

But for me, as a total outsider, this has 0 news worth since from my understanding the company has no real public interest except for their customers and founders/owners. AFAIK the company isn't even public so it isn't like anyone has anything invested in it.

It is for me obvious that the company bankruptcy is covered because of the gender of the founder. Maybe I am wrong, but I don't really see any other reason to why.
Clinton won the popular vote, and Donald Trumps voters were not mostly the poor: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/el...
Indeed interesting how different people are.

Here, I'm like you. But it carries over to normal job - I work best when left alone. Especially when I have a tough problem to solve, just having people sitting close to me makes me frustrated, and if they're talking, then I won't be able to concentrate at all. It takes a lot of energy for me to be able to work in the presence of other people.
So how do they prepare them to be hikikomori?
Worked in ecommerce for a decade, knew innards at NG through a few sources.

They overspent on tech which they always thought would last forever. "Yeah, let's spend $11M on a redesign. It'll last forever"

They bought way too much stock, and never worked with size curves, just flat ranges.

These are common problems in small/young retailers - just most of them don't fail quite so spectacularly on other people's money.
Parsing 183,000 Lines of Git's Shell Source Code
Interestingly, the updates are done on the basis of only 2 external inputs [1]: the height of the bird in the screen and height of the aperture in the next pipe. Using only these two parameters the neural network decides whether to flap or not.

I would had expected at least also the horizontal distance from the next pipe...

[1] https://github.com/xviniette/FlappyLearning/blob/gh-pages/ga...
Obama and Seth Meyers taunting Trump about a presidential run (2011)
Please don't suggest someone hasn't read the article. It sounds hostile and doesn't really add anything to your comment.
Did you understand that he will literally never add any regulations? Why on earth would you assume that?
Looks pretty cool. Out of interest, have you considered adding support for something like the enclaves provided by Intel SGX, e.g. for cloud computing use cases?
This reminded me of HomeMirror [0].

[0] https://github.com/HannahMitt/HomeMirror
As far as my sleep deprived brain remembers, Lisp is not statically typed... :P
> in real air, the speed of sound is clearly faster than the wind

I love when HN users give such simple, real world analogies that are so easy to visualize or relate to. For those of us from completely different fields, it really does nail down the concept. always appreciated :)
I think it depends a lot where you live, and whether it's urban, suburban, or rural.

My kid could definitely bike to school when she gets older. But to get to, say, her gymnastics class, it's 8 miles through heavy traffic with only occasional bike lanes. (In the dark in the rain, at this time of year.)
> "Any individual who wishes to serve the Administration
> should utilize this online application in order to
> participate."

Words like "individual" and "utilize" tell you a lot about the writer, and what they tell you isn't flattering.
Very good article, thanks for sharing and change my point of view about the open source community.
... and you avoid problems like the Solidity compiler bug, where you could have written perfect, provably correct contract code, and the thing you're running it on could still open an exploit. The exploit could still have happened with interpreted code, but at least then it would be fixable.
No interview method is foolproof. If someone goes to those lengths, you'd find out soon enough that they're not actually competent enough to do their job after hiring them.

But I'd consider that fairly unlikely. Plus, starting from a position where you don't even trust someone enough to behave like a mature human being isn't a great way to begin a professional relationship.
US Government spending:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Rv5UHrNsvcucvflDwwz_pqEjjH...
I don't know. The Japanese are usually known for their dependence on the society and social norms. In the corporate world, they find it normal to work overtime without pay, never take vacations longer than several days at a time, and they seem to find it hard to disagree with their bosses. That's not what I would call a culture of independence.
> This is pretty remarkable given that my dad only uses it watch golf videos and edit some photos in lightroom. He may occasionally indulge in some porn cough.

Teach him how to use Linux. He can use Darktable instead of Lightroom.
Independence as in independent physically from their parents who may be far away, but not as in independent psychologically to make responsible, self-governing decisions based on their own free will.

The former is not that surprising considering how safe Japan is. The latter however is a known social issue. Oyabanare (leaving the parents) is the term for independence, and many have a hard time.

Physical independence is a step every toddler takes when they learn to cope with not having their parents around during day care and such, and in Japan it simply extends to the commute. Traditionally, the Japanese would not even lock their doors. The entire community is an extension of their living space, with lines drawn with respect, not fences or locked doors. So just as you wouldn't call a child independent for being able to go to the bedroom and back, going to school and back is the same but farther, with the community acting as a safety net to ensure these children commute safely. Kobans also help (community police manning one man police stations that patrol on bicycles).

Psychological independence unfortunately does not extend naturally from the above. With many young adults being too dependent on their parents and on instruction, they suffer from the inability to think or act or speak for themselves. They can commute fine alone. They can be hikikomori fine alone. They are fine alone. They just are not independent in the western sense. They are afraid to act on behalf of themselves or enact their identity. So they also resort to 2chan and anonymous free speech which does not help them gain a voice.

Westerners are almost too comfortable acting on behalf of themselves. It is almost a given. And that is also why parents are less inclined to "let them loose" because "loose" is what they are. They are free thinking and free acting, hence a long solitary commute only sounds dangerous. But it is this perception that instills that very quality in their children. The perception of being on an infinite leash yields physical freedom and distance, but to confuse this with psychological independence is an egregious mistake.
Hey, you're right. But since I'm a CS student who likes to try out and learn stuff, over engineering is not a bad thing for me.

For a little home, we have an unnecessarily large inventory and it is really comfortable to just look it up on the smartphone than take the staircase to the basement and search through the stock :D

It's not just ketchup btw ;)

I'm still searching for an over engineered use case for my new label printer...
The printing with this system is simply done with a Wifi printer nearly anyone (at least here in Germany) has at home.
You can simply print a list of all the stock and if you want even a simple groceries list of which items are empty ;)

We installed a new shelf but once this one is full, you still got the problem. I mean, you could add even more, but at one point the room is full and you're back where you started :D
It is the same in Italy and Spain. Part culture, part crowded housing market.
Not just the top bar: Upvote/Unvote buttons on each comment are different for logged-in users.
Yeah should be memory swapping then. A RAM upgrade (if possible) would eliminate most, but not all, of that. I'm quite fed up with Apple about the 16GB RAM limit for that reason.
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I have seen the data the article talks about. For more than 99 % of the URLs, there was NO "cleaning" performed whatsoever, instead they just used the raw URL and made it thus accessible to anyone who bought the data. Some of these URLs included sensible session information, password reset tokens, e-mails or private links to content hosted on Dropbox / Google Calendar / Google Drive and similar web services.

Also, WOT is not the only extension doing this, the company behind it has hundreds of other extensions and mobile apps that perform the same kind of data collection, capturing several percent of the entire Web traffic in total (in Germany alone, almost 3 million people were spied upon using this technique).

Browser vendors really need to change their attitude towards extensions, as they basically allow users to install malware/spyware in their browsers without performing any real certification / auditing. At the very least there should be a way for users to see a full audit log of the information that an extension sends to remote servers, as this is usually already enough to tell if the extension is sending more data than it should.

Also, anonymization should NEVER be done on the remote end, but always at the source, as there is no way to guarantee that it will happen otherwise (as WOT proves).
Oh c'mon seriously? Americans own brexit? We get it, you somehow are not happy with the choice you made ...
Are you under the impression that campaign finance reform is a new issue brought up minutes ago on this forum, and hasn't been extensively researched with proposals before?
Awesome project, would be interesting to add something like a leap motion to make it controllable without smearing the mirror :D
The company is actually extremely popular among younger women. If you're a male, you aren't really their target market for advertising.
My suggestion is, in addition to using the videos and courses for background knowledge, to take up and work on a (non-homework) project, to truly explore the area.

For eg., Betty [1] is quite an interesting project with both real-life use and practical NLP considerations, and is looking for new maintainers. (I'm not affiliated, just interested in NLP myself and have been itching to get into betty for some time.)

If you like thinking about game design, there's also the option of Interactive Fiction [2], NLP-involving ones are called parser-based fictions I believe. A recent FLOSS podcast episode with folks from the IF Tech Foundation was pretty interesting and illuminating regarding this area.

[1] https://github.com/pickhardt/betty
[2] http://iftechfoundation.org/frequently-asked-questions/
Your suggestion is good, but their reply is a little underwhelming. I didn't expect their customer service to be of this caliber.
I thing the idea behind the removing existing regulations rule works better for software than it does for laws.

It basically boils down to Leave things tidier than when you arrived.

No massive refactor projects, just fix up little things when you're in the area. Sure you never end up with a particularly nice codebase but it's not getting worse and it's not costing the business massive amounts to make something prettier for little benefit.

Also works well with backlogs, especially for client projects, you want a new feature? what are you willing to drop off the backlog to get it?

It's generally well known that most products contain a crap tonne of unused features and removing them reduces technical debt (eg potential bugs, overweight/slow apps).

I don't see it as a hard rule to sell in software.
> critically for embedded environments - startup time improvements.

This is so true. Back in the day when I was involve in embedded Linux development, the quickest bootup time was about 40secs. This was booting a v2.6 kernel in a minimum configuration on an ARM7 system over SPI NAND FLASH. Hopefully, the bootup time is in the subseconds by now. Are we getting to these speed yet?
Click to activate solves this problem fairly well.
It's not just that. In Italy, when I was a kid (mid-80s), it was normal for 8-year-olds around the "paese" (which in my case was a city borough) to just walk to school. We would meet up on the way, and it was pretty fun. Same for going back, although we were expected to have someone at home.

Now people freak out if a child is without adult supervision for 5 minutes, because of pedo-paranoia; nevermind that abuse cases are overwhelmingly done by relatives or close friends, which means the more you ask for an adult to be with kids, the more you're actually putting them at risk. Thanks, fearmongering mass-media and hollywood.
> How many Software do we really need to write?

As many as there are questions that you can ask about some data.
> you go below the $100 price point and are looking for a new in box handheld scanner, there is just crap for options

Disagree. I have a very similar barcode scanner[1] to manage my book library, and it works perfectly over 99% of the time. It also scans every type of barcode I've thrown at it.

The bigger problem is grocery box designers who think it's funny to print the barcode onto dark backgrounds - I think that's where the el-cheapo scanners struggle.

Instead of investing in a tethered scanner, wouldn't a better option be to use a smartphone camera and an app?

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[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Link-Barcode-Scanner-Reader-Read...

(Out of stock now, but I think it cost me ~£30 [$37])