skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a nebulous definition as far as I can tell. For what it's worth, I don't deal with these in any sort of legal capacity, but my day job does involve a lot of work with federal legislation and regulations--I'm just not entirely sure where legal terms might differ from my office's colloquial terms.

You can view the text of proposed and implemented regulations in the Federal Register:
https://www.federalregister.gov/
particularly under the Proposed Rules and Rules listings.

A rule will add to/amend/repeal some part of the Code of Federal Regulations. This can be anything from clarifying a few words or fixing drafting issues to implementing major regulatory changes.

It doesn't seem clear to me what this proposal would impact--does a minor amendment to an existing paragraph require a repeal of existing regulations? Would it need to meet some threshold of increasing regulatory burden--how would that be determined? What if it decreased burden?

You can look through daily issues and see that they tend to just be handling the daily business of the government. Today's includes changes to fishing zones (restoring access to an area that had been overfished a few years ago), adding more airworthiness checks to certain aircraft parts, reducing restrictions on certain tires for trailers, and adding restrictions against financial institutions processing transactions involving North Korea.

Would each of those need to repeal two prior regulations to take effect? What would quantify a previous regulation? And would they all be able to?
Even when I was between jobs a couple months ago I neglected to complete a take-home interview exercise, because the opportunity cost still exists. The advantage to interviewing in person is that the conversation goes both ways. I was interviewing daily, so I still valued my spare time for personal activities.

Edit: I most likely would have completed it if I were offered some type of compensation, even below market. They claimed it was an exercise and they wouldn't use it, but this was a startup with about 10 employees, and the deliverable was definitely something they could have used. That alone rubbed me the wrong way.
> Are you really advocating that people disclose their
> salary to a recruiter

Yes

> What terrible advice

No

> "How to immediately throw away your best bargaining
> chip 101"

If they're an internal recruiter, they have a banding you can be paid in, and they don't really care where you fall in it. Decisions above that salary banding will need to be referred to the person whose budget you are.

If they're an external recruiter, they have no control at all and are incentivized to get you paid as much as they can, as they're paid on commission.
Switzerland it not and has never been an EU member
It took me a few reads for this to sink in.

Quantum interference causes standing waves. Electron-photon particle collisions cause detectable energy release. The particle collisions occur in an interference pattern.
You could simply not read it as pejorative. You can try to re-read the post you replied to with a more open mind.
Excellent article, being in IP Telecom I know how difficult it is to successfully use fax over G.711 audio-based SIP Trunks. Kudos!
If the company is large enough there may be interview process reviews on glass door.
What is this? Is it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting ?
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One regulation, at least you'd still have that.
I modified some programs of mine that generate a lot of files to read the old version of the file first, compare it with the new version in the buffer, and only write out the new file if it is actually different. This cuts way down on the write cycles to the SSD. It's faster, too!
> I'm actually in favor of 100% transparent salaries.
> I've yet to hear a compelling argument against it
> that wasn't simply "it feels icky."

I have no strong feeling at all on them, but generally when I find myself unable to make a strong case for or against a divisive issue, and can't think of any compelling arguments either way, it's indicative that I haven't researched it properly, or am simply discarding perspectives that don't agree with my existing biases.
Understanding what lies behind Trump and Brexit
Most likely support for obscure devices would disappear.
> As an employee, I would say the costs of specifying
> my expected salary range upfront outweigh the benefits

That's interesting. Having well over a decade of being an employee, having been a hiring manager, having been a freelancer, and having been a recruiter, I'd do it every time.
just like every politician there ever was?
Peter Thiel’s Bet on Donald Trump Pays Off
> The market is plummeting.

If there were a niche that wasn't being served, then sure, pocket camera / cell phone could fill it where previous consumers only had a DSLR.

That said, that same niche that provides an entry point to photography will yield people that begin to understand why you can only achieve certain aesthetics via larger format sensors and optics. At that point, DSLRs are purchased again.

Canon isn't going anywhere with DSLRs. Nikon? No. Sony? Seems their foray into interchangeable lens cameras has grown, not receded.

In the end, no one is going to be able to sit and argue with someone that doesn't understand the differences and questions of qualia with you, but you know, keep pretending it's everyone else that is in the dark.
Your job sounds terrible.
I won't promise anything, but have been contemplating an idea for a relatively long blog post about exactly this.

Having lived for the last several years in a very rural area of the midwest I would say that not only do you need the right mechanisms in place to sort through / vet candidates, but you also need to be willing to constantly venture outside your comfort zone. Why are you always recruiting locally? Why aren't you willing to look in all locations throughout the country? To be frank, I would guess that almost never do you find a "diamond in the rough" outside of large metropolitan areas, but my personal experience is that as soon as I work with a team in a metropolitan area I realize I'm almost always substantially ahead of the game in terms of best practices / capacity, etc. I would probably argue that I'm an exception to the rule, but (not to be political) the recent US election leads me to believe that the "norm" is not the "norm" any more. People are thinking outside the box and we (as recruiters / employers) need to realize this and not instantly discount a person just because of where they live (btw I'm pretty strongly Dem living in a mostly Rep world).
I believe the idea is that illegal immigrants are causing more than that amount in harm to our society, i.e. through free healthcare
> I think it's more tough love

That's how I took it.
I don't have that camera but I assume it's the same as one I have. First I have to enable wifi on the camera, then wait maybe 10 seconds for the phone to connect to that network. Then find the camera app and open it, then it takes maybe 5 seconds to connect. The quickest I could probably do all this is maybe 15 seconds or so, but it's usually about 30 I'd say for me when I'm not racing or concentrating.

30 seconds is long enough for me to not bother using it most of the time.

If the phone is already connected to a wifi network, you have to manually go into the wifi settings and change to the camera network. This is the part that I find most painful because usually when I'm outside, my tablet is tethered to the wifi network of my phone which I have to disable to be able to have the phone connect to the camera's wifi.

My camera won't allow you to do any operations on the camera when you're connected to it's wifi though, maybe a highend SLR would allow you to have it's wifi network always available?

The whole thing is pretty clunky, it is pretty cool to have a wireless (unfortunately low-res) remote viewfinder though, much better than using a timer and you can get the framing better.
A state doesn't have a "perspective". A state is just a line drawn around a collection of people. Mathematically, a majority of states have excess power in proportion to its population. From a state's imagined perspective, it's a tyranny of the majority.
how do we know that "clean energy" hasn't been artificially propped up to begin with? if we can burn coal much cleaner and more efficiently then so what? let's do it if it's cheaper. We can still develop new technologies, that won't stop regardless.
Having been on the hiring side of this, I'll note that it does require a bit of start-up cost (i.e. work) on the employer's part, if you want to standardize the process (i.e. to make sure you're giving the same exercise to every candidate, the expectations are clear and consistent, etc).

For example, I set up the project for my team in 7 different languages (Ruby, C, Python, Perl, C++, Java, Go), with the appropriate project structure, etc, for each. This took considerable work on my part, but the end result is that I can judge the output based on whatever the candidate is most comfortable in.

Granted, that's all assuming my skills in each language doesn't completely suck (hopefully).
What would you do if you were an illegal immigrant?
Given Trump's election and the plan in his "contract" with respect to removing President Obama's executive orders, e.g. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and deporting illegal immigrants, what course of action would you take?

Let's say you:

* are a citizen of a third-world country, but left at a young age

* have a little more than one year left to work due to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

* currently work as a software engineer with 2.5 years of full-time experience

* have a Bachelors of Engineering, but not in CS and not from a well-known college

* have savings, but nowhere near enough to obtain an investor visa anywhere

Would you leave right now? Would you leave before Trump assumes the presidency? Right before the work permit expires? Where would I go? I'm honestly scared, and not sure what course of action to take. I don't want to uproot my entire life. Is there something I'm overlooking?

---

If you're going to comment that I shouldn't have been here in the first place, then, I agree. If I had the choice as a child to not immigrate illegally, I would have done so. I didn't, the choice was made for me, and I'm trying to make the best of this situation.
America isn't paying for the wall
Rigged
1) Sanctuary Laws allow undocumented immigrants to live and work in such cities... for CASH. Since the employer - usually labor intensive like at Restaurants, construction sites, janitorial services etc - pays cash, the employer can pay anything, even as low as 5 to 8$ an hour. So the undocumented immigrant is getting exploited.

2) Since they are undocumented, these workers also routinely get harassed, abused by employers. I've seen 1st hand female restaurant workers touched, rubbed, groped etc in the kitchen. They can't go anywhere to complaint cos they'll get identified and deported

3) Lastly, and this is 1 of my major concerns, whenever these undocumented immigrants needs medical assistance, the city's tax payers foot the bill for the ambulance, hospitalization etc since these people (don't mean it to sound like that) also don't have health insurance. 1 Restaurant owner in the edge of the Tenderloin district told me that this population accounted for over 70K of tax payers money in 2015 (not sure how he found that out).

Lastly -- and this is not something I subscribe to, but Trump made it a big deal as it is sensational and brings in the "angry white man" voters to his fold -- undocumented immigrants have committed violent crimes in San Francisco and in 1 such case, a lady was shot point blank range while she was strolling in Fisherman's Wharf (totally unrelated to deranged shooter) and Trump made it a case of "See we allow undocumented immigrants and they come and murder us."
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I didn't consider that scenario, but I still feel it's a totally reasonable proposal.

It's one thing if you are already here, a functioning and contributing member of society where relatives are citizens, etc... IN that case, I can appreciate policies that give a path to citizenship...

But, at some point we need to stop the flow of illegal immigrants. Not just to keep out the bad actors, but also to protect the integrity of our legal immigration process. Someone, somewhere has to be too late...

So, if you come across the border and we catch you and deport you, and you try to come across again, Jail sounds like a reasonable deterrent to encourage you to try the legal routes.

One thing that people don't seem to get is that some things are zero sum, and empathy with the little guy isn't always the right side. As individuals, we have the freedom to decide who we want to be, and how we feel about these sad stories...but as the American Government, they have a different value system and priorities that they need to filter these policies through.

Immigration is a tough issue. There is a sincerely held and reasonable position on both sides.

Do I think we should throw people whose only crime is illegal immigration into Jail? No. I am not even sure that Jail works and shouldn't just be completely abolished...But, we have to draw the line somewhere...

Trump is drawing that line at convicted criminals and people who aren't yet across the border. I think thats a fair stance that isn't unreasonable.

edit:spelling
... that makes BTC get shut down in the clear
Disregarding the rules of the game because "the elite cheats anyway" is a terrible idea. There's a reason those rules still exist and politicians pay their lives and livelihoods to get to and stay in power.

There are cheaters and people making.. "clever use of game mechanics", let's say. But the vote does matter.

In fact, one of the main reasons the system is so broken today is because there isn't enough vote. Trump, like Obama, was able to get to power by inspiring people to vote.

> They didn't get there where they are because of paying attention to your opinion but because of ignoringt it.

You know, if it was that easy, I'd be the one sitting on billions of dollars right now.
Even that is not enough. It's still a bipolar scale, and humans are politically multipolar.
People would fix the low hanging fruit and leave the hard/hairy parts that need work the most.
Who controls the permissions? If it was a lottery where everybody can participate i am fine.
Berlusconi's “Contract with the Italians” (2001)
Today we learned that racists and sexists are rebelling against ... being disliked for being racist and sexist.

Yes, I supposed we could fix that by not complaining about them being racist and sexist.
In other words, it's all other people / country's fault.
The article is wrong on this point, and on Intel's intentions, as far as I can tell. Intel has a "Supernova" feature (http://itpeernetwork.intel.com/data-integrity-in-solid-state...) which will cause some drive models to brick themselves if certain conditions are met - errors in the control path, for example, which basically mean you cannot trust the drive at all. The supernova feature is only claimed for enterprise drives, and the 335 series is not an enterprise drive.

I have a lot of experience with long-running Intel SSDs of various models, including pushing them to the same kinds of extreme that the SSD endurance experiment did, and I have never observed them to self-brick simply because they reached their flash endurance point.

What I have observed is a number of firmware bugs (or possibly just the supernova feature) that caused the drive to brick on power cycle, even for drives in perfect health.

I liked the SSD endurance articles, because they went a long way to allaying fears about SSDs, but I think it's a shame they've left this point in.
Because it would enact legislation that would require ID before wire transfer? I'm not sure if this is currently done, but it may upend laws (in CA) re: getting a driver's license if you are an illegal citizen. I can't imagine that it would be required to submit a birth certificate or social security card for wire transfer.
This is exactly what photosynthesis accomplishes, using energy from the sun.
Hackers make the world go round
so what, then let's offer solutions and try to get them enacted? why all the armchair bitching on this site as if everyone is an expert just because they write code? what he did is nothing short of monumental and he WANTS to help America. If everyone is so damn smart then get involved and suggest changes. It's not like he's a fucking robot that is going to sit back and count how many marble statues he has in his garden!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12915148
We have IRV where we live. The major parties are still major parties, and the minor parties are thriving. The past couple of elected governments have had to make coalitions between major and minor parties to form government.

Your concerns just don't play out.
Why do you think Hillary didn't campaign in swing states?
Because something does not have absolute accuracy does not mean you do not do it. Pass, fail, and refer are perfectly acceptable, with a legitimate and efficient appeals process if you truly are eligible to work and are denied through the verification process.
If you were a former evangelical Christian, then you should understand that according to most modern evangelical strains of Christianity (Southwestern Baptist anyways), treating LGBT people like human beings basically means rejecting the Christian faith. Sodom & Gorromah (& all that Old Testament jazz) & Romans 1:24 - 27 & 1 Corinthians 6:9 - 20 (& etc) were all impressed upon me from a very young age.

Oh, and religion & faith is largely based on emotion, so asking for something other than an emotive response from an Evangelical Christian is... misguided. (As far as I'm concerned, the Evangelical & Pentecostal strains of Christianity have evolved to be largely based on inspiring emotion particularly in their services, from the pop style worship music to the street preacher style sermons).
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when an earthquake destroys hundreds of billions of property and those mortgages get vaporized.

A mortgage is house + land ("real property"), so an earthquake won't necessarily wipe out the value of the underlying asset. And, these days, due to the scarcity of land in the SFBA and high demand, the land under most homes could be worth more than the homes themselves! That said, however, if the quake were bad enough and infrastructure were ruined, that could also kill the demand and hence the land values.
This seems a little bit like

1) Draw two circles.

2) Draw the rest of the owl.

I don't see that TDD is helping 'form' the algorithm at all. The format of the input and output, sure, but the core intellectual leap seems glossed over.
TJ Bot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12915345
The same goes for the world. If we don't burn the stuff, the price will go down. Some other country will burn it.

We might as well have a nice economy while the world burns. There is no stopping this train.
You're right. People are "multipolar". There is a way to think of a binary choice being useful here. By looking at a single, big question like this that clearly has a lot of nuance underneath, you can provide the opportunity for people to find common ground even when they are at opposite sides of the overly-simplifed binary decision.
The view from shell-shocked Silicon Valley
I don't know Intel's reasoning for this policy, but if there's a sound technical reason for it, I would guess that it has to do with the drive not wanting to flush its NAND mapping information from DRAM to flash that it has deemed worn out. However, the Intel 335 Series uses SandForce controllers that don't have an external DRAM buffer, so they never have much data cached or in flight. It's more likely this policy was decided upon for enterprise products and was deemed not worth revising for client products given how few customers would exhaust the drive's write endurance to be affected by this.

EDIT: And, as pointed out by cuchulain, much of the information about the intended end-of-life behavior of Intel's SSDs is unreliable; they don't publish that information on a per-model basis, so some of what you read is based on mere speculation.
Silicon Valley Investors Call for California to Secede from the US
> After all, a phone without a SIM can still call the national emergency numbers around the world

This is actually not true in every country
The Swordfish art of tech interviewing
You mean like soros or the Koch brothers?

Yeah no.

Be involved and be informed, locally If not at a state or higher level.

- do note, that politicians (humans) have long since "hacked" the human cortex. They program you, and other humans by finding authority escalations, buffer overruns, Trojans and privileged executions all the time.

Right now, malware itself has become the OS.

To fix this, people need to be aware of how politics and cognition works.
Getting it to the tossup point was a massive mistake. How many voters did the Democrats lose due to their own underhanded infighting in the primaries?
Completely agree. I love the idea, except the weekend part. Not only do I not want to do your coding puzzles over the weekend, it will also make me think that weekend work is a thing at your company.
WTF, America? How could anyone trust an alleged narcissist, extremist, sexist, racist, self-righteous and nationalist who paid nothing in income tax for the last 20 years to do what he says?
This is a fantastic op-ed that I'm glad you brought my attention to, but I'm most of the way through it and I feel like I can almost sum it up as "Ode to the Backfire Effect"

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Backfire_effect

:)

"Trump capturing the nomination will not dispel the smug style; if anything, it will redouble it. Faced with the prospect of an election between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the smug will reach a fever pitch: six straight months of a sure thing, an opportunity to mock and scoff and ask, How could anybody vote for this guy? until a morning in November when they ask, What the fuck happened?"

Wow, considering this was written in April, that ended up being remarkably prescient, eh?
Big Impact Isn’t Big Data
Oh almost forgot: get ready for the end to net neutrality.

Comcast/ATT/Verizon: nice startup you got there... would be a shame if anything happened to your traffic.
It felt very ironic up-voting you.
> Cheaper fossil fuels == less investment in renewable energy. Period.

Does it have to be US investment? Some other countries (China, Israel, South Korea) have a greater urgency to diversify into clean energy. Why can't the US ride the coattails of that research the way other countries benefit from cheap solar panels and affordable electric cars developed and produced elsewhere?
'Open source' is not 'free software'
Well that's not quite accurate, because 45% of the country just didn't vote.
thank you for a coherent post, I had to scroll to near the bottom past the liberal cesspool above to get to this...
Too bad there's no other way to send money internationally.