skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. I am pointing out that your "criticisms" are conveniently conflated, totally reductive, and divorced from any objective reality. You're doing all the reducing. Re-read your own words. Or as much as are your own, as you seem to have done some copy-and-pasting.

Or? Let's try this a different way: have you ever even attempted to identify what your "issue with Islam" is? You don't seem to have any single articulable criticism or complaint besides "the others are comin', see this scary video!". Have you even thought farther than that? Did you not feel the need to?

See, here's my take: I think you've invented a neat little alternate reality for yourself where you virtue signal your love for the western liberal tradition by valiantly fighting against the Other - one you imagine and encounter only online and never in real life - and now you're full on radicalized by filter-bubble friendly Youtube clips and rare Reddit pepes, imagining the looming Sharia monsters that are a comin'. I think this because, well, you've said as much, pretty explicitly, in your profile on this board. That's sad, and worrying, and I don't want you to think that it's normal or that you're engaged in some sort of normal debate.

Why do you need an Other? Have you asked yourself that? It's clear that you do - but why?
8 days uptime, 237GB written, 10GB read

Pretty heavy usage, though.
To be fair, that's already starting to happen[0]. do you think it would happen faster than it is today?

0. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI0OTg
A significant percentage of voters in the US came to that conclusion, given the choices they had. I think it's likely pretty easy to find one of them to ask, if you're willing to listen.
Well, one is removing a thing, and the other is adding the same thing.
QED _inconsistent_.
> There's an inexplicably [dead] comment [...] I'm reposting it

Please don't do this. We created vouching for just this case and it works much better. To vouch for a [dead] comment (assuming your account has > 30 karma), click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'vouch' at the top.

Besides being distractingly off-topic, making a big deal out of [dead]ness confuses the thread when the comment does get vouched for and rescued, as typically happens for good but [dead] comments. For example, in this case the replies to throwaway4job's comment are now split across multiple places in the thread. We'll move them.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12916816 and marked it off-topic.
I'd like to refer you to the article that was posted earlier today on exactly this technique in Elm:

http://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/elm-is-wrong
Agreed with this. I wouldn't take a 4-day weekend to do interviews and a homework assignment unless I was desperate or already out of a job.
Directly relevant: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/10/16/five-case-studies-on-po...
> This sequestration process costs about 30% of the energy originally extracted from the coal.

This tells me nothing about economic viability - for a while the solar panel efficiency was rated in single digit percentages, and even today it's low double digits.

With that 30% waste incorporated what is my final cost of a kWh produced by an electric plant that's running 100% on clean coal?
As a Canadian, I'm really glad it's over. From my perspective it was mostly the US forcing its money-corrupted legislation onto weaker economies.
This will never fly. If put before voters once they realize they'd lose their social security benefits and federal funding for roads, education, etc such a proposal would be struck down in a heartbeat.
In retaliation, Mexico files a complaint through NAFTA and the WTO, and starts taking retaliatory action. A 10% immediate surtax on the value of US owned property would be a good start.

And eventually the trade war turns into a shooting war. We've seen the script before.
If you overwrite the ; is there not a risk you might cause the next legitimate sqlite operation to fail?
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This is a great way of hiring, but unfortunately it doesn't fit in all scenarios.

First, this model alone doesn't scale. Big companies interview hundreds of candidates every week. It's not possible to design and evaluate a weekend project for each one of them. This doesn't mean that they can't have projects, but early filters are needed. That leads to the classic phone and F2F interviews to rule out those who can't code. If you freeze in one of those because of the pressure, you're out.

Second, for simple developer positions, such weekend projects might be very good. But if you are trying to hire a senior developer who is going to solve problems at big scale, then the ability to create a simple movie catalog doesn't tell you anything. And there are no big scale weekend projects. You have to ask about algorithms, data structures and other CS topics. These things are important!

Bottom line, this is a nice hiring technique suitable for small companies at a small scale. But it might not be that useful for big companies.
There's no law that you have to be a citizen in this country.
It is hard. And a little bit more hard without good Internet connectivity. And maybe even a little bit very illegal to perform the transaction. Not that it can't be done. It just cannot be done by the gen pop.
Or that the Republicans won't support his plans for changing trade deals
If signatures are checked, they are checked by the kernel (and its userland buddy AMFI) every time the process is launched. I'm not sure what the defaults are for macOS lately but a developer can opt-in to even more restrictions like requiring linked shared libraries to be signed with the same key pair as the executable. This library validation behavior changed in 10.12 and can now also prohibit mprotect(RWX). I'm fuzzy on the exact details of the {OS version, compiler version [yes, 10.12 changes codesign validation behavior based off of the version of the compiler, not the OS, used to build the binary], codesign requirements} mix but it is increasingly becoming more like iOS. Apple has spent the last decade developing a pretty impressive* chain of trust for code execution, starting with iOS and merging into macOS.

Basically, code signing on iOS is dynamically secure, modulo vulnerabilities, and macOS is steadily on its way to become more like iOS in this regard.

* But not fun for security research and having ultimate control of your device. Always the tradeoffs...

http://www.newosxbook.com/articles/CodeSigning.pdf

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2206...
According to Vim aficionados, the experiences are similar.
A comment I posted earlier today details one, from 538

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12915950
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Looks like it uses https://www.outpan.com
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"You damn well better be able to code under pressure... And like a freaking ninja"

Being able to 'code under the pressure of a deadline' is very different from 'solving a tricky problem with someone staring right at you'
Disagree. IRV introduces some bizarre nonlinearities in the voting space that could lead to shockingly unintuitive behaviour. See these voting simulations for an example:

http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/

A better system would be something like approval voting, or condorcet, both described in the above link.
People self-regulate their expression. I'll agree to that as self-evident. Nothing indicates that their views fall under the same regulation.
Sydney and Melbourne have had massive increases in homelessness since you wrote this unfortunately.

How have you found London? And where would you recommend a Perthian turned Melbourian dev head to if we have to go overseas to find ourselves?
If you are coding 'in front of customers on the spot' - you at the wrong company :)

Coding under pressure is quite different from coding on a white-board in an interview, often on an arcane CS problem.
I spent time in Eastern Europe while in college. You'll meet plenty of people on your way and everything is cheap compared to the US. You can find $10 hostels, tons of people on couch surfing and drink $1 liter-of-beers, meet the locals or hit the larger cities for guaranteed English speaking travelers that are usually more than willing to share travel experiences. I went to Romania, Check Republic and Hungary. I was with 3 other people and we bought a used car for next to nothing and drove everywhere.
I live in Japan now and go to SE Asia often. I wouldn't not recommend it, but it would be really intense for first time alone travel.
I'd go spring break if you do Europe.
I'm desperately hoping he breaks 90% of his promises. A media merger is the absolute least of our concerns when he's promised to end net neutrality and force companies to give up encryption keys.
You'd think hardware manufacturers as large as Nikon and Canon could commission software that doesn't suck, but apparently not.
I say spend your money on experiences while you're young. There's always time for salt shakers and mops later in life.
It isn't always possible to figure out from the public data why an account is banned.

When a banned account's comment gets vouched for and rescued, we look at the account history and unban it if we see that we banned it unnecessarily (we try not to do that but it happens) or if the commenter has reformed. Alternatively, there may be a good reason for the account to stay banned, but if it posts good comments, HN users will vouch for and unkill those. This system has proven to work well, even better than we hoped when we introduced it.
One important thing to realize with paying people for code they write as applicants excludes a large number of potential hires. People on work visas are not allowed to moonlight. I wouldn't risk ending up on the wrong side of ICE just for an interview.
If the block size is 1, is it still a chain?
This is Jennifer, another of the authors. You're absolutely right about the graphical abstract figure. For this first paper, we used very simple rules to generate our data set of reaction, so you end up with reactions that don't fully capture a human chemist's intuition.

We hope in the future to have access to real experimental data sets for real chemistry, complete with accurate temperatures, pressures, solvents, and reaction yields. Then our algorithm would be able to use all the information and predict reactions accurately. Right now, there just aren't many well-curated data sets with this kind of detail that would work for this kind of training. Happy to receive feedback from any experimental chemists out there with data from their research that they'd like to train on.
You're describing a fraudulent behavior which is already covered by criminal laws related to fraud.

If the goal is to aggressively double down on every single possible fraud case, where are the laws prohibiting dressing up as a forest ranger, environmental protection agent, President of the United States and various members of Congress (via those realistic-looking masks they sell before Halloween), USDA inspector, SEC controller, four-star Army general or any other government-related position of authority?
IANAL, but actually the issue would be if the company were getting value out the developed solution.

In this case, the hiring company just seems to want to say "This isn't an actual problem we have, but we use it as a problem set, and you should be paid for your time" because this goes above and beyond an in-person interview.

Your (existing) employer (in California) wouldn't begrudge you for taking part in a user-research survey that resulted in a $100 Amazon gift card. This could be done the same way, the difference is that you're writing code (which is what you do for a living).

Again, I am not a lawyer ;).
Still waiting for BigQuery to land somewhere in Asia.
> What 2 hour project can you assign that would let the candidate go into enough depth for you to judge their code, design decisions, architecture skills?

Let me answer that with an example. In my previous job, I had to implement a simple username/password based authentication API in the first interview. The problem was explained to me. A two page document with a written specification of the problem was also provided to me. After I read the document, I was asked how long I would need to solve the problem. I asked for 40 minutes. Then the interviewer left me alone in the room with a laptop. After 40 minutes, the interviewer returned and went over the entire code I had written, discussed the API design decisions I had taken such as the corner cases that were handled or not handled, exceptions that were thrown, how empty or null usernames or passwords were handled, what error messages were generated, how concurrency was handled, what performance problems could occur if thousands of requests invoke the API per second per thread, how the password was secured, etc.

After I got the job, I learnt that my colleagues had also gone through a similar coding interview with different problems of similar size and scope. Some people asked for 30 minutes while some asked for 90 minutes. Therefore, I believe that it is possible to have a tiny 30 minute to 90 minute project that lets a candidate demonstrate his or her software engineering skills.

I felt this method was very effective because it evaluated a couple of key skills that were important to do the work that we were doing there: time and effort estimation, API design, writing clean and correct code, robust error handling, and design decisions from performance and security perspective.

I didn't get paid for that 40 minutes but it was part of their half a day onsite interview process, so I did not have to spend any extra time apart from the time I had already scheduled for visiting their office. Also, they did provide me free lunch, snacks and drinks, so I didn't complain. I wish more employers did this.
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We are definitely considering it. In fact the next iteration of this project will be in collaboration with Wiley ChemPlanner and their database of reactions.
Two that come to mind are nicotine and marijuana research. To be clear both sides of the political spectrum try to rig or block scientific research for political goals, so neither one has a monopoly on that, which is why I am opposed to ANY govt funding of science. Its not a proper function of govt.

The LEOs blocked research into marijuana use for pain, nauseousness, etc. for decades because they don't want to admit that they dedicated their lives to a pointless "war" on drugs and they still heavily influence what gets studied today.

The anti-tobacco scare-mongering is beyond belief. Researchers admit that nicotine is not the "most addictive drug in the world" per the propaganda, they can't even get rats addicted to it in isolation. It turns out it is nicotine plus chemicals in tobacco smoke that make smoking addictive and the cognitive and physiological benefits of nicotine are just starting to be known. The big problem here is that if research legitimizes nicotine use (even as a pill or whatever) it can threaten the cigarette taxes that many states depend on so it is opposed which is a pretty cynical way to fund your govt in my book. The "second hand smoke" hysteria is statistical non-sense pushed by the anti-tobacco zealots.

I think the climate research is politically tainted as well but I won't go into that.
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/02/the-top-ten-worst-comment...
It's the same climate as Seattle.

Also, the Chinese real estate situation is the same as here in SV.
What is your daily data growth rate? About what kind of the queries you are interested in? Does your regular query need to access the whole dataset, or some (filtered) subset of it?
Laws or comets?
App signature checks aren't required to succeed on macOS -- the user has the ability to override it globally in System Preferences, or add an exception using the right-click menu.
Yeah its going to get intersting when California is constently 128-135*... during february
...as opposed to nonlegal lawyers?
Used to write in clojure and clojurescript myself. While it's definetly nicer than React, React did come first (om and reagent are just bindings around React. The way om and reagent are faster than React out of the box, is what inspired Elm's vdom module).
Here is a rough idea of what 7,000 acres looks like.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2t4y1KUdvnlbUV1aW9CdHR1dF...
You don't have to be freaked out or terrified to love your hometown. Sometimes you just like fishing or living near your family.
I was going to say "SELECT 1;" but it's two characters too many. Will all comment characters evaluate to whatever VACUUM does?
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Thanks for the detailed response!

I'm a little torn on #1. I definitely don't think anybody should be allowed to be paid less than minimum wage. But on the other hand, if these people are choosing to come to the United States to work these jobs because it's better than what they could get in their home country, it's hard for me to say they shouldn't be able to do it.

Isn't #2 the whole point of sanctuary cities? In theory, the undocumented immigrants in these cities should have no fear of going to police and other authorities. Whereas in other cities the police might actually be obligated to inform immigration officials.

#3 is interesting. Definitely undocumented immigrants make use of government resources, but they also help the economy by providing cheap labor. As far as I know, there isn't a strong consensus on whether the overall impact is positive or negative. For example, here's a brief article that explores both sides a bit: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-thorny-economics-of-illegal-...
The past few Congresses have done a good job of passing large numbers of resolutions, but the President has not been signing them into law.[1] It seems to me that the 'problem' (if you believe there should be more laws) is a disagreement between branches or obstinancy by the President.

[1] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics
He's (unfortunately) going to have a LOT of leverage over Congress. One word to his minions and he can instantly remove over 50% of any Republican's support. They are terrified of provoking him.
"Fact checking" was never more than a partisan exercise. The people going to PoliFact for fact checking are the people who wouldn't vote for Trump anyway.
Do you expect to solve any known business problem with it, or you are just toying around in hopes that something comes out of it?
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Take a look at Stanford CoreNLP: http://stanfordnlp.github.io/CoreNLP/

It's relatively fast (after model load time) and quite feature-rich.
Very late post but I can't resist paraphrasing the old joke about regular expressions: some people, whenever they see an application-level problem, think "Oh, I'll just get the OS to solve it!" Now they have two problems.
Thanks for reminding me of the EXACT reason that Intel drives were on my personal blacklist of manufacturers to NEVER buy SSDs from.
Cyanogenmod 14.1 nightly builds
For the case(s) you've mentioned, you are correct: the state that is built up disappears on error.

However, when last I checked, there are several operations that fall outside of this guarantee, e.g. new account creation, that are not rolled back on error. This would be as easy fix but to my knowledge is still unaddressed. Hopefully, they've changed this and if they have please let me know.

Edit: I stand corrected, thanks!
Not a chance in hell this is true for engineering / computer science / tech type positions. If you are talking about janitorial staff or something that doesn't require an advanced degree like basic clerical work then you maybe correct but it isn't a private sector vs. government efficiency issue it is a matter of the government overpaying employees in low skill jobs.
My twitter feed is full of women etc. saying they are very concerned for the future, with replies by white men telling them to get over it and generally gaslighting. I'm also seeing a lot of anti-feminist posturing connecting it to the election.

It changes my impression. I guess maybe it was more about sexism than racism.
This is really cool! What's the reason for the blue & violet colors to be raised more than others in the wave?

Is it just the timing of the snapshot? As in, another picture might show another color at the top of the wave? Or is the standing wave "stuck" in that position?
In principle, going into read-only mode should work and it should take a while for read disturb errors to corrupt the data. But there's a trade-off that if you're trying to keep servicing writes as long as possible (and retiring bad blocks as they wear out), the risk rises that an earlier-than-expected unrecoverable error will corrupt the critical data structures that keep track of the mapping between logical and physical addresses. Playing it safe means quitting early and thus giving your drive an endurance rating that suggests it is less reliable than the competition.

And it's no surprise that the aspects of SSD firmware that by nature get the least real-world testing and are the most tricky to design would be quite buggy in practice. Even ZFS doesn't try to avoid catastrophic data loss in the face of unreliable RAM.
You are arguing that he wont do/be-able-to-do things which GOP silent supporters (large corporations) dislike. That is probably a safe bet. However, he can still do crazy things that all his supporters wont care about, such as skewering minorities, Muslims, etc -- I doubt there will be any objection from either his populist support or GOP financial support.
I don't have a citation ready for SF; my recollection from the last anti-airbnb ballot campaign that a leading opponent of airbnb (Campos) claimed a figure between 1999 and 3000 units listed on airbnb. http://www.sfchronicle.com/airbnb-impact-san-francisco-2015/... claims the true figure is closer to 350 units. The higher estimate constitutes less than 0.8% of the 390000 unit supply, comparable to approving just one or two development projects [http://sf.curbed.com/building/1201/trinity-place]. The Chief Economist in SF estimated that a supply increase of 100000 units (at least 33 airbnbs) would be needed to have a significant impact on prices [http://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/leveling-sf-hous...].

Your [2] claims that 8000 units = 10% of the housing supply in NYC. I find this claim incredible.

Your [1] claims that more than 12% of housing units in the LA neighborhood of Venice Beach are airbnbs. Given that the average American gets 16 days of vacation per year [http://theweek.com/articles/463897/americas-war-vacation-by-...] I suppose we should expect about 5% of bedrooms to be allocated to short-term use. AirBnB's market share is less than 100% of those 5%. On the other hand, LA is relatively popular as a tourist destination so we should expect more airbnbs than Topeka KS. So that claim seems plausible to me. This report goes on to project from a model that these Venice Beach airbnbs, if returned to the long-term rental market, would lower prices by $67/month from $2680, a reduction of 2.5%. The same author notes that in recent years, prices rental prices have increased by 7.3% per year. It appears that the "solution" of banning AirBnB amounts to turning back the clock on the problem by just a few months.