skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Americans are taught about the atrocities visited on native Americans. I went to high school in the early nineties and we were taught all about it. Get some better info. Or, you know, actually verify the stuff you're conjecturing about.
I just realised that my post comes across as pro-totalitarian communism. But that wasn't my point at all. My point wasn't that I think that things were "better during communism" my point was simply to try to present the opinions of those who do understand that the pro-western privitization process was unfair.

I just think that a more moderate, slower, and fairer privitization process would have been better for the citizens of the country, and not that we should have stayed totalitarian/communist.
I absolutely hated my interview experience, but that did not turn me off completely. I stayed in touch with recruiters in case I decided it became a good time to move.

What put me off of Google was the declining adherence to "don't be evil" to the point of it almost becoming an ironic joke, with Eric's shady dealings with HRC's campaign being the final straw.
Nobody implied you were talking about US citizens.

The parent comment is valid when taking about the 'US oligarchy' too.
What with the breakthroughs in Fonzi-recognition lately I think we could be looking at a full-on shark jump detector by mid-2017
Important to distinguish btwn web silo hires and R&D hires. The fun jobs at G like driverless cars and ML are targeting relatively rare skillsets. The technical managers in those silos are likely mining their rolodex and visiting schools.

It's the boring stuff (web maintenance & integration) where the managers are burned out (or just bad managers) so they farm out hiring to recruiters.

Acquihire process is lighter-weight per-candidate and gets around the blind allocation point people are making here.
> these models are very limited, fixed, and useless without human interpretation.

What model _isn't_ useless without human interpretation?
Computer nerds are a special breed, aren't they? I mean, who has the audacity to begin a comment with “Your wife is stupid.” ?!?!?!
For those interested in more about the legal representative /'fa ren' (literally, legal person) there's a good overview here: http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2011/08/11/roles-and-resp...

TXV: Not a law about the role of legal representative in general, right, but that industries that are defined as 'protected' are not open to foreign owned companies?

The role of the legal representative is to represent the company in civil law. The legal representative also has a supervisor or board of supervisors, so their actions can be kept in check. This in indeed one of the main roles of the supervisor/board of supervisors: to make sure the legal representative does not run away with the company's cash.
Given his latest statements, he's also about to bow to occidental censorship :)
But not a word about the elephant in the room: overpopulation.
Ukraine Is Using Microsoft's Hololens to 'See' Through Its Tanks
Could it be used to identify those likely to commit election or securities frauds? Or maybe those likely to poison an entire city by ruining their water supply?
It's far more polished, the integrations are endless and easy to use, and setting it up for non-technical people is a breeze. Along with its easy availability on mobile.
A product with these two features already exists under the name of skype ;)

Technically, you'd just need this STT solution to write a log somewhere (pastebin?)
You possibly misread mine: invasion of privacy is a threat, in that it is likely to cause damage.
So much memories from that era. I saw my first 1TB storage array back then, it was an EMC Clariion fibre channel raid box, it cost nearly 1m$ and it was a full rack of 9GB dual-ported 15k RPM disks.
Wasn't that the panic of an earlier decade?
I think 10.3 has an older version of i915, this has worked on vanilla, but 11 has already Linux 3.7 or 3.8 DRM imported which breaks with thunderbolt display, and it was fixed in drm-next-4.7 patch (which is going to land on HEAD someday, but it might not be backported to 11).
Damn, do we have to go over this in every single thread about Slack, or instant messaging?
I rarely sign anything, but I had to do it this time.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/173199
Even if you are in:

"Ken Thompson must take the mandatory C language test to check-in code." [2010]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_ou...
Ask HN: FrootVPN – can I trust it?
What's your experience with Frootvpn? Can I trust it?
For me, it's less about the hiring process, and more about actually getting an interview.

When I finished my CS degree, I considered applying for Google, but I ended up working in a startup instead, which is probably for the best, because I ended up getting thrown into the deep end and learning a ton.

A few years later, I had worked at a few agencies, and had a few decent projects/promotions under my belt, so I decided that I'd apply to Google, just to see what my chances were. I submitted my CV, and got a flat-out rejection. Not to worry, I thought. There's always another time. A year ago, I submitted my CV again, and after about two weeks I received another rejection.

It might be because I work on the .NET stack, but Google won't touch me, it seems. I wouldn't consider myself a bad developer by any means. I've contributed to open-source, I've got a decent rep on Stack Overflow, none of my employers would have anything bad to say about me. I've had offers for interviews from Amazon and once from Microsoft; I refused the former, and accepted the latter, although the recruiter never got back to me. Personally, I consider the process to be quite fun, and while I've probably forgotten most of the content from my Algorithms classes, above anything else I think it'd be a nice thing to try, even if I don't get the job. At the very least, it'll be a good opportunity to test myself to see if I can (re)learn the stuff I'd need to be a Google developer.
Bingo. We did matrices in high school and even through a first linear algebra course in undergrad I got more or less competent at the mechanics of matrix multiplication without ever having any sense of why anyone would want to do this or why these rules, as opposed to some other set of rules that were equally formally valid, were of any interest. I could even tell you what the eigenvectors of a matrix were but had no sense of what that actually meant in terms of a linear transformation that matrix represented. Linear algebra is probably the area of math that is both universally important and completely skimped on by our education system.
As opposed to "naive child" of EU? Was anyone from the UK tried at the ICC for Iraq war? Anyone from Belgium held responsible for Congo yet? I mean, they have Hague real close, shouldn't be a problem..
- I can understand Facebook's action here, it's either give in or be out of the biggest market of tomorrow.

- I can understand western media trying to stir polemic about it, it's how they make their money.

- I can't understand people buying media crap and getting "shocked". Didn't Facebook do similar things for US Gov in the past? Did they think Zuck was a people's champion?
So ISPs can now be coerced, by law, to allow for MITM in TLS connections. Another reasonable expectation from buyers of DPI products.

Like I said, nothing technically absurd about this law. It is its profound disregard for privacy that we should be discussing, instead of spending our time on technical issues which are solved.
You can jump from a cliff if you're tired from this world, but don't ask doctors to do it for you.
Perhaps they don't want their normal screen name to be associated with pro-nationalistic views, as they are un-popular. I imagine that if I were a Pol working for a German software company, I would feel uncomfortable writing what OP just wrote under my normal screen name :P
Sure, but can data obtained by that be used in a court of law. I /think/ those are two different things (but not sure).
I did Montessori through 5th grade; sounds a lot like that. You just kind of went from classroom to classroom as you wanted, and the teachers let you set the topic and the pace you learned at. And I still solve quadratics in my head by thinking of those blocks...
Progressive Web Apps: An Introductory Walkthrough
By the time I'm speaking to my computer so it can TTS into Slack so I can converse with my colleague sitting at the next desk I might as well rotate my head 90°...

(EDIT: I should also add that at any point in time my colleagues may be spread over Massachusetts, New York, California, Oxfordshire, London, Britanny, Victoria, Lower Saxony and that's when they're not travelling. But we also use it for conversations when we're in the same office.)
You mean "Daimler workers in Hungary" right?
It's Paint, not Paintbrush. In any case, that's simply Windows' colour picker dialog that can be used by any application.
A codepen that goes along with every example would be cherry on top.
Then Simons contributed loads to math education, it's not all bad...
In typical UK surveillance state fashion they pander to base fears and unforgivably overlook how bad censorship and surveillance is in places like China.

It's not that the UK GOV "doesn't understand how the Internet works" as claimed by many on this topic, but that the citizenry don't care enough to encrypt. The citizenry aren't scared enough to encrypt.

Education is the key here, and it needs to be bashed into a citizen's skull that The Internet is not a black box, and that traffic moving en clair is fair game by Governments, even criminal threat actors in Starbucks with their fake Free Wifi.

We need to keep building abstractions on top of The Internet to make it expensive for spying to take place. The usual solutions apply; TOR, VPNs, TLS/SSL, PGP, et al.
Nerdiest joke you know
> the second query (the UPDATE) is being partially applied before the first query (the INSERT) - and that's OK

"Partially applied" is ok with a database?

The description of Cassandra on it's site is "Linear scalability and proven fault-tolerance on commodity hardware or cloud infrastructure make it the perfect platform for mission-critical data."

If it's mission-critical data, I wouldn't do arbitrary things with it for conflict resolution that can corrupt data.
> If we are lucky, it may all lead to greater worldwide unity

In order to reach that point, we need to protect diversity in the middle of all this integration that is happening with the internet. "Integration in differentiation", and "differentiation in integration", are necessary principles for a healthy society.

Practically protecting diversity would mean protecting privacy, the right to express political views the right to be different. If we can't protect diversity we get to the regime of 1984.

There is a profound biological reason for this concept - neurons in the brain are differentiated by being differently connected, and are integrated by virtue of said connections. So they are both diverse and integrated, and the result is conscious mind - a system that can handle both highly complex dynamism and balance. The theory of integrated information is one of the most respected theories about consciousness. We should strive to be more like the brain.

Another practical point is that concentration of power is detrimental. It leads to a decrease of diversity.

If we want to become a happier society we need to protect both integration and diversity. These two principles have many other social and technological applications.
I recently joined Google and it definitely didn't work that way. You aren't usually interviewing for a specific team, like with smaller companies. But once you get past the interview your recruiter works with you to find teams that you will be interested in. In my case I talked to 3 hiring managers that were all working on the exact type of project I expressed interest in. I've seen it work this way a bunch of times when hiring for my team since joining.

I'm sure it doesn't always work this way but from what I've seen it's certainly the intention.
A lot of online companies classify millions of people by lots of variables each day. You can pay for this information.
You seem to be extremely confused. Of course moral lessons can be taught through stories. That a moral lesson is taught through story does not make the moral taught true in any sense. Which makes bringing up the One Ring and Tolkien extremely strange.
I worked for a large UK organisation that had cut back on their dialup access but still had 50 or so modems in racks for field workers to dial in to to get their email etc. Also some site to site links remained a dialup connection.

Sorry, no fancy pictures or anything interesting, just reminded me of the time.
Show HN: Pyramids around the globe or “Testing hypotheses suggested by the data”
Very good question, my guess, customers of course.
to add another anecdote, my phone screen was quite good but at the in-person interview I was told to give a presentation on past work. One person didn't show up and another left in the middle to take a phone call and never came back.

All in all it was a positive experience but it definitely felt like hiring isn't a big priority to them, compared to other companies I've interviewed at.
Doing something quick and dirty in electron takes N hours. Doing a 'proper' cross platform native app the right way takes N+P hours. If people are willing to pay for those extra P hours then I'd be more than happy to do things the 'right' way. However almost nobody is.

I've spent a lot of time on team web-apps-suck, and in many ways I'm still a casual fan. But the truth is I can go from zero to good enough much faster with web apps than anything else, and unfortunately most people only want to pay for good enough.
Yes, that and killer bees.
It's in the original paper in which he derives the normal distribution. Well worth a read. I last had a copy of it in the fourth basement down in the university library about fifteen years ago - it might be still there.
Wow, was this really necessary?
Ok but why are we building nuclear power with 100% private money and subsidise wind? It literally makes no sense. The system should work the other way. Tax what we don't want and let the free markets work the rest out. Now we are grossly propping up a form of electricity that doesn't work very well here in Finland.

If we can do multi billion euro nuclear power projects with private money in other energy production ways why can't the wind?

As a side note the guaranteed price ends after 12 years. Do you know what happened when the first wind company that got to that 12 years did? It went bankrupt the same day. There is literally no way they can compete with the other wind power companies that get the subsidy. Basically we are going to get a nice "start wind power company" -> "take subsidies for 12 years" -> "go bankrupt" -> "start a new one" loop.
embedded media, searchable archive, ready-made webhook integration, synced history across machines, proper support for multiple logged-in clients (and lately, I'm really impressed with how well the voice chat works compared to, say, skype).

Yes. There's a solution for all of this with IRC, but some of it requires specialised clients, servers running somewhere and some of it requires you to write additional code.

We're in the business of writing code for our core product, not for our internal chat server.

I'm not entirely opposed to writing code for our infrastructure that's not completely product-related but if I can have something that works out of the box for a reasonable amount of money, then I will go that way.

OTOH, when the problem concerns some dependency of the product in any way, then I'm totally willing to go much greater lengths of doing the work on our end than most of other people.

Because every single piece of the puzzle you control fully is a piece you won't have to find a replacement for in a hurry sometime in the future.

But company-internal chat? If Slack breaks (or gets too expensive), there are ton of alternatives all of which would be more or less equal replacements.
You do not need telemetry from everyone to make informed decisions like this.

If just 1% of users opt-in to telemetry, you would have more than enough data for a representative sample set.

This is the whole point. You can do the right thing without any loss of data usefulness. So why persist in doing the wrong thing??
> If your search phrases include things like "how to make a bomb", you're probably going to be on a database somewhere. There have been numerous serious court cases (e.g. murder trials) where the prosecution have presented evidence that the accused's search history included phrases like "how to dispose of a body" or "how to poison someone". In other cases, jurors have been dismissed for using Google to research the background to the case they are serving on. I wonder where the information about these searches came from

Google tracks it.
There is a distinct possibility that a data-driven company like Google, having huge budgets for optimising their talent-finding machinery, is already aware about the holes in their hiring process. There might be no resounding reason for big-G to catch every talented engineer out there; they just need to catch enough of them which, considering their glamour, shouldn't be that difficult. Having the bar raised high, even if superficially so, they can continue to attract the crème de la crème
Diablo III's downfall was that there were price floors and price ceilings. They set a minimum price for gold, which would be higher than its true value. This led to people selling their gold outside of the RMAH, and killed the liquidity of the in-game currency.

Items also had a maximum price limit. This meant that items worth more than $250 USD at the time had to be sold for lesser value items, or for gold (which had the downfalls listed above).

The problems with Diablo III were the restrictions on the marketplace. Blizzard never allowed prices to hit their true equilibrium, and it created an off-site black market along with other inefficiencies.

There is no reason that a game economy should be ruined in one way or another by a real-money exchange rate. There are many games where players buy & sell in-game currency for real money, where the in-game currency holds a very steady real money value.

Take Runescape for example. One million Old School Runescape Gold has been worth roughly $1 USD for the past 6 months. The volume of in-game currency which has been bought and sold in that time period is in the tens of millions of USD.

Source: I run http://r2pleasent.com - a site that buys and sells in-game items.
I've spoken with 1 person who spoke very highly of Montessori and quite a few others who went through Steiner Schools over in the UK. I really believe that we can learn an awful lot from these schools - especially around child development
As everything else, it takes step at a time... first they will record a website address, the people will calm down and get used to it, ISPs will implement the storage. Then they will find a reason to implement another law that will require to record what we do on the websites. There is no coming back. It will evolve as everything else humans touch.
Subtlety isn't their strong suit but they have a sort-of point. Perhaps he should have just shown her how to use that generic UI element: "click the outer ring to select the colour, click the triangle to select the tone".

By fixing it instead his wife will now be frustrated with every other colour wheel that uses the de facto standard behaviour.

Also, it should only jump/slide to a higher saturation if the saturation is 0, otherwise moving around the colours with a fixed but non-zero saturation wouldn't be possible.
So, in other words - go through the grueling interviewing process and finally discover that the position may not even be relevant for you, completely wasting everyone's time.

Oh but you see that's where you're confused.

You see, you aren't interviewing for a position, in order to pursue your interests or advance your career.

You're interviewing to work at Google.

And thank your lucky stars if they accept you! Because OMG Google!!!
I feel very similar. Do you have any recommendations for resources to learn about why matrix multiplication is defined that way?
They don't need to implement that - GCHQ has that already. One month buffer, at least. Scale to 6, done.
2 billion lines of code in ONE repository? https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand...
The government has budgeted a massive £175m for implementation, so I guess the answer is both, but mostly consumers.
I thought so too, but looking at chrome css usage stats, flexible stuff is really low on the list. Its rising fast, but currently unused on the majority of the web.
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Debian's popularity contest package is completely biased and nobody uses it as a serious source. You can’t expect to have reliable data with opt-in.
And still.... the figure for Venezuela is 64 (per 100 000 pop.). And that is the whole country. Caracas is much, much worse.

Until late 1980's the Venezuelan murder rate was below 10. It was actually lower than United States. Since then, the U.S. has improved a lot, and Venezuela has collapsed, particularly quickly during Maduro's time but that is merely a consequence of Chavez's "Bolivarian" policies.

(I personally think they are giving a bad name to Simon Bolivar.)
Typo on the 'home education' page: "accross"

I think you REALLY don't want typos on a site about education! :D
Which is basically the entire message of the last section.
That seems, at best, orthogonal to the issue of foreign investment and business.
The awesome thing about focus-follows-mouse is that it doesn't raise the window that gets the focus (which clicking in it usually does). So I can type into a partially hidden window, while keeping another window on top.

For example because the window on top is a web browser and I'm referencing some API, or the window on top is another emacs window with another module I'm working on that I'm using, etc...

So I can tell the window manager where I want to type, decoupled from what windows I want to be stacked on top of each other in what order...

And, for example, right now, I have 6 emacs windows open for the project I'm working on, plus a few terminals to run the code, plus firefox. I don't see an efficient way to quickly shift focus to what I want, without tab-ing through all the windows looking for the one I need, potentially messing up the order I have the windows in...

Also, for me personally, using the mouse to tell the computer what I'm looking at, while the keyboard tells the computer what to do there is almost instinctive...

The result of more hours spent playing FPS games and the like than I care to think about. At one point, sitting down at a computer, without thinking about it, my left hand would automatically land on wasd and my right on the mouse XD
>" we can only find new ways to operate under our new circumstances, rather than preventing them from coming about as we could have done up until maybe 15 years ago."

Could you elaborate on what you mean here?
Right. But not the same blue.

http://i.imgur.com/Pnu6uU3.png

So, two websites, using the same font for their logo, and both using some shade of blue somewhere on the page?
But there's also no reason why the most widely used HTTP fetcher in embedded software should be the same piece of software as the most widely used command line HTTP fetcher on workstations and servers, most of which do not care much about shaving kilobytes.
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Some Microsoft Partner tiers give you 5-10 MSDN Enterprise subscriptions. I think Gold ISV gives you 25.

https://partner.microsoft.com/en-AU/membership/msdn-subscrip...

The registration fee is something like $2K.

There are various competencies you need to demonstrate to become a partner, but there's enough diversity between them that most businesses with Microsoft tech somewhere in the stack could become a partner.
People get more ads. A 4 way win-win-win-win situation.