skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've only once in the past 6 years been asked about a degree, and it wasn't even by the people trying to hire me(away from my current employment situation). It was a veto from the CTO who didn't want engineers at the company without CompSci degrees, against all objections. This was by far the odd experience out. People are usually surprised to find out later on that I have no degree.

So, I'll have to disagree about the no degree + experience. No degree + no experience is a very tough spot though. Should still be possible though. As others have stated will probably need an entry level-ish position first and then impress the right people and move across. A bootcamp might also be possible.. Companies do hire right out of there, so with the right aptitude and performance in the bootcamp I can see that gaining a foot in the door somewhere.
a disability isn't a disease. and I'm not equating anything with forced government this or that.
My mistake, misread.
Another take at it is that life here very likely started with RNA chains. That number sounds very low, but 10^-22 < 4^37. That is, if only one chromosome among all of the ones 37 basis long could self reproduce, it would already fit the probabilities cited on the article.

Now, 36 basis is extremely short. I don't think anybody believes there's anything that size that able to reproduce. Last time I checked, the smallest known self-reproducing chromosome had around 160 basis. That is, it had a probability of ~10^-96 of appearing between all 160 basis chromosomes. (And remember, there are ~10^80 atoms on the observable Universe...)
I did see that, really good stuff.

He seemed like he was quite lucid and articulate, even in his later years. I bet he has a ton of stories he could tell. . .
I think the choice of snake_case may be somewhat supported by empirical research[1, 2]. (The first link is a summary of the study.) No idea if the Rust designers knew of this study.

[1] https://whathecode.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/camelcase-vs-und...
[2] www.cs.kent.edu/~jmaletic/papers/ICPC2010-CamelCaseUnderScoreClouds.pdf
Hm. That's an interesting idea, since browser vendors have more incentive to maintain a good brand than random CAs that most people have never heard of.

My big concern is browsers effectively would have a monopoly over their users (in theory users can switch but in practice most wouldn't), meaning that browsers could dramatically overcharge for their certs. I wouldn't be worried about, say, Mozilla, but some other vendors might not play nice...
ok, but still some science phd. thanks!
As a current Voice user and would-like-to-be Fi user, the fact that I have to give up my Voice number to use Fi is a dealbreaker. The whole point of Voice was to not tie your number to a specific provider.
Maybe the Nigerian scammers are still using Western Union but other scammers have moved on. Cryptolocker attacks use bitcoin, fake "computer locked down" scams use Bluebird or other reloadable cash card, and phone scammers use iTunes gift cards.
Voice, Hangouts, Messenger, Allo, Duo.

Which one should I use, Google, for fuck's sake.
The thing that really tees me off, and wasn't explained when I migrated my cell to Fi was that it both killed off the voice account and # that I had with that google account, but also messed up support for one of my other Voice accounts. I can't even install Voice on my phone to use the second account so now I have a Rube goldberg machine where that number forwards to a SIP # I have that rings my phone. I can't even get my 2nd Voice number to ring me on my Fi cell.

Their answer to questions is pretty much "of course they're the same system!"
I like workflowy a lot although I rarely use it. (Used to use it on a weekly basis on my previous workplace.)
I don't understand what's there to be lost about? Those are separate chat services? Or is 2017 the year when understanding that e.g. Facebook Messenger, Duo (video chat), SMS and Hangouts are different services?
agents are not employees. They are just people at stores.

Source: I worked at customer service at a grocery store and had to do that. There was (at the time, ~2006), no official training. The most I ever wired was about $12k to Africa for a family that was immigrating, most wires (90%) were to latin america for about ~$1-300 or emergency help to family for a few hundred as well.
A better article if you're interested in this type of analysis, done well: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
EEOC Testimony: Big Data in Employment Opportunities and Concerns
Anyone able to confirm the iOS Google Voice app was updated in 2017?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-voice/id318698524?&ct...
Complete agreement.

It's a shame that so much thinking (and this is in general) is Either/Or.
Has it really only been that long ago? I honestly thought it was longer than that.
This 0%. Side projects are how I've gotten all of my real jobs. Side projects* demonstrate that not only can you write code, but that you can also architect and deploy an application that solves real world problems. There's a lot more to software engineering than can be tested by fizzbuzzing on a whiteboard.

* (I'm assuming your side project is an application)
The killer feature I still keep Google Voice around for is transcription of voicemail sent to your inbox, even for direct calls to your cell (non GV #).

I stopped giving out my GV number, but you can set up your Verizon cell phone to use Google Voice as your voice mail service, and I love getting transcriptions to my email inbox of missed phone calls!

The app update is welcome, as you still have to use the app to listen to the voice message on the rare occasion when the transcription didn't pick it up.
Microsoft pushes Chrome shopping extension ad to Windows 10 users
The problem with the compute boards is that they don't have anything you may need, like something to talk with each other.

If I wanted to build a cluster out of them, I'd probably have to break out the USB connections in some way, probably meaning a whole custom PCB or something... Given that there are more powerful Pi clones out there I don't get the appeal for this particular usecase.
Return of the Unauthenticated, Unfirewalled protocols
Shameless plug: I'm the maintainer of Rakam project.
You don't have to deal with all of these complexities. There are open-source projects that can setup that infrastructure for you. For example, we provide Cloudformation scripts that setup data analytics cluster for you, Kinesis, S3, PrestoDB and RESTFul API for collecting and querying data-sets so that you can use it similar to how you use a SaaS product. We also have an integrated visualization project that can connect your Rakam API and allow you to create dynamic reports and custom dashboards. You can run queries via user interface similar to Scube UI and also complex behavioral queries such as funnel and cohort queries as well as SQL. https://github.com/rakam-io/rakam
Not being able to text non-US phone numbers from Google Voice is my number one issue with the service.

Living in the US, when I receive an occasional text from my distant family members in Europe, I can't text a reply, I can't call right now (because of the timezone difference), and I can't email (some of them don't have email).
Ask HN: Would you learn Rails nowadays?
There is no "cloud", there are "servers you don't control".
> But I have a couple of teammates that moved to different cities and are now 100% remote, and I find it very frustrating that I can essentially never talk to them in person.

Why is it frustrating? What have you done to replace the in person? These are honest questions, and I'm not trying to be a PITA.

The reason I ask, is that I have been working with remote coworkers since the late 90s (keep in mind that you can go to an office every day and still have many of your coworkers be in different offices). Video chat did not work very well then, and we basically did entire projects over the phone and email. Video chat, group chat, project management tools, etc... have made it so much easier to work with people who do not share the same space. Even in the same office, I prefer emails to random chats.
Anyone know of a decent self-hosted alternative? I ported my number to Voice after I moved from the states, but have been frustrated by the lack of support up until now.
I tried running something similar with Twilio and openvbx, but that project seems to have been pretty much abandoned.
Google Voice has been a life saver to me in more ways than one.

I have Sprint, which integrates with Google Voice so I can use my Sprint number on Google Voice, with all my texts and all my calls sitting nicely in Google Voice. I have the Google Voice Chrome extension installed, which allows me to tell my girlfriend I'm still at work whenever she texts me, allowing me to maintain some sort of focus for the next 9 minutes until she texts me again.
> Of course, imagine a Korean immigrant in the US writing "it was difficult to communicate in Korean".

This is a bit unfair when the company we're talking about goes out of its way to recruit and relocate skilled workers from overseas to Korea, knowing than most will never have the time or motivation to learn the language to a professional level.

And yes, I know that shoving English down the throats of 97% of your employees isn't too cool and doesn't make a lot of sense in some teams, but English proficiency is one of the requirements to get a job there. It'd probably be more efficient to have an English only "global division" with mostly (but not only) foreigners, like Rakuten has in Japan. Fun fact: over the period of a short year, one of the two EVPs of my division wasn't a Korean speaker.
I'm assuming what happened is they used Google Voice to jumpstart Google Fi and left Voice around as a neglected old version which they actually kept supporting (whoo). Now Fi is settled they're turning their focus back to Voice.
I cited Lyapunov, more as the ABC of nonlinear controls. Much more can be done in an analytical fashion, the "end-to-end" system here does not "solve" anything. It is a trained steering command regressor, nothing fancy, it's likely to work in this guy's living room, under certain lighting conditions, there is no way of predicting its accuracy, sensibility or anything else. Engineers have been breaking down systems into sub systems for a reason -> tractability of testing and improvement. End-to-end systems like that have close to zero value if you need something reliable.
Working well from home or not has nothing to do with whether you're an experienced developer.
working at investment banks
They asked for my degree certificate in all the jobs that I worked on.
I find it quite unlikely that no one verified his.
Just to add a counterpoint, I've been using Google Voice for, I think, 7 years. I've never had any issues with it and the lack of updates always felt like "don't fix what isn't broken." It's gotten slowly better and better with the Hangouts app. I never really needed anything more complicated than texts and voice, but the transcribed voicemail is a godsend.
Nice layman explanation of cloud storage. I think it would've been worthwhile to add something about how difficult security is, and how cloud storage makes it easier to keep your data secure (at a cost).
No, clearly she's not a waterworks engineer. Not critiquing her work specifically, but if she has no power to reverse a situation why do a 10,000 word article on her work. I am criticizing the role of media in the service of preserving status quo, which has an interest in selling the story of the benevolent behavioural scientist that can "ease the suffering" on a budget, rather than doing a deep-dive in the root causes of the problem and how to prevent it in the future, or what can be done to truly solve it now (lots and lots of money).

You can accuse me of "reading too much into it" or "being overly selective in order to reinforce my worldview", but I'm not the one who decided to publish an article titled "CAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE HELP IN FLINT?"
Five People Ops Lessons from one of SV's Most Experienced Execs
A low-end Wacom is, IMO, probably worth trying. I've been using one in combination with MyPaint[0] for a few years to do quick sketches and cartoons. It definitely hasn't replaced paper for me, but it's a good way to get some of the spontaneity and expressiveness of pen-and-ink into the machine.

[0]: http://mypaint.org/
side projects show you can clone code on github and push it to your own repo. Interviews show you can articulate what you know in a convincing fashion, and that you have done homework on the company as well as your skills of inference and general personal skills to glean into what sort of answer the particular interview is looking for at the time. Something a lot of people really miss out on when bikeshedding over how terrible whiteboard questions are or interview question xyz is
Given the language issues of the time, perhaps it is Biblical that life was created elsewhere and our ancestors arrived on this particular lump of dirt as spores on a meteor. Perhaps the same on the aliens planet. That would make aliens cousins rather than ... independent test tube creations or whatever. I suspect that given proof of alien civilization this would be a fairly popular outlook among existing believers.
I was afraid this article was going to upset me, but in fact it doesn't shy away from the more difficult questions, namely

A/ the reason we're "skating on really thin cultural ice right now" is in no small part due to the emergence and dominance of social media, so it's quite rich that the people responsible for chaos are trying to protect themselves from it

B/ it's quite morally repugnant to want to survive alone if society collapses

C/ it's completely impractical because you can't survive alone for very long ("are you taking your pilot's family with you? What about the maintenance guys?")
if you found yourself in the middle of koreatown during the 1992 LA riots, do you think that stuff in your trunk would get you very far?
Is there any science that suggests that people are hard-wired to be "early" or "late" people, and that there's just nothing one can do to change it? Legitimately curious. To me "I'm just not a morning person" seems like a pretty weak excuse for not being able to function as a professional because it's a little early in the morning, but maybe it's been shown that this is some intrinsic genetic trait that you can't control...?
As a Fi user (and the number was used from Google Voice), still Fi/Google Voice has problem that the phone doesn't ring even the call goes to Voicemail. Phone has no 'missed call' and suddenly voicemail is received.

This issue has been addressed a few years ago but still they never give any option to extend ringing time.
What a poor service.
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Even so I still think Samsung phones are getting worse for quality as each year passes the quality is rapidly declining.

My old Samsung Galaxy S2 is still going strong no screen protector, whatever OS version it is now, and the original battery.

I gave the S2 to my dad for a while then I gave him my old S3 so then my sister got the S2 and it still has no scratches on the screen still works great.

The S3 was my second one it was replaced after the screen spontaneously cracked now it's on it's third battery and the WiFi had stopped working. The screen has a scratch on it too I barely got it home before it was scratched I didn't even have time to buy a screen protector.

My S5 is failing even faster and I am also on my third battery soon to be fourth. The screen scratches far easier than the S2.

My next phone will not be a Samsung.
> Most objections to working remotely have nothing to do with trust

For business types, it absolutely does. I've had to answer the question before "if people are working at home, how will we know they are working?" My response is "how do you know they are working at work? The same way."
At a minimum there are several right vs left handed molecules which doubles the ways you can get our current ecosystem.

So, really the question is how many possible ways can you get self replication not how complex is the first example.
The last example in your post seems odd -- "keep my weight below 100 kilograms, forever".

The rest of your examples are things you could miss here or there and then get back on track the next day. With this one, as soon as you miss it, doesn't it just turn into a "losing weight" goal that you said you don't recommend...?
The early internet couldn't verify identity.

Thus, if someone said they were "18/f" we assumed they were 44/m. If they said anything younger than that, we assumed FBI. Everyone was bullshitting everyone because identity could not be proven. 56.6kb wasn't enough for rich media lifestreaming culture. It was only text and the occasional person who owned a scanner. You could call this version of the internet a Derrida paradise.

As internet speeds became better, identity still couldn't be proven, but it could take on characteristics that were more natural for our senses: faces, motions, and sound. Compared to pure text identification, this development is quite the relief for minds used to living in such identity paranoia.

Social media companies piggybacked off of this relief and built entire networks which incentivized positive identification, which was the core for the ad tech revolution. But, the problem with positive identity is that you will attract the very old, very battle-tested, and very entrenched wolves who know how to hack identity: the politicians, the social sciences, the charlatans, the trolls, mass media agents, the psyop engineers, the alphabets, and the rest of the industries who profit from poisoning the well of identity.

And now, here we are, accusing each other of engaging in genocidal racism because we've turned pixels into the inputs of a Skinner box of ideological signaling.
If the library follows semantic versioning, then you can always declare that you work with everything from the current version to before the next major version.
Looks interesting. I will give it a try!

Do you have any metrics on how long it takes to get through the learning curve? That's my only hesitation to trying a new keyboard layout.

Also, I'm not sure I understand why this would be a subscription service. A one time fee to unlock feature X seems much more appealing to me as a consumer. In my mind a subscription has to provide new value on a regular basis.
That's one of the big benefits of slack, but many organizations don't use it - you have to think to reach out to the person by calling or emailing, or you are scheduling a virtual meeting with something like webex.
Google seeks dev feedback for putting AI on Raspberry Pi
Is SQL Server Stretch Database Your Ticket to the Hybrid Cloud?
I use cosmic rays as an example of "errors outside the programmer's control", that's all. My point is that those errors will always exist, and it's desirable to have a backup plan ready.
Lessons from Apple wallet failure
That's not really known.

Of note life showed up very close to as soon as possible on early earth. So, similar events may have happend 30+ times. However, the first time life shows up it can spread easily, the second time it's likely food.
However, such filters can go top far if you receive an automated (!) test where you get to correctly parse two (!!) pages of text and then it is still not clear.
From the comments, the banned person in question is a supporter of Milo Y. and it's not too hard to imagine that that is not congruent with the values of the community.
> For the people running the computers, it doesn’t really matter where the data or the programs are at any one moment: The stuff is running inside a “cloud” of computing capability.

For the purposes of security, this makes a huge difference. It's also one of the biggest flaws with the authors argument. With a service like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Office 365; your files are likely stored both locally and on their servers. This undoubtedly make your files less secure... now potential attackers have two attack vectors when they would previously only have one.
Paraphrasing Sagan: "Great claims, need great evidence". Real evidence is always lacking for aliens.
> but I often prefer email, for the reason that everything gets documented.

This! Plus, writing tends to make people think a bit more about their response.
And there's no "internet", there are "cables you don't control".
Our galaxy is pretty much bounded. If any race started spread a few millions of years ago, they should be exploring (and exploiting) the entire galaxy already.
> The best battery that money can buy, for two of pretty much the most important applications (can't elaborate further, sorry) was only made from ~2012 until ~2014. A lot of really expensive things that need that battery are now running off of old stock, which will of course eventually run out.

Don't lithium ion batteries degrade over time? If that's the case, then how is this 3-5 year old stock still the best available?
theres a two reasons your router probably has 3 antennas:

-beamforming

-split 2.4ghz/5ghz/5ghz-wave2 antennas

if your router is using those three antennas for beamforming, you might trigger some strange behavior if you yagi a single one of them.
if run into issues and can turn beamforming off, you should be able to yagi a single one no problem.

if your router pumps each antenna into a separate radio, then you can reliably pump a single radio into that corner of your house w/ a yagi. however, you won't have seamless roaming between the 2.4ghz and 5ghz networks when you move into and out of that corner of your home.

i recommend getting a mesh network, they're the bees knees and are a huge step above the traditional access point + range extenders model
You don't rat out your friends?

What if one steals from his company?

What if one steals from your company?

What if one steals from your family?

What if one sexually assaults a child?

My friends are my friends because they are good ethical people. We don't always agree on politics or religion, etc, but we don't steal/cheat/defraud others. If I find out they do, they aren't my friends anymore.
So is literally every phone number in the US for the past ten years. SIP replaced traditional trunking completely a decade ago. Cellphones have been using digital backend since 3G (though the voice transmission was still analog, for some value of analog)
Thank you for your reply. Your argument makes sense to me, however I am still having some difficulty understanding how ultimately surveillance is anything but negligible in aiding law enforcement to oppress U.S. citizens - compared to the government's already existing enormously superior weaponry. IF the government were out to get me, I can't imagine how I could stop them, even if they had only basic information about me. UNLESS I am a criminal mastermind, in which case it seems like the government would NEED information about me to stop me, which would probably be a good thing? I dunno... do you at least see where I'm coming from? I haven't formed a concrete opinion about it all, and I am a student of cyber-security. Presently considering all points of view.

EDIT: I guess your point is that the surveillance information can be used to /justify/ an attack on a citizen, so that the public accepts it. But somehow I imagine the government could already easily falsify records to do exactly that without deep troves of info?
Side-projects can subside for a lack of experience to a degree. A fresh grad's resume with a ton of open source projects will look much better than one without. Or someone who is a developer planning their move into data science will greatly improve their changes by having some experience in machine learning and data analysis even if it's just in a side project.

However, I agree that unless a side-project has very high impact, it doesn't help much to have on your resume for people who have relevant work experience from a previous job.
My source?

I would ask what is the source of that quote? The article no longer contains it.