skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes it SUPER obvious when they're lying, for me. My profile, at the end, if you press "read more," specifically says no Amazon recruiters. None of them read it. Ever. Or if they did, they specifically overlook it and don't acknowledge it in their spam mail.

The funny thing is that I've had several smaller / more local recruiters comment on it and laugh. They get a small amount of respect / hold my attention longer than the first line of the email.

If it was less than once every two weeks, it wouldn't be such a problem. Heck, once in three months like in the article sounds like a huge improvement. They are seriously relentless.
It may be slightly more accurate to refer to this "space-saving magic" as transcoding rather than just encoding.

DVD/BluRay content is compressed (already encoded).
The KDE announcement does promise that hardware issues for this device are sorted out before pushing out updates.
Documentation seems to be WIP but it looks like it supports web routing. https://reactnavigation.org/docs/guides/web
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Your premise is wrong.

Watching an ad on Youtube is considered a click, but advertisers pay less than search ads.

Cost per click just reflects a change in where clicks are from.
Looks interesting, bookmarked it for later reading :) I noticed that you have sensor in all parts of the house from the images. I wonder how did you solve the wiring issue? I mean I'm looking for a cheap way to connect all sensors, but avoid putting wires everywhere.
This is correct. I know several people that have US + Italian, and I've been considering it myself, although Italy doesn't seem like much of an "escape pod" (per another comment) at the moment, the way things are going there.
What of the fact that he is serving as a member of the transition team for the current administration? Doesn't the idea that someone closely tied to the government has an escape hatch into another country disturb you?
They all have escape pods. Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and every other wealthy person. It's us that will walk the fire...
Simply not true.

Most drugs never make it past phase 3 trials, so fail in R&D before marketing.

Gilead didn't need a lot of marketing for its HepC cure to become a blockbuster and propel them to be the 6th biggest pharma.

DTC is also illegal in all countries except the US and NZ, so it's not even possible to spend that much. Sunshine Act in various countries, China putting execs in jail, etc. The world has moved on.
To be fair, this seems like a decent idea for recruitment. Someone with an active iOS developer account is a good deal more likely to be a "real" developer than a random LinkedIn crawl. That's still pretty shady, though.
At least twice, Sean Spicer has accidentally tweeted his password
Mean reversion?

5% is very unusual.
must be nice to get special government treatment when it comes to citizenship. A short phone call away, I'd imagine, when you have that much money.

the pain in the ass it would have been for him to spend 240 days a year there for 5 years before being granted citizenship, sheesh.

although if things go south here, he might want to trade his currency in for NZ bucks before the hyper inflation kicks in. the government probably won't want someone with monopoly money taking up that prime real estate, ya know?
Not a huge fan of this.

The editors on Wikipedia wield a large amount of power in shaping the site.

When they go and make arbitrary decisions about the content on the site, and users start calling out the editors for bias and bogus decisions, well now all of a sudden the crooked editor can just cry "harassment and cyberbullying!" and go a long way to shutting down rational criticism.
The requirements aren't firm, he didn't meet the guidelines but I'm sure he far exceed the investor visa requirements.

Many countries court investment in these ways.
I do not know if that is true or not, but if it is true then his campaign donations are going to be a bit tricky.

[edit] Quick research turned up a bunch of low key contradictions. There are a number of pieces of legislation that assume us-citizen and foreign national are mutually exclusive. Some other bits take dual citizenship into account.

In theory there are a bunch of points where it could be argued that you cannot hold dual citizenship but in practice it doesn't seem to be an issue.

On the other hand it seems fairy clear that some positions, and security clearances require absence of foreign national status (Even then with a little wiggle room, If you've never asked-for or made-use-of foreign national status you can pretend it didn't happen)
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First of congratulations on your sought after product. As a general remark I don't see any fundamental problem with dual licensing your product. You do need to make sure that the license that you grant to the enterprise e-commerce company restricted so it does not permit the sale and marketing of a product that competes directly with your own but only the specialised e-commerce version. This type of white label product can be very lucrative and I think it is wise of you to go for a sales based license fee instead of a flat fee, especially if you are fairly confident that their product will be successful. Unless you have an opportunity to effectively address their market yourself it sounds like you are just optimising the income your product can generate.
that's why you need alpacas
Daniel Hannan is an imbecile, and you were swayed by his "arguments". Unbelievable.
He talks about UK regaining "independence", when UK's citizens are the least independent in the EU (mass surveillance wasn't introduced by some European directive). He talks about how Switzerland is thriving, when the brits and swiss have absolutely nothing in common. And people fall for this crap.
But hey, it's your vote, let's see how well you fare post-Brexit, with businesses moving to mainland Europe. Make UK great again.
Exactly. I am dependent on Google to do my job, but I am not addicted to it.
I wish he would donate $500K to filtering scams from Craig's list.
Thiel is being criticised because he doesn't have to live with his actions.

If Thiel had been opposed to Trump and sought secondary citizenship elsewhere, he wouldn't be receiving so much flak.
Everyone is open to criticism for their actions. I'm free to disagree with this person just as much as you are free to disagree with me about it.
but does it work better than any number of other strategies they might use? maybe the reason they do it is because they're not very good at recruiting and just go with an obvious method that isn't completely ineffective.
For many years, Burger King's motto was indeed, "Have it your way!"
I've threatened spamming recruiters with the CANSPAM act. I have no idea if I have a legal ground to do it, but it certainly stopped these particular recruiters from contacting me again, at least for now.
He's getting attacked because he's a high profile hypocrite.

Also, those students are getting banned thanks to Thiel's work in getting them banned, so there's that.
> Blocking – making it more difficult for someone who is blocked from the site to return

If they're talking about IP bans on viewing Wikipedia here, this is a terrible idea. If some troll gets banned on a college campus that will result in the inadvertent ban of thousands of other connected to the same network. This line strikes me as naive.
You can unsubscribe from both life/choice "camps" and realize the Supreme Court rationale that inadvertently created those reactionary groups simply doesn't fit our standards of judicial review any longer.

The whole case is on shaky legal ground without you having to take a stance on it!
and how do you know he is not being honest? Shouldn't everyone have a plan these days?
What do you mean "doesn't recognize other citizenships"? Dual citizenship is legal.
Isn't there more important things to worry about? Trump has tons of executive actions to cover yet the media focuses on some gossip from one of his supporters.
This is one of my main issues as well! At this point the whole hardware is located close to each other, so the cable management is fine, but I would like to put sensors in other parts of my flat. One of my thoughts is to use UTP/FTP cable, as it has 8 wires and it's pretty thin (and not that ugly).
Seems like a fine donation to me. Feels like a world where facts are just opinions to some folks, so I think (perhaps and hopefully only cynically) it is going to get worse. If everyone doing good work on Wiki pages is abused into not wanting to do it anymore, that would be a sad and significant loss indeed.
I think they were trying to make a joke, but Peter Thiel does love the Lord of the Rings. Just a few of the entities he has founded:

- Palantir
- Valar Ventures
- Mithril Capital Management
- Lembas LLC
- Rivendell One LLC

Apparently in internal Palantir communications he talks about how their software helps the good hobbits resist the evil orcs and stuff. (It does make one wonder how closely Thiel read the books, since the all-seeing Palantir corrupts its users).

That said, Thiel's end-of-the-world scenario is almost certainly some fantasy about going Galt. He's not worried about the world under Trump the way many of us are.
Ologisms
Are we supposed to care?
Revenue is up 22% but EPS is up only 7%. I would normally expect Google's EPS growth to be higher than revenue growth. Where are they spending all that extra income?
Sometimes it can be more convenient to just password protect the archive
I, too, ended up copying the file to my machine.

I also ended up with this:
https://gist.github.com/daveloyall/63485c5a08882432b138c0917...
He's chosen responsiveness
It's insurance, do you live a life without insurance? Which would bother you more, meeting a man who lived entirely without insurance or one who bought insurance for what he could afford? Does it bother you that the government has bomb shelters (escape pods for nuclear holocaust) while the citizenry don't? I'd prefer someone with a modicum of common sense over an optimistic fool.
For HiDPI screens? Linux really truly isn't there yet. I say this as someone who has used almost entirely linux desktops and laptops for years, and not exclusively for a long time before that, and who finds nearly everything about a linux desktop better than the alternatives (yes, really).

But my HiDPI laptop brings me frequent pain that I wasn't anticipating and it's not clear there's even a path forward to solving those problems in a consistent way. It's a whack-a-mole problem.
> Linux isn't really there yet.

To be fair, neither is Windows. I've had nothing but trouble with scaling my 4k laptop display under Windows 10. Some apps pick up the scaling info and work correctly, others don't. Some apps scale their fonts correctly, but leave their (presumably pixel map) UI elements microscopic. Things get even screwier when I use it in extended desktop mode with my (larger) 1080p monitor. If the scaling is on, the monitor is unusable. If the scaling is off, the display is unusable.

Seems like the only company that got this transition right so far is Apple.
Not really. As I said, anyone with money has an escape hatch anyway. If the world goes to hell there's plenty of nations that will gladly invite money.

The article suggests Thiel acquired the citizenship before Trump was elected - is it not possible given Thiel's political views that he was ready to leave the country given other events or another electee?

It's only an "escape hatch" because people are calling it that.
naw i was being sarcastic. peter thiel is a man-child.
If you're looking for milling in the sub-1k range, you should check out Fictiv, Protolabs and/or Plethora.

(I hope this doesn't count as thread hijacking! Just trying to help.)
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It's interesting that after 15 years of operation, Wikipedia does not apparently have decent tools to detect harassment /sarc.

There will be a lot of discussion about the symptoms here, but the cause is straightforward: Wikis are built through conflict, and much of that conflict involves harassment, doxxing etc. Ask anyone who has tried to edit any major page.

The real solutions to harassment are counterintuitive: Enforce full anonymity, take measures to stop people and gangs "owning " pages, stop using a system that lets any user at any level veto other user's edits, have a proper editorial workflow, and many more. But none of these will never happen, so the harassment will continue.

It should also be noted that the Wikimedia Foundation just raised millions of dollars in its latest fundraising drive, and has millions more in the bank, so it really doesn't need the money.
This is the topic for the by far funniest book I've ever read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_(novel)
> Peter Thiel clearly has more than enough money to help stop whatever he's afraid of happening in the US

Peter Thiel is worth about $2.7bn [1]. That's a lot, but not enough to stop political momentum. It is enough to warrant the common practice of back-up citizenship.

(I am curious how he procured New Zealand citizenship, though.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
We still need to make choices that guarantee it's the case in the future. We need to ensure we don't end up with environment as diverse as email where most people use Gmail, or Linux services which are all being rewritten under systemd, or many other cases where we voluntarily choose a monoculture that can force our choices in the future...
I got as far as the screen where is asks for full read/write access to my code, including all my private repos. I'm fairly sure you won't mess anything up or steal my secrets, but why does it need this?
Given he acquired this prior the election could it not have been because he thought Hillary would have won?
There is usually more than on "angle" to these stories.
That's part of your simplistic narrative, propping up your beliefs. It's not reality.
> The "chip on my shoulder" is only in response to you telling me ...

Ehh, or to seeing mal-intent where it isn't.

> I'm fighting hard to justify something incorrect, which is quite frankly insulting

I don't tell you if I feel insulted, and if I did I wouldn't expect you to care. Part of having a chip is showing it off.

> (and, as I said, an incorrect thing to say in its own right, since the dictionary agrees with me,

Yes, and the dictionary (Merriam Websters) can't tell the difference between centi and centa, so it's not an authority.

> regardless of whether or not you think I have an ulterior motive).

I think this paragraph is you agreeing that you do have an ulterior motive, and explaining it as getting back at jerks like me.

> This very specific situation (when someone rebukes someone else because they think the other person is ignorant, when it is they themselves that are ignorant) is a huge pet peeve of mine,

I don't think you're ignorant. I think you know more than the average person. However I think it's functionally wrong for you to use something in an ambiguous way, JUST to prove a point - which is that you're technically right because an dictionary agrees, etc.

> Of course, they're the ones who have convinced themselves that it is the other person who misunderstood and is doubling down, so that just compounds the insult.

No, I get that the dictionary agrees. But I think if you weren't set on showing that you're just as allowed to use that phrase as someone else that you'd pick something else from the vast sea of words. Something that actually seemed descriptive.

> I think it's extremely silly to ask me why I used one word instead of another closely related word.

Why is it silly to ask? I like blue more than red for weird little personal reasons - how would you ever know without asking why?

> Yes, words have near-synonyms and I could just ask easily ask you why you're not using my word instead.

Right, and I'd tell you that the original meaning is as good as lost because few get it, and the secondary meaning is wrong because it directly conflicts with the other meaning and causes confusion, so I simply describe what I mean without having a pet phrase.

Why do you feel the need to own that specific phrase when I'm sure you could be more evocative, and thus understandable, by saying almost anything else that came to mind?

> but since far more people understand my meaning of the phrase than the "true" meaning, I'd say that the people using the idiom (rather than the words themselves) are the ones who have an ulterior motive other than understandability.

Frankly the original never meant much to me, the only reason I'm really aware of it is the continual use, misuse, and intentionally unintentional misuse of it. But of the users of those, I find the originalist far less unhelpful in a conversation. They're at least trying to help, as opposed to - what's the verb for exercising your chip?

If you let the phrase die rather than fighting an ideological war around it perhaps someone would coin something better.
Apparently 40% of every Mexican import is American made due to the tight integration of supply chains that NAFTA made possible, so not only do the US consumers pay higher prices, but they'll be buying alternatives that may have less American made content and reducing domestic demand.
You still have to bring your US passport to pass the customs. That is not the case for other counties that would recognize any valid passport.
The thing is, back when I was looking for a good job, I would have killed for getting recruiter mails from Amazon. Today, they arrive every three months and I don't consider them any more. It's when companies like Atlassian who don't spam write that I take note.

But I can fully understand those who are at a different point in their carrier get angry about posts like this.
If you check my comment history, you'll find I say this a lot:

When I last went job hunting, I would say to the interviewers:

1. I will check email 3 times a day. When I come in, around lunch, and before I leave. Is this a problem?

2. Do I need to use any kind of IM on this job?

If lots of email bother you, set your standards higher.

Edit: Reading other comments, I should add: I also point out that physically interrupting me in my cube is OK. Or calling me on my office phone. If it's urgent, come to me or call me. If not, send an email. People treat IM as "urgent" but then don't act as if it is. So I "ban" IM for myself.
Do you by any chance do web/cloud stuff? The company I work for is fairly recognizable and I've been there for 10 years but the few recruitment calls I get are for a one line entry in my resume that said that I did one small web related project.
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I don't think you know what several orders of magnitude means. Did you have an IQ of 10 and then got to 100 or 1000? Anyway, this aside, the feeling that you are few times smarter is there, like I say, it's a high ( which, btw, like any dopamine pumping thing, means your next high needs Moar and moar) . The reality is that you are a bit smarter, not few times more, and you work much more.
Given the state of "journalism" these days, it seems more likely that this is a soft smear campaign. Thiel has aligned himself with a side that is not popular with the media and some elements of the tech community, thus the attempt to "Other" him.
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made an account just to comment. i'm a sales guy at oracle and this case is absolutely common at the company.

i am not surprised that oracle used our sales contract (which is stuffed full of every self serving rule under the sun and changes almost every quarter actually) to screw a hard working sales employee arbitrarily

it really is as bad as it seems. they want to lower cost of sales in every way possible, including illegally. if you sue, they sue back. if you quit, they hire a younger person at 50% pay to service the relationship

EDIT:
sorry about that, was rate limited for a bit

i took this job because oracle hired me and 200 of my colleagues at the tender young age of 23 straight out of college with no experience selling technology or to enterprises. for many of us, this was our best and only offer, so it made complete sense in 2013

75% of my colleagues quit for other sales jobs/grad school within the first 14 months (!)

those of us who stayed have done so because this job is a relatively palatable way to make 80-120k per year with very little skill/experience that would make us attractive to more discerning companies

i myself will last 1 more year and then be laid off most likely, and i hope to be a technical account manager at a smaller place that values my specific sales and technical abilities that i've honed from all of the bullshit i've slogged through in this, my first "real job" :)
You know it is the end of days when absolute privilege needs an escape chute...

Ah well, maybe those upper deck passengers on the Titanic were right - they paid so much for their tickets that they deserved their place on the lifeboats over everyone else...
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Ask HN: Have you ever ran or worked for a creative agency?
I was wondering if anyone has experience running or working for an agency.
In another post, the author mentions a particular Pioneer Blu-ray drive that he uses with his Mac. Are they all pretty much the same, or are some models preferred?
>If everyone doing good work on Wiki pages is abused into not wanting to do it anymore, that would be a sad and significant loss indeed.

Agreed, but Wikimedia's own report (linked above) contradicts this hypothesis. fnovd suggests 2016 is different, but no survey was conducted so it's difficult to say.
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Take a pen testing course. Even get "certified" Your new perspective will give you tremendous insights that you can apply in your day job. Your next job (if they don't put you on the security team at your current one) could be at an MSSP. IBM, Symantec, esentire, etc.
How can it be a net negative? Net change in value = 1.43 * 0.84 = +20%
This is so true. When I first moved to the Bay Area after finishing college, I was astounded by the amount of recruiter spam I got, but at the time I didn't recognize it as such. To someone who's never seen these before, the initial impression when you see these types of messages is, "Wow, look at all these different companies that want to hire me." Of course you know it's not an actual job offer, but you sort of think in your head, maybe I'll just have to come into the office and have a brief chat with some of the engineers, and then they'll hand me a formal job offer. Because clearly they already recognize your technical aptitude, since they're reaching out to you!

In actuality, once you decide to respond to one of them, you quickly realize that you're not fast-tracked in the application process in any way. Really, the only step that was skipped was that you didn't have to manually apply on the company website. In fact, the application process is usually longer and more difficult in Bay Area companies than elsewhere (at least in my experience), where it's typical to have to do

1. Initial phone call with recruiter
2. One or two algorithm interviews on the phone with an engineer
3. "Take home coding challenge" which they claim only takes an hour or two but often ends up taking you 4 or 5 hours because you don't want to submit subpar code
4. "On-site" interview that can take 4 or 5 hours

Meanwhile the recruiter has no problem lying through their teeth about the details of the role. Like, I've had a number of applications where I tell the recruiter I'm looking for a role that's math/ML focused, only to find out once I get to the final onsite that, no this is just a pure engineering role. They don't care how well your experience or interests fits with the role; all they want is for you to do the interview so their numbers look better.