skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Adding a certain monoculture of persons is tantamount to "more people with green eyes would help." There are many types of intelligences, experiences, wisdom and values besides analytical, especially social.

I do think we need some fairer, structured, open reevaluation of certain laws like US commercial code, income tax and fixed monetary fines which harm the poor and benefit the rich, whereas income-/balance-sheet-based fines (ie Finland)
To be honest, we wanted to play with it, and it was really easy to prototype the OAuth code (and keep our OAuth client secret out of the client) before we had the server deployed.

Now, since it works great, there's been no need to replace it.
Ah, a professor of the "two wrongs make a right!" school of human cultural interaction. Shall we just go on displacing each other again and again in human history, and never again form stable societies?

Have you talked to many Chinese people about how they view Maori, btw?
>> As someone seeking a job, yes, it's unfortunate. But from an employer's perspective, false negatives are safer than false positives.

- Are you an employer complaining there is a shortage of good developers?

- How many candidates have you rejected in the past?

- How many of those were because of a bullshit interview question? (Eg: Find the maximum subarray of an input array in O(n)...cannot be brute force....within 20 mins)

- If you have faced a shortage of developers, have you considered calling back the people you rejected for bullshit questions?

- If you don't have a problem finding engineers who can solve bullshit problems, your technique succeeded right? How many of those successful bullshitters have you fired or been disappointed by their performance at work? If the answer is zero..great. Don't ever fire them. Else, review your interview process.

Thanks
>Your ignorance of Singapore is showing here.

Thanks, but I have spent a great deal of time in Singapore and know perfectly well what language road signs are in.

> You might as well berate immigrants to New Zealand for not learning Maori or NZSL.

You are comparing the importance of Malay and Mandarin in Singapore to sign language ... I think perhaps it is your ignorance of Singapore's ethnic peoples that is showing here.
Ship 1.0 will continue to work for the foreseeable future, but you're correct: Ship 2.0 depends on GitHub.
I had a bad experience, this was some local server hosting company and I walk in there, granted I'm not wearing slacks/dress shirt so perhaps I'm not better but both the people I interviewed with (owner and an employee) were wearing sloppy clothes like basketball shorts, stretched out t-shirt, etc... and I read some reviews from former employees at this company on Glassdoor, I did not get a good vibe due to the mostly-negative reviews. I didn't get the job but what I didn't like the most is they never called me back or anything, they didn't say something like "We're sorry, we reviewed your application, you're not a good fit." I'm probably not the most social person anyway, I have a look on my face like "I'm miserable/tired" but I talked with a low tone/calm. I don't know, at least I have a day-time job and have some clients.
Here is a video on facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/dailybreeze/videos/1015491266465432...
That's actually a great idea. Do they have a notability requirement?
Not to pick on you, but when did the definition of hypocrisy change from 'saying one thing and doing the opposite' to 'saying something I don't like' or even 'saying something is untrue.' Unless it's a company that is highlighting differences of politics among employees of companies, I don't see the hypocrisy.

Founders certainly can speak for their company, although saying that they're speaking for the entire company can be a stretch. Immigration is an area that is commonly discussed by company leaders. Given that many companies have employees who are directly affected because they are out of the country and unable to return as scheduled as well as those who have had to change plans so that they don't leave and become unable to come back, I'm not surprised company leaders are upset and making statements.
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To the OP: 5x developer here so I must be in the software afterlife, keep it up there are places...

To the whole Github thing, just had this happen.

Got a call from a recruiter from an company I interviewed with a year ago. We couldn't make things work then, but in the words of the recruiter, "Everyone loved you and we have new spot that you fit perfect".

Fortunately for them I open right now so I say I'll be glad to talk to them, and he says he'll get right back.

Next day I get an email from someone at the company, saying before they move to the phone screen he has a couple of questions. What's my Stackoverflow presence, my Github, and what Coursera course have I taken.

Never heard back in over a week since I replied negatively about those items.

Going to call the recruiter tomorrow to let him know he has at least one person now that doesn't love me.
If we're not yet there, the goal is to get to the point Ship is worth at least $9/mo. Are there any features you'd like to see?
Perhaps, but that's not what I meant. It's not the speed, it's the automaticity. The more automatic the typing, the less of a mental context switch there is when moving from merely thinking to thinking + entering text.
I wouldn't want to over egg this. It's a small thing, but a little focused practise seems to keep my typing more automatic and thus out of my way.
Let me put it another way. Forget hardware for a moment. The purchaser of these counterfeit Blackphones thought they were buying a software license for Silent OS. In reality it is pirated software. And not just garden variety downloaded-with-bittorrent-for-free piracy but rather software piracy as a profitable business model.

Silent Circle doesn't owe these consumers anything and are well within their rights to have all of their software completely self-destruct. They don't owe these consumers a robust mechanism to install an AOSP distro. They don't owe these consumers a bootable device. They don't owe these consumers a discount on a genuine device.

The only correct resolution is for the scam victims to receive a refund from the seller.
I don't know many of these interviewers (I myself interview but I would never ask people to do these silly tests) but I spoken to one of them from Boston a while ago at a party and he said he just has this list of questions and they need to be answered correct; he himself would not even be able to recognise if the person was attacking the problem right or wrong but he says 'I want to see how you approach solving problems' as that is what he has been taught. So in my 1 point empirical research I would say you are being lied to.
"Taxi Services Now 10% Cheaper Because of Uber"

No. Taxis are used less meaning less income, they not cheaper.

"The 10% Taxi's Used To Take Now Returned To Customers In The Form Of Lower Prices"

That's also not true. Uber is usually not cheaper.

The headline should be:

"More taxi drivers = less money for individual drivers"

Or economically:

"Uber uses value chain power to grab surpluses in taxi market, leaving drivers with less money on average, and consumers with the same price. But they have a cool app now."
That Quora post is exactly what I am going through now. Answered all tech questions. Interviewer said he was impressed. A week later, I got a rejection letter saying I was slow. WTF! The interview lasted 1 hour. I solved 3 tech questions without knowing it's timed interview.
REmacs is a very interesting development...

https://github.com/Wilfred/remacs/blob/master/README.md
It's poorly drafted, but it's only ever used for people who change IMEI. I think it's only used if they change the IMEI on stolen phones. But yes, it's yet another bad English law passed as a kneejerk response to something or other.
Thanks this is a great explanation. You actually convinced me.
That's a really interesting way of putting it, and it makes sense.
http://getbootstrap.com/browser-bugs/

The specific cases I've had are with how SVG's are rendered and that manipulating them with css does not work in-document like it does in Chrome or Firefox.

The bugs page itself isn't very insightful, but if you look at the issues posted, you'l see that there is significantly less conversation or involvement of people into the problems. By itself, Edge not being open source should make it unfit for usage, but they also don't involve themselves nearly as much in the web community. This is one big factor why chrome gets more vulnerability reports than Edge.

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224/...

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-26/p...
I'm intrigued by pyTorch but I am really having a hard time groking what you mean by the whole "but that really doesn't extend well to any dynamic graph structure such as recursive tree structure creation. Since the computation graph has a different shape and size for every input they are difficult to batch and any pre-defined static graph is likely excessive, wasting computation, or inexpressive."

Would you mind providing a concrete example to relate to if you dont mind? Again, intrigued by PT so want to learn more about it vs TF...
> I'm curious about your train of thought, how is Firefox and Mozilla are pro-user?

Non-profits are usually more pro-user than for-profits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation
Let me rephrase: not suitable for large amounts of data that need high throughput. It's easy to see that the overhead is prohibitive for applications such as in the article, if you just benchmark it.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/LM648yrPpck/tv40...
When you criminalize a certain pattern of thought, it seems that its inverse will eventually get taken to the most extreme position.
> So... a tech would just show up at your office, ready to fix the machine?

Yes. They are expensive and deviously good at it. Or, at least they used to be many years ago.

Many years back I worked in a tiny town (1000 people?) four hours from the closest depot and we even got same day service. This cost a king's ransom. But the AS/400 ran most of the business...
No offense, this is a huge pity party you're throwing yourself.

You said you "blew" five interviews without providing any information or taking any responsibility. Also, you say that you've been doing development for 20 years. Do you think you're entitled to something purely based on your experience, even though it might not be relevant?

Also, five interviews is just a drop in the bucket. What did you expect your interview pass rate to be, over 20%? That seems highly unrealistic.
Singapore is a city state, and its main language is English. Not learning one of its secondary languages hardly equates to not integrating.
I know some junkies in Bellevue, unfortunately, but I can guarantee there are currently no homeless/unemployed/special needs/etc. within ~183' in any direction (and I don't believe my neighbors have suddenly become junkies, either). I agree things are different in higher population density areas. And yes, the Eastside gets a far better deal here.
Right now we have some search and charting features that GitHub's web interface doesn't. We also hope to do a much better job with PRs (diff view especially).

The big win for us right now (and hopefully other teams) is the ability to view issues from multiple repositories all together. So if you have an organization wide "1.0" milestone, you can actually view all the issues in that milestone from all repos at once. You can also use custom queries to group things however you like across all your repos.
Based on your reply, you had a bad consultant and you used the wrong tool to load the data. Dealing with CLOB/BLOB fields can be a hassle sometimes but that shouldn't kill a project. Both Datapump and SQL-loader could have both been options.

This brings me to one of my pet peeves, programmers tend to trash databases because most of them don't understand how they internally work. If you ask most corporate developers to generate an explain plan and tell you what is going on in the output, most couldn't generate the plan.
The "web" link (which finds the article via a Google search) usually allows paywalled WSJ articles to be read, but it's not working for me today.
Sorry, what? I was talking about baking cakes. Did you mean to reply to someone else?
Fun blast from the past. The original version of this shipped with Mark of the Unicorn's Mince/Scribble package for CP/M. (Mince = Mince Is Not Complete Emacs)
More parameters is very exciting! I wonder if anyone here has read about what the relationship between the number of parameters on the network and the size of the dataset used on the network? Wouldn't such a large number of parameters risk serious overfitting by giving the model the capacity to fit to exact samples?
I'm just curious what code editor do you use right now?
The biggest thing against Hillary, geopolitically, was her hawkishness and the posture against a nuclear Russia. Obama-Putin was very rocky. Hillary-Putin would have been an abysmal and possibly dangerous relationship.

Avoiding a hot war in Eastern Europe is worth the people affected by the new immigration bans.
> I imagine finding enough open source people who will pay $9

Actually, we intend for Ship to always be free for (truly) open source. Public repos will always work, even after the trial expires.
What's so shallow about giving back self-confidence to kids and adults who didn't win perfect teeth at the genetic lottery?
Surely we're not still using Snopes as a source of truth?
When a company lobbies the government, or makes a donation to a PAC, is that not speaking for the company? Even if you disagree with what's being done?
Trump's Statement Regarding Recent Executive Order Concerning Extreme Vetting
It's hard to celebrate achievements that can be linked back to Elon knowing that he's lending legitimacy to Trump.
Do you have specific examples? Besides laws, I can't think of any. What are the consequences for not following their way of life? Isolation from their social group? Hasn't that already happened to isolated Asians and Indians in New Zealand?
You're right. Kotlin provides the null-or-throw operator (!!) to convert a Derp? into a Derp, though.
In what way are you forced to use their product?
Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
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Immigration and Terrorism
"If I were a taxi driver, I would sell my medallion while it still has some value and start driving for Uber and Lyft, doing deliveries for Prime Now and Grubhub, etc."

You would sell your piece of market share, and then go work for an entity that has absolute power over you, and will drive your surpluses to zero - or even into the negative at the greatest pace they can?

When Uber has a monopoly, the 'short term' income of most drivers will be under minimum wage (because there's no income regulation) - and because so many drivers do not properly account for 'wear, tear and insurance' - the 'long term' net may actually be negative.

Uber's business is about paying drivers the equivalent of a short-term 'pay day loan' on value of their car as it degrades over usage, after which real income is negligible.

Or at least, that's the economic end-game.

Uber has demonstrated fanatical adherence to market principles - they leverage their power as hard as they can. The natural thing for them to do in a monopolistic scenario would be to jack up prices massively, jack up margins massively, and make sure drivers earn next to 0, and consumers benefit next to 0 - so that they capture all of the surpluses.

If anyone things that Uber will not do this they have not been paying attention. Uber will price at the 'profit maximizing' point for them - which in a monopoly situation is 'very high prices' (i.e. a shade below what you wouldn't be willing to pay) for consumers, and 'lower than minimum wage' for drivers (i.e. a shade above what they can possibly get away with).

Travis's comments on his hearing were pretty clear - he's a free market fundamentalist of the 'scary kind' (and by that I mean, economically illiterate, parroting the virtues of the ideology he espouses without actually understanding the scope of them).

So long as there is real competition, Uber will be limited by that, but if they ever get de-facto monopoly, the only winner will be them. They will ensure they get all of the surpluses.
It's a bit easier for a cloud provider to look at your data surreptitiously, but you apply that very same "I swear that I won't look at your data" trust upon every software and hardware vendor from your USB keyboard to your internet router.
I think becarefulyo's point was that Uber hasn't segmented the market enough. There needs to be a pool-without-cramming option. If Uber doesn't provide it, someone else will.
Their interview process signals their strengths and bullshit. You also signal to them things which have to filtered correctly.

Also, interviewing is partly arbitrary hazing to make incumbents feel valuable.

Five is not very many interviews at all. 30 would be significant. In good interviewing, much more time is wasted to have many more offers.

If you're going for instant respect, wage slavery is the wrong port to chat up. It's always earned over time by demonstrating invaluable performance as useful to the current business "growing pains."

Finally, the usual standards: positive, hygiene (no nasty ear, nose, neck hair), fit, energetic, quick, confident and dressed impeccably. And, all the usual canned answer "brain teasers" which are Glugglable. Perhaps tactfully-suggesting how such arbitrary mental fappenings apply to the job without pointing out how they are often ineffective shortcuts which may make the interviewer feel superior. Oh joys of big ol' corporations and their bloat and waste.
Still seems quite speedy to me coming from the Java world :-)

I'm curious as to what is happening with SIMD. That has been at stage 3 for a long time.
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It may be stressful, but I would not sweat it. In my experience, the only way to get better at interviews is to do more interviews. Then the random questions start becoming more common.

I interviewed a guy once who was trying to talk his way into a VP-level position. Except he was talking to me, and I was just a hired hand suited only to make a recommendation for a n additional developer. The guy had a sound mind but the company was not hiring for his role.

At the same time, I mostly don't want to work at the companies that do puzzle interviews, though you may feel differently. A lot of times these center on approaches like recursion algorithms, but I'm a full-stack/backend web developer, and I've written less than 10 recursion functions for production. I now ask these interviewers how often they write recursion algorithms and the answer I usually get the line "oh it's just useful to know the underlying concept," except it isn't. I can write them, but I don't care for them, and the concept isn't particularly mind-blowing, and you'll have to explain it to the rest of your team.

Anyway, hang in there, best wishes
I'm surprised everyone is jumping on Lyft even though Thiel is a major investor in Lyft and a huge supporter of Trump.

I think it'd make most sense to avoid both services if you are concerned about the recent immigration ban.
Which country you moved to?
The false negative/false positive question is more about the costs of hiring a "bad" engineer than how hard it is to find a "good" one.

I've been in that situation: Once, at an old job, I had put in for a new role that had been created. There was also an outside candidate who'd applied for the role. Management felt that having me interview this candidate would have been a conflict of interest, considering, so I wasn't asked to participate.

I knew within 30 seconds of meeting him that he wouldn't last. He didn't. They gave him three months, and we all agreed in retrospect that he shouldn't have been hired at all.

In the interim, I did my old job, as well as his job (in the form of handholding him through everything he did more complicated than surfing the web), and was very quickly given the title of "Senior $role", with him as a direct report.

The other engineers and I spent hours, daily, working hand in hand with him, correcting his code, repeatedly suggesting the same things he could do to avoid having those problems with his code in the first place, &c.

That's just one example of what the thing I thought the grandparent meant by "false positive" can cost you. I'm sure there are worse.
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The theory is sound but it assumes that I am able to move to any country legally to live there. That requires certain types of passports which I was not born with. It also has more assumptions to what my financial/family situation is. I don't meant this in a negative way of course since you don't know me but what I am saying is that this plan is not always possible.

The idea of keeping expenses down and foregoing frivolous luxuries is what allows me to wait for a better offer inbetween jobs if i needed to. So I strongly agree with that bit.
The biggest problem is that the Dems could only offer a hawk who had issues getting along with Putin. I would have held my breath if she entered office while Putin was still in power. That and her globalist outlook (even if later she tried to pretend to become anti-globalist.)

There was really no good choice and it became a choice of the least bad and the guy who won at least isn't afraid to say he's looking out for Americans whereas Hillary was more timid about looking out for the average Joe and Sue.
Aren't Maori native to NZ? If anything the assimilation by this definition should be the other way round. I'm all for assimilation, btw
There's a leading DB vendor (at least according to Gartner) which will give you enterprise support if you run MySQL or PostgreSQL.

AWS.

While multi-master replication is still not there (it's still just a synchronous standby and read slaves) all of the heavy lifting is done for you.
On Immigration and Diversity
I never said the "wining and dining" was illegal or corrupt. I just think it is a easy way to get decision makers to push the people under them to look at technologies that may or may not apply.

In the case of the cloud, I agree that there's a future for it. But I think in the future people are going to look around and notice that it cost a lot of money to run everything in the cloud and on-premise is going to start looking good again.
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