skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No you are not alone. The expectation is you've reviewed and practiced these subjects before going in. Hopefully with a few weeks of practice you should be able to remember them enough to write them out on a board. But yeah it can be thought, the interviews are stressful and not good for introvert candidates or those who struggle under pressure. (I'm in the latter group. practice helps).

It's not a great system but it's the best they have come up with so far. It's frustrating because it's got a high false negative rate. Failing it isn't a indication of you on the job skill.
People insisting that Trump is a joke weren't wrong about that. What they were wrong about was their belief that this country wouldn't seriously elect someone so wildly incompetent and unfit to be president. The fact that Trump got elected doesn't reflect badly upon the people who said he's a joke, it reflects badly on everyone else.
That used to be my main beef with Milo. Now that he's come out as effectively pro-NAMBLA, I'm seriously wondering how tasteless he's going to get before we stop giving him the attention he craves.

(And, yes, I realize that his stance regarding pedophilia is most likely a consequence of his own childhood sexual abuse, but even that still doesn't excuse the shitty things he's advocating, or saying about specific people. Attacking a specific person the way he has is necessarily an act of violence, and no matter how prettily you dress it up, or how loudly you hide behind "freedom of speech", violence is never speech.)
You are generalizing a number of points that he never spoke about though. I think those things about Islam are terrible, and would never defend it. Nor do I defend the stupidity that is christianity. But I also recognize people of the same religion have different levels of morality. Likewise I accept that women and men are different genetically, but that we should treat them equally.

That said, I think silicon valley is definitely not a morally superior place. Given what came out this weekend about Uber. They're not the first tech company to have diversity and problems with how they treat women.
That's the one I use. That's what I had in mind: doesn't reliably keep track of what's read and what isn't, has a bunch of add-on search functionality that prompts to upgrade. I'm not doing deep text search, I'm typing the name of the feed because I can't remember where I put it in the folders they mandate when I add something new.
"Well, we've had the automated IT-based office for decades and the cries of everyone losing their jobs didn't really happen, not the paperless office."

I'm sure I read in the economist that the number of people doing office work has been falling for some time.
Glad to see our public transport schema as one of the demo options. However, it's not just Helsinki Region or Finland anymore: you can set up your own endpoints by loading OpenStreetMap and GTFS data into OpenTripPlanner. More info: https://digitransit.fi/en/developers
I would not hire Linus Torvalds. For all his technical capability (which I've followed as a linux and git user for some 25 years now) many of his externally visible statements are not acceptable for any modern workplace (this has been discussed a number of times, I know people have differing opinions, but if Torvalds worked at a modern corporation with a real HR department, his words would get him in trouble.)
> Trump won largely because of disenfranchised blue collar Caucasians resonated with him.

This is one of the most startling facts of this election to me. Trump got the support of these people with emotional rhetoric that had little basis in reality. By putting on a hat and giving people groups to blame he positioned himself as a champion of the people besides his past showing is the complete opposite. Trump has spent his whole life taking advantage of middle-class people and sits on a literal throne in a tower in Manhattan. There is a large number of people in the United States, not just blue collar Caucasians, who have a couple inability to think critically and make well calculated well-informed decisions. Education is one possible solution to this problem, classes on logic and reasoning, starting at a young age. But what about now? Can we wait 20-30 years for a new population with better reasonings skills?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13697771
And from what I understand it's a 100 mile zone around the borders? https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
> They are so fucking tired of identity politics. Oversensitivity, calling everything "-ist" to win an argument, trying to tie racism into everything.

I've thought of this and wondered is it actually possible that racism and sexism is rampant?

In Eastern Europe, racism is utterly rampant (dismissal of achievements of people based on their ethnicity, wide spread belief that people of a certain ethnic type are 'bad for the country', casual disdain to out-group members). However racism is also utterly accepted, and thus invisible to the casual eye because in practice many people constantly make exceptions to their world view. They're racist in general and chant slurs when drunk, but polite to their neighbors from Nigeria because "those are the good ones".

Perhaps the same is true in the US. Just look at companies like Uber, and how institutions can be warped to protect sexual harassers. Those individuals aren't some great 'other'. Those are our friends, colleagues, brothers, sisters, and yes sometimes they are even 'us'. Yet outside of smoking gun situations, we don't see them as even potentially 'sexist'.

So sexism could be rampant. Racism could be rampant.

However, calling people out on said fact, is not useful for anything except for fostering feelings of self-righteousness. What is most effective, as we can see from the US Civil Rights movement of the 60s, is focusing on common ground, and using that as a motivator toward egalitarianism. In my very own state, the KKK was utterly destroyed by the fact that they wanted to beat up elementary-school children, and whilst some people might have been casually racists they drew the line against beating up 7 year olds and thus could be motivated to repudiate even less extreme positions simply because the KKK was also for them. What brought us all together was the feeling that 'we are all human beings who value our families, and love our children'.

What I see with current day liberals (and conservatives actually too) is that the platform lacks unity.

Thus rather than being able to build bridges, bridges are often burned pre-emptively by more 'extreme' segments of the group.
Thank you for asking this question, I've been wondering for so long.
Hm...I'll fix that right away
What do you suggest? I do have an "About Us" Page
What's the purpose of devaluing someone's opinion / level of comfort like that? This is exactly how you get people to disengage and destroy any chance you have of persuading them of ... whatever you want to persuade them of.
> Ford might have avoided such tragedies, and the ruinous management of the plantation, if he had sought counsel from specialists in caring for rubber trees or scholars of the Amazon’s capacity to thwart grandiose ventures. But he seemed to abhor learning from the past.

If Ford had sort counsel from experts he would have perhaps been a clerk somewhere. After the fact analysis.
Ask HN: How Do You Test React Native Apps E2E?
- Appium ?

- Manually ?

- Earlgrey ?

- Espresso ?

- Jest ?

- Calabash ?

- Anything else ?
I feel a vague sympathy for those people.

Feh. You always treat a gun like it's loaded. I see no reason to treat a ballot differently. The potential consequences are far more wide-reaching with the ballot.
If you're trying to have a discussion about political ideals, spamming factual current event news or pundit-curated facts is not really conductive to discussion. And if the goal is instead to have an argument, it's not a clincher either since both sides have stockpiles of anec-data links to play the game of inductive reasoning.

The parent comment was referring to discussion of ideas, not one-off event X happened or didn't happen arguments.
Excellent. We have established that you are, in fact a carrot.

I propose we roast you with some honey.

Your strenuous disagreement is a clear indication that you are intolerant of alternative viewpoints.
Thanks, I didn't know about the surge, I will check it out for the next update (also static pages on GitHub is a great tool, I forgot to mention them).
Me too, on cassette tapes, off the local college radio station WMUC!

I didn't mean to plagiarize -- those words are just so deeply embedded in my mind from listening to the radio shows and records, reading the books and playing the infocom game so many times, and they so perfectly described the situation. So I assumed everyone would recognize Douglas Adam's really really nice use of words, like a Shakespearian quote. ;)

"It's unpleasantly like being drunk."

"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"

"You ask a glass of water."

If you haven't already listened to the 1978 radio show millions of times, it's on youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaV8XOYviB4&list=PL5nE2JSEwP...
Definitely a good idea to decouple rote memorization from the interview process.
Thanks. That works in Cloud ML now? I'll try it.

The copy on https://cloud.google.com/ml/ under Portable Models says "In future phases, models trained using Cloud Machine Learning can be downloaded for local execution" so I hadn't looked into it further.
> * A new new deal; end 'handouts', make it the government's job to offer productive job placement.

Would you consider medicine and living arrangements for people who can't work for psychological or physical reasons "a handout"?
Ask HN: Office skills testing that isn't method-specific?
I work for a mid-sized law firm. I'm wondering if people have any suggestion for Office skills testing applications -- most of them seem to have a fatal flaw: they're method-specific. In other words, it'll test you how to open a document, and it will only have one "right" thing in mind, despite there being multiple ways to open a document (Ctrl-O, 'open' toolbar button, etc.). We're looking for testing apps/websites that will accept any method that would actually work in Office. I have no idea how to even Google for this; I'd appreciate any recommendations you might have.
Oh, sorry, I'll make it really apparent. You're right, that info isn't readily available.
I judge books by reading a page or two. You can't magically know if the entire book's good, or bad, unfortunately.

Otherwise, ask for recommendations, your friends, colleagues and family probably (hopefully) share some of your interests.
Or ask around in the library itself, librarians always like talking about books, for obvious reasons ;p
...as well as all rational thought.
Yeah, I've seen those recruiters. And they tend to not be honest about who they are actually working for. So, for example, you'll get contacted by someone who is recruiting for a job at a big name company, from someone who isn't from that company and doesn't know what is actually available from there. They only know about the one role that they were told about.

These things are generally a mess if you start out that way. Waste of time and money on both sides.
I had the same problem, and it does indeed to be caused by the extension HTTPS Everywhere that I imagine a lot of HNers use.
I agree with most of the above sentiment, but there's a little more context to the mocking of the disabled reporter. He'd been using those motions to mock people (who are backpedaling) in general for quite some time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgaC0leEb68
That requires a subscription, and your subscription to a service which produces long form journalism will be inherently biased.

I am unaware of a service which really aggregates multiple view points in a fair way because such a thing is impossible.

I can link you to a few longer form journalism papers/magazines, but any conservative would decry them as biased.

We could link to some traditionally conservative outlets, but they'd be decried as neo-conservative, out of date and biased.

As offensive as it might be to you, in society and news, opinion is all there is.

"But facts MATTER" you might retort, but no, they don't. Only opinions about facts matter.

Because what power does a fact have if it's not accepted as true? None. What power does a falsehood have if it's accepted as true? All of it.

There is no fair and rational way to separate opinion and fact.

After a fifteen years of using news aggregators, RSS aggregators, aggreagtors like memeorandum.com and polurls.com, and social aggregators like digg, then reddit, and social media services, I have not found what you want.

I have thought about making it, and I have ideas on how liberals and conservatives can use a single website to organize the news into strands and voice their opinions on the validity of that organization WITHOUT the normal animosity and viciousness that is normal, but I've never sat down to really create it.
Oh I love it!

I'm designing the distributed backend for my Deep Learning startup now (https://signalbox.ai), this is going to be great. Awesome work!
As a Trump supporter many of the comments resonated.

In regards to upholding and celebrating American culture I always have this thought:

Why do silicon valley types promote the concept of a "company culture" and feel it's important enough to base hiring decisions on,

while demeaning those that want to uphold and sustain their own country's culture in the same manner?

You hear it time and time again when a CEO stresses cultural fit as a prerequisite to hiring. To achieve this they:

1) Hire slowly so as not to dilute the culture, ensuring those that are hired assimilate and adopt the practices of the company they are joining

2) Have a standard, a bar, set a baseline of skills and ability any new employee must reach to be hired.

But when any American citizen brings up similar rationale vis a vis immigration / maintaining their own culture by, for example, wanting to limit mass immigration of those from a culture / ideology that is drastically different from their own it's viewed as the most irrational thing in the world, even described as a "phobia" of sorts (when discussing the Islamic side of the issue).

Are Indians criticized for valuing their culture? How about Mexicans? Are Muslims criticized for valuing theirs? Or are all these groups celebrated for their pride in their own cultures?

I even worked with a liberal Canadian from Quebec, who argued passionately about his provinces fight to uphold their language and culture, while on the other hand would strongly denounce any reasoned argument I had on immigration / American cultural issues.

It just seems like Americans who want to maintain what they value as American culture (complicated no doubt) are held to a completely different standard than others, and are viewed as the most hateful people in the world for holding these kinds of views.
check out this new tutorial series: http://ryanking.com/blog/Joy-of-ATS-1-Installing-ATS/
No, being downvoted doesn't prove your point. People are downvoting you because you're literally defending a pederast nazi.
Experimentally, no. The example program calls localtime(3) 10 times but only accesses the file once, per truss:

write(1,"Greetings!n",11)	= 11 (0xb)
access("/etc/localtime",R_OK)	= 0 (0x0)
open("/etc/localtime",O_RDONLY,037777777600)	= 3 (0x3)
fstat(3,{ mode=-r--r--r-- ,inode=11316113,size=2819,blksize=32768 }) = 0 (0x0)
read(3,"TZif20000000000000"...,41448) = 2819 (0xb03)
close(3)	= 0 (0x0)
issetugid()	= 0 (0x0)
open("/usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules",O_RDONLY,00) = 3 (0x3)
fstat(3,{ mode=-r--r--r-- ,inode=327579,size=3519,blksize=32768 }) = 0 (0x0)
read(3,"TZif20000000000000"...,41448) = 3519 (0xdbf)
close(3)	= 0 (0x0)
write(1,"Godspeed, dear friend!n",23)	= 23 (0x17)

(FreeBSD caches the database on the first call: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/contrib/tzcode/stdtime/... )
If you want factual reporting of events that have happened, i.e. news, then Reuters or AP will give you this, without any of the other crap.
Thank you, very interesting!
Why Some Apps Use Fake Progress Bars
Char2Wav: End-To-End Speech Synthesis
I'd put money on the fact that those competitive programming Quora developers aren't working on the Android app. Or even on the Android/Mobile API back-end, which seems to fail frequently -- and lose information you've entered into the app, which doesn't do the obvious things like queuing up requests to be pushed later when they initially fail.

So. Much. Fail.

The Amazon Alexa/Echo app is similarly poorly programmed. Takes like 10 seconds just to boot up, which you need to do if you want to look at your shopping list -- and if the gets pushed to the background, you need to boot up the app again. Sigh.
I don't think he/she means that they are worse. We all want to work with developers who can help us learn and get better. From what I understand, he/she just means that their process of hiring has no correlation to the quality of code that they produce. Their hiring process is incapable by design of hiring those people BASED on those skills he/she is looking to work with, but sometimes they do end up hiring capable engineers with no credit to their process.
What about yogurt?
I am a Linux enthusiast. I'd love to run linux as my main OS, however:

1) I also like games

2) I hate dual booting

3) PCI passthrough of GPU to VM was a bit annoying

So WSL is kind of a nice middle of the two worlds. I don't need to run a Linux VM now for development, for example.
Ask HN: Ideas/programs in your community that help others
I'm looking for things that people are doing all over the US and the world that help other people. Think non-profits or volunteering or organizations that work for the greater social good? Thanks for sharing!
An alternative to Urban Dictionary
In American presidential elections the only majority that matters if of electoral college. The majority of heads does not matter, majority of head adjusted for privilege points does not matter, votes of global citizens do no matter. In that sense my use of the word "majority" is perfectly correct.
What assumption? If you think I'm assuming you are a Trump supporter, please state where I said that?
No, that is not true. It in fact was originally intended to protect slavery from the very electoral disadvantages (persons not eligible to vote, very many of whom were in the South) which slavery created[1].

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/the-electoral-college-was-ex...
A primary focus should be on overthrowing the military industrial complex, which seems to be the source of a lot of waste - both of human focus and capital. Anyone doing their research will reach the conclusion that there are many factors of misalignment and sabotage within the US government. If the US didn't have its fingers in so many other governments, then it would be safer to ignore this fact.
Thanks for the link! I've actually never thought about this concept and it actually does describe a bit the way I feel about the giraffe.

The designer did a great job drawing it...but something just doesn't feel right...
If your Facebook feed is worthless, it's your fault. Either you have nobody you care about or you like worthless stuff. I'm connected with family and friends, I'm following interesting people and liked interesting pages. My newsfeed is full of great content, from people I care about or page with content I want to read/watch.
If we spent less invading and rebuilding other countries, we'd have more than enough to take care of our less fortunate citizens. That will even reduce the number of the less fortunate from other countries, if you consider that a significant percentage are from countries that we invaded.
At the moment I can't reply to jat850's coment

>Maybe, but there's probably something to be said for social cost that make that argument somewhat less valid. Herd immunity. Seat belt and helmet laws, etc.
Note that I am not taking a position here on vaccinations or anything else, just that it's not the best point one could make (other than for some casual amusement at cognitive gear grinding and confusion).
It'd be the same as making fun of someone with anti-abortion views by saying "but death penalty lol isn't all life valuable!?" - which I am certain many have said and heard, but this type of arguing doesn't actually approach the reality behind issues and beliefs and positions.

The purpose isn't to be a jerk. The purpose is to cause anyone to pause and think through their position more thoroughly. What rules should apply, when and when not. Without searching more deeply for a more principled position it will come down to "because that's how I feel". But that's not how someone else feels. And what makes one person's feelings more important or superior to another's?

So, when does society get more say than you over your body?

Personally I don't think we should use and rely on the law to try to legislate away stupidity. We should use compassionate education. Yeah, I know, it sucks we have to be patient and not everyone will get on board. The only other option is to imprison and kill all the people that don't agree with you.
How does support for some function services translate to "making .Net relevant again"? In all of the talk I've seen regarding recent changes of .Net Core/Standard, serveless has never come up. Most people are not in the .Net space because of what it can do without the frameworks they are use to using if they re-write their code.
> but I think that if Trump and Hillary had the same views on abortion, Hillary would have undoubtedly won the election

I suspect that the set of voters who would have shifted from Trump to an anti-abortion HRC is smaller than the set of voters who would have defected from a anti-abortion HRC to Jill Stein or stayed home.
Exactly. And now we are being asked to be understanding of the people who voted for this madman and accused of being intolerant for not accepting the bullshit they spew (see most of the quotes from this article), all in the name of not being divisive. What Sam Altman didn't hear from Trump supporters was any mention of an actual political issue, other than abortion. I'd say that speaks a lot louder than any of the things they are willing to talk about. I hear the suffering and pain in what people say, but zero discussion of the actual issues that are the cause of that. What isn't said speaks a lot louder in this case.
I get that argument, but I see people of different minorities who just simply don't want to work with them, because the trump supporters put the grossness and sexism aside. They want to fix the voter surpression, and better encourage people who support the side of equality to come out and vote, than convince the people who supported trump.
Huh... maybe I'm mistaken. Lemme ask the experts and get back to you.

[Edit: Okay, we've decided that the exported model it produces is what you'd expect. We're going to update the landing page, once we can agree on what it should say.]
Leaders and managers of organizations have said that they'd like to sabotage the careers of Trump supporters and/or Republicans in their org.

That's pretty threatening I think?