skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The New York Times wants mass immigration into the Western world and if the subject is culture, they say, "You need immigration for great culture." If the subject is cuisine, they say, "You need immigration for great cuisine." Everything from economics, art, science, "Freedom [TM]", "The American Dream [TM]", down to clean toilets, harvested vegetables, blown leaves, etc, etc, etc, all have one necessary ingredient according to the elites: Mass immigration. You will find this to be 100 percent consistent across the media.

The rational person recognizes that, in fact, NONE of these things depend upon mass immigration. The elites aren't daft, and so they clearly want it for a separate, undisclosed, reason.
https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/About-the-Migration-...

You're right in that there is a spike in 2015, but the 2014 stats are more than twice as high as 2016.

And regardless of which, it's completely relevant if we want to measure immigration as a factor on crime.
How These Ecommerce Entrepreneurs Use Instagram to Drive Massive Sales – Sumo
when could UTF-8 be the default encoding regardless the session language?
But it's a time travel story if you can't act in the information and the information have been always there?

I suppose that we could say that the point of the story is to show that time is not what we though.
TimeMachine for local nightly, in case I need to recover quickly from yesterday. ARQ for hourly/daily/monthly offsite to Microsoft's live drive..
On their blog they state that raw sockets (ping), ip address / ip route will work.
Are you really sure it was that much better than the competition?
At this point in my career I typically respond by stating that I'm only interested in remote work and asking what their budget is.

I have yet to hear back either.
I think when a company reaches a certain size it is hard to expect that there is such a thing as "a manager looked at my github/qualifications and decided they need me so they will tailor the interview to my skillset".

At this point it feels the interview process is becoming more of a combo between a hazing ritual and a lottery than something actually useful to ascertain if the person interviewed would be a good match for the position or not.

The longer the interview is, also, the more likely one will be discarded because one of the many interviewers is having a bad day, or because after several hours of whiteboarding one can understandably draw a blank on a simple question they would've waltzed through 4 hours prior and be failed because of that. How long before interviews also contain an anti-doping panel to weed out candidates trying to improve their odds?

It is strange though that in a country where there is at-will employment one is basically told that hiring the "wrong person" could destroy the company or something and so the interviewer has to make really really really really sure that the candidate is absolutely ok.

I personally think the risk of hiring somebody and they can't cut it after three months and you have to let them go, is worth not passing the candidate that doesn't do well at whiteboarding but will instead prove to be great when tasked with real business problems that take more than a few minutes to solve.
Github URL is here: https://github.com/kigster/simple-feed and the ruby gem is here: https://rubygems.org/gems/simple-feed
Getting fired for cause usually means you lose them.
The Great Failure of Wang Laboratories, the David to IBM’s Goliath
I'd be interested in hearing from people who work at Google, and get to figure out a cool algorithm for solving an interesting puzzle-problem more an about once a year. I bet there aren't very many.

In my experience, the stuff you do in this kind of interview has very little relation with the stuff you do in the actual job. (I wish it did! I love those algorithmic puzzles.)
Only relatively speaking. The MD runs the games of the previous generation (Master System) natively on the Z80. The hardware of the MD, including the VDP and audio, is basically a superset of that of the MS.
Not only that, but if you describe something very minutely and exacting, it will seem very difficult. But if you describe it as "A game with 2 opposing sides, with a shared oblong ball, and each team tries to get it to the other side past their opponents." And I just described US football.
Email implies a different sort of latency.

If I want to ask my coworker René for a quick bit of knowledge, a phone call is too disruptive and too urgent, and an email might not be answered for a few hours. Slack/hipchat/irc are the perfect medium for "hey, do you know off the top of your head why X is Y?"
Local:

- An external for music, pictures, and ROMS, another external for video

- A backup of each external for travelling

- A third backup of both externals onto a single larger external

Off-site:

- Crashplan
- Google Drive for source code and important documents

All my source code is on multiple laptops and kept backed up through Github. I should probably start including the GitHub folder on my CrashPlan as well, just in case my repo ever gets deleted or something.
I think you've just demonstrated why it's dangerous to have a single official keeper of truth. You're conflating policy judgments with factual correctness, but facts don't necessarily directly lead to policies. We must first judge the facts through our personal lenses of values, and that can lead to different conclusions.

National Review certainly has a political bias, but they're generally pretty good with keeping contact with reality, factually. The fact that they arrive at different conclusions is no reason to try to blacklist them.
It's been on my (successive) hard drives for the past 22 years :)
Ditto, I also struggled with it. I really, really didn't like the book (but really wanted to). Since then he's a standing example for my own ad hominem thinking, as in I have to keep reminding myself to separate the person from the point they're trying to make. Embarrassed to say I've never met him but can't stand him.
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Obviously HTTPS needs to be implemented correctly.

But this is more a problem with the knee jerk HTTPS everywhere movement and a quick and dirty response than anything else. The browser and OS vendors don't provide high quality APIs for this purpose, so customers are stuck picking security products without an easy way to identify quality gaps.

Even in unregulated industries, most commercial enterprises should be doing TLS inspection -- i would argue that's it is irresponsible not to. How can you claim to protect customer data or respect customer privacy without looking at the data flowing out the front door?
I think you want to be grounding the shield on your Coax line. But I'm not an electrician or an RF engineer, so I might be completely wrong.
Ask HN: HN Dups, Randomness, Herding, ETC
Curious if anyone has anyone has any thoughts of if there's a better way to manage HN submissions.

For example, there are a lot of duplicate submissions, users tend to herd around top submissions, etc.

One thought is that randomly users are presented with a mix of new and top stories and requested to say if each story is new or a top story.
Russian Bank Executive Says Bitcoin Is the Only Successful Blockchain
If somebody with "hate" in their name responds to credible accusations of sexual malfeasance with false interjections of "but there's no proof", then we're already approaching Fox-News-comments levels of quality.

If you aren't claiming that ultrahate is displaying healthy skepticism, then what do you think he's doing? And why is that valuable enough that you took time to defend it?
Unlike most of HN (it seems), I like hearing from recruiters, because despite the very low signal-to-noise ratio, there's always that remote chance that one of them could be able to set me up with a "dream job". It's zero cost to me to politely reply to a recruiter and ask for more info, and I try to at least respond to everyone. What I've found is that they must have a lot of candidates they're juggling because falling out of the funnel is surprisingly easy!

It's amazing how often "Hey, thanks for reaching out, I'm interested. Can you tell me more about the role?" results in the conversation ending right away. Probably over 50% recruiters that contact me do not reply back after that very polite and neutral response.

Many who do keep the conversation going have not read my profile or resume carefully, so I'll give them a summary of the types of work I'm actually interested in, which is never what they contact me for, and politely decline to move forward with the (usually way too junior) role they are looking to fill. That will almost always end the engagement.

Sure, it's a lot of noise, but filtering is very cheap: the time it takes to reply back. My actual success rate with recruiters probably pretty average. Of the eight or so jobs I've had in my ~20 year career, about three were obtained through recruiters, two times through in-house staff, once through an external recruiter.
No, the fact that they're state owned media and used by the Russian government to put out propaganda makes RT propaganda.

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/

EG: https://euvsdisinfo.eu/useful-experts-in-russian-media/
Very neat concept, even if it's a shameless plug.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12999934

Recent discussion on the same subject. Rural land in Tennessee, Arq/Google, and Crashplan were the top three.

Personally I use Google for photos and documents, and have them synced across multiple computers. I also make a copy of it once a year.
> I should have told her that I didn't want to be interviewed by some programmers, because I would most certainly fail. There was no need to try. I wanted to be interviewed by the person who really needs me: my future boss. That person will understand my profile and won't ask pointless questions about algorithms, simply because he or she will know what my duties will be and what kind of problems I will be capable of solving, if they hired me.

While I agree with the author about algorithm questions being relatively pointless, my sense is they don't know about the team matching process. After I interviewed with Google, they presented me with a list of a eight teams who were interested in me and asked me to rank them in order of preference. They then had me come back a second day and meet with the managers of the top four teams I selected. At the end of the day, I ranked the teams again. The team I ranked the highest who also wanted to hire me was the team I would have joined if I had accepted my offer.

I much prefer the current process where you have one day of general interviews, and then go back a second day and just talk with the managers of the teams you would be interested in. It would only make the process much more of a hassle for everyone involved if you had to be interviewed by the managers of every team for which there was mutual interest.
If you have human level AI, in democracies the people would likely vote in a government to sort out something UBI. At the moment UBI would have a job working because paying people for their work is still how things work.
While I agree with the sentiment, I wouldn't call it "college-style exams", to be honest. Colleges would be quite different if exams were conducted one-on-one, and instructor would have been willing to talk with you through the problem and cared more about your thought train and approach rather than the exact solution. In fact, I am pretty sure that if you just knew the correct solution and the answer to the coding interview and simply wrote it down silently on the whiteboard (which would be the best outcome on a college exam), you would be rejected instantaneously.
Yes. Even if I was starving, I want to believe I could not steal from my neighbor (morals). And not sell my kids into state-slavery (the ability to take in trillions of income from some and outlay it to others is the ultimate power and it will ultimately corrupt anyone who tries to own it or live on it).
Everyone talks about a government regulated basic income, but we're seeing more and more steps for having your own passive income.

* Right now you can buy an AirBNB property - yeah, you'll need to manage it, but it's a first step.

* With the new "Tesla Network" your car will be able to drive around and pick up people on its own - that's a huge level of passive income. Just buy a Model 3 and set it to driver mode, and you're good.

* These are just the start - I can imagine farm robots making automated food, or craft robots making things - maybe wooden benches or something from a robot arm.
very easy to follow and understand
It doesn't just "lean conservative," it is an explicitly conservative opinion journal, and an excellent one. Even if you are not a conservative, it's a great source for understanding conservative thought.
This article may scratch the point that this article b talking of predestination is basically talking about religion and free will.

And that maybe predestination is pretty acausal, thus posing a strong problem with science.

So I see it as an article trying to say that the story is under the cover of very scientific words trying like zelazny, hubbard and van vogt to open a new era of mystical science.
"I'd like to create a fasting habit just to experiment, but can't understand how that's even possible when working out on gym daily."

I fast twice weekly while maintaining a schedule of high intensity weightlifting (power movements, etc.) and BJJ twice weekly along with two unrelated cardio workouts each week.

On Mondays I skip breakfast. On Fridays I skip breakfast and lunch.

So these are not very long or extreme fasts by any measure, but they are easy to work into a routine and I definitely feel pronounced health benefits. Inflammatory symptoms drop noticeably after the 24 hour fast and I feel very, very fast and light on my feet for running and martial arts.

The 24 hour fast (on fridays) happens on my rest day, which presumably you have. I also make it easy by sleeping in that day. The shorter fast (Mondays) is a day that I only do a cardio workout.

I agree with you that multi day fasts would be incompatible with a high level of high intensity exercise. I think my single 24 hour fast each week is about the limit of what I could do and still maintain high intensity outputs like powerlifting and martial arts.

I strongly encourage you to try it. It's free. It gives you an extra hour or three each week to do things other than eating (and you avoid the context switch of activity-lunch-activity) and it's possible that, like me, you'll feel great.
I'm not quite sure what your style/rhetoric distinction refers to. I conjecture that the underlying mechanism why we can often easily predict political content from style is that most writers in general, and journalists in particular, don't write their texts from scratch, but mostly copy existing material and adapt it a bit. You can think of it along the lines of replication of DNA. The economics of modern journalism have made the copying worse.

As an aside, I once developed software for an old telecoms protocol, and found a large number descriptions of this protocol in the trade press. They were all terrible, but felt quite similar. Eventually I managed to track down the origin: teaching material for a course developed by Cisco. As far as I can tell, not one article in the trade press was original. Yet, clearly some authors did quite a bit of work to disguise their copying, including -- bizarrely -- to redraw (badly) the figures in the original material.
In the F1 realm, improved fuel efficiency is a fringe benefit of lower weight, high-strength components. Low mass for improved acceleration, braking, and turning, as well as strength and stiffness for handling chassis and aerodynamic loads, are significantly more important than the tenths or hundredths of an mpg you get from not having to push the metal these parts would otherwise be made of around.

To respond to GP, if you can make an aerospace component lighter, once it's made, the thing the component goes on will be better than if it were heavy. Planes have to carry enough fuel to sustain altitude and also to push the plane to the destination. If the plane is lighter, you use less fuel to sustain altitude, saving money every moment the plane's in the air. If you can cut off enough weight, you can tweak the design of the plane itself because it won't need as much lift at speed, making it even more efficient (or faster per unit fuel burned).
Amazon won't hire you just for one role. The company allows free movement between teams by SDEs. If you're an SDE, you're an SDE, and you're welcome to change teams so long as the new manager will take you.

If you don't know algorithms, maybe that's okay for the team you're joining. But hiring you means screwing over the team you're going to be on in 3 years. That's why they interview that way.
Quadratic performance is not part of the algorithm. End of story.
Chrome hack prompts users to download 'missing font' to install malware
I began my career at startups (my office was the dining room!) and am now working for a Fortune 200 company. Startups are great at the beginning of your career because you play so many roles: developer, architect, product line manager, marketing manager, etc. The problem is this period in a startup's life is short-lived: traditional roles are quickly established and the defending of turf begins. So you're not going to avoid politics for long. On the upside by being small you can move very fast, that is until you're successful. Success tends to be an albatross - management becomes reticent to change things.

Big companies have some advantages people don't often think about. They have the financial wherewithal to invest in new technologies and methodologies. They can also afford to send you to conferences and interact with your colleagues. Yes they move slower, but success doesn't become an albatross - they keep moving.

It's the classic tortoise and the hare story.

Another thing you may want to consider is advancement. You tend to advance faster at startups and can attain more responsibility. That allows you to transfer in to a higher position in a big company later down the line. The fastest way to advance at a big company is to go to a smaller company, advance, and come back. Depending on your career goals you may or may not be interested in this aspect.
They won't send any maps, they will just come out and mark their underground utilities before you dig.
figuring out a cool algorithm is not the same as learning 1000 algorithms by rote to prepare for an interview. Just because doesn't feel like doing test prep for an interview, it doesn't mean they don't have the brain capacity to actually solve the business problem when it comes up.

If in my day-to-day I need to use an AVL tree, I will get a library for it, I won't be reimplementing it from scratch every single time.
>Why then prop up human-chosen sources like snopes and politifact? Is the AI too dumb or does it hold the wrong political opinions?

There's not much AI behind it.

I mean it's more complicated than that but a page's rank is based on number of incoming links.

What's interesting is that the net seems to be partitioning along various demographic lines: rural/urban, left/right etc, each creating their own subspace of 'credible' sites based on the pagerank algorithm.

In fact it's a self reinforcing cycle because of personalized searches. Once google gathers enough information about you based on your search history it will present you with results tailored to your opinions and tastes.

It's unfortunate because in the 90s we talked about the web breaking down barriers, but in some cases it's walling people in. Sometime in obvious ways like with actual walled gardens like facebook, but also in more insidious ways such as personalized searching.
It consistently takes a billion years, it's O(1).
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I think a lot of people make a false analogy when it comes to automata. Many look back to the Industrial Revolution and pull parallels from there. But there is a major problem, the workers aren't human.

When you make driverless trucks what do you do with the truck drivers? The humans. Sure, you'll have more trucks because they are cheaper and more efficient now, but what does that human do? They could load docks, but there aren't enough of a demand for that, and it too will be automated soon. A McDonalds won't need to hire more when you have automated registers and cooks. Maybe a few people to check on things and be there when something breaks, but not nearly the number you have now. So yes, you can increase the number of workers, but that doesn't mean you are increasing the number of jobs. And sure, you could have more repair workers and programmers, but we are already seeing that retraining workers isn't working. And this is still a temporary fix (not saying we shouldn't do it).

My real worry is the big question: "How do you transition into post scarcity society?" That is really the future we are headed for, and I can't wait. But that transition is difficult. Currently we value social worth on the net wealth of a person. How do we transition from that when jobs become obsolete? I'm just talking about when 10% of jobs are automated and we haven't filled the gap. That's huge.
Any news about 256-color support? I understand the desire for the extreme backwards compatibility, but it requires some manual magic done to display things properly in fish (which, thankfully, works really well with Bash on Windows after the aforementioned magic), and even then it will only support 16 colors.
Flint: a day by the bottle
You aren't going to interview with your future manager because they don't know who your future manager is. They need to hire hundreds of people, they aren't going to try to get separate candidates for each role, and they aren't going to have you interview with a hundred different managers.

My company is experiencing this as we grow; we have too many openings to have each team try to recruit for their open spots. We need a more general queue of talent to hire, so that we can interview for 10 open spots for every interview we do.
This is exactly the type of absolute garbage I want to see when checking out HN... wonderful.
I do the same, just not panic, instead I restore from cloud
Always good to see like-minded individuals here.
The world connected by food
1. Local

a) Apple TimeCapsule

b) NAS (2 x 3TB in RAID-1)

2. Off-site

a) Amazon Glacier

b) GitHub, DropBox
Along the same lines, my Chemex is one of my favorite objects. I love the simplicity of the design and the brewing process. I love the consistently tasty brew. I love the way it looks on my kitchen counter. I love the purity of materials.

Admittedly, the 'purity of materials' argument is probably just superstition on my part. I'm not sure if there are measurable benefits to an all-glass brewing receptacle, but it sure makes me feel good. Glass, wood, and leather are materials that I can easily wrap my head around, and somehow that brings extra peace of mind to my whole coffee ritual.
I don't know about the average but at Google I probably write a new call to std::set::find twice an hour, and it's important to know that std::set is a red-black tree, and how std::set::find is implemented and how much that costs and so forth. Fluency with data structures and algorithms is not some kind of brain candy. It's absolutely necessary to get the job done.
Revolution without bloodshed is next to impossible, sadly.

Rejuvenation? AI? Those are the biggest revolution-causing triggers humans will ever come to see.
HTTPS Is Not Enough
I really like this strategy, fighting back against these monolithic HR departments and bored engineers asking terrible questions is something we need to do more and more.
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The Curse of Automation [Machinery]
Bytecode programs can be more compact and built-in coroutines are useful for games.