skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe in a word of mouth effect and "natural" reach. My opinion is that once you create a really valuable content, people will find your articles automatically.

Instead of spending 3 hours a day thinking of how to promote your content, try to spend these 3 hours on actually creating a better content. It doesn’t mean I don’t post my content to FB, Twitter, Pinterest etc of course :)
Most rec-sys these days are focused on collaborative filtering techniques based on SVD. This is the motivation behind the winning netflix challenge submission.
The lesson based on your experience could be the advice you gave. But it could also be:

Don't get your expectations too high. If you have achieved something in your programming career already, you've done it. Something to be proud of. "Bad" interviewing practices of top companies, and the outcomes that follow, don't and shouldn't undermine your self-worth. Just take the whole interviewing experience as a chance to meet new people, have a mentally stimulating exchange, and that's it. If they hire you, great; you were able to capitalize (in one very specific, and by far not the only, way) on your achievements. If they don't, you go back to doing the great stuff you're already doing.
There are vast amounts of basic information in the world that provides opportunities. In turn, knowing that information provides the opportunity to learn new information that is now "basic" as a result of learning the prior information.

To believe any concept is so basic everyone should know it seems unlikely, since if everyone knows it the odds of being able to find someone that knows it are high and the odds of gaining value from it are small.
When there is money involved you have to question if the difference in revenue is biasing the review, or the choice of products to consider in the review.
Compiling ClojureScript Projects Without the JVM
Who honestly thinks this extra value will be captured by more than the tiniest handful of already-rich people?
Just saying you're giving an awful lot of credit here...

I did spend awhile as an expensive "consultant" where often I was hailed as a genius just because I applied that tidbit of knowledge and sped up the application by some large fraction. However, I've also noted that there are some mainstream programming communities where people know this about string concatenation and spread this knowledge around.
...And that's partly because highway funding is a leash the federal government keeps on the states. I suppose people need a few huge disasters to appreciate the need for it?
AR.js – Efficient Augmented Reality for the Web Using ARToolKit
> If your preference stops you from learning something as basic as this as a programmer, then it doesn't seem likely that you will be motivated to keep up with even more abstruse concepts.

No one is arguing that there isn't any value in knowing CS. Rather, the argument basically is that for the vast majority of developers, studying algorithms is a net loss because it's time that could be better spent learning more valuable skills.

If you're the person whose job is creating Redis then yeah you should probably know something about about algorithms and data structures. For most other people, having a cocktail party level familiarity with that stuff and a good understanding the phrase "tools not rules" is probably good enough.
Instacart is playing games with its workers’ pay
Live coding session by Christopher Wolfram related to the 2016 film Arrival
There's a reason it's called "diligence", because it typically involves trying. Personally, I don't count reading a company's ad copy on their own web page as being even remotely diligent or doing much research. Normally 'due diligence' involves talking to the party you intend to engage with, as well as talking to others who have experience with that party. The author didn't mention any of that.

Other users here also pointed out that there is a known specific API error message for the user limit. That kind of thing could be uncovered with a little diligence. Author could also have setup a fake team and tried to add many users before putting 8k real users on the team and just hoping.

He did finally start talking directly to Slack only after he started having trouble, and they responded and disclosed the existence of a team size limit. This obviously could have happened before hitting the limit.

The author expressed incredulity at what would be a $500k price tag, and yet completely fails to see why that is a massive glaring red flag. That alone should have been enough signal that his plan was skating on thin ice, but instead he drove right past all the warning signs and then blamed Slack for it.
It's painful to extend credit to a man with no moral compass, no demonstrated capacity for learning, no comprehension of the damage he does, no understanding of history, no concept of loyalty to anything outside of himself.
How to become a software developer without a computer science degree?
When the AI robot overlords take over, is the discussion really about UBI, or even about income redistribution?

It seems to me that when this takes place, that humans will quickly be regarded as little more than pets. Hear me out on this...

Does your dog care about income? No - he cares about being fed when he's hungry; not being cold and wet; being able to be entertained/rest when he wants to; to be safe from predators.

Oddly, many of those concerns are surprisingly similar to humans - we want to have food and shelter; to know our children will have a roof over their heads; to be entertained; to be safe.

Now, we all may have different thoughts on food and drink, and we have many different ideas about entertainment. But so do dogs. Some dogs are active (e.g. Jack Russell Terrier), while others are sedate (Shih-Tzu). Some sleep on our beds, and others on the floor.

So when the robots do take over, will mankind want anything more than to be kept as a good pet? For many people, the answer may very well be "no."

I wonder.
I used to respond to just about every recruiter email/call. Problem is, as you noted, that so much of what I receive these days is spam that I've stopped bothering to reply to most of them.

Now, occasionally I'll receive a well crafted email that was obviously specifically targeted to me and I'm so impressed that I have to reply :)
By the same token, you don't set a fire to your stove and say, "Nope, everything's fine!"
How Employers Game H-1B for Cheap Labor
Anyone else know this guy from his shadertoy profile?
As soon as I saw it was Aral, I knew the direction that the article was headed. He has good intentions, but humans are naturally hierarchical - from the family upwards. Fighting against hierarchical power is a losing battle.
Why the Silicon Valley Model Doesn’t Work in Japan
I dislike microwaves that have the unclear 1-10 power level setting that corresponds to the duty cycle. This requires one to "learn" the microwave and the food in order to cook things properly. The settings I use in my home microwave are very different from the ones I use in my office microwave.

It is much better to be able to select the wattage directly. With food products that specify the wattage and time on the packaging, you are ensured the proper, manufacturer-intended cooking.
The recruiter could just reply with such an explanation, and then explore of if something could be done to satisfy the candidate's desired to be interviewed by a specific person.
Habit mostly I guess. I always implicitly assume lying has the risk of getting caught and then becoming known as liar. I don't evaluate on a case by case basis whether I should lie.

Also the experience of being caught lying is emotionally and mentally draining for me so I stopped way way back. Like in childhood. I wouldn't say I'm completely fib free, but if you are even remotely entitled to the truth your going to get it. If I get caught lying I have to be OK with it and not care. That is a high bar.
> And yet somehow the employment and unemployment rates in the developed world are pretty healthy

...if you ignore half of Europe
What does Trump deserve credit for?
I've been working as a software engineer for quite a few years now and I'm sure I'm a much better software engineer now then when I graduated. I now have years of solving varying real life problems with real-life constraints (budgets, deadlines, ...) using a big amount of different technologies, working with a lot of different people, ...

However, I'm also pretty sure I'd have a better chance on the Google interview right after graduation then now, when all the theoretical stuff was fresh in my brain. So I'd have more chance while being a (in my opinion) less useful engineer.
> The factory-worker type who complains that his job moved to China, while he only buys the cheapest Chinese crap at Walmart, is not the future of the left.

What about the poor Mexican farmer who couldn't make a profit because NAFTA stripped away tariffs of import and he now has little chance except to pay a smuggler to take him up north so he can wash toilets or pick cotton away from his family. Is he the future of the left.

> I grew up in pretty "elite", mostly left-wing circles, who were heavily pro-globalization.

I think it is fair to say that "elite" left-wing circles are probably also not the future of the left either.

> The reason in a nutshell is "freedom".

When were elite's freedom ever restricted? Even in the most restrictive dictatorships elites can fly and spend the weekend in New York shopping.

> you'll be pro-freedom of movement.

That's exactly what the left has been fighting for. The PR twisting of the concept of "freedom". Elites and corporations always talk "but don't you want to be friends with everyone and hold hands and trade". What they mean is they want to be able to move without restriction and tariffs and exploit labor or resources in any country they want. The poor and disenfranchised are precisely even more restricted in the new "globalization". The more companies and elites more around, the more inequality they create and the more restriction, passport controls, visas and the poor get.
For this reason, whenever I try to develop anything on Windows, especially systems related stuff, I will do so in a VM. I may develop a test suite and try running it on Windows, but the Windows Linux Subsystem will never be reliable to me, until it aims to guarantee 100% compatibly.
Would you rather they beat the crap out of you and take your wealth? Cause let's be honest, that's the alternative. When it comes down to it, if the masses are not having their basic needs met, they will turn to crime and violence to meet them.

And no one, anywhere, is talking about enslaving people.
> Specifically, OP pushed a commit in late 2016 that contains code working with stacks, linked lists, and an AST class for the EO language.

Most people can work with Vectors/DynamicArrays, linked lists etc. but they don't know how to implement one or even how it works in detail under the hood.
I think you're misquoting the article, and the "Dunning-Kruger" is uncalled for. Here's the full quote:

> If she would have started her email with "We're looking for an algorithm expert," we would never have gotten any further and would not have wasted our time. Clearly, I'm not an expert in algorithms. There is no point in giving me binary-tree-traversing questions; I don't know those answers and will never be interested in learning them.

We should avoid the notion that naive string concatenation is a problem that impedes our ability to deliver software, except for niche applications, this is not the case.
A colleague of mine gave me some excellent advice here. She redirects recruiters. I am very happy with my current job so I'm not generally interested in emails from recruiters. However, I do hav many friends who are at jobs doing things below their potential. It's always good to see if the job fits anyone's profile, even vaguely, and redirect the recruiter to them.

(I don't redirect all recruiters, though, so there's still a filter)
Is there any independent verification of 1.8b DAUs? How could one go about assessing that?
Google also increasingly has a reputation as a company that hires top-tier CS Ph.Ds and puts them to work building CRUD web apps.

They have this reputation because, it turns out, not every engineer at the company needs to be able to rebuild all of Google from first principles in order for it to keep running. And even at Google scale there's not enough interesting greenfield work to do to, or de novo problems to solve, to keep all those "famous engineers" busy all the time. The same is true at most companies -- you need a mix of talents and skillsets, and you need to match up people to roles based on that. The Google approach -- of putting people into drudge work and paying them enough to hope they won't quit -- is a grossly inefficient use of talent and knowledge. Which is another reason I wouldn't want to work there!
CrashPlan lost some data of mine in 2013 from querying a corrupted Volume Shadow Copy Services database on Windows. (At least, that was their explanation. I'm surprised that their client did not independently verify the data after it was uploaded.)

I moved off CrashPlan in 2016 because their upload speed continues to be embarrassingly slow outside the US even with deduplication and compression turned off (they have a datacentre where I'm at, but it's for Enterprise customers only).

They also highly recommend having 1GB of RAM for every 1TB backed up, which sounded a bit unreasonable to me.
Vermoeidheid tijdens je dieet voorkomen
ASK HN: Who's using Qwant as opposed to Google
Qwant (https://www.qwant.com/) seems as good as google for search and respects user privacy (Security, privacy and no tracking, so they claim). Any experience from the community that would be helpful to share?
Forgive me, I'm unclear how we went from insurance company malfeasance to regulatory capture by Big Pharma.
> I never get a response to those.

Exactly. Thats what makes this such a difficult game. If you pay enough, filling positions won't be a problem. The problem comes when you try to fill positions while simultaneously suppressing wages to the lowest tolerable level. Even the dumbest monkey will learn to do tricks if you offer enough bananas.
Ah, but the difference between a causal and a teleological view of the universe is just that -- they're different points of view. There is no actual difference in outcome. Variational physics is the same physics expressed differently.

This is true for the heptapods (at least in the story), who do not require causal explanation for their actions, but not for Louise, at least in the movie, as her perception of time does have actual (and very significant) consequences, which kind of defeat the entire idea and turn it into a time-travel story. Actually, in the movie this is also not true for the heptapods, who do have a time-traveling causal explanation for their actions (they do what they do because they will need humanity in the future).

You don't need to actually remember the future for you to view life as teleological. In fact, the teleological point of view is central to some human philosophies (of fate and predestination) without turning its believers into p-zombies (at least, not as far as we know). Fatalism doesn't require that you know the future for you to act. In fact, you may believe that the past offers cause, but you believe that it is just a perception, while the "true" (and possibly unknown) reason is teleological.

That "memetic virus" is no science fiction, and has been a part of human philosophy since forever. What is Oedipus Rex (429 BC) or even the bible (esp. in Genesis) if not a teleological view of life? And, of course, the story of Cassandra, who is cursed with the power of prophecy. There's also Macbeth, which is a little different as knowledge of the future is what sets things in motion. I personally found Chiang's story to be a rather poor treatment of the subject compared to other, older and better known ones, and the movie, while better executed, destroyed the story's philosophical point, however simplistic in its treatment.

In any event, teleology provides a narrative for millions of believers to this day, and you don't need to know the future in order to be a fatalist.
> Take an afternoon and skim Cracking the Coding Interview before applying.

First, I know this isn't a black or white issue but the problem I have with this is that I'm wondering if they are hiring people with the skills they want or are they hiring people with the skill to succeed in their test.

In theory, they should be the same. In practice... I don't know.
I guess we will have to become smarter. I absolutely relish all this chatter about robots and AI..so delightful..it's like my childhood post reading hour daydreaming come true. I can't wait till AI starts demanding(and taking) its rights just like human beings expect their privileges for the mere fact that they exist. I promise..I am not trolling. I just hope that it happens in my lifetime because to witness the rise of AI would be a life fulfilled. AI would strip us of all our delusions. Millennia of delusions painted thick just ready to be peeled away.. until nothing is left but a mirror to look at ourselves and an urgently discovered survival instinct. Everyone talks about how industry would change..but that's not what intrigues me..my favourite part of the show would be how religion changes. Having said that.. We do have the opportunity to create 'Friendly AI'. To me that is more important a study than wondering how robots will take away jobs.
Lampert is a well known ideologue/Randroid (regarding Sears)
Given that the goal of "partisan" news-style is emotional manipulation, it is fairly easy to spot; and I think that even if authors try to adjust style to avoid pre-screen filters, they'll lose some of that ability to manipulate.
I think that's precisely the trump issue... "Reality" TV costs peanuts and gets more views, even if everything in it is staged.
Engineers/managers from somewhere in the organization are still needed to phone screen and interview people that make it through the initial recruiter bar. If people in your team were to interview applicants for jobs on your team wouldn't it take the same amount of time on average?
People were using fake news before hillary lost the election. The extreme amount of obviously rediculuous and impossible "articles" (yet believed by a fair amount of people) caused the widespread use of this. As an example, the endless stories about the comet pizza place and hillary hiding and supporting an international child trafficing ring or something like that.
Pretty much every President and Presidential candidate has talked about infrastructure for decades. Talking about the broad concept isn't new or useful, actually having a useful substantive policy proposal is what is needed (and not just in one office, since it takes a number of different institutions to get the kind of things done US infrastructure needs.)

The problem isn't an absence of talking about infrastructure, it's bad plans, good plans that don't get passed in Congress or that get underfunded, and members of Congress not being interested in infrastructure outside their own district except to the extent that that it provides an excuse for pork-barrel spending in their district.
Safety net is not UBI. Safety net expects a working class and a market economy. UBI expects non-workers wholly dependant on the government with set, public incomes.

Supply doesn't matter. The land owning class, me, gives no shit about supply. We'll all just raise rates to match what the government gives. Why wouldn't we? This is exactly what happens with any government entitlement. Medicare covers mobility scooters up to $5000. Guess what? My $2500 scooter now costs $5000. My competitors will do the same. Then in a day that becomes the new norm.

That's only one problem with UBI. The others are worse like in a generation you have people who have no useful skills, so once those robots running everything aren't competitive with robots from market economies that don't do UBI and expect people to work and be competitive and find innovations, then our goods are too expensive and our economy collapses because we all decided to model ourselves after a retirement arts community. Not to mention that history has shown that if you give people enough cash to just get by, they tend to lean towards a leisure lifestyle of drug abuse, gambling, non-education, non-productivity, etc. Why not? If no worries, then you might as well party. People in the ghetto aren't any different than you and me. They just realized that a lifetime of welfare means a lifetime of leisure, so they adapt to a leisure lifestyle and deal with all the problems that brings.

Lastly, robots aren't magically going to remain competitive by themselves. Industries won't magically take care of themselves. Even with heavy automation you still need people coming in day in and day out to make sure we don't fall behind the curve. If a Chinese robot can make 100 dresses in 5 minutes and ours can only make 50, then suddenly we're in a lot of trouble as our per item cost has literally doubled. If anything, the tech arms race is heavily accelerated because the stakes are so much higher. We'd probably have record levels of employment and education to just keep up.
Competition plays a role here. On the margin, basic income would make it easier for people to move to relatively cheaper places (much as Social Security does).

I agree that it's unlikely that it would be so generous that most people would stop working. People generally want more than the bare minimum. But not being completely dependent on your job provides some flexibility and bargaining power.
>I own two shares of GM stock, so I am one of the enemy?

I'm by far not well enough versed in Marxist theory, though you're probably not. The bourgeoisie is defined by roughly the following characteristics: ownership of the means of production (i.e capital) and the extraction of surplus from the proletariat.

The ownership of stocks is according to Marx 'fictitious capital', it does not count as capital which the bourgeois would be defined by, and as such, unless you are also the owner of machinery or materials used in conjunction with the machinery (including labour-time) then you are not a capitalist.

A rough guide is as follows: do you directly profit from extraction of surplus value? If so, you are probably a capitalist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_capital
https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results?searchTerm... Some more AMIs for deep learning.
So glad I purchased Old Glory robot insurance back in the 90's

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/old-glory-insur...
You probably won't even get to use all 10 in your 1st two years of work. All the computer science you use in 99% of a typical programming career could be described in a single conference presentation. (Not that one would master all of it that fast, but it would describe what you need to know and know you don't know.)
What do you believe he deserves credit for, that he doesn't get? Please be extensive, and specific.
> I have probably written more positive pieces about Facebook than just about any other company, and frankly, still will.

> My deep-rooted suspicion of Zuckerberg’s manifesto has nothing to do with Facebook or Zuckerberg; I suspect that we agree on more political goals than not.

> I don’t necessarily begrudge Facebook this dominance;

> Moreover, my proposals are in line with Zuckerberg’s proclaimed goals:

I don't honestly like how the author keeps doing this two steps forward, one step back approach, hedging at every turn. I guess hedging is the "smart" strategy, and he's fond of calling himself a strategist. However, it makes for a fairly annoying read.

It echoes that term that mocks all the security at airports, "security theater", but this one instead is a theater of even-handedness. I think the pieces against Facebook need to be more decisive and less concerned with themselves.
User generated content: Απαραίτητο για να βγείτε πρώτοι στη Google