skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then what is your post replying to? A poster above said that Trump's military spending shows he's a warmonger, and I said it's well known to anyone who even remotely followed the election that he believes in "peace through strength", so his military spending doesn't prove he's a warmonger.

The only strawman was yours.
Just finished it, definitely worth the watch. Not sure how I never caught the movie growing up. That must have been one of Louie Anderson's first roles :)

Edit: According to IMDb, it was!
There are successful coin flippers too, who can flip heads 10 times in a row! Just have to get a room full of few thousand coin flippers and when you find the guy who does 10 in a row, ask him how he became so skilled.
This treatment is VERY unfair to any children this guy fathers.

In order to have the disease you need to inherit bad genes from both parents.[1] Consequently there are many more carriers than people who actually have the trait. So any of this guy's children have at most a 50% chance of having the trait if the other parent of the child doesn't have it, and 0% chance if the other parent isn't a carrier.

I'm sure if we sequenced your DNA we would find a number of potentially very problematic diseases for which you are a carrier. That applies to everyone, nobody has perfect DNA.

in order to not destroy the gene pool

There are a lot of morons in this world; many more being born every day. Many of them manage to reproduce before reaching the point where they would be under consideration for a Darwin Award. In the greater scheme of things this one particular genetic defect isn't seriously threatening to "destroy the gene pool".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease
The identifiers don't all have to be long. Just long enough to be clear.
Did you just seriously say "people didn't vote right?" headdesk
Wouldn't the kernel take the same time to boot whether it is your single Go binary or the usual Linux userland?
The other possibility is that the offense is reacting to what the defense is giving them. On a second-and-long, the defense might be anticipating a pass and responding with pass-defense personnel (lighter edge rushers, nickel/dime personnel substituting for a heavier lineman). The offense might then chose a run or draw play since it would be easier to run against smaller defensive personal.
> Technically, he told the truth.

Isn't that the problem at hand? Layering this seemingly objective "fact" checking on top of a political statements ("the way he wants to spin it"). Then picking a side. If they don't like the side then "technically" true is not enough, now the fact checker has to agree with the politics and the intent to mark it as "true".

I am pretty sure if Clinton or Obama made that statement there would be very little discussion in marking it as "true" and claiming "yeah it is technically true, what she/he might have implied is up to interpretation, but statement on its own is a fact".
So then wouldn't it make the most sense to let the candidate choose?
The difference is if a pass fails, you gain nothing, whereas even a mediocre run will probably give you at least a couple yards. So, if your goal is to avoid 3rd and 10, a run is more likely to accomplish this than a pass, even though a successful pass has a much higher ceiling in terms of yards gained.
Of course, EMV is still a broken piece of crap, because the signer can't actually verify the transaction being signed.
It's unfortunate you're being downvoted. I highly recommend the book, Bad Samaritans [1] as it shows that all developed countries followed a similar pattern of IP theft and protectionism.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Samaritans-Secret-History-Capital...
The data doesn't really end up with advertisers though, does it? I can't call up AMEX and ask for a list of all the places my member of Congress uses his card, can I?
Indeed it was. But you say that (emphasizing was) as though I used the word "major," which I did not.
> Genetic engineering works far, far better.

Um, do we know that? Unless I've missed some very interesting research that sounds like an extremely untested hypothesis.
Proposition 47 reduced many felony theft offenses to misdemeanors. It would be surprising if this didn't lead to an increase in crime in California.
As an American that has 100% ownership in two China legal enterprises, not sure where some items in your bullet list are coming from. Yes, there are unique difficulties. No, communist hard-liners are not setting over my shoulder plotting to take my business without a trial.
Ask HN: I need someone for help with startup equity
I programmed $30m+ product alone for 5 years. Then I earned $50k total salary so far

Skype: throwaway37655
1. the project slips while you expect your new hire to work, and they don't deliver.

2. opportunity cost of actually hiring someone good - by the time you've realized you've made a mistake, a good person is off the market.

3. you actually have to pay a bad hire for their time. you can't just not pay them. that's cold hard cash out the door.

4. everyone on the team starts wondering, how the hell did this guy make it through this process? are we being run by idiots?

5. if the hire is remote in another state, you have to register your business with their tax authorities, and deal with that whole payroll rigamarole.

6. also health insurance bullshit.

7. setting up accounts, changing passwords/keys when they get canned.

8. actually firing them is not fun unless you are a total sociopath, or they are actively causing damage by destroying value (which is extremely rare -- most people will just silently not do a fucking thing for weeks on end).

9. worrying about a lawsuit because ironically, people who cause damage like to threaten these things.

this is on top of your already full workload of doing actual, productive things for actual paying customers and good employees.
This article does a decent job at capturing the grind that is interviewing in software engineering. The expectations during the interview process are high and only get higher the longer you've been in the industry. I wonder how much of this contributes to burnout?
HA! I do listen to AM radio quite a bit. They play the best, that have stood the test.
It's virtually impossible for most companies to manage someone out in less than six months. They're earning full freight salary for each of those six months. Many of your overhead costs like e.g. recruiting fees, new machinery, training, come due within that period and are not refundable.

This only costs actual cash outlay, not opportunity cost of other team members (could be coding but are instead spinning up the new engineer), overhead from management salaries, cost to redo work of an other-than-productive employee, etc.

At Valley salaries hiring someone for a day costs you $100k++. In more moderately compensated locales, lower bound it at $40k or so.
Are you kidding me? People will cheat just for fake internet points. With real cash on the line, they'd do just about anything.
I was paying upwards of $150 a month for heating in a tiny <400sqft studio in Boston at one point. $200 on one month. There was definitely something wrong with the meter readings, and pretty sure I was getting charged for someone else's electricity considering how little I was at home with the heater on. The utility company refused to investigate and would only threaten to send in debt collectors if I didn't pay up. My property manager only pointed me to the utility company. I tried complaining to DPU, but they didn't respond to e-mails, and I didn't have time for phone calls or mediating this mess, in general.

As much as I wanted to fight, as sad as it sounds my time was worth more than the money I'd get back by spending time on the phone arguing and escalating the issue at critical hours of the day. :-/

Moved to California, paying a much more reasonable utility bill, and glad I didn't have to deal with that again.

If there were a "deal-with-humans-as-a-service" business that took a 20% cut of any money I could get back in situations like this, I'd totally pay for it. I once had to argue for 2 hours on the phone with T-mobile about $250 in excess charges on my phone bill, and while got it all back after escalating it to a manager, I'd totally pay $50 for someone to deal with the 2 hours of phone calls for me.
When you first started talking about a "homework assignment" my stomach started turning.

But reading a file, doing some parsing adjustments, and calling an API sounds like a small amount of python code... so I guess not so bad :\
For an archive of human knowledge, there's the Third World Development Online Library, compiled by Alex Weir, which is a 13GB archive of 900+ books on Agriculture, Livestock, Food safety, Construction, Mathematics, Technology, Metalworking, Finance, and many more. I don't think it's updated anymore but I linked a copy below, as well as a wikpedia link about the archive.

I'm hoping one day someone will gather all this information together and record it on giant stone blocks placed around the world, as insurance for future generations.

http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD3WD
My current company does something similar. I think back when I had to do it, it took 2-3 hours. It's a pretty basic problem using strategies and observers. The next time we're hiring I'll probably update it.

The kicker though, like someone else below mentioned, is that we would receive submissions that didn't even compile.

What I liked about the HW problem is that even something simple gives you and the candidate something to talk about. Why did you do this or that. Tabs or spaces ;) etc...
'Startup' comes from 'start[ing] up a business' - so 'startups are being created' doesn't strictly speaking make sense, or at least calling them 'startups' isn't adding anything not provided by 'created'.

You're right that the word is increasingly used to refer to SMEs that have been around years, are stable, etc. - just because it carries weight as a buzzword. But in the context of newly created businesses, that's exactly in-line with proper/original meaning.

(A better title might have been '12,000 new startups in China every day', or equally '12,000 businesses created in China every day'.)
I guess this is the thinking driving Uber's current valuation. It's a pipe dream. Yes, self-driving is a near reality, and when it becomes feasible, a few quarters later it will be a commodity. It's just software, lots of people working on it, nobody has any secret sauce here. When that happens, what does Uber have? That's right, nothing. Their cars, which aren't equipped for self-driving. And their drivers, who are all going to be out of work. And their customers, who use Uber because it is artificially cheap and have no brand loyalty (widely hated company).

Sure, disrupting transportation is big, but no advantage in sight for Uber there. They only thing they disrupted was traditional taxis on a wave of dumb investor money.
> nothing is wrong with var

Other than having utterly illogical scoping. Which is the entire reason 'let' was introduced and should always be preferred.
Yeah its relatively easy, but its way more competitive than other environment in Asia. "Connections"matter.
Requiring CVV's for online transactions invalidates this security feature.
Yes, sponsored by MS at Station Q.

I believe the question there is if non-Abelian braiding statistics can be found to enable universal quantum computation, as Abelian anyons don't enable a univeral quantum computer. (Ideally a 12/5 FQHE, I believe.)

But my reading of the MS paper suggested that they were working with traditional anyons in 2+1D and the question of 3+1D analogs was unresolved. Here Wilzcek seems to suggest that there are no 3+1D analogs.

My question was if the treatment of objects as points, hence having a worldline rather than worldsurface or worldsolid wasn't the cause of that -- you can't knot a line in 4D, but you can knot a surface.

So my question was if the point object model was accurate or a simplification we need to move beyond.
Here's an example of one of these startups: https://www.aiadvertising.org/
What happened in the phone screen?

If candidates who can't code are actually getting on site, your phone screening is inadequate and vulnerable to "smooth talkers".
That makes it difficult to compare candidates to each other.
It seems a lot of people still have this old idea about China. The 51% Chinese ownership requirement hasn't been a thing for almost 20 years.
Another great plane that has stood the test of time and is worth mentioning is the B-52. Over 60 years old and still being used extensively. One particular B-52 was piloted by a grandfather, father and finally son. What's more the B-52's are scheduled to keep flying until at least 2045 making a total lifecycle of 90 years!!
At 1Gbps (125MB/s), a gigabyte takes 8 seconds to download, less than most AAA games take today just to load from disk. There are videos of Google Fiber users getting ~40MB/s downloads from Steam, so I wouldn't be surprised if at least some users reach that in the near future. And if you rely on a fast internet connection, you only have to send the assets necessary for one level at a time.
I got charged $600 for two months in Toronto during a cold winter a while back and calling Toronto Hydro got it reduced to the actual $300 it was supposed to be. So FWIW in my situation at least it was worth the effort to look into it.

I was in an older (1980s) apartment building so I couldn't blame a singular meter, I'm not really sure how measurements are done in big buildings (maybe someone could explain?).

I've heard that elsewhere in Ontario, Canada and in Toronto (two different companies) that overcharging is a big recurring issue. I wasn't given a good explanation about my one anecdotal case outside of an 'accounting error'. I just knew that it sounded far too high to be normal.
I think they meant it sarcastically. You can't deny it that the majority of mass media has overwhelmingly picked one candidate. Even down to passing her debate questions in advance and so on.

I don't think anyone would be surprised to know that Hillary as far as the media was concerned was supposed to be the winner, not just because they simply wished it to be true, but because they went out of their way to make it so.

In the end they failed. The result of that was a backlash called "Fake News". It is a censorship system designed to bring the influence of media back on-line.

One interesting thing is that traditional media's failure to manufacture consent is perceived to be broken so that left a vacuum for social media to jump in. We saw how quickly Facebook and Google rushed in. I think deep down they want to signal to those in power that "we'll do a better job manufacturing consent for you than those old crusty news channels".
There is still plenty of question about the "mechanics". Plenty of places where people are registered who shouldn't (registered in multiple places, etc). People who shouldn't be voting that is (dead people, immigrants, etc).

The left says "There is no issue. at all. If you disagree, you are trying to subvert and you are a racist."

The right says "MILLIONS AND MILLIONS! ZOMG!"

The truth is somewhere in the middle as far as the "mechanics". There is plenty that can be done to insure the accuracy and veracity of the voting booth.
That grid is 3X3 not 9X9
Anybody have an opinion on this vs hyper?
The tired coin flipping trope is just dismissive and does nothing to seriously argue against the possibility of people consistently beating the market. Even Warren Buffett, the champion of index funds, has argued against the coin flipping analogy.

I've had this discussion several times before, so in lieu of rehashing it I'll just put this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13451161#13452516

Empirically map your coin flipping analogy to a probabilistic model of the likelihood of beating the market and then we can reasonably talk about it. There are real arguments to be made, but saying "coin flipping!" does nothing to seriously engage with the debate.
Screw Adsense. I mean it. Google's policies over these matter are more opaque than functioning of NSA and their responses or FAQs are worse than the well rehearsed statements of scandalous politicians.

We found moving to native ads to be significantly more profitable when you have a website that has lot of genuine content. For me adsense = spammy ads.

We were blocked twice by adsense in past (two different companies owning two different web properties) for perfectly legitimate traffic giving no excuse what so ever.
There certainly are certifications. But the official test doesn't pick out this problem, as mentioned in the article.
Researcher finds bug that allowed free Uber rides
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Please. There's nothing illogical about it. It scopes to the function body. Maybe you meant to write "unfamiliar".
People in Flint, Michigan still don't have clean water. Lots of other folks in the world also don't have clean water. Doesn't that seem like an easier thing to fix than trying out experimental therapies?
I don't even care if the person 'cheats' because I'll figure it out when we discuss the solution.
For the AirPods in particular, there's a pairing button on the charging case—to pair with a new device, you hold that button a few seconds with the lid open, then it goes into pairing mode. Pair it like any other bluetooth device.
Also it doesn't scale for the candidate. If you need 0.5-2 days of unpaid work for _each company_ and you're applying at 20 companies, you're spending more time applying for jobs than you would be working 10-40 hours of unpaid work just to get to the next step.
No. The cost of the AMD CPU itself might be low, but I imagine there is an engineering cost to switch CPU vendors. And for laptops, Intel CPUs provide better battery life which seems to be a higher priority than pure performance.

Given Apple's preference to have control over their CPUs, they might end up replacing Intel CPUs with an in house SoC at some point.
No one is asking for? Two problems with that...

One... no one knows what they don't have until you show them or you create it. The Wii Remote is a key point. Wildly popular yet would have been dismissed as "no one asked for it".

Two... The Switch is what everyone is asking for: Portability. Phones, tablets, etc. People want to do stuff on the go.

You can blame a "rabid fanbase"... but it would't be such a large fanbase or such a rabid fanbase if they weren't being given what they wanted - whether or not its asked for.
No, set every AP to use the quietest channel. Using something like Wifi Analyzer on a phone positioned where the AP will be but with the AP off, see what's got the least going on... any loud APs on the same channel whether they're yours or not would be detrimental. Also completely avoid overlap. On 2.4 GHz that means 1, 6, 11.

Also, if there will be so many APs that they will share channels, you want the APs physically isolated from each other even if that means a little more isolation between AP and client than you'd otherwise have. For example, in a hotel or dorm put an AP in every third room instead of all in the hallway, so they don't hear each other.
Agreed. The primary concern is tissue heating that cannot be sufficiently dissipated. This is nearly impossible at "wifi" power levels(Below 1 watt) without carefully contrived situations -- such as placing your eyeball(which is the least-equipped organ to dissipate heat) at the exact focal point of a specially designed parabolic dish.

I have been safely working around thousands of watts of RF power for 20+ years and have maintained my 20/15 vision.
And so playing the game of spending weeks studying CS problems and doing leetcode.com is somehow better?
We've used it with our home-educated high schoolers (though with tutors), and it's also used at the International Theological Institute in Vienna, where some of our kids go. Seems like a good program.
It's not just about conserving energy, but it seems safe to assume it's also about conserving energy.
Yep. I had similar problems with my AirPods and wasn't about to be Apple's debugger for free for hours on end - I just returned them.

That doesn't make for as interesting a story, but it's clear they were rushed out the door (poor soldering according to the teardowns, tons of problems like this report, extremely limited supply months later) and it really makes me wonder about the future of Apple when they can't even nail hardware anymore.

I know the canard of "don't buy V1 of an Apple product" but it seemed to have been better in recent years. Until this, at least.
There is no simpler quicker process, the current popular process is spending weeks studying CS and leetcode.com. That's a lot worse in many ways.
The Last Days of the Nuclear Shuttle (2012)
Or Europeans :)

https://thehustle.co/rocket-internet-oliver-samwer
14 interviews from 54 companies is downright amazing. Better than I've ever seen. I've probably applied to hundreds of companies throughout my life/career and gained interviews at less than 20. Next time I'm looking for a job, 54 companies is going to be the minimum to apply to.
Yes. In my opinion though a masters isn't necessary unless you want to go into something really specialized like machine learning. Otherwise a bachelors is enough. If you have a choice masters > bachelors, but if a masters would take significantly more time then just get a bachelors. For most software engineering jobs a masters won't be necessary.
A bit off topic but I once had a water meter that was overcharging by perhaps around 100%. I worked out that it was because it didn't have a one-way valve. When there was air trapped in the pipes, pressure fluctuations would cause water would move back and forth through the meter, racking up the bill with no net flow.

People should test their own meters which isn't that hard if you're careful and know the basic concepts of thermostats and power ratings.
ah

I'm fairly sure you cannot have a "lineicle" instead of a "particle". I guess maybe you could construct a weird albeit complete set of basis states based on lines through position space. However even if in some crazy interpretation your linicles had the properties of 2+1d anyon's, observing in this wicked basis is likely much harder than just making anyon's.

More simply at the end of the day the experimentalist observes a particle not a string. Thus there is a world line not a world surface.

disclaimer: this is partly my intuition. Maybe your idea has more merit than I give it credit for. My main research is not in anyons
Yeah, I can understand that. I think you'll probably discover in the long run that you eliminate a whole bunch of people who might otherwise be good hires. It's kind of like only doing analysis on how your current customers like your product, while completely ignoring potential customers. And maybe that's for the best. It'd certainly better to build a recruiting tool that serves part of the market well vs. serving none of it well.

Here are a few things that kept personally me from completing the screening process (which I was checking out because I was a recruiter, and now I'm a developer):

- You don't (or didn't) support Elixir, which is what I've primarily been using for the last 12 months, so I spent a few minutes dusting off the "what's the syntax in Ruby" knowlegde

- I'm wasn't emotionally invested into applying, as I don't really know who you'll be connecting me with, and if I want to be challenged, I'll continue working on some personal code (which is what I did)

- Not having my glasses with me, and a bit of the ol' ADHD, made reading just a bit harder, so the countdown timer was basically reminding me the entire time that I couldn't read fast enough