skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or maybe it is/was obvious that there are certain flaws in the US health care system and Obamacare that definitely have a better solution. There are other health care systems in the world, so it is obvious that Obamacare is not the only possible way to do it.
Sounds a bit like communism, but without anyone having any job. So yes, this should probably work out just fine.
That assumes the interview accurately measures something useful. The more I read about this area the more I think a 1-2h pre-interview practical coding assignment, then a 1 on 1 discussion during the interview is better. You then get to understand how they think, how they design solutions, and some sense of how they interact. In other words, how they'd do the job.
Does the philosophy say anything about the meaning of the words 'broadly' and 'simplistic' because with those two modifiers in place this can be argued as the tendency of philosophy (but then most things can be argued so who cares).

That certain philosophical questions posed by Socrates have remained philosophical in nature does not make the claim invalid, just as the fact that many of the writings of Aristotle dealt with subjects that are no longer in the purview of philosophy does not conclusively prove the claim.

I guess I would have to say if anything invalidates the claim it is just that they have not exactly established what it means to have a point, nor shown that philosophy in a unified state has such a point that covers the whole.
I personally do not believe it has a point, but then I don't believe any of things that are being argued as outgrowths of philosophy have points either.
The edge cases are also exactly when lawyers get involved. If the law is clear, there's not much work for a lawyer to do (you plead guilty, you settle the case, you don't sue in the first place, etc.). Dealing with ambiguity is the main skill of a lawyer.
"Care to share the code as an anti pattern?" brilliant.
This statement (it starts with 'such') was about a very specific mistake. This is not some hard engineering problem. People who 'care' about the authenticity of the status page will not make the error of basing it on the infrastructure it monitors.
You agree to surveillance when you use these cars.
Trump to Call for Return of Human Space Exploration
My 85-year-old Dad uses the powered by Google search box on amazon.com, instead of google.com, because it "lets you enter more text".

I didn't understand what he meant, so I watched him use it. On google.com, in Chrome, when he starts typing in the search box, focus jumps to the address bar. The problem is that the address bar font is too small -- he's magnified the page content, but not the browser GUI.
This is happening everywhere, though. Young people in every western nation seem to be flocking to central, dense urban areas while at the same time market forces cause retail to thin its margins and coalesce.

It sucks, but it's not necessarily a bad thing. It's different.
I have been a big Supporter of Travis Kalanick since last 2-3 years, just for the fact that he's willing to take harsh steps to win.

Sir/Madam, I don't really want to be offensive.

And I know that this is a stupid comparison, but I cannot help myself and I need to ask:

Would you apply the same logic to Hitler? He took really harsh steps to win. And it would've ultimately helped Germany. Other people were not German citizens after all (like drivers are not Uber's employees so who the hell cares). Right?

I mean, I understand Travis. He has a billion dollar business now. I totally get that he might decide to say you know what, fuck the drivers, I'm doing this.
There are huge interests for him to make this decision. Maybe (probably) you and I would've done the same.

But I don't understand why would you be a big supported of him? Why would you cheer for someone who is mal intended to win? You have 0 stakes in his winning.

Again, I didn't mean to offend. I genuinely want to understand why would someone with 0 stakes support an ill intended person.

Edit: I'm not necessarily saying Travis is ill intended. But the parent says he supports him only because he is harsh, therefore not caring about any other point.
I can't speak to the methodology of the study in the article, but it appears that the author of The Psychopath Test found that the rate was 4x the general population[1], so I feel like the argument still stands

[1] http://www.payscale.com/career-news/2015/04/why-a-disproport...
>The list of things we want to optimize for is finite, there is some ordering to it, and the impact of various actions on those things is, in principle, calculable.

I don't think it's calculable, even in principle. Except in trivial issues, people can (and do) disagree on very fundamental ideas about what we want to optimize for and which direction we should optimize them.

>It's only when people start pushing their stupid agendas and start putting their personal interests in focus that the whole thing gets "difficult".

Why wouldn't the people put their "personal interests in focus"?

Whose interests they should put to focus? And says who?
I really liked it. But when trying to add it to my HipChat group it failed to upload. Why? S3 outage, what an irony.
And by tradeoff, you mean you are giving your usage, which is all these platforms really want from you, and in exchange, you get the ability to reach an audience who is not interested in the ideology you're preaching. Is that accurate?
Quickest path? Use AWS (or similar). Outages happen. The more robust you want to be against outage, the more prep work you have to do. In order to have 'no outage', you have to do an incredible amount of work. There is no quick path.
You're a cruel person. Cameras help keep drivers safe from abuse and are often mandated by other agencies.
Hey guys! I just wrapped up the initial build of Shortlink. The idea is based off of I hate touching the mouse and my workflow can become Cmd+T, Cmd+L, m/[shortlink], Enter. No mouse needed for bookmarks, no overflow bookmarks bar! :D

You can also use it as a link organization/searching utility, m/[invalid-shortlink] will automatically pull up relevant shortlinks related to your query, and you can always see all shortlinks by going to `m/` in your URL bar.

A couple ways I have it set up is for reference pages or dashboards (ex. m/proj-ga => analytics.goog../#realtime/rt-overview/../) or things like gdrive folders (m/projects => drive.google..), and of course memes (m/thisisfine => .../thisisfine.jpg).

tl;dr: A gif is worth a thousand thousand words https://gifyu.com/images/548oQzWj7s1.gif

Hope everyone finds this useful! :D
Bubble Sort is a common sorting algorithm. I would expect anyone w/ a CS degree to know sort of what it is.

But, for the most part; I can't imagine anyone ever having to write it on the job unless they are doing super low level stuff. All the 'current' languages provide sorting algorithms built in.
(am googler, but don't work with any of the mentioned products)

Keep in mind that all of these products in many cases compete with other companies (music -> spotify, apple, ytr -> netflix/hulu originals, kinda, YTL -> twitch, YTTV -> cable providers). I, as a consumer, wouldn't want these things to all be bundled. I use spotify for my music, and I don't want to have to pay for Play Music or youtube red unless I use those services.

I can't even imagine how some kind of "unified google media" thing would work.
Oh the days of WYSIWYG HTML editors. I still find websites that have the Dreamweaver change-image-on-hover JavaScript. They still work on older browsers though...
Broadly censoring accounts based on a subset of the content those accounts have posted is like Uber deciding not to do pickups / dropoffs near mosques.

Twitter has a profit incentive not just to censor content, but to make as much of the content as possible paid ads.

My suggestion to Twitter was to focus on what I think is the core value prop of twitter -- its infrastructure as a broadcast platform.

I realize many people prefer the approach Facebook takes where everyone is required to enter their real name and accounts are linked to credit scores and social security numbers, and login is required to view the content so that an ad can be served.

But I think the most promising social media infrastructure is something more like an unfettered Twitter. Simply a medium for exchanging ideas and broadcasting to the world without big media budgets or high production costs.

Yes, this gives some prejudiced jackass (or presidential candidate or ISIS) the same facility as highly credible organizations, but I think it's for the best.

Twitter's strength is an addressing scheme and non-reciprocal follow graph which allows a lot of expression to happen that would not likely occur otherwise.

The challenge for Twitter is to think of itself as an infrastructure company but not think of its product as ads.
last time I've had this conversation with cable execs, it was explained to me that even just de-duping the bits does in fact run into trouble. They have to store a complete copy for you, for your personal use.
How I built a super-simple game using React-Native
Typing "Secure password manager" requires keyboard skills. Developing one requires much more.
>I think the point is if someone is under-represented and they merely do "OK" on the whiteboard, other latent biases might downgrade the candidate in the final analysis

But if you don't do a whiteboard interview, everyone is by default only OK. Biases rule the day. If you do a whiteboard interview, then at least they get a chance to do great and defy your biases.
Reinstalling All NuGet Packages in a Solution
Incredibly expensive and slow compared to what?
A 500 GB SSD (gp2) costs $50/m, and has 1500 - 3000 IOPS.
It's okay for most loads.

For higher performance, you can use

1. EBS Provisioned IOPS (kind of expensive)

2. Aurora (for DB use)

3. The new I3 instances (super fast local storage at a reasonable price.)
> Stream ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC & more.

What's included in "& more"? I can get the listed channels from an antenna.
This is why GDRP is bringing in a right to human review of automated decisions (for EU citizens)
You're talking past me and missing the point then. SELinux would absolutely not prevent this exploit: it allows the guest access to the filesystem seen by the host process, full stop. You're talking about deployment policy[1] that might help to mitigate VM exposure. And that's a fine idea. But it's not equivalent to saying that SELinux could have prevented this, and saying so in a security context is misleading users.

[1] Which has to be developed, after all. Simply saying you're "using SELinux" does nothing to prove to me you have no vulnerabilities or mistakes in your rule set.
"No, one evaluation near the mode is more efficient than one evaluation at the boundary (because the density is higher)."

Incorrect in general. Firstly, one evaluation anywhere does not yield any reasonably accurate estimate of expectations. We'll always need an ensemble of evaluations, in which case the relevant question really is "how should I distribute these evaluations". And for any scalable algorithm none of them will be near the mode.

This is often hard to grok because people implicit fall back to the example of a gaussian density where the mode and the Hessian at the mode fully characterize the density which can then be used to compute analytic integrals. But for a general target distribution we do not have any of that structure and instead have to consider general computational strategies.

"I agree that the region immediately around the mode is naturally "avoided" (because the volume is small). But your paper makes it look like we increase efficiency by explicitely avoiding it and concentrating somewhere else. That's what I found confusing."

In high-dimensions the probability mass of any well-behaved probability distribution concentrates in (or _around_ if you want to acknowledge the fuzziness) the typical set. Hence accurate estimation of expectations requires quantifying the typical set. Any evaluation outside of the typical set is wasted because it offers increasingly negligible contributions to the integrals -- a few additional evaluations may not drive the cost up appreciably but they will still be wasted.

So it's not that the only thing that matters is avoiding the mode. Rather what matters is that, contrary to many's intuitions, the neighborhood around the mode does inform expectation values and so exploring that neighborhood is insufficient for estimating expectations. That then motivates the question of what neighborhoods do matter, which is answered by concentration of measure and the existence of the typical set.

And in practice, we don't actually do any of this explicitly. Instead we construct algorithms that somehow quantify probability mass (MCMC, VB, etc) and they will implicitly avoiding the mode and end up working with the typical set.
How do you know if it's secure? How do you know if someone is accessing your passwords?
Do you have a link to that Facebook thread?
Furthermore, I believe there was quite a lot of physics done before Popper explained how to do it. He said many valid and insightful things, but it was not necessary for physics for him to say them.
Decentralization in Light of the Recent Amazon S3 Downtime
Show HN: Mocha-GitHub-Reporter, Delivers Mocha Results from CI to GitHub
Why should I have to prepare for some arbitrary question, though? You could ask any number of basic "whiteboard" questions and I have to prepare for them all? So you are going to deny what could be the best candidate for someone who just did a bunch of studying prior to the interview? How does this normally turn out for you? Do they tend to last and be good employees?
Very cool. I was just thinking about this yesterday. It'd be really interesting to have the roll of researching the upcoming techs and trying to see how they'd integrate. Are you a start up or do you work for a larger corporation?
Author here.
As I already stated in the post: comments, forks and critics are welcomed.
You can find the project on GitHub: https://github.com/mmazzarolo/tap-the-number
We all should pay for the worker's social safety net. That shouldn't be dependant on a worker's employer, or even employment status. In the US, tying health insurance to employers was one of the worst public policy mistakes we ever made.
Now that's what I call a shameless plug!
Oh. I used SWIG to automate a lot of that. It'll build the wrappers for you. The upside with it is that you don't have to wait for package maintainers to update your bindings.
> "Better than absolute hell" is nothing to celebrate.

Well I think that it's useful in the midst of stories like this to realize that yes, most people are nice, kind, etc. Perhaps most Uber employees are like that. It should give hope to anyone who is working somewhere that should be better who is inclined simply to quit vs trying to make it better.
Here's the thing; I like the !!FUN!! of Dwarf Fortress. I like knowing that some giant with poisonous spikes can come in, kill half my dwarves before succumbing to arrows, and let me carry on as usual... until I realize that cats are tracking poison into the kitchen, which leads to everyone dying. That's !!FUN!!.

Not fucking remembering how to engrave gemstones because the key combination is unlike anything else, or how to put down a butcher table, or how to to set up a training rotation for my military? That's just shitty design.
Ubuntu founder hopes its mobile OS could one day rival Android and iOS
I have gotten several credits from AWS for under a dollar due to incorrect billing calculations on their end that they caught, notified me about and sent a credit for. So I will assume yes, they do this automatically (if they don't I'd be quite surprised).
The only difficult aspect of multi-region use is data replication, which I can confirm is a (somewhat) difficult problem. This issue was with S3 which has an option to automatically replicate data from the bucket's region to another one. It's a check box. A simple bit of logic in the application and you can move between regions with ease.

Even data replication has options for this, too.

And I work in Ops.
Just my brief experience of 2-3 hours with LastPass today. Broken javascript errors when trying to import. Searched for customer support, couldn't find any! How do I file bugs? Sign up and post to their web forum?

I noticed their website is made entirely in php. Not that php is bad, but this is possibly the worst choice for a web platform that holds secrets. At only $12 a year, they probably aren't trying very hard.
Black Athena, 30 Years On
Sorry, that is intentional but could be more clear:

http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc/build.html#From_git_clone_usi...
> The process “freezes out many of the people who are underrepresented in the software development field,” Larson wrote. “If you’re busy working and raising kids, you want to spend as much of your scarce time as possible learning to code — not performing rote memorization that won’t matter once you start your job.”

I'm not sure I buy this argument. If you have one candidate who has seen all of this stuff before and can use it directly from memory, and another candidate who has been busy raising kids and has never seen this stuff before, who do you want to hire, all else being equal?

I could make an analogy to seeing a doctor. Say your kid is sick with a high fever. Do you want to see someone who did an EMT course at a local community college and hit the basic highlights of how to treat different symptoms, or do you want to see a doctor who had to take everything from organic chemistry to biology to anatomy to pharmacology courses? Sure the chance of any given piece of that training being relevant is small, but you want someone whose decisions are informed by a deep knowledge of the field.
1) He didn't "insist" it was $2.75. He mentioned the figure once.
2) When he quoted the figure, he said "and it's now what, $2.75?" clearly implying that he's not entirely sure about the current rate.
Interesting. I would say he's not be your immediate supervisor, but he's definitely your boss.
but the sentiment is valid imo (albeit arguably benign)...
What killed Delphi:

1. Embarcadero nee Borland always building new "cool" features (e.g. IoT) rather than core functionality (64 bit only recently, compiler slow, IDE crashes).

2. User base now mostly supporting old applications so require high level levels of backwards compatibility (with poor or broken APIs).

3. Loss of good libraries. Originally they had good libraries (and culturally the source was available for a few extra $$). Now libraries are poor, there is little incentive to make new libs, and the target is fragmented for library writers (many Devs are stuck on a variety of older versions - upgrades are costly, and upgrade reliability is erratic).
The Scary State of Volcano Monitoring in the United States
> If we, as a society, decide that there should be minimum standard of living for citizens than we should fund that from taxes paid by all.

I agree, this is the other - perhaps bette - solution. But the corporations that reap huge benefits from public education, infrastructure, healthcare, etc. (and those who currently disproportionately profit from those corporations) need to start contributing their fair share.
How do you know the answer you find is a good one?

Say you think you need a binary tree, so you can get Log(n) lookup, you look it up, implement it, it works, great. Not bad.

Then a lady comes along who actually understands the problem domain, and knows that cache locality will be a big win in this case, and she uses a sorted array with a binary search. Latency is cut in half and the company makes a brazillon dollars. Better.
> a 1-2h pre-interview practical coding assignment

then you'll only select for people who have nothing better to do with their time than to donate it to your fun programming escapade. Experienced devs will say it's not worth their time and wont apply.
Genius comparison. I don't think the evolution of tech caused the current situation. Proprietary code does :)

Only free software could change it. I hear a lot of people feeling entitled to bash RMS, but it happens because they don't get the big picture.
No you don't. Show me where that's in the terms?
Please. don't. do. this.

Every time one thinks of something clever one should consider if it fits the principle of least surprise.
> Filming him without acknowledging it was totally immoral,

To me this is a very classist oppinion. Normal people are filmed as they take the bus, ride the subway, go on the elevator, walk through the graveyard (seriously), go shopping, so why should a rich person who can afford a cab be granted an exclusive right to privacy which the rest of us don't have? If we promote this case due to the expectation of privacy that only serves to create this devide between rich and poor in which only the rich can afford privacy rather than a precident in which everyone deserves it.
Develop TweetDeck for all platforms & make it a paid product.
I don't see the value proposition here. Can anyone explain what I'm getting for $35 (over cheap or free alternatives)?
How does this compare to Google pioneering security architecture in Chrome, which gave it a strong record in Pwn2Own, and eventually became the basis for security in other browsers, including Edge?
I don't have any substantive evidence for this, but I suspect you'd see very different characteristics among people who work on SharePoint and, say, MVC/WebAPI.
Could be an interesting case. reddit is already doing this for 'real time' conversations (via F5 refresh) in respective subreddits during games, speeches, conferences, etc.
That what happens when cloud provider doesn't support live migration for VMs.
Consider these very cool missions are about 1/10th of the number of missions America was in a position to do.

Consider an America with the Texas Collider operational where major discoveries were made a decade before the CERN one even existed.

Consider an America where the ARPA internet project could have been one of the least notable breakthroughs in the last thirty years.
It could be to gather data to be able to negotiate deals with local TV providers. Get an idea of what the demand in a market is and go from there.
Asking them to do real programming is good. Asking them to remember things from an irrelevant layer of abstraction and write code in a way that is very unlike the actual job is the problem.
Have you worked at a big company? In none of the fortune 500 companies have I met the CEO who has taken a minute to explain like Travis tried. In fact in some of the companies I worked for the CEO won't even respond to email.
Hey franciscop, I'm a dev at the Outline. Can you tell me which browser version / device you are on? Thanks for the feedback
> To him, Albi’s fate was a cultural misfortune. City leaders had poured money into a high-concept modernistic new culture center at the town’s edge. And the shopping mall had been built. Large grocery chains, called hypermarkets, had also been constructed outside the city, with free parking. It is not that Albi no longer had commerce, or activity. But the essence of the ancient city was being lost.

In other words, the same car-centered development afflictions as elsewhere, and the same "strong towns" reforms needed.
AWS Got You Down?
I'm not familiar with the product, but surely leveraging existing expertise has some value.
1. Rebuild Twitter as an open, federated, decentralize service.
2. Write RFCs.
3. Shut down the massively dysfunctional company that should have been a protocol from the beginning so everyone involved can go get jobs doing something useful.
Why should I have to spend 5 minutes looking up what a company does before coming into an onsite interview?

Would you deny what could be the best possible candidate because they didn't do this?
As Mitt Romney famously said: corporations are people my friend. Which is to say, they are made up of people. Anything that is benefiting a corporation is benefiting those people. Those people pay taxes. That is how the fair share gets paid.