skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm understanding the increase is mostly due to the "debugging" info that is added, not necessarily due to more code.
How about talking to a therapist / counsellor / coach that specialises in professionals?

Even one or two sessions can help you a lot - they are trained in pinpointing "soft" issues.
The first job is the hardest to get. Keep trying, lower your expectations: Take anything you can and don't expect to be paid much.

Contrary to what the reddit folks would have you think. The ONLY thing that consistently get someone through the door is demonstrable real work experience, on real projects, in the industry (read: not academia). Side projects are not a substitute and the lack of degree is a barrier.
Programmers who want their REST API to return correct http response codes. I have a good many of them memorized by now. :(

...someday I'll find an excuse to return a 418.
> And most of your solutions are incredibly non-obvious, just like Cmd+Up.

HOW is Cmd+Up NOT an obvious shortcut for going UP one level? As I said, Cmd is already the primary modifier key for all app-specific shortcuts.

On the other hand, what does Windows use? BACKSPACE! A key people associate with deletion and editing text!

> Hold down option to change the right click menus?

Option modifies shortcuts, changing their behavior. "ALTernate." Again it's a behavior that's consistent across all macOS apps.

> Explorer is terrible but it's better than Finder because you don't need to read a manual

You don't need to read a manual for Finder, or almost any macOS app, because you can just click on the Help menu, and type the name of a command or action you expect that app to be able to perform, and it will automatically highlight the menu which contains that action:

http://i.imgur.com/HNUNqpN.png

I just typed "path" in the Finder help menu and it showed me the shortcut for "Copy as Pathname" including the Alt/Option modifier. And that works in EVERY macOS app. Try doing that in Windows!
No, from Bush 2 onwards the power of the executive office has expanded greatly. Obama used executive power quite liberally, for example the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), opening up stem cell research, defining large national parks, increasing federal contractor minimum wages.

Whether EOs are a good thing or a bad thing generally depends on whether you support the president that issued them. In the face of an obstructionist congress, I supported Obama's EOs, but the problem with them is that they are much more fragile, as they can be more easily reversed by the next administration.
There's no such thing as "more illegal"; interpretation of the law may be subjective, however, once a determination of legality has been made, it is or isn't legal.

Actually, it'd make him/her a vigilante, that while still criminal, aims to serve the public good, whether rightfully so or not. I won't suggest whether that is ethically acceptable, but it'd me more of a conversation than legality.
I recruited for one data science job. The hiring manager was super focused on getting someone with a PhD. Is that the norm for a position like that?
I'm pretty interested in the FPGA/DSP and firmware engineer jobs, and I'm based out of the Boulder, CO area. Any chance you'd consider hiring somebody into that office?
The art of deception / spies among us.

Entrylevel infosec stuff.
But, really put the mindset that if you ask for something in a specific way, you'll always get it.

It's not the request, it's how you form the request.
Contemporary (2017) article by Doug McIllroy discussing a more capable IPC mechanism that predates the Unix pipes he championed.
Really not hard to imagine how someone half the world away could make life miserable for someone - SWATting, bomb threats to kids' schools, harassing phone calls. All already happen regularly.
Regarding precision/recall, I've a background in financial econometrics and this is the first time I encounter the terms.
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Well we will disagree 100% I don't think we are talking the same thing. BUT latency (aka delay) in audio recording is a HUGE deal. When someone is playing to a click track and previous recorded pieces and have that person perform with that delay makes it even worse. It's impact on the ability for the drummer to perform has made it default to record drums first. The difference between on beat, before beat or after beat is very significant.

Give this a read - https://www.presonus.com/community/Learn/The-Truth-About-Dig...

Live audio if you have above the human perception of latency you are in the realm of 20 or 30 ms.

> Edit, hell many of the best audio interfaces don't even support Windows as a platform.

What can I say marketing works and this perceived Mac superior creative types tool is believed by most people. In actual Professional world there are plenty of Windows based studios that won Emmy's, Oscars and Grammys.
Easy one is they scrape Google for Linkedin bio info.

I'm paranoid that USPS sells your info once you fill out their change of address form.
Physicists extend quantum machine learning to infinite dimensions
Or 5) use your savings.
Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky

This book changed the way I approach problems in my personal and professional life. It has helped me to reflect on any given thought and understand where the thought comes from and where is could be leading me. It's been really enlightening to reflect on my own cognition through the tools and examples of Yudkowsky's book. It's long and dense, but is by far the best book I've read in the last few years.
You do realize that an old blackhat trick is to do things apparently as someone else so that the someone else gets penalized for what you did. For example use SEO techniques that Google notices and penalizes to cause rivals to disappear off of Google's search results (and thereby boost yourself relative to them).

I guarantee you that if you were noticed reliably responding to spam in this way, blackhats would happily direct your bandwidth towards their targets...
Legacy of Ashes - Tim Weiner. Pulled the wool from my eyes as to what my country is capable of performing in my name.
> to demonstrate a small bit of problem-solving

That's what the work sample test does. It doesn't have to be given off site.
Free to Choose - Milton Friedman

Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
On The Road - Jack Kerouac. How to live in the present moment and have a voracious appetite for travel and new experiences.
I have done all the below for my companies:

* Have an earning spouse

* Save enough, so you can build and verify a prototype in 6-12 months.

* Build a prototype working late and weekends keeping your current job. When the time is right, quit.
+1 The Design of Everyday Things. I believe this is a must read for anyone creating something for other people. I'm definitely a better designer because of it.
Engineer? Come build search software at Swiftype
> Are you literally saying they have no way to order all the first-level companies to stop sharing data on someone?

This is exactly what he's saying. There is no central node of control for this kind of information. You are operating from entirely unjustified assumptions.
Four features of containers that help (and hurt) docker security
Many years ago, before the age of the iPhone, I had a meeting with about thirty people at Apple headquarters at the request of Steve Jobs. That was my very first visit to Apple HQ.

After half a day of conversations, as we left the building, my very first words to my team were: "Apple Computer is no more. This is a marketing company. They might as well stick their logo on washing machines, microwaves and refrigerators. They know how to market them to be cool and they'll sell millions of them"

Then came the iPhone.

And, yeah, they could have filled homes with Apple appliances. Not sure why they didn't go there. So easy. Not saying it would have been right, but they had the opening and the mindless following to make every home "Apple Cool".
I manage a data science team and revamped the hiring process pretty substantially about a year ago, to good results. Nothing in here is particularly original, but here's what we do:

1. Break down "data science" into several different roles–in our case, Analyst (business-oriented), Scientist (stats-heavy), Engineer (software-heavy). Turns out that what we mostly want are Engineers-Analysts, so our process screens heavily for those.

2. Figure out which types of people can be trained to be good at those roles, given the team's current skillset. I opted to look primarily for people with strong analysis skills and some engineering.

3. Design interview tasks/questions that screen for those abilities. In my case, the main thing I did was make sure that the interviews depended very little on pre-existing knowledge, and a lot on resourcefulness/creativity/etc. E.g. the (2-hour) takehome is explicitly designed to be heavily googleable.

4. Develop phone screens that are very good at filtering people quickly, so that we don't waste candidates' time. By the time someone gets to an onsite interview on our team there's something like a 50% chance they'll get an offer.

On the candidate side, when I'm applying I try to figure out first and foremost what a company means by "data scientist", usually by networking & talking to someone who already works there. This filters out maybe 90% of jobs with that title, and then I put more serious effort into the rest.
> "God, if you really exist I will listen"

I think most atheists would agree with that statement and would want a benevolent God to exist.
This is pretty nice!

Minor rant: for whatever reason, you can't spin up VMs using this $2.50/month plan through their API.

Does anyone from Vultr know why? This would be very useful.
American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund Morgan

Best American history book I've read.
That's actually my objection to 20% time, I would much rather take a 100% sabbatical for certain things. It could actually work out to 20% or more on the average, it's just there isn't enough institutional trust in large corporations to pull it off, IMHO.

Anyway, I am glad that 20% still works, it's better than nothing IMHO. I wouldn't do startup because I am not really interested in the logistics of pitching etc.

It's interesting that even though perhaps a majority of people believes that some freedom on the job would be beneficial, we cannot create a society which has this freedom.
I agree that they know its a scam, I disagree that they know who their employer is.

I have seen interviews with some of the rank and file scammers. Apparently, they do it because the pay is good for someone with their skillset and ability to put ethics aside.

The people who are on the phone don't know the details of the corporate structure. The boss could easily lie and claim to be a Microsoft contractor and it might be hard for someone on the phones to verify and asking to many questions might get them fired. This might make it easier for some to set aside those ethics, they know they are not on the level, but can feel slightly better because they think their behavior is authorized by a large company that already services these customers.
+1 thanks for the explanation!

And regarding this:

> Edited to add: You're also asking a lot of people in here to name specific companies even if they can't give you huge lists. This space is super heavy on NDAs (and trigger happy on enforcing them). If you've actually worked in it, there's simply no way you're able to name drop legally.

I understand that an NDA would prevent you from naming your own company or your suppliers and clients, but surely it doesn't prevent you from listing some other companies in this space that you know of (including but not limited to your competitors)? I don't understand why you shouldn't be able to name any company just because you've worked at one of them.
To date the Zuckerberg foundation has given $75 million to SF General Hospital as well as committed to giving $3 billion to establish the Biohub in San Francisco. They've committed to giving 99% of their shares to the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative which is currently valued at something like $50 billion. Paying the smartest doctors and scientists in the world to cure diseases is a pretty good way to have a humanitarian impact.
> Theoretically, you could sue each company with your data, and a court could tell each of those companies to remove your information. But it would have to be for each one, and the judgement is only binding on those companies.

As an individual, that sounds like a lot of work for little gain, but if there were pre-filled out forms, and all I had to do was put in my name, I'd be willing to file lawsuits to get my name removed.
You mean like this? http://www.nationalchangeofaddress.com/
Gyroscope is building the back end to the journey of you
Note to self: start working qrust now, before it becomes a big problem.
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They're both undesirable, but a whitelist is easier to fight.
Huge +1 on The Book: on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are. I keep re-reading that book hoping that I'll be able explain things half as well as Watts does...never seems to work but I still venerate this book. I cried when I read him explain beautiful concepts to a T that I figured I'd never be able to convey convincingly to anyone else.
I dunno... look at the checkerboard-pattern background in the first set of screenshots from Sonic. (The one "behind" the falling water.) Why is that blurrier in the "RGB" version? That's just a pattern of squares, I'm not sure composite video artifacts or whatever are the reason the "RGB" one looks so blurry.
The Triumph of Politics by David Stockman - totally changed the way I understand the operation of government.
Stoicism, you could never do anything to lose.
1. I like it

2. https is a must if it is to be successful

3. I entered a custom url like_this and it was automatically changed to like-this, which is nice, but was very confusing, since I couldn't later find the page. I think it would be better to just tell me that I included some characters that are not allowed. Same with dots, which got me while trying to create robots.txt ;)
No, the inane part I was referring to was the often heard notion that those that want Generics are not really Go users, else they would have seen that they are not needed.
It's all very incestuous. I suspect that part of what happens is that new companies are comprised of people who have previously worked in the industry, so they have general knowledge of who the available providers are. Without prior experience in the industry, I suspect you're not going to be in business very long.

The other part of getting initial sources is probably calling companies in retail, insurance, etc and pitching them on how much they would make selling customer data to them. If I had to do it, I'd probably get industry reports, sort by annual revenue, start at the top and work my way down as I try to get a hold of the consumer data department at each company.

I've also been approached by these guys when I was part of shutting a company down. They wanted to buy our customer database. I guess when one of these companies shuts down, some new one can buy the database and use that as a seed for new operations.
The maths weren't exactly Hogwarts for nerds. It was a way to keep the other academic disciplines for interacting to prevent another catastrophe.

Also silo'ing off knowledge is kinda crazy. If a discovery in a 100 year math happens at year 2, then it take 98 more years before the outside world gets the research.
If you changed a misleading title to make it accurate, then you were following the HN guidelines and we made a mistake in overwriting it. Sorry! We try hard but inevitably get it wrong sometimes. We've put your title back.
There were guaranteed to be lots of people working on html5 parsers. If you want to have a niche to yourself, you have to pick something more esoteric.
People whose credit cards do not allow international transactions. The first time I used paypal, it was precisely for this reason.
> fundamentalistic atheist

Did you invent this term just for the comment?
> "Quite honestly given your questions [about vacation policy] and the fact that you are considering other options, [we] may not be the best choice for you."

I had a very similar experience. Job offer was basically on the table and then they balked because I mentioned that I had another offer (at a larger company, which they seemed shocked/annoyed with) and I had a question about parking at their new offices. The current offices had free parking, so I had simply asked if the new ones would too. The response was very cold (must have a been the source of internal strife, I guess?). An hour later I got a call saying they were no longer interested.
Pro tip: apply for credit/load/cards when you don't really need it. You will probably need the credit the last month before the investment is in the bank.
Pro tip: apply for credit/loan/cards when you don't really need it. You will probably need the credit the last month before the investment is in the bank.
How's performance compared to eg: Python?
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I think the issue is "they delight in breaking rules". Why delight in it? There's a big difference between "I'm willing to break minor rules when I have to" and "I enjoy being naughty for its own sake". I suspect its a lot easier to break big rules when you're having fun breaking small ones.
If it is on libgen, it is not downloaded, but you are given a libgen link.

Libgen also redirects you to sci-hub.bz if you search scientific article it doesn't have.

They collaborate, but different people are behind these projects.
Regarding stock options expiring 3 months after leaving the company, it doesn't have to be this way and a lot of startups are moving in the direction of 10 year exercise periods.

I think Quora was the first to do this: https://dangelo.quora.com/10-Year-Exercise-Periods-Make-Sens...
Just wanted to throw out there for any macOS users I use nvALT [0] as a client for simple note on my macbook and love using it as a scratch pad for holding data while working on a problem or just a general "I need to make a quick list on the fly here and then copy it into something else later". I have mine set to a hotkey so I can hide/show it quickly and it's great.

[0] http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
If that's true, then not being able to run Adobe software in Linux is not a reason to not use Linux.
Thanks for the info.It sounds a lot like the students from NHK World's "First Class" series: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/firstclass/

I thought maybe they just cherry-picked students, but I guess not. Everything you said backed it up.

I ask because I'm just curious about things in different cultures and social circles. (And to destroy any stereotypes I might unintentionally believe in.)
> "Honestly, I think the way you communicated your thought process and results was confusing for some people in the room."

We got confused, and then we stopped. The end.
Some companies know what skills they need, others don't. For those who don't know, but want a typical statistical modeler, a PhD in statistics is the safest choice, then a PhD in machine learning or MS in stats, after that, you need to look for the presence of specific skills... like deep learning for image recognition or the Hadoop stack.
can we stop producing languages and focusing on improving the old ones?
oh! what's your name?
I'm not arguing against the ADA. I think disability benefits are important. But I think it isn't having the intended effect- getting UC Berkeley to improve the accessibility of these videos. I understand what the law is trying to accomplish and agree that we should optimize for that, but the practical effects might need a few edge cases hammered out. I think everyone can agree the better outcome would be one where somehow UC Berkeley is in a position to improve the accessibility of these existing videos.
Do you have a link to this? I couldn't find it.
>somebody tried to force human resources policy with a gift

Out of sheer curiosity, what was the policy?
The Economic Growth Engine: How Energy and Work Drive Material Prosperity
by Ayers and Warr

Describes the economy in thermodynamic terms, as a materials processing machine, in contrast with neoclassical models of abstract "factors of production". Does a deep dive on examining what technological progress is and how it happens. I don't agree with everything in it but the perspective is unique and highly thought provoking.

https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Growth-Engine-Prosperity-Int...
What training or certifications did you participate in?
Especially since pdf can embed almost everything
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Good question. I thought it works that way because it takes a lot of work to sanitize and cross-link people's data to other datasets accurately, so even if it's a "push" model, I still can't believe that every single website that does this does their own data cleaning & ML & whatnot. It's far too much repeated work and a good business to just do the work and sell it off to others. So I'd assume a few companies have to be making profits at the lower layer regardless of whether it's a pull or a push model.
The conviction in his tone and how he wears rationality like a cape, the book helped me understand the meaning of rationality, the map and the territory and power of beliefs to predict and also acknowledge the existence of an objective reality. Its sort of a journey down the rabbit hole for me.
By this criterion, both Haskell and ML are functional. If you attempt to compare values whose type doesn't support decidable equality testing, you get an error, either at compile time (Haskell, Standard ML) or at runtime (OCaml, arguably a design defect). And, if `f` is a pure function whose codomain supports decidable equality testing, then `map f xs = map f xs` (or double equals using Haskell syntax) is always true.
8 years ago, deep learning as a concept is not even a thing! If someone tells me we would have push image classification, speech recognition to human level or beyond, and make machine translation so much more usable I could call him nuts.

In ML landscape, DL had changed fundermentally the expectation of what algorithm could achieve
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By inflating his numbers he was able to get funding from investors at better terms. So basically he scammed his investors.

The difference between direct donation of services vs money to buy those services is that the direct donation would have actually lowered his order numbers and profitability, while the monetary donation raises those same numbers.

Also, by donating the money he gets to invest in his company tax free because the donation is a write off, gets filtered into the company which raises it's value, but he doesn't have to declare any capital gain, which he would have to do if he just put the money into the company (not to mention the tax on the money in the first place).

It's all an accounting trick, but it's all about the optics.
Docker for Devs Part 3: Hot Module Reloading and Live Editing in Containers
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As an engineer, I usually know better than to use the phrase I hate to hear: "why don't you just..."
We don't have official timelines for this, but we'll be working on these as soon as the integrations get finished.
Grails used to be awesome for this kind of stuff.

You could define model-classes and it was able to auto generate working, good-enough database tables (using hibernate) views and controllers. All pretty mich easily customizable.

Think of rails, but on the jvm, with performance.

Sadly, it's a pretty dead project.
Grails used to be awesome for this kind of stuff.

You could define model-classes abd it wad able to auto generate working, good-enough database tables (using hibernate) views and controllers. All pretty mich easily customizable.

Think of rails, but on the jvm, with performance.

Sadly, it's a pretty dead project.
Same here, I'll open a ticket and see what is going on too.