skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Read very closely.

> If you care to look into it (x2)

comments like this really have no place on HN and don't strengthen your position.
If you do that you'll end-up jobless. It is not a candidate's market right now :)
The documents do not mention encrypted communications; that same summary editorialized them in.
I asked former editors of DMOZ if they would like to continue working on a human edited directory.

100 of them replied with mixed emotions, but nearly all of them are willing to contribute to the development of a DMOZ successor.

So, I build a platform (just a forum and a wiki at the moment) to collect all these likeminded people and start building something great together.

Tell me what you think about humanly curated web directories in 2017 or your ambitions to be a user or a contributor of a decent successor of the ODP.

Thank you for your feedback!
Security is a huge concern for companies and largely executives who typically aren't as technical. It keeps them up at night, mainly because they can't control it and to a certain extent they don't understand a lot of the technical details and attack surfaces.

In January I founded a DevOps and infrastructure consulting startup (shameless plug https://elasticbyte.net) and security audits and best practices is one of the top "value" adds of my service. I don't claim to be a crypto expert or DevSec guru, but most of the issues aren't deeply technical problems like what CloudFlare experienced. Usually it just takes rigor and following best practices, firewall rules, don't share keys and passwords, two factor auth, use IAM, use jump hosts, if a server doesn't need public access don't provision a public address. Isolate services and dev and staging environments.
"CHOMSKY: I think the Hobbits are criminals, essentially."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boring_Company
Reminds me of Russia's "Stop a Douchebag" (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMrKscEv_Ri1pvlRsLxsqJQ). Except those stickers are intentionally very sticky.
2.5D Adds Test Challenges-Advanced packaging issues in testing interposers, TSVs
They are supposed to transfer to neural translations today might not have transfered over yet. I used to follow a Russian forums because the developer of the software I used was on them. Would be interesting to see if there are any changes to the translations.
Oh, I've edited my post in case you're right
All good. Thanks for checking. :)
>Interestingly, I often read in NYTimes, Washington Post, etc. about terrible Trump, but even the economics columnists don't mention the good things that he does and I wonder why that is.

Is it really that hard to understand? I realize this is hyperbolic, but it's for many of the same reasons that we don't tend to focus much on what an admirable animal right's activist, anti-smoker, and vegetarian Adolf Hitler was.
If there was a better process, companies would adopt it, as it would give them a major competitive advantage. They're not complete fools.
Which is pretty much exactly what this tool is doing...
Are there? Because the only big ones I hear about are Wikileaks.

(I certain that more groups exist, but really, I can't name any others.)
Could you just put the pot directly on your stove to sear stuff? I haven't tried this, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
I had a daily commute that was 10 miles. I started biking to work and, as I got into better shape, I noticed that I could get there faster on bike.

I sweat easily though, so that option only worked for me because my office had a shower.
My question to every prediction market startup:

"What statistical edge in predicting future events is there simply by asking for consensus?" or

"Is prediction market good enough to predict stock ticker prices?" The answer should be an obvious no.

If prediction market did outperform simple random guesses, hedge funds would be all over it. Hedge funds are great at claiming to hold the golden chalice but prediction market isn't even on their radar.

Tinycast seems to suggest that your employees know the best but what evidence is there to suggest their consensus is an accurate indicator of future events?

The only difference with Tinycast seems to be that it's not running on Ethereum. Inside joke there, prediction markets on Ethereum seems dime a dozen with no real adopters but stories of scam and fraud.

Best Buy is the only one I know of that were using prediction markets internally...in 2008. I'm not hearing any fanfares about it now. They couldn't predict the fall and merger of Futureshop.
Machine Learning and Misinformation
So to go against the grain: this is a bad thing. Those videos not being accessible to the deaf is unfortunate. What is even more unfortunate is that those videos are now also no longer available to lots of people who would never in a lifetime stand a chance of attending Berkeley, many of them outside of the reach of that particular law.

I'm all for accessibility but this 'reset' causes a lot of good content to disappear for reasons that are suspiciously close to spite, and spite that has far wider ranging consequences than for those that have access to alternatives.

A blind person in the USA has more options available to them than almost any person somewhere in the developing world and those were the biggest beneficiaries of these videos. Principles are great, looking beyond your own interest is even greater.
Stanford Deep Learning for NLP Course Notes
It tells us what they can do but it certainly doesnt incentivize trust.
Wikileaks published the internal communications of the Erdogan Administration in Turkey, indicating among other things (corruption) the administrations back channel to the Assad Administration in Syria (an enemy of the United States).

The fallout of these disclosures potentially contributed to a building coup attempt in Turkey by forces loyal to the US (which the US tacitly supported) that burst just a week after the disclosures.

Wikileaks does not only publish "against" America. When it does, it's closer to home for the Americans and we hear more news coverage about it. In any case, wouldn't it okay that there are outlets that produce true news focused on negative aspects of the United States, keeping it accountable? That seems like a positive thing to me - though I don't think Wikileaks is "it".
The media.
I have seen many people who deny facts and it is interesting to guess what their motivations are.

I am, however, not very impressed with the statement from the medical science that the authors use as "a fact". Facts from the medical science that are debated have changed into lies: did you hear about the fact that cholesterol is bad for your health and one should eat eggs with moderation ? That fact is now a lie: (see http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/19/health/dietary-guidelines/) and the Dietary Guidelines now contain "Cholesterol is not considered a nutrient of concern for overconsumption".
Another example where yesterday's truth is today's lie: there are many scientific reports that say that the herbicide Roundup is safe, but the court in California recently decided that a warning must be put on the Roundup package: "THIS MAY CAUSE CANCER". For decades the truth was "Roundup is safe". In 2016 the new truth is "Roundup causes cancer". The new research is so overwhelming that the old research funded by the producer of Roundup is no longer considered truthful and that research from the producer did not convince the court.

I think that the authors walk on a slippery road when they state that vaccinations are good and not hazardous since they ignore the fact that there is considerable debate about the subject and do not look at the arguments of those who are opposed. Yes there is scientific research that says that a vaccine given at birth is safe because the researchers observed babies for four days and there were no adverse reactions. Other scientific studies follow children just for a maximum of 90 days. One who argues that four days is not enough and labels the report 'unscientific' has a good point. One who shows that autism is linked to vaccinations does not present hard evidence but raises a valid point of attention. What is the truth? safe or unsafe? Currently it is debated. Most likely there will not be hard evidence soon about unsafety because nobody funds research for this.

There is also an other argument to make: if we find autism a terrible disease that must be avoided at all costs, and there are mathematical indications that vaccines are not safe, and there is scientific research that says that they are safe but do not investigate the relationship between vaccines and autism, and there is no scientific research that shows that vaccines do not cause autism, then why do many persons accept "vaccines are safe" as a truth ?

I suggest that the authors write a new book with a title like "What happens to people when that facts and truths that they believe in are no longer true ?" and do not make the mistake to believe everything that others say but to critically verify it.
i agree with much of what you're saying, but -- 1 voter for ~50k residents? huh?

there are about 4 million residents in LA. 1 voter per 50k residents amounts to 80 voters. i must be misunderstanding your comment...
I've created several bytecode interpreters, mainly for bootloaders and cross-platform drivers. These environments are sometimes very space constrained, so using the native instructions to do highly repetitive I/O to set up devices can blow your space budget. Instead, I shrink the instruction set down to (usually) 4 bit codes with packed immediate data in a 16 or 32 bit word. In one case, a SH4 based set-top box, this reduced the bootloader from 30+k down to a single flash page. This meant that we could have redundant bootloaders instead of just one copy, and that increased platform reliability and serviceability quite a bit.

I also wrote a BPF-like JIT for network packet matching once, targeting the QorIQ pattern matching engine as a backend.
> Wikileaks supports Trump.

I wonder whose hand is really stuck in that sock puppet.
VF# now uses the Roslyn Workspaces, however the migration to the new Roslyn ProjectSystem is just started ;)
Definitely this. Sear your meat, then slow-cook it, then, if you want, broil it to crisp it up. I do this when making carnitas and they turn out amazing.
No, spy agencies aren't supposed to spy on every single person in the country.
I agree with you that if the info is true that's good enough to use that infor. But it is still worth knowing the motivations of the people providing your information.

The truth is the most common source of bias in media is not telling out right lies but in deciding which truths to tell you. Its hard to believe that now given how much false information is being spread. But its still true. Propaganda is in the editing- choosing which stories get focus, which voices get amplified.
New York Times has a really good set of cooking videos: https://cooking.nytimes.com/guides/23-basic-knife-skills
> What would happen if you tried to make a web language that wanted to strip HTML, CSS and JavaScript down to their essence — but were extremely liberal in the techniques you used to get there?

So, extremely liberal, you said... :-) Thinking about this I started to wonder about other systems producing a similar output to the trio html/css/js. I realized PostScript is such a system, but for fixed size documents. People actually explored using PostScript for GUI applications in the past, as described in [1]. At some point I'd like to explore [2] and [3] to see if some of the ideas could be modernized and adapted for the web.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript#Use_as_a_display_sy...
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
> if there is a single main problem, it is that there are too many cars for the available road and freeway space and too many people feel compelled to get into those cars and drive absolutely anywhere at any particular time

Exactly. The focus on improving traffic should be on addressing WHY people feel compelled to drive long distances throughout the day. Are they going to work, shopping, entertainment, etc?

The closer you can bring things to where people live, the less need there would be to get in your car and drive long distances.

Public transportation is the most effective in cities that are the most diverse; i.e, not large blocks of residential surrounding large blocks of commercial.

Even where I live, a city of about 65k, there are residential districts that have >2,000 homes, 1 major shopping district, and two smaller shopping districts. Freeway exits are all at the three shopping districts, which causes all traffic to funnel from the freeway into a very small commercial area before spreading out into the residential neighborhoods. And visa-versa, if you want to get onto the freeway from your home, you get pushed into the same funnel before you can get to the freeway.

The city plan appears to be specifically designed to funnel 65,000 people through shopping districts no matter whether the people need to shop or are just trying to get out of the city (freeway).
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Ask HN: Do you want a 2017 job market update?
For those who are currently interviewing and those who recently landed a job (within the last 2 months), would you mind sharing with us your numbers?

- # applications submitted

- # answers (heard back from recruiters)

- # technical phone screens

- # on sites

- # number of offers

- How long did it take you from start to finish?
I think you live in a different Prague than I do, or you don't travel near the city centre often. When I tried to use trams in summer, they were full of people, so much I couldn't move, smelling and incredibly hot. I was very happy when my car finally got fixed. Yes, there are a lot of problems with driving (parking, one-way roads, ...), but it's much more comfortable, so much, that the discomfort caused by traffic is next to none.
> but I've also heard that algorithms questions can be a good proxy for actual software engineering skills.

In my world (Line of Business/SME) they aren't, I used to know the exact properties of a doubly linked list and all that stuff but I haven't had to think about it for 18 years.

The question I've had the most success with at predicting if someone will be a good dev (in my domain) is some variant of :-

> "I run an electrical testing company, I want a system to manage my engineers, ask me the questions you'd ask a client"

If the response is "How many engineers, how many sites, how quickly are you expanding, do you need this to be available on foo/bar etc" then they are showing the skills they need, it's not about them having good answers but knowing how to ask good questions.

Others I like are "Tell me about the worst bug you ever wrote and how you figured out the fault" and here is some code, what would you do to improve the quality, looking for things like refactoring large methods, consistent comment style, fixing indentation.

That gives me a hugely more useful insight into whether someone will be a good developer over "Explain to me in detail the thing you might have been lucky enough to have boned up on two days ago or might not and will never have to use".

The dirty secret is that (for most of the programmers in my domain) you don't need to be some algorithm wizard who can tell you the O(n) time of the Spasky-Fischer Recursive Tree Search, you need to be able to write clear, concise code that shows intent and is going to maintainable in a year.
However, this is not the case for information that is defined as "Restricted Data" under the Atomic Energy Act - you can get life in prison for passing that on to someone.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2274
O-Bahn might work quite well - combining benefits of rail and buses...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_Busway

It's fast, comfortable and those buses are able to collect passengers in suburbia.
We can debate a lot but is there any city in the world where tolls fixed traffic jams?
I'll start

- # applications submitted - 30

- # answers - 20

- # technical phone screens - 20

- # on sites - 10

- # number of offers - 1

- 2 months
> despite the fact that everything you've said contradicts what I've heard from LEOs and other trained firearms users.

Really?

1) Muggers

The LEO's I deal with are normally "Just give them your wallet and phone. Do not fight back."

Now, admittedly, most of this advice is from the US and being near big cities. In the US, we don't tend to have kidnappings--normally muggers will take your wallet and phone and run unless you are stupidly in some dangerous area.

2) Gangbangers

Generally will leave you alone unless it is a target of opportunity. However, teenagers are stupid and can consider truly bizarre things "disrespect". Combine this with drugs and you can get some exceptions.

3) Crazy/homeless

Generally the stuff they do never rises to the level of "I can shoot him" until it's too late for you to react.

And, this is, in fact, the crux of the situation. By the time the situation escalates to the level of "I am legally allowed to shoot this person" the situation is often too far gone for the gun to be helpful.

Now, I'm not a tiny female, so I don't present a "target of opportunity". However, women are more often the victim of the gun in the house from their partner than from random strangers.

Finally, my only interactions with concealed carry in my family are accidents where someone almost got shot unintentionally. Nobody in my extended family has ever had to use a gun to defend themselves, but there have been a handful of mishaps (thankfully, nobody harmed).

The statistics are against concealed carry except in fairly exceptional circumstances (jewelers, for example).
I love that. Or when they audibly sigh, tap their pen on their desk, or stare out the window. These actions say, "I have more important things to be doing," and that's how you know the company is doing big, important things.
It's all fun and games until a careless measurement causes one set of engines to be "on" and the other to be "off".
Does she (or you) have any evidence for that?

The US has a well-known policy of not paying ransom for kidnapped citizens abroad, and apparently doesn't even allow families to pay ransom [1]. Other governments huff and puff about it (nobody wants to encourage terrorist kidnappings), but by and large tend to bail out their citizens.

Furthermore, if you get in trouble with terrorists, I think the US passport is probably among the worst to have.

With law enforcement, I'm not sure. But, if you get in trouble with law enforcement in Iran or China or Vietnam, you think they'd be more inclined to be helpful to US citizens?

Either way, one would have to look at statistics and detail to make an informed decision, but at first approximation I think she'd be better off traveling on her Dutch passport on that score.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-06-04/u-s-ranso...
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> Software QA Engineer background + no CS degree implies I have no technical skill.

Sure, but that doesn't sound unreasonable.
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Escape...

I think it's because using the backslash to escape counts as quoting. So the following are all equivalent:

$ \time foo
$ t\ime foo
$ 'time' foo
> Increase the cost of vehicle registration or gas taxes to encourage workers to prefer jobs closer to their home.

Or perhaps impose such high state taxes/ local body taxes that the people simply leave the town, state or even better the country! Just kidding. This is a very heavy handed solution that hurts a lot of people and especially poor, minorities and vulnerable groups.

Roads, Vehicles and Gas has far too many alternative uses and this sort of tax gives broad powers and worse more money to state which will then be used to enforce drug war and other bullshit laws. Above suggestion deeply hurts poor and vulnerable minorities who have to travel a lot for work. This is like shooting someone in chest because breast cancer was detected.

A toll however is a far better solution. A toll applied only on specific routes on specific times will directly change the traffic pattern and will have much greater consequences over longer time.
The type is library code, the only part that's a language feature is the grammar. ValueTuple is a type like any other, and the CLR will need it referenced to use it.
I created several programming languages a few years ago, thinking "I could do this better" (than the languages I was using). Turns out it was harder than I thought, but I learned a lot about how software works. It remains by far the best thing I've done to advance my skills.

Some time after that, the Julia language came into existence (http://julialang.org/) which is pretty much everything I wanted out of a language.
There is one main difference, though. No one is forcing you to use car, but you'd like to force others not to.
This paper has been public for years at http://rbcs-us.com/documents/Why-Most-Unit-Testing-is-Waste....
> But light rail (trams, or perhaps called streetcars in American English) can have stops as often as buses.

I have a hard time justifying trams/streetcars over buses. They largely seem equivalent except that buses are more flexible since they're not bound to a set of tracks. For example, if a car crash or other obstacle blocks the tram tracks, the trams have to wait for the obstacle to be cleared. A bus can just go around it.

Buses can (and do, in some places) carry transponders to give them signal priority, just like trams. They can even be given dedicated lanes. And trams don't really carry more passengers per square meter than buses do. The one advantage trams have that I can see is that they avoid the weird cultural stigma that buses tend to carry here in the US.
right... so it was something like `p@SSw0Rd`, what's the difference?
Sometimes the trams are full, yes. And sometimes there is trafic on the roads.
What is the point of threads like this? Is the OP trying to be witty or humorous?

I don't believe these threads contribute to any discussions on this website. They are deliberately created as a joke.
> READ MULTIPLE SOURCES

You can't do that when Wikileaks is the only source.
I've created somewhere around 5-10 languages. Most are domain specific, some are new internally generated general purpose languages in "black box" use in client software because we saw the need, some are from clients which needed languages built.

Mostly we value declarative specification, however some domains do require in-order recipe style expressivity. The more problem-space the language can be, the easier it is to iterate, catch problems early & easily, report more meaningful errors, and optimize the compilation.

It's a craft, but I honestly think it's not a hard one to pick up. The major thing is being able to step back and think about the problem humans are tackling, not grabbing your default C style (or whatever) and trying to bolt it into some solution space. As programmers, it's easy to give zero thought to all the boilerplate and machine-fiddling required for typical programming; you must set that aside when starting from scratch with a new problem. You must also realize when existing or in-progress solutions become boilerplaty and fiddly, and have the wherewithal to step back and notice that it's not expressing the correct level of abstraction for the problem.

We've supported Bloomberg, ADP, nuclear power plants & other utilities, etc, so we need something truly viable, robust, maintainable, and worth the client's money. You have to think in their shoes, understanding the industry vocabulary of the user. You need to give them tools that closely match their natural expression of what they want the machine to do, not divert them into being programmers, yet still have all the power they need for their tasks at hand. It all starts with having a great business analyst.