skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a lot of very smart people from Iran. Sure, the current travel ban is only a small portion, but Trumo has only been in power for just over month. There is no reason to think he and Bannon are satisfied.
The Zero-Width-Joiner allows for some really strange things: https://blog.emojipedia.org/ninja-cat-the-windows-only-emoji....

One can basically achieve an unlimited number of emojis by concatenating the current ones.
It's not that you can BS your way through a tech interview, but that the skillset required to do well in a tech interview is different than the one you need to be good at a developer job.

I've seen way more than a few false positives from tech interviews, along with tremendous amounts of false negatives: People with backgrounds of being transformative to teams and organizations that just couldn't look good enough while solving random algorithm problems to save their lives.

It's just hard to see the kinds of things a company misses when they keep insisting in asking people about graph algorithms and implementing red black trees, because those same companies just never get to see the kind of people that you get when you do things differently.

I currently work for a company that does relatively traditional tech interviews and does 95% of sourcing from big schools and ver well known tech companies. I fail to see a major difference between my coworkers here vs my coworkers at places where your average dev went to a midwest state school and was never asked an algorithm question during interview.
With circulation monetary credit flows and the essence of commerce flourishes. As jobs become scarce and the resources of employers no longer support the employment needs of the majority, basic income becomes a necessity for commerce rather than a what if.
Clearly those are lame asks from the renter. Does Airbnb assist you in those situations? If you forward those requests to Airbnb support will they prevent a bad review from showing?
DJI single handedly subsumed and killed off a LOT of drone startups.
I had the opposite experience with Triplebyte. I found every part of it enjoyable and really liked the interviewer.

What I didn't like was the chats with the companies that followed. It felt like the whole Triplebyte interview process never happened and we were starting from scratch..
> Before emoji, fonts and colors were independent.

Fonts and colors are still, for the most part, independent. Color or the lack thereof is a property of your font and text rendering subsystems. For instance Noto Emoji provides B&W emoji, and Noto Color Emoji provides colored ones.
Are you developing any iOS apps in Swift? How might I contact you to ask about your experience so far?
Do you have any idea how insulting and dismissive you sound? You know nothing about the circumstances of his hiring, how can you possibly say his real and concrete experience was easier than that of some hypothetical woman?
The statement you responded to implies that cops and so on will speak negatively about illegal immigrants but will not speak negatively about (certain types of) legal immigrants.

That doesn't mean none of those types of legal immigrants cause problems for those people, it means they don't cause enough problems to draw the ire of those people.
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Understanding base-2 numbers (and other bases) is another good idea, though it's more suitable for a ten year old.

Game: represent numbers using progressively more exotic representations:

Base 10
Base 5
Base 2
Unary

Then

Fibonacci base
(http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci... )

Then

Invent a place-value system using product of primes (inspired by fundamental theorem of arithmetic)

Etc. This is a very "digital" set of exercises and it's very focused on counting. Logic will take care of itself.
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According to this, the demo video was faked: http://boingboing.net/2017/01/16/lily-drone-demo-video-that-...
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Has anyone ever tried

1. normalize reviews to make a 4 star from someone who always gives 5 stars worth less than a 3 star from someone who always gives 2 stars; and

2. make reviews secret?
I will be upfront, this argument is bogus.

#1. Academia and non-profits do get H1-Bs that are cap exempt

#2. There are people who got jobs in FB et al. who did not win lotteries and went home.

#3. A significant portion of the 85K are people working for "sweatshops", there are enough charts out there

So, yes, its actually a good thing to return to the original intent of extra-ordinary talent.
Is “The Room” the worst movie of all times, or just the 21st century?
Trump's early budget proposal includes huge cuts to research budgets at NOAA, NASA, EPA, US Geological Survey, Interior Department and the Department of Energy.

There's a reason scientists are freaking out and are planning a march on washington https://www.marchforscience.com/
What the guards did was wrong, but don't you think your belligerent drunk friend needs to share even a tiny bit of the blame? People act like civilians should be able to do or say literally anything and fully expect law enforcement to be perfectly rational and fair and gentle with them.
There absolutely is. What are you suggesting?

The "privilege" slinging used to belittle the accomplishments of people based on birth attributes _is_ rather obnoxious. To pretend that, for example, women are universally less privileged than men is of course ridiculous. Paris Hilton is clearly more privileged than a low-income boy growing up in Flint, Michigan.
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Why not Mattermost?

https://about.mattermost.com/

Own your data.
Any service with more than 400 users that want to run a batch process for each user in constant time with respect to number of users.
This approach may work (I say "may" because most of the time it's not actually backed up by hard evidence free of confounding variables), but it's also lazy; there are vastly more accurate predictors of a priori success rate than race or gender. It's especially lazy for organizations that have access to those more accurate predictors, like universities, to use race and gender instead.

More accurate predictors include parental education, family wealth, social connections, etc. Mostly what people would describe as social class.
Israeli Jew here. And I think that's a bit unfair. There's a critical difference between Islam and Christianity, and it bears nothing, because without grasping this detail you can't really give Islam a fair understanding.

Secularism in the Christian World is the result of peacemaking after the Wars of Religion. It's 1648, you want Christians to stop killing each other. Since this involves a religion whose followers engaged in near-genocidal wars over the inclusion of the word "filiouque" in one creed, you agree on a peace deal where the two sides agree to avoid all God-talk altogether.

Voila, secularism.

Meanwhile, you have several chapters in Muslim history where Sunni and Shia decide to have peace, for the sake of a prosperous humane existence. You get a lot of the same things: a flowering of art and scholarship. An improvement of daily life. Pluralism. A golden age, if you will. However, Sunni and Shia (and others) have a lot of God-talk in common that has never provoked any dispute. The wording of the daily prayer and so much more. So you get all the benefits that European history associated with secularism, as above, but everyone keeps on with putting inshallah, alhamdullillah, astagfirullah, et cetera in every sentence. That's why there's not really a secular strain in Arabic culture.
> * The complete list of the 72 libraries that were tested? I could not find it.

Me either. They list out the 30 most popular of those 72, but I can't see the full list. Yet another reason why the 37% they report may be underselling the issue—without being able to see the full list, it's hard to confirm 100%.

> To summarize (please correct me if I am wrong): So, of the top 75k Alexa website, 37% use a version of one of the 72 tested javascript libraries with a known vulnerability?

Yes, that's the claim they're making.

> Are there different levels of classification in the vulnerabilities? As in, do some allow for successful MITM, do some allow for injected code, or are they more benign?

They don't go into that. Based on what I know about the vulns in the libraries they discuss, they didn't do anything to distinguish low/medium/high or vulnerability type. From what we see in our DB, XSS remains the most common type.

> This is very interesting, but I think we need a lot more data

I'm digging through our (https://snyk.io) analytics and a few other sources to try to get a different (albeit, npm-centric) perspective on this. I'll try to remember to come back and ping you when it's done.
Creator here. We're planning to build a Chrome extension also. We've actually been pleasantly surprised by the app's stickiness with users. Some say that just seeing the app icon on their home screen is enough of a reminder to get them to open up the app and read some news outside their bubble.

Not sure what effects you're wondering about in the second sentence. Are you worried that people would read too far outside their bubble and get angry? We actually don't include sites that are extraordinarily partisan (breitbart, occupy democrats), partly for that reason.
That looks like awesome tech, but it also looks like your only major customers would be drone manufacturers or hardcore hobbyists/racers? Maybe perceived market size is the problem with your raise?
Sadly, you are showing with this post that you actually would not be a good potential ally. Seriously, by focusing the discussion on this point and in this fashion, you are literally stalling progress.

If there are problems that can be fixed, fix them. If you have concerns that we are leaving more feminine men in the back ranks, address those. But to turn the discussion into chastising people is to hurt the debate.

And I am fully sympathetic to your point. I feel that way for a lot of things. I have come to realize that at best you are falling victim to "perfect being enemy of the good" and at worst you are allowing yourself to be a weapon that the those actually abusing power use against those they are abusing their power against.
Aren't many tech companies eager to improve the gender ratio, and thus lowering the bar for women hires?
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I've used GAE quite extensively at my last place of work and really liked it overall. I experienced some large pain points when I was unable to use libraries that used C extensions, which I guess should be solvable now. The GAE runtime was (is?) also only available for Python 2.7.

I wonder if there is a future possible migration path from the standard environment (Classical GAE) to the new flexible environment.

For our product we also decided to use the Google NoSQL database Datastore. Since this is/was tightly integrated in the GAE Python runtime, with its own data model layer, it was an easy choice to implement. But, of course, made migration away from the Google Cloud really cumbersome.

I guess you still are limited to use some of the Google Cloud Databases, but if you chose Cloud SQL maybe the migration is more feasible?
My lab is one of the reconstruction specialists. We're using electron microscopy (as referenced in the Wired article) to map the ultrastructure of the tissues. I've seen datasets with XY plane (the EM scanning plane) voxels as small as 5nm x 5nm and Z resolution as small as 23nm (though not on the same datasets).

Other labs at different phases of the pipeline are working with various kinds of physiological indicators including taking movies of GCaMP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCaMP) (a calcium activity indicator) expressing neurons under various behavioral conditions. A glut of calcium ions provide evidence for recent firing of a neuron as calcium is involved in triggering the release of neurotransmitters.

If you're interested in methods, here's a paper describing a dataset we focused pretty heavily on (that's not related to the consortium dataset, but paved the way with developing techniques): Briggman, et al. "Wiring specificity in the direction-selectivity circuit of the retina" (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v471/n7337/full/nature0...)

We later did some science with it ;)

JS Kim, et al. "Space–time wiring specificity supports direction selectivity in the retina" http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v509/n7500/full/nature1...

The pipeline has evolved considerably since those papers came out. We're living in exciting times. :)
This is why I enjoyed the Indie.vc program - No demo day. Instead, stay where you are and focus on building your business. Since the goal is growing a business, not prepping for another funding round, there's no need for a demo day.
Sure, there's retire.js at https://retirejs.github.io/retire.js/
Thanks. It's such a popular extension that I'd be surprised if it wasn't supported.
Economically speaking everyone pays taxes. Also economically speaking no one pays taxes equally. I would love to see actual statics that show that immigrants do not contribute to local economies at a rate similar to others in a community at a similar pay bracket.

As for supply and demand. I believe the supply and demand of the job market as a whole is exactly what is causing immigration. I believe those market forces will continue to pull in immigration, legally or not. Market forces have a hard time understanding law.
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Firebase engineer here.

Additional languages will come, but we're starting with Node.js. We'd rather take the approach of doing one language really well than a bunch of languages with a poor developer experience.
>Look at yourself. You got the job, right? You don't want to admit this to yourself, but it was easier for you than a woman

Based on what evidence do you make this claim? I'm not saying this isn't the case, but can you provide evidence?
It's interesting you bring up warmongering when it looks like some in the opposition party are concerned about the US receding from interventionism and seeking more effort from the other NATO countries. That the US is becoming more isolationist --which would seem to contradict the US becoming more interventionist.
sadly, the only language extension is plpgsql, which is many less than aws, which happens to support plv8 as well.
Harj- thanks for the thoughtful reply. Do you disclose numbers about what % of candidates that get offers choose to take them? I feel like that's pretty important for companies when considering time they save.
but what ng is saying is that if someone is lacks too much confidence they are not useful. His example shows this --- the under confidant but knowledgable person does not contribute their knowledge when needed so they are not useful despite their knowledge.
"It should be obvious..."

A lot of things should be obvious to people, that are not, or that they conveniently ignore. Your fantasy of human nature, is not human nature. Humans are the ones who wait for the comet to whisk them away to a spaceship, and when it doesn't happen they believe in it even more. People march each other into mass graves and ovens. People as a group are vulnerable to populism, and the vagaries of chance and hard times leading to short-term instabilities that rapidly magnify.

We are chaotic. You're welcome to entertain whatever optimistic fantasies you like about the natural state of ungoverned people, just don't try to sell it to anyone.
Those restrictions do not apply in the business district, AFAIK. There is a lot of encapsulation that Dubai provides international businesses from their local restrictions.
Do you always get the bounty ? Or do they sometimes fix the bug and ignore you ?
> It's the illegal immigrants that suck the system dry, not the smart, diligent, legitimate ones working in academia and top companies.

Vast majority of illegal immigrants perhaps just keep their head low and work hard. Also, they barely get anything from welfare and work below minimum wages. It is probably the criminal aspect that is sucking the system and good solution for that is to decriminalise drugs and help American companies sell drugs for a profit instead relying on Mexican cartels.

I have never understood why Mexican citizens cant get a 30 day to 1 years temporary below-minimum wage job permit

> not the smart, diligent, legitimate ones working in academia and top companies.

I know founders who had employed 10+ American being rejected visa and sometimes entry for no good reason. I have seen cops, CBP officials and other government departments harassing these individuals all the time.
Shoot me an email. Happy to chat.
Does it work well with project fi accounts?
Thank you kindly, dotcomrade.
Because you can then catch errors at compile time instead of run time.
I love this idea, but it's also some super hood shit. This is absolutely a done thing in lower income areas-- "shade tree mechanics" is the term of art I know. I would imagine the biggest issue would be ensuring a feeling of reliability and professionalism to a sort of sketchy proposition. (A random stranger coming to your house to work on your car.) Plus, as a practicing shade tree mechanic when I was young and broke and keeping my friends' fleet of beaters more or less roadworthy, having a suitable facility for mechanic work is a challenge. I hate having my ass hanging out in the street while I'm working on a car. I hate working in the cold. Where's the power for my compressor and lights? Folks with a garage typically will tow their stuff to the shop.
If I'm young and have owned more than one smartphone...

Now make the exciting mental leap... what if you haven't owned a smartphone before?
Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies
No, it's not all the same to Republicans. They know poor people have Androids. Which is the whole point of this thread. Why do some poor people have an iPhone?
If you associate privilege with guilt, I think that provides some valuable insight on your attitude regarding this topic.

I think you can recognize being privileged without feeling responsible (or guilty) for its existence.
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Because statistics are not laws of the universe? Because you may be misinterpreting the statistics? Because they're waiting their price to get higher in maybe 1 year, or maybe 7 years?
There's an overwhelming amount of evidence, you could put the slightest bit of effort into looking it up. Being privileged isn't something that takes effort or one is guilty of. Let's say I'm 6' 4"; it's intrinsically easier for me to reach things high up. That's a privilege. I'll spend 3 minutes on Google then I need to get back to work.

http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09500693.2015.11...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/upshot/the-measuring-stic...

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/upshot/the-measuring-stic...
Performance, type-safety. Is it worth it? No idea, haven't tried it, and probably depends a lot on your use case and development process.
A friend of mine runs a large, well known webdev agency in India and is attending a conference in Arizona in April. His friend was planning to come as well - he owns a US based business, has a US bank account, pays US taxes, has purchased airfare, hotel, and conference tickets.

He was denied a US visa because "attending a conference is not a good enough reason".

My friend with the agency who has a visa is concerned he won't get thru immigration. He was planning on expanding to the US, but is has shelved those plans.
The draw of Plex (cloud or otherwise) is that it handles all that for you. It'll transcode to the correct format and even embed subtitles if you need it to. On the backend it uses ffmpeg so it should support pretty much any format. I think it even supports HEVC.
I (U.S. citizen) personally know highly-skilled software engineers who emigrated to the U.S. from Anglosphere countries to work at U.S. companies, who have since resigned and gone back to their home countries explicitly because of Trump's election. These aren't Middle-Easterners or illegal immigrants, these are white people for whom a $200k salary wasn't enough to convince them to endure a rising tide of nationalism. Skilled foreign workers are already selecting themselves out of our economy, regardless of country of origin. Not equivalent to the Nazi brain drain, though in an amusing twist I also know one American software engineer who has moved to Germany to ride out Trump.
The Love Hotel (U+1F3E9) is rather obvious, maybe the kiss mark (U+1F48B) as well, though the raunchiest ones (in actual use) are a bit more… discreet?: the aubergine (U+1F346) and splashing "sweat" (U+1F4A6).
She does. Which is why we didn't push an investigation too hard or go to the newspaper because of this potential reaction from the public.

I don't agree with her and I do not believe she is to blame. The system worked on her and she has subordinated to the system.

My opinion is that it is not OK to blame the victim. She was assaulted. That is illegal. She posed no physical threat to the guards. She was strapped down and out numbered 4:1.

Would you blame a woman for being held down and gang raped because she dressed provocatively and said hello to these men? Of course not.
Poor people aren't necessarily stupid. Seriously...
All of my bad AirBnB experiences were ones where there were no actual tenants. The ones where it was an actual non-professional bed and breakfast, as the name implies, were fantastic.

I travel so much that consistency is important and that is what hotels offer. I see AirBnB as an inferior option for hotels, not a way to meet new friends.

I think the idea that AirBnB is going to kill the hotel industry is way overblown - professional travelers (not the startup crowd largely) like consistency above all else.
I 100% believe that "civilians should be able to do or say literally anything and fully expect law enforcement to be perfectly rational and fair and gentle with them."

And I don't see why that's not feasible.
I travel frequently enough internationally that I need to bring my devices with me. If ICE (not TSA) asked me to log into my computer or phone, I would say no and accept the risk that they confiscate my encrypted devices.

The likelihood of ICE asking me to log into my devices and confiscating them is quite low. The inconvenience of using burner devices is quite high.

This of course assumes that the government is unwilling or unable to defeat your encryption.
That's not entirely fair. If the immigrant feels that they have a better life as a low-wage worker in the US (keep in mind many are escaping violent or oppressive surroundings) then I won't be the judge of that by imposing artificial limits on livelihood. We can at least acknowledge that we are improving the lives of those immigrants for whom this is the case.
Can you elaborate on Hangouts + Project Fi? I'm also on Fi, and want the iMessage type experience, but always seem to fall short of it. Is there something particular about the Hangouts and Fi combo?
The cynic in me notices that this comes at the same time as Perf season in Google.

It's such a bad running joke internally that we have a never-ending multiplication of chat apps that I had to check the calendar to see if today was suddenly April.
I would much rather fail at the power point stage. Failing later is worse: inventory, employees, lawyers, bankruptcy.
I'd happily help them be able to support it ...
> Native borns aren't fighting to pick oranges for 12 hours a day at minimum wage, but these guys will and do.

An economist would say it's because the wage being offered is too low. Businesses don't get to have access to unlimited labour at whatever wage they choose in a market economy.
You can get unlimited data from Google Drive and Dropbox for about the price of 1TB, you just need to use a business account. This seems to be the main solution for the people I know who are using this.