skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in case you were looking for another reason to avoid the LA Times (or probably tronc papers in general), they're very spammy. I get tons of junk "newsletter" mail from them that I definitely didn't subscribe to, although they inevitably claim I did, and you can unsubscribe, but then they just invent new lists. And sell your address to others.

Sample from only a few days ago.

From: "San Diego Union-Tribune" <promotions@e.sandiegouniontribune.com>
Subject: We are proud to offer you Moonlighting - Hire or be hired!
Received: from mta953.e.latimes.com (mta953.e.latimes.com [8.7.44.159]

[Blah blah bullshit about their proud partner promoting a soulless gig economy.]

This email was delivered because you registered for Email Membership at utsandiego.com

This is 100% false. I did create an account for latimes.com (who sent this shit) but not the San Diego paper. Not even close.
Hiring for culture fit
Just registered to say that we're getting more and more off-topic postings on this forum. This has nothing to do with hacking or tech. This is just politics, and the source is "fake news" CNN, no less.

Please don't let this forum turn into another reddit. Some of us specifically come here to read informed opinions, interesting topics, and avoid that social media crowd that has plagued reddit after digg died.
I know we can easily get some info from chrome dev tools and chrome://net-internals/#bandwith. It would be convenient for users if someone put together an extension that would display this information by default, or alternatively browsers just had a setting we could turn on.
I call it 'Ghosted'.

Basically, you are talking, you both like each other and then suddenly you don't hear from the other person.

I had a few companies ghost me and it was annoying.

I don't entirely mind if I apply and just never hear back, I just get to laugh at them when they email me two months later asking for interview.
This really strikes me as more of a marketing piece by Snowflake than a well-researched piece of reporting. The article mostly just quotes one person - Bob Muglia - who is, as they say on Wall Street, "talking his book" - i.e. giving an opinion that is not coincidentally in line with his own financial interests. Sure, Hadoop is getting old, and is quickly becoming replaced by spark. But loads of organizations have used, and continue to use hadoop /spark successfully. And the part about Kafka replacing Hadoop /Spark is just silly. They're completely different technologies, used for very different purposes, and many organizations use both side by side.
The worst type of ad on newspaper sites are the disgusting "chumboxes" (by scumsuckers like "taboola" or "outbrain") that orbit at the bottom of pages and serve up images meant to be as simultaneously repulsive and fascinating as possible:

https://theawl.com/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum-de0b...

As long as these pages have ads that display utterly gross images (if you doubt me, click the above link) that make goatse look like pure mindbleach, i'll keep blocking JS and ads.
I agree with your response, but you could probably assume someone would make it 2 weeks, couldn't you? Aren't there laws about hiring and having to pay for the first 2 weeks or something, or am I just making that up?
Who suggested anything about turning this into more than a personal policy?

Edit: Not to mention that if you want to publish "tradition", don't call it "science".
> There's plenty of space for both and it's not a winner-takes-all situation.

That's a misconception a lot of outsiders make about the JavaScript community. There's not even close to one winner. It's not "WWW World Champion React vs upcoming Challenger: VueJS". There's probably about 10-20 (possibly even more!) production ready frameworks you could be using that have strong community backing and ecosystems. VueJS and React are merely approaching the pinnacle of what a full stack isomorphic framework can be. The others will follow.
Why bring racism to every comparison. They obviously weren't good at the kind of mathematics/science that leads to technological progress. So what?
@bogomipz: The explanation provided by psyc is spot on. Please do note that I've updated the article with explanations for both 'Internal State' and the corresponding 'Finalize' process.
Company  spent $500,000  to keep pot illegal gotapproval for synthetic marijuana
> です: particle (pronounced desu) (hiragana)

(While we're being pedantic)

です isn't a particle, it's the imperfective (present/future) polite form of the copular verb (to be, in English). The only particle in that sentence is は.

And as a further side note, some words or names normally written in kanji or hiragana are ocassionally written in katakana for emphasis or to emphasize a foreign nature.
> Apple taking action against one of its biggest merchants in the US? you must be joking right?

Apple is pretty aggressive about how it combats counterfeit products, so it's not unreasonable to think that they'd pressure Amazon into to eliminating counterfeit Apple products.
Show HN: A Vim distribution inspired by Spacemacs
I recently (past year) bit the bullet and began ad blocking myself. My primary concern is the recent proliferation of malicious content through the common ad networks. Supporting websites is great, but not at the expense of your own security.
This particular article is not behind a paywall. Instead, it blocks readers who are using a) adblock, b) private browsing mode, or c) tracking protection. Their online subscription gives you access to more content, but they don't claim anywhere that they will let me browse with the above enabled even if I do pay.
> Did you just say we need a $1.5 trillion dollar fighter to fight goat herders? ISIS doesn't have an air force.

ISIS potentially can have/get manpads, and MANPADS can have big advancements in foreseeable future.
Also US can face contested environment in operations similar to Kosovo war, operations in Libya, Iraq, Panama, where local army had more advanced SAMs in possession with needs to suppress them.

> We literally have zero need to protect power across the globe. Our presence in the middle east is extremely costly and counterproductive to our security.

This is question of policy, and is a mess for me. I am not going to speculate about this.

> And the F-35 is guaranteed to be terrible at close air support. No F-35 pilot is going to slowly loiter their supersonic within visual range of their targets and without doing that they can't see exactly what they are shooting.

The main weapon for ground support planned to be SDB2. Also optics/targeting system is presumably much more advanced on F-35 comparing to A-10.
TrustZone was announced 2012 (?). The Security Enclave is a separate very Apple designed chip. They've patented aspects of it, dated also 2012:

https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Mandt-De...
https://www.google.com/patents/US8832465
> Channel 4 said the show would return later this year

So not exactly cancelled, just not aired as soon as planned (presumably because of the ratings).
@demerphq: Thank-you for these stats, and the links. I'll definitely be updating the article with the missing hash functions and adding some of the links you've provided to the links section.

My intent is to over time make the article as comprehensive as possible, but to also keep it accessible to the general public.
I'm not sure their brand really is being damaged. Here, we know what's going on, but I doubt the general public knows much.
> Abusing legal gray areas is a fundamental part of their business model.

Uber was/is quite willing to break the law (and encourage their drivers to do so, with lies and misdirection), even in areas where it's very clear that they're in the wrong.

Leveraging a ton of market anger about the existing taxi services helped them get started, it's unclear if it'll be enough to sustain them.
Unfortunately, I can't access the article.

I think that I take the opposite stance from you on rebooting society,in that I'm decidedly more bearish. Not only do I not think we'd reassemble on the scraps of yesteryear, but I think it'd be frightening how fast our society could go from normal operation to unrecoverable given the complexity of things we rely on, the physical distances in our supply chains, and the general near-shortages of everything, everywhere, that just-in-time logistics affords us. Plus a lot of people are likely to flee back home before the window to do so shuts, further dismantling the complex web of interdependence.

And I'm thinking on the order of a couple weeks.
+1 for entrepreneurship
I had one recruiter asking me for the exact dates of my past contracts, four times. It took a great deal of patience to repeatedly explain that they are already in the CV, just next to the company name and job title. In the end, I had to screenshot and red-circle the areas. That was the aha moment.

I'm not sure if this is laziness or what. But it does tell me that they don't care very much.
Nothing to see here except a clickbait headline.

"only to learn that the show stopped broadcasting after four episodes, the last of them in August."

"Channel 4 said the show would return later this year, The Guardian reported."
I think 'nostrademons means startups and you mean enterprise.
The answer is networking. You've been great for years, you should have a stable of former coworkers and managers who desperately wish you would join them on their new project. Hiring a principal developer is a major investment, I wouldn't do it based only on what a person can claim in an interview.
Another reason I keep JS turned off on my phone and most news sites on desktop. Seriously, try it.
what's the point he was trying to make?
I do that with HN actually. I visit between a few times a day and once every second day. I open whatever I think is interesting. Usually 1-10 tabs every time I go to HN. then I spend time in one or two tabs and read a lot, and close these two. Then I still have 8 tabs open.
Second step is repeat.
Third step is I have 400 tabs open.
I wonder how long til Trump starts using robots to clean the rooms in his hotels. 5 years? The reason Trump doesn't care about robots is they will increase his profits.
In arbitrage you make money from the market being irrational so remaining solvent could not be a concern for somebody doing it. It's for the market being arbitraged to become rational or become insolvent.
> the human driver in the other car failed to yield

Driving around Houston this happens to me several times a day. Obviously the technology wasn't designed for essentially "normal" driving conditions.
I whipped together https://getcovert.com to help address this problem for me. Currently it's a chrome plugin that allows me to generate a unique obfuscated "proxy" email address for sites I want to sign up for but don't want to expose my real email. If they ever sell it, redistribute it, or I want to shut them down, I just block that proxy email.

It's barely an alpha project and needs a ton of work to be functional, but just know you're not the only one who finds this frustrating and unacceptable.
Voting smart
No one is going to check that your title matched at most companies I've worked. Yes if you list yourself as VP of Finance and you were actually an Accounts Payable administrator, you will have some trouble. But that trouble will start far before the background check. If you're in a DevOps role that happens to be called System Administrator, simply change what you call yourself. You will still have to interview as a DevOps person of course -- titles are not reality -- but you'll get far more inbound interest, guaranteed. And according to what you've written here, you won't be lying or even misleading the people who want to talk to you.
So you have never tried it but think you won't like it because something your friend's dad said?
It made me sad when boingboing put one of those ad boxes on the site.

I work in digital media. I get why publishers do it. But, sheesh, if you're resorting these ads that insult your audience in exchange for pennies, I think you need to reexamine your approach.
> Hadoop is great if you’re a data scientist who knows how to code in MapReduce or Pig

I guess that kind of makes sense. What programmers like might not necessarily be a good basis for the long-term. I do have to say, though, that part of the failure of Hadoop is it generated a lot of hype and so better tools and alternatives developed to meet that need. So when you're saying a better alternative is Spark or Kafka, I feel like it's almost as if you're saying "Oracle is a failure that never materialized the promised benefits. Instead we should be using PostGres and MySQL."

But I also know that with a lot of big data hype, businesses were wanting to do Hadoop and NoSQL and all this stuff because it was the cool new thing, not that they actually needed it. I've heard data scientists make the joke that every business thinks they need these tools because they're having difficulty running their business out of a spreadsheet.

I think it's important to remember that for most businesses, Spark, Hive, whatever; those aren't the right tools, either. SQL is still what most companies need. Businesses want machine learning, but usually what they need is boring old statistics. In an industry that always wants to be ahead of the curve, we tend to forget that it's not always the right thing to have the newest toys. Sometime companies do well utilizing the latest and greatest, but sometimes they just use what already exists wisely. I suspect that for many of those companies that used Hadoop and felt it didn't work them, the problem wasn't that they needed Spark instead, it was they were trying to solve problems that didn't exist. Man, I'm too young to sound this old. But, eh, yeah, we need to respect our elders' technology first, and consider the newest stuff only when we have a definable need for it.
Walmart's latest move confirms the death of the American middle class
I've been using adblockers since they where a thing (and DNS blocks longer than that) since back then you could rely on the adnetworks feeding your malware at some point.

I'm trying to think if I've ever clicked an advert on the internet intentionally and it's probably under half a dozen accidentally.
The Singaporean libel laws are simply a tool used to maintain the one party state. The Lee family are now essentially royalty, and hence he committed lèse majesté.
Overloading and templates. I can now use unsigned char, uint8_t and byte as distinct types, meaning they can be separately overloaded and used as separate template specialisations.

That's not a purely hypothetical point; I already create custom types to do this. Not every 8-bit type is a character, nor is it necessarily an integer. I always found it frustrating that the default stream output was a character when using numerical quantities; now we can specialise raw output accordingly.
Now that was a death march project.
My mother and Father deal with with this internally as German Professors in a university. My mom is in her mid 70s and my dad is is in his late 90s.

For reference, I'm in my mid/late 30s.

No one wants to hire my mom because she's too expensive, and no one wants to hire my dad because he's too old.

The university they are currently employed at won't give them any reasonable updates to their salaries. They have newer, younger managers telling them that they suck at their jobs. And when you get enough of that, it starts to wear on you, on your friends, and your students.

My Mom could go anywhere to any university in the country, but she built a house and wants to stay in that house.

There's not a university that wouldn't hire her, and probably dad as well. They have every credential you could ask for.

How do I find an attorney that could take this case and put this university in place? My parent's have basically no money. But I have a cash cow. I'll pay bucketloads to get this right.

PM me if you think you can help. And a I also have 5 other cases from women and men with similar claims. If someone is willing to take it, we're talking about 5 cases minimum, and I will front the cash. Get in touch.
Well, it's in the article.
Inside PyCharm Debugger: Interview with Elizaveta Shashkova
Does anyone still believe the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" narrative any more?

My understanding was that it had been thoroughly debunked.
Or make use of things like service workers to cache pages locally.
I'm about to turn 40 and at the top of my game. Unless some magic spell hits me when my next birthday comes, I'm not real worried about this elephant you speak of.

It's about staying on top of your skills and never assuming you know enough. Always be learning. Most older devs that I know that started sliding into irrelevance did so because they didn't keep up on that.
Something my friend said about his bad experience with remote work, his dad loves remote work. Also from my experience working from home on occasion and from working with remote team members.
Yeah, god forbid corporations show some common courtsey lest it cost small amounts of money.
Better than Edge that is fully closed source.

You can use Chromium directly if you want to.

Many important projects exist because Chromium and v8 are open source.
And they wonder why people believe fake news when they link to it in their ads.
Rosenhan experiment: On being sane in insane places
Well, I can read the article in Firefox with Adblock Plus if I enable Reader View before the modal box opens :)

Learned that trick here. Thanks, guys.

Edit: Automatic Reader View add-on eliminates the race.
We're not zealots. And not that it matters, but our decision to homeschool has nothing to do with religion.

Both kids went to Montessori and my daughter started first grade public school, where she went from loving school to starting to lose her joy of learning. My wife decided she could do a better job, and she has.

I can't speak to anyone else's experience, but for our family it was the right decision, and I'd place my kids' education and socialization against anyone's.
"It is a cruel jest to tell the bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps." -- Martin Luther King
No, it is a status and power play. People that apply are unworthy of a reply. You really want to be head hunted, or get a warm intro. I have personal experience being black holed when applying and hired when introduced, and know others for which the same has happened.
Wow, he's nothing if not consistent... you gotta respect that. Same opinion and phrasing going back 4+ years!
In regards to Purescript/Typescript, they're both statically typed and that results in friction when trying to integrate with the existing JavaScript ecosystem/libraries. Erlang/OTP might be different, but there will probably be situations where the type system is either incompatible with a certain library, or the type system is made less strict (e.g. an any type).
Mozambique's hidden forest identified on Google Earth
The setting up of Gadaffi as a fake supervillan to cover Assad's dirty work is a cases study in US/ UK doublespeak, and propaganda - well worth watching.

“I really was astonished when I went back to the 1980s how much of what they claimed was Gadaffi was actually Assad using all these strange terrorists in Damascus...rather than deal with something complicated, Western powers found that Gadaffi who had until then been isolated and ignored by the Arab world, fitted the bill of a cartoon villain." - Adam Curtis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/f77519ae-1ab6-...
I believe age-based discrimination can happen to anyone of any age. The government does not:

https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/age.cfm

I am a younger adult performing IT functions.

Because of my age, some authority figures don't expect me to know how to perform complex tasks with greater responsibility. Often those tasks are given to older folks who (in my view) don't have the experience.

It goes both ways - I'm not saying any of it is right/fair/karma.
I actually installed uMatrix just so I could disable all cookies and Javascript on LA Times. No more ads or anti-ad-blocker.
I can readily understand the perspective, at least as far as the a priori reason being hard to discern or articulate. But I don't hold the perspective. Like Tegmark, I believe the reason math works is that the universe is math. (And it follows that mathematicians who believe their work is unconnected in principle from the physical world, are being myopic or escapist.)

Working on a rather advanced procedurally generated game world for a long time has only strengthened this belief. The world looks quite natural, but it is literally a visualization of an ordinary integer hash function being computed many millions of times. Exploring the Mandelbrot set intensely, has the same effect on me, and that math is much simpler. I'm not trying to assume these analogies are tautologies, but when I'm inside the game world and it looks both totally natural, and also exactly like my hash function, all I can say is it's very suggestive.
I think the differences between gender are fascinating.

Upper class women are not selected for interviews because there is a perception that they won't be as committed, implying they might get married and stay home with the kids.
I'm talking about a century or so after a mass collapse of civilization and human populations, like in the article's opening scenario:

Imagine that the world as we know it ends tomorrow. There’s a global catastrophe: a pandemic virus, an asteroid strike, or perhaps a nuclear holocaust. The vast majority of the human race perishes. Our civilisation collapses. The post-apocalyptic survivors find themselves in a devastated world of decaying, deserted cities and roving gangs of bandits looting and taking by force.

Bad as things sound, that’s not the end for humanity. We bounce back. Sooner or later, peace and order emerge again, just as they have time and again through history. Stable communities take shape. They begin the agonising process of rebuilding their technological base from scratch. But here’s the question: how far could such a society rebuild? Is there any chance, for instance, that a post-apocalyptic society could reboot a technological civilisation?
It was a rhetorical question...
From the ground up :)
> TrustZone was announced 2012

No, 2012 was when Trustonic was formed from competing TEE vendors: ARM, Gemalto, and Giesecke & Devrient.

TrustZone has been around since before that. TI OMAP were front-runners of using it.
The California situation seems totally bizarre. Where I grew up (D.C. suburbs), the situation is exactly the opposite: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/report-finds-... ("Petrilli said the study found that Arlington and Fairfax counties spent more money to serve students who attended schools with a high percentage of students who are eligible for free and reduced-price meals, a federal indicator of poverty. Other districts did not, he said.").

Similar where I live now in Maryland: https://conduitstreet.mdcounties.org/2016/04/26/chart-shows-.... Baltimore City, among the poorest, spends the second most. Surrounding Baltimore County, which is much wealthier, spends substantially less. Montgomery County, the richest in the state and a suburb of D.C., spends about the same as Prince Georges County, a much lower income county next door.