skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, I agree, I've trying to kill two birds with one stone for the last couple of years to no avail. It just doesn't happen.
Chemistry has whiteboarding, but instead of writing algorithms or code, you're expected to be able to draw structures, reactions, and synthesis. It's also similar in that this is not necessarily a core part of most chemists everyday job, but something you study for to be able to interview or give presentations regarding your research.
And yet their search result quality subjectively seems to be stable at best or declining slightly. If that's AI then it's certainly not as smart as the spammers and black-hat SEOs. On the mobile side, when the latest version of Google Assistant misunderstands what I want so often as to be worse than useless.

Still hoping to see some improvement but not holding my breath.
That's why it's best to just directly contact a recruiter.
> we would ban ... we would mandate ...

A common misperception is that we could ban objects, or mandate behaviours. We can only impose penalties on the possession of objects, or mandate punishments on certain behaviours. Simply passing laws does not save lives in the short run.
Please suggest your solution...

This is completely unfair. GP is not an HR professional by any indication. If your accountant says your website looks ugly, do you hire them as your designer?
Keep in mind that the technology Mercedes is actually shipping today is said to be worse than Honda's and significantly worse than Tesla's [1]

[1] http://www.thedrive.com/tech/5707/the-war-for-autonomous-dri...
...That sounds like the FBI we know and "love". They do so love to make a point.
If the idea here is that more diverse companies can pay lower wages and benefit that way then it may have something to it but it's hard to see that as the market "solving the problem."
While we're on the topic of robo-advisors, I'd love to see a robo-advisor that lets clients customize a portfolio allocation and just advises them on when and what to trade to keep their portfolio balanced on a regular schedule, for a fixed fee. That is, instead of these so-called robo-advisors that are actually robo-managers, in the sense that they manage your portfolio and trade on your behalf, and are compensated as such, for a percentage of the entire value of your portfolio.

I'm sure there is enough space in the market for both types of products, the robo-advisor and the robo-manager. Personally, I'd prefer the former.
There's potential in building a mobile UI around gestures from the start instead of around touch on a flat rectangular screen.
Its easy to spot the difference.

If you talk to someone about their day and it revolves around tickets, they are the techs that you're talking about. The real "sysadmins"/devops understand systems and own things.

It's ok to realign your title with function. Every company handles this sort of thing differently. I was a "Computer Systems Programmer 3" for two years. In that organization, that rank was roughly equivalent to a Staff Engineer. My resume says "Lead DBA", as that was my primary function... the formal title assigned was just whatever was available when I was promoted... the title description was written for mainframe people!
Sure, you could spam them, but that's not a special property of Apple IDs. Apple certainly shouldn't be leaking emails, but describing this as "leaking Apple IDs" instead of "leaking emails" makes it sound like it's more serious than it is.
When recruiting, I chose to reject thousands of people.

For obvious rejections, I sent an auto generated email that looked like it could be from a human. If someone asked why they'd been rejected, I'd simply say the hiring manager chose to focus on more obvious matches for the position, and that was the end of it. Maybe 1 in 100 asked for feedback, but I didn't keep stats.

For a few candidates who were unlikely to be a fit, I'd reject them, and say why I didn't think it'd a match. Usually if I heard back, it was simply to say thank you for acknowledging them. For one position, I was recruiting a CTO. I rejected one Craigslist sourced applicant, and gave him reasons why he didn't fit the CEO's list of filtering bullet points. He responded with information that flipped him from a no to a yes, he got the interview, and eventually got the job!
"Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or proclaim that you expect to get downvoted."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe we need smarter ad blockers.

Publications right now have little incentive to improve their ads with regards to security, readers' resources or quality – because if the LA Times motivates you to install an ad blocker, the NYT is getting hit as well. The tragedy of the commoners, so to speak.

If ad blockers would aggressively judge each publisher, ad network and/or advertiser and rewarded good behaviour by showing the ads, I could see publishers prioritising the user experience. I'm pretty sure the publishers and journalists themselves look at these websites with horror, and they'll jump at the chance to regain some quality.

The adblock+ model is tangentially similar, but charging the publishers is simply too close to blackmail to be acceptable.
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My observation that traditional database technologies are transforming themselves into 'hybrids' (as far document-oriented data types go).

Example is Postgres.
Now has with JSONB as document-oriented field type.
Now has Postgres XL, as horizontally scalable ACID database.
Will have, by approximately august', abiltity to maintain views in memory (aka lambda.architecture speed layer) via PipelineDB extension, for fast streaming analytics.

It seems that a combination of
Postgres (with extensions) + Kafka +Redis -- is a strong stack for lambda architecture and, as initial data hub component of the overall puzzle

While Spark (or even Python+Dask) can be viewed as distributed data analytics platforms that replaces 'non-ui centric' BI. I think ui-centric BI (eg adhoc reports/visualizatiosn) are going to be still dominated within enterprises by Tableu/QlickView type of solutions.

For traditional BI-oriented data marts (that organized downstream from the datahub) -- probably traditional column oriented databases, and the new open source ones make sense.

To me ,the promise of hadoop being a silver bullet for 'all the big data needs' -- was always nothing more than unsubstantiated hype.

So it definitely failed the ones who believed, the hype -- but did not fail others who did not buy into it.
It's a serious question because that is not the normal state of affairs.

Part of being a responsible adult should be about wisely choosing a career that fits with who you are and has a reasonable future.

If you choose that kind of career, where you either make it to the top 1% or spend the rest of your life broke, then I honestly have no sympathy for you if you don't get selected to be among the 1%
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The cell phone carrier market is the classic example of a "confusopoly" where the dominant market players make it as hard as possible for consumers to make fully informed decisions. None of the carriers actually has a monopoly outside of a few isolated areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusopoly

Acoustics make it impossible to do good noise cancellation using just an app. You really need a specialized microphone mounted directly on the headphones.
If this somehow magically inspired people around the world to literally abandon modern life, you'd still be seeing the current trends coast for at least a couple of decades. Needless to say, far from anything like radical change, we're continuing full steam ahead.
Western medicine is often found by trial and error too. Scientists perform tests of thousands of compounds just in case one of them happens to do something that might turn out to be useful. Some drugs are used to treat different diseases than what they were originally developed for because we noticed that patients with those other diseases mysteriously showed improvements. I can't think of which off the top of my head but perhaps a heart medicine that stopped baldness.

The key difference is western medicine is tested objectively, while traditional medicines are based on belief. A million people getting sick and taking a treatment and recovering doesn't mean the treatment does any good, but they'll believe it does because everyone else believes it too.
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You left out:

They aren't entirely sure what's causing them, but the hypothesis for now is that it could be related to seismic activity.

"For example, over one of the gas deposits (in Yamal), lakes are located along two lines ... looking like a giant cross," Bogoyavlensky told the Siberian Times.

This suggests "genetic connection of craters with deep faults in the Earth's crust, but to confirm we need to conduct thorough seismic research".
When there's an applicant pool of 100 people who can do your job just as well as you, they do not depend on solely on you.
When WebSockets is negotiated on an HTTP connection, it ceases to be an HTTP connection; there is no way back to HTTP without closing the connection. It's kind of like when you start ppp, slip, or slirp on a shell you dialed into -- it's no longer a shell with a virtual terminal, it's changed into an internet connection, and you (usually) can't go back without dropping carrier and reconnecting.
+ is also notoriously unsupported by many sites—either because of horribly naive email address validators, or by their unsubscribe web pages. I can't tell you how many times an unsubscribe page has shown "myuser stuffaftertheplus@example.com"—where the + didn't get escaped and got interpreted by the web server as a space. It's happened to me so many times I have %2b memorized! :-)

My solution was to change my email server setup so that . and _ act the same as +. Someone might guess that they can strip something after a + but nobody is going to strip an address after an _.
Thank you! This is really cool.
I don't really agree. I don't think that's fair.
You jest, but that method literally works. I'm trying to break into finance, from a programming, web-development kind of background (with CS degree), which is a pretty tough nut to crack.

I've had a great deal of success just reaching out to people on LinkedIn who've worked on cool stuff in areas I find interesting, message them to see if they're keen to meet for a coffee/beer/etc. Meetups are fun too. A good number of people are happy to just chat for 30min, and you might get a few pointers on where to look for what you want. The worst case outcome is that you meet someone new, and talk about things you find mutually interesting for a little while.
You'll be picking up some of his duties while he goes to Aspen?
If I get one more bullshit Apple magsafe charger I am cancelling my amazon account.
If the job is important simply task more people and resources to find a candidate. I feel like many companies hire "lazily" where they'll have one person peruse applicants over the course of weeks or months. This is completely disrespectful to candidates, many of whom are not in a position or circumstance to desire being unemployed for that long.

If the job is in fact unimportant, stop pretending like its the bloody presidency and accept candidates who can be trained into it immediately.
Wild cats are commonly eaten by wolves.
Here I was thinking we had an addiction crisis and weak labor market and it turns out a bunch of people have made the completely rational determination that shooting up heroin and collecting some of the stingiest welfare benefits in the OECD is better than working.

I wonder, by the way, how carefully you read the article claiming "In our era of no more than indifferent economic growth, 21st–century America has somehow managed to produce markedly more wealth for its wealthholders even as it provided markedly less work for its workers" before linking it to prove your claim that the unemployed are just too damn lazy to work.
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Most of the people who do that seriously use a property management company that deals with all of that and finding new tenants when needed. Less profit, but makes it pretty passive if you want it to be.
"Legally allowed" != "acceptable". I can't speak to Sweden directly, but Canada has (almost) gender-neutral parental leave laws and many industries/companies still consider it very unusual if a father wants to take more than three or four weeks off at the birth of a child. I have friends that explicitly told me they would have liked to stay home more, but weren't able to because they feared what would happen at work.
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I only got to 13.6mb/10mins before the page crashes. So I guess that counts as a safeguard.

http://i.imgur.com/PIcpEPJ.png
It also underscores why there's backlash against the concept of privilege. Lower-class men received the fewest job interviews of all four quadrants. Not only do they not get the job, they also get put in the same analytical bucket as the higher-class men.
I'd have to really want a job or really need a job to put up with that sort of behavior. For all other situations I have close to a zero tolerance policy.
The stats I've seen at a large diverse org doesn't agree. Women take more leaves, birth for maternity and elder care. They also have a higher rate of voluntary work schedule reduction.

I don't think that's a bad thing, but it's definitely a disincentive for people to move up. Modern workplaces have unnatural expectations for employee availability.

For white shoe law firms, I don't necessarily disagree that hiring wealthy candidates doesn't make sense to the business. If your client is some Rockefeller heir, being able to chat about squash, sailing and modern art has a value.
Watching the requests, there's a huge number of mixed content warnings in the console. Attempting to hit https://www.latimes.com to remove the reason for all of those failed requests triggers Firefox to throw a certificate error. Could all of this be a side effect of a certificate that has gone bad?

> www.latimes.com uses an invalid security certificate.

>

> The certificate is only valid for the following names:

> .akamaihd.net, .akamaihd-staging.net, .akamaized-staging.net, .akamaized.net, a248.e.akamai.net
How is it to implement a production solution starting from 0 knowledge of the project? I feel like statements like yours can be taken with a grain of salt because you are quite literally an expert with it (or close to).
This is the most "Hacker News" comment in the history of Hacker News.
According to the slate article it's normal and socially accepted. Men still don't do it much.
When people are hired their salaries go up, solving the issue.
What a cheery worldview -- women should just get abortions if they want good careers.
> There's no significant untapped well of car ownership to be found from self-driving cars.

At what age might you be comfortable letting your child self-drive to school, but not walk alone to school?
Yes the elimination of tactile hardware buttons is a perfect example of the end of innovation in smartphone hardware. The manufacturers have taken buttons away from us due to silly "design" principles, or to improve waterproofing. But I'd much prefer to have a few programmable buttons that I could use to change music tracks or answer a call or whatever purely by feel.
You'd be surprised how much having certain activities in common can push you over the edge as a candidate.

It helped me get my first job offer after college. I didn't know the common activity was so essential to getting the CTOs approval until a coworker told me after I had the job for a while.
IDK, maybe something called confidence intervals?
The whole point here is that country music is strongly associated with a particular class background. Saying you wouldn't hire someone who liked it "regardless of class background" rings rather hollow in almost the same way saying you'd never hire someone with an afro regardless of their race rings hollow.

Incidentally, I rather like country music, but even if I hated it I think choosing not to hire someone because of the music they like is idiotic.
Agreed. I know the author was trying to be conservative, but I wouldn't be surprised if fully loaded employee costs were about double his estimates.
Because that difference wasn't statistically significant, as noted in the image in the article.
As the CA farms going unstaffed show (or our 4.9% unemployment rate), we clearly don't have a weak labor market.

If you believe welfare is "stingy", can you name a good or service that non-workers lack? (Remember, I have a secret power - I sometimes read Census and BLS reports and pull them out in internet arguments.)

I wonder, by the way, how carefully you read the article claiming...

I read it carefully enough to separate the factual claims from the mood affiliation. You should try it sometime.
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I'm not sure the difference is big enough to be statistically reliable in this sample.
I think you're jumping to several conclusions that could use additional research.

Presently the best we can say from the data is that men seem to take close to the bare minimum of required time off, so it makes sense to increase that time if the goal is men spending more time with the newborn and/or supporting their partner.

Another conclusion may be that while it it /legally/ acceptable, it is not yet socially acceptable.

Finally, maybe an alternative to that approach would be better. Something like a year where both parents are /required/ to be home taking care of the baby.
But it's not symmetric. Women and lower class men don't get the same response rates, but they're clearly in a cluster of broadly similar numbers. Upper class men are enormously advantaged in this study. And that finding is being buried by the headline.
You should watch Black Mirror S1E3, entitled "The Entire History of You". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You
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Google tried that with Project Ara. It didn't work.
The finding for women is less pronounced but it's not what a lot of us would expect and it's worthy of examination too.
You can make an app that runs like shit with any technology possible, it's not the fault of technology itself. I mean, in the article author was suggesting an option of redrawing the whole window at 60 fps which is also not very efficient and also not electron.
If men don't do it then how is it normal for men to do it?
Well, the conventional wisdom says that recruitment at top law firms selects for candidates in the upper class. This article is saying we should adjust that; it selects for upper class men, and women are not benefited by hinting at higher status.

Since that's what the article about, and since it's not about women being universally discriminated against in law, I think it's fair they don't point out that lower class women have it better than lower class men. Although that result is somewhat surprising, it's not what the article is about. The investigation behind that result would possibly warrant another article.
Except that the whole reason these smart companies are hiring them is that they can get them for bargain-basement wages, so a large disparity continues to exist.
But the fire would just spread and burn it all.

Your idea is good too, they also engineered bacteria to eat plastic in the great pacific garbage patch.
I agree with you.

At the risk of speaking for someone else, my impression is that "cyclical nature" is fighting the last battle filtered through cognitive dissonance. It also comes across as aloof and/or academic to some people.
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It really is too bad we can't harvest and store it all. Hundreds of years of clean burning low carbon energy.
Who cares about other people's safety? I value my own safety and time over being legally correct on the road. If I need to break traffic laws to avoid hitting another vehicle, or being struck, that's easy. Being in a collision is a huge time-suck, even if I'm in the right. (That said, I'm not going to intentionally cause other vehicles to collide among themselves because it enhances my safety or reduces my time spent)
Top Secret clearance invesigations cost about $60k back around 2005ish when I was in the military. They might be a bit more expensive now.

Finances are, in fact, one of the things that are scrutinized very carefully. Susceptibility to bribes is a major indicator of security risk.
Folllow-up question.

Do Doubleclick ads typically employ a cache control policy of "no-cache, must-revalidate"?
your heuristics are out of this world.
> they can't maintain a master list of files somewhere which would break, but have to check the actual directory contents instead.

They should be doing that anyway. Anything else is just begging to get out of sync at some point.
Logged in to say thanks for the link.

If I may suggest - have you considered adding it to the Awesome List either at:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
OR
https://github.com/mhinz/vim-galore ?
It was fast enough 10 years ago. And it worked on random data. Luckily though, internet traffic is not random data, and encrypted internet traffic is much less random than you'd think. Of course a lot of it involves inferring information about different parts of flows, but high accuracy is not difficult. (What's difficult to detect is traffic you haven't got any trained models for)
Samsung+Galaxy+Note+8:+Does+it+come+with+4K+display+in+18:+9+format?
One deserves a reply if one crafted a personalized cover letter, no matter how short. However the copy/paste guy shouldn't expect anything back.
The real nail in the coffin for me was when they killed Google Reader for no good reason. What a shame.
In other words, "Just don't get sick." As if it worked that way.
TCP over web sockets over TCP.

Sigh. Of course I develop network virtualization software so I'm just as guilty of it.
I know next to nothing about investing and this is exactly why I'm using Betterment. Even with the recent hikes in fees they're still cheaper than hiring a financial adviser. I really feel like I have very little choice but to stay put. However, how does one get started managing their investment account? I have more than 100K tied up in Betterment and trial-and-error type of learning could be pretty disastrous.
There is a reason! Most smartphones are not really designed to last many years; as such, many will start seeing issues after 2 years or so. On the software side, carriers are awful at updating Android security beyond a couple of years, for example. On the hardware side, for example, batteries lose capacity pretty over time and it ends up not being worth it to get a new battery. (other parts, too, don't last long enough)
The last MP3 patent already expired a week ago actually.
I can swap batteries and be back online in less than a minute. That's far more seamless than having a bulky external battery plugged in to a fragile, awkward USB connector.
I kind of wonder whether forestry engineering has it? as mgberlin says chemistry makes sense, process engineering also seems like it would make sense.

But i /feel/ that larger scale (civil, etc) would not? I mean i kind of imagine civil, forestry, etc would be more portfolio driven?
Though the site is visually appealing, I fail to understand why nearly 550kB of JS is needed (548kB to be specific). A site like this could get away rather well with just using on-hover and some elegant links.

Overall a decent idea, but it's not one that needs to be this complicated. I feel as if designing a better "classics" landing for the Project Gutenberg might be a better idea. [0]

[0] - https://www.gutenberg.org/