skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also assumes the person waving the wand has any faith that they can help anyone else.

The last paragraph, about holding the House accountable in 2018? That deserved the preface about "not understanding US politics". The privacy voting bloc is small, and the vast majority of it lives in places that already elect pro-privacy reps - Boston and SF are incredibly limited in what they can achieve.

I'd like to see internet privacy enshrined in US law. I'll fight to make that happen. But it's an "empty the ocean with a teacup" situation, and in the meantime it makes total sense for people to help themselves and those around them.
"pretty much not up for negootiation."

You basically reiterate my point, that it is "take it all or leave it".

The first step to a solution is obvious right from your phrasing: Put it up for a negotiation. Stop viewing this as "take it all or leave it".

Or, alternatively, be ready to deal with "leave it" as an option. Which, I'd observe, the EU legally was, as this is a legal option that has always existed and is now occurring with no bloodshed, which as these things go is still a well-above-average accomplishment. But psychologically the EU was clearly not ready for this; the expectation is still clearly that, like the United States, members may join but not leave.
Thanks for that link, in between all the rhetoric it's hard to get a clear signal. Do you happen to have any idea where that data comes from? It seems a little suspicious only because the dates chosen for comparisons seems a little cherry-picked, so it's hard to tell if the changes are routine or exceptional.

> Only 96 nurses joined the NHS from other European nations in December 2016 – a drop from 1,304 in July, the month after the referendum.

Comparing December to July? Maybe it's semi-annual data? What's the normal level of variance?

> 2,700 EU nurses left the health service in 2016, compared to 1,600 EU nurses in 2014 – a 68% increase.

Comparing 2016 to 2014? What happened to 2015, or 2013?

The article notes that this is from "freedom of information responses compiled by the Liberal Democrats from 80 of the 136 NHS acute trusts in England", but I can't seem to find a direct source; some things talk about the "Centre for Workforce Intelligence", but I can't get anything specific from there, and other things reference the "Nursing and Midwifery Council", which appears to be a voluntary registration system, but as far as I can tell does not generally publish statistics.
Great, please add equity and learning opportunities in your list or reasons.
FYI - you can use Google login if you visit the Sign In page (instead of Sign Up). Need to make this more obvious.
This would seem to be the best birth control for either sex. Fingers crossed it makes it to market.
I rather hope that a blog entry about optimising one's CV would do even more for one's prospects than an optimised CV!

The next step, of course, would to write software which made changes to the CV; then one could iterate until getting the perfect CV blurb. It'd work in theory anyway …
> Both sides are happy with it?

Just wanted to reply exactly that. Obviously fair is very subjective and different to both parties involved. But we try to find a good combination of salary + bonus and also investment in the company itself (be it retreats or taking risks with new products like Bugfender), which then results in temporarily lower bonuses, but an expected bigger payoff and possibilities for everyone in the long turn.
A lot of people suffer of some kind of mental illness, and it is impossible to establish any kind of trust with them. The problem is to make a process to give the adecuate diagnosys to each person and the right treatment with proper funding and competent personnal. Hard, but not impossible.
> But the EU does have a directly elected parliament? So where's the lack of democracy in the EU?

I'm not a European, but could it be that the bloc has gotten so large that an individual's vote is so diluted that it feels like it's not a democracy? Especially considering the number of different nationalities and language-groups of various sizes that are supposed to be represented by that one body.

I think federalism is a good idea because, at the end of the day, I want to be ruled by a government that represents my community, not some abstract mass of people.
I've known a lot of women to stop taking hormonal birth control because of the side effects. Everything you stated are definitely the potential positive effects of hormonal birth control, but it certainty isn't the actual experience for a lot of women.

I'm male and would gladly to take a birth control that doesn't effect me on a hormonal level, especially if it meant my partner could could stop taking a hormonal birth control. Also just of respect of sharing the burden, sounds like it would be way easier to have this injected into my vas deferens and last 13+ years then to have to remember to take a pill every day.
It's worth noting that Firefox offers multiple profiles support (since before Chrome existed). I can't speak to battery life on the MBP, though, as I'm a Windows user.
Sorry, I was replying to why we perceive the solar system as a horizontal plane.
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How effective is the Network Effect? A look at Quora (2012)
Yeah, but there is a lot of uglyness going on with linux programs over all, where different settings and themes doesn't really help. Vivaldi looks good on it's own and has decent settings for changing the looks, thats what I like. Maybe FF is the same.
To say nothing of the "right" to demand action by others.
He is providing minimum viable evidence that article is not particularly well written. I found his comment helpful.
Right, but the article seemed to imply it was true generally. FB/Google/Apple are outliers and there are plenty of great engineers left in the talent pool.

The reason startups have trouble is that engineers can smell bullshit and know they are in demand. You can make a great offer (e.g. substantial equity, support growth, be an actually transparent leader, etc etc) and hire great talent.

Problem is everyone wants to have and eat their cake. I've founded a startup; founders are not special and their whole job is to build a good team. So stop whining!!!
Mind divulging on some VPS providers? The one I've been looking at closely is https://www.vultr.com/

Their $2.50/month plan fits me well as my monthly traffic across all my devices (and home) is roughly 100GB. Pair that with https://github.com/trailofbits/algo and it's a reasonable setup.
The minimum number of data passes is two, one for each submitted sample. The Pretty Diff algorithm, in the subject of this thread, uses three complete passes through data without any repetition. Therefore the number of iterations is simply: total number of lines of the first sample, total number of lines of the second sample, and the total number of lines of the smallest sample.

A more optimized approach is 2 complete passes and a partial third pass without repetition. Achieving that optimization requires more logic up front to populate a smaller central analysis store and a different means of iterating through that container.

Most approaches, as I have seen them, don't achieve a fully optimized approach. While they may not have complete passes through data (after the required initial two) they tend to have numerous smaller passes in order to derive edit distances. This could be more efficient if these smaller passes never pass through the same data indexes/keys more than once and achieve a reduced total number of iterations. These approaches seem less straight forward to me and are misleading in terms of total statements of execution/iterations.

The only way to guarantee greater execution efficiency is to run through a checklist like this and compare clock times in similar execution contexts:

* total number of loop iterations

* fewer instructions

* instruction optimizations (compiler/interpreter dependent considerations)
Is this Stefan or someone else? :)
Ah, that makes more sense. Sorry!
Google et al. are huge but they're << 10% of engineers.
I will refer the techniques mentioned by _Nir Eyal_ in his book "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products". The

* Trigger

* Actions

* Rewards (variable rewards)

Ref book on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2ngLIuz
Redistribution takes away one's lawfully acquired resources under veiled threat of death. That sounds a lot more like oppression & theft to me.

I believe social mobility comes from opportunity - and we live in a society with more opportunity than ever. The failure to leverage that opportunity will not be meaningfully improved by redistribution, as both require personal initiative - if that initiative is lacking for one, it's lacking for the other.
Could you explain this further? I don't quite understand.
I don't really see how this would be much different that the pill, though.
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This is an important difference. Home locks are trivial to pick for even novices, yet we continue using the same locks. Why? Why isn't there an arms race between lock manufacturers/homeowners and burglars? Because there is external enforcement: if your house is locked, even weakly, that is signaling your intent to prevent access and opens a burglar to legal ramifications if they pick it and enter, regardless of how easy it is.

"Everyone is responsible for their own security" is a wild-west fantasy land that we don't live in. And just because you take actions to increase your personal security farther than normal (e.g. guns, dogs, better locks, etc) doesn't mean you get to put fingers in your ears yelling "lalalala" and pretend externally provided security doesn't exist.
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You make good points, but the problem is in most countries knowledge of MEPs is close to nil. Turnout for European Parliament elections is also abysmal, in the UK 35%, NL 37% and even France and Germany are in the low 40s.

It would be even lower if other elections weren't tagged along with the EU ones (eg usually the UK has local elections at the same time).

There is an enormous amount of voter apathy towards the EU democratic processes. That starts IMO reducing the democratic legitimacy of the whole thing.
There's tons of back and forth on this, but what I've heard is the reason these rules were set up by the FCC was that the new classification status of ISPs as common carriers took them out from under FTC regulatory authority.

I don't know the motives for the votes on this and afaik most members haven't commented to explain themselves. There are some particularly libertarian-leaning Congresspeople, like Rand Paul, who would clearly support it out of principle. We assume that others also support it out of ideological sympathy, and that everyone else is trying to play nice with the party leaders by going along with it.

You are 100% correct that a great deal of these legal modifications are technicalities that are touted as disasters for political convenience.

Let's not forget that the Republicans did the same thing when they pretended that the sky was falling over net neutrality going into effect, claiming that Obama was trying to "take over" the internet. Whether one agrees or disagrees with net neutrality as a policy matter, those claims are absurd.

Political parties, and especially the parties not presently in power, are always going to be trudging this type of muck up. It's very tiring, from both sides.
Hey. CEO here. So you're telling me if I raise salaries I might hire better engineers? Hmm, wonder if there are any theories about this relationship.
> In more than 15 years I have never seen these markets being as bad as they are in the moment

Care to elaborate a bit on this? I'm genuinely interested.
A military alliance (such NATO) alone cannot prevent war between its members. The recent events(Trump threating to pull U.S. support or Turkey's behaviour) proves how fragile a such alliance is. I wouldn't be surprised to see Turkey leaving NATO and join an alliance with Russia.

If a member decides that the alliance doesn't serve its national interests anymore nothing can stop it from leaving and joining a different alliance.

The point of EU was to make european interests indistingusible from national interests. It seems it hit a brick wall on UK.
Go's nil is statically-typed. The nil keyword is polymorphic (as numbers in the source code are) but individual nils that occur at runtime in Go are actually typed. You can actually put methods on them and they execute just fine:

type S struct{}

func (s *S) Test() {
if s == nil {
fmt.Println("Nil pointer")
} else {
fmt.Println("Not nil pointer")
}
}

func main () {
var p *S
p.Test()
}

That will print "Nil pointer", not crash.

While I'm actually still in agreement that I don't love a language with nil pointers, it is less bad in Go because they are less pointy and stabby. It's not like C where they are automatically a crashing offense; they are valid values treated in sensible ways in a lot more places than in C, because in Go they still have their type associated with them. But I'd still like to be able to declare a non-nillable pointer type.

Please do note carefully the difference between less bad and not bad.
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Also, almost certainly, you don't want to hire engineers after they end up working at one of the tech giants, and the more experienced they are the worse. Having had the unfortunate experience of working along side some of the 'veterans' of one of these tech giants, it was a little disconcerting how easily they would form cliques based on perceived 'proven vs unproven' folks - if you hadn't worked at one of the tech giants, naturally you were unproven.

There were also tangible side effects. You couldn't generally expect them to work on what they perceived to be work which is low profile but actually important for some unquantifiable metric such as morale of the customer support team. You couldn't generally expect them to play by the same rules when it came to check in policies, documentation standards etc.

But best of all, the actual code they wrote would uniformly fall on either end of the astronaut architecture spectrum - either completely ignoring maintainability and turning the entire team into Schlemiel the painter, or being so convoluted that they themselves couldn't make quick progress a few years down the line on the code that they wrote.
No, HTML imports are the kind of technology that are the perfect architecture for this kind of web app and arguably are what make it possible. It'd take a whole blog post to explain, hopefully I can write it up soon!
As a collective, you voted to leave.
Now Junker et al represent the interests of the remaining members, of which you are no longer a part. Game theory dictactes that the EU must offer unfavorable terms to leavers.
Kind of related:

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/presents18969358/tinder...

"Indeed, various apps have done for sex in the NBA what Amazon has done for books. One no longer needs to leave home to find a party. The party now comes to you. And lifestyle judgments aside, the NBA road life is simply more efficient -- and less taxing -- when there aren't open hours spent trolling clubs.

"It's absolutely true that you get at least two hours more sleep getting laid on the road today versus 15 years ago," says one former All-Star, who adds that players actually prefer Instagram to Tinder when away from home. "No schmoozing. No going out to the club. No having to get something to eat after the club but before the hotel."

https://theringer.com/the-inside-story-of-the-nbas-newest-ga...
We're really excited for Construct 3 in education, we think we have a unique offering here. We plan to have it rolled out and available for purchase in 8 weeks ready to go.

Always happy to chat about this stuff, feel free to email me on tom@scirra.com if you have any specific questions and if there's anything we can do to encourage administrators to give us a go.
It's not silly for everyone. You can retire way quicker on $300-400k than you can with $120-160k. Not everyone wants to work an extra 10-30 years.
They need to change the legal standard for involuntary commitment to a psych ward. At present, the standard is that as long as the patient is not a danger to others, they are allowed to roam the streets at will. I think a better standard is to broaden it to where if they can't take care of themselves, they can be involuntarily committed. That used to be called "vagrancy" and was a crime. I would find some middle road where it is not a crime, but a civil order.
It's still reasonable to differentiate the primary motivation for condom use in the two 'communities'.
True, I feel electron stack is like a cancer for native apps.
Not holding stupid, vague referendums with a mere 50% majority requirement, instead of a supermajority, that can trigger major, complex constitutional changes would be a start.
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> How do I pay my rent with a sense of reward?

Reminds me of trying to pay rent with Exposure!

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/exposure
Do those things have identities as independent nations/cultures?
Yeah Firefox isn't much better sadly in terms of battery.
No software is perfect, but I'm more confident that vulnerabilities will be discovered and dealt with on open source projects. Proprietary projects have different incentives.

I wouldn't have a clue what to do with browser code, and I don't inspect the code of the browser I use, but I am happier if people who can understand the code and who aren't dependent on the project for their living can check it.
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Yes, are aware! There is still a ton to do on the website, and we're actively working on it. This is a beta phase which should last ~8 weeks then everything will look a lot smarter :)
I would love something like seymour for JS development. Being able to see the complexity of execution as you type would be invaluable.
I think data poisoning is going to become increasingly influential, simply because data restriction is so damn hard. Blocking every possible fingerprinting scheme is all but impossible, and any slip-up permanently releases information.

But data poisoning is relatively easy and offers an "additive" solution. Every use decreases the value of all the information you spill, which is way more appealing than demanding flawless defense at every turn.
> Those of us that do understand the technology have a duty to help the people without that knowledge and experience.

No, we don't. The fact that the "common people" don't value privacy enough led to this whole situation. Those that do value privacy, can pay for it with their money (or their time to learn).
Seconded. I'd really like to see more use of Qt; it's cross-platform and high performance.
I'm not sure this kind of framing is productive.
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Mental illness is a very broad spectrum. You can't group it all together and generalise based on that in the same way that you can't generalise all physical illness when it can range from bruising your elbow to breaking every bone in your body.
Ask HN: Any programming challenges that can lead directly to interviews?
I'm self taught so I've had trouble finding interviews for technical roles. However, I've had success scoring interviews through Google foobar program and Two Sigma AI challenge (halite.io)

Are there any other programming challenges or competitions that can help engineers directly showcase their technical abilities?
The article compares Bloomberg to Thomson Reuters, and reduces things to market data. Bloomberg is so much more than market data. There's historical data, email, news, dealer to client RFQ style etrading for rates, credit & FX and analytics too. The lock in effect is phenomenal, and the breadth of the offering makes it nigh impossible for new entrants to dislodge. Yes, occasionally terminal numbers go down when the big banks try to manage costs down, but at the moment I can't see how Bloomberg's incumbency will end. Not much has changed in the 11 years since I blogged about this [1].

[1] https://etrading.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/25-million-lines-o...
This reminds me of my networking class!
I remember being provided Beej's Guide and it being indespensable. Still 8 years later when I need to verify something about networking I go look it up and make sure i am doing it right.
Got hit BAD tonight
s/regulations/privacy/
You're reaching..
Because being underutilized in a large company is unfulfilling. Because being a staff engineer in a large company gets you no closer to running your own business. Because you want to learn technology that you cannot yet compete for. Because options outside of large companies are limited, especially if you are unable to take large immediate financial risks.
2/3 or 75% majority which Is the standard for major changes
Michael Scharf of MyClean.com grew revenue to $750,000/m by ignoring VC pressure
> the patient is not a danger to others

or themselves

>I would find some middle road where it is not a crime, but a civil order.

In the past this road has lead to people being committed because someone just didn't like them. Broadening committal to people deemed not acceptable by society is a dangerous path.
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First off don't bother trying to outbid google/facebook/amazon. Instead look to the good engineers that they can't hire. Large companies can afford to put a large list of requirements down and throw out anyone who doesn't check all the boxes. Zero in on a frivolous requirement that the bigco's commonly use to reject good candidates and target those engineers.

Secondly the real elephant in the room is equity. The path between early employee in successful startup and payday is narrower than ever and filled gotchas. There is a reason we tell startup employees to treat equity as worthless.

Bluntly it's a 'tragedy of the commons' type problem. Individually each startup will have large incentives to keep all the dollars at the top while constantly delaying any possible payday for early employees. Collectively trust in equity grants has collapsed to zero. It doesn't matter if you individually are a good startup, because an engineer isn't going to gamble away a 300k salary on the off chance that this time it is different.

You also can't simply solve this problem by saying: "engineers should have known X about Equity". No thanks, instead I'll take the cushy big-co job with benefits, reasonable schedule, and cash on the barrel today. Sounds easier than trusting that I've found all the ways I could get screwed by professional business people who do this every day.
Not OP but argument is likely that condoms are expensive.
I wish it could go faster, but the truth is this is exactly the sort of thing that should go slowly. It is much better for birth control to have a certain effectiveness, after all. Since this is an injection, probably best to have good tests with longevity as well. It isn't bad to go back every couple years for this, but this is the sort of information one needs to know upfront.

Unfortunately, finding this initial stuff out takes time.
If you figure that out, I would love a followup post talking about it. I was always really impressed with that Asterix and Obelix 3D platformer for the system, and I'd really like to see how they pulled that off.
Yes it was tough, and yes we did get a lot of negative feedback. We also got a lot of feedback from people who seem to not care about this change and who understand why we're making this change.

We're going to be making a couple of small adjustments, but so far everything is how we expected it to be.
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