skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He was an absolute nobody in WWI.

After WWI, the political situation in Germany was pretty volatile. Lots of extreme politics. Hitler started giving talks about German politics and how Jews were to blame for everything. At this point, his only income was a soldier's pension iirc.

He was the 55th person to join the Nazi party (he later forged his membership card to say he was #7). But the Nazi leadership (more organizers at that point) were impressed with Hitler's speaking abilities and thought they could use him to promote the party. So they started setting him up at different venues and events.

He developed a reputation for being a guy with strong opinions about politics and his speeches were pretty entertaining for people, so more showed up. All of this was pretty local to Munich at this point.

Eventually Hitler and some of his friends got this idea that they could overthrow the government, hence the Beer Hall Putsch. He wasn't really famous at the time, but he was a popular figure in certain circles, so when the Putsch failed, he was sent to prison instead of being executed for treason.

In prison he wrote Mein Kampf, essentially painting himself as a figure who loved Germany persecuted by a government that had sold Germany to foreign powers. As a best selling author, he became a celebrity.

Ian Kershaw's Hitler Hubris and Nemesis is really good if you're interested in the topic.
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I'll take all that weight on the rear axle of my RWD ranger any day. 98% of the time i have nothing substantial and have to take care not to burnout.
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New H-1B Guidelines Crack Down on Computer Programmer Jobs
This is basically amazon gift cards, but instead of typing in the code on the back after purchasing they are automatically added to your account at the time of purchase.

Additionally this isn't aimed at people that have credit/debit cards. This is for people that are using cash for nearly everything. They take their paycheck to a check cashing place, and pay all their bills with cash, cashiers checks, or money orders. Currently the only way for them to shop on amazon is to buy gift cards at a local store for cash then add them to their account. This cuts out extra garbage and an extra step.
It's a cartoon that goes into the complexities of the Unicode Consortium and the process of getting new emoji approved.

Unfortunate that such static content depends on JS :-(
PyPy is mentioned in the article but omitted from the "Lets review some of the main points" summary.

> If Python is your bottleneck (you’ve already optimized algorithms/etc.), then move the hot-spot to Cython/C

After "If Python is your bottleneck", I'd just add "then try PyPy because there's a decent chance everything will Just Work and Be Faster." Sometimes you run into portability bugs in your code, other people's code, and sometimes you run into compatibility problems. But most of the time it Just Works.
I do wonder if Amazon Pay is a next step for these folks. I cannot believe Amazon will not have an answer Google and Apple.
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In fact, it was rather draining. The Einsatzgruppen - SS task forces that manually machine-gunned people (mostly Jews) during the invasion of the Soviet Union, including at Babi Yar - were disbanded fairly early in the war because of mental health problems among the staff. One of the main motivations of the characteristically "industrial" methods of the later Holocaust - first gassing trucks, then gas chambers and starvation - was to reduce the exposure of SS personnel to the act of killing, even when they were aware of and enthusiastic about their mission.

Source: "The Third Reich At War", by Richard J. Evans.
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I think this ironically proves the anti-regulators point which is that everybody has the right to track you like this and it doesn't do much to selectively target the ISPs with more regulation. The FCC regulation would not have stopped govtrack from doing this...
This article does seem to be about nothing. However, I was really hoping that they were clamping down on H1-Bs that are handed out to the consulting companies.
Does your OEM create their version of Windows? No, they ship the binaries they receive from Microsoft. As long as Android OEM's are allowed to build their own version of Android this problem will always be in the hands of the OEM.
You might be able to do it just by using road vibration that comes through the steering column. I think it's quite possible to detect hands with pretty good sensitivity in this way, it's just that the evidence suggests it's not actually that sensitive.
Isn't this just same old gift card model but now with ability to manage balance online? Also riding the float is nothing new. There is no "interest" anymore. Opportunity cost, sure. This is a rational iteration on the status quo and looks to be step in right direction for consumer.
Indeed you can. It's much harder though. If you have a full-time job unrelated to your research, you need to self-fund a lot of expenses. You need to convince your boss to let you take time off to go to that conference to present your work. You need to foster connections to other researchers through activities like reviewing for journals, etc.

Of course, you can bypass all that and just publish straight to the internet. Personally, I find that to be enormously difficult. The interactions with my peers -- the conversations over beers in the evenings during conferences -- are so useful. Losing those hurts your ability to do good work.
With lisps you can chose whether you want floating point or rationals.
Possible.. interesting thing to note is that home owners are more inclined to lease panels than buy them (so retail cost doesn't matter much it appears). SolarCity really took off after it started offering the 0 down lease. If that trend continues, Tesla could potentially offer a blanket $x/month for energy production and $y/month for consumption (cars) and lock people in. We know panel cost and batter cost will go down over time, so the game is likely in selling experiences not entities..
The judge is the one who determines what's "proof". In the story, he decided that name & birthdate was enough to not dismiss the case. She could have hired a lawyer and spent time fighting the case and maybe won, but she wanted to get it resolved immediately and a guilty plea is the only way to do that.
The gist is that Google wanted to grow Android into something other than a niche player, and made a deal with the devils: hardware vendors. In effect, hardware vendors said they wanted to take a dump on their customers just like they always have, with bloatware baked in and planned obsolescence and Google said OK. And they don't control the hardware.

On the manufacturing side, a huge team is assembled with piles of money and resources to design and build a complete product out of hardware, firmware (blobs), and software, test it, document it, and then hand it off to marketing. That entire team is disbanded into a pool from which a whole new team will be created for a whole new product. Maybe less than a dozen people remain on a product team following release, and that's just to cover major bugs found once it's in the field. After about 6 months, it might be a team of two people. If it's a small market product, it might be a team of handful that cover multiple similar products.

Anyway, after 18-24 months there's essentially no one around from the manufacturer to support the product. It's not at all the same business model as say, Apple, where it's a giant team supporting a dozen handsets post-release, with coordinated roll outs for bug fixes.

If you want a newer OS on the Android phone, it's a do it yourself proposition. Lineage OS. Hopefully your phone has a relatively easy to unlock bootloader. And while Lineage OS will have a much newer kernel than the stock OS, the code to support, e.g. the NFC, may not be upstream because it's got some patent encumbered code, or maybe something new in the kernel breaks some driver and no one is around who knows enough about it to get it fixed. The exact sequence to put components into low power state, if not correct can cause battery life to suck. There are all sorts of ways this can not work out well, but at least it's an option.

What Google has done since Android 5 is emphasize library stability and security through Google Play updates. New features and bug fixes happen via Google Play itself being updated; it appears to be just an app update but it's actually what the bulk of 3rd party apps use. The low level stuff including the kernel isn't user space, and while your handset gets stuck for life, in effect, with an old kernel, Google are pushing out a chunk of bug and security fixes this way.
Agreed. The big problem in academia is that when you don't trust academics you need administration to provide oversight. Administration is now a huge portion of the cost of university education. Not research, admin.

To be fair, academics can also be childish, vindictive, sexist. There is also a real problem of hiring one's friends and students. BUT inter-organizational competition helps to some extent with these problems. Regardless, they justify administration and associated costs.
> I would have worked on the same project in the summer even if I was not getting paid

Yes, this is exactly what GSoC can be good for. Ideally, it allows people like you to spend time doing what they love doing instead of working for crappy startups.

The good (and fun!) experiences I had as a mentor all shared this element.
That's kind of how it works in Europe - state keeps the records and assigns you a number (citizen Id, tax Id whatever), and you can use x509, possibly from private providers, to prove that it's you.

Obviously that Id can't be kept secret.

In Ukraine we even have an opt out for crazy Russian churchgoers who believe, that having id is literally selling their soul - they just use passport number in their x509 certs.
Why don't employee engagement surveys work?
As if that isn't already happening under the current system. But, hey, why even think about change? The US educational system is already so good at improving, not letting institutional inertia block new ideas, offering better value for parents and students,...
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No, it's pretty low actually - we have a high growth rate! (company $/product growth, that is)
Isn't that the point, though? That Tesla's market cap can really only be justified by making the rosiest assumptions?
Please always write your date fields with the correct number of leading zeros.

You've also written it in "outer right hand side of a ledger" notation instead of the more correct ISO-8601

https://xkcd.com/1179/ (ISO 8601)
> then later rewritten in C++ or Go, and generally ran with 100x fewer resources

This kind of story comes again all the time, but the most important detail is always missing: how much of that 100x can be attributed to the language, and how much can be attributed to now I know the domain better, I know where the pitfalls are, how to model the problem, and when I need to optimize ? Because arguably the second one can bring a lot.
I apologize that happened to you. When did that happen? I will speak with the recruiters about it to ensure it does not happen in the future.

If you are still interested let me know.
I don't think electric car makers should be coddled like this. What exactly is your worry with negative press?
Seriously, just leave some cash in a locker
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A part of which is the difference between information and experience.

Schools attempt to cram as much information as possible in as little time in the overworked and overwhelmed minds of the students. The result is low retention and studying for the tests.

Knowledge and deep understanding come with time and experience in the presence of awareness.

The experiential parts of medical training for example are closer to hazing than anything else. We have enough research to know that the brain needs rest to process learning. Having people work for 24-36h straight does not do anyone a favor, is not sustainable and presents significant dangers to everyone involved.
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Thanks for that. I wrestled with using generational vs life span for that exact reason, but decided it was pedantic and not worth going into. So thanks for doing that math for me :)
Most of the comments here contrast python or a faster language. I can't count the number of times I've prototyped a complex algorithm in Python, then, satisfied that the idea was sound, translated it into a faster language for release.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/09/fords-chariot-ride-sharing...
IMHO GSoC should be something like "hacktoberfest" where contributors for the projects get paid for squashing bugs not for making "new features" nobody needs.
I'm not suggesting contract-to-hire, so much as a formalized and transparent concept of probationary periods. I'm pretty sure at-will employment means you don't need to bother with contract-to-hire unless you want to be cheap with paying your employees benefits. So these employees shouldn't be on contract anyway unless expressly temporary.

It certainly would be terrible for morale if implemented thoughtlessly. But if it was done in a way with clear expectations of employee performance, then terminations would not be arbitrary. And the morale hit of being terminated at any time- a situation with legally exists in California atm anyway- would be mitigated by more companies being quicker to hire instead of forcing long arduous interview processes.

So then the situation becomes "If mgmt. is just, then they will keep me on, if they are dumb, then I can get quickly hired across the street anyway."
More often than not, it is faster than figuring out the exact solution, if an exact solution exists. Things like having a piecewise distribution somewhere in your problem make Monte Carlo several orders of magnitude easier to implement.
Won't they miss out on all the perks of credit cards (i.e. Discover cash back rebates, airline/hotel miles, etc )
Do they not have fees attached in the US?

In the UK, pre-paid cards are relatively expensive. £25 card usually costs £27+ and then there are potentially extra fees on top.

I could definitely see people using this.
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It would definitely take up some team resources, but it's not more complex than the work they're already doing. So 'how would you do that' is the wrong question. The question should be 'how would they do that?' and the answer I don't know but I'm sure if you ask a team they'll be more than happy to explain, after all it is their (and not my) future that is at stake and given the fact that they are involved they'll do the best possible job to make sure they have to go through it the minimum number of times with the largest chance of success.

This is still far less effort than a wrong hire would cause. Anyway, I can see that my methods are not acceptable (yet), maybe in another decade or so?

Trust is hard. Even companies that trust their tech people with the corporate crown jewels still have a hard to impossible time trusting them with such everyday decisions such as who they want to work with. It's counterproductive to say the least but that's how we've been doing it for the last 40 years, so I don't expect any major changes in the near future.