skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I suppose you could fish out the most trivial part of the comment and refute that. Why not set up a battery of short unit tests for the candidates? "Follow me, Jones, and we'll see how you handle the 'coworker with chewing gum' test next..."

The study was done on students, who almost universally have zero experience selecting people to work under them in an industry setting (or at all). Drawing conclusions from this particularly inexperienced subject pool and then extrapolating out is bogus, particularly given the extremely certain language of the article. The subject pool is at an age (18-22) where people are still figuring out what to make of themselves and others; they have extremely little adult experience of the workplace and judgment of character - indeed, at this age, people are notorious for making bad decisions in their personal lives.

When you look at the actual paper they link, out the window goes the declarative language, and instead the article is unusually full of weasel-words ('can', 'may'). There's a major difference between "utterly useless" and the actual conclusion of their paper: "interviewers probably over-value unstructured interviews".
IoT has it's place. But but the current bread of "Smart(TM) devices" is all but smart, and in many cases security and privacy threat. A toaster doesn't need WiFi. Not all IoT devices need a internet connection and phone home by default. In the end IoT is something which is around for decades. Industry devices are connected over Ethernet at least for one decade, that's normal. But the are usually firewalled off the internet, and can only be accessed in an internal LAN.

So it will be interesting if Smart devices as one area of IoT keep staying in the current phase or will evolve in 1) more LAN centric, more open industry standard or 2) sending even more things home and analyse the data in a datacenter.
@theLaunchPad Thank you. I found padpiper.com is a very useful resource, congratulations!
Well, modification of certain software systems could be easily regulated. Even now you can't just modify all the mechanical parts of your car. For example, if you remove or bypass your catalytic converter, you can be fined $2,500-200,000 and charged with a felony. There's also a provision for any citizen to sue you into compliance if they know you've done it.

Doubt that happens much, but if you ever became someone the gov't doesn't like, they can probably just go see if your muffler is up to code. Or any of the million other felonies you might be unknowingly committing due to the expansion of federal regulations.
And why would the liability be different between random sites and imgur? I fully understand the idea of blocking both. I don't understand the idea of only blocking imgur.
I wonder if there is any possibility of restoring the reef after we've gotten carbon in the atmosphere back down to livable levels for it. I'm sure it's basically impossible, but if we're approaching the point of no return maybe we can invest in preserving as much of the reef as we can in aquariums to make an attempt down the road.

The whole situation is depressing :(
Checked it out, and it looks quite nice! Congrats on making such a nice tool. I'm a fellow CSS library author here, of Wing[1].

Everything seems fine, but as others have said, the scrolling is jumpy. Might want to fix that :)

1. http://usewing.ml
It was here thanks to acqq:

http://cahighways.org/wordpress/?p=5460

Yeah, BLACKER did quite a bit. It was a network MLS component like many others that came after it. GEMSOS, Boeing SNS Server, and DiamondTek LAN are examples. Modern variant would be an Octeon 2 or 3 PCI card with similarly secure software.

Too much to explain, though. BLACKER's main purpose was securing the connection between dumb terminals and things they connected to. It used crypto, MLS, and TEMPEST-style hardware. It was a network device as well. A VPN is closest term for modern audience to convey its main goals.
While this is a fascinating question in the context of tractors, it gets even more interesting in the context of cars, houses, personal electronics, light bulbs. The First Sale Doctrine is being eroded by DRM.
In the experiment the authors ran, interviewers felt more confident after interviewing a "candidate" who had secretly been instructed to randomize the answers. Later, they informed the researcher that so great was the value of the information they extracted from interviews, they'd prefer a randomized interview to no interview at all. I think the authors made their point quite well.
Governments should definitely pay content creators to make open-source curricula for schools and universities.

I agree with Stallman that proprietary learning materials are antithetical to the spirit of learning itself. Part of the process of learning is rearranging information, changing it, collectively annotating it, and consuming it through convenient new media (a digitized, hyperlinked document on a open comment platform, for example). There are only limited possibilities with proprietary information in this regard, and even fewer possibilities with proprietary software. Schools should not use either one.
They lock down the software in their well understood interests:

- vendor lock in (this is not good for customers)

- safety (testing this stuff is expesive and lengthy. Every change forces a re-test. They are liable for this stuff)

- defending the brand value (if there is an accident because of modified software non-hackers will blame the manufacturer for making it possible)

This all weill get worse with neural networks:

Imagine people poking around bits in the matrix representing the neural network of the sel-driving AI.

They will not have the slightest clue what they are doing, but they don't want their System to be locked down. They download "steering optimizers" and similar stuff from sites and overwrite the neural network.

Who will be to blame for the accident because of this?

With neural networks even the manufacturer cannot completely understand every nauron's effect on the complete system, as opposed to traditional software. Manufacturers have huge responsibility, and curently only locking software down is their only way to defend themselves.
Although I've never seen the Great Barrier Reef, I was recently in Belize and snorkeled around its Barrier Reef. It was painfully obvious that the reefs were extensively bleached(though still quite beautiful). It's quite shocking to think that 30 years ago the reefs looked completely different from now and in another 30 years may not even be around. I hope that in the future we won't be reduced to having to point to pictures in a book if people want to witness the beauty of nature but this seems increasingly inevitable. What a shame.
Quite the opposite actually.
Curvy OLED displays are neat, but it ultimately doesn't mean anything,

It's crazy that Google isn't investing that money in software. Unless it's a hedge.
Well, yes and no. If somebody just scored it as written, giving points for each argument known, it would be a dumb trivia question. But as I said, that's not what I do.

Try it next time you're mingling with ops people. Say in a bar at a conference. Don't look at what they answer. Look at how they answer. Some people are comfortable not knowing. Some people are excited to discover the ones they forgot they knew. some people get curious and eager to fill the hole they've just noticed in their knowledge. And some people get defensive and peevish.
Selena Quintanilla is still the one more referred to by only her first name. Despite Selena Gomez being much more relevant in the mainstream, a Google search for "Selena" still turns up results almost exclusively (excluding news) results for Quintanilla.
I was very curious so I read through that thread.

One person found that turning Avast's Behavior Shield off helped.

But with AVG... wow. AVG ships with a disabled-by-default "Use HW assisted virtualization" option buried in its settings. As in, install AVG and it turns that off systemwide until you turn it back on. Yay!
There's this:https://github.com/minexew/Shrine
This is only one source of microplastics, but in 2015 Obama signed signed the Microbead-Free Waters Act, banning plastic microbeads in cosmetics and personal care products. Seems smart to target the source instead of monitor and clean up afterwards.
What happens if this independent fix results in a death? Do you really think JD will escape liability?
No, it is not. NTFS, if one looks at it, is a direct descendant of Files-11, the on-disc filesystem layout for VMS. ODS has several of the elements of NTFS:

* a master file table (INDEXF.SYS => $MFT)

* ACLs, with a system of ACL-bypass privileges

* a whole bunch of special files, with known fixed entries in the MFT, including a block bitmap file and a bad block file (BITMAP.SYS => $Bitmap, BADBLK.SYS => $BadClus)

In contrast, there are significant dissimilarities with HPFS.
Much like the way that hackerrank tests how good you are at hackerrank tests?
Inside Windows XP Product Activation (2001)
Do a google search for "moral dilemma" and you will find many examples where it is very difficult to come up with simplistic black and white opinions.

Such dilemmas leave me with the idea that it is very naive to think there is some kind of absolute morality.
There is definitely defense in depth but, I never said the software was bug-free. :)

Also you're doing the unfortunate thing of associating me as part of John Deere. I'm not. I had a small hand is writing a small part of this software, a long long time ago. I don't give a shit if they sell tractors or not. I don't care if farmers modify the software or not. I don't really have a dog in this fight. I'm just a guy with an opinion who's seen how the sausage is made.
Just a few minor corrections, and some comments, if you'll permit me:

> It doesn't explicitly allow larger blocks. It does, however, upgrade Bitcoin to allow side chains.

SegWit itself as implemented is explicitly a blocksize increase. More TX can fit on-chain. It upgrades Bitcoin so that a host of other, interesting upgrades become possible, but as part of SegWit there is a blocksize increase to about 2MB.

> I believe the root of this argument is that Bitcoin has served us well for many years, so why try to build another, potentially weaker system on top of it?

The interesting tangent here is that the exchanges themselves dwarf on-chain transactions in terms of economic volume. They absolutely dwarf it, and we don't see anyone demanding we put every exchange TX into the blockchain. :-) Instead we see people talking about how they should be able to put individual cups of coffee on-chain. It's odd, to say the least.

> But, for whatever reason, the dialog shifted.

This is a crucial point. The narrative change in large part is driven by totally opaque reasons that even an informed person like yourself can't remember or fathom. Why did it change? This is where speculation about the economic disincentive for it comes in, and with the evidence that covert ASICBoost is a direct option in all currently-deployed hardware from Bitmain, it becomes more clear why their constantly-shifting technical reasons might be.. constantly shifting.

> ASICBOOST, the way this mining operation has supposedly been using it, is not compatible with SegWit.

Nobody says they have more than circumstantial evidence for it being used. The main issue is that it could be used, literally tomorrow, and nobody would know it. And it would be something that would improve their efficiency even though none of their customers have it enabled.

This means their profit even in relation to their own customers would be a crushing advantage, and nobody would know, so they can just say e.g. what they did in their recent press release. "No, we're not using it."
https://github.com/minexew/Shrine/issues/2
This is what keeps me up at night. If we don't find an efficient way to extract CO2 and methane from the atmosphere, I fear that mankind might go extinct.
> John Deere tractors run on open source software

Out of curiosity, what range of open source licenses appear in the code base? Do they use any software whose license requires source distribution? If so, are you aware of a "source code" page buried in John Deere's website, or some other mechanism by which they satisfy any distribution clauses?
It does matter just like total household income matters.
John Clarke is a satirist, who played the role of whichever government official was topical at the time for decades. Not an actual government official.
I'm pretty confident both of you are people I'd be happy to work with in the future and so I want to use this as an opportunity to point out that your reaction to what Kasey said his reaction would have been to your interview question practically guarantees that you would fail to acquire Kasey for your team. I know Kasey a little bit better than I know you (he's a Chicago person) so I'll just sum this up as "that's not a point in the win column for this interviewing strategy".

I know you're not asking people recite "ps" flags from memory. The problem is, you're looking for a subjective "X-factor" in how someone answers a trivia question.

I used to really like this approach too. I'd think of things that you'd only know if you'd actually done the kind of work I'd done. I had some favorite interview questions: "what are some of the functions you carry around with you from project to project in your 'libyou.a' library", and "where would you start looking if you had to debug a program that segfaulted in malloc"? I think the logic I was using is the same as the logic you're using here.

Ultimately, I think it's a bad approach. Equivalently strong candidates look at their work through different lenses, and find different things memorable. Far more important to me, though, is that some people really suck at interviewing --- and, what motivates me more, having succumbed to this repeatedly as a hiring manager and also being myself I think an example of the phenomenon --- some people just interview way better than they should.
Validate an Entire Worksheet of GridWeb and Customizing Excel Pivot Table in Java
Is there any part of this you find to be inaccurate?

http://www.awea.org/Issues/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=832
For people who are curious about theming here is classic GitHub done entirely in Semantic UI.
http://semantic-org.github.io/example-github/

(Click the small paint icon in the top menu to swap themes to see in native SUI)

I did a meteor dev night where I talked about some of the ideas behind Semantic UI, which might clear up some of the linguistic origins for the library and it's ideas about language:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86PbLfUyFtA

And if anyone wants to dig really deep, there are a few podcasts as well
https://changelog.com/podcast/106
https://changelog.com/podcast/164
The only problems is that the creators of those software did not get their food and tools for free.

Was that also lost productivity?

Maybe we could fix it by giving everything for free!
The article presents no evidence to support this assertion. What aspect of the human brain transcends physical law? The author makes no attempt to say.

The problem with the so-called riddle of consciousness is that you can assert to me that you experience subjectivity, but you cannot demonstrate to me that you do. You cannot establish that any other person experiences subjectivity. Thus you cannot demonstrate even to yourself that you experience subjectivity because it is impossible to have a control, an externally verifiable example of subjective consciousness. If you cannot demonstrate to yourself that you are conscious, then there is no riddle of consciousness. And if you cannot establish a standard for discriminating consciousness, there is no way you can exclude the possibility that its visible expressions can be modeled in purely physical systems.

Arguments by assertion of the specialness of human consciousness keep appearing on HN like clockwork.
Good tip indeed, thanks for the feedback ! I'll update the code
Not the author, but I similarly support eliminating (well, severely limiting) intellectual property protections and make use copyright at the same time (GPL term enforcement).

With current laws, it's one reasonable way to get close to my ideals. It's the same reason why the Apache 2.0 license is against the friction caused patents by acknowledging them and addressing the issues they raise.

It's using ip law against itself (although I can't really speak for the author in this specific case).
http://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/1997whygmatte...

Why g Matters: The Complexity of
Everyday Life

Personnel selection research provides much evidence that intelligence (g) is an important predictor of performance in training and on the job, especially in higher level work. This article provides evidence that g has pervasive utility in work settings because it is essentially the ability to deal with cognitive complexity, in particular, with complex information processing. The more complex a work task, the greater the advantages that higher g confers in performing it well. Everyday tasks, like job duties, also differ in their level of complexity. The importance of intelligence therefore differs systematically across different arenas of social life as well as economic endeavor. Data from the National Adult Literacy Survey are used to show how higher levels of cognitive ability systematically improve individuals’ odds of dealing successfully with the ordinary demands of modem life (such as banking, using maps and transportation schedules, reading and understanding forms, interpreting news articles). These and other data are summarized to illustrate how the advantages of higher g, even when they are small, cumulate to affect the overall life chances of individuals at different ranges of the IQ bell curve. The article concludes by suggesting ways to reduce the risks for low-IQ individuals of being left behind by an increasingly complex postindustrial economy.
> At its peak, the call volume and a short-staffed call center pushed wait times as high as six minutes—the city's goal is to answer most 911 calls within 10 seconds.

This is why we can't have nice hacks.
> Those languages have been the most democratizing in CS history.

People who lived through the home computer revolution would probably suggest BASIC for that title.
Thank you. I work in Ag and it seems crazy that someone should be able to buy a machine like those Deere sells and be able to modify the controls SW. Can United Airlines update the controls SW on Boeing 747? I'm not sure how tractors are any different.
The jet engines in a modern airplane have some analogies here. You can think of an engine as a PaaS (Propulsion-as-a-Service). A tractor is HaaS (Harvesting-as-a-Service). Our technologies have reach this level of complexity - the must be offered as a service. Cars will soon be Mobility-as-a-Service. Putting on my economist hat, I'd say that it is the ultimate manifestation of "comparative advantage". If JD abuses their monopoly position, then fix that through the courts and legislation, or by buying a competitors product. Don't try to hack the terms of service. But JD and other "product" vendors need to make it clear that they are in fact selling a service.
For a minute I though I was looking at the real github and they finally got rid of that black bar. Well done! ;-)
Memory safety can be circumvented by an unsafe keyword.

Deadlock safety is not existent. You still have to set run-time locks manually, where fast and safe lock-free compile-time solutions exist. More important than memory safety, which is trivial to implement with a GC and exist since decades.
Oh wait, rust doesn't have a GC. Freeing cyclic data-structures...
It's meeting the legal definition of "reasonable care" to buy an industry standard blocking tool and maintain it with software updates.

The companies that use this software are checking boxes like "no porn", "no gambling". They aren't typically making URL level decisions. The stuff that sneaks by will happen because filtering isn't perfect.

The makers of the software categorize popular sites with tags (porn, file sharing, proxy avoidance, hate speech, etc). Less popular sites get content keyword filtering...so something like porn images without porn words can slip by.
Case IH has a decent foothold in the US, not anywhere near John Deere but it's there. Unfortunately, they're pulling the same bullshit from what I can tell - it's to the point where farmers that aren't part of a co-op or running a large commercial operation where equipment is leased or replaced regularly it's impractical to use new equipment should it break down.
> They are so desperate to have it

This is completely false. In fact, they're quite honest about the fact they don't mind if it doesn't. Here's an example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/617b7h/peter_rizun...

gmax says: "none of us are particular eager to see segwit activate-- we did our part, Bitcoin is just fine without it. -- bitcoin core doesn't even signal it by default, though I suppose the next version probably will."

> They explicitly say that it could be decades before any more block size increases come around.

Since nobody can predict the future by more than a few months, and most people know this, you should probably cite this. I'm pretty sure nobody has said that it will be decades before a hardfork. In fact, most people have been quite forthright in that a good hardfork is something they are looking forward to.

lol
This is not exactly uncertain ground. Car manufacturers don't have liability when their customers modify their cars. Whoever made my clothes dryer doesn't have liability for any unsafe condition I may or may not have created when I removed that stupid annoying buzzer.
I agree with this, and additionally, the website doesn't tell you where to find the book in the store! The expectation is to place a reservation, but when I shop for a book locally I want to compare it to its neighboring books on the shelf. I've learned where to find most topics by now, of course, but it still seems like a worthwhile improvement to make.
MDD and code generation from models two completely different things.
Why? It's clearly broken.
Google how the canadian navy lands helos on ships in heavy seas. They drop a line, tie the helo to the boat, and literally winch it down onto the deck. The helo pulls against the line so as the deck rises so does the aircraft. Joined by the line, boat and helo move up and down as one. It sounds crazy but really works.
This will get you the most desperate employees, not the ones you want. I've got a home loan to pay, I'm not switching jobs if you can only guarantee 2 weeks of employment. And if there are multiple offers around, I'll take the 3 month or full time position, even if I'm half way through the 2 week contract.

Also, not all jobs/codebases lend themselves to being productive in 2 weeks, I'd argue they should be, but they aren't.
All the more reason not to trust it.
The basics of encryption
I thought he changed his mind recently about the usefulness of networking. God likes new desciples talking to each other via TCP and UDP sockets.

Joke discussion here: https://github.com/minexew/Shrine/issues/2

He only forbids gore, i.e. multimedia, memory fragmentation with overly big files >100000 lines.
> They pay more than AMZN/MS/FB/AAPL/etc. for equal level, but are stingier with levels.

Google is more generous to good performers via bonuses once you are working there, but if you have two offers in hand, you are going to find Google highly resistant to negotiating. The notion of people taking a pay cut to work at Google sounds plausible to me.

If one's goal is to maximize compensation (particularly in the short term), a Google offer is better used to get a higher paying offer at one of their competitors.