skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you tax the hell out of manufactured imports, you hurt our best businesses and drive up prices on everything for everyone. You really think you can force Apple to build iPhones in the US for twice the cost that Samsung will build Galaxys in Asia for? Do you think US iOS developers are going to still make $20B a year after you do it? Do you think bringing minimum wage manufacturing jobs back to america is a good idea?

This is the kind of big government republicanism that is killing the party. Import tariffs benefit to benefit a few rich corporations and key donors, and screw everyone else. Frame it as a return to the "good old days" that never existed like you remembered. Taft-Hartley existed in those days, and it was a terrible time.
> 'If you're not a paying user' doesn't immediately lead you to 'They're going to scan my email and sell the data to fucking Uber' and shouldn't require the user to scan the ToS / rack their brains for every nefarious bit of fuckery the company might conceivably use the data for.

I agree with the first half of what you said and disagree with the second. That's precisely the value of the original saying: it's not there to be an excuse for a company, it's there to spread awareness and remind people that they should get informed about just _how_ they're being productized _before_ they have cause to regret using the service.

If more of us scanned the ToS carefully, we might catch the nefarious bits of fuckery on time and pressure the company to change.

Does the privacy policy say your data will be sold to third parties? Great, find out what data, to what third parties and questions like that.
miniKanren, Relational Interpreters, and Synthesis of Lisp Programs
Static typing doesn’t mean you have to declare types. Type inference means you can write code just like a non-typed language but you get the safety + it executes faster. IMHO, except for toy languages, not having (strict) typing in 2017 is a language design flaw.
Even monopolies don't want to built networks in rural america. I can't imagine multiple competitors doing it.

It was the monopoly power of AT&T that got them phone lines in the first place.
I'm pretty sure no landlines from decades ago come even close to a decently configured voice chat server using e.g. Opus.
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I think these PIs at UIUC communicate clearly about all the processes necessary (Han wrote a good text on data mining, but probably outdated from 2011):

http://xren7.web.engr.illinois.edu/www17-StructNet-part1.pdf

http://xren7.web.engr.illinois.edu/cikm16-profile.pdf

Also solr/lucene/elastic indexes are good tools for filtering your inputs and deciding what the unit doc will be (sentence, paragraph, numbered section of research paper etc
FTP does this too in active mode, right? Port 21 for commands, port 20 for data
One of the most frustrating things I've seen is that interviewers/recruiters themselves couldn't stand up to the same rigor of questions which they expect from applicants. In one such company, I asked a question on "algorithmic fairness, accountability and transparency" about core algorithms they used for their business. First, it came across as a bit of a rude shock to them - they hadn't heard about it. Second, they parroted a line which was along the lines of "our legal team looks into it and makes sure it is legal". Third, when pushed about the fact that my question was not on legality - they refused to accept that they may have overlooked this part or were not aware of it. Rather than engage in a discussion, when the boot was on the other foot - they wanted to weasel their way out of it.
The article is called "The root of all eval." I think the author gets it.
A structure allocated in one chunk has cache locality and will be significantly faster to access than dereferencing multiple pointers.

The allocation itself is not the bottleneck, it's the poor choice of data structure.
Or IBM Global Services, CapGemini, Accenture etc?
I'm not sure they are. I certainly didn't read it as a puff piece. After enumerating all of Uber's problems, I think the "he had lived to fight another day" conclusion is supposed to be a little wry.
It's wrong to assume malice.
But what guarantees this freedom? And as I understand it, it doesn't prevent monopolies from forming, it is meant to restrict monopolies from controlling the market.

According to wikipedia:

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

"... are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority."

The government is supposed to step in to block monopolies from controlling the market, but that implies that the government is intervening in the market. All I was pointing out is that there is no perfect system where politics, monopolies and private interests won't compete to control the market.
I'm curious if the people giving the interviews have an incentive to be conservative with scoring. Maybe it looks bad when your score is the highest? As if you're lowering the bar? If true, I could see that contributing to how these interview stories play out (candidates thinking they did better than their no-hire outcome).
Masters and PhD matters for the green card process. I don't think the institution matters.

Maybe there ought to be another level for folks who have won awards from recognized societies and associations such as Nobel, ACM, what not
Yes!! Nobody reads the fine print on the EULA. Companies are hiding behind this to do things customers wouldn't otherwise allow. If unroll explicitly stated their inbox scraping and data selling aspect as loudly as their unsubscribe "USP", no one would use them
You imply normalizing across role and geography is trivial, but it's not. Maybe you're smarter then me though, so please proceed to detail your rule set.

Btw, this is the only scheme I think could be better, but I actually don't hear a lot of people bringing it up. And when I think more about it, I'm not sure it's possible to implement.

Lotterie is in a way a solution to the normalization problem. Given two companies in different places, both who've interviewed a different candidate and believe they merit to get the job, and are both willing to pay a different amount for the candidate. You could say, instead of attempting to normalize and risking possibly high false positive, we will randomly distribute. That's a normalization scheme.
Computerphile has a wonderful video about dates that covers this subject perfectly. Mandatory viewing on my team before anybody has a problem involving dates.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
> Note that this was at least 4 hours after the outrage on Twitter started. Seems like a very intentional, well-calculated strategy indeed.

That comment seems a bit disingenuous. i.e. it's entirely possible it takes a journo 20 seconds to post a correct to a twitter account he/she controls and 4 hours/days/weeks to get his/her editors to sign off on the same correct and the change pushed to the news website.
On one hand this is similar to all kinds of financial institutions who sell your data (which is why you'll get a bunch of credit card offers). It's a bit better than those, because it at least appears like the emails/receipts are anonymized.

On the other hand, this was hidden deep in the TOS and Privacy Policies, whereas some extra disclosure probably would have helped the backlash they're getting today.

I hate the phrase "if you're not paying, then you're the product", because plenty of freemium models don't follow that narrative, but in this case it seems crystal clear. I supposed we're just seeing how naive people can be with their personal data (email inboxes).
> But what guarantees this freedom?

That's up to the society which wants to have a free market. For instance, anti-trust laws is one way of doing it.

> The government is supposed to step in to block monopolies from controlling the market, but that implies that the government is intervening in the market.

Someone should to step in here, whether it's government or not, is another question. But clearly, if market has no way of preventing a monopoly, it's not really free.
> these were, in my opinion, better times

Oh hell no! ;) I mean that only with love & nostalgia, not to challenge your opinion. But that sounds like grass-is-greener syndrome, because networking and coding used to downright suck compared to today.

It's cool to see that getting a port number was easy in 1995, but keep in mind how silly it is to have to get a port number in the first place. That comes from needing to keep port names very small, in 16 bits. At some point someone is going to invent a scheme that uses names instead of numbers and reshape the internet again...

There are definitely lots of areas ripe with cherries, maybe even more now than there were then, and I suspect there is now less luck and more merit involved too. AI is in it's infancy right now, and people are making huge contributions with fairly simple improvements. Even as far as ssh & networking goes, we're having a global crisis of privacy as we speak, there are grand canyons of space waiting for people to fill & make a huge impact.

It will probably take caring about something through the hard times when nobody else seems to care, or solving something specific that ends up getting lucky, or a massive ton of rallying, but there are plenty of ways to participate and shape and define your future that will have a huge impact!
I didn't know Unroll.me was using inbox data for this, but I can't say that I'm surprised. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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What is the business model for what you are proposing? Car sales on consignment? That might work for a small number of well off consumers, but most people don't own their cars outright. As such, they are unable or unwilling to continue to make payments on a car they can't use.

TBH, it sounds very much like what open door does with housing.
Isn't that partly the mission statement of the NSA and CIA and FBI?
I really wouldn't make that conclusion until you knew what job he was interviewing for. Firmware development? Sure, you might be right. iOS developer? Unlikely that low level bit manipulation is going to be a good indicator of his ability to succeed in that role. That's not to say its irrelevant, but, just not a quality indicator for that role in my opinion.
Sadly, it often does in the realm of public discourse as directed by politicians and the average voter who engages.
I feel that most of this article is not understandable without having watched the office. There were a few nuggets of insight though, but the rest is lost in references to a show i've never seen.
Have you read the whole series?
I think I agree with you, but I'm not sure no one would use them. A lot of folks use Mint/Personal Capital and I believe they disclose a lot more about the data being the product for offers.

I'd be interested in slicing the outrage responses by age or tech sophistication. After all, my parents are still uncomfortable putting their CC in online. Just a different world now.
Walmart has been a huge boon to the middle class. It's inarguable that consumers got lower prices, substantially lower prices. That's increased their standard of living.

You can argue that Walmart hurt the standard of living of the Americans (less than 1% of US employees) who actually work for it. But that ignores the fact that the smaller competitors didn't pay much better, and never had a stock option plan, so the pay difference was marginal while the customer benefit was massive. Walmart big advantage wasn't labor costs, it was scale and inventory management from day one.

And it's products are as good or better as the competitors. I hate Walmart, hate shopping there, but when I have to I'm always struck by how good the products are and how amazing the prices are.
A technical solution to the anonymity problem would probably work just as well (assuming it wasn't backdoored), though the protections against a lawyer disclosing their client is legal rather than technical (so the "splatter" from a company's over-reaction are more likely to be smaller). You also get the additional benefit of the company probably taking a disclosure more seriously if it comes with a law firm's letterhead (unfortunately).
Why is he talking about fossil based lubricants or feedstocks for plastics? If we don't burn it and release the carbon into the atmosphere then it's not really a problem as far as climate change is concerned.

He might as well note that fossils will still be supplying our dinosaur exhibits in museums.

And this is the same dude that's influenced Bill Gates to use his fame to talk down pragmatic attempts to solve climate change with the tech we have now. And I still hate him for trying to kill the web in order to make himself richer despite being born into extreme wealth, so I'd prefer he didn't provide cover for the people making themselves richer by destroying human civilisation.
More than 100 studies retracted from cancer journal over fake peer reviews
>There's a decent amount that you can do to prepare for one of these things, but there's also an incredible amount you don't have control over.

This is super important. Don't take it personally at all. They're using the randomness as a flow control. They are always attracting more talent than they actually need purposely to keep the reservoir full and just running the extra through the spill gates.

Just taking a ride over the chute is proof positive that you've got marketable talent.
Sure. If you examine the freemium model, you're either the product or you're going to be sold too. Personally, if I'm getting value out of a product and it's free, I'd rather be sold to than have my data sold in some manner.
I wonder if google had to reinterview their existing employees, in a blind study...

How many rounds of interviews before they eliminated most of their staff?
Yup, malloc/free isn't usually algorithmically expensive but the cache misses tend to be the brutal part.

You'll spend 15 cycles doing work on 600 cycles of cache fetching. Plus you've just evicted some cache for your local scope.
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2016-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx

Infosys alone has 33000 applications in 2016. Google only had 4000. These numbers include renewals, but still.
An alternative, if you have a well-defined portion of code by the end of which you know you're not going to touch any data which was allocated in it, is to use arenas - allocation is then a pointer bump, and you can deallocate all of it at once.
This is a new rabbit hole of "audiophile".

Sidenote: "audio asylum", at least the name is appropriate, and it's https, I guess that's good too.
Apparently they are thinking about it (perhaps just a rumor): https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/3332120/google-creates-jobsite...
When everyone used combinations of AOL, Excite, AltaVista, Yahoo! and Google was just this trendy new shiny thing, one of the main attractions of the new kid on the block was advertising that was unobtrusive and sometimes even helpful. The reason for adblockers was not because 'uuuh advertising' it is because 'uuuh shit advertising'. Your page lit up like a christmas tree on acid, you could hardly see the content for the tidal wave of shit adverts for useless shit. Your shitty dial-up slowed to a crawl as it downloaded animated gifs and dozens of spy cookies. Google won because they weren't greedy bastards who completely took the f'ing piss out of people to the point where the service they were supposed to be providing was degraded to point of being unusable. THIS! This is why we can't have nice things! Because you go too far! Because you just can't help yourselves! And the information finds a way as it always has of routing around the damage. The media will have to add value for anyone to pay them for it and quite a lot of the time people will simply refuse to pay and be happy with the news from other sources who are happy to give it away, and it doesn't take a very cynical person to imagine that those sources may be less stringent or have some ulterior motives for doing so, so yes, happy days and best of luck with the banner ads and paywalls. uuuh.
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Disgraceful hitpiece from a trash publication.

Keep truckin, Travis.
An easy solution is to make the probability of getting the H1B lottery proportional to the proposed salary. You would think that companies would be willing to pay more for better talent, so salary could be a useful measure of talent. Maybe then add some normalization with respect to the median salary for that particular industry and locality.
Sounds like you may enjoy My Rails Blob: http://railsblob.blogspot.ca/2006/08/my-new-blob.html
It is a bullshit fact, just like "80% fat free" is a bullshit fact that plays on human bias. Just because one side is talking about bird deaths doesn't mean it has the moral high ground on that issue. It is in fact a standard political move to attack your opponent on your weak point. And the less motivated listener just says "well they're both bad", even if one is clearly better.
They could have maintained backwards compatibility (eg. by still defining #define __riscv64 as a deprecated definition), but chose not to. More of a problem is there was no real process for making the changes or informing anyone about the changes, they "just happened" and we only noticed later.

Anyway, once glibc & kernel changes are upstream, we'll have the stable ABIs we need. I'm very much hoping that upstreaming will be completed this year.
Reading people's accounts of interviewing at Google, I would never apply, and I won't cash in on the recommendations I could get from some ex/Googlers I know. Reading the submission, look how many times the candidate has to "ping" people just to keep the ball rolling. In my mind, I'd end up working with a bunch of sycophants who are willing to do that sort of thing, the same sort of people who got a thrill out of the strategy involved in applying to Ivy Leagues. Google does some great work, but man do they carry a stench.
Just Google "In Re Seagate Overturned".
Once upon a time, a hiring committee was presented some feedbacks and had to come to a yes/no decision for some candidates. All them were rejected. It turned out that the feedbacks were of the hiring committee's members, from when they got hired.
Facts are simply assertions that have met some burden of proof. Determining that threshold is a subjective exercise, not an objective one.
I know you want an algorithm to do this, but there is no sentient algorithm smart enough to do this. So, from an epistemological perspective, you are basically asking - what are the facts as determined by someone else?

The tragedy of subjectivity is, for most people, some random ranting into a youtube video for 15 minutes about eg. Hillary Clinton constitutes "evidence" sufficient to determine fact.
Are you sure about this? I believe for liability reasons no feedback should ever be given, aside from the generic "you were very good / very close" just to make people feel better about themselves.
If eval appears to have same access if defined like in the article:

my &eval = &EVAL

then that is largely moot.
Presumably your bank is the one sending you statement emails...
I'm not an expert in Probabilistic Graphical Models but I do know factor graphs well. I've also read quite a bit of the recent SLAM and VO stuff that came out of Dellaert's group.

Here's the thing: Dellaert loves to write about SLAM from a viewpoint of probabilities and densities. I think he likes to see himself as a mathematician. However at the end of the day he's working with Gaussian noise assumptions, just like everyone else, and the solution is obtained by some form of Least Squares, again, like everyone else.

I would really like it if he just cut all the probabilistic thicket and went straight to the core of how his methods improve the SOTA just in terms of how the friggin Least Squares problem is set up and solved (e.g. like here [1]). But I guess that would probably take away most of the "magic".

[1] http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/mcba/pba.pdf
So, I'm not saying it's a bad idea, necessarily; but since it all boils down to power, at that point aren't you basically just using atmospheric carbon as a... battery?

Especially if you compressed your sequestered carbon into nifty charcoal bricks and burned them for fuel, instead of wasting all that effort digging up coal...
>If it's free for you, you're the product.

So hypothetically, if you paid $5 a month for this service, you would be confident they were NOT selling your information?

Since the answer is obviously no (and in fact, purchasing behavior is the juiciest stuff to sell, be it Comcast, Target, etc), then this tired trope is meaningless.
But how do you normalize that? If you cap at 100k, you prevent almost all non Californian companies from hiring abroad. It's a bit like the minimum wage problem.
Wow it's great to talk to you. Thanks for your great tool!

Your guess is right, I do my builds in Debian 8 with ghc and cabal from the repository. I do cabal update before compilation but I don't think this upgrades the ghc so the details should be like:

arch: i686

ghc: 7.6.3

I also use these arguments for cabal install but no idea if they affect anything:

--disable-documentation --enable-split-objs --ghc-options='-static -optc-static -optl-static -optl-pthread'
You're assuming a certain profitability and cost profile for industries and businesses where this is not the case. Take the arts and music for example.

Example: Sound designers and sound mixers typically do not make a six figure salary in the US. The industry is essential to many fields, including advertising, theater, television, etc.

Supply/Demand is also a function of how much the employer has to pay.
I'm trying to explain a perspective that is clearly different from yours. You're free to reject it of course, but snubbing your nose at it doesn't seem productive. It certainly won't make it go away, no matter how much you declare it to be a trope.

> not paying attention or willfully ignorant

I love how you've left out a third choice, which is, "they just disagree with me and my own economic forecasts." You know you've really gone down an interesting road when the only way someone can disagree with you is if they're a boob (accidental or not).
For other people who don't understand either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_wise_monkeys
On my planet all of those concepts work whether your RV takes values on a countable set (what a discrete RV means) or a continuum.
You've got my favorite proposal so far. It would still allow the occasional oddball, but would bias towards companies who truly show desire to acquire the talent.

I'm not convinced we can conceive a normalization scheme that wouldn't end up unwillingly benefiting certain companies and industries and states over others though.
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When we mention 'cultural thing' it labels virtually everyone from India. There is vast difference between working in outsourced companies like CTS, Indian startups/ product-based companies.

true, these managers are Indians too :) They follow the rules set by their high management, it has to be company culture set by founders.
I think this would be too clever by half given that many PhDs churned out from universities here earn roughly H1B prevailing wage
Give a reference code to your other phone. That phone now has a credit for their first uber ride or first 20 dollars, something like that. Then take the ride on your driver phone. You get paid from the second phones credit but dont spend any money yourself
Pure speculation, but I'm guessing they were using private methods to get the IMEI.
A convention for even/odd ports also appears in RTP/RTCP.
TLDR: It sucks balls use Jodatime

Edit: I was wrong my bad
> how do you get the message out about a 0-day in windows

American companies get disclosures, foreign companies do not.
This is trading in a nutshell. I love this stock at $40, but it's $50 now. And two weeks later, it's trading at $38 and our protagonist is afraid to buy.
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