skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh - there's nothing to be won by getting the right answers! At best, you could share a fake 15/15 on Facebook, but could do that regardless by taking the quiz twice.

Given that Triplebyte doesn't store answers that way for their job-finding quizzes, the criticism feels a bit hollow.
Yeah, when there is something interesting (like a wreck) on the side of the road don't take your foot off the gas and slow down slightly to look. If each person only slows down 1/100th of a MPH to look, then in a few minutes the traffic will be at a stand still, just because everyone went just slightly slower than the person in front of them to take a peek. No one seems to understand this or want to change it and as a result we have massive slow-downs in traffic just because of this stupidity. Just don't alter your speed. Sure, take a peek when you go by, but please don't take your foot off the gas you blithering idiots.
You are not alone. I heard one just this past Sunday. He actually prefers Gett, then Lyft then finally Uber.
In the paper, ability is positively correlated with perceived ability. So we would need some other effect to explain people saying they got worse over time, or people's perceived ability decreasing over a time period in which their ability improved.
> Just be nice, and your accurate advice is more likely to be useful. That's all.

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

My advice is already useful. If someone chooses not to take it because they'd rather tell non-technical users to pound sand, then I hope their project suffers for it.
i wonder what the complexity of the generalized version of the problem is. it is a bit similar to subset sum, which is np complete.

in this problem we have 4 operators (+, -, /, *) to consider instead of just 1 (+), so it is more complex than subset sum in this regard. also as a result of having different operators, the ordering of the numbers matter in this case, which doesn't matter in subset sum. however the fact that we have to use each number exactly once significantly reduces the search space
"I forgot my password"
This rebuttal is pretty unimpressive:

* It doesn't refute the scientific claims of the authors, but rather takes them to task for disagreeing with points Murray didn't make --- that's fair rhetorically, but fails to address the central thesis of the Vox piece, which is that popular race/IQ ideas are largely junk science.

* It asserts the authority of Charles Murray (for instance, citing him as having written an article rebutting one of Turkheimer's findings), despite Murray not being an expert on the subject --- his scientist coauthor on The Bell Curve is deceased. At one point, in this very takedown, its author even cites Murray observing that he doesn't understand the science.

* It attempts to dismiss the authors by citing James Flynn's critique of black culture, which is ironic on two levels: first, that itself is an argument that Turkheimer and Nisbett didn't make, so the pot is complaining about the kettle, and second because Nisbett himself has gotten into some trouble for making similar critiques of black culture. Memetics isn't genetics.

* It makes seemingly well-grounded arguments about the statistical validity of interventions Turkheimer talked about which, on a second reading, dissipate into handwaving --- what we're left with is a Medium blogger's conjecture against a working scientist's published results.

Turkheimer and Nisbett are at pains to point out that their views aren't uniformly shared by everyone in the field. Rather, they take Murray (and, by implication, Sam Harris) to task for summarizing a contentious scientific debate as if it were settled, but for hysteria in leftist academia. The Vox piece is far more persuasive and credible in this argument than the "takedown" you cite is in its own argument.
This was a HUGE issue for me. I purchased a surface 3 for my daughter before she when to China for a year of study.
Halfway through the school year it started having phantom touch issues. Which can be frustrating to the point of tears... you are writing a paper, and suddenly the cursor is somewhere else magically and the input is going to the wrong paragraph or even worse, the wrong app.

I was so impressed at first at the technical support, they seemed very responsive. But the first support persons promise of help with-in days never materialized. And the number they gave us to get back in touch with them no longer worked. The second support person promised to exchange the surface. But the exchange location was in Shanghai not Beijing. A trip not possible for a teenager in a foreign country.

Time and time again they made promises which were never fulfilled. I swore MS off forever at one point. I finally figured out how to disable the touch screen so that the surface was at least usable as a laptop.

To give some MS credit they did promise to exchange the surface for a new one when she returned home. Even though it was technically out of warranty by a week at that point. By then there were strong yellow lines on the screen for some reason. Their exchange turned out to just be a repair for the touch screen (after waiting two weeks). But it was obviously the same machine because the lines where still there. Finally some strong but nice words with the manager of the MS store got them to exchange the surface that day.

Lets hope the new ones are better...
consciousness is not a "thing" it is a careful arrangement of matter and energy that is unique to you. replicating that arrangement does not move your consciousness, it creates a new one.
Perhaps make it easier to attach a failing test, running through the CI process and reporting the result inline? And perhaps allow to vote an issue quality, i.e. demote badly written ones?
Unfortunately no headphones eliminate visual distractions.
Ask HN: SQL; to prepare or not to prepare, is this blog correct?
I just ran into this blog post https://joshduff.com/2011-05-10-why-you-should-not-be-using-mysqli-prepare.md

This goes against everything I've been taught. I've always thought you should always use prepared statements for security. While it's possible to make sure you escape well, your best to rely on prepared statements doing that for you.

But is this guy correct? Is the performance hit a big enough problem?
Presumably you mean uMatrix?
The OWASP Top Ten is a great list of vulnerabilities that we test for in the Financial Services industry before releasing new code:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Proje...
I don't understand. Is this really a thing? I'm from the UK and never heard such a thing.
Is this common in US?
What are they looking for? Do they just pick someone randomly, login to the laptop and check emails and stuff?
To be fair, that 'screw you' was offered behind a predicate.
>I am not understanding what exactly is the definitive proof here, can you help me understand?

There's no definitive proof, there's evidence. This is as definitive as it gets, we've got a report by some of the best people in the field that's also been corroborated by the US DHS.

I'm sure this is far better evidence than anything that exists to the contrary, people get convicted on shakier grounds every day.

It is not disputable that DNC servers were infected by Russian government malware.
> This is because if, when finally screwing the parts together, the screw has to thread its way through, then the gaps between the parts won’t tighten when you tighten the screw, because there’s no travel between them.

That's why wood screws are only threaded partway up their length. Since these screws are self-tapping, they need to account for the problem you correctly identify here, where the screw can't clamp the parts together properly because they cannot move relative to one another as the screw is tightened into place. Ending the thread partway up the screw solves this by permitting the part nearer the screw head to move freely along the shaft, so the fastener can clamp them together properly as it's tightened.

The machine screws you're using, conversely, are threaded all the way up to the head because they are not designed for self-tapping, but rather to be used in holes which have had threads tapped into them. That's why they are giving you the trouble they are. Happily, there are a few different ways to make that trouble go away!

Making the entire screw path wide enough that the screw doesn't have to tap any threads, and securing it with a nut, is one option, and as you've seen, it can work. On the other hand, you lose something in clamping force, because there's less bearing surface, and you also have to choose between machining (or designing) a nut pocket into the part, or having the nut and the end of the bolt stick out past the profile of the case.

Another option, which replicates the benefit provided by the design of self-tapping screws, is to make the screw hole wider, but only in the part nearer the head, and leave the far part's hole narrow enough that the screw will tap threads into it on the first insertion. This way, you have the part near the head free to tighten, which solves the problem you saw with your first designs, and you get the maximum clamping force possible from the screw without having to tap threads for a machine screw - and, with a carefully chosen (or trimmed) length of screw, you can also have the path end in a blind hole in the far part, so that the only part of the screw visible in the finished item is its head. (If you care, of course.)

And a third option, naturally, would be to actually tap threads into your screw holes - but you need a tap set for that, and I'm not sure there's much point. You need taps to cut threads into metal, because metal is pretty hard, and you need something very hard to cut it cleanly so that your screws, which are only pretty hard themselves, aren't ruined when you try to use them. Plastic, on the other hand, is very soft, so you're not actually hurting anything by letting your screws self-tap. You just need to adjust your design to account for it.

Hope this helps!
https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/866536275972689920
A Model to Identify Solutions to Legacy Systems Increasing Maintenance Costs
Different kinds of technology accelerate at different rate.

Most of the time it follows some kind of S curve, and i dear say that the IC, and thus the computer, is hitting the flattening top of the S these days.
I doubt tears did much to win and hold land... I think it would be more of a byproduct.
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Is that true? I thought most functional programming languages did call-by-reference. I mean, if you have immutable data you can't tell the difference (outside of performance).
Alright I undid it, mostly because I don't want to get in trouble with the mods. That does make a lot of sense. I have a friend who is really into this stuff and showed me videos about it. So I reacted negatively when the only discussion about it was flagged to hell, and all the comments were just telling him to "fuck off" with no argument.
Thanks, I had to check the Python docs to be sure I wasn't crazy! I went A->D, stopped at B because it 'worked', and got it wrong. D also works, obviously, but I'm glad the question is cleaned up now.
The rider price is undergoing "experimentation".
That thought did occur to me, but they denied me anyway, so :shrug:.
Some people have moral frameworks that always make seeking profits immoral. I'm not sure if that's what OP is saying, or merely that showing the driver and the passenger different rates and subtracting the difference (this is an approximation, not exactly what the post said) is shady and bad.
I'd expect the exhaust in rear and the engine compartment in front to strongly radiate infrared on most of the cars on the road.
With enough money there are countries that would be happy to let you retire there.
Please add a [2016] tag. I think issue templates solved a lot of frustration with github issues
This is my argument for universal basic income. The true cost of your hyper-effective, top-0.1% employees isn't just their salaries, it's the cost of the entire society that raised them.
There are three plausible reasons why Wikileaks wouldn't say anything:

1. They have a general policy of not confirming or denying such matters.

2. He worked for them, and they do not want to further conspiracy theories (or aid in bringing possible murders to justice).

3. He didn't work for them, and they do want to further conspiracy theories rather than eradicate them.

Given the way that they've operated recently, the third option does tend to seem more plausible than option #2.
Emphasis on the 'A'
I think that Bitcoin and other alt-coins do have some intrinsic value as a means of facilitating trade between people but I think that they (Bitcoins in particular) are currently overvalued.

If you think about tulips today, they are not expensive anymore but they do cost something and they still have some utility value as an ornament.

The value of anything (regardless of whether it is rare or not) tends to be proportional to the cost of producing the thing.

It doesn't cost much to produce a new cryptocurrency and because cryptocurrencies can be easily traded/converted between each other, they are essentially all the same. The tulips might come in many varieties, but they are all just tulips and their financial value is derived from a common utility attribute (which is ornamentation). Because of this, one should not value Bitcoin because of its perceived scarcity - Ultimately, it all comes down to utility value.

Scarcity is not a utility.
It's entirely relevant. That 30% pays the costs of the app store, and bandwidth is probably the biggest cost of running the app store.

Please show me where Apple says the $99 I pay every year pays for their Sales, Marketing, Distribution and Operating costs of running the app store and getting me customers.
It might not be the absolute best, but 8GB is totally workable for a lot of dev situations, especially if you're not doing a docker-style situation.

I've recently went form 8GB to 16GB (and a processor jump) and my dev environment haven't really gotten snappier.

That said it still feels like the easiest thing they could offer in all SKUs, given the price.
Well uh... like if I just rebase -i 'd, how do I continue going about GITing without exiting vim?
There is an obvious meta comment to make here that I leave as an exercise for the reader.
Even with diffs it's a huge cost.
You're absolutely correct that there's nothing stopping your proposed scenario from happening. That being said, it's extremely unlikely they'll do that because in order to do so, they would have to:

1) Intercept your emails
2) Store the fact that you're a 1P user
3) Match up your email address to you, as a person at the border
4) Stop you at the border for questioning
5) Force you to unlock your phone
6) Recognize that your phone does not have the 1P app installed
7) Force you to install the app + unlock it

For certain people, they may do that. But for the vast majority of people, they will not.

1P does not enjoy the popularity that Facebook is at. In the western world, one can reasonably expect any random given person to have a Facebook profile. The same cannot be said for 1P.
And so they do. Speaking from what I see in Poland, you can divide people going "contracting" into two groups: in industries like IT, it's an easy way to get ~20% bigger salary than you'd otherwise get in a similar position. In low-skilled industry, it may be the only way you'll get a raise (or even a job), so people don't have much choice.
Assange all but confirms it on his account:

https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/866536275972689920

As for the 'smearing a dead man's life', I don't see how it's smearing - if it gets proven to be true, that man is a national hero. And as for 'causing hardship to his family', which is probably the next angle you're gonna try to use, the dead man's parents want the truth too, and not a coverup of their son's death:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcKiYTq5Gho
How often do you create the bootable mirror to an external drive?
This tweet is evidence (not proof, but evidence):

https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/866536275972689920

Truth will out eventually. We'll see.
I sometimes do a an IT jeopardy during interviews and :q! is "sysadmin 100".
799 USD for 4GB RAM, 128GB of flash, and an "Intel Core m3"? Come on. I understand that the Intel CPU is almost 300 USD per unit, and that pushes the price. I hope that Snapdragon SoCs running Windows 10 with emulation for x86 stuff drive down Windows 10 tablet/laptop prices dramatically. BTW, despite being expensive, the new Surface Pro looks great.

In my opinion, Intel is playing Serguéi Bubka's technique: because there is no enough competition, they go as slow as possible in the mobile market, just matching the performance of the second competitor.
A yearly levy, based on a fair market valuation of the property (+ improvements), paid for by the landholder.

To put it another way, a property tax would be paid by the freeholder, not the leaseholder. This wouldn't make much of a difference for renters (as the owner would simply pass the cost on), but for owners of leasehold property it would be a stunning boon (and for freeholders who have sold the lease a disaster).
I don't think that's true. System administrators will happily use it in a terminal. I'd often deliberately run emacs -nw when something requires a quick edit and the GUI would be imposing.
Ah, damnit, yes, this was the second thing I wanted to mention in the post (having the last part be tighter so the screw threads its way through) but forgot to write it up in the end.

Thanks for the reminder, that's exactly how these designs should work, you're spot on.
"Bake" would mean write out the config files permanently. Not sure how it works on the back end but imagine create-react-app writes out a config on-the-fly each time you launch it. That means it can update the dependencies and makes sure everything places nice together when changing versions. Writing out config files give you more control, but you'd have to update the tools and config manually and might mess up dependencies.

In my experience, setting it all up and getting dependencies is one of the pain points with react, so it's nice to get some sane defaults and get to writing your app. But it is nice to take the time to do everything manually at least once to see what's under the hood.
Can you get past this paywall?:

https://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/ng.3869....
And that's literally a rhetorical exaggeration.
Probably just didn't occur to them to put it between <sup> tags.
That rule makes no sense if the source is dead. Let alone murdered. The point is to protect their sources. But if there really is a conspiracy, they are only protecting the murders. This gives me a much lower opinion of wikileaks.
For most projects, this is nothing more than an even higher barrier for users.

As a developer I would LOVE to have everyone submit a failing test or a PR rather than reporting issues but that's just not feasible. Most never will, because there's a learning curve they don't have time for - the language, the tooling, the product itself, Git/github/PRs, etc.

As the project maintainer, that's what I signed up for. It really sucks sometimes, but I'd rather sort through the junk and personally fix the issues people report than funnel everyone through hoops they likely won't spend time on and lose that valuable feedback entirely.
That's about the only thing that's actually good about Uber. But even then, Europe has at least two competing taxi aggregator apps now, so this advantage is bound to disappear.
Backblaze is $5/mo.
I'll take transitional government techniques for 1000 karma thanks Paul. What is an armed revolt?
Great, we agree these tips are compensation for content being offered through WeChat, now you want to argue whether Apple's 30% is reasonable.

I don't need Apple to do my banking and I don't need to pay Apple if I want to sell apps, I can sell through Cydia, or write apps on platforms that let me distribute over the internet.

If I want to sell to iPhone/Ipad Apple customers through the App store is the only time I need to pay. 30% is an amazing deal, given historically for software distribution you'd pay Ingram Micro D 50% of revenues, and still have to pay for disks/duplication/packaging and pay stores and Ingram Micro D to promote you.
pretty sure a year ago you wouldn't have given trump much of a chance. i feel more qualified to say that than average because i've followed political futures markets for about 10 years, and watched as people consistently do what i suspect you are doing. when you follow / invest in the markets you are forced to translate your vague guesses into real records of your estimated probability at the time. it keeps you much more honest. you'll find its harder to mistakenly see unpredictable events as obvious after they happen, since you were trying to predict them before they happened.

also, its occasionally a valuable reference when talking politics, for instance: comey was fired and lots of people tried to say this was normal and expected, but there was a market that had being fbi director on 6/30 at 95%. pretty much throws cold water on that theory. not that it was anything other than an obvious deflection to begin with, but still kind of interesting.

i encourage you to follow the political futures markets, its a worthwhile endeavor. predictit.com is the standard now that intrade died. my apologies if you are actually speaking from some greater experience though.
If you can reproduce an issue with your code, you mostly have a failing test already. The open-source product in question seems to be a library.

For a command line tool you can write a shell script demonstrating the problem.
My worst ever interview was for a mid-college internship. The task was a string-matching question, and I was explicitly failed for not using the Rabin-Karp algorithm. Mind, I had never heard of the thing, and I produced a valid answer with slower runtime, but since I didn't know it or invent a publication-worthy algorithm on the spot we were done.

Most interviews are a bit better than that, but I'm always disturbed when people ask for algorithms that aren't either common sense or common knowledge. If it was worthy of publication and isn't relevant to the job, it probably shouldn't be tested on the fly.

This system (and a lot of others) beat the heck out of that.
They have. Kinesis have offered foot pedals for more than a decade. Personally I don't sit in a way that would work for me.
Just ran into this at work, I have a manger who was maintaining an internal app and he asked me to take over because there was a bug and he was transitioning away from the techinicial aspects of his job. Anyway like, 2 days later he asks if I've fixed it yet. No I haven't fixed your cobbled together app that has no comments and generic variable names.
They can tell that a particular IP sent a request to their servers, but they can't correlate different requests to the same underlying entity without cookies. Simply saying "they track you" is misleading.
No, but the loan sideline allows to classify the drivers as contractors.

And there's externalities. No properly run bank would issue a car loan to an Uber driver, they'd run the math for the applicant and find it isn't going to work out. But Uber with its infinite pockets does not have to consider profitability, and eventually the driver has to declare bankruptcy and becomes a burden on the public pocket. It's a disgrace.
Thank you for the support of free speech anyway. I do not claim it is true, I claim that there's enough 'hints' that it should warrant a proper investigation and not a coverup.

As for this guy's claims:

1) Assange all but confirms it: https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/866536275972689920

2) Seth Rich's parents want the truth and justice as well, instead of the coverup that was done so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcKiYTq5Gho
Have you tried uBlock Origin?