skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wanted: Minimum wage worked to open and close video store, nights and weekends.

Requirements: 5 years experience with Customer facing roles and Point of Sale systems. College degree preferred.
Pleasing the sales department to the degree realistically possible, that is, within the constraints of good engineering, technical reality, and team size. That's often less than the sales team wants, though...
Feeding information to the enemy is not a new tactic either in the form of misinformation to mislead or of mountweasels to flush out moles. Perhaps she did not expect them to publish originals. They do seem inept. But then their warez aren't all over the internet and I cannot see it doing anything other than educating potential leakers as to the necessity to at least think about opsec. So if that was NSA's game then that too is inept. It stinks though.
Depends on how hands-on the marketplace is. Something that works like Craigslist is probably fine, something that works like Uber probably isn't.
It can also operate at 1Mbps.

There's a relatively recent extension called CAN FD that can go faster, as can the FlexRay protocol, which is sometimes used instead of CAN.
What do you call a "real web browser"? I feel like Safari very much qualifies.

(Please don't say lynx. I'll despair if you say lynx.)
yes, I meant the latter.
The average cost to start a McDonald's is around $1 million.

The rate of return is absurd.

Most franchise owners also become experts running at running a restaurant franchise making them even less likely to move into something else. McDonalds isn't going anywhere when minimum wage goes up.

Your point would have been better if you'd been talking about someone working at a small struggling restaurant that was barley able to stay open.

Even then, you're completely ignoring the effect that moving money from the wealthy to low income earners will have on the economy (read up on velocity of money). There are definitely more efficient ways to do this, but you can't just ignore the effect and state that minimum wage = fewer jobs.
Was it really vital that this tidbit be leaked right now now? Mueller is currently performing an extremely detailed official investigation of this topic and has access to this and much more information, the resources to follow up, the motive to find the truth.

Whistleblowing is warranted in cases where information pertinent to the public interest won't come out otherwise. Given Mueller's investigation, the responsible thing would have been to wait and see, unless you had reason to doubt him.
If you want to use characters like が, you will have normalization issues.
Senator Mark Warner publicly commented today that this is not the full extent of Russian attacks. She has succeeded in opening national high-profile public discussion on another aspect of Russian attacks on our election.
"Pinboard acquires Pinterest for $35k"
Ugh, that kind of teaching, whether from tech or a teacher just kills me as I suspect it kills students' dispositions towards those subjects.
I truly hope that your daughter has many other opportunities to engage in meaningful mathematics throughout her education.
Taking money from someone who did not intend to give it to you is a dick move, regardless of legality or technical difficulty of doing so.
> Maybe their business model just depended on exploiting cheap labor?

How do you say that they were exploting cheap labor, when they claim that their business model enabled them to pay their caregivers 25% higher than industry average.

> The 1099 independent contractor model, below, is very attractive as it removes excess cost and restrictions for employers. We were charging clients 30–40% less than industry average, and we were paying caregivers 25% higher than industry average. Both sides were winning.

To me, it looks more like the Union Bosses at SEIU made a calculated -- and eventually successful - move to pull strings and get laws passed that would stifle HomeHero as they seem to be disrupting that Industry the same way Uber or AirBnB distrupted a different industry.

> On Oct 15th 2015, the entire home care industry got rocked. The Department of Labor upheld a federal ruling stating that over 2 million home care workers would qualify for the Fair Labor Standards Act —essentially requiring all home care workers to be treated as W-2 employees and receive overtime benefits. This was viewed as a huge win by the controversial and outspoken labor union SEIU, as well as the “Fight for $15” crowd in California.

Not saying it's the right (or ethical) thing to do, but if they'd had the funds, they should've gotten in front of that Act (before it got signed into law) and poured resources -- lobbyists, ads -- into killing it. They could've also asked the people receiving the service to write to their reps / senators / congressmen stating the Bill / Act would increase costs to them.

Just like Uber and Lyft have done so in the past.

Last year, when state officials tried to roll out a regulation the company didn’t like, Uber emailed their drivers and customers telling them to oppose it. The response flooded regulators’ inboxes and the state backed down.

> In just the last month, the ride-hailing giants have secured a string of victories at the Capitol, killing or delaying legislation and regulations they didn't like and shepherding in new rules favorable to the industry.

SourceL http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-why-uber-is-winni...
Even English has things like "reëlect" instead of "reelect" and so on. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-t...
I'm concerned with a tool such as this that can be directed to target anything of interest to those administering the system. We've already seen mass surveillance shift from being used "exclusively" for terrorism to also assisting in the war on drugs. Where else would the lens be trained? As the author suggests, murder. What about organized crime? Gangs? Illegal downloads ... the sharing of Netflix passwords?
REPL debugging: no stacktrace required
> there are more unemployed adults these days, who are forced into the restaurant and retail jobs traditionally filled by teens.

While I generally agree with that thesis, everywhere I go in the USA I see an abundance of job openings at those levels. Help wanted signs are literally everywhere.

Unemployment is at 4%, which is nearly full employment - yes there is a separate wages problem too, but right now nearly nationwide there are huge numbers of job openings for low skilled work.
Quoting from https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Fi...

"The case-insensitive variant of APFS is normalization-preserving, but not normalization-sensitive."
ls | od -c?
I mean in the context of Strang. I don't think Strang is aimed strictly at, say, engineering students. To me, the difference is the starting point, more than anything else.
Use electron. It's what powers Slack for desktop: Youbuild an HTML app and it shows in a desktop window.
I worked for TDCJ for a couple years, there were plenty of strange and sometimes salacious scandals. They often failed to make the news. That being said, no CO that I knew wanted inmates to know where they live. I only know of one case of a prison officer taking an inmate to their own home, and that was rumored to have been for sex. That doesn't mean a thing didn't happen though. CO's and other prison folks are very insular, and don't usually discuss things outside their tribe (well, not current affairs anyway).

There is limited on-unit housing for officers, and inmates are responsible for maintenance of those.

It is not unheard of for inmate work-crew supervisors (officers) to buy their workers a hamburger or take-out meal; this is usually during or after a shift of unusual duration or a situation that deserves a little recognition.

There are special cases. My grandfather, a county sheriff, was granted custody of a TDCJ inmate by the director. The inmate worked as a porter in the county jail, and occasionally was my babysitter for short periods of time. This was in the '70's.
Slightly disconcerted that the first thing webdevs are rushing to do with wasm is to port massive language runtimes to it, continuing the web tradition of piling shit upon shit upon shit. Personally believe that this is totally the wrong idea; compilation or transpilation from intermediate forms is far more interesting and sensible in my view
That's true, but it casts the solution here in a weird light. If all of someone's options are bad, removing one of them doesn't help anything.

In the minimum wage debate in general, the response is that demand for workers is kind of inelastic, and that removing low wage jobs will create higher wage jobs. At least in this specific case, it doesn't sound like that is happening? (Though the details matter a lot, and I don't know them.)
Additionally, once you are going to spend more than a day on a wall you have to also bring along camping gear and additional food, especially water. This means erecting elaborate haul systems after every pitch and slows things down dramatically.
I recommend the book "Folks, this Ain't Normal."

The author describes a time before child labor laws, where energetic teenagers were a valuable asset on farms (before the onset of industrialization). As children even, they worked and learned concepts and virtues that schools try to teach, and they were exposed to enough bacteria and dirt during their outdoor labor to establish strong immune systems early on.

It is appalling that a teenager can say that he or she is "bored" or get into trouble in the late hours. There could be plenty to do around the family property if parents knew how to live self-sufficiently using traditions inherited from pre-industrialized generations.
Sure this year he has been terrible. But he was also the leadoff hitter much of the year he was healthy on the WS-winning Cubs last year.

Other examples are Carlos Santana, George Springer, etc

http://www.espn.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/79308/leadoff-h...
> I've never heard of a college admissions board that saw working as a valid extracurricular.

The cynic reason is probably that they are filtering for social class and don't want working class people, but that sounds awful. Do colleges give a better reason, or at least an excuse?
Did he ask him if he uses BrainQuicken (tm) to achieve his success?
Ask HN: How do you feel about web scraping?
Most sites seem to have ToS saying that scraping is not allowed, but in lots of cases that shouldn't be the case. If you see that, does it change your opinion?

Does the purpose of your scraping make a difference, if one use is just a project but another would be selling the data?

Are comments on sites like this public data or private?

What about sports statistics that sometimes are "private" by the league, rather than just open for people to use and write interesting articles about it?

Overall thoughts?

I actually created a site (I edited and deleted the mention of the name here because apparently people don't believe that I don't care about people looking at the site.) that scrapes comments and posts from Reddit that link to Amazon products and shows that information. I'm thinking of adding Amazon links from HN and other sites, but just not sure about how people would feel about scraping from sites like this.
I never knew the verb decline corresponded with declension. Thanks for that.
Just add an index or summarise periodically into a summary table.
Ask HN: Advice for a discouraged developer, 5 years in
I didn't study computer science nor programming, nor did I think I would ever end up working on it. I never really cared much for tech. While struggling to find my first job out of college, I landed a very very entry level job working on a Java-based enterprise software. By that I mean they were hiring cheap, young labor in the means of people with zero experience in programming. The problem is they didn't really teach us rookies anything. No mentors, no explanation of frameworks used on code that existed for about 15 years, most of the existing devs were fired/quit after acquisition, etc.

That was about 5 years ago. I've learned much since then. But I feel that a mixture of circumstance/bad luck and my own doing (or not doing) has put me in a situation where I'm not competitive enough. I've gone through interviews trying to find a better job yet I get destroyed in all of them. I realized I had to learn data structures/algorithms to improve on my interviews. And I did, but I still get destroyed. Sometimes it's the whiteboard sessions. Most of the time it's any design question.

After all these years, I still feel like an entry level developer. I know I'm not. I just don't know how to improve. Work is not helping, and in 3 years of applying to jobs, the only offers I've gotten are for jobs which are not a step up. I know because I've accepted those job offers.

All I'm asking for is some advice. I am very clearly not the most tech-passionate person. I'm not looking for my passion in my job. I just don't want to hate my job, and myself for not being able to get out of it. Rejection is hard, and after a long time of it, it takes a toll. I feel like I'm just uncreative enough that I can't come up with an idea for a side project, inexperienced enough that I don't even know how to do anything else than very mediocre and simple web application development, and discouraged enough that I don't feel like coding in my free time anymore.
I won't be doing anything like this, but I can still respect it.

When hiking King's Peak in Utah, my group was plodding along with backpacks for a week-long camp, with food, tents, sleeping gear, and various safety gear. We were passed by a guy in shorts with a water filter bottle who was running to the summit. We met him again many hours later on his way back, when we had not yet reached our day one base camp.

The freedom and purity of just being there with the mountain was compelling, but requires a whole different set of preparation than I have given it.

It's not just removing a helmet, or doing a daredevil risk, it's transforming the experience. Because he wasn't staying over night, he didn't need a tent or sleeping gear. He didn't need a lot of food. He didn't need a backpack to carry it all. Everything he could leave behind allowed him to move faster, improving his experience.
And when they do make the attempt, and fail, and die, they will be fine examples I'm sure. Mr. Honnold is obviously not interested in serving as a safety example, not sure why many here insist he fulfill that role.
Just for fun, put an ad up and try hiring a teenager to mow a lawn..... good luck!
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This is not a PR document, it is a (leaked) internal classified NSA intelligence report. It was presumably prepared by NSA intelligence analysts, who are experts in analyzing intelligence.
The suggestion is not that those who were fired did nothing wrong. It's that they are being made to take the fall to shield higher-ups who also have done things wrong.
I didn't say there was some contradiction. I just don't think the key difference between Strang and Axler is really the degree of mathsiness.
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That is not a good privacy policy. Founder needs to talk to a lawyer, or the EFF.

For instance:

> Monica runs on Linode and I'm the only one, apart from Linode's employees, who has access to those servers.

This speaks to nothing about future use, which is what my question specifically asked.
Have a poke around on the internal interfaces you can find. I don't think I ever got a loud announcement from Comcast that they were going to support IPv6; from my perspective as a customer and not someone who reads HN, it just sort of happened one day.
It would be neat if there was a demo. For this kind of stuff I'd rather not give my information till I know what I'm in for completely.
I worked as a technician for GCHQ twenty years ago and heard some good stories in the London Office at Palmer Street (loose lips guys!) it was so obvious that wearing the right tie or being a Freemason would get you further than any degree in this circle.

But lets face it, it's the same at the top levels of all civil service they are all really just job clubs for people with Latin and History degrees.
I'll re-pose the question I asked above: what would constitute evidence in this context?
I think you read tone into my comment where there was none. Mine was a valid question; "in your opinion, iss Zenifits also seen poorly on a resume, given the fact that it is known that the CEO had to step down and they had to take measures to ban sex and drinking in the office, and this is amplified by the fact that they are a freaking HR company" -

- I would think that if anyone is familiar with the Valley, that they would certainly know the Zenifits story and should rightfully-aise eyebrows if they see the positions on a resume...

I wasnt challenging your comment, I wa agreeing with it and adding zenefits to the naughty list.
Are you very damn sure that it works and doesn't just convert them into #fefefe dots?
Given the very structural nature of the Lie algebra, wonder if the work, or part of it, can be automated and done by computers ... Enlightenment from any experts would be appreciated.
Who is disparaging anyone? Or are you speaking from your own observations in your social circle?
I think it is perceived as a glib assertion that it is laziness or something but I'm not sure thats the parents intention. Like you say, why would you want to do menial, mindless and/or backbreaking work if you had lots of quality entertainment and could possibly avoid it?

When I was growing up I at least got to do interesting outdoor work (yardwork, carpentry, tiling, etc) and learned skills from other older skilled people, but even then doing volunteer work would probably have been a better choice in terms of college applications.
Thanks for the helpful tips. Its hard to live in SF and not feel like missing out on Ruby/rail, node.js and other new fast and easy programming languages.
In HFS+ it's even only done once per-create, so pretty cheap.

In ZFS it's once per-open()/stat()/and so on. But still, not at all on readdir(), and anyways, it's highly optimized. For an all ASCII filename the slow path is never taken, and for a mostly ASCII filename the slow path is only taken for non-ASCII codepoints that are followed by combining codepoints (that check is itself a slower-than-the-fast path, but still faster than the slowest path).

Basically, it's noise.
Agreed. 3,900% for snow removal?
Says in the post, "Far end of El Cap meadow"
Actually my first thought was - that guy was a smart-ass showing off. Of course many people wouldn't know a crontab line - Windows (and I guess Mac - never had one) don't have such magical tools.
Ehh, I'm in a club with some old timer alumni, and the stories they tell (and 1970s rugby videos on Youtube I've seen) tell a different story.

Even 20 years ago at a club level, many things were allowed that aren't now: Quicker scrums, high tackles, raking the ruck with cleats, and general hooliganism seem to have been more par for the course than today.

I saw a match from 1977, and there was no Croutch/Bind/Set. The scrum just walked up toward each other and engaged immediately. More dangerous, but a lot different than today. The line-outs didn't lift; the hooker threw the ball in like a football lob.
Central cooling/heating probably isn't very popular in the US because of generally lower population densities. A
I wouldn't mind being able to import a file from my Google Contacts. I've been using that as my friends-and-family CRM for over a decade now.

Also, this may sound stupid, but how do you delete a contact?
The criticism is largely because there's no transparency into it. Yes, the proper course of action when you have a harassment problem is to fire people, but you also have to fire the right people. Firing those who commit the harassment is one part, but you also need to fire those who cover up and permit the harassment to happen. We also don't know how high up the people who were fired are. If they only fired a handful of junior engineers, that's not going to help.
Ah, gotcha. My apologies, not always easy to gauge intent!
I have one of those. Sucks in cooler air in the basement. Takes hours for the temperature to drop a single degree.
Says the article: "The company didn’t name the employees who were let go. Some of the people fired were senior executives, according to the person."

Note that firing senior employees also doesn't imply that scapegoating isn't going on. If senior HR executives were perfectly in tune with the will of their bosses and then fell on their swords, there's no reason to suspect that the next crop of HR executives will not get the same cultural messages.

These sort of scandals persist because that 'proving' and then cementing the perception that the problem is solved to outsiders is very difficult.
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Just as a data point, this is the first time I ever heard about GDPR. Not sure it's "the minimum acceptable standard for anything".
I watched this really interesting mico-documentary just last night - I think you'd like it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cZWPId-KNg
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That sounds like a bit of straw man arg here. Jails shouldn't be a pleasant experiences doesn't meant implies that every experience in jail is okay or productive.It certainly doesn't justify us the tax payers subsiding slave wages...

> Some people need to have a bad time in order to get them to behave. If you know without a doubt, that breaking the law will lead to having a very bad time, you are going to avoid breaking the law. If you see it as a viable career move, wouldn't you be more likely than ever to break the law?

People probably need both, "proportionate" consequences to their action and mean and method to avoid the following the same path...
A ban doesn't force anyone to do anything to break the ban.

The correct response to the ban is to respect the parks wishes and stop BASE jumping.

If you want to push the limits that's on you. You should know the risks and act accordingly.
i 1000% agree with this. there is no good way to really know whether a candidate is good or not, but their ability to express their thoughts, in code, on a whiteboard is a really strong indicator that they can think through a problem and (more importantly) communicate a solution as a software engineer.

the next best approach --- a take home assignment --- is also good at this (or better, IMO, since you're free to implement that solution however you damn well please and it more closely translates into the work they'll actually be doing), but people complain that this is too invasive of their time and that they are doing free work. which is it?

I have to imagine that what most people want is to be asked about their experience, talk through it, and expect that to be enough. which is a very solid first pass filter. it's just not strong enough of a filter to extend an offer with confidence in many situations; it's too easy to bullshit and most of us engineers are damn expensive. (it's not just salary; we want dedicated offices and sit stand desks and super comfy chairs and free food and drinks and games and cadillac health insurance and 401ks and so on and so on)

i also never understood why whiteboarding was hard. if you know how to code and know your language passably well, then why can't you write code on something that isn't a computer?
I find it interesting that I feel some of the same physical symptoms of fear when I look at clips of this guy 1000' off the ground, climbing the rock.

Alex has a such a unique set of skills, which he has not only identified but honed to their best level of execution. It is hard for me to now simultaneously feel awe and disbelief.