skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been moving around the US for the past few years for personal reasons and I've gone through a round of interviews on every move in a wide variety of situations, and I've honestly never seen anything like this. In fact, I can remember the only two times I didn't actually know the answer to a technical questions, and in both cases I thought they were reasonable questions that tested the limits of what I had recently worked on.

This stuff may have been common 15 years ago, but I haven't seen it for a long time. OTOH, when I'm on the other side of the table, I run across a lot of candidates who literally can't write fizzbuzz in a reasonable amount of time.

"Interview parody" is a common genre these days, but I'd be much more interested in seeing the actual bad questions people are getting in their interviews rather than a parody of them.
Significant Digits for Monday, June 19, 2017 – FiveThirtyEight
For a single provider solution GitLab pages has built-in CI and hosting.

https://gitlab.com/pages/hugo

They have gitlab-ci.yml files for most of the static page generators. Whether you use Hugo, Jeckyll, Pelican, etc there is a ci config to start with virtually no setup overhead for hosting or ci.
GiftsApp is a unique app that allows users to send millions of gifts and flowers without knowing their recipients’ addresses. Any social app, such as Facebook, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Tinder, Email, Messages, Slack, and etc, can deliver the link with your personalized gift to the lucky recipient, even at the last minute.
They're not necessarily unbiased or even anonymous (in a meaningful way). The problem which is set might somehow favour applicants from certain backgrounds. The language used might be unnecessarily complex or use local idioms. The comments and variable names might betray the candidate as a non-native (but perfectly proficient) English speaker. If the candidate uses company hardware, the keyboard may be set to a different layout to what the candidate is used to.

There are lots of ways any test which (ostensibly) aims to test raw ability can be very biased indeed. A lecturer of mine once told a story about a horrible experience he had during an exam trying to whisper an explanation of the rules of Checkers to a student who was from a country where the game was rarely played - the possibility hadn't even crossed his mind.

Declaring the interview style you use as "unbiased" from the start seems like a great way to get complacent and have large amounts of bias creep in unnoticed.
It doesn't seem to detect applets loaded in <object> tags, only <applet> tags, and then only the first applet embedded on the page, which seems like an oversight. Specifically, this one:

http://www.morenaments.de/euc/applet
I am always looking for people with SDR skills :-). Constraint being I need US citizens (naturalized or native) given that the company I'm working for is doing contracts for customers that require that.
Voter files being public data depends on which state you're talking about -- you're looking at ~50 different sets of laws and regulations. Some states restrict access to only political parties using it for political uses and prohibit distribution to non-parties/candidates. Some states (Florida, for example) will let anyone just apply to get it.

To your latter question, some states, like California, do include email addresses on their voter file, but the coverage tends to be poor.

You can probably assume that, if you're a registered voter in the United States, you're on this dataset, as is your age, gender, party affiliation if applicable, and race/ethnicity info if your state collects that, as well as modeled information projecting things like party support, race, age, and likelihood to turnout.
In the meantime, the 6 core Broadwell-E I7-6850K has seen a big price drop - down from $650 to $480 on several sites. It's still expensive compared to the Kaby Lake I7-7700K, but if you wanted two more cores then it's now a much more reasonable option. People seem to have very good results overclocking it, too.

Edit: Having just seen that the i7-7800X is priced at $389, I'm thinking the I7-6850K is still overpriced, unless you need 40 PCI-E lanes.
German AI Landscape
MIT acts to change “Senior House” dorm counterculture
Really great idea, thanks for sharing! I do wonder, is this really annotated feeds?

For me, this is machine-curated feeds rather than a form of annotation given no additional information (besides meta-data scrapped and categorised) is displayed. Not quite as catchy, but annotations make me (at least) think of something else.

Note: am passionated about designing to support annotations on media directly.
It would be hard to argue the inverse hypothetical outcome, but I do think that licensing (GPLv2) had a significant role in where Linux is today. It is precisely because the license obligates the distributors to share the code that made the whole a better software and a more attractive platform to contribute to. In fact, most contributors, big and small, work with the upstream to streamline their contributions. Having to share the source has worked out well for both programmers (individuals, companies) and end users in the long run.

Stating that there are some number of cases of GPL violations that haven't been enforced or are in the gray area is not a logical base for the argument that the idea of having to share the source code should be abandoned. In fact, history shows otherwise - that Linux has had more success (as measured by uptake globally) than any other non-GPL open source kernel ecosystem.

Similarly, just because there may be people who can find loopholes in certain well-intended laws and regulations is not a good reason to abandon their intents. Instead, the questions should be - can we keep these intents and fix the loopholes or make the enforcement more straightforward? I think Google could, but maybe it's not in their immediate interests, one of which may be closer to - how do I upgrade the kernel without recompiling that other stuff.
I dunno, I guess it's alright to use these phrases for things that are truly trivial and direct. But plenty of people use these phrases to introduce things that are definitely not obvious. It's quite annoying and I suspect it's either ingrained in habit, or it's just the author wanting to "show off", sort of like "wow, this is so obvious to me, isn't it to you?", nevermind that they spent a great deal of time to understand it when they first came across it.

Grrr x)
Personally I think that Jobs/Apple were expecting the Apple TV to be the next big thing. In the world of 2007, TV was still almighty and winning the living room should have been a revolution. It should have been the entry into the post-PC world, with iPad-like and maybe real TV devices following a few years later.

The iPhone was really mostly an iPod phone with internet thrown in like on the kindle.

This is obviously based 100% on gut feeling :-)
These are definitely bugs, please report them on the issue tracker here: https://github.com/leaningtech/cheerpj-appletrunner/issues
Brave blocks ads and trackers by default, period.

Ads will be opt-in and use a separate open source coomponent.

Anonymous donations (prototyped with bitcoin already, see Payments panel in Preferences/Settings) are opt-in too and they will remain bundled by of course off by default. With user-private ad slots, we expect users will auto-donate their monthly revenue to their top sites.
Exactly. A nuanced question like that is beneficial... but it has to be clear that there is that nuance.
Aphelion Orbitals – Low Cost Nanosatellite Launching
This seems like a real missed opportunity to build on systems that already work. I'd love to see these open systems like nntp come back. I hope someone puts in the effort to make them competitive in the modern technology world.
If you were that paranoid you wouldn't be using a web browser in the first place. After all, its some 3rd party software that has access to your passwords.

There seems to be a growing chatter on HN and elsewhere about how you can't trust free software because you didn't audit/write it yourself.

I'm not sure if people actually believe that or use it as a way to point out how they're smarter than other people.

Sure its possible that the free software contains something malicious, but such an attitude is not constructive. If you only used software you wrote yourself you might as well not use a computer. There are degrees of trust, balancing of risks, and free software has a much better reputation of not containing malicious code.
Gigabyte Shows Cavium ThunderX2 ARM Server with AMD/Nvidia GPGPU for HPC
Why Now’s the Time to Invest in a Vintage Ford Pickup Truck
I forgot to mention, all cellphones come bundled with vendor installed spyware. CarrierIQ is one such example, now owned by AT&T, but there are many of them. They will tell you it is only enabled when your device is in debug mode, but your device dials home all the time and a single http header can enable debug for a period of time.
Probably not. These low level tricks are supposed to be hidden away inside functions, and any good compiler ought to produce similar machine code in the majority of these examples.
Bug Hunting: Drilling into the Internet of Things [pdf]
Sounds like a personnel issue more than a chat client problem.
A well encrypted password store isn't more sensitive though. That's the whole concept behind services like lastpass that host an encrypted blob in the "cloud".

You could argue that it makes offline attacks easier because many encrypted storage formats have a way to check if the decryption was successful or not but you could remove this feature if that was a problem for you. And at any rate using a strong enough passphrase would make this attack impractical in the first place. And being notified when you used a wrong passphrase is pretty useful IMO.
Well, maybe. I'm not sure how much good it has done David Brooks.
There's also a Gopher mirror, because of course there is. gopher://firusvg.no-ip.org:7070/
Wait, you mean targeted advertising before the internet?

Blasphemy! We had integrity then!
How did they mistake Slack for Whole Foods?
Boeing is planning hypersonic commercial flights
No, DuskStar is claiming that the people at Evergreen are leftist college students who did something stupid, and the thing they did makes leftists as a group look stupid. So other leftists are trying hard to hide the thing that was done, to avoid the PR fallout.

This was pretty clear in what DuskStar wrote. See the "the fact it was produced by leftists who need a far better grasp of optics" bit.
That does not even nearly fit on one line, so I broke it up. Yeah, it looks pretty bad. Here's hoping it's only sparsely filled out.

State

Juriscode

Jurisname

CountyFIPS

MCD

CNTY

Town

Ward

Precinct

Ballotbox

PrecinctName

NamePrefix

FirstName

MiddleName

LastName

NameSuffix

Sex

BirthYear

BirthMonth

BirthDay

OfficialParty

StateCalcParty

RNCCalcParty

StateVoterID

JurisdictionVoterID

LastActiveDate

RegistrationDate

VoterStatus

SelfReportedDemographic

ModeledEthnicity

ModeledReligion

ModeledEthnicGroup

RegistrationAddr1

RegistrationAddr2

RegHouseNum

RegHouseSfx

RegStPrefix

RegStName

RegStType

RegstPost

RegUnitType

RegUnitNumber

RegCity

RegSta

RegZip5

RegZip4

RegLatitude

RegLongitude

RegGeocodeLevel

ChangeOfAddress

COADate

COAType

MailingAddr1

MailingAddr2

MailHouseNum

MailHouseSfx

MailStPrefix

MailStName

MailStType

MailStPost

MailUnitType

MailUnitNumber

MailCity

MailSta

MailZip5

MailZip4

MailSortCodeRoute

MailDeliveryPt

MailDeliveryPtChkDigit

MailLineOfTravel

MailLineOfTravelOrder

MailDPVStatus

MADR_LastCleanse

MADR_LastCOA

AreaCode

TelephoneNUm

TelSourceCode

TelMatchLevel

TelReliability

FTC_DoNotCall
Cypress PSoC?
Good and steady returns are easier than ever to find! Where does this idea come from?

And if one doesn't consider the returns good, what would be good, and was it actually better in the past?
Thanks for your reply, glad to be educated in my limited biology knowledge :D. I think I understand your point. Evolution doesn't classify, we do. But doesn't this validate my point? Isn't the chicken vs egg question the same kind of problem made up by man like what we describe as different species? Apart from specialists there is no need for the majority of the population to classify the extinct variations of a ring species. So I assumed classification occurs vertical up to the common ancestor rather than horizontal by dying out variations of a ring species.

My original statement was simplified, maybe "evolution in conjunction with how mankind classifies species" would be more in line with the point I was making. My reasoning behind this is the following: As far as I know, the most accurate way of comparing species is by comparing genetic structure. And the point at which these genetic changes typically happen (maybe there are exceptions) is at reproduction (that's the evolution aspect of my point). This would also be the "earliest" point we could spot a difference.
Wonderschool gets $2M to help solve America’s childcare quandary
It's a good thing DuskStar said absolutely nothing like that, then, right?
> Worker after worker threw themselves off the towering dorm buildings, sometimes in broad daylight, in tragic displays of desperation – and in protest at the work conditions inside. There were 18 reported suicide attempts that year alone and 14 confirmed deaths.

In the US, the average suicide rate is 7 per 100,000, so if Foxconne was in the US, we would expect ~25 suicides per year. So, by this logic, most US companies have such bad working conditions employees are killing themselves in a 'tragic display of desperation.'
Indeed. The whole field is missing 20-40 years of experimental research with different abstractions. It's like trying to write FORTRAN-77. About the only thing that's ahead of this is "Chisel".

There's also a disease of people trying to write "C to HDL" converters without thinking of the very different paradigms involved there. While it can be made to work it will always be extremely inefficient.
Intel has changed the voltage regulation this time its back on the CPU.
Skylark-EP gets nowhere near those power draw levels even at similar clocks I have a strong suspension that this is a BIOS issue and the CPU voltage regulator is running full steam (this is equivalent of locking the phase frequency of your VRMs on the motherboard to the max).
Many states have very loose control over their voter database. The control is mostly exerted through the force of the law prohibiting certain uses of the data. For example, I can order the voter database for the state of New York and receive it on a CD in a few weeks. Other states will simply email you a link to a big bundle of CSV files.

There is other information besides what is on the voter database in this disclosure, it appears, but the voter data itself is mostly not a secret and can be trivially accessed by any citizen. They just have to promise not to break the law around what they do with it.
I´m surprised to see how the AMD Ryzen are still holding on the benchmarks
> society and ethics course

How was the course?

I didn't have one, but many other "engineering ethics" courses I've seen inspire apathy just because they're terrible. It's like school anti-bullying campaigns - even if you're vehemently anti-bullying, most of the campaigns are too ridiculous to feel anything good about.

On the other hand, something like Canada's Iron Ring seems to get taken very seriously. It seems like a nontrivial part of the challenge is teaching ethics in a way that reaches even the people who want to behave ethically.
I cant help but draw parallels between this
and NNTP. This is essentially a really nice
skin over newgroups, and thats not a bad
thing at all.

The people in the D language community[0] came up with just such a thing. The source is on GitHub here[1].

0 - http://forum.dlang.org/

1 - https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed
Never heard of ZenHabits before. Very cool concept and love the minimal design.
FTA:

> Threaded conversations have been at Twist’s core from the beginning.

Maybe depending on the precise job at hand, but I believe everything else should be handled by a usenet server, or equivalent. Usenet revolves around the topics, not the messages.

I was using a local usenet server 19 years ago for holding online design discussions. I haven't found a better mechanism since.
East African chameleon scam a low-tech version of Bitcoin?
I am struggling to understand whether Bitcoin is a scam and what this means. A conversation with an East African colleague provided me with a bit of a pointer:

When my colleague was a boy, a stranger arrived in his village and offered the villagers $20 for every chameleon they could find. The stranger claimed they were for foreigners who wanted them as pets. The chameleon buyer returned every week and bought chameleons, as promised, from excited villagers at $2 a pop. Gradually the chameleons became scarcer and scarcer - but he told the villagers he was waiting for the buyer and keeping the chameleons nearby. One day a new stranger arrived in the village, promising to buy chameleons at $50 a time. The locals again got very excited, but as the chameleons were largely hunted out and to get over their supply problem, the villagers somehow got hold of the first stranger and offered to buy his chameleons back at $20 a time. You can probably see where this is going: apparently the villagers endedup with a lot of chameleons and not much money.

Is this a reasonable parallel for Bitcoin?

Apparently there was a relatively happy ending for chameleons which survived as they were replaced in the wild.

My final point is that possibly a lot of asset classes started out as scams, but ended up as real stores of wealth: gold, diamonds, fine art and fine wines.
Paralelni Polis – Institute of Cryptoanarchy
> give them the wrong answer, they will be forced to correct you.

Before Stack Overflow, the savvy knew that this was a great way to get help with anything Unix-related. If you just went to Usenet or mailing lists and asked "how do I X?", you'd be pummeled by uppity greybeards going "RTFM, n00b". Ah, but if you created a sockpuppet and posted the wrong answer in reply to your question, then you'd be guaranteed to get useful advice.
VHDL (or Verilog) isn't harder to reason about than C in my experience, it's just different.
> They had relatively little access to alcohol

This seems very wrong from what I know about Victorian Britain
this can change soon. https://wicg.github.io/webusb/
I believe that it started during the dotcom boom, when a lot of unqualified people tried to join the industry despite having no skills - once you get bit by hiring people who claim (and have) job experience but turns out can't code at all, not even on a basic junior level; you need some process to filter them out.
Thanks so much for this!

I wrote an ILDA parser in Rust [1], and I also have a virtual EtherDream laser projection DAC (also in Rust [2]) that you can play this against if you're interested.

I'll try to fire this up tonight and see what renders.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/ilda

[2] https://github.com/echelon/etherdream-emulator
The idea behind http://theprice.cloud is to be a simple and straightforward tool to compare 3 major public cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure), especially in areas that other tools usually miss, for example, egress network traffic and object storage.
Identity theft would be my biggest concern.
Realization of Shor's Algorithm at Room Temperature
Russians Dominate Computer Programming Olympics. Americans Are Unsuprised
One of notch's old java 4k games, fails to start? Cpu is pegged on a core, and the heap keeps growing. Notch used to write his own bytecode for these, would be a good test case me thinks! More of his games on this site.

http://www.java4k.com/index.php?action=games&method=view&gid...
The Stack Clash
There is a significant amount of data here that is not public or covered by the laws.

> Clickbait.

Even if no laws were broken, it may be news to those who are unaware that carveouts to PII disclosure laws have been made and their PII (along with polling data indicating preferences on lots of topics[1]) has been leaked.

Also, "politicians are at the very best so indifferent to citizen-unit privacy concerns that they can't be arsed to hire competent admins" may not exactly be news, but additional data points illustrative of that fact are.

[1] What can be done with that? Well, at the very least, a PI/con-artist/other party with a motivation to approach you cold would certainly love this sort of profile for anyone they're interested in. Think about it for a minute.
Partly. You can define them if you want it. You can even add type support with FB Flow.

CS developers sometimes define variables because of hoisting.

Obviously, variables are defined. In CS they are simply defined for you automatically. That said, you can obviously do it yourself if you want. But you will not be able to use additional tooling around `let` and `const`
That's what graphics cards are for.

/joking, mostly
Certainly more correlation than whatever you can gather from casper.com.
This topic is covered all over this site with numerous reasons. If people wan't a work from home job and theirs currently won't support it, they have every right to look for a new job. Work from home doesn't work for every employee, and it's definitely not perfect for every company.
"passion"
Sticking with zx2c4 pass. It is an assembly of gnupg, git, and pwgen. Trusted open source components. Works with a Yubikey (opensc and gpg-agent) to prevent private key theft via software. PassFF extension provides excellent browser integration. Android Password Store and OpenKeychain allow pass and yubikey to work on my mobile. Strong 2 factor password storage everywhere I need it.

My biggest problem these days is dealing with sites that don't allow 30+ char passwords with full range of special characters. Almost exclusively, banks.
Show HN: Annoying Google chrome extension to force you into pomodoro flow
I come from a firmware development background so this kind of bit manipulation tricks are familiar to me. That equation makes sense after a few seconds looking at it but I can't always run a proof in my mind to be 100% certain.
Depends on the humidity, not just the temperature. I remember hanging my clothes up to dry whilst in Darwin, and they took literally days to get somewhat close to dry.
My favorite misconception along those lines is often worded as "If you made it to 30 back then, you were considered elderly"
I think anyone who has tried to teach or explain something will see why this happens. You have to make some assumptions about what readers know/can figure out otherwise you would literally be explaining everything starting from binary numbers every time.

The "clearly" stuff is just shorthand for "I assume you know this because its foundational to understanding the thing were talking about now / or I'm too lazy to explain this now / or this is so far off-topic that this isnt the place / etc. etc" . Nothing more - it can be read as arrogance on the authors part but I think thats an uncharitable interpretation.
Awesome piece of tech. However I guess this will not stay free forever.
Get a group of scizophrenics together and get them to smoke weed. You'll have a few people whose symptoms are helped but you'll find more of them get triggered and may end up having an episode.

As I said, weed doesn't cause schizophrenia, it just exacerbates the symptoms in some people. I don't see what is one-sided about that and there is plenty of literature to support this, if you search around for a minute or two.