skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"So do you have any questions for us?"

When I get to that final stage of the interview what I'm really asking a candidate is "Can you tell me something, anything really, that will indicate to me that you are in fact a human being and not a cyborg?"

At university, I once interviewed for an undergrad research position in a particle physics facility. I had noticed, among the towers of papers on the investigator's desk, a single volume of Man Ray photographs. Curiosity got the better of me and I eventually remarked upon its incongruity. Which led to us bonding over a shared love of Surrealism as I travelled through Madrid the summer before and caught a rare exhibit of Salvador Dali's manifestos and other political works. Despite the repartee, that plum position was bestowed upon a more worthy acolyte. But the personal connection was such that he recommended me to another lab, which led to research for a thesis and so on.

And I still remember that interview as a kind of gold standard whenever I interview people. So do not be afraid to stand out. And let whatever it is that makes you unique shine through. Good luck!
I didn't read anything that implies the games could be shared or uploaded online so a profanity filter wouldn't be needed would it?

I also imagine there to be a touch-screen interface for placing objects on the screen (like unity or playcanvas) so naughty kids will be able to "draw" whatever their heart desires anyways.
Not sure I can do it justice in a paragraph, but generally I'm talking about the genre of social sculpture or "relational art" -- in which humans and human relationships are explored as creative material. You could think of this as parallel to the notion of "social media", except whereas social media tends to commodify individuals, relational art attempts to actualize individuals. These artworks usually try to have a direct impact on the world, such as through creating community, supplying a community with something that it needs, giving a voice to an underrepresented group, etc.

An example that sort of fits this (pardon that I don't know the name off the top of my head):
- One recent artist gained fame as a sculptor in the modernist tradition, using found materials, junk, etc. His art started to garner a lot of money. So, he began to go into abandoned buildings in poor neighborhoods, cut out part of the wall or the floor, sell it as his artwork -- for hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Venice Biennale & such -- and then use that money to restore and revitalize the original abandoned building that he took the material from. He turns these buildings into community centers for the neighborhood. It's quite amazing. So really the ultimate artwork is the community center that is created and the benefit to the community that it creates, the human relationships it fosters, etc.

In other examples, artists simply create events through which people can engage with each other in some structured way. Famously, Rirkrit Tiravanija served a meal in an art gallery -- it was simply a public space to interact and be human. (There are other ways to read this artwork too... it is also a very real exhibition of culture... sort of like showing a found object but the found object is a dinner party).

There is a wide array of practices here...

But there are a few clear trends. In these new works, there is often no commodity to be bought and sold. Art rests not in images or sounds (post-internet, images and sound recordings are no longer rare), but instead the artists try to address real needs of people and communities. So, whereas the author of this essay describes modern art as purely abstract, subjective, meaningless, and designed purely for the ego of the artist, these new works are selfless, generous, and designed to have a direct impact on the world. In that sense, this movement draws from histories outside of art, such as civil rights, non-profits, grass-roots activism, etc.

Hope that is a good enough primer! In my opinion this shift (from tangible art to relational art) is as significant as the early 20th century shift from representational art to abstract art. It is a sea change, and we're right in the middle of it.
Remember the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. It is seldom a good idea to short an asset just because you think it is a bubble, unless you're able to call the peak.
Thank you again! I really appreciate all of your thoughtful feedback.

Yeah, one way of measuring connectivity is counting how many definitions that a word appears in. Also, yeah, sometimes there are text artifacts in definitions and words, phrases, or abbreviations that don't add any value to the definition.

From research that I've done, this happens in online dictionaries (not often, but occasionally). I've done a lot of work to clean up the definitions in my dictionary and provide the top ranking definitions first, but some artifacts still slip through the cracks.

I really appreciate all of your great feedback and welcome any comments or discussion anytime! :)
Are you running it on linux, or without an operating system?
The reddit posts are odd. What value do they have?

And why/how did they leak?

Fortunately, they don't hold much personal data, but given that they're looking to raise $$$, the fact that they had a security breach is interesting. Especially if they haven't disclosed it.
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>>I agree but most conferences are a waste.

In my experience, this is because most conferences are actually trade shows. But they aren't called that, because organizers want to disguise the fact that they want to use the event to sell products and services, rather than to teach to and train attendees.
CNN is basically the unofficial Democratic Party mouthpiece.

The Democratic Party isn't traditionally "left-wing", but it certainly seems wrong to call them "right-wing".
If you count the tax benefit (that is, for W-2 employees who couldn't otherwise get a write-off on the conference), I'd really prefer something like one or two conferences a year. That is, the company could spend $2k to send me to a conference, but if they just paid me an extra $2k I'd only have $1500 after taxes.
This is the preface to every investment scam pitch in the history of human enterprise.
There will probably be more CVEs as people find other setuid apps that can be manipulated (people know what to look for now).
This is really not a point of contention in philosophy. And that's I think why the OP didn't bother to define it as well. I suggest reading one of the philosophy encyclopedias online to get answers to the question of definition.
Agreed. Thus far it appears that Intel itself has been vacillating with regard to launch enclave policy. As a reminder, all technology can be used for good or evil, whatever your definitions of those may be. The issue is one of control, but you can defer worrying about DRM until trusted I/O gets implemented.
Snapchat is adding more big-name TV channels, including HBO
Adding Command Line Aliases for Yarn
2017 hacker board survey: Raspberry Pi still rules, but x86 SBCs make gains
Got over it. Only heard about it when the DAO got hacked, then when it spiked to 40, 60 and decided to get back into crypto when it hit 90, took a while for money to go through and got in at 200.

It's impossibly unlikely to capture all the gains, but you still can win. Even if it's not 30x+. I'm okay with anything that beats regular investment vehicles over time. Win some instead of griping about all that you could have won.
I don't know if I have any useful feedback for the linked sites.

notanothermoneyblog:

I tend to be turned off of traditional blog layouts because of navigational structure. As a reader, I don't care about when an article is written, I care about matching my reading interests quickly with what is available on your site (perusing the titles / tags / categories). If there is a config to toggle away the year-month navigation style, I would prefer that. YMMV

sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide:

The site seems niche and, as you have mentioned in other posts, there is a stigma against homelessness. Non-homeless (awkward description, I know) readers might feel immediately turned off before reading anything. You might be able to convey the same type of message by describing it as "scraping by", although this may be counterproductive.

I would suggest you might try to review your previously-written articles and see if you can make them more reader-friendly. Currently, they seem a little writer-friendly and not very optimized for the reader. Having a TL;DR at the top might keep interest. Eg. the "gift card" article #2 was interesting because it mentions the CA state law that gives consumers the right to cash out sub-$10 balances. That is very useful for me, as a California consumer and I probably would not have thought I would find a nugget on a site and wouldn't have found it if I wasn't trying to review your site. Having the nugget of wisdom in the article title (eg. "Gift cards can be cashed by state law") rather than a less-specific "Cash for Gift Cards -- Addendum"

Small bug: The link from the /p/money.html page to "Starbuck's and Domino's Rewards and Gift Cards" is broken (there is a stray "http:/" at the beginning).

If you can, try to get an Amazon Affiliate account and add Amazon affiliate links when you describe / review books like "Book recommendation: How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt and Live Prosperously". It might not be useful short-term as they won't cut checks for amounts smaller than ~$25, but they pay 4+% on lots of products.
But free speech rights do extend to those private spaces since the government can't of it's own accord order you out of that private space any more than it could a public space, nor punish you for speech per se in private spaces. Conversely, if by your speech or actions you violate the rights of others, whether it be some general right like private property rights or some privilege arising from private contract (e.g. an NDA), the government (even if only government qua the courts) can punish you regardless of whether you are in a public space or private. Hence we can say that the nature of the space you occupy is not relevant in general to freedom of speech, only when the specific nature of the public space further distinguishes cases where the government (qua the executive) is acting as adversary of its own accord. In my view it comes down to the distinction between places "owned" by the government as if by a private owner, and places "owned" by the government as custodian of the commons, but that's obviously an insufficient legal distinction.
Media companies don't have much choice.
Worrying about missing out on 3000% gains is like walking into a casino, watching a roulette wheel and kicking yourself you didn't put $1000 on 00.
That's quite a claim you just made. By the same reasoning, would you consider copyright censorship as well?
Do you really find the need to be pedantic lol
I wonder why nobody makes a Raspberry PI based Amiga computer using UAE to run Amiga software?
I thought you could use memoryview over a string to get rid of that allocation even in 2.7

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#memoryview
Nope. They're doing all kinds of things from autonomous cars to blood nan-ites.
>unfortunately with the rise of internet the anybody can aggregate thereby the difference between blogs and nytimes is blurred to end users.

Worse still, this reduced revenue for high-integrity high-overhead traditional news outlets, and led to reducing the quality of their journalism because they couldn't afford to maintain the same standards.

So even the better news reporting institutions had to get worse to stay in the game.
Who should be on your interview panel? Not your team
I guess the thing is that if you are flying first or business you already get a card that lets you use the express immigration counter so you might not really need this anyway.
Perhaps, but then how do you build such a brand if your revenue streams depend on things like number of page impressions? There's a reason the modern Web is plagued by clickbait titles, articles divided over many pages, ad networks and all the intrusive monitoring that goes with them, pop-up/pop-under messages and all their modern variations, affiliate links with varying levels of transparency about using them, and so on. If we want trusted sources of information and advice, don't we have to start by eliminating external influences that inherently affect how trustworthy a source can possibly be?

In any case, I had in mind something a little more ambitious than just a branding exercise. For example, perhaps it would be helpful if we could establish some sort of persona and web-of-trust infrastructure, so that experts with sufficient credentials and peer recognition in some field can assert those credentials in some verifiable way when commenting on relevant matters. Then perhaps we could also establish some standards for sites presenting contributions from those experts to present any relevant credentials concurrently, so that whether you're reading an article on a high profile news site or just a casual comment on a discussion forum like HN, you have same way to know how much credibility the person you're reading has in this area.
Prism is an ethereum hosted CFD (contract for difference) platform.

Is the Tel Aviv binary option crowd somehow involved with this? Having been closed down in binary options, they've been pushing "contracts for difference" and "ladders".[1]

[1] https://www.spotoption.com/products
I had a similar idea in that an easy to install pre made news site + content source could help kill off the undue respect people give an article simply for it being an article.

Have it so in 5 minutes someone can have set up their own news site pre seeded with actual news, logo from a list, then all they have to do is buy a domain and write out their fake article.

Instead of putting the ideas you pulled straight from your ass in to a Facebook/reddit/hn comment box, you could make them seem like a source and just link them instead. It'd be glorious. Fake news getting flung everywhere by everyone.
They did $59bn in revenue last year lol
Hm...better web experience with dial up
With Surface RT I would have agreed wholeheartedly with this. But Microsoft is doing it right this time around by introducing x86 emulation, which gives you a fast, efficient ARM platform that has amazing battery life most of the time, and which can still open up that odd business application you need that hasn't recompiled itself for the new platform yet.

The critical thing to observe here is that, while obviously x86 applications will be slower on this platform on paper, most consumers will not notice or care. This creates a better product for casual use and arguably a better product for business use, one where the power efficiency of ARM creates a direct benefit to the consumer that Intel can't match (battery life and efficiency) for which the occasional odd performance issue in some heavy "Desktop" app is a small price to pay.
The SEO folks are the same dopes who came up with the genius strategy of requiring 5-10 megabytes of privacy-intrusive CPU-intensive JavaScript on every page load that slows down websites. Now they come to their teams and say, “Our pages are too slow — we gotta move to AMP so our pages load fast.”

You gotta admit, that's pretty much spot-on. The resources some of these websites consume is just mind-boggling.
I quickly looked this over. Does Golang have some hidden ORM like feature that makes complex persistence easy? I spent the last three months working on a storage mechanism that controls all of CRUD at the document level across what is essentially Google Groups (each op is allowed to multiple groups). This is where web work is complex.
I think it can be measured, but if we got to that point, are we even human beings and not just organic, robots? I think this plays into what kind of "culture" are you trying to cultivate. Culture is a very hard thing to measure as well.

My old accounting professor use to say, "You get what you measure".
DESCRIPTION: on distros like arch, to a lesser extent void and even gentoo, writing package definition files (PKGBUILDs, ebuilds, templates) is relatively straightforward; in contrast, i don't(http://bit.ly/2sqwUOj) even know where to start with finding, editing and building debian packages. i think they're built from source packages but beyond that i have no clue. i think visibility of documentation could help here, if not more radical changes to be more similar to the arch/gentoo workflow.
Most employees regularly choose not to go to conferences without having the option of taking $1500 instead. I'd gladly take a $3000/year raise to continue not going to 2 conferences every year. If I was instead told that I was going to go to 2 conferences every year as part of my compensation, I'd start looking for new employment.
I feel like the article definitely has some merit but the timing of it (days before a TBD announcement on token trading), the inclusion of very obvious non-unique points (i.e. not scalable, anything Bancor can do Ethereum can do - uh, why not include the definition of Turing complete here) and the false assumption that Bancor's use case is for a groundbreaking ERC20 token that's going to be traded on every exchange makes the author's claim dubious.

A more likely use case for Bancor is some SMB (store/restaurant) or content creator issuing tokens to be used for membership reward/points or for voting on a new video/project idea, not for Augur/Steem/Gnosis 2.0 to issue an ICO.

If you take this gross assumption of the equation, his whole argument about slippage or "trailing the market", etc are gone. You're issuing some small time tokens. There no reason to always buy back from the market and there are no big players trying to "deplete your reserve." The author makes it sound like I'm selling some popular cryptocurrency at a fixed price and am being left to bleed dry when in actuality, I'm issuing my_random_token for friends and customers.

I didn't review the code but if what he's saying is correct, there is a reason for alarm regarding their reimplementation of basic arithmetic functions(!!!) and user overpaying.

By trying to make this into a laundry list, it comes more off as a FUD argument, very similar to what Bitcoin maximalists were doing post the DAO hack to Ethereum.

(Disclaimer: my Bancor holding is about 0.5% of my total Crypto portfolio).
I hope there is ActiveX runner, so I did not rely on IE in Windows.
Dumb question: does anyone know if any of the ICO-ing companies have "cashed out" to actual hard currency?
Well, maybe half of them. Some of them involve selling bridges and the like... :P
This sounds useful. It should parse the same way Firefox does.
Also, dynamically typed (a feature rarely used and very costly)
The bulk of Microsoft's customer base is the global "Fortune 1000". They have a cloud structure designed for those customers, and those customers are comfortable working with MS. They are also large consumers of computing so this makes sense (though TBT the article seems more like a market "research" puff piece).

However most startups aren't in that ecosystem; when you start with an empty buffer you don't have the same path dependencies that big businesses do. So the Azure/AWS/Gcs calculus is different, not always in MS's favor. Even Netflix, started by a former MS board director, is on AWS not Azure.
I disagree. The Java -can- library has a terrible record and allows for all kinds of terrible things. The JVM itself is a memory model.
Intel's consumer 750 series NVMe SSD was only on top for a short period of time, and only because it was literally the only consumer retail NVMe product when it launched. It was released around April 2015 and was outclassed for real-world performance by the Samsung 950 Pro in October/November 2015. The Samsung 960 series that launched last fall just increased the lead, and Intel has not yet announced a consumer product based on their second-generation NVMe controller that can actually fit on a M.2 card.
It actually runs inside Docker, on a Linux system, as I've been deploying it using Resin.io for our test units. Annoyingly I've had a couple of units crap out on me, might be a bug in an older ResinOS image that has since been resolved though.

When I get time (eventually) I'm going to be working on our own minimal Linux system for the devices. Really all I want is a device that can be accessed from behind firewalls (looking at Teleport for this with their new ARM support), and the rest can be compiled Rust binaries using upstart or somesuch :)

We do have some upcoming projects where I might get a chance to try writing stuff without an operating system. That'll be an interesting challenge!
Jesus christ. I read that as "bacon is flawed" for a second and nearly got a heart attack.

Bacon is perfect.
iOS 11 on my iPad Pro keeps bugging me to "finish setup" by adding a card to Apple Pay. Why is this even a thing. I'm never going to pay with an iPad Pro. And the settings app has a badge until I add a card. Very frustrating.
That's the definitive answer I was looking for. After I read slewis' comment, I took another look and I still couldn't tell if that was truly the case just from the information on the website. The site text is "...privacy-focused browser that blocks malvertisements, trackers..." but I took that to mean it blocks ads/trackers that aren't part of the Brave+BAT system; and "Users, who opt in, receive fewer but better targeted ads..." I took to mean users to who opt in to using Brave. If I was still on iPhone, I would definitely try it based on slewis' recommendation but I'm getting by really well with IceCat and uBlock Origin on Android. Obviously, that isn't any good for content creators.

My biggest beef with ads is the tracking and Brave seem to have a really nice solution to that. I think a lot of people will like it. Personally, I don't want my machine involved in any of the logistics of getting ads presented to me. I think ads should embedded directly in the content and whatever content providers and advertisers need to do to keep each other honest should be their concern, never the users. That's all they ever should have been allowed to do. Just because they've been able to track users in a creepy kind of way for the past decade or two, doesn't mean it's a good path forward, at least for users. Keeping it local is the least creepy solution, but only if no tracking is not an option and, at least for now, it is.
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Oh yes. 6 months ago I was planning on buying 10 or so, but my credit card was acting up and I gave up because it was just too painful.

Kind of regret that decision now :P

But in the end I still don't trust all these tokens. None of them have so far been able to make me understand what they hell they're supposed to do (in terms of benefit to me, other than shitloads of money).

The first one that will be a success.