skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a question - do HR actually have any input into hiring these days? My experience mostly startups for many years is that HR people are concerned with paper work, health care, 401K, payroll etc. My experience has been that the "recruiter" is now the gatekeeper. They decide who's resume is seen by a team looking to hire.

And I think this is rather unfortunate as recruiters seem to be short term employees. I also find that the level of professionalism by recruiters to be extremely lacking - they often take weeks to get back to people, many seem unable to compose business emails. They send emails that begin with "Hey" and don't bother spellchecking. Many don't seem to have any technical knowledge or actually understand what's on a candidates CV. I have had them fail to call at a scheduled time, many don't send out calendar invites. Dealing with recruiters overall is a pretty miserable experience.

HR on the other hand is something that you can get a degree in. HR people seem to be longer term employees at companies, they seem to do things in a consistent and predictable manner, and seem to be quite professional in their communication.

I realize this is anecdotal and there are of course wonderful recruiters who have a good technical grasp and are very professional but the majority of my dealings with recruiters over many years now has informed me that these are the exceptions.

It seems there is no minimal set of qualifications to become a recruiter and shouldn't this one of the most important roles at a company that needs to grow to succeed? They are also kind of ambassador for the company in the sense that they are the first point of contact for a candidate.

Am I minority in this opinion? Or is there not actually a recruiter problem?
Mars Rover’s AI is really good at selecting rocks to analyze
Not native english speaker here. My comment is probably of very limited value, but mostly for my personal improvement :).

When I read "the wrong kind of entrepreneurs flourish in America" it surprises me to not see: "the wrong kind of entrepreneurs flourishes in America". I understand that "kind" should be the subject of the sentence, not the entrepreneurs. I have seen this construct several times (e.g. "this type of errors are very common", etc) and I'm wondering if it's correct, or simply one of these errors that are so common that they become the de facto rule.
That's my philosophy. The Quinine will also help suppress any malaria one might catch due to humid conditions in the rear cabin toilets. Slice of lemon for a Vitamin-C immune system boost. The mild sedative of alcohol to drown out the screaming void of my mind left idle without access to the internet.
I would love to check this out as well. richard@bugcrowd.com
> Is Dart 10x better than Kotlin

For many, it is. The consistency and the well-thought out API and syntax is a huge boost, and while they have similar roots, Dart is much better in these regards. Disclaimer: developed in Kotlin only for a few months, did a lot more in Dart.

I encourage you to try it and evaluate it for yourself. Your speculation about the politics in- or outside Google are just that: speculations, while a fair evaluation shows way more nuanced view of what is better and what has better chances in the long term.
Also this one from the last IO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1swY14jiKc
Thank you for the offer.

I'm not sold on Patreon, for a number of reasons. I get the intuitive appeal of it if one is a starving artist, and I get the appeal on the consumer side. I am not really a starving artist, though, and as a commercial proposition it competes with things like my market clearing price as a W-2 employee, my rate card as a consultant, or selling software to businesses. When I compare those numbers to my guesses at the impact of Patreon-ing, I find myself thinking "Patreon does not come close to a motivational number, but it probably pays just enough to activate Disutility From Working Strictly For Money."

Or, as someone once put it, "I have two prices: free and expensive."
Go Language – Web Application Secure Coding Practices
yea wilderness survival says full boil for at least 3 minutes, more in higher altitude. While shopping for an on-demand hot water tap, I couldn't find a single one that even went up to boiling temperature, so my hunch is that airplanes don't even boil for a second.
Heat absolutely does kill bacteria. Heating water for just a few minutes at 60C will kill e. coli, 70C will kill it instantly. Coffee is brewed at 90-100C.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jtm/article-pdf/3/1/11/5107757/jtm3...
Patrick's Software Blog – Learning Python Web Application Development with Flask
What happens to that coffee once it's behind the door is, of course, purely speculation.

Its times like this that I'm reminded of the risks of failing to fund high-quality investigative journalism...
Bridging the Analytic-Continental Divide (2012)
Hardly. I mean it does look that way at first, but as long as there are good competitors around, the price of SaaS products won't be exorbitant. Besides, technology seems to have a very cyclical progression: we went from time sharing computing on big vendors' computers, to personal computing, and now back to hosting with big vendors, via cloud. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that future progress would once again make having one's data with oneself more attractive.
There's plenty of non-classified evidence that goes much further than the joint Intel report goes, and was available before it.

It's kind of disappointing this isn't widely understood, but I guess politics gets in the way. Anyway, feel free to share this:

2014 report into ATP-28: https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2014/10/apt28-a..., presenting pretty compelling (if circumstantial) evidence that group is Russian state backed.

(July) 2016 report into the DNC hacking, showing it was first breached by ATP-29 (The other Russian state backed hacking group), but the leaks almost certainly came from a second breach by ATP-28 later: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...

One can of course argue that this is all a conspiracy. However, the fact that this first report was publicly available in 2014 gives some protection against the idea that it is motivated by US internal politics, and the second was also before the election actually occurred.
I see the pilot (or co-pilot) during at least 50% of the flights I take in the US over two hours in flight time. If you've noticed a FA blocking the aisle to the galley with a drink cart and standing posted at attention watching the passengers attentively, that's why. The cockpit door is rarely open more than 15-30 seconds. If either of the cockpit crew actually leaves the cockpit (say to use the restroom), then a FA must take their place and relock the door. This scenario requires a minimum of two FAs, one to watch the passengers / block the aisle, the other to fill-in in the cockpit.
I guess the question is exactly what's in the water.

Sterilizing river water calls for one minute at a rolling boil, which you won't get from a kettle. But something like beef, with a much more restricted threat, can be done down around 160F, and bringing your kettle to a boil should easily get you a few minutes above that line.

Not all tea brewings will, but I'm guessing "boil it and throw in tea" is more common on airplanes than a delicate, 165F green tea production.

So... it'd be nice to hear from a microbiologist about the specifics on this one. Regulators seem concerned, but that's about drinking it as tap water, which I wouldn't do.
Most of the frustration I remember had to do with the lack of depth perception, especially in Warped (which I remember best). It was certainly a fun game - I'd spend hours on end playing it - but it was also frustrating to be unable to properly judge exactly how far Crash needs to jump lest he plummet into a bottomless pit (or a stack of nitro boxes).
what purpose would an airgap'd computer even serve for 99% of people?
That's because they're what people _believe_ - their politics - an act of faith not dissimilar from religion. The set of econ axioms people espouse demonstrates their own world view - what they stand for.

In a previous age, these would be moral principles and social norms - now it's political beliefs.
Stick to drinks that don't stain. You never know when turbulence or a clumsy seatmate will spill a drink on your lap.
Boiling point reduces as pressure reduces.

Cruising altitude on a plane is roughly equivalent to air pressure at 1800-2400m, so using [1] that means water boils at around 93°C.

(If I had any familiarity with Fahrenheit, I wouldn't have bothered looking this up. 160°F = 70°C, and even on Everest water boils at a higher temperature.)

[1] http://docs.engineeringtoolbox.com/documents/1344/boiling_po...
Knowingly providing incentives for people to do something unethical is itself unethical.

The corporations aren't blameless here.
Portability that goes against essential features of a product IS silly.
I mean... they're trying pretty damn hard with Win10.

The LTSB version is designed to essentially stay the same with regards to applications/apis/etc while still proffering up security updates as fast they have them.

http://windowsitpro.com/windows-10/understanding-long-term-s...
Two Years as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow
> I'm 99% sure that any boiling will kill nearly all germs in water. I don't have facts on hand, but I do remember that once you get above ~160F, nearly all germs are dead. So boiling water will definitely kill everything.

Occasionally I find out that something that I thought / hoped / believed to be the case ... wasn't.

Killing 'nearly all germs' is good, but not really what you need when you may get sick or die from the kinds of germs that don't fit the 'nearly all' category.

Cryptosporidium and giardia (two things that Sydney residents became overly familiar with before our Olympic hosting) require a few minutes of rolling boil to kill. And the definition of 'rolling boil' becomes more onerous as you increase your altitude.
I have experienced similar issues with recruiters. Going so far as to decline interviews with those companies.
pay attention to operations 100%. lyft morale. keep lowish profile publicly.
That's along the lines of what I do when I am waiting for a dedicated machine from OVH, since they list all of their clearance machines on a special page and you have to keep checking them. So I just used my script with Twilio to send me SMS when it's available to buy. Done that all three times I needed a box. I would not call it "hacking" though.
Need to be careful about this one. A student at my alma mater was suspended for doing the same thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/ucf/comments/xo5ye/ucf_student_pena...

You have to love the education system...
In my experience, writing things down brings additional insight, more than an accident.

When I first heard Leslie Lamport say “If you think without writing, you only think you’re thinking.”, I thought it was a bit much, but now I suspect he's right.
> But this is because Medicare reimbursement rates are set by a panel of specialists... who don't necessarily care if Medicare is that fair.

The problem is that Medicare has no incentive to ensure that their rates are sustainable (without the indirect subsidies that come from private insurers).

Medicare can balance their budget either by increasing their revenue (ie, asking Congress for more money) or by lowering their costs (ie, cutting reimbursements). They have no mandate to ensure that their reimbursements cover the marginal costs of care (and as a result, they don't). On top of that, private insurers are guaranteed by law to pay more than Medicare does, so they can set their reimbursement rates as low as they want.

This is also why the best providers almost never accept Medicare - or, if they do, they do it through a separate practice from their main one. Accepting Medicare means that you're likely going to run a loss on those patients (unless you're operating out of a CAH). So, the best doctors either segregate their Medicare patients into a separate practice (which allows them to manage their losses by capping the number of Medicare patients they see, but also dramatically reduces doctor availability from the patients' perspective), or they just drop Medicare altogether.
It's another thing to learn, and the total learning curve is the product of all of these idiosyncrasies (and features) (not the sum). And there's absolutely no advantage to comma-first.
Automated Theorem Proving in Quasigroup and Loop Theory (2010) [pdf]
IFTTT Data Access Project
VNCDesk: Run Applications in VNC Desktops
Yes, when the commas are at the beginning of the line they are really obvious. I have used commas-first style in JavaScript, and it definitely reduced the amount of times I forgot a comma.

I wonder if people's aversion to commas first has something to do with the fact that commas have a very familiar use in ordinary writing, and there they always follow a word. It is very common to see BNF grammars written with leading vertical bars, and no one seems to mind that -- in fact it would be unusual to use trailing vertical bars.

By the way, a bunch of languages permit a trailing comma after the last element of a list. This is also nice because it means that if you put each list item on a line, the list items all have the same format (thing plus comma). With the Haskell syntax, you lose this, but there is no reason a language couldn't support a leading comma before the first element of a list.
AWS is currently minting money. Amazon and Google don't offer no subsidies, Amazon at least, invests all its profits back into the business, which is def not a subsidy in any sense of the term.

As the competition heats up and providers become more efficient, I actually expect prices to go down even further.
Hrmn.

Doesn't it also mean they're finding lots of problems with it?
Google Gops: tool to list and diagnose Go processes running on your system
Since you seem knowledgeable about this, what is the amount of credit card debt available to the median American above what they already carry?
They don't need to cut advertisements. Certainly, they could have as many as 10 advertisements, and only make requests to two domains---the ad network, and their own domain.

Their page has a high number of requests primarily because they do not bundle their javascript, CSS, or icons.

I see 95 requests that I see without adblocking, and about 20 of those requests are javascript coming out of their own WordPress instance. They're using 2 different full icon libraries and adding at least 5 more icons not contained in either.
> given the tiny cottage industry that feeds a handful of starving security analysts

you may not have enough information.
>CSS is more powerful than anything that popular native text editors can do

Which give even more credence to what the parent said: that "CSS isn't the right abstraction for styles in a text editor…".

We don't really need the "more power" in an editor, but we could use the less slugginess (and less conceptual overhead) than what CSS offer.

>Is it worth restricting an editor to only styles that don't influence block layout? For example, should it be impossible for a theme to make comment lines taller or shorter?

I'm pretty sure existing editors can do that today too, without CSS. Setting a different font size for comment lines for example.
It's been a couple years since I read the literature so I might be wrong, but iirc differential privacy fuzzes the number of matches instead of the data points themselves.

That is, in your example differential privacy would precisely display the start and end points but the number of riders would be fuzzed (perhaps showing 4 departures and 2 arrivals at the respective location/time).

Also, iirc, offline differential privacy can outright remove data points while online system can block sufficiently deanonymizing queries.

One of the criticisms of differential privacy is that it can render the data useless... I definitely found that held true for my data. In the end, my company simply decided against releasing (or collecting) any customer data.
Due to my training in parser theory, this hurricane is unnamed.
Clojure concurrency and blocking with core.async
That CEO only made that amount because of FDA regulations related to the manufacture of generics, as well as her family connections.

http://amp.timeinc.net/time/money/4502891/epipen-pricing-sca...

My point is that the entire for profit healthcare system in the US is broken, and it's time to burn it to the ground.
could I ask you if there is a correlation between engagement/login/usage and churn ? Are users who login and use the Saas atleast twice a day are more likely to stay on ? or is it that customers which have multiple users using the SaaS application are more likely to stay on ? What signals are emitted by the customers who are about to discontinue ?
Show off your API with a little Swagger
I know the septic tank of a state in which I reside specifically crafted their regulation to force anything more than a bicycle with an engine kit to confirm to motorcycle regulations and sets performance limitations that limit the utility to the same as a bike.

Mopeds (e.g a 150CC vespa) on the other hand can keep up with non-highway traffic (although their manufactures may configure them in a way that prevents this), come equipped with turn signals, lights and mirrors, can maintain speed up a hill without slowing to a crawl and are an all around massive upgrade in safety and utility over a bicycle (motorized or human powered) without taking up more parking space or having the ability to rocket down the highway.

I think it's likely the insurance lobby leaned on legislators to make it that way.
On a slightly bumpy ride yesterday, the pilot told us not to worry: the only concern in the cockpit was that they might spill coffee on their white uniform shirts.
Thanks for your reply and for the ideas. I'm absolutely going to begin to write bloggers about some of our success stories. I've also updated my post to include that it's B2B and our customers are mostly startups.

One follow-up question. On probably not charging enough money, we're charging what our big-box competitors charge. Is this a bad strategy for pricing?
> I'm 99% sure that any boiling will kill nearly all germs in water.

CDC says a full minute of boiling (3 minutes for elevations greater than 6,500ft) to deal with (the problem strain of) E. coli in well water. Momentary boiling is not sufficient for safety.

https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/private/wells/dise...
I get the sense people think we're cleaner than we really are. A great example are diseases like E. coli infections, campylobacter, hepatitis A, norovirus, cryptosporidium, etc. They are reasonably common and all are transmitted through the fecal-oral route. That is, the person getting sick ingested something contaminated with feces (human or animal).

Same thing with your own intestinal biome. You are sterile when you come out of your mother's womb. All of the bacteria that ends up in your intestine are ingested, often coming from your own family members.

Bacteria are everywhere. I'm not going to get overly worried about bacteria in the drinking water of planes unless it starts to make people sick.
The older I get, the wiser the conclusions of Vonnegut's Galapagos seem.

Shamelessly stealing from Goodreads, which shamelessly stole from the book itself:

“Just about every adult human being back then had a brain weighing about three kilogrammes! There was no end to the evil schemes that a thought machine that oversized couldn't imagine and execute.
So I raise this question, although there is nobody around to answer it: Can it be doubted that three-kilogramme brains were once nearly fatal defects in the evolution of the human race?”

“Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.”

“That was another thing people used to be able to do, which they can't do anymore: enjoy in their heads events which hadn't happened yet and might never occur. My mother was good at that. Someday my father would stop writing science fiction, and write something a whole lot of people wanted to read instead. And we would get a new house in a beautiful city, and nice clothes, and so on. She used to make me wonder why God had ever gone to all the trouble of creating reality."

And perhaps most appropriately for this thread:

“What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain. That cumbersome computer could hold so many contradictory opinions on so many different subjects all at once, and switch from one opinion or subject to another one so quickly, that a discussion between a husband and wife under stress could end up like a fight between blindfolded people wearing roller skates.”
Autoscaling Docker Swarm on AWS with StackStorm
SoundBrake 2.0 awareness device for headphones
First of all, it is not a complete ban. It is a very strict requirement of license.

Second of all, live streaming is definitely censored in the same way. But the sites mentioned, Weibo, iFeng, and ACFUN, have no live streaming service, only (what is the word for not live?) streaming service.
Assume for a moment you have 10 000 employees and 10 years worth of business correspondence in Gmail, Outook.com or similar. Now for email, there is usually at least one or two open apis for getting that data (pop/imap) - but even so, migration is a costly affair.

You could move all new correspondence to a new (eg: on premises) system - but you'd have to keep paying to retain the same access to your business history.

Take any of the many business/crm-apps, where there's no clear migration path (you'd want both history and business process rules) - and it's easy to see how SaaS might easily facilitate "rent extraction"?

As others have mentioned the problem isn't unique to SaaS - but with an on premise solution, you might be able to move some terabytes of data by simply moving some physical drives - or at least have local access via you SAN. With a cloud provider, many businesses would struggle to get at the data at a higher rate than 100mbps even with the help of the SaaS provider.

And there's often no option to keep access to "old" system/data without paying rent, unlike some on premise solution (keep the old system, on it's own network segment, ticking along for historical records (or: in a VM).
>Why does code need to be monospaced? I feel like the only reason we all do it is that it's always been done like that so it feels wrong not to.

Because alignment.

>The only actual reason I can think of for it is alignment, and that seems like a minimal benefit really.

Most programmers I know would argue otherwise, including me. Wanna try a poll?

>Variable width text is generally considered easier to read, so why couldn't this also apply to code?

Because it's only considered "easier to read" for general text (books, articles, etc) where you don't need to quickly see anything standing out of the ordinary, and alignment doesn't matter.

Even for traditional uses like accounting, "variable width" is not considered easier to read.
and also immigration..
It depends on what you're trying to kill. Some bacteria perish quickly at less-than-boiling temperatures. In the wild, you have spores and other hardy organisms that require a lot more heat and time to kill.
for your first point., what about `builtins.fetchTarball` and `builtins.fetchurl` (`fetchgit` is in nix unstable afaik)
I'd actually be interested to see the numbers. Obviously, as you say, it's not just size but also the risk profile of the group...but add to that the fact that this pool is being split between as many companies as are selling on the marketplace, I wouldn't be surprised if size is part of it.

Regardless, if universal health coverage is a goal, the only way to truly amortize risk is to have everyone in one pool. Anything less pits some very perverse incentives against an inherently inefficient market. It's no wonder no one wants to participate!