skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing Google launch a SaaS product, in a specific domain mostly unrelated to its core business, is a bit worrying in terms of monopoly abuse.
I hear a lot about hash rates. How are aggregate hash rates confirmed/reported? Does a miner submit every single attempted hash to the network as a potential solution or do miners self-report their total hash rates?
One should bear in mind that the author of that article has a strong vested interest against the JVM's ForkJoin framework succeeding, because they are senior at a company whose sole product is a competing implementation of a similar idea [1].

1. http://www.coopsoft.com/Products.html
Appreciated. :)
Extra controllers (and PCBs), cabling to connect the two halves, extra plastic for the housing... there are definite real costs involved. However, once you're above a hundred dollars you're in a niche market anyways, so why not charge more boutique prices? I imagine this is the real explanation for the price.

As for patent expiration - yeah, it can be a beautiful thing for prices, but I'm still quite leery of picking up a cheap keyboard; quality parts that last (and more importantly behave consistently through their lifespan) still cost money.
a bit bias I think you are. I voted you down because this isn't a productive conversation.
It is about the integrated experience. Most big companies I know of actually hire recruiting co-ordinators for scheduling and following up with potential candidates as well as with interviewers internally. If Google can use their G-Suite products including Gmail, Calendar, Docs etc. to provide a seamless recruiting experience, I would give it a shot - especially if my company is already on G Suite.

Now that Google has the building blocks for businesses - Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Video Conferencing etc. - it makes sense for them to get into common enterprise services. This ways they can extract more rent and also provide an integrated/more valuable experience to their customers.
Great feedback, we can look into clarifying on our homepage that our entire goal is to create a dataset in the public domain. We want people to donate not just to Mozilla, but to the world :)
There is a finite amount of money in circulation and the bills are numbered. It is a very traceable currency, even though it is not being traced. Simple use image recognition when it is deposited or withdrawn from a bank and record the customer doing the transaction. [BANK A]->[CUST A]->???->[CUST B]->[BANK B]. If someone is laundering money or using it in a criminal operation you will likely see patterns in the flows.

It would lead to behavior of withdrawing money at an ATM then spending it to disassociate it from yourself by getting change. What if they build in scanning to cash registers though? Seems relatively simple to track cash if there was any will to do so.
Oh, you're right. I'm mistaken.

For some reason I assumed there was a buy link on the preview tracks people put up.
It's an obvious admission as to the sorry state of the nation's finances.
People willing lots of them... having the money? not so much.

For example I am from Brazil, currently without any work. But my peak income was 2000 usd month with 1000 usd going straight to pay student debts... I had other things to do with money (like buy decent glasses, I can type on crappy keyboard, but I can't type if I can't see anything).

Now if I had enough money for a keyboard I would use it all to repay more debts.

And I am actually in the elite... the average Brazillian makes around 300 usd per month in total (and yes, the average brazilian can't afford student loans)
China Disrupts WhatsApp Service in Online Clampdown
It's been on GitHub for years...
Peek inside slacks growth strategy
Sessions is so out of touch it's insane.
Man that UI is ugly. Material Design was a mistake for Google, all of their products look this way. Even the settings page on Chrome looks really bad and confusing.
I never heard about Koa framework, Packer provisioning system, Druid time series database, and yet these are listed as most popular.
I think they are a huge class of values like this too. I just don't think it's as useful to state them outright in a corporate values statement. String too many of them together and you get this:

https://www.ibm.com/ibm/values/us/

Just try to read it without your eyes glazing over. Can you even get to the end?

It's not that anything in the list is wrong or bad. It's just boring. It's obvious. Who cares? I bet 90% of IBM employees have never even read the damn thing much less ever actually changed anything about how they do their job because of it.

Great values statements are great because they are shocking, because they get people to pay attention, and because they actually get people to change how they do things. Move fast and BREAK THINGS(1). The god damn CEO telling employees to break things. That's how you differentiate yourself.

1. Sorry to keep using this example. It's just the best. I don't even particularly like Facebook but this is just a fucking great corporate values statement. It's so great that millions of people outside the company know it and have thought about it.
Sorry about the 503s! We were adding servers to our cluster to handle the hacker news load, and a few 503s are hard to avoid. If this is consistently happening for you, please file a bug and we'll look at it.

https://github.com/mozilla/voice-web/issues
Former rethinkdb developer here. Sharding and replication just work out of the box. Connect the servers to each other with "rethinkdb --join otherserver", then use the web dashboard or the client APIs to specify how many shards and replicas for each table. Send queries to any server in the cluster and they get routed automatically.
10 Simple Ways IVR Systems Are Used in the Insurance Industry
Stay away from Lever.

It's a slick web application along the lines of the fanciness of Asana's interface.

What it isn't is a sane applicant tracking system. It doesn't reliably notify you when candidates apply. It supports virtually zero job board integrations. It very much wants you to adapt to it, with very little support for the other way around. The interface is over-complicated to the point of being unusable for anyone who isn't committed to spending hours a week in it.

I have never used an ATS that I actually liked, but the failings of Lever make it pretty special in terms of ATS hatred.

It isn't particularly expensive though, despite their opaque pricing. Most ATSes seem to price ~10 open reqs around $300/mo or so. Where the real expense comes in is usually the job board listing fees -- but since Lever barely supports any job boards, you don't have to worry about that!
That article only shows data through 2013, a number of states have changed their laws in the last four years.
Curious, I find the left version preferable. More compact, and probably faster to load too.
TYPES OF TECHERS
I suppose then the mystery has now shifted to why no one is seemingly doing anything about it?

I hope that does not come across as sardonic. If a functional mechanism to curb these kinds of excesses does not exist anymore, that is something which we will have to come to terms with as a society.
It's unlikely that the current administration would ever confront China about its Internet clampdown on human rights grounds, but I don't understand why this isn't treated as a trade issue (or perhaps it is and I'm ignorant of it). There's no reason we should allow WeChat, Baidu, and other Chinese Internet companies to operate freely in the United States when American competitors are almost entirely locked out of the Chinese market.
It doesn't actually have a standard base at all; they seem to have discovered several times that there were more variable stars than they expected and had to extend the system in increasingly convoluted ways.
If most are screen based, you could just dynamically generate them and have them expire after N minutes. If someone wants a printed one make them jump through an application process for a long standing code.
My company makes recruiting software and it we knew it was only a matter of time (a couple of years ago... now its obvious) before Google would enter the recruiting industry.

Particularly because the major players other than LinkedIn basically rely entirely on Google. All Indeed, Monster, CareerBuilder do is buy Google Ads and then essentially resells the marketing. This is similar to the situation TripAdvisor is in but generally worse.

The current job boards / job aggregators (the companies above) are terribly unimaginative, generally not helpful and often price gouge companies (if you wondering the what the difference is between aggregator and job board... there really isn't much but one pulls the jobs aka crawls the web for them).

Now the boards/aggregators are trying to become more service based and offer higher value offerings for long term strategic reasons. Indeed is rolling out "Indeed Prime" and I believe Career Builder is offering something similar as well.

So as creepy as it is that Google is in the recruiting space I am optimistic that will finally provide some spark of innovation that is much needed in a very high touch industry devoid of it.
If wanna go into the rabbit hole of mech keyboards, visit this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/

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I'm already building a pseudo-MS Ergo keyboard, waiting for the plates.
It seems more a marketing strategy than a real belief in user privacy. For example, see the latest rejection of ad-blocking VPN apps from the App Store
https://9to5mac.com/2017/07/15/apple-reportedly-shifts-app-s...
Changes Are Coming to Electric Skateboards
They've gotten to big for their breeches. If you're tech, try to mitigate a bit by using services from other companies.
the evidence speaks for itself. bias seems to be a norm in american politic
I just bought a year print subscription for $39.
> you would really have to offer something groundbreaking to displace C and C++ while also matching portability

If you offer something groundbreaking, you don't need to match portability. Many people will be willing to make the tradeoff.

> Microcontrollers and constrained environments are another critical niche for C and C++

Why do you assume Rust can't be used for these niches? I understand the potential issues with old environments, but what about modern/future ones?

> It also does not do build once deploy everywhere stuff Java and JS attempt.

Rust compiles to JS today. It will eventually compile to WebAssembly.
"YMMV" Indeed! As far as I know the business traffic is prioritised. That doesn't mean it's the average for home connections (the majority of users/customers).

> The transmission speed is up to 7 Mbps in download and up to 384 Kbps in upload. Pursuant to Article 7, paragraph 4 of AGCom 244/08 / CSP Resolution, the value of the minimum download speed for download of the service is 6.4 Mbps. This value derives from measurements made in the second half of 2012 on lines (1) which are between 1000 and 1500 meters from the central station. It should be noted that this value refers to the exclusive use of the ADSL connection for Internet access without the simultaneous use of VoIP or IPTV services. In any case, the value of the minimum transmission speed in download that represents the target value on which Telecom Italia contractually contracts is set at 2.1 Mbps. For the lines located in the areas included in the Anti-digital divide project (see www.telecomitalia.it in the Info Consumers section - Anti-digital project divides the list of municipalities with a rated transmission speed of 640 Kbps download and 256 Kbps in upload ) Contract engagement is set at 300 Kbps in download and 100 kbps in upload. For details, see the contractual terms. [https://www.tim.it/offerte/fisso/internet-voce-e-timvision/a...]

"Are you talking about guaranteed bandwidth, or rather connection speed?" The upload bandwidth I normally have is the guaranteed minimum. Whether it's because of the last mile or the network congestion, I do not know.

Now, we are in the cloud era, suppose you try to upload an hd picture, or a long document somewhere (side note: this is an average use case, not something you should expect from a power user). For a file size of 10MiB [83886.08 Kb] (again, nothing exaggerated) at a transfer rate of 100kbps the transfer will take 838s: just slightly under a quarter of an hour !!! IMHO this is totally unreasonable.

My position is that the company is what remains of a former state monopoly, which still holds a dominant position in the telecommunications market. Unfortunately for the users, this is why there has been no incentive to improve the network over time (for everyone, doing some localised research project is insufficient), and today the situation is not the best.

Telecom Italia is not a company like the others: it's allowed to do many things that others cannot do, including harassing people at every hour of the day for selling their new snake oil with a crazy new discount (taking the money spent on the salaries of the people workin in the call centers and investing them in improving the network is the first thing to do).

The 20% is what I'm experiencing in one of my connections, but you do not have to take my word for it, a quick web search is going to show you relevant results:

http://forum.telefonino.net/showthread.php?t=402839
https://www.tomshw.it/forum/threads/telecom-upload-basso.247...
http://www.evilripper.net/adsl-telecom-italia-1-megabyte-in-...
https://www.tomshw.it/forum/threads/banda-in-upload.69639/
http://forum.telefonino.net/archive/index.php?t-402839.html
... and many others ...
> the beauty of the referenced code is very hard to match

- 50 line comments containing type annotations in a strictly typed language and HTML

- 80 column limit

- single character variable names

- variable declarations inside loops

yeah ...

Edit: I like that people downvote without having counter arguments.
It was more of an flavour(fork) of android than a linux distro. First they made installing android on x86 easy as installing linux or windows. Second they added desktop like launcher for android. So multiple apps can be open at same time and do window resize.
MPC-HC is on GitHub:

main repo: https://github.com/mpc-hc/mpc-hc

group: https://github.com/mpc-hc
While I appreciate that it is in vogue to bash Trump & Co. (Largely justified I would agree), we would be mistaken to couch this as something new or some difference between the mainstream political parties. Sessions predecessor had no problem with asset forfeiture either: https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-04-11/obamas-do...
I don't like Mr. Sessions, nor do I like asset forfeiture, but I'd like to know more about the efficacy of rehab before heading down that path. I asked for some stats about rehab in the recent opioid epidemic thread, but I didn't receive any. Even as everyone threw forward ideas about free state sponsored heroin and rehab programs.

I really would like to see some stats before forming an opinion on emotions alone. After all, it was emotions that landed us here.

Some people just don't want to rejoin society. Why choose life when you've got heroin? Pretty sure that rehab doesn't have a good success rate in those situations.
Squeal! I don't care what it does!
We care about the existence of a nontrivial set of images that demonstrate a troubling lack of robustness in image classifiers, at least until we we have good reason to say with confidence that such failures will not be a problem in practice.
Not just trading, but I wonder if they could take other actions based on that. For example, if your company uses Google Apps, they may not be able to read your individual email but where does it say they can't use aggregate data to figure out if you're up to something?
There are literally dozens of good compromises available nowadays compared to a decade ago, where high-end keyboards were just a niche.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14771084
I think one of the biggest differences is that Go has only value types and references thereto (including the builtin data structures, which are basically just fat pointers). Even if Java gets value types, there will be a huge and useless value/class dichotomy as in C#. But there are dozens of other misfeatures in Java, such as protected/final/first-class-constructors/explicit-interfaces/etc. And this is just the language--the tooling is even worse (and no, a huge, fragmented ecosystem of kitchen-sink tools is not "better" than a few, simple, purpose-made tools).

All that said, I have a lot of criticism for Go as well, especially as a language. I just can't see Java being on par with Go, even with generics. Of course Go has more than a decade of hindsight that Java didn't have (or at least Java was in too deep by then to make the requisite changes).
I don't think it would be illegal due to insider trading laws; there are plenty of finance companies that seek non-public information to trade on, as long as it didn't come from someone with a requirement to safeguard that (i.e. an insider), it seems to be fine.

It would probably be illegal for an employee to do this though without Google's consent; wasn't there a case of a few Chase(?) employees trading on credit card data and being fired and prosecuted?
Last year I automated a bit of my dating by sending Tinder messages via their API. It worked, and this is how I met the woman I now live with :D http://jazzytomato.com/hacking-tinder/
I'm not a Go programmer, but I'm impressed by how simple and straight forward this is!
I use DuckDuckGo as I said, but you can easily switch the default search StartPage; which shouldn't give you stripped down search results.
Yet another reminder that the US is sinking into a corrupt 3rd world country without a middle class or the rule of law.
For the lazy:
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2008: DuckDuckGo was founded[15] by Gabriel Weinberg,[16][17] an entrepreneur whose previous venture, The Names Database, was acquired by United Online in 2006 for $10 million.

This is most relevant snippet I could find about DDG's founder.
The nickname for (former AG under Obama) Loretta Lynch was Queen of Forfeiture, and has a body of work reflecting this when she was working in Brooklyn. It would be insane to think that civil forfeiture was not a problem the past 8 years.
Google Fi as well
So I found this[0] but haven't read it yet. Was there something we should be looking for?

[0] - https://www.eyerys.com/articles/people/search-engine-and-pri...
I wonder why I don't see candidates jumping up from joy when they hear about it ?

Don't you want to be conveniently tracked, compared, analyzed and disposed of with a couple of clicks ?
Don't you want your professional profile to be sold to the highest bidder some time in the future ?

I mean, I'm sure the software brings order and ease to the hiring process, but somehow this doesn't make me feel good.
It makes me nauseous ... from how insignificant and mechanical this makes us.. people treating people like data...
I promoted Ted to software architect
some states(Missouri, possibly others?) put it in their department of education.
Profit vs. for profit doesn't matter. You need to recruit the right faculty, people at the top of their field who can go anywhere - THAT is the hard problem.
That would be a really stupid reason to increase asset forfeitures.

Like, deeply incompetent and unable to engage in clear thinking about the budget stupid. Even if you don't bother to exclude things like the Madoff case (which was a huge seizure and didn't really go towards government spending...), asset forfeitures aren't going to make the tiniest dent in the budget deficit (on the order of 0.1%...). Never mind the debt.
This practice (brought back to life by Reagan's "Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984") is not only unjust but unconstitutional at face value.

The cynicism required to double down on this practice is a new low for Sessions, something I didn't think was possible.
I'd argue this is a tangental product.

You can easily use Google Suite, but also use Workday (which provides a similar service to Hire).
As I remember, it was being exploited for styling pages. When I registered there, I wondered how everyone change backgrounds and fonts on their pages (usually with quite insane look), and then found a post how to do it: add <style> tag to one of profile fields.
Is Beijing Blocking WhatsApp in Mainland China?
MPC-HC's source is already on github, anyone who wants is free to fork it - but for that matter anyone who wants to actively develop the code has been free to do so for a long time now (it's GPLv3-licensed after all).

MPC is a fairly hairy C++ project that uses the low-level Win32 API heavily, there's probably not a lot of developers out there who would like to work on this code by choice even if they really like the project as a whole.
Universal Hint System (1988)
Meet Japanese Software Engineer Who First Created Emojis
Yeah, I don't understand the need to compare the structure of a business to the structure of a countries government in the first place.

Employment relationships are contractual, and completely voluntary. People need income to live, sure, but they are not forced to work for any one person or company to receive that income.

The working conditions mentioned in the article are insane, but you "vote" by choosing not to work for that company.

I also take issue with "Like Louis XIV’s government, the typical American workplace is kept private from those it governs." What world is the author living in where normal governments disclose 100% of the information they hold or receive?
Fair enough; this is the apparently kind of storytelling I don't enjoy. I misinterpreted and assumed that this was supposed to be informative, and not entertaining.
Right, but my point was that resolving the 301 and storing the result is more efficient overall than doing a full mirror of a URL only to find out that it's an alternative URL with their tracking stuff appended to the end of the URL.

But yeah, if you want to bypass t.co (meaning that it's not useful for archeologists) it makes sense to just archive them.
Based on what goes on in every cell in our bodies when it comes to the information processing involved with DNA, I don't think there is any such algorithm which is fundamentally not realizable in biology. I'll grant you, I don't think biological neurons are calculating derivatives across connection strengths, but there must be some analogous process to control neural connection strengths.
A ton of it is security and Data Science related, if you actually look at the jobs. That's one of the reasons python is so popular, it's pretty dominate in those circles.
My favourite as well. I have one on my desk here. (It was £17 on eBay a few years ago. The USB converter for it was a lot more expensive than the keyboard.)

There's a problem though. The Type-5 used to be one of the quieter workstation keyboards, and it's far less noisy than a Model M, but the flat keyboards of today are so much quieter than any of those used to be that I can no longer use it in an open plan office without feeling conspicuous. I'm not sure whether it does annoy my colleagues (they are very polite) but I do feel uncomfortable about it and as a consequence it doesn't get as much use as I might like.
Microsoft cuts off Windows 10 support early for some PCs
MPC-BE has several active devs with years of regular work being committed and looks a lot nicer which is reason enough for people to prefer it. Over the past year the activity of users has shifted from mpc-hc to mpc-be it seems, at least on the doom9 forums.

What I would love to see is someone make a nice Windows GUI player based on mpv but depending on your hardware mpv can be a real PITA to get working smoothly without experimenting with various backends so you don't have dropped frames or really fucked up output (my igpu notebook when using my desktops config just produced a green and LSD-trip style static image).