skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on who you ask. Airline pilot forums, for example, would have a much different stance.

The HN crowd probably thinks the current meritocracy is good enough, so unions seem like an unneeded expense.

You tend to appreciate it more if it might have direct benefits to you.

I suspect if you asked people who were laid off, or older developers experiencing age discrimination, you would see a different distribution of opinions.

There's also some history in the US of unions lining their own pockets, shady deals, coercing membership, organized crime connections, etc. None of it very recent though.
PayPal owns Venmo, and Venmo's profits help sustain PayPal. PayPal's business practices have rightly come under heavy scrutiny, which means that, for quite a few people, there is a compelling "reason to switch" in spite of the fact that it "came first".
Although I agree with you in principle, I think your analogy is flawed. The nature of a web request is that you're asking in the first place, and the serve has to serve you. If you're taking a photo, you're not asking anything; data transfer has a cost, too.
> Following this one-month "free access" window, the content is available at no cost in perpetuity, exclusively through the open access links on the page below.

The whole 1 month thing is really weird
If you want HN to be a place of real discussion and debate, it's stupid to try to tie people to their companies.

When the company is Google (or of a similar scale) -- and that company claims to care about privacy (but sometimes engages in practices that suggest otherwise) -- then clearly that association is quite relevant. (Its not a huge oversight, but really, if you had put a standard disclaimer at the end of your comment it would have come off a lot more nicely).

But calling people "stupid" for pointing out that this association matters (when it obviously does) is just... "Google-y", I guess.
The research I'm familiar with (and teach) suggests you see associations prospectively in both directions, but no clear evidence of causality (although I've grown skeptical of causality as a concept).

This PNAS paper is nice to see, although as some are pointing out, there's a bit of p-hacking probably going on.

My sense is that certain research topics are kind of ground zero in this misled, outdated mind-body war. So you see people trying to demonstrate something along the lines of "see here, there's a biological basis to this, so patients aren't just inventing this," as if the psychosomatic conceptualization of the problem was ever just "inventing it," and as if people with psychogenic psychosomatic problems can't mimic the same things in their subjective reports (what happens when you do have this cytokine screen, and you still have people who look normal on that?)

As you're alluding to here, the problem is that even if you do find inflammation markers it's difficult to tell if this is due to stress in a broad sense, and how these markers relate to perceptions of stress across a broad range of individuals.

Just to take an example: how do these markers look in psychiatric patients who don't report CFS symptoms? I don't mean to suggest that these individuals have psychiatric problems, but it's unclear to me from this study what is going on with these inflammatory markers.

Let's say these cytokines do cause increased pain and fatigue experience. Do CFS patients have a stronger relationship between those inflammatory markers and experienced pain? If so, what does that mean?

The paper itself is more appropriate in tone than the NPR article, for what it's worth.
Sometimes I wish we could start over.
If people out there are satisfied with Ruby and Python3 performance, then they will be even more satisfied with Racket, which should run at 2x speed at least...
Definitely! It's amazing that two people can have smartphones with wifi, bluetooth and other comms links yet there isn't a standard, platform agnostic way to send a file to another phone.

So now we have Nearby Communications for Android and AirDrop for iOS and we still can't send stuff to friends in the same room, without sending the data through a remote third party service. The only standard supported mechanism for sharing without an app is via email!
Ackman bet big on Valeant and rode all the way from more than $200/share down to $10/share, losing more than $4B in the process.
The HTML that browsers accept is loosely defined

The HTML specification has a grammar and defines whats allowed - a subset/derivation of XHTML/SGML and their ilk

There are a bunch of test template files in the test/ folder that demonstrate what kinds of errors are caught.
Thing is, these questions here are mostly not "tricky" by any means. Most of them are just examples of how type coercion works in JS. Sure this not something one encounters very often, but for this reason I warn people that the following question is not graded - I'm just curious if they know. I have found that people like these kind of questions and are often curious what the proper answer was. Makes for a nice break and sometimes sparks some interesting conversations.

In my experience qualified people are first and foremost curious and usually bored enough with the usual stuff to start looking into things like these.
Respectfully disagree. The moment people are able to reliably say that the computer is more accurate than a human, people are going to want it IMO. Cancer is just too scary to fuck with, they are going to want the fastest, most accurate thing you can get. And then they will want a second opinion from a human, of course. :) But that's no different than today!
There was a documentary about this on Netflix. Interesting viewing, but it did feel like a vehicle for parties involved in shorting the stock to get more momentum.

Link: https://www.netflix.com/au/title/80108609
"Published to the world" is a bit off; I'd compare it more to recording telephone conversations with corporations' public service numbers. They always tell you that you are being recorded (for "training and quality purposes") so they give up their right to not be recorded in turn.

If a company paid a million people to call into an information service hotline and each request one fact from it—and then the company recorded and compiled the answers into their own database to start their own information service—is that illegal?
The BEST way to figure out if someone has built large systems is to ask them about it - how it was designed, who initiated which part, edge cases, people involved, etc. The candidate will often start talking more than they would if asked a simple yes or no answer. BS sniffing here is fairly simple.

It also tests soft skills - if the candidate can communicate to others (engineers even); often, large systems cannot be built and maintained by a single developer, hence communication to build and scale a team is another sign of large systems (people and tech) experience.

How would a portfolio demonstrate large system experience, unless the system was completely online? It's much more difficult to put a large system into a portfolio than small code samples. And if the large system is of value - why interview at all!? =P

For pure programmer/tech chops, sure, the interview ideas are fine. However, that's only one aspect of finding the right person for the right position at a company.

The hotseat approach is not right for all companies.
If we're going to regulate any form of AI I believe strong AI is the only one worthy of such attention. Everything else will simply be called technology as soon as it works and then it is just 'mere algorithms'.
Sounds like you are more interested in hazing than interviewing.
Your comment is entirely nonsensical in this context. I want a way to be able to publish a repo and have the people subscribing to the repo be able to only pay attention to my changes in an automated way. This software currently doesn't implement that, as far as the guide that was linked suggests. It is therefore utterly useless - every time someone decides to grief my repo, it requires manual intervention to resolve.

Once you have that very, very basic ability to replicate what people expect when they subscribe to a person's git repository, you can start playing with automatically merging together people's changes - but in practice, merge conflicts are a thing and there's no good way to resolve them. If you can come up with a way to automatically resolve merge conflicts, you'd be rich, frankly speaking.
> But anyway, their excuse that it needs to be secret is BS, DDOS protection methods are widespread and not very secret as it is. They probably just want to keep it secret, because they don't actually have proper DDOS protection.

This.

At what point did the government become a special interest group which does not exist to protect the nation it serves? Providing good security advice is their job.

Even if they do have some super secret techniques, keeping them secret is not a strategy, it's what idiots who don't know anything about technology or computers or network security would do.

I would trust Cloudflare's staff over the FCC's I.T. department every day of the week, and I hate Cloudflare.
Amazon Express is, in my experience, by far the most customer-friendly major credit card in the US. There's a reason that I use it whenever possible, and it's the same reason that most places don't accept it.
Yea. It wouldn't surprise me if there'd be value to having a medical concierge who would help you integrate info from different doctors. But, on my reading, the main thing being complained about in the article is uncertainty and doctors being unable to quickly issue definitive diagnoses. Trouble is, that's the nature of science. Insofar as the process approximates an ideal sequence of Bayesian updates, it has to look like an unpredictable (unbalanced) random walk.
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I wonder if sugar's ubiquity has anything to say about this.
> Amount of resources required to run AI research have already made it a deep pocket game.

there's no shortage of existing AI techniques which don't require google*days of cpu power, and there's no reason to believe research on all of them is completely tapped out.
Isn't that monopolistic behaviour? I suspect that it might violate some laws, though I don't know anything in particular. On the other hand, why couldn't DDG just do what Google does and say "robots.txt prevents us from getting a description for this site"?

On one hand I'm against the cartel beahviour of Google doing something like that, but on the other hand, if Google asks and the other company agrees to block DDG, why shouldn't that be allowed?
OP, how much time did it take you to make this ? split backend/frontend ?
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I feel that Erlang adoption is probably the most realistic growth path for most serious Elixir developers. All of these topics you mentioned (breakers, message routing, etc) have been discussed and developed in the Erlang community for years. The only new thing that Elixir brings to the table in these areas is abstraction and syntax - both of which are arguably not needed in large complex systems.

Source: full-time Erlang developer of 7 years who spent a full year coding Elixir in its v1.0.x days
Germany's unions and US unions operate under different laws, which grant different rights and power to the unions, and apply different restrictions to the employees and companies where unions are established. Comparing the two as if they are the exact same thing is specious at best.
> I don't know how anybody can take models like this seriously. It's about as valid as any of these economists models. Hell, it is partly an economic model.

Because bill nye, leonardo di caprio and Al Gore told us it is 100% correct and they are the greatest scientists in human history.

It's crazy how this global warming political movement has hijack science to push their agenda.

> We've had a period of cooling that none of their models have predicted, and instead of saying, hey we aren't that good at modelling, they and everyone else who went all-in politically on these models have started a hate campaign against skepticism.

It's funny how model after model has proven rather suspect and yet you will get called anti-science or a denier if you don't accept their model 100% without question.

If only the global warming movement had more humility of scientists rather than the total conviction of a cult members, I'd take them more seriously. And if they were more honest about the data and the science of climate rather than lying about it.
Teamsters convince Congress to block driverless trucks
Yeah, OP has some serious issues. Lul.
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The problem with Flash et al is how they were proprietary browser plugins. I do not believe anyone is trying to pursue QML web integration as a plugin, especially since plugins are going away all together in every major browser. I'm not sure if you could webassembly a working environment, but having to redirect users to install an addon is a huge UX failure.

The goal would be strictly to get .qml supported as a render target the same way .html (and in many browsers, .mp4 / .png / .svg / .json etc) is today.
Its political in the U.S.
Business owners (large and small) tend to view them unfavorably and they tend to be Republicans.
Democrats strive to support most unions since their members are largely working-class, blue collar constituents. Part of that has changed with Trump's election as he campaigned harder among those groups than did Clinton.

Public unions (police, fire, gov't workers, some teaching unions) are usually not politicized this way.
What Do Array Methods, Amazon Web Services, and Top Gun All Have in Common?
Well, I down-voted it because it's vague, in-actionable, and conspiratorial.
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I don't know in this case, but there are several identifiers that both parties might have (phone number, email address, billing address, name). In the industry, you can sometimes get "anonymized" data that is keyed by a hash of these identifiers, then you can hash your own identifiers and join to deanonymize. This isn't how it works in this case, but I know other companies do this.
Tesla Model 3 Impressions
That is not Kerr's argument. A key point (which he has developed to a very detailed degree, as both a law professor and actively defending people, such as Weev) is the access controls in place.

He's not just bloviating; before you disagree with him, reviewing his arguments is worthwhile. (I do disagree with him in part, and agree with his reasoning but don't like the outcomes in part, but in any case, he's a pretty accomplished lawyer, and I'm not any kind of lawyer, so there's that.)
Humans can detect CO2. An elevated level of CO2 makes you feel out of breath. Reducing O2 has no impact other than you pass out.

If you use fire, the "invisible" risks are oxygen deprivation or monoxide poisoning. You will be quite aware that something is wrong when there is too much CO2.
What about users with non-Apple devices? Was this hardly an issue ?
And a stream of potential employees flowing, fully-trained, out of the military.
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Quartzy is hiring front-end engineers to help make scientists more productive
With all the talk about India banning AI cars to protect jobs I believe US just banned trucks to protect Anerican jobs
I think "http" actually makes sense here, for two reasons.

First, this crate provides a common layer for the HTTP protocol; if you're interacting with HTTP, you'd use this crate and its types, often directly. Note, in particular, that this crate provides builders to construct HTTP requests and responses, which is often a large part of client and server libraries, respectively.

And second, I don't think any specific HTTP client or server software should claim the crate name "http". A common layer like this, built around the protocol itself, seems to have a much more reasonable claim to it.
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What I'm getting at is that the author went ahead and implemented a bad solution to a simple problem because it seemed "cool". This is a great example of what NOT to do. A simple accumulating snapshot table with a bit field along with a timestamp for each state and some simple constraints would do the exact same thing more efficiently.

Furthermore, I'm challenging the utility of putting the transaction logic in the database. It doesn't make sense other than to seem elegant. His application needs to actually respond to the events so it's just silly to separate the transitions. This is a complete redo.
QML is not meant to be a styling language. Its for writing applications. It replaces all of html / css / js. You declare your objects, style them, and have code run in them all in the same place.

It behaves like a widget-based programming language toolkit, so you would have global style properties with per-item optional overrides.
I'm wondering what parts of the interviews had anything to do with engineering. I saw questions about CS textbook trivia in the first interview and vague references to questions in the second.

I didn't see much substance with respect to problem solving, especially in the context of machine learning or data science, analytical thinking in terms of systems or anything else that would benefit me were I hiring manager using these reports from my team to inform my decision about moving forward.

If the first interviewer were on my team our next one on one would have some time devoted to what "engineering" means to the person, and over time if it didn't stop being synonymous with "can regurgitate CS trivia" the interviewer would be removed from the pool of interviewers I select from to interview candidates.

The second interviewer needs to include more detail regarding the questions asked and the discussions that followed. It's far too vague to really have any weight attached to it.
I agree with you, but you simply can't do any business with that logic because all of your affiliates have to treat your tokens different if they are or are not securities.

Exchanges have to have assurances that they are not securities, otherwise they may retroactively be sanctioned as unregistered broker-dealers. For the traders themselves, securities are subject to insider trading logic which doesn't apply to non-securities. It is a tough landscape, and creating a legal basis for not being a security is a prerequisite, for now.

When actual broker-dealers (like TD Ameritrade, ETrade etc) start trading tokenized securities offerings, it will be extremely advantageous because they have much more robust infrastructure and trillions of dollars of assets under management already. So people that register their tokenized offerings as securities now may have the first mover advantage in the future for attracting liquidity, but a big disadvantage now.
> Chernobyl's RBMK design is so dangerous that I'd call it borderline criminal...

Here's an old comment backing this up with sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13349940

> China is deploying some new ones, and that might cause them to be adopted in the western world (I hope).

If the Chinese end up leading the way to a fission-powered future, it will be a great thing for the world. Don't forget the safety features!
VPN apps are completely different than what happened with the FBI unlocking request last year.
A stomachache is hardly the same as years of debilitating pain and fatigue. One might think a chronic condition that presents consistently enough in type of symptoms across more than a million patients may be worth considering as possibly physiological in nature. Certainly this team at Stanford believed so.

The symptoms of this syndrome include pain, dizziness, and headache so that's three of the four you mentioned. The very story is about how this syndrome is often not diagnosed properly. That means that some portion of MUPS may be explained with the tests the team at Stanford is developing.

Just dismissing it because there's not yet a great test is the problem they're trying to solve.
Even in this case you still have vulnerabilities in the two party's machines. Just because they have different interests doesn't mean that they'll apply strength to their machine's defenses, or even have the ability to stop the attacks on their machines assuming they were 100% committed to following correct procedure.
Take a closer look - I had the same confusion at first.

The PHD and VPE is the interviewer.
I think the inference is that automakers weren't able to respond appropriately or timely because they have contractual obligations to the the workforce.If cutting salaries is required to keep the company afloat, but that's not possible without a union negotiation, and the union has perverse incentives of some sort at play, that could cause real problems.

I'm not saying that's what happened, but it's not impossible to come up with plausible situations that could lead to the situation described. I wouldn't be so sure to immediately discount the role of a union in how well a company fares a crisis, just as I wouldn't be so sure to discount the behavior of the executives. Each company probably had its own unique mix of problems.
For about 8 months (Dec 2015 to the end of July 2016) I got daily emails from Amazon with free articles from the Washington Post. Information on this is sparse, so I don't know why it started or stopped.

Prime members also get a free six-month trial period, followed by a discount on a subscription -- $3.99 / month [0], as opposed to the standard $10 / 4 weeks (or $99/year) [1].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072MHQFJ1
[1] https://subscribe.washingtonpost.com/
I just resort to using the desktop version on mobile. I can't really stand the current mobile design, let alone their app, way too much space wasted.
It's quite unreal. I remember when the paper and initial implementations came out less than 2 years ago, you had to go through this really long setup process that only worked on certain operating system and was a huge fuss. A few services came out online that would do it for you, but they were slow and limited, with huge queues.

Now, as you mention, you can run it in a few seconds on your phone, or in my case, on my Chromebook, right in the browser, with zero installation. Truly amazing.
Read the article and find out :^)
Are you arguing that the purpose of secret salaries isn't to keep employees from a better understanding of how much the company would be willing to pay them? We can have that discussion, but it would help if you made a coherent counterproposal. If you claim that open salaries cause significant friction between employees, for example, please cite comparisons to the countries and business where open salaries are common; there's enough of them that data should be available.
My dentist said sugar laden soft-drinks and sugar-laden processed food are the worst culprits.

Especially the soft drink. Apparently the acid and sugar in soda are the worst things you could put on your teeth. It's like a double whammy.
Several departures at Kleiner Perkins