skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of an data science interview I had early in my career that was exactly along these lines. Several "case studies" that turned out to be semi-guided math/cs interview problems. One guy started off on a variation of the secretary problem, I recognized the general form of it and pointed out that there is a straightforward way to derive the optimal solution, which we could tweak for our situation. No no, we have an hour to kill. I want you to explain my way of solving the problem back to me. Cue an hour of frustrating whiteboarding where neither I nor the interviewer seemed to really grok the intuition for the steps we were taking. I went through 3 more situations like this over the course of a grueling 8 hour day, probably about an hour of which I had the chance to talk about my own background. Didn't get the job, and was specifically called out for my "poor technical performance". I had been through so few interviews at that point I had no idea it wasn't the norm. I legitimately wondered if I was cut out to be in the profession. Felt like major shit.

A little while after I had an interview more like what you describe. It was night and day. We did a brief technical portion that was mainly to ensure I wasn't bullshitting my experience level, then a few hours of discussing my past projects with various current team members. I actually enjoyed it, found myself relating to my interviewers, and easily got the job.
too bad for US only requirements. I am really really passionate about agri-tech plus I have worked remotely through my entire career. Should i shoot my CV?
This is compliance 101... It's not news. It's a corporation that has auditors.
Tangent, but can your method be extended to indicate traits of a coder?

Eg, based on this sample, the coder is like American, with experience at X corps, went to school at Y, etc.
>In Morgan’s view, the key part of the Howey Test in terms of ICOs is whether the expectation of profit relied on the effort of others

This makes sense and is precisely how its been done, nothing new here but..

>What [the SEC are] trying to do is decide whether the investors are really passive investors or whether they’re actively involved in creating value

Is this to say that the decision to take action is based on perceived investment opportunity rather than something that is explicitly sold as an investment opportunity? This would be a quite dramatic change in the ICO world.
Because if you have a cool name you can sell it solely based on the name. A bill with a boring name must stand on its own two feet to pass.
It depends. One of the places where property-based testing buys you the most benefit is when testing systems that are conceptually simple, but use a complex implementation.

In doing so, you tend to have clearly defined properties that are fairly simple to validate, but a code implementation that may have very intricate internal interactions that cause all sorts of bugs.

See http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/strange... for example.
The odds are not in your favor when you're up against a nation state with unlimited resources.

I hope your investors have good lawyers. Prison is no fun and proper opsec forever is not practical.
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yup - this is exactly what I thought! But I guess someone who can actually help with the problem is ok too.
This is (at least for now) only for .Net Core, which does not support COM interop, I believe.
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I would bet money that North Korea will not first-strike, and the US military will not fulfill a first-strike if directed.

My premises are that North Korea is a rational actor, and their overwhelming priority is preservation of their regime, and they know without a doubt they can't win a war against South Korea - let alone South Korea and its allies.
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So this guy thinks the SEC will act only for really blatant scams.

It's a great time to run a scam.
"just for Windows" probably still makes it one of the biggest repos in the world. I wouldn't be surprised at all if it's actually the biggest.
An Instagram hack hit millions of accounts, and victims’ numbers are for sale
I just wrote to Blumenthal and shared some info from your post. He's my senator, and I agree with most of his policies, but this is seriously misguided. Thanks for helping me to understand the chilling effect this bill would potentially have on every popular online communications service.

I seriously cannot imagine how this would not put Facebook, Google, Reddit, and every other online communications platform out of business overnight.
the amazing UX of Airpods

Genuinely curious. What is so amazing about it?
Correct. The project I work on at MS is 3 repos all by itself.
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"TA" means "teaching assistant." I think the OP is asking about this to detect cheating and/or plagiarism.
Half.com was the best place to buy academic textbooks. I just used it a couple of weeks back actually for a copy of On Cooking.
I once got shouted at by an ebay service rep over the phone that you „cannot BUY“ on ebay (because I mentioned the word „buy“) ... well times have changed ...
Moving it out of the black market itself is an effective price decrease - Johns can be expected to be willing to pay a premium to avoid the risk of prison.
Even as a host using booking.com I dislike many shady things they put you through but at the end of the day these dark patterns must work in practice as there is no other platform that delivers even closely as many guests as booking.com.
Apparently Tor hidden services works well for this- there's a mode where the hidden service authenticates clients, so you even get some security for free.
Most mobile providers don't offer IPv6
Duc: tools for inspecting and visualizing disk usage
CAPH – High level dataflow programming for FPGAs
Take a look at Rhode Island for an example of how this works in reality. The results were overwhelmingly positive: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-rhode-island-accidentally...
Facebook arguably attempts to. The markets are different, and people prefer separate apps, rather than using facebook apps in the facebook app, but facebook still does the core part of all the different things.
Do you guys know any good resources on stylometry?
> That goes in assert statements. It's run-time checkable

And runtime checks help because...?

> But you'd rather prove it once so the run-time checks are unnecessary.

No. I'd rather prove it to rule out the program being wrong. The runtime check is totally besides the point.

> With a few simple theorems, such as (...)

I think you mean “proposition”. It's not a theorem until it has been proven.

> Think of proof support as being an extension to optimization of assertions.

I never use runtime-checked assertions, so I never need to optimize them away.

> Users need never see those proofs.

But, you see, I want to see the proofs. How am I supposed to maintain a program I don't understand?
The Bloomberg article described Juicero as "one of the most lavishly funded gadget startups in Silicon Valley" and founder Doug Evans once said he planned to do for juicing what Steve Jobs did for computers.

With vision like that, it's hard to believe there were any issues.
> For instance, I don't really see a need to have the same app do chat and payment (in fact, I'd prefer if they didn't).

You not seeing a need and them meeting one that clearly exists have nothing to do with each other.

> What about WeChat is particularly innovative, other than just bundling a lot of different functionality into one big app?

Making it actually work well enough for millions of people to use it. I can't think of anyone else who's succeeded at that and there are plenty that failed miserably to build that type of "kitchen sink" platform.
Most taxi services don't have apps, or have apps that are just the equivalent of phoning the dispatcher.
> The Eastern Europe "market rate" is lower than the US because cost of living is.

It's the other way around.
If you are an ordinary producer of documents (plain text, articles,tech reports, letters, mathematical documents, etc.) you should start with LaTeX, not TeX. It is uncommon to write in plain TeX and this has been so for many years. In practice, you will use mostly LaTeX constructs, and the simplest TeX ones, which the LaTeX guide would include.
Just applied :)
I have yet to encounter a time when a list of 2 items didn't suffice for tuples. I'm sure applications exist, as tuples are immutable, but I have never encountered the need for them.
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Never claimed otherwise, just unfortunate or perhaps obtuse timing. People around here sure wouldn't dare miss the Burn, even as their company burned out.
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I seem to recall a paper a couple of years ago showing that this can already being done quite successfully?!? Don't remember the details, unfortunately.

(It kind of seems like it would be "easier" in way since natural language doesn't have to obey any special syntax.)
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Are those ACT scores? Surely you realize that an ACT score is not a sole determinant of "qualification" for admittance into college. If it were, there would be no such thing as an admissions department. Everyone would just use ACT scores instead.

The difference between a 34 and a 32 on the ACT is the difference between the 99th percentile and the 98th percentile. This is well within the range of an individual's personal variation. A given ACT taker's score can vary by a couple points around their "true talent" based on short-term environmental factors (e.g. the quality of their pencils, the temperature of the room, their luck with guessing...) An admissions process that admitted a student with a 34 and not a student with a 32 would be deeply arbitrary. Which is why every college admissions officer I've ever spoken to has said they use standardized test scores as a rough initial screen and then never look at them again.

The relative qualification of students should be measured by their performance at the school, not by their standardized test scores.
If users have the slightest inclination to attempt to be distinct across accounts, wouldn't that defeat this sort of de-anonymization?

If for example I apply different linters or stylers, and don't write docs, and don't use camelCase, and don't write tests, won't I appear to be a different programmer? Can we link IOCCC entries with their author's regular day-job work?
The Californian style goes to great lengths to be inclusive and excludes a lot of people in the process.

The Russian style smells like vodka and owns a dash-cam.
This investment seemed to me to be in search of the next Dollar Shave Club.
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Is there any other company not using these dark patterns? I tried to use many others (big enough to have choices) and it's all the same.

Sometimes you're even wondering if it's not just the same website with another branding.
Which is why the bags have a super short shelf life and the machine has a barcode scanner that will detect and refuse to squeeze expired bags. They touted this as a feature, of course.
I think @notyourday was saying that Communism has a bad track record similar to Nazism. So if Nazis do not get freedom of speech, then neither should Communists.

As for modern-day, pro-Communist activists being violent you need look no further than Antifa. According to the Washington Post, Antifa consists of "predominantly communists, socialists and anarchists" [1]. While Antifa is not exclusively Communist, a large portion describe themselves as such. And they are violent regardless of their self-justification: the Atlantic, "The Rise of the Violent Left" [2]; BBC, "Antifa: Left-wing militants on the rise" [3]; Politico, "FBI, Homeland Security warn of more ‘antifa’ attacks" [4].

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> In fact, I wonder if the increasing concentration of profits in a handful of companies is contributing to the inability of companies further down the food chain to pay workers market rates.

You would not be the only one wondering that :-). A friend of mine who used to be an economist working at Google and I were discussing what the impact of having over a Trillion dollars locked up in 'cash and cash equivalents'[1] by the top 50 international companies.

By its nature, cash equivalents can't be lent out by banks for longer term investment (they are required to be able to exchange the investments for cash on short notice) so that hoard just sits there.

[1]https://www.gfmag.com/magazine/september-2016/global-cash-25...
Seems that's also what Trump is doing, he's using foundation money, not his own personal money.
Unless their was a serious problem with their product or their team, with 120 million USD, they should have been able to avoid a PR disaster set off by a single article.
Obviously, there are numerous issues with the product itself: no one wants to subscribe to packets of fruit,
especially if those packets are perishable,
especially if they have to buy a six-hundred dollar machine to properly use the packets and to know if they are fresh,
even if you later find out you can just squeeze them with your hands.
I suspect if you dig, and probably not too deep, you'd find issues with the team that tried to make money with this product as well.

There are problems that even $120 million can't fix.
I was late to discover Ken Burn's Civil War, as I only started watching the series a month ago. It is a profoundly educative series and I would recommend it to anyone. The episodes are lengthy - which they should be, because there is just so much material. I also finally understood where Ken Burns panning (in e.g. iMovie) has its name from.
The idea itself isn't horrible. But investing $100m in a niche home appliance that hadn't yet been validated in the market was just dumb.
AMP does not do anything in this direction, and certainly not on purpose. If it does please file a bug. We'll treat it as high priority.

Note, that at the beginning of the developer preview 2 years ago, AMP did do something like this, but it was quickly fixed.
NSFW in US - for better or worse
remote ok for non-US resident?
If this happens is not due to lack of candidates bur rather because of extraneous and extravagant expectations.
The answer to this is fairly straightforward: VCs don't actually expect (or need) every investment to be successful, they just need it to have the potential to be huge if everything works out.

Laypeople always seem shocked when a VC-funded company implodes. We should actually be surprised if we didn't see routine flame-outs, as that would mean VCs aren't taking on appropriate quantities of risk for the asset class.

As a final aside: I've lost count of the number of times I've pulled an about-face on businesses I initially thought were stupid -- once I had a chance to talk to the founders and better understand the vision. Many of these seemingly 'dumb' ideas have surprising depth.

Some, granted, are in fact dumber than a box of rocks.
To clarify, I meant sustainable in the context of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, not in their overall manufacturing process and waste output.
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The part about assuming girl is there to get husband is away entirely.

A lot of women still do this or are expected to do this. I'm not sure how many of them are going to MIT or enrolled in CS, but it's common for women to go to college with the expectation of finding and husband and being a house wife, or working a few years, then having kids and doing that.
Hehe, seems like we are all going to commit to GitHub using encoder to a blended, typical style and pull via decoder to our own unique styles in order to obfuscate who we are. Like those BlendIt extensions in Firefox to pretend we run on Win 7 instead of Linux etc.
Wow I literally had no idea that you were actually pairing people up with real people, I thought it was a duck too (or some 3d animated thing).