skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Face It. Your Hiring Process Is Broken
That has not been judged. In _The Chickenshit Club_ Jesse Eisinger argues that prosecutors are just cowards unwilling to take the reputation of losing a case so they simply refuse to go after cases with any small chance of losing.

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/11/536642560/is-the-justice-depar...
So it's basically a client library for Node.js?
Because the official API is a good working piece of software already.

https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v3/refere...
In human neuroscience we cannot ethically take living human brain samples. For example, many autism researchers would like to examine how drugs can affect neurotransmitter pathways in neurons from autistic humans, but we cannot get those neurons.
Recent research is getting funded in which skin cells, which can be ethically collected, and are coaxed into neurons. While there are bound to be differences between these neurons and 'real' neurons from the brain, it is a big step forward.
Moving somewhere always changes the community, and necessarily either involves displacement (move into someone's old apartment) or change in neighborhood character (add net new housing supply). This is a distinction without a difference.
"reputational hit". Heh.
Success in our society is not a good measure of evolutionary success. Evolution is only concerned about the number of viable offsprings you produce, not how well off they are.
How would you tax Apple? Realistically basically all taxes on corporations simply result in added cost the consumer. You may think you're taxing Apple but you're really just taxing the consumer extra.

As long as all their competitors are subject to the same tax, the price simply rises. This is why Apple products cost much more in the EU. Of course, if it were cheaper for a company to be located somewhere where they would not be subject to that tax, then you're simply just motivating them to relocate.
The biggest hurdle to speedbump placement for speeders in residential areas is emergency service response times (ISO response times and such).

Now, if you had a speed bump that could become perfectly smooth when emergency vehicles are approaching, but have some other slowing effect for normal traffic, that would be interesting.
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I never said anything about internships being a source of cheap labor. Please don't put words in my mouth.

While yes, an intern typically makes less than a full-time engineer, you have to realize that the intern reduces the productivity of the host engineer, who has to spend time training the intern, looking over the intern's work, and so forth.

The real value in the internship program is that it essentially creates a extended interview process after which we can evaluate the individual (given firsthand experience of how they operate in a work environment), and the individual can evaluate the company.
Lenny's author wrote a lovely description of how he designed Lenny (skip to "If you're still reading, you might be interested in Lenny's background"; a few paragraphs after explaining why he doesn't want to open source the voice recordings):

https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/comments/5lcfwq/lennys_his...
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You still have to brake (brake pads and discs suffer for no reason), gear down (transmission suffers) and potentially move off at a low speed (clutch suffers, your wallet suffers if you go over them frequently). Even at minimal speeds (less than 20 km/h), speed bumps feel very unpleasant and I really don't like sounds my car is doing while riding over them.
I mean you're totally 100% right, but I don't think he wrote that with the intent of harm. I think in his post is a more serious issue. Academic papers are incredibly hard to understand. I received an undergrad degree in CS and spend a lot of time teaching myself theoretical CS. I often struggle to read CS papers, and find it hard to imagine many of them being useful to anyone without a PhD. For instance I was reading a paper on computer vision which used a Bayesian Network to predict a depth map from a regular 2D color image. After spending several weeks, I felt like I understood the article almost well enough to implement it. Thing is, there were some steps in the learning algorithm which relied on a specific kind of optimization (I forget which), but they didn't specify which parameters were used, so it wasn't obvious how to implement it to me. My friend has a PhD in EE (on the theoretical side, his education focused heavily on statistics and optimization) and he only looked at it for 30m-1hr, but he wasn't sure what they meant either.

I can always just fall back to gradient descent instead of the optimization parts of the algorithm I don't understand, but that impacts performance, and I got the feeling I'd spend hours implementing this only to have something which can't perform in real-time so I gave up. It was just a side project. It's frustrating after devoting weeks to this. Reading and attempting to implement a research paper in my own field is incredibly hard.

I feel like if research papers were written in a more accessible, less dry manner and specified details important to implementation, the world could be a better place. If it were easier to implement these things as side projects, you might have people experimenting with these things at home and then starting businesses out of them.
Fairness is super subjective, so in reality people just want preferential treatment.
It's not exactly what you're looking for, but I'd recommend taking a look at Apache Solr:

http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

It allows you to run a document search engine that can be distributed over multiple machines. It could be adapted to create a web search engine. Interestingly, it looks like DDG uses Solr, though I'm not sure if it's used in their core search features or not.
Because you can’t get federal funding, which is quite substantial, for research.

Eliminating ethical concerns will hopefully get billions more in research money.
Both are ways of dealing with uncertainty, but probability theory is more about the uncertainty around which state a variable has, while fuzzy theory is the uncertainty around the states themselves.

Let's say you have are taking a shower with an automated temperature control. The current temperature is set to 28 degrees Celsius, but there is a sudden shift to 24 degrees.

Probability Theory: Based on prior knowledge, I know that a temperature of 24 degrees Celsius is considered "hot" 10% of the time, "warm" 50% of the time, and "cold" 40% of the time. Based on this the current expected value of the probability distribution is still "warm", so I will leave it same until cold > warm.

Fuzzy Theory: Based on my fuzzy set membership, 24 degrees Celsius has 25% membership in the "hot" set, 60% membership in the "warm" set, and 50% membership in the "cold" set. My fuzzy system is setup to maintain a particular relationship between cold and hot (let's say, cold == hot), and therefore increases temperature until balanced.
No, you bought after the crash. The relevant question is would you have sold an insurance policy before the crisis and been able to stay solvent through it.
This study absolutely does not show that humans are evolving
searx proxies user requests to different search engines.

https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

there are different instances :
https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances
Deterrent for others. Weed farming is lucrative, even large fines wouldn’t be a large deterrant.
I think the reason that people prioritize the form is because of a kind of cargo cult. The form is followed because that's how it's always been and it has worked so far. And people are scared that if the form is changed it will have unexpected consequences.
A PhD is effectively an apprenticeship towards becoming a tenure-track professor. It's not unreasonable to wonder why we are investing so much in training so many people when there is so little demand for that training. The vast majority of PhDs end up in industry doing something barely related, and are no more productive at it than those with only a first degree or even no degree at all.
Agreed, and not much more needs to be said about it.
Work for yourself?

Whenever we need to hit consultants for some work, we NEVER make them do technical exercises. We just trust their word.

However, the people that want a steady paycheck are put through much more tedious tasks for less pay.
The author explains why very nicely:

https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/comments/5lcfwq/lennys_his...
Or even a response for that matter.
You did a lot better job of expressing my thoughts than I did. I wrote my original comment for this thread in a hurry. I had a short lunch because one of our suppliers gave us a shipment of parts that were all out of spec. Management told me to keep the parts since they would get a discount on their next shipment if they kept these bad parts for production. Using these bad parts caused more rework than we’re saving. Buuuut I’m just ranting.

Back in my school IEs are called “Imaginary Enginners.” So they made shirts that said “We may be Imaginary Engineers but we’ll be your boss someday.”
I am sure I don't understand the details, but I do know that NIH is actively funding research investigating neuro-psychiatric disorders employing models based on converting skin cells into neurons.
There's an interesting argument that the revolving door actually prevents regulatory capture through encouraging regulators to be more strict.

So "interesting" now means is "deceptive and ingenuous".

In a hypothetical world where corporations were akin to mom-and-pop bakeries that would need to hire power, sophisticated regulators to guide them through a very tough state, that argument might be plausible.

In the real world where corporations are powerful, forward-looking institutions who know full well that paying people involves a process of rewarding behavior, this argument says more about the person advancing it than anything else.

And sure, a lot of smart people might claim this, just as similar stable of smart people operate in the stable of the corporations writing arguments for newspapers and magazine. But maybe all those people aren't at all tainted in their views. I'm sure they could come up with hypothetical situations where they aren't.
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Elon Musk extended battery life of Teslas in Florida to help drivers evacuate
The problem isn’t trash, it’s clearcutting and soil erosion. Neither can be quickly or easily fixed, erosion especially isn’t going to be repaired without intervention.
Elasticity of demand doesn't matter, more just elasticity of supply.

What elasticity of demand does in an emergency is help ration goods. If you're considering buying ice, and ice becomes temporarily much more expensive, you'll cut out elastic demand (eg, having cold drinks), which leaves more ice available for inelastic demand (eg, keeping insulin from spoiling).

>Also I don't think it's fair to use the term "someone", because it's often a company that does something like this. Don't humanize companies.

I had a specific example in mind: John Shepperson, who, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, bought 19 generators, rented a U-haul, and drove from Kentucky to Mississippi. He got arrested and the generators were confiscated. This is not the sort of incentive that we want to provide.

If it's possible for higher prices to induce supply, you want to let high prices induce supply and let the magic of price information do its work. The modern capitalist system is high magic, and prices are an important piece of how the magic works. Remember when fidget spinners got suddenly popular? March of this year they weren't a thing, and in April they were in pretty much everywhere. Messing with prices is how you break the magic. Do Not Mess With Prices.
Putting these in Ann Arbor or Tuscon would be the best test. How does it fair in freeze/unfreeze daily cycling like in Michigan? Hows the rubber stuff work in Tuscon where you really can fry an egg on the sidewalk? What's the cost benefit to cash pinched cities, the maintenance, etc? What happens when bored teens try to drain it or inflate it with bottle-rockets? Does the goop damage paint? ETC.

I feel this is a Silicon Valley 'Problem' where everyone else has much tougher/different ones than the Redwood City slogan of 'Climate Best By Government Test.'
I kind of hate that as well, given that I maintain multiple popular libraries, have a ton of code on Github (of actual web apps that you can use right now), etc. What can a take-home coding challenge tell you that you won't learn from actually looking at my production code?
And smaller is not better or more impressive for this type of device. Scientists would rather have large samples that could be put under such pressures but so far only tiny samples can be contained and put under these high temperature and pressure[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_anvil_cell
Not sure what you mean. Google using Chrome headless for crawling? I'm sure their crawling infrastructure was already more than capable.
https://github.com/munificent/vigil/issues/24#issuecomment-1...

The proposal goes further...
Me either!
fun fact: it was republicans equifax lobbied.
Once upon a time a top scientists could contribute to biology, chemistry, and physics, yet today this is extremely unlikely. All the knowledge we accumulate and build on need names, structures, and nuance. You can't just throw that all away and describe what you are doing or thinking limited to a basic highschool level vocabulary.

The problems we face are harder, for complex, and more esoteric than ever before, and it is amazing.
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This might sound a little strange, but I would say programming. I have worked in the industry 25+ years now, and I've never had what I would call an interview. I've had informal lunches with the CIO, met the team at BBQ's, like that, but never anything more rigorous. On top of that, I'm fairly introverted, and don't have many friends, but I do have a large number of acquaintances, I'm known to be a good and loyal employee (I don't switch jobs near as often as the norm) and have kept up my skills (I hope) fairly well. I've gotten jobs because people knew about me, essentially, so it can be done.

I kind of fear when I actually have to do an interview. I'm hoping I make it to the end of my career before that happens.
I messed around with aggregating a few big news sites' RSS feeds and generating a static site from them after being in areas with choked cell reception. Turns out it's still plodding along!

http://104.236.56.7
Are readability scores generally a good metric to follow when authoring content? For example, would you pay attention to it for a landing page or a blog post?
Founder, CTO. Lots of other requirements though.
Are they not bound by ethical rules of conduct like lawyers? :o
It would come to that, if such an ecological catastrophe wasn't affecting lots of other fuzzier animals for promotion. Some fringers will probably do it "to raise awareness".
Failure to fully specify the methods is a problem, but it is an institutionally wide issue related to a number of complex issues. In honest open areas, this lack is due to issues with space in journal formats. In other fields, it may be to protect IP...ugh
Shameless plug alert! I made something similar +/- some features.
https://lnkchk.com
For reference, see Idiocracy opening sequence... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZ0ZUy7P3E

Smart people delay, wait and then end up not... "dumb" people just hook up and go to town...

I think the fact that Evolution is still spreading "successful" genes and "unsuccessful" genes become less prevalent is obvious.

What isn't obvious, is as Idiocracy so succinctly puts it, is that gene that are "successful" doesn't necessarily translate to intelligence, good decisions, stable lifestyle, etc.
Community has value and since people are displaced to different locations, the community does not just re-appear somewhere else, hence value destroyed.

It's also very easy to find negative effects of displacement. The one that springs to mind easiest is that old people who get displaced die many years earlier. These negative externalities fall on people who simply don't have the money to pay enough to cover these downsides.

For a totally trivial example with real dollars: moving costs are non-zero, so when people move against their will we trivially destroy value there.

I disagree with the sibling comment which claims that the existing community/neighborhood have done is what drives gentrification - a LOT of gentrification is driven by a balancing act between price, public transportation and safety. So, I would argue that for the gentrifiers, one neighborhood is often as good as any other, but for the people who have lived there a long time, that specific neighborhood is what is important. So in this sense, it is value destroying to push these people out on a 1:1 basis.

Often gentrifiers aren't even moving to their first choice neighborhood and are merely priced out of the places they actually want to live.
Ex-Lockheed Commercial Space?

When I moved from Philly to Boulder, it took me only 3 days to notice that everyone in CO was 'fit' as opposed to Philly, where most people are (generally) shockingly fat and a smelly city/airport. Denver can be pretty stinky, but nothing like anything south of South St. or just outside of University City. Generally, CO had more options to date people than blacking-out in some 'Irish' bar in South Jersey. That said, I liked the demeanor of people of East Pennsy and South/Central Jersey more than Boulder; they were more 'real' and didn't hide feelings or dis/likes at all. You got what you saw, while Boulder/Denver tends to be more 'shy' in demeanor and true feelings. YMMV
Aminet (an online software repository for AmigaOS) has a whole section called misc/emu [1] - a lot of interesting emulators can be found there.

Probably the most famous and useful is the Shapeshifter [2], which emulates MacOS on Amiga. It was incredible popular in the 90's, as it allowed to run software otherwise unavailable on AmigaOS (eg. MS Office, Photoshop or games like Warcraft II or Settlers II). What's interesting, Shapeshifter performance was comparable to the real Macintosh running on the same 680x0 as the host Amiga.

PC emulator was called PC-Task [3] and it wasn't that fast, but I think Windows 3.11 was quite on a 68060-based system.

There's also C64 emulator Frodo [4] (written by the same developer as Shapeshifter), open source apps ported to Amiga (eg. a800 [5]) and many others - including all the popular 16-bit console emulators.

Most of these emulators were written in the 90's, so I wouldn't treat them just as a curiosity (as freeflight comment suggest) - they were used and popular amongst Amiga owners, looking for ways to get access to the mainstream software 20 years ago. Usually they required accelerators, as Amiga 1200 with its 68020EC (no FPU) and 2MB RAM was too slow (and forget about A500 or A600).

[1] http://aminet.net/misc/emu
[2] http://shapeshifter.cebix.net/
[3] http://aminet.net/package/misc/emu/PC-Task44
[4] https://frodo.cebix.net/
[5] http://aminet.net/package/misc/emu/A800
The facts are the opposite really. Today we are collecting so much data that we don't have enough time to actually write it all up. That is why we beyond busy.

And to your others assertions. Utter hogwash.
Getting downvoted because I agree with Lénine. :-/

This is too unfair. [0]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmzOCtsZTW4 [0]
If your date is more fit than you, you get a great 'view' of their tuckus all the way up the 14er?

;)
"It revealed that Apple had hired ex-workers from the US National Security Agency (NSA), FBI and Secret Service to help catch tattletales."

Edward Snowden? ;)
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Oh goodness, MTA brought me so much fun.

Mostly of the Lua-script-that-made-cars-rain-from-the-sky-above-random-players kind.
Yeah, I agree on this use of the word. "Nepotism" implies getting the job through a connection regardless of anything else, but networking implies getting a job through a connection that is a source of trust of their qualifications.
Thanks. I will take that with me as I continue to work on my book. This isn't really the thread for it, so I'll stop here.
I didn't read krick as suggesting that malice was involved. He/she was talking about the kind of work that the institutional structure of science tends to favor.
On the other hand, REST allows exactly what changes to the API that don't
require modification of remote clients? Because hypertext only allows to move
boundaries where data is split into chunks returned at one call, not how the
data looks like, and it's the structure of the data that mainly changes with
API.
> A PhD is effectively an apprenticeship towards becoming a tenure-track professor.

No it's not, plenty of people get PhD with the goal of ending as a researcher in the industry.
As a matter of fact, betting markets are a fantastic way of aggregating opinion in the wisdom of the crowds literature. If you have some option that will pay out $1 if something is true, and you think there are 70% odds of it happening, you'll buy it if the price is less than 70 cents.
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Taxpayers making "profit" is the wrong metric. Why should those who mismanaged risk get bailed out? Better to fire sell it to someone more capable.
http://dspace.iimk.ac.in/bitstream/handle/2259/262/Fuzzy+log...

Is one sample of a fuzzy logic based controller of an industrial process. There are many such examples, I have a book here on fuzzy logic that details a whole raft of them.
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Ethics is stuck between a rock and a hard place if nations collapse because they're not disregarding ethics enough, as the previous comment suggests. (I'm disputing the premise.)
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It seems like you had enough luck to find yourself in relatively long, stable positions for work. I have job-hopped through various startups and other small companies, never staying in one place longer than 2 years. I'm introverted as well, and therefore never put much work into building a network. The colleagues I do know, never have anything for me regarding jobs. Basically I'm only good enough for those riskier jobs but not good enough (apparently) for more stable, "corporate" places.

People don't know how hard it is to get a job offer until they are unemployed and don't have a good network. I would love it if I never have to worry about finding another job again.
The problem is that "networking" as a term has been diluted to mean "introduce yourself to powerful strangers" as opposed to "build a network of people in your industry that respect you".

With a good network, you can find a job. With good networking, you have a nice Rolodex without much influence.
What was DuckDuckHack?
that place is evil.

Mister Burns style evil.

evil should be punished not rewarded.

(i am already familiar with the phrases: all corporations are like that. everyone is doing it.)
I wonder what % of all products started this way.

Also related, milk producers that are being milked (sic) by distribution giants are now pivoting to icecream because 1) they can sell at much much higher profit 2) traditionally made ice cream was forgotten and people realize how better the flavour is
Or it could be that aging is a complex process which a naive experiment like this is unlikely to shed much light on.
I wish there was a service like this in Australia.
Well said. You should write a blog post or something on this topic.
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Can you please provide an example of this type of search?