skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> isn't someone who provides the correct answers and code a culture fit in the first place?

No, they're merely a technical fit, maybe, depending on what you ask. (Your blinding process would also mean preventing interviewers from seeing any open source contributions which may be far more indicative of technical fit than anything you'd ask in an interview.) Technical fit might be enough for most roles, more blinding at least at the initial filtering stages might be a good idea, but culture fit is important for a lot of firms. At the very least people will want person-to-person interviews to maximize their odds at detecting a permanent asshole (and other toxic types), since typically no one wants to work with one even if they're skilled.
Key issuance and revocation by centralized authorities is a problem the X.509 PKI system has been dealing with for decades now. Shouldn't be too hard to create a similar system for personal identification.
I feel like we're talking past each other. Personalization of search results is orthogonal to this article and discussion so I'm going to pass on responding to your points there.

As for PageRank, I really appreciate the Wikipedia link. Super helpful. If you're arguing that PR is not subjective because it uses an algorithm, my response is: the algorithm encodes subjective judgements about how to evaluate "quality" in a web page. For example, the subjective judgement that a web page is likely to be of higher quality if there are a lot of other high quality web pages that link to it.
So, wouldn't that by definition be war? If the governed reach that consensus, I expect the government would just declare them "terrorists," and their actions "illegal."
It seems like a good idea, but how do you make sure you don't hire someone with a complete lack of social skills?
If you have more time, this is more thorough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWqrx08UeUs
You wouldn't depend on technical know-how, you'd roll it into a card or something like that. Chip & pin cards already do all of this.

And I'm not aware of any system suitable to replace SSN that can withstand rubber hose attacks. That's where law enforcement & the justice department will have to step in, as always.
I suspect it would be more responsive using Macvim/Gvim. I suspect the terminal emulator adds some keypress latency.
Do you know the name of that novel?
What does 5x mean? How is that millions?
Sounds exactly like what Plenty is doing.
$100 million revenue per year will do that, I guess they do something better than the competition https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/03/messagebird/
DynamoDB does not come with offline sync.
Experimental product design program for turning big ideas into proven businesses
That doesn't follow. "People are still behaving naively and being exploited, ergo, the market isn't getting smarter".

And as an aside: if one is to assume consumers and the institutions that collectively make up the market aren't getting smarter, it would be total irrational to assume voters, regulators and politicians are. The political and regulatory system is teeming with corruption, meaning that expanding the power of government over private interactions could lead to far more exploitation, not less.
Not to beat a dead horse but:

- Why count Markdown files?

- TypeScript, CoffeeScript, C/C++ headers/source files, basically any language other than JavaScript, are probably part of that modules source, and not the compiled JS output that is used.

Still a good million lines though.
I wonder if they’ve thought through this use case for apartments. It seems like you shouldn’t receive anything that doesn’t match your name or “current resident”.
SF Bay.

Try clicking on "Apply to Winter 2018" at https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/

It's only when you click that link you get the slowdown.
Switzerland bans mammography.
Guacamole is "clientless" at following cost:

("SS": Session Server (where the session is running), "GS": Gateway Server (where the protocol translation is performed from RDP -or VNC- to custom HTML5), "WC": web client)

- At SS, compress images using the RDP -or VNC- protocol. Cost: CPU, RAM, and RAM bandwidth, because of desktop render, delta analyzer, image compression for the RDP -or VNC- protocol, image-specific compression (e.g. RLE in if a old protocol is negotiated), lossless compression ("bulk"), encapsulation, bandwidth/frame control, transfer.

- TCP transport between the SS and the GS. Cost: LAN traffic.

- At GS, decompress the RDP -or VNC- protocol in the "gateway" server (bulk lossless decompressor, and image decompressor -e.g. RLE for basic protocol negotiation-). Cost: mainly CPU.

- At GS, compress the the images in a format suitable for the web client. Cost: mainly CPU.

- Send the images via websocket from the GS to the WC. Cost: WAN traffic.

- Decompress and render the images in the web client. Cost: client CPU and RAM.

Then, you have to dimension how many GS you need per SS, routing between the WAN the GS, how do you balance both the SS and the GS, high availability setup, etc.

TL;DR: data is compressed and decompressed twice, because of the protocol conversion, involving extra latency because of more time for compression/decompression and more hops.
In many of the Socratic dialogues, the person Socrates is talking to ends up frustrated and finds some excuse to leave.

They did that because the method is annoying in large doses.
Save Code Share: EU Copyright Review Threatens Free and Open Source Software
Hmm. I'll have to look at this closer. If it's adjustable, that might greatly improve the responsiveness.
Is it easy or possible to freeze and unfreeze on demand as needed?
Retirement is not the only time one lives a life.
I would try to make comparison with Google's CLD tomorrow
I see Whatsapp support on their website but I find this very strange, Whatsapp doesn't have an official API, only some hidden endpoints for their clients that can be changed at any time.
https://www.messagebird.com/en/chat-api
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From an embedded perspective, it's ridiculous to expect that a computer will be harmed when simply pulling its power. The phenomenon is due entirely to shoddy engineering/programming that pays no attention to transactions. Babying systems just encourages it to continue.

Rather than superstitious behavior, we need cheap test jigs that can (for example) validate newly-purchased SD cards so that defective ones can be immediately returned.
Most people aren't really all that devious and evil. In order to do shady stuff, most of us have to first convince ourselves that we're not really doing anything wrong, or that the legal fine print will give us a way out if it ever comes down to a fight.

If Lewandowski had an inkling of the trouble he was getting himself into, he would have done a lot of things differently. But he didn't. He was going to go start something awesome, damn the lawyers, full speed ahead. Many of the greatest founders in the Valley got their start by either backstabbing or frontrunning their employers. If you're hoping to follow in their footsteps, it's easy for survivorship bias to take hold.
> Promise.all will start all the promises so they run in parallel, while `for-of-await` executes them in series.

Not true. Promises represents computation that is already started so both Promise.all and for-of will result in the same parallel computation. Promise.all does not start anything (except the promise that waits for other promises). The difference is only when you create a promise. If you do so inside for-of loop with inner awaits then it is sequential (because next promise is created only when the previous one is resolved).

The code example in the article shows inner await in for-of loop with getItem: it's the function call inside for-of-await that makes it sequential, not the loop itself. If they first made all calls to getItem, gathered results (promises) in an array and then made a for-of loop with awaits of that array elements then it'd be parallel.
> "Resuming"

(damn) the correct word here was "summarizing". Silly me.
What kind of education do you propose? Who would it target? How much would it cost? Who would be responsible for implementing it? Who would pay for it? Who would be responsible for overseeing their implementation? By what metric would we determine success or failure? Over what time scale do you propose the education to last?

This is a problem now. Your solution has too many associated questions to be implemented immediately. Without the answers to at least some of the questions I posed, I cannot agree that your proposal is the remedy.
What books are Product Managers reading?
> USPS could be in the identity business.

I have heard this idea before, and I wonder who first floated it?

Certainly, some role as an "authentication service" could be far more robust and future-proof than their current bread-and-butter: the delivery of junk mail.
I guess you have your reasons... but why not use the "official" way to embed chromium in Qt (QtWebengine) instead ? This would work both in widgets and qml.
It is overloaded; software team is working on it.
Are you running arch userspace with freebsd kernel? Is this like running debian kfreebsd ?
The images are actually hosted over http (or ipfs or swarm). The former requires you to find a host, and the later two have ways of compensating for traffic :)
Deepdyve is a little pricy at $40/mo and only allows you to print 20 pages/mo.
It would require having a central authority that holds, or at least authenticates, all the keys, which many might not like.
Less efficient in keystrokes? who said anything about that?
Why do people keep thinking they can use a garbage-collected language for “systems programming”?
I read through it and I still don't even know what the new logo is, or if there is one, or what has changed. Someone got paid for this?
This is controversial, because the study everybody was talking about last year[1] concluded that there hasn't been a decrease in the breast cancer death rate over that same period.

[1] http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullart...
Personally, I find this to be hideous, like a "worst of 1980's magazines" theme. Twitter has a bunch of people pointing out that it performs poorly on many devices and abuses HTML, among other offenses[1].

Beyond personally, it's absolutely absurd for a major web company to ignore accessibility in 2017. Many of the color variations are low-contrast and will be difficult for people with vision impairments, like low sight and problems with colors.

What an absolute disaster. Dropbox is a utility -- I don't want it to be edgy and novel. I want it to be solid and functional. Imagine if Microsoft Office re-branded this way.

1. https://twitter.com/DropboxDesign/status/915249755906727936
> The federal government needs a capital district it can defend militarily against the states. That's the whole point of D.C.

That overstates the matter. The federal government was incapable of defending the District militarily against the states, because it intentionally had no significant standing army at the time the District was ceded to it [0]. Even after the U.S. Army started to take shape — mainly for service on the frontier, not at the national capital — it's doubtful that the District could have resisted invasion by the militia of even one of its state neighbors;
this is indirectly evidenced by the ease with which the British took and burned Washington in 1814.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_A...
Your personal attacks are uncalled for and extremely uncivil. I have a right to disagree with you, and I expressed why I disagree with logic.
If ~90% of patients did actually give up on it in reality then yes, I would say that because it wouldn't work for 90% of patients. The medical community would move away from it.

Of course, that's not the reality. every single one of your arguments are hypothetical metaphors that have no connection to the facts of the issue at hand. You have no practical solutions. You're only answer is for people to 'toughen up'. Quite the problem solver you are.
I would love it if I could take a QR-code printed copy of my PGP key, and have the local post office scan and digitally sign it after verifying my identity. Or a local Notary Public.
Click on that bookmark of yours and their "donate" button?
I imagine there has to be some group of people trying to upload it's contents using IPFS. Seems like a natural solution to the problem, since navigating files would be easier vs torrent.
Read my previous comment.
The Firebase Realtime Database has been around for ~5 years (and is still fully supported after this launch).

Cloud Datastore has been around in some form (started as App Engine Datastore) since 2008.

Cloud Firestore was a massive multi-year joint effort between Firebase and Google Cloud. Google is investing heavily in both, and this is a big deal for our teams.
Wow, totally blew it on that one. Sorry! Like you, I wish this were still available on newer iMacs. I wonder why this useful feature was so short-lived.
Delta to offer free in-flight use of WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and iMessage
Yeah, wanting something for your tax talers - who could even contemplate something like this- that would be like a normal buisness relationship with a government.

Sounds evil and twisted to me.
Net neutrality was dead the moment Trump won the election. Pai was specifically chosen in order to repeal it. Public comments and hearings and reports are all theater.

If we wanted Net Neutrality to stick around, we shouldn't have elected a President who openly opposes it (https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/53260835850816716...).
Seriously. Until last year I drove a car that was 1/3 the cost. And while not new, it was a nice car!
Move over fidget spinners...
Yeah, there is no way they should be allowed to bill the estate which they themselves are administrating.

In a normal country with a social welfare program, the guardian would have to bill the government — if the government doesn't agree to lay down money to say that this person needs protecting, nobody gets paid.

(In an honest no-government-programs libertarian paradise like the US sometimes pretends to aspire to be, the guardian would have to bill some kind of health insurer that covered this specific care: and again, the insurer would take on the task of scrutinizing the claim.)
Alphabet wants to launch an Uber rival this fall
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While I do have a math degree, I have a good amount of coding experience. I'm open to any and all opportunities where I can use my math background as well as expand my programming ability.
An Apple ID card would be a lot less dystopian. (And would look cooler).
Any opinions, thoughts and ideas that are expressed on ycombinator that are not left-wing and don't tow the liberal line are being deleted.

It's not that there aren't people who disagree with these bullshit articles, it's that ycombinator mods are literally deleting and banning users who express opinions that aren't "correct".
Of course it's a solution. It solve (among other things) the problem of unexpected power loss. You can't design your system for the happy path and hope for the best.
That's such a big, intimidating risk. I don't mean that to be snarky; starting a business for means of primary income is prohibitively scary to me.

I have a few ideas that I could probably implement to make some passive income. It wouldn't be crazy initially, but it also wouldn't be an amount to scoff at. I think they all have the potential to grow or be bought. The thought of taking that giant risk and failing...

Aside from the ramifications of selectively hiring from my minority group, starting a business makes me shudder.
I don't believe that there are plenty of qualified applicants of all races. I've been in a position to review resumes and perform interviews for over a decade and I don't recall having ever seen a black developer candidate, much less a "qualified" one. The closest I've gotten is I worked alongside a black sysadmin once. My city is nearly 30% black. My city is also about 25% Hispanic. I've worked with a hand full or so of Hispanic devs, I'd guess somewhere in the range of 3-5% of my coworkers have been Hispanic.
Is this an acqui-hire? If so, how does VC term sheets work in this case?
They've done it from the start.

Even 2007-era Facebook encouraged users to upload/sync their email contacts to "discover friends already using it".
They stopped recommending screening. But they did not ban mammography.
I'd be prepared to bet that majority of European non-English/French/German/Spanish names do not sound familiar to Americans (USA-centric).
It's not really as clear-cut as that, Australia for instance had some study results* led by a Hardvard Grad show the opposite, that blind recruitment generally favored the white male majority as it precluded affirmative action hires.

*https://pmc.gov.au/resource-centre/domestic-policy/going-bli...
Right, this is the challenge. The biggest problem is that SSN were used like a password and not a username. If we simply replace it with a different "secret" number, we don't change much. It is also possible we make it worse temporarily as all the attack vectors are exposed. Give people a private key on a card and they'll just put it into their wallet/purse. Stealing the wallet gives someone an un-refutable ability to become you.

There would also be far less hacking to get SSNs if we had a reasonable credit system where our credit is always frozen and only unfrozen for a short window (24 hours?) at our request and this request is verified via a MFA approach of our choosing. As long as you can get $5K credit at the register in 5 minutes, you are going to have a hard time stopping identity theft. Too many people want easy credit. It will always be a balance of security and convenience. Most consumers want convenience and will continue to do so as long as the cost of the fraud is hidden from them.
I agree with much of this. Just to add to the shamefulness of her treatment, she "went mad" in 1905, was committed to a psychiatric hospital (likely against her will by her brother Paul) in 1913, and died thirty years later in 1943. What a waste of a wonderful talent. Her treatment by her brother in particular is despicable. More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Claudel#Confinement

There are attempts to bring some balance though. There was a flawed but wonderful exhibition in Detroit in 2006 which showed their work side-by-side. Aside from a power cut in the middle of our visit this was an astonishing demonstration of how much she influenced his work. (Although the power cut did allow some fun projecting huge shadows from the sculptures onto the walls using our phone torches). http://www.economist.com/node/5354447

If you enjoy sculpture, or are even passingly interested, it's very much worth your while to make a journey for any exhibitions within striking distance.
Dan Harmon – Talks at Google
There are plenty of people who regret having the common name, too. Hard to find them online, sometimes you get a mixup with someone else's arrest warrant or credit report, etc.
> You wouldn't depend on technical know-how, you'd roll it into a card or something like that. Chip & pin cards already do all of this.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/how-a-criminal-r...
This has, of course, long been the case:

http://libgen.io/libgen/repository_torrent/

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/dbdumps/

http://libgen.io/dbdumps/
Warning: not an expert. Someone smarter/better educated, correct me (or better, tell me I'm right =)

Cancer tends to (though not always) correlate with age when you break it up by type of cancer. For example, children don't get prostate cancer or lung cancer all that often. Similarly, Retinoblastoma and other types of cancer are more common amongst children. So, because of that, you have a built-in tendency to control for age and allow the 5-year statistic to be more of a valid comparison. Similarly, you can calculate 5 year survival rates for any set of subgroups you want – break it up by age, race, gender, co-morbidity or even cancer variant (many of those are frequently done) and then compare. At some point (usually in pretty quickly) the 5 year survival rate is a meaningful comparison...

Also, to be honest/in my opinion, 5 years is a meaningful number for the lived experience. You can imagine doing a lot in five years vs, say, 6 months – so for that reason, it's a useful metric for generally understanding "what chance do I have at having more life to truly live?"
Really, this shouldn't be even decided by the President. It should be the matter of law. The problem is that Congress is completely dysfunctional in this regard, so we shouldn't expect any improvement here.

It's a very perverted situation, when policy on anti-trust is drafted by the executive branch.
If blacks and latinos are as capable as whites, why are they incapable of achievement without white peoples help?

Why is it considered racist to postulate that perhaps blacks and latinos ARENT as capable as whites so therefore they require more assistance?
"This is ridiculous property-rights absolutism. ... there's no reason they get to sit like a senile dragon on a hoard of accumulated wealth."

WTF. It isn't ridiculous to respect the fact that unless explicitly given to you, other people’s property is NOT yours and this applies to your parents too. It’s amazing that this has to be disputed at all but it explains why one sees some people with families going beyond will-making to planning for divestiture of their wealth to occur while alive later on.
Hm, I am not sure. The program is called UPS My Choice, one of the items in their FAQ [1] has:

"There are some common reasons why you’re currently unable to enroll in UPS My Choice, including:"

"You recently moved to a new home. There may be little or no public record information about your move. Unfortunately, until updated information about your move becomes part of the public record through mortgages, deeds, utility bills, etc., you won't be able to enroll."

It does sound like they do more verification, but it's not clear if they check this regularly to deactivate accounts.

It also makes me wonder if they verify by the name the shipment is going to (matching last name). I've never had something shipped to my house that didn't have my last name on it so I'm not sure.

[1] https://www.ups.com/us/en/help-center/tracking-support/valid...
Is anyone else suspicious that this could be a backdoor into identifying undocumented workers in the country? Could this be used as another way to purge certain classes of voters from the roles? Social security numbers are fairly easy to "borrow" but if they are no longer accepted for employment documentation or voter registration, it leaves the door open to a much stricter set of rules to obtain whatever new ID is created.
I transferred out of community college, and I can definitely confirm that it is possible to stay there for pretty much forever without making meaningful progress, as long as you don't flunk out.

It was also very frustrating to transfer out. The transfer office made multiple mistakes that would have prevented my transfer if I had not noticed them myself. This was at a California community college with one of the highest transfer rates in the state.

Unfortunately, people who grow up poor are not socialized to be persistent and successful in navigating the kind of bureaucratic systems one encounters in college admissions, transfers, and student loans. So, I'm not surprised Liz was stuck in community college for a long time, although 6 years is excessive.