skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, do you think the guy who promised "40 acres and a mule" was a conniving totalitarian?

Yours is one of those comments that seem cutting against your ideological foes--"But Hitler was a vegetarian and anti-smoking!"--but is actually contentless.

A better philosophy would be "beware of any politician," full stop.
The Army of Silicon Valley Activists Trying to Elect Democrats
Extraction from semi-structured documents. Reqs:

- No absolute element positions

- Able to handle a reasonable amount of skew

- Able to handle photographs of documents (e.g. mobile)

- Excellent support for repeating groups/elements

- Around 95% accuracy without human verification
Portable C Compiler (pcc)
Comment from reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/78f1if/why_doe...

LIFO is also the strategy for Completion Ports in Windows:

> Threads that block their execution on an I/O completion port are released in last-in-first-out (LIFO) order, and the next completion packet is pulled from the I/O completion port's FIFO queue for that thread. This means that, when a completion packet is released to a thread, the system releases the last (most recent) thread associated with that port, passing it the completion information for the oldest I/O completion.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
But there are a lot of effects on the city as a result, which the city should prepare for. For example, parking lots will be less necessary in zoning rules, when people use Uber-like apps and self driving cars.
This also includes 1 additional year of batteries (something worth 50-100$). But this may also be a signal they are not confident they are reliable enough?
>interviewing.io evaluates students based on their coding skills, not their resume. We are open to students regardless of their university affiliation, college major, and pretty much anything else (we ask for your class year to make sure you’re available when companies want you and that’s about it). Unlike traditional campus recruiting, we attract students organically (getting free practice with engineers from top companies is a pretty big draw) from schools big and small from across the country.

Sweet pitch and of course a genuine problem. But companies have very limited resources and they use them at elite schools which have already stringent requirements to get in. Alternatively, I now see most companies are giving a hackerrank test as a start irrespective of your school. I guess this is a starting point to avoid the bias towards top schools.
Agreed. As someone who recently graduated from a relatively good (2100 median SAT score) school that ISN'T a top five CS school, it was absolutely insulting how often I was completely ignored by companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon. I understand that the median of talent is probably worse at my school than at, say, MIT or Stanford, but the top quarter of my CS year was full of brilliant people who had an unnecessarily difficult time getting hired by top tier tech companies for no good reason.

These companies could definitely improve their hiring quality by drawing top-tier students at lesser schools instead of hiring below-median talent from target top schools.
Never heard of that. I'll look into it.
> We need a totally new system

This seems historically ignorant. Most systems of allocating power and resources have been tried at various times. The answer is likely at the end of a long, nuanced, and painful road of combining ideas from several of those systems: adjusting, revisiting, admitting failure, and correcting.

I would be skeptical of any "new system" that is not a result of reflection on historical economies.
Regardless of where I live, I don't feel the need to leave my "home" every day. Not to say I don't go outside, but I don't need to commute somewhere (I own some acreage and I spent plenty of time on outside on it).

I live a few miles from pavement, so I definitely need a car to go anywhere. But I don't need to go anywhere on a normal day. I go to the nearest city about 3-4 times per month.

I do take advantage of UPS deliveries a lot, but I could do without if I were more patient.

I've set up my life to not need a daily commute, but I haven't taken the car out of it. If I tried harder, I could probably go without the car, but I don't think that would be healthy (Amazon Pantry options are lackluster last I looked).

To reiterate, I'm not even close to a paved road, let alone a grocery store or city, and I can manage not to drive very often. Seems like you could too, if you made it your focus. But we've all gotten used to living a few minutes from this and that and so we have to go do something, in our car, nearly every day.
I highly doubt anyone will be able to answer this, but I'm curious if this law would also apply to iOS apps. Of course, copyright on an app can't have expired, but it could be developed or sponsored by the Portuguese government. If Apple were forced to not apply DRM to one app, how far would they have to go? Allow sideloading of just those apps? That would open a can of worms. I highly doubt they'd do all that work, they'd probably just pull those apps and ban them just like how GPL licensed code is.
Double the characters to recognize; double the heuristics to internalize for rapid reading.

No idea what the relative cost of those are but I'd wager it exceeds the mechanical cost of scanning back to the "front" of the line...
I was incorrect about Tokyo being small, but it is quite densely populated (>15k people/sq.mi. at 893 miles in sq area, hence a good candidate for pub trans) and in most examples of pub trans, the bigger its coverage area, the more expensive it becomes to maintain (and to use for its customers).

Also, the “problem” of sprawling cities isn’t a problem for everyone. There’s no way in hell that I’ll move back to a cramped rat race of a city like NYC, and I am sure I’m not alone in feeling this way.
I would bet significant amounts of money that if you looked at people based on their in-job performance blinded to background you'd find insignificant contributions from education.

Not interviewing, I would bet that people from top-tier schools interview very well, as I think Triplebyte discussed the other day. I'm talking about actual bottom-line performance in the job, which in my experience shows little correlation with school or even undergrad degree for people with any experience at all.
Yes it does. There is a lot of research that suggests desks in the future need to be larger. One to accommodate more monitors, and two because people like to work with paper and computers. Paper you have to spread out, which requires a big desk.

A big desk made me much more productive, but it took a very long time. I’m not saying it’s not worth it, you learn a lot, but it’s a massive amount of effort. Once you get a bigger desk, you’ll find that you don’t use it a lot because you keep getting up to get things. You’ll eventually figure out standardized locations for everything, but then because it’s so standardized you’ll find yourself stealing from it because you know what you need will be there.

You’ll probably also need an extra keyboard, special mouse, desk lamp to help with the overreaching that causes lots of physical strain as well as the low light (or too much light) that can cause eye strain.

Next you’ll constantly fidget and get up for a drink of water, some food, a snack...so you’ll have to think about how you eat, how you space out meals, set locations for water bottles, and so on and so forth.

Once you’re done with all that, you’ll then sit down to work...and you’ll actually have to, for once in your life, confront your demons of inattention, task switching, and pure laziness. This is what finally got me to start meditating as well as eliminate the mental pollution of entertainment disguised as news.

We spend around 14 hours a day, maybe more, at our homes, so all in all I think it was worth it. But realize you’ll be building so many skills from the ground up that our culture just never teaches you.
> because of poverty (so because of slavery), disproportionately breaks those laws.

Not correct. Blacks don't disproportionally break laws. The problem is that non-violent crimes in America are disproportionally enforced. Several Thousand, probably close to a million cases of illegal white collar crime go unenforced every year. Stuff like insider trading, corruption, fraud, laundering, etc. Crimes that white people are more likely to break simply are not regularly enforced. Non-violent crimes like drug possession in Black urban areas are highly enforced, while whites in suburb areas use drugs at the same rate, are not enforced. There is a bias in the enforcement laws
i'm not sure robot soldier is scarier than nukes. generally speaking, if they are just single task robots performing functions in dangerous situations, that seems like an improvement to risking human lives.
Social Copy – A simulated version of you
Do you also provide a service to hire vetted engineering staff when the company may not have the technical baseline to properly interview?
That in itself doesn't mean much. At the time it was said that Web 2.0 is like teenage sex: everyone is talking about it, almost noone is doing it and those few that are doing it are doing it all wrong. :)

I do agree that Firebug (as much as I miss it) didn't have much to do with Web 2.0 though.
sorry I was referring to GP's comment about cheap labor, not the profitability of prison itself.

Are private companies generating significant profit off of cheap prison labor ? Am I buying something from a walmart shelve made from prison labor ?
The thing is, even if you can't do much better than a computer on pure recognition of words, you have far superior error detection and correction abilities. If a computer mishears a word, it likely just assumes it was whatever was closest, resulting in nonsense sentences. A human will be usually able to "fill in the blanks" on something they didn't hear, or failing that, be able to ask for someone to repeat it.
But there is also the disavantage of going back to the beginning of the page and losing your line. Happens to me too frequently to be annoying (while reading left-tp-right and top-to-bottom languages).
As someone that went to podunk state and was recruited by all kinds of companies (went to work at Arthur Andersen in the 90s for my first job because I wanted to learn which side I was more interested in, software/computers or finance/accounting). I found that hiring for potential and attitude goes much farther than hiring for skill in new/recent graduates.

Having worked all over the United States and even the "mecca" of San Francisco, the quality seemingly is more tied to their experience than their "talent".

When surrounded by other excellent workers/engineers and great processes, you can become great. When you work with and for mediocre, that tends to be what you know.
Spooooky.
So we should take the word of a random "author" who didn't even bother to publish his name and credentials over Inman simply because this guy blasted Inman for being a Millennial? That's just as wrong as accepting some dumb comic as the authority on history.

This guy, whoever he is, goes on about "crap on the Internet" then cites a 3rd of his sources from the Internet, four of those being Wikipedia. Even better, half his non-Internet based sources are museums -- no further information provided. His sources are mostly unverifiable crap, then he stoops to an ad hominem. It's garbage.
ISPs are monopolies in the purest form. Here in Orange County, California, you have no choice but go with Cox. And that's why an internet service, which costs less than $10 around the globe and is symmetrical and offers higher bandwidth, costs $100 here! Even worse when it comes to the business internet service! I had to find internet service for a church here in OC and the pricing starts at $200 for 10 Mbps!
Do I understand correctly that on the candidate side the person can go through a sequence of interviews without the possibility of actually meeting a hiring company? Also that you only work with students?
> Think of how we've added data to sports and created a new economy on improving outcomes because the definitions of success are clear with many pathways.

I've thought about this, too - using data to work toward solutions to problems that plague our society. I'm constantly haunted by the belief that there is a set of solutions "out there" but am bedeviled by my own inability to accumulate, homogenize, and aggregate that data that I _can_ find. Even still, sites like 1degree.org do give me hope that the data is available and that there are folks who are willing to do the work of using it (though that's an admittedly different application).

At any rate, thank you for your post. It's stirred that thought within me again.
And there is no integrated Firebug - just replacement.
perhaps, but have you ever tried to get non-technical or semi-technical staff to master ssh code key generation and use?
> hint: it's not manufacturing anymore in the US

I highly doubt that is true. I mean, there are only 3 basic economics sectors, and you just stroke an entire one out of the question.

It is way more likely that the reality is more nuanced, and the US can not efficiently manufacture some things, while keeping the lead on some other things.
Ideally we would want an accurate trajectory of forecasted change to map the cost/savings, but the trajectory keeps getting readjusted and the cost/savings is fairly subjective, so modeling this is pretty much fruitless.

Cost fails to account for economic development as a result of the hurricanes and subtract that from economic damage.

Savings measurement requires accounting for theoretical scenarios which by nature are malleable.

Or you could just assume we're all gonna die and no actions will be sufficient, then we can all just stop working on climate change and save some extra dollars for the ride out.
Does this work with Inbox too?
Society run by technocrats using state capitalism. I've think I've seen that before... Is this Soviet Union 2.0? Maybe we have the technology to build it now?
"BirtthDate" Oh geez. That's a scary path to go down.
I think he means the petroleum era in regards to Saudi Arabia's future. They can see the writing on the wall and would be foolish to not diversify.

Whether they will be successful at creating a semi-utopian city is another story. I expect it to have the same warts as the rest of the region in regards to migrant labor, human rights and civil rights.
This talk is not saying that these problems were "solved" decades ago but rather, decades ago we had much better instincts and in many ways we were on the right track, and now we're not.
>>> Is anyone seriously arguing that Asian applicants have it easier than caucasians?

Statistically speaking, don't they? Isn't that the reasoning for these "penalties"?
it currently does not
Tesla unveils ‘first of many solar+storage projects’ at hospital in Puerto Rico
In my experience, a desk is a reflection of your mind: cluttered desk, cluttered mind. Empty desk, empty mind. I need to strike a balance with ordered things on the periphery of my desk, and a large empty zone to bring work in to.

Desk hygiene cannot be overvalued- if that is the way your mind works best. I find I am often a product of my environment- wthats why working from home is so difficult; home is "relaxation and projects" space, not work space.
Same deal with clothes. I try to dress in a buttondown and slacks to go to work, whereas a lot of my coworkers just do a T-shirt and jeans.
Like the stanford prison experiments, it is all about the environment.
Neoliberal hellhole?
No, I think your opinion is arrogant and ignorant. All existing systems are based on the technical limitations of the past time. In Australia, for example, there's a good start to integrate new ideas into the existing system - it's called Flux [0].

Edit: to clarify about Flux, it's still using an existing system, i.e. Democracy although it is implemented as Direct and Delegate Democracy within a Representative Democracy system, but, my point was, that such system could be used as a political virus to change the system from within without bloodshed, and then a totally new system can be put in place.

[0]: https://voteflux.org/
I hope that the 'Quick Links' function from the Gmail Labs will return as an add-on!

On the other, it makes me sad that for my business mail, I am stuck with Apple Mail. I miss therefore many important Gmail features, including security-related features. And Apple Mail has still no reliable support for Gmail drafts …
No, I got one with a clean install. If this is not a common issue, I'm guessing it's just me then.
As one of those kids to never went to school, I'm going to agree with you. Most people can't program, however, better schools are only slightly better in outputting people who can.

I find fizzbuzz and other coding challenges much more effective in hiring.

It's hard to do but showing actual code from your codebase with an actual real bug is a much better indicator of whether someone will be successful than anything else.
Flux – It's Time to Fix Democracy
I realized two other reasons (I can't edit my comment any more):

- 'for' is simply my only looping construct. Now that C++ supports 'for(auto x : some_container) x.blahblah();' this is especially true.

- the old 'for(init; test; increment)' syntax put all your control right up front so as you read the code you already have in mind the range of when the body will run. A 'while(not_exit) { ... }' doesn't tell you that you're, say striding over the even elements or whatnot -- it's really just the equivalent of an open loop with an 'if(...) break;' somewhere in the body. And let's not get into the botch of 'do..while'
No, they are advocating hiring from the big 5 and then saying that it's just a coincidence that all the employees they've hired on 'on [their] own merit' are from there.
The people using Interviewing.io are typically using it as a means of practicing interviews in a low-pressure setting. Their goal isn't to get offers from companies, but if it leads to that, I'm sure they don't mind.

Also, they don't just work with students. I've used them, and I've worked professionally for several years.
Look at the desk of the most high-performing researchers or developer at your business (if you have any). It doesn't matter for most people.
Remembering Steve Jobs (2011)
We (Streak yc s11) were a launch partner on this and launched our Add-on today. Even though we already have a chrome extension for desktop, add-ons allowed us to live inside the native Gmail mobile apps.

Happy to answer any questions about the add-on platform....
Around-the-ear hearing aid can optionally have rechargeable batteries.
>“Cape Coral was brilliantly orchestrated and terribly planned,” says Florida historian Gary Mormino, author of Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams. “They built an instant city on steroids—with none of the stuff you need to make a city work.”

Classic.
Gmail is consolidating their dominance with stuff like this. If things start replacing email communication, gmail will just provide it on top which moves us further and further from a standards compliant SMTP GUI that email was.

I haven't found an email client that reliably renders most html, yet we have addons and soon maybe Android apps in your email.
My experience is that there’s almost always some top tier talent no matter what school you’re in. Particularly when young, the school one goes to is often more a choice of circumstance and randomness than of deliberate thought and Oracle-like forsight on the school’s behalf.
Thanks. For clarification, the event queue that nginx's worker process is using for its input is the same accept() queue that the passive nginx listener socket is populating. Is that correct?
The argument is that if you're hiring a student from Stanford you can assume some baseline level of competence (only approximately true, I'd bet). If you're hiring from elsewhere, maybe you have to interview 10 people to find someone with similar knowledge/skill/misc. It's a bigger time investment in the hiring search, and gauging technical skill in a job interview is still an unsolved problem.

If you find an efficient + effective way to compare all the applicants, that would make it easier to put everyone on the same footing regardless of school. But that's hard to do and it's easy to be risk averse and just hire the Harvard grad.

A Harvard grad presumably costs you more, but they keep doing it that way because 1) it's simple, and 2) if you try to hire more broadly but misjudge and make a bad hire, that's potentially much more expensive.
It really isn't that expensive to send a couple of engineers to a school if you're hoping to hire a couple of talented students, and maybe some interns. You really only need one event a year.
Maybe companies could leverage this "internet" thing to reach the great students systematically? Maybe put these lectures online?

Continue with projects like codejam, though ideally come up with one that is less reliant on obscure math (or OEIS) and more reliant on problem solving.
I heard even voice synthesis, ie text to speech, is not solved yet.
Don't the statistics show that violent crime is much higher among blacks than other racial groups?

I'd be interested to see statistics on white collar crime, but I know that there are significant resources put towards catching and sentencing white collar criminals.
Were you accepted? If not, Did you recently reapply ?
> By that time, the totalitarian nature of Joseph Stalin's regime presented an insurmountable obstacle to friendly relations with the West.

That is complete nonesense. The West has had, currently has, and will always have friendly relations with dictators and killers of all shades and stripes, as long as they are useful to us.

There is nothing about their domestic policies that we consider insurmountable.
It's convenient for some people to say that it's inevitable that the USSR would be paranoid and anti-Western because of the West's ill-conceived intervention there.

But the reality is that, once the situation was stable in the USSR, the West was plenty willing to play ball there. Even the Koch patriarch was more than willing to build refineries there.

A combination of ingrained Russian xenophobia and ideological commitments drove the USSR to go haywire, not a small interventionary force a couple thousand strong.
Be Careful Who You Call a 'White Supremacist:' the Dangers of Crying Wolf
There's probably a case to be made for a simplified spreadsheet tool in a Basecamp/Trello mold.