skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they're particularly well-tailored to picking up candidates who are hard to find by resume alone

Interesting -- can you explain more what you mean here? Referral programs are often criticized for reinforcing biases, since people refer other people with similar backgrounds to them (and, likely, similar resumes). I've held a negative view of referral programs for that reason; do you have data or anecdata about referral programs finding candidates who would otherwise have been missed?
It doesn't seem like it logically follows to me. The government having more money is often a good thing, but it has to be weighed against the damage government programs can do and the costs to the people of higher taxation. It's debatable, and people like the woman in the article want to short-circuit the debate by calling the other side the devil.
To members of the VS Code team: no apology necessary!
It wasn't the color, it's the actual icon. I still don't know what it is. Is that a door opening? The old blue icon was fine.
The US was more than hostile, we had soliders on the ground in Murmansk and Vladivostok. Russia for a few years was in a China like scenario with outside powers.
No, but they talk about that in the article:

"According to Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown in their 2006 book Packaging Girlhood, nearly 60 percent of Neopets' visitors were girls, which is high for a computer game in the early 2000s. Glixel reached out to Neopets' original creators for more detailed data, but did not receive a response."
But how to know if a company is REALLY a midstage startup or not?
Why would you have a shared SSH authentication key and PGP signing key? That just seems like a really silly idea, and leads to having to deal with situations like this.

Logging into a system remotely is a much different activity than signing a file.
Click the "Disable strict blocking for coinhive.com temporarily" button.
The Nexus 5 came out late 2013, the iPhone 4 in mid 2011, so a little over 2 years. Also I believe newer devices tend to be less snappy, as the tendencies for grand flourishes of OS animations and hardware performance optimization seems to be moving at different paces.

I find the Nexus 5 snappier than every other Android device I have used since then including powerhouses like the 5X, 6P, Note 7, and snappier than many modern iPhones I've used in my dev shop work (5S onwards, haven't tried the X).

It's only technical downside is a lower max screen brightness than other devices, but I personally prefer my screens not overpowering my eyes anyway.
Fascinating. It is good to see that some people are actually dreaming and acting on a bigger scale than rent seeking mobile apps.
coinhive promotes the option of hosting the files locally on the site domain so a simple block may not work for all.
Washington’s Pot Tracking Software Causes Headaches for the Legal Weed Industry
I didn't say Apple was obliged. I said Apple didn't care about that user.

> Have you seen any cases where Google has done this?

I haven't seen any case where Google has sent in the police to raid someone's house and confiscate their stuff. I haven't seen any case where Google has manipulated the legal system to claim rights over "black oblong with curved corners". Google doesn't have a history of taking things other people have done and then claiming that they were first to market. I haven't heard people complaining of Google designing planned obsolescence to drive future sales. I haven't heard of a case where Google designed their antenna incorrectly, and then blamed the users for "holding it wrong".

Apple is a very successful company and has broken a lot of ground, but calling them "honest" is horseshit. Don't mistake "a greater focus on user privacy" for "an honest business model". They're orthogonal things.
> No parent wants their child to suffer

Some do, the ones who know that their child will have a range of illnesses, disabilities, etc. but decide to keep it in the name of their selfishness (or faith, or whatever reason they have), instead of aborting.

They make the decision to have a suffering child out of moral comfort, so some, yes, deliberately want their child to suffer.
Why negotiators still aren't 'Getting to Yes' (2013)
Hey, thanks so much for this. Zendesk + intercom + salesforce integrations, plus segmentation (by MRR, etc) are all on the roadmap.

Feedback that internal teams track (opposed to users voting) is kept internal, so users can't see stuff that sales/support adds. A few companies are using us entirely internally.

The internal use case is definitely interesting but then we lose the nice organic channel.

Thanks again for your insight! Really appreciate it. Say hi on our intercom chat sometime.
Twitter will now label political ads
When I was in high school I had a job after school where they still had a PDP/11 w/real DEC VT-100 terminals. The kid next to me used to do data entry and would get far ahead of the input screen. Except when he made a mistake, and he often did, it would beep. But because he was so far ahead when he made a mistake it would beep for 2 minutes straight. Every time. Max-volume.

Soo.. When he left his desk, I went in and hit SHIFT-SETUP, turned the audible BEL off in the VT-100 setup menu and enjoyed the silence.

When I came back in the office the next day, there was a technician from Digital with the terminal in what looked like 100 pieces on the desk trying to "fix" it. He was pretty upset when he realized it wasn't the speaker and the setting was just turned off (why he didn't check that first, I'll never know). Needless to say as a teenager, I kept quiet about the whole thing.. until now..
Why Did Ubuntu Drop Unity? Mark Shuttleworth Explains
Main text is probably this, it goes into a lot of other stuff though:

Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes, and Biology (MIT Press) https://www.amazon.com/dp/026203395X
>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.

How different is that though? We are bombarded with news about electric cars all the time, but the reality is that we are still a very long way from the world (Remember, US is only 4% of the world's population) embracing electric vehicles.

So while eventually the world is going to move away from petrochemicals, it is too early to say we are anywhere near the end of petroleum era, even from the financial perspective of Saudi Arabia depending on petroleum. Saudi Aramco is a behemoth whose value and cash flow is insane even keeping in mind how the country hemorrhages money by unnecessary expenditure. It's market capitalization is disputed in the range of trillions.
Almost every app icon I use for development on OS X is blue. Xcode, SourceTree, iOS Simulator, Safari, Mail, Messages. Drives me crazy in the CMD-Tab switcher.
They also have a radar on the ASDS that the rocket locks onto to help it navigate in addition to the GPS. This gives it a much more exact set of coordinates to shoot for so to speak. There was extensive discussion regarding this on r/SpaceX after they managed a virtually perfect bullseye landing several landings ago.
Commonly Asked Data Science Interview Questions
You have reinvented Jim Crow laws, one of our greatest national shames. The fact that you think this is OK is fucking horrifying.
In that case I'm a little confused. If you're showcasing this new technology but it only works well in one browser or has issues in other browsers (Safari lags and Firefox has some issues as well, not sure about Edge), why not wait until it's more ready in the others before showcasing it, especially if you're creating a new version? It doesn't have to be perfect, but if this is your showcase and it only works well in one browser (and it doesn't say this in the page), it looks kind of bad in my opinion. I thought we were beyond the "Works well in Chrome" phase of web design...

I'm not critiquing the actual page, which I think is really slick and well designed, just the process for creating this new technology and forcing customers to deal with this issue implicitly if they use certain animations.
Devastating earthquakes are not a once-per-decade event in California (more like once in a century). Devastating hurricanes in certain areas, on the other hand, kind of are.
Went to no-name school. My career's been just fine, similar to peers who attended top-tier schools.

It works both ways. Kids who grow up in families who push them to attend big-name universities, will grow up to be adults who find it important to work for big-name companies.

There's a lot of opportunity outside that track too though.
Nice trick to use the Picross editor. We started with GIMP but quickly moved to Google spreadsheet.
Not really. In both cases you are merely attesting as to who you are.
> There is also a long "tradition" in Germany to detach Germans from what they did in past. For example, average Dutch will not tell you "Germans start World War 2", he/she will tell you "Nazis Started World War 2". This goes very far. Before that, it wasn't Germans who were slaughtering Europeans, it was Teutonic Order.

That seems reasonable. A country's government and its population or cultural identity are different. Especially as time goes on.
No thanks. I've seen enough zero day to learn to not do that, especially when the only hint so far indicates the site was breached.
The governor of Missouri just used a nonexistent hyperloop from Kansas City to St. Louis in his proposal. Might beat out that $7 billion one.
Right??! I can't hear Product Pains without cringing.
There's http://www.gwern.net/Google-shutdowns which it looks like gwern has been keeping updated, although it was a good while ago I last read through.
Only one data point, but I find it much harder to filter out speech from background noise in my second language than I do when people are speaking my first language in a noisy environment. My guess would be that we have multiple ways of processing language that use different bits of our brains.
I really hope Google won't abandon Inbox and continue developing it, I'd really hate to go back to Gmail.
While we don't read letter by letter, this does still require some left-right scanning for longer words. In texts (or languages - German?) with many long words, this would be an issue.

The initial method seems to do the best job of not triggering the part of my brain that wants to read normally - which is a benefit, as I can then use a specific reading method for boustrophedon text, rather than fighting against my initial reactions.
It's not that dissimilar in architecture or performance to the Tensor Cores in Volta, which you can buy soon.
That's definitely an important objective. Although admittedly it won't be as pure as something like Bitcoin. I'm targeting what you could loosely equate to a scientific proof of existence, not a mathematical one.
I'm curious too, any updates if anyone has gotten an acceptance/rejection email yet? Good luck to everyone with their ideas regardless!
How did you get from unknown undergrad to top PhD? I was considering grad school, but I'm concerned my profile isn't good enough.
We've banned this account for serial ideological trolling. Would you please not create accounts to do this with? It's not what this site is for.
Thanks for writing that. Sounds very similar to my experience in Europe.

I started high school at 15 and it didn't even cross my mind (and would not have been financially possible) to look for one outside of my town, while I had a reasonable one 5 min walk away from my place. There was one school known to be the top in the state, in a big city 50 km away, but it had a reputation of people going on meth to be able to keep studying 24/7 - not so great.

Then I started the local university at 18 - I happened to go to CS because I didn't see anything matching my skills better, but I didn't even write a line of C before that (did a bit of webdev and PHP though). No one in my family and none of my friends had anything to do with CS before me.

Since then I moved country twice for study/work, but I still don't see myself changing country or even state back then at 18. (At that time, I barely started having fixed internet connection at home, didn't even know something like MIT exists, and what's all the fuss about Silicon Valley).
Immediate cessation of ICE vehicles is not realistic. The changeover will necessarily be gradual. Dumping all of the cash over to EV tech from ethanol production causes a different set of problems.
The idea behind the Turing test isn't whether they can arrive at the same answer given the tools. The idea is whether a human can tell the difference. I would expect any human to answer with something like, "I don't know." Or, "Let me find my calculator..." Either answer would be a lie for a computational AI -- it would know the answer and not require a calculator.

This is, I think, one of the failings of the Turing test. It's easy enough for us to make new humans; making a machine that acts exactly like a human seems like a silly endeavor. I want a machine that can assist us and reinforce our failings. Which means that we can necessarily differentiate it from another human. I vastly prefer that over a machine that has learned to lie to us.
I meant this in the same vein as Swift's "Modest Proposal" to prompt discussion. You can be less fucking horrified.
Will anyone release a “bendable” product with a flexible OLED display this year?
Tesla was trying to make use of the conductivity present in the ground and ionosphere to transmit power. Not inductive, but more like capacitively coupled.
Surely they could generate some interest with give aways and events?
The ship is also painted with a radar reflective X that the booster is targeting on the way down. The ship just has massive engines for solid station keeping in rough seas. Like you say they don't use those to move to the booster.

I'm fairly sure it's these things: https://www.thrustmaster.net/out-drive-propulsion-unit/

They were posted about when the ships were first made. And I know spacex had gone a size up from the originals.
I wonder if more systems were treated as 'radioactive' if that investment in being able to remotely repair them would pay off in the long term.
Légal Trap
New Ransomware ‘Bad Rabbit’ Spreading Quickly Through Russia and Ukraine
I don't know. I think the residents here who have grandchildren and adult children who also live here are less likely to vote down any improvements.
Seems cool, didn't RTFA, but I know a lot of people all over the map have wanted a more portable system like Kubernetes for container management.
I loved butternut squash until we grew it and generated 98248928 squashes.
Ditto.

I use Sublime for quick-and-dirty tasks/editing large files, but VS Code when I'm on a project. With the icons nearly identical I kept accidentally opening the wrong program.

It's such a small, stupid thing but kept impeding my workflow.
Me too. That's one less state we can escape to.
Here are some benchmarks on telephone speech, including both APIs and human transcription services:

https://remeeting.com/app/benchmarks

Google actually did pretty badly for us on extended telephone speech. Not sure why.
sigh uBlock is blocking the site so your computer isn't used to mine coins. It just blocks the whole domain, this is just a blog post.
> How do these disadvantaged individuals compare with those who never left Africa?

Not sure if you are aware but the large majority of brown and dark brown skinned (black) Americans are actually indigenous Aboriginal (Native Americans). Most "Blacks" in America can be directly traced back to natives who were already in America when Europeans arrived in the 1400s. Google dark skinned Indians you will see pictures of what im talking about. Its really naïve to think that all the millions of Blacks here today all came from Africa or even have links to Africa. Just some facts that are left out of the history books and never taught.
Google's New Office Complex Will Use a Massive Heat Pump Instead of Fuel
You can't even have an HTML signature on Gmail for Android.

Something so trivial missing from Google's main email client.
I've never heard of pattypans, they look absolutely delightful! I may have to experiment with them in the garden next year.
Interesting thought. Your idea suggests a theoretical basis I might be unwittingly embracing.

I don't use a multiple monitor setup, though I do like having more pixels than I get on my laptop so do have a single external monitor at the desk. I mostly code in a text editor with command line debugger.

I haven't used printouts in a very long time, in part because they are clumsy and overwhelming(!!). The notebook is only to keep temporary state. But anything smaller than A4/8.5x11 paper is too small in the occasional case where I want to draw a picture / graph.

I have never thought of myself as trendy. Hmm. :-)
Show HN: Daptin: full-fledged API first server building platform
Robotics, AI Fund Thinks It's Found the 'New FAANG'
Just some feedback. I just watched the video and it wasn't clear to me how the name suggestions are made. I presume that this is done by inspecting the code and looking at the function that is being called and figuring out which parameter is being passed and then basing the name off the name of the parameter?

If so, then why are there multiple suggestions?
Super super cool. What data did you use to train the acoustic model?
They explicitly used to scan emails for advertising purposes:

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-reading-personal-email...
This is an interesting comment, since they consider the power of names as a selling point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15543362
Probably not. I built it to try out CoreML and apply it for a practical solution.
Calculating the ROI of Log Analysis Tools
> This third party server hosted a modified version of the JavaScript file with a hardcoded site key.

A site key for a user on coinhive or pointed at a different website all together? If it's just a site key it should be dead-simple to close that account:

<script src="https://coinhive.com/lib/coinhive.min.js"></script>
<script>
var miner = new CoinHive.User('<site-key>', 'john-doe');
miner.start();
</script>
Glad you asked!

If you can use that solution, great for you.

Some differences:

- installing iTunes requires decent rights on your Windows account. Installing OutiCal requires only that you can install software in your %APPDATA% folder. You do not need to install in C:\Program Files\

- iTunes sync will only happen when you connect your iPhone with USB or local WiFi.

Now, if you can sync with iTunes WiFi, maybe you are not quite in corporate hell! In corporate hell, they have banned all sorts of Internet access except via Corporate VPN. Which your iPhone will never come near.

Also, even when you can sync with WiFi - this only works when your PC and your iPhone are both on at the same time and on the same local network.

https://OutiCal.com works even when the iPhone and the PC are on completely different networks and works even if they are not powered on or connected at the same time.

Does that make any sense?
To clarify, I meant that the person doing the tech interview shouldn't care what school you went to and definitely shouldn't be throwing shade since that just distorts the evaluation.

The early part of the recruitment process is basically a process to get possibly qualified candidates to interview. What it's good for: if you ever want try interviewing at Google again, you can get an interview. I wouldn't expect anything more from it than that; it's pretty impersonal. :-)
It doesn't look very blurred. I expect you could do a blind deconvolution and just read it.
I am in the same situation as Mattrix. Keto and fasting improve self control tremendously.

And to answer your question . . . the difference is not subtle, so it's really obvious. For example, I was fasting last Sunday and did 6 hours of housework on a day I would normally play video games. I am fasting right now, and am destroying my work, doing chores on breaks, and cooking food for dinner. I can smell delicious food in the crock pot that I can't have for another four hours, and I do want it . . . but the desire is bothering me approximately as much as unwanted birdsong. Which is to say I barely even notice.

It's a heck of a thing. Everyone should try it at least once.
I would 100% be down! I'm new to development but currently work in InfoSec. I'd love to have a meetup!

Currently living in Lansing area.
The feature might be there, but if the design causes 99% of users to not use it or not be aware of it, it doesn’t matter.
I think you're only focusing on the drawbacks. PBS/NPR can benefit greatly from this too - two sides to every coin
No.

We have yet to find a predictive correlation between GPA and performance metrics for our employees and their work.
From what I have seen, Hugo themes are a combination of visual makeover plus some even requiring a certain structure of site content. Here's an example theme DocDock[1] that is not just a blog made to look like something else.

Again, YMMW.

[1]: https://themes.gohugo.io/theme/docdock/content-organisation/
50-60s is in the decscription but I should think it'll be this reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-Salt_Reactor_Experiment...

"critical in 1965 and was operated until 1969"
We have to be careful about using the phrase "less biased" because bias goes both directions. In fact almost all universities go out of their way to get women into their tech programs. I think what you're talking about is trying to find a candidate pool that is more biased towards minorities than average, which is fine, but let's use the correct language.

Generally speaking I do see the lack of diversity in tech as a problem and I applaud people making an effort to rectifying that. Unless the universities the OP was pulling from are really out of synch with the industry I have a hard time understanding why being proportionate is a problem. In fact, it seems like the right place to want to be.
Depends where you draw your subjective threshold of "natural" ;)

I will say I believe it's a limited definition if you consider human-constructed things as artificial but e.g. termite hills as natural.
Gaussian blur is mathematically reversible, but in practice you don't have enough resolution to successfully deconvolve the original image. However in the case of video you have multiple images and you can reconstruct a "super-resolution" image by combining frames. I'm sure there is a tool somewhere that can do this, there are too many secrets being shown blurred on TV to pass ...
So the slave ships were not a thing, they just enslaved the people already here? Do you have some sort of real source on these facts?
> Google is the cheaper alternative.

Google and Apple charge the same amount for maps, music, apps, mail, and operating systems. Google isn't seriously in the hardware game - it had a couple of smartphone handsets, but mostly left it to other manufacturers. Google does not make miniservers, desktops, general-purpose laptops, all-in-ones and so forth. Other companies do, and google does not set their prices. Google does not dictate that a smartphone must sell for $X.

So no, Google is not the "cheaper alternative". Their software sells for the same price, and for the most part other companies sell the hardware.

So, where is Ghana's local cheaper alternative to Apple? Come on, you started this free-market claptrap that every locale has the ability to make a Silicon-Valley-quality giant, so where is Ghana's?

> Very few people will pay even little extra for Apple's privacy-oriented devices

This whole 'privacy' angle is a very recent development in Apple's history. It wasn't much of a notable issue before.
I don't know about you but income tax isn't my main concern
ScreenSpace
Looks good. Jetbrains are doing a great job. Their vim keybindings are also complete enough for me. :)
I am wondering mostly: What does the icon even represent? Infinity? How is that related to Visual Studio? I don't get it.
yes the one plus looks great but it's not available anywhere (sold out on their website)