skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where does this line of thinking lead? I mean it's one thing to limit any attempts at intimacy in the workplace, but if you're just 'influential enough' then you expand this definition to include anyone in the entire tech sector? This seems clearly illogical.

Again, if there was assault it's a totally different matter. But sexual harassment is a lower bar specifically because of the idea no one should have to work in a hostile work environment. You can't create a hostile work environment if you're not actually working with someone or exerting direct influence over their career?
Using Low-Key Lighting for a Dramatic Effect
'Venmo' itself has become a verb rather than just a service so I doubt either of them have the necessary momentum to take these services to anything more than nominal levels of volume relative to the market lead
Legally I can only use Apple hardware to run macOS.

So anyone that cares about following the law needs to buy an Apple computer to run those DVDs you mention.

Hackintoshes have no place in compliant businesses.
someone tell vlad about patents
"And when I said I have no side projects to show, what they heard - what interviewers hear - is: I am not the best. I am not a passionate developer. I don't spend the necessary time to keep on top of my education and skills. That development is "just a job." "

Are you sure you are not just projecting your own insecurities and opinions into interviewers? Majority of developers don't have side projects. According to FOSS survey, owerwhelming majority of linux (especially) and open source contributions is paid work. Sometimes it is that they work so much in day job, most of the time they work normally (which is enough) and do other things in out of work time (exercise, care about children, read books, socialize - social skill matters, craft). If you are coding 6 hours a day (generous 2 hours for meetings and chatting and organizing), then you should code plenty.

You could have loose that interview due to many other reasons, you could have run into that one company that does not hire without outside code.

But if you really worry about this one, maybe create an account with sample project and be open about that project purpose (e.g. dont be afraid to say that you created this project to show how I code, because previous interviewers asked for that). If it is really about code sample, then something you create withing two days should suffice.

And if they demand real contributions to real open source projects, ask them whether their company gives employees time to do such a thing on the clock. After all, they expect your previous employers to be so generous with time, so they should put money where their mouths are. If you dont hire me without having full public profile, it is only fair to demand that being employed by you makes continuing that work possible.
From what I know (which is not well sourced), the big problem with K is that it didn't have an open and accessible interpreter for a long time, and that hampered adoption. I know 5-6 years ago I was interested in it, but couldn't find any interpreters that were free for non-commercial and commercial user (it was mostly work related interest), and didn't stumble across Kona[1] at the time. Not it's on my list of languages to look into again, but that's a long list.

1: https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona
This is generally what lawyers recommend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design -- although this is generally done to avoid copyright complaints, not license complaints.
at this point, why WOULDN'T you proxy through a server in Russia or even "just" Eastern Europe when you execute even a wordpress vulnerability

A server with an IP in Russia = Russian Hackers = State Sponsored Russian Hackers = Vladimir Putin destabilizing Democracy

While you are eating popcorn and have millions of dollars of cryptocurrency no questions asked.
I understand it's an intermediate codec. It seems that it's even heavier than ProRes XQ so I'm wondering but yeah, hard drive are cheap now
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We have to be pretty close to someone having a system to generate mountains of convincing/unique "content" using Neural Nets (or something comparable) for the purposes of web spam/seo right?

Back in the day, SEOs would use spun content to generate lots of unique variants. But at this point, surely a ML algorithm can crack this nut?
On the flip side? As somebody who has plenty of open source projects--the set of employers who actually looks at them is within epsilon of zero. I have not once, not once gotten a meaningful question from anything I have posted on Github in any interview or client meeting even after suggesting up-front that it's worth taking a look. And I used to interview on a monthly basis just to keep in practice! No--instead you get dance-like-a-monkey "coding tests" (unpaid, of course) that are nonportable from employer to employer.

Employers don't care. Employers say they care, but it's signaling. If I didn't write code on my own because I like it, it would be a serious negative to do so on the off chance that you run into the black-swan employer who takes the question seriously.
Weren't schools buying Playstations for a bit because they were cheaper than computers with similar specs?

I swear that was a thing for a while, but I can't find any sources, so I might be mis-remembering
Then you will not get the job, which I thought was one of the points of job interviews.
I agree 100% with this viewpoint. I would much rather sit down with a potential hire and go over some scripts and projects they've written than go to the whiteboard. I don't care how big the project is, I think it's just much more pragmatic to share ideas and stories over code than algorithmic gotcha questions.
Startups have no concept of a life.
They are broad band IR filters because those are easier to design. Apple is likely using a very narrow band that doesn't have sun problems (see IR window from 8-14nm).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_window

However that nice band also gets filtered by polycarbonate which is common in sun and protective glasses. It also gets heavily cut by other typical IR absorbers, and creating a pass window will cost more money.
Well everyone's health insurance premiums have gone up by quite a bit.
That's not the graal backend. The TruffleRuby project uses Graal to make JRuby much, much faster. I don't know what the specific information, but generally "competitive with Java" is my understanding. Perhaps "TruffleRuby" is the name I should have used; it's not apparent and I'm only nominally familiar with the project.
100 lines of code is not a meaningful amount of experience with anything, and surely cannot provide any meaningful advantage over the lifetime of a serious project compared to another developer who starts fresh.

Having "dozens of technologies" at this level of experience is often a bad sign. Very frequently candidates who mention lots of technologies like this on their resume or github can't answer the simplest questions about them, even "why should I use this, what problem does it solve". Source: Years of interviewing people with a laundry list of technologies on their resumes.

Should people be expected to remember everything about all tools they've ever used? No! Is trivial experience with something useful? Probably not.
What's a worker to do? I live in a blue city in a blue state and vote for the blue people that say they're going to help out with this. They are not the majority and the other party are hell-bent on destroying what little advancements have been made.

Not to mention, it's pretty hard to reshape ideas that have been adopted or bred into the culture over the years. Health care should not be tied to employment but it's been that way for years with a lot of large incentives to keep it that way.

As an unemployed person, it sucks and you're looked down upon as it being your fault instead of a working for a poorly-run company or something else. You're not a victim, you're a perpetrator with a flaw. An undesirable.

That's the beauty of the 'real' Christian society of America - it's all black and white, good and evil. It's God's grace that they have their jobs and some flaw in your that you don't. It's not about luck, or business downturn, etc.
Argh. One of my old phones in my collection is a Samsung Galaxy S Relay "4G" (the 4G in quotes because it was DC-HSPA rather than LTE). It would be a perfect candidate for Termux, being a QWERTY slider.

Unfortunately, it's on CM11 (KitKat), and thus not compatible. Between the collapse of CyanogenMod, LineageOS not picking up the Relay, and the limited specs by today's standards (1G RAM, 8G storage, dual-core CPU), I don't think there's any real future for this handset except as a curio.
What strikes me as weird about this is the assumption that it's an either/or proposition.

I am passionate about playing traditional dance music. And I have supported this by writing a program to generate high quality sheet music from ABC scores; scripts to download collections of scores or MP3s off the web; scripts to handle tagging/naming my MP3 files; etc.

I am passionate about RPGs. Back in the day I supported this with a script to convert a simple text markup to LaTeX to generate print quality copies of my RPG stories. (This was about a decade before Markdown.)

Etc. The idea that a programmer could have an entire second business and not write any interesting code in the process strikes me as really odd. There are NO tasks for the company that could be usefully automated?
It's so easy to hire bad apples. I've been through three rounds of layoffs at two separate companies: each time most of the people who were let go were poor performers, they either were bad salespeople or bad coders. The other ones were just lazy, working only 9-5, and taking frequent time off for silly reasons like "my rabbit is sick." As long as you're cutting less than 10% of staff you're cutting fat, not muscle (though you might hit a small amount of muscle by accident).
Well, the username of the complainant is "Osiris", so the phrase might still be new for him.
Sunglasses are meant to block UV, not IR ;-)
Well, how do you monetize such a service without Google Wallet, Square Cash, and <insert new entrant of the week> eating you alive? Everybody is running away from Visa/Mastercard processing and toward ACH (Dwolla & Popmoney) or debit based systems (Google Wallet, Venmo), and any fees essentially force whatever volume you have to jump to a competitor.

Worst case, you'll see people using online bill pay to mail eachother's banks checks as that is free and low effort. People just don't want to pay to move money friend to friend, and the US is an anomaly with our extremely high credit card processing charges, where we're at 1.5% to 2% in interchange, the rest of the world is below 1%.
I'm certainly not opposed to them, and lately I've been itching to find the time for one. But putting side projects as a gate to employment seems like lazy interviewing work to me, and also doesn't really select for the best candidates.

Unless you believe "has no interests[1] outside of work aside from writing more code" gives you the best candidates, which I don't agree with.

[1] Yes, I'm being hyperbolic; no need to be a pedant.
Show HN: A zero-configuration static pre-renderer for create-react-app
That's very interesting, among my social circle (low 20's Northeast New England Area) Venmo has an implicit monopoly on the service. I doubt any of my non-cs friends have even heard of Square's offering.
be careful, those discounted keys are likely coming from bizspark/msdn accounts. they will work fine, but if you're a business and get audited you will fail the audit. in that sense you might as well use a KMS activator.
So by adding a digit each version, it's technically using a unary numeral system.
your data point of one doesn't really validate that addiction effects people differently and hence different outcomes. My wife stopped smoking for 5 months, then she started again. ooops, some much for just quit and all will be happy in the world.
Many employers take the stance that they own all the code you write while at work, and therefore you don't have the right to release it under an open-source license.
Half of the top food companies in the world were formed in the 19th century. There were 614 food and drink companies acquired in 2016.

More leading pharma companies were founded prior to 1780 than after 1980 and seven of the ten biggest companies are over a hundred years old. In 2014-15 there were over 100 biotech IPOs that yielded $10B in proceeds.

Tech is going through the same consolidation process that cars, drugs, oil companies, packaged food concerns, and most other industries have. The chances of building a company worth hundreds of billions of dollars is lower. The chance of building a $10-100M business has never been higher.

The founders of tbh made more money that All-Star NBA Champion Stephen Curry did last year. Is that a sign of a weakening startup ecosystem or a strengthening one?
I'm not sure if Fruit of the Poisonous Tree, or a similar doctrine, applies here.

FotPS generally appies to evidence rather than copyright or contract, but I seem to recall this argument being made. Years ago....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
> Even as someone who enjoys side projects, the prospect of sharing a side project, and being criticized by a potential employer about the contents of it, turns it from "side project" to work.

You should be able to take constructive criticism of your work regardless if it's a side project or not.
It's not happening to me, but it happens in plenty of places.

crunch time is very real.
Why mentorships matter
Using YouTube Takedowns as Extortion
If you're both on Macs (I know, not a safe assumption) there's a trivial screen sharing facility built in.
> I think everyone agrees power imbalance is a crucial part of capital letters Sexual Harassment.

No.

here's the EU definition:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSLE...

> harassment: where an unwanted conduct related to the sex of a person occurs with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of a person, and of creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment,

> sexual harassment: where any form of unwanted verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature occurs, with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of a person, in particular when creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.

Here's the English law:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/contents

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/26

> 1)A person (A) harasses another (B) if—

> (a)A engages in unwanted conduct related to a relevant protected characteristic, and

> (b)the conduct has the purpose or effect of—

> (i)violating B's dignity, or

> (ii)creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for B.

> (2)A also harasses B if—

> (a)A engages in unwanted conduct of a sexual nature, and

> (b)the conduct has the purpose or effect referred to in subsection (1)(b)

There's nothing in there about power imbalance.
tl;dr: court agreed "reverse engineering" does not mean to dive into someone code for the PURPOSE of making your copy or new copy of similar software better, but it simply means what it states: "you cannot reverse engineer (for whatever reason), period"
is this what the conversation has come to? a foregone conclusion that all men ought to be drugged up on porn so we don’t go out raping and pillaging the countryside?

we’re not all like this. i’m not like this. and i don’t like being told that i am.
> Only if you believe software development is neither engineering nor science, and is purely creative.

I have to believe it "is neither engineering nor science, and is purely creative"? Only those extremes? I believe it is some of all 3 and I don't think requesting (i.e. not "demanding") a portfolio or prior work is any more unreasonable than not asking for it.
> 20 years ago, Netflix had a few million DVD customers ...

Off topic, but I was amazed/interested, so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix#Founding_and_establish...

"Netflix was founded on August 29, 1997 ... Netflix was launched on April 14, 1998, with only 30 employees and 925 DVDs available ..."

So you're technically wrong, but not far off. I thought Netflix was closer to 10 years old than 20.
A docs PR probably wouldn't satisfy this type of interviewer's curiosity. A code contribution large enough to be useful to an interviewer would likely require enough employer time that it'd be harder to sell your average employer on allowing you to open source it and/or contribute back.
Buckyballs Prolong Life? Really? (2012)
You can use the headset with Cortana for some things, though I'm not sure what all it can do.
Reporting the same issue, same build.
I'm pretty sure the two names of 'dark matter' and 'dark energy' have caused more confusion than anything else in modern science. They were horrible choices that were worse than even the 'god particle.'

Horrible. Explaining they are placeholders has actually eaten up a fair amount of my time. I'm betting I've probably spent days, if we total the hours up, explaining just that. (I like to go make science simple for people. Having to explain that it is a placeholder doesn't make it easy. So much wasted time.)
Lately just about every single Bloomberg article I've tried to read has been behind a paywall. Any way around it?
For other commercial OSes I mean commercial UNIX flavors, mainframes and support contracts for Linux variants.
The probability of 1 in a million is for a different face to be similar enough to yours to unlock. Unless there are 999 999 other people picking up your phone every day (which would be over 10 people per second), it will essentially never happen.

Also, phone requires passcode after X failed attempts, so even then you can could only try <10 other faces.
This sounds awesome and is really way above my head (took crystal chem in college, that's probably my highest chem level).

Some questions:

1. How many kW/kg required to create H2O2 (or another similar, meaningful ratio), and how much do the legacy processes require?

2. When you mention micromanufacturing, how small a scale are we talking about? Would I be able to buy a reactor and make H2O2 in my garage? Or open up a warehouse sized factory in my town?
yeah and they are going to write in the slack channel how you were so aggressive and extrapolate how bad of an employee you would be for the company, challenging every little thing with abrasive non sequiturs

cute, but you'll adapt.
They can't prevent copying features. They need to compete on something Facebook isn't capable of competing. Such as being decentralized and privacy respectful. That's an instant fail for FB.

For example FB can copy features like hashtags all they want, but I won't touch it unlike Diaspora.
Do you have an actual point relating to what I said? Yes, courts were and continue to be sexist. I never argued against that, and I don't see how it is at all relevant to this conversation at this point.

If you are a public figure, and you never sexually assaulted anyone, yet multiple people were accusing you in public of doing so, how (if at all) would you defend yourself?
These are the best stories on HN and why i subscribed here in the first place. I have often seen awk used so many times on SO but I've always put it up for something later to learn. Finally today I have some basic understanding of awk and this is really great stuff! I did get by with Perl but this is definitely more handy and the example approach to teaching it makes is super easy to understand!
Please contact me about dance music! Email in profile
Yes, that's why he'll get a job at a large and average software company, but not at a modern, small software company that still has to make a name
for itself and has to rely on people living for code, having work life in their top 3 priorities being able to pull out the company out of closing down if needed.

Each their own.
All a CEO does is set and push forward a certain culture and a handful of goals, but that is a full time job. Square isn't anything revolutionary or particularly special, the only trick they have is picking up customers who don't understand merchant processing and are willing to pay an extra 1% or so to avoid ever thinking about it.

Edit: I'm not referring to what a CEO is accountable for, just what they actually have control over. A CEO is not god, despite what some may believe!
Future of Visual Programming and Trading Systems
While what you posted makes sense with the right definitions, I think you might understand better if you're careful with your definitions of "security specialist" (what SubiculumCode said), "security researcher" (what you said), and the other classifications.

Not all specialists or researchers are doing penetration testing. Of those, not all of them are penetration testing third party stuff, and of those, not all of them are doing it without permission. That's the only one that will get you into trouble.

I'm not, technically, a "security specialist" of any stripe, but I take a very careful interest in the defensive side of security, and am currently in the middle of implementing a fairly security-sensitive system. I don't worry that the FBI is going to bust down my door at 2am because I've tweaked the API of my code to make it harder to write cross-site scripting attacks, or because I fixed the architecture so that authentication is done very early in the request cycle instead of ad-hoc and inconsistently very late in the request cycle in a way that requires every developer of every individual web page to have to enforce all authentication. Most security work is going to involve internal matters and the fixing thereto, and, yeah, the job isn't going anywhere any time soon.

(Though it does have the eternal challenge of convincing people they need to pay for it, and the problem that even in companies where programming is the major product like Facebook and Google, you're still going to be a cost center.)
With the new Windows Subsystem for Linux from Windows 10 you can install Ubuntu over Windows from the Windows Store. It is perfect for Data Sciences.
> You can't create a hostile work environment if you're not actually working with someone or exerting direct influence over their career?

Quinn's story was not at a 'work environment' so does it have any less impact? Why are you letting him adjust the narrative to define what he feels is harassment?
Not all countries have the corrupt medallion system
A contract cannot substitute itself to the law, unless the law permits it.
If you are the keynote speaker of a conference, DO NOT flirt with other attendees or other coworkers, regardless of the line of report. There are code of conduct left and right for a reason. Saying "they were not my employees" does not excuse you from using your influence, in a work-related setting, to approach someone else for sex matters.
I think a conviction for having a dangerous dog would be worse
This seems like a weird position to take from the employee's side. I'd much rather work a few hours on my own schedule and on projects I choose and that I can then show to multiple companies, than to have to write multiple custom hours-long projects for each company on a fixed day.
Thanks for the info. It will be interesting to see how it plays out once this thing is released.
> Haha...you obviously don't have much of a memory about Apple first-generation products.

Actually, I do. I stand by my assertion. Most new features Apple introduces are actually fine. Outside of a couple token examples, the "1st generation Apple product" thing is BS.

> BTW...I don't remember being offered a full refund

https://www.pcworld.com/article/201283/apple_iphone_4s_not_p...
>For cause terminated employees don’t get unemployment.

For the most part this isn't true - only intentional misconduct is grounds for not receiving unemployment.