skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, you're right, I shouldn't have said that you identify with that crowd.

But I am still saying that the claim that any significant proportion of environmentalists think the human race is evil and should all be killed is simply false. Do you want to defend it?
I am looking for something about $20 to $30 per unit.
My understanding is that Twitter's board got a couple new members right before the transition that were Jack-friendly.

Easy to win elections when you get to pick the electors
You won't likely get hired anywhere without a work sample. Wether that be a side project, code from previous employment, or a coding test, you'll have to demonstrate you can do the work.

Many other professions also require work samples. Even salespeople are required to produce metrics from past jobs on the number of sales they made, and get put through practicals where they need to actually do a demo pitch for something.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=socialcapital.com&sort=byDate&...

Either they "pivoted" or someone bought the domain name and rebranded it as CaaS.
Article is not as negative as its title though.
It's true. They're quite prolific. They hacked a bunch of medical clinics, and even HBO.
As GP said it is easy to underestimate the Middle East because of all the oil. Israel is obviously a high tech powerhouse. Iran alone has over 80 million people. Despite the tense relationship with the US, there are close to 10 thousand postgraduate Iranian students in the US, one of the largest after China and India. https://wenr.wes.org/2017/02/educating-iran-demographics-mas...
someome is reading /r/evilbuildings :D
I bumped into this piece, a bit dramatized:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/04/12/el-far...
We're waiting on the 400 series, which have been meant to be out "any day now" for over a year! But the SDK has gone public, and they're saying orders will open soon.

https://twitter.com/intel/status/766063343396356100
> it is possible that there may be genetic differences in intelligence (defined as the ability to succeed in a modern technological society) among human populations.we are actually subsidizing stupidity in less fit subpopulations and decreasing the evolutionary fitness of the human species as whole?

Are you talking about the Midwest?
ELIhuman?
Of course such projects have risk. Of course there is historical baggage. But while China is building an infrastructure legacy, the USA et al are using its resources to wages multiple wars.

It's likely the USA's ROI (if you will) will be increased debt and enemies for years to come. China on the other hand seems hardly interested in such things. The outlook for their ROI is much brighter.
This kind of thinking is why most of my "side" projects aren't on Github. Sometimes a new algorithm or technology I hear about peaks my interest, and I spend a few hours playing with it. But in the end, I don't have something I would be proud to show or that properly showcases my skills, and so I don't want people extrapolating from that.

Then again, I don't claim to be an expert in these skills, and don't put them on my resume, which seems to be more what you are referring to.
It also allows a clever "entrepreneur" to game the system. In 6 months you'll be reading about it here on Hacker News: "How we lost millions due to an algorithmic oversight"
The flaw here is using the wrong metrics. Once a company has found a repeatable and growing business model, it’s trivial to raise money and there’s no reason to pick Social Capital over anyone else.

The big market opportunity is to fund startups at the very earliest signs of success. When all they have to show is some code and a few Hacker News upvotes or GitHub stars.

Someone is going to make YCs returns look weak by funding this early. And nothing would do more for diversity than a low barrier test that is 100% blind and meritocratic.
Here is some preliminary reading: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5274505
I think many of the people on HN that say they won't do a take-home assignment would actually do a 30-60 minute take-home assignment if it meant avoiding the "code some algorithm on a whiteboard while the interviewer glares at you" situation. Then on the on-site, you can focus on the design/behavioral type things appropriate to the role's level of seniority.

Also, if you give the same assignment to multiple candidates, you'll get a better sense of how people use different approaches to solving a problem. You can still use discussions around side-projects to complement the process, but having a standard approach for all candidates is helpful.
Release the Turkraken
“We found in China users who like a very, um, demure type of individual.” This he mentions in a tone which seems to imply a stereotype I’m unaware of.

I'm too naive to get this joke - can anyone explain it to me?
I hear you. I've been in the industry for less than 4 years. I love coding, but not the industry. Last spring i burned myself to the ground building a project with unreasonable deadlines. I was sleeping less than 4h a night and couldn't keep any food down. In the end, the project was replaced by a newer shinier library. It all felt for nothing. I left soon afterwards and have transitioned from office work to fulltime remote freelancing & consulting while I attempt to bootstrap a small company that will hopefully cover my living costs and allow me to help my family. I haven't left IT but I'm hopefully getting closer to an arrangement where i can keep coding without and have a healthy balance.
Oooooh. That's very nice! And legal too. Awesome to know, thanks very much.
Due to shenanigans toward Jason Scott[0], and the whole "Hype Squad" thing I have zero interest in supporting Discord.

[0]: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/903663357210841088?lang=en
Amazon hasn't had a good idea in almost a decade, and this hare-brained scheme isn't bucking that trend.
Yep, yep. I've been building a MUD from scratch in Go for the last few months. Super fun project, and the nostalgia is overwhelming. Love it.
- Seize the means of production

wait no, you aren't suggesting communism.

I don't think switching to a property tax system is the way to go. Wouldn't it end up hurting people as you just see rents rise?
I agree. Same in LA. I was merely pointing out things I heard directly from people working with a major real estate developer there. I know from the design side that there was a major fight to try and get in some sort of affordable residential vs what the developer was hearing from their number crunchers.
I think high standards of living help a lot to prevent popular revolutions. But I don't think they do anything to stop violent infighting in a succession dispute. The people at the top are usually well off no matter what, and their goal is more power.
Since that other url was posted a few hours earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15551505), I guess we'll merge this thread into that one and roll back the clock on it to give it a second shot. Seems fairer than the alternatives I can think of.
You are correct that everybody can't get a first place trophy, or else it isn't really a first place trophy. We cannot all be the best.

That doesn't really matter though. In most cases you aren't competing with the rest of the world for a job. Typically you are competing against other applicants. In this more common scenario you just have to be better than the applicant pool, which is far less lofty (not that it matters). If there are 30 people that applied for an open position we can probably assume that between a third to a half are probably less qualified than the interviewers hoped for, so then you are realistically just competing against the remaining candidates that which is a lower number still.

In my original comment I mentioned my open source projects got me all but 1 of my last four jobs. The first of those occurred well before my software was popular and the company didn't even realize they were using it until it went up broken to NPM and broke their build. That madness didn't happen until after they interviewed me. During the interview I showed off my open source software just to demonstrate where I put my interests and how I am making effort to increase my personal productivity and solve original problems.

The software only became super popular during the prior employment.

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On a different note I don't consider myself something special like a 0.0000000000001% programmer or anything like that. The popularity of open source software projects is a unique spiral death trap. Keep in mind you are doing this on borrowed time at personal expense and for years people will ignore you (or tell you that your software is garbage and that you are completely wrong) and use inferior products that have a more familiar brand name.

Your software becomes popular if you can solve original problems and refocus continual effort on product quality. It took me years of effort and lots of people telling me I was wrong. I just did my own thing anyways and kept doing it because it was a personal project that worked well for me. And eventually it works for a couple of other people. It is extremely rare, but there are people who like to experiment using unknown software just for the hell of it (or simply because it is free). Those people create word of mouth recommendations. Rain drops become a trickle and if the rain never stops on a long enough timeline it becomes a flood.

It is a death cycle because as more people use it the demands upon the product greatly increase. Your available time does not scale proportionately. You prioritize and do what you can. You can mitigate some of this, though, if you are able to close defects at the speed of light and can get to a point where maintenance and improvements are faster enough to allow deeper engagement with your users.

The attention is nice and the idea of breaking promises or letting people down crushes my soul. That is how I feel about unfulfilled enhancement requests even though it is completely irrational. Completing those efforts are what made the software popular, so you feel a need to not let people down and to continue to complete the requests.
I am not assuming malicious intent.

But you continue to use tactics that look openly hostile, not like an attempt to communicate in good faith.

Also, all of the rebuttals here seem to assume that the people who wind up addicted to porn are innocent victims, wholly unrelated to the people who would otherwise commit sex crimes. I see no reason to make such an assumption. I also see no reason to believe that life as a person with a porn addiction is vastly worse than life as a person who can't constrain themselves from committing sex crimes. I have reason to believe doing things like that comes with much more personal downside, even if you posit that they don't feel guilty about it.
Except they actually have IRC and XMPP gateways available if you're RAM constrained or are a console cowboy type.[0]

[0]: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-t...
Most use gRPC. Easier setup. And becoming part of a lot of modules. ZMQ can probably handle more traffic though

https://grpc.io/
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15551505 (except the ones that are about this specific page).
This will sound flippant, but you can’t win them all.

There are hordes of false negatives in any hiring process, anyplace. My process is more accurate IMHO but it’s indisputably more work and it does not scale at all. Ultimately everybody is going to beef with any criteria they don’t align well with and I have to remain flexible enough to not throw the baby out with the bath water. I don’t mind getting drug a little on HN— I have a good team, and their open source contributions might not be as impressive as you assume.
Did you ever communicate your frustrations on that first point to your local representatives? Seems like there could be softened regulations for certain situations to ease maintenance - e.g., like-for-like maintenance. If there's a sealed road, you can re-seal potholes without any more than advance notice. If it's unsealed, you can regrade it. But if you want to adjust the route or seal an unsealed road, the process is a bit more involved?

You have some incredible wildlife and cultural history in America, so I can understand trying to protect it.
Considering it looks like the old URLS work, if anything I suspect the former.
Mac address? What is possibly recording that?
My expectation is that the no-name hobbyist products (with no clear company to sue) will come first, people will buy them, and then major manufacturers will see them and want to get the hardware into their own products too, at which point they'll probably get interested in licensing Apple's patents. Which means the resulting branded products won't cost $3, but they won't be $1000 either.

I don't expect Apple would willingly license their patent to their competitors in the mobile space (who, after all, would just want to slap a FaceID-equivalent feature into their own phones); but they'd probably be interested in licensing it to e.g. electronic door-lock companies, or action-camera companies (add a "depth" track to your video), etc.

My guess is that rather than the Kinect, what people will probably be buying 2-5 years from now for "commercially scalable" projects is an LG USB webcam that has Apple's miniaturized sensors embedded, and is using the (by-then-standardized) no-name Shenzhen remake of Apple's face-recognition ML-accelerator core.
Why aren't all military ships submarines? Why do they have to float?
I think most of your analysis is spot-on, however.

> Don't forget, smartwatches originated from a highly successful Kickstarter campaign.

Smartwatches have been a techno-futurist pie-in-the-sky product for almost 50 years now.
> I don't think anyone here is talking about "flirting."

Literally three comments up from your own comment:

> If you are the keynote speaker of a conference, DO NOT flirt with other attendees or other coworkers, regardless of the line of report.
HTTP _does_ make that distinction, as does just about everything else (off the top of my head, the only thing I could think of that may not was NTP). My point was the client has to request something, that's a search in this context.

> Say Bob tells me to connect to his ftp server and gives me a different IP. I go into my client, type the IP, and hit connect. I have a directory listing of all the filez now. A crime? You've gotta be kidding.

Say Bob gives you the address to his house and says "Open the gate and go in the back yard. My grill is in the corner, you can have it". Unfortunately, you transposed the numbers and took someone else's grill. Is that not trespassing and stealing?

I don't disagree with you that the prosecution in this case probably should not happen, but it's not nearly as simple as making a blanket statement that "Whoops! I connected to the wrong server." is enough to make an act no longer illegal.

As @poorrights commented, a lot of it has to do with intent as well.
do you care to become penpals?
You can also just throw out applicant number 26 and up. You most likely have a few solid candidates in the first 25 worth a phone call. And if not, look at 26 through 50. No reason to look through all 200 at once.
> what the hell do we as citizens DO about it?

Call your Congressperson [1], U.S. Senator [2] and state representatives. Tell them why you think this is ridiculous, in a calm and collected manner. Ask them, politely, for written follow-up.

I do this about issues I care about. In my urban district of three-quarters of a million people, I'm almost always the only person calling about tech-related issues. Multiple times, the LA has asked me to email them supporting materials I reference.

[1] https://www.house.gov/representatives/find/ Find your Congressperson

[2] https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/senators_cfm.cfm Find your U.S. Senator
GraphQL just makes it so that you can traverse them with a single query.

How does this relate to the "I" in SOLID?
> ZFS really does have every single almost-reasonable feature baked into the design :)

Except some of the nice features btrfs has. Like almost arbitrary online restriping; on-demand deduplication, defragmentation and compression of existing files; reflink copy; nocow-flag, ...
I thought the concensus now was that Welch's leadership under GE was not good.

There's been a lot of rants about the utility of stack ranking and this sort of "fire the worst performers because everyone else is better" attitude. Namely wrong incentives.

You have John Carmack and a clone of John Carmack working on your game engine. You have stack ranking. Which one should you let go during review season? Should you hire some extra people to protect your good people?
I'd share your frustrating with mining companies, but is "yahoos from the city" a bit unfair? Your country has brilliant appreciation of the outdoors, including city-dwellers who travel out on weekends or holidays. Signage that informs and guides them rather than bars them might help.

I imagine 99% of people just want to pass through carefully rather than dump trash or graffiti anything.
Yes, you found an exception to my general statement. Congratulations.

Or perhaps the senator would fall under my “convenience” clause, dunno.
The efficiency I'm talking about here is power and thrust per weight, not absolute (percentage) efficiency in the thermodynamic sense. (Yes, the latter is important for worrying about heat dissipation, but the former is the key physical limitation for interplanetary travel.)
I agree with your first paragraph, but I'm not sure about the second one.

My instincts tell me that labor is something with a price like anything else, and (aside from claims of unfairness) more transparency is better. The end result over time would presumably be the price of labor (salaries) would more closely resemble actual market value.

But I also consider myself to be a high performer, and the last thing I want when negotiating a raise is my boss to have to think about how the rest of the team will feel about it. I want him to care only about whether or not my services are worth it for the price I'm asking. And that just won't happen if it's all transparent.
Interesting - an airplane - submarine was developed in 1964 - http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/KleinBernhard/65...
It was p2p, except for group shares and/or restrictive firewalls
Poes Law. I hope this is a joke.
Yes but it was proven to be commercially viable on Kickstarter
No true Scotsman eh? What would constitute a pattern for you?

For me it's a pattern of repeated behavior.

Don't even know why we're debating facts here, nobody disputes that when Milo attempted to speak at Berkeley, bloody riots ensued. They burned out a lot of telegraph. Also, when Ben Shapiro and Ann Coulter attempted to speak, the Berkeley PD stopped them for speaking. [0][1]

The first few dozen results on Rochelle Gutierrez were that she claimed that math was racist. An article from the Washington Times, which is not exactly a right wing rag. [2][3]

To bring up mentions from long ago, here's a wikipedia link to the Sokal Hoax. Alan Sokal, a physics professor, thought that a paper that was shot through with nonsense as long as it hewed to the left's ideological views, would get published by a scholarly journal. And so it did. [4]

Also, University of Wisconsin's speech code in 1999. All the left leaning humanities professors wanted star chambers where they could try and punish people who didn't agree with them. [5]

I don't even know why I'm bothering to respond, as you're going to brush all these facts off as not representative of a pattern of the left trying to crush all dissenting a speech, and then bemoan all the members of hacker news who disagree with you as "downs" as "deflections"

It's always fun to watch ideologues squirm.

[0] http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/01/us/milo-yiannopoulos-berkeley/...
[1] http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/thanks-to-blocked-lecture-...
[2] [https://www.google.com/search?q=rochelle+gutierrez&source=ln...
[3]http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/its-not-just-a-joke-anymor...
[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
[5]https://www.google.com/search?q=university+of+wisconsin+spee...
Either the actuaries have priced the increased risk into the premium or your fears are overblown.
I wonder how much that has to do with excessive amounts of backwards compatibility for existing .xls and .doc files. I imagine a fresh implementation with no respect paid to existing sheets would be much better behaved. Anything that stands out to you as overtly strange in the format worth drawing attention to?
Oh that's interesting, I didn't know that about Firefox sync. How does it work? You connect, once for all (with a login/pwd?) 2 browsers (e.g. phone Firefox and computer Firefox)?

Then you go to send.firefox.com, on phone, and you upload a file. And then how do I get the tab with the right URL on the PC? I guess I open Firefox, and then how can I see "tabs opened on my phone"? (Would you have a screenshot?)
Its too expensive and you can't land in designated wilderness areas. Also, if the area is a patchwork of public and private land you can't move around once you land, you'd just have to keep flying from public spot to public spot.
What do you think so far? I grew up in Raleigh, NC nearly all my life - but recently moved to SF for work. Constantly debating about moving back and enjoying lower cost of living, but California weather is too good.
I can't wait to try out the Neon glow hacker theme! Thank you for open sourcing!
Sincerely, backend dev who still sucks at frontend
In short: “What we found was that while many people complain about their moving companies, even the highest income consumers would not pay for a better service. Our mistake was conflating desire for a better product with desire to pay more for a better product”
I saw this earlier. At this point I believe it's just the NAACP trying to stir the pot to try and stay relevant in an age where keyboard warriors thrive.
The resource leak bug of our civilization (2014)
Capitalism and regulatory capture aren’t the same thing. Hell, even Adam Smith sternly warned against an environment with too much power imbalance.

The latter is just good old corruption, and it pays no respect to the form of your economy.
>I don't know the answer, but scientific research into this question, unfettered by politically correct presuppositions would be interesting.

This seems to imply an awareness that current science doesn't support your opinion, and that you dismiss that science as being the result of political bias. If so, I have to question whether you're looking for unbiased science, or science which validates your biases.
If you read the comment above it was referring to paying for the article on Bloomberg and not for access to public land, although, the confusion is understandable.
OK. That's fine. I have friends that will spend a month committing code on github everyday for the sole purpose to having greens on the page. It does help to get an interview because most often then not, all the employer sees is the green. No one is gonna go ahead and read the code. And if they do, what are they going to get out of it?

I've seen people fake it, adding trivial changes everyday, uploading public tutorials they followed, or just formatting.

I never ask for a github page myself because I don't know what to do with the information. But I do ask for a side project, and answering yes or no is not what makes or breaks a candidate. Instead it leads to a conversation about their coding and work philosophy.

If you don't have a side project to show for, well you must have something to talk about in our field that can convince someone that you are a good candidate.

If you do have one, well it has to be something that can convince someone that you are a good candidate.
While I agree with that sentiment, the idea that large investments are risky is not in itself interesting. What does this add to the conversation?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8679471
Suggestion? This is a popular deployed product.

https://www.popsci.com/g00/google-glass-doctors-office