skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's mostly HN newbies. I down-vote quips without malice even if they make me laugh. Cultural maintenance.
If you had that attitude during one of my interviews I'd show you the door.

And with that attitude on your side -- "if this isn't going well, then by definition, it's the candidate's fault" --- let's just say we're clearly not match.

I can't begin to count the number of impressive resumes that lead to unqualified candidates.

Ditto for job ads leading to unimpressive companies with obtuse interview processes.

Interviews are naturally awkward.

As currently conceived. So maybe it's time to start thinking about them differently.
Would be very hard for them to do that without inviting serious antitrust scrutiny.
Thanks for sharing, what was your experience with node failure at that scale?
Yep software analytics and blood diamonds are pretty equivalent.
Agree.
The whole landscape would change and change for better if ISPs give us public IP addresses.
I've also tried to put cursors along a ragged right edge and that doesn't work as it tries to create a rectangular selection. It looks like its worked but as soon as you hit a cursor key the cursors try to line up and you end up with cursors at odd positions. Very odd.
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>I never hand out assignments like this (or have in-person interviews w/ a similar task while having the internet at their disposal too) unless the person's already sent in their CV/Resume, had a phone-screen and they seem like a good prospect.

If they seem like a good prospect then you can signal your seriousness by granting a face to face interview / test.

By throwing out homework assignments (which cost you 0) you are signaling either that they do not seem like a good enough prospect to be worth your time or that you simply view their time to be worth vastly less than yours.
If by "flawed" you mean it isn't a true democracy, I would say that I don't think it was ever intended to be one. It was designed to function as a republic and prevent mob rule.
I don't know of an explicit list like this, but some areas that we are particularly interested in are: data analytics (tensor factorization), machine learning (anything sparse including perhaps sparse neural networks), and scientific computing/graphics (general relativity, quantum mechanics such as QCD, finite element simulations, and apparently nuclear physics). It is particularly suited anywhere you have sparse matrices or tensors.
>51% of Democrats support a law that requires Americans use transgender people’s preferred gender pronouns.

This one blows my mind. A law that punishes people if they don't use certain words? I just... I can't even... Wow.
I want to take a moment to reflect on what a great community HN has. It never ceases to amaze me.

The link is from the CS department at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, IA. It sounds obscure, but that's my hometown. I grew up a couple blocks away from it. I sat in on classes there. I even know the author's family. That's small town Iowa, for ya.

I never thought I would see anything related to that on here. This is truly a place for all.
Debian's GitLab instance will run at https://salsa.debian.org. In May 2017 they had about 19k git repo's in the old system [0].

[0]: https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth#Deprecation_of_Alioth
The link you gave explains my 3rd point. It doesn't mention Javascript being the first closure implementation. And it says Javascript is closer to Scheme compared to C and Java; which is _exactly_ what I suggested above (which didn't support your original argument).
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This is...just...wow. Your argument boils down to being unable to trust any company that works with dangerous materials.

How do we know Dow Chemical isn't going to make a huge poison bomb and hold the country hostage? What about Lockheed Martin creating their own private army to take over the US and sabotaging all of the equipment they sell to the government? Maybe Boeing will threaten to crash brand new 777s into buildings all across the US unless we pay a ransom? SpaceX doesn't even have to capture an asteroid, they build something that easily has the capabilities of an ICBM already!

Supervillian schemes rarely make any sense in the real world. You get a lot more money by just commercializing the tech and selling it normally. Plus you don't have the army knocking at your door and pesky superheroes ruining your day.
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This post is @ 40pts and only 31 minutes old with 2 comments. Seems to me that the poll's outcome is rather predictive.
There's a 'Download' link under the 3D view. Gets you a zipped (OBJ) model and material definitions.
>What exactly have you found complex about running Kafka?

I run small 2-node kafka cluster that processes to 10 million messages/hr - not large at all - it's very stable, for almost a year now. However what was complex was:

* Setup. We wanted it managed it by mesos/marathon, and having to figure out BROKER_IDs took a couple hours of trial and error.

* Operations. Adding queues and checking on consumers isn't amazing to do from the command line.

* Monitoring. It took a while before I settled on a decent monitoring solution that could give insight into kafka's own consumer paradigm. Even still there are more metrics I would like to have about our cluster that I don't care to put the time in to retrieve.
Kafka can do client side certificates, no? That would be a real auth story.
Very similar to Sketchfab
Not just certain words, but words that defy basic observations about reality. It's really incredible.
I’ve started calling it the war on words.
Is "Continue to invest into API that enables remote development" not what you want?
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What are your prices? Not interested in starting a whole quote scenario, just want to know the ball park.
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1. This just requires control.

2. In the US at least, fraud isn’t the responsibility of the card owner

3. That’s true

4. There are plenty of cards with no annual fee and net negative cost through rewards
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It looks like it's still incomplete, the sections on textures/3d graphics aren't complete yet. Looking forward to reading up on these topics.
Confirmed, the HomePod will be compatible with third-party apps through Sirikit
You are sadly wrong and your examples show your parochialism.

I don't enjoy moving picture fictions, recorded edited entertainment or packaged food. I went to Harvard and live in DC getting everything live and in person 24/7. I do not drive any cars and live on parks and zoos taxpayer dollars keep safe and manicure.

I worked with Steve Crocker and Brad Cox, so I am no luddite. Last I knew Crocker was on the board of a local theater group and also prefers his life live in person.

Authentic pleasures are almost impossible to get in suburban "modern" life where priests called "Therapists" charge hourly for confession and charlatans called "Teachers" do the same for scriptural studies. Our doctors are the lowest performing in the developed world.

The peculiar imaginations of rusting commodities, factory fake foods and delusional fictions are meritorious goes with American accents and propaganda.
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Real important question is why is there no Stanford bunny in this database?
But the candidate can't communicate for shit.

You know, it just might be... the interviewer who's not so hot at communicating.

Or is "communicating" okay enough, but following a template that's broken to begin with - and pretty much designed to make candidates feel alienated - or at best, highly unenthused at the prospect of playing along with.
This is purely anecdotal, and we could very well have done something wrong with our configuration, but I had my build iteration times cut in more than half after switching our project to CommonJS + ES6 Typescript from es2015-preset Babel.

I think we were using Gulp without any hot module replacement, so there are other ways we could have sped up our build time, but Typescript was good enough.
The fact that Haskell is smarter than me is exactly why I have been keeping at it!

There is no fun left if you know all the overarching principles of a language, and you realize it still doesn't solve your problem. This happened to me when learning Python, this is also why I don't really look at Go or Rust. They're good languages, I might use them at a workplace someday, but you can get to the end of their semantics, but be still left with the feeling that it's not enough.

(EDIT: minor wording improvement)
>The universal approximation theorem backs up my claim [0] - we can approximate arbitrary functions with neural networks. I think this theorem is overemphasised in practice: we don't generally want to approximate arbitrary functions, we _want_ to encode specific prior information into the function we approximate, as you rightly say. But that doesn't mean that we have to do so, or that we only have one idea about what functions to encode, or even how to encode them.

I wouldn't say we have only one idea about functions, but I would say I haven't seen much of an active pipeline, outside maybe DeepMind, on coming up with new kinds of priors over functions that we can apply to larger-scale or more structured tasks. At some point, applied deep learning will run out of steam, and someone's going to have to go back to doing basic research.

That someone may find, as many have, that in terms of sample efficiency and transfer learning, deep neural nets are not always so great.
Very interested. What positions are interns being filled in for?
Bancor has lost more than half its value since June ICO
Minor nitpick, but Chrome has never been Open Source. Sure, it's mostly Chromium, but the point still stands.
What was the point of your comment, then? It seems to be expressing doubt about the cause of climate change, as well as the risks.
‘Multiple failures’ by sailors standing watch contributed to Navy collisions
> Nope, not missing that. You don't think this happened in 1999-2000?

I do. I'm yet to see people who jumped away from academic CS tracks at the time being upset about their decisions. I do know of dozens degreed people in their late thirties reporting to C students while making quarter of the salary of the same C students.
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Doesn't matter you cannot hate perl for doing something it's not meant to do. You cannot write Python code for a super performance critical task in a 500KHz microchip and decide that Python is a horrible language. Python is not meant to be used that way. You should use assembly or C. My point is, if you abuse the intent of languages, they all may end up horrible. It's like writing purely functional OOP code in C.
Looks nice. I'll definitely check this out more.
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I think an interesting takeaway for me is that people aren't principled. And of course it's obvious in hindsight, but the scatterbrained nature of this data puts the sheer reality of it right in your face. There's no admonishment intended, this is entirely my err. It's so easy lose touch with humanity on the Internet: discussions are formal, responses are picked apart word-by-word, contradictions are jumped on. But it's so out of touch of how we think -- we're a bundle of feelings and contradictory opinions trying to create structure and order in a world of chaotic discourse. It's silly to think that a person's opinion about something is the a rote application of abstract principles or vice versa.

So dammit, I'm going to try and do better.
Looking forward to the day I can write backend code in clojure, frontend code in clojurescript, write all my terminal commands in clojure and use an IDE that is configurable via clojure code.
Expanding Signal GIF search
Aka BASIC.
yah, no one is really aligned with conventional political parties, because we're trying to squeeze 230 million voting-age citizens (in the US) into (effectively) 2 increasingly disconnected boxes.

political parties seem to have detached themselves from the common citizen as they chase moneyed donors (who themselves have concentrated in the past few decades). power is consolidating along many dimensions, and that's both disconcerting and isolating to us ordinary citizens.
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Can Japan burn flammable ice for energy? – CNN
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I completely agree about not being able to out work a bad diet. On the other hand, cardio activity actually reduces my appetite and fills me up faster, and thus I believe that cardio helps more in that area relative to the actual burning of calories.
I think this project is similar to http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/
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It depends where you lived during the regime, some parts of the soviet union had stricter controls over communications than others. I got arrested for having few pairs of jeans.
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Though published by Cato, an institution with a clear leaning, for me at least these statistics seem to broker an overdue potential peace.

By offering a better understanding of another party's views, it opens up the opportunity to draw parallels that lessen tension.
JVM starts pretty fast, the problem lies within Clojure's implementation.

One can even AOT to native code, if desired.