skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I often feel that engineers write these posts because they know that they themselves are good at their job, but feel it is silly to have to develop an alternative set of skills in order to signal that they are a good hire.

It does feel silly. But sadly it's often the way the world works. Standardized tests carry many of the same problems and benefits. Getting a perfect SAT score doesn't really speak to your level of intelligence as much as it speaks to your ability to dedicate lots of time and focused energy toward preparing for an arbitrary system of evaluation... which turns out to correlate somewhat well with being successful in school. There are few false positives but many false-negatives, just like with whiteboard-style coding interviews.

Is this fair? Maybe, maybe not.

What bothers me more than anything is that people either don't realize this distinction, or aren't honest about it. I was once rejected from a "big four" company after a whiteboarding on-site, and I was advised by the recruiter to "spend a year working somewhere with a very large codebase" and try again... As if that would contribute anything toward my ability to pass a whiteboarding interview. We all know the real way to pass whiteboarding interviews is to practice whiteboarding interview problems. A lot. I've been working as a software engineer on "very large codebases" for a while now and can confirm that I am no better prepared to pass that interview.
Good luck to anyone trying to predict the cryptocurrency market, which as it related to AMD was the major finding in this report.
Finally a way to short bitcoin without having to worry about counterparty risk!
You would like Shin Godzilla then! It's a movie that specifically shows teams working (some badly, some well) against a fatal threat
It's a small open source project that works very well for a lot of people. If you need stronger keys for your use case you'll have to wait for 1.1 to be stable. For me VPNs are not about security they're about getting connectivity working between my machines in a uniform way on top of networks that have restrictions. For security I always assume the network is hostile, even if it is my own LAN or VPN.
You might not invent the improved widget but I would. Essentially all patents are improvements.

Berkeley invents CRISPR. Broad Institute invents improved CRISPR.

In a parallel universe, does John Galt invent CRISPR? Let's see. He'd have to spend millions on development and then wouldn't be able to recoup that because anyone could copy it. So no, Galt doesn't do this. He's free to do this but there's no incentive for him to do it.

Galt's world seems more like:

From each according to their ability
To each according to their need
There are lots of great opportunities in the world but in many cases the block to realization is local culture and behaviors. Violence, corruption, tribalism, cultural bigotry, religious zealotry....

Eduction is only a small part of the answer and hard to implement with the above.
I use VS Code most of the time, but the reason I always use Notepad for taking quick notes _is_ the startup time of VS Code. If they improved it, I'd be using it for both. It is an important metric for some.
Here's a nice example of what the report packet looks like:

{
"@timestamp": "2016-07-07T12:01:03.044Z",
"csp-report": {
"document-uri": "http://example.com/signup.html",
"referrer": "",
"blocked-uri": "http://example.com/css/style.css",
"violated-directive": "style-src cdn.example.com",
"original-policy": "default-src \u0027none\u0027; style-src cdn.example.com; report-uri /_/csp-reports"
}
}

Ref: https://github.com/seek-oss/csp-server/blob/master/example/c...

I don't know what's in place (if anything) to prevent sending fake reports... i.e. presumably a hacker could read these headers from a site, then send HTTP POST messages reporting all kinds of errors from various IPs (e.g. if they have access to compromised machines), flooding your useful metrics with false data, thus hiding any useful information in there...

Better than the current protocol, you'd have your site generate an ID for every legitimate request so that any reports could be tied back to that... but even then any hacker would just need to call your site once per false report to get that ID, so this only offers a small amount of additional protection (though in doing so increases the probability of the site being targeted by a flooding / DoS attack).
I would like to see YC take over the initial chunk of the hiring process for their companies, and publically document the heck out of how to do it best.

Posts like this one demonstrate that free access to the front page of HN for job listings isn't enough:

Don't work for CrateJoy | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15486301
yes it will, you can see faster results by combining both, but if you don't change your diet and you increase the amount of exercise you do you will see a change in your weight.
Nothing prevents you from mining yourself and still confirming transactions if you're the last Bitcoin user in the world.
>3. Lots of money chasing a few ideas.

That's the real problem. There are only so many fundamental things you can do with deep convnets as function inducers.

There's a lot of money to be made by applying those to a thousand different things, but even that has to taper off at some point.
Weird / sad / hope it corrects soon. My last 6850k / Asus Strix motherboard purchase was a major mistake; CPU frying with too high voltages just because I chose the default 3200 DDR4 XMP memory profile. Didn't realise I had to check every single voltage setting there was; a lot had changed since my 2600k.

My next desktop system will be a Threadripper for sure. But here's to hoping they can make a move in the mobile market too; would love a multicore X1 carbon.
According to Wikipedia:

> The world consumption of new gold produced is about 50% in jewelry, 40% in investments, and 10% in industry.
The salaries of US Professors at public universities is public. For instance, the database of salaries at UC universities can be queried here [1]. This data will be updated and more precise than glassdoor. This does not include salaries at private institutions though, and those salaries may be higher than at public universities.

I do not want to pinpoint any specific names,
but salaries for tenure-track assistant professors that started after the AI boom seem to be on par with salaries in the private sector for positions right after the PhD (100k-150k range). Also, professor salary usually includes an extra summer salary that comes from grants, I don't know whether this summer salary is included in the database [1].

Also, AI academic positions are spread throughout the US, as opposed to tech AI positions that are concentrated in the bay area. This, as well as the almost complete freedom that academics enjoy, may appeal to some talented PhDs.

[1]: https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/
Just remember that the top languages in the tech industry are all 20+ years old - Java, C, C++, Python, PHP, Ruby. That means there's probably more legacy code work than new startup work.
Look at the admin themes section on Themeforest.

They contain lots of premade components, as well as plenty of sample pages to give you ideas.

They're not free, but last time I checked, there were panty of good looking themes for under $20.
I agree completely with you and I don't think it contradicts what I said, more it completes it.

It looks like a viral infection, yes, that's how it spreads: an evil payload wrapped in good ideas. It's a tool to control people even if it's not used everywhere all the time, even if sometimes it's used for good. And finally, yes, the believers have no intention to deceive; they are the ones deceived and since most of them are essentially good people they naturally want to spread the "truth" by telling others about it.
The "point" of weakening the social safety net is not to "hurt" people in a downturn, but to shift economic incentives by changing a reward structure from non-work/non-productive behavior to work/productive behavior.

How successful this policy is is debatable, but I think it's important clarify intentions and purposes.
What Colleges Want in an Applicant (Everything)
The only consistency with Breitbart seems to be that they never let any of those annoying facts get in the way of the narrative. I can't see any ideological justification here, SpaceX getting money from the US government isn't fundamentally different than ULA getting money from the US government.

The article does imply at the end that there is likely someone behind these articles that has a specific interest in this narrative.
Bitcoin's block size should begin to approach 1.8MB (with a super theoretical maximum of 4MB IIRC) now that the segregated witness upgrade has been activated. In the long term, additional scalability can be done using the lightning network and/or sidechains.

In dirt-simple terms, the lightning network allows you to squash several transactions taking place over a long period of time into one of a much smaller size. It also allows instant payments. [1]

Another way to scale is using sidechains, which shift the transaction burden onto a complementing chain that has a two-way peg to bitcoin. [2]

Neither of these are production-ready yet, but should help improve scalability by a couple of orders of magnitude in the long run.

That being said the current price bubble is out of control and I would strongly warn you away from buying any--and for the sake of full disclosure and identifying my bias I do hold some cryptocurrency.

[1] https://lightning.network/

[2] https://blockstream.com/technology/sidechains.pdf
UX is something, which is connected to feelings. It's not enough to have a tool, try to work with designers.

If you're developing Free Software with good purposes, then contact our design team at https://bold.cat/
But it's chicken and egg, right? They don't have that particular business because they made the choice of privacy long ago? Even if they're not in the ads business because of a series of lucky decisions that just happened to steer them this way, there's nothing wrong with touting a selling point.
That supposes it's possible for the USD to plunge relative to other currencies without also wrecking the economies of the rest of the world on the way down. In a globalised world we're all climbers roped together.
sorry about your injury, I am sure you must have, but have you tried adjusting your saddle height and riding cadence to see if they help?

I had a lot of issues with knee pain but after going to a higher cadence with a better saddle position I haven't had issues for many years even commuting 15mi a day each way every day. This said we're all different so n=1 and all that, good luck!
Suppose ULA charges 10x for launches and SpaceX bargain bin launches that get ever cheaper(with reusable rockets) have threatened ULA. I bet if you follow the money you will find the culprits.
> I feel like it does no benefit to the community to simply let it stand just because the person speaking is someone kinda famous.

That's not really what's happening. As I explained in my comment, I've found the technical rebuttals by Haskellers to be lacking.

Yes, of course Haskell can be and has been used to make large, high quality systems. I can say the same for C++. That doesn't mean there aren't costs associated with those languages, and good reasons why someone might want to make different decisions about how to design a language. This is literally what the talk was about: why Clojure was designed the way it was. Not why Haskell is a bad language (it's a great language), but why Clojure was designed differently. Pretending like the type system has no costs and only benefits is not serving the Haskell community well.

> I can see why you would feel that, if you hadn't seen Hickey's talk

Not sure what this comment is. I've clearly seen the talk. This pattern of assuming someone who disagrees with you must have less information is off-putting.

What I'm taking away from Haskeller rebuttals is: Haskell has solutions to all your problems, if only you're smarter than Rich Hickey. This is not, to me, a compelling sales pitch.
Engineers like to optimize everything, including how they use their time. If you've got something in your head that you want to fix or write, you want to spend time doing just that, not staring at your screen waiting and maybe losing some of your mental model.
>But I have many colleagues who make mistakes (even when people object clearly), dig a hole for themselves, double down on the mistake, and the either back their way into job security with their mess or end up moving on once the chickens come home to roost.

Your making the parent's point for him. This is a behavioral problem. Hence, screening for culture fit.
> Right now we have a fair number of studies that found statistically significant increases in productivity from more diverse teams

People (manager/HR/VPs of Diversity/etc) do not understand the implication.

Here's an intellectual exercise:

Would a team of two people - one being a foaming at the mouth antifa and another being card carrying garb wearing KKK dude be very diverse? Certainly. Would this team be productive? Unlikely.
Telegram is protected by an additional password. I hope that's the case for signal or whatsapp as well.
How Bitcoin actually work? – 3Blue1Brown
My employer has a scheduled job that downloads a CSV over FTP thing at 6PM everyday. This is in adtech, with a company that's about 5 years old.
PoC||GTFO issue 0x16 [pdf]
Remember Peak Oil? Good times.
Apple does sell ads though.
Yeah, as I said in a sibling comment, Lazarus is pretty much exactly how things should work. I share your wish, though, I wish they had Python/Nim/Rust/something bindings.
I know, that's why I highlighted the flawed logic therein. Sure, one can talk about bitcoin and blockchain as being revolutionary but every time someone with a finance degree writes something, they go by hype and not substance.
Is this related to Purism announcing that they had successfully disabled the Intel Management Engine on their laptops? Or is that unrelated? Sorry, this is all new info to me.
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Ask HN: What service do you use for human translations of your website?
Hi HN,

I'm curious what services do you/your companies use for human translations of your app/website/videos, etc? Machine translations from Google Translate are only so-so at best. Do y'all use a third party service for the translations. If so, which one(s)?

Considering poking around Fiver and maybe Upwork, but was wondering if there's any startups/companies that offer human translations as a service?

Thanks!
F500 is where the money is at, so that is where the marketing is at (currently). Also, selling (no-code) development software to F500 business units requires explanation, which is a hard problem.
Why the Soviet Union did not build a nationwide computer  network (2008) [pdf]
Do you have alternative sources you would recommend instead of Ars? I quite like ars but if there are better publications out there I'd love to know.
I would rather work at a company with few rules than one where there is red tape around everything. For example, at my current company I don't even have root access on the machines I develop on, and I have to submit tickets to IT to get anything installed or changed. One time I asked them to install Docker and was met with suspicion. IT said they would investigate, and months later it is still is not installed.
I'm finding myself enjoying Ars less and less. Recommendations for what to replace it with?
> Not especially.

So, why call it a creator then? If it doesn't have any properties besides having kicked off the universe, then it might as well be a primordial rock, couldn't it? Or universe-creating unicorn-pixies, for that matter. So, why use a word that seems to imply some sort of agency, probably intelligence, conciousness? That seems to me to be a highly confusing use of language, implying all sorts of baggage that's not really representative of what you seem to believe!? Wouldn't "the cause of the universe" be a much less confusing term to label this thing, that would be far less prone to being misinterpreted by the average person?

> I do posit, though, that life seems to be "improving," albeit non-monotonically, and that our species at least temporarily learns — often at terrible cost — from our mistakes; this might hint at a Creator "who" (that?) is at least somewhat benevolent.

Well, nice conjecture ... any reason to think it's more than a conjecture?
'The UK government values neither research nor teaching very highly'. What is the basis for that conclusion?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/298522/public-expenditur...
On the other hand, if you do more than moderate exercise, you can burn a lot more - I can burn 1000 calories an hour in a Half Marathon.
Not entirely, but reducing EV verification times is my job at https://certsimple.com. There's a lot that can be done and most CAs tech to handle the problem is at least a decade old.

Also: ACME for EV is coming.
It would be nice if the mods could update to this link since it's accessible by anyone.
If I'm reading this right, that's pretty major. The isolation benefits of a VM with a bootspeed faster than docker?
If I need to take a quick look at a file but don't plan on actively doing a bunch of work on it, I usually open in Sublime for the same reason.

Still get syntax highlighting and everything, but waiting for VS Code can be long enough to derail my train of thought.
Dumping Multi-Threaded Python Stacks
The computer as von Neumann planned it (1993) [pdf]
Do _not_ use Scaphold. They’ve gone completely dark, and haven’t responded to support requests in over a month.

Graph.cool is rad. We used it while migrating to Google Cloud, just so we could be off of Scaphold.
I Listen to 35 Hours of Podcasts Every Week. Is That Bad?
Shouldn't every resource be valued like gold? There's a limited supply of copper... You can see where this is going.

Gold is a weirdly sticky anachronism of a wealth store that never made any sense in the first place.
>That's a fascinating idea that's never crossed my mind. E.g., how many current employees can pass whiteboard coding exams?

I once confronted a colleague who had refused a candidate because he couldn't answer a technical question. When I heard the question, I asked him "How many people in the current team can answer this?" (Hint: Only one). His response: "Yeah, but we told him to read the first 6 chapters of textbook X!"

So we denied him a job because he didn't do his homework.
I've been meaning to implement something like this for a while, but couldn't find the time to do it. It is nice to know that it's already done! I'm going to check it out.
Are you using another device to capture the screen contents or directly dumping the screen to a file?
It looks like Shazam [0] and WhatTheFont [1] [2] were both released around 1999. That said, Shazam's 1 billion + downloads indicate to me a success far greater than WhatThefont's.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazam_(service)

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20000818111401/https://www.myfon...

[2] http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ (the copyright date)
Income inequality and lack of social mobility don't lead to widespread violent revolution unless you add in famine.

Just because you'll never be able to afford floor seats doesn't mean you're going to attack the people that can. If you don't have food for your children, though, and you don't see another way - that's a lot more likely.
Waymo Prepares to Ditch Its Safety Drivers
Cray Looks Forward to Supercomputing Rebound
duplicate, please check before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15595030
Show HN: Battleweb, a game to play while you're working on or browsing the web
Apache Kafka Goes 1.0
main thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15595030
>This is precisely the issue that the social sciences often miss because it's an ethical, not scientific, question.

You're completely missing the point - if it doesn't get results, they're not going to do it regardless of whether it's morally acceptable or not. Businesses care about results.
The project's page: http://cnp.neclab.eu/projects/lightvm/
I definitely share the sentiment that Spacemacs is slow, which annoys the crap out of me (for a lot of things it feels less performant than Atom/VSCode because people don’t write things in an async way in elisp often it seems).

With regards to vim though, there is no reason for it to be slow, except for some specific plugin pulling you down. Are you using synchronous linters? I thought Ale was async. I would also recommend vim-plug and lazy loading for plugin management.

I’m on Mac myself and use vim regularly in iTerm, Terminal.app and Gui, and am currently not experiencing any problems. Of course, environments vary.

Also, you can try switching out your vim with neovim, which should work seamlessly.
I also found configuration to be obnoxious when I first tried VS Code. It's better now.

It's still a JSON file, but the UI for editing it has improved a lot over the past year or so. You can search/filter the default configuration to see what options are available, and then you can just click each option to override it in your user or workspace config.
I mean, suc^H^H^Hinvestors have dumped hundreds of millions if not billions into Bitcoin over that same time-frame, I assume it has to be cannibalizing something, and the "the world is ending you better buy gold it only goes up!!!" market is as good a guess as any.
A Pill to Make Exercise Obsolete
The only motivation I can think of is that Musk's resources are limited and if he spends more time/money on SpaceX less gets spent on Tesla. Still, super weird.
No, gold has one advantage over bitcoin: in the worst case scenario (where you survive, though a couple religions let you take it with you) it is a physical thing that is somewhat pretty to wear as a ring on your finger.

Bitcoin and the like are entirely based on the idea that somebody else will want them as currency forever. Gold is based on somebody will want ti for either currency or jewelry forever. That gives gold a slight edge.

I don't know if it is significant, but it is a factor.
>Many people seem comfortable allowing their companies to treat them as low value commodities and will do anything asked of them.

If that's how you feel about it, would you not agree that asking such questions in an interview is treating the candidate as "low value"?
Some of it always comes out. What we get to see and hear about is just the tip of the iceberg.
Moreover, apart from bureaucracy, universities are too slow to adapt.

I've been asking professors for more than 10 years at my Alma Mater (Technical University Delft, Netherlands) to start an AI bachelor + master program. There is only some machine learning and robotics hidden away at mechanical engineering. Graduates don't know most of the basics (apart from backprop or general RL, e.g. say, VC dimension). It's not a full-fledged education as it should be.

If there are not enough people trained in these matters, there will be really tough competition.
>It sounds like you're saying people want to hurt poor people.

Well, let me quote some recent news:

>Speaking to National Review editor Rich Lowry at an event hosted by the conservative magazine, House Speaker Paul Ryan made the case for the American Health Care Act by presenting it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cut Medicaid spending.

>“We’ve been dreaming of this since I’ve been around,” Ryan says, before interrupting himself to clarify exactly how big of an opportunity this is, “since you and I were drinking out of kegs.”

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/17/14960358/p...

Yes, the current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives wants to hurt poor people. He's been dreaming of it since he was doing keg-stands in college. He said so.