skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$10/hr sounds high even for on-shore telephone support.
Maybe https://coralproject.net/products/talk.html
Google Is Threatening to Remove Apps with Accessibility Services from Play Store
They may have done several successful smuggling runs in those 6 months. They just didn't want to explain their wherabouts so they came up with the lost at sea story.
In my case. Been trying to! Even with a good resume, if you have other constraints like geography, it can take a long time to find another position. Like, going on 6 months now. And with dependents, you need the income until you have another option. And, sure, I thought about quitting and pulling taps at the pub for a while, but that would make it likely harder to go back to my field of work. So, you suck it up, and navigate the quagmire of a dysfunctional workplace and spend your spare time networking and looking for other opportunities.
The main point is that they can no longer say "trust us" with a straight face.

If the politics of the last few decades has tried to teach us anything, it's that this is not true. No amount of shaming or obvious shortcomings will ever allow some people to bridge the reality/ideology-gaps in question. You don't see less lying as people are confronted with their lies, you're met with a hurricane of new lies, a Gish Gallop of misinformation, over and over. If all goes truly wrong, then people in power embrace the genuinely Orwellian and start talking about freedom in chains, or peace in war.

Nothing shakes them out of it, and nothing really changes how some people view it. Or at least, nothing so minor as what the future might hold; most people seem to struggle with what's actually happening today, under their noses.
Their soldiers shot their own people and received rewards? I find that hard to believe. Or did you mean computer attacks? In communist and authoritarian nations, monitoring what the people are doing is normal(to account for potential dissent),but they would also shoot/imprison their own people over political dissent.

Maybe the U.S. is no better than those nations. Still doesn't make it right. If a soldier does not protect his people and their rights then he becomes nothing more than a henchman for politicians - worse than a traitor.
Again, I don't care about distributed consistency here, nor is it mutually exclusive with what I'm talking about.

The question we're trying to answer is whether there exists at all a storage engine, at the scope of a single node (obviously generalizable/scalable), that can fit all use cases well. Once you figure out the answer to that, obviously having one storage engine is simpler than having two storage engines.
I've seen people that used Excel every day for decades and didn't know there was something like the '=' that displayed the contents of one cell on another.

They used it just for the tabular form.

But I agree with you on everything.
No mention of the actual best solution: unionizing
>By any reasonable definition, Linus Torvalds is a "tyrant"

I don't think writing colorful rants at core committers who unapologetically do the one thing he tells them not to - break userspace - really qualifies him as a tyrant.

I'd honestly love a boss who only blows up over things he's warned me about many times and are under my control.
Federal pay sucks by design. If you want to work for .gov, you want state/local government.

The Feds want to contract out for anything they can. So you work for Lockheed or whatever and get most of the attributes of government employment.
It has the added benefit of having a high probability that you'll be interested in the product, since you wouldn't be on the page if you didn't find the topic interesting. Instead we get tracking networks showing you ads for TVs because you bought a TV last week.
What Quantum Computing Isn't
Well, I'm in the top 1% for the tech I love on Stack Overflow. Does it change anything? No. Did I get any job offer because of that? No. Does it matter for the recruiters? Well, half of the recruiters I meet only want to know my salary requirement, and after getting that information they stop contacting me. Does the score help me in any salary negotiations? No.

And of course I get lot's of offers to take part in a multi level recruitment process, some of them last for about 2 months, with multiple meetings, and some take home tasks (often with requirements to spend a couple days on each).

And I simply don't have time for such recruitment style.
I was more shocked to discover that only white people eat potatoes.
This is certainly true. One channel broadcasts the evening news (Abendschau) from 20 or so years ago and you can clearly see how diligently they try to adhere to journalistic objectivity (in choice of adjectives for example) whereas today it seems they don't even try it anymore.
> Don't attribute to malice something that can be better explained by stupidity.

You haven't provided an explanation grounded in stupidity. Simply agreeing that they are morons doesn't explain anything about why they created this situation and told these specific lies. You've postulated no motive, not even a stupid one.
1. As an engineer I would definitely not work with a team that comes up with the first reason for rejection (Provided that I have not mentioned that stack on my resume to begin with).

2. The second reason is more of a choice of the given company. There are companies on the other hand which give out an offer all based on cultural fit. More than often good interviewers never make a decision on the result of the puzzles but on how the candidate approaches it. Downside is that not all people are up for it in the interview hour even if they are really smart otherwise.

3. Third is bad luck (cause of disorganized recruiting). The delay in response has something to do with the candidate too, how much vulnerable they are for the job. Personally I discuss the expectations for the interview process beforehand which is super helpful since I almost always get the feedback the next day irrespective of whether its an offer or rejection.

On the flip side there should be another discussion on how engineers get the jobs. I am sure those stories would be interesting too. It is not about the technical competency for majority of the times. Interviewing is an art and the candidates who are able to make the interviewers feel good about themselves have much more chances of offers.
Simply enough: dopamine.

This is an enjoyable experience for them, it is actually designed to be. This is how you sell tie-ins and make profit, the younger you get them the deeper they're caught in.

The side effect is that it is destroying their attention and impairs their self-development and cognition.

Also the human brain is a sucker for a good story, before screens and videos, kids were addicted to bedtime storytelling and could ask being told the same story a lot of times.
Difference Between Qi and Other Types of Wireless Power Transfer
Ask HN: Career advice
Well, my question is bit long. I have graduated from computer science 3 years ago and worked in Google Summer of Code(Although, I am not a good programmer). However, for some personal issues and depression, I am totally away from programming for around 3 years. Now I would like to come back in the tech sector. But I am totally confused because there are lots of paths like Cloud, Mobile Application development, Full Stack Development. I will commit next few months learning some technologies. Having said that, I also want to know which technology will help me to manage job ASAP. [Sorry to ask this "job" question. But, I am really frustrated right now.] Please note that I am from Europe.
Homeland Security team remotely hacked a Boeing 757
Nice touch on having prometheus metric support builtin, but in general, if I want a simpler celery, I always use rq[1]. How does this compare to rq? Having this one the website somewhere obvious and why you wrote it would be a really nice touch.

http://python-rq.org/
Lol, if you don't encrypt what keeps some employee from just walking in and stealing the hard drives? Insider attacks are huge, learn this in sec 101. RCE is your area, I am sure, but you are missing a huge category of trivial attacks if you don't encrypt.
Kernel Newbies Linux 4.14 changelog → https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.14
I think this is way too much for a pure CS person. It is not likely they will make a big contribution on the math side without being a mathematician first. E.g. an applied mathematician to CS.

For ML, the OP already has linear algebra which is sufficient. Deep neural networks is back prop which is basically high school math. You could have mentioned ODEs, sensitivity analysis which I think are more relevant than convex optimization. For NNs we don't even care about identifiability in both the statistics and dynamic systems points of view. NNs blow away SVMs and almost everything except for random forests in some domains. Both of these have this interesting property that nobody understands them except in terms of black boxes for the most part. Boosting is another example. It really is stranger than fiction.

The being said I think statistics/probability theory and Bayesian stats/networks are useful to know for any scientist.

I would talk to your advisor about what to do. They will be able to advise on what's important and what to learn/focus on.
The raising kids part was interesting and took me a bit off guard, but I do like his view on regrets. Look for to 80 years old and think what you can do to minimize your regrets!
It's not a conservation of energy question, obviously you would have to deal with the energy of getting it there in the first place.

The question is once it's there: Do the magnetar and the neutron star see different masses for the lump of iron?

Imagine the magnetar and the neutron star at the tips of an L, and the iron at the vertex.
The disparity in pay (and prestige) between public and private sectors is larger in the US than in most of the rest of the world. The NSA's counterpart agencies in other countries can recruit stronger talent, retain them longer, and offer them more professional pride.
How Corporations and the Wealthy Avoid Taxes (and How to Stop Them)
I don't like Disqus mostly because the UX is clunky. Are there other things people dislike about it?
Yes, but somehow he has started an empire that ships thousands of packages every day and allows people to easily shop online. He might not be bright, but he did something right. Something that others didn't want to take the leap to do.
Promises do not suck at all. They save us from the callback hell. Never treat JavaScript as if it's C, they have fundamental differences.

The biggest difference is that JS is designed to run in an event loop inside a single thread. If you perform a 10 second blocking I/O your thread will freeze. You don't want your browser/tab to be unresponsive. Or in the case of a web server you want to accept incoming TCP connections as fast as you can.

You can achieve parallelism with threads but it's very tricky to scale. If you want a simpler, threaded, blocking programming model I suggest you take a look at Go.

Edit: Definitely read the original slides from Ryan Dahl's JSConf 2009 presentation, they perfectly explain the point of using JS: http://tinyclouds.org/jsconf.pdf
In a similar vein there is "XML Sucks" [1] and
"S-exp vs XML" [2]. Both have been discussed here on HN in the past.

The first one claims (without giving a source) that James Clark once said or wrote:

“Any damn fool could produce a better data format than XML” – James Clark 2007-04-06

[1] http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/

[2] http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/s-exp_vs_XML
Why is C++ code faster than handwritten assembly for testing Collatz conjecture?
There is a big pay disparity, but the main thing is that engineers and other technical types have gone from having a big say in how problems get solved to being the problem itself. No amount of pay is going to retain people in those circumstances, except possibly those you don't want to retain.

As far as money is concerned, NSA is way overfunded - it just spends money on the wrong things and wastes lots of resources due to inefficiency.
you have a similar opinion on the specific broken school system you have in mind. Not all school systems are broken by design and aim at shoehorning kids in a mental mould to have them integrate the system society wants them to be a part of.

https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_cre...
> Dramatiq is licensed under the AGPL and it officially supports Python 3.6 and later. Commercial Licensing is also available.

Oh.

> I’ve done a ton of open source work over the course of my career. Companies have used that work to generate income for themselves. Inevitably, I’ve ended up supporting that software on those companies’ behalf for free and that is not sustainable long term.

This is totally 100% true and understandable. Unfortunately, a lot of devs are going to go "hmm, I could battle to convince someone that can approve purchases that it's worth forking out $2k/year for this, or I could just use Celery".
> Nice touch on having prometheus metric support builtin

Thanks!

> How does this compare to rq? Having this one the website somewhere obvious and why you wrote it would be a really nice touch.

This exists although I suppose I should highlight it better: https://dramatiq.io/motivation.html

I would say the biggest differences to RQ are:

* Dramatiq supports RabbitMQ in addition to Redis,

* Dramatiq uses a mixed multi-process/multi-thread model whereas RQ forks for every task. In my benchmarks, Dramatiq has much, much better throughput than RQ,

* Dramatiq has support for task-level priorities, rate limiting and delayed tasks,

* Dramatiq comes with an in-memory broker you can use for testing.
Someone should faux take your comment seriously and insert a link about the origin and history of potatoes and how they come from South America and were first cultivated by South American indigenous peoples.

Oh, hey, look, linky:

https://www.potatogoodness.com/potato-fun-facts-history/
According to the book "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat" the optimal salinity for pasta water is about 2%. So 1 part sea water, 1 part fresh water - roughly.
ProBeat: Web Summit is the Twitter of tech conferences
Great. I hope this continues. The more the NSA has problems, the better off the rest of the rest of us are. It's unlikely the institution is even lawful--its practices certainly aren't. At the very least, it proves that the government cannot itself keep secrets, so it really needs to shut up about trying to put backdoors into software when it can't protect its own most vital software assets from leaking. I guarantee if Android or iOS had such government mandated backdoors, they keys would leak in under a year. I simply don't see a reason for the NSA to exist, but as long as it exists, I hope its mission of spying on Americans under the disguise of being an international spy agency is thwarted in any way. Unfortunately, I wouldn't be surprised if these leaks were intentional. With the current administration's relationship to Russia, this would hardly be surprising. Instead of a 'shadow war' with Russia, a 'shadow alliance,' at this point is just as likely. Regardless, the NSA shouldn't be stockpiling such software, but once again, since there are absolutely no repercussions for them doing so, they are allowed to do so leading to disastrous consequences.
Having a public broadcaster means nothing. We (Poland) also have one but the quality of their websites and TV channels was always painfully average and since 2015 it's outright propaganda.
This Unique Notecard System Will Help You Remember Everything You Read
Source [3] is a great read if this article interested you.

[3] Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages, Christopher Dyer, Cambridge University Press, 1989
pbhjpbhj is right to mention Flattr.

Patreon is also a good idea.

Sponsoring is also possible if you can find something relevant and willing: a lot of the podcast and YouTube channels that I follow have audiobook platforms sponsor them.
I wish I had a better way to tell Google to raise my reservation price than blocking most ads I see, maybe pay for a higher one?
Yep, that's understandable. If someone makes a cost-benefit analysis and decides that they prefer the cheaper option then that's perfectly fine with me, I'll still be here a year later when they realize their mistake. ;)

That said, I do give out commercial licenses for free for companies that are just starting out. My goal with this is not to get rich, it's just to get people to contribute something back in whatever way they can.
> I think I have worked out a couple of models that work

You should write these up in detail and post it to HN. I would read it!
Actually advertisements are not something kids should be exposed to at all. At least if you have the sake and health of the kid in minf.

If what you have in mind is to target kids while they have not yet developed their mind to the point of dealing with advertising then this is something they should be exposed to.

I tend to be of the first mindset.
My tips:

1. Invite each guest individually. Don’t use a mass mail or an online service

2. It’s not about the food.

3. Serve something you’ve cooked several times before. Or order in. Or make cooking a communal process.
I have Patreon and a Pay Pal tip jar. I still have ads on some sites. But I have fantasies that I will someday have enough revenue from other things to justify removing ads from most sites.
Ripple v8
Amazon is, based on my direct experience, on the list of companies partaking in some level of social shenanigans against US citizens, not completely dissimilar from folks who have overtaken content here on HN, and have done so on reddit in the past.

Seattle is a place full of extraordinarily smart individuals, and the probability that some non-empty subset of those extraordinarily smart individuals partake in sociopathic projects expressed through (and/or enabled by) technology approaches one.

This isn't necessarily related to Jeff Bezos, however.
Cryptocurrencies as a long-term investment
If the comment pointed out a country of comparable size (within an order of magnitude) to the US with a significantly higher GDP per capita (on a similar order to the gap between the USA and China), it would have been constructive and informative.

Imagine a discussion of average tech salaries among the tech giants and someone points out they know a company with 2 people and the average salary is $350k per person. That's irrelevant and derailing.
The rest of the sentence explains it further,

>there are eight amino acids from protein and fats (11 for dogs) that the body cannot synthesize, without which you will die in a couple of months.

Those are called essential amino acids, and they are indeed essential for life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_amino_acid

As far as I know though they are just from protein, not from both protein and fat.
>I wonder why there don't seem to be leaks like these at other superpowers' intelligence/security organizations, like China's and Russia's?

1. Leaks have happened in Russia, for example the KGB archives that Mitrokhin stole [0].

2. Somewhere above 845,000 people have TOP SECRET clearances in the US intelligence community[1]. I can't find size of the Russia and Chinese intelligence community but I would guess it is an order of magnitude smaller.

3. Privacy is not viewed with the same level of importance in Russia or China. The US and European intelligence communities are tasked with a mission which directly contradicts the core culture values of those societies. Additionally the US and EU countries have large non-state controlled media outlets allowing someone to blow the whistle.

4. Because of the Pentagon papers all leakers/whistleblowers have an example of intelligence leaks being beneficial and good for the country. Are there any similar role models in Russia or China that might motivate a whistleblower?

5. When the US captures intelligence from Russia or China the US generally does not leak it to make Russia or China look bad. Russia, and before that the Soviet Union, have been using espionage to make the US look bad for have 60 years.

[0]: https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/kgb-documents-now-public-mit...

[1]: http://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinas-spy-network-u...
Toxic work environments eventually change or fail. If talented people don't like it there they'll leave. If consumers don't like the company they'll stop supporting it. There are other economic systems, but that's how capitalism works.
I agree the authors should have used the improved odds calculation you mention. However, doing so would only explain the missing 10% if two photons hitting a single rod led to 100% correct response rate, and it seems unlikely for the response to be so nonlinear. Anyway with such an experiment, we don't know why the subjects are above chance, and can only make inferences. As I point out above, you really need single photon emission to know for sure.

I went back to the original paper [1] and the authors' conclusions are much more measured than précis we are all discussing. From page 838:

... the range of 54 to 148 quanta at the cornea
becomes an upper limit of 5 to 14 quanta actually
absorbed by the retinal rods. [ed: I presume this
is where the figure of 9 comes from]
3. This small number of quanta, in comparison to
the number of rods (500) involved, precludes any
significant two quantum absorptions per rod [ed: oops],
and means that in order to produce a visual effect,
one quantum must be absorbed by each of 5 to 14 rods
in the retina.
4. Because this number of individual events is so
small, it may be derived from an independent statistical
study of the relation between the intensity of a light
flash and the frequency with which it is seen. Such
experiments give values of 5 to 8 for the number of
critical events involved at the threshold of vision.

1. http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~david/courses/perceptionGrad/Reading...
> The US Government as a whole has a massive talent retention problem. Only the mediocre will stay at NSA / CIA now and we'll probably see more of these leaks / hacks.

The CIA were never noted for being the sharpest of government agencies ...

However, the NSA generally had a very good reputation. The big problem with the NSA is who wants to work in a place where you can't actually talk about what you do?

The primary underlying problem is that sharing and security are fundamentally at odds. If the NSA can't even get it right, what chance does everybody else have?
Hmm, I've been using it since if was Phoenix(?), version 0.7 or so IIRC.

I'm not convinced they're going in the right direction. Annoying dicking around adding new stuff as default that should be extensions (ones you can remove, and that you choose to add). Then in FF56 on Kubuntu I've noticed a slow down, a lot of lagging for me; but much worse most of [18/20] the add-ons I use are now "legacy" which gives a sense of foreboding that I'll be left choosing long established add-ons _xor_ bugfix/security updates.

We'll see of course, perhaps I'm just getting a little too cynical having been browsing since the days Lynx, Mosaic and Netscape were new tech.
I like the architect/engineer analogy, to explain the dichotomy. I use it all the time, when my friends or relatives ask me to fix their computer. I tell them it's like calling an architect when your bathroom pipes get clogged.
Oh Sheesh
Another issue with 401ks is if you're like a lot of folks that have had the wonderful luck to work at smaller companies that don't have 401ks or hand out benefits of any sort. An individual IRA maxes out at $5,500/yr so if end up in an industry or at a job that doesn't offer a 401k, you can miss out on years of putting away that money in some sort of tax-deferred account.