skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting in is definitely competitive but study enough data structures and algorithms and you should be able to get into at least 1.

Making principal is even harder but I think it is pretty attainable if you put in extra work where the extra work is learning about your field and applying it to the business problems for your org.

I work at one of these companies and most people are 9-5'ers who work as cog's, don't spend extra time learning about their field, don't think big, and don't apply them to the job (aka, aren't leaders which is what principal engineers are).
First off, this is wonderful. I have a 2 year old daughter. A little too young to be coding but I look forward to seeing if she gets into it. The art is pretty great too.

My only feedback, it really needs UI states. Like when you hover over a button or an item in the room that an action can be taken on. Otherwise it is too hard to figure out what is clickable and what is not and it becomes a random clicking game.

I still do not know how I got out of the first room except through random clicking.

Edit: ahhh... it's a vent.
Good work! It would be nice when you mouse over clickable items that their outlines glow or something :)
It would be good if we reflect on why people take drugs. Maybe US need more holidays so people will feel happier. If people are happy they will probably consume less drugs.

In my view drugs are a way to escape pain.

Maybe smart phones are making people isolated from each other? We used to watch movies with friends now we watch personal streams. People not feeling a belonging are seeking escape in substances?
Dunno... "Alexa I need toilet paper", "Alexa I need avocado toast".. pretty simple..
People seem to forget that private ownership and consumption of alcohol was legal during the US prohibition (at the Federal level). You just had to buy it from Al Capone. We realized the problems that was causing then, but want to repeat them now.
Ask HN: How do you deal with spam profiles?
Over the past months, our service has been hit pretty hard by spammers who create corporate profiles (which we do not allow) and then pack them with search terms. More recently, they’ve started posting topic and comment spam along the same lines (think: “best family lawyer in Rochester, NY”).

I’ve tried a number of ways of dealing with these folks, but with no success. As such, I’m forced to watch site activity carefully, and then delete accounts/content as quickly as I can. (This is the first thing I do every morning. I repeat the process numerous times a day—and even peek in once more, before going to bed.)

Today, though, I reached out to the SEO company’s client directly, noting that their SEO provider is using black-hat methods. To my surprise, the person at the company got back to me, apologized, and cc’d me on the email they sent, questioning their SEO provider on what was going on.

As such, I’m considering doing this (alerting the company mentioned in the spam) with every spam account created on our service—and seeing if it stems the activity. Just curious if any of you have experienced the same, or have any suggestions on potential ways of discouraging this sort of activity.
So I guess you don't believe in "unconditional love"?

I just can't imagine not loving my kids even if I knew I could not trust them. Another example would be family with mental illness to such a degree you may actually fear they will kill you in your sleep, but hopefully they would be placed in a safer environment and still have their families love and support.
Ah ok. Does international law vary on this? Can Disney sue IP violators in other countries over this and who would enforce it
I don't know (nor did I downvote). Qihoo 360 has a bad reputation, Zhong Hongyi is a Trump-like character. But if you aren't into the China tech scene, you've probably never heard of them before.
How to Become a Data Scientist Without a Degree
except you'd somehow have to elevate those psychometricians to a point of not having any sort of political beliefs or goals themselves.
I'm wondering how this is relevant, when I looked at the wiki article[1] it seems to be about delayed gratification.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

It’s slow and it costs, but there are good reasons for the trials required to demonstrate efficacy.
Start the fee at $1 and double it each year?
Sherlock Holmes is also a grey area. My understanding is that the original Sherlock Holmes stories written by Conan Doyle are public domain, but not Holmes material written at a later date [1]

- "“Sherlock Holmes” Is Now Officially Off Copyright and Open for Business" [ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sherlock-holmes-no... ]
The fact that there are Europeans in South America is proof that there are racist Europeans. I mean, if they've already plundered South America and taken the land of the people, what need do they have for East Africa?

Obviously, I don't think that all Europeans are racist, but you know exactly the point I was making.

Tell me one political crisis in Kenya for the past 50 years that was not stoked by a European country or their policies?

Imagine showing up on other people's lands, then drawing up lines (borders), dividing brothers and cousins, just to take advantage of the chaos.

The best thing to do is to be open-minded and invest some time in a history that is not Eurocentric.

All the best.
I'm familiar with that argument against civility, and even sympathetic to it, but I don't see how it applies here. We're not asking anyone to be "ladylike", nor trying to prevent anyone from voicing their experience of the world—quite the opposite.

It doesn't work, though, to invoke such noble categories as standing-against-oppression to justify ordinary internet flamebait. There's far too much flamebait out there and it's all largely interchangeable. It all leads to the QED of online fora, "fuck you". We're trying, against long odds, to have something more interesting.

If you're saying you didn't intend to post ordinary internet flamebait, I believe you. In that case it would be good to distinguish your comments from that more clearly. We only have your words to go by, not the intention behind them. If the words fit the flamebait genre, that's the effect they're going to have whether you mean them to or not. This effect is destructive on the container here, so we have no choice but to moderate it.

HN is more fragile than most people realize. Some people seem to think of it as a corridor of power, which it's a blow against oppression to trash, but that's definitely not what HN is. I think of it more as a city square or park, and when people throw garbage in it (or appear to), they're just spoiling the opportunity for others to enjoy it and maybe meet and create together. If you're trying to express something for principled reasons, as your comment seems to suggest, that's fine. There are ways of doing so that make this place more interesting and that don't require you to compromise or mute your views. Scorched earth is not interesting.

You're welcome to post from the heart here. I wish more of us would. In my experience, doing so involves taking a certain risk of vulnerability. If all you do is heap scorn on something that pisses you off on the internet—which is how your comment read to me—that doesn't feel like a heart connection. It feels like the same war most people in online forums seem captured by, and which we're hoping to find a small corner of shelter from in this community.
Make a helpful comment by giving at least one reference to Douglas Adams to address the absence you're talking about (as your child posters have done)
Are there copyedited transcripts or lecture notes somewhere? I'm interested in giving Peterson's ideas a fair shake, but I'm not interested in sitting through hours of him talking on YouTube. I find his style of speech confusing, and the audio quality is often pretty poor on top of that.
I have never seen a more foolish comparison than the TV one. If someone doesn't watch TV, at best the in crowd might think you are a fool and behind the times.

The shadow profiles maintained by Facebook is the equivalent of watching your TV by stealing the non-watcher's electricity.

Triangulation of other people's profiles based on your phone book is the equivalent of handing over your non-watching neighbor's address to the (physical mail) spammers and then going and collecting only the interesting stuff from their house by using their key without their knowledge or permission.

Calling someone a spoil sport for pointing out the problems that FB causes to non-users is the equivalent of turning up the volume on your TV to a 1000 and telling your non-watching neighbor that all they need to do to drown out the noise is to go get a TV and then do the same.
Why would I pay someone to produce something, when as you said, I would not be able to stop people from finding it online for free?

For example, why would I pay to have a new Star Wars movie produced, when cable companies, NetFlix, and YouTube would all copy the film and have it available for free on the day of release? If I operate a cinema, I would need to charge $15 a ticket to recover the costs of producing the film, while John Doe can start a cinema, and show my film for $3 a ticket. So, why would I pay to have the movie produced? What would be my advantage over the competition, and how would I recover a few hundred million dollars?
95 years after publication is crazy. Copyright term should have never been that long.
Here is the video of a very similar talk those authors gave at HOPE five years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7or-_gT8TWU

one of my favorite con talks in a long time. Highly entertaining and hugely informational.
Better to simply lower the term and not allow extending it.
AI And Big Data Could Power a New War on Poverty
lol, not sure I want to now. The guy doesn't seem to have the greatest reputation anymore. It was Kevin Trudeau's mega memory.

Before this, I had gone through another before was Harry Lorayne's course. This was many years ago though. So I don't know how they are now.

I did a quick search, and this _looks_ like what I did.

http://www.real-memory-improvement.com/how-to-memorise-playi...

Keep in mind, that this is a very simplified few of the process, and it likely won't work without a detailed lesson plan, and strict following of this guys rules. Also, it's not an easy thing to learn, it took a lot time. But once you do, you can use it pretty quickly.

I got long term general memory improvement out of doing all of these things. But the super amazing feats you learn are like exercising muscles. You don't keep them unless you keep using them.

I had a lot of fun with it though. :)
Despite being a progressive-leaning person I find the Guardian's recent political correctness and value-signalling to be grating, and have been looking for an alternative and less hyperbolic sources of news. It's like they abandoned their detachment, independence and integrity in a bid to become the mirror image of the Murdoch press. I guess there's a good market for that, a large and growing choir to preach to.
> reading polled usage off the meter simply won't do

(I'm duping this comment from above)
I've been recording my power and gas usage via RTL-SDR for over a year. You only get a data point a few times a minute (if that). However, I can usually (though not always), with context, tell that a big spike was my hot water heater vs air conditioner, etc.
As far as I know you either believe Baum, or believe that he fabricated the quote. While that’s possible, given his standing as a journalist and the fact that he hardly needed such a quote to make a career, you can draw your own conclusions. I would add that the quote is certainly consistent with what’s known about Nixon’s racism, caught on tape, and that his administration would share that view is hardly surprising.
I was wondering that too, because even the example of adding / deleting indefinite articles and remaining grammatical would be very difficult.
Absolutely. You can dramatically increase your likelyhood of remembering something by simply being interested in it. Or intentionally focusing on it. (ie, you don't misplace your keys if you intentionally set them somewhere vs absent mindedly doing it)

Memory is a complicated system affected by a lot of things.
So, Amazon not selling google devices is okay, But retaliation from Google is not?
The Constitution has no checks against that. The founders had the opposite fear and largely detested popular democracy and the "rule of the mob". It is functioning as designed.

Edit: role -> rule
I hope not. It would be the end of original Netflix content as we’ve learned to love.
I've been recording my power and gas usage via RTL-SDR for over a year. You only get a data point a few times a minute (if that). However, I can usually (though not always), with context, tell that a big spike was my hot water heater vs air conditioner, etc.

(Though it's not enough to get totals for the day/month/year per appliance.)
India’s TCS Faces U.S. Trial in Anti-American Bias Case
This is a very interesting theory! I hope somebody gets a bee in their bonnet enough to gather some data.
You inspired me to give it a try. There is a lot to like but cross platform GUI isn't there yet. All the GUI examples I tried failed with cryptic error messages. Took some searching ("Red" doesn't lead to fruitful searches by itself obviously) to find that Linux is not yet supported. Apparently the developer who cared about Linux GUI support has abandoned the cause.
The post didn't say this directly, but it could be that they had no other options. He said that they had started fundraising efforts and were resistant to an acquisition - reading between the lines, their attempts for another round of funding were shot down cold.
If you aren't argu^H^H^H^Hdiscusing with the interviewer, you're doing it wrong. If that results in unfavourable evaluation, that's good data for you whether you should take that job.
You're focusing on the mental/psychological reasons someone pursues drugs over more mundane things like literal, physical pain relief.
> and keep keys with us at all times

Except this lock also has a key. It's the $1000 smartphone you carry everywhere. That is prone to running out of charge, getting stolen, getting broken, not being in range of a signal, etc. The whole idea was bullshit from the get-go.
I don't think coffee is "good" for you. But also don't think a small amount in your life is bad either. I put in on the same level as alcohol... so, maybe there is a benefit?

My experience with coffee is that is messes with my heart, dehydration and irritability levels. I love coffee, and these things only happen when I drink too much.

Are you suggesting that the sugar in coffee is the bad part?
Open source is the route to a more inclusive, compassionate world. https://opensource.com/life/14/8/does-open-source-boost-ment...
Swingers (1996), although in fairness an exception, shows adults playing NHL in a non-nerdy context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaAtavKP0-4
On #3 “slicing”, on a related note for Python, remember after a new list is created from slicing, each element/item in the new list is the exact reference to the corresponding element/item in the original list. This is espeically problematic when you try to do things on a mutuable object in either list, but expect the other list remains completely shield from change. You have to do deepcopy (but for immutable object deepcopy has no effect).

Makes sense and probably is a given for most programming languages.
A language with a linter, testing, and everything built in? Sign me up!
The problem is that there are quite a few X who adapt rapidly to new environments and also like the same kinds of environments as humans, and so creating human-friendly X-unfriendly environments becomes increasingly challenging as X adapts more and more to only require what humans require from an environment.
Over the last few years, due to personal events in my life, I've been thinking a lot about the relationship between drug addiction and emotional pain. Self-medication is a huge factor in drug use, and I hope everyone understands that.

From the perspective of self-medication, drug addiction itself isn't the disease: drugs are just a coping mechanism to protect the user from a deeper agony. So when we talk about "reducing demand", we're not going to get anywhere unless we're able to provide people with better ways of dealing with their pain. A stint in detox isn't going to do shit for someone with depression or PTSD besides making them feel guilty and pathetic when they inevitably relapse. And if you actually succeed in making it impossible for this person to get their hands on illegal drugs -- while doing nothing to address their underlying pain -- then you might just end up with a suicide. As strange as it sounds, "drugs of abuse" may actually be the only thing keeping some people alive.

In a way, our current drug epidemic is partially a failure of psychiatry. We need to do better in terms of addressing these root causes of psychic anguish. Drug addicts aren't lazy hedonists; they're just people who want relief from their demons. They deserve better options.
I don't know about this article, but if you want to know more about the symbolic logic system "Laws of Form" then "the Markable Mark" website is a good resource: http://www.markability.net/
All I can do is click on most of the doors, pick up the nails, and click on the hint. Nothing else seems to be interactive. Anyone have a hint on anything else that should be clickable?

EDIT:
Figured it out. What a brilliantly designed game....course now I'll have nightmares. That final screen....Well played.
Seems very macabre for a 12 year old mind. There's a consistent, creepy mood throughout all the screens that I saw, and I think it's very well done. The quality of the artwork / art direction is impressive.

In terms of playability, I managed to pick up nails, and I tried to use them on all five characters I could find but nothing seemed to work.
Yeah, this is a consequence of the fact that "antidepressant" is a marketing word, not a physically descriptive word.
Why waste your time on failures when you have successes that already have customers waiting for you to get your money .
When the service your site is being spammed with is something reputable then I think the approach you are taking works very well. The trouble is when it is more sketchy services that your site is getting spammed with that you can't take the same course of action. Other than that though, have you tried integrating a captcha or something? Or are you fairly certain it is a human doing the posting?
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I have worked on some for the Rift, the Gear and the Daydream. I think the reason why not a lot of people are in the space is that customers aren't there yet. It's one of those things that doesn't live up to the hype, but it is getting better fast.
I particularly liked these 12 books:

- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

- Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe

- The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

- Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters

- This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike

- A Life in Parts

- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

- Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be

- The Power of the Other: The startling effect other people have on you, from the boardroom to the bedroom and beyond-and what to do about it

- The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

- The Compassionate Achiever: How Helping Others Fuels Success

- The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
ECC alone is absolutely insufficient. But ECC can be part of a system design that includes active monitoring and response. I’d expect that system design to also include measurement of ECC events under ordinary conditions, regular re-measurement, and funding for an analysis of the changes and explanation of the difference—just like you’d find in safety engineering in a coal plant, an MRI machine, any sort of engineering that has a professional scientist or engineer on site supervising all operations.

Of course, you’ll also find a tendency there towards specified hardware. They bend or break it to use COTS x86 machines, but—as I think I heard from a comment here last week—nearly nobody ever specified wanting AMT in the initial design, so it’s pretty weird that we’re all buying and deploying it.
Yes, they can and they have. You can search for articles on Disney suing people in places like China for selling or featuring images of Mickey Mouse (or lookalikes).

A perverse effect (I think) of trademarks is that the owner of a trademark has to sue to protect it from infringement: otherwise, it becomes a common mark, not a trademark, and is usable by anybody.
> Which ones have that been, and when?

Personally, I find Zurich and Munich do a great job of isolating the slog of security from the rest of the airport experience. Yes, you still have to deal with much of the same security theater as in US airports, but once you're past that you can relax in a nicely apportioned environment.

As for overall feel, though, I like Turkish airports the best. Unlike the US and EU, the security there is more than theater. They actually scan your bags before you enter the terminal (and, you know, stand in crowded queues with everyone else and their bags). Ataturk's domestic terminal is something straight out of the 80s, and its age shows, but somehow it's still more relaxed and better laid out than most US airports. The Ataturk international airport, on the other hand, and especially the Star Alliance lounge, is a stunning environment.
Why bother? Why should we allow entities to continue to monopolize intellectual property long after the actual innovators are dead? If Disney's so great, they should be able to come up with some new shit. Otherwise, they're just sucking up oxygen.

These rules are being abused to stifle innovation and competition, simple as that. I don't have any problem in principle of some exponential scale, but it just seems like a solution for a non-problem.
>Despite being a progressive-leaning person I find the Guardian's recent political correctness and value-signalling to be grating

+1

That's (part of) what I'm trying to say.

The other part is that, though I'm not all a fan of Facebook, The Guardian (as a competitor) clearly has a self-interested agenda with these anti-Facebook articles.

A few years ago, they used to run a lot of snide, sneering articles about "bloggers".

Now that it turns out that blogs have modulo-zero impact on their bottom line, their focus has turned to Facebook et al.
I'm stuck after I killed Simon :(
The War on Drugs and the Prohibition are two very separate things. While what you say is true about the Prohibition bringing disparate groups together (Church groups, women's' groups, big tobacco), the War on Drugs was an inherently racist tool invented by the Nixon administration to target hippies and blacks.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richa...
Using an AVR as an RFID tag (2008)