skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which anyone can clone as easy as

git clone github:ethereum/geth

Having your own private platform with smart contracts and everything. Not congested with cryptokitties and etherdelta.
> get this one very wrong, recommending a display with eye level somewhere around the middle of the display

Maybe this is because I wear glasses and don't move my eyes much (tend to move whole head when shifting gaze because looking through center of glasses works best), but when my monitor is low, it eventually causes strain on my neck and shoulders. It also causes me to slouch a lot as I try to fix the positioning subconsciously.

Before I had a monitor with a riseable base, I used to put my monitor on a book or two.
> surely not a hard question, you would think!

Not so much hard, more that it sounds like a complete waste of time and could be signaling to people that this is one more non-technical/HR interview they have to get through before getting to talk to people they'd be working with and who can fill them in on details specific to their prospective job or team. Whatever you're trying to figure out with that question, there's gotta be a better way to probe that, that doesn't make it look like you're wasting the available time.
The market didn't "Just work," in Seattle. There is a long history of things not going right. The city had to do a lot to get this current housing boom to get going, including a lot of subsidization.

They also got a lot wrong (no where near enough low-income housing .. and a lot of the decent low income housing requiring you to be below the poverty line -- leaving the middle class in really tough spots paying Amazon employ rent while barely making enough to pay it.)

It's still not really working. The homeless problem is still insane. There are still a ton of one unit dwellings that no one is bringing up to code; the ones that use to house the very low income around places like Belltown.

Another thing that didn't "just work" was Amazon giving new employees discounts in certain condos. Turns out someone in HR didn't realize these types of deals were illegal, since private groups can't offer housing discounts or subsidizes or it violates various Fair Housing laws.
The idea that you now need to take a class to learn how to successfully interview with tech companies in order to prepare for interviews is terrifying.
1) Wash my dishes, dry them and put them away completely automatically.

I have actually thought about this, since this is a chore that I absolutely hate. In my view no one should be subject to the task of making dishes. Some people seem to like it, God bless them !

Initial prototype will be to work with steel utensils to avoid damages. Current object detection techniques are sufficient to recognize plates, glasses, dirt etc.

I envision a setup something like this - two robotic hands sitting on top of the wash basin with a camera head. One of the hands has a built in tap and the other a detachable scrubber with soap dispenser. One arm picks up the utensil, rotates as required, sprays water as required. The other arm scrubs off the dirt until it's clean.A camera module watches until the cleaning is accomplished. Once clean, first arm piles up similar dishes in stacks.

This made up for a good hallway conversation and I had forgotten about it since then. Thanks for rekindling the thought.
At Google, the recruiter who schedules your interview specifically recommends reading books written about passing Google's interviews. It's a little unbelievable.
I thought the poster was saying "Alibaba" to make fun of Amazon.

Also I like calling those new buildings The Amazon Testicles.
> Research and preparation are synonymous.

This is wrong. If I want to handle a problem by researching it, I have a goal in mind ("solve problem X"), and I'll look for things that will help with it.

Interview preparation specifically avoids that approach. Instead, you're supposed to become familiar with every possible problem, in case it comes up during the interview. Most of them, obviously, won't, and from a "research" perspective that means that nearly 100% of the time you spent in preparation was wasted.
Those bad experiences are usually due to poor wifi equpment though - many routers mess up mDNS which means that devices that relying broadcasts work poorly. In your case Chromecasts, Avahi and similar (AirPlay falls also into this category).

So I'd check your router if you keep having issues.
It says something when it's easier to land a ten story rocket booster than fold laundry...
AFAIK, most or all US schools have required a 4 year degree for a long time now.
Liver also speeds up metabolism creating yet more heat.
If you were smarter you could better tools, weapons and shelter... Or better ways to hunt and prepare food...

That would definitely help your family survive better.
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For a longer term the usage of "killing" here can be quite literal due to potential for disaster with antibiotics. In shorter terms I can clearly see how conscious consumption affects local shelves in supermarkets. Like 5-4 years ago in Norway I has to go a special health food store to bye vegan products. Now the cheapest supermarkets offers it and one can get a vegan burger at local Macdonalds.
And? There's a reason why all those others died and PC survived.
Mobile app or Web app?
I run a small mobile app development studio. Since last 6 months, we are seeing increased demand for web application inquiries while a huge decline in mobile apps inquiries.

I think this trend will continue in 2018. What do you think of it?
> we're basically born at a stage of development that'd be considered a fetus for other animals in a lot of ways, and rely a lot more heavily on our parents as we continue our development.

And since parenting such an undeveloped creature requires high intelligence, we get more and more intelligent in a feedback loop [1].

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/113/25/6874.abstract
It's time for morons to stop overpaying and screwing everyone.
Why on earth does it need to be internet connected?!
I would use northern Italy as a conterfactual. True, it was more industrialised at the moment of unification, and political power was much closer to Turin than to Palermo, but billions of economic aid were sent to the South over the past 70 years to try to reverse that imbalance with little effect.

While it's true that Mafia is somewhat present in the north too, it is much less pervasive in penetration.
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Nope, not even slightly. Research is something you do after you know the problem at hand, to see if you find anything helpful. Preparation is something you do before you know the problem to minimize reaction time once the problem is revealed. Preparation is wildly inefficient, as it involves studying a bunch of material that will not turn out to be needed, just in case.

If you're writing software under the kind of time pressure where consulting reference material is unacceptable, something is deeply wrong. Most software engineers, most of the time, should be able to research topics as they come up rather than prepare (beyond the standard preparation in college).

Making long-term plans, building consensus around them, etc. is important, but is nothing like practicing for whiteboard interviews.
I've seen too many projects created by people with higher degrees to bet on that.
From a drop-down menu on a computer program,
he saw two options: “Test missile alert”
and “Missile alert.” He was supposed to
choose the former; as much of the world now
knows, he chose the latter, an initiation of a
real-life missile alert.

Oh man, it just blows my mind to hear things like this still operating throughout the world, after dealing for so long with high availability systems built to be super redundant, and insulated with compliance software and handing off highly documented procedures to dedicated teams operating change-control plans during graveyard shifts to minimize downtime.
What are your opinion on the centralization concern? It seems like the dPoS consensus algorithm is inherently more centralized than PoW or regular PoS. Would love to hear your thoughts!
World-wide? Can you state 10 of these tech hubs where Bitcoin is widespread?

I haven't seen any place in Amsterdam Area (where I live, throughout Europe considered a tech hub) accepting Bitcoin. When I was in Berlin, saw zero Bitcoin as well. C-Base didn't accept it either. They did accept this currency called EUR, though.

Bitcoin's slow transaction speed wouldn't be an issue for something like dentist/doctor. Those have your PII including your SSN (or well, the Dutch equiv here), and you got physical contact with them. The payment here even goes via insurance company. Have never heard of any Dutch insurance company accepting Bitcoin though.
Yes, will do :) I'm afraid the QR code one is gonna be tricky, because of the way Wayland works. but the C/P issue is probably something with Qt + GTK3 that are confusing eachother
Though I didn’t exactly loose my faith, I can relate. I am not sure about anything, really. I was exposed earlier in life to science and non-believers.
Kind of shared?

Nursing

https://www.ucc.ie/en/ck710/

Medicine

https://www.ucc.ie/en/ck701/

There is not one single shared course between the two degrees. If you can find a course shared between medical and nursing students in all of Europe I'd be surprised.
> There are places where farming is either not feasible, less energy efficient, or where exclusively plant-based diets aren't feasible.

I guess by this logic, since Sahara exists, eating food is a luxury.

Your definition of luxury has transformed into a supreme being just so you can call vegetarianism/veganism a luxury.

If you live in the first world, eating plants over eating meat is not a luxury. It's the cheapest form of healthy sustaining food there is.
I live alone and have a “half width” dishwasher. It’s amazing at saving me time but also clutter. No dirty dishes on the bench top. The thing is on every night. Research has also shown it uses far less water and energy than hand washing.

By far the best investment I ever made for house cleaning though is a cordless Dyson vacuum. It’s mounted on the wall and I end up vacuuming (5 mins max) every day so it hardly feels like a chore.
As I recall, most darknet markets are just Tor hidden services, nothing decentralized about them.
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Same for Android since 7.0/8.0 (not sure which). Trying to factory reset the phone somehow wouldn't remove the Google account and would leave the screen lock enabled.
> She studied engineering, programming, and robotics

To be honest, I can't actually find any evidence that she graduated with even a bachelors for any of the topics you listed. It appears that she makes a living by being primarily an entertainer, not an engineer. In this context, I think the titles "robotics hobbyist" and "robot enthusiast" are appropriate and accurate.
The article also says there IS a confirmation dialog.

And it says, in the future, someone else will be required to confirm.
Set the swappiness lower.
Presentation skills: J – Journey
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Look up "damning with faint praises".
I recently sold my Android in favour of iPhone, exactly for that reason.

But again I'm probably a hardcore consumer who cares.

I really hope that there will be a change in mentality. It's crazy what google keeps of you if you enable Google Now.
It's a thing in Seattle. One of my friends lives in a wonderful neighborhood in South Bellevue. Multi million dollar homes. At least 40% sitting empty.
The SATs are specifically designed to meet these goals, among others:

- Preparation not required.

- Preparation not beneficial.

And it shouldn't be surprising that they achieve that well. Consider these scatterplots comparing students who took the SAT without preparation to students who prepped: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2012/02/test-preparation-and-s... .

As further described at the same link, research quite consistently shows that the effect of preparation on SAT scores is small, and...

> One of the most remarkable aspects of this line of research has been the lack of impact it has had on the public consciousness.

Again, this shouldn't surprise you, because it is a design goal of the SATs not to show an effect of preparation on scores, and they do their own research to ensure that preparation in fact does not have much of an effect.
Routers don't all come with the same WiFi password, why should this be any different? Most people probably won't even know about this feature, therefore will never "provision" it.
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> Because limitations imposed on a medium such as Facebook doesn't limit my ability to speak in private. That's how I see it.

That's not how the law in general and constitutions in particular work!?

Constitutions don't generally say something like "citizens may speak freely". Rather, they say "the state may not limit citizens in speaking freely". And that is intentional. The constitution does not grant rights to citizens, it limits the rights of the state. It's not that the state has to somehow allow people to speak freely somewhere somehow. The whole point is that the state may just not interfere with people speaking freely. Never, nowhere, and under no circumstances. That is, except for exceptions specified in the constitution or where the constitution allows for exceptions to be created in normal law.

And apart from the fact that that just is how constitutions work: It's absolutely essential that they do work that way. A freedom the exercise of which is subject to arbitrary limitations is just not a freedom. Freedom means that you can do what you want to do, not what someone else wants you to do. Now, that does not mean that you cannot do what someone else wants you to do. But it's only a freedom if it's your choice.

In the case of freedom of speech, that means it's your choice where and when to speak. Now, as I said, constitutions only bind the state, so facebook doesn't have to allow you to speak on their platform. But constititutions that contain freedom of speech make it illegal for the state to interfere with where and when people choose to speak, and that includes indirect interference where the state pressures Facebook to not allow someone to speak.

Just as freedom of movement doesn't mean the state has to allow you to move somewhere, freedom of speech doesn't mean the state has to allow you to speak somewhere. Freedom of movement means the state may not interfere with where or when you choose to move, and freedom of speech means the state may not interfere with where, when, or what you choose to say.
I'm pretty sure they're incentivized to find candidates that get offers - not to find "good employees" or anything of that sort.
> You mentioned pregenerated lookup tables in a previous comment. Using email address as salt prevents that attack. Salts come with the database too.

Ah right, didn't think of that!

I will think of adding a preference where one can add a salt value :)

> Yes, but then the user has a more difficult password to memorize, so that argument is irrelevant.

But while the password-remembering difficulty scales linearly, the difficulty to crack it scales exponentially ;)
> until someone comes up with a less gameable system or a magic wand that stack ranks applicants, then I don't see a viable alternative

This is exactly the concept of an IQ test, right down to the stack ranking.

They're pretty well understood by now, and they take less than a day, which compares pretty favorably to "months".
Panasonic must be very happy about this plan
Not related: I don't know why but you are downvoted into oblivion on your recent comments...
There's also the upkeep and management costs of being a landlord. If you're a foreign investor, you have no interest in that. So you can either outsource it to a third party, deeply cutting into your rental revenue (and also being on the hook for any repairs required)...

Or you just sit and hold it. Maybe send in a cleaning and maintenance crew every once in a while to keep the dust at bay. Much less headache than renting.
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>Melodies are quite simple, conceptually -- there are only 12 notes.

Whereas for chords, I couldn't personally begin to count them, but according to the first source which popped up in Google, for four-note chords, there are 495. And they're incredibly complex, with whole arguments (and probably dissertations) on how to properly categorize and name them and how they function.

That's irrelevant though.

The "complexity" of chords is just the result of a combinatorial explosion based on a few simple rules (adding this or that note of the scale, inverting in this or that way, etc). In fact any random cluster of notes one can hit (e.g. by throwing a bowling ball at their piano's keys) is a chord and can have some sort of name. That doesn't name it particularly useful, or anything worth much studying.

The complexity of melodies on the other hand, is much more esoteric and intuitive (you know it when you hear it), and thus much more difficult to write a great one.

>(Also, why compare "good melodies" with a "generic chord sequence"? Better to compare good with good.)

Because a good melody would be cherished by everybody, whereas few care for a good chord sequence (sans melody) except music nerds.

>Example: hum "The Girl from Ipanema" to yourself without harmonies -- it's the most boring, repetitive thing ever.

That's BS, I'd say. In fact, solo performances by monophonic instruments and a cappella singing wouldn't be interesting either if that was true in general (that no harmonies = boring).
As I understand it, and I think this study concurs, permanent eye damage isn't caused by computer use.

Rather it's a combination of genetic susceptibility to being near/far sighted and straining your eyes during the susceptibility "period".

That is if you aren't genetically inclined to eye problems, no reading or computer use is going to make your require glasses.
If you are genetically inclined and do near work (reading books, computers,phones etc...) then your number will rise during childhood and early adulthood.
The number usually stabilizes between 20 and 30 years.

If you are genetically inclined but don't do near work, you will not need glasses.

Staring at a computer for long hours without blinking will give you headaches though, and maybe blurry vision, but that'll pass in a day or two.
> hiring in tech is BROKEN. Other industries do it better.

Can you explain how other industries do it better and come up with a better, plausible, non-fantastical way to interview programmers? I'd love to know how to interview people "better", but it still has to be something where I can later present evidence that my decision is based on, in some kind of report. It would have to allow multiple people at my company to interact with a candidate in a half day or less. Copying what another industry does would be great, if it worked, because it'd help convince people it was a good method to try out.

> Are the hoops you have to jump through justifiable for how "important" your job is?

I never thought a 1 hour phone screen and a few hours onsite was particularly onerous, and based on how much the job pays, it seems well worth it.

> People's lives are dependent on how well she does her job.

I'm not sure why you seem to think that saving lives correlates with strictness of interviewing, especially with the 2 jobs being so drastically different.
Nope. That was just the last in a series of different suits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
Cool. I haven't read the second version of the book, and I read the first version about two years ago I think. Glad to see this difficulty is now covered. Carry on with the great job Steve :)
Yup. Then you'll have a clone of the real deal.
That is outdated information. Downtown is fine after dark, especially if you're in Dan Gilbert's security zone. He's got cameras and security people all around his buildings 24 hours a day.

Now as I tell many others there are parts of the city I wouldn't visit in either the daytime or at night. But there are very few good reasons to ever visit those neighborhoods.
I do just that and it works nice for 4 people family
Dang, you hit that straw man hard. Easy.
>My opinion is that killing and subjugating people is wrong, regardless of your motivation for doing so, unless your motivation is to stop people from killing and subjugating other people.

Well, the motivation of communists was to stop people from "killing and subjugating other people" in the form of imperialism, wage slavery, and so on.

So?

>That entire exercise seems incredibly silly to me.

Well, that's history to you.
Perhaps he could focus on folding towels and then sell the device to the hotel/AirBnB industry?
Interesting mention on the BeOS-based IPAD prototype in 1999:

> Be has quietly been planning their own version of the perfect low-cost, easy-to-use, dedicated media device. Be's IPAD (Internet Personal Access Device)*
> [...]
> * According to hints dropped in a recent newsletter, Be may be casting about for a catchier moniker than "IPAD."

http://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/07-IPAD/
> Your car will go to the wrong place because it failed to
> account for a leap second, thus breaking gps.

I am taking a hard stance on this: if the car cannot drive without GPS then it is not autonomous.
I hate to say it, but most successful guys on youtube are good looking too. It's an entertainment thing in general, regardless of what we feel about merits.
> and their GitHub profile.

I have nothing in my GitHub profile. Some toy repos of no particular significance, one contribution to Rust that I've made before realizing it takes too much of my spare time... and that's it. I don't think that should make me un-hireable ... people that have kids tend to not have much spare time besides work, learning new stuff to stay relevant, and taking care of said kids. Not to mention, my company has me going through some bureaucratic process for any sort of open-source contribution that I intend to make.
Well I hate them when coworkers are using them in a shared environment.
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It's similar to owning a Ferrari, and then not actually driving it day-to-day. People don't want to suspect their priced possessions to wear and tear.
It also helps the problem because people can't find an airbnb rental in the city anymore so they stop coming.
How can you just wonder and not come to the obvious conclusion yet ? (By the way from my own observations, this opinion is strongly frowned upon here)
An academic clickbait, amazing! I was also expecting to read about information asymmetries as per Akerlof.
Businesses with this attitude need not software specialists, but need to hire through (sub)*x-contracting. Just go to a global chicken farm like capgemini/accenture and get the required workforce. This solution has multiple downsides though.
Yup, this is a great explanation. Cuckoo hashes actually do much better in terms of load if you use buckets with multiple items, as we did here. The classical one with one item per location can get "stuck" with unresolvable cycles between elements at 50% load, but when you have these buckets, there are many more ways to resolve collisions, which lets you greatly increase the load. 99% is extreme but definitely doable. Writing a fuller post on this is definitely a good idea -- we may do it in the future.
Vancouver likes to talk a lot about 10-20% of new condos sitting empty. For some reason, they completely ignore the 80-90% that do get tenants.
I have a couple of Aldi "robotic" vacuum cleaners.
They are excellent.
So he's insane?
It takes skill for her to do what she does. And this "graduated with X degree" is just classism.

Credentialism is sometimes a useful metric, but at a certain point experience is more important.