skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are realising media is dirt cheap for the power it exerts. For a fraction of your net worth, you can buy big stack or even entire Fox News or Breitbart or Times and change it the way you want. You can not only transmit your ideology on large portion of the population but even propel your commercial agenda. I think sooner or later people will realize that instead of spending big marketing $$, buying up media outright might be more cost effective.
Nvidia Brings Iconic VW Microbuses of the Past and Future to Floor of CES
> I have zero experience in writing applications with it but I do know of it. I investigate it every now and then to see what's going on with it. Even I started writing a React app the day I became unemployed, I still wouldn't have the years of experience a lot of these companies are asking for.

Don't get hung up on what job listings say verbatim/literally. Most people are reasonably flexible about it, they just have to put something out there. If you know what you're doing and are otherwise a good hire, you shouldn't let the details of a single bullet point on the job listing deter you.

The more significant thing is probably that they can tell you're looking down on their decision for React before you're even in the door. If you sound open-minded about it, and especially if you flatter the interviewers by stating that you're excited to learn it from them, you'll probably start doing better here.

With specific regard to React, it's hard to call it a fad anymore. "Virtual DOM" is going to stick around whether it's in the form of React or not. I personally do wish that there were better resources geared toward experienced backend devs for it, but c'est la vie. You should get some basic experience with it so you can at least get a grasp on the concepts and the verbiage. I say this as a dev with a palpable dislike for the JavaScript ecosystem, and a visceral hatred for its encroachments into the backend.

I agree with the substance of many of your complaints (to be honest, I just skimmed the post, but the overarching points of way too many hoops and arbitrary dismissals after wasting a lot of time are solid) but I think there is too much edge/hostility in the post. I understand it's posted as "a rant" so maybe it's just about the venue/context, but I think you're going to get a lot of complaints about the tone here.
You sound like the dismissive companies I ranted about.
I do believe that the links in this sibling comment prove you to be a bit too extreme in your opinion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16128390
He makes a lot of good points, many which I have experienced and resolved to never do.

All my applicants know within a few days of whether they are getting an interview.

All my first round interviewees know the next day if they are getting a second round interview.

All my second round interviewees know the next day if they are hired.

As you see above, there is only two rounds. There isn't any white boarding, because I find it a waste. For web developers, I ask a very simple one page site to make.

I try hard to make sure the applicants at least know where they stand pretty quick. Because I've been on the other side of that.
Cars also.
Okay, you can use different terminology if you’d like, but per your original comment I responded to, it is still impossible to do.
>> It is amazing how many people chose number 4.

Agreed. We all need to periodically reread "Who Moved My Cheese?"
How is that different from embezzlement?
> Also, if they only wanted 75k in damages why didn't MJ agree to pay that and save themselves 2.5 million?

Presumably because that's like waving a "free $75k available here" flag to anyone else who feels like suing them next week, and the week after that?
The liability for zero day vulnerabilities should fall on the vendor selling whatever product had the zero day vulnerability unless they prominently disclose to the buyer that the software is not fit for the purpose they are buying it for.

We don't let car companies sell cars and then just add some fine print saying "this car might blow up and kill you even if you use it correctly and we are not responsible for that". Why do we let software companies do the same?
> China is capitalist

Lots of its companies are state-run or otherwise state-owned. It definitely takes some "capitalist" practices to the next level compared to the rest, but it is its own weird thing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/us/politics/carter-page-f...
Google publishes list of Chromebooks protected from Meltdown
It's a concerning trend. Another strange example: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-la-weekly-20171129-sto...
Cryptocurrency is the first time all three of: cash, stocks, and gold have been the same thing. So take the sum of NYSE etc, Au, M0,all salaries needed to run those infrastructures and banks devide by the number of ethereum tokens, btc, and eth to get a price.

The reason I say ethereum instead of all alt coins is because once people figure out that the chain needs to be decentralized to be secure they will stop making their own coins and will do tokenized assets instead. full disclosure: I'm long on Doge ;)
No, I don't have a source.

We are seeing a huge rise in problem pregnancies, birth defects, etc. There are likely a number of contributing factors to that reality. It isn't PC to wonder if maybe the rise of female careers is at related. That is viewed as antifeminist and so on.

Women routinely take time off work to care for relatives, whether their own children or other relatives. They get no credit for this vital work and how it impacts the health of people.

My experience suggests there isn't any point in trying to prove it. It won't get taken seriously anyway.

It is common knowledge that small kids in daycare have more health issues. My sister, who has a career and works for the CDC, used to quote studies at me about that. She managed to stay home with her only child for the first few years.

But, of course, in searching for info to support the idea that small kids in daycare get sick more, one of the most prominent pieces I can find is a PC piece assuring parents that the increased negative health effects of early daycare "has a protective effect later." Meanwhile, the study completely excludes data on, for example, hospital stays. Looks nicely spun to me.

Other pieces outright admit that staying home is simply not an option for many women and go on to talk about how best to protect your child from germs at daycare rather than exploring statistics. Yet the fact that you can google the question and there are pieces trying to address it at all suggests it is a real issue and parents ask about the problem a lot. But society can't fix it, so it isn't really comfortable to admit that it is a real issue.

Home cooked meals are also generally healthier than takeout, microwave meals, etc. Two career couples tend to not do a lot of cooking from scratch. Diet significantly impacts health.
People should keep that in mind when getting into it, but the other part is that some people (myself included) enjoy working for small companies far more than they enjoy working for large companies, so it's not an apples to apples comparison. I generally also prefer not to work with people who have a strictly mercenary mindset.
Like so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_People_Meter
Let's be clear, here: WaPo is not in the same category as most of your other examples.

It just has a different owner, and the prior owner (the Graham family), while not as rich as Bezos, was still plenty rich. Don Graham famously tried to invest in Facebook as early as 2005: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/02/02/facebo...

Bezos, while involved, has not changed the basic tenor of its journalism beyond maybe souping up some of its technology. Also, WaPo publishes pieces critical of Amazon and its subsidiaries all the time:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/12/07...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/is-amazon-getting-to...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/whole-foods-...

(Also, but on a different note, GigaOM was sold off because it had previously shut down and laid off all its writers.)
6 motion sensors for the torso but none for the fingers? Going to simulate chest bouncing?
Some docs here: https://keybase.io/docs/crypto/chat

To add a little bit, avoiding forward secrecy was a design decision. We wanted to support adding and removing devices from your account (including removing all of your original devices, if you want), and we wanted new devices to be able to read your message history. I think those two things put together are in conflict with forward secrecy.

That said, we'd like to allow you to turn off history for some messages, and it would be nice if you got forward secrecy for those messages when you did that. We're currently in the middle of figuring out how that's going to work. One of the open problems is this sort of situation: If I have 5 devices, and one of them is a laptop that's been in the closet for 3 years and won't ever rotate its keys again, how do we avoid making that laptop a giant hole in my forward secrecy guarantees?
The parent comment literally shows that Democrats protect us for privacy more than Republicans do.

125 Democrats voted to add privacy protections, 55 did not.

By Contrast

58 Republicans voted to add privacy protections, 178 did not.

By definition, that means Democrats were better about privacy protections.

Stop peddling this both-parties-are-the-same nonsense. Its amazing this can even be said with a straight face during the Trump administration.
I would love to read a post from the other side on this process. If nothing else, it'd help temper expectations.
To play Devil's advocate here -- what's stopping you from starting an ISP and treating traffic however you want?

I personally don't want the government "taking necessary steps to prevent data from being throttled.." because that means we've just given the government permission to be actively monitoring and controlling the internet -- including direct monitoring of the ISPs, and by extension full access to the content of your traffic -- ostensibly to "protect" you from throttling. The government would have to be able to inspect your traffic in order to ensure it isn't being discriminated against.

You want to know how you stop throttling? If your ISP throttles you, you call them up, cancel your service and go to a new company and you tell both old and new company why you're doing that. If something "important" gets throttled, you throw a post on Reddit, Twitter, wherever and suddenly you get thousands of people canceling their service -- and quickly the ISP will change course in response to the public demand.

In Cupertino right now, there are 9 residential ISPs from which to choose and 23 business ISPs. https://broadbandnow.com/California/Cupertino#

What the government SHOULD be doing is promoting ISP competition. Why not provide tax incentives for new ISP startups or innovative programs? Why not reduce regulation, make it easier for ISPs to start? Why not incentivize competition? Why not provide tax credits for entering underserved markets?

There is a free market way to ensure a fast and free internet -- using the government for such things has a tendency to lead us down roads we might not want to go down.
Writing a "huge" report is a massive waste of time as nobody will bother reading it. Their minds are already made up on the matter. It's only purpose would be that you have already decided to stay with the company and want an artifact for plausible deniability then things go south.

If its fraud and you want to protect yourself , quit, leave and make sure you keep as much documentation you can.
Because I can no longer edit this post, I just wanted to say that I tried doing research and I'm less sure than I was initially. But I will add that just because the SEC currently does very little regulation of crypto, that doesn't mean that federal laws don't apply to it. It just means you're more likely to get away with it and there's more uncertainty about what's allowed and how crypto is thought of legally.
Dolphins are truly fascinating creatures. They have extremely sophisticated brain architecture that definitely supports at least some degree of sentience. Some species like humpback whales, orcas (but curiously not Tursiops) have von Economo neurons (VENs)that have been connected to vocal learning, language and even theory of mind.Cetacean cortical surface area is quite large (https://twitter.com/Cetalingua/status/932631255165886464?ref...
and brain architecture in general is amazing, like visual cortex being next to the auditory cortex (https://twitter.com/Cetalingua/status/901590689091387393?ref...)

Add to that conscious breathing, unihemispheric sleep, cognitive preparation and fully conscious control of cardiovascular system, conscious planning and preparation for dives. Some species (pygmy sperm whales) have magnetite crystals in their brains and probably have some sort of magnetoreception for navigation, and the list goes on and on.

Our challenge is to make sense of it all, and how can we even do it, our auditory cortex is nowhere near our visual cortex.
Gawker didn't go after the average person, they very specifically went after a billionaire, Peter Thiel.

Then after that, Hulk Hogan filed a lawsuit because he got caught saying super racist things against African Americans on tape and Thiel secretly funds that lawsuit.

Does this make Thiel, by extension, somewhat racist considering he clearly had no qualms funding this lawsuit?[1] He's also a well-known Trump supporter, go figure lol

Call me crazy, but this seems very counter to where Silicon Valley wants to be and Silicon Valley values.

He's also considered a pretty well-known VC in the area. It's not hard to figure out why SV has so many diversity problems, when you have people like Thiel hailed as their leader.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/03/hulk-hogan-sue...
Anti-SLAPP laws have the same problem as "regulation via judiciary" -- by the time the law becomes useful, the damage is already done. If you go bankrupt defending yourself, suing under a SLAPP law doesn't help. Also, the barrier for proving you shouldn't be SLAPPed is far lower than the already low barrier for civil damages, so there's some question as to whether this even solves the problem.

Our civil justice system needs to be cheaper and more accessible. It shouldn't be possible to wage economic war on a company or individual via the judiciary.
Hulk Hogan!

There was a reason the courts ordered gawker to pay massive damages.
Ahh I see that now. But no doubt the porn industry is working on their own version.
The cost of switching is very high partly because of extremely slow upload speeds. If we had insanely fast upload speeds available widely, the competitive landscape of storage and sync might look different.
I'm not sure where your coming from with this question, so I won't answer to avoid confusion.
Sure but when you are worried about insider risk (and even if you are not) you most likely have strong access controls, extensive logging, endpoint security solution that can mitigate or at least alert on this activity.
looks like from another source about 250 people own about 100M worth of bitcoin.

https://medium.com/@BambouClub/are-you-in-the-bitcoin-1-a-ne...
> No, they indicate your ability to work and talk through problems. I'm not sure where this idea that whiteboarding is about skill level came from. You can cram/study algorithms. But you can't fake the thinking process, or how you approach a problem. You can't fake your communication style. And that is what doing it in a stressful situation shows - how do you really think and communicate under pressure?

They indicate none of that. Hiring pressure is different from work pressure. Its totally useless for anything other than entertainment.
I wasn't really talking about "free will" or anything so airy; more about 1. your predictive model of your own behavior lining up with your actual behaviour; and 2. your predictive model of the causal effects of your behavior lining up with the actual observed world.

In dreams, neither of these are true: "you" don't behave the way you'd expect of your waking self, and the things "you" do don't result in what you'd expect out of the real world.
This is definitely the best Show HN I've had the pleasure of watching evolve! Dropbox is a cool technology started by a cool person. That's what I like to see succeed.

Too bad we didn't have the opportunity to buy some "DBCoin" back in 2007. I'd have bought a lot!

Congrats dhouston & co on building a company that improves the world in a significant way.
This can be remedied. I'm picturing a port in the crotchal area that allows for the connection of interchangeable codpieces.
There’s a great, three year old HN thread about the Stellar protocol, starting with a critique by Gregory Maxwell (nullc) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342348
On the Wiki page for the meme, they list the IPA pronunciation:
"often pronounced /ˈdoʊʒ/ DOHZH or /ˈdoʊɡ/ DOHG". Personally, I'd guess the first pronunciation is more common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(meme)
I just wanted to respond and say how interesting your final claim is, that his fair and reasonable internal posting was leaked to outrage media.

The irony is that in the lawsuit damore filed, he outright names a bunch of people who work at Google and have said various levels of innocent comments. He's leaked out internal information to outrage media in order to punish and start a witch hunt. I've already seen combinations of images containing information about said named employees float around the more witch hunt-y side of the internet.
Your last point is quite telling.

I think a majority of the people making hiring decisions in these companies have never been where I'm at (and where you've been).
I'll start to feel sorry for Huawei after they apologize for repeatedly stealing IP from other companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei#Intellectual_property_r...
What makes a microservice architecture?
great read. always nice to read stories of honest competition that bring out the best in both sides (until apple swoops in, of course :). i wonder if they would have sold out to apple when they originally came calling to build iTunes the first time around had they not been tied up with AOL, rather than to just join after the fact.
"The Teslauit haptic library provides a range of sensations"

At least get your brand name right...
It really isn't, even though they think it is.

They are losing out on so many good candidates which does affect the bottom line.
We do know:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/18/politics/paul-manafort-governm...
Learning these 5 microservice patterns will make you a better engineer
“They say we offer naive answers to complex problems.”

Just paraphrasing something from my sons leadership project ;)
Are the Linux/OS X/iOS/Android clients for OneDrive good? Because one of the major selling points for Dropbox for me is that their native clients are uniformly excellent, and I rarely have to think about it - it just works everywhere.
Your assumption in #2 is incorrect. What actually happens often is the doctor doesn't know what to prescribe the patient and the patients quality of life suffers. As well as stated in my article, one of those alternative treatments "For another type of asthma treatment, long-acting bronchodilators, blacks are 4 times more likely than whites to die or experience serious complications when using them."

And that's not the only one.

https://www.medicine.wisc.edu/asthmanet/bard
> Hulk Hogan filed a lawsuit because he got caught saying super racist things against African Americans on tape

I thought the Hulkster sued because Gawker published a movie of him having sex with his friend's wife, filmed by his friend without Hogan's knowledge
Can't you use the token as a security model.

Token entitles token owner to X amount of revenue. So each month convert the amount to ether and send to owners.

That's only an issue in the US afaik.

Not fraud, quite healthy way of raising funds.
Yes, I think this is one case where both sides of the issue can agree the real problem is that our civil justice system seems to care more about the depth of your pockets than the veracity of your position.

That needs to change, and you can find your way to this conclusion via sympathy with Hogan or with Gawker, but perhaps not via sympathy with Thiel (for the obvious reason).
Perfectionism, anxiety and learning to be kind to yourself
The job search sucks for this guy because he's a front end developer that isn't keeping up with front end developer trends. Which is the thing people pay front end developers to do.
As a physician, you're absolutely right. There is a HUGE range of problems that can be made better by proper diet and regular exercise. Although there are a few efforts here and there, nobody has figured out a reliable way of changing human behavior when the initial action is hard but the rewards are far away. We seem only to be good at short-circuiting dopamine reward pathways so people log in to Facebook more often.

I'm not claiming to do better: my "give a motivational speech when I see you in clinic twice a year" approach certainly isn't worth shit.

But just because one approach is important does not mean others are snake oil. CF has a clear biological basis, and there are randomized, controlled trials proving that secretion management (e.g. DNase), glucose control, timely antibiotics and anti-inflammatory meds, and chest physiotherapy work. These trials also establish an average effect size (whereas your anecdote only tells me about you; I have also had patients who took similar measures but still died young). The average person with CF died at age 25 in 1986 -- today it's above 40.
This view seems incomplete and problematic:

The strong advantage of TensorFlow is it flexibility is designing highly modular model which also can be a disadvantage too for beginners since lots of the pieces must be considered together for creating the model. This issue has been facilitated as well by developing high-level APIs such as Keras and Slim which gather lots of the design puzzle pieces. The interesting point about TensorFlow is that its trace can be found anywhere these days.

I'm feeling TF is getting left behind compared to PyTorch. Dynamic graphs is a powerful thing. It's also kind of sad Keras is not yet supporting PyTorch.