skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because most of these students will likely default. And once the tax base drops, other government budgets are impacted resulting in a net loss for society. The alternative is the government only offers loans to students majoring in fields that lead to jobs capable of repaying.
For contrast, in Maryland counties are the school districts. At which point you need a county government, significant taxes, etc...
Be careful... in many places, it is illegal to offer a telecom service that competes. In many places, Comcast and similar have exclusivity contracts with the municipalities. And of course if you're going to be digging trenches and running lines, you need legal right-of-ways through properties or pole access rights to run lines on poles. In most places, they don't want any more cables run than are already present, so the only way to get those rights is through heavy political manipulation.

Also, if you live in a nice permissive place and you get all set up, don't be surprised if Comcast techs cut all of your lines and claim they didn't realize they shouldn't have done that. It wouldn't be the first time.
2nd Heroku Outage in less than a week
What’s Erasure Coding and When to Use It in Production
The problem is that our current pace of ecosystem destruction in order to satisfy people is not sustainable.
I would say, try to test the fundamentals. Do they understands how memory is accessed, have sense what kind of algorithm is used (though it would be too much to code in 45 minutes), ambitious, have general idea to solve a problem, can they see issues if things are not performant... Having a conversation, comfortable conversation is the key, imo.
I'm not sure I'd consider a system running full blown Linux with self hosted development tools, graphical environment and so on to be a typical embedded system.

Edit: I suppose they may not be running Linux on the Pi, certainly not the graphical variants on a 4GB card.
A main one would be a focus on the internal world (self-image, thought processes, confidence, inner peace), Christianity is often too focused on acting correctly instead of thinking correctly/crafting a good personality in my view.

Buddhism is stereotypically more focused the other direction. Christian mediation isn't really a thing for example.

Please note that I don't want to get into a stupid pedantic discussion about what Christianity may or may not contain/touch on, my point is simply that no single source will ever contain all the wisdom there can be found - which I don't think can be disputed by intellectually honest people.
if you've spent years programming and dont have anything to say about it, there isn't anything for me to go on. you obviously dont have any real interest in it, and you're below the bar where i'm willing to invest the time to see if you're teachable. what would you suggest instead? gpa? top school? test? those dont seem particularly relevant.

edit: oh, maybe i wasn't clear. school projects are fine grist, you just have to be able to say something interesting about them
Why would it be less regulated? You might be able to fly under the radar at first, but if regulators took notice I don't see why the same requirements wouldn't apply.
Using plants as a measurement of quantity of product produced is misleading, full stop. As long as we continue to legislate limits on plant quantity and not bud quantity (not that I think we should, only that it would be superior) we will continue to promote unhealthy industry practices. For growers who are worried about plant quantity (this was still very much the case even among most "professional" growers this season in Cali, for example, because the first thing cops do is count your plants) 20L/day during the height of the summer months isn't out of the ordinary at all, I know many growers in norcal do 10 gallons a day or more, depending on the soil.

But the original point, that marijuana is hugely wasteful of water, is pretty ridiculous when you compare it to other crops. Everything uses a lot of water. And saying that indoor is better because it uses less water ignores the extreme amount of waste created by using (and climate controlling for) indoor lights.
I think there's plenty of room to critique LaVars choices while staying purely within the confines of basketball. The difference between skill level, exposure, and compensation is quite stark between the US and anywhere else. He could send his kids to go live at the Louvre and it's still be a dumb basketball move.
Not for the scale of changes that KPTI needs, and almost certainly not for the scale of updates they have likely missed.
a social culture shaped by 1000 years of white dominance

Every culture is shaped by the people it's comprised of by definition. Do you have a problem with the fact that Chinese culture is "shaped by 1000 years of Chinese dominance"?
> Let’s be clear, students will NEVER be allowed to default these loans, nor should they.

I think you mean “discharge in bankruptcy”, not “default”; default is what happens when you miss a scheduled payment; lots of students do default.

Also, they are dischargeable in bankruptcy, though the standard is harder than with other debt.
Demand (ie. Customers) is easily one of the hardest parts of business. You're suggesting that supply is the cornerstone of a market, but thanks to the Internet, owning supply is nowhere near as important as owning the customers.

See: Facebook, Google, Amazon.
That leaves nothing for those "service providers" to do except skim profit. Why should they get a cut? Because they have a router?
Imagine if this article was intended for pilots and it said:
"How to interview entry level pilots for A380. On the job training provided if you are fresh graduate"

I'm aware it's a regulated profession, but imagine if it wasn't? Whats there to stop management from actually fast tracking the backup pilots as that?
Author here: At mux, we experimented using machine learning to predict HQ Trivia answers. We managed to get 80-90% accuracy across a dataset of around 500 questions.

The trickiest questions were relational questions (e.g. What's heavier, a pineapple or a Siamese cat?). Would appreciate any feedback on our approach (and happy to answer questions!).
What it's like being a creative professional and a mother
Doing amateur counter terrorism investigations is never a good idea I suspect that he may have broken some internal security policies at google by doing so which may have lead to the firing or increased the severity of the offence he was fired for.
Such as?

Reading up on the format [1] it seems that every value is defined, which includes a ton of possible NaN values [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-poin...

[2] If you read the actual IEEE 754 spec, one suggested use for a NaN value is the address of the offending instruction(s); otherwise there is no defined pattern for NaNs in IEEE-754.
1. build local net

2. feed it with a few links to the central net, but mostly transit the data locality

3. wait until ISPs goes out of business

4. plug isolated nets into new dark fiber lying around.

done.
2 - 30h. Not directly. More "things" ultimately lead to more money tho.
It's more like an override, provided by a feature many people don't use. If they were using it they'd probably change the password from 'admin'.

You can't add a backdoor with a password and then claim that's the new master password.
This idea of temp-to-hire places a disproportionate amount of risk on the employee to be hired -- they will need to leave their current job (where they likely have decent job security) in order to attempt being hired at the new company.

In the real world, people generally don't put in their notice until they've accepted an offer at another company.
Open Banking 'revolution' to challenge banks' dominance
Its an alternative. Rather than using a virtualized environment, you build everything yourself for a raspberry pi 3. No scaffolding, nothing. and its in Rust!
Exaggerating, but not vastly - it really did used to be quite difficult to buy a computer that didn't have Windows pre-installed.
yes, there's unlikely a perfect solution, especially not one that comes out of 5 minutes of musing on it.

injuries involving bodily harm (assault, murder, etc.) might require more time, and financial crimes might take years to uncover, as you point out. but the underlying idea would be to make people act on injury quickly so that justice is delivered while memories and evidence are fresh (lowering costs) and deterrence is more immmediate and visible.
Please, Sadedin responded to a strawman, not Damore's actual argument. I could point out every mistake she made in interpretation, but it's frankly not worth my time doing this again. I'll just say that plenty of scientists with equivalent credentials agree that Damore's evidence was sufficient and used more or less correctly, for example [1].

Most of the people who disagree don't even understand the terminology Damore employed, and instead project their own inflammatory interpretations of scientific terms (such as various personality traits from the literature, like "agreeableness").

Finally, I will also note that we can even throw out any arguments about the evidence and quite easily prove mathematically that Google's hiring practices aren't biased and the methods will necessarily be ineffective at attracting more women: women comprise about 19% of Google employees. Women comprise around 20-21% of computer science graduates. Is Google expected to conjure women from the aether so that their female ratio somehow supercedes the ratio of women in the entire pool of possible applicants?

Even if Google were to achieve a better than possible ratio, they'd just be making the ratio at other companies worse. We'd all be hailing Google as some pinnacle of modernity and diversity, and we'd scold the rest of the industry for not following suit. It's complete bullshit theatre.

The only real change can happen in the halls of post-secondary education, or even earlier. Most of these arguments about culture at companies driving women away is smoke and mirrors. The predictions of such theories simply can't explain the data.

Women fought long and hard to get into achieve parity in plenty of other fields that were way more of an old boys' club than programming, like medicine and law. We're to believe that scores of women are so intimidated by nerds with keyboards that they're running away from STEM back in first and second year college? This narrative of the gender gap in STEM is total bull.

> But if you didn't prove that diversity policies are ineffective and still say we should do away with them, that does make you anti-diversity, to most rational, logical people.

Except you're clearly not even open to the possibility that Damore pointed out, that there's some intrinsic factor driving interest in STEM. Not ability, as Sadedin's strawman argued against, but interest. I suggest reading [2] for an overview of the evidence for the "things vs people" theory that can explain gender differences in interest.

[1] http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...

[2] http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...
> "I don't want to make any child of mine grow up in the world it seems we're heading to"

This is utterly short-sighted thinking.

We in Western nations are utterly privileged and blessed to live in today's world. Abundance of clothing! Abundance of food! Free and accessible plumbing! Clean drinking water! Travel anywhere you like for relatively cheap! You probably own a large climate-controlled contraption that can transport you long distances in a short amount of time! No epidemic diseases/plagues of yesteryear! No famines! The average lifespan is already 80+ years old and that number continues to increase.

The world we are heading to will likely continue to see advances in technology and medicine, leading to less suffering and healthier, longer lifespans. More resources too - there are fewer destitute poor today than at any other time in history.

Warren Buffet said that the moment one was born in the United States or another Western country, that person has essentially won a lottery. Puzhong Yao, a Chinese immigrant to the US put[0] it this way:

"If someone is born a U.S. citizen, he or she enjoys a huge advantage in almost every aspect of life, including expected wealth, education, health care, environment, safety, etc., when compared to someone born in developing countries. For someone foreign to “purchase” these privileges, the price tag at the moment is $1 million dollars (the rough value of the EB-5 investment visa). Even at this price level, the demand from certain countries routinely exceeds the annual allocated quota, resulting in long waiting times. In that sense, American citizens were born millionaires!"

Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror blog expounded further[1]: "Being born today, rather than 50, 100, 200, 500 years ago is also effectively winning a lottery."

If you don't wish to have children for some reason, fine. But don't give us the foolish nonsense about refusing to bring up children in a terrible world. The world is the best it has ever been -- technologically, socially, medically, and probably morally -- and that trend is pointing in the right direction.

[0]: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/western-elite-chi...

[1]: https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/951212445426622464
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The approach I prefer is have one of your tops talk to them about technology for an hour or less. Talk about their favorite projects, least favorite projects, favorite code, etc. The top will be able to tell if they have the interest and ability. The interest is what makes a entry level developer improve.
I've seriously considered it, but my family is the primary reason why I haven't pulled the trigger. I have Scandinavian roots on my Dad's side and would most likely try to utilize that.
I am currently taking the class. Its an embedded systems + OS class that undertakes the challenge of writing an operating system for a raspberry pi 3 in Rust. The lectures aren't recorded sadly, but its the first time offering something like this and both Sergio and Dawson are fantastic professors!
However it would have a nice property: not operating would consume zero power. Useful for low-leakage cases or energy harvesting.
Hey man, frontend looks fine, but I think some of your APIs are 404 now. There's also missing 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header error on some of the endpoints.

Keep it up!
Useful resource for checking how many ISPs you have in your area:
https://broadbandnow.com/

Though I'm skeptical at how accurate their maps are. It SAID that another provider covered my area, but when I called them that turned out to not be the case.
You've got that backwards. Things (i.e. things other than general purpose computers) were connected to the internet in industrial settings long before they were in homes.
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> they were trying to create a better world for the next generation

I don't see a lot of evidence for this, except perhaps Reagan's program of deficit spending on an arms race to bankrupt the 'evil empire'. Maybe people should be forgiven for believing in the trickle-down lie once, but it's now simply a transfer of wealth scam.
Yeah I figured the original title I put was more informative, but oh well. Hopefully people click it and see its a pretty modern and interesting take on an OS class!
Sure, but you're moving the goalposts :)

Look, I'm a big fan of Rust - I want to see it succeed. I go to Rust meetups in my city, I've advocated for it's adoption in my company, yadda yadda. But I don't these vague half-truths are good for the language or the community. In fact, I think they'll be harmful to the community over time as the language will fail to live up to expectations. When I started programming, Java was in the position of Rust. It was being given so many vague platitudes that it experienced push back a few years later as developers realized it didn't fix all their problems.

I don't mean for this post to be mean or condescending. Tone is hard to transmit over the internet.
What do you mean by 'always include an ask'? Is that to keep them engaged by having some information out of them?
Yeah (agree) that's not correct. Kotlin has to compile to Java bytecode, true, but it does not overlay Java like e.g. Groovy does. Kotlin and Java very much exist side-by-side in exactly the same way Swift and objective-c do: they (can) target the same machine but have different language scemantics.
> My personal opinion is that the NHS is critically underfunded at the moment and that should be fixed first.

Sounds wrong to me, but I know nothing about mental health in the UK. It's really hard to fix corrupted institutions without just restarting them from scratch. Throwing money at such institutions (in my opinion) tends to do more harm than good.
WHEN IT COMES TO GORILLAS, GOOGLE PHOTOS REMAINS BLIND
>, or finance?

Tricky brainteaser questions are popular in quant finance interviewing. Example[1]. There are also discussion forums dedicated to it. Example[2].

Some electrical engineering firms will ask you to analyze complicated circuits in the interview. Some even have "take home tests" where the candidates design a circuit according to the interviewer's specification.

[1] http://www.streetofwalls.com/finance-training-courses/quanti...

[2] https://www.quantnet.com/forum/quant-interviews.41/
Like Joel, I was close to quitting Facebook, largely because of politics. And for similar reasons, the political posts were making me unhappy. So, what I do now is hide pretty much all personal feeds, and subscribe to groups. Most of my groups are musical (bands, symphony, jazz center), a few are art studios, theaters, or museums. This way, I still get to know about most (but not all) of the events going on, without the politics. It's made Facebook a much better place for me, though at this point, I'm really just using it as an events aggregator.

For a while, I tried the "Show me less like this" response. I slowly came to realize that this button doesn't do a damn thing (actually, it's worse). Facebook didn't stop showing me this kind of news, at all. At the time, I figured "show me less" was like those crosswalk buttons that don't have any actual influence on the timing of lights, but deter jaywalking by providing an illusion of control to a pedestrian. I realize now that it's probably worse than that - "show me less like this" is probably the Facebook equivalent of asking a spammer to take you off the email list. All it does is tell them they have a live one.
They printed $4+ trillion in the aftermath and gave it to banks.
Millennials watching ‘Friends’ described it as transphobic, homophobic, sexist
Where is a few miles outside of Loudon? Clarke County? That’s closer to WV than DC. And incredibly sparsely populated. Clarke is 85 people per square mile and Fauquier is 105. Fairfax County is 2,800.

Parts of Loudoun are very sparsely populated; indeed, it has the most unpaved roads of any county in VA. But since 1980, the population has grown from 60,000 to 385,000. Almost all of that growth has been in Dulles/Leesburg/Ashburn, etc. So in terms of percentage of households who have broadband access, the other parts of the county doesn’t have much of an impact on the overall number.
It just sounds like you're tired. You're human, not a machine. Give yourself a well-deserved brain break.
Can confirm, have interviewed people for a senior position with a wonderful resume with 20+ years of experience, who seem to have never seen a computer before. Flip the bit endianess of a word was one of the problems, and I saw a guy who literally (supposedly) did embedded software for the space shuttle just grind for 45 minutes and somehow not make any progress. Like it was impressive. I would have expected a random walk to make more progress.
Live by the corporate personhood, die by the corporate personhood. It wasn't personal, just business.
In the real world there are a lot of people who don't currently have a job. Sure unemployment percentage is low (even if we discount accusations that the percentage is miscounted), but there are still a lot of people looking for a job. When someone doesn't have a job temp-to-hire isn't nearly as risky because if it doesn't work out you are back where you were - sometimes with renewed unemployment benefits.

Actually your downside is a side benefit to employers: you don't risk hard feeling by hiring somebody away from their old job if you latter need to work with them. (these shouldn't happen, but they do)
“Need” for what end? If there is political will to be “tough on crime”, or to reduce immigration and get away with it by saying you’re really only being tough on crime, you can probably find something on anyone simply because laws are too broad. Likewise if you care about performing economic espionage, you don’t need to worry that you’re mostly getting low-hanging fruit.

These are checks you can perform on everyone, after all.
Perhaps it should have been "BIER" instead of "BEER".
I think for some people it is hard to write a post or comment, which is why they repost. It may be hard due to the difficulty in organizing your thoughts, writing, or by taking ownership of what is said vs just sharing someone else's opinion. I think also that when people start to write down greater than 140 characters that they discover the topic is more nuanced.
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I tried patching for macOS then quickly gave up.

Here's a patch to get you started: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/bab9c0fcafd9a03acfaa89741f...

I don't know whether it even makes sense to try porting this to macOS, but good luck.
Without doubt I would start with:

'No more Mr. nice guy' -- Robert Glover
> At risk of being politically incorrect, China has some of the highest quality human capital in the world per capita.

Agreed. There's a huge gulf between the coast and the inner provinces, but China has tremendous human capital and that is why I'm bullish in the long term, despite the current crises and issues with its neighbors.
it is possible to design microprocessors which can just utterly stop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_core
power consumption doesn't drop to exactly zero, but it can come into competition with the quiescent current of the power supply.
It also abuses the system by not paying the going short term contractor rate some non tecnicaly savvy companies think that wanting some one to work a 4-6 month contract and only pay you as if you where an employee and not self employed rate.
> It's a biological imperative to do so (i.e., we think we have a choice, but in fact have much less than we think we do).

I chose to get a vasectomy. I'm 35 and have never in my life desired reproducing. I do not feel that supposed biological imperative.

I do feel the imperative to have sex, but having sex and producing babies are entirely different things. You can have one without the other.

> To help you understand how absurd your position is, consider if even one of the hundreds of thousands of reproduction "decisions" that are in your line had not been made, you wouldn't be here to express your point of view that it's "just a personal choice."

This is not a convincing argument.
Emojis emerged back in the 90's when Japan was the world leader in cell phones with cool features (now they're all about iPhone). I think they started on NTT DoCoMo phones. It's why so many of the original emoji are Japanese-centric (Mount Fuji, Japanese characters, the Japanese symbol for fax).

Emoticons originated long before that. Heck, even before the internet. I know we were using them on Quantum Link before it became Q-Link, before it became AOL. I remember seeing them on Usenet and some of the networks like Bitnet back before all the networks were joined into the internet.

The iPhone was the first platform I ever saw unite emojis and emoticons in one place, though now everyone just calls them "emojis."