skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Claiming certs have no value is to claim knowledge has no value.

No it isn’t, because it’s not intended to be literal. Instead, it’s shorthand for saying, “certifications have approximately negligible positive utility compared to learning alternatives, and net negative utility after time and monetary investments are considered compared to alternatives.”

It’s like functions in the local versus global scale: for the most part, a certification is has an imperceptible impact on overall career trajectory. To abuse terminology a bit, of available opportunities with similar time and monetary costs, certifications are not among the those capable of changing the global scale of your career.

I’ve been responsible for making hiring decisions in infosec positions. I consider certifications like CISSP to be a weakly negative signal in an inexperienced candidate and no signal either way in an experienced candidate. It’s useless to say that certain things have value if their value is absolutely dominated by similarly accessible alternatives. I know more than a handful of people who have started successful infosec careers with no certification or degree because they invested in themselves in more meaningful ways that the really well paying companies care about.
Native advertising still has to be marked as advertising. In theory you could easily block them if you want with a cosmetic filter.

Personally I don't mind advertorials if they have a subject I am interested in. Native advertising is better than a full page ad taking over the screen.
Haha, good to hear from you! Your secret's safe with me ;)
Great. Now all junkies can move to Philadelphia.
If you're at an incubator / coworking space, that is the best place. Second to that, meetups. Third, you can start interviewing en masse - but when it gets to that point, both sides decay in quality.

I've gotten most of my work through incubators, people using my open source projects, and finally through HN.

In hindsight, the reason why incubators/coworking spaces were so effective is people can form a connection beforehand and know your personality. They can see that you're in front of a terminal happy getting stuff done, "in the zone" with your headphones, and not yapping about politics or meta stuff.

If you do python, django, or stripe, check my profile.
Turkish Cargo Transports Humboldt Penguin to China from Riga Zoo – Air Cargo
Fortunately, the only worship songs I've ever really enjoyed were out of copyright by at least 200 years, and typically sung in Latin. ;-)

But interestingly, people have talked about creating public domain or free use literature for live music performance. A friend of mine tried to do this. He had the idea to create his own book of tunes (it helps that he's a composer with a music theory degree) so he could book a band into venues that didn't have ASCAP/BMI licenses. This was in the jazz genre, rather than worship music. I'm a jazz musician.

He told me that despite being completely above board, the venues still received a threatening visit from the performance rights organizations, and were talked out of hosting live music.
Pay for it. It's the price of not having the article plastered with ads and clickbait.
But consumers aren't buying the advertising, they are buying the product. Advertising is an expense for both the producer ($) and the consumer (time) so neither can profit from it.
Cryptocurrencies and Scientific Computing: Boid Alpha Now Public
This is definitely true. It's taken us many years to develop practices and most importantly a nose for the type of people that can thrive working remote. It's definitely not for everyone.
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Watch
How does this relate to CrowdStrike -- funded in large part by Google Capital?
Also adjust that 5x number based on how many hours apart your time zones are. Remote in the same time zone is really not as bad compared to even just 3 people on different continents trying to collaborate.
> "There are real reasons behind the choices I make, and those ideas, opinions and motivations don't source their information from advertisers."

Ok. Fair enough. But how can you be certain where you do source your info from isn't influenced by advertisers?

Long to short, we are what we consume. Unless you grew up in a Skinner Box and have since kept your mind in a (metaphorical) Feraday Cage, it's hard to imagine you haven't been influenced in some way, at some time; and likely without even being conscious of it.
For Python you could start with:

- The Python Tutorial: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html

- Composing Programs: http://composingprograms.com/

As an alternative to Python, you might enjoy learning to program with one of these books, all of which use a language in the Lisp family:

- How to Design Programs: http://www.htdp.org/

- Land of Lisp (book)

- Realm of Racket (book)

I'd say give HTDP a try and see if you enjoy it.
Libcurl has had auth leak bug since 'the first commit we recorded'
The issue that you're raising does not apply for randomized treatment.
The Dawn of Solar Windows
An Australian on a surf trip a few years ago fell off a boat in the Mentawais and survived 27 hours with no flotation help.

75 hours in cold water is crazy, but the diver didn't have to keep himself afloat. I find it almost unbelievable that it's possible to swim and tread water -- even in warm salt water -- for 27 hours.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/alone-lost-overb...

https://stabmag.com/news/missing-south-african-surfer-found-...
Had never heard of zig. Does it also provide memory safety without a GC like Rust?
WeChat's Big Rival Is a Restaurant App That Lets Consumers Do Nearly Everything
Curl – HTTP authentication leak in redirects
Giving in to those who shout so is exactly their goal.

We, as technologists, should come up with solutions that allow such shouts to become meaningless.
Create a state law that defines what constitutes "internet access". ISPs would be forced to offer that or "limited internet access" or some such.
She 'fought like hell' to change health care in Appalachia
Cryptocurrencies are belief systems
If justice was truly blind (which is what I would consider fair) then the number of defendants incorrectly classified as dangerous would depend on the likelihood of all the groups they're part of committing dangerous crimes.

You want it fair based on race ? Ok, don't input race. Everything else stays the same. Why this complexity ?
Writing an email client and storing it I SQLite seems easier today than ever before. The challenge seems to more on the side of idiosyncrasies of getting other servers to give yours authority. Very interesting!
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Cheers for curl 7.58.0
My memory is that ~20 years ago or so bottom-tier cable networks would get to that point during off-peak hours. I had to be tremendously bored before even contemplating watching them, but it happened a time or two - and I discovered that that much advertising did make pretty much anything unwatchable.
Big teams gives the inexperienced product person an impression that more features can be done which can lead to design changes when things go jive, and you get stuck more and more
It isn't that Japan compensates senior engineers poorly, it is just that China compensates them well.

If all you want to do is work away there and you aren't concerned about pay, maybe you could get a job as a visiting researcher or teacher.
I didn’t even ask about my last 20 years of projects - Carbon apps for Mac OS 10.4. Maybe I should just run `rm -rf ~`
Oracle donates high performance HTTP engine Grizzly to Eclipse
You could try reading this paper or any other paper on the topic.
I would love to see more of the interview, with however much polish you feel appropriate!

I will mildly argue the case for posting raw footage with a link I posted elsewhere, the raw footage of an interview with him almost 30 years ago: http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_4D37F2D8E1054BA49999027B...

Not every interview situation works this way, but I very much appreciated that behind the scenes look. Sound bites that can seem incredibly arrogant come off a lot more measured in the context of him repeating some things he's said before, and deciding he'd rather emphasize a different aspect.

I wouldn't make this argument generally; it's a journalist's job to not just let a subject present their own views unchallenged. In that 1990 interview, I enjoyed hearing some of the back-and-forth like when the interviewer wanted Ted to sound less like an advertisement at one point.
An upper bound to the amount of information you need to transmit to have something built the way you want it built is how much you need to tell a good developer about what you want made before it is made to a satisfactory degree.

And an upper bound to how long it can theoretically take to build something is the same as the time to transmit that information for a human plus some small epsilon: computers can run very fast.

So getting a computer to do what you want ideally should not be close to as slow and difficult as it is today. This is sort of the true goal, rather than formally specifying what you wish the computer would do. If you believe the goal is formally specifying what the computer does on top of bulletproof abstractions, we're already very far away from that - programmers today don't tell a CPU how to do branch prediction, or a compiler how to optimize their code, for instance.

Probably a really good system could do even better than the upper bound above - what if you knew what someone wanted before they could even describe it to you, and you built that for them?
> Following what the competition is doing and one-upping them is also a viable strategy but it also means you'll be one or more steps behind.

The problem with that strategy is that you're essentially allowing your competitors to dictate your roadmap - with products they have already shipped.

That can't be long-term sustainable.
I addressed this a bit here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7lsajn/oil_shell_03_...

I mentioned I would write a post called "Python Is Not an Acceptable Shell". I think it's also clear that Perl isn't an acceptable shell, simply because shell still exists. And awk and sed still exist -- in fact I believe it's common these days to use shell/awk/sed but NOT Perl, which means that Perl fell short of its mission. (I certainly prefer shell/awk/sed to Perl.)

There is overlap between Oil and Perl, which is ironic because I've written probably 100x-1000x the Python code that I have Perl code. But I would say I'm tackling some of the same problems, but not using the same solutions.

An obvious thing is that Oil will not be nearly as line-noisey as Perl, which is the thing that is most often complained about (rightly or not).

Perl also doesn't have some obvious shell constructs like pipelines. I'm pretty sure you just "shell out" for such things, which isn't a good solution.

I've been looking at Perl 6 too, and there is overlap there too. But I honestly think a new shell has more of a chance of being adopted widely than Perl 6. There is apparently still an unresolved schism between Perl 5 and 6:

https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/7r1b33/an_open_letter...

As far as I can tell, Perl 6 is even further from a shell than Perl 5 is. Python 3 is also less suited for shell-like tasks than Python 2 is (due to its Unicode conventions).
They do all sorts of device key exchange, if you haven't watched the talk at Black Hat I'd highly recommend it: https://youtu.be/BLGFriOKz6U?t=6m55s (link goes to beginning of Secure Enclave content, and later on in the talk he discusses iCloud which uses the SEP keys)
> Day-to-day spending also is not swayed by advertisements. There are real reasons behind the choices I make, and those ideas, opinions and motivations don't source their information from advertisers. I'm not charmed by entreaties that pander to my niche demographic.

Two thoughts:

1. I doubt you have enough self-awareness about your unconscious product reasoning (and more importantly, which products you decide to reason about) to be capable of asserting advertising doesn’t “work” on you. Abstractly speaking, if you buy toilet paper, and you don’t search for the the most efficiently priced toilet paper with respect to your criteria, advertising has “worked” on you. Just because you don’t buy the mega brand doesn’t mean it hasn’t worked on you. Buying Kirkland from Costco also implies the advertising has worked (for example).

2. That you believe you are resistant to advertising places you in a predictable demographic that, like all demographics, can be successfully targeted without it being spotted as advertising. Advertising generalizes to delivering a feeling of trust, familiarity and ingroup agreement; which brands do you buy consistently? Which do you trust? Did you do an empirical, feature-driven search for all of the products from these brands? Does any brand stand out? Do you switch brands to extremely similar, essentially indistinguishable products when there are minute changes in price? If not, why?

I think you need to broaden your perspective on what an advertiser considers “working” to mean for an ad campaign, and what they count as a win. Advertising encompasses incredibly more than just click-to-buy decisions, and I think it would be virtually impossible for you to honestly separate confirmation bias from your perception of how impression-optimized advertisements have impacted you. Your “niche demographic” is not the only demographic you fit into, and if anything being part of a niche demographic makes you (very nearly definitionally) easier to target for campaigns.
So in sum: "analyzing data from Broward County, we find that optimizing for public safety yields stark racial disparities; conversely, satisfying past fairness definitions means releasing more high-risk defendants, adversely affecting public safety."

In other words, black defendants actually are more dangerous to release and there is no magic algorithm that bypasses this fact.
No sandbox problems to report :)
Hence the name of the Eve blog, http://incidentalcomplexity.com/
If this is real, we Indians have the best memory on the planet and the lowest depression in the world.

With the UK a close second after the appropriated all out “curry” recipes.

Colour me skeptical.
I’m not sure. Something about holding onto baggage of things that are no longer relevant to me. In the same, or a similar, vein I kinda feel the need to purge 80% of the photos I’ve taken from the last 25 years.
I think you are quite mistaken. The ayurvedic or any of the sciences of ancient Indians use the same trail & error methodologies of modern science. Why should it be any different? A lot of the texts have already been lost, thanks to time, the British & Muslim rule in India.

I don't agree there are accidental truths. In India we have been following these for thousands of years. They were not exposed to the Western world, maybe because of the prejudice of religion, obscurity etc & also the belief that something of virtue is rarely possible in an Eastern civilization like India.

What ones have been disproven? If any, Western sciences have been building up on some of what were already discovered & documented. Also, I did not mean to insult anyone by saying that they are trying to "catch up". I feel at least some of what we are discovering nowadays are repeat discoveries of the Eastern / Indian / Vedic world, not because the Vedic people were smarter, but only because they have had a much much longer civilizational presence than any other. Even this longevity of Vedic civilization has not yet been "discovered" fully by the Western world.
Bernhard Scholkopf explored this at the hour mark in his 2017 ICML keynote. https://vimeo.com/238274659

Was interesting, and worth a look.
> Any culture that has been developing food habits via trial and error for centuries has some that are beneficial, some that are harmful, and others that are neither harmful nor beneficial.

How is that different from science? That is great & is science. Maybe you do not recall the recent news about how Radium painting was also science. All this is science, especially the Ayurvedic sciences. What else is it?
This is so true. You can't really expect us to be actively looking on job sites for every city and expect us to find you.

Sites like freelancer is full of highly questionable jobs with low pay.

Hacker News and whoishiring.io has been a valuable resource to get my resume out there. I'd definitely suggest getting your stuff on each of those sites. In an ideal world, indeed would have a remote section, but they didn't last I checked.

Anyways, OP, it really depends on the developers you are looking for. The strategy for finding FTE and contractors are different, from the search to how you interview, how you deal with them as a worker, to your expectations.
iCloud backups cannot be decrypted by Apple. They use hardware security modules to encrypt that data and the keys are generated on-device and can't be read.
That's funny, since Engelbart's work in the mother of all demos was seen as irrelevant by much of the CS community at the time because they thought generalized AI was just around the corner! After a 2 or 3 AI winters, they changed their minds.

Generalized AI is like practical fusion, always 20 years away. I mean, it will come eventually, but until then...there is still value in making humans better.
SSH Key-Signing: Never ssh-copy-id ever again
Flip a coin. I probably have some emails from 20 years ago that contain health information, SSNs, passport info, etc.
My hero! Sounds like I should do some scaling for these 5k iMacs. I got away with up to 3840x2400 resolution just fine in my testing on various macbook pros, but I don't have any iMacs. I'm gonna go try one at the Apple Store tomorrow (not buy obviously, I'm way too cheap for that, but just use it for a minute).

EDIT: Yeah, I'm pretty sure 3840x2400 is the max supported by any recent Intel CPUs, and older ones are less. The iMac Pro might be a special case because I hear it uses its GPU for H.264 encoding. Anyway, querying what the max is for a given machine and then scaling to fit it was an easy fix. Hopefully I can get it deployed to the app store soon.
I believe France does not collect race information from its citizens (or perh inhabitants in general). If true, it'd be interesting for an outside observer[1] to see if the omission of race makes a difference.

That said, it'd be interesting to see how other "algorithmic bias" might play out in more or less racially homogenous, if not entirely ethnically homogenous populations --for example Rwanda, Finland, S Korea. Things like class, neighborhood, education etc.

[1]Given they themselves don't officially collect race information.
No they are not buying the ad but from the producers perspective advertising is the way to get their product in the consideration set or possibly push someone further down the purchase path.
You, sir, are technically correct. The best kind of correct.

Meanwhile, the effects of advertising result in a net profit for the producer.
On a topic like this it’s important I think to address the elephant in the room. I don’t think this implies a genetic issue! I’m not an expert but from what I know this shouldn’t lead me to the conclusion that “black Americans are predisposed to violence” and, if you know approximately the same things I do, I think that’s probably fair for you too!
Right, so an extremely flawed analogy. Muddies the water I'd say, and I am disappointed it gets large coverage without pointing out the glaring flaw. But a nice way for them to get their name in the proverbial paper, let's just hope they haven't taken coverage away from more apt stories on the issue since there's surely a limit before saturation occurs.
Burger King markets to young men, and this is an issue important to young men. And it comes with almost no political blowback for being too left or right. Marketing.
You can mail-order custom DNA.
Another good example of the issue here is any programming language that was meant to be able to be read/used by non programmers. SQL is a great example there in my opinion. The syntax and structure is clearly meant to try to mimic relatively natural language, yet in practice I think SQL is vastly more challenging and complex than most any programming language intended to be used by programmers.

Of course this goes all the way back to all the programming language that used to be used around the time of SQL's development, such as things like COBOL. They're just really tough to work with, even for those of us who learned it as one of our first languages. Anecdotally at least C structure languages now feel 'natural' to me, whereas the natural language programming languages always felt (and feel) like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.
Accompanying video presentation: https://youtu.be/XvE65TrGNpM
This makes me want to die
> I did at one point start to write my own e-mail client and I stored all of my mail in SQLite, using SQL to organize, search, tag, etc.

That sounds like a fascinating idea. I wrote my own email client, but it uses Maildirs for storage (with optional IMAP support), and one of the biggest issues is that reading every file in a large directory is slow.

(Well if I'm honest the issue is reading and parsing every file from a given maildir hierarchy.)

Caching headers helps some, but if it were all in a database I'm sure it would significantly simpler. "notmuch" went down that route, and it seems like it pays off in terms of speed. The issue really is importing the mail, and making sure your database doesn't get out of sync with the files on-disk.

If you were really brave of course you'd remove the maildir-contents post-import. But I think I'd be too scared to do that!
When cable TV was starting out in US, one of the advertised pros was no commercials on cable TV.
> For every home remedy they get right, they probably get many others wrong.

Ayurveda & any Vedic sciences are arguably as rigorous as today's sciences, if not more. You're are grossly mistaken if you think Ayurveda is a "home remedy".
So this idea seems intuitive at first but turns out to be one of the worst things to treat unfairness.

There are several reasons for this from both technical and legal perspective.

It is incredibly easy to find statistically significant correlations given just a few (more than 7) different views of the data. In general these ml models are not working with less than hundreds or thousands.

If the model learned this suppose racial bias, once, you deleting this column is not going to stop it from learning it again, and I believe some research showed that it actually can make the unfairness more severe.

from a legal standpoint a company that may or may not be infringing on rights could just say, oh we can't be because we don't have these fields in our data: which makes it harder to monitor and audit wrong doing.

most of the methods that I am familiar try to ease the effects of the learned biases as a post-processing step for the model.
Something similar happened to me with https://markdownshare.com/ - I didn't really promote it, but I see it being used from all over the world.
Such bacteria will probably be susceptible to penicillin.
What is not directly mentioned: signing packages allows you to use hosts, mirrors, etc. without trusting them.

HTTPS cannot give you that.
> Suppression Chicken[1]

>

> [1] Chick-Fil-A .. if you didn't get that one

CFA stopped funding all the super-militant anti-LGBT groups years ago. Huffington Post featured a story [1] about the CFA founder, Dan Cathy, becoming friends with prominent gay rights activist Shane Windmeyer, and some of the subsequent changes in how the organization handles things.

Unless you were referring to some other nefarious/sinister business aspect of which I am unaware? (Totally possible; I don't follow them terribly closely.)

[1] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/shane-l-windmeyer/dan-cathy-c...