skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like the wording misrepresents the results in the "In Demand Qualifications" section.

> There's a popular belief that recruiters favor candidates with CS degrees from prestigious universities. But it turns out that they actually care about what you've done — not where you went to school

But over 40% employers say that they care about your educational qualification. It doesn't' make sense to say "they actually care about what you've done - not where you went to school" with this result. If you don't have a college degree in CS, you're going to have a significantly tougher time getting your foot in the door, so therefore, even if it's not the MOST important credential you need to get a job, it's unfortunately still very important as a pre-requisite. We still don't have a good signal for that kind of preparation if the candidate doesn't have a lot of publically viewable work.
Antidepressants: Please, PLEASE, do not just abandon your meds
I'm not saying kids have it too easy in getting to the programming layer of a computer.

I'm saying that kids have it too easy in terms of being able to use their computers without having to even learn what a command line is.

The easy part is how they just turn on their computers and click the mouse at icons.
Patients just get a read-only copy of their records.
Also, providers don't use the patient as an intermediary when updating and exchanging medical records. That addresses most of your concerns.

- "they'll want things clarified they don't understand"
This is, by far and overwhelmingly, the reason it is a good idea to expose patients (and their defacto caregivers, AKA, their families) to their medical records. When it comes to preventative medicine and chronic conditions people have far more control over their health than the doctor does and the better they understand their health, the better they are able to do something positive about it.
Look at the SJW campaigns on Yelp... it's worked a number of times, for good or bad.
Intel hired a crisis communications firm Sard Verbinnen
How's performance on that, have you compared with plain Windows or wine?
I primarily look for signs of the ability and interest in self-teaching. A front-end developer exploring the backend? Great! A backend developer playing with probabilistic systems? Super!. A java developer branching out into Scala/Clojure/Rust/Haskell etc? Even better!

For those that won't look at Github because not everyone has an account. That doesn't make sense. Whether or not the candidate has a Github account is not a litmus test, its just additional useful information. If they have an account that may tell you something useful about the candidate. If they don't have an account, then you have to rely on other approaches to get that information.
I think Medium is good for those bloggers just starting out, but yeah host your blog and just syndicate to Medium to build traffic. Even better if you can get picked up by an existing publication -- I saw a dramatic increase in reads.

This guy had an established audience so Medium didn't help him much.
I'm just another data point, but, in my case, the honest truth is that I deliberately avoided a career in music because I thought that it would be too hard and/or risky to make much money. My formal studies were in computers, science and tech. I never dropped music from my life; I still avidly pursue it as a hobby, including both performance and songwriting/composition. I just don't rely on it to put meals on my table or keep a roof over my head. I make music for the sake of itself, and the pleasure and joy of it, not to make money. i.e. because I want to, and when I want to, not because I have to.
This comment reads like argument for not putting most of random personal code people write on github. It can harm you.
Except WebAssembly is rarely used in a scenario where compilation is the only factor of performance.
(or £4.99 in the UK, which is $7.10. But we're used to paying more! Also, bought :) )
+1

That's crazy.
I remember trying the Kindle sample and thinking "Man, this is rough going". Does it ever ease up?
This is an EU fine, but Qualcomm is a worldwide company. So, they could face legal issues from other countries over the same issue. Further, it's not like they only made money from this. So, the calculus in Qualcomm's case is extra profit > fine not total profit > fine.

Also, you're quoting revenue it's profit that's important.

PS: If the US choses not to take their own piece of Qualcomm's illegal profit's IMO that's on them.
I look for many things but don't hold it against you if your GitHub/Bitbucket/GitLab/etc doesn't reflect it.

Your profile can give me some evidence that you know how to code, use version control, write documentation, etc. -- but just because your projects don't have CI/CD (or whatever) doesn't mean you don't know how to use it just that I don't have evidence that you know how to use it.
Urban Legends in Computer Vision
This is why large teams are bureaucratic. Spending 2 hours a day filling out forms is a net time savings over sitting down for an average of 10 minutes each with 13+ people.

Now the data is organized, and anybody who needs it can get it on a pull basis. Some teams will have someone whose primary job is to triage information added and put the important stuff out in a daily update (making it "push" rather than "pull")

Hierarchy can also help; if you have mostly unrelated projects, then you have smaller groups that are more efficient.

The Linux kernel operates on a combination of these techniques; the mailing-list is non-pairwise, there's a significant amount of non-code information that goes along with any PR, and Linus doesn't even look at it until the subsystem maintainer has.
That's only true if you're looking to work for one of the cool, hip, startups. There are plenty of older devs working in boring corporate jobs that are not interested in changing the world. I'm one of them.
The whole point of the article was how kids these days don't get going on learning to program until later.

While I like a nice UX as much as anyone, I think that the challenge of using a computer back in the day had its beneficial outcomes.
How to Build Amazon's AR View for ARCore on Android Using ViroCore with Java
I agree with you, mostly, but the profit motive does incentivize riskier behavior here.

Example: If I am having people over for dinner and accidentally leave out shellfish for too long, I can toss the expensive ingredient and just order pizza or anything else. If I depended on that shellfish to make a living, I would almost certainly risk using it.
Rocket Lab's Humanity Star Satellite
What's really cool is that if you save a video, then play it, and then save a video again, the small overlay player will actually show up in the second video.

Did you have to take care of that yourself?
I'm very interested in doing this kind of research, but I can tell you it's incredibly difficult in academia, for instance, to publish research about programming languages, or wild new designs. It seems to me the academic world has moved to a model where everything has to be incremental, and you have to immediately have positive results that beat prior work on a number of metrics. Anything else is unpublishable.

As far as machine learning fixing everything. I work in machine learning now, and I'm incredibly skeptical. Especially with the way companies always rush things to market and seek to eliminate competition. There are going to be a lot of bugs, hacks, and malicious uses of machine learning. I will also mention that the quality of the code I'm seeing in ML right now is absolutely terrible. Everything is so fast-moving. People don't take time to polish anything, they've already moved on to another project, nothing is maintained. The code is largely written by academics who are rushing to write papers and look down on programming as some kind of unfortunate necessity, and the quality of the code they produce reflects that. Oh and, the machine learning world thinks Python is the best programming language ever... Sigh.
It's still commonly used. The NFX library has Pile which does this well for holding large data:

http://nfxlib.com/book/caching/pile.html

https://www.infoq.com/articles/Big-Memory-Part-1
Why Housing in California Is Unaffordable
Okay, I did!
seek out relevant forums, communities, social media groups, and join them, be active, and share! Anywhere your blog posts will be on-topic and appreciated is where you want to be. There are hundreds, even thousands of communities and resources built around the very things you’re likely blogging about, so seek them out and get your hands dirty.

A lot of online spaces have rules against self promotion. I have not found much success by trying to promote my own writing myself.

I have to wonder what pieces of information are missing from such advice. I often feel like the monkey in some story I heard that learned the wrong word for some animal and this was reinforced by weird coincidence.

The other issue I run into is that I get the wrong kind of attention for the wrong things. This seems very resistant to being translated into anything desirable.
ScreenFlow does a fantastic job of recording the macOS desktop, including audio.

I've got ScreenFlow on Cmd-Shift-2 and now RetroClip on Cmd-Shift-5!
Graduation Day: Introducing Chronicle
The Gaps in Family-Friendly Policies Begin to Close
Interviewers like yourself are great red-flags everyone need to look for in a company during the interview as well as during initial screening.

If a company relies on (outdated, in most cases) comments and not the code itself its an immediate signal for an interviewee to re-evaluate this company and decide whether or not its the place he or she actually wants to be a part of.

Very important to mention that it goes both ways: if I need to read your comment in order to understand your code, there is something wrong with your code.
I multitask a lot (or better, gets distracted super easily) so I mark lines to have a reference to return to. And as you say most sites have a bad highlighting color combination, so I am used now to highlight a paragraph just above where I'm at
At the very moment it is scheduled for Feb 6th.
I disagree with that, though you might want to think strongly on what you mean by "privacy".

For some people, this is strictly limited to the technical capability to prevent (or allow) the flow of information. I'd long subscribed to this point of view, but have found it inadequate, if only because capabilities have been changing so dramatically on this point.

Rather, and this is something of a personal definition, though I'm not certain it's specific or original to me is that privacy is the ability to define and defend limits and boundaries on information sharing.

You might ask "why use that definition?"

My principle answer is that if it isn't possible to share information in a limited context, then there's something immense and profound which is lost. Two people, or twenty, or even several tens of thousands (say: a large company or government bureaucracy) might need to share information without disclosure.

I've been following the ICIJ's multiple projects on various data leaks, which are particularly poignant in revealing both sides of the argument. On the one hand, the ICIJ itself farms out its data to several hundred journalists from numerous organisations, and keeps a lid on the project until an agreed-on release date. (The group has produced a video showing just this process.)

On the other, ICIJ's stock in trade have been leaks of information from other organisations whose privacy has been breached.

The question of "which of these is right?" should very much arise. And it's not an easy question to answer, though I believe there are some guides which can be used.

As such, privacy is not an inviolable right, but it is a crucial element of social organisation.
Insurance works best for rare, randomly distributed events that have a high cost. Fundamentally, for insurance to work as a business, it has to cost more than the expected payout. The reason it's still worthwhile is that money has non-linear utility. To use a made-up example from the car insurance world (numbers are made-up but I hope it conveys the general idea): a guaranteed "loss" (cost of premium) of $100/month over the course of 30 years (total cost: $36,000) is far preferable to having a 1% chance of losing $500,000 over that same time period if you seriously injure yourself or someone else in an accident (expected value: -$5,000). So, the average person is paying $36,000 to avoid an expected loss of $5,000, which doesn't seem to make sense in a naive analysis. But the issue is that the average person can plan/budget for a $100/month expenditure, whereas a $500,000 loss could mean that they lose their house and life savings and more, which is far too high of a risk for most people.

Things that insurance doesn't work well for: common events (e.g. routine medical care); non-randomly distributed events (that's why e.g. earthquake insurance in San Francisco is extremely expensive and has very high deductibles - if the Big One™ happens, it's going to affect everyone at the same time); inexpensive events (e.g. why insure a phone?)
They claim tether is supported by real USDs on parent company account. So, they don't print tethers from air if this is true.
"because 99% of AV break Windows/applications"

This statement does not at all pan out in my experience. It is very rare for me to come across broken applications or a faulty Windows installation because of anti-virus software.
Apple includes other search engines in their dropdowns. Google is paying for being the default not the only option.
That pattern can be done in .NET via native memory allocation (MarshalInterop and SafeHandles).

With the latest C# 7.x features will become easier to use it.
Are Alipay or Wechat even that innovative? I mean, would they exist if Chinese companies were required to play fair with American competitors?
A lot of it has to do with office politics power struggles. A small team with a lot of autonomy that produced a great result for the business could also step on the toes of a lot of ladder-climbing managers. So better to not let that happen.
There are LEDs with smoother spectrums but they’re expensive and not widely used, especially in products targeted at consumers.

http://www.seoulsemicon.com/en/technology/Sunlike/
NewsBlur is my browser's home page. I was a refugee from Google Reader years ago. It supports many of the former's features, is open source, and a SaaS pro if you don't want to deal with self hosting.

But man, that's just a handful of it's features.
They are likely betting on non-technical methods of getting acquired by Microsoft at a premium.
You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world – Kelsey Hightower
Fair enough, but there's still a limit to how far you're going to push that line, no? Because a. deep down you're a human being and you don't really want to kill anybody and b. pragmatically you know if you get a reputation for killing customers (or making them sick) your customers will go elsewhere.
Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
Also, there is no fixed correspondence between turning the wheel and leaning, because in this case you do move your body. Think about when you are in a car and someone turns sharply to the right. At first you lean left, but then you unconsciously right yourself.

Similarly on a bike, if you turn the wheel right, you will eventually either fall over, or turn to right (which will happen with an unconscious lean). Since the correction to lean-right is usually not done consciously, and happens very quickly most people don't realize there is an initial lean left.
This is very slick and easy to use. You sell it well by comparing it to the features on modern game consoles. I'm not sure when/if I'm going to use it, but I like the idea that it's there if I need it!

My only criticism is it adds yet another menu bar item, but I understand the reasons why that can be useful (and apps like Bartender mitigate this somewhat)
Thank you! Important part starts half-way down: https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust...

The ideas about using DID's (https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/) and moving off a common transport like HTTP was also interesting.
Why can't all the employees just walk out and start a new business that directly competes? Cut out the founders completely.
They moved to a different contintent and they've survived for 4 years now. They have good leadership. I'm going to bet that they'll be around whether or not their product changes.
Many of my customers run the common free anti-virus programs and I can assure you that they are not snake oil. The logs and alerts from blocked infection attempts are testament to this.

I certainly would say that most of the free anti-virus is pushy, hungry and generally not a particularly great marketing exercise.
I think some of the most successful big companies are ones that have figured out how to significantly reduce coordination costs. For example, Amazon's extreme insistence on small teams and coordinating through interfaces[0] seems like something that might make individual teams less productive, but cause coordination costs to scale linearly instead of quadratically. Similarly, Facebook has a ton of emphasis on decentralization.

This leads me to believe that at large companies, you should heavily prioritize decentralization and low coordination costs to the expense of almost anything else. One reason companies fail to do this is trying to avoid redundancy: having two teams work on the same thing seems like a waste. But if you need to add a communication node to avoid redundancy, that's often not worth it.

[0]: https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
what is the problem with 20 years of archived emails?
Then it needs to be clear what the effects of the choice are, so you can choose. Then the effect will disappear because it's not a true predictor. Each of your examples have a clear explanation, hotmail doesn't.
Eddie Vedder does this as well (not full on with pouches, just asking people personally to put it away and waiting until they do).
If you're cringing at it, I think you must be getting more from it than I am. The only thing I get out of it is the surface level pun, so I feel the same way as with pretty much all of his other puns: slightly baffled as to why they're included. With this one (though not most others), it feels like there might be a second level that English/Literature majors might get around etymology, but if so, I miss it entirely.

Sanderson also clearly gets many orders of magnitude more out of "word shape" than I do, so he might just really like puns. I've also never translated that quote to any of the various forms of sigals Sanderson defines in the series; if you do so, it might well be breathtakingly beautiful.

> But just like the Marvel movies probably won't be regarded as the masterpieces of our times, despite their popularity, Sanderson's books are not, to me, worthy of such praise either.

Forty years later Star Wars hasn't exactly fallen out of favor. Ignore the stilted dialog...it has a "robot" which is really obviously just a trashcan. Mark Twain's books contain a lot of colloquial dialog which is very much not "soaring prose", and they remain popular a century later. Which is not to say that I think Sanderson will be a hot read in eighty years, but I doubt Jordan or Martin will either. While the average library system presumably has a copy of The Dispossessed at one of its branches, the average branch has zero copies IME.

All of which is totally tangential, I just couldn't let it go (and I tried).
We are literally weeks into Meltdown/Spectre. The code you write runs on a complex programming language you didn't write, that may be running on a VM, that is running on an OS, that is running on a multicore CISC processor with 100s of publicly known instructions, that can only be built due to modern developments in quantum mechanics.

You run idealized versions of systems in your head.
Almost There: A Study on Quasi-Contributors in Open Source Software Projects [pdf]
Saliency Mapping of Images Using Deep Learning in Pytorch
>Next week...

..."or so" according to Musk.

"Or so" being an important phrase.
Nice work. It would be nice if you could provide your potential customers with a minimal comment page demo.

I am always interested in how resource intensive (in terms of CSS/JS size) is the commenting system itself.
> Apt is not special in this regard.

Well they mentioned it in the tl-dr itself. Apt files are already being checked for tampering. This makes it 'special' compared to regular files being downloaded or content being served. Moving to HTTPS doesn't add any extra layer of security in that regard.

Can you articulate what benefits it would bring?

>"Security is hard, so let's not bother"

When you ship your software, does your bug tracker show zero bugs?
I think it heavily depends on their client country of origin. Here as long as bitcoin aren't officially recognized as bearer bonds of sort you can trade them around freely and the state only comes in questioning about plusvalences when you convert them back into money.
Istio (Envoy) and Cert-Manager and Let’s Encrypt for TLS
SpaceX test fires Falcon Heavy rocket, readies for launch in ‘a week or so’
Ha ha for irony! A drag-racing Tesla is pretty soundless off the line.
You may be painting with too broad a brush.
I've worked with a number of NLP people to try to beat our tfidf model using deep methods and various word vectors. The tfidf still performs better.
I think the reasons are: many out-of-vocab words, and small amounts of labelled data.
I don't know, but a quick google search finds:

https://github.com/bztsrc/qemu-raspi3
That's true. But regardless of which ledger is "the real asset", there will only be 21 million of that coin.

You can clone the technology, but you can't clone societal acceptance.
This pattern was also used by Java and .NET for implementing cheap String.substring calls where all substrings would use the same underlying array with just offsets changed. Unfortunately it turns out that people read entire files into a one big String and then have a reference to just a small piece of it (via substring) marking the big underlying array as reachable for the GC holding a lot of memory for no reason. That's why new implementations of substring always copy:)
HTTPS ensures more than just privacy. For instance, authenticity.
Wizard of Earthsea was the first Sci-Fi/Fantasy book that I found difficult to follow.

This was because a printer's error caused the pages to be bound in the wrong order. I don't usually pay attention to page numbers, so it took me a while to realize this. I thought I was losing my mind until I noticed the numbers weren't in sequence.

To this day, I can't tell you what was going on, plot-wise.
That’s probably for the better. But it’s a shame as well. Food preparation takes a lot of time and would employ many people. Then people could whip up the actual recipes at home. It seems like an avenue that could employ many people who otherwise wouldn’t be employed.