skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at where great companies hire outside of the US.

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Estonia, New Zealand - all not very well "known" as offshore, but great because there's plenty of people working at local companies that you can poach at a discount compared to your head office. Now start invading their local hangouts.

Generally speaking you should advertise where those people hang out weekly or daily. Pay for an advertisement in the latest tech-framework-that-relates-to-your-work-newsletter with a project donation, that really specific podcast that people who work in your stack listen to, StackOverflow (targeted), subreddits, Slack and Discord channels all centered around your stack.

LinkedIn and recruiters generally won't get you the crème de la crème, because it's not as cost effective for them.. You have to work to find them. So go out, seek and offer!
I think you'd be surprised to find out that for a pretty large amount of classification problems, tf idf and Bayes naive classifiers do equally as good or almost as good but with less variance than deep nets.

also afaik fastext is just a faster way to build embeddings that are mostly equivalent to word2vec

All and all, I'm not sure you're enough of an expert to be commenting on this
France does not use any algorithmic decision making in its court system as far as I am aware, but like many people said here, in the end, the cause is not "race" itself but the correlations it comes with (e.g: in France, people that commit crimes are more likely to be from poor suburbs, which are predominantly populated by people whose parents came from North Africa/Subsaharan Africa).
Vegetarian ≠ Vegan.
Lots of dairy in the standard Vegetarian diet. The link you provided to the Mediterranean diet included lots of dairy (cheese, yogurt, etc.). Also, a lifetime of personal experience says that Seventh-day Adventists eat quite a lot of dairy.
Hah, poor dumb kid. Velociraptors evolved into birds, birds are safe from grounded velociraptors... Read gp again, see it fits? Heard of Socrates?
Ask HN: Is IQ hereditary?
I have been reading several different sites and there seems to be a consensus that IQ is at least partially hereditary.

There have been some studies that even suggest it is linked to the mothers IQ.

Is this a foolish assumption?
Isn't the freedom from short term value basically the concept behind tenure?
You only have to qualify what module something is from if it would otherwise be ambiguous.
word of mouth. make an easy-to-forward email and send it to your remote developers, saying:

> "we're looking to find a great person on our team, but job postings are low-value. Could you forward this email to someone who may be interested, or someone who might know someone who's interested?"

Remote devs keep tabs on other remote devs.

Source: on year 3 of full-time remote work, spread across many time zones.

I like to connect good opportunities to good people, and vice versa. I'd forward that email to three or five people.

Good luck!
You still need to separate the wheat from the chaff. Compare yourself to your old colleagues, do they make a lot more than you? Are you more effective than them? What about the reverse?

There are plenty diamond in the rough engineers. By nature, a vast quantity of people don't know their worth, and what's available to them - so don't just seek those that already know, seek skills and reward them for those skills.
I'm the author of the blog post. I assure you it's not a troll or satire. Certifications have a stigma; However there are still industry standards that still hold weight. GCIH, GCIA, SANs, OSCP are all well respected.

Second. I am for the most part speaking to how I got into the field. You DO NOT by any stretch of imagination need to know secure coding, how to find exploits in code, etc. Sure if you want to gun straight for a senior role it would help but if you don't have corporate experience it's not going to get you in the door any faster than working your way up.

Third. I'm not even sure what to say to that. You come off as one of those egotistics you speak of. Maybe your 2600 meeting in your area are not good. That's not to say they all are the same. Stay off irc? Again not all channels are the same.

Last paragraph you basically spell out what the certifications I mention literally do for you. Learn the processes, trends, latests tools, etc. I think you're the one trying to troll.
That's not quite correct. A company spends 'x' amount on advertising, hoping that it will return 'x + profit' through increased sales. The customer obviously doesn't profit from it, but when does a customer actually profit from anything?
Ask HN: How's Syracuse's CS department?
I'm considering pursuing their MS CS (online) and was wondering how is their program considered in the US job market.

Thanks.
> The more uncertain we are about our uncertainty of the rarity of a global catastrophe, the more rational it is for us to assume we are likely presently under-estimating its rarity

So the opposite of Occam's razor?
Mobile App Development Trends That Will Dominate 2018
Might it be better to force you to use any remaining vacation time at the end of the year? That way, there shouldn't be any pressure to not use your vacation time.
https://gems.org/ might disagree with that statement. It's a project that I have high hopes for. And they even make a good argument why they have decided to go the blockchain route, while others in the space have by and large failed to make their case.
It's possible, but I think (not that I'm an expert) that this is not the first piece of evidence to suggest this. A year or two was recently speaking with a researcher who studies Alzheimer's and he had told me about how in cultures where more curry and turmeric was consumed there was significantly less Alzherimer's. I'll try to find a source for this and update my comment.
i can't find how to get the Sketch artboards to magically appear :) Sounds cool ....
If you need to ask a bunch of internet strangers how healthy this is, the answer is probably not very.
Has Apple ever publicly disclosed that they don't follow this aspect of Chinese law?
No way dude. Ever shopped for a car, car insurance, mobile phone plans? I almost guarantee you that the first company you thought of was a result of advertising.
> 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.

If I understand correctly, it is not possible to post your resume on either HN (this site) or whoishiring.io . If you have other sites please suggest them.
Python + Tensorflow.
Not only for the software but the community and resources. Hardware tensor units in the latest Nvidia GPUs can reduce computing time substantially.
Agreed. Making remote work well requires just about everyone to be firing on all cylinders: you, your team, and especially your manager.

And side note: The common wisdom about don't be the only remote person on a team is true. I've done it, and it absolutely sucks.
Because reading line-by-line is better than loading-and-parsing a 1 GB (in my case) XML file.
I just listened to that podcast. Very interesting and you described it perfectly.

Moby really comes off as a bad person to me, he basically said the CDs were in a storage facility, which is probably a lie, but never offered to retrieve them for Gregor or anything.

A better person would have either offered some way of returning them, or some kind of other compensation. I could understand if Moby is somewhat attached to the CDs that were directly responsible for making him rich and famous, but he's a millionaire, how about just buying Gregor another set of CDs, just as a nice gesture and because it's the right thing to do? Instead he spouts off some garbage about how that music was part of the funeral service for somebody's mother and it was a touching ceremony, as if that's meant to somehow make it ok that he borrowed somebody's 7-CD set and never returned it.

Basically he just said he still had them, but didn't want to give them back.
And what if you buy a Steam game, play it to completion, and decide you didn't like it very much? What if you only played half way through? At what point does it become unreturnable?

I tend to agree with you, but it just seems like Steam would need a way to prevent people from abusing the system.
> new advances in authentication technology

I'm not so optimistic. Other people here are focusing on breaking the authentication, and that's something to worry about. I'm worried about the effect that even _known_ false content will have on people. Seeing a perfectly realistic video of $POLITICIAN doing something repulsive will affect your emotional perception of $POLITICIAN even if your rational mind reads and understands some kind of "unauthenticated" label attached to the video.
I'm unsure programming can be made accessible, and there's a very specific reason for this.

Simplifying the medium of something (in other words making it so somebody could genuinely learn a programming language, from nothing, in 5 minutes) does not necessarily make task implementation any easier. Consider writing. It's something that anybody of mean intelligence is more than capable of. And writing a novel requires nothing technically more than just writing, yet somehow there is this entirely different skill set there that is not really learned and one that many people for whatever reason seem incapable of developing.

Even if I could get 24/7 attention from Dostoyevsky, Stephen King, and George R.R. Martin for years on end - I'm not going to be a strong novelist. This could be genetic issues, but even if we want to discount that (which is not really a reasonable thing to do) - my potential would certainly be killed off my by my interest. I simply don't get pleasure from writing.

Programming is very much the same thing. Even if you make the 'human interface' to programming as trivial as possible, you've barely scratched the surface of actually creating desirable things. And unless you get pleasure from this creation and have this sort of 'feel' for doing as such, it's going to be a low involvement grind with a mediocre final product.

I think the thing we're fooled by is the confounding issue that programming languages are not easy. And so it's easy to think that if we just make the languages easy, that programming would thus be easy. But I see absolutely no reason to think that this is where the 'real' barrier to entry is. Making a tool easy, does not make the task that tool is used for easy.
> If we could estimate that well, risk would no longer be a real thing, and then there would be no need for insurance at all.

Or maybe there would?

> However, you can't just take ideas to the absolute theoretical limit and expect the results to come out making sense in the real world.

Erm ... yes, you can, and you should? If you don't actually mean "as individually as possible", then you presumably mean "more individual than now, up to the point where I wouldn't agree anymore", which is essentially a vacuous statement.

Either you actually mean your idea, or you don't. If you don't mean it, then it's up to you to clarify, not up to me to make assumptions about what you might have meant.
As I wrote before I have tried a few times back and forth with consistent results. Maybe it's placebo but it works reliably for me. As long as it works I am happy.
February's "Who's Hiring?" story should arrive in about a week. If you're serious about getting a remote job, that's a great place to start.
Why is it automatically better to do this on hardware?
I'm vegan so I know the difference. The Adventists are often cited in nutrition studies and the vegan subgroup of Adventists is the healthiest.

Quoting directly from the link I provided:

If you think the Mediterranean diet looks a little low on dairy foods, you're right. It's certainly lower in dairy than is currently advised in the National Dietary Guidelines

...But traditional Greek Mediterranean populations got calcium from other sources: sardines and other small fish which were eaten with their bones, and from leafy greens (which contain only a little calcium but the large volume of the greens eaten meant the amount added up).
For the first time in 7 years, Samsung is not the top smartphone seller in India
Lesson from the downvotes: Silly Unix jokes are not necessarily welcome in discussions about national security. :P
An idea of been playing with in my head is a youtube-in-a-box" type device, a machine you would buy that would sit on your home network, essentially a NAS that could publish to video sites or services like peertube. With that sort of device any unused space and bandwidth could be allocated for sharing the videos of others.
Could you point to more detail on that? I know they use HSM for keychain escrow security. But the security white paper just says backup set and key are stored in the iCloud “account”, not keychain.

I know they said they could have accessed that San Bernardino terrorist’s iCloud backup if only they had one. Not sure if they’ve change the security architecture since then.
If you are actually a senior programmer in a FAANG company while just being your mid 20s, a gap year is not going to affect your resume much at all.
This is part of the problem with hiring in InfoSec. I was turned down years ago for a role as a junior because I didn't know enough about some very specific, foundational technology. I joined a consultancy and within a year I was speaking at those same conferences that I met that would-be employer.

In an hour you can go over only a finite amount of knowledge, I was asked about aspects of technology I knew very little about because I hadn't tried anything in that space (FWIW it was a segment of networking). To pass over candidates based on a minuet lack of detailed knowledge - to me is crazy.

It's like interviewing a builder and asking them if they know where the majority of local maple wood comes from. Who cares, and if you need to know - Google it! Great, now you know more than you ever needed about the local maple industry!

YMMV, sample size 1, etc
Thanks for the info and the links. Pretty easy to get a pure CO2 stream on Mars and H2O is all over the place. Just need some nuclear generators to get cranking.
A lot of things that basically boil down to budget, optimization and space available. If you have a drug that you believe you can show a strong effect with the effect group at ~15 people, maybe you run the trial with 40 (15 e.g., 15 control, plus wiggle room for drop-outs over the 18-month course and extra certainty).

Check the last few paragraphs--"The authors thank Shayna Greenberg, Dev Darshan Khalsa, and Anya Rosensteel for help in recruitment, data management, and study coordination; John Williams, University of California, Los Angeles, Nuclear Medicine Clinic, for performing the PET scans; and Vladimir Kepe, Cleveland Clinic, for developing the FDDNP-PET analysis procedures for proteinopathies in patients with neurodegenerative diseases." Add all that to the effort involved in the actual chemical extraction of the bioavailable curcumin analogue and it just doesn't make sense to add any more people than you need.
Bitcoin futures notch 2-session win streak, but still wobbly
What is founder's bill?
50 Cent accidentally made $8M in Bitcoin
I am not convinced. Including address sounds like a very bad idea as well. We don't want to punish people for being black just as much as we don't want to punish people for living in poor neighborhoods. It seems to me you should only include data you are ok to make decisions on. This will require collecting more information during court proceeding than you have in general statistics though.
Am in my late 50s, can confirm. Memory, concentration, attention, and a bunch of other faculties, both mental and physical, are trending disgustingly downward.

I know there are things I could do to fight it, but motivation is another one of those things going down. f--- it, f--- everything.
A lot of posts on the "Who is Hiring?" Thread (at least the good ones) that happens every month will contain contact information of people at the company often times who are in charge of the actual hiring. I assume this is what that was referring to
Id say the companys can refund the whole thing or start applying value to the parts of their game which they can refund if they were used. Physical goods dont just stop having user protections if 90% of the item works but the last piece doesnt
> All goods come with automatic consumer guarantees that they are of acceptable quality and fit for the purpose for which they were sold, even if the business is based overseas.

Does that mean that pretty much all software licenses are illegal in Australia, since most specifically include a phrase stating the software is not fit for any purpose?
The Australian law in question requires refunds be made available if you can show that the product was not "fit for the purpose for which they were sold". It is an entirely reasonable expectation for a purchaser to make of a product, and entirely reasonable that they should receive a refund where that expectation is not met.
They have big colorful [Continue with Gmail] and [Continue with Facebook] buttons, but there's a link below that to create an account via any email address.
>>Then, the algorithm gives negative weight to locations where dangerous groups tend to live.

Of course you don't include location. Why would anyone be ok with "you got longer sentence because you live in poor neighberhood"?

>>What you should do is to keep the ratio of people classified as dangerous same among different groups.

Sounds like a terrible idea. What if there is a community which just doesn't contain many dangerous people at all? If someone from this community commits a crime once in a blue moon they will be unfairly punished.
But what if geography does have an influence on behavior because incidentally there is a lead-acid battery manufacturer who is a bit lax about dumping, in say a country with less regulation?

Or let's say the algorithm is deciding on insurance of some sort's premiums and someone is living next to a SuperFund site.
The primary information edge an asset manager has is that they have large enough order that it is not immediately consumable. This will have a price impact. So, if they take the HFT price on offer at a market, the HFT will lose money as the price will go against them.

Most of the algos I'm thinking about there are designed to minimise market impact. They do this by spreading the order over time and/or space (venues) as well as by balancing passivity and aggressiveness.

There is not a terrible lot that is written that is unbiased as most have a particular POV. Market microstructure textbooks are perhaps the healthiest place to start ;-)
Show HN: Crypto Poem
Two chains diverged in a green-backed world
And sorry I could not spend on both
And be one miner long I stood
And looked down one as far as its value rose
To where it died in obscurity

Then spent on the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better coin
Because it is holding which I fear
Though as for the securities rising bear
Had made both really about the same

And both that evening equally fell
Which leaves no contract to roll back
Oh, I sold one for a gold
Yet knowing how leverages roll
I doubt if I should ever be bold

I shall be liquidating this with a cry
Somewhere down the Merkel tree
Two chains diverged in a green-backed world
And that has made all the difference
Yeah, and the SANs certification course mentioned in the post are nuts (price wise).

> SEC301 Introduction to Cyber Security.

> Dates: Fri, May 11 - Tue, May 15 (5 Days)

> Fee: 5,380 USD

Source: https://www.sans.org/registration/register.php?conferenceid=...

Over 5 grand for a 5 day course for an Intro Level Training? Wut!
Well, if you want to write a tree using indices in a local array instead of pointers for better locality and memory footprint (which is ideal for many situations), you run into the difference between language pointers and computer science pointers. That's not even something that Rust will be smart enough to help you do properly.
Cuttleblle – A react static site generator for non-technical content people
I think this is a really great point. Many people always dreamed of making games and now a days there are make-a-game kits that enable people to do just that with almost no programming knowledge necessary. But now the sort of games capable of being made by such things are relics of the past. By the time you create tools capable of enabling anybody to do 'average' tasks at one time, those tasks end up being relegated to triviality with the net effect that you're basically treading water.

And similarly the explosive growth of the products of these make-a-game kits renders the skill almost entirely worthless. What would have been a very viable publishable product 25 years ago, is now considered shovelware. I think the only way this would end is if we somehow reached a skill cap in development (you've officially made the best bridge that's at all possible!), but if such a thing may exist we're certainly nowhere even remotely close to getting there.
This is what I did. I hired someone already local and he handed the company to me (didn't want risk, mainly wanted the salary, we were already well funded) Be aware it does take a bit of capital though.
It's... not? It's a static page with some JavaScript-driven charts.
I am currently reading Bird by Bird and it is mind blowing. I have also read On writing by Stephen King but I found that Bird by Bird has more content than on writing or perhaps that has something to do with the fact that On writing is his biography + stuff about writing.
Voted down by somebody that didn't see what happened in Iraq I presume.
thats how Steve Jobs went he foregone real treatment for a holistic one. Math is pretty evident there.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/20/steve-jobs-refused-early-canc...

Before you say a word about your cancer treating poop juice remind you taking chances with someone else's life.
Ayurvedic theory (5 elements etc...) is usless compared to modern science, so much that I dare to say it is wrong...

Does it have predictive (and thus real explanatory) power?
Imagine a test (other similar tests can be imagined):

give some powder to a western chemist/biologist and an ayurvedic to examine its "elements". You are not allowed to feed it to any human or animal. Decide if it is poisonous! Who will be more successful?

Ayurveda knows nothing about modern chemisrty or biology (real elements, cells,...), its theory part is rubish (from the perspective of natural science not from social science perspective (history, philosophy...) of course).

You may trust its experimental results, but that is not science in itself just a tradition...
Ugh. You're absolutely right. I never liked those even in C.

So, it seems like this is relative easy to do on the stack, which is how the example does it presently. See the link below to my attempt; the stack allocation is still all safe code, still a single line. However, I presume that one will want to also create one on the heap, especially since in the example the author poses it would be a rather large stack allocation, and one might — quite reasonably — put that on the heap.

My attempt is here: https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=1c50b35941506316372da860cae...

Couldn't avoid the unsafe for that, but, I was able to get rid of the transmute call, and transmute is a function where the warning on the tin is "this function is not just unsafe, it is radioactive". But the amount of code required still felt a bit lacking.

It seems these are an area of active work[1][2] currently.

I think there is still definitely a valid point that the author is hitting — that encoding more information into the program can allow the compiler to catch more classes of errors. (This is, after all, the very logic that gave us Rust.)

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1909

[2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/18806