skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that have always annoyed me about Github is the lack of (free) private repos which makes the activity history patchy. So you show that you're active for months on end, then then radio-silence for a month. Or when you delete/move a repo and suddenly months of activity disappears. Just makes it look like you've lost interest in what you were working on =(
I look at GitHub profiles to help filter / disqualify candidates. Just last weekend, I had a marketing candidate who had stolen three Wordpress projects from their current employer and post them as public repos on their personal GitHub account. In addition to the flagrant intellectual property theft, the repos contained the wp-config.php file with exposed database “root” credentials to live, client sites.
It just won't be the same without San Pel's bubbly sweet kick of uranium, not safe for children under two years of age.
The question is, can the incumbent luxury car manufacturers figure out the technology and supply chain of electric cars and batteries before Tesla can figure out how to manufacture high quality cars?
Daylight savings time was not put in place to make noon the middle of the day. It was put in place specifically to move noon earlier in the (physical) day.

Splitting the time zones would be the worst of all options. It would no longer allow time zones to align on the hour (because most states and nations are unlikely to align on a new set of time zones) and would do nothing to make noon align with the actual middle of the day.
I was talking about theories specifically related to the IQ test. "Every demographic has a priori equal IQ" is a politically palatable theory that many people want to believe. People need to be as skeptical towards this as they are towards "advantaged groups measure higher IQ because they are inherently smarter."
Inside Dr. Richard Lenski’s Ambitious, 30-Year Experiment
Mozilla experiment aims to reduce bias in code reviews
Thx I was using [0] slack-term up until now when I was using slack from the terminal.
Could make a nice addition to my weechat setup.

[0] https://github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term
It's time for the pendulum to swing back I guess ;)

The article give iOS 7 the credit for ushering in the 'flat' design trends ... But I remember the Windows Phone 7-8 'Metro' (later renamed to Modern) design language as the key influence. It blew away people with the attention to typography and proportional grid-based layouts.
Icons are written language, culture that is transmitted across generations. The floppy disk symbol stuck and that's what we're left with, it could have been any symbol really. It's actually how all alphabets evolve, some Sumerian would draw a cow and then it would be simplified and generalized over time until some unrecognizable symbol meant "wealth" or something like that.
Sadly, no one appears to have noticed on HN, or they don't care.

https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/971903844799180800
Can you give a few examples of the basic mistakes in the book, please?
The author addresses that point in the introduction:

“As an example in the latest Hacker News' Who is Hiring thread, there are a bunch of different job ads asking for a Github profile as part of the job application.

...

While both of those posts give excellent reasons to reconsider asking for open source contributions when hiring, my take here isn't about why it is ethically dubious to require open source contributions or why GitHub isn't great for showcasing your projects.

Instead, this post is about why GitHub profiles just aren't all that useful when looking to hire developers.“
I know it's not really your responsibility but did you inform those sites and/or the candidate?
I miss skeumorphism. It was great for making computing more accessible
So, even though most people cannot understand some southern dialects when they hear it, they can fluently understand other dialects without explicitly learning to do so when it's written down. Even when you explicitly write down exactly what you say in the dialects (like the Cantonese version of Wikipedia pages), people can still understand it, without much difficulties. And yes, there're some words used differently from standard Chinese, but the difference is not much bigger than the difference between UK and US English.

For that reason, we define them as dialects not languages. We can "speak" other dialects but we can certainly "read" and understand them.

If you find that definition unsatisfying, sure you can call them different languages. We just call them dialects and that's not going to change.
I got a 980 in the 90s and now I run a very successful government relations firm. It's just a test. Everyone is different and there is absolutely no test for the human spirit.
How often do you use the autopilot?

Could you give any more detail on what improvements you noticed?
You're right, to a degree. The benefit of electric cars is they're mechanically simpler, and so these tolerances do not matter quite as much for long-term reliability.
Back in the day I used LiveConnect[1] for this and other purposes[2]. I would dump errors to an IRC server so that I could collect the results. I could also respond with code that would be eval'd making development very easy.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Web/LiveCon...

[2]: http://geocar.sdf1.org/ajaj.html
Fashion really has no place in computing. These are tools and we should treat them as such

"The reaction, as all reactionary trends, was to throw out everything that came before and fully embrace this new direction of minimalist ui, white space layouts and magazine typesetting. Some argue that it was a timely change to meet the demands of the increasing complexities of the interface. That we had grown out of the need to include real world cues in our digital analogies. Evolved the interface."

No, a bunch of kingmakers got on stage and we foolishly listened to them.
The 1989 Civic I once owned had obvious "inconsistent line gaps".

It was still running fine @ ~280k miles when I gifted it to a cousin. Finally went to the junkyard just shy of ~400k miles

Lines not lining up is bizarre fetishizing of tools, IMO.

Gets one from Point_A to Point_B.

But I get it, the world must be overly customized for an intolerant minority: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
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Then job performance, income, criminality rates, health and mortality rates are also biased in the same way across cultures and time all around the globe.
No, together they give anyone aggregating content to do that, and they allow CDNs to serve up top level content with the original domain intact.

So much noise in these threads deliberating trying to concoct some hidden agenda around this rather than the obvious: the mobile web was a looming disaster, years of people advocating for writing fast pages failed, to the point that native apps were becoming silos to serve proprietary news content from. All of the macho-code jockeys here boasting how they can write fast pages don't seem to get that like 100 million pages out there are slow as molasses and efforts like AMP manage to fix A LOT of load issues that independent super-hackers didn't.

Independent efforts to spur people to optimize their sites and get some loading consistency failed -- multiple times. An industry wide effort is needed that deliberately pushes those, by carrot or whip, to improve the situation, giving them a cookie-cutter formula -- a subset of HTML and structure, validated for optimum parse, render, and caching, so that it is easy and consistent.

AMP was the first attempt at this. People don't like it because it's proprietary, don't like the UI choices, ok then, let's rectify that and get the W3C and browser vendors on board to have a neutral version. Let's address all of the problems and criticisms and make a public standard.

But stop pretending that if no one does anything the problem will go away. Yes, eventually it will go away, as more and more websites are replaced by native apps or embedded viewers in messaging or social apps like FB or WeChat, which become new proprietary browsers that eschew the web.

Accusing the AMP guys of ulterior motives is really wearing thin, AFAIK these guys love the web with a passion, they're trying to fend off an assault from native platforms. Most of these guys could go work on new hot-news at Google like new machine learning projects, they could have their pick of work, but have dedicated a lot of effort to make faster, a platform that a lot of people don't care about anymore and view as legacy.

How about a holding your gun-powder for once and see what comes out of this rather than setting off nukes.
Sigh....I'm not even going to grace this comment with even a half thoughtful response.
Heh, but it doesn't do anything, does it? Because to do anything, it needs to interoperate with native datastructures and functions. There you go...
The idea of the Model 3 is that there is another, much larger, set of true believers who will pay $30-40k, behind those that already paid $100k. Behind that, a much larger set if they get to $20k. In each case, early adopters can subsidize learning about the production run, and be happy as long as they get a unique experience (bumps allowed). I know a dozen folks who were part of the $100k group, and zero of them are "exhausted".
"Arbitrary" in the sense of not being chosen based on an understanding of what "intelligence" is.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but g is defined by noting that there is a correlation in performance on loosely defined cognitive tasks and assuming that there is a single important variable explaining that correlation.
Ask HN: Will the US Dollar collapse in 2018?
Somewhere between Charlie Lee's "one huge unexpected surprise" and me thinking of diversifying more into crypto, I came across the following interview (Feb 2017) that says the USD dollar will collapse within 12-24 months (by the end of 2018.)

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/06/were-going-to-have-a-dollar-collapse-like-the-1980s-analyst-says.html

I read more about what needs to happen for a collapse, but I don't fully understand all the forces at play. So I thought I'd ask HN's economics experts. Will the USD collapse?
Github projects don't need to be impressive or have substantial technical depth to provide a positive signal.

For example, a good README can communicate someone's abilities in documentation, thoughtfulness, and design.
> Is it not your responsibility as a developer to keep an accurate portfolio of your skill set?

It is not. If an employer can't ascertain your skill level through the interview process, their hiring is broken. It is a slippery slope where we allow employers to dictate uncompensated signaling necessary for a role.

Observe how it worked out for everyone who got a degree because employers won't hire without one, and then they don't get hired regardless of that degree. So we'll all toil on public Github projects in hopes that'll be what convinces an employer to hire? Will we all need to intern for several months for free next?

@always_good: Hiring is hard. If you succeed in hiring the right people, it won't be because they jumped through your hoops, but because they were passionate, had some of the skills and could grow fast, and a huge helping of luck.
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Ok, but there are still myriad confounding factors, even at that age. Do students from higher income schools in aggregate have higher IQs than those from lower income schools?
I grew up not far from Burton-on-Trent and never realised the significance of the water to the brewing industry. In hindsight it's obvious, but I guess, I never really thought about it.

Anyway, found this nice write up [1] on the history of the town.

[1] http://allaboutbeer.com/article/burton-on-trent%E2%80%94the-...
I was all in on vim for about ten years and then, when I started getting into Common Lisp, I would use emacs from time to time because slime is better than the vim equivalents and I eventually realized (a) evil-mode is an amazingly faithful implementation of a fairly comprehensive portion of vim’s features and (b) that you could program emacs in a language that wasn’t pathological.
Thank you for the reply @jsolano. I have started reading papers. I understand the value of what you are saying.
thanks.
Sounds like perhaps just bad top down management at that place. My coworkers/teammates are not lazy, we work as a team, and if not they'll be gotten rid of.
Yes, but GCC and clang are not provided that way, and, as I mentioned, not linked into /usr/local/bin. I understand why they don't do the latter (it could confuse the unsuspecting user) but it does add friction.
I think you are viewing it not as an iterative process. If you have code that isn't covered by a test, then by all means feel free to refactor such that that code isn't needed.

If you can look at it and see the code is needed, then you are clearly lacking a test that shows why it is needed. You can let both ends inform the next step.
This is Julia, the OC. I'm glad it was helpful! I've noticed that international (outside of the US) users especially tend to look for Paypal or alternatives to CC. Something to keep in mind.
Conway's Game of Life is probably interesting to most people here because it's a programming / mathy thing. And it's very worth exploring that angle.

However it's also worth noting what it is in far more general terms. It's a system with very simple rules (only 4) that can produce very complex looking behavior. And then you could ask yourself where else you might find similar systems.

The highly influential composer Steve Reich experimented with this idea in some of his earlist compositions. "It's Gonna Rain" was simply two tape recorders "perfectly" synced to play the same recorded loop. Of course they fell out of time and the resulting piece is pretty complex when you consider the source system is so simple.

Brian Eno in turn was influenced by this, is also a fan of Life, and has used and spoken often about very simple musical systems that produce very complex sounds or songs.

The idea in general is more far reaching than one might guess by looking at the game, and is worth becoming familiar with.
If it was getting better all the time, this might be convincing. But there’s no reason to think it is. They’ve been making cars for years, now, and the quality still seems to be dubious.

If anything, achieving significant volume may make it worse; imagine how overloaded their service department will be in a couple of years if they’re still around.
The reason I complain about ads on streaming services is that they are a definite step backwards. I've had cable since forever and I haven't had to watch an unskippable add in almost 20 years.
Why company? Why not one of these organisations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_telecommunications_reg...

for example?
> C++ programmers don't come to Go because they have fought hard to gain exquisite control of their programming domain, and don't want to surrender any of it. To them, software isn't just about getting the job done, it's about doing it a certain way.

Yeah, because it cannot possibly be that many C++ programmers saw Go as step down.

Pike thought that C++ programmers would flock to Go in large numbers. That didn't happen, which means that Pike didn't really understand what motivated these C++ programmers. I don't think this summary gets that much closer to the truth.
Couldn’t agree more. I see this all the time and it was echoed in that recent popular post by the guy who left Google after failing to get a promotion. Besides the modern software engineering approach this type of work (optimization) is also often not valued by leads. It’s all about visibility. Add new features fast and it’s visible. Good! Fix something, make sure your new feature isn’t hogging memory but take a little longer to complete the work? Bad. Added together no ‘owner’ for any specific part of the app and it’s like the public commons, the person who picks up the litter won’t be acknowledged. The incentives are screwed up. Ultimately though it’s also the customer, if they don’t care (and most of them don’t since Slack is highly popular) then why bother. In a market and business sense that makes complete sense too.
Why should this be downvoted? It exactly says how to think about the question the parent asked.
From the paper:

2. A lucky event intercepts the position of agent Ak: this means that a lucky event has
occurred during the last six month; as a consequence, agent Ak doubles her capital/success
with a probability proportional to her talent Tk. It will be Ck(t) = 2Ck(t − 1) only if
rand[0, 1] < Tk, i.e. if the agent is smart enough to profit from his/her luck.

3. An unlucky event intercepts the position of agent Ak: this means that an unlucky event has
occurred during the last six month; as a consequence, agent Ak halves her capital/success,
i.e. Ck(t) = Ck(t − 1)/2.

Note that the equation for lucky events includes talent, but unlucky events do not.
You can have the activity graph show private contributions.

edit: I may have misunderstood, assuming you mean it's patchy because you're contributing to a private repo that's not on Github.
> If an employer can't ascertain your skill level through the interview process, their hiring is broken.

Easier said than done, especially if you're talking about whiteboard interviews.

Nobody can even agree on what this perfect barrage of probing looks like.
> Yes, photons are said to go through both slits because there does not exist any information which would distinguish the paths. As soon as you arrange an experiment which provides such information, the chosen path becomes clear.

This isn't correct. Photons are said to go through both slits because they travel like waves and actually go through both slits. How would your interpretation account for the fact that a single photon at a time fired through a double slit still produces an interference pattern?
Isn't there a fundamental free trade problem with selling (not leasing) a hardware product and then not transferring full ownership of the product to the buyer?

Sell a security camera bundled with cloud storage, fine - shut off the cloud and the camera still works.

Sell a John Deere tractor that can't be serviced without buying parts, patches, and paying for access to the engine computer - this seems problematic.
That argument makes no sense to me. It essentially boils down to "people can choose whatever level of security they want, so given that they chose the current level of security that must be the most energy efficient -- and since merchants have to pay for this system they always choose the cheapest fees which must therefore mean they choose the miner with the cheapest energy source". I'm not sure what this argument is meant to prove other than PoW chooses the most energy efficient way of doing PoW, but it doesn't prove the PoW isn't an energy hog.

This argument also explicitly ignores schemes such as PoS that don't have this massive power drain, and also ignores interesting schemes like PoC (Proof of Capacity)[1] that also don't have this power drain (apparently).

[1]: https://www.burst-coin.org/proof-of-capacity
> The problem with that concept is that if the available evidence actually does strongly support a position, seeking viewpoint diversity means actively selecting people who either cannot analyze the evidence or who wilfully ignore it's content.

We're not talking about diversity of opinion on whether gravity is real. We're talking about viewpoint diversity on questions that involve far more ambiguity, complexity, and interpretation, like how to measure human intelligence. Questions where the evidence can point in multiple directions depending on what data is collected and how it is interpreted.

I think the site addresses this well:

> For simple problems or fully resolved technical matters there is little need for viewpoint diversity. Sometimes there is just one answer, or just one way to approach a problem. But for “wicked problems” — those that can be framed in multiple ways and that may trigger passions or partisan motivations–viewpoint diversity is essential. --https://heterodoxacademy.org/the-problem/
That's not entirely true. Candidates have to meet employers halfway.

Employer's have a limited amount of time and money too, why should they waste those resources having to mine for someone's skill level when there's plenty of candidates out there that will display that on some online site.
I am more used to Google which I use on the desktop, but when on the phone, I use both interchangeably.

When it comes to the US and global content, there is virtually no difference in the results. Google is much better in the local content and the knowledge graph results though, as well as the maps. Video search is better in Bing.
From the article:

"The Legislature will be adjourned for 2018 before these seats could be filled in special elections."

Are you disputing the accuracy of that?

Also, you wrote "illegally"... and nothing in that article indicates illegality.
Wow talk about a scummy thing to do to their employer.
I am sure it will work for them before too... because not everyone would do their DD like you have.
Is the logo still the most important part of a brand’s image?
FYI for those in Los Angeles, CA, we are located right off of the 405.
The article's problem is that its arguments apply to trying to use GH as a search tool for candidates.

For instance, the fact that some accounts are fakes for a TV show, or that some projects are jokes and listicles, has nothing to do with the particular GH project of a candidate that you're interviewing, having found that candidate in ways having nothing to do with GH.

Sure; GH being full of crap makes it impossible to use for searching for developers. (Not to mention that, oh, people don't use real names, and you don't know whether they live across the street or across the ocean).

The main valid point is that a great developer might have an inactive GH account.

"If you're looking for a thief, it isn't useful to look into pockets. Many pockets contain nothing, or lint. And those that contain something are almost always legitimate: stuff that the pocket owner owns. Some pockets are fake; just ornamental openings that are sewn shut, with no actual pockets behind them. The best thief I ever nabbed had nothing in his pockets; everything was in a big duffle bag in the trunk of his car."
Hey, we're using a basic MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node) and using FFMPEG on the back end
Please don't do this -- GitHub does not register activity or hobbies outside of GitHub. You are arbitrarily ruling out people on BitBucket, Gitlab, and elsewhere, in addition to the legions of programmers that cannot post their work publicly and do not want to produce stuff on their own, unpaid, time.
Perhaps I misunderstood. But isn't Github help you filter out such candidates, is it? They have some big projects, but their contribution calandar should be almost empty, cuz all the code is pushed into Github at once.
Reading this a year ago changed my entire outlook on money and public debt for the better.
A software designer at my company can add our software to his or her portfolio because the design itself is publicly-accessible. I can’t add our software to my portfolio, though, because while the final product is available to the public, the code itself is not. So I can point to the software without actually showing my work, or work many extra hours to have a portfolio of code. Which I guess is life, but I think it’s fair to point out that maintaining a code portfolio is far more time consuming than a design portfolio, for instance.
Yes, design is fashion after all. It’s cyclical.
They say it's within spec.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABAR362zLw

EDIT: I emailed the Seattle SC and they seemed indifferent at best.