skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> especially when random company HR wants 10 years of NodeJs and its been around for 2 years.

My bane!

I swear. I've been doing some form of programming since I was a kid, and as a hobby and moonlighting for more like 10 years, and professionally for a notable company for a few years and I still get automatic responses (* rejections) from HR within hours or a couple of days with 99% of the applications I send out with a generic message full of platitudes. And from any size: small startups to multi-national conglomerates. If I hear anything at all.
I personally think there two issues here:

a) Expectations of 'Entry-level' actually being greater than 'junior/apprentice'

b) Mentors not part of the role

Both of these issues have arisen from a lack of willingness to have a long-term view and wanting immediate ROI, which I imagine has come about from the perceived view that staff don't stick around anyway.

Set up proper trainee/cadet/apprentice programs, provide mentors and support and these staff will probably a) take the low pay at the start, b) appreciate the learning and support, c) stick around and d) create greater ROI in the end.

Seems not to be how business operate now, and I feel it's painfully evident when I observe how many 'experienced' managers there are in charge of things that have no idea what they're doing. They also appear to often actually have no idea what capabilities they require and so just create industry 'roles' with the hope some experienced person will know what to do.
Coingeek to Fund the BCH Anonymizer Mixing Platform Cash Shuffle
What uses do you see for this aside from illegal drugs, cybercrime, terrorism, child porn and human trafficking? Do you feel you're making the world a better place with this project?
Congratulations but you’re probably an outlier. I’ve applied to hundreds of companies throughout my career (~20 years), probably an average of around 40 applications per job switch. I’ve applied to some companies multiple times, sometimes right after getting the rejection. Most people I know are in the same boat. Tech companies are so picky and there is so much inherent variance in hiring. It’s a numbers game.
> I'd think the author would argue that these racist biases should and could have been caught before going into production

I think people who believe this significantly underestimate the difficulty of solving these problems.
> The story isn’t that they used data obtained through the Facebook API to microtarget ads on Facebook?

Yes, that is exactly it. You seem to assume that the only way you can achieve this is by advertising to individual people by Facebook ID's and use this as the basis of your argument that the whole story is fraudulent and instead there is some media conspiracy to commit securities fraud.

Can you see where your logic might be faulty?

There is a lot of information at your fingertips about how they actually used the data, you can go to your favorite search engine right now, type in "how did cambridge analytica use the facebook data" and read the answer. I'd do this first before calling the whole thing bogus and accusing Channel 4 of committing securities fraud.
How can an electric car company be in a bear market the week after a fusion device was patented?

If Lockheed really believes in their device, they ought to buy Tesla.
Look at how sparse this galaxy is. What if its simply an unknown property of the black hole singularity at the center of the galaxy that acts as some sort of gravity modifier? What is galaxy scale has nothing to do with it? No one really knows for sure what the hell is going on and everyone wants to cling to the mystery particle theories because its the easier explanation.
Actually we are in free fall relative to these astronomical bodies. Meaning that the Earth and you are both pulled together and so in your local reference frame it is not detectable.

The locally detectable force is tidal. Which follows a cube law.

It turns out that every cow on Earth creates larger tidal forces on you than any star except the Sun. :-)
No, do your own homework. You can't ask others to prove a negative. By the link you provided yourself, there is nothing in there about any indictments regarding collusion with Russia to interfere with the US election.
There is no one search engine in OpenBazaar, that's the beauty of it. Anyone can run a search service returning results that people can see in the client themselves.

Our company (OB1) runs one service, and we do censor those listings and allow people to report illegal or offensive listings. However there are other search engines that choose to censor lightly or not at all, and everyone is free to use whichever search providers (or a combination) that they want.
Hmmmm... what have you got for someone with no experience?

j/k, but I am curious how much time you think is average for a job search in terms of both hours spent and days/weeks before finding something. You talk about "time and stubbornness" but I'm interested just how much time and how much stubbornness. I realize this varies widely by industry, but I would expect there's some sort of white collar average.
That would be my guess. Second Life but without the clunk.

But it will need a new platform. I can't see it happening on phones.
Oh my thank you so much for this, I’m getting lost in the related videos showing the same song played on all kind of devices
Was any of that said above? No.
The GMO debate isn't just about whether the molecules of something you're eating are safe in relation to the modifications. It includes considerations such as what kinds of practices are enabled by GMO: like producing a plant that is resistant to certain herbicides so that you can douse the heck out of the crop to kill everything else. Or how some genetically modified plant is someone's intellectual property, so you're a criminal if you happen to plant its seeds back in the soil. (Just two issues off the top of my head in regard to an area I don't think much about.)
> Long rant on why the GDPR is bad

> I am not a lawyer. I have not read the GDPR.

You sound like you would enjoy hanging out with Adam Curry & John C. Dvorak. :)
Possibly controversial opinion, but I think UI in most open-source software needs a lot of work. GIMP is one such example of it. Good programmers aren't necessarily good UI designers. For vector graphics, I use Inkscape for SVG editing and retouching, though. It is at least bearable to use for me.

This might be more due to my experience as a programmer, but I see the most success in creating good UIs in open-source code editors. Perhaps because as programmers, they are already better at judging what kind of things work and don't work for UI and UX in this kind of software, compared to digital paint tools, 3D modeling, etc.
Ok, I don’t understand. Why would you buy that account?
Disclaimer: not associated with OpenBazaar, just a devil's advocate.

If Alice and Bob were to trade drugs on my website, and I take fees for that commerce, you can bet that law enforcement is knocking on my door very soon.
Right eventually. Before that the explanations were a lot wackier. I could easily see "dark matter" the same way I see "ether".
awesome thanks for the link!
Uber announced recently that they are doing deliveries with self-driving trucks [1]. Are those discontinued? I know they stopped the self-driving car work, but haven't seen anything about their self-driving trucks.

Not sure how much of the technology is shared since Otto was ostensibly focused on self-driving trucks.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/6/17081626/uber-self-driving...
That's still not the point though.

How do I openly share social information with some people without sharing it with everyone? These principles are in conflict.

I did some work way back when FB got popular on the idea of using probabilistic data structures (ie, Bloom filters) to store contact lists, which could then be shared so that (in theory) only people who knew the same people would also know that they knew them. I built a FB app proving this could work technically.

But there are clear security issues with it - it gives a veneer of apparent privacy but doesn't stand up to attacks.

This is what everyone is talking about and the point you seem to be missing: you can't have this both ways. There is a conflict between privacy and openness.

Since you seem fixated on the crypto-payment thing: Monero mostly solves anonymous payments, but then what? Say I want to buy a pair of shoes with it - how do I stop someone knowing where to deliver it? Any attempt at solving this runs into the same problem: you have to tell someone the same thing you are trying to keep secret, and if that person is the attacker then the system falls to pieces.
Subpoenas need some probable cause to be issued. It'd be interesting to estimate what percentage of target population you'd need to subpoena complete details on in order to build a social graph of the whole population, but I feel that that volume of legal activity would create waves even if it were only around 1%. Most court systems are overburdended as is, a significant increase would be noticeable.

Of course, if you were just getting that information as a matter of course in many arrests and were willing to accumulate it slowly over time it's very possible. I'm preoccupied with scraping issues as that's my only available avenue.
It's a cultural-fit thing. You can, but there are the zealous who will deny you.
I bet Poland and Hungry are next to leave. It's a sad, predictable situation, take away the people's ability to check their own government, it's almost a law of physics that next to go is free speech (now), and then... history repeats. The BREXIT vote shows they know, but it's to be seen if the British can turn this one around.
Why didn't you return to your previous employer after sabbatical?
Most development is sponsored by OB1 (where I work). We have raised money from investors like A16Z, BlueYard, and USV. The project also supports donations. We don't need to skim fees to survive.

Edit: Additionally, the aim is to be an open protocol for trade and not just a product. Fees for using an open protocol don't make much sense.
"Brexit for example was disproportionately supported in the press"

Not according to the most comprehensive research [0]. This is a Remain meme.

" eight endorsed Leave: the Sun, the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, the Sunday Express, the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times, and the Spectator. Eight supported Remain: The Times, the Guardian, the Observer, the FT, the Independent, the Mail on Sunday, the Mirror, and the New Statesman. Buzzfeed, HuffPo UK, Vice UK, and the Star (Daily and Sunday) did not formally endorse
either side, though the editorial perspective of the first three lent towards Remain, while the Star strongly favoured Leave."

[0] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/policy-institute/CMCP/UK-media-co...
Yes, this is largely the browser's problem. Because all available uplinks are available. Tor browser doesn't leak, because WebRTC is blocked. But other browsers with WebRTC enabled will leak with a standard Tor setup.

However, using Whonix for Tor, even if you install a random browser with WebRTC enabled, there is no WebRTC leak. Because the workstation VM has no Internet access except through Tor. The gateway VM is not a router. There is no forwarding, and it's firewalled. It just exposes Tor ports to a private internal network, for the workstation VM.

And one can do the same for VPNs, using pfSense VMs as VPN gateways. Apps in workspace VMs have no Internet access except through the VPN client running in the gateway VM.
"customer" of Facebook is user of Facebook Business (advertisers) only, not people who use in daily life.
The leeking of Facebook is like just car was stolen at car shop.
Google, Twitter, and HN too, just don't use them.
I'm stealing that line.
Welcome to the sausage factory.

Being a startup is like being a gladiator. Every day is another war. Every day other startups die. Every day of survival doesn't fill you with relief; you just think of tomorrow's doom.

The general public only sees the sausages that come out of the factory. They only see the glory of massively successful companies like Dropbox. They would be horrified if they saw inside. The blood dripping through the grated floor. The graveyard of bones ground up and spit out as meal for the next "lucky" founder.

This week the public has gotten a taste of how Tesla's sausage is made. Truth is; every day for Tesla has been like this. The truth is, every day in Tesla's life has been the closest it has ever come to death.

Those in HN who've built a company know this. But they also know _why_ they suffer this pain.

A mere two months ago SpaceX launched humanity's dreams into the outer reaches. Meanwhile Tesla is single-handedly altering the course of ground transportation.

Last weekend we took a trip to San Diego in a Tesla. An all electric trip, charged up using the solar panels at our home, with most of the travel time driven by autopilot. The future drove us there and back again. That's why Tesla does what it does.

I don't see the point in discussing Tesla's financials and their "impending" doom. Instead, I think the only appropriate thing to say is...

Nos morituri te salutamus
Standard SMPTE FEC doesn't allow more than 20 columns of error correction, at 30mbit that's about 7ms of drop, at best of times (assuming the required FEC packets aren't lost as well). At low bitrates it works better, and the majority of our international vision circuits rely on single streams with FEC. Had one ISP in the Ukraine that had an intermittent fault where, regardless of the bitrate, they would occasionally drop 170ms of traffic.

I currently have a difficult provision that for a variety of reasons I can't use ARQ on. To keep the service working I have 4 streams going, over two routes, with timeshifting on the streams to cope with route-change outages that tend to sit in the 20ms range. FEC is meaningless at these bitrates.

RTP is fine for delay and re-orders, but it doesn't cope with drops. I was at a manufacturer's earlier this week and said that I've experienced dual streaming skew of over 250ms (we had one circuit presumably reroute via the US), and I laugh at their 150ms buffer. Dual streaming can still fail when you have both streams runnning on the same submarine cable though. Trust me, intercontinental low latency interoprable broadcast IP on a budget isn't trivial
You have to have had some level of passion to bother learning about it.

It takes time to learn a topic, that's a form of passion - a drive.

That's not to say you have to burn all hours on it tho. Which I think is what you're assuming there. That's honestly somewhat unhealthy and only super passionate people (and lucky ones at that) can do that for any length of time.
> my only option is to buy non-GMO everything. That doesn't make any sense.

A viable option actually.
Illegality and immorality are different, and - speaking personally - I don't have an issue with the platform used for moral but illegal uses. If it helps people get medicine they need then I'm happy for them.

People using the tech for immoral transactions does bother me, but we've seen very little of it, and ultimately I strongly believe the benefits of free trade significantly outweigh the few people who abuse it.
Oh, what's a moderate downvote (or what do you mean)?
RTP runs over UDP
I would think that accountibility would probably be equally if not more helpful in these situations. If a document was signed stating liability similar to Sarbanes Oxley for CFOs those who would be cutting corners would likely do the thorough vetting of credentials themselves.
Even in that case, he and his family will for a long time have the political benefit of deciding how the money will be spent. And political advantages usually translate into economical advantages, so it can also be viewed as a scheme at some level.
> “is your research going to be patented?”

well, those are good questions. As frustrating as it is, scientists should be well aware that science doesn't happen in a political, juridical or economical vacuum.

This social sensibility should be part of the soft skills of the modern scientist. Same goes for engineers (let’s think about the Facebook crisis), or any profession, really.

Ideas have consequences.

Edit: Also that's is quite infuriating: "How am I supposed to explain the consequences of abandoning a technology that can help feed millions to Swiss students who enjoy the world's highest standard of living?" - if you think that the problem of malnutrition is mainly a technological/agrological problem, that's very disingenuous.
The US Government has a legitimate reason for creating and supporting mechanisms anonymous Internet use by those under the control of oppressive regimes.

Other parts of the US Government appear to have a desire to know everything about everyone all the time.

The "US Government" is not one thing, it's an enormous collection of agencies, bureaus, and humans, who sometimes have desires that are at odds with one another.
Passion is a relative term.

Nobody goes to work at Facebook or Google thinking "wow, I'm so passionate about adverts and tracking, I want to build a world with more ads and tracking in more places". It's normal not to be passionate about your work in that sense.

However, some people find computers frustrating, stupid or boring. Such a person probably wouldn't enjoy a job working with them all the time - and it's difficult to build the skills that let you advance your career if you're averse to or bored by practising them. You need to be passionate in the sense of finding the work sufficiently non-loathsome that you can readily motivate yourself to do it.
3+ years doesn't mean 3+ years "in a job". That makes no sense. (Well, maybe for some companies it does, but you don't want to work there anyways). For some reason people can never get over that.

It means 3+ years with a technology. It means don't walk in the door out of a Java college having used nothing else and apply to work on a Triple A game written in C++. It means don't show up after a weekend html course and apply for a job using Node/React. And before you say "well that isn't me for so and so reason", it happens ALL the time to employers.

An entry level position does not mean you get to learn on the job from scratch or near scratch. It means that you are at least capable enough to work on small or easy problems and features and an employer or other devs can coach you along the way and you'll know what they are saying to you.

That's all it means (to any reasonable employer).
Compuserve, MSN (no not messenger), Usenet, Slashdot, Fuck Beta, Soylent, HN
This first concert in my mind is that while programming core concepts have not changed much in 30 years, the stuff you put on your resume has. Laws don't change very often and only in small details ways. A lawyer can still reference a law passed hundreds of years ago and it's relevant in a real world in the job scenario. Programming on the other hand, is far less stable. Furthermore, employers are always looking for key words in the resume. Do you know this language and this framework? I don't think they care or evening look for core concepts (maybe a problem in it's in right).
You seriously can't imagine any uses for an online marketplace that aren't illegal??

Have you bought or sold anything online in the last week? Those things could probably be done on OpenBazaar.
MSN was helped by the integration into the most used email at the time, hotmail. It was still pretty good, you could play mind sweeper on it with your friends, most of my international friends used it. they had a pretty good market penetration in China too.

Then MSFT was like, OK we bought skype. EVERYONE WILL USE SKYPE.
I'm not a fan of victim-blaming ("She was wearing a miniskirt in a sketchy part of town" is never an excuse!).

But yeah - this was negligence.

(Also, #1 is not necessarily true - WannaCry spreads via USB too - https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/featured/wannacry... )
rayiner wasn't just bringing up Google vs other companies, though.

rayiner was saying that there is a "coupled system" and Google just reflects external racism, and then Google's search results amplify racism. The article did not mention anything about those interesting points, which might be worthy of bringing up and discussing, but it seems very unfair to accuse the top comment of "not getting the point" about them, when they are rayiner's insights that were only now presented.
Of course those systems 'discriminate', that is what they are designed for. The problems aren't with the system, but with how they were set up, implemented or tested.

Say you make a sensor that is supposed to tell the difference between blue, green and purple, but you only test with one shade of blue and maybe two shades of green, you are going to have trouble actually matching your design goals.

In the case of the face detection system: they didn't specify and/or test is well enough, which can be due to a number of factors, but will most likely lie with the employees of the company that did the development. If they only have the classic 'pasty white guys' to work with, then it's going to be crap at actually doing face detections for all humans. On one hand you could setup a proper test protocol, on the other hand they shouldn't have taken broad or vague terms when developing/presenting the technology. If you don't have a broad selection of faces to test with, you shouldn't claim you have 'face detection', since you merely have 'detection of faces of the people that work on the project plus anyone who looks like them'.

This would be a completely different story if someone writing the face matching code specifically programmed code or wrote configuration data that targets skin tone or geometry of specific groups of people.

Some people would like to extend this type of technological issue into the area of HRM and race/gender-bias in society in general, but that is not a technology-only discussion and hardly something the people involved are qualified to argue about.

Also:
>But what does it say about a society if it continues to optimize algorithms (and related infrastructure) for one group over another?

It says that society is imperfect, and that certain levels of xenophobia, bias and true racism exist. Doesn't say much about technology though.
> "Oh no, the existence of dark matter means the universe should be collapsing in on itself, lets invent dark energy to balance out the dark matter"

Even if you remove dark matter from the picture, there's still the acceleration of expansion (increase of the Hubble term over time), for which there is pretty solid data, namely the discrepancy of brightness and redshift of distant supernovae.

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

By far the "cosmological constant" sort of outweighs all the other terms in the Universe's stress energy tensor.