skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not have scrolled down if I didn't see this comment :)
the employer is going to background check mark

Are they? I've been involved in hiring people, and I've never seen that. Is it common in the EU?
"With the pre-Google system, at least Mark gets his foot in the door and has a chance to impress the prospective employer during the interview process. While his conviction may still impact his employment prospects, at least he has a fighting chance."
While this sounds like intuitive it is, AFAIK, wrong.

I'm pretty sure there are ssrn papers/etc on this, where they found that 99% of employers (or something ridiculous) had non-overridable policies, so in practice, no, there was no fighting chance.

I'd personally prefer a system where neither could be used after a cooling off period depending on crime.
It's an old word, afaik. Means 'mega' in this context. Also I mispelled it :D
Don't give them ideas.
Is there a name for that? Steganography? Watermarking? Both don’t specifically describe the idea of swapping words or homographs (rn = m) to embed the name of the person who received a copy of a document to bust the leaker.
Lets not forget ice cream - snow mixed with wine
Building Bigger, Faster GPU Clusters Using NVSwitches
Kanban for DevOps Engineering: From Sense to Predictability
> One of Go's biggest strengths is that anyone can pick up the language and be somewhat productive in it after a week.

IME, that's basically the case with any language with suitable libraries in the application domain and that doesn't have radically unfamiliar syntax or programming paradigm, so this rings as praise for it being neither especially novel nor deficient in library support for it's target uses.
There are two different futures: one in which manufacturers gives this up. Another in which every part is cryptographically signed to not be possible to counterfeit.

You might think people would stop buying products from those who do the latter. But no.
time to go back my friend, Dido it's time to disrupt EE :)
This tip to Nat Geo could save your company thousands
For mathematicians, = does not mean equality
Are you serious or do you yearn for the days when cars didn't have seat belts and paint still contained lead? Start-ups will adapt or they don't deserve to exist.
Lessons Learned Using AWS Lambda as Remediation System
How is this different then Bitconnect or any of the other 100's of ICO scams that have happened in the last year?
Yep. The Apple store even kindly cleaned my port for me, and it helped a bit. But they still flat-out refuse to do the repair.
Right to be Forgotten is not an individual right in the classic sense. It is a positive right, one which is really a privilege enforced by the state under the pretext of a "right".

Whereas owning and using an illicit drug (as one example of the kind of individual rights we support) does not require coercing others (be they corporations or individuals) into doing anything, RTBF does. It requires the state coercing (in this case) corporations into censoring (this this case) true, publicly known information visible on their websites.
The most disconcerting thing about this is how effective their security measures appear to be. One has to imagine how pervasive their surveillance is to catch this many leakers.
I have bought factory service manuals for car and motorcycle projects off of eBay and Amazon. Multiple times, I received 3-hole-punched photocopies stuck in a binder or bound together with some kind of tape. Every time, I e-mail the seller, my only recourse is to spend my own money and ship it back and get a refund. Amazon and eBay both don't care, because the sellers just have to claim that they are authorized resellers. They made money off the transaction, so that's why Amazon and eBay don't care... end of story.

I don't buy anything anymore without an actual picture of the phyiscal product. I didn't pay $150 for a book so that some guy could photocopy it, I wanted the original, real deal book.
IANAL but I think this might be a violation of YouTube ToS
If you think the motives of whistleblowers are as pure as the driven snow, we'll just have to agree to disagree. #2 covers their actions, but not all whistleblowers are related to Mother Teresa.
Uber Eats now bigger than GrubHub in 15 major U.S. cities
I'm old enough to remember StockGeneration.com [1].

Different decade, different suckers.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_Generation
Hunger will do that.
Should have (2000) in the title. See https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1251250 for publication metadata.
I get that you're just the messenger, but almost every one of these arguments makes my blood boil.

1. So what? The whole point of writing a high-level language is to pay the cost of low-level burdens once so that application developers don't have to pay them repeatedly.

3. This makes me treasure even more greatly the Rust core team's forethought when releasing Rust 1.0, in ensuring they hadn't walled themselves into any easily-avoidable corners before stabilizing the language. Such an approach has repeatedly paid dividends.

4. Optimizing for a person's first week of using a language at the expense of their next ten years is borderline indefensible.

5. This last one pretty much boils down the entire problem for me. Go is designed to solve problems Google has that most of us don't. It's also designed to solve them in a way that makes the most sense to Google (e.g., dependency management is irrelevant if you have a monorepo).
One technique to consider is to also develops your own product. This way if your employees have any downtime between contracts AND you have the resources, then you’re not paying them for nothing and you don’t need to pay them off.
Unfortunately that's over-simplification of the problem.

10-15 years we were told that use of <table>s for layout purposes was terribly wrong. Without any reliable alternative mechanism.

Here is my proposal to W3C CSS WG to add flow property and flex units: https://www.terrainformatica.com/w3/flex-layout/flex-layout....
It covers as flexbox as grid features under the same mechanism. Yet it establishes robust framework for other layout methods.

Note it is dated April, 5, 2009. It took us almost 10 years to have something matching that.

So neither W3C process nor WHATWG process is perfect - there is no reliable feedback from customers (web designers) to browser vendors.

What if browser would provide us just abstract DOM with minimal HTML/CSS implementation and some extensibility/plug-ins mechanism with something like Java.

In this case we, the community, can provide better implementations:

main {
flow: HolyGrailLayout(params) url(/layouts/HolyGrail.class);
}

<main>
<header>
<footer>
<aside>
</main>

So instead of waiting for the weather for 10 years we will do something literally tomorrow when we need it.

In this case W3C will be able to perfectly fit its role - high-level management of all this.

No one can manage the reality up to need of toilet paper in full. USSR tried and where did it go?
Minimalist != ugly and unuseful.
> This a major problem for amazon

I hear this over and over but where's the evidence that this is true on a significant scale? Sellers have been counterfeiting and selling knock-off garbage on Amazon since the 3rd-party marketplaces launched.

3P sellers are a NECESSITY for Amazon. They source and stock the hundreds of millions of long tail items that Amazon themselves can't/won't. For Amazon the benefits of 3P sellers far outweigh the costs.

Edit: Who's downvoting this and why?
Is anyone selling a charging dock modeled after this yet?
Well, flexbox was much simpler and easier to standardize on and implement sooner. It has been available in all major browsers since 2015.

Grid is great, and now works in most places, but it was good to have flexbox while grid was still in process; it only became available in Edge, in the final form, late last year, making it now available on all major browsers.

You're always going to have cases like this; where there's something that's simple that works now, and something better that comes later. If you always wait for the better one, it will take forever for things to get done. Not to mention that flexbox is probably simpler and easier to understand and use for some of the simple use cases, so people will still probably continue to use it despite the fact that grid is available.
Came here to say that.

Why don't papers include the date and publication in the final text? It's frustrating.

Speculating on my own question, in the Old Days a paper would get bound up in a paper book so there was no ambiguity. But this shouldn't stand in the Post Arxiv world - the standard LaTeX template should have standard slots for this on the front page.
Will have to agree to disagree on that one. And I think he's there and Couric isn't is due to Couric at a certain point trying the Barbara Walters track pivoting into the talk show side of things.

But I think him being fairly interchangeable with another journalist is an indicator that his role isn't personality driven like the previously mentioned: he's there to deliver the news and that's essentially it. I think his Gaza Strip/Haiti/etc. work qualifies him as a journalist and from what I've seen of him, has delivered factual news (with varying levels of importance, but realistically, it is unlikely to have hard hitting items daily).
Third party parts in car are protected by law.
Maybe Netflix is a young company with a lot of growth. Maybe Apple has a proportion of disgruntled employees because everyone has been suffering their secrecy for 20 years and some might be upset about their career paths, without being allowed to talk about it. It just takes 10 leakers for a full year of news.
Hint: I've been here a while, and do very much get what HN is about. I simplified my argument to make a point: the hypocrisy of Hacker New "users" (including myself) when it comes to hacking (both in the broad sense and specific techniques) when it comes to law enforcement.
But wouldn't this solution mean that once there is a small glitch in the system, say due to higher load than normal, there are 2x the requests and the system goes down completely?

I don't mean to be negative of the solution, I am just curious.
I would think the best use of Apple's time is reverse engineering (if the exploit is not already assumed/known) the device and releasing an update rendering it useless. If that isn't possible, perhaps litigation would be the next step. However simply making it 'not work' for LE would be the lowest hanging fruit (under many assumptions about the complexity of this exploit).
IIRC type C is even rated for 10k cycles. Other than some serious charging screwups and a generally overcomplicated design, it’s quite well engineered.
Because it is equally important that the us invasion be seen for what it is, as it was for nsa to be seen for what it is. Collateral murder itself was probably big enough to warrant the risk to us spies
It seems pretty strange to give credit to the modern state that is now called "Bulgaria". Yogurt is also an important aspect of Indian cuisine, and it seems much more likely that Bulgarian and Indian yogurt share a common ancestor rather than the Bulgarians being first.
I misread the parent post and was thinking of VCs. Anyway my view is that it is good for the wealth and opportunities to spread around a bit. It will benefit us all that more people around the world are solving problems in science, technology and medicine.
I personally find him annoying after some time but he does have lots of knowledge.
Fair enough. Mechanically, all you're ever doing when estimating a parameter vector using OLS is projecting Y onto the span of X, and that requires linearity in the sense that Y = XB. But far too often I've met people who've come away thinking OLS is useless because they mistake the linearity in parameters with 'y must be a linear function of x', which is they think is too simplistic, and so they go do more complicated methods when OLS would have been just fine as long as they used polynomials and/or interaction terms.
But they are the champions of security and safety
It's strangely huge for what it does (presumably author was going for just visual minimalism), trimming it down is wouldn't exactly be 'code golf'.
I agree. We're marching towards less open, not more open.
Libgen is useful and should figure out how to be legitimate. They could go down the youtube route: sell subscriptions or include ads and just pay the copyright holders royalties.
The notion that leakers are driven in part by ego was not invented by the CIA. It's well-known and exploited by reporters.

As an example there's a short discussion in the recent movie The Post where Post reporters are trying to figure out who leaked the Pentagon Papers. Ben Bagdikian says something like these guys are always a bit of a showboat and it leads him to remember Ellsberg at Rand.

EDIT to add: the CIA is interested in why people leak because the #1 job of the CIA is to create leakers in other countries.

You mention locking people up, but that is not the CIA's job. The FBI is the counter-intelligence lead in the U.S.
Well, I meant the person or persons who discovered yogurt, may they rest in peace.

My comment in no way was denigrating Bulgaria...come one, you guys gave us yogurt and Hristo Stoichkov ;)
Go fill out a 1003 and fill it out.

https://www.fanniemae.com/content/guide_form/1003rev.pdf

Ask for Loan Estimate from a couple different lenders. They have to provide you one by law. Also, just look at the APR. It basically converts closing costs, mortgage insurance to rate.

Problem is the longer you lock the more lenders charge.

And rates go up and down every day.

Also, are you doing a construction loan or the builder owns the house until you close?

They're handled differently is why I'm asking.

Sorry Legal Disclosure. I probably don't need to disclose since it's just advice but better to be safe than sorry.

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Yeah, I agree w/ your reading of the paragraph.
> or even Icelandic yoghurt

That remark will date. I don't think Iceland is famous for yoghourt, but it's somewhat trendy in the UK at the moment:

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

I had some of the Arla kind, fat-free and with a layer of apple compote. It was sort of halfway between quark and yoghourt. It wasn't terribly pleasant - it has that grim chalkiness that fat-free Greek yoghourt has, only more solid. I can't see it becoming a permanent fixture in the dairy section.
Really?!? Your response to my lame joke about Hacker New hypocrisy is to define hacking vs cracking for me? Thanks man.
>Wouldn't car parts be a much more accurate analogy, though?

Yes. The FCC actually sent out reminders to phone companies two days ago reminding them that use of aftermarket parts cannot void a warranty. This also applies to things like "warranty void if seal removed" stickers etc.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/04/10/ftc-reminds-phone-m...
FB and Twitter are the sugar-pushing companies of the mind. With discipline, they would actually be a good thing.

I can and have created a Facebook group, choosen the members and moderated the discussion. The discussion winds up as civil as here (imo of course). I don't know of any way to do this on Twitter. Given this and similar other aspect of the interfaces, I don't think one can equate the two platforms (which isn't to claim Facebook doesn't have problems).
They've been trending downward in the US since 1800.

https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/1960/compendia/...

You can see by the other stats in the PDF that all measures of health improved dramatically 1800-1960.
See also inserting zero-width characters in text that don't show when you copy and paste: https://medium.com/@umpox/be-careful-what-you-copy-invisibly...
Computers and internet existed w/o Google

We don't need huge information management companies is the argument. They're soaking up our data, but it's largely for their gain, not mine.

I have yet to realize one fucking break through due to Google. I use someone else's products, except for search, but I mostly use DuckDuckGo.

Tell me why I should be on the side of Google specifically then?

FAANG != the be all end all.

Shit, 80% of Fortune 500 firms from a generation ago are gone.

Yeah let's keep believing that Google has it figured out forever.

Man, humans are really just into thinking their 90-ish years on Earth are the start and end of the universe.
Buy a pixel? Google have been doing really good work with android encryption
More Pi: Mender OTA and Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, Zero, Compute Module
There's no way they raised $660M. Even $66M would be pushing it. I hope TechCrunch edits this article with a more accurate number.

Filecoin and Tezos both raised about $200M and were considered massive ICOs, not to mention they happened in the wealthiest countries on earth and were heavily backed by institutional investors. It's simply impossible that an obviously scammy ICO in a relatively poor country raised $660M.
Those are just bad ad hoc consequentialist justifications for incarceration. If you really believe that, you can justify life sentences for every minor crime. Since it keeps criminals off the streets and increases utility. Or you can justify having incredibly short sentences. Since the correlation with longer sentences and greater deterrents is pretty small. Criminals tend to think they won't get caught and have high time preference. And I doubt it's terribly effective at rehabilitation.

You can certainly justify discriminating against people with criminal records that way. It's by far the best predictor of job performance. High social trust is probably the most important aspect of a society. Letting known criminals get into positions of power is not an ideal way to achieve that.

The main reason we have prisons is justice. The basic human desire for fairness and consequences for wrongdoing. No one wants to see a murderer get away with it. Even if there is some compelling argument why punishment won't increase utility. For instance, people tend to strongly oppose having sentences done by statistical algorithms. That are vastly better at predicting recidivism than human judges. Because they feel unfair.

And that same desire for fairness is also why people prefer criminals get a second chance.
Just FYI, 7 years would almost certainly put that information outside of the statute of limitations.
I'm not saying all regulation is bad. But some regulation is has a major stifling effect on innovation and startups simply because the cost of compliance is too high for new players (but manageable for established big boys).
Aside from new shows (which are pretty much announced once they're green-lit), it's a bit hard for me to think of much at Netflix that the tech press is waiting to find out with baited breath. We're rolling out a new recommendation engine that gives even worse results than before?

I'm sure there are some things but there are very few tech company announcement details (outside of financial results) that so many people are anxious to learn ahead of time as specs and features of upcoming Apple products.
Update: We've in the last stages of the interviewing process and are no longer considering new applications. Thanks to everyone who applied; I have been positively surprised, and even overwhelmed, by the feedback and caliber of the applications we've received.
+1 for Google Translate - Word Lens replace - it's amazing when it can naturally replace the word with the translation
That's part of it. The problem relating to centralized networks is trust or the lack thereof. Forcing or pressuring for collaboration through incentive structures - that are structured as Pyramid-Ponzi schemes - is highly successful early on because of the potential reward, relatively little risk individually. This kind of incentive structure however promotes all kinds of bad behaviour, which can only be managed through a central-trusted governance - so then we're back to square one.
Because when someone does it with their car, the jury empathizes with the driver over the victim. The person who was killed is the "other".

In countries where more people cycle and walk it can be the driver who is the "other" but that's rarely if ever the case in the US.
Pakistan bans cryptocurrency trading, the first exchange Urdubit closed
Heh.

Yeah, you kind of got me there. I re-use the same template for all of my sites. Those must've missed my trimming. I'll remove them tonight.

Thanks!
I personally prefer Live Coin Watch. It allows ME to select whether I want the Korean Markets to be included or not, in addition to a host of other options.

https://www.livecoinwatch.com/
that was painful to read through
I agree with you completely, but sadly I think time has proven that generally speaking (there's exceptions, you and I for example) people will choose the path of least resistance regardless of principles. This is true in other aspects of life, such as politics (who voted for, in their words "the lesser of two evils" instead of 3rd party last election?)
XMPP :)

Fully realtime, can handle huge load, several serious servers out there, interesting clients. XMPP can do IM, but it can also do social networking (https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html XEP-0060: Publish-Subscribe, https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0277.html XEP-0277: Microblogging over XMPP) for many years now.

I'm working on Movim a social network fully relying on the XMPP protocol http://movim.eu/, we already have many nice features social and IM wise.
Do you mind to tell us what you are using to deploy regular docker containers?
24 hours in a diner in New York
It takes no time to tune. If you see notifications from groups that bring little value, just turn them off. Very simple and natural process.
The signs clearly says busses only.

Why shouldn't there be a price to pay :)
I think you should use the tools/services whichever gets your job done the fastest. First get the MVP out their. Beauty comes later.
Airplanes are big metal tubes that can block GPS signals, that's probably the problem you're having.
Note also that any distributional assumptions are really only necessary for inference (i.e., tests and confidence intervals) in finite samples (read: small samples); the central limit theorem guarantees the tests work asymptotically, so you're usually going to be fine.

Most of the attention paid to distributional assumptions in regression is wasted, and would be better spent on really thinking through the assumed moment conditions underlying the estimator.
If it's marketed as the book and Amazon/Ebay refuse your claim when you receive a counterfeit, just chargeback with your bank - Amazon has failed to deliver the advertised product.
1st link, 'javascript is required'. Brutal indeed.
I used to commute via bicycle from South Park to Clairemont Mesa. It was horrendously unpleasant, with close-passes and swearing all. the. time.

Tellingly SD will put in really nice bike lanes where there's already tons of empty space (Genesee in the middle of nowhere) but where you really need it, like University ave. in Hillcrest, they fight tooth and nail against it.

They like pretending to be bike friendly, at least! Nobody loves a good render more than them, and tour de fat is good fun.
You're correct, they should be more paranoid.
Then what is the purpose of the W3C in this case?

Many years ago I tried to get a membership to the W3C as I wanted to provide a voice for a company I worked for (and for myself, honestly) but found out that the lowest level of membership was many thousands of dollars. How can anyone who isn't already very well established ever be properly represented there?

Then you check out WHATWG and, as far as I can tell, there are never fees associated with being a member and participating.
If this is about preventing competition in the browser space, then why doesn't one of the browser makers with lower market share defect from Google's position?
windows 2 is about to sue