skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you make some really good points. But I would add 1 caveat.

I'm absolutely willing to lose a couple days for a job interview, if I have a decent chance of getting that job.

If a company is asking me to complete an 8 hour test and they have already received 100 qualified applications that have also completed that test, I should know how many people have successfully completed that test.

Giving a free 1/2 week of work for a job you have a > 10% chance of getting is very different than being asked for that kind of work for a 1% chance.
Yes, assembling Ikea furniture is very easy, but memes are not really based on reality. Maybe it's the opposite.

Mayonnaise is the most popular sauce ever; yet the meme is that it's "disgusting".

Almost everybody has Ikea at home; yet the meme is that it's impossible to assemble.

Maybe memes are trying to tell us something... but I'm not sure what.
You're talking about a world where Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, The Jersey Shore, and gameshows where you pick your spouse from a group of strangers are hit television shows. I think you may have tastes which are outside of the mainstream.
Acid never struck me as something particularly widely used. I was big into electronic music production at the time and I started with Acid + Sound Forge but eventually moved on to Reason and later Ableton + Reason. People who were doing a lot of multitrack editing seemed pretty loyal to Cubase (or Pro Tools if they were using Macs) and then Ableton came along and became extremely popular.

Sound Forge is of course in a class of its own.
Last caribou to roam lower 48 US states all but extinct
Um, the fact that it's named after a concept from a failed ideology that caused several at least Holocaust-sized genocides in the span of 20th century?
>"The technocracy" is not in fact responsible for creating law, at least not yet.

They lobbied specifically for this compromise, because they don't give a shit. These companies are begging for Congress to come in and give them some sweet regulatory capture: you didn't see Zuckerberg overly concerned, for example, he practically asked for regulation. They have the resources to not sweat much of the overly broad chilling effect, especially the ex post facto aspect of this legislation. Small companies and startups that have the potential to topple these players don't have such leisure.

Personally, beyond Rob Portman and the GOP, I blame the people who are getting hysterical over fake news and "nazis", who claim that Facebook et al are "destroying democracy". They have set the tone and made it much easier for this to happen, and they don't give a shit either because there's a fundamental disconnect due to their partisan bickering.

No one wants to put their money where their mouth is and challenge these terrible statutes, despite the fact that Justice did not need them to take down Backpage. The entire legislative package, and the justification behind it (child trafficking), is a sham. The real purpose was to force companies to do exactly what Cloudflare has done today.
Pre-check-level security can move more people through faster, though, so if everyone does it, it will still reduce overall/average wasted time.
This is great. Is it US only or available in India too?
Consent is only one possible justification for processing, you do not need it for everything. It's more a shift to "processing PII is forbidden unless for one of the following reasons", consent being one of them, and requiring assigning purposes to collected data. You can't just have webserver logs piling up somewhere without reason, but you probably can have a policy like "We keep IP addresses for 48 hours for security purposes", if you have an appropriate security process needing that data.
That's just a bit elitist :-)
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You might want to check out /r/NeutralPolitics and /r/PoliticalDiscussion. They're both heavily moderated to keep comment quality high.
I think this is an oversimplified view, especially when it is nearly a known fact reddit's votes are manipulated by automated imposters/"troll farms"/etc. The internet is not my safe space, but I think it's very reasonable for the subreddit about Canada to be moderated as a "safe space" free of racist ramblings. The people holding those opinions can go elsewhere, for example to The_Donald, where any dissent is quickly deleted by moderators. Even beyond the manipulation question, moderation exists to refine a community beyond mob rule.
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How the NSA beats 0-days
> Of course the exact boundaries of what is acceptable and what is not should be fiercely debated.

What makes most people uneasy, and especially those of us who work in tech, is that many police departments and 3 letter agencies have routinely abused the trust that people put in them. If you want the citizenry to have trust and faith in law enforcement, they have to demonstrate a desire to not break constitutional rights when they deem fit to do so.

I genuinely don't understand why these agencies wouldn't try to build a good relationship with the citizenry they are supposed to be protecting. It often seems like we live in a very dangerous society and everything we say or do is being monitored by someone and may be used maliciously. That itself is a very terrible thing to live with.
You can't know for sure that dad/friend/partner didn't write or review the assignment either.

How about a 4-5 hours coding rush in the office, where you have to add a few functions or features to an existing codebase?
I would be cautious about adding any features that would lead to trolling, but I think it would be valuable to be able to “follow” my friends and see what article they have read and Think are “valuable”. The only “commenting” I would enable would be private DMs, and Even then I would encourage that to be via email or SMS.
One thing that really annoys me from Reddit is the mob mentality.

For instance, a person will make a seemingly "logical" argument and everyone will just keep adding their own "opinion" agreeing with this argument to be part of this mob. Later, even if this argument is proven wrong, you will get insulted, downvoted and threatened if you make any sort of counter-argument. I hate generalizing but my experience was that most people were unwilling to take back what they said.
To be fair, half the time I make even the slightest conservative arguments on Reddit I get told to bugger off to TD, a subreddit I've literally never visited.
Why not create a tiered community. Beginner. Learning. Expert.

Beginner - Anyone with an interest similar HN. Maybe resource to get into the Learning Area.

Learning - Place to find others learning the material. Maybe find other people study with. or collaborate/reproduce projects.

Experts - people actively looking for employment(what you already have planned).
Except that's bs. Hardwareswap for example is still there. Thinkpads for sale, GoPro Market...
An interesting fact is that Apple is probably one of the biggest users, if not the biggest user, of Cassandra out there.

Can't speak to HBase, but one thing Cassandra doesn't guarantee is ACID - I've seen some data consistency issues that has arisen from Cassandra in our usage, although it hasn't been a huge problem for us. That difference alone probably brings a lot of value to FoundationDB.
Sorry if I missed it but can you or someone else please link where the client wire protocol is documented?
I disabled it because it looked awkward reading a feed in small height window. I'll test again and reconsider it.
KDE Applications 18.04 released
this is amazing and this is huge for us - FoundationDB is one of the fastest most scalable distributed KV stores.
...and the atheists. I for one find the nomenclature a bit unprofessional.
But even judges attempt to be neutral. There are law/rules and you attempt to judge every case/comment based on that. As a moderator, I don't simply delete comments because they don't fit my political views -- I'm capable of that and so are most other people.

That's entirely different from people that are explicitly not trying to be neutral and are trying to promote a specific political ideology. I expect that majority of moderators on Reddit are not trying to promote anything. However there is definitely a growing contingent that don't want neutrality and they are taking over.
The answer is FYPM
Facebook to put 1.5B users out of reach of new EU privacy law
You’re welcome! Happy to share what I’ve learned building my own FaaS systems.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Stream Processing
I suspect that most readers here could assemble IKEA furniture based on a picture of the completed item without ever looking at the instructions.

That is probably not true of most people in the general population.
Does this mean that you are storing plaintext passwords in the db? The hashes should be the same length regardless of the password length.
>as in half didn't respond

Wouldn't it be funny if the half that didn't respond were the best candidates you heard from, and you threw them away with your take home thing?

It's the irony that the thing you did to make sure you got good applicants was the very same thing that turned the best away.
If you use Google to search "I need clothes for college", what do you get? Is it actually helpful? Google doesn't know what school you go to, who you like to hang out with, what you do for fun, if you're male or female (well it does, but it's not used in search results that I can tell).

It's all about context. A system of advice and recommendations curated from a social network, heavily moderated and limited to short Twitter-sized pieces of text could help people solve problems in under a minute.

As it is now, you often have to "manage" your search process because you have to wade through all of the subjective material or you really don't know the right question to ask or what your root need is.

How about this? "I need SSL on my stage website."

Good luck finding the answer on google if you can't get SSL to work and you didn't know there was a load balancer stripping it out.

Quora and Yahoo Answers are a bastion of redirected content, incoherent answers, and they're really just entertainment. They provide a largely hit or miss solution.

With Wizely, for each Topic, the network gets to continually add context they see relevant.

The proposed business model is that there could be ads found contextually. "I need to replace a patio door" could lead to ads from Home Depot, Lowe's, and Menard's. There would be an opt-in click-through to advertisers websites with hard warnings about being tracked. All ads would be heavily moderated (no 100% self-serve advertising).
Web version doesn't require signup - https://telescope.surf. Considering opening up iOS app as well.
Spanner can do global consistency and (some?) transactions but I'm unaware of it being able to do the sort of layering Foundation can internally to expose largely different database forms on top of it. I have never used Spanner, though, so I'm open to being corrected.
I'm glad we have Business Insider to crack the case on this one.

I just hope they continue this style of reporting and follow up on my hot tip, about sexist messaging written on the walls inside the Bathrooms at Facebook.
Reading the comments, I'm getting the feeling of "No True UBI". Every UBI-ish attempt that has been mentioned so far, someone says, "But that's not real UBI, because..."

We may need some more precise definitions. UBI-1 is some precisely-defined thing, UBI-2 is some other precisely-defined thing, and so on. Then we can say, well, Saudi Arabia did and still does UBI-4, and it has had these effects. Then we can look at various experiments and start learning something about whether UBI is workable, and if so, what kind of UBI it needs to be.
There is not

The speed and durability has gone unmatched. We can write millions of transactions per second w/ millions of reads w/o issue. We have never lost data or found data to be inconsistent.
FreeAgent, it’s awesome.
The best things about HN and (a narrow, personalised) Reddit are the comments.

A knowledgeable, enthusiastic community provides lots of background, alternative views, tit bits of related info and random facts. Without comments and discussion most of the value is gone.
This is the problem that so many people miss when they extol the virtues of a customized Reddit. If you make a site that is attractive to racists, bigots, sexists, and homophobes, those people are going to be using the whole site and not just their tiny vile corners.

This phenomenon might be easier to understand with a specific example like the recent Ghostbusters remake. It was by most accounts a bad movie. If you browse any movie related subreddit you will see plenty of valid criticism of that movie. Mixed in with that are comments about how that movie never should have been made with an all female cast and that is what caused the movie to be unsuccessful because women aren't funny. It is easy for some naive kid to see that and think "yeah, I saw that movie and it wasn't funny, maybe that comment has a point". Meanwhile it might never occur to them the user who originally left that comment came to Reddit to be a member of an incel community that is notoriously sexist and anti-women. This allows these communities to grow their size by spreading hate and feeding off the rest of the site.
Oh you mean working in the black economy I am sure the IRA will be interested.
"because it is an ordered key-value store, FoundationDB can use range reads to efficiently scan large swaths of data"

https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/features.html

I wonder how it compares to MUMPS databases like Intersystems Cache and FIS GtM?
I'm looking at constructing a home surveillance system, and this look great. Thank you!
Think of these interviews as a means by which interviewers assure themselves they're working on deeply intellectual CS problems and working with people who are incredibly intellectually gifted mathematicians practing computer science (like themselves), or that they're of the same caliber as what they believe of developers at FAANG, and it begins to make more sense.
/r/Polandball being a shining example to the contrary. There's a whole other discussion to be had about the importance of strict moderation and rules to improving a subreddit's quality.
The difference is that Amazon could sell Chromecast dongles if they wanted; Siri can't do anything
Not to sound rude or anything, but the name is kinda douchey and outputting.
I've always been skeptical of this study, mostly because of how fluid reddit accounts are.

I have at least three accounts that I know of (I've probably forgotten about others).

I'm sure people who participate in terrible behavior like that probably also have multiple accounts.

How does the study account for those users simply abandoning the accounts they used for those hateful subreddits? I find it far more likely that they didn't "leave the site entirely", and instead just migrated to their other accounts not associated to the banned subreddit.
Look at other fields for examples. Few have to interview like devs do. Other professionals may have continuing education like conferences, but that's not the same.

Imagine nurses or docs getting asked to take vitals for an interview.
Some instructions are pretty confusing. There are places where a more mindful manufacturer would have said "Please remember to only assemble leg 1, 2 and 3, but not 4, because you will have to insert foobar in Step 7 later."

But of course IKEA doesn't want to pay translators to write that sentence in 20+ languages, so pictures only it goes.
It is a genius move from Apple. I just wish they'd apply this logic to a lot of their other stuff.
There was plenty of sexist and racist garbage on reddit prior to the creation of T_D. It's probably more virulent now, but it's definitely not new. Good mods are the key to keeping bad content off good subreddits.
If this isn't about some "Satoshi notion", then what does blockchain have to do with it? Just do something like Folding@Home. There are several projects like that.
The most important line here is at the bottom: “(c) Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.”
Available in India. We already have several users from there.
If you pay 'market rates,' expect the best applicants to be average.
How much karma do you need to downvote garbage on the front page?
On reddit, it looks like someone had some data which calculated that the number of toxic comments on SO is about 1%. That sounds about right to me.

But even 1% toxic comments correctly still makes it a toxic wasteland to the people who have been on the receiving end of those toxic comments, and to those who don't enjoy seeing others treated like that.
The client is complex and needs very sophisticated testing, so there is only one implementation. All the language bindings use the C library.
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Apple designed its own ARM chips and they design some pretty damn good ones. More competition and choice in the semiconductor space is universally a good thing.
I personally go to Reddit to relax and not fret about the state of the world. So, I unsubscribed to all of the serious or semi-serious subreddits (all news, politics, etc.).

Turns out if you unsubscribe from all of those types of subs, Reddit becomes a really funny and interesting time killer where the community actively tries to come up with ways to make you laugh.
Palantir doesn't really _do_ anything. They don't collect the data, just save time/man-hours spent processing it. If that's your stance, Oracle/IBM are just as evil because they also sell to police departments to enable analysis.

Facebook on the other hand is actively collecting the data. Without Facebook that database does not exist. In my mind that makes them far worse.
This is great, thanks for sharing!
Yeah, looks like the co-founder

https://recruitt.me/about

Cosmin Rusu - Co-Founder
I definitely think that dumb content makes the consumer dumber with repeated exposure just like smart/educational content makes them smarter (well, in simple terms). I don't think there is a baseline intelligence level for each person below which they can't possibly fall regardless of what they do.

So yes, platforms making dumb content more available do make people dumber long term. I don't know what to do about it, but at least we have to recognize that this is a legit problem.
I agree w/ you here. And I think a lot of people have some personal experiences encountering this kind of situation. It seems baffling, right?

And yet, you have to really wonder ... what did that person do writing firmware for the space shuttle? Did they really do that? Or did they somehow lose their mind after they left and now couldn't do a simple set of modulus operations on a FizzBuzz test? How can that happen? Even reading this kind of thing makes me totally scratch my head.
How does SlateJS compare with ProseMirror from a dev's point of view?
/r/mma is an absolute gem. /r/BlackPeopleTwitter is great as well.

I'm also getting tired of these apology tours from SV people. The biggest flaw they have (aside from collecting scary amounts of data) is seemingly taking a too-rosy view of people. It'd be more refreshing for somebody to stand up and quote a somewhat notorious fighter by saying, "I'd like to take this chance to apologize... to absolutely nobody."
Yes, not crappy ones that pay well. I worked at a company where everyone automatically got a week and a half off at Christmas. This was above and beyond our normal PTO. I would have worked there forever, but we got acquired by a soul sucker. That was the first perk to go.
How to Run an Acquisition Process
Programmers Don't Understand Value
Standard in professional jobs - the US in particular tends to have laws that vastly favor the employers. SV is actually one of the liberal states.

Though as you say your a journalist they tend to be exceptions.
My first thought was...iCloud?
I think it's disappointing that MySQL is developed in private and then only pushed to GitHub when released.

I had noticed that it had not been updated in 3 months:

MySQL in the Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
https://landscape.cncf.io/grouping=landscape&landscape=datab...

Diff showing last commit
https://github.com/cncf/landscape/commit/65f79c653e0fceac9f3...
More than ~2k, apparently. I can flag, but not downvote.

But yes, I agree. This is almost completely contentless.
Really? I find "really interesting places with extremely insightful and meaningful content" all the time.

If not for Facebook or Twitter I likely would've never found The Athletic, a newer news media website for sports. I doubt they'd have just advertised on ESPN or some other sports broadcast channel website. Some of the content there has been incredibly insightful and meaningful. I even find articles from there on Twitter that I wouldn't normally have seen since I have the content from there filtered to what I like in my day to day consumption.
> they used to be more fun places but now nearly all the content is very hateful and polarizing.

I don't think this is a reddit thing - it's a societal thing.

Other platforms are also getting far more acerbic in general. City council meetings, local news, etc. It seems the country is in a period of time where politics is both forefront and rather contentious.

I feel the stuff on-line is simply reflecting the greater societal trends - jut with the typical amplification everything on-line breeds.
Great idea! We're actually in the process of doing this. Pilot version is 1 week away.

We're starting with 2 tiers instead of 3, but the goal is similar.
Many programmers make nowhere near $100k and so many programmers do a ton of extra unpaid work; and week-long interview preparations are just one of them. Just last night, a fellow programmer I know is being forced into "mandatory unpaid overtime" for the purposes of learning new things for his company. He has to learn more crap, together with coworkers, in his own 'freetime', regularly, unpaid. And I can tell you he makes nowhere near 100k living near a large city. That may be his problem for, but if the popularity of companies having "mandatory unpaid work" AKA slavery increases we will all feel these things even more so.

That being said, I can't think of anything more viable than actually testing the programmer in question with code. I would personally give them a computer and have them do it right there on the spot in the interview but that is just me.
My taste is generally for more squarish screens, but it must be said: the image at the beginning of TFA supports the point less than it shows the goofiness of Verge's design.
Seeing the 'average' number of upvotes rise steadily was a really strange experience for me. Hearing people in my various social groups talk about reddit though, was really strange, and sometimes it still feels strange how I can mention reddit to people with the assumption that at least they've heard of it and understand the basic concept.
Ummm, what about last December:

https://thehackernews.com/2017/12/crypto-exchange-kidnap.htm...