skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent days almost 10 hours, completing a massive interview project for one company. I submitted a fully working solution, had unit test, was pixel perfect, and they didn't even give me an interview.

Not only that they gave me a vague reason, only after pressing for feedback.

Left a very bad taste in my mouth, don't think I'll be doing code assignments again, what a waste of time.
Announcing General Availability of MySQL 8.0
What criteria were used to rank these as "best"? I personally see some on the list that aggregate high-quality jobs in small quantities (e.g. WeWorkRemotely), and then others that have variable-quality jobs in very high quantities (e.g. UpWork).
Outside of gaming and videos I pretty much never full screen anything. Just put two windows side by side and 16:9 (and wider) starts to make a lot more sense.
New evidence ties Hans Asperger to Nazi eugenics program
I think this kind of point has come up quite a few times in this thread, and I'm gonna use your comment to go over something which I don't think has been discussed much.

The ICO (UK) has been fairly clear that the intention is not to fine businesses to the point where they cannot operate. It also seems fairly clear to me that they do not expect smaller organisations to jump through the same hoops as large ones such as Microsoft and Facebook. If you are a small organisation and you can show that you have and will continue to take meaningful steps towards protecting the data you hold and providing your users with transparency as to your processing, then the ICO and other regulatory authorities are not going to hit you with a 20M Euro fine [1].

I certainly feel as though the law is being perhaps misrepresented as some sort of anti-business regulatory overreach. I highly doubt the European Union wants to a) Drive businesses away from Europe and all that yummy tax money that they bring with them, or b) Piss off European consumers by restricting their access to all the fun things being provided by non-EU companies. It's not in the EUs interest to do either of those things, but there has to be a balance, right? The fact that organisations can collect huge amounts of personal data and when/if something happens just shrug it off (exaggeration, I'll admit). The current legislation doesn't give supervisory authorities (such as the ICO) enough of a bite to encourage compliance from larger companies. £500k (current fine limit) is nothing to an organisation that turns over billions a year globally. I'm sure in many of these circumstances the cost of compliance would far outweigh any fines handed out.

The debate here is very interesting though, as there are plenty of people viewing this from different angles. I wonder if some residents of non-EU countries here feel as though the EU (to them an unelected body) is effectively overruling their domestic legislation, and that this is not right. I can certainly understand the argument that whilst (in my opinion) this law could be overwhelmingly good for consumers, especially given the current climate, it could be viewed as setting a dangerous precedent for extraterritorial reach.

[1] https://iconewsblog.org.uk/2017/08/09/gdpr-sorting-the-fact-...
Is it possible to get a HTML or plaintext version for people who don't just run any non-free JS[1]?

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
I have the dock on the left of all of my Macs .
Some Essential Hacks and Tricks for Machine Learning with Python
Spoiler Alert: The article takes too much space to say almost nothing.

sigh Science journalists.
Exactly. I'd add to this that benefiting the public at large vs. a company isn't exactly clear-cut. If I don't own a car, free parking doesn't benefit me directly, but having that space used for bikeshare docks does (even if this also benefits the bikeshare company). You could just as easily argue that free parking benefits Ford since it makes driving more feasible.
Happy to see the Surface line called out there, love the 3:2 screen on my Surface Book. So much more usable space than the traditional 16:9/10.
provisioning -> as in netboot, PXE & IPXE? Oh! This is for bare metal machine provisioning.
This looks promising and worth keeping an eye on. Good luck with the project!
Jordan Peele Delivers PSA Using AI-Modified Barack Obama
Thank you, this is interesting.

Yeah, a fair point differenting the fall risk on playgrounds vs construction sites. It’s not apples to apples.
Get rid of the toolbar, windoze and osx.
i3 window manager is a good option -- keyboard is main interface in laptop.
Probably because our odds of dying in a car crash are still something like 1/10,000. It's remote enough to not seem real.
To me this is just throwing money at a poverty problem and hoping it will fix itself.

It will never work, UBI will inevitably raise prices of things so people will need more basic income to get what they want. That means having to either give out more UBI or have the program become irrelevant because it doesn’t keep up with standards of living.

A free house though is a free house. It does not become any less of a houses just because more people have houses. And you don’t have to give out more house to each person over time.

It seems to me that we need better systems for administration of free goods. These are problems we can solve, permanently.
If I do business in, say, Australia, but Europeans fly to me to purchase my services, am I then bound by European law? The internet is basically the same deal, no?
> The LAPD uses Palantir’s Gotham product for Operation Laser, a program to identify and deter people likely to commit crimes. Information from rap sheets, parole reports, police interviews, and other sources is fed into the system to generate a list of people the department defines as chronic offenders [...] The list is distributed to patrolmen, with orders to monitor and stop the pre-crime suspects as often as possible, using excuses such as jaywalking or fix-it tickets.

This is pretty much everything I was afraid of when it comes to this field - big data "prediction" being used to predispose people into crime, and by extension, algorithmic racism.
Securing AI Against Adversarial Threats with Open Source Toolbox
I love Car2Go here in Austin.

They pay the city some flatrate per year, and so car2go can park anywhere in public street parking without paying meters.
"in conflict" and "incompatible" are two different things. Observe how this sentence makes zero sense: Freedom and democracy are always incompatible, that's why most democracies have constitutions which put the individuals and their rights first.

Democracy being incompatible with freedom is also something quite different from "mentioning the simple fact that the combination of democracy with a bill of rights has become commonplace".

Your comment as is doesn't really compile.

> A total democracy would mean that a majority can override personal freedoms and basic rights of individuals

As opposed to what, though? If it's opposed to not even needing a majority to do that, what's the big insight?

For example, dictatorships and freedom are in even harder conflict, that's why they don't even have constitutions that put individuals and their rights first. And private enterprise, at least in a vacuum (and when run by sociopaths) doesn't even have the concept of the workers or consumers having any "rights".

If one talks about a 2,5 meter tall person and say they "aren't as tall as they could be", without even mentioning that in comparison to most people they're still freaking tall, that's not the honest mistake of saying something dumb in good faith, it's a rhetorical trick, it's sophistry.
It's currently only available for Google Chrome, but I'll get back to you when the Firefox version is available :)
There are too many things to be an expert in these days to be an expert in all of them.

Understanding log scales is easy. Understanding how a decibel rating on an antenna relates to your network-connected lawn ornament's expected range in meters is a whole different kettle of worms, and bigger numbers are better when they're range but not when they're cost.
Two things that tripped up my users (and sometimes me) and made a live-preview essential were:

- Links and images. ![]() and []() are something you'll see people consistently reverse.

- Nesting markdown in a list, like images and codeblocks. And forgetting that two newlines will end the list which can create an unobvious result in the live preview.

Markdown is easy to write (unlike BBCode) but not always simple to remember, format, or reason about with its strict whitespace rules (unlike BBCode).
Anarchocapitalism is authoritarian rule by capitalists, where property is valued above all other rights.
Why wouldn't it just be the probability of either rolling at least one 6 which would be 1/6 + 1/6 = 1/3? Genuinely curious, I was never super good at probability calculations.

edit: clarification of problem.
Oh, you're right. We should just dump all other editors and use IDEA. /s
There is one already: SourceKit
http://www.jpsim.com/uncovering-sourcekit/
I do the same thing all the time. It's one reason I tend to buy very large laptops.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, this sounds like a mistake to me. On any other platform, Rust interoperates smoothly with C libraries and does not demand purity. There's lots of existing code written in C, and expecting all of it to be replaced with pure Rust libraries is unrealistic.

Also, doesn't clang also have a wasm backend now? Emscripten isn't the only option.
I've been looking at this space for a while. Will likely implement ERPNext soon.
Quote from page:

>Internet purchases would be taxed, as would retail international purchases (such as a boat or car) that are imported to the United States (collected by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection).[53]
If selling sandwhiches brought in 40 million in revenue last year, and there is essentially a hog farmer monopoly (nvidia), and you are worried about the monopoly running out of meat, or selling it first to your competitors, or just hiking prices indefinitely, yeah it makes sense to hire some hands and get yourself a barn.
> Too little restraint.

100% this. Always, always favoring the ease of the individual developer or meeting short term goals.
In the benchmark you sent (https://www.gamersnexus.net/images/media/2018/cpus/2700x/rev...) the Intel only beats the Ryzen on the Civilization game overclocked to 5GHz. In Stock clock it have the same results as Anandtech
I would argue that law enforcement would have no use for collecting such vast amounts of data without a service like Palantir. So the blame rests on both Palantir and law enforcement
Interesting for developers is the improvement in compiling Chrome, and also the big hit from the Meltdown/Spectre patches on Intel on the same benchmark.
No need for this really. whoishiring.io aggregates most of these already.
The "nominally widescreen" 16:10 aspect ratio great for this. Anything shorter than that feels cramped to me.
Can you go into more detail please on why it had to be subpar?
Cloudflare Bans Sex Worker Platform, Switter. First Notable Ban Since Neo Nazis
A platform called Switter took off 3 weeks ago in response to the FOSTA/SESTA bill which lead to the shutdown of sites/accounts and silencing of accounts on like Craigslist, Twitter, Reddit, Skype and Gmail. With 47,000 members Cloudflare banned the site from their services Wednesday evening without notice.

The last documented time Cloudflare terminated services was when they terminated the account of a white supremacist website last year.

The network, Switter, was started by a company in Australia and runs on the open-source social platform Mastodon at an Austrian domain.

"Cloudflare has now effectively kicked two groups offline: Neo-Nazis and Sex Workers. There is no comparison. One used their site to call for death, the other used theirs to stay alive"

https://twitter.com/AZMos/status/986819643661791233

Cloudflare are still yet to comment on the matter.
No code diff?
Generally raising a processor's clock frequency will decrease its IPC as it spends more time waiting for main memory, so it isn't surprising that the overall IPC only went up 3% despite the various cache optimizations. I wouldn't have actually been surprised if it had stayed the same. But I'm frankly sort of amazed that they've managed to go to having consistently lower cache latencies than Intel has. I always thought that Intel's greater willingness to throw engineer-hours at optimizing layouts would mean they'd always take less clock cycles to hit their caches.
Bank API integration, corporate credit card for partner and travel billing, custom accounting and supply-chain management systems with automatic machine translation, supplier shipment tracking, inventory and BOM tracking, github webhooks, github oauth.
I live in the US and am constantly annoyed by the stupid cookie popup.
I would also like a text or plain html version of the list.
GEODESIS – IS THE BASIS FOR ANY INVESTMENT
You don’t think fear of flying contributes to people choosing to drive?
The big problem I have started seeing is web design assuming you always browse using a maximized window. Combine this with a prevalent market of wide screens and most sites won’t look right without at least 1200px. So once you put anything like a toolbar or inspector on this side, you have a problem.

Designers of many sites I have to use daily seem to assume I’d never want to see two windows at once, let alone rearrange my UI or use non-widescreen devices. The responsive sites can be even worse too since they’ll snap into a mobile layout at anything less than 1000px wide or so and then increase all of the margins and icon sizes for touch accuracy purposes. It looks extremely silly and wastes even more space than these layers of toolbars hanging around the edge of a browser.
If you take the same width of screen, e.g. 1920 pixels and make it taller, say, 1440 pixels, then you have the same horizontal space and all of those windows are taller with more content in them!
https://nutritionfacts.org/ Is a great resource (and nonprofit) where Dr Greger reviews all the latest scientific studies about nutrition, and then summarizes them in videos. They also post to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/NutritionFactsOrg

Spoiler alert: all of the videos can be summed up by: "eat a whole food, plant based diet".

As a general note though - nutrition as a science is _hard_, because everyone responds slightly differently to the same foods in unexpected ways, and it's really hard to do double blind, controlled trials over a long period of time (they cost too much, or are just unfeasible). So I think the best approach is to read/watch a lot of different content from different sources, in order to gain a wide understanding of the current research.
Technically, it's a flat tax. You can argue that it's "effectively" regressive if you divide mean spending by income across the income distribution or something, but it doesn't really matter since as long as the prebate value is large enough, the poor still come out ahead.

Needless to say, I'm not claiming that FirTax would work. I'm just pointing out the similarities between it and UBI. If this experiment shows evidence that UBI doesn't work, then that gives me less confidence in FairTax as well.
I highly recommend anyone doubting themselves to watch the g-eazy episode from Netflix's documentary series Rapture.

If you quit, you'll never make it ( and that's ok ) but if you keep working, keep honing your craft, you might just make it big. Take every failure as a lesson that something needs tweaking. When you play a game, you only get better by dying lots and lots and lots of times.
I like processing. It easy to get up and running with it and the tutorials are great. Programing graphics is fun (I cut my initial programming teeth on logo). I didn't realize its kinda Java till I started using Java at work.

The name "processing" isn't great though. It can be difficult to remember.

Somewhat fun there are "javascript versions" for the browser, but somewhat confusingly there are a few versions:
processingJS [1],
p5js (which I think is the official processing port).[2]

http://processingjs.org/
https://p5js.org/
A Wig Enthusiast’s Guide to Lace Front Blonde Wig Shopping
Time saving habits for programmers
It works better for bookmarks, since you can fit more entries in the list before you have to scroll.
This will be big if it pans out. There are tons of SBCs with AllWinner chips that look amazing on paper but are kneecapped by the poor/nonexistent driver support. It's shocking how many ship with Linux distros that support only half of the hardware on the board.
MIT AGI: Conversation with Max Tegmark [video]
100% agree. You can see the same happening in management - results from extremely simplified experiments is extrapolated to overarching advice.

Interacting with other people is complex and context-sensitive.
Inc. 30 Under 30
You want investors who support you and understand this. They won’t force you to artificially chase after a local maximum around your initial thesis or bang your head against a brick wall for several years if you think a different path is better.

Is there an app for that?
Bold and Aggressive Behavior Means Birds Thrive in Cities
> Where is that home? In the US, would it be in SF, CA or Alamo, GA?

A dense, tall building in SF could hold homes for a lot of residents at once.

>I don't have a license, does that mean I only get a bicycle instead of a car?

It means you get a car when you learn to drive, or else just take a bus.

> What about gas?

Electric vehicle

> What's "free utilities" - how much can I consume?

A set amount per month based on reasonable usage estimates.

> Can I trade the clothes for something else if I don't need as many?

You can do whatever you want with your stuff.

> If so, who decides for what and how much I can trade them for?

Between you and the person you trade with.
A movement around transparency – Explore open startups
I have never trusted Facebook login. It just always seemed 'wrong' to me. It always gave me a creepy feeling.
Regarding #2, I believe your observations and concerns are correct and valid. However, in these situations where the candidate spills his technical heart out, you really start to see the difference between good candidates and bad candidates. Good candidates just have a deep sense of the problem space, can enumerate issues, document such things, etc.
What are those physical differences between children in lego age? The really obvious ones aren't fully developed, not active, so it shouldn't be offensive to suggest that a mental difference, as profound as expressed in lego playing, aren't active, either.
Strange. I'm on Chrome 65 on Mac if that makes any difference.
Reminds me of a friend who said he never wears a condom, because condoms can break.
As a commercial jet pilot (not airlines, small jets by Cessna), my reaction to much of the coverage in, say, the NYT, was much the same. This was an "ordinary" event from a training perspective, and has a straightforward set of responses - fly the plane, memory items, checklist items (the QRH mentioned), etc. Indeed, as they mention, in a crew environment things are even more calm and responsibilities are (or should be) well defined.

I've had an engine failure in cruise flight (on a multi-engine piston plane) in a single-pilot situation. (I later wrote about it in a magazine article.) We train for that too - although not as frequently as airline pilots do who train at least every six months. It was also a non-event from a "what to do". In fact, the only time my single passenger mentioned she was made nervous (after we landed) was when ATC asked for the number of souls on board (which they knew from my IFR flight plan but they always ask). "When did I become a soul???"

One thing my best instructor always told me about an emergency: "First, wind your watch." In other words, don't panic and do things hastily and make things worse. Especially in cruise.

So, kudos to the flight deck crew for doing exactly what they had trained to do and successfully putting the plane on the ground after dealing with the emergency!

Kudos to the rest of the flight crew for what must have been total chaos and fear among the passengers and for doing what I'm sure was their absolute best to save the unfortunate victim.

And, in the end, let's all remember that this (seemingly) slightly uncontained engine failure could have been much, much worse and be glad of that. Let's also be thankful that the training airline pilots receive generally have situations that are much less benign than an engine failure in cruise and have it drilled in to them how to handle it.
This article could just as easily be named "Our Technology is Broken. Why Can't Democracy Fix it?" for all the sense it makes.
Your last paragraph is spot on.

As a start, I'd like to suggest we stop using the word leader / leadership when - as your so accurately noted - they are elected officials. Some do lead. But leader is a title that should be reserved for those who actually do.

We've been duped into believing they are all leaders. They are not. We haven't even left the gate and already the first step is wrong.
As a Christian, this is kind of the reason I'm so glad for Justification before God by faith in Christ alone and not by works.

I've never for a moment given God all the thanks he deserves for what He's given me. Color is one easy example - what a wonderful, beautiful gift that I've not thanked Him for, for the vast majority of my life. I constantly fall short of giving Him the honor he deserves.
I doubt it. If anything, I think this is likely to be a symptom of too much top-down power. It smacks of high-level mandates and checklist features. There's some boss with a made-up, can't-miss release date who doesn't really look very closely at what gets produced, just as long as he can tell his boss that things shipped on time and to spec.

I've worked with some great, highly autonomous teams. What makes them work well is a strong emotional and informational connection to users. They do lots of user testing, so they can get inside a user's head. They try things out themselves, using what they've learned from talking to those users. And they keep an eye on production usage, because they really care that what they make delivers value and gets used.
Even if you want a point system it becomes a separated currency from actual money.
I wonder how much of the shortage is due to there only being a relatively small portion of jobs that developers actually want.

Every time I've worked at a small company that had obvious perks (using a cool language, building a cool product), we had a bunch of applicants to pick from. We could be picky.

But the few times I worked at a company on soul-sucking work like internal legacy tools in VBScript for a non-tech company, they were the ones complaining about the great dev shortage.

They paid well but you also had to jump through hoops to see what it was which is too typical in our work culture. So if the job description doesn't compel someone to apply, GG.
The 0th Law of Air Travel - the misery of economy-class can only increase with respect to time.
It blew my mind when I first realized why pigments were so valuable in the ancient world: before modern mass-production of countless different mixable pigments (and now, digital displays that can render almost any color the eye can see) a person would literally not be able to see a certain shade their entire life except on a certain material. The distinct color of royal purple would have been an experience to see, in the same way we react to rare colors like Vantablack or International Klein Blue today.
Remotely, a job board for the remote workforce on iOS

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/remotely-job-search/id134952...