skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why It's Necessary for Today's Business to Use Chatbots
certifications are plentiful in the infosec sector. They absolutely do not solve the hiring problem.
Osmo-FL2K: A TX-Only SDR Hacked from Commodity $5 USB to VGA Adapters
Not really. Art is a hit and miss business, but every artist has a clear understanding of how they will be compensated. They know they are getting a portion of sales, or a contracted fee for a gig. Youtube artists have absolutely no idea how, or if, they will be paid. The rate/likelihood of payment is very much separate from the popularity of a video. Youtube acts like content creators are all casual uploaders of homemade videos. The reality is that youtube's best content comes from professionals who deserve to be treated as such.
>Ha. As if. Consider Medicaid expansion. A party line vote determines that somehow, even though the Congress who drafted and voted on this law meant one thing so recently everybody involved is on TV saying so, it actually means something else because well now we have all these Republicans and they want to tear it to pieces.

What matters to originalists is the original public meaning of the text of the law. Interviews with political pundits are not law.
If you disagree with the majority opinions of the Justices, who were nominated under Reagan, Bush Sr. and Jr., Clinton, and Obama, you are free to vote for a president who will appoint differently-minded justices (like Justice Gorsuch, who was nominated by Trump).
If you’re using a bundler, it’s not that hard to remove extra locales. Functionality on the other hand...
Does this library pass the semi-annual demonstration that one should really not use a new datetime library?
I don't use Julia and I only use Python occasionally, but I'd rather go for Cython than Julia...
Anybody remember this?

http://www.dumbsto.re/

Simple, sms-based "apps" you can use to smarten up your dumbphone.
Both senators and representatives represent their state, not the country as a whole. Senators are allocated 2 per state; Representatives are allocated to states based upon population. The "braking effect" was put in place to protect low populace rates from being steam rolled by the more populated. So the likes of California and New York can't inherrintly bully states like Alaska or Montana (for example). This creates conflict as more rural areas tend to have different values/needs/desires than states with a high urban population.
Hey guys,

This is an attempt to help people find about cool events in the city. I've worked on this responsive web app for about 6 months now. It's only available in Amsterdam for the time being.

Event organisers can list events for free. Selling tickets and event analytics are also available.

Would appreciate any feedback. Feel free to create accounts and events, just don't publish them so that the content is still relevant.

Thanks!
>> The purpose of the Courts is to dispense Justice.

We can agree here.

>> This will invariably involve making new law.

Talk about your all-time leaps of logic, sheesh.
Service Design and UX Design: What’s the Difference?
Thanks, I'll certainly watch that video and documented that it is different in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43487#note_70...
Then why say it?
I am not critiquing his ability to perform the job but the process of his selection.
Decisions of the PTAB are reviewable by the CAFC.
I'd imagine they have a lot of secured debt in the form of commercial mortgages. AFAIK they own some of their property rather than leasing it.
Universities in the UK have turned into administrator-heavy (as in the US) property development companies made to enrich the administrators and top brass, it seems. Here's a story that hints at the issues (UCL and others have been doing this a lot) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/25/studen...

While looking for this, I also found this, (slightly off-topic, but somewhat salient) which makes for sobering reading. https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/bnk3vm/vices-most-evil-un...
This is correct. We use the term cryptocurrency today
Technical hiring is very much broken.

I took a stab at improving it, but found that tech has a very extensive workforce built around it being broken that doesn't want it to change.

Sure, they want tools that help perpetuate the junk show they've built up, but not to make the process quicker/more effective on both ends. Most that I talked to openly disliked that idea.
I'd say any pitch that has:
- A great, relatable story (emotion)
- The key features highlighting the value (reason)

You might also want to check out this: http://startupfundraising.com/best-startup-pitches-of-all-ti...

Let me know if this is of any help :) Cheers
They are not just testing your analytical skills but also, I believe, your ability to self-study for something, even as "annoying" as algorithmic coding problems.

I kinda agree with you that it doesn't make sense much of the time if you have to specifically prepare for the coding interview; stuff you may never use in your job. But its not a lot of stuff: I bit the bullet and spent some time solving those questions and now can make past mostly any screen.

Its really not that hard, especially if you have a CS degree. Probably would take 1 week of dedicated effort to get better at it.
That's definitely a fair reason, thanks.
Based on what I remember, the Wikipedia article seems to be a pretty good writeup.[1] The bottom line seems to be that these sorts of efforts are usually not complete wastes in the sense that they bring a lot of smart people into the field. But it's hard to point to much that came directly out of this project that had much of an impact.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer
Whelp, all those markers almost crashed my browser.
Dell Latitudes also work great with Linux, in my experience. They are pretty solid since that's the business line. Bonus, you can get cheap used ones or parts for quite awhile.
Quite the contrary. There is a monumental housing shortage.

But this is not where this money will go. When all is said and done, if Apple still owes that much, it'll be divided with the rest of the EU according to Apple's sales. Thanks to its tech hubs (it seems every other person on the train is a software engineer), Ireland may end up with some part of it, but most certainly not all.
It doesn't seem like the 970 Evo is much faster than the 960 Evo.

They're still faster than all of the competition (aside from super-expensive Intel Optane). So its not a big deal. But there are some reviews that show the 960 Evo winning some performance tests out there.
if you run without sudo, you get "dtrace: failed to initialize dtrace: DTrace requires additional privileges"
That post could have been much shorter. The picture of the San Francisco waterfront didn't help.
Passenger Fined $500 for Not Declaring Apple She Got for Free on Delta Flight
Transposing Lisp to Ruby
saying governments created markets is like saying rapists created sex.
That's funny, because of the two terms, "junk bond" seems to me to be the more accurate and descriptive one, while "high-yield bond" seems like a deliberately deceptive euphemism.
The article makes it sound that Conduent has been in this business for years, but they started in Jan 2017? So how old is Propel?

It seems to me Propel saw an opportunity to make improvements using someone else's data. Both seem eager to help people in poverty but not so eager that they are willing to work out their issues or better, work together to meet their goals.

Neither company seems to be "wrong" or "right". Looks like more of a matter of pride and poor business.
As bad as coding interviews are, at least they're better than riddle/lateral-thinking questions
> I've worked with fantastic E/D/C students and terrible AAA students

The existence of outliers doesn't disprove a correlation.
The 2012 America Invents Act set up a system for interested parties to challenge patents after they have been granted (post-grant review). Challengers must bring forward new evidence not previously considered by the Office. A special team of expert examiners within the Office reviews the challenges, and has the power to invalidate the patent if it was granted in error. This allows interesting patents to be reviewed again, with all of the resources that any interested person in the public might bring to bear in searching. The expert patent examiners reviewing these challenges are more likely than a judge to have background knowledge of the technology.

https://www.uspto.gov/patents-application-process/appealing-...

Bloomberg put a strongly negative slant on this. This additional review is good for anyone who appreciates strong, valid patents, but is frustrated by some of the low quality stupid patents that should never have been granted.
Because it isn't about defending "mega corporations" it is about the general principle that the legal interpretations (or new legislation/regulations) shouldn't be applied retroactively.

It is one thing to change the interpretation and use that going forward. Completely different to change the interpretation and apply it retroactively.
What's your process like after that screening measure? Because to me, that's honestly trivial, and a lot nicer than dealing with an extended (8+ hours) homework problem as an introduction to a company's hiring process.
Rather, companies are happy they can use their patent lawyers to gum up the system and prevent judgments.
PTAB decisions are reviewable by the CAFC.
The counter-argument that might lead one to disagree with this decision is that the Patent Office reports to the President, so it is subject to the political motives of that branch.

No, because this decision wasn't about whether the process was good or bad, but whether patents are private property, which was the point made by Oil States International.
I don't have the facebook app, will this detect if I use it in the browser?
Oh I see because the VM storage is carrier specific. I think that might be an issue for many people.
When the first Motorola Droid came out, I found a "tricorder" app with a lot of the sensor data output with a LCARSish UI. It may have since been lawyered out of existence.
I assume Apple sells a lot here - the tech community, at least in Dublin, is enormous and Apple seems to be extremely popular among geeks, which, it seems, are a sizeable part of the overall population.
There's some precedent for that: POSIX has "link" and "unlink" utilities, which just call the corresponding functions. Most people use higher-level "ln" and "rm".
Yes it is hard to ask good questions, especially when you are just starting with a technology and lack the proper terminology and mental model - which is the phase where you need to ask the most questions!
There is already a review system in place. The problem is that there is almost no incentive to participate in it since you get no rep from it.
> What if we could make our phones so boring we just look at them we we have to? What if we could strip out most, if not all of the dopamine inducing features and leave the phone in a state that is useful but boring.

I did just this to my Facebook feed. It may seem silly, but I signed up for a bunch of non-interesting Facebook groups which pollute my feed with noise. After a couple weeks, I deleted the app from my phone and resorted to using the website through my mobile browser when needed. So far I usually check about once every day or two, mostly just to see if I have any notifications. I find the feed so uninteresting that I rarely just browse it anymore. Before, I would spend a 15 minute here and there, adding up to probably 2 or more hours per day. One thing I noticed is how less often I find myself getting upset at stupid things. Before, I was reading local news stories that were being passed around, and finding myself upset at some of the comments. For what? I wasn't even really interested in the subject of the story anyway!
its kinda sad you think professionals should memorize useless tricks that dont generalize to the profession in order to be considered for a job.

The skill takes a long time to practice, and quickly evaporates once you stop doing it. Yet none of our work is anything like that. a more real world situation is reading documentation or SO for the function concat_ws that will turn an array column to a concatenated string.

however, the system that is, and one that you seem to think is ok, is one that discriminates people on many levels. Its a skill you do not get good at by working, so you must practice this in your free time. Now you just discriminated against men and women with families, people from less fortunate backgrounds, and others who otherwise do not have the time in the day to dedicate to a skill that is only useful to coding interviews.

as far as a comment above, I was a DBA for 10 years and can do pretty complicated queries off the top of my head, know how to optimize my indexes, worked with both structured and unstructured data in the multi tb size, ect ect, but I have no recollection on what ACID stands for. I dont really care. Sure, you may hire someone who memorizes useless crap, but then they have no idea why the IO has gone through the roof when inserting IDs out of order on a clustered index.
Retool: Vendor thy tools
Have you already seen this?

https://surf.suckless.org/

It's webkit, not firefox-based, but works great with tiling windowmanagers.
What happened to that huge number of empty estates built during the boom? Are they in the wrong place? Can people live there but work from home?
You should also stick to a workstation linux release. I'm a huge fan of OpenSUSE if you just want hardware to work, it has the hands down best hardware support of any release I've used.

The only drawback is every wonky package out there is built for Ubuntu, for example Spotify's linux client.

However, if you want a basic system that works, OpenSUSE is the way to go.
A friend of mine was a former USPTO reviewer, and he told me something to the effect that as the law stands, they are pretty limited in their reviews and what they can do to investigate prior art. Basically, they assume the patent should be granted and then have to kick to the courts to decide if it is valid or not. I know there was more to the conversation, but was years who and dont recall much more.
Voyage – Open-Sourcing Autonomous Safety
> If you just called it "promoted to FAQ" or something...

In all but one of the cases where I've had questions closed as duplicates, I would have found this actively insulting. That's because all but one of those closures linked to non-duplicates, and in some cases to questions I had already singled out as not applying to my situation.

It's honestly a pretty hard to solve problem, because you're trapped by opposing forces. The sunnier the framing, the less it will sting the people asking the (numerous) duplicate questions - but the more it will irritate people who think (rightly or wrongly) that it's been done in error.

My SO experience seems to have been nonstandard, but it's always looked to me like changing labels and appearances is going to go bust because the rate of actual bad decisions and meanness by power users is too high to build trust.
Agreed. I love using a breadboard to figure out my designs, even if half the components on it are SMD chips soldered to breakout boards.

But once the design is figured out, I just go ahead and make the real PCB. Its a lot sturdier, and today is quite affordable and accessible to anyone able to figure out EDA software.
This is simply not true. I often ask on SO and I don't need more than 5 minutes to produce a good question. I've read the faq and the guidelines though...
> when you link it with other data.

> reasonably able

it clearly states 'legal means' to identify the user. a subpoena is a perfectly reasonable and legal way to disclose an identity from an ip and doesn't require access to any other personal data, merely that such a link from ip to identity exists. the link is the "third party information to identify the user". it's not that you correlate an ip with a cookie or other technical means. you have to get out of the engineering mindset.
It's official. We now definitely have a vast oversupply of engineering talent available in the marketplace.

This post is a great report and a must read of all engineers.
I've definitely seen candidates stretch the truth. Like Jenkins babysitters who list every technology the Jenkins server uses in builds as a skill. So they list Chef as bold item on their resume, but can't explain what a Chef server is, or how a file resource differs from a cookbook_file resource.
Good to see that they are adding promisified versions of more core function like fs. It makes things even simpler for new users especially with async/await support.

I really wish they would add a promise based version of the http/https client. The current version uses events rather than the standard callback signature so it can't be automatically converted using util.promisify().

They don't have to modify the existing low-level http client, just add a new API. They could even use the existing fetch() API that users are already familiar with on the client side.

It really should be dead simple for a new user to make an http call in Node without having to npm install a 3rd party library. I recently created an AWS Lambda function (directly via the console) and I just wanted to check to see what the outside world thought my IP was. In theory, with Node.js 8 It should only take a two liner like this:

const response = await fetch('https://httpbin.org/ip');
return response.json();

Instead I had to wrap it in a promise myself using untested code that I cribbed from StackOverflow[1].

1.https://gist.github.com/talawahtech/f8c4452dbb543297a008d385...
Does anybody know how good the data is? I mean everyone of the geolocation lookup providers has faults and choosing the majority from different sources will have the best results.
But maybe Google has much more accurate data?
Try Pomodoro time management approach
I looked for pluralization in the standard, and couldn't find it. Of course, I only glanced over the Table of Content.
Probably. But the bond holders wouldn't be _last_ as the OP suggested.
For mature learners, a prototype they might find useful would be a research assistant. The AI could work at making sure it understood queries better over time, then get better at finding answers, then get better at summarizing why its findings are useful, and finally work on explaining/teaching what it found.
Yes, you are correct, vacuum tube amps have higher levels of distortion (and noise in most cases) compared to solid state amps. For vacuum tube amps the characteristic curve of distortion is a quadratic function called the second harmonic (frequency double the original sound and an overtone factor produced by most musical instruments - eg. a stradivarius - that gives depth and richness to sound). Solid state amps on the other hand produce tertiary and quintic harmonics that are not as pleasing to hear (which is why they try to reduce distortion for solid state amps to zero).
In my hometown suburb there is almost always an extra car in the driveway while the parents are away. Where I live now, many students lesve there cars at home and walk to class. (car is for work). So it may have some applications in non-big city environments
>It feels like I am dreaming while I am still awake in some kind of transitional state, where I am not conscious and also not asleep

I've had this start happening to me in the past year. When I was a kid I would have horrible, recurring nightmares for months on end that were difficult to remember. At some point in middle/highschool I stopped having dreams altogether (or at least stopped remembering them entirely). It was great as I would no longer wake up in a panic or stay up incredibly late in order to get to sleep. Recently however, I've started having dreams like you describe. My sleep schedule has changed as well. I get up at 5AM, but recently I've found that I'll naturally wake up between 2-4AM at which point I'll drift in and out of consciousness having negative, vivid dreams that I partially remember in the morning.
That's a very good idea. SO should introduce a tutor service where an user with the right tag badges can tutor juniors for a small fee. Win-win.
this is more like "the Librarian".
Ensemble Models: XGBoost and LightGBM
It's a solid toolkit that gets the job done and gets out of the way.

I've shipped a dozen products with it over the course of my career.

On embedded targets I'd never use anything else. The alternatives are way too simple or overscripted playback engines that have no flexibility with underlying code.
What's a good alternative to WeWork in SF?
Smart wake-up alarms that detect when you're entering light sleep in the morning are the only way to be happy.

I used to have a Jawbone bracelet that did that by slowly increasing vibration. It was even better. But the setup I have today with my phone under the pillow works.
So what is the interviewer supposed to do to find out if you can code? They want to give you a simple, straightforward task to see how you code. Of course, every simple, straightforward task is going to have an existing tool to do the job, but they aren't looking for a solution to parsing CSV, they are looking to see you code.

They can't ask you a complicated problem, because they don't have the time (nor do you) to solve a real problem that requires coding.

You are totally missing the point of what they are trying to ask you if you insist on using pandas for parsing CSV. Understanding the point of what you are being asked to do is critical to being a professional software developer.
The Irish Supreme Court has previously held that ex post facto civil laws are illegal in the Republic of Ireland. Is this not ex post facto taxation?
Superb stuff. On a more mundane level I hope we'll soon also have a chart of all the asteroids in our solar system (to the most realistic extent possible).
Top 5% here. And yeah, I have not participated for the very same reasons:

I simply do not have time to ensure my responses are in "tight enough" shape to stand up to what is quite honestly overzealous moderation for the pure sake of moderation.

TLDR: The community focus on the "meta" aspects of SO: How we ask questions, Answer etc - has killed it for me.