skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, the Oscan language had the letter "Я". I thought it exists in cyrillic alphabets only. I know they are different letters having (perhaps) different pronunciation but still. Interesting!
It would be nice to use your background instead of coding, but there are enough people that can't seem to do it in real time that it feels like testing this way reveals something. Imagine making a writer write a few pages right on the spot, it would be kind of silly. And what if you say you can't use a dictionary, you have to use our typewriter, and you can't look things up on the internet. You must spell correctly.
Facebook Just Tapped the Next Mark Zuckerberg
THE CORRUPT JOSEPH KABILA AND THE APPROVAL OF EBOLA VACCINE TRIALS
Yes, all my references are colleagues. I have their cell / home numbers and emails and all that. The point of references (at least back when I would send resumes to people) is, "did so and so work with you at place and place?" "What kind of work did so and so do?" "How did you like working with so and so?" "What languages did so and so work with?" That sort of thing. I think you are talking employment verification.
Indeed. Anyone in for a depressing read should look into the history of bite mark analysis as used by US prosecutors. Scientifically, it is 100% bunk. Basically the equivalent of the cops paying top dollar to psychics to tell them who did a crime.

- Thorough background on why it is bunk (start page 83): https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/mic...

- Some stories of people imprisoned (often for decades) by bite mark analysis before being exonerated by DNA evidence: https://www.innocenceproject.org/all-cases/#bitemark-analysi...

- The story of "bite mark expert" and general piece of garbage, Michael West: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/08/24/...
We'll probably be on FF soon — it's not a super difficult port from Chrome.
(1) I don't want to hire dishonest/unreliable/disingenuous people. I wouldn't want to work alongside them, and I prefer to distance myself from such personalities at all cost.

(2) From a job seeker's perspective, I don't want to be secretly spied on by a potential employer. I can (and often will) volunteer any information necessary, through a mutually agreed upon channel. I wouldn't want someone prying through my personal social network accounts, secretly contacting random people that may or may not know me from past workplaces. I wouldn't want a potential employer making baseless assumptions based on my social media accounts (or lack thereof).
Account executive?
Haven't heard of them before but will check it out. Thanks!
In my opinion the only way to not lose the game is not to play it. As soon as private data is collected somewhere it will be misused. And I guess I'm prvilledged enough to use this as a natural filter.
"Very likely".. So are you agreeing that some things don't have a "shortest logical description"?

That leaves a lot to interpretation ;).
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The Incomprehensible Luxury of Ice Cream
Just a reminder: for millions and millions of people, ice cream is a absolutely luxury item. Not as in, occasionally I can splurge on a pint Hagen-Dazs. Or the sad, we can really only afford ice cream sandwiches. Or the heartbreaking, we can only afford essentials. But the almost incomprehensible, we’d don’t have any refrigeration at home nor does the local shopping center but, if by some miracle we have extra money, we can ride the bus for a half hour to the next town over and spend a solid day’s wages on a quart of ice cream, the container from which we will save and bring home to store sugar. And the interval between these heavenly tastes of ice cream will be counted in years. I know people who get a new car more often than these people taste ice cream.
What a great game! I lost of course. I like that it makes the next game easier, and that you can play with eight or ten pieces.

Did you try with six?
Are you paying attention to how many "good guys" are being killed by 'your side' daily? Because thats more important than your other stat.
> ridiculous elitist objectives such as climate change

You're saying the effects of climate change - drought, famine, rising sea levels etc. - are problems that elites only will have to face? I mean I'll give you beach properties falling into the seas being an elite-problem - though I notice many cities are investing in seawalls and the like.
Or use Datomic
http://airwars.org/

Pay attention to the facts behind the curtain.
Concur on the opacity. I also didn't mean to imply that companies that abuse the process don't exist. I'd guess it's more common than not, if nothing else because most managers aren't... great at their jobs.

That being said, likening this to a prisoner's dilemma is a tiny bit misleading: the costs and benefits between the options are less symmetric then in the idealized proposition. There is really no benefit to going cynical about the process besides some cheap satisfaction in a bar after work and avoiding introspection. That doesn't mean it's not pragmatic to make a plan B, however!
Account Executive, I think.
If you want to internalise the vi cursor movement keys, play the old unix game "hunt" with your colleagues or classmates.

See http://techtinkering.com/2009/08/11/my-top-10-classic-text-m... (it's at no. 2)

"This is a multi-player games that can be played over a network, or via multiple terminals on one machine. It consists of a top-down view of a maze where you run around trying to find your opponents to kill. There are a number of weapons and you can also play in teams. It is surprisingly fun, a sort of top-down text mode doom.

Originally written by Conrad Huang and Greg Couch in 1979/80."
Getting ot now, but actually you'd be surprised (at least I was) how fast you drop off the internet as websites and services die. I've gotten more careful about using my full name maybe 4-5 years ago (the 10 before that I didn't care, and I never used my real name the 10 before that) and nowadays I'm all but invisible online, save a few work presentations with my name on it left and right. I know the mantra is 'the internet never forgets', and probably if you're high profile it doesn't, but for your average joe, even thousands of comments and tweets and posts die off after only a few years.
What he's talking about isn't usually subtle. I think the confusing part is when he's saying "bananas" or "cloves" it's a very distinctive flavor that's reminiscent of those things. That's just the closest flavor we can put a name to. Very fresh, well brewed coffee has a "cherry" flavor...it's not cherry, but is distinctive. These all come from a measurable chemical that can be reliably and consistently perceived.

Separate from that are the more subtle, more subjective flavors. I see it in beer descriptions, but they seem to be more ingrained and taken more seriously with wine.
> But if everyone drives to the station, you need to build parking for them all.

If no one takes the train you need to build parking for them all, this is significantly cheaper and easier outside the city center.
This sort of thing is why newspapers are going to die and good riddance.

Yes the MMR scare was bad reporting of bad science. But this:

Brexit is a more complicated topic, but it's worth pointing out that it occurs after a decades long smear campaign by much of the UK media against the EU.

... is just laughable. What you mean is that the UK media, rather unusually for Europe, actually digs up dirt and reports negative stories about the EU. You know, holding government to account, one of the primary functions of journalism.

I've noticed lots of people in the rest of Europe like to describe the UK media this way. I find it rather pathetic. Even the head of the EU Parliament after the Brexit vote explained it by saying the people had been "brainwashed" by the media.

The only reason it feels to them like the UK press runs a smear campaign against the EU, is that supine and useless European newspapers are all ideologically in bed with it and refuse to publish negative stories at all. I read the German press sometimes and any article that at first may appear to be criticising the EU invariably is actually criticising national governments, often with an explicit or implied appeal to the EU to bring the elected governments into line. EU supporters have got used to dog-like loyalty from the press and act shocked when they read genuine, hard hitting criticism in British newspapers.
Also families and the cities themeselves. The new middle class may be able to afford to rent a place, but barely and that won’t bode well in retirement. Add increased stress and brittleness when 50% of your income goes to housing. The cities themeselves are seeing entire generations without young families.

Affordable housing should be a basic right, and because of that it should supersedes the policies and regulations around marginal environmental and safety concearns and most certainly the winning from the NIMBY folks that limit it.
I did Z80 on the Spectrum.

In Portugal, TI wasn't that relevant, the dream of most students were having either a Casio FX-850 (later FX-880), or an HP-48.
Navigating through fog of edge, cloud and fog computing
There is such a thing as robust morality. This means that it can respond to various real life occurrences while still being consistent; while not resulting in unfalsifiable statements.

Three tragedy of it is lack of emotional "belonging". This is what most moral amd honour systems build upon. Not even of belonging to an elite.

The main question it asks is whether any given question is meaningful and by how much, how it affects yourself, others, who benefits and who does not.
Check out the newly released Privacy Possum. It is a "fork" of Privacy Badger and the author was also part of the Privacy Badger development. He makes a good case of why his form is different here: https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum . I've been testing it out for few days now and it is doing something, though can't vouch for how much.

I've also had good effect with Canvas Blocker. Decentraleyes is another good concept privacy add-on to look into as well.
I apologize if I misunderstood; I think the context of threaded conversations sometimes implies a disagreement when one may not necessarily exist.

I contend that there is zero overlap between what I would characterize as dishonesty and what I would characterize as acceptable behavior in a healthy professional environment.

What we seem to be focusing on at the moment is the relative honesty or dishonesty of polite social interactions, e.g. laughing at bad jokes or claiming to enjoy grandma’s cooking when you don’t. I think there’s likely an overlap between politeness and mild dishonesty in those situations, but by the same token, I don’t personally engage in many of these dishonesties—the polite “fake laugh” is more than I can pull off without coming across as sarcastic—but if you’re better at subtlety than I am, and you fake-laugh in a way that doesn’t come across as either sarcastic or genuine, and you reasonably expect the other person to be fluent and subtle enough to pick up on that, well, that’s not even dishonesty anymore, it’s just non-literal signaling, and after all, etiquette is largely a signaling dance where you show off and feel out how good each other is at subtle interpersonal signaling.

On the other hand, I also advise not dating people who unironically ask “does this dress make me look fat?”, and consider playing along with those games to be dishonest in a soul-eroding way. Although maybe that’s just because that’s a level of non-literal signaling that I just don’t have the patience for....
I’d recommend you just keep drinking Lagavulin until you enjoy it. ;-)

But seriously. My Irish mate started me on it and I really didn’t enjoy it at the start. But he kept buying it for me. And I kept drinking it. And now I love it more than words.
The Power of Doing Only One Thing
What about a hotel making its own mattress? Westin did this with massive commercial success.
Not even. It was killed in committee, as only two of nine Democrats supported it. Half the Republicans on the committee voted Aye; only one voted against.
Why do you think in absolutes? I'm tempted to cite a certain Dilbert... but that would make me appear incredibly rude, which I really don't want to be. Of course it is easy to find examples where it's needed, and it is easy to see so too. So? Did I propose at any point "Nobody needs higher math for anything" or something similar? I don't see a need to argue about an argument never made.
Veteran Battery Producer A123 Systems Invests in Solid-State Battery Development
kaggler, reminds me of googler. How do they make money? I guess companies can pay them for recruiting information. does their machine learning course teach you anything useful if you are an experienced software engineer already?
quote: “if I didn’t do my backdoor checks I would have never uncovered the Catfish.”

So: the end justifies the means...

This is the way of tyranny. Unbelievable and unacceptable.
Is the California solar power mandate going to solve climate change by itself? No, but it’s another example of where non-wealthy Californians are asked to carry the load for the rest of the world.
Not just brains, simular biology too.

Consider that outright murder (in-group) and cannibalism are considered immoral by almost all moral systems. There are very good reasons why. (Both are due to is how fear works and social survival.)

Also why any act of killing is very restricted and the individual is cut out of the group.

Being moral does not guarantee a good outcome...
The 'problem' with this (which is not a problem, in my opinion) is that logic often leads people to conclusions which make them extremely uncomfortable. I don't think it's so much that people cannot use logic to come to conclusions, but rather that they simply do not like the conclusions that they come to. Today there's widespread cognitive dissonance on a whole array of topics.

This is being compounded by a widespread effort to promote emotion to being something reasonable to consider in discussion and debate. It makes one wonder if this is just a brief blip or if we're beginning a historical repetition. The word pathetic is quite interesting and appropriate. It is derived from pathetikos which is essentially somebody that is sensitive or otherwise subject to emotion. It would be interesting to understand the exact events which evolved the word to its current connotation.
JSON is seldom JS now, as any language has had encoder/decoder built in for years.
Patrick Wyman has a great podcast on the fall of Rome (among others) and spends some time talking about the impact of regional dialects and the slow process of how those became romance foundations. Really neat stuff!
BitMEX Crypto Exchange CEO Predicts Bitcoin Price to Reach $50K This Year
JSON has its strengths and weaknesses, and while Java doesn't have first class support for it the Jackson libraries are excellent!
Yes, me to. It's sad, I once loved it so. I have no idea what I would leave it for though.
TI has a DAC chip recommended for “Electronic Warfare”
I do this remotely everyday. Email, IM, and voice chat can do this, many of the people I interact the most with are on other continents. Unfortunately I do this from my office to remote offices because we can't work from home, but that's a stupid corporate limitation, not a technological one.
Yeah, arguing that language features that have caused untold pain, constant confusion, and an shameful level of strictness aren't an issue because third-party linters and typed DSLs give you warnings is... weak. Any language can address any issue in that manner. The very fact 3rd party tooling is required to address language design issues is a pretty harsh criticism of that languages design in and of itself.

Javascript the language is getting much better, and is quite nice in many dimensions. Javascript the ecosystem has a lot of strengths, while also having embarrassingly poor base libraries that require stupid levels of duplicated effort and a platform that is still painfully inconsistent. The fragmentation around Coffescript/Typescript and linters hints at a much stronger need for a language that does more than JS does at its core... As traditional languages encroach into the browser space I see a lot of the "SPA" and cutting edge fat-client-in-html moving away from JS because of those warts.
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Mobile didn't become "native" until the big players dropped their "open web" promise to throw billions at mobile. They could very easily have synthesized the two, but the profit motive and control of OS/Browser specs was too much for them.

The "open web" was ahead of "native" mobile until the point of apostasy.

Still, Mozilla could have long ago pushed a permissions API that put all web app permissions in a single modal. Instead, of course, Mozilla chased mobile (fail) and an endless sort of silly projects nobody asked for (remember web identity?).
Ah, thank you for that explanation. I used to work at a Commodities trading business. I never understood before why Yahoo Messenger was part of their standard Win desktop build. My Precious Metals desk never used it. Makes sense, though, if it was for the energy traders in Houston.
Which people? The people lucky enough to get there first?
Bland and unexceptional is the brand. Walmart isn’t trying to be fun or cool, they’re trying to signal “cheap stuff inside.” If bland and unexciting came to your mind, it’s working.
Of those 9 prizes only two are related to actually reporting news. The rest are for cartoons or photography. The world is full of people giving away photos for free, and as for "editorial cartooning", well ... the world is also full of people being funny for free.

Of the two prizes for news reporting both were for mass shootings that happened to take place locally. I am skeptical these prizes were awarded based on some objective evaluation of their reporting skill; the Pulitzer is probably just awarded on the basis of emotions. Like so much else in journalism, there are no systems worth a damn.
http traffic from cloudflare is cutting edges.
5 Lessons Companies Can Learn from Facebook's Data Privacy Scandal – IQVIS Inc
That's interesting. I agree that pay is better in software than in hardware.

May I further ask on what technologies/ tools/ platforms are you working right now?
AFAIK async functions aren't part of ES2015 either.
Yes, I know what a false positive rate is, hence the scare-quotes everywhere I misused "rate". And I'm (obviously) not accusing the field of statistics of not-technically-lying; I'm accusing supporters of face recognition police tools of not-technically-lying. False positive rates are actively misleading when (trying to avoid) answering the question "given that this one event is reported positive, what is the chance that it actually is?".
Wyoming, Us Island Intents to Became a Capital of America’s Cryptocurrency
ChaCha20 is a stream cipher, of course it would be faster.
Govalidator v1.9.1 released
Not for a network effect business. A network effect business doesn’t need a strong advantage or even any advantage if the network is strong enough. Note that eBay has barely changed in 20 years yet is still the only place to go to get Hamburglar sunglasses or whatever.
Instead of the word debate, why not use something better understood, such as discussion instead?
There is a huge difference between being able to track down unsafe statements and a language where 100% of the source code is unsafe, given the 200+ cases of UB, implicit conversions and lack of data integrity validations.

Sure logic errors can always happen, but moving away from C would already get a portion of memory corruption issues out of the table.

Unless you are asserting that Mesa/Cedar, NEWP, Oberon, Oberon-07, Active Oberon, Modula-2, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Object Pascal, Concurrent Pascal, Component Pascal, Basic, D, Ada, SPARK, Sing#, Midori, BLISS, PL/I, PL/S, PL/8, PL/M, Swift, HPC# are all unsafe as C.
And you have to play the chess round while squatting.
This is cute, but with what we now know about CTE, I can't help but find boxing, football, etc disgusting.

I'm not just being a pretentious nerd, I actually like sports and I used to love watching boxing / MMA.

It is so so so much worse than what we thought. Dave Mirra, Chris Benoit, Aaron Hernandez, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_players_with_chron...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/sports/footba...
My favourite trade floor keyboard I Own is definitely the Wey. Fully programmable. Swappable modules for Bloomberg and Reuters. Picked the thing up at a yard sale and recently locked myself out of the thing by accident

https://youtu.be/e-5DDDd3Qzw
> I see the tin foil hats are out in full swing, but the reality is, far from what people assume.

So the people who are suspicious of NSAs motives and actions are "tin foil hats", but your position is somehow "the reality"?

> From someone who has been following this saga

What does following mean here? Who are you? What are your credentials that somehow make your opinion more authoritative than that of others?

> Most likely due to their own internal self-conflict.

So you are just guessing? Is it at least an educated guess? If so, based on what?

> There really isn't much room for obscuring anything there.

Is there a publicly verifiable analysis by cryptographers to back this claim?
I think this sort of collective action is unlikely.

Why do they bother you so much? Watching someone code is a pretty good way to see how they think about a problem. Seems pretty straightforward that if you want to hire someone to do a thing, you might want to see how they do the thing first.

Evaluating based on past projects is tough because you don't know if/how much help they've had from collaborators. Could have forked someone elses project and renamed it. A surprisingly high number of people apply to software jobs who literally don't know how to code.
Microsoft's Surface Hub 2
And some remote system script execution.
I think javascript shines only depending on which languages you compare it to, and what you're doing with it.

Also JS + Typescript is a force to be reckoned with (the added safety is great), and once a multi-threaded runtime like Chakra[0] takes shape, it'll be even better. JS's early introduction of concurrency primitives (callbacks, futures/deferreds, promises) will make javsacript developers much productive much faster than the equivalent ruby/python 2 developer with not as much early exposure to managing concurrency.
It is one an the same problem - money/time trade-off. Which one is worth more to you? It depends.

I've worked at organisations where "get N extra servers" was a 6-8 month process. Because of this you have to be extremely good at capacity planning.

And very few organisations are good at these guessing games.

Either you over-provision with a generous safety margin; or you don't - and your fail to handle peak loads.
Disruption of daily rhythms linked to mental health problems
A lot of masturbation in the blog text but this is primarily a cost play. At huge scale, licensing a font is a big recurring expense. And using system fonts is costly in a different way when you find that your slick new UI tiles wrap incorrectly with the system font on Windows Phone 8.34. So creating a single cross platform font is the best way to go.