skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like GPS units are also involved: tower triangulation is inaccurate so by carrying a phone that has no GPS you would be able to claw back a few meters.
What Is the Difference Between Ironhack, GA and Le Wagon in the European Union?
USAF prepares for rapid demo of high-energy laser weapon
1. If you work in th US I’d suggest a conversation with HR about your current practices - this issue is frought with legal issues and liability (as the reference giver as well).

2. Passive diligence (looking someone up online) is very different than active diligence where you disclose to another party the candidate’s status and potentially receive defamatory information.

3. You say you’d “respect” a candidates desire for you to not contact a current employer, but it also doesn’t sound as if you think that is explicitly out of bounds.

4. Just out of curiousity were a candidate to lose their current job (for example), due to word getting back to their current employer due to your Backdoor Checks - what level of responsibility are you prepared to personally undertake? Seems to me that people should be exceedingly cautious that their actions don’t result in someone losing their livelihood due to a gossipy former colleague....
Ask HN: How to become a freelancer?
I know that there are many freelancers out there in HN.

I'm a total noob when it comes to freelancing and how and where to get started.

I'm doing a pretty good 9-5 job but intrested in staring a 5-9 freelancing.

Any ideas on how to to get started?

Thanks
Well, it's a general use language. Also, there's purescript [1], a Haskell-to-javascript for the browser.

[1] http://www.purescript.org/
Their home page at ghost.org literally says "Ghost is a fully open source, adaptable platform for building and running a modern online publication" at the top.
So what's your solution? UBI? Because when a person's ability to make money and take care of themselves is on the line, in competing for a job against other candidates, there will ALWAYS be high levels of pressure.

The guy mentioned in the OP wasn't experiencing any additional pressure beyond "I need a job"; he wasn't in some high stress boiler style interview (the interview actually sounds like just casual conversation), it was just that his resume, that he sent everywhere prior to any interview, was filled with lies.

It's not the interview process that was messed up here, it's that in response to the basic competitive nature of "there is one job opening and multiple applicants, and, oh, yeah, we need someone who knows their stuff", he decided to lie about his experience. If that basic arrangement is somehow at fault, rather than this one guy who lied, then you're questioning not the nature of interviews, but the nature of jobs in a free market.
There is nothing eco about taking over an island to "create [a] hacker space"
Wow, that's kind of creepy. I tend to feel like that every time I go down the rabbit hole of just how much the advertising world knows about us.
> That the universe is the best simulator of itself?

What is this even supposed to mean? Also, "pipe" and "water" are ridiculously high level constructs, categorisations made by humans. Neither says anything about structures inherent to the universe.

I mean that when working with symmetries, information flow, and fundamental building blocks, certain structures just tend to pop up naturally. Hence fractals and geometrically shapes in places where you might not expect them. Or how laws of thermodynamics suddenly seems to be everywhere in biology all of a sudden now that we started looking[0][1].

[0] http://ecologicalsociology.blogspot.de/2010/11/geoffrey-west...

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-thermodynamic-answer-to-why...
Cloaking devices – it's not just 'Star Trek' anymore
You may harm the chances of a bad reference

Unless you work in an incredibly close-knit field where everybody knows everybody else, this is a myth and it needs to stop propagating.

You can choose references from personal friends and co-workers that will stress your positive results. The company as whole will never say anything positive or negative for fear of legal reprisal. If you worked for a bad actor, then burn the bridge and don't worry about retribution via reference checks.
It's not only the top 1,000. It was over 1,000 when it first launched and they said they will expand the list over time.
Yup - I do believe that FB is severing their relationship with these data brokers shortly, so unsure if this will continue to be available.
I doubt Rust will ever get green threads - it turns out that OS threads are good enough, and futures (async/await) is how IO will get dealt with at scale. Green threads don’t help compute-bound code, so with a solution in place for IO, they’re unnecessary.
Your friend was nearly correct. "côtes" has several meanings, in the case of wine it refers to the slopes of a hill/valley (as opposed to the valley floor). Nothing to do with the beach unfortunately :)
Radim: please consider incorporating this into gensim. It really is superior to simpler classification models running on top of word/BPE/wordpiece embeddings and to classic machine learning algorithms used for text classification and topic modeling like HDP, LDA, LSI/LSA, etc. (You can see for yourself how well this works out-of-the-box with a simple exercise: grab a pretrained model from fast.ai, run a bunch of documents through it, grabbing and saving each time the last hidden-layer representation of each document, and then map these representations to a two-dimensional plot with, say, t-SNE.)

I realize that outside of Silicon Valley and other technology centers, most established companies are far -- far -- from adopting deep learning for any application of importance, due partly to the current unavailability of developers with AI expertise, and partly to deep learning's so-called "unexplainability" (i.e., the inability of many corporate executives and machine learning practitioners to reason about it, and their resulting discomfort with it). But it's only a matter of time before Corporate America starts following the lead of companies like Google and Facebook, which today are aggressively using state-of-the-art AI in lots of important applications.

Why not get ahead of this multi-decade trend?

PS. For those who don't know, Radim is the creator of gensim, a popular, friendly Python library for text classification and topic modeling.[a]

[a] https://radimrehurek.com/gensim | https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/gensim
I wouldn't but I've seen a lot of people who will. If you have code that runs, why spend extra money to optimise it? Hardware is cheap and the cloud allow to scale as much as you want (not my opinion obviously but I've heard that more than once and I'm not even directly involved in these kind of decisions).
In my defence I had assumed that the US authorities will be brilliant at protecting their citizens - especially now that a red warning is out.

The mount kea observatory is a global asset of science - I suspect that it's less important to the US authorities than their people, but it is kinda a global concern.
There are a few. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? A meetup?
> Our biggest marketing failure has been our documentation and resources. ... We're actually hiring right now for someone to help us fix this and make using Ghost a really fantastic developer experience.

Putting user docs as part of a marketing role is not lining things up for a good result. :(

How about putting it under engineering instead?
Comparison of 4 ways you can track an AB Test/experiment
That depends on your definition of "worked".
Can we trust the GPS receiver to be powered down when we the OS tells us it's powered down? I know Android keeps listening for WiFi stations even if you tell it to turn off the antenna. Might it do the same thing with GPS?
Haskell is used in the industry, see: https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry

You could start your own project. You could contribute to an existing project. You could evangelize Haskell at your job, if possible.

All of these are hard, of course. It'll be easier to use a more mainstream language. But if Haskell strikes your fancy, maybe it's worth the effort?
Without reading sounds like free money for whatever “friend of NYC” sold them this load of crap! Even better than ICO free money.
Very noble.

I was under the impression being setup as a non profit grants various tax optimization strategies / returns. Which can be probably redistributed as salary.
I think it depends a lot on the kind of capitalism you have. There's what I think of as small-business capitalism, where business owners in a community naturally take the community's interest into account because that's where they live.

I think that's distinct from American MBA capitalism, which is the increase-shareholder-value, up-and-to-the-right, maximize-short-term-cash-gains kind.

The former is positive-sum, the latter can easily be negative sum. And I think the latter, because it doesn't include any humanity in its calculus, is perfectly capable of profitable tyrrany.
Can we get the metric system now?
There are thousands of little blocks installed and removed daily. Often it is an automatic response to suspicious traffic or a notice and is removed before any human really notices. Such things are only a violation of net neutrality if done in bad faith to block specific content. Or if the block persists beyond the need. Your home router is probably blocking some inbound traffic right now without you noticing. That's what firewalls do. Without active blocking of evil or poorly-configured networks the internet would be much less safe/fast/enjoyable than it is.
Also check out https://remoteok.io/
Today I realised I live in the future (talking to Google Maps)
Yes, electrostatic shielding will stop the signal, which will also prevent incoming calls/msgs/etc.
You make a good point about the government, but I don't agree it extends to corporations. Corporations do much of the dirty work of the government.

Defense contractors and mining concerns operate hand-in-hand with the government, training police, researching weapons, running prisons, crunching data. Look at the story of this article: it's corporations doing the dirty work the government isn't technically allowed to do.

Furthermore corporations only submit to greatly reduced requirements for attending to those with special needs, like in wheelchairs, deaf, etc. There are some valuable services provided to them, like closed captioning, but only under passioned support from idealists and with profit incentive.

If we left it all to corporations, only the most able-bodied and well-off people would run the country for the most able-bodied and well-off, forming tight-knit circles to maintain their power and never perceiving the world as a place for living, only protecting power.
> Programming languages are not intuitive. They are a learned skill.

I can teach someone Python or JavaScript in a few weeks, at a casual pace, where they can accept input from STDIN or a file, do some calculations, and produce output to STDOUT or another file.

Haskell? I'd need a dedicated fucking thesaurus on-hand for them to grok the paradigm, and it would take a few months before they could achieve the same result.

I have another point here:

If the only languages that are considered great are the ones that make people feel smarter than everyone else for being able to understand, we don't need great languages.

Most of us need easy, practical languages that help us solve problems and don't get in our way. (Most of achieving this property comes down to ecosystem rather than language design.)
Whole platforms are now broken: Unity, Pico-8, shadertoy, howler.js, phazer.js, pixi.js, kiwi.js, melonjs.... And yeah they broke a feature on the main Google.com page. If you click https://www.google.com/search?q=5+second+timer it will normally beep when the timer goes off.
> I don't think the variety in flavor is as obvious in wine as in beer.

Try a red Bordeaux then a red Cahors.
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Homepage says it's FOSS, features page says it's FOSS, the developer page links to a giant Download button.

And how is it lying about their comparisons? It is indeed simpler to set up a Ghost site than a Wordpress site, and has more features out-of-the-box that you'd otherwise have to download sketchy plugins for with Wordpress/etc.
It always boggles my mind how 1/2 the people that realize and complain about those things go on to recommend more government and that only they should have effective guns.
Unless I misunderstood, this has nothing to do with what apps you use to communicate. It has to do with connecting to the cellular network at all. I think the only way around this would be to run airplane mode with wifi only, and then taking lots of steps to keep your wifi use private too.
And where is the github link on the home page, or the pricing page?
Maybe?

But I have a very hard time believing anyone would have associated this with NN in 2016.

The current NN proponents were not going after ISPs for stuff like this under the guise of NN pre-repeal. Nobody was upset about the port 25 blocks.

Suddenly all connectivity issues on the internet have become NN issues, despite the fact that NN regulation clearly had zero effect on these issues.
I've heard that online gambling companies often get hit with DDOS attacks and then the attacker asks for a ransom/blackmail to stop DDOS. Since the online gambling company is losing money for every minute they are offline, they usually pay (and do so quietly of course).
From another comment, they are "free" with their $27K/yr subscription.
Maybe something is being lost in the lack of tone, but I don't in any way believe that anwsering "thank you for making it" could be construed as being selfish.

And it has absolutely nothing to do with ego, it's about being kind to others.
Cross-posting my comment from Ars Technica:

So here's how weird and user-unfriendly this is. If you link straight to a page, it will be muted. [Autoplaying sound - unless you're in Chrome 66] http://dryad.technology/gametitle But! If you go to http://dryad.technology first and then click "Game Title", it plays sound. If you control-click it to open it in a new tab, it also plays sound. But if you drag the link "Game Title" to the tab bar to open a new tab, it doesn't. This honestly doesn't look like a fully-baked feature.
How To Design Programs pursues a similar goal. Esp. 2nd edition has largely been rewritten and uses a more modern programming language. Maybe give it a try?
Yeah, I had that issue. Couldn't progress past the second text box of the tutorial because of it. I'm using Safari on an MBP.
Two quick examples: A baseline WP host is not $50 a month. Ghost is not 20 times faster than WP.
Elm stands out in this regard, as it gives fairly robust guarantees of no runtime errors, so the debugging you'll do when working with Elm will almost always be limited to its compiler or Elm Debugger. The price to pay for this is limited interoperability with JS, but it may be acceptable to trade interop for type safety, depending on the use case.

Generally, the alt-js languages provide 'source maps' so that developer tools know to map errors in the 'transpiled' code to their source, and it's possible to avoid JS to a practical degree.
You can have very messy code with an excellent language. You can also have beautiful code with a poorly designed language. Let's do a thought experiments. Have a pool of SWEs fresh out of school. Divide them into groups. Each group is given a language they are not familiar with. The pool of languages will include both commonly regarded good ones, OK ones, and bad ones. Ask the groups to do a middle-sized project for 3~6 months independently. Then we compile the projects, analyze their code quality. If the pool of SWEs are big enough, it will give us some insights.
You must be a total hoot at parties
This tracking abomination is an emergent phenomenon of the merger of private industry and government in the US. See for example both legalized bribery (a.k.a. unlimited campaign contributions by corporations thanks to Citizens United) and outright bribery (Cohen) by telecoms like AT&T, ensuring that they will have the flexibility to perpetrate such garbage as this tracking data sale.

Why not distrust both government and industry? The rule "power corrupts" holds in either case.
Yes - and most times candidates will sign some form of blanket consent allowing companies to go beyond the the supplied references, and potentially run a background credit check/investigation. Which I’m by no means saying not to do. But key is getting the candidate’s consent and doing those checks at the appropriate time in the process, so you don’t potentially damage the candidate through your actions
The difference between Novec 649/1230 (they seem to be the same) and Perflourohexane/FC72/'Flourinert (well, 'the' classical kind)' is that the former is somewhat less inert and apparently slightly toxic to the central nervous system (high doses only), and the latter is sufficiently non-toxic to be used for allowing burn victims to breathe, as it shields their lungs from damage, and is able to provide enough oxygen by dissolving it to prevent suffocation. Rats don't drown in it if submerged and if it is sufficiently aerated to contain enough oxygen.
The other difference is that Novec has a Halon-style effect on fire, whereas Flourinert is at least not sold with that intention. Also FC72 decomposes slowly into a toxic, but afaik not dangerous to the elctonics, product, which has to be scrubbed.

Both of those have a vastly higher global warming effect than 'just' using Pentane, but that is rather flammable so one would probably want to ensure the oxygen concentration in the room is too low to result in a flammable mixture. This would probably mean that a human couldn't breath without external oxygen supply, but that should not be more expensive if it is a suitably low-physical-maintenance location, i.e. the systems are installed once and at most swapped out when obsolete or in case of component failure. A human could probably make due with an oxygen tube in his nose and some way to prevent the exhaled oxygen from sticking around in the (probably low-airflow) room.

The cost for FC72 is about 300$/kg, keep in mind the density is about 2.3 times that of water. Novec should be somewhat below, I think (otherwise there is little reason to offer it).
Well, a civil day anyway. A solar day is 86400002
What are we trying to achieve? It’s very simple actually — all we’re trying to do is maintain a simple table of balances on a piece of paper. This table will show how many coins each of our heroes has. The trick is, because we can’t have one piece of paper that holds the only source of truth — we’re going to have to keep things equal and let each of the gang maintain their own version — this is the decentralized part. And naturally, we’re also going to hope that all 4 pieces of paper eventually show the same thing — this is the consensus part.

Nothing in the statement of the problem requires a block chain.

Maintaining distributed ledgers is not a difficult problem except for one niggling detail: double spending. In other words, if the scenario you're looking at has no risk of double spending, a block chain isn't going to help you at all.

To expand on the article's example...

Jack is down to his last coin and gets a brilliant idea. He'll pay Kate and Hugo each one coin during the day. If he succeeds, Jack can forge one coin out of thin air.

The islanders face a dilemma. Which of Jack's two payments should be accepted? Accepting the payment to Kate means that Hugo loses his. Accepting the payment to Hugo means that Kate loses hers.

Accepting both payments is a non-starter. The islanders may as well just start bartering again if monetary scarcity can't be preserved.

This is the motivating example behind block chains. The system we know as Bitcoin had been largely worked out by the time Satoshi released the white paper in 2008. Digital signatures and hash chains mean that forgery of coins or payments is practically impossible.

What was missing was a way to make double spending difficult, without invoking a central authority.
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While it is true that Signal's call quality is great, this doesn't seem relevant to the fact that cell providers can track you regardless of what apps you use.
Oh, the memories. Being able to predict the exact instructions the compiler would generate. Patching in memory using NOP instructions. Actually being able to write assembler code. Unsegmented memory. It has always disappointed me that Motorola didn't do better in microprocessors but that's water under the bridge.
There is such a thing as pragmatics[1] where the same words might mean different things in different situations. For any normal human being trying to communicate honestly their speech will be full of things that are wrong or don't strictly make sense but both partners in a conversation have to interpret each other generously for a conversation to proceed. "I spent the entire day doing paperwork!" has to be interpreted as the person spending the bulk of their productive day on paperwork, it doesn't mean that they never slept or ate to any reasonable person. If an answer promotes accurate beliefs then that's a good honest answer. If someone refuses to impart information in their answer then that's their right. If they promote inaccurate beliefs in their answer that's dishonesty.

[1]https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatics/
My take is to read about the history of Walmart because I think its basic strategy remains the same...a Mao like approach of controlling the countryside before worrying about the cities...and I don't mean this in a negative way. When I travel in the less populated parts of the US, I can go into a Walmart and buy the same goods as in any other. The price and quality tend to be reasonable in the way that businesses that are too busy to gouge can be. The service is acceptable to good with normal variance for the fact that it is subject to human fallibility (nothing is malicious).

I guess that's the big difference I see between Walmart and Amazon. In general, I trust Walmart to be unambiguous and treat me the same as everyone else. Amazon, I feel, shows me products and prices computed on the fly to maximize its revenue. For example and without getting into the reasons I don't have Prime, a recent Amazon purchase automatically added shipping despite free shipping being an option and the difference between seven days delivery and seven to nine days. The cost of paid shipping added 10% to the transaction...and because both shipping methods were the same, the free shipping was already baked into the price. The only difference between the two, other than cost was that Amazon would simply delay pulling and shipping the item unless I paid and defaulted to adding the charge.

That's not to bash on Amazon so much as to point out the differences between the way startups operate and the way Walmart seems to operate. Walmart tends to operate in a way that is more consistent with face to face consumer transactions and is more focused on maximizing value from the supply chain. Amazon is more consistent with a caveat emptor marketplace for any supplier: e.g. growth from affiliate accounts.

It's worth considering that Walmart has been in India for about a decade working within the old and current retail regulations. My take on the news is that the Flipkart deal was a sound decision for Walmart even at the price...consider it is about what Amazon paid for 432 Whole Foods stores in the US: a small corner of the US grocery business compared to the top Indian eCommerce company. Walmart has a supply chain and logistics infrastructure on the ground in India.

That's not to say success is guaranteed or anything like that. But it looks like a reasonably sound move to me. In terms of the Indian startup ecosystem, I don't think it will have much effect because the eCommerce space was already mature: Flipkart did 95% of all the possible disruption just as Amazon did in the US.