skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Algorithms and coding are a lot more relevant than Chinese poetry.

Yes, you might need to prep two weeks in order to get a job that pays very well for 2-15 years. And since this test is so common, you don't have to dedicate 2 weeks to juat one potential employer.
If you can't freshen up on standard basic algorithms and coding in 2 weeks for an interview, how can you do it for whatever complex problems you'll face at work?

You can't hire someone solely based on what they claim they built.

I see a lot of people that complaining that they can't take their senior engineer rank from company A and jump into company B at the same level without even justifying themselves, let alone working their way back up. To me that's utterly disrespectful to the the domain specific knowledge and experience that is needed to be a good senior engineer. Someone thinks they are obviously good enough to be a senior employee somewhere, but for some reason isn't good enough to build something valuable on their own, and isn't able to demonstrate skills in a face to face meeting.
paywalls don't work, the conversation rate is 1-2%
> Reducing sentence length, improving prison conditions, trying to actually help those on prison, that's all just weakness, that's not being tough on crime.

Until somebody hurts your family and you start to think differently.
Yes, Europa really is sending plumes of water into space
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Where I live, the temperature regularly goes well below 0F every winter. If I start my car and get into it right away, it will be at least 10 minutes before it becomes noticeably warmer.

In colder climates (e.g., further North in this State), people may leave diesel vehicles idling for hours while at work, etc., because it can be so difficult to restart them outdoors in the cold.

There's a reason people start their cars and leave them running for a while.
Why? Building software requires preparation.
Has Disney ever sold rights to anything? Their business model is to accumulate vast amounts of IP with emotional attachments to consumers. The more people sign this petition the more Disney will value the Monkey Island IP.
I have been taught to always put the first gear in when parking the car, that's where that idea comes from. If you leave it in neutral, I am indeed wrong.
Oh, I thought you were making the "email should only be text" argument, not the "you should avoid looking at the non-text part of multipart email" argument. I was addressing the former.
Have you really been continually conscious throughout that time though?

Recent thinking about this in neurology is that we are not. We're not concious most of the time we are asleep, and in fact are unaware of our own thoughts much of the time we are awake. Arguably when we are 'lost in the moment' or acting on instinct or training there's really not much conscious cognition going on because frankly it just gets in the way. It seems likely that conscious thought is something we only do as and when we need or want to, but we spend much of our time in an 'animal' state.

Have you ever been reading a book and someone had to poke you to make you aware of them? The auditory processing parts of your brain were simply not functioning. We switch on and off different faculties of the brain all the time, and immediate conscious awareness of the present is just another one of those.
Like I said here countless times, that Ponzi is crumbling and won’t last for another year.

Tesla’s bankruptcy can’t come too early - the sooner they go out of business the better for taxpayers everywhere (but mostly in the US)!
Do you have no process ready to rotate a user's exposed credentials? It's what I would expect from any service provider once they become aware of an exposure.
And this is exactly why Disney will not give the rights or even sell the rights to monkey island. Potc is a massive cash cow for them, I think they're up to six movies at this point. Giving away the rights to something that ties in so closely to that franchise would be seen as a financial liability.

But since we're talking who inspired whom, both monkey island and the second third and forth potc movies drew heavily on Tim Powers novel On Stranger Tides, and by the time they got to the fourth movie they just flat out optioned the book, title and all.
But prisons aren't a sort of "hospital" for bad behavior. The primary reason for prisons is punishment, and its secondary role is to inflict a pain that should discourage other criminals to commit similar crimes. It doesn't mean that it should be inhuman, overcrowded, underfunded, etc. But I don't believe in the idea is that crime is a disease and that prisons are there to "cure" criminals.
One of the cleverest hacks I've found to get around the WSJ paywall is to just give them a few dollars a week.

Sneaky but it works!

Edit: Downvoted for this lol. Can't believe paying for the content you want to read is such a controversial opinion.
I'm a software consultant so I've had the opportunity to work at nearly a hundred different offices.

I've seen employees driven to tears at two companies, and both of them were wretched to work for.

It became my barometer of whether the company was a good place to work for.

I really like working for companies in finance. They're generally laid back and the pay is decent, not great.
I didn't watch the video but I couldn't help but thinking there are going to be people in Kansas City who might point to a city in Africa with 10x the population density and far lower car ownership per capita as some kind of case study for why we should expand our $150,000,000/mile light rail system. Outside of super-dense cities with well-defined urban and business cores light rail is a complete waste of money.
It's always in the last place you look.
>Only difference is these knight didn't need years of medical research to discover this

Sure they did. They didn't start that diet on day one. Between ideas of nutrition during their lifetimes and however long it took to adopt, formalize and tweak their diet regimen it could have taken years or generations even.

The difference now is we have a deeper understanding of everything involved with nutrition and some of the research we do is determining why we see the effects we do as opposed to the Templars just trying to achieve a desired effect.

It's pretty easy to discount the amount of time that was spent on it and the number of missteps along the way and the unavoidable fluff the Templars also likely engaged in. And then compare that to formalized research and imagine that the Templars had some intuitive insight that makes scientific research look redundant or overly complicated...
I am curious outside of the other companies of FANG, does Amazon represent median representation of workplace culture or are they an outlier?

I have not worked at Amazon, but I have seen worse types of workplace culture in some cases over my career.
The stats I saw were actually lower. 2% for gen pop, 5% for corporate env.
There's traditional fantasy sports, which take place generally over the course of the season, and then there's daily fantasy, which takes place on a given day or weekend. The former is generally played among groups of friends, usually with money involved, but primarily as a recreational group activity. The latter is played primarily for the purpose of winning money against strangers on the internet. I've played both and while the actual draft event is my favorite part when playing in my league with friends, it's far less enjoyable for me in daily fantasy sports. Daily fantasy is technically a skill game, but it really feels like gambling.
We can do without the casual sexualization of professional career hunting.
Others have pointed out the drinking age situation.

My understanding of this case:

Congress can say ‘sports betting is illegal’, but they didn’t. They said ‘states much make sports betting illegal’. Congress doesn’t have the power to force states to pass laws, so the law is unconstitutional.

They could have done what they did in the alcohol situation (or many others) and said ‘if you don’t make sports betting illegal you don’t get law enforcement money from the feds’ or something like that.

That would have been (presumptively) constitutional. If the terms are too onerous the law could have been struck down.

But instead they used a power they clearly don’t have.

Interesting it survived this long.

Does anyone know why they didn’t just ban it directly instead of trying to make states do it? Was that the only way to give Nevada an exemption?
The bit about the government dislocating people without any regard for their well-being is quite disturbing, I agree.

And if you're on the receiving end, it must definitely be horrible.

However, putting myself in the shoes of an Ethiopian administrator, I'm not entirely convinced I'd make another decision. For a country as poor as Ethiopia IMHO growth should be priority #1, #2 and #3, as long as I'm not literally killing my compatriots.

Also, people should keep in mind the great African collapse of the 70's (a lot of African countries borrowed money after their independence and they were hard hit after 1973, because of the oil crisis). It it entirely possible that the window for growth might be closing if another big crisis hits.

Once Ethiopia moves above the current poverty levels it can start redistributing wealth. But for now it needs something resembling a middle class if it is ever to escape poverty.

My 2 cents, from what I've seen and read about Ethiopia across the years.
For-profit prison industry is more than just running the prison itself. The other 92% of public (I guess?) prisons still need services.
The Q twitter account

Q doesn’t use Twitter. Q has stated numerous times any communication outside of 8chan is not Q.
Or possibly reflect even more deeply upon how our medieval system of punishments has done approximately nothing to prevent that from happening in the first place.
Very leading and misleading story.
Ok. I'll give you the same steps for linux.

1) Install dependencies via package manager.

2) Execute binary.

That's it. I don't need a "standard installer", I don't have to install application files to an arbitrary location blessed by the operating system, I can store configuration information in the home-directory or in the application directory or anywhere that makes sense for the application. This works in almost every linux system "going back over 15 years".

Now explain to me how I'd deploy an application to Windows with a dependency on, e.g., two specific version of IIS, a MSSQL Database and a node application server to any Windows machine in the last 15 years.
Facebook claims that Facebook suspended the apps because their CEO claimed that they will.

Meanwhile, they offer no real evidence of doing so, not even a list of names. Just a number. And even that number isn't exact, since it's around 200 out of "thousands", which is by itself a ridiculously high percentage.

Also, why the fuck would you first suspend 200 apps, publish a blog post, and then investigate what they did with the said data? Can you imagine any other app store denying service to 200 teams or individuals and then investigate any possible wrongdoings?
No Country for Old Men, Death Proof, Cape Fear, Dead Calm...
There are a number of strong negative theoretical results in this space, and I mostly hear about people hand waving around them, making nonsensical claims, and then building insecure systems.

For example, you can use outside information to run overly specific queries: “list the male students in woman’s studies 326 that got over a C”. Tricking me into running this, and observing the number of bytes returned will give you a nice approximation of Jim’s grade if you know he’s the only male in that class. The set of queries I can safely provide varies with the side channel information the attacker has.

Also, if you have the ability to subtract and compare (I think those are the right two operators), then you can use that to decrypt the underlying data.

There is also the best picture I have ever seen on wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_cipher_mode_of_operati... Scroll down to “electronic code book” to see why basic equality computationa break encryption guarantees.

To make things worse, the attacker can keep track of what time each encrypted block is read/written, and infer communication patterns between users, and even infer which blocks contain information on which topics. (This is similar to the concerns over governments that gather “metadata”, because gathering “data” would be illegal)

Anyway, I skimmed this article, but have spent days reading negative research results in this space that are pitched as though they are somehow practical, and I suspect I’m not the only one suffering from homomorphic encryption fatigue.
Yes, I'm sure other companies are interested in the work. That does not mean engineers who think the work is morally repellent must lend their talents to it anyway.
> optional, so is not a useful mitigation here

Why in the heck does anyone ever send encrypted-only, non-signed messages?!?!
I believe the parent was missing a `/s`, and was in fact pointing out how a profit driven ethic is actually quite ruinous.
So, one important part is the jails/prisons being owned and operated by the Government. But what about services, like the video calling in this story, or things like the commissary? Those services can be just as, if not more exploitative.
I hope that the DSL evaluator can statically determine the oldest historical value that the code will use and avoid keeping unused historical values around?

FRP has a more general purpose way to do that kind of thing; a behavior can accumulate occurrances of an event, using a function provided by the user that takes the previous accumulation and adds a new value to it. This makes it easy to implement things like a rolling average, or to access historical values without keeping unnecessary ones around.

For example, here's a rolling buffer of size n in haskell's reactive-banana:

rollingbuffer n event = accumB [] (fmap update event)
where
update v l
| length l < n || null l = v : l
| otherwise = v : init l

Of course, this needs a language that functions can be implemented in, not a special-purpose DSL.
Blood, sweat and tears in biotech – the Theranos story [pdf]
Given the debt load Tesla has there is no way they get bought by most companies.

That said... if we’re hypothesizing then yeah, it’s a good ideological fit at least.
I think we have a little too much faith in how some organization trees of people by itself causes effectiveness, vs having a good personal working dynamic and people themselves. And it could be many re-organizations aren't really undertaken to re-org per se, but to provide a bit of a reset to the personal dynamics of teams.
The vast majority of Apple's 100,000+ is retail employees, just like the majority of Amazon's 500,000+ is warehouse workers.
We, and likely many others, use Jira as kind of the second tier / exception handling.

When the automated system fails, it automatically opens a Jira ticket to get the right people to fix the automated workflow.

You can then use the Jira case history to drive process improvement.
Christ was convicted of heresy and executed for his crime.

>It's like if there was a sect of the Open Source movement that went around telling people "the best thing about Open Source is that nobody can use your software unless you give them permission."

Richard Stallman's main gripe about Open Source software vs Free software is that it only grants you permission to view and modify the source, and doesn't necessarily grant you permission to use the software. Most open source licenses also grant you usage rights, but they don't technically have to.
I don't think I could make up a better example of missing the point if I tried.
> The EFAIL attacks require the attacker to have access to your S/MIME or PGP encrypted emails.

So the attacker needs to intercept email, but how they can access it?
A point to consider with regard to the abbreviated sleep schedule of monks is the restive and restorative aspects of the meditative periods during each day. For Catholic and Orthodox monks the periods of centering, contemplative, and some other types of prayer are the same as or comparable to other meditation practices which have documented restorative value. From my experience the more time spent in meditation the less sleep needed. Even doing hard labor, digging ditches and building stone walls, during a meditation retreat provide enjoyable engagement that support the still times. Anecdotally, placement of prayer just before sleep facilitates a more rapid entry into both sleep and deep sleep.
This is probably where he went too far:

Given these basic facts, Eric had the idea to take the freely available restore disc ISOs and have them professionally pressed to CDs. While he was at it he figured he might as well make them look like the real thing, and provided the Chinese company he was working with images of what the legitimate restore discs should look like. Right down to the company logos and copyright notices.

This sounds a lot like copyright infringement. I know some intellectual property attorneys and if you asked them about this before you did it, they'd probably cringe and tell you to avoid doing something that appears you're using Microsoft's logos to make money.
Any company that requires that I call an 800 number to cancel my subscription will never get a dollar from me again.
Why would it be a bad thing if the military had access to more tech?
There are rumors floating around that Tesla was very close to their late June target of 5k/wk after their latest line closure. If that so, I think they have turned the corner here.

The steps they are taking sure seem to look more like optimize cash-flow after the R&D is done, rather then a continue full-build to get to max capacity.

Edit since some are downvoting:

Report from Freemont on Model 3 Production line 5/13/2018 (midday):

* 4290- Last 7 days production of M3
* 638- Last 24hrs production of M3

The last line shutdown/retooling had a significant improvement on the speed of the M3 line. Everything is working in conjunction like intended and no bottlenecks anywhere. The upcoming May line shutdown for retooling is going to be much shorter than past, and currently scheduled for May 26-27th weekend. Shutdown could get moved up if production continues to increase at its current rate. The sentiment from the line is 5k sustained is pretty much guaranteed and 6k before end of June is very likely. Bottom line is I was told this is as good as Tesla employees have felt about the M3 production since production began.
It is an interesting suggestion from a branding perspective. Apple and Tesla feels like similar brands in that they are hip and innovative. But to what extent Apple can help Tesla to scale better, vs any larger automotive company feels uncertain. Has the "Apple buys Tesla idea" been seriously discussed in media?
The West isn't forcing them to dump everything on the street or in their rivers. That's on them. Besides, if you look at pictures or videos of rivers drowning in plastic, it doesn't look like industrial waste at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PavA4rUypE
Do you have any sources or proof that Play Services collects location, and that said collection doesn't follow the 4 points specified above?
If you're on the AWS platform, Lambda with SNS messages as triggers works really well. Nicely decoupled and mimics the ESB-like workflow a bit. You get monitoring out of the box. Apparently, AWS is also working on having SQS function as a trigger for Lambda steps. That would resolve some issues with retrying and deadletter boxing.
> I think you must mean the smaller trash bins sprinkled throughout your house, right? Because a kitchen (main) trash bin is typically too large for little shopping bags?

Depends on how many people you have/how frequently you empty your bin? In my apartment, it's just me + my partner, and we empty our main trash about twice a week, using a regular shopping bag. Most of our waste is food waste (we have a food waste bin) or packaging (which can be recycled).
I think the term you're looking for is ethical engineering; you probably saw something like it at an ABET accredited university.
This guy copied restore disks with Microsoft and Dell logos, in bulk, that were seized by customs (thats why they weren't sold).

I mean what did he think would happen?
https://outline.com/https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-ceo-m...
wsj paywall depends on how many wsj articles you have viewed recently
What? Why? Of all the things to point to as the downfall of the experiment, limiting access to something to a majority group of citizens doesn't seem to have been something important.

If you'd like to go on a crusade about prohibition or even access to drugs/controlled substances in general I might be obliged to saddle up with you, but this isn't the straw that is breaking the camels back IMHO
Try outline.com
Or for the Americans with little concept of the rest of the world (no judgement; I'm one of them), over twice the size of Texas (which is just under 700k square kilometers).
Just curious: were there odds published ahead of time on whether the SCOTUS would strike down this law?
Specifically what I'm referring to is https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/std/arch/ (last two modules are stable, note this is beta docs for the next release)

Next step is https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/std/simd/index.html but you can use https://crates.io/crates/stdsimd in the meantime to try it out, as they're the same.

Stuff like https://crates.io/crates/faster is already built on top of this and is just waiting for the initial intrinsic stabilization, too.
> can you guess where the plastic (which is still failing to degrade, by the by) is going to end up?

In people, fails to degrade, in sanitary sewer, fails to degrade, back into the ocean, etc.
Thanks, neat!
I'm thinking the same thing. I've never met a 25yo who complains about making $145K a year.
Bloomberg article on the same topic: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-14/tesla-s-c...

They also point out that those executives left behind their option packages which is somewhat of a red flag and begs the question what is going on behind the scenes.
7 Ways to Create Sequences in Python
Link to the opinion?
It's a soft paywall. It's only triggered when an IP exceeds the monthly quota of free content. OP or someone on his subnet has been enjoying their journalism, but doesn't want to support it.

It the post-truth world, I have no problem supporting these news organizations whose content I regularly consume.
Customer Engagement
previous discussions of the same case, I don't see anything new here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16956198

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16946478

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16940722

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16921634
Tim cook is a awesome COO. As a CEO, Apple is squandering all of the advantages that Steve Jobs left them with. They have been without any clear direction or product vision for a while now, and continuing debacles like the Mac Pro situation (5+ years and counting since Apple has a had a competitive pro stand alone machine), the poor quality of the new Macbook Pro (bad keyboard, dongle hell), the absolute joke that is the Mac Mini indicates that Apple is loosing the ability to even evolutionary improve their products.

This is because you don't have a guy with product vision at the top. Instead you have someone who is great at optimization.

So yes to Tim Cook. No to running Tesla.
It's actually completely independent per user. They have a model that predicts whether or not you're more likely or less likely to subscribe and whether giving you a free preview will increase that chance.
It gives you a single "correct" order of events, and a single present state.