skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but doesn’t it require 4 years of school + 4 years working under a licensed PE, then state exams?

It is a very different set of trade offs than what we have in CS, where companies are more than willing to take a chance on bright people with non traditional backgrounds, including people that never went to college or dropped out. As a lifelong self-learner, I’ve certainly appreciated the lack of “credentialism” at tech companies.

The one part of the PE thing that I would like to see borrowed is the exams. If all companies are just running everyone through the same kinds of general CS problems anyway, might as well save everyone time and improve consistency by making a standardized test.
Yes competitors have an unjust advantage if they don't comply with GDRP and you can take legal action against them. There is no authority that goes around deciding when this actually makes sense or is harmful to the economy. Which was my point.

> the only one profiting is the lawyer

how would I not profit from my competition having to pay money, I don't care if I get the money.
Funny enough both Google and Facebook made the shift to Mobile successfully.
Intel and Microsoft did not.
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Yea, but only a third of the time, give or take.
>but what's the justification for the self-proclaimed title of the "world's sole superpower?"

The typical justification is that the US is the only nation that unilaterally harasses nations on the other side of the world. When the Russians and Chinese harass other nations those nations are in the same region. When the British feel like making an example of out a country in "our" hemisphere they get permission first.
IIRC the robotaxi service will only be offered in Arizona for the time being, which is basically the easiest place to perform at level 4. This might be a good start, but don't be fooled into thinking the improvements required to bring level 4 into markets with reasonable amounts of rain and snow are linear; if the rest of the self driving car industry is any indication, we're nearing a plateau.
Suzy Grids 2 is float based, a pleasure to work with and covers the old browsers. I'd love to switch to CSS grids but will have to wait another 5 years it seems.
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You have to be invited to interview before you can ace it. So you probably have either a relevant degree or experience before you get in the room.
It potentially opens them up to tracking by whoever operates the CDN.
On the other hand, the Trump administration wants Germany and German companies to stop trading with the Iranian theocracy.
The link is pointing to NYTimes. OP was saying the original Boing Boing article pointed to both and the link was changed to the Times article, per the HN preference for linking to the original reporting (sometimes to the detriment when other articles provide commentary or additional insight).
Hoboken has a couple. I used to live in Edgewater (not Hudson County, though), they opened one right as I moved to upstate NY.
If you have a log time stamp, IP and source port of a compromise, you at least have a chance at attribution by working with the source network operator who can potentially correlate to a MAC or subscriber. The police can even pull video of a coffee shop to see who was there during an attack.

Without the time stamp and IP information you have zero chance at attribution during a security event.

PCI and a bunch of other regs require log retention for 1 year or even more for this reason.
Markets have been really bad at coming with solutions (a) for chronically vulnerable groups, (b) for problems which develop over too long a time period to become urgent, and (c) by replacing reactive efforts with proactive efforts. MF seems to check all three of those boxes, while making sense as a business. Cool.

Can you say anything about how you expect these kinds of proactive diagnostics to interact with the existing insurance ecosystem, which tends to pay for diagnosis but varies a lot on treatment?
I wouldn't worry about it. It is their loss.
I would imagine that if Google did a randomized controlled trial among a pool of qualified resumes (say after they pass a phone screen) or a small coding challenge.. that they would find that job performance is not correlated with technical interview performance. They already found that GPA and where you went to school doesn't matter. In fact Bock thinks it's only behavioral traits that determine performance. So here's a challenge to Google or Facebook: ask the behavioral questions, ask some technical ones. Score only on the behavioral and hire. In one year see what the "performance" levels are... I'm guessing they did the latter test where they accepted based on technical performance and ignored the behavioral pieces which is why Bock nows says that behavioral are the most important...

My hypothesis is that the bar is still too high and that if you have a basic technical baseline you'd still perform well regardless of your white-boarding abilities. Google could run this experiment and in fact they might already have enough data to answer it with a causal analysis.

The key issue is how do you define "performance" both in the interview and in your yearly review... nobody has a clue how to actually measure performance.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-google-hires-people-2013-...
The TSA is a massive welfare jobs program for under/non-educated people, they employ approx. 60k people. The security theatre is just the guise they gave it for the welfare to be accepted by the public.
(sorry for out of sequence reply but I could not reply directly to the message in question)

I run a business directory site, or at least used to until this morning. If I was like many people I would blame GDPR, but really I figured I rather spend the money I was spending on AWS on something else.
To really get my respect he needs to kill off ads in the Windows start menu and the pervasive Cortana surveillance.

To really, REALLY get my respect: I would like to see Microsoft be a pure, best-practice software company. Do GREAT things independently of Windows. Make native Mac applications that are truly great. Make a better Mac application than Apple can. Make better iOS apps. Be a champion of Linux. and so on. Strive for greatness on every platform, embracing that platform's uniqueness.
This is generally dealt with through market choice, with people choosing the trade off that they perceive as optimal for themselves. Instead we now have one standard for data handling being imposed by the EU, and precluding a vast number of potentially more optimal interactions.
Russia has ~40% of the population of the US, and one major export - oil. Oil in itself, surprisingly, does not contribute much to GDP[1] (Even though the modern world is built on it).

Outside from the major metro areas, Russia does not have a extensive - or expensive service economy, and it has very few exports. Between that, and the petro-ruble suffering from oil shocks/sanctions, its GDP is, unsurprisingly, quite low.

[1] Oil is, for example, 3% of Canada's GDP, but you wouldn't think it, given how hard the federal government is trying to prop it up, at the expense of other industries. Extracting it, like growing food, is an incredibly low-value industry.
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It cannot reasonably be interpreted that way. GP made a blanket statement about how in spite of our GDP being higher than many other countries, our quality of life is not. That is obviously false.

I choose to interpret GP's comment to mean what it actually says. You may choose to put words in GP's mouth so that their argument says what you wish it to say, but for me that's a waste of time. If they wish to clarify and restate their argument, they are welcome to do so. But then they will have to provide some evidence that per-capita GDP "goes farther" in other countries than in the U.S. So far nobody has done that.
Likely they mean good ole original Marxism.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" is a slogan popularised by Karl Marx.
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But again, the PDF would just open with the same program it would have regardless of whether it's called via binfmt_misc or not.

Besides, a much easier vector for attack in your example would be to create a shell script called "budget.pdf" since you then need to make fewer assumptions about the target. And since Linux doesn't care about file extensions, it's perfectly fine having a shebang prefixed script with a .pdf extension.

Which is one of many reasons why common advise is not to blindly run any executables you've just imported into your system.
Prolog has better (simpler, more readable) and more uniform syntax too.

I don't see how yours is an improvement.
Likely very slowly
> Not only that, but the US government is neither as aggressive nor as forward-looking about such partnerships

What? The chinese modeled their economic system after the US. We love to portray ourselves as having a separation between the "private" and the "public". That is absolute nonsense.

The chinese, like the US and europe and japan and south korea and all major world economies, are corporate mercantilists. When the railroads, mining corps, oil corporations, etc needed the natives to be "gone", it was the US government that exterminated the natives. When US corporate interests needed access to central america, it was the US government that cleared the way. When US corporate interests wanted access to the middle east, east asia, south east asia, etc, it was the US government that lent a hand. The US has always been and always will be a mercantilist nation.

> preferring to let market forces have their way.

You are buying into the propaganda. All "market" forces are human forces. After all, there is no market without humans.

> China is tilting the playing field in its favor, while the world's sole superpower is hobbled by clowns and criminals in the executive branch, and corrupt prime contractors pretend to supply the government with tech that they neither understand nor make themselves.

Oh ye of little faith. China has destroyed its environment and sold its people as slave labor to the west for development. If you look at US-china trade, 80% of the wealth is in US hands and 20% of it is in chinese hands.

Take the iPhone as an example. It sells for $800. What percentage of $800 do you think the chinese gets? What percentage do you think US shareholders gets? Almost all of the iPhone's values goes to US based shareholders. The chinese get peanuts.
Great! Let's give those people free jobs doing something useful, instead.
You can get 2. more or less in firefox with privacy.firstparty.isolate = true or various container extensions

Or one could write an extension that sets sandbox attributes on iframes. I'm not sure if one exists yet.
not everyone's browser has that list. if you turn off port 80, at no point will the browser that doesn't have this list be able to connect to your website.
I accessed it just fine from Portugal just now. Maybe it's something else wrong?
Companies seem to be adding more screening steps to try to reduce their false positive rate -- the rate at which they interview people who aren't hireable.

But most don't seem to understand that mathematically, there's a tradeoff for a higher false negative rate.

Screening false negatives are people who would have done well in an interview, but don't make it to that stage. These are more hidden to the company, but quite expensive for the hiring process, and painful for people who are wrongly rejected. If we put this in probabilistic terms, I hope we can have a deeper conversation about what's happening and how this issue impacts engineers.
Most anti tax people are just anti taxes on _me_
We changed the URL from https://qz.com/1292403/the-dark-age-of-soulless-sans-serif-l..., which points to this.

Some comments below might make less sense outside the context of the qz.com article's polemic. But it's more substantive (not to mention fairer) to link to the original source.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> Sony's incredible array of on-plane focus sensors and focus algorithms (Canon's DPAF may actually compete, if turned loose/optimized further)

I'm reasonably convinced that DPAF will probably work out better than Sony's approach in the long run – every photosite essentially doubling as a PDAF sensor seems more future proof than scattering 100+ dedicated PDAF sensors over the chip.

The problem with the latter is that if Canon can develop the software to really exploit DPAF (there's no reason in principle that you couldn't, say, let users chain together an arbitrary number of pixels into selectable AF points placed wherever they want outside of the extreme edges of the sensor), there's no good response with dedicated PDAF, because the more dedicated sensors you place on the chip, the more pixel gaps you create, and the more demosaicing algorithms are forced to infer pixel colours with missing mosaic values. There comes a point where the visual quality will suffer.
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By that data Vermont has slightly increased rates of snowfall over the last 70 years. This paper also references studies that predict Vermont will see an increase of snow over the next few decades as well: https://www.northeastern.edu/climatereview/?p=282
One of my dream projects would be to create a movie review app where users have to upload a photo of their ticket stub in order to be able to review a film. Maybe also require a GPS tag.
From DC. DC has its advantages: free museums, good mass transit by US standards, lots of federal money being spent locally, a diverse ethnic mix with accompanying cultural and culinary diversity. The cost of real estate is astronomical, though. The schools generally suck unless you can swing something plush like Sidwell Friends.

I've lived in other places as well, always moving for school, employment, or, when I was younger, someone else's school or employment. I found that I could telecommute, though, and so we moved to a place we wanted to be for its own sake.

The things I like about Vermont: the climate, the culture, the natural and built environment. And frankly I like living in a place where I don't have to apologize for the cruel, exploitative history or the short-sighted or selfish political decisions of the populace. It's beautiful. There's a lot of art. My kids' school has great teachers, great facilities, and a lot of options. I have family who moved to the area, so that helps. The food is good. I walk into town to work. I can walk out my back door with my kids and hike to the top of a hill and have a beautiful view. I can take the bus home in the evening if the weather is bad. (I don't telecommute anymore, though I can work from home when I please.) We were living in a basement in DC. Now we have a house beside a brook.
Eye-detection AF is huge. It's so difficult to get the perfect portrait. I think most people end up using preview mode and manual focusing, which is a pain and takes a while.

I'm not at all unhappy with my choice to get the 6d. It's a great camera, and Canon's lenses have all been great. Even though I've always wanted a smaller full frame, any size improvement to the body is negated by the glass unless you get a fixed pancake lens. Good point about mirrorless battery life as well, I don't usually consider it that much since its easy to carry a spare, but I had an eos-m a while back and the battery life was frustrating. Unfortunately, it got trashed in reviews which I think set mirrorless back a bit for canon. Sure the autofocus was garbage, but the 22mm f/2 kit lens for it was amazing (one of the best I've used) and it was the smallest inexpensive camera with the best IQ/$ imo, and it had an aps-c sensor. The rest of the competition was doing m4/3. I remember you could pick up the kit for around $250 or so shortly after it came out.
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Well, of course. It is us, "developing" nations' populace that gets the shortest end of the stick with no hope and redemption in sight.

Honestly, injustice is just too great to bear. All you ever discuss is things like 10% gender-gap in payouts for the people within your arbitrary borders, yet the horrible exploitation inflicted on us by yourself is never ever discussed.
If you click the link you'll see that China has fewer doctors and nurses per capita:

>>With 1.6 physicians per 1000 population in 2012, China had much fewer doctors per capita than the
OECD average (3.2 physicians). The number of nurses per capita in China (1.8 nurses per 1000
population in 2012) is also much lower than the OECD average (8.8 nurses).

As for the affordability of dental services, would you say that's an argument for deregulation and lowering of mandatory quality standards?
I think mileage can vary. I had a couple of Linode VPSes get up into several hundred days until the Spectre/Meltdown upgrades..
Short of something drastic like Lynx, is there a good dumbed-down browser from a reputable source? It feels like there's no good check on site complexity. The security risk, but also the absolutely embarrassing resource consumption is almost too much to bear.
yeah I just had to change to 8.8.8.8 as well
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That's only true if you limit your focus to phones. There are a lot of other consumer electronics that only let you download software from their appstore. Game consoles are a big one (as I understand it, purchasing physical media from 3rd party stores isn't an exception to this because in order for a company to publish their software for these platforms on physical media they must still go through Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo's approval process.
If you want to say that Google gets most of its revenue from ads, say that. It doesn't mean it's okay to say random falsehoods.
A couple of years ago I bought a Hasselblad 503cx w/80mm lens, paid about $1000 for it. Also, a 50mm CF that cost me around another $400. So relatively expensive for a 25-year-old camera, but in inflation-adjusted terms about 10 percent of it's original price. Some desirable cameras still have some value, but a lot are going for pennies on the dollar.

I paid more for the 'blad than either of my 4x5's.
You are arguing that people shouldn't be exposed to something if they can't understand all of it, or if they don't have a good enough teacher. First of all, everyone finishes their first reading of Shakespeare with a partial understanding. Second, how sad is that for the people who don't get to read it because they don't have a "great" teacher-- never mind how you decide who that is.

I do agree it is better acted than read, because that is how it was meant to be presented. But a modern audience is going to require explanation regardless of accent.
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I’m working on something like this: https://otechie.com. Otechie is starting off focused on support from open source maintainers, but will cover your use case.

What are you helping people with?
The business model I envy is actuaries. The exams are rigorous, but leave it open how you wish to prepare for them. I considered this about 15 years ago when I was leaving grad school in engineering. To get through he first few exams, it's pretty clear that you need to understand vector calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations at the level you'd expect from the general undergraduate sequence for most STEM majors. I read that the most common undergrad major for the exams is math, but you're free to take the test if you've majored in something else, and I think you're welcome to self-study as much as you please. You just have to be able to pass the exams.

It's a rigorous exam, but to me, this is so preferable to a 5 hour interview on differential equations, stats, and linear algebra every time you interview. And that's pretty much what we do in software, it's the equivalent of asking a senior actuary to do an integration by parts or a complex derivative at the whiteboard during an interview.

What I also like about this approach is that we'd avoid that situation where a cartel like the law schools can put a 150k, 3 year degree in between talented people and the profession they'd like to enter.

Another thing is that tech exams are very capricious - you can end up with a totally unqualified interviewer, there's really no quality control on the questions or how the exams are administered. A more formal exam could have a lot of benefits, though I do agree that a required long degree program that is $$ would do more harm than good.

EDIT: There's is something that causes me to question some of what I wrote above - I have grown wary of many of the people who want to regulate software as a profession. I'm still stinging a from my collisions with the test-driven development crowd dating back over the last decade. They really were saying that to merely question the value of the methodology should render you un-hireable. Imagine if they got control over formal licensing. I do shudder at the thought. When I think of that possibility, the Wild West approach, unsavory as it may be, seems more appealing.
>Face it. Linux

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
My favorite example of this was actually from my middle school days. We read Romeo and Juliet from our textbook in class, and I hated it.

In the course of getting ready for a test I read over the Cliff Notes on the play as well. Much to my surprise it it described several humorous scenes which were completely gone in the version we read. It turns out they were cut from the middle school version because they were considered too bawdy for us.
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I wouldn't. They forced ads into my tv after I purchased it.