skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Didn't my receptionist tell you not to eat and drink only water for 24 hours?"
Gotcha, that makes sense. So I'm guessing that java based python vs c based python is an example of theory vs implementation? Thanks for explaining!
Hello! Appreciate your deep dive on the thread and agree that if we look at bits and pieces of my comments, it's not totally clear. So let me write up a unified answer here.

In some cases, this is definitely against the company's policy. For those companies, we focus on former employees most of which are no longer bound by any contract (if any).

We protect our insider's identity and that leaves them protected, but we also encourage them to check with HR to make sure they're allowed to do this.

I already addressed the ethical/moral bits - we are simply giving more people access to the same insights you would get if you had a friend on the inside. You're just paying for it in this one interaction, whereas the privileged person paid for it by being born into or falling into the right circles (higher kindergarten, middle school, high school, college tuition, and being in the right families or circles).

Without The Lobby - the alternative is to live your life cold emailing and trying to find these connections, which is both inefficient and in our view very different. If you get some of these folks to answer you - you're not sure if they're going to be helpful or just discount you as a non-eligible candidate because you don't have what they're looking for. Being in a friendly dynamic where their goal is to help you makes this the opposite.

In terms of legal risks, please look up GLG, AlphaSights, and other expert networks. They have been doing this in what I consider to be a real ethical gray area with higher up executives and much larger dollar sums - and still is legal. Let me be really clear here - I'm not agreeing with what they do, I'm just pointing to it as an example where this has worked with much more sensitive information than "interview prep" and has maintained to protect its supply side and operate, which is why I'm confident we will be able to as well.

The only thing I hope this thread proves is that HN or those seeing The Lobby execute is that we have the right intentions. That goes a long way - whether you agree with our particular approach or not.

This was a personal problem, and our solution we've seen solve a real problem mainly as an information gap. Solutions like the ones you're suggesting on karma points or donating to charities as suggested below are on our roadmap- but for now we're staying focused on making this work well first :).

Hope this answers the question and if anyone wants to chat on this topic further - please reach out! deepak@thelobby.io
TIL, thanks. I guess I thought employment verification and references were roughly the same thing, which sounds silly now that I think about it.
Nice to see deterministic pycs made it in. Hurrah for reproducibility.
Most Chinese airspace is managed by the Chinese military, and military flights take priority. So that may be a reason why as well. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/10/30/why-chin...
^Cut and paste.
I looked at the API calls on the CrowdStrike blog post and I have been using parts of these API's for calls in PowerShell for at least the past year for tracking down issues we have had in Office 365. I can understand how frustrating it can be if your competitors seem to have "secret knowledge". However that knowledge may have been gotten by calling up the very helpful people at MS support, laying out the problem and they send you a Powershell script in return.
> After a costly acquisition of Time Warner, AT&T may have found a new source of revenue.

Is charging more fees really a new source of revenue? It’s not exactly rocket surgery...
Good idea. New Mexico needs to be included too. There's probably more of this track segment in NM than in Colorado.
Python 3 at Facebook
The Korg MS-20 mini sells for $450, the Moog Mother-32 sells for $600, and the new Behringer Neutron will sell for $300 when it comes out. Semi modular synths are pretty cheap these days even though they aren't quite as cheap or popular as non modular synths like the Arturia Microbrute or the Korg Monologue.
I tried to switch from Mac back to PC and got the original Surface Book a few years ago. I really liked the detachable screen but otherwise I didn't find it very useable. The trackpad didn't register clicks a lot of the time and I had to press very hard when dragging so it didn't disengage. It was a bit too flimsy when typing on your lap. Also, all the weight is in the screen so touching the screen and using the keyboard means that you have to grab the back of the screen when pressing so you don't push the screen.

I wasn't happy with the performance either being that I needed something that could process RAW photos and do video editing. For general web browsing and coding I think it could work well.

I recently got the Dell XPS 15" and am working on converting my programming and photography workflows to Windows. So far everything seems to be going smoothly. Windows Subsystem for Linux really makes a difference and most stuff I've tried works flawlessly without change.
Yes, it's quite similar. It's not THAT amazing though since it's just a convenience function over pdb.set_trace() which has been in the Python standard library for a very long time (2 decades or more).
Someone has a dataset of every (?) apk from the Play Store - they need to scan for SilverPush and release the results.
Depends quite a bit on your setup. I put together an interactive sandbox for testing modem profiles. The short answer is about a few kbps for close proximity.

https://quiet.github.io/quiet-profile-lab
NM already has commuter rail between Alberquerque (and Santa Fe) and Belen, where the Southern Transcon reaches. In a world where Amtrak LD trains ran on time, the schedules could be adjusted for a convenient transfer making it not so bad for Albuquerque.
PostgresOpen 2018 – First Look at Talks
I don't understand why mcDs owes him.
I know it's part of the "CIA" stuff, but I don't see it as a vulnerability in this specific case. Jamming affects all devices, not just "secure" ones.

Also, there is no countermeasure against it, which makes it even less a security vulnerability.
It might be more accurate to say that a social standard would need to support productized client evolutions that outlook and others provided along the way of email’s evolutionary path.
I would love that pinching and zooming-in with my phone screen would not only make the text bigger and easier to read, but also rearrange it to fit in the screem. But it doesn't.
I had the exact same reaction. As much as I love postgres for monolithic business systems, its a horrible choice for something that to see meaningful adoption needs near-zero barrier of entry. if it can’t easily download and run on an rpi it seems like a poor architecture for the use case.
What does this mean? REDUCING and REUSING plastic use is critical. Solutions to the recycling problem are poor at best and innovation takes time. Don't just put it in the better looking bin and expect that someone will "figure it out".
I couldn't agree more. Why is the API not public? Is it because some sort of top secret corporate conspiracy? Or is it that management just decided to avoid the burden of publishing and maintaining an immature or lesser used API? After reading your comment that whole article seemed a little sensationalist
A browser plugin that expands "/s" to "synergy."
"Fullstack is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules."
Sounds like macros.
But reading code or diff of a type inferred language is far from impossible.
I think its value goes beyond the focus on TDD. It’s a nice introduction for a beginner who wants to learn about the discipline of managing code and development processes. If I recall correctly, the author assumes very little knowledge and walks the reader step-by-step through proper use of git, etc.
>It won't let you secure a passwordless network

Yes it does. 802.1x solves this. Just allow any user/password combination. This has been in use successfully. It worries me that the author doesn't mention this.
I don’t know of any stock dealers using kubernetes, but, maybe I’m just out of the loop.

No, I’m a developer, I work in, I dunno what you want to call it, Machine Learning Data Engineering? Stuff like that.

I use seven displays because I like spatially organized workspaces. Four of them are only 10”, effectively 1280x800 displays, two of which are always showing terminals. I have a particular way I like to work that I’ve developed around how macOS handles multiple displays/Spaces that benefits more from many small displays than few large ones.
humanetech.com/take-control/
Just google “try the new safari notification”
How was your day at work?

> writing brute-forcer to crack P12 private key because someone forgot password

LOL
Google invests $22M in feature phone operating system KaiOS
It will be more than a few months, but my understanding is that the FDA is now one of the fastest agencies to give approval in the world. See: https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-repays-industry-by-ru...
It would be more tolerable if they offered good service. I am moving to a city with one of the largest universities in the US and the fastest internet AT&T even offers is 12 Mbit/s down and 0.5 up.
Ignoring that you might altruistically want to help another company -- what's the downside to being honest? If you don't want to go into detail, you could just say "We would/wouldn't hire this individual again." You gain and lose nothing either way.
Đáp án đề thi môn Toán THPT Quốc gia năm 2018
fwiw, the github author has starred this repo https://github.com/kondrak/rust64

There also exists this header file:
https://github.com/floooh/yakc/blob/master/src/yakc/systems/...
Absolutely. Until then this is just marketing.
Does anyone know if TSA gate agents can see tumors, and if they've ever told anyone? Like, say, a golf-ball sized tumor in the neck? Would they have to be medically trained? Do they avoid or encourage hiring former radiologists?

There was an interesting story of a doctor who noticed cancer while watching TV and passed the word on. https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness/woman-appeared-hgtv-find...
It won’t fix censorship. Most users will pile up in certain servers (or even just one) and the owners of that server will censor whatever they don’t like (be it users or entire servers). In the end, it’ll be like Twitter.
> What were you thinking of when you wrote this? I'm genuinely interested.

That there is no high-level equivalent, and Djikstra, while he sometimes had useful insights, was ultimately a self-righteous twit.

Sorry to disappoint; I would also be interested a (not-even-worse-than-goto-like-exceptions-are) answer to your question.
That article offered almost no analysis of substance. Instead, unsubstantiated bulletpoints. Not doubting the claims but the article was barely an overview.
The recruiter doesn't even need references. Once you interview in person you should have direct contact with someone at the company you can give references to if need be. The good ones will make the introduction and get out of the way. Yes, I believe there are some good ones (not many).
How is "use push notifications if it's an e-mail provider that worked directly with us, otherwise poll" any less confusing? What's more, you get the same behaviour with push notifications already - if you're on a really crappy network, you're likely to not get your notifications instantly due to having too long keepalive timeout until OS adjusts.

The answer it simple: with IMAP Idle, you could do push notifications directly from your mail server to your phone without Apple as a middle man, and one of the things Apple cares about more than power efficiency is having full control over their platform. There's no real technical reason for it to be so screwed up as it is now.
It's a secret tool that uses undocumented APIs :)
Have you ever seen Yelp reviews for car salespeople?

Recruiters are the used car salespeople of the hiring world. There’s no point in a review system where everyone averages out to 0 stars.
If you have tmux or your remote machine, you can add this alias to your mac's bashrc

alias my-server='ssh server-hostname -t "tmux new-session -s user || tmux attach-session -t user"'

It will connect to a tmux session on the remote machine if it exists or start a new one if it doesn't. If you Cmd+w your terminal window or disconnect, the tmux session stays running on the remote machine.

You could also tell it to try reconnecting every second and bind it to something easy to type like 'kj' (too bad df is already taken)

alias kj='while true; do my-server; sleep 1; done'
Ironically, to this day, condoms are not (and have never been) formally tested for their efficacy in use by gay men, either in the US or Europe. The standards for producing condoms set by the relevant regulatory bodies are only designed for vaginal sex. Jesse Helms's work is a big reason for that, so his "legacy" sadly lives on today.

Condoms remain the second-best means of preventing HIV transmission through sexual activity, and it's heartbreaking to think of how many more lives could have been saved without these bigoted policies.
Thanks, tomorrow I'll be checking this out for sure :)
Are 2 year contracts still common in cell phone plans? I've used att for years and never was presented with the option of signing a contract like that.
Whenever I by garbage bags, they come in a roll. The only packaging they have is a sticker for the barcode and sometimes a couple of rubber bands to keep them nicely rolled up.
I just switched from Verizon to Comcast (xfinity mobile). I now pay no monthly line fee, and just $12 per gig. If I go above 3gb, they charge me $45 for the month and I get unlimited access (throttled after 20gb). Much lower price, and same Verizon network.

They used to require you to buy the device from them, but now it’s BYOD also. And unlike many carriers, they don’t charge setup or device upgrade fees.

It seems that competition is here already.
‘Social microbes’ critical to brain development
Doesn't better garbage sorting seem within reach of current machine learning tech and robotics?
That's nonsense. I have formal culinary training and Blue Apron was never about needing to learn how to read a recipe and cook with "a paint by numbers erector set". It was almost exclusively about the convenience and ease of recycling what was sent.

You're projecting.
Unscientific Method: Study Finds All Those Big Data Studies Mostly Big Mistakes
> Of all the engineers I’ve met over the years only one has come close to what that title, full-stack engineer, implies: the ability to easily navigate the back-end and front-end with a senior level of expertise.

In the first paragraph, the author sets up a really weak straw man for himself to defeat. If you define "full-stack engineer" as "an expert at front and back end", it's pretty easy to not believe in it since you may as well be restricting the category to people who are 3σ. If you define "full-stack engineer" as someone who "can do front and back end moderately well". This is much easier to believe in.
Eh touchscreens are just barely better than using a mouse cursor for knobs and sliders in my opinion. I still have to look at the touchscreen know what I'm doing, which kills the creative process for me.
> Pro, as in professional

Yes, no idea PRO will be confusing :)
There's no human operators for the body scanners anymore, due to privacy concerns. The images are analyzed by computer, and any anomalies are highlighted on a cartoon diagram for extra attention during the pat down.

Also, if someone had a golf-ball sized growth on the outside of their body, I'm sure the person is already aware of it. (The body scanners can't see inside the body.)
Strictly speaking most modern (two-player) games are two-player asymmetrical, since one player has a first-mover advantage. Not what you meant of course, but worth considering; it's somewhat hard to make a game that's strictly symmetric.
My mum is still using the intellimouse from a very long time ago!
Pretty much every physical object we had started out underground and was mined by human or plant activity, except for the minerals that are synthesised directly from the air.

It isn't a hill I'm going to fight on, but 'land is a finite resource' has, to me, always meant arable farmland and prime coastal real estate. There is no actual shortage of land. At best, there might be a shortage of prime away-from-water-table-with-less-permeable-rock-surroundings sites that are ideal for landfill - but I doubt that is true.

For example, the deepest mine is about 4km deep, and about half the atmosphere is within 5km of the surface of the earth. Running out of landfill space in that sense is like running out of oxygen. The only limits are transport costs and making sure the landfill is either non-toxic or kept well away from water (which, economically speaking, might be a substantial limit but plastics are clearly quite inert, because we store food in them and they apparently don't degrade).

EDIT But the key point here is that these costs aren't externalities. The people paying for them are the consumers who are buying the plastic. If landfill costs go up, municipalities will start to charge more for waste disposal and consumers will favour products with less packaging.
with-open-file is just a convenience macro around the underlying functionality which is provided by unwind-protect which is pretty much identical to try/finally in Java.

The ease of writing macros such as with-open-file means that most libraries that need to have similar types of features for their resources that needs releasing also provides similar functionality.
That pay-as-you-go system is used in Wellington, NZ as well.

Recycling bags are free, but you have to pay for landfill bags (around $2). That way, there's an incentive to recycle as you save money.
I have a hunch that it may not be so easy to travel in the not-too-distant future

That's an interesting hunch. Can I get you to elaborate?
They like the weather here a lot better. Honestly they are the sort of people who don't deserve our sunshine.
^ Blind link goes to a non-paywalled version of the article.
This is huge step. No longer does a computer need an API to communicate with someone.
Yes, but if you use this program you have to get a RMA from your motherboard manufacturer first stating they wont do anything to help.
This strikes me as quite unethical. This is just the same old recruiter scam, preying on vulnerable people to give them money for services that amount to nothing much useful, despite the attempted bribery.

Just because you're dressing it up with hip growth-hackery YC startup bullshit, doesn't make it any better than any other bottom-feeding, scummy recruiters.

My feedback is: stop doing this.
Gotenna, a mesh networking device with miles of range
They have numbers in the paper[0] linked in TFA. They trained on 29 samples and tested on 12 samples. On those samples, all techniques (NN, SVM, CNN) all had 100% true positive rates. The CNNs did best on false positives, giving on average 2-3 per sample.

Also, it is very important to note: they are comparing a CNN analysing a GC-MS[1] sample to a human expert analysing a GC-MS sample, which is basically a 1D plot of intensities of chemicals. This is not a comparison to a human smelling someone's breath.

Also, as far as I can see, they never compare to a GC-MS run with selective ion monitoring (SIM), which would be a lot faster for the human to analyse.

[0] (ResearchGate link, sorry):
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324921031_Convoluti...

[1] A gas-chromatograph mass spectrometer is a device which samples a gas and detects what chemical species are present. It's what they do at airports when they swipe that piece of fabric on your luggage and put it in a machine (GC-MS) to look for explosives. It's a nice tool, used extensively in labs worldwide, but expensive (usually a couple hundred thousand USD, depending on specifications).
This is interesting to see being used in real world.
Still wondering what types of cancer it can detect. Maybe throat cancer, who knows.
Don't worry Google, Apple, et al just listen to you outright.
US gov quizzes AI experts about when the machines will take over
Yeah, but ... most things in the earth's crust don't biodegrade. Sandstone doesn't really biodegrade, and we have a lot of sandstone near where I live. What makes plastic worse once it is covered with a layer of soil?
>[...]do you really need to dishwash everything?

You don't! Unless you have flies and cockroaches infested kitchen, some stray bacteria left after just water-washing will be much less harmful than eating the stuck-on-surface dishsoap (which does not rinse off completely, since it's hydrophobic). I have an even worse opinion of people constantly bleaching their countertops. shudder

As an anecdote, I once had a misfortune of living with a guy who would never rinse off the dishsoap from the dishes at all, just leave them out to dry still covered in suds!
Good. Everything wrong with non-subscription clickbait-driven news is amplified on Facebook. Very little is gained for that cost.
From what I can tell, dogs worked well in the laboratory, but it did not work well in the field. In the lab they usually had 1/5 or so positive samples, but in the field, it was a much lower positive rate depending upon cancer and the dog handler would not be able to give positive reinforcement immediately in the field, also different dogs have different success rates.
https://www.livescience.com/61234-how-dogs-smell-cancer.html
Homeschooling Gifted Children-Help for Struggling Parents
I'm getting strong Theranos vibes from this.
I've opened an issue here, feel free to +1:

https://github.com/Plume-org/Plume/issues/93
Nope, millimeter wave scanners barely penetrate the upper skin layers, and I don't think they have the contrast required to differentiate even a skin tumor from normal skin.
I was thinking how things like this could revolutionize healthcare by reducing the need for doctors, who we never have enough of. But you know the saying, AI is always the thing we can't do yet? Meaning the goalposts shift, and stuff that was previously considered a goal of AI research is now just boring automation, and so AI is still a distant dream. Well it occurs to me that there is something similar with healthcare: healthcare is whatever is still expensive to provide. Regardless of how many life-saving treatments and inventions are adopted, there will still be some things that only hospital/clinic staff can help you with. And so we will always have the same bottleneck and people will always complain about access to healthcare, using this bottleneck as their barometer.
The baseline is not humans smelling breath, it's humans looking at a graph.
Unfortunately, at the moment it's impossible to rename/move your account to a different domain, and if your mastodon instance is shut down(which, let's face it, is likelier to happen than twitter shutdown), you still lose your followers.

You can host your own instance, of course, but that requires time/money for maintenance, and not everyone will do this.
> How about a language that loses the ability to redefine structures and methods after a certain point?

Sounds awesome! We could call the phases before that point "compile time" and "preprocessor time", and the phase after that point "run time".

/sarc
Does anyone know if there are some good ActivityPub implementations in Node?
I pay $30 / month for my phone bill. That's it. I don't use a lot of cell data, but I have more than enough for some light streaming, GPS, price checking, etc. When I'm not at home or the office (on wifi).

Oh, and there's no arbitrary limitation on tethering either.

Yes, competition is delightful, but sometimes you actually have to try.
Can someone eli5 the lindelof hypothesis?
I was looking into some transatlantic flights a few days ago. The cheapest one had a 20 hour layover in Iceland, which for a vacation type/no rush flight would be awesome.