skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, I'm a fellow non-college-grad with a ~1.7 GPA who's worked at 2 of FANG and got an offer from a third.

The best actionable advice I can give you is: put Caltech on your resume with your years of attendance, leave off your GPA entirely, and indicate in text under that that it's incomplete. You'll need a compelling narrative around why it's incomplete (which is admittedly difficult and usually circumstance-specific) or why it doesn't matter too much given that you've done X. X is something impressive, uncommon, and shows intelligence and initiative. As an example, my Xs were getting press in lifehacker for a side project and doing well in a FANG hackathon while in school.

For jobs, I think a common myth is that your credentials/resume is hugely important. From what I've seen, this is both true and false. The _specifics_ of your resume don't really matter 99% of the time, only that they're interesting. Also, keep in mind most resumes are screened by a real, live human - being authentic and passionate can help out as a break from the BS a recruiter sees day-to-day (but do think about what a recruiter would be looking for at a glance). After you clear the resume filter, you're on a similar playing field vs. every other candidate. And then it's up to you and your ability to pass interviews - that's a whole other topic which I won't cover here =P

If it helps, feel free to reach out through linkedin or email in my profile. Stay focused and keep your chin up!
What does a "rejuvenated Mac look like"? The entire market for traditional PC's have been declining for years. What could Apple possibly do to reverse that decline? It could very well be argued that the current processors for PCs are "overserving" the market.
I agree, but I think my original point covers this - if video proves to be very easy to fake at scale (e.g. using your example of a turnkey website) then that should result in equally large-scale scepticism about video as evidence. The internet may drown in annoying deepfake-based memes but as long as everyone knows its all fake, there seems little potential for the kind of serious harm people are worried about (reputational damage, election meddling etc.)
It would be awesome if Spring Boot can be made compatible with Graal. and Truffle
It would be nice to be more specific then. I am, probably, a rich one. And such statements really hurts me after giving away a lot of cash to federal government. Money which I earned by living frugally (still am), working fulltime job + building businesses, and learning every day.
Now I understand why they don't have a demo.
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Was about to say the same thing. It took a little while to get used to the idea that seeing `Last updated 2 years ago` didn't mean the library was dead. If I ask in the slack channel about a library I'll very often get a message back in a matter of minutes from the author confirming that it still works.
A friend of mine used to work on research in this area, which is really fascinating from the outside. In practice it meant she spent much of her time trudging through the jungle collecting primate feces, but on the other hand she got to say she was a zoopharmacognosiologist, which IMO is one of the cooler job titles out there.
In some languages a call stack is only useful as an optimization and some other form of control flow must be emitted for certain constructs that violate the stack paradigm (e.g. call/cc in Scheme, conditions/restarts in Common Lisp). C is also one of the only languages where general pointer arithmetic is necessary; in most languages used today more restricted forms of pointer arithmetic would be more than adequate.

I am not saying these are negative tradeoffs as far as the ISA goes, but it is absolutely the case that modern CPUs are designed with C (or some similar language) in mind.
The question seems to be, in which cases could a high GPA be a negative signal?

The answer depends on the qualities the employer is optimizing for in its employees. It’s easy to imagine how a high GPA could be a positive signal or a low GPA could be a negative signal. However, it’s also possible to imagine some circumstances where a high GPA may be a negative signal and a low GPA a high signal.

For example, perhaps a high GPA at a hard school implies a tendency for isolation, a preference for conformity over risk, and quality of work that depends solely on the specificity of instructions given. Depending on the stage of the company hiring, and/or the role it’s hiring for, these traits may be undesirable and therefore useful as a negative hiring signal.

That said, the question of GPA as a signal is too focused in scope. Any such consideration of a signal metric like GPA should be balanced with its inverse: the likelihood of a low metric (e.g., GPA) being a negative signal.

A holistic approach would include creating a matrix of (x) traits the company wants to select or filter, and (y) input signals like GPA. That is, a mapping of signals to traits.

For each signal and trait the company should strive to estimate the probability function of the following cases:

- High metric (GPA) is a negative signal for trait

- High metric (GPA) is a positive signal for trait

- Low metric (GPA) is a positive signal for trait

- Low metric (GPA) is a negative signal for trait

The company should consider the importance of the trait(s) it is selecting for, and the relative risks (downsides) of misinterpreting any signal used as an input for selecting those traits. Only then does it have the information necessary to create a useful hiring strategy and rubric for candidates.
I have actually consulted to doc and she said there is nothing to worry right now and that I should wait.

I posted this question here because I was curious to know about other people's experience regarding this issue. That's it.
Are you referring to the right to obtain profit from forks?
It's free, you just need to create an account and you can use the course authoring tools.
A fun way to think about this is by analyzing the 'training-time' for these tasks.

The things we think are easy, we've been trained to do through millions of years of evolution. Running with two feet through a forest is pretty easy for us. Not so much so for computers.

The things that we think are mentally taxing, we've only been doing for a few thousand years or so.
Live Example:

https://reactual.lib.id/hnfavs@dev/?id=sbr464&limit=1
A really bizarre data that I saw during US elections, was that during pooling (before actual elections) the map of Trump voters, was almost identical to the map of places with high death rates.

Also largest trump voter demographic, as the media currently keep harping all the time as "racist whites males", is the only demographic in US with rising death rates.

I don't know why certain US demographics started since 2008 to die at such speed, suicides for example rising unusually fast, and "gun crime" when you actually split homocides and suicides, also show ludicrous numbers of suicides (while gun homicides are less than with other weaponry, like knives and bats).

So whatever happened, it affected a certain demographic epically bad...

And when someone propose to be a saviour, no matter how much you hate that person, you will vote for it... When people have literally nothing to lose and next "step" in their life, is death, anything else is better.

EDIT: tried to find original source, failed, but found this article instead... still make the same point: http://www.businessinsider.com/maps-counties-where-opioid-de...
I'm not completely convinced that cheating would not be detectable after aggregating some statistics over time. (Similar to how you can extract encryption keys from server processes, simply by timing how long certain operations take.)
Yes, but the idea is that if it isn't the most comfortable place to shoot up in the vicinity, then people will just go somewhere else.
Are they from some sort of scientific simulation? As graphics, they look terrible. I hope they have some sort of value outside aesthetics.
U.S. Millennials Report They Are Happier in Cities, Not Small Towns
This is the most poorly named venture, there's a huge political battle going on about immigrants and custody of their children at the border, custody itself usually goes hand in hand with 'battle'.

Having worked with foster children, trying to adopt, when they went back to a relative, and we lost custody it was painful. Custody to MANY MANY people in America has VERY negative connotations.
Linux upstream gets 7 commits per hour, but the Linux project is divided into subsystems which are run like independent projects that periodically push their work upstream. The volume of activity that Linux receives is very high.

Can you back up your statements with evidence? I have no reason to believe that email wouldn't work in a large monorepo-like setting. The less-than-10-in-total companies which have crazy Google-tier monorepos may run into issues with this (honestly, though, I doubt it), but they are not the norm.
This is what happens when the criminals are in charge and get to write the laws.

No, that's not anti-American hyperbole. It's just Illinois history.

The law was created by crooked politicians to protect crooked cops, politicians, and their cronies.

Corruption is a way of life in Illinois, and especially Chicago. It's ingrained in the system. There are dozens and dozens of books about it, and the reason that so many of last century's major journalists came out of Chicago.

Whenever I hear people from New York or Los Angeles or pretty much any other American city moan about their politicians being corrupt, I laugh to myself and think, "amateurs."
The timestamp the client is requesting should be a query parameter not part of the URL.
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Here's an Anandtech benchmark from the relatively recent release of Ryzen+Vega: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12425/marrying-vega-and-zen-t...

Essentially, the current gen Intel GMAs are more or less equivalent to AMD's last gen APUs. Ryzen with Vega is around 3x faster. In the past, AMD tended to focus on the iGPU at the expense of the CPU, but with Ryzen, it's also comparable to Coffee Lake while maintaining the massive GPU lead.
There is a subset with spring-fu (https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-fu). They are working to support the native-image feature of graalvm (https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-fu/issues/29).
>Is SBCL winning in anything?

It is one of the most active implementation of Common Lisp (other being Clozure CL) and one of the fastest thanks to its support of optional type hinting (which it had long, long before gradual typing become in vogue recently). With some type hinting, it is possible to generate a code that's almost as fast as C (in certain cases, of course, but still much better than other implementations).

>Nobody seems to have done any serious work in SBCL in over a decade.

Could you please elaborate on what you mean by this?

SBCL releases a new version that contains both enhancements and bugfixes every couple of months, with the latest version (version 1.4.9, released on June 28, 2018, ~5 days ago) came one just one month after the previous version, 1.4.8, so I really don't understand what you mean when you said that no one "seems to have done any serious work in SBCL in over a decade".

You can also see all previous releases and their changlog here: http://www.sbcl.org/all-news.html.

Or did you meant to say that no one use SBCL to do serious work? Well, with some googling, I'm sure you'll be able to find that, while not many, there are companies that use SBCL (and other Common Lisp implementations) in production and other non-trivial works (not to mention various freelancers who use SBCL to put foods on the table). Some of those companies are also involves with the development of SBCL as well.

>Basic things are either completely missing or broken.

Care to list them? One of the strength of SBCL is that the devs are very responsive, especially to bug reports, so I'm sure they would be more than happy to fix the problems that you encountered.
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I recommend replacing dmenu with rofi and checking out zathura for pdfs. With the mupdf backend it supports both pdfs and epubs it has almost no ui configurable vim like keybindings for navigation and search opens instantly and doesn't use much ram.
Yeah, the updates are honestly pretty bad.

For that broken rail incident, I'm pretty sure I could have gotten home. The announcement said Clark St. was closed, which is my station... but I am pretty sure, in retrospect, that they meant that there would be no Manhattan-bound trains at that station because they're being rerouted over the 4/5, but I think Brooklyn-bound trains were not being rerouted (as that rail wasn't broken). They were very unclear, and so I just took an alternate route. They could have been completely clear, but chose not to.

(I'll also point out that they provided walking directions from Clark St. to Borough Hall... but they provided directions to the actual Brooklyn Borough Hall, not the subway station with the same name. Oops.)
I think what we really need is an embarrassing term for "someone who was fooled by a deepfake" (like "catfish"), so that there will be a social stigma that incentivizes people to not be tricked by them.

I don't currently have any better ideas that "getting deepfaked". Suggestions?
The getting good grades system is very much a structured system as far as education goes. That's not necessarily wrong, but when you get out of school some folks when they get outside that system seem to struggle with knowing what to do. That's not to say they fail, but sometimes seem a bit off, waiting for the associated praise and looking for a similar system to fit into. Folks who weren't invested in such a system and maybe were more comfortable with the more nebulous world of life sometimes adapt a bit quicker.

One company I worked for loved to bring in recent MBA grads. These kids had little work experience (IMO MBAs should not be given without something like 10 years actual work experience) outside their internships or whatever. They showed up and loved to try to introduce rigid systems for success, random rules, and / or just had no initiative outside being told what exactly to do and what would get them a good "grade" (some seemed uncomfortable with anything but academic like measurements).

Granted some did just fine but it was very much the old FedEx commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gh9k9qzddA

Give me some people who have had to make some decisions, fail and start over please.
MoviePass Parent Files to Raise $1.2B to Stay Afloat
Viable, absolutely.

Are current valuations correct, though? That's not nearly as easy a question to answer. If in reality Snapchat is worth $8b, not $16b (current market value), then $8b of capital gets destroyed the moment everyone realizes the "true" value. Now, repeat that process over every highly valued and highly leveraged tech company that exists. Many billions of dollars could cease to exist in a short matter of time, which would impact bonds issued by, and loans taken out by, these companies, the bond market more generally, and the stock market.
I'm not sure about that.

The direct cause of the 2008 crash was unavailability of loans once the risks of mortgage-backed securities became apparent, no?
Perhaps they were comedic? I don't get it either.
> This sounds extreme, but it’s effectively what happened in the feudal era. Wealthy nobles would support whichever king had the resources to protect them. Only thing I’m doing is replacing “wealthy nobles” with “corporations” — which are essentially “jointly owned” among the entire “nobility” (I.e. the capital class in the West).

OK, so let's look at a major US bank, JP Morgan Chase: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/jpm/holders/

75% of the bank is owned by "institutions" like Vanguard, Blackrock, Fidelity, State Street, etc. which are mostly proxies for mutual funds, index funds, and ETF's. The largest individual fund is the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund, followed by a number of other index funds from Vanguard and others.

Index funds are owned, not just by rich investors, but also by workers with 401(k) and IRA retirement accounts, university endowments, and pension funds. The top ten university endowments account for over $150B (https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/Endow...) while the California Public Employees Retirement System by itself holds even more in public equity alone (https://www.calpers.ca.gov/page/investments/asset-classes/tr...).
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Oldie but goodie.

Jokes aside, lacking significant result, there's no big incentive to publish filler and "Towards.." type papers if you do something as a hobby. If one does feel so inclined, it's definitely inching towards crackpot territory. Very likely countless amateur projects quietly start and die every year without making a peep.
Sorry about that! Reminds me of Tor not TOR. :)
> ...as long as everyone knows its all fake,

There's a shockingly large number of people who aren't even convinced that election meddling took place in 2016, or that propaganda was disseminated to many people on social media, despite unanimity from US intelligence.

If we as a society can't all agree that these things even happened, how can we hope to properly educate people on the existence/prevalence of fake video? It seems like common sense to many people, but we can't assume that everyone will accept these truths based on the political rhetoric we've seen in the last few years.
If you are a rich individual, you will be paying the 20% capital gains rate. 15% is the middle-class rate.

And unless the government starts allowing people to deduct inflation losses on their investments (complicated), which can be substantial, long-term capital gains will always be at a lower rate than income taxes.
I wonder if that's a limitation of the (likely ancient) systems they pull the data from, or just a terrible convention. Even a vertical refresh, one complete line at a time, would let you show a lot more updates to the passengers than a horizontal scroll.
considering that another two trials washed out since this article was written, “yes” seems an ever-more plausible and tragic answer.
this is strongly biased
I want to clarify that there's plenty of value around cryptocurrency that doesn't involve believing in it, but it helps to understand the different worldviews.
It appears you can block app access by going to the "Apps with account access" page under 'Sign-in & Security' on your Google account page. I just checked on one of my accounts and there are a few apps like WordPress with basic profile access.

This page is hard to find and it's even harder to parse the meaning of the current settings, let alone track changes to them over time.
>I'm still not sure if that was the right decision. Part of me says I'm living in LA and I have a year of work on my resume, a bunch of knowledge from the tech CS program, a couple of mildly interesting personal projects on my GitHub, and I should be ok; I just need to put myself out there.

Your GitHub projects are extremely valuable, some of the more interesting companies have scripts that automatically search for open source contributors to widely used projects on GitHub . I didn't even go to college and am paid at a competitive level for my experience with recruiters contacting me daily on LinkedIn, though I'm not a pure software developer (DevOps). Keep working on those GitHub projects, solve algorithm questions on LeetCode/Hackerrank/ any of the competitive programming sites, always be learning something new. The debt and stress with a college degree isn't worth it when no sane project owner on GH will reject a PR due to college credentials, thereby continuing to increase the value of your own resume in addition to your work experience.