skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of companies here in Austria will hire people from abroad. We just don't have enough programmers, and if you have a computer science degree it is very easy to get a visa, no matter where you are from.

That being said, companies might get a lot of applications from abroad. When I advertised a programming job in Austria on Stack Overflow, I got more applications from Egypt, India, etc than from local candidates. So you need to be good. You need to be better than all the other good people from abroad that apply for the job. Getting a Visa isn't difficult, but it still takes a few weeks or months, so companies only do it for really good candidates.

You say you have the ability to impress people -- how do you know that? Most junior developers I've met overestimate their own abilities, and don't understand when companies looking for senior candidates don't hire them.

Also: make sure that your applications are relevant and on point. Some people copy paste application letters and send almost identical applications to dozens of companies. When I get a low effort application like that, I just throw it out. If the candidate can't bother to explain in a few sentences why their experience is a fit for this position, they aren't worth my time.

Make sure to focus on relevant experience. If I'm looking for someone to build an online shop, I probably don't care about your robotics project in undergrad.

Finally, consider looking for smaller companies. Big, popular companies in major cities receive a lot of applications. Small companies in smaller cities don't get any applications at all and pay recruiters 15000€ per hire because noone replies to their ads.
I programmed professionally in common lisp for about a decade. Everything you said is exactly backwards:

- You can use whatever paradigm you want.

- Most implementations are fast enough.

- A competent programmer with expert guidance can be effective in common lisp within a day.

- It has many functions, perhaps more than any other language

- It is tricky to implement fully and correctly (I used to contribute to ECL; Embeddable Common-Lisp)

Lisp is perhaps the most effective language.

ESR says[1]: [LISP is worth learning for] the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it. That experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use LISP itself a lot. (You can get some beginning experience with LISP fairly easily by writing and modifying editing modes for the Emacs text editor, or Script-Fu plugins for the GIMP.)

However RG says[2]: I just wasn't a very good programmer any more. Lisp's power had made me complacent, and the world had passed me by. Looking back, I actually don't think I was ever a very good programmer. I just happened to have the good fortune to recognize a good thing when I saw it, and used the resulting leverage to build a successful career. But I credit much of my success to the people who designed Common Lisp.

[1]: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

[2]: http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Lisp/comp.lang.lisp/2006...
I loved the teardown and the article as a whole but that header was MASSIVE. On my 13" MacBook I could see very little content. I ended up deleting the header + nav and that mad it much better but I would have expected it to slim down or hide once I scrolled down.
Having built some SPA's, I'd argue that at least those two things that you mentioned are the fault of whoever built bad SPA's, rather than issues with SPA's as a whole. It's possible to build an SPA that works well with the browser controls because modern browsers expose a lot of their functionality to JavaScript (like it or not). You can use <a> tags for buttons and links in an SPA (and keep the link functionality) -- you can just intercept the clicks when the link is being opened in the current tab, and you can always hook onto pushState/popState to make the back/forward button work.
There are services which verify education - for instance, the National Student Clearinghouse (US) provides degree verification through affiliated schools for $15 plus a varying school surcharge.

For non-US schools, there are services that will provide an evaluation of foreign academic credentials. I know someone who was reviewing a candidate from Poland for a position requiring specific credentials and used a service to find that the listed education did not meet US standards for the position credentials.

Best not to lie. When I hire, education is last on my list of criteria, but if I select a candidate and the HR background check turns up an outright lie, it is out of my hands.
That was my thought as well... It was an interesting (if pretty high level) teardown, but all the leaps from a part to what that part "means" seemed like the author was trying to backfill a narrative.
Agreed, I dip my toes in a lot of things but would never consider putting them on my resume unless I have at least a substantial project that I can talk about in depth.
The only thing I could think about when I read this post was this classic tweet:

https://twitter.com/wesbos/status/598144948559605760
Safari mobile - disaster
This reads more like a no-hire report for @ayande than whoever they were interviewing. Turning a bunch of confidential interview notes into an article basically about yourself.. whoa.

The only meaningful tidbit is buried at the end: of course it's important to demonstrate a willingness to learn, and many people fail to demonstrate that time and time again.
Search and seizure does seem like a bizarre way of being a 'witness'. I suppose this is a response to Zwiebelfreunde being expected to not reveal the information they seek.
Physical and Mental Effects of Bathing: A Randomized Intervention Study
They still lack HDMI too on their two older sound bars.

I ended up going to Denon HEOS AVR which works great as a fully featured home theater amp (DD+ and DTS-HD) with wireless rears and similar casting abilities.
Interesting, care to elaborate?

Moravec's Paradox is that everyone thought that sensory input would be easy and reasoning about those inputs would be hard. But it turns out that the sensory input part is very hard, much harder than anyone thought, and once you have that down, the reasoning is actually simple. So any service that is relying on humans doing the sensory input bit is handwaving away the difficult part. Humans aren't really aware of how much processing is involved in things we take for granted such as sight and hearing. We think that thinking is "special" but it requires relatively little power to do that once the underlying hardware/wetware has already processed the signals.

For example, a fundamental bit of logic is

if pedestrian():
apply_brakes()

Which is trivial... once you have a pedestrian() function that is.

"Would a human say this photo contains cats", is really how a lot of ML interprets the question "where is my cat"?

Yes and no. If you ask a human, why do you think this is a cat, he or she will say, well look at the whiskers and the ears and the paws and the general overall cuteness. But an NN doesn't have a whisker coefficient or a cuteness multiplier. It doesn't "think" like a human and nor should we expect it to. ML that is more human-like is a decision tree, but once you start getting into random decision jungles and the like, the explainability starts to diminish.
Take a look at Libratone [0]. I love my Zipps. Bonus is the inbuilt battery; so you can take it anywhere. Appears as an audio output on all Apple devices, so can be used for anything. Also works standalone with internet radio stations. Nice bit of kit. Should be better known.

[0] https://www.libratone.com/
I get what you’re saying, but Sonos works differently than a normal speaker. It is playing the music, not your other device. The app is a control. So if you turn on music and leave with your phone, the music keeps going. When other people connect, they see your music and services, not theirs. It’s its own thing - not just a speaker.

That said, your point about, “will it continue to work if sonos, the company, is shut down?” Is a valid one.
The whole point of the linked article is that juice is basically nutritionally equivalent to soda.
I think you may have missed when GP explicitly said

>> I don't mean ideologically, but empirically

That said, I disagree with your base claim that

> It normalizes racism and sexism

Those things are already normalized. The idea that everyone has the same opportunities and is treated the same is nice but not matched by reality.

Pushing things in the direction they're already in makes the divide larger. Pushing things in the opposite direction will make the divide smaller - or at least, that's the hope here
I did some research on this about 5 years ago at a former job. Unfortunately, I no longer have access to it, but the slope of the yield curve definitely had some interesting correlations with recessions.

My (incredibly simplistic) reasoning for the correlation is that as short term interest rates rise (relative to long term interest rates), investors reallocate money away from risky assets (VC / PE / Small-Cap Equities) into short term investments (Money Markets, T-Bills). And since risky assets are what really drive our economic growth IMO, we start to see a real slowdown in economic output.

While the curve has been flattening, it certainly is not flat (or inverted like it has before). I'm cautiously optimistic about the U.S. economy over the short term (1-3 years). After that, who knows.

The Fed loves to revise data retroactively, so take the following graph with a grain of salt, but they do publish a 'Probability of US Recession Predicted by Treasury Spread' [1]

[1] https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/capit...
You seem to operate under assumption that unlike other people you are personally immune from early cancer. This assumption is wrong.
Milk is homogenized so I am not sure how close 3.5% is to ideal. But I would say that humans are probably pretty well adapted to drinking their milk because they've been doing it for millennia.

The thing about fat is that it can increase feelings of satiety.
I get what you’re saying. But the OP addresses this argument, shifting attention away from code and more towards the purpose of the site:

“A website's materials aren't HTML tags, CSS, or JavaScript code. Rather, they are its content and the context in which it's consumed. A website is for a visitor, using a browser, running on a computer to read, watch, listen, or perhaps to interact. A website that embraces Brutalist Web Design is raw in its focus on content, and prioritization of the website visitor.”
Tails is a Debian Live CD that automatically proxies everything through Tor.

AfD is a group that is essentially the Nazi Party 2.0.

The German police raided the host of Torservers.net in an effort to hunt down people protesting against AfD, and it seems to have been conducted as some sort of scare tactic (which would be unfortunate if Germany is actually helping a modern Nazi party).

More information here: https://blog.torservers.net/20180704/coordinated-raids-of-zw...
Why not? Even people that post comments like yours should be able to procreate, IMO :).

Some get cancer, some drink too much, some get diabetes, some are dumb, some have heart diseases, hemophilia and so on. Probably 90%-98% of the population has one or a few things "wrong" in their genetic makeup. Who gets to decide?
What is your source for the $18 worth of parts? How are you basing the sound quality? Keep in mind there is much more investment that goes into a consumer product, especially one like any of the Beats. There is design, engineering, marketing, testing, lawyers, copyrights, logistics/shipping...

Many expensive headphones use plastic because of weight. Even the Sony MDR-Z1R have plastic. One of the only headphones I know that don't was the Sony MDR-R10, but from my understanding of the history of those, Sony was actually losing money on every pair sold ($2,500/pair).

I'm not saying Beats are great, but they get picked on for reasons. It seems almost like a meme and they aren't a terrible product. They work well for what they are meant. People like the way they look. They are supported by one of the most iconic companies in the world and sold in every Apple Store (and many others) with a large variety of different models and colors. Bring them into any Apple Store when something goes wrong and even out of warranty you can sometimes get help from a Apple or a Genius and/or a replacement.
Try making some fresh juice and see how many apples it takes to make a glass of apple juice
Cargo bikes as symbolic markers of egalitarian gender roles
http://bruceblinn.com/parable.html
> some domain and number holders have no incorperated body: they hold the resource as a private individual

whois has been useful to me in the past for finding out whether a DNS name is held by the foundation/company/trust/whatever or if it's held by a private individual who set up the foundation/trust/whatever. When a whois lookup shows a certain private individual listed as owner, admin, and tech contact for some DNS name, then I can know the foundation is a sham created to make it look like the open source product is community controlled, when in fact it's really just one narcissist pulling the strings.

I say keep the whois service as is.
This article makes in seem like ancient history, but there are still projects around that use CVS or very similar VCS like for example ClearCase. My software engineering career started after git got popular, but I had to work with ClearCase. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

The inability to go back to old states of your project unless you happened to tag them makes finding the cause of bugs extremely hard. I don't know how it is in CVS, but in Clearcase you can tag only a subset of the files and what you check out from the server is determined by a complex configuration file ("the configuration specification"). This is an additional hurdle to reconstructing old states of your software because now you need to know the config-spec to do so. Even if you have the old config spec, it might contain fallback rules ("just take the latest version of the file") that effectively make it impossible to reproduce the old state. Unless you're extremely disciplined in your usage of the tool it's a real challenge to fix bugs for old releases. And don't get me started on trying to backport bugfixes into several old releases when branches are managed for each file separately.

This lack of a proper project wide history also makes it extremely challenging to migrate to a different tool without losing a lot of information.
PC Building in 2018: How to Defeat the Infuriating Problems
Depends on what you mean by sound quality. If you're looking for reference sound, then yes, they're bad. But if you just want something that sounds good, they they fit the bill[0].

[0] - https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/27/10840614/beats-by-dre-hea...
How do they handle bogus results from MTurk? I know people that tried to use it and had to stop because 95% of the "workers" just put meaningless data in hoping you don't notice and they get paid.
In my experience inter-continental flights to and from the U.K. are often a lot cheaper than from mainland Europe.

As an example, flying with Emirates to Dubai is often a few hundred euro cheaper from London that any other north and central European destinations they fly directly to.
I would be quite surprised if you found a top-25 school that would accept community college credits 1:1. I am familiar with one of the top liberal arts schools in the US and credit transfers are most often at the discretion of the department of your declared major - a professor at an "elite" liberal arts school is very unlikely to assign much value to community college credits.

Of course, the ability to transfer of credits will vary immensely depending on the university and the community college - some of which are highly regarded. If you are planning this route and know the educational institutions you want to attend, it would be prudent to verify at the outset.
A div that looks different in every browser
IMO, Verge was a shit show from day one...
Linguistic prescriptivism adds no substance to an argument, it just wastes time on the fact that different people have different definitions. Try descriptivism out - instead of telling people what a word means, understand what they mean when they say a word (ignoring the fact that you disagree with their usage of that word), and argue against the substance of their message
Isn't the fact that you can consume way more fruit than normal through juice precisely the problem?

If you're thinking about a meal replacement, rather than a replacement for water, a smoothie would probably be more filling (although still not as much as fresh fruit, I don't think).
I never said it's all good. I said there has been real wage growth the past few years, with the highest year over year gain on record in 2014.

And again, most workers were not working 50 years ago. Many have seen real wage growth in their working lifetime.

You're still ignoring that there has been demographic changes also over the past 50 years. At the start of that many people didn't work, and were not counted in median wages. They were not looking for work and were not in the workforce. Since 1960 women and minorities entered the workforce in mass. Both of those groups have seen tremendous wage growth over the past 50 years.

So simply taking the median as you do, ignoring changes in the age and make up of the workforce, you miss a lot of gains.

You also ignore that total compensation, as measured by BLS stats, has increased far faster than wage growth. Currently wages only make up about 70% of total compensation [1]. Healthcare costs borne by employer are the simplest one to recognize - 50 years ago employers didn't pay much and costs were low. As healthcare costs increased, cost to employer increased far faster than wages, but this is still a benefit to the employee.

You also ignore that total cost to employ, again as measured by BLS has increased, due to regulations (many good) passing costs onto employer, things that also benefit workers. There has been significant federal legislation passed in the past 50 years that benefit workers, at a cost to employers. This cost results in benefits to workers but at a reduced wage.

BLS tracks all this in various indices.

So, if you simply look at median wage, ignore demographics, ignore increased benefits, ignore regulatory costs that benefit workers, then sure, things are not magically increasing. But all those other things are benefits to workers that do not show up in median wages. Adding them in gives a pretty big increase in total benefits to workers over the past 50 years.

So if you really want to argue more than I initially wrote, then let's do. But at least don't ignore factors counter to the narrative you want to spread.

You want to argue something else than what I posted.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.nr0.htm
>>which would be unfortunate if Germany is actually helping a modern Nazi party

Need to define "protest". Maybe they called for Neo-Nazis to be killed or hurt. In that case, the state has the monopoly of violence.
Was inspired to take up programming by a community college teacher. I attended his lectures 8 years back. He kept insisting we learn how to program our TI calculators and said programming was a vital skill. I was scared of breaking my laptop if I downloaded software. Downloaded R as a result of the confidence I felt from the success with the TI. Went on to do a second masters focusing on data. From a math class for kicks to a career change! All thanks to the inspiration from a community college teacher.
I hope the judge who approved these actions or the people who carried them out without approval will face appropriate consequences.

Treating witnesses in such a manner is reprehensible and abusive.
It would be nice to see some photos of the package made to adapt the miniboard to the USB connector. (Or the upper part in the photo has the right wires to just fit in a USB slot?)
In the advertising industry, this is called a lifestyle brand. I suspect that the earliest lifestyle brands were luxury watches and cars, not Pepsi.
Thanks! I agree, there's lots of potential applications. Almost anything that can be done by a Wii remote can be done by a web app.
Combine this method with Anki and it will make you genious
Imo stating "AfD is Nazi party 2.0" is very oversimplified. I agree there are some Nazi supporters there but most are people with anti illegal immigration views which doesn't mean they are Nazis.
> When people talk about Git being a “distributed” system, this is primarily the difference they mean. In CVS, you can’t make commits locally. A commit is a submission of code to the central repository, so it’s not something you can do without a connection.

Not just commits - log, diff, status, almost everything I can remember needed to go off to the remote repository for information. Not only was this annoying when you didn't have connectivity, it was slow when you did.

I do occasionally miss the ability to version files individually though.
Cherry picking one case where one economy entered a war in a depression and exited out of a depression ignores all the other cases where wars made a country poorer.

Tell me again how WWII helped all the various economies involved and was not a net loss to the majority of them?

Confused...
The Aztecs had proto-writing, which is to say that they couldn't write down a complete Nahuatl sentence, but they generally could identify proper nouns and action verbs. For example, you could describe an event such as "we attacked Texcoco, and defeated them, and forced them to give us tribute" with a glyph for your city, a glyph for an attack, a glyph for Texcoco, and a glyph for tribute, with orientation indication who attacked whom and who gave whom tribute. The Indus Valley script and the Quechua quipu are other examples of proto-writing, although the exact extent of what they recorded is under very vigorous dispute.
The tone of the article is aggravating - "debunking" and "debunked" are continuously used to say that, basically, modern researchers used modern techniques to prove older results partially wrong. As if this is something uncommon, in the sciences!

I am very surprised that the accusations of potential fraud come from the researchers themselves, despite the fact that they admit the use of tools unavailable to the older researcher.

It make me wonder whether all this talk of "debunking" and "myths" would be the case if this was not about Stonehenge, a subject that tends to attract lots of attention from quacks and loons of all stripes.
I'm not sure where you got the impression I was speaking for other white males, as I don't think I was speaking about anything at all in my post.

"It normalises racism and sexism" still seems pretty deep in the territory of thought experiment, so I'm still having trouble seeing exactly what are the human consequences of this -- could you give me explicit examples of how this fund negatively impacts individual people (whether or not they are the targeted beneficiaries of the fund)?
If you want insurance to take the role of regulation you quickly end up with certification programs that are necessary to get any insurance. Those programs are just regulations in disguise that are divorced from any democratic process for changing them. If you want to rely on litigation you face the problem that big companies can afford armies of lawyers that can delay rulings until the injured party runs out of funds or fighting will.
So, in an effort to fight off/investigate a “far right” political organization (it doesn’t matter whether they are or aren’t), the police are using some scary tactics that one might expect from an extreme political party in power. Great work there. Way to be the change you want to see in the world.