skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would never hire anyone that I didn’t think fit in with our team...why would I do that?

Because you might benefit from having someone with a different perspective in a professional environment.

An older parent might not "fit in" with a team of 22 year-old fresh grads, but still provide valuable experience and perspective in a way that an additional 22 year-old might not. You can probably extrapolate how this might also affect women and minorities.

Sure, in an ideal world "fit in" means simply "can coexist peacefully with", but in practice it can end up being a dog-whistle phrase (very similarly to "culture fit", which the article alludes to).
Nigeria's tech startup ecosystem
I stand by that statement.
Here is for a conspiracy conspiracy: The connection between fueling conspiracy theories and foreign intelligence agencies is interesting. See for instance the "active measures" [1] tactic.

I don't know all the details yet, but Facebook and Youtube should have connections with US intelligence. If Alex Jones, like WikiLeaks, was used by foreign agencies to promote conspiracy theories harmful to US political and democratic coherence (9/11, birther movement, division over gun rights, pizzagate), these companies should be aware of that, which turns their decision into a different light (but of course, they can not come clean about this yet).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures
Thanks for the tipp definitely looking into that.

The platform is build using Vue for front end Node with Express as Backend and Socketcluster inbetween for real-time comm. And of course RethinkDB as database.

The landing page is build with Nuxt which reuses some components from the platform. So when you like the look you will love the member area. :)
How FiveThirtyEight’s House Model Works
Looking forward to that!
I can confirm that this works for me on i3. The default bindings are alt+click to move and alt+right-click to resize. Those are rebindable of course and I get away with using one of the extra buttons on my mouse (specifically a ring finger click) to enable the modifier.
> Pretty much anything can be modeled as a function if you crystalize the input and the output.

Or stated differently, anything can be modeled as a function if you model it as a function.

Or still differently, any action is an action.
You're again overcomplicating. We don't overcome the discomfort because it's discomfort for ourselves now. A discomfort in the hand overcomes two in the bush.

We generally only put up with discomfort when we have no other choice or something is forcing us to deal with it rather than putting it off.

Given the choice, most people avoid or put off any discomfort as much as possible.
Yeah I don't think it's any cause for alarm, and I agree that it's mostly interesting from a technical perspective.
The information itself isn't federally or state prohibited, though, right? If they didn't want to "deal with" it, then they shouldn't have a specific policy about it at all. Unless the government (or the courts) were pressuring Google on this issue, then it is simpler (and arguably fairer) to not try to be the arbiter of what is and is not allowable speech.

I can't speak for the people that create these channels or want to make these expressions, but I have to assume that at least some of them think that they are making people safer by teaching them how to legally arm themselves. That seems to be a view that Google disagrees with, so they have implemented an editorial policy on YouTube which prevents people from expressing that view in a meaningful way.

Perhaps you think that Google would only be banning people for their political views if the company openly said to them: "We are banning your channel because of a political view you have, even if you never express that view in any of your videos." That seems like an unreasonably high bar to require though. If Google said "You can support any party you want, but we won't allow Democrat political candidates to put their campaign ads on their channel." then that would, at least to me, be a ban on political views.
It's what electronics crave!

Yes, the conductivity of electrolytes in solution will tend to short out conductive pathways in the short term, and contribute to corrosion of exposed metals later on.
It's actually a pretty good article by someone with a lot of experience in the area.

>The author basically says “don’t just hire people you’d want to have a beer with” and then goes on to say that they do hire for cultural fit by looking at their ability to solve problems and overcome challenges

Those seem pretty different. One is someone I click with at a personal level. The other is someone who can do the sort of work the business needs. I've worked with plenty of people who I didn't especially like but who were clearly good at their jobs.

Sure, at some level, there are elements of culture in whether you're a process-driven organization, a let-the-best-idea win, etc. But the standard "not cultural fit" is more code for you're too old, too quiet, don't want to hang with the guys after work...
It’s a Firefox extension.
> This got me thinking that consumers are at fault as well.

When is this ever the case? Especially when the decision results in a comparative loss?
PR is hard. Replies like the one you got are a hint that you need to learn a lot more than just "This right here that I thought was not really newsworthy is totally newsworthy."

;)

(Chin up and all that. This is not intended to be in any way hostile.)
Facebook Acquires Right to Stream the Champions League in Latin America
Lack of support for one.. Safari doesn't have the market share to force developers to support it when it's painful to work with..
Reading that bug, it sounds like it was fixed in https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/51cd319fd6a... and the bug status is just incorrect?
A company has multiple websites and all of them use a reverse proxy for tracking. (a webserver that is between clients and the real webserver and just "proxies" requests and responses between them, logging all that happens)

This is completely transparent from the outside.
Flexbox Visual Guide
"Thank you for letting me enjoy that delicious cake. My life would have been poorer without it. Excellent decision."

"No problem, future me!"
Ask HN: Has Cold Contacting Investors Ever Worked for You?
Or anyone you've known?

It's one of the first things you learn, at least via US-centric entrepreneur/VC lessons: get a warm intro from someone they know. Just because they have an office or a public e-mail or LinkedIn, don't use it.

Well, has anyone just said screw it, or not known, and cold-contacted investors with any level of success? I imagine some eventually successful entrepreneurs really do start with zero network, and come from disconnected backgrounds.

Interested in hearing your stories and thoughts around this topic.
Traveling the World on a Third World Passport
Feature Engineering: Framework and Techniques
This is such a conundrum. When I really sit down and think about all the modern tech in my life, and how much of it is a promise to make my life easier, I can't help but laugh. The modern world is far more complicated and difficult to navigate than ever before. Each new piece of tech just adds to it.

Now we have to know how to navigate healthcare.gov to understand our insurance options, understand email, text, and all other smart phone etiquette. We need to know how to scan our own items at the store, how to use GPS and other touch systems in our vehicles, and know how to use multiple operating systems on computers, tablets, and other devices.

It is never ending! In 20 years, I imagine most engineers and computer scientists won't really be able to understand the scope of all tech we need on a daily basis. Technology will eventually become the equivalent of a magic crystal we carry in our pocket, but have no clue what it's source of power is or how it functions. Technologists will effectively become wizards! Without those wizards, the tech-powered society would crumble into dust.

The author is right that most people will effectively become automatons, mindlessly obeying the little taps and chimes of their tech-addled existence. They wouldn't have a choice of course, unless they are one of the few capable of obtaining a couple masters degrees in STEM.
I believe Chrome's auto-complete has a lot to do with how many times I check HN and other websites. It's automatic... I open a new tab and three key strokes and I'm here.

Does anyone know of an existing way to disable auto-complete just for some websites? I still need it for work related stuff, but I bet that if I had to type everything all the time it would be easier to prevent constant checks.
Always wondered why everything medical is either absurdly expensive, or free. Why not a reasonable price?
What if the defendant has genuinely forgotten the password?
This isn't typically true -- If a doctor writes a Rx for Lipitor, it'll almost never be filled with the Brand Name Lipitor. All insurance and most formularies expect that the generic will be provided. Doctors have to write "DAW" or "Dispense as Written" on the Rx for the patient to receive the brand name when a generic is available.

AJM Confirming that all states have Generic Substitution laws to lower drug costs: https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(10)01087-9/abstrac...
Indeed, that reminds me of the former Soviet Union :(
The problem was that they sold it (to the government and to investors) as completely homegrown. Lying to investors is a crime.
This sounds exactly right to me. In discussions with a religious friend of mine some years ago, I noticed that she had a tendency to conflate law and morality, when they really have nothing to do with each other. Further, she seemed to think that because it was illegal or bad to do something, it was reasonable to expect that people wouldn't do that thing as a result. I found (and find) this ridiculous - in large enough groups, you can use incentive/disincentive structures to push the population's behavior in a certain direction, but never with 100% effectiveness. Naturally, she disagreed.
I was running uMatrix with first-party scripts disabled by default for a while, but I found a lot of pages I needed 3 or 4 refreshes to get content. It opened my eyes to how much simple static stuff in dependent on Javascript; stuff that really shouldn't be.
FCC Sues Operators of Pirate Texas Station Known as 'Alex Jones Radio'
Great idea! I guess I'll throw out a shameless plug for my side-project, https://hackernewsletter.com, which is a weekly newsletter filled with the posts I thought were worth a read.
That appears to be for blocking JS (and opt-in only via disabling JS on the site hosting the PDF). I am unfamiliar w/ the internals of PDFs (especially concerning JS invocation), but can you request an image from a third party site without scripting? Also, what if I want the PDF's features to work and I just want to filter web requests like I do every other page out there (e.g. to remove the referrer header)?

That web requests in PDF content types are not subject to the same approach as web requests in HTML content types is the problem. Disabling all JS is a blunt instrument akin to telling someone that being able to disable JS for other webpages is as good as more nuanced ad block extension.
Women's suffrage and laws prohibiting slavery are modern but are not modern annoyances.

Your second point is already addressed: learning a new field of mathematics or science can be deeply frustrating and requires grit. The automation of daily chores does not necessitate the death of annoyance or grit.

Just like people still work hard every day even though farming highly automated.
Oh wow, that is the US-only number: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast...
Well, Euler and Gauss knew all there was to know about mathematics at the time. That consisted of algebra up to quintic equations plus their own inventions.

You'd be unpleasantly surprised if you saw a turn-of-the century-math high school textbook (1900 or so.) Pretty advanced stuff towards the end.
Hahaha, how meta. Scrolled through the comments and read this. Ok I'll read more than the article title now
I think in your rush to be sarcastic you forgot to read the part where I gave "application logic" and "library logic" some practical definitions :)

To clarify anyway - "tiling vs free-floating" is an application behaviour, "move window from (x1,y1) to (x2,y2)" is a library function; "focus follows mouse vs click-to-focus" is an application behaviour, "set_focus(window_id)" is a library function; "apps have icons vs apps have text labels" is an application behaviour, "render_icon()" and "render_text()" are library functions; etc.

As somebody who is interested in creating my own window manager, because none of the existing ones behave in the way that I want them to, I find the definition used by the author here to be very useful - the 500 lines are what I need to grok in order to build a WM which works in the way I want it to, and the 40,000 lines are what I can just call without needing to care about the internals. (To use parent's 2-line example as a counterexample - grokking those two lines is not sufficient to build the WM of my dreams)
ugh... blocking fonts makes the content invisible.
After trying several approaches what I found more useful is to have thumbnails[0] to skim HN faster..

[0] https://hnews.xyz/
Show HN: Rating places using Emojis instead of stars/text
I read the comments because HN is a lightweight and quick site and I don’t know how slow the target page might be.
"research secured"
I think the reverse of what he said was true: that tuition has risen artificially because of all the free money. But yeah I'm also skeptical that tuition would decrease even close to the same way if the money were removed. I think they'd cut supply before they cut price. Especially with the all too common "but you need a degree" fallacy
Hey HN,

my name is Tobi. We´ve build a simple local guide app using the whole range of emojis to rate places instead of text and star reviews.

All emojis are collected in a cloud which tells you everything you need to know about a places. The bigger an emoji the more relevant it is.

Would be great to hear your feedback.
Cheers,
Tobi
Correlation of that would seem to be that those who are best at dealing with discomfort are the best at doing tasks - I've found that I'm most productive that its less about being able to overcome discomfort, and more about not having the discomfort in the first place. Fear of failure, of not meeting expectations, etc can be put upon one by ones self and also the community. How do they train soldiers to be "doers" at first? They first break down the ego, and then establish fear and punishment based on NOT doing as ordered, so that it is always the path of least resistance and (internal) discomfort to do what is ordered. If you procrastinate up to the point that you have to pull an all nighter to get something done, thats because your fear of not doing the thing is finally present and overwhelming the discomfort to doing the thing.

Finally, "whipping" or punishing ones self into being uncomfortable in order to do the thing primarily just does damage, and builds resistance to even thinking about the subject. Decrease the discomfort in doing the task (by breaking it down, and visualizing what success will reward you with), increase the discomfort for not doing the task (by putting off immediate rewards and gratification until the task is done), and you can ride down the hill instead of pushing upwards.
This is exactly my thoughts as well. rasengan is the cofounder and thus is very biased against ProtonMail since they're a competitor.
> If you did nothing wrong

Everyone has done something wrong, often to the point of theoretically being felonies.

https://mic.com/articles/86797/8-ways-we-regularly-commit-fe...
The biggest obstacles to innovation in large companies
Well, that ex cop in Philadelphia claims that he forgot his macOS FDE password, but he's still in jail.
That's reductive. Food and education are very different industries, and the scale of subsidies to individuals is HUGE in education compared to food stamps.

Plus, the nature of the subsidy is important. State-sponsored universities don't seem any more culpable than private ones in this mess.
This sounds like government should pay people subsidiaries directly. Like an HSA but for more than just health. If you use the account for school it's tax free otherwise there are fee or the transaction is declined. How much more amazing would service from utilities be if they had to go through customer to get the same subsidiaries they get now.
Using Blender
The article is great but the statement that most folks feel cultural fit is about "hiring people you'd want to have a beer with" doesn't resonate with what I have experienced. Is that how "most people" define "culture fit" in your experience?

For example, we do hire for culture fit, but we define culture fit along vectors such as:

+ How do you attack problems
+ How do you communicate and collaborate
+ How do you deal with rainy day scenarios
+ How do you learn and grow
+ How do you teach and mentor
+ What do you need (and not need) from your teammates
+ What type of work enviro do you thrive in
To be fair, the comparison should be with the median worker with a bachelor's degree, because (AFAIK) that is a requirement to be a K-12 teacher. As a practical matter, a master's in education is a realistic requirement in many places as well.

I certainly wouldn't do it for 60K.
I used to hate long fights, but now with a bit of Alprazolam I can take the "short cut". The 14 hour flight Chicago to Seoul seems to take only 6 hours instead of the normal 14 Hours.

Now I don't care about Ecomomy seats, etc. I'm asleep most of the time.
Calling BS.

Say something pretty and move on.

Anyone care to speculate?
You haven't adequately criticized Nietzsche for the record. So we can't know if this Simone person is up to something.
Interactions between foods, supplements and drugs. Doctors are only taught drugs and some foods. To have a questionnaire that patients could complete online at their health care provider that might warn them or their doctor about risky combinations could save a lot of lives.

Later versions of such a thing could potentially even factor in genetics and / or ethnic background and / or health history and pre-existing conditions.
This is all an effort to attract the best applicants, much like Mayo and the Cleveland Clinic med schools.
I know because I make the site and use it too
Having had a horrific experience with my wife, halcyon and US customs I recommend being particularly careful here - try your dose out before you fly
YouTube is a private platform, and they can censor whatever they like. It only interrupts Freedom of Speech if the government influences this censorship.

Meanwhile, in China, the government dictates all censorship. Google is required to follow this exactly.

Very big difference.
That could be bad, if the court believes that they're lying.
Having been to Chaco several times and having read anything I can find on it and the Anasazi, I've always been curious why there don't seem to be middens of a size and quantity that might be expected if a large population lived there over several hundred years. Theories which suggest the many rooms in the Great Houses were mostly ceremonial, never meant to be occupied meaning a much smaller population would be more consistent. Why, then, would they have gone to the significant effort building them? One of the more fascinating questions which may never be answered.
Beats me. I mostly get downvoted for violating the political status quo of "What's good for young educated white men is good for everyone" that drives HN. But downvotes happen for all sorts of weird reasons I don't understand.
By that definition, isn't every military a socialist entity?
I'd actually appreciate if you could elaborate on this. Which features of ATECC508A are not used, but should be used to make the whole thing more secure?
Such desperate moves on Google’s part do not bode well for the numbers in their next quarterly report. They knew there would be strong blowback, yet they chose to do it anyway. That could mean other ads markets are decelerating, which would be a very bad news indeed for an advertising company like Google which derives 90% of its income from ads. Hence the desperation. Disclaimer: this is all just a conjecture, I do not have any positions in GOOG.
You are welcome. This approach has worked well for me with over 10 thousand transactions tracked so far. It is very flexible as you can write your own IIR computation or match capital gains etc.
The Pixelblaze guy wants 30$ for his ESP8266 board (I get mine for 2,7€/piece). A lot of that money probably doesn't go into the development of the software, but manufacturing and shipping.

I just installed an Open Pixel Control [0] server [1] (receiver) on a Wemos D1 mini and can now stream pixel values to it using python [2].

This comes with all the downsides, of course, but does add a lot of flexibility. Pixelblaze is probably very well written and has some great features (and infrastructure, I'm considering writing a parser for the patterns). However I don't want to pay a gigantic markup for a weird ESP8266 board and have to wait for it to ship to me, supporting (while sinking a large part of the money into stupid overhead) the development of software that isn't even open source.

[0]: http://openpixelcontrol.org/

[1]: https://github.com/ppelleti/esp-opc-server

[2]: https://github.com/zestyping/openpixelcontrol/tree/master/py...
PostgreSQL vs. MongoDB v2
Do you honestly never buy anything online?
Most of the other companies dabbling in video games in the 70s and early 80s simply slowed dabbling. Ex Mattel didn't release any follow on consoles of note past the Itellivision, Coleco went on to focus more on Cabbage Patch Kids and a failing home computer after the Coleco Vision. But who didn't have a failing home computer back then?

Nintendo and Sega continued to focus on them, during the downturn. Not a lot of people were really doing video games only then, Atari was a division of Warner Entertainment by the end of the 70s.

Re crypto, international transfer does seem like an area that's poorly served and expensive with traditional banking, and family remittances is a huge submarket there, but it's only rarely mentioned in articles about bitcoin. I think the trick is there needs to be enough market activity to make bitcoins available for purchase in the sending country and sellable in the receiving country. But there's some competition here from PayPal and others.
Only in the 3rd Circuit; other jurisdictions aren't obliged to follow its precedent.
I decided against doing an MD degree at USC because I was shocked by how much money I would have owned at the end of it.

So this is a great news for many people like me. I wish this was around when I was applying.
IMO code should be self explanatory and and follow a standard(perhaps the team's standard?). I personally find that at the beginning I do add lots of comments for myself to keep track of what I need to do without having to look elsewhere, only to erase most of them when I'm done with the particular piece of code. I have the habit to always refactor the code, make it easy to read (rename the variable and function names to make sense), make it navigable by moving the the class variables together, functions together, basically chunk things together to be easy and intuitive to find. I started doing this a long time ago, I think it was perhaps out of fear of criticism from other senior coders and it turned into a good habit.
Maybe these types of people would not have power if everyone knew who they really where.

That said I understand people who are afraid that loss of privacy would be asymmetric but I don't think that would happen. Celebrities and public figures will always have less privacy than everyone else.