skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Surely most of them can be replaced by Non-EU cars in case Huawei/ZTE are not allowed free access in EU.

China didn't allow free unrestricted access of Nokia and Ericsson in China either.
This 228M-year-old turtle didn't have a shell
It sounds like you made a choice, and like the examples he cites in the article, you had significant upside. And, kicking everyone else out meant that you were aware of the tradeoffs, at least conceptually. Think a lot of us have chose tradeoffs like that in our lives. The thing that's tacky here is that the CEO assumes his employees need to behave like a founder.
NASA is about to pummel the planet with huge frikkin' space laser
They haven't posted much else than job postings: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=fjahr
Shredding works great st disposal. You can even take a truckload to a professional service
Should I just go and basically say that this person did a bad job?

No, because it’s not true. This person was operating under constraints you don’t understand with incomplete and constantly changing requirements. You would not have done better in that situation.

Other professionals do not stab each other in the back either. You will never hear doctors or lawyers do it. If you have a beef with this person keep it behind closed doors.
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I saw this Twitter thread yesterday and it was really strange and cringeworthy.

I saw this guy Ryan Eagle[0] and man I just don’t think I’ve ever not liked anyone as much as I now dislike him.

[0] https://twitter.com/realryaneagle/status/1031541248451125248...
> Seems like Intel have said no benchmarking, full stop.

That doesn't mean it's enforceable. Companies say silly things all the time.
Elon Musk says he is having the most “painful year of my career” [Updated]
There was such a need for ownCloud, where the company and main maintainers pushed developers to not develop things in core which would compete with their proprietary extensions.
https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/nextcloud/
I would say that a job available on site OR remotely will attract more candidates than an on site only.
To share my own experience, I've just bought an apartment and I've been thinking of working in a new company. I will automatically exclude non-remote positions (also the reason why I might leave my current company as the managers can work remotely no question asked but the devs can't...)
I'm looking for remote work only (family issues). I'd love to work in European hours. However, US companies pay 30-50% more. This way I don't even send any applications to the European ones.

I'm not sure if you would consider me above medium (however during the last 16 years I learned a lot). The people I know who are much above medium have jobs. They don't look too much for them and are old enough to forget about traveling for work (house, dogs, kids, school).

I noticed that you only post about on-site positions. I'm too old for ad-hoc moving to another country. I don't speak German enough to do shopping. I could work for you but only remotely.

If you would consider remote employees, I'm sure you would get much more interesting applications. But then there is the problem from the first paragraph: if someone is looking for a remote position and some companies pay more, it's rather obvious that they will get most of the most interesting applications. The rest will go to those paying less.
Amazon Prime has deteriorated similarly for me as well.

At first, 2 days, every time. It was great and extremely reliable.

Now? I'm lucky to get an estimated 2 day delivery. It's almost always 3 days. Why? They deliver it to the post office now, about a mile away. Half the time it gets there too late for the USPS truck to deliver it on that day. It is so frustrating.

Couple that with price increases, Twitch prime adding ads, counterfeit products, confusing product pages, fake reviews...Amazon is worse than ever.
The result of Google search's auto-complete for the string on the left of "[Google autocomplete...]", so some kind of most common query with that particular prefix.

Quite the downer, in my opinion.
I forgot to mention that I had an Ask HN on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17447280
The app you link shows very general services, it’s a ‘vpn’ client so it gets all network traffic. It isn’t hard to show you’re using Facebook or twitter, but there is a firm limit on granularity.

Apps don’t even get a list of all apps you have installed, much less information on how much data another app is using. The system collects that data though, you can see it in the settings app.
You joke, but seriously, this is generally a goal of distributed and/or parallel computing. Reduce interdependencies, stop constant cross chatter and try to do as much computing in isolation as possible.

Scrum’s not necessarily a bad anology. Here’s a different thought that this conversation has me now thinking about, what if we did think about development teams as CPU cores? We might discover weak points in the architecture of an organization, and recognize more quickly where we need to address bottlenecks. The bandwidth of the bus betweeen the cores might be too limited. The pipeline of work (backlog) might not be deep enough, and has a ton of branch statements (spikes) that may throw out the entire pipeline...
Their logic is wrong.

I don't live in a city.

We should strive to reform the parking ticket system, not spite ourselves and move out of cities.
Look through the code base and make notes on how you would approach the rewrite. Break those notes down into tiny pieces. Break those into tiny conversations and get leader support on smaller things with recommendations for improvement and get those things into user stories/tasks they approve of. Triple all estimates because you're new
On average there is only a 0.6% difference between human genomes [1]. And the reference genome already exists and is constantly being updated [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_variation
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_genome
Can part of the increase of leisure time be explained by a drop in the number of children per family?
I never saw any results, maybe it's broken?
[UPDATE] it works in Chromium, but not Firefox.
Inferring from his LinkedIn, his company appear to be a web marketing/advertising services company for tech-unsavvy clients, not an investor funded startup. He works in the "shady used car sales" corner of the tech biz.
These pernicious attempts to chip away at free speech through contractural riders is becoming more common and blatant.

The best way to combat this sort of thing is for journalists, and anyone else discussing the issues of this vulnerability, to make a point of bringing it up, repeatedly. Whenever performance is an issue, point out that Intel is restricting the impact from being evaluated, which suggests that it is bad. Whenever security is an issue, point out that Intel is restricting the dissemination of the mitigation by imposing self-serving conditions on its use.
Well... It could always go Zuckerberg-worse. To be fair, the level of criticism of Musk vs Zuck is a bit off balance.
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It does not work for me when I try to change the query in any way. For example "I have X years left to live and"
Yes, but speedup can be huge. For example, for NFA processing, using (a couple of) 2W FPGA against 200W GPU "GPUs underperform FPGA by a factor ~80-1000x across datasets" http://people.cs.vt.edu/~xdyu/html/ics17.pdf
We're in London. Mostly applicants are based in other countries (like the US) when we explicitly say that's not an option, so they're ruled out immediately.

Over the last couple of years we haven't had many applicants via it at all - but we did hire a really great developer through it, so it's still worth it.

The one thing I would say is that it's worth setting up a hiring page generally. Then you can have an application form on there which most the lower grade candidates just bounce on anyway.
Okay, you can argue that. But:

1. I’m not talking about that, I’m talking about speeding,

2. Statistically, speeding is dangerous.
Thank you. I'm not having a good time at the moment. Anyway, the basis of my test hypothesis is that people are easily fooled by URL both by HTTPS and brand recognition (e.g. subdomain) so I conducted a survey which revealed the very real problem: https://dejanseo.com.au/trust/

Raw data: https://dejanseo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/survey-te...
> Domain names being little endian has been one of the most expensive web sec mistakes in history.

Can you clarify what you mean by this?
If it doesn't need to be connected, don't
My takeaway is that people use this query for things they are worried about. Personally, I have never entered my age as part of a full sentence in a search query.
A couple years ago I had an idea about writing a book "On Stuff" because I was, and still am, having a terrible managing the stuff that comes and goes from my house. I have been doing an annual "bagster" for several years running now. Getting rid of large items like old furniture is the hardest. We sometimes place items along the street with a "free" sign and those usually get taken away relatively fast. A train table, a coffee table, bikes...

I hate garage sales with a passion. I don't want to run one, I would rather just throw things out.

My father-in-law could not throw anything away. He would bring stuff to our house to give to us and my wife and I would later throw the items away ourselves. My father has the same issue but worse and he lives halfway across the continent from us, so I can't help him at all. He's practically a hoarder--goes on Craigslist and buys tools and equipment because in his mind he is still in business and "needs" those things. He has been retired for 15 years, though.

I do my best not to accumulate, but with two kids, there is a constant stream of clothing and belongings to deal with. Couple that with a death in the family that had us inherit half a house worth of furniture and goods, and we found ourselves quickly overwhelmed.

I am thoroughly disgusted by it all! I hate stuff, I enjoy throwing things away. But I have my own issues with buying tools and items that help me repair our house and refurbish things but that runs completely counter to our throw-away society.

I recently broke the glass on an Ipad 2 Air. The screen works, it's just that Apple cheaped out on the glass. I took it to get it fixed and found out that it's almost as much to get it fixed as it is to just buy a brand new one. Apple, you are not helping! Electronic waste is the worst. I may try to fix it myself, but I need more stuff to try that!

The only reason I didn't write the book is because it would just become more stuff I would have to manage in my life.
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The most annoying ones are:

- REMOTE (US West Coast Only)

- ONSITE or REMOTE (onsite preferred)
On contrary, I never had such a job - always 40h weeks, having 6 different employers. In past 15 years I worked literally once hard over whole weekend, to deliver on Monday 1am. In my current work I had to come during weekend once every few months for go-live, but it was due to business nature of employer - you can't patch ebanking or banking core integration during week (unless fixing showstoppers of course).

I have some colleagues around me who work more than I do, for no good reason - they don't get pay more because of this, some vague promise never put on paper/email that maybe yearly bonus will reflect that (it rarely does), or they might get a raise (they rarely do), or even get promoted (happened like once in past 6 years). Surprisingly, their private life ain't very rich, they definitely don't compensate "quantity with quality".

The remaining life that you have - be it next 30 or 60 years, NOW are the best times to enjoy it. You will not get healthier or stronger over time, you will not have more free time or motivation. You can't put a price on a life lived well. What you definitely can do is having regrets later, when its too late.
Basically in the 70s and before you could work 8 weeks during the summer and have enough to cover the basics for the school year, room/board /tuition /books.
Why? Why are you siding with the big corporations?
Couple behind “prolific” dark net fentanyl sales busted by DOJ
Please cite your sources then.
Yes, some. I've gotten at least one good hire (and referral bonus) from one of my HN hiring posts.
Damn is it really that bad? I hate buying new shit. I spent a year thinking about replacing my head phones (5 year old Sennheisers) before getting a pair of Noise canceling AKGs. I have a 5 year old MacBook that I want to replace but don’t because it’s just fine for what I need.

Shit I spend most of my money on food.
Really? You're equating the "workers" of CFA to Kim Jong-un?

Nothing changes with attitudes like that.
> Wikileaks is a Russian propaganda machine.

> They are only interested in Anti-America leaks, not all leaks.

Everybody should make their own judgement on the political bias of Wikileaks (which is, in my personal opinion, a very good reason why monopolies are typically bad; in other words: there is a demand on multiple independent Wikileaks-like websites), but the statement that Wikileaks is only interested in Anti-America leaks does not hold in my opinion. See for example the following leak about Russia's mass surveillance apparatus:

> https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/19/wikileaks-releases-documen...

Or let us quote

> https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/5mv07m/has_wikil...

"They released Syrian/Russian email exchanges, I don't know if it led to anything extremely controversial. In an interview, Assange said the main reason they don't receive leaks from Russian whistle-blowers is that the whistle-blowers prefer to hand over documents to Russian-speaking leaking organization.

And Wikileaks doesn't have Russian-speakers in their organization. You can tell your friend that if he or she wants Wikileaks to release damaging Russian documents, then he or she should hack the Russian government and give what they find to WL."

Or have a look at

> https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/5mv07m/has_wikil...

On

> https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5c8u9l/we_are_the_wik...

you can find a list of various counter-arguments to common criticisms of WikiLeaks.
> but now I can't even tell the differences between any i5/3/7 and when I look at AMD names it's as confusing but with a different lingo.

They way I see it, I could look at AMD's Core count, Threads and Frequency, As they are clearly labelled, and that is it. On Intel's side you have features turned on and off for different i3/5/7/9, AVX speed difference etc I don't even want to bother looking it up.
Argos was originally a rebrand of the Green Shield Stamps catalogue, I think after Tesco stopped giving out stamps. Co Op stopped giving Co Op stamps about the same time. The Embassy Cigarette catalogue was possibly the last points catalogue survivor!

All the old Green Shield shops became the first Argos shops, and worked very much the same as they always had, just without the stamps. For the first few years you could trade old stamps.
Project with source code available here: https://github.com/dogethereum
"This new architecture provides a way to circumvent traditional security controls by exploiting equipment in the edge of the network – exploitation which may affect overall network integrity and availability, as well as the confidentiality of customer data."

Hey Australian Government. You know what also protects confidentiality of customer data? Encryption.
Maybe I'm wrong but the Internet, expanded government powers, cars, and frivolous litigation are definitely all things that occurred post-1914 aka after Woodrow Wilson's presidency roughly, when the executive branch began to expand massively and set a precedent for state and local governments to do the same.

Our ancestors from the 1800s weren't harassed like this unless they were Puritans maybe
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I personally want to pull a Seinfeld Kramer moment and opt out of mail entirely. I only check it once a week, then everything goes directly into the garbage. What a waste.
Wow, cool project! Funny how with the query there's so many results to do with being or getting pregnant.
My thoughts exactly, only that somebody else gets the downvotes :)
>Posts here also apparently tend to attract applicants who specialize in trendy, fad of the moment stacks or more "light" languages and frameworks

And I just got downvoted a ton for posting that statement by a headhunter elsewhere. He also said what you said:

>The demographics here trend too hard toward the Bay Area
The freedom definition doesn't have such a requirement though. Sometimes it allows to prohibit some usages, e.g. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpinionLicens...
>‘That isn’t enough. The padlock on the https page gives users a false sense of security.’

>‘We don’t agree with that. Where’s your data?’

Where is your source that this is Google's position? Considering they have some of the best security employees in the business, I find that hard to believe.
I visited a microbrewery last Saturday. The owner used to be a big shot entrepeneur, but he lost it all and started over from scratch doing what he loves the most: making beer.

He runs the brewery with his wife. He told me that he gets multiple offers a month for selling his beers in consignment but that would mean ramping up the production and the entire organization, and he doesn't want that. He said that he could sustain himself with doing what he loves. As soon as his company grows too much, he won't be able to do what he loves anymore.
They’re not bullshit. If you don’t speed you can’t be penalized for speeding. Claiming it’s unfair because you were caught and penalized when so many others were not is not a substantive refutatation of the system. It is unfair, but you have total control over your culpability.

Furthermore, do you have any studies supporting your claim that expensive tickets don’t reduce speeding?
Is that supposed to remove the amusement and irony? "We're creating friendly AI! Well, it thinks it's friendly, since to it, everything is just a numerical reward signal."
Datomic is not a Relational Database?
I think you and the original poster are in violent agreement Reread his post all of the way through.
I understand the need to preserve - but what's the point of preserving an environment we'll never, ever see, touch or notice? If the trade off is that we slow economic growth and human prosperity, I'm not sure I'd take it. Of course if there are serious impacts (e.g. climate change or mass extinction of species) then we need to tread carefully.
Open-source database maker takes some code proprietary
Any recommendations which queries to try besides "I am X years old and"?
The phrase is ‘deep locations that whales visit’. My intent was to phrase it in a more precise but not necessarily more poetic way.

I think the issue is that the mining sites are going to cause issues for whales, which in turn causes issues for mining licensing, due to the environmental portion of regulations. The whales were there first, and your version again inverts the main topic of the article, which is actually beside the point.
What are the numbers on the right for?
> situations where you have a negative divisor and need the remainder/mod are not common.

yep. But sometimes, when you have numbers that come from some external system, and you didn't check them or expect that the % operator will make it positive, you end up with this sort of problem. Such as having negative positions with CSS, or a game where you end up with negative values for coordinates.
Why doesn't it come up with strategies? The program is doing a massive search over an action space, of course it will find things there.
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I am not a lawyer but I question whether this is enforceable in the USA and I do not question, rather state this is not enforceable in the EU. All click-though / shrink-wrap licensing the end user is forced to or has to accept automatically is invalid.
If employers score higher the candidates with a high Github activity, then eventually the employers get workers who continue to spend a lot of their time in Github.

If these people spend a lot of their free time, and perhaps even some of their professional time, in Github contributing to various public projects, then they might not necessarily have 100% focus on the employer's tasks. I am not sure if this is what the employers expect or even want to happen.

The intention is probably to use Github activity as a pre-screening proxy metric for technical capability and skillset. But... why would someone who is contributing a lot to public projects cease to do so, once employed? Is there a risk of getting a partially distracted, though skilled person?

If the wish from the company then is to ensure they get the most performance for themselves, the logical step would be to cut down on the public contributions via e.g. legal and contractual means.

So... why would someone who enjoys contributing to public projects join a company that selects based on Github activity, if it is in the company's interests that further contributions should be reduced?

Ahh... Maybe I am just overanalyzing it.
This boggled my mind:

The average American bought 7.4 pairs of shoes last year, up from 6.6 pairs in 2000.

I probably should buy shoes more often, that's easily 10 times more often than I do it. Perhaps that was the "wrong" conclusion from this article, though, oops.
Example: Is reddit a webpage or a web app? Correct - it's both.
A civil case you would lose though.
Allowing sites to intercept browser actions that should make a user leave the site, and inject other operations is obviously and plainly a security issue.

I reported this to google several years ago, and it was never addressed.
This is very ideology over common sense. There is no scientific approach in software development. Did anyone conduct a reproducible study that was peer reviewed that concluded that pair programming was x-times better in creating relatively bug free software?

We just latch onto hysteria.
Is this kind of blatant censorship, where Google delists information it doesn't like common? It's not like the experiment was ongoing, is it.
Raising awareness is what he want, being called a jerk is the price he has to pay. Defend +1.
There exist services which receive, scan, store and shred your paper mail.
But riscV processors will always be closed source. so you cannot crowdsource vulnerability finding...
I understand that you disagree with the CEO, but how do you get from there to the conclusion that he is not open-minded?
I think it's referring to laptops. That said I had the ASUS Zenfone 2 and the performance seemed alright, but certain apps didn't work because of the architecture difference, most notably Pokemon Go for the whole time it was popular (although it's probably for the better that I missed that whole craze).
The difference between then and now, is now the planet is full.

At some point there must be a paradigm shift in this line of thinking or very bad things will happen.
I think your recruiting pains in finding senior/enterprise positions can probably be explained by the following:

1) out of the 325 million US citizens, maybe 10,000 people at most meet your qualifications

2) most of them are already employed

3) most of them probably don't read that thread if they even post here at all

4) it might be wiser to hire them as a consultant and have them train a proficient and loyal dev to implement their recommendations
Agreed. Forget a huge, third party like Google, many times (at least in my experience) even our own bosses in small companies wouldn't listen. And even if they did listen, they wouldn't act. Unless of course, it is proven with data and it is big enough to cause them a headache. I'd guess mostly it is due to laziness and not any malicious intent.