skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought their strategy was for the clickbait revenue to support the costs of their news division.
A million-dollar gift to journalism, without ties, and the reason for that
This is a key point. I see a lot of criticism of the coding interview. But what's the viable alternative?

My goal is to figure out the candidate can do their job - write software - and that myself and the rest of my team would enjoy working closely with them on their daily tasks.

How else do I figure that out, if not by a coding exercise?
Thankfully you don't have to do any of that (for any platform), thanks to Travis! https://travis-ci.org/
> technically rape is a property crime

No. Not in most of the Western world it isn't today.
Is there a reason RISC V is off the table?
I am wondering why are the technical interviews are put before the personal interviews then? If none of the technical skills matter in light of the soft skills because some candidate has a hair color or accent which bothers a team member, why bother with checking technicality in the first place?
In the real world, whistleblowers and their lawyers get prosecuted for revealing illegal activities the government was conducting:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-28/australian-spys-lawyer...
> Ah yes, it's a legal justification, but as the article said, criminal investigations should not be blocked by civil agreements.

The solution to which is, of course, don't sign them.

The settlements are a compromise. The defendant would rather pay money than admit to wrongdoing and the plaintiff would rather be paid a lot of money than have to relive the incident in court, so they come to an agreement.

If you take that away, you're leaving the option that neither party preferred over what actually happened -- otherwise either of them could have chosen it to begin with.

If the victims don't like that trade off then they can stop agreeing to it. But if they continue to decide it's the right choice for them then who the heck are we to tell them they're wrong?
For H1B I should be employed by someone. In OPT, I couldn't find anything related to self-employment(https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/students-and-exc...).
I can't believe. They now have a GUI to create "chrome.exe $url" on your desktop?! why?
Polyfills tailored to each browser request
I agree with you: Sales guys are not nearly as unethical, nor as undesirable, as rapists.
While I'm not deeply familiar with the legal systems of all of these countries, I know at least one, and probably several, or the countries that maintain 'sharia law' still define rape as a property crime. "Was" here is restricted to only certain parts of the world.
Custom CSS. Nothing fancy, I haven't really explored what's possible with epub.
This is a rather narrow perspective focused on (and giving examples from) one subfield (deep learning) at one point of time (year 2018). Have factors like (i) commoditization of software + hardware, (ii) the limited mathematics required, (iii) many open problems, and (iv) a lot of industry funding made a PhD unnecessary for doing research in deep learning in year 2018?: Yes. But does this mean that a PhD (with several advanced courses and a few years of struggle solving hard research problems) won't be useful for doing Computer Science research for the next 30 years? The answer is probably "No". If you want a long-term, intellectually satisfying research career, whether in academia or industry, a PhD is extremely useful.
I don’t think significantly many PhDs are deluded enough to think they did it for the money.

You do a PhD to scratch that itch, hopefully once you graduate you can keep scratching those itches, even if often that doesn’t work out.
This is a bit more general...

I worked there for a very short time as a consultant and I remember Barry. I remember being astonished at some of the things I saw and heard at that company and I am surprised it's not them getting the scrutiny and instead the larger tech companies.

Working at Riot Games was like working in a frat house where you get paid, and I mean many of the bad parts of living in a frat house. Of the places I've worked, Riot had to have the lowest median age (early 20s), which probably contributes to the problem. The guys could be assholes, but I fear that some of the women, being young and this being their first job and an amazing opportunity, get disillusioned into thinking that this behavior is normal in industry and that is really sad.

I am surprised not more have spoken out. Riot (and other gaming companies, not just Riot) has some of the bro-est culture out there and it's going to cost them in a lawsuit, just give it time.
I tried Caret and loved it but had to uninstall because of the huge font size on equation renders in a math-heavy document. Is there a way to fix that? I tried to look but they don't have much documentation yet.
The Person of Jesus
It requires a Facebook login? Hard pass for me.

Sounds neat though!
The brief portrayal of "jacking in" to cyberspace isn't as weird and psychedelic as it ought to be, but it's better (better = more like the descriptions in Neuromancer) than in any other game I've seen.

Everything is still made of giant glowing cubes, but at least there's visual effects so it jumps around and looks kind of like an image would if it were inserted directly into your mind's eye. "Like city lights, receding..."

This is a weird pet peeve of mine. I'm really glad to see somebody actually appears to share my taste, and I hope in the final game it's even more interesting.
Personal attacks aren't ok regardless of how wrong someone is, so please don't post them to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is there any way to bypass that or any work-around?
The environment does indeed matter. With startups, the short term is critical: if you don't grow fast enough, there will be NO "3 years from now" to fix. A big bank will care about glitches 3 years from now.

I'm not sure what you mean in the middle paragraph, per "stack of use cases to design against". You mean getting it done "now" overrides problems 3 years from now? Your org making that trade-off is fine as long as it's clear to everyone and perhaps documented.
You can, but you won’t necessarily get the support that you can from a stipend, adviser, upper division courses, student colleagues, conference travel, and so on.
I more mean in reference to using them as an opposing magnetic field for using in an electric motor. Like suppose he simply put two PCB electromagnets together. What would you expect the force to be?
Not really effective- it's the most confrontational way, and the most divisive, but I doubt it will really change anyone's minds. Instead you'll get zealots from both sides of the issue yelling down any reasonably conciliatory approach as they use it to further their own agendas.
The problem is they intentionally turned it into a rape joke in a social setting where very aggressive sexual language was the norm.

I suspect there is a deeper issue that doesn't get talked about that is rooted in not only traditional gender roles, but, probably to some extent, gendered psychology. And I imagine it would be all kinds of drama to even try to describe it.

So I think it gets into some very sensitive territory that is essentially of the "unspeakable" variety, and that's why it is such a hot button.

But as someone whose read some negotiating books, etc, yes, you are correct that deals take work to broker and persistence is required in such things. But it also matters how you handle it. It matters a whole lot. And in sales you know they can say no and you need to work at getting a yes. A certain type of man doesn't really feel they need to genuinely respect a woman and they feel entitled to use rather ugly tactics to try to get what they want. People have very good reason to not want to give such men additional justification for their awful behavior.
Vote and comment collusion will get your accounts and site banned on HN. Please don't.
I see you're being down voted into nothingness (ironic when the topic is about integrity, journalism, free speech) but I agree.

Buzzfeed has been garbage for years at least here in Canada, some pretty vile people work there (Scaachi Koul). I too can't take them seriously considering their history. Maybe the US version is better and maybe I will find them trustworthy but I can't see it happening anytime soon.

Even the NYT after that disaster with the hiring of Sarah Jeong. I didn't realize it was OK to be racist as a retort I foolishly choose the option of just never being racist.

Trust takes years to develop but will disappear in an instant.
Wow. I genuinely didn't know BuzzFeed did journalism to this order. It feels very strange to read this and contrast it from the seemingly endless number of articles that are basically just a bunch of GIF images with a single line caption each taken from Reddit threads.
So what do you expect? A desktop app?

BTW, you can make shortcuts to web apps from Chrome that open in their own window, and works like an app. Basically a single page, but with all browser controls removed. So it's a separate app on your window list, with the site's fav icon used as it's icon.

I do this with Whatsapp.
I'm sorry if it came across that way. The list is what I use pandoc for. I use it for a lot, so much that I think I use it for every project.
The best machine learning researcher I know has a MsC in EE. This is at a research lab that begins with an M.
Please don't do this on HN, even when someone was needlessly harsh and provocative.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Foodora fallout: ATO comes after failed food delivery company for unpaid taxes
Cpanel is a fucking joke, on day one they launched their federated ID (yes scary concept) I reported a 101 xss in it, they can't do anything right, that's as late as 2016. Industry standard, don't make me laugh. How have you came to the conclusion of "pretty secure" please don't tell PHP base_dir and some shitty non containerised jail shell is all it takes? Respect to Igor at cloudlinux for trying to tackle the problem, about the only implementation which one would be able to sleep at night with, but can we stop polishing a turd.
Because it’s harder to make an objective comparison between candidates if you do that.
A mix. Depends on the book.

For novels, I tend to just use Markdown, as kerning will be done in CSS.

For academics, I use LaTeX and Asciidoc together, but some paragraphs might be inserted in various other formats - whatever is easier. The build tool doesn't care what the format is, it'll take any input pandoc accepts.
>I'm not sure what to make of that

They're just trying to paint a picture for the reader.
North American culture is increasingly interpreting freedom as a freedom-from as opposed to a freedom-to, as in, I am free from being an adult as opposed to I am free to be an adult.
Vis-a-vis written communication: A book that I discovered via a recommendation here on HN, and which I will recommend in turn, is The Pyramid Principle[1] by Barbara Minto.

In terms of spoken communication... I'd suggest looking into Toastmasters, and/or just volunteer to speak at user-group meetings and things of that nature. There are a number of good books out there on public speaking / presenting, but most of what I've learned on the topic came from online sources (like threads here on HN) and just practice.

Also, as somebody else said: read lots of books. Try blogging / writing in some context. The more you write, the better you'll get. Somebody, I think maybe it was Stephen King[2], said something like (paraphrased) "the best way to learn to write well is to read a lot and write a lot".

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Pyramid-Principle-Logic-Writing-Think...

[2]: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/...
Attorneys and business folks use it to mean “marked up” - a redlined contract has additions in red, and removals in red with red lines through them.
OP was referring to diffing changes between the original and modified version of a legal document (typically a contract).
Tensorflow implementation of Adversarial Autoencoders
I looked up the example and it's mentions the two objects are separated by one meter.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/elecur.h...
Aye. I've got several long lists of options, depending on the project. Manpages might have been the most fiddly to get right.
> why not go a step further and just run it as a municipal service at that point?

If you mean, run the basic fiber (or whatever broadband hardware the municipality puts in) bandwidth supply as a municipal service, and let competing service providers rent bandwidth, that is exactly what various municipalities have tried (and been sued for by the big ISPs).

If you mean, have the municipality be an actual ISP, I think some have tried that (and been sued by the big ISPs); but I'm not that actual ISP services are a natural municipal service the way the basic high speed hardware/right of way is.
The true meaning of a General solution does not mean providing support for every kind of scenario your data may encounter, the true meaning from a functional perspective is to build composable structures/mechanisms to produce the correct shape of data the problem requires. So for a near sighted programmer YAGNI would work, but for a software or machine to be really durable, it needs to be composable over a period of time. An example of this is emacs, it has kept with the passage of time because of its composable nature. Vim on the other hand is undergoing a massive rewrite project known as Neovim. This is the difference between a true general solution and a specific YAGNI based solution. The only differentiator between the two is Durability, and this durability comes at no extra cost, just the wise decision of writing software in a much more composable language solves half the durability problems.
> To learn interpersonal communication techniques, try browsing the management, relationship, and self-help shelves for something that stands out.

I thought Crucial Conversations was a great book for this
The moat is the dataset. Waymo could hand out their hardware-software like candy and still be way, way ahead.
To "get confused" is not the same thing as giving up completely and needing another individual to rescue you, in traffic. I think people are overly minimizing what disengagement signifies.
Freedom is incredibly important, but people need to be clear what they want freedom from. Freedom from tyranny? Sign me up. Freedom from government censorship? Yes please. Freedom from having any standards, basic decency, and accountability for how we exercise our freedom? Eeehhhhh... no thanks. The freedom to speak for example isn’t the freedom from criticism or reaction.
Pages will export to Word format, then use pandoc to generate markdown files. (Just one idea)
If you want one persistent window to always popup with a hotkey:

Preferences => Profiles => (Choose or make from scratch[1]) => Keys => Configure Hotkey Window

I think that works with the Control-Command-Space binding mentioned above. I use caps lock to toggle my terminal, which required some remapping via Karabiner[2]

[1] I have a profile called "Hotkey Profile" I don't remember if I set this up myself or if iTerm did it for me. I have it configured to appear on whichever monitor my mouse is on when I open it, and to have its window fill the bottom 1/3 or so of my screen

[2] https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
The article states explicitly that he did not publicly resign and only released his story years after. He even tried to go back.
For those curious about the origin, the earliest source I have on hand is https://www.gwern.net/docs/cs/2003-ross.pdf "5 Commandments [technology laws and rules of thumb]", Ross 2003, which attributes it to Moore in the 1990s who attributes it to Arthur Rock at an unspecified time:

> Sometimes Called Moore’s Second Law, because Moore first spoke of it publicly in the mid-1990s, we are calling it Rock’s Law because Moore himself attributes it to Arthur Rock, an early investor in Intel, who noted that the cost of semiconductor tools doubles every four years. By this logic, chip fabrication plants, or fabs, were supposed to cost $5 billion each by the late 1990s and $10 billion by now.

(I shamelessly call it Moore's second law to arrogate the prestige of the first law into its invocation, and because it's hard for me to remember 'Rock's law' - who's that? Plus it puts it in good company by making it an instance of Stigler's Law, which was not first described by Stigler and thus renders Stigler's law autological.)
A scanner called Doxie. Includes ocr & pdf creation.

Store on combination of local (Mac), Dropbox & Google Docs, all of which search in document.

Also have a rudimentary folder structure.
Is this an American thing? The author is talking about "hatred for pigeons" as if it's something universal, but that's pretty much strange for me.
Public scrutiny will force Riot to address these allegations, at least.
there is definitely a naive perception in some circles right now that a doctorate studying deep learning is a path to riches and fame. Due to misleading reports of million dollar salaries for new PhDs and so on.

It's a degree with a high opportunity cost that won't pay off financially in the long run, even with no tuition or debt. In the past I think everybody understood this but now I'm slightly more worried.
That 95 watt number they provide is a minimum to provide the advertised speeds more than anything else. Current stock chips from both AMD and Intel already use much more than their rated amount if there is headroom thermally and there is power availability. The 8700k for example has no problem drawing >150 watts when turbo'ing all cores and being well cooled. AMD does this as well.

Advertised heat output should also be taken with a grain of salt. Both die size and material between the die and heatspreader can make two 95 watt chips have very different cooling requirements.
lol ironic as fuck
Blue lines are the 'correct' answers, they are the MVP features of each product.

Next to each line you get a tick or a cross depending on whether your answer matches theirs. For instance if you got a tick next to a line that was not blue, then it means you agreed with them that it was not an MVP feature.
He tried everything he could with the conciliatory approach, but it didn't work. It's time for confrontation.
Not at this time. It's an awesome project, but we started developing our traffic engines around the same time and needs quickly diverged. We do try to open source many of the low level pieces of our model as reusable libraries whenever possible, such as our graph normalization algorithms[1]. At the end of the day, much of the core is difficult to decouple from data engineering infrastructure which will be internal to each organization, due to the immense volumes of live data that must be handled to power a modern traffic engine.

Aspects of the model like noise reduction, modality classification, and speed distribution estimation also require lots of fine tuning that is specific to the telemetry being ingested & the usage patterns of the output. For example, our speed models learn and correct from observed errors in various situations over time, which is coupled to our internal metrics data.

[1] https://github.com/mapbox/graph-normalizer
> So maybe people really just don’t care

I think so. Everyone is always selfish. There are only selfish reasons. Some of us happen to selfishly feel good about helping others, but not always, not with everything, not when it's just inconvenient enough. If you want people to stop worsening the climate, you have to frame it in a way that convincingly portrays it not as something that is happening but as something that is noticably worse for them individually. Is global warming noticably worse for me individually? Not where I live at my salary. So what then do you say to convince?
That already happens :-)
i think your rephrasing is more offensive than mine (and more confrontational in fact) because it is dripping in condescension. or maybe just your rephrasing at all is condescending. either way your point (that non-confrontational language is better/feasible) is made moot. what do you think?
A lot of branding I hated when I first saw it has grown on me over time, this one though - I know it sounds like a joke but I find it hard to read.
Posting like this will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post civilly and substantively, or not at all.
I used a similar workflow. The CSS is for the EPUB and maps to the html elements supported. But if you get too fancy cross device support could get hairy.

See:
https://github.com/FriendsOfEpub/Blitz
If anything that understates it because there were successive invasions of vikings and Norse after the initial settlement and then a huge second influx of Greek and Latin roots in the early modern period as scholars reintroduced them.
Could you please not post flamebait to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Did you mean to reply to my above question? If so, I'm unclear as to what you're trying to get across.

Is ZFS scrubbing different than the other RAIDs' (scheduled or schedulable) reads of the entire array, other than nomenclature?
Given that it's been with us for forty+ years it's hard for it to be dead on arrival. I've been hearing the words "physical limit" since 33MHz buses arrived on 386's and yet somehow physics keeps being changed. That being said, I think the change to 7nm and onwards is different - this is the first time the economics of the whole thing has been questioned. And maybe a couple of billion transistors per chip is enough? Perhaps it's time to advance along some other axis?
Did you see the pictures? I'd say the description is accurate. The ship lacks the brightly-lit, clean, polished interior I would expect to see in a European, Asian, or American nuclear facility. It's kind of dingy looking to be blunt.

Sure, a claustrophobic architecture is not surprising for a ship, but most readers' experience of large boats--if any--is likely to be with cruise ships. Should the author have omitted a physical description of the ship's features because a reasonable reader could have guessed them? Personally, I appreciate these kinds of small details.

The article does flirt with open skepticism of the project, and I'm open to the possibility that this stance is unfair, but I don't think these atmospheric details cross any line when they seem quite apt looking at the accompanying pictures.

Also, I agree with the comment above that says the critical tone is unsurprising for an article on nuclear tech, domestic or foreign.
Meteor.js used the MongoDB's oplog, which is used to replicate changes to other nodes, to provide real time update to it's clients.

You can query the oplog yourself easily [0]. I also remember someone doing a version for MySql using the same approach.

[0] http://www.briancarpio.com/2012/04/21/mongodb-the-oplog-expl...