skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Annoying from another point of view. I was trying to hire someone recently with OPs skillset...(integrations, mix of languages etc) and drew a blank. I can't seem to hire anyone in the UK unless it is for php and C#.NET. It feels like there is something really broken about recruitment.
How do they expect that the SEC will leave they alone? How is this better than a traditional stock?

[The split of the article in many small chunks that force you to press the "next" button is annoying.]
> and then in the night go to nearby Sloppy Joe's bar to mingle with public which often gave him inspiring story ideas.

Well let's be honest -- the main reason he went to the bar was to get drunk. He was a notorious alcoholic.
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While i agree with the technical debt here, I think you slightly misplace it. You take debt by using the libraries available on python. Same as you take loans from others that have capital. The currency here is their knowledge.

That is, the dynamic/static divide is a distraction. Easy to talk towards, but likely nowhere near as important as other factors.
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From that wiki page, we have:

> According to Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon, Central Europe is a part of Europe composed of Austria, Belgium, [...] as well as northeastern France.

and:

> Nevertheless, [Benelux countries] are occasionally mentioned in the Central European context due to cultural, historical and linguistic ties.

It's needlessly pedantic to pick on this part of the OPs comment when there are bigger issues evident: it just detracts from your main point.
They still have REPLs, which is the relevant part.
Which would then be snapped up by speculators just as in London.
"Interviews are mostly (~80%) about evaluating the candidate for fit."

Interviews in our industry are the chaotic mutant hybrid of "Guess what I'm thinking!" and fraternal hazing rituals.

I've been interviewed a few times by self-declared bar raisers. Not impressed.

One raiser dismissed outright all my work on grammars, saying the tool (ANTLR) did all the work. Awkward pause. Has he never written a parser? Is he making a joke? Oh. He's serious. Unfortunately, I eventually sarcastically replied "Ya, and the compiler writes all my code for me."

I'm not a CS researcher. Our pithy jobs are client/server CRUD apps with some glue. Cut a string from here, paste it over there. Do some validation. Make sure the concurrency scales.

Not rocket science. Stop treating me like an initiate. I've been doing this longer than most.
So what amount is going to be roughly at stake for a single block? A lot? How much in %age if ether is going to be at stake? After X years, assuming better performance that is claimed by PoS?
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More like anti-constitutional take.
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More details from Larry at

https://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/perl6?date=2018-...
Mr. Ritholtz did three things. He found the most extreme over-reactions to the law, he criticized those over-reactions for being too extreme, and he provided one graph of one statistic that charts restaurant employment from 1990 to 2018.

This is his only argument in the piece:

> [Restaurants] were in fact opening; employment in food services and drinking establishments has soared.

But does that data support his conclusion? Could Seattle's population growth explain the gains in restaurant employment? Why a chart starting from 1990 for a law passed in 2018? Has enough time elapsed to understand the impact of the law? Was the downturn in restaurant employment in 2018 related to the minimum wage law?

Though I love it, let's skip the Socratic dialogue. The $15/hr minimum wage does not go into effect until January 1st 2019! Let's wait and see how customer's react to higher prices before declaring victory.
I had a salaried job a long time ago and there were no hours written into my contract. Ended up working mon-fri and every third saturday up until my boss quit and I had to take over all his responsibilities with no increase in pay since I was, wait for it...a salaried employee. Didn't last more than a week or two under those conditions.
It's hard to imagine what the value proposition is for the savvy buyer, aside from browsing ideas that they might want to implement for themselves from scratch.

Great site for sellers if they can actually unload here, though.
Absolutely. And as a bonus, by using historically accurate stories to link colonies, you'd remember those extra pieces of information "for free."
Any company that interviews as much as these do is going to have a process that resembles sausage making, and the candidates are the ingredients. It's all about volume, not quality.
The term “culture fit” sounds very vague, but at many companies there are clearly defined criteria, you just don’t know them.

For example, a company may practice test driven development (TDD), and may evaluate for a candidates ability and desire to use TDD as part of their engineering culture fit. TDD is not necessarily better than alternatives, and a candidate may not necessarily be better because they can do it. It might mean passing on better candidates who don’t prefer TDD.

Culture fit can cover many different aspects, and most are not about being past a “good enough” bar, but rather valuing the same things as the company. To “fail” a culture fit interview is arguably a good thing as otherwise the candidate may have found working at the company unfulfilling, uninteresting or difficult.
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> Next expanding, but always increasing the amount they charge to poor service and access to the "internet."

I think your comment is only valid for a particular place in the world. In other countries you have wild competition between land providers and also mobile internet providers that keep offers priced low and more and more competitive as they go. If you want to benefit from competition, you need to ensure the regulators fight against local monopolies, or force them to license their lines.
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I'm in same position bro but I have less coding experience and more IT "knowledge"
Yup it was IBM something and the same era.
I don't know about allowed/disallowed, but Facebook ads are way less transparent and audit-able due to the micro-targeting tools they offer. You can put out "neutral" ads promoting voter turnout and then micro-target them to demographics more likely to vote for your party.

This sort of thing can tip the scales in close-fought districts.
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Some nice easter eggs in the code:

http://jurassicsystems.com/js/jurassicSystems.js
Just facebook or all social media platforms? All online platforms? All forms of media?

Perhaps a clearer approach is to only allow political advertising to be bought using money given by citizens (and limiting the amount each citizen can contribute in each election).

In the case of the US political system, this would probably require an amendment to the constitution, but such an idea is being seriously proposed:

https://campaignfinancereform.org/amendment
> Contract recruiters are a nightmare.

One once included me by mistake in a thread with the prospect employer where the recruiter we openly racist about me
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The ad industry is worth over 200 billion dollars. You really think it just doesn't work at all?
Do you think that newspapers, radio, or TV have decided elections in the past? And do you understand microtargeting?

For me the answer is yes and yes, and I would be surprised if Facebook does not have a major effect on elections.
Sorry if my post came off as worked up, I was merely trying to reduce the narrative to what it was which isn't all that interesting or unique.
Seems like this is a common experience:

https://thecooperreview.com/google-amazon-facebook-secrets-h...
Agreed. I used to remove parenthesis as often as possible. Looking back at the code, that may not have been the brightest idea.

I really do like the coding convention though that lack of parenthesis can indicate a function meant to be a part of a DSL.
I have a slightly different interpretation of the problem and the solution.

NIMBYism is not the origin of the problem, but the consequence. Nimbyism pays off because for the owner, increased rents is a stronger incentive than increased value. The more people go into, for example, San Francisco, and less units are build, rents go up, and city revenues go up as well. Thus NYMBIsm has a strong incentive to be used.

The situation would be exactly opposite if San Francisco did not charge, for example, Sales taxes to everyone, and used prop taxes to levvy its revenues. Ideally, they would use land value tax. This would change the basic incentive to be nymby: the more the city spends and builds, the more people in low density housing will have to pay. And then they will be asking themselves for developers to build and give them units, which is what happens in cities that have alligned incentives.

This is an important idea: this means that the solution is NOT to prevent NIMBY, because you cant fight against powerful incentives.

The single most powerful thing the city could do is move sales taxes into land value taxes: every worker's income will increase, including landlords, but will shift the burden from poor to rich, from landlod to renter, and from non-labor to labor.
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Where you not offering enough £ or using a poor recruitment agency.
Fascinating. I had often wondered about cemeteries being used as an "ideal" disposal site for toxic material. Given that no other use for the property would likely take hold. What I didn't consider was the groundwater contamination that could occur.
Very convenient how you left out the last two sentences in the paragraph about Lysenko and Lamarckism:

>After the 1960s, during the Khrushchev Thaw, a policy of liberalization of science was implemented. Lysenkoism was officially renounced in 1963.

Hmm. Almost like you started with your mind made up and went looking for the quickest thing that confirmed it.

Of course, the US didn't engage in any cooky political pseudoscience from the 1930s to 60s. Only the bad guys were backwards 80 years ago right?

> The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male, also known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study or Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment or the United States Public Health Services Study of Untreated Syphilis in Black Males was an infamous, unethical, and malicious clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service. The purpose of this study was to observe the natural progression of untreated syphilis in rural African-American men in Alabama under the guise of receiving free health care from the United States government.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

Well say, what do you know, it's almost like going back 80 years and finding some old fucked up political shit is an unfair way to prove a country is backwards.
If Facebook ads have any effect at all, then they can decide the outcome of elections. If you need 10,000 votes to beat your opponent and Facebook ads can get you those votes, not using them could be the deciding factor resulting in a loss.

Of course there are also hundreds of other factors deciding the outcome, so Facebook isn't special in any way.
> People still go to other sources, but increasingly less so,

No, case in point, DDG is generating more traffic than ever.
You can also see Facebook losing ground with teenagers and young adults.

There's assault on all sides to decentralize the web as well. And Facebook is not the only social network, you can use Reddit to interact with your communities of interest and live completely off Facebook so your point does not really stand.

Kindle is not a monopoly either. You have Kobo and several other e-readers with attached stores available on the market, and you can buy e-pubs on numerous sites that are not Amazon.

Netflix also has to compete with Amazon Video and Apple services, they don't operate in a vacuum. And nothing prevents you from renting/buying physical media as well, even though it's not fashionable anymore.

Youtube is the closest thing that looks like a monopoly for video sharing- granted. There are alternatives but they tend to be weak in comparison (at least at this stage).
I'm sorry that the first comment on this story is off-topic, but can someone explain why some websites have this weird scrolling behavior? Is this a JavaScript thing that is supposed to improve something? Why does anyone do this? Scrolling this website with the trackpad on my MacBook feels ... wobbly. It distracted me again and again while reading the article. As if someone is slightly pulling on the newspaper you are holding in your hand while you are reading it.
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I was a CS major in the late 80’s, and we’d regularly have communications majors come in to the CS lab to write their papers (this was back before most people had their own computers). At least once a week, one of them would save their paper as “COM1”... and shut off the computer and go home, thinking they were done.
This should be the case on the web, too. If I put together a blog post and someone wants to correct my spelling, it should be easy for them to suggest a correction (and see it when they read without approval.)

Maybe you'd have to worry about graffiti or spam, though. A git PR model would be fine for low-traffic situations though, and maybe there's something similar that scales to higher traffic.
In Spain it is forbidden to show results of electoral polls in the last week before elections, to avoid shifting the public opinion. It does not matter, you can get polls of all kinds by just lurking around in twitter.
This was a common exploit during the hey day of the FXP scene.
In that case there is no difference between nepotism and networking.

Nepotism is usually used in negative context meaning preferring unskilled family member over skilled person you don’t know.

Otherwise any kind of recommendation can be seen as form of nepotism.
Is it 100% clear that all the photos will be publicly available for everyone in the planet?

Does it matter if most of the background if dark or light? How many photos do you need per device?

Are you going to filter porn, gore, ...? See "Running a Wall of Sheep in the Wild" https://blog.rootshell.be/2018/10/26/post-brucon-experience-... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18320334 (47 points, 7 days ago, 46 comments)
How is that acceptable past a month of its release, is nobody correcting it?
>Is Facebook just a fancy machine for auctioning off the electorate to the highest bidder?

Doesn’t the 2016 presidential election disprove this? The candidate who spent the most lost the election.
As someone who is soon to graduate in CS from an university, these seemingly
reoccurring stories of terrible interviews really scare me.

Is it normal for the interviewing process to take up all the candidates
day? Is it always expected to spend 3 weeks brushing up on algorithms for an
interview?

How important are the coding interviews in the decision process? I consider
myself a decent programmer, and I have passed and even enjoyed all the algorithmics
courses at my university. However, asking me to implement, lets say, the Minimum Cut
algorithm on a whiteboard in front of multiple interviewers, would totally break
me down.

From my limited professional experience, the average day of a developer is the
exact opposite of what you have to display at these interviews I read about.
When I code, I need my silence and time to think, I need a relaxing and
comfortable environment, I need the internet, man-pages, StackOverflow, IRC. I
need my own notepad on which I can doodle, and occasionally write down notes for
later. I need room to make and learn from my mistakes. And last but not least,
I will have bad days where I might underperform.
Interviews seem to be the exact opposite of all this.
The internet in the middle of Monteverde rain forest in Costa Rica was faster than the internet at your average coffeeshop in L.A.

That shocked me.
I always find it fascinating to compare just how large the tech industry has become since this era, when Microsoft was already regarded as something close to a giant in the industry.

Microsoft sales 1995: $6.1 billion ($10b today)

Google is about 12x larger. AWS by itself is about 3x larger. Facebook is 5x larger. Salesforce is similar in size. Oracle is 4x larger. SAP is 2x larger. VMWare is closing in on 1x that size, as is Adobe. And Microsoft today is 12x larger.

If people back then understood how large technology companies would become today, I wonder what would be different (if anything).
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I suppose people will complain about cremation not being carbon neutral. Liquification seems to be the way to go, or perhaps soylent green. Why not just fed to hogs?
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> Don't forget that Russia (and thus USSR) started of as a poor agrarian nation to begin with, much behind in industrialization than the US, UK, etc.

This is not true. Revolution in Russia was performed by industrial workers, not by agrarians. Also, Russia was third-fourth economy in the world just before war. Other countries in the world were much poorer and agrarian.
Although that candidate did get a few million more votes. I’m not trying to make some bitter comment, just that if you consider Facebook as selling votes, the highest spender did get the most.
Similar result to what is being described on Safari with this on Chrome - slows down to 1 fps, and some of the gray boxes to seem to be rendering with a red one.
> Because building isn't the core problem. It is that a large part of the population have a large part of the life savings in the housing market and therefor would take a loss if housing became affordable. It is like asking why the government can't make stocks fall.

Boo-hoo. Poor rich people.
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Both of the two things you mention are great ideas, but don't necessarily require a state actor. It could be a good thing for a state to kick of and get the ball rolling.
I wanted to comment the exact same thing.

I guess they are trying to mimic Safari's built-in inertial scrolling on every other platform, but they can't do it perfectly, so it actually ends up breaking scrolling in Safari. Sad and pointless.
Nepotism is about employing friends or relatives because of that friendship or family relationship and not because of any inherent skill. However the fact that top chefs (or programmers, VCs, actors, doctors, academics etc) know each other is nothing to do with that. They know and trust each other first because of their proven skills and track record.
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He was 41 years old in 1996. Here's the magazine cover: https://media.wired.com/photos/5bbbd018b1d78f2d74578369/mast...

Certainly not any sort of athlete, but doesn't look unusually overweight or unhealthy.
> a lot of old consumer goods which were "made in USSR" are an etalon of quality compared to modern goods

You just cannot afford high-quality product.
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This is the true lesson of the economics of career choice. Cleaning toilets can pay surprisingly well because no one wants to do it.
That just sounds like it wasn't as much of a passion as you thought.. you could always choose to not contribute to the overpopulation problem.
You dodged a bullet there. Fate.
OK I will :)
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For violating rules about false information.
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The article gives only the most passing nod towards cremation: is cremation a more environmentally sound option? How are cadavers donated to science disposed of?
Absolutely. And I think your notion of "optimizing for low false positives" is generous. I think most bad interviewers are optimized for a) employer convenience and b) feelings of power on the part of interviewers.

Part A is understandable in that the standard hiring process is optimized for the common case: scarce jobs and abundant, interchangeable workers. That gets you bulk resume submission, minimal human interaction, and indifferent, slipshod processes. Part B is just jackassery, but it gets you things like brainteaser interview questions, high-stress interviews, and a lot of biases smuggled in under things like "culture fit".

That makes very little sense for software jobs, where it's the workers that are scarce. A few years back, I said, "Wait, we spend all this time optimizing our software for user experience; why don't we do the same for job applications?" I ended up with a significantly different process, one that was a little more work for us, but a way better applicant experience. I also shifted focus from finding flaws to looking to see people at their best, which is not only a better experience, but I think gets better people. I encourage everybody to apply their design thinking and user empathy skills to their own hiring process. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
I think the more noteworthy article (since I agree the OP is lacking) is the NYT article that it links to:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/business/economy/seattle-...

Here's the new paper it describes:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25182?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_medi...
Some searching gives this suggestion: increasing the abundance of heat shock proteins by taking a sauna several times a week. Not sure if and how much this would really help.
If "some shifty person introduces a problem", then that's bad news for any code base in any language. Nothing specific to Prolog.

> The big demonstration is that it's really rarely used in industry.

By that reasoning, software written in Javascript must be extremely reliable and easy to debug. >.>
Skilled construction workers that aren't yet half-disabled, you mean. They have a shelf life, not unlike those of professional football players, stuntmen, longshoremen, firefighters, soldiers, pre-Industrial-Revolution farmers, etc.

"Back-breaking" isn't just a figure-of-speech; modern medicine isn't (yet?) advanced enough that a rational actor should ever choose construction work over something else; and there are just enough desperate people around that I doubt anyone is willing to pay the true cost of construction-work to a not-as-desperate would-be construction-worker.

The limited resource here, then, is actually: desperate people who are still smart enough to do construction work.

I can't wait until construction becomes a non-human-powered activity - even if it still requires a human to control the machinery.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_resource_group I would presume.
Prison time for this is madness.
No it just shows that machines do not always work.
It's special because with microtargeting you can target exactly the 10000 voters that you need, giving each one a personalized message crafted to fit that individual's personality and views, and the messages will be seen by those individuals alone.

So it's perfectly possible to feed 10000 voters their personally crafted propaganda and have nobody else even aware that it is happening.