skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is high quality science. Sometimes science is affirmative. I am surprised this is not seen that way, that is all.

From the reading here, I should be.

Honestly, it just means my natural inclinations toward gender issues are not far off the mark. That may be less common than I realized.
Providing both unit sales figures and revenue always made Apple something of an outlier.

Microsoft has never provided unit sales or revenue figures for the Surface line.

>Microsoft just closed the books on its 2018 fiscal year. As usual, it didn't break out unit sales or revenue for the Surface division

https://www.zdnet.com/article/surface-by-the-numbers-how-mic...

Google has never provided unit sales or revenue for their Pixel line.

>unlike most hardware manufacturers, Google refuses to share official sales numbers for their phone. Instead, during earning reports they simply bundle the product under Alphabet's "Other Revenues", leaving us in the dark about how successful the product is.

https://android.gadgethacks.com/news/rare-moment-pixels-sale...
that's some core2 stuff of 2008-2010
In any case, why do we humans persistently depend on the emotion of trust instead of using our native intelligence to appraise each situation as they come?

Trust is an archaic emotion that may have had its value in primitive societies living amidst predators and such demanding instant reactions. However we now live in a safer modern society where newcomers to the team don't come with an intention to kill and plunder others; why not just use the brain's intelligence to deal with their proposals? Why keep these archaic hierarchies alive and the need to "earn one's place" in them?
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Same here. I recently saw that my cable internet bill was going up, and successfully argued my way to a higher tier of service for a lower monthly price. That extra $10 a month was about to drive me right into the arms of their main competitor. If I had been on auto-pay, I might not have even noticed.

I bought a new cable modem to take advantage of the higher tier data rate, so I'm not actually ahead of things yet, cost-wise, but another couple of months will do it.

I think we need that monthly payment friction to pressure companies to keep up their value proposition to customers. If I have to continually re-choose to be a customer, the company has to do more to keep me satisfied.
What a pathetic excuse of an address
I found your comment by clicking on another comment of his, in another thread. He is absolutely "live blogging". He seems to have little to no actual real world experience, conflates technological notions easily, and often comments without any understanding of the underlying subject matter. Paulie, I think we would all prefer if you returned to reddit.
Yeah, exactly. Create a Gmail filter to filter them into a hidden Gmail label. And then at the chosen times, move them into the inbox
But what if it’s the answer to the question how do you brick your browser tab from an infinite loop?
Attack the idea, not the "type of mind" that posted it.

My point of disagreement would be that BigCos making "safe" hiring choices and having overbearing, one-size fits all HR policies is a phenomenon that predates modern political correctness. Having a policy of making interviews into arbitrary objective tests isn't just to prevent twitter mobs and hold off political rhetoric, it's a way of making hiring more predictable, combat nepotism, and select for people who aren't too individualistic to succeed in the corporate environment. The downside, of course, is you throw away and turn off a lot of good candidates who don't fit the mold.
To be clear, I am not saying they shouldn’t be acquired - if they get acquired by Twitter/Microsoft/AANG I am totally going to be a supportive user. It is the F word I consider unworthy.
Hispanic students for Southern and Western states pay out of state tuition unless they are resident of the same states that colleges are in. So TX university recruiting a Hispanic student from AZ is recruiting an out of state student that pays out of state fees.

Merit scholarships issued to international students are akin to mattress stores discounts - increase list price via fees and discount those fees not to mention that as a condition of college scholarship one agrees that all additional money he or she gets as scholarships obtained separately from a university or a college that money goes back into repaying the scholarship that was offered by a college.

So say that tuition is $30k a year, room and board is $20k a year and fees are $3k a year for a student from Poland ( for in state the rate is $20k/$12k/$3k - room and board is $12k because the school wants in state students to live on campus and it knows that the dorms are 400% more expensive than the off campus housing that the parents of the student would be able to easily find out). Merit scholarship ( 5, for all 679 international students but with that 5 the school says it offers merit scholarships across the board ) is 50% discount on tuition. So the international student now has to pay $15k+$20k+$3k to come to the school vs in state student with no merit scholarship paying $20+$12+$3k. Oh, look, we diversified and we got more money per student! And we also got the student to sign that should he or she get a scholarship from some other organization, the first 15k of it would go back to replenish the merit scholarship fund of the school.

Source: personal experience.

P.S. I cannot wait until the college system in the US collapses. It would be glorious to watch everyone who participated in a financial rape of 17-18 year olds and their families being financially ruined in their 40-60s.

P.P.S. Next time during the college administration all hands make administration answer why the college has different tuition rates for in state, out of state and international students and why it does not offer scholarships/grants/discounts uniformly to everyone.
> I'd say it's a reasonable way to do it.

No, it's a terrible way to do it. It's fundamentally wrong. It's not even reasonable metaphorically. It's like trying to explain the automobile to a 17th century pirate and saying it's a horse with 4 sails.
is this NISTIR 8202 -- Blockchain Technology Overview ?

https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8202
Because the standard meaning of 'unemployment rate' is 'U3 unemployment rate'. I and many other people believe that it shouldn't be that way, but it is. When people quote 'the unemployment rate', they mean 'U3', without exception.
I totally agree, and usually do. My wife was not happy about spending $240 on Phish :) My point is that it is very complicated to track everything. My household of 5, my businesses, my recreation. I guess the way to wrap up my gp comment is that Apple could move into this space becoming a major value driver to consumers.
In the future, if we're able to help people make plans to meet up with their friends, we envision being able to help make reservations at local restaurants (also helping local economies thrive), and making a small amount of money from the restaurant. Unlike Facebook, we don't want hours of your attention — we want you to get in the app, and get out, and live your life with the people that matter.

If you were asking about our specific practices w.r.t. contacts, we only import 1 contact at a time when you pick one from your list, and if you prefer to not give access to your contact list, you can manually type in your contacts too.
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I see that a lot with kids who were labeled as talented or gifted early on.

The question is: can you develop grit, or is it natural? Did you respond to the new pressures in college, or were you uncovering a latent skill the remaining 40 did not have?

I genuinely don’t know.
Well, I like women who swear, and I like them because I swear too.

Profanity is often used as an expression of comfort and security among ones peers. That is nice to have in play.

Happy to leave you alone that way. :D But would enjoy working with you otherwise. Sadly, a lot of guys see that signal as the wrong kind. Unfortunate.

As for dress, it should be for you first and foremost. Those other people should be doing them, you do you. Maybe we will get there.
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Microsoft skeptics fail to realize that most of the mid- and upper-level executives increasingly spent their entire career using, creating, and contributing to F/OSS software. Many of them were involved with early MSFT OSS efforts back in 2008-2010, and many came from deep Linux/OSS community via acquisition (Nat Friedman). Hell, the creator of GNOME, Miguel de Icaza, someone who bears the scars of the Microsoft War on OSS, now resides happily at Microsoft now.

For whatever faults MSFT has today, any sort of antipathy or guile towards OSS or Linux is not one among them. Credit where credit is due. Too many are stuck reliving past glories.

If you want an actual OSS bogeyman, you need only direct your attention to Oracle. Too many transferred their goodwill towards Sun to a company has, among other things, tried to claim Java’s APIs as their own intellectual property. That’s a company that still merits this kind of hand-wringing.
Examples, with specific citation:

My local bus stop has adverts (London).

My local metro station does too (London).

They're all over the roads (UK).

They're in pubs (UK).

They're on paid television services (Sky).

They're on paid programs (Windows 10).

They're shown before movies (cinema, UK).

Advertising is _everywhere_, in paid services, unpaid services, whatever.

Unless I'm in my own, or a friend's private home I could probably find an advert by spinning my head around.

Ask yourself - why haven't you included an advert on your comment? You could, and it'd allow you to comment on HN more, right?
It's unlikely to be tactic, in general. If it's in a normal working day (as against a specific hiring event), it's likely to be a minor failure of logistics.

In your case, it's probably not that. It's more likely that the second interviewer thought that it wasn't worth their time carrying on with the interview. For example, if their expectations of your experience/knowledge were way off reality. Very rude of them not to just say so if that is the case though.
Certainly not. Gmail API let's you work with just message ids. Never accesses content, ever. Super important.
This is exactly correct. I conducted dozens of interviews for Google myself, and while most went okay, some did not. Those were failings on my part, and I did my best to learn from those mistakes. That the interview process isn't more streamlined is a failing on the company's part however. Good interviewing techniques aren't formally taught there, and only learned via shadowing and sitting in on other interviews. This isn't just the case at Google either, but most large companies are generally bad at training employees how to conduct interviews intended to draw out sufficient hiring information on candidates. And yeah, interview quality there varied wildly from office to office, and especially across the remote sites.
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Yep, but that still doesn't support the grandparent's point.
What about the fact that the killing was botched? Isn't that telling of dysfunction within the Saudi Administration?

There are professional people in this world that can handle such situations. The Americans, the Russians, the Chinese, the all have people who can clean up a mess well enough to keep things away from the media. But such people are professionals. This saudi team looks more like a bunch of frat boys: well-educated but where they are because of connections. The operations smacks of "assassination for dummies." These people had not done this before. They didn't have a playbook. They were inventing everything.

My point: The Saudi regime doesn't use professionals, doesn't know how to employ experts. Instead they employ friends and family. That deficiency surely bleeds into other areas too.
It’s a recursive definition. Methodology that works is science, that which fails is not. Things like peer review are accepted practice, but practice changes over time based on research.

People simplify things like to use hypothesis > experiment loop as Science. But, in practice simple observation is often used for things like Botany.

Ex: Philosophy is not science becase it does not work. You can’t argue from first principles and end up with a modern CPU.
OTOH, on my Android devices I find "add to homescreen" web apps to feel janky and non-native.

I like React Native and apps written in it are just fine by me but the browser and the web doesn't compare in L&F or responsiveness. Maybe someday down the line, but not now.
I don't know why people are reacting so negatively. It's a normal occurrence for there to be "people persons" who are great at creating and maintaining a social life and doing these kinds of events, and many of us introverts being unable to replicate that... (Actually, I personally am able to create a lot of friends, but it's mostly through the introvert's favorite venue - online chats)
If I understand you correctly there is a short reply to your kind of critique in Section 5 of the first link I gave, under the subsection titled "Illiberalism". It's a viable critique that has been (and still is) discussed extensively, of course.
This is unintentionally fucking hilarious. You already concede that review is a “maybe”... so we have to assume it won’t happen. So basically your argument boils down to web code meeting the high standards of being “written by someone” and put in “some form” of a production environment. Any http server on a routable ip address qualifies as “some form” of production environment.
I think India is similar to Brazil in that regard.

If someone truly cares about cultural acceptance (above and beyond the superficial diversity jabber), it would serve them well to start by replacing trust (and distrust) with intelligent appraisals.
I have English class to thank for showing me his work. I ended up picking up a book of his poetry soon after.

What struck me is his stark change from a Romantic poet to his Wartime poetry. I would like to add the cynicism in "Inspection" as a companion to "Futility" to mirror the loss of faith.
Looks awesome, I appreciate the simple signup and signin process. One tiny bug report: the signout button is misaligned vertically on an iPhone 8 in portrait mode. The button still functions properly.
> physics .. accept that their type of knowledge is ... not definite

I think it's definite as long as the horse is spherical and in a vacuum. I mean a scientific theory that's built on such an assumption is definite knowledge, right?
Thank you for the great and detailed answer. I feel very strongly about using Facebook and since this app would focus on people I am close to, a future FB acquisition would mean more of my info in FB’s hands. I support acquisitions, just that my personal trust matrix has an FB exclusion zone.
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Our product has a very rich and interactive frontend that has involved solving some complex and unique challenges, both on backend and frontend, and there are new challenges yet to solve.

Experience with TypeScript or any statically typed language is a plus. Experience with TDD is a plus. HTML/CSS and design skills are a plus.

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yea... thinking Vuejs might have been a better option here.
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By "people of Saudi Arabia", he's meaning the rich elites and the princes. I lived in that country for a couple of years. The wealth gap there is truly staggering.
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Technology at OnDeck is a mix of building world-class user experiences for our partners and direct customers, data processing to enable underwriting model development and real-time lending decisions, automating operational and compliance workflows, and generating precise money movements and calculations to service our customers. We have an emphasis on scalability, security, reliability and accuracy.

My teams are focused on building the experience and automation that underpin our abilities to quickly and easily enable merchants to apply for and receive capital.

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And? It's a common habit of journalists to attack anything which either criticises them or competes for their audience.
I think it might be more like "do it yourself or it won't get done".

It wasn't that long ago when agriculture was a very big employer. I have a lot of farmers in my family and basically, if the sun is up, they are working. When something needs to be done, they DIY-it mostly because that's all they can afford.
i agree SF needs less coddling and way stronger sticks (at least for the young & able-bodied), but fundamentally theres no where for these people to go to try to get it together. cost of housing way above welfare/SSID in a 50 mile radius. there's zero net shelter space. because the political incentives on the west coast (nimby, mellow weather, already high taxes) are to not bother to build them.

theres also not enough jail space or PD headcount, so dealers, petty burglars just cycle in and out without consequence. its a vicious cycle of extreme poverty that starts and ends with a corrupt, poorly run local government
Not as much in Windows 8+ since it seems that the "Windows Shell Experience Host" process started taking over increasingly more of the taskbar duties. It still seems possible for particularly bad Explorer process crashes to crash the Windows Shell Experience Host (presumably due to COM communication channels between them?), but not every Explorer crash affects the Shell Experience Host anymore. (More interesting now is when the Shell Experience Host crashes; Explorer tends to keep working just fine, and unlike before, opening a new Explorer window doesn't guarantee that the Shell Experience Host reboots.)
It would be nice if the government imposed the same requirements on its own departments for violations of privacy as it does on private companies.

Seems to me that government is eager to punish private companies for violations, while increasing its own storage of personal information on innocent people.

In this comments section, someone else said:

> [..] when it comes to mass surveillance,intentionally malicious backdoors and general societal loss of ptivacy, the solution should be primarly legislative not technical.

I'd object to this, given that a legislative solution is unable to restrict government collection of private data, while a technical one isn't (case in point: cryptography).
My perception is that CS is the only field which has generally normalized and accepted pre-prints in lieu of formally peer-reviewed articles. I can say that in my field (Health Sciences), biorXiv is the most applicable pre-print site, but in my experience, none of my colleagues have heard of it.
If you need tips on organizing your project, go read the Flask source code on github. Reading this code helped me improve my Python skills greatly.
Does this not apply even to experimental result interpretation? e.g. One can argue that the GRACE satellite program didn't image gravity, but showed the theory and the effect of the theory.
It would sound dramatically overstated to me as well if I had not experienced it.

I've worked at almost every coffee shop on the West Side of Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Culver, Venice.

With the exception of Starbucks who has some sort of deal worked out with Google the average connection speed is 5Mbs - 10Mbs.
True. But I think that you can generally break them down into a few broad categories of functional style, and none of them can be followed comfortably in Java.
I had to look this up because I'd never heard of it.

Slotting and MTS existed, but indeed hasn't been done since 2011 or 2012, and hadn't applied to L3 or L4 candidates for much longer, which means it likely was a way to differentiate between borderline L5 and L6 candidates or borderline L6 and L7.
for (let x of xs)

in more recent versions of JS is how you iterate an array without facing that prototype pollution problem.

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
pdfinfo comes with Xpdf and allows you to view the metadata. See the man page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/pdfinfo
On acquisition, we would cease to be in charge of our destiny, whether by FB or by Twitter/MSFT/AANG [1]. If we're successful in our product & business strategy, we'll stay independent forever, and will monetize through restaurant reservations at local businesses when we help you make a plan to meet up with your friend. Glad to hear you'd be a supportive user even if we were acquired, but we'd like to keep a direct relationship with you ourselves and never be acquired :)

[1] https://stratechery.com/2018/instagrams-ceo/
> Technology types generally don't do this.

And the rationale isn't too different from this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONKkoiszVSs&t=409
Regarding proxies, could anyone recommend where to learn about implementing a proxy / proxy chain? a book, or online resource, etc.
Great point though - we need to be clearer about that on the home page :)
Who is supposed to issue this apology?

The person writing the press release for such an apology didn't do anything, so there's nothing for them to apologize for. The people responsible for Microsoft's anti-OSS stance are minimally involved in 2018, if at all.

There are plenty of people and companies who apologize without putting action behind it. Apologies are a nice gesture on a personal level, but they don't mean anything without action, and they don't mean anything at all at a company level. Microsoft is, at a minimum, showing it wants people to think it's changed. People unwilling to give them a chance are not going to be persuaded by a press release with apology in the title.
I am laughing at this. He is describing it as if it were a steampunk device.
> In the three decades Stalin was general secretary, the Soviet Union had enormous economic growth.
China also had enormous economic development under the communist party from 1949 to 1978

Suprisingly (or rather unsurprisingly) they've also managed to starve tens of millions along with their 'growth'.
Is auto-pay really unrestricted? In my bank I can define a limit for any direct debits, so if they overcharge, it'll be automatically denied, and I'll be informed.
"Conservatives are anti-science": no downvote.
"Liberals are anti-biology": downvote.

HN is funny...
I could imagine playing the Chinese whisper/telephone game starting with "active components" and getting to "moving parts" pretty quickly.
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Its a nice fit for 10 bits
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