skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well then, someone is lying here, because these two sides of the story seem to be in direct conflict with each other; at least one side’s claim must be false.

FWIW, an anecdote from my experience: Of all the companies I’ve ever applied to, Google is the only one that required unofficial course transcripts and GPA.

P.S. Starting a comment with “Ummm?” doesn’t really add much value to the discussion.
or maybe 2.6 was 'probably ok' but his justification for it made it 'not ok'
I don't suppose you'll see this because it's pretty old by now but:

> why not move to the job? That is the huge win for shortening a commute.

it is, but it's a huge loss as far as making your kids change schools and make new friends.
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A GPA of 2.6 at Waterloo is considered strong
> Having an iPhone isn't inexplicable. You can finance or lease a phone for $30-$40 a month.

You can also be given an iPhone as a gift or hand-me-down. Or decide to keep it instead of selling it when you lose your job or get really sick the rest of your life goes off the rails.
Google explicitly said on their application advice page last year to include your GPA on your resume.
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Just come here, not to debate, but to add some background information about its public perception.

The Cancer Center and other departments of the Second Hospital of the Armed Police Beijing Corps were actually outsourced to the operation of the Putian network, the latter has a long history of false advertising of various ineffective medical treatments.

Basically, the general public believes Baidu was the largest supporter of the Putian network, and Putian hospitals may have contributed 12 billion RMB (1.8 billion US$) of the total of 26 billion RMB (4 billion US$) in ad revenues reported by Baidu that year.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/the-putian-conne...

https://www.whatsonweibo.com/behind-baidu-scandal-baidu-puti...
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Over the last 70 years, this has been the pattern of US foreign policy: Destabilising countries in Asia, Middle East, Africa and Latin America, for narrow economic or ideological benefits. It is all too easy to justify it as “our meddling” is for the greater good and “others meddling” is evil and undemocratic. There is no distinction. Eventually the US needs to come to terms with the massively destructive impact it has had on the world since WW2. China in many ways has exhibited a path to a more benign and progressive foreign policy (not without its own imperfections).
Good points. So, overall, I guess an effective competitor is quite possible (given enough tons of capital and patience), but that capital isn't on offer because it would only yield a "competitive" profit, not a monopoly profit, and these days competition is for losers. (To exaggerate some. And I'm really ignorant about this. Thanks.)
arkadiyt may be objecting to the dramatic use of "hack".

If Wells Fargo left an unsecured and sensitive DB exposed over the web, I would also object to a narrative of how people "hacked into Wells Fargo".
I think plenty of people knows Slack has threads. Threads in Slack are secondary and are mostly meant for having conversations that people don't care about. Zulip has a much superior threading model. Each and every conversation is a new thread and has a topic. This model makes it extremely easier to catch up and participate in conversations. Once you get used to the threading model of Zulip its hard to tolerate threading model like Slack which is really inefficient and time wasting.
Nothing about the blockchain can tell you whether somebody switched the labels, or who did it. And the not-guilty parties probably have no way of verifying what they received, either.

Having movements logged in a federated database has all the same properties.
I still like my Ford Tempo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18526682
> "Was adjusting moving across the continent for school in fields I were not familiar with in highschool. Balancing real life responsibilities and focused on a lot of extra curriculars. Grades within my major were good and it has been upward trending."

> "I have rarely gotten Cs actually for some reason, especially not my major classes. Either way, i don't see how this disqualifies me from the job as it was not in the job description to have a high GPA, and I passed my interviews reasonably well."

Of course it's possible that the OP isn't telling the complete truth, but he's been a regular poster in that sub throughout the process so I doubt he's making much up. Also, if it really is based on your explanation that's just encouraging dishonesty and is a shitty hiring metric. If you're going to hire on something as arbitrary as GPA then the reason behind the number shouldn't be a factor. "We're sorry, we only accept candidates with low GPA if both parents died, but as only one of yours did during your undergrad we can't move on with your app."
Could you elaborate on the real estate one.
Sounds like you're talking about home equity loans.
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It's funny they tell people to use different password for all sites except the presence of master password makes it far more vulnerable especially when people can be using weak password as they don't want to lose it.
The question is, what's the alternative?

Suppose you roll out a new voting schedule expanding voting hours. The purpose is to make things more convenient, not affect election outcomes -- someone who might have had to miss an hour of work to vote can now do it during off hours instead etc. But without having any way to know this ahead of time, the new schedule turns out to change who votes in a way that disproportionately benefits one party over the other. What should be done?

There is no logical reason for one schedule to be more fair than another, assuming that everyone has a reasonable opportunity to vote in both cases and the difference is only a matter of convenience. The problem is that convenience can affect election outcomes -- and there are arbitrarily many possible schedules.

Suppose that increasing voting hours at certain other times (e.g. opening polls earlier in the morning) would benefit Republicans more than Democrats. If they did that instead of removing the hours that disproportionately benefited Democrats, you could accuse them of the same thing -- changing the schedule to affect the outcome. But they're also just restoring the original balance that existed before a change was made that wasn't expected to alter it but did. On the other hand, who is to say that the original status quo is more fair than some other thing?

And that's the problem. Nobody has any more right to slightly more convenient voting hours than anyone else, but who gets them can determine the election. The incumbents are the ones who get to make the decision, so what would you expect them to do? More importantly, what principled thing do you propose to do instead?

In theory they could allow voting 24 hours a day for a month, but the expense of that likely exceeds the marginal benefit. Meanwhile as soon as you start deciding which hours to cut, you're potentially choosing who wins the election again.
I've repeatedly heard statements from people at Google contradicting what Bock says about the process. Here's one public response from Gayle Laakmann McDowell (author of Cracking the Coding interview): https://www.quora.com/Why-doesn%E2%80%99t-Google-care-about-...
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Thank you! I'm sorry I'm not totally sure what you are asking. Are you asking how much does it drain the laptop battery? To be honest I've never really tested that, but I'm curious now :-) If you are asking how much the driver affects the transmit power of the wireless card, it takes it from 20 dB up to 33 dB, and each 3 dB is a doubling of power, so it cranks it up by a significant amount.
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I admit that it does sound crackpotish [sic] - I am the OP.

Is this better? ->

The common understanding of T2DM is that it is a problem of sugar and therefore diet. That's only half of the equation of the physiology leading to T2DM. We have to also understand the cause of excess free circulating blood sugar and excess calories: muscle cells that have lost their ability to receive sugar. Muscle atrophy and poor muscle composition has to be the second half of understanding and therefore part of management of T2DM.
Interested in testing, mailed you
What bothers me most about Google as how their overriding seems to be anti-desktop, anti-laptop, let's use our monopoly position on the web to make all websites conform to mobile standards. This philosophy seems to inform all their product decisions including cancellations like this.
Good counterpoint - I wasn't willing to read through all of the replies to find this info.
I work at a large printer company - similar name to a famous fantasy novel series. I have joked for ages about "Denial of Ink and Paper" attacks. To co-workers: I told you so.
Reading this, it sounds like they got shot down by SVP (passed HC, got match). Of course, I have no idea of that was the case here for sure. But it does happen.

Recruiter should not have given verbal offer before there was actually a contract sent though, that is a really bad look.
Its remarkable if its the only one on the block, or in the whole city: I was walking down a quiet residential street in Europe once and was surprised to see a giant red pickup sitting in the driveway. Looked incredibly out of place.
I used AutoCAD, but that's mainly because I was already moderately familiar with it, and thanks to my university affiliation it was free. Gotta respect the "hook 'em while they're young" business model.
no, some of them are recognizable, have a specific discoloration, or a leg or an antenna missing or something like that's unique about them. My colony was small, a few hundreds ants, and I knew how to tell apart maybe about a dozen of them, enough to notice that not all of them behave identically.
If you are on a mac, I created a simple web wrapper for the google voice website and puts it on the menubar, you can SMS on the desktop that way. Link to the app voicenotifies.com
They are (with caveats), the problem is proving it.
Yes, title is misleading. Outside of populated/developed areas, they’re synthesizing the appearance of radar data using other products like satellite imagery.
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True. And this was auto-dialing 50K of them, and leaving a ~commercial message. But on the other hand, it wasn't printing solid black pages until the paper ran out. Which is what some jerk did to my fax machine, some decades ago ;)
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In the US, even a written job offer is generally not considered to be a binding contract.

https://www.tonybeshara.com/tips/accepting-an-offer-new-empl...
100% GPA related.

> Repost from yesterday's daily chat thread.

> Hi guys, kinda a big issue rnow.

> Got matched with a host for SWE Internship with Big G this summer. Had the match interview and it was a match, recruiter told me last monday that i should receive my offer within 2 days.

​

> Didn't hear anything until yesterday, when she emailed me asking me to write a statement justifying my lower than usual GPA. (2.6)

​

> I am pretty nervous about this. I turned down two jobs this summer because I thought I had already been matched. I can't find much online abotu this situation. What happens now?

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/a13waz/b...
However, if you look at the second, you won't see any left shifts, which is also interesting
Pointillism, China's industrial espionage activities are not.
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It's interesting that complain was made by a US company - Yelp. I'm curious to who the other rivals in the complaints were.
> In theory they could allow voting 24 hours a day for a month

That's exactly (well, perhaps not exactly a month) what places that adopt all mail-in (or just permanent, no-special-qualification mail-in) voting do, so it's not just “in theory”.
> In my experience, loop unrolling should basically never be done except in extremely degenerate cases

Not true. Like many such optimizations, loop unrolling can be useful because it makes downstream loads constant.

For example:

float identity[4][4];
for (unsigned y = 0; y < 4; y++)
for (unsigned x = 0; x < 4; x++)
identity[y][x] = y == x ? 1 : 0;
... do some matrix math ...

In this case, the compiler probably wants to unroll the loops so that it can straightforwardly forward the constant matrix entries directly to the matrix arithmetic. It'll likely be able to eliminate lots of operations that way.

(You might ask "who would write this code?" As Schemers say: "macros do.")

See LLVM's heuristics: http://llvm.org/doxygen/LoopUnrollPass_8cpp.html#ad7c38776d7...
> Michelle Edkins, BlackRock’s global head of investment stewardship. “It’s not just about climate. It comes back to the point of governance as a lens, and when it’s not serving shareholder interests, it’s a flag.”
You are quite right though i fear most Americans will find this truth unpalatable.

My prediction: If and When the demise of American Tech. supremacy happens, the main culprits will be the American "Management" and "Finance" industry folks. Hubris and Complacency have been legitimized and are ruling the roost.
My experience has been that FreeBSD in particular has issues with graphics drivers. My 2015 desktop with a (at the time) mid-range Radeon card is only barely stable (took some fiddling with ports) in the latest 12 release. I hear Nvidia is better, but I refuse to use proprietary drivers.

I didn't really find that FreeBSD offered any advantage on the desktop over Linux, and features like browser sandboxing seem to (understandably) be lagging behind.

Lots of people are running away from Linux because of systemd, but that's a non-issue for me. It works just fine.

Curiously enough OpenBSD works perfectly OOtB, but in the end I returned to Fedora anyway because there's no support for Wine or Steam. I'd prefer it over FreeBSD though since I like the design of the base system better.
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I understood what was meant by "Ummm?" In fact, I thought it was a nice way of conveying tone and introducing the upcoming quote.
For $70 a month from T-mobile all fees included you get unlimited talk, text, data and 3G tethering. The price goes down to $60 a month for two adults - yes both adults need cell phones, how else are they going to be reachable for jobs and if one is at work and the other is at home?

I know my older son doesn’t have cable or home internet and he uses his phone for everything including entertainment, internet connectivity to his computer, etc.

I’ve known families with children who were going through things and the kids studied on a hand me down laptop and use their phone’s internet access and tethering to do homework.
I had to stop reading when he claimed that the BSD heritage of macOS is only of academic interest. The guy has clearly never tried to use macOS.
Annnnd... if you have a structural problem which cannot be corrected via interpersonal, regulatory, or political action, then what do you do?
Just a run of the mill human interest story about the checks notes CIA????
That's one possible interpretation, but it's both highly speculative and very generous to Google. Why do you focus on that one so strongly?
No, You SHOULD blame the "Management" who cannot think past lining their own pockets.
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what if this person was 4.0 on all the tech topics, a brilliant person indeed, but has no patience or interest in history, religious studdies, English etc etc.
This sounds like what Oracle would do.
You dodged a bullet, onwards and upwards...
It's possible at some schools to have 89s through most of your classes which equals a B (3.0) and have a few Cs and thus have a 2.6 GPA.
The 'corporate blockchain' described above would probably be a federated one. Participants would use private keys to sign and validate transactions, with full knowledge about who else is in the network. It's a simple quorum mechanism, or some elaboration thereof.

It is not 'trustless', but it is decentralized. You're basically relying on a majority of participants to behave ethically and not collude. In a situation where collusion is impractical or has little reward, this can function fine.

An example of this is Blockstream's 'Liquid' crypto which is validated by crypto exchanges. The security model of this coin isn't great compared to Bitcoin, but it arguably has advantages over the simple custodian model.
I'm very curious and would like to know more about what you were trying to do, what did you need a 3TB matrix for?
Maybe ketamine is treatment of last resort, and LSD, because they’re most likely to actually work and the pharmaceutical-insurance industrial complex wants to rinse as many people through the ineffective drugs and therapies first.

Maybe I’m just being cynical, but if the standard treatments were effective perhaps we mental illness wouldn’t be so prevalent.

Of course, it’s complex and multifactorial, and there’s societal and cultural issues, and generational issues, we need to address too.
How do taller European countries manage with their smaller cars then?

Germans, Dutch, even the Spaniards are taller on average than Americans.
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Looks like the 3.5" floppies have had the hole punch treatment to increase capacity! That wasn't always great for reliability as I remember it...
If you are using a weak password, that's always a problem...

But a masterpassword for offline storage is a completely different story, because even if the world knew your masterpassword, they still couldn't do anything with it, because they need to get to your dropbox file first.

If you use similar passwords everywhere, any site can read your password and use it to login somewhere else... You are supposed to use long random passwords for websites because you have to assume that every single password gets compromised and the website you are on tries to hack all other accounts.
Is this from experience with elixir specifically, or is it theoretical? I've never had any problems. Can you tell me where you had a problem?
I wasn't actually taking the side against civilization, just saying that reasonable arguments exist. But you get that.

One thing I spend a lot of time thinking about is the amount of things that I'm wrong about. Some of them minor, but also likely something that a future man would find abhorrent, equivalent to slavery or cockfighting or something. Extrapolate from how often people are wrong on the Internet (!!11), and I'm probably wrong a lot. Extrapolate from HN, less so. Civilization as a whole must also have these systemic errors which are unnoticed by almost everyone; modernism definitely had such errors.

The single most modernist institution remaining today is the Olympics, which attempts to use athletic competition to maintain international peace. We all know that the IOC and related bodies have serious problems, but the mission itself is still valuable. Even if it does implicitly promote nationalism.
Things have changed a few times since Lazslo left, FWIW.
Yes indeed. 6 to 8 weeks is an eternity for someone who is deeply suffering. I personally think we are way too stingy with medicines these days. I also had a friend commit suicide while suffering from intense depression. He would no doubt be alive today if he had been giving what he needed right away, instead of being made to start with Prozac and then worked through a bunch of different "starter" antidepressants. Just give people what they need. There are worse outcomes than over-prescribing (death at one's own hand, for example).
This seems so odd to me since I remember when Elephant was the new cool kid on the block; cooler than Verbatim etc.
With a salary auction system, it looks like startups will be at a disadvantage, as several have said. I wonder if investors should put in more funding to allow each startup to pay a higher salary closer to the market rate of the talent they aim to hire.

Investors or at least the LPs should be able to shoulder much more risks than average startup employees, and they should have a relatively higher preference for equity over cash than employees.
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The way it works now is you rely on a third party to guarantee the property isn't owned by someone else, and then you buy insurance to protect the lender in case the third party screwed up.
It is also someone else's OS, software and hardware and compiler (Thompson,'84) even if you "own" the specific license or a copy . Physical "ownership" is very arbitrary line to draw i if you are paranoid about this kind of thing , Storage does not equate able to see if you control the encryption keys
Had a B8.5 S4, now a B9 A5 with sports suspension. The power/transmission leave a little something to be desired, but the A5 is otherwise a very nice ride, and not too wallowy for an Audi. I have also a much more powerful sports car for the weekend, but the A5 has its charms too.
> I mean, the government choose the term

I think it's also fair to say that Disney has chosen the term and the government has failed to do its job.

The last bit of my comment was meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
It's not about the method of theft, it's about the cost of the thing being stolen.
That’s criminal trespass. Accessing something not yours, when the owner has some expectation of you not accessing it, even if easy to do, is often illegal.

Owners not locking goods down does not give another the right to access.
Mostly agreed - we're saying the exact same thing here.

You'll also find that going back in time there were also far fewer rules against individual entrepreneurship. And where there were rules they were enforced in a more sane fashion. E.g. - even if a kid's lemonade stand isn't obeying regulation 3753 section 3, or city ordinance 4725-4 or whatever, you don't go and shut down the stand as the stand is doing nothing but good for everybody.

But as we transition towards corporatism rules against large companies start to disappear or fail to be enforced, while those rules against small companies and individuals start to grow and become unreasonably burdensome as well as extremely actively enforced.

The one part we don't agree on is why corporations are allowed to merge. For instance it's quite evident that Time Warner alone has already exploited their monopoly to increase prices unreasonable. Internet service in America is far more expensive than in many parts of the world, yet the quality is not particularly remarkable. And there's no justifiable reason. It's just companies agreeing not to compete and then jacking up their prices. Because of this it's not reasonable to suggest they're being technically allowed to merge/acquire further competitors because there's no evidence that they won't do what they're already doing. This is just another aspect of corporatism where rules disappear as companies grow large enough.
I wrote one that scrapes NBFM and AM.

https://github.com/madengr/ham2mon
Anyone know if namecheap is an American company?
I personally love the idea of template projects especially when they follow best practices. I’m a long-time user of https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter and https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage which I’ve modified for my purposes. Has anyone used the golang equivalent under https://github.com/lacion/cookiecutter-golang ? Any thoughts as to whether it’s on par with commonly used practices?