skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To summarize,

1. Colleges are using off the shelf email list management programs. (Those all track open rates and click throughs). Sounds like they have per-applicant tracking IDs setup for each email.

2. Colleges are using off the shelf analytics tools for their websites. Sounds like they are tying this to the email campaign IDs from above.

3. The author of this article doesn't mention how incredible fragile and prone to losing track of individual IDs such systems are. Use a different computer (school laptop VS home PC), different browser, or get an ID from visiting the website then click through an email and watch as some poorly configured system gets confused, etc.

And finally, an investigation of if these numbers correlate to student success in any way shape or form would've been a nice bit of reporting.
Not for long. Will be patched in hours, I bet.
It seems extremely unlikely that China would refuse to do business with Canada over one persons arrest. The way they need their economy to continue growing they can't turn down a major source of revenue like Canada.
So did you try finding a job just in Silicon Valley on the West Coast at a FANG or did you expand your search? It’s hard to believe as hungry as people are for developers that no one in the entire US including remote work, contracting, or consulting would hire you assuming you had marketable skills.

I’m in my mid 40s, was just looking for a job last year and it took me two weeks and from the time I started looking until I had an offer.

That’s been about the speed for the last 10 years across 5 jobs.
That's pretty wild. I can't imagine coming even close to doing something that big.
> a different gym

Perhaps no gym?
I spy a media promotion campaign.

I've seen 2-3 articles in the last couple of days extolling the virtues (or deserved expense) of parmesan. I guess sales are down.
Link to your resume and I'll take a look.

All this bullshit about inclusivity.

What we SHOULD be doing is blinding the candidate and interviewer.

No name. Just the last 2 years of job history. That's it.

You don't know their gender. Don't know their age. Don't know their race.

Just complete meritocracy.
AMD apparently uses the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X CPU/GPU are made in this fab according to some other articles about this.
Too bad source code is not published yet.
Ask HN: How to go about finding a remote software developer job?
I am an experienced developer and want to go 100% remote. Most recruiters get in touch for onsite opportunities. I am living in Canada with experience working in US/Canada. I am willing to take a pay cut for a chance to be location independent.
Have you ever tried creating your own community? Like through meetup?
We're at that point too. My solution is a combination of downsizing our life and making my own app business. So far the only app I released (Autumn) was a bust because I stupidly released it on New Year's Eve so practically nobody knew about it, also it's too niche. But everyone loves the quality, so I figure I'll just keep writing more apps. I've got a lot of ideas and a lot of energy. I may have to work at Walmart or something, but I can keep doing this in my spare time. As long as there's at least some food on the table, even if ramen noodles, my family can keep going.
From an investor’s perspective, this is principally why I have never liked Netflix’s content creation binge. How much of what they are producing has any long-tail value for their subscribers? The same can be said for the studios, and I suppose we live in a world now where content creators need to stream, but why not develop the tech and seek monopoly rents from Disney, Paramount, et al when they need to stream?

Is digital content streaming that simple that there is no value in creating defensible IP? Or is it more a function of dumb data pipes which do not favor the smartest content distribution so there’s no need for that investment?
I'd agree if the time spent was the same.

In LA it will take you easily twice as long to get where you're going with public transit.
Someone actually flipped the tables around and used the eagerness of the colleges to get a bunch of t-shirts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNki8vIBXpE
Vehicles too. Buy the same bearing where the price depends on whether it comes in a VW, Audi or Porsche packet. Touareg vs Cayenne.

Trust may turn out to have been a 20th century concept.
I hope this gives Firefox a chance to claw back some market share.
> they introduce an illogical perverse motivation for state and local governments to spend freely since any taxes they introduce are essentially just that level of government getting a free non-revokable payment from the federal government.

This is just not true. The SALT exemption lets you deduct the SALT taxes from your income, not your tax bill, so this is not just a transfer from the federal government.

I.e. If you had a flat federal rate of 10%, a flat state rate of 10% and an income of 100k, the SALT deduction would reduce your taxes from 20k to 19k. There is some subsidy here since the state gets 10k, whereas you are only paying 9k for those services, but its clearly not free money.

> what is one number compared to another number without context

Economists have studied the topic of most efficient tax rates, in terms of bringing in government revenue, and 82.7% is above the point where you maximize revenue, i.e. you would raise more money with a lower rate.
What gets me is the amount of people making money on low budget basic bootstrap themes here. I like it. I'm just surprised.
500$ (lets say after tax) is HUGE in many non-western countries. Depending on the city, it is possible to live very comfortably at this amount for a single person. And decently, for a family. And that includes medical insurance. We aren't talking NY or SF here, but there are lots of nice places in the world that aren't Silicon Valley :P
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Demo doesn't seem to work.
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If you wait a few days until February 1st, there will be the next round of "Who's hiring" on HN, where people post jobs as comments. The jobs either say their location or if they accept remote.

Here's January's: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18807017
Indeed. By definition, not everyone can be in the top few percent.
They would probably need to at least blacklist every affected ios version from the facetime servers, there will be a long trail of devices not updating soon
Will this work for on-site, particularly because "do I think I could get along with this candidate/does this candidate seem like a team player/can this candidate communicate effectively" is a significant part of the hiring process? I think many teams may struggle to have completely anonymous hiring due to the desire to meet their potential teammate and assess based on the teammate's easyness to get along with.
Can confirm, my $1,200 i7, 16 GB Ram, SSD is four years old now. I can easily get through the year with it as well.
But why would anyone need to do that, you build one of these by starting with a cheap 3d printer and removing the print head, it's not a hard thing to make
This is assuming there is no possible server side mitigation.
Makes sense if you don't mind killing the golden goose. Same sales with far more profit, but only until public perception catches up with the reality that the big brand is now as bad, or worse, than some cheap competitor.

Sometimes you only need to buy the reformulated market leader once to realise there's no reason to ever buy it again.
Ageism is overblown. The way to get a job for an older worker - I’m in my mid 40s - doesn’t change no matter what your age is. Make sure you have skills that the market wants, don’t get complacent at one company and keep your network warm including local recruiters.
Because they want to.
Good project management is invisible. They just make projects happen. They make sure everyone is talking. They make sure decisions are made. Everyone knows what to do when to do it. Etc.

I seen good project management. It is magical. Then the manager left. Everything slowed down to a crawl.
It happens within our (US) borders where those who have tons of money and power yet lack innovation and innovative ideas steal willfully from those who do. Patent or no patent!
There’s a lot more that could be done here than barring them from operating in the US, which is an irrelevant market to them. Using it as a trade deal bargaining chip is actually the only way to get anything out of the situation without a major escalation.
When Zoning Targets Families with Children
#1 and #3 you can probably avoid by working remotely. The thing with remote work is, companies usually look for devs with above average skills, they also look for devs with previous remote experience and of course awesome communication. As for #4, that's a difficult one, I think you could probably get around #4 if you have a great portfolio of working projects
great, i’ll get the book. thanks!
Serious FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear a Person's Audio Before They Answer
That makes a lot of sense since the company isn't as invested in a temp/contract hire as opposed to a full time employee. Hiring managers might be more willing to take a chance on an older contract worker than an older full time staff. And frankly speaking, the guy is a temp/contract worker whether he realizes it or not. Even if he secured a full-time position, he'd be the first to be laid off during a recession or downsizing.

But to be doing contract work at 64 can be rough. Is he willing or able to travel/commute at that age? But definitely something to consider.
> The authorities are going to want you to prove that you aren't involved in the illegal activity if you don't want to be charged with money laundering.

The onus is on the government to determine an illicit origin for their charge of money laundering to stick. This is related to the US federal crime of Money Laundering, and not any other variation.

In the Monero system, receivers do not know the address of the sender. So, that's convenient.
And the robot was probably made in China to begin with!
> ‘Vasectomy zoning’ can block or raise the cost of things young families need, like three-bedroom apartments and day-care centers.

> At the end of last year, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission weighed a proposed zoning change that would effectively ban new day-care centers—along with tire stores and car repair shops—in a large chunk of northwest Philadelphia. The bill swiftly encountered fierce resistance, and it now appears dead. But the effort to block additional child-care facilities with a zoning overlay hints at a broader relationship between city planning and the cost of raising children. A growing body of research indicates that restrictive zoning—which often blocks the services and housing that families need—may help to explain why family sizes are shrinking in the United States.
That's one of the main uses my friends groups have evolved to.

At most saving the last 24 hours is just fine. I don't really see a need to keep everything forever and ever
smoked chicken eggs are already a thing.
Even programmers who migrate to project management can lose touch insanely fast. I've seen it happen multiple times. I'm doing both PM work and programming on a project right now and the temptation is always there to just pass off what I'm working on to one of the contractors instead of doing it myself.
Apple Bug Lets iPhone Users Listen in on Others via FaceTime
Well go tell the Chinese they don't actually need to steal any trade secrets or any of this, they can just make it themselves.

I'm sure they will reward you handsomely for basically saving their relationship with western countries and saving so much time and effort.
https://remoteok.io/

https://weworkremotely.com/

https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote-developer-jobs
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I don’t know where you are. But with that skillset, recruiters should be throwing jobs at you in most major American cities. I know for a fact that recruiters in Atlanta would be salivating at the chance to placd you. As I said before, I am in my mid 40s.
Do you only hire young people or would you hire older PhDs?
Of course. A proof is that which convinces; I was convinced, but that doesn't mean that you have to be convinced. I was presented with evidence which I can't share with anybody: my experiences.
I don’t know if my experience in the mid-2000s is unique. A company I worked for laid off thousands of American workers and replaced them with H-1B and off-shore labor.

Many (most?) of the H-1B workers were utterly unqualified. Right out of school, inexperienced, and some just hopeless. The impact beyond the obvious was anyone pursuing a tech career at that company found alternate work.

The lesson was not lost. They learned that they could be replaced at any time by much cheaper global labor.

So I wonder if some of the scarcity in the tech labor market isn’t due to this perception.
Wife runs a not-for-profit. This is brilliant. My perception is that petitions don't often accomplish their stated goals, but what if the side benefits of gauging interest, drawing light first-step commitments, and collecting contact information accrued to your org instead of an activism-feelings-aggregator like change.org?

That may come off as cynical to people, but as a petition-signer, I'd rather get followed up a couple times by an organization actually working on something I care about (and given a path to act a little more on my caring, even if it's 'come to this event' or 'give us money') than followed up indefinitely by change.org, who cannot seem to guess well at all what sort of petitions I'd like to support.
You picked the easiest in the list. Try selling your house for a fair price and see how long it'll take.
thanks.. we need to get our red pocket wedding money home
It's ok, those people will be replaced soon.
That's something that would change with time though, hopefully. Useful rail infrastructure, along with increased traffic congestion, encourages commercial and residential development (some may call this 'transit oriented development' but I think that is too narrow a term, and conjures the wrong image for some people) that makes the rail system more and more useful with time.

As an example, consider cities that predate multi-lane highways. Their highest density development tends to radiate out from the city centre along train lines, not roads, and the train stations have become commercial hubs where you can run a lot of random errands (with supermarkets, bank branches, post offices, etc.)
Even if there is a server side mitigation, it's a big black eye to have devices being remotely tappable with no user interaction.

The devices are obviously not trustworthy anymore with the current software, and you are at the mercy of apple's servers. So a spying apple could always undo the server side mitigation (if even this is mitigatable server side).

It's also a wakeup call to see that it is even possible for devices to start sharing audio or video with no user interaction. Obvious in hindsight for a software engineer perhaps, but the public perception might be forever changed.
Unless Apple decides they face significant legal exposure over the bug somehow I don't see them doing that. It would attract so much more attention that it would almost certainly not be worth it economically.

I wonder if they (executives? engineers? the company itself?) could be charged with aiding and abetting wiretapping or something now that they know it's happening and are letting their servers keep doing it.
As an apple user I'm concerned. I hope it doesn't turn out that Apple has known about this for weeks/months/whatever.

On the upside I have a lot of confidence that they can fix this, and that I can receive that patch in a timely fashion.
I worked under one in South Africa and he was genuinely passionate about project management: he was constantly in courses, constantly researching and constantly asking for feedback.

One of the teams I oversee now in NA also has a brilliant project manager. Of all my 12 years in the industry I haven't once seen someone pull a team into productivity nirvana like she does. She deeply understands the concept of agile and every sprint she is trying a new idea with her team (process is a feature!).

They do exist, but they are rare.
Hey, people are stupid. I don't think Huawei is the only company doing that..
People who invested continuously throughout their working career have done just fine, even with the headwinds you list

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/27/the-inspiring-story-of-the-w...
https://www.amazon.com/Applied-Cryptography-Protocols-Algori...
Okay how about this needmoretea: Close your eyes. Now imagine every male coworker you have is actually female. They are used to only working with mostly women, so you are an oddity. Kind of entertaining. They just hope you can be cool and be “one of the girls”, you know?

Does that help expand your universe?
When I was in my upper 30s I was mistakingly included in a reply-all email from someone who interviewed me and said I seemed kind of old for the position.

I was ready to lose my shit on them but my wife made me wait a day before responding when she saw how angry I was.

I was considering hiring a lawyer to sue the shit out of them for discrimination, but at the end of the day I brushed it off with a snarky "at least I'm experienced enough to double check who my illegal emails are going to" and told them I was reporting it to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (which I did).

This was years ago, and I've always been well employed, but I'm still a little mad about it.

I did find out through an acquaintance that the person who mistakingly sent that email was fired almost immediately and they were pretty worried about a lawsuit.

The struggle is so real. It's insane.
Why not? China is ~200 years late in industrializing, mostly because of centuries of colonial plunder (And a few decades of communist misrule).

There's a very simple formula for getting your country caught up to the rest of the world. Steal as much as you can, until you pull yourself up to the level of your neighbours. Every developed nation has either done this, or piggy-backed off a bigger neighbour who has.

Just because we've already gone down this path, doesn't give us any moral high-ground for pulling the ladder up after us.

And it works, too. Look at the quality of life in China, compared to India... Or Vietnam.
Very few people work on open source. You will find that most people trade their hours for money.
I really like the smooth scroll on this site.
> There wasn't a WTO and there weren't international trades laws, in the 1800s.

No, but what he was doing was still highly illegal.
And to add: low interest rates that tend to follow crashes, especially after the 2008 crash, make purchase of annuities even more expensive.
Special counsel investigation is close to completion, acting AG Whitaker says
C++11 and up is legitimately very very different from C++03 and below.
Right, I agree; that was exactly my point too. :-) Maybe I worded it poorly initially: The original post was about the cost of "heavy" abstractions (functions), instead of something lightweight like comments and naming. (In searching for "the cost of abstraction", I just now found another post by the author: http://250bpm.com/blog:86) I agreed with this, and gave literate programming and the programs of DEK as an example (an alternative to “formal” abstraction): a prominent programmer finding ways to achieve things with only chunking/“lightweight abstraction”.

(BTW, the programs I mentioned also eschew other sorts of abstractions like abstract data types, e.g. all memory is laid out in huge arrays and manually managed — it seems to work for him. But that may have been a constraint of the language for all I know.)
When he is the sole funder of the magazine, I don't think that's an invalid lens to be looking at it through.
In a sense it’s probably a filter. Reasonable people give me credit but especially a lot of young guys can’t imagine that people did valuable stuff 5 or 10 years ago.
I would suspect, if apple will ever think on those lines.

Service cost would deter their credibility.
Blocking tracking pixels is fairly common I think for privacy conscious folk.

In the email marketing world, not being able to distinguish recipients that are intentionally blocking tracking with recipients who are not interacting is a known issue. It's silly to group them together and use it as admissions criteria. Excluding privacy conscious users... to what end?
Some of the best PM's that I've worked with are well into retirement age.
It’d be interesting if a proper study was done. It could turn out to be better. We won’t know till we try.
Do you not yet understand that the term "fake news" does not strictly refer to news that is literally fake and made up, or is that just a straw-man that makes it easier to be dismissive?

Fake news features, but is not limited to:

The "half-truth," a deceptive statement made by using some, but not all, elements of the truth.

The Big Lie Technique (also the Bold Faced Lie; "Staying on Message."): The contemporary fallacy of repeating a lie, fallacy, slogan, talking-point, nonsense-statement or deceptive half-truth over and over in different forms (particularly in the media) until it becomes part of daily discourse and people accept it without further proof or evidence.

Information Cascade, "in which people echo the opinions of others, usually online, even when their own opinions or exposure to information contradicts that opinion. When information cascades form a pattern, this pattern can begin to overpower later opinions by making it seem as if a consensus already exists."

Confirmation Bias: the common tendency to notice, search out, select and share evidence that confirms one's own standpoint and beliefs, as opposed to contrary evidence.

Whatever narrative the mainstream media is pushing may be "based in facts" while remaining incomplete, inaccurate, and, overall, false.

Finally, considering the fact that the sources for 90% of information media likely to be consumed by the average person are owned by 5 or 6 consolidated corporations, the idea that they would not and have not abused this incredible power is easily one of the most naive and deliberately ignorant statements a person could make in 2019, especially in the information age just as they are finally being exposed.
What is the title of the person that deploys ML/deep learning projects (end to end)?

My understanding is that:

- data scientists create the model

- data engineers do the data wrangling and data warehousing

- devops responsible for more software engineering oriented projects and miss (?) some of the skills that would be required for ML/DL deployment (and debugging).

Am I missing something here or is there a gap?

Offtopic (sorry for hijacking): if anyone has experience in deploying ML/DL projects (freelancer), shoot me an email.
It is really frustrating when viewership and satisfaction would be much higher on twitch

https://www.facebook.com/ELEAGUETV/videos/140452340226548/

(video has no relevance here other than being an awesome csgo highlight from last night)
Pour one out for Hackpad.
They bought a reseller license for the purpose of snapping up and auctioning off high-value domains rather than acting like a traditional reseller.
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> In a statement, an Apple spokesperson said the company is "aware of this issue and we have identified a fix that will be released in a software update later this week."

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/facetime-b...
Short answer: yes. It even surprised me :P
I don't think it's a crime to real-time tweet or blog about protests or police activities.

But it is a crime in China, so I know I could be arrested and prosecuted if I do that there.

Doesn't matter if it's just a "means to an end", Ms. Meng knew she was committing crimes in the US.