skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More choice for IPO lawsuits in U.S. spur 200% increase in some insurance
Ask HN: Have tech interviews gotten harder?
I just started job searching again for the first time in a few years and it seems like every problem has been "bumped down" one degree. So medium/difficult questions like the classic "most profit buy/sell stock" are now classified as easy, and the "hard" questions are close to impossible to solve within 60 minutes unless you specifically prepped for it.

Have tech companies made their tests more rigorous (in response to books and sites dedicated to passing interviews) or am I just out of practice?
==Take the Russia hacking the election meme for example==

Isn't it possible that you are the one falling victim to the exact type of thinking you describe? You admit yourself that propaganda is easy and effective. Have you explored that possibility?

==most humans will always continue to believe what their brain tells them, without hesitation==

The embedded assumption in this post is that you have risen above the misinformation, bad mental models and propaganda to assess the "real" truth. How have you managed to overcome the weaknesses that others fall victim to?
Perhaps now we can start to allow patients to treat themselves? why should I need a doctor's permission to but insulin I know for a fact I need to live?
I would try looking for Marketing roles. SEO is a critical component of marketing and most companies would likely frame the position as Marketing / Growth rather than just purely SEO.
Because they can do "forgot password" using the 2fa.
Get reusable plastic ones and decant then.
Same. The Comcast box that I have to have to use the regular cable has all the apps I would want to use built into it anyway.
Don’t be a troll .. that’s not what I said. I hit back in my browser and the post was a reply. I’ve been on this site for 7 years I know how to use a browser and reply to a comment.
Because of industry lobbying: https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2017/11/06/packaging-indust...

They are bribing our politicians so that they would not be prevented from poisoning our world. 'Enemy' is too kind a word for such people.
Alternative/Unrelated Donor Transplants for β-Thalassemia and Sickle Cell
One of HN's wonderful moments :)
Part 2: The GPL Cooperation Commitment – Coincidentally Great for Lawyers
my UK bank ties their app to my phone using an off band code i receive from a person after calling their contact number. if i reinstall my OS i need to call them to receive another code.
In many countries a professor is usually extremely distinguished in their field, with perhaps twenty years' research experience, and you will only get a couple of them in each department, with some universities not having any.

I think in the US everyone just automatically gets the title 'professor.'
Why? because the automaker interface is AWFUL. Also, why should I pay a car dealer upwards of $2500 to gain GPS? My phone has GPS, it also has Siri so I can talk to it.
Both that Roku and Chromecast are spying on you just as much, and possibly more than, than those "smart" TVs you're avoiding.
Conventional wisdom also dictates that it is desirable for Bitcoin to handle more than 7 transactions a second - and yet that problem isn't possible for Bitcoin to solve either.

Again, it's an argument from ignorance and gross oversimplification to claim "the future wisdom of the community" will solve problems for bitcoin.
SunTrust and BB&T banks, planning merger, announce new name: “Truist”
Almost everyone except the adjuncts, which might be a small number at some R1 institutions, but might be a lot more common elsewhere.
Miniature sci-fi concept pitch:

A future where the world is largely a privacy-scarce melting pot of competition where individuals vie for leverage over each other based on the scraps of information they can gather, barter for, or source through a myriad of insecure networks which provide some base level of value to users (like, say, a third-party piece of software that runs on a television after the user grants it permission, accidentally or otherwise).

Meanwhile, VCs and technology experts have long seen this coming and retreated to countryside enclaves where electronics are banned, and news of the world is relayed via one-time-pad-over-horseback to ensure that the next level of marginal gain for the elite is collaborated upon in safety from reprisal.

That's the context at least; many possible plots from there. Basically Elysium except that the elite eschew technology because technology security is so flawed that it unintentionally sells them out every time.
I'm curious why this ends up being a bad idea. Can you elaborate please?
I am aware of his past and still believe that he is the best in the world at what he does. His historical and financial insight is unmatched.
Somehow I don't think that you mean that as a compliment.
Bitcoin mining wasn't invented just to be an egalitarian "everyone can earn money from their computer" sort of thing. The decentralized design that Bitcoin uses needs people to do lots of processing work, the people doing this work need to be incentivized somehow to keep doing that, and then somehow the units of the new currency need to be distributed out, presumably in a way fairer than just starting Satoshi out with a large balance. Mining solves these issues.
You probably meant to say "every big business". I don't know many small companies that keep 285 billion away from taxes. Large companies like Apple usually pay way less taxes than smaller ones, precisely because they manage to optimize away way more taxes.
The US is fairly unique in taxing overseas income.
I would rather my device not contribute to a DDoS, especially as there may be legal implications to allowing this, but you do you I guess…
Which world do you want?
This book predates many important developments of the 20th century. I'd say its value is nearly zero nowadays, except from a historical standpoint.
I believe in (some) American universities, any non-grad student who teaches a class is called a professor.
Arguably, a significant percentage of skid row’s residents wouldn’t be there if they had the option of buying a clean, consistent dose from a pharmacy. Instead, they have to buy dangerously tainted drugs from professional criminals, and pay hugely inflated prices for it.

Highly recommend the book Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari if you’re interested in reading a persuasive version of this viewpoint.
It's hard for me to imagine that the world would actually be a better place if you couldn't post the lyrics to a song without paying the rights holders or getting sued.
remember when CSS couldn't center horizontally in a reasonable way? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Basically, if you teach even a single class (you have alternative employment, teach at a few different schools, are underemployed, etc.) you are an adjunct professor. And there are a lot of adjuncts.
You can do what I do in WSL 1, which is to forward the Docker daemon port from the VM and point your local CLI to it via the TCP port.

I've been doing that for years now (I originally built my own Docker client binary for the Mac and pointed it to a Linux box, did the same when I ran Parallels on my Mac, and still do it occasionally with ARM boxes at home). People forget that Docker was designed as a client-server solution, and that the server bit works fine.

You can ask your sysadmins to set up a VMware instance running boot2docker and link it directly to your Windows workstation.
You generally start as an assistant professor, which means you are on the tenure track but you don't yet have tenure. After several years, if you did well, you get promoted to associate professor, meaning that you got tenure. Finally, after some more years, you turn into a full professor, at which point you will likely earn the most.

All three types are generally referred to as "professor" but they differ in their seniority.
You would need an OS and hardware that understands such protections, of course.
Not entirely true - a growing number of PhD-holding faculty have labels like "lecturer" or "instructor", which are non-tenure-track and often contract based. Like in the public college system, this is leading to the majority of student contact hours being from faculty who don't have any permanent status within the university, and whose pay is far below even the junior professors.
Neil Armstrong's Code
I really don't get what you're saying. None of your proposals would solve the problem being discussed. Are cryptographic hashes not already completely common-place? That was standard even 10 years ago, if only just to make sure the files are not corrupt.

In actuality, running virus checks is a fine idea, particularly if the process can be automated and updated for newer threats.
Analyzing global suicide data in R
I have a Vizio and a TCL tv right next to each other in my living room. The Vizio is the main TV and is connected to a sound system with ARC and all that. The TCL is off to the side and mostly used for gaming.

If I turn on my PS4 with the controller, it turns on the Vizio TV and the Yamaha receiver, and sets it to the correct inputs.

If I turn on the PS4 on the TCL, the TV does turn on even though CEC is enabled. I have to turn on the TV manually. A dumb tv would go back to the input I left it on, but the TCL goes to the home screen. I have to go and pick the PS4 input every time I turn on the TV.

So I have just wanted dumb TVs before. When setup properly and everything works properly, they're great. But there has also been a time when turning the PS4 on in the main setup would turn everything on, but then put it on the wrong input (ARC is on 1, PS4 is on 5, it would switch to ARC whenever the PS4 home button was pushed). There is a big blurry line between smart and dumb which is more inconvenient than either.
>Every family member who is not an IT professional has struggled deeply with any TV/AV setup where two or three remotes are needed.

What a terribly decadent life we've found ourselves living.
I suspect Vladimir Putin would disagree :-D
It doesn't just save you a cable. It saves you from buying an external apparatus entirely. This is understandably attractive to people.

I don't buy the bit about needing to upgrade the TV on some schedule since there's always the option to buy an external apparatus (like a cable box) which are almost always faster with better UI than the TV anyways.
"In my opinion, it is nice to know this nice trick about reducing a set of independent primitives to only one, but this almost never has any practical application."

Also, NAND/NOR aren't "complex primitive", they're literally just primitives.

You've never used any modern computer? I consider modern computers pretty useful; considering this "trick" backs everything we do with modern computers, I consider it pretty fundamental...
It's likely being used for _print_ css.
Five myths about fast food
I worked at Arthur Anderson around this time, and when Lotus 1-2-3 came out it was like accountant crack -- they could start building complicated models and optimize for return value.

While efficiency is normally considered good, I think that this set the stage to reduce human activity to a couple of cells on a spreadsheet that can be easily deleted to bump up the numbers. It's the equivalent of killing people by high-altitude bombing -- they're not people anymore, and the only concern is "yield".
My position is that we should be developing the science and technology to stabilize the climate, since drastic climate change is inevitable, with or without human folly.
Facebook's reputation outside HN is not bad. In fact I'd argue that in undeveloped countries it's pretty, pretty good.
What's your approach here? And what do you do to pass the time?
Thanks for the useful tips! So timely! I want to try in gambling in the near future. I found info about one reliable casino here https://syndicate.casino/payment-options/orangepay . Hope the lady luck will be on my side this time.
Including the entertainment companies that started as media/news companies.
The same ranks exist in the US:

1. Assistant Professor

2. Associate Professor

3. [Full] Professor

As far as I know, you should only use the title "Prof." to refer to a "full" professor, and "Dr." for assistant and associate professors. In reality, everyone is just referred to as a "professor".
Wow I did not know that. It’s likely being thrown in a land fill. The garbage companies around me stopped collecting bottles years ago.

Do they do it to keep trash off the streets?
Their title is literally "adjunct professor". They would show up in this graph as "professor".
Try to help make a better one I suppose, if that’s really what you think. But not from a position of ignorance.
Resilience is about recharging not endurance
My parents have a high end 90" TV they bought some years back that had smarts built in. Can't remember the brand off the top of my head, but it may have been Vizio.

Almost all of the apps stopped working long ago, and the manufacturer doesn't even push out updates anymore, but somehow the Vudu app keeps trucking along. They still use it as they prefer the built-in Vudu app to the Vudu app offered on their Xbox One.

I suppose props are in order to Vudu for supporting something so long after even the manufacturer has given up on it.
Most "aggressive of chemicals" doesn´t sound too good...
Because you're doing something entirely different, I'm asserting, you're testing. The equivalent java code would be:

return superSet.containsAll(actualSet);

But a straight up boolean doesn't tell me what is missing, only that something is missing. I snipped out the bit about creating a more verbose exception creation because it wasn't really needed for the example:

if (missing.size() != 0) {
final StringBuilder builder;
builder = new StringBuilder();
builder.append("Missing item found: [ ");
builder.append(String.join(",", missing.stream().map(x -> x.toString())).collect(Collectors.toList())));
builder.append(" ]");
throw new IllegalStateException(builder.toString());
}

Keep in mind that the objects that this method was written for actually implement human readable toString methods.

> What's with the "final"?

Habit that I forced on myself. But it's not a bad habit to get into. In theory methods are supposed to be short and readable but reality often ends up being that in the fury of writing under looming deadlines you can have horrifically long methods that do many things. And I've seen more then a few times someone reusing variable names badly. Using final when possible is just a way for someone to be able to look at the code, see the variable name and be able to know that what it says is what it is.

>And why do I have to type out obvious types in 2019

Because types aren't always obvious. That's a list, meaning that you can have duplicated items and that order matters. What if my 'list' was actually a set, in which order was not guaranteed? What about if you're trying to integrate this with multiples teams scattered across the world that don't speak English on a code base that's about 500,000 lines of code? Or when you walk away for 2 or 3 years and then have to come back to a method that's not as small and trivial as the given example? What about the next poor sap that has it dumped in his lap?

I know it seems stupid in the short run, and if you've got something small or something that probably wont' be relevant in a year or two, and I'd agree with you if that's the case. But but if you've got a code base that needs to be communicated to other people, then typing is a good way of handling that communication without having to write extra documentation.
In 1984, an 8 year old with sickle cell was cured as a side effect
Fair and balanced.

I spend all day doing useful analysis for science. On the internet, all I can hope for is doing mildly interesting work :D
> old EJB 2.x era "J2EE"

could have had worse you started just around the xdoclet, that was peak madness
And plastics are cheaper than ever in N. America.

We fractionate the ethane out from natural gas, and we’re fracking a lot of natural gas.

And it isn’t easy to store ethane, so we’re turning on more and more plants to turn it into polyethylene.

At least in winter, the ethane can be used to froth up gasoline, but in summer, there’s not a lot to do with ethane.
From what I understand, shipping containers are sent out from Asia stuffed with goods, but there isn't nearly as much going in the other direction. The containers need to go back whether they're full or not, which is why it ends up being so cheap to ship plastic. And the CO2 caused doesn't really change as a result.

To the rest of your point though, I agree. My wife is a hardline recycler. I generally am too, but I have a hard time seeing the benefit in recycling soft plastics.
Glass as is too heavy. Penn and Teller did a bull shit on recycling. Only aluminum is good for consumer packaging wrt recycling.
Yikes, I would not want a TV with a webcam anywhere near my living room.
I think their concern is others’ disposal of the glass on trails.

Edit: though I do dislike the idea of biking with glass bottles, especially in a backpack. A plastic container absorbs impact and can make falls safer. Not so much for a glass container.
I built a pretty simple photo blog on top of Hugo, though the layout is more Tumblr than Flickr.

Source code: https://github.com/bndw/len.to

Website: https://len.to
I have been using static analysers since the mid-90's.

Ever heard of PC Lint from Gimpel? It was my first one.

Or do you think I would be critic of how many use C, without adopting best practices myself?

One learns a lot about code quality, or lack thereof, when doing enterprise consulting.
In the case of being driven by the passenger's phone, there's no need for a touchscreen in the car itself.
In the summer I had a grad student who was teaching the class as the primary teacher, and he was called "professor" (although I suspect his paycheck was just the standard grad check).
Unfortunately, the options for non-smart TVs keep getting narrower. Manufacturers want to inject app access into every device they can. You can't even buy a UHD disc player without an app platform coming with it.
What should we do with “legacy” Java 8 applications?
My understanding is that it's the law itself that needs to be fixed. Companies shouldn't be able to get away with billions in tax evasion.
Rigbox: An Open-Source Toolbox for Probing Neurons and Behavior
So many neurological conditions are treated the same way. Like Bell's Palsy. We don't know what causes it, we don't know how to fix it, but steroids help a great deal
They have 2. One for power and one for data. Usually they're replacing a lot more than 2 buttons/knobs.
Red Hat's article on these issues also provides further explanations:
https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/tcpsack
That may be a problem, but it's a bit beside the point I was making. Whether or not college costs & therefore debt is increasing as a result of easy loans says nothing about the job prospects of graduates from bachelor programs. Even if we posit a world where the loans didn't exist, college costs were lower, and therefore just as accessible as it is today then we still have the same underemployment problem. If such a change instead resulted in more students learning a trade, we still have to same downward pressure on trade wages because the labor supply increases relative to demand.

With or without government subsidized loans, there is a jobs market issue.
I doubt it will fail. Facebook is too big to not gain traction from users... Also, they are big enough to push ads every where..
I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong in sending materials elsewhere for cheap sorting or re-manufacturing.

Especially when ships and containers are going that way empty anyway.
It is just a symbol. No more, no less. If you get so worked up about it, you are only giving it more power. And just to Godwin this entire conversation, my grandpa's brother died in one of the camps.
>It enables faster transactions and reactions to the transaction states than regular currency.

This is only true in the US, where the inter-bank financial system runs on mainframes and 40 year old code.

The British banking system decided a while ago that they were going to update their bank communication system, and now they can send sums between bank accounts at different banks within 10 seconds.
Battle over blame: Ethiopian Airlines rejects accusations of pilot error
> that’s not what I said

Well, you actually did say that. Your exact words were "no, it's not possible", so it's kind of strange for you to claim that's not what you said.

> I’ve been on this site for 7 years I know how to use a browser and reply to a comment.

People who have been using browsers for a long time can still make mistakes, it doesn't mean they don't know how to use the browser, it just means that they're a human.
To save laymen a google: A complete graph is one where all the nodes are connected. A planar graph is one that can be draw in the plane without two lines intersecting.
The DoD is the world's largest employer. Unsurprisingly, they are the largest polluter. That doesn't make them hypocrites automatically.
My issue with my TCL is that with Roku built in to the TV it is able to track what I watch even outside of Roku "channels". If I plug in a Roku over HDMI it can only track how I use the Roku, not the rest of the TV.

Last time I checked their privacy policy they admit to using content ID systems on their TVs, but I'm on mobile and don't have a citation on that at the moment.
CEC. It's nice, but if and only if all of the relevant functions on your device can be controlled from the TV remote. My Sharp dumb TV (actually a Hisense since Sharp quit the US market) has several buttons that ought to be sent to a device but aren't, which limits CEC's usefulness with my Kodi setup. I ended up putting an IR receiver in the box (a Raspberry Pi running OSMC) and using an RC6 remote instead.
Once an attacker has control of the firmware, faking virus scan results is trivial.
Doesn't seem to be. I edited out all the lines with Photoshop, and what remained looked identical.
You could always go with "Nothing you say can be used against you without declaration of intent (ie 'we are arresting you for ___') and representation"
You should have emergency backup keys as well printed on real paper. I have a set stored with our important files, and another in my nightstand. Having my phone stolen would be a damnable inconvenience, since that is my second factor -- although not via SIM, but via Google's in-app authentication. But it wouldn't be fatal.
Parts of Georgia are in Russia, if claims are true. (Which they probably are)
You know it's funny because you can use Internet freely. Chinese people behind GFW has nothing to fact check with. All the social network platforms require real name, trying to spread something you learned through VPN will result in police knocking on your door real fast.
That too! This coin could be the second naira..
The case is limited to hospitals which only admit patients through doctor recommendations, and where the consultation is about admitting the patient to that specific hospital. If a doctor doesn't know what's up they can curbside consult phone a colleague to get a 2nd opinion.

In my view, intention and context is what dictate most legal outcomes. That narrows decision usually down to very specific situations.
Of course you can, but there is a history:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/penny-lick-ice-cream
It’s an interesting argument that a cryptocurrency designation is more political than a corporation!

I argue that they’re about the same. A corporation is largely numbers in computers and how people feel about them. A cryptocurrency is numbers in computers and how people feel about therm.

Typing this out makes me appreciate gold a bit more. Gold is gold, whether we give it a different name or not. It’s not pure thought-stuff like a corporation. The problem is it only has whatever value we give it, so I’m certainly not arguing it has inherent value or is a better currency.