skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did an interview once at a company that is religious about pair programming. I found the exercise unsettling: would they evaluate technical ability or culture fit more? If they were focusing on the former, I should take the wheel and try to demonstrate my chops (perhaps making me appear arrogant); if the latter, I should try to demonstrate how I can collaborate with the other developer to make both of us better (perhaps at the expense of me not demonstrating as many skills within that brief window of time).

It turns out that they were really focusing on how I interacted with the fake "client" and whether I had the proper "consultant mindset". Didn't see that coming (perhaps that's my fault). Though I feel I ended up dodging a bullet in not getting an offer from them.

My suggestion is to try to give candidates specific times to demonstrate various competencies (technical, colleague interaction, customer-facing), and tell them which ones are the focus of each exercise. Yes, that's not how the real world works (you need to utilize them all at the same time, of course), but an interview setting is hardly the real world. And you'll still see glimpses of their overall capabilities in each stage.
How is that an argument against replacing these rules with a UBI?
How to Make Important Decisions and Never Regret Them
> there are dozens of rules and rights

The US Constitution has a Bill of Rights, which applies to everyone in the sense that everyone has those rights, but which only applies to the government in the sense that the government is the one the Constitution says can't violate those rights. For example, the 1st Amendment says the government can't infringe freedom of speech. It does not say that everyone is guaranteed the same platform to speak from, nor does it require particular private entities to provide a speaking platform to anyone who asks for it.

Saying "people have to be treated equally in equal cases" sounds like the same kind of thing: if the US Constitution had such a provision, I would expect it to work the same as the 1st Amendment, i.e., requiring the government to treat people equally in equal cases, not requiring private entities to do so. But the Dutch Constitution might work differently, which is why I asked.
Maybe teen reporting of marijuana use has increased now it's more socially acceptable to be out the closet about it.
Every hospital I've been to seemed horribly understaffed.. and I'd be afraid of an underpaid surgeon. Not sure what waste you're referring to
I don’t know what use a terminal application is without full disk access: the first two things I do on a new Mac are disable SIP (so I can use dtrace effectively) and grant all my terminal applications full disk access. I’m getting really tired of Apple’s “security” policies that have no user-controllable ways to override the defaults.
>However, if they were forced to pay more taxes and therefore paid less to their employees/hired less...

This isn't a given, and most companies would rather pay the taxes and see less profit, than sabotage their labor and fold even quicker. If it's a blanket policy, I imagine you'll see an initial market shock, and then things will go back to normal. And that's all the people in charge really care about. Pay won't change because it's a supply/demand issue, or so I'm told.
Why do you care about having a Wikipedia page for Arrow? Why is it important enough to whinge about on HN?

Wikipedia is much like Stack Overflow these days, the community has become hostile to newcomers who fail to meet their somewhat arbitrary but very exacting standards for what is allowed on their site.

Fortunately, you can just publish your own web site. No need to be bothered about not being on WP.
I agree but that doesn't negate the point. Any economic asset with limited supply has two sources of value. The first is intrinsic as you've correctly pointed out which through intrinsic demand by people looking to use the asset for its actual properties will gain intrinsic value.

The second is monetary. Asset values inflate beyond intrinsic values as a result of monetary demand for them by users that acquire them not for their intrinsic properties but for their potential capacity to be redeemed for value in the future. This monetary demand lives on top of intrinsic demand and drives overal value of the asset up the supply / demand curve.

My comments applied specifically to the monetary user base of any asset. This base's choice of their monetary base is entirely elective, socially constructed and reinforced. And their particular choice will gain favor if they can convince people to get on same the band wagon. Under this specific use case, they will tend to exhibit the perfectly understandable behaviors I've described.
Is there any alternatives suggested for this medicine?
Mailspring does something like that. I personally prefer people selling me yearly licences that do not call home, if a one-time is not possible. Depending on the market you target, people might not like sw trying to call home (every adobe software ever?). My firewall would block and report it anyway.
Lol.. well, we have some monetisation ideas. If you tested the platform, you will notice a gif when your upload is complete, we are considering using that space for brand advertisment. We have other ideas too and like I said, they are all still skechy but our focus right now is to see that this is a valuable platform for everyone
Increased taxation (and, yes, even slavery) is sort of tolerance when compared to war and genocide. If you can enslave somebody as a punishment, you're treating them as free otherwise – treating them as a person by default.

In other times and in other parts of the world, not even that has been the case.
Open source projects that require no monetization or business model. I'd love to make a big open source game next.
The "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect" being the banal fact that reporters are sometimes wrong about things?

Have you tried leaving a comment on the Talk page of the article saying that you're Jennifer Tilly's sister, linking to something about you (you're obviously bona fide), and asking for a correction? WP has special reliability rules (WP:BLP) for "Biographies Of Living Persons".

It doesn't look like CMT has a Wikipedia article at all. Should it?
It's not okay just because America does it to a limited extent in a miniature percentage of land. It's actually a false equivalence.
Υour phone's yellow tinted 'night mode' could be worse for your sleep
Obamacare ‘Individual Mandate’ Is Unconstitutional
Vaping is the most dangerous use of cannabis? Can you share some citations on that claim?
At a minimum we gotta get rid of the 2 or 3 hops permitted of the surveillance; theoretically, most of the campaign's communications could have been swept up in the collection process and examined by investigators.

More about the '2 or 3 hops':

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/fbi-s-secret-warrant-s...
Wait! These figures are not inflation adjusted. Inflation has been about 15X since 1928. So, the $382,000 shown on the chart for 2018 is now worth about $26,000 in 1928 dollars, against $143 value sometime in 1928. That is, in constant dollars, about 180 x over 90 years, not a bad return on investment, but, not what's shown on this chart!

However, if you start your comparison with 1932 instead, market average value has increased from about $50 into about $26000, or 520 times return over investment over 86 years, a dramatically better result! Illustrating the second most basic rule of investing: buy low.

Consider, if you'd invested in a market fund in 1999 instead, you'd have turned $156,000 into about $253,000 (inflation adjusted) or a gain of about (uh-oh) much less than 2x over almost 20 years. In other words, ROI of much less than 10% per year. Investments not so good in this century, even with the huge stock market run-up of the past few years!

Just for comparison, a plumber in the US seems to have made about $1.25 an hour or so in 1928, compared to about $27 an hour in 1998 (according to BLS). In constant dollars, wages seem to have less than doubled. So, long term, investors did much, much better than workers, that's for sure!

And since 1997 plumbers have just kept up with inflation, according to BLS (going from $17.50 an hour in 1997 to to $27 an hour in 2019 -- equivalent to $17.50 in 1997 dollars).

So, big news. Invested capital has increased much faster than compensation of labor in the US, both long and short term. Well, if you think plumbers are typical.

Obviously in the past 20 years, hacker pay has done much better than plumber pay! In fact, hacker pay has increased much more than return on investment! Does this mean, capitalists should fight for lower hacker wages? Or does it mean, we have met the enemy and it is us? Only time will tell...
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ - Headline: no.
The android market share is a real shame, because Ff on Android is actually pretty darn solid.
The part where they can't resist?

So no, there will not be a published protocol.
Nice strawman argument. Because I don't want to pay a lot to offset the most expensive, I want people to die. Not what I said at all.

But half the country either smokes or is obese, and I shouldn't have to incur the cost of other people's conditions.
The Aspiring Black Astronaut Who Never Made It to Space [video]
I wonder about this too. We have several dikes already that are much higher than seven metres. From everything I hear, we're not anywhere near the limits of feasible dike height, not in terms of engineerable strength nor in economic feasability (they're mostly just earth walls, after all).
What do you want a citation for? I personally communicate in private groups, and so do you.
So I shouldn't hold my breath for term limit legislation to pass anytime soon either...?

:-)
Hey, this reminds me of the Advent of Code problem today (day 18)! It featured a similar kind of maze.
I think next time I'm just going to ask them if they merge a lot of PRs that look like what they're asking me to write, and if they say yes, thank them for their time and leave.

I think the answer is often 'no' and they've just never thought about it that way. My favorite interview question has a credible business story I can give for why we're doing it this way.
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> I understand the impulse behind "this project is important; it should have a Wikipedia article". But when you take a step back and accept what Wikipedia actually is, rather than what you think it should be, you're left with the question: do we really need to feature this particular piece of software in its own encyclopedia article? 20 years from now, will people still be getting value from it? Whatever value that might be, will it outweigh the 20 years of other people's volunteer efforts to maintain the article, keeping it free of vandalism and ensuring that it doesn't surreptitiously turn into a promotion piece for some company or another?

I really don't think a 20-year-view is a good measure of whether or not an article should exist. Even if something is forgotten in the future, if it has relevance and importance today than that alone makes the article worth existing.
I didn't know they had BMWs. I've only seen the Mercedes. Did they get those from the old/defunct ReachNow program BMW was trying out in Seattle?
The four missing megabytes of Firefox
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Foundations
I think the key is getting out of the comfort zone and do something completely different. After a hard day´s work as a developer it is just too tempting to continue developing, habitually, instead of doing inconvenient other things.
Crime in China used to be really bad, years ago. I recall one visit as a teen, some 15 years ago, where someone attempted to snatch my mother’s purse as she was riding on a bike, in broad daylight in a major city. In the last five years, such incidents seem to be significantly rarer; while I don’t have crime stats handy, I can definitely say that I haven’t worried about crime.

The thing is, everyone already expects to be watched in public. The government in this sense is really just living up to the expectation.

To the average citizen, they can ascribe lower crime rates to the surveillance program, which makes them feel safer. Fitting with the cultural inclination towards societal stability and harmony, surveillance does not seem out of place or unusual in public for folks.
That's all fine, but those are all workarounds for a design mistake in the language.
Would not discrimination be likewise associated with certain genetic loci, for example dark skin color, or height.

To be useful, it would be best to eliminate the variation due to discrimination. For example, just measure income earned by remote anonymous workers.
"Wither away" uhh, that's not how it works. Beans, lentils, grains, bread, nuts, seeds, there are tons of foods that are both filling and caloric. We're in the age of information on a site called HACKER NEWS of all things, and you're still pulling the "I'll die of a protein deficiency!" card?
I don't. But I like the statement.
This other referenced article helped me figure out why this was a big deal: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2010/12/29/maze-generation-eller...

Basically, you can lazily generate a maze of infinite length. That's pretty cool.
Supposedly being fired for unionizing. I have yet to see any case where there has been compelling evidence of such.
Let me get your argument straight here: You are saying that because the British tried it and it didn't work that makes it ok to try again? Are you hoping for failure or success here?

Anyway, to address your question:

Because then the British were a small minority, exhausted by WW2 attempting to oppress a large majority who clearly had natural justice on their side.

This time it is a large majority attempting to victimise a smaller minority for a reason which historically has led to wars, genocides and mass killing.
Adam Smith and the Pin Factory
You simply cannot pay someone enough to care this much about Illinois football. https://illiniboard.com/story/2019/10/16/leave-us-alone/

The best content in sports media comes from fans, and it's not even close.
But she is a credentialed security engineer, so I guess you agree the criticism that she's not a qualified engineer is wrong.
Seriously, apart from just cultural ideas at this point, it would be so easy to at least start to study it in a more fact-based way by just removing weed from schedule 1.
Deployment /can be/ a git push away, but that's only on the extreme end with things like heroku. You mentioned cloud. Cloud has cost sinks every so often (in terms of time).

Cloud has much value but please dont' consider it a panacea.

You can get a lot of value out of those 30 minutes installing a webserver; and it can save you a significant amount of cost.

Not to mention when you want to actually scale you'll see the reason why pretty clearly, unlike in cloud providers where inefficiencies can just suck up money until you notice.

And I definitely take exception to the "every _second_ you spend doing something other than business is a waste" because by that logic I shouldn't use the bathroom or take time to have a coffee.
Which Gödel misconceptions?
I wonder how well the pay-to-post mechanic helps mitigate spam, trolling, and other misbehavior. Does anyone know of modern systems that work in a similar way?
Snowden, being a contractor, didn't have whistleblower protections. In spite of that, he did escalate the issues he saw (Clapper openly perjuring himself before Congress), and was rebuffed. Since he leaked it, the courts have since found that the NSA was in fact violating the Constitution.

I would say the facts openly disagree with your assertation that if the whistleblower protections aren't enough, then it means the government isn't doing anything wrong.
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21813619
look at you amateurs not using the link
Why your brain needs exercise
That shouldn't do them any good. The device should require it to be in pairing mode for the key to do anything.
Something that isn't immediately clear to me is whether they accounted for the causes of air pollution.

If not this is like observing that there are a lot of loud bangs in warzones and concluding loud noises kill people, even though they are at best just a side effect of the actual causes.
Heck, I was unaware. But the thing that surprised me was that Japanese names are presented backwards in English media, not that Chinese names aren't.
I had several Google Home devices, and you could not even boot them up unless you had a phone with an account that was opted into location history, web history, search history, and youtube watch history. Google has completely lost any concept of privacy.
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London Review of Books has lowered its paywall through mid-January 2020
A quick web search turns up

https://cryptolens.io/2019/01/python-code-for-software-licen...

I've never used it; this is not a recommendation.

That said, it's not a difficult thing to implement. Generate a keypair, embed the public key in the application source, use it to decrypt a pickled dictionary containing whatever attributes you want to license.

Remember that being Python, it's easier than most languages to find the if statements that need to be bypassed to remove the licence checks.
Instead of taxing the income twice at lower rates with loopholes (corporate tax rate => capital gains rate) it would only get taxed once, but at a higher rate (marginal tax rate) with relatively fewer shenanigans.
Absolutely, but when the process itself doesn’t work, then what? Gotta take a different approach and apply pressure somehow.
That's a really good point. I honestly don't remember if we gave the candidate a heads up in that regard. In general interviewing is extremely imprecise. It's an unsolved problem unfortunately, but I feel most companies "fix" the problem by just over-interviewing and being ok with false negatives.
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The German Wikipedia is the fourth largest by number of articles, with one article for 33 German speakers, whereas the English Wikipedia has one article for 84.4 speakers. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_speake...

Doesn't look like the Exclusionists are really stronger on the German Wikipedia.
The limit is that you have actual secrets to protect, whether codes or names. You don't want these public because everyone could destroy you then. Secrets are a necessary evil. Managing secrecy as a function of some more or less independent entity — three-letter agency, direct governmental body, army... — is a balancing act, to put it mildly. Ever since the dawn of time, and periodically throughout history, you hear this tension between the visible power (gov) and the hidden figures ("deep state", when some independent agency grabs too much power, and they all do, that's how they 'die' and get reformed historically).

This is one of the oldest and hardest problem in managing a 'country', a vast group of people, in the face of potentially hostile foreign powers and nefarious actors in general (including, and sometimes especially, within).

I feel our epoch (with internet, mobile, 24/7 on, hyperbuzz, etc) is vastly increasing the complexity and difficulty of this topic. It's likely to make those in charge of secrets paranoid, with reason, even assuming the best of intents.

TL;DR: wish it were as simple as that.
Could you provide a little more detail? I’ve recently disabled user namespacing on an app I’ve deployed because I couldn’t figure out how to create an encrypted volume from within the container [1]. I think I understand the security implications and I’m comfortable with them, but I’d be really interested to know how user namespacing has saved people from real vulnerabilities in the real world.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/557293/how-can-i-ma...
I use Venstar thermostats with Home Assistant. They're totally fine, but wifi only I believe. Local API, so no cloud nonsense. I've been running them for about a year with no major problems.
In many companies purposely sending an all employee email such as that would potentially be grounds for dimisal. I know of people that have been fired for accidently sending all company emails too many times.
It should be easier to fake your own death
This was posted by the direct of marketing, on their marketing blog... And the wikipedia article mentions, "efficient, effective, optimized" multiple times in the introduction paragraph. Compared to column-store [1], which the OPs article links to, it only mentions it once at the end and in weaker language.

As it stands, the Apache Arrow entry reads like a press release. I would recommend that Justin has a non-marketing copy editor clean it up before pressing the case further.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS
Is your argument that collective punishment on the basis of religion is reasonable?

I'm sure I can find some atrocity attributable to religion X too. Should everyone from religion X be punished?
Add this to Little Scheme/The Little JavaScripter.

https://www.crockford.com/scheme.html

https://www.crockford.com/little.html
This is what HHS Gov states:

Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule protect genetic information?

Answer:

Yes, genetic information is health information protected by the Privacy Rule

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/354/does-hip...
I hope someone goes to jail. How else will this deter future abuses?
Americans are tired of people in positions of real power receiving preferential treatment.
Consider building it as another puzzle in this collection, rather than a separate app.
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
Ask HN: Are there any ways to approximate university learning experience?
For all the hype about online learning, I find no way of learning most standard academic topics at a rigorous level other than:

1) enrolling in a traditional university with all the cost and bureaucratic nonsense that entails, or

2) patiently working my way through a textbook (or worse, recorded lectures) and scrambling to find decent sets of problems with solutions. It's a lonely endeavour.

MOOCs don’t exist for most topics above a very basic level, and even then, they are typically ghost town outside of a handful of popular subjects.

It would be great to have a way to connect with other people wishing to study at any given time, say, introductory quantum field theory, for exchange of ideas and motivation.
Which is irrelevant to the policies I mentioned that started this subthread.
Does it smell?
Note trust employer-funded health insurance started not as a tax dodge but as a wage-cap dodge during World War II.
I don't see how this is a controversy. Turkey made a legal judgement, and Google decided the cost of compliance was too high so instead of thwarting the law and risk legal liability they retreated from the country.

The threat of Monopoly by Google in Turkey is gone - so congrats? You shouldn't force a company to provide you the opportunity to by their product (outside of certain circumstances regarding protected classes in the US).
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I just created a mobile client for HN and now testing post function
The article is correct in that Buddha being a prince is a myth. The Pali canon (Tripitaka) does not assert he lived in a palace, depending on the translation used.

It states he was born in bhavana (Sn. 685) which has in the past been translated as palace but it simply means a place. When Buddha talks about his fathers abode he just refers to a house or mansion or family complex, using the word nivasana (A.I 145) which did not refer specifically to a palace or royal residence (vimana or mandira). nivasana was not used to refer to royal palaces until centuries after it was presumably written in the Tripitaka. Buddha also does not refer to his father as a king, but when asked he just said his dad was from Sakya clan (Sn 322,323,324).
Pasadena, nice! I've started reading and I want to check out your newsletter for myself.