skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know of any other information that's politically sensitive to the Russian authorities that was posted on Github? It can't be just this on text on suicide methods, right?
Because BTC and blockchain utility do not need to correlate to the exchange rate against USD for the system to have massive inherent value.

[Edit: removed redundant 'correlate']
...readily available and idiomatic as part of the LINQ universe.
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Great point jasonkester,

We thought long and hard about what type of marketplace we wanted to create. We ultimately felt that there was a requirement to gate the marketplace on both sides to prevent bad actors from parasitizing the site (see LinkedIn). Engineers are in such high demand, that they go, inevitably recruitment agents and others will follow.

Github isn't perfect, but we our use of it is primarily as a signal of the type of people we want to attract (developers only) and as an additional admin hurdle for bad actors to have to go through.

So, yeah, we took a risk. Higher friction at the both ends (employers are curated, again to stop agents), but our aim is to create a high signal, zero noise matching service for engineers and this was the way to do it.

Our plan is to add further login options - bitbucket, stack et al. v2.

Hope that explains some thinking about the sign up flow - feel free to ping me any questions!

Hung
Wouldn't a third party service repeatedly logging into my services from a LogDog IP raise some flag on it's own at the service's own intrusion detection?
They're not laughably bad, they have had to manage a huge, aging software system and build infrastructure on top and around it.

They may have made many mistakes, but some of the smartest people I know work there, and most of the work they do is first-class.
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The cloud is almost always a good investment for early-early stage startups. It's only when a company hits massive scale that it might be a good idea to have built their own infrastructure.

Even the company in the profile admits that it still uses AWS for certain tasks - so the headline is misleading.
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I had my own simple 'captcha' on my site (since recaptcha could be annoying), but now I added recaptcha since it looks like it will be easier on users.

You just need to query recaptcha's service and check if the json string they return contains "success\": true".
Transactions per day is close to it's all time high. https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?timespan=all&s...
First Show HN where I've seen someone have a phone number listed. Not sure if smart, or brave.
I've noticed that I get the house numbers when I leave 3rd party cookies enabled, and a much harder, often impossible captcha when they're disabled. Since leaving them off doesn't break much else, I do, and just fill out the harder captchas when I come across one. By the way, you only have to fill out the "known" word, the one that's all twisted and usually impossible to read until you refresh the image 10 times. Even completely omitting the 2nd word, which is the unknown word that OCR couldn't figure out, it will still validate.
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What are programmer parents to do?

Maybe they can download a different theme that can be installed on the small human to customize its personality.

Workarounds are, of course, no substitute for investigating to find the root cause. It could be a bug in the child's firmware.

I'd form a list of all the issues, give them solid estimates, prioritize them by customer impact, and, accordingly, assign them into project milestones.

You know, maybe this dolls and princesses problem doesn't have to be solved in the current release.

Customer visibility of the problem could be managed somehow; perhaps the behavior can be confined to certain times and locations.

My gut feeling is that there maybe a priority inversion in the tiny human; the incorrect temperament threads is taking over most of the cores.
I guess I mentally put whatever part of NASA published this in the same category as university PR departments. You almost certainly know more about how NASA works than I do.
Anyone doing that volume in credit card transactions isn't paying a 2.9% rate like you and I would selling trinkets... and the fee's paying for a variety of protections not present in a Bitcoin transaction.
Indeed. Protonmail has the same issue. However, I'm wanting to release a desktop & mobile app as soon as possible, to phase out the browser version. This is just a proof of concept for now.
Thinking about SQL which I use quite a lot (and the only real declarative programming I do):

1. I would not say that SQL is harder to debug than imperative code. I have also noticed that I get less bugs and they take less time to solve when I push as much as possible to SQL. Usually something either works properly or it doesn't. I personally find SQL is one of the few languages where reading the code is easier than writing it.

2: Database optimizations must be some of the most well known ways to improve performance in the tech field.

3: SQL syntax isn't great (I wouldn't say it is terrible either).
The article specifically mentions that lossless formats offer advantages over compressed formats. The argument is 24/192 encodes lossless files vs 16/48, which I feel the author soundly confirms.
Can't wait to see screen version!
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Obviously I can't go into too much detail, but we cross reference data from the different services we monitor and thus create a fairly robust usage profile.
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First off, thanks for providing some concrete examples.

That said, those all fundamentally sound like process problems to me. They would not have been allowed to happen at either of the companies I have worked for or any of the companies I have worked with, at least not to a degree that they would harm products. Sure, we have shit code down in the bowels of our libraries, and some of it was put there by people who didn't know what they were doing. I would not characterize any of it as serious problems, though. Those tend to either not live long or not make it into the codebase in the first place.

I understand there is a tradeoff here, and that "process" is a dirty word to many people. A little process can go a long way, though. It can make problems like those you describe minor or non-existent. To me this seems like a small price to pay for opening up your hiring process and dealing with the poor choices.

On a slight tangent and speaking of costs, I get the impression that many people discount the cost of a false negative. You are trying to hire people for a reason. Your company is incurring costs from not having this person, be it the lost revenue from expanding or the actual costs of working your current engineers harder to meet deadlines. That needs to enter into the equation, along with the costs of false positives and the costs of mitigating same.
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thanks - sorry I forgot to include the link.
I've learned that I'm probably a robot, and it's probably because someone on my subnet hits the rate limits on Google APIs sometimes.

There was one day when it was so convinced, it was giving me impossible captchas just to use Google Search.
um, "where you went to school" does not matter only to people who didn't go anywhere.

when you go to school filled with very smart people you really get used to working with really smart people. I'm not saying it's panacea or even good, it just is.

So, when you say "where you went to school" makes no difference in hiring, that tells me more about your hiring culture than it does about the candidates.

I got a serious degree in computer science at a serious school, and I'm not hiring people without one, just based on being able to expect a certain baseline for conversations.

think of it like high school geometry, Euclidean proofs. It's not necessarily rocket science, it's taught to a vast swath of the population. But imagine a job that required a knowledge of geometry, are you going to look at the resume of somebody "self taught" the same way as somebody who went to the Alexandria Institute of Geometry?

Yes, there are many other factors to a complete human being, and a good worker, but one of the valuable things you learn from a good education is how to tease apart complex problems and look at which inputs have what effect on what output (kind of like separation of concerns). I'm am commenting on one aspect of a resume or a hire; pointing out all the other aspects will not dissuade me from my point.
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90% of Stack users do not have Github accounts. That was my intel from an insider source from Stack. Got no proof beyond that but intuitively feels about right.

NB: lot of MS guys on Stack - maybe a correlation there
Where are you seeing mandatory real name and email validation?
Wow, Great! This is amazing. Do you think you'll expand the search into the police database? I could really use a way in there
This might sound reasonable on paper but in reality it's a pretty big deal. Taxing corporate profit (however ineffectively) is very different from taxing consumption like VAT does.

Inasmuch as the tax gets passed on to companies, it can push teetering companies out of business. A company with no profits 9for real) pay no corporate tax. Second, corporate taxes are more or less like capital gains tax, in many cases a capital gains tax on foreign citizens that own shares in that company. Taxing the rich is hard. Taxing the poor is relatively fruitless and morally questionable. This is why a lot of the burden (as a percentage of income) falls on the middle class, who are easiest to tax. A VAT is a "flat" or moderately regressive tax. To replace corporate tax revenues with more VAT, poor and middle class people would have to pick up the share currently paid by rich people and foreigners.

The current tax systems with the various types of taxes are evolved to maximize tax revenue, and to a certain extent GDP. A fairer system that "costs" the tax office 5-10% of their revenue is off the table. Most kinds of taxes are maxed to the point where raising them would either (1) not actual produce more taxes^ (2) produce immediate political reactions (3) harm the overall economy too much.

When you are super-optimzed for one thing, its' hard to optimize for something else, like fairness.

^EG, if the high marginal income tax is 50%, increasing to 70% will not realist in a 40% increase in revenues from that tax bracket because the incentive to earn (declared) income goes down.
They waste a lot of money setting this all up, changing it all around when policy changes, paying armies of lawyers, not to mention the liquidity problems I mentioned. Sure they "own" the money but it's stuck outside of the USA.

Edit: how do they stay solvent now, when the money is periodically re-imported during tax holidays?
The structure, organization and ability of the institutions, curricula, and people that shaped your ability to learn independently is non-obvious privilege.

You would be surprised at the many varieties of ways there are to think, of how chaotic a world that world truly is, and how so many variables had to come together for you to get where you are, and how delicate a balance that truly is.

It's one thing to be humble, it's entirely another thing to humble yourself so much you manage to convince yourself you are actually an idiot.

You learned how to learn by having the privilege of having the free time to teach yourself how to learn, how to observe others in a learning environment, and how to get an idea of how to position yourself in a huge organization where you can contribute your specific skill set to a larger whole, and you continue to collectively add to human knowledge without adding a static layer of chaos and confusion.

Please, tell me where I can get a tenured professorship without a PhD by hustling. I'd love to know.
I feel like if anything this would just add some time to bots plowing through these so their web scrapers can move in gentle curves and whatnot to simulate a human. These don't appear to be that far off from being broken.
It wouldn't especially surprise me if that were the case. It's a lot easier to identify people who don't meet the requirements of a position than to intuit how good a job they'll do based on paper qualifications. You'll make mistakes in both cases, but more in the latter.

Testing like SATs are similar. A low score is probably a much better predictor of (lack of) success at an elite school than a high score is a predictor of success.
Good luck but I'm not really sure how this product is differentiating from other bundled voip and messaging products other than better UX/UI.

Where is the revenue model and where are the open APIs into the service? Messaging is becoming really saturated now. User experience might get you some of the way there but interoperability with things outside your walled garden is also important for success IMHO.
This version is Mac App Store compatible.
Ninjas and Pizzas - the list is missing turtles.
We're talking about a large company making a profit, not a lunch-counter protest.

Uber isn't doing this because of some deeply held belief, they're doing it to make a profit. I don't want corporations breaking regulations they don't agree with and claiming it's "civil disobedience".
I'd also recommend this approach. FX is a cash cow business for banks. Money changing is one thing, where the business has cash management risks and cost, but FX on a wire transfer is close to 100% profit for the institution. They trade at mid and keep that 4%.

As the parent poster commented, Interactive Brokers will give you rates close enough to mid as to not matter (e.g. the current rate to buy/sell EUR with USD is 1.2313/1.2312, plus a few dollars commission).
The sudoku idea is a game version of Bitcoin, some sort of proof-of-work to get raw materials (mine). There have been some great write-ups of in game economies and since you want a simple one as a programming project it seemed like a reasonable stand in.
Looks interesting. Does anyone else use Two-Factor authentication for their emails? I do.

I also use that SMS service for PayPal.

Does nobody else?
The point is that they aren't illegal though, isn't it? These companies are not doing anything illegal, just (arguably) unethical.
I would hate that one. Too time-consuming.
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Dang! Maybe they stole 'em for the next season of TWD.
So what? Other once acceptable behavior is no longer tolerated.

There is always a center, just because it moves doesn't mean that people can't be a socially unacceptable distance from it.
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From the docs, "The project exposes a JavaScript API for OS X integration, such as displaying native OS X 10.9 notifications."

The set of extra OSX-related facilities appears to be pretty limited for now. Apart from that, it also uses Webkit, but it uses the one provided by OSX, so it does not need to be distributed with your application. The coolest thing would be if node-webkit could also use OSX's Webkit API, but that seems improbable since it's Objective-C only.
did you mean cyborgs :)
Actually one of the strongest arguments against corporate taxation is the corruption/tax-break angle. Big organizations are always going to be able to lobby more effectively than small ones or individuals.

A reasonably fair personal income tax or VAT can be implemented reliably (and has, in virtually all of the industrialized world). A fairly distributed corporate tax is nearly impossible (again, the existence proof being its absence basically everywhere). No matter how well the statutes are written, a big enough entity will be able to lobby the government into changing the law to its benefit.
Are there any laws actually governing what disclosures need to happen if an otherwise non-regulated company loses my data? (meaning not a bank or healthcare)
You are correct that schema-less systems can still require maintenance. However a schema-less system like Drill allows users of the data like business analysts to write interactive queries as soon as they bring new files into HDFS. Surely if you were using Drill to query data programmatically, you would want to make sure only the technical staff could modify the data during the dev process, and likely use an automated process to incorporate data as it comes in. However, this is no different than managing appropriate permissions on a traditional database.
Wouldn't it be possible to just tune bots easier now instead of having to work with OCR?
I should know, I was raised there.

The Canary Islands have some special treatment with respect to mainland Spain in things like VAT and petrol tax, which are still in line with many European countries (and you don't go that far to buy retail petrol, it defeats the purpose). By the way the data on that site is outdated, the general IGIC (VAT) is up to 7% since 2012 and the maximum is 20%.

As for the other exemptions, they are hardly "tax haven" label worthy. Nothing compared to the Channel Islands, Luxemburg, etc and more in line with countries like the Netherlands.

I have yet to know of anyone not from Spain who'd choose the Canary Islands to dodge taxes, and I know plenty of people with offshore accounts (work in the other Canary - Canary Wharf, London).
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Our software distributes the most complex natural language processing questions to human contractors, while automating the parts of the work a machine can grapple with on its own. This human-machine combination works well, but also presents some interesting challenges:

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3. Operations: How do you build the infrastructure to manage a distributed workforce of thousands?

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All I see is a page that says "Do you like this concept? Please donate via Bitcoin and help me build this further: 1CietyCHJi42RR1xb1nxVkdrdsRu3PbD5s". Am I missing something?
Which would theoretically use more energy, levetating the "train", or overcoming the friction?

(I"m not suggesting this design can levitate, just curious about the trade-off.)
I don't have a mouse, as I'm using a tablet device, and it recognized me as a human as long as I have cookies enabled
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Hung, do you really believe that tech recruiters don't already have github accounts?
This looks like a very clever way to train machine learning algorithms on image recognition.
Presuming you know that someone is using this method, the number of words that they're using, what dictionary they are using, and whether they're using any punctuation.

Keep adding variables (I didn't mention a few of the variables on the site) and it becomes more difficult.
What do you mean by "break"?
Meteor & Iconic create web & mobile apps, not desktop applications.
I'm guessing your third sentence triggered a penalty. Replace "current captchas" with a blank and you'll see why.

I agree that the reCAPTCHA experience is terrible and assume many others agree with you, in part spurring the development of this new approach. I don't believe that every reCAPTCHA has a solution, or at least a consistent one, so I always feel like a percentage of time wasting is built-in. To work around it, I usually regenerate it until I get one that looks easy, but it's still frustrating. Improving the odds of getting it right the first time will help improve the experience a bit. But my biggest gripe is that they can make direct downloads impossible for resources that don't require extra protection.
What exactly would be the argument for allowing individual small governments to play with their economies like that? The risk analysis gets completely skewed by the fact that the EU implicitly backs the economy anyway. That just sounds like a recipe for another Greece.
I did some looking around and you're absolutely correct about economic shortages.

From wikipedia:
"In most cases, a shortage will compel firms to increase the price of a product until it reaches market equilibrium. Sometimes, however, external forces cause more permanent shortages—in other words, there is something preventing prices from rising or otherwise keeping supply and demand balanced."

In this case, the H1-B visas are the external force, and are preventing supply and demand from being balanced. Basically because of the availability of cheaper labor, companies are willing to pay less for ALL labor which creates the shortage.

My completely misremembered thinking was that simply because they don't WANT to pay a higher wage, does not create a lack of labor - but i see know that it does in fact create an economic shortage of labor AT THAT PRICE. I was thinking of 'labor shortage' meaning that there is not enough actual people qualified to perform a job; when really in this case it is much more reflecting employers unwillingness to increase wages to the level that qualified people would be willing to compete.

thanks for the discussion!
If you know something suspicious is happening you can change your password (from the app) and throw the hacker out. You can also avoid rolling-hacks (ex: when your email is used to reset passwords on other services)
Is there any published research on this? I am interested to learn about these risk analysis techniques they are talking about.
The video demonstrates filling in name and email, although it doesn't say anything about it.
One solution is to give a free pass for people who have public open source projects to show off.

Instead of presenting the "screening project", they present their open source project and its source code.
Yes! But before working on adding support for all languages I wanted to have an idea if this was something people would find useful.
IIRC pointer arithmetic in Turbo Pascal had some restrictions vs C (typing, limits). Still nothing of that was standard Pascal at least back then.

You willingly spend your time in JVM world? ;-)
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here's another follow-up link to this story:

http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workpla...
But then a bot need only copy a human's mouse movements and disable cookies and we're back to the status quo.