skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm? You seem to be saying "If you go to a top PhD school, you'll have the best faculty opportunities." I agree with you there.

What I'm saying is that "If you perform extremely well in your undergraduate degree, you have a high probability of being accepted to a top PhD program."

If you get into a top PhD program and choose to attend a non-top PhD program, for whatever reason, I agree with you, you're electing to play on super-hard mode compared to someone who opted for the best school to which they were accepted. However, just like the arcade games, you shouldn't be surprised to win more often on easy mode than on hard mode.
Well, no.

The fact that Richard Dennis chose to stop taking customer money after a bad loss in the 87 crash proves nothing.

The EMT/EMH states that because all the information is in the he public domain, returns above market over time are not possible. Anyone with the slightest interest in human nature understands that two different people with the same information can come to two entirely separate conclusions. Any glance at election results will tell you that.

Richard Dennis developed a system that produced outsized returns over a long period of time using public information. He then taught this system to others, who then used it to also make outsized returns using public information. Thus disproving the hypothesis.

The fact that he gave back a small portion of his total returns in a particular market event doesn't change the basic facts. Even if his strategy no longer works, the fact that it did work for a long period of time disproves the theory. He was able to use public information to decide to abandon the strategy when it no longer worked.
If it's not weak desire or need for privacy then why hasn't the market successfully solved this? Moreover, where is the outrage at the lack of privacy.
Why is this the case? As a hiring manager, I often lean heavily towards the "hire them and if they don't work out, let them go" camp. I've gotten a lot of great teammates that way and only one that didn't work out. But the one that didn't work out killed the interview and was ridiculously smart. All the ones that did poorly in the interview and had little experience ended up being some of my better engineers.
I read your other reply and I see your point now.
I notice several comments about culture fit and not clicking with interviewers, but it's worth keeping in mind that there isn't always a "reason" for not getting an offer. Not related to the candidate, that is. Job openings sometimes disappear for random internal reasons, or there may have been another candidate for the same position who was objectively a much better fit.

I feel you have to look at job interviews like a hand of poker or the like. There are things you can do to increase your odds, but even with perfect play not every hand is winnable.
>Bottleneck in this ongoing story has been CPU

How is CPU the bottleneck if what can be achieved with 11 CPUs can also be achieved with 1 CPU just by changing the software? If what you say is accurate, then kernel/userspace software is the bottleneck.
I'm not sure if your parent was referring to interviewing at Apple.
could be, could be
> But were the design changes intentional? To answer this question, the researchers worked the measurements from hundreds of Cremonese-era violins into an evolutionary model, and found that any change in design could reasonably be explained by natural mutation — or, in this case, craftsmanship error.

I want to see them build and run that evolutionary model and generate some mutant future instruments.
Do you find this page visually overbearing because all of the non-downvoted comments are #000? I have never seen a page of text on a computer screen look overbearing because its color was #000 and not lighter.
Can't help but wonder where the funding came from:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/21/climate-c...
Agreed. You need to recognize that there are some of the best engineers in the world work at companies where they aren't able to put code on GitHub, or it isn't worth it for them. You're working on something secretive, you have a family and want to spend your free time with then rather than weekends dealing with pull requests, etc.
Consider a separating the goals.

OTR is much more successful because it allows ad-hoc connections instead of trying to make authenticity guarantees. It encourages authentication, but the decision of when to invest that extra effort is left with the user. Fundamentally, OTR just offers privacy from eavesdroppers, and it does that well. Every other feature is extra. Even better, these new features (e.g. authentication) don't have to start from nothing. A big benefit of separating features is that is added later can leverage the existing infrastructure.

I personally believe the "killer crypto app" that will actually be adopted is a tool that is the opposite of OTR. It should only promise ad-hoc authenticates and do it in an generic style. I mean something that is somewhere between "gpg --clearsign" and 2channel/4chan style tripcodes[1]. In an ideal world, this needs to have a clearsign-style mode, so it can be used on existing forums. If the browser simply offers a "sign this" button next to textareas (no password, auto-gen they key and stuff it on a keyserver, just make it happen), it will be used. On the decode side, any blocks of text the browser sees that look like a signature get check, with the key pinned. That's it. Any features that allow nicer integration with email, forum software, etc, are nice but optional.

This provides a minimum, anonymous level authentication (forgery prevention), and the only UX the user should have to see is the "sign this" button and a loud "possible forgery" warning if a signature doesn't match the pinned key. It even works regardless of who is transporting the message (different websites, email, gopher, avian carriers) without needing an "identify provider". Upgrading this infrastructure of pinned keys into something more interesting can happen later on, if desired.

Would this work? I believe it's worth trying. It is clear that trying to solve all of the security needs in a single tool has not worked, and the one tool that got any adoption at all (OTR) has a much more narrow set of goals.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imageboard#Tripcodes
It's a good idea. In cases where there is a real diagnosis, but it isn't found there are probably these reasons, and CrowdMed addresses them to some degree:

1. It fits into the category of diseases which have amorphous and tricky symptomology eg Lyme disease, immunodeficiencies, Coeliac disease, temporal arteritis, rare inherited conditions. These are just cognitively difficult to diagnose. Having people from another perspective take a look (particular with the perspective of, hey, maybe this is something unusual) is helpful. Good primary care physicians usually have a list of 'easy to miss' conditions in their heads.

2. Patient related factors eg they don't communicate well, they can't afford to go to the doctor consistently, they have a huge anxiety overlay, they have many chronic conditions with overlapping symptoms etc. CrowdMed gives them another port of access to healthcare advice.

3. Doctor related factors eg just incompetence, over specialisation, too busy, too old, too young, too tired, too depressed, too male, too burnt out etc... Sometimes you just need to get a different type of person to look at the case.

But, I do have concerns about how it's marketed.
To say that you have 'solved' hundreds of the world's 'most difficult' medical cases is not a responsible thing to put on a front page that will be visited by patients.

Firstly, what does 'solved' mean? I think to prove that you solved a case, you would need to have detailed and long term follow up, and I don't see any evidence of that. Do you have any evidence beyond the patient testimonial at a single time point?

Also, how many cases are not solved?

Secondly, 'world's most difficult' is silly marketing speak, like a detergent that gets rid of the 'world's toughest stains'. Presumably you haven't surveyed all the world's medical cases and ranked them by difficulty. It really puts me off signing up as a detective.
Patients are vulnerable. They are scared and suffering. This sort of tagline just makes it look like you are trying to fleece them, despite all the goodwill elsewhere on the site.
Ask HN: Review my startup, www.kojai.tv
I've just launched my first production website this week after a lot of hard work, and I would really appreciate some feedback on it. I'm particularly interested in what more veteran web developers and designers have to say for me as this is my very first production site, www.kojai.tv.
Pragmatic but sad, I expected some nice collective eureka moment after a mental struggle.
When I open Authy I have a button on the top that toggles from a large text list view and the large icon view.
We live in an age of inversion. Many things are the opposite of what makes sense.

- You have to interview, and prove you're worthy, to become a slave

- You have to pay to look at ads (ever been to a movie theater, or sat in a plane with screens in front of you?)

- You have to pay to get cancer (ever buy a cigarette?)

It's interesting, because the other way makes way more sense. If you're going to be a slave, you should get to pick where. You should be paid to look at ads. You should get paid to get cancer.
This exact thing happened to me today.

I applied for a Developer position back in the summer (not at Apple) and after a great phone interview I never heard back.

Today, more than 7 months later I got a call out of the blue saying the position was just advertised again and they were really disappointed I didn't apply (I didn't see it) apparently my resume was great and I scored really high on the phone interview (who knew?) so they've had me submit my resume today and have already started calling my references.

I'm very curious why it all fell in a heap 7 months ago, but I suspect internal politics or the budget dried up or some-such.
> Huh? They're competing just fine by keeping prices down, which is what most consumers look for first

I dispute that. If consumers looked to price first everyone reading this would be using a ChromeBook, but I imagine a sizable number are using MacBooks instead. A more generic example: some consumers will buy the cheapest possible clothing, but most consumers look to a reasonable compromise of price and quality.
Except if you're a pilot flying in low visibility. Then you trust the map, not the terrain (mainly as the terrain is invisible). VFR vs. IFR and all that.
For what it's worth, I recently left a position at Apple and I am the complete opposite of the "culture." Two key differences emerged in my reading of the author's process and my own, which I think boil down to differences between DevPub and where I worked, in what they call Internet Services in Cue's org. That's a pretty wide org, so there's vast gulfs even within, just based on the way the org was put together.

My culture screen was in-person, while I was being interviewed technically. Part of their process was getting to know me. I'm relaxed in interviews, joke around, and have a good time because at the end of the day, we need to like what we do. I find that this confidence has opened a lot of doors for me, but I do have to work very hard to project it given my internal strife. I often find that interviewers are more nervous than me, frankly, because as an industry we tend to toss people in a room who are themselves suffering from imposter syndrome and ask them to gauge someone they've never met with very little interview training. I was interviewing for one company on my third day.

I am the polar opposite of what I would consider to be someone who "fits Apple culture," in general, but it's worth remembering that there are vastly different cultures in different areas. I'm fat, I don't dress well, I'm largely unkempt if left to my own devices, I'm not a social butterfly -- put a soldering iron in my hand and I'll have a good time. I enjoy theoreticals about encryption and side channel attacks. I identify more with Woz than Jobs. Universally, across the board, every time I told someone I'm an engineer at Apple I got the look up and down and "you are?" in reply. I think people have an image of Apple that's formed from the typical customer and perhaps the retail folks; while that's true to an extent (what's served at Caffe Macs is an often great example, but you can find a kick-ass burger if you know which one to go to), I didn't find that Apple struck me as especially hipster or faux-cool or however you want to think of it. Again, maybe my area, but typical Web startup people generally break that way, so I would have expected Apple to reflect it, but no. That's neither here nor there and represents a very compartmentalized view. (I didn't work on Infinite Loop, and when I made journeys over there I got a different feeling, so that might be related.)

Just based on my own experience, I think team fit goes way over culture fit, and I don't think OP's experience sounds like a culture screen.

The other difference is that my process was practically a mirrored copy of Google's, with recruiter courting, technical screen by the recruiter, deeper screen by the #2 on the team, in person interviews. I interviewed for two different teams at Apple (one no-hired me, which was fun because then I was responsible for some of their stuff), and the process was nearly identical, except the no-hire team put a pair of people in the room and my accepting team put only one for each interview. At no point was FaceTime ever used. In fact, I wasn't aware that was a norm anywhere, but I admit that my purview was limited to my area.
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While I would love to work at Apple, I honestly don't think I want to work somewhere that isn't happy to see a picture of me holding a beer.

If they don't want my whole personality, they can't have my intelligence.

I refuse to turn myself into a "corporate robot" for the sake of a paycheck.
These goals don't have to be mutually exclusive. It would be a bit of a gamble for sure but if they had gone with Python3 they may have nudged the community to switch by the time the engine is ready for production some time in the future.
Nah, they'll probably wait a year first like last time. They know that too many people would just shift their pledge over to a steel version. It'd make waiting to release it pointless
> Only Mozilla has the power to attack you.

Ah, good to know, but still not good. The whole point of a secure password-storage mechanism should be that all they can do is delete passwords, not decrypt them.

> Also, if you think there's a security issue, maybe file it on Bugzilla before HN.

I took a look at Bugzilla, but it looked like a pain to sign up and I couldn't tell quickly where & how to file security issues vice bugs.

And to be honest, I was also a bit angry about how they completely removed the brilliant crypto they used to use. Given that they seem to think that this reduction in security is perfectly acceptable, I figured that publicity was more likely to effect change.
Walmart do say on their hiring page that they require a drug test unless prohibited by state law[1]. I would assume it applies to their subsidiaries as well. It seems rather unnecessary. I can sort of understand it for jobs that require security clearance or where there's a risk factor (a friend of mine had to do one when he took a tech job at a bank). I don't quite see Walmart fitting into that category though.

[1]: https://hiringcenter.walmartstores.com/OnlineHiringCenter/di...
Whether or not it sounded sincere, it was. I honestly find it an interesting question. I wonder why you are so sure in whatever answer you believe.
In some ways they have similarities with social dates, first dates. You can feel a bit nervous, might feel intimidated; did you say the right things, did you handle yourself well. Everyone says, be yourself. It's the same for job interviews, be yourself. Be prepared, show interest, don't be overconfident, etc.

And like first dates, you can do all the right things, etc. And you think things went well, but, you find out that there is no second date.
I've programmed with POSIX shared memory, and yes, that's the general idea.

A very important caveat is that the POSIX shared memory namespace is shared among all processes, so you need to wrap shm_open with a mkstemp()-style algorithm that generates a random name, opens with O_EXCL, and tries again if it fails. Unfortunately it's very easy to mess that up and introduce a security vulnerability.
Does this apply even if the spouse has their own independent H1? And they are the primary beneficiary of their husbands I 140?
Have a read of the original article. It questions that whole premise that losing salts is a problem. IMHO, the evidence in that area is limited and often contradictory.

The evidence in this whole field is pretty scant really. For example, most people think electrolytes help with exercise induced cramps, and yet the only thing with any evidence to support its use is actually pickle juice (!)[1][2]. There is very little evidence to show electrolytes help with cramping in trained athletes.

[1] http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/phys-ed-can-pickle-...

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19997012

[3] http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/nutrition/factsheets/hydration... (read "What causes cramp")
> they are sending the smallest possible ethernet ethernet frame at 84 bytes

It's impressive, but I can't see its application. Does that mean that it will scale well to many different types of traffic? Are there extremely low-latency applications that need these tiny frames and yet want to use 10GbE?

> If you're using more realist payload (eg. larger packets) you should be able to scale it further. eg 40Gbit

Yes, I would think so. I was able to saturate four 10GbE links simultaneously (using 9000 byte frames, among four separate CPU cores spanning two memory nodes). This was using ~2010 hardware using linux 2.6.27.
I agree that most companies get it wrong, but what is right? It seems like interviewing and recruiting is a field dominated by "sounds right, common sense" styles of thinking (like most HR) where there is no post-mortem of how well a candidate did in the next 6-24 months.

Even if you look at most MBA programs, the stuff on recruiting and interviewing aren't as research and evidence based as you would expect, and instead you just get spoon fed a bunch of best practices seemingly out of thin air.

I think programmers and technology companies in particular are very trend-following. For example, Microsoft decided to do some out-of-the-box questioning about circle manhole covers and suddenly tons of other companies had to have their own version. Google did CS algorithm questions, so everyone else had to have them also (even for jobs which use high level libraries like Java, C#, PHP, etc).
You'd think so. I think it just didn't pass a final filter.
What were the bad things about working at Apple? Why did you leave?
It could be that the process came down to a handful of equally desirable candidates, at which point luck plays a large role in deciding who gets the job.

Another factor I've heard considered in that situation; Does he/she have a lifestyle that can fit in this town? Windsurfers quickly change their minds about living in Anchorage, and next thing you know it's hiring time again.
Babies are Vuvuzelas
Show HN: Chrome plugin for wirefont
We often design in the browser - for the sake of visual design reviews and other higher level discussions we often need to "step back" on the realness of a design. We created this chrome extension to help solve this trivial problem using a redact font. Enjoy!

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breaking news! </sarcasm>

ok. what's moxie selling next?
I'd argue that it does account for that difference, just not in an immediately obvious way. Screen displays are an additive color model and print is a subtractive one; screens shine light at you, paper has light shined on it. This makes for a very different perceptual feel; (completely) black ink on white paper is way less "contrasty" than #000 text on an #FFF background. WCAG accessibility guidelines suggest a minimum contrast ratio of 7:1 luminosity -- #000 on #FFF is a 21:1 contrast ratio!

In practice, I think we'd be better off darkening the background a little and lightening the foreground just a touch; #333 text on #F8F8F8 background still "feels" like black and white, but (assuming you've chosen a reasonable text size) it'll be a lot easier to read if you're dealing with long-form text.
$AAPL ? Why not “Apple”?
They get it wrong because no one knows how to do it right. Actually...evaluating human knowledge and behavior into a bunch of 1 hour interview slots doesn't lead to much accurate information.
Yes, using such a manner of thinking, you ultimately arrive that you are born to die, and but live to suffer. It truly is a grim irony, isn't it?

Sometimes though, we say to ourselves we were born to live and suffer to live. The manner through which you justify your existence here on this Earth -- and how that relates to your work / play balance -- is nothing special to this age and never will be something special to an age. Its roots go too deep. We'll always be paying in some form to live or die.
Costco has something like 1% of the product selection that Walmart has.. let alone online purchases... Given, I tend to order a lot via Amazon, but no brick and mortar store comes close to the U.S. market penetration that Walmart has. Most of the population (mid-high 90's iirc) is within 5 miles of a Walmart.

Say what you will, but they're probably about the only shopping choice in competition with the likes of Amazon.
I was really really hoping this would be the background of the magic number file "magic", and the `file` command... oh well.

Completely different, but still a fun story.
I don't think we are at a privacy crossroad. I think the fork was taken some time ago and now it's just a matter of how fast and reckless we go, and just who is going to be doing the driving.
Just my experience, for every possible thing that you could do that could be related to accounting, you can find at least one accountant who will insist that it's illegal.
Your next step should be making it available through Slack in some way. Lots of teams would love to be able to figure out where to eat by typing /lunch and then all the team members can chime in with any restrictions.
If we're going to focus on money, which the Author did, Apple's revenue per full-time equivalent is $2.13 million. It's obvious that Apple didn't feel that he was going to be worth that.
I'd be annoyed too if I was subjected to the bureaucratic circle-jerk tech companies call interviews.
not really. I had a close contact part of the process who revealed this to me.
Most of the processing overhead is per-packet rather than per-byte so they're testing the worst-case scenario by minimizing the size of the packets and frames, thereby maximizing the number of packets and frames. It doesn't have much direct applicability, but it does mean that the optimizations will be sufficient to achieve wire speed for any traffic pattern.
Yeah, when I say I spend a lot of my day in meetings, I usually get a blank look, but it's an opportunity to riff and expand on what the environment is like at the company. For example, part of my job is to protect engineer's time. One reason I go to meetings to report status and collect relevant information to condense and pass on to the team.
Ask HN: Do you use gmail for work? (Yes/No)
Just answer "yes" or "no" in the comments. I'm curious because we are vetting both Microsoft Outlook and gmail apps.