skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was that if everyone else is positive on the interviewee, it should be very hard for the single interviewer to 'scuttle' the interview. And if everyone else is negative on the candidate, this is irrelevant.
How is that stretching the definition at all? What definition do you suggest?
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I do beleive the author misspoke here. They already said 2048 bit public key.
Or just wait until they have a lot of books and then reject every return. Their purchase history would tell a compelling story for the credit card bank.
Reagent has cursors too, and the latest version is quite ok.
I'm curious on why logic of how scrolling should behave should not be in CSS. If the concerns are DOM = Data and CSS = presentation. JS would be Dynamic on either of those.

That is, if you can statically state your scroll points, it would seem that CSS would make sense for that.
As professionals, software engineers should be more supportive of each other regardless of their backgrounds. America has profited from some of the best international talent. That talent deserves to receive their fair share of rewards. That is the American spirit. Not unfettered self-centered greed. On the other hand, increasing the number of H1bs from the current number is pure corporate greed.

My opinion is that they should just speed up the green card process instead of increasing H1b numbers. A lot of hard working and honest immigrants keep waiting in their current jobs for their green card to get approved. In some cases, it takes 6-10 years to get a green card.

If these folks get some job mobility without jeopardizing their green card status, there will suddenly be enough mobile engineers and wages will rise very fast.
Well, on real rock often climbers do just grab or stand on whatever they can to advance. But it's still interesting because there is usually not much available. The complex route tagging in gyms is so they can simulate the relative lack of "holds" on real rock, while packing a lot of routes into a small space.

Keep with it but be careful--climbing is addictive. You might find yourself quitting your job and living out of a van in Colorado to climb every day...
Oh man! Comic was one of my very first DOS games, and still remains an inspiration to this day. I love how non-linear the environment was: even though the items had to be collected in order, you could actually peek at the later stages just by entering the doors at the start of the game.
I know I harp on the same topics over and over again, but they're relevant because the VCs are in bed with the Democrats. Just look at the Ellen Pao case - who was she not invited to dinner with? Al Gore. Who did the CEO of my last company advise on his presidential campaign? John Kerry. DeBlasio, a Democrat, just spent $10 million of New Yorker taxpayer money to train workers for tech companies, and Obama just spent $100 million of federal money to do the same. Meanwhile, the VCs start at $500k a year and get promoted to $3 million a year, now that Pao has aired out their dirty laundry in a high profile court case.

I can't help but feel that this may all be a new corporate structure where the financiers are still in charge, but instead of expectations for corporations to offer real benefits, career progression, R&D budgets, and training of entry level people, we have the perfect excuse to avoid all of that - "we're a startup, and we just can't afford it." I'm not sure it's as healthy as it sounds when you just romanticize entrepeneurship for it's own sake, especially when they make no qualms that taking investor money is part of the goal.
How do you tell a bogus review from a real one, except by having it actually read by a human? This would be pretty expensive.
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> I support the author and what the bank did is just absolutely wrong and outrageous, but I just want to clarify that this is not a freedom of speech issue.

I don't agree. In US terms, "Freedom of Speech" appears to be framed only in terms of the rights of someone relative to the government.

But in the UK, we don't have a first amendment, or even a written constitution. I would find it absolutely normal for someone to discuss freedom of speech issues about wider things than simply government overreach. In fact, the opposite is just as likely to be true: freedom of speech can be curtailed by things like private injunctions or the lack of space where it's safe to speak, which may be occuring due to lack of government action or regulation.

Freedom of Speech is a phrase that I've always thought has a wider application than it appears limited to in the US, where it seems mixed up with a lot of politics that don't appear anywhere else.

Anyway, just my opinion from the UK. I think this is very much something that can be discussed in terms of freedom of speech in the wider (non-US) sense, due to the power disparity of the actors being used (if true) to quash speech that would otherwise be freely available - and, given Greece is in Europe, I believe the author is right to frame it in those terms.
Which registrar are you? :)
There is no intended implication for intelligence behind the extremophile behavior of tardigrades. Merely that it is curious how such a characteristic would have arisen given the absence of the environmental conditions (seemingly) needed to precipitate such traits.
If your privacy is worth ~$100/year, you can register an anonymous LLC through a registered agent in a state like Wyoming or Nevada. This would be your legal point of contact for your domain registrations (and any other business purposes) and comply with any ICANN requirements. Their business entirely hinges on strong privacy/anonymity, and is well established within state law.
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Selling passports lends itself to abuse for at least 8 inherent structural reasons I outlined. Whether or not one intends it to be a grey/black business, it still is unlikely to decrease corruption...
It's always a cat and mouse game however. Once they employ machine learning, I'm assuming the spammers will adapt and create reviews that fool the algorithm(though at an increased initial cost).
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This seems the most likely explanation, but it is still extraordinary. Being able to survive in cold is one thing. But being able to survive being placed in liquid nitrogen for an extended period of time? That's incredible.
Not sure if the post author works for Tilt, but going to the Tilt website it looks like you can actually see the A/B test taking place.

If you click on the top left logo, a page will load and then a few milliseconds later it will change to something else.

Might want to look into that, its a bit jarring.
They would need to be a certain weight for the rocket they would ride on, be able to withstand radiation, generate power or install a different power source, be able to withstand various extreme temperatures, ensure it can "swim" in different oceans (Titan's ocean is not H2O). Not to mention they need to develop a way to deliver the sub to the water safely. I think there are lots of changes here.
When I search for "perl" on amazon, I don't see any of the spam books now, so it looks like the issue is clearing up. Whether that's due to attention from Amazon or the public, I don't know.
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Anecdotally, what you're saying simply isn't true on many counts. On my twice-weekly airport run, I usually ask the drivers what they think of Lyft and Uber. Their characterization of the relationship is diametrically opposed to what you wrote.

One of the benefits I hear most frequently mentioned is being able to simply shut off the app any time they like (while not actively carrying a passenger, of course). Drivers, in other words, have complete control over their working hours. In addition, drivers, not Uber/Lyft choose where to work: They can hang around the airport, downtown, or out in the suburbs.

Drivers are also not penalized for refusing individual fares--only for refusing greater than some threshold fraction of fares offered. Uber. Uber and Lyft do not prescribe the route a driver must follow, either. The app does offer a suggested route (which is not usually the best on Uber--maps in their driver app are notoriously poor), but the driver and passenger have the flexibility to use a different one.

This is how it works in practice, and frankly it seems to me that they are bona-fide contractors.
I general, I agree with you. But I am concerned about their long-term profitability. Assuming that what I've been told is correct and they are relying on VC funding to operate, what happens when it dries up? There are indeed revenue opportunities with large partners, but who knows if that will ever actually pan out? I'm also a little skeptical about their ability to work with a large partner. I was told recently by an employee at a large tech firm (please forgive my vagueness) that said tech firm looked into using GitHub internally. But GitHub Enterprise was not suitable (it doesn't scale), and GitHub was hostile to the idea of providing a solution that did scale. This technology company needed a solution like the one that github.com uses (since that obviously scales) except completely in-house (like GutHub Enterprise). And they probably would have paid a rather absurd amount of money for it. But GitHub said no.

I'm relating this story because it feels to me like GitHub's culture is such that they can't "play ball" with large companies that need custom solutions. Enterprise may be a fine product but it apparently is only suitable for small-to-medium businesses (I gather that it basically can only run on one server and so can't scale for a large deployment, though I haven't personally investigated the matter).

My fear is that, assuming they are relying on VC funding to operate, in 5 years they'll run out of money and start shopping around for some large company to acquire them.

Addendum: I really hope I'm wrong and that they are profitable. I want GitHub to stick around for a long time. Who knows, maybe they only took VC funding because they thought it was worth giving up a portion of the company in order to afford swanky new offices?
I thought maybe people were going for some link juice or something, but the way it's setup seems to completely negate that angle.
The Google Translate says ihre can mean:

their, her, theirs, hers

I took German long enough ago to trust Google better than my own memory... it was a minor nit before, now it's even minor-er.

Anyway, if it's Die Staatsanwaltschaft which the possessive applies to, that's a feminine noun anyway (in German nouns have either masculine, feminine, or neuter gender), so I think that ihre is used either because the noun is feminine or because the person being talked about is female. IANA grammatician.
No it's not. Gillianseed provided a direct quote from the police interview.

Did you just guess at this? Or do you have something to contradict the police interview (http://www.nnn.se/nordic/assange/docs/protocol.pdf, top of page 6)?
Have you read the entire article? They propose an explanation for this.
It is not just a sell. I build Neural Networks as part of some work I am doing, and the kinds of multi-layer deep networks that do the recognition just don't perform well on small devices. Also the best systems often have many different trained networks and specialized routing to find the best network for your accent, cadence, noise level, etc. Having all of these weights on your local device, running all the tests, running through any of the required preprocessing, and asking the network what the answer is, converting the results, etc. is going to be too much for your phone or low powered device. While there might be other reasons for them to send data to the cloud, to get the accuracy you really need beefy servers (potentially with GPU's or something more exotic like FPGA's), and potentially multiple servers working in concert.
Links: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/jobr-android-beta

http://jobrapp.com
That must be it. Water bears work their way into random conversations with her every once in a while. Narwhals too.
They have been around a while, and the an evolutionary mechanism that lets you survived to -100C (some of the temperature extremes speculated in the last glacial period) might "just work" all the way down to near absolute zero.

That said, I am surprised that no NFL team has picked the Tartigrade has their mascot/theme ("The Texas Tardigrades are victorious!" kinda rolls off the tongue and they the buggers are tough and hang in there, good qualities for a sports franchise)

But the more interesting bit for me, is that they would survive on Mars if there are underground aquifers of liquid water occasionally, and Ganymede or any other moon with liquid seas if the radiation didn't kill them. Which I find interesting that we already have a 'proof of concept' of life that could be living off planet, now we need to figure out if it is actually out there.
Adding adware to gzipped and signed source code would be a bit hard. That's the onl;y thing the authors serve from sourceforge.net.
It may be a deliberate move to allow one later to expand into advice about men for women without charging the brand name.
I'd say it's more likely that this is a complex problem, and will take a bit of time and computing power to work through...

Amazon has hundreds of thousands of products with tens of millions of reviews... correlating that with log history for each review will take a lot of time... not just to run, but to write any automated process, and work through resolving it.

It seems to me that Amazon seems to be pretty responsive when bot reviews are pointed out, and that may be, or at least have been a more effective strategy... But looking at an article a few days ago regarding twitter bot nets, and even seeing them try to draw me in... it's a very large problem all around.

Bad people will do bad things... as will misguided people. The bigger issue is the false positives... we've all read the horror stories of when a legitimate domain gets screwed by (insert popular domain registrar here) because of incorrect reportiong/reaction... or when a business' google apps is offline, and nobody can be reached at google... it happens.

In the case mentioned in TFA... it's probably prudent to ban the publisher in question. In others, the case may well be different.
I saw this URL submitted twice yesterday, both of them receiving large amounts of upvotes but then deleted after they failed to make the front page.

Note that deleting then resubmitting is against HN rules.
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alright, let's look at the U-6 over time then:

http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/u3-and-u6-unemployme...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/82908801/Unemployment-and-Underemp...

http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate_u6.jsp?f...

As is now hopefully obvious: 11% is a pretty normal number for U-6 (especially given the current U-3), and the only reason you think that's high is because you're used to hearing U-3. Which, of course, is why economists chose to focus on one number over time in the first place. Keep your conspiracy theories out of this, please.
Probably depends on what you mean by "volunteer". But, like many non-trivial OSS projects, some of the team members are supported in various ways (understanding employers, bounties, government grants, consulting gigs, etc.) specifically for their contributions to the project.
I always felt the absurdly easy methods of dying at the beginning of the games was useful for getting new users into the mindset of taking time to explore everywhere rather than just trying to sprint through the screens. It was early enough where you didn't lose all sorts of progress, but being forced to rewatch the intros and navigate the initial screens each time was a small enough punishment that you'd start to play the game more seriously to avoid that.
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For those who actually read the page, there's a github link, too: https://github.com/stargrave/govpn

I don't know why the original submitter submitted a sourceforge link; maybe it should be replaced with a github link.
As a counterexample, see the poor display quality of the iPad Mini compared to Amazon's offering. Apple bloggers were speculating that Apple simply couldn't manufacture enough of the good displays at their scale, whereas Amazon had no such problem.
> But I just don't see the economics of this

It goes beyond basic economics, so it's worth reading and learning about.

> adding hundreds of thousands of people

"Unfortunately", those people already exist and have skills, just in other places, where they happened to have been born. If you create bad enough policies, companies can and will go where the workers are.

Also, this is not a zero sum game. There are more people and workers than 100 years ago, and yet... wages haven't cratered.

> I feel my concerns should be for the future of the young people around me

What is the radius of 'around you'? Your city? State? Country? Why are those people more important than those that happen to be born elsewhere?

When did your ancestors come to the US? Why should people now not have the same rights they did?

I'll post my link again: http://journal.dedasys.com/2014/12/29/people-places-and-jobs...
> carve out a new niche of high end consumer electronics

Yes! That's the concept I was looking for! In a few years we'll look back at this segment like we look back at the iPhone today: We didn't know it could exist, yet at was a vast blue ocean. However I wonder whether Apple nails it properly and what are the key pillars: If you started a gold electronic movement, wouldn't you auction and number the first series? "This watch, kid, was the 1000th ever made by Apple. I own a very particular moment in History. Look, in that series they hadn't even designed the Digital Crown to its final form." Isn't the current Apple Watch missing a bit of storytelling? Is 5 or 10 videos about the factory enough?
You mean like how entire industries were created after being bitten by IE's XMLHttpRequest?
>But what life, in some form, demonstrates is that it is possible, in some place very far away, there are living beings as advanced or more than we are. I would really love to be alive to meet them.

Assuming that they are benign and non threatening but I wouldn't take my chances. I dont hope for this.
I haven't personally used it, but I've heard nothing but good things about SoftEther:

https://www.softether.org/

It supports SSL VPN to boot.
Expensive or not, Amazon has an obligation to make sure their review system has high integrity and is not "gamed" or no one will trust Amazon reviews anymore.
Warning, dirty, dirty, quick hack idea ahead... to use it for voice interface alone with all thinking and actions done by some other computer or machine(s). Encode commands for the other computer as sound files which that computer can listen for. Using just a few, easy to bandpass-filter tones in the sound files, one can encode a great many commands that are easy for the actual automation machine(s) to distinguish. (One bit of beauty here to this hack is that, it doesn't even have to be a single automation computer hooked to everything, little embedded systems throughout the house can each listen for just the commands they need to worry about.)

Then one says "Echo, play 'Start my heating'". The Echo plays what it thinks is a short song named 'Start my heating' by that band "My Hacked Home Controls" which you seem to like so much, which goes "beep beep boop whisle click", and the other machine(s) hears that easy to interpret command and does what you want. If you need information back, have the(a) machine put that information into a "Results" sound file and add/overwrite it to the command/music library which the Echo can see and play from, then tell the Echo to play that file for you to hear. You say, "Echo play 'Backups Status'" and it plays the voice you assigned to your backup monitor telling you whatever.

Basically, the Echo becomes a translation droid between you and the computer(s) that you have deeper/more control of. And as a bonus, depending on how you encode the commands into sounds, you might be able to learn some of the more common whistle sequences from your translation droid, and just do them yourself.
Reviews that all mention the same book, or even have little or no content, and have the same rating are suspicious and easily detectable by a trivial scan and compare against existing reviews. A harder problem is when the bogus review content becomes more "clever" (e.g. random rating differences, "entropy" in the content e.g. by misspellings, etc.).
It's worth noting, particularly given where the story occurred, that this is a US-centric take on what "Freedom of Speech" means, and really doesn't generalize well.
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In this case, the positive fake reviews are for verified purchases of ebooks that are relatively cheap... I'd suggest reviews from accounts more than 2 years old, with over 5 reviews, and more than $500 spent would probably be a better baseline for training.
I dunno, have you looked into the human suspended animation with sulphur? A layperson could say: "wow, it's amazing the humans adapted to go into suspended animation when exposed to the cold and an atmosphere of sulphur!" It's not really something we adapted to, it's just another accident of our biology. https://www.ted.com/talks/mark_roth_suspended_animation

All life is a hack! All organisms are just pushing the minimum code change to get a leg up on everything else. Loopholes are everywhere.
Probably apply ML techniques. Similar to how spam is classified - build a classifier that determines the likelihood of a review being bogus, then flag it for human review if it exceeds a certain threshold.
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The Hn front page is pretty broken at this point. It's hard to get onto it without a concerted voting effort as we see here (although it can still happen).
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> you wouldn't fuck with casinos, or the mob.

Why wouldn't I, from the other side of the world, from the wifi connection of a coffee shop on the other side of town, bounced through a couple VPNs? It's one thing if I have to walk inside the casino, but the internet isn't like that.
Well, if rat feces appeared in the soup because rats chewed their way to the kitchen through the wall from neighbour's basement and you like this restaurant for their quality service and food, then I think you'd like to accept such coupon after they fixed up that hole in a wall and dropped rat poison into the cellar.
This is hardly the worst of what some of the new "standard" CSS3 properties looks like. Those MS properties actually look sane in comparison to recent CSS3 properties.
But a bunch of players could get together and decide to play the game however they want, right? If people are upset there are no "rare" cards to play, whey not create a league where certain proxy cards are legal?
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It's not just pattern matching -- it's also ADTs and the functional paradigm. (e.g. in Python, functools.partial is uglier than OCaml's application, just as working with dictionaries is uglier in OCaml than Python)

Do those Python libraries offer type safety? I don't think there is any way they can. If not, you might as well use OCaml.

As I said, Python is my favorite language, but there is no reason to write OCaml in Python or even shell scripts in Python. Why not use the real thing? The Python code still won't be shorter than OCaml, even if you use these fancy libraries.