skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The vast majority of the recruiter spam I get, as a female, is front end web development or UI/UX work.

I'm transgender, and I can tell you that I got that kind of spam both before and after I transitioned. In fact, most recruiter spam I've ever gotten is wholly irrelevant to my skills.

You're getting that spam because the positions are in high demand, so there are a lot of them, and recruiters will spam all their positions to every single email address in their database.

They just plain have no respect for other human beings. Half the recruiter spam I get uses my old name, even though I legally changed it almost a year ago and changed it on my resume (which I posted to all job sites) a few months before that. I also list on every job site that I cannot relocate and I'm only seeking full-time work. Most of the recruiter spam I get is for positions out of town and for contract jobs. They never get it. I've written scathing emails to recruiters lambasting them for suggesting I uproot my life and move out of state for a shitty 6-month contract. I usually don't get a reply.

One recruiter took the cake. He emailed me about one such position, then called me the next day after I ignored his email, and I told him I wasn't interested in any contract work and that I don't ever want to do business with him. A few days later, he emails me again about the same position. I replied with a Cease & Desist notice making it clear that he is to have no contact with me from now on, and then he calls me again to try and convince me to take the job. I spent the next few minutes shouting at him and berating him for harassment. I planned to contact his firm's HR department about his conduct, but I never got around to it, sadly.
I'm really digging this. Thanks for sharing!
> It was so strange to be in an environment with people having I.Q.'s below 150 and where it wasn't necessary to study 12, 13, 14 hours a day, seven days a week just to keep up.

Is this true? Seems crazy, how do you stand doing this for ~5 years?
There's a good comment down-thread about 20% time. You don't have to say "go and do whatever you want." It can be about "non-billable" R&D. Perhaps this developer sees an issue, or a potential optimization, or even a new product or service, but never has time to develop it. This arrangement allows both of you to get what you want.

As far as "special treatment" goes, why not extend this to all the leads? It seems reasonable to have these folks pushing the technical boundaries for the company.
you do not, you never put something like this in writing. it can and will come back to hurt you.

what a3n said.
Researchers find same RSA encryption key used 28,000 times
but "Mister" is not "Man" even my girlfriend doesn't mind being called "Miss" or "Ms", she might take exception to "Misses".. but I don't think anybody assumes at her age anyway.
It may or may not be obvious from this blog post that Matthew has a cooking hobby that would take over his life if he let it.

(Hi Matthew!)
>All developers are equal

In which case let them leave and replace them with another equal developer. Though I am confused as to why you call them one of your best and yet say all developers are equal.
Ha, zork is on there. Nice.
Scala: Where it came from, Where it's going
I was reacting to TeMPOraL in that way because it felt like there was some kind of entitlement for the data.

Public entities ow the data to nobody and especially not to companies.

For sure, it would be great if city administrations and public entities did have some kind of API but the overhead would be just too big to justify the cost.

Having commercial partners for those APIs would be one way to fund it but I don't think that it would be a sustainable model world-wide.
Yes, this assumption is correct. React is used to render SVG.
Launchingnext
I'm going to go a step beyond and say that the real problem is that your company is in trouble. You say below that you have suspended 20% time for ONE YEAR until your product is where you want it to be.

Going by that alone, it sounds like there are serious problems. A year is a LONG time in development world. If I knew I was going to be working on one product for a year--and clearly that product was having problems, I'd look for another job too.
> I think the (rightfully) hostile attitude helps others realize just how bad things were/are.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has labeled makers of the OpenBSD operating system a "bunch of masturbating monkeys,"

http://news.cnet.com/Torvalds-attacks-IT-industry-security-c...

I completely understand what he was talking about now.
nativism
Antebellum Data Journalism: How Big Data Busted Abe Lincoln
This. I've just left a company I've worked with for a long time in a lead developer role, because they started saying how to do everything as if my opinion didn't matter at all. There were even cases where I've said that a particular feature is not going to work if I implement it in the way they want and I went ahead to propose an alternative, but the manager just told me to do it that way. 2 weeks later I had to start again when they finally saw that it's not going to work that way and the manager just repeated my proposal and he even had the nerve to say it was his idea...
I feel like the writer doesn't fully understand how deep some of the flaws in our educational system can run. Take, for example, the section on collaboration which hints only at educator behavior influencing students to exclude others. There are so many other factors that would cause a child to segregate and organize themselves into cliques, and as much as our educators may impact the social structure of the students, the behaviors of parents, guardians, caretakers, and other adults in a student's life play just as important a role in their development, especially if students spend more time with them than their teachers. This issue extends beyond the scope of our education system and is not easily remedied through changes in the institution. Some of these habits may not be fixable.

This isn't to say the article doesn't raise good points, especially that elementary and early school years should focus more on developing social skills than academic ones. However it fails to assess how varied children can be in terms of background, home life, opportunity, and development. Would it be fair to assess a student to whom English is a second language on the same scale as one that grew up in an English speaking country? Can we compare a student on the autistic spectrum with a socially and verbally mature student? The author makes these topics seem simpler than they actually are, and that hurts the message that they're trying to get across.
Show HN: Boost C++ libraries becomes first-class citizen on Android
We've started regular regression testing of Boost C++ libraries on Android. You can see results on official Boost page (develop branch): http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/summary.html or on our site: https://boost.crystax.net/develop/developer/summary.html.

It became real with help of our project CrystaX NDK (https://www.crystax.net/android/ndk) - fully free and open source toolkit for native development for Android. Main goal of the project is providing tools, libraries and development environment - as much convenient and conforming to C, C++, POSIX and other standards as possible.

Currently, we have some amount of fails caused partly by bugs of Boost itself, partly by bugs in CrystaX NDK. We're asking peoples interested in Boost-on-Android to help us, reviewing fails and, in case the fail caused by bug in CrystaX NDK - report us (https://tracker.crystax.net/projects/ndk). We're doing it too, of course, but the more peoples do it - the better for both Boost and CrystaX NDK.

Also, we have included prebuilt Boost 1.57.0 into our latest release (10.1), so no more problems with building Boost on your own and fighting with problems of the build process (especially hard to do that on Windows). Using Boost on Android becomes as easy as possible: https://www.crystax.net/en/blog/2, https://www.crystax.net/en/blog/3.

CrystaX NDK already provide very good ground for many projects (having such complicate project as Boost working with CrystaX NDK really prove that), providing much more standard (C, C++, POSIX) behaviour of underlying libraries than Google's Android NDK, but we want to do more. We're strongly aim to continue development and absolutely sure we could make CrystaX NDK to be base for convenient native development for Android - providing base for any languages, frameworks and libraries currently available on other POSIX platforms.
It's amazing the difference real buttons make. I feel like mobile gaming will always be seriously limited by that.
For me, the title initially read as Google Now being open sourced, and I was eager to read about such a bold but strange move on Google's part. As soon as I started reading the article and realized it was about opening up the API, I lost all interest.

I mean, I do get how good it is that they are opening up the API for third parties, but I was really hoping to read about Google turning around from their recent anti-open-source/anti-open-platform moves and back towards embracing open source again. Oh well.
Have you considered letting him have input into what interesting-to-work-on technologies get added to upcoming products? I'm not saying that's the best way to decide what product to make, but you could consider it at least as a source of ideas.
Slight exaggeration on the IQ, less so on the amount of work.

Source: 2nd year undergrad sitting in MIT lecture now, running on 3 hours of sleep.
Ask HN: Should I leave my Job for Ippon USA?
Let me lay it all out there:

TL;DR: I have two great offers, have unofficially accepted both (accepted Ippon, then agreed to stay at my current employer). I am feeling regret for my decision and want to go back and commit to Ippon despite some uncertainty and lack of stability in the future. I'm about to turn 26 and don't have dependents to support. Ippon has encouraged me to ask them any questions I have to get me to join them, despite declining their offer last night. What do I do?

The details:

(Coming in next post)

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So, some questions/statements:

1. I know I'm literally the worst person on the planet. I have two awesome companies fighting over me and I am struggling with this decision.
2. My gut is telling me to join Ippon but my brain says I've already committed to my current employer. Do I have any wriggle room here? Am I being insane not listening to my gut?
3. What sort of questions should I be asking of my employer and of Ippon to help with this situation? I am looking for confidence and solidarity in my decision, and despite both these companies fighting for me, I'm having trouble finding it.

Thank you so much for your help!
How Colleges Flunk Mental Health (2014)
Yeah, my parents always told me "hard work" was the answer but that's only half of the story.
Yeah, do they ship to Europe?
Detroit mental health services achieved a zero suicide rate among their patient population -- a group with higher than normal rates of suicide.

http://www.henryford.com/body.cfm?id=46335&action=detail&ref...

If they can do it then a university can definitely do it.

I do understand the sentiment behind "zero is the aim, but pragmatically we can't stop all suicides", but that attitude allows people to die.

Even if we do accept that we can't stop every death by suicide we can say that the rate is currently far too high.

As one example: People have mentioned deaths from tall buildings. Research shows that you can reduce suicide rates by restricting access to means and methods, so better access[1] controls to rooftops, with anti-suicide fencing, and suicide-prevention telephone number signs, will reduce the numbers of people dying by suicide.
This article seems to be flame-bait for the standardized test world, rather than pointers on how to direct children.

e.g. "If only our standardized tests measured this amorphous thing!" rather than "Here are tips for promoting [inquiry] in children".

Looking at BG's comments show the article's content is ignored and instead is people blasting their opinion of the current state of educational reform.
I prefer to describe myself as a girl. It's the female version of "guy".

"Woman" is stuffy and formal, and it makes me feel old. When I hear the word "woman", I think either Hillary Clinton or somebody's grandma, neither of which I have any desire to be.

I only use the word "woman" in formal contexts.
There's a newer edition available which has been published recently:

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033677.do
IBM Introduces Twitter-Fueled Data Services for Business
When people resign right after an announcement like that, no one needs to ask why. They are factoring in some attrition -- perhaps they might even want some.
On a similar note, I recently found sdf.org, which provide a free UNIX system much in the 90s fashion. Includes text-based games, email, web, gopher, and real people. More or less, everything we used to have in college when the internet hadn't still arrived in our homes.

I recommend everybody to try it and donate to the cause (I did, otherwise I wouldn't preach). It's amazing that systems like this are still around; probably because it's so niche that the maintenance is manageable by a small team.

Nevertheless, it allowed me to experience again the awe of my first internet connections.
I think your best bet is to part ways with the developer on good terms. The problem you don't seem to see is your company's culture. There have been several good suggestions in this thread (20% time, flexible hours, mentoring, etc), but you haven't been receptive to any of them.

You want your developer to stay there, but only on your terms. Your developer is saying that they need an interesting challenge, but you don't have any to give, and you've taken away a significant perk for the good of "the company." That's a big problem, and unless I miss my guess you're going to start losing other developers as well. A company is made up of people, and if your people aren't happy then they are going to go elsewhere.
Find out was his or her long-term goals are and what your developer truly wants. Maybe you can find a way to redefine your developer's role and responsibilities in a a sufficiently interesting fashion.

I have personally been in a situation where I quit from a company of similar size because I got bored. First of all, the work wasn't all that challenging on a technical level even though we got to work with the latest bleeding edge technologies. The second reason was a lack of room for career advancement due to a very flat hierarchy. The third reason was a lack of strategic vision for the company itself. Essentially, I was stuck in a dead end position with basically no input on the company's strategy. I did propose some ideas that were later successfully implemented by other companies but ignored or delayed by mine which was highly frustrating. So, in the end, their attempts to retain me (and even re-hire me a year later) failed. I actually liked the team, but the negatives outweighed the positives.

When thinking about this episode some years later, an idea came to me. What I really wanted was to have more input, more responsibilities and a way to fix the problems I saw on several levels of the company. What I should have asked for was a transfer to product management or possibly a dual role in PM and development. At the time our product managers were exclusively people with business backgrounds who often had problems understanding the technical details as well as possibilities and limitations. With my technical background I would have been able to help bridge that gap. I would have also had the management access and strategic input that I wanted and would have most likely been a more valuable asset in that position than as a pure developer. But I didn't think of this and neither did they.

The bottom line is that sometimes it can make sense to not only think vertically about possible career moves but also horizontally. You may not have a choice when it comes to losing your developer, but said developer may be even more valuable and happier in a new role.
They're used heavily in Linux device drivers, amongst other things - here's just one example:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/video/...
I didn't see in the supplementary materials, does anybody know if they are using a pressurized air or oxygen source to increase oxygen flow through the membrane?
edit: to repond to my own Q: they can use both pressurized oxygen and pressurized air. Using pressurized air decreases the dead zone but still very workable.
Angry Birds catapults its way to public tender trouble
Goodbye Internet Explorer, Web would not have been the same without you
Personally, I think people should be allowed to monopolize prime locations without having to pay a dime to anyone. It's only fair. They created the land. Before them, it didn't exist. But now that it does, it belongs to them forever and ever. Amen.
BitHound Announces Support for Bitbucket
Show HN: React+D3.js, learn how to build visualizations with React
I'm more interested in the new gaming system they're working on. Too bad it'll probably end up being another system few will buy.

I think for their mobile games to be successful they really need to provide a way to hook up a controller to a phone; mobile games sans controllers are limited in my opinion.
>So far Google Now has only been Google using up my battery to tell me that my way home, will still take me 20 minutes by car, despite me having exclusively used the subway since before I signed up for Google apps.

Suggestion:
Go into the google app on your phone, tap the menu button and tap Customize==>Everything else==>How do you Usually Get around? Set to Public Transit and save. Done.
I think that's almost undetectable.
CIA, FBI, NSA and all the king's men work to topple Brazilian President Rousseff
All the manifestations of AGI have not been imagined, and even ones that have like WBE refute your claims.

Even if you could somehow create a model precise enough to talk about information theory (define a symbol universe, map information to knowledge, itself a not-well defined term) it would not seem to be restrictive. Again, children take in a massive amount of sensory input.

Finally, the singularity hypothesis is that AGI could learn exponentially faster, not merely 10x. And again, WBEs don't need to learn at all.
>For example if a rape victim doesn't get a rape-kit done does that mean that after a few months you declare the rapist to have served their time whilst at-large

No, you declare that without any concrete evidence, there is no way to have a fair trial, and thus it is a waste to pursue the case. If some new form of evidence comes up, it gets written into law about its statute of limitations, and if the cold case is now within the statute of limitations, the new form of evidence can be used (but there cannot be any witness testimony or other evidence that is considered past the statute of limitations).

As it currently stands, we place far too much weight on eyewitness testimony years after the fact that results in innocent people going to prison.
I don't pretend that an argument from authority resolves this debate, but the fact that people like Stuart Russell take these arguments seriously implies that there's a bit more substance there than you're acknowledging.

To actually argue the point a little bit, the theory of expected-utility-maximizing agents is pretty much the framework in which all of mainstream AI research is situated. Yes, most current work is focused on tiny special cases, in limited domains, with a whole lot of tricks, hacks, and one-off implementations required to get decent results. You really do need a lot of specialized knowledge to be a successful researcher in deep learning, computer vision, probabilistic inference, robotics, etc. But almost all of that knowledge is ultimately in the service of trying to implement better and better approximations to optimal decision-theoretic agents. It's not an unreasonable question to ask, "what if this project succeeds?" (not at true optimality -- that's obviously excluded by computational hardness results -- but just at approximations that are as good or better than what the human brain does).

Do Nick Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky understand when you would use a tanh vs rectified linear nonlinearity in a deep network? Do they know the relative merits of extended vs unscented Kalman filters, MCMC vs variational inference, gradient descent vs BFGS? I don't know, but I'd guess largely not. Is it relevant to their arguments? Not really. You can do a lot of interesting and clarifying reasoning about the behavior of agents at the decision-theoretic level of abstraction, without cluttering the argument with details of current techniques that may or may not be relevant to the limitations of whatever we eventually build.
I agree with this. By opening with a diatribe on standardized tests, and focusing on assessing skills that are inherently difficult to assess, Engel moves the discussion from helping children to condemning our education system (it's bad, but this article shouldn't be about testing or schools at all).
That's good to know! It's so hard to tell, having only the direct experience of being a single gender in the industry, what is normal and what isn't. I try to stay away from it, but some days, it seems like I'm filtering all my experiences through Medium blog posts about gender inequality and tech-conference-horror-story-of-the-day BS.

I might have to go back to front end work if that's really the hot thing everyone's clamoring for these days... (kidding! I love what I'm doing right now).

It's always interesting to hear about transgendered experiences in the sciences and programming. We need more points of view with control groups! ;)
As much as I appreciate a lot of Google services, including Google Now when I lived for a while in Mountain View and it worked fairly well, my big issue is how I value my time.

I am fighting back a little on information + marketing material being pushed at me. I do some simple things that help: use GMail as a low priority email catch-all that I check just a few times a day; use a personal domain email address for friends and family that I check very frequently; I keep my cellphone turned off while with friends, hiking, coding, and writing.

I recently watched "The Zero Theorem" with my Brother. The scenes of people walking on the street having advertisements pushed at them makes for good science fiction but it is not the lifestyle I want.
Uture of Machine Learning, W. Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, Part 2
It's ok, he speaks in hyperbole sometimes, I do feel appreciated, and I feel like he appreciates my extracurriculars.

But I think we've demonstrated I can probably at least get free coffee with it, at this point. :) Cheers!
It's worth pointing out that the on-paper density of Manhattan is highly misleading. The daytime population of Manhattan on a weekday, including commuters and tourists, is 3.5-4 million people (versus about 1 million for San Francisco). The city is built to handle that amount of population, not the smaller resident-only population.

I was in Manhattan right after Sandy, when the trains were still not running, and it looked like a ghost town with just the 1.6 million residents there.
So Prime Minister can kill people for no punishment? Great developers have high salary, all other benefits are equal.
Sounds like you're the one that struggles with conversation.
I fail to see why any of this is relevant. The vice-president's party has been involved in corruption, so we should ignore the president and her party's own involvement in the biggest corruption scandals in the history of the country?

One of the organizers of the protests (definitely not the only one) is backed by a rich guy. So what? Does that make the claims of millions of Brazilians invalid? Are we all "the white elite"?