skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're 26? I'm also 26. Like me, your friends are probably also out there graduating from med/law school, getting married turning into parents. I also have that gnawing feeling from the tick-tock in my mind, and my lack of success, but I'm slowly getting there. The best way for me to complete things is to just make a list on what I need to do to reach the goals I want and to just slowly cross things off. i.e. if i do this, I'll be able to do this next, otherwise if you just look at the big picture, it'll just seem impossible. There are always people who are going to be younger and better than us, and if you ask them most of them will attribute their success to two things: extraordinary luck & timing and gut-wrenching hard work.

Coincidentally this was on the imgur fp http://imgur.com/gallery/OLB8s and the comments are mostly of people who worked hard and did what they wanted, and in their eyes, they're the success they wanted themselves to be and that they just never gave up and kept working on what they wanted to be.
Are you showing it to anyone? Put it in your profile, for starters.
I'm impressed with Banjo and its ability to get me local news for our area. I've shown it several times to other developers when events were breaking locally and the most common reaction is to wonder how come they've never heard about the app?

I am disappointed that apparently they won't be updating the app as they chase the more lucrative corp clients.
> If some employers think people in protected classes are more likely to sue when let go (even if the employer did nothing wrong), they might be less likely to hire them in the first place.

If they are more likely to sue when they receive an adverse employment outcome (firing) why wouldn't they be more likely to sue when they receive an adverse employment outcome (not being hired), and, if the employer is actually discriminating, as you suggest, in hiring (but would be doing "nothing wrong" in firing), wouldn't the hiring discrimination pose a bigger risk than not discriminating, since they face the lawsuit risk with either adverse action, but a greater risk of losing the lawsuit in the situation where the facts will actually bear out that they are discriminating based on legally-prohibited criteria?
This is how I explain it to people: I can take a picture of you in public, but if I follow you around everywhere you are in public photographing you, it's stalking. There's a similar line somewhere for LE.
Who cares how well it does at predicting general intelligence? If we wanted to give people a test to figure out their intelligence we would give intelligence tests. If we are going to use it for college admissions it should predict how well one would do in college. It fails mightily at that job(correlation coefficient of .2 when compared against first year grades).

http://www.fairtest.org/sat-i-faulty-instrument-predicting-c...
I assume you are an xmonad dev? I use it and I really like it. Could I ask you to look into the focus/unfocus loop issue?
Ask HN: Having Trouble with Google Public DNS?
There seems to be something intermittently wrong with this since approx 7pm GMT 7th April - maybe a bit longer. I'm not seeing any announcements, but several others having similar issues - https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=google%20dns&src=typd . Doesn't seem to be geographically isolated; I'm in UK, seeing complaints about US ISPs as well. Anyone know what's going in?
You're right. I talk about this often. I'm going a little crazy, and maybe angry.
Agreed. Just separating concept from implementation.
I don't disagree with that solution, I just don't know how it would be implemented.

I seems like it is much easier to prove discrimination existed when firing vs. discrimination when hiring.

I think that instead of being focused on enforcement and punishments, we should be focused on eliminating discrimination by changing perceptions.
I remember one where the speaker demoed ... partial? indentation. Changing an L-value[1], shifted the R-values on each keystroke. Haskellers in the room slowly clapped. I was amazed (by both).

[1] If I may call it that way.
Yes, instead of wasting time on mindless social interactions with friends and family those young employees can devote themselves to something important like Facebook, which is a tool for... oh, never mind.
heads up, your math is a little buggy - 1% of $90b is $900m, not $90m
Hi all - happy to get feedback.

Also, someone added Mockbin on Docker: https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/tomdesinto/mockbin/
> and was, in fact, in the accelerating growth phase when it was deprecated years ago, and we essentially cut off new external usage.

Would you mind elaborating why it was shut down if it had accelerating usage? seems like a good reason to keep it going instead of shutting it down to the public...
I would recommend the Nightcode editor (https://sekao.net/nightcode/) for those running Windows as it comes with a integrated Leiningen and Clojure compiler. Installing Leiningen on Windows is a huge PITA as the install scripts are pretty flimsy and won't install properly on 64bit Windows, especially in a multi user environment.
I use AIX and Solaris pretty much all the time. The pain incurred from building open-source code on Solaris is nothing compared to getting things to work properly on AIX. The dbx quirks on AIX I run into are issues with it not even supporting the code output by IBM's own compiler because the team building AIX is completely separate from the compiler team in Toronto, which is again completely separate from the team that owns dbx. You can imagine what kind of issues you run into when the compiler team implements features that the debugger team has not considered.
People need to be careful about talking about Hadoop as just a map-reduce system.

It's YARN container system is flexible enough to run any JVM application. For example we use it to run an autoscaling ElasticSearch cluster alongside our Hadoop workloads. And we are actively investigating using it to run our Scala microservices.
Heh. She's selecting out anyone with ambition. Good luck with that, Ellen. It'll probably work out as well as your groundless lawsuit.
Private Companies Will Take Money Public Companies Don't Want
So, what if you want to fire someone because they're just really annoying to be around, and their coworkers are complaining that they hate coming to work and dealing with that person? (This is commonly euphemized as a "lack of culture fit.")

There's no actual productivity loss in such a case; there's just a bunch of unhappy coworkers who have one fewer reason to stay when a head-hunter approaches them.

This is basically why companies fight for at-will employment: they want the ability to fire people for what are essentially petty, yet still important reasons, without having to ever say that sort of thing out loud. Because, you know, any company that actually admitted that it did that would be tarred in the press—not for doing it, but for failing to be discreet about it.
Pretty cool seeing yet another CL implementation popping up from the past. In my opinion its absolutely essential for a programming language to have as many implementations as possible. Its really the only way to truly put the language standard to test.
How you guys think of Chapel? It compiles so slow.
FRACK! Fixing, now. Thanks :)
> a typical Linux kernel in less than 15 seconds on a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4.

Hah! In 2004 (last news) maybe, and I wonder which featureset.

In fact, it's been a long time since I've compiled the kernel myself [1]. I wonder how long a minimal kernel takes to build nowadays. Of course, I guess "minimal" is even more ambiguous today than it was back then...

[1] Back in the day, "recompile your kernel" was the Linux joke answer to problems the way "try turning it off and on again" was for Windows...
If it's using a self signed cert, it's as secure as HTTP, and should be treated a such.

That means your cookie shouldn't be sent. (And, optimally, the address bar becomes red.)

If you want to trust the self signed cert, you should be able to do so, and the optimal place for that is at an scary-looking icon on the same place the padlock would be.

Other features shouldn't depend only on the protocol used.
Perhaps it's a bit evil for me to suggest this, but I have the feeling that distributing that much wealth to so many employees in these super exits that they might not be inclined to work any longer.

If I were a 4th level worker at your company implementing some important but invisible part of the core product, and suddenly the kicker pool rewards me with a couple of million, I might seriously consider quitting. Who wants to be a middle class salaryman in (pretty shitty) San Francisco when they could be a comfortable upper class person in almost everywhere else in the world?

Imagine running Facebook, and 50% of your 3200 employees suddenly earns $2M (for perhaps 2 years of work). How will your company suffer if even 10% of those immediately quit their jobs?

That looks like a possible catastrophe to me. A simple solution would be to make the kicker pool a bonus pool that just pays out the due amount linearly over 5 years. No one will be thinking of leaving if they're going to be paid a bonus that's 3 times their salary for the next 5 years.
I really like your thinking here, however I'd point out that the converse could just as easily be argued as well. That by embracing things like religion, we're actually getting worse outcomes, and therefore we should not do it.
Ideas that you keep in your head and don't execute on are like brain crack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8
Yeah yeah, it's all good. We cool.

Show us your code.
Just when was the last time you typed the "https://" at the address bar of your browser (accessing a site that isn't yours)?

People just don't think this way. Well informed people (a small minority) will check the padlock after the site loads. Most people will use an HTTP site thinking it's secure.
I've always liked Mailman a lot, and prefer mailing lists to web forums, but we've just recently made the decision to not enable it by default in Virtualmin (for the past 12+ years, we've enabled it on every install and made it easy for non-privileged users to create new lists and such). But, when we recently assessed how many of our customers were actually using it vs the resources it requires, we can't justify it.

This new version doesn't alter the reality that very few website owners want mailing lists, anymore. But, it makes me want to start some new mailing lists (I don't currently maintain any Mailman mailing lists, though in the past I was wrangling dozens of them).

The UI looks great, and the new architectural changes sound great, too. It's long overdue, though.
True, but theres a difference between paid in-house training and being able to investigate problems on your own without constantly bothering everyone on the team to do your thinking.

The latter is a candidate I try to avoid like the plague.
Uber Is Winning Over Americans' Expense Accounts
Matt Levine with one of the most clever lines (as often) regarding the changing valuation dynamics:

"The public stock markets are increasingly about capital return rather than capital raising."
I don't see why it's so hard to just standardize on a formula for generating questions, rather than a static question.

There's a simple method of doing this that doesn't require hard AGI to generate the questions, either: just standardize on a list of the microskills the job requires. Then, get the interviewer to create a small question to test each microskill. Keep previous interviewers' questions together with the microskill in the list as examples for the next interviewer.
If you are in Firefox, you can also click the padlock icon, and click on the more information button.
1) The governors have powers that vary from zilch to equal to the President's. This is determined state-by-state.

2) You are mistaken if you believe all or even a substantial minority of the governors would ever agree with your views in this matter.
I doubt Mr. Takita is one of those. You seem to be the one out of touch, however. The vast majority of American blacks are opposed to the policies of the Ferguson Police Department, the Drug War, and the mass incarceration of black men. Violence is visited most upon this community, but it didn't arise spontaneously. It has been fostered for generations by openly racist legal policies.
BTW would really love to link to a particular annotation.
Thank you for explaining. Is it possible to misadjust the collar when installing, so as to accidentally defeat the safety interlock?

For instance, if you push in, then tighten down?
Longer. I had to switch back to my ISPs DNS.
> If I were a 4th level worker at your company...and suddenly the kicker pool rewards me with a couple of million, I might seriously consider quitting.

This is precisely why equity vests over time instead of being awarded as a one-time event, and generally why the best employees are given regular equity refreshers.

You could quit when you hit that $1m mark, but on the other hand, if you stay for another N years, you might make even more. That's the thinking they're trying out here.

If you're really worthwhile to the company, your progressive equity refreshers might even be superlinear -- so you stand to make significantly more than what you've already made as an incentive to stay.
Besides some math errors (I checked D'angelo's number and got about $348M "tax", not $23M; Zuckerberg's checked out though) -- I don't understand this:

"Although the model may seem fair on the onset, it can be criticized the same way we criticize a flat tax. Those at the threshold are "punished" the most."

It seems to me that because it's a "progressive" tax this criticism doesn't apply.

Edit: math checks out now, I think
I wouldn't mind an invite if someone has one to spare. Email is my username at gmail.
I may be misremembering the story or context, since I can't find it with an internet search at the moment.

There was an ancient Chinese general, who lost a battle. The punishment for failure was death. The punishment for mutiny was also death. The general learned of this, and lead his soldiers in a revolt.
I have theorized that allergies, such as cat allergies, may, in some cases, be your body's way of warning you that there are Big Cats in the vicinity and you should GTFO.
AF447 was flying in "alternate law" with limited (or maybe no) automation capability due to iced over airspeed pitot tubes. The aircraft did not know its speed and could not fly itself, or offer the anti-stall measures that would have normally prevented the confused pilot from stalling the flight from ~40k feet into the ocean.
I agree with this, but it also sort of risks being a self-fulfilling prophesy; everyone uses MPI because everyone uses MPI, and no one uses Chapel yet because no one uses Chapel yet. At some point, we who are willing to be early adopters need to just start.
if ( !b )
for ( var j in a )
this.style[j] = a[j];
else
this.style[a] = b;

I really dis-liked having unnecessary braces. This… unfortunate… style preference plagued us for quite a while and caused all sorts of avoidable logic errors.

I really wish this kind of coding was removed completely from some languages.
UPDATED: The first version had an incredibly big math error early in my post which ruined the calculation. Honestly, the error ended up to be about 10% but it was egregious to say 1% of a 90 billion is $90M.

Thanks to @p45c41 (on Twitter) and many others here for telling me simultaneously.
UPDATED: The first version had an incredibly bad math error early in my math which ruined the calculation. Honestly, the error ended up to be about 10% but it was egregious to say 1% of a 90 billion is $90M.

Thanks to @p45c41 (on Twitter) and many others here for telling me simultaneously.
Whatever justice is, it cannot be the vengeful, racist, wealth-centered system we have now. Nor can it possibly be found in the the mind of anyone prone to uttering the phrase "fuck this guy".

Whatever justice is, it cannot be forfeiting our own empathy and humanity.
Your job should never overwhelm your ability to do something important with the rest of your life.
I can't tell if you're kidding.

And I don't really care what logs are kept, because any such log is one dodgy programmer, one bribed sysadmin, one lost private key away from being totally or partially compromised.

The system we have works and would require the complete and flawless cooperation of thousands of conspirators -- including mutually hostile, cross-checking party officials -- to subvert the outcomes.
I recall a similar one where a work party for the Great Wall was delayed, and delay was punishable by death, so the leader of the work party led them on a successful revolt instead, and became emperor.
Still just as bad tbh, you still need to click through every annotation.
All you know is this person is a woman and was pregnant.

Imagine a man who was recently discovered he had cancer was fired.

That sucks.

But it doesn't make sense to automatically assume the cancer is why he was let go. Sure, maybe the employer is shitty, or maybe he was just a shitty employee.
You are conflating taxation with indentured servitude.

The U.S. government has supported taxation from day 1, including for the purposes of funding collective welfare, e.g. collective self-defense. Current citizens pay for the democratic decisions of past generations all the time. Even if you don't drive, you pay taxes to support road and bridge maintenance. This is not "indentured servitude". It is how a democratic society functions.

How much do we owe? Answer: it is determined through a democratic decision-making process that weighs costs and benefits to our society.

Case in point: This very forum would likely not exist without the aforementioned expansion of government. DARPA and government funding for high-tech research to the tune of billions of dollars has been instrumental in the birth and evolution of Silicon Valley, and continues today (e.g. Siri, self-driving cars).
European nations should be compared to European nations. American nations should be compared to American nations. Actually just a glance at your wikipedia page makes this clear: different continents simply have different murder rates. I feel this phenomenon is rooted in historical colonization.
I built https://notedcode.com a while ago. It sets comments in any repo on GitHub or Bitbucket alongside the original source, and allows you to add and share further annotations, keeping them alongside the right section of code even when the code changes.
Interesting. How interesting that this happens right after Obama signs a couple of controversial cyber-crime/hacking executive orders, Russia apparently hacks the White House (if you can even call exploiting stupidity a hack).

The biggest joke of the story is this part:

"Experts told CNN the hack spread from the State Department to the White House through a phishing email sent from a State Department email address."

Seriously? You hire people, give them security clearance and yet they're opening up emails with suspicious attachments? What's next, we are going to hear of White House staff being scammed by Nigerian 419 scams? How does this even happen? If you're going to hire people (at the White House of all places), make sure they have an above beginner level of using a computer. This is the kind of thing I'd expect my dad or grandmother to fall for because they're not tech savvy, not someone in the White House.

As usual, you can spend millions on security programs, scrape and retain metadata, you can even read emails of other people but the weakest link no matter what level of security or care you have taken is and always will be people.

If the White House can't even protect themselves, how can we trust the NSA and whatever other government departments are trawling our data and storing it won't fall prey to the same attacks? Seems a lot of people that work in the political architecture have been around before computers became mainstream.

I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist nut, but isn't it convenient the Patriot Act is up for renewal on June the 1st? The White House conveniently just gets hacked a few months out? Maybe it is a coincidence, I don't know. I want to see logs, I want to actual proof this was Russia and not the Chinese or whomever can pull off a move of this magnitude.
There are tons of people in SF and the valley who work even though they have enough money to retire right now. If this was a big problem, we would have found out about it years ago.
Ask HN: What's the actual trends in research for AI?
What are the actual challenges in research for Artificial Intelligence and Applied AI ? Is there some common trends ?
Bobby Holley on Mozilla and the Open Web
"This definitely happened at Groupon - and by the time it was happening, it was too late to fix."

When is it "too late" to set this up? Does it have to be set up around the time initial shares are allocated (a/k/a company incorporation)?
I think it might be worth adding C-x C-c to the list of shortcuts, since people would like to know how to get out of the application once launching it. C-g is labeled as quit, which might be confusing to a beginner.
Further clarification: that depends on your election as an LLC. You can elect to be taxed as a corporation as an LLC, in which case the taxation will not be pass-through as a disregarded entity or partnership, and you'll need to file the normal 1120 corporate return.

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ...
> “You’re sneezing to protect yourself. The fact that you don’t like the sneezing, that’s tough luck,” he said, with a slight shrug. “Evolution doesn’t care how you feel.”

Well, as somebody that has allergic asthma, I've had episodes so severe that I thought I was going to die and I ended up in ER about 3 times. Then due to a 1 year treatment with Symbicort, my asthma is now in control and I haven't had episodes or felt the need for treatment in years. However asthma can always come back and it is something you leave with.

Allergic asthma is also correlated with heart problems, like for example I suffer from supraventricular tachycardia from time to time and treatment for one has a negative impact on the other - broncho-dilators or corticosteroids are known to produce tachycardia episodes as side-effects.

Therefore I have a hard time not thinking about my asthma as being a disease and the only reason I can have a normal life right now is due to modern medication that wasn't available 15 years ago.
The Ground-Based Midcourse Defense.

With a <=50% success rate in intercept tests over the last 10 tests, that claim of confidence is surely unfounded.
Monty Python’s Killer Rabbit in Medieval Manuscripts
Actually they could just start with all the drug incarcerations. Not only do those crimes have no plausible victims, but the eventual verdict of posterity on the entire practice of drug prohibition is pretty clear even now. Why wouldn't any politician want to get on the right side of that?
The first link describes it as "D news aggregator, newsgroup client, web newsreader and IRC bot." I don't see anything about mailing list. And at first, I thought the D part meant that was customized to be just for the D project's uses. But thinking about it, it sounds like it's because it was written in D?
I've conducted a lot of interviews. In my 23 yr career I've done on avg 10 a year. Early last year I was in Yahoo's hiring war-room and did more than I care to remember.

All that to say; I'd love to conduct a few mock interviews with you. My contact info is in my profile.

Do it. Contact me. Seriously.

Edit: this offer extends to anyone that wants help. I am a front-end engineer so that means you'll get more mileage out of me for JS, CSS, and HTML; but I am totally willing to help with the subjective side to interviewing as well.