skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't believe all the comments saying pretty much what you said.

How much bloody staff do you need to take a peek at the securities kept at a fund's bank account? We aren't talking "complex" stuff like rating agencies putting AAA ratings on junk (and BTW S&P was slapped on its wrist with a >$1B fine over that after an investigation). We're talking about a guy with almost no staff who paid "returns on investments" from his pool of investments.

The sum of the securities he'd keep would thus fall far behind the number following from his reports. Not noticing can only result from not checking. Not checking that much after multiple warnings results from defunding?! Perhaps, if there was just the janitor left and all the regulators were fired. Was that the case?

(You know what could be a probable cause other than incompetence or taking bribes? A desire to be employed by a Wall Street firm after resigning as a regulator, and a belief that it wouldn't work out if Madoff were checked and found clean, or even if checked and found guilty. But is it more than a convoluted bribe?)
I don't know if the poor interview can really prove discrimination. Yes the conditions sound like they were awful (I mean, coding exercise over the phone? wtf), but based on my experience interviewing at Google is pretty terrible, regardless of your age. How is he gonna prove that he was treated unfairly when it is well known that Google interviewers are terrible?

To be clear, I do believe that there is a significant bias against older folks in tech. I have witnessed it when I was trying to hire a 50+ year old guy and encountered strong resistance from my supervisor.
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Yeah but if the password is for an account that doesn't have any access, who cares? I guess some kind of privilege escalation would be news, but that's a separate vulnerability.
If you'd like further bait your creeping nausea, do a little research on Holocracy...

"Adopting Holacracy isn't cheap or easy. The system has its own set of rules and lingo, and is complicated to implement. The Holacracy parent company, HolacracyOne, helps companies transition by offering consulting services that run from $50,000 to $500,000, depending on how long it takes to achieve self-sufficiency. Even for much smaller companies, like Medium, which implemented Holacracy when it was just a couple dozen people in 2012, the journey takes multiple years and has a steep learning curve.

Holacracy was invented by Brian Robertson, a 35-year-old former programmer with barely any management experience. He created Holacracy in 2007 because he had a "burning sense that there has to be a better way to work together," he said in an interview with Fast Company. Robertson, who describes himself as a coding savant, says he taught himself to program at age 6..."
Have been using this in production for about 4 months now, still has a lot of quirks to iron out, but nothing you can't solve pretty fast. It's noticeably (and obviously) less mature than bootstrap, but it's definitely worth a shot. I quite recommend it.
I'd be keen to use something like this as an offline library. Is there anything similar that exists out there for auto-detecting data formatting and structure, but as a library instead?
Very cool! I could see the music player being pretty useful but the animation seems to be off when you toggle it opened/closed; almost like the icons are being overlaid on each other. That cirle wheel nav with submenus is so cool though. Very neat!
It seems like you build off the comments of issues, parsing for the :+1:, you could functionally provide the same tooling, but in the same additive way that waffle.io does.
I wonder how the table reacts when pushed from the side. It is supposed to be fine to put pressure on -- they say you can stand on it -- but what happens when you drag the table?
Well, thanks for raising these issues.

1. I admit the website is light on details. I guess the tagline and copy didn't entice you at all. Do you buy/sell things though services like craigslist? You just may not be the target demographic.

2. I use mailchimp for the email signups. Youre welcome to use a temp email service if you like, but they might block some.

3. the sign up form might might need a copy change: sign up for the waitlist.
Who made this? I want to know who I'm giving mad respect to. :)
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The thumb + 1 scares me, it makes me think I am going to like it on Facebook, and that I am somehow connected. Even though I know it's not.
I think it's more of a proof of concept than something you'd really want to throw on a site. Also, I'd say there could be some potential uses like for a music player or for a site that's less app and more website.
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Huh, neat. I'd seen @classmethod a few times but wasn't sure what it did. I need to see if I can refactor some code now.
> The content owners would essentially have to implement their own content ID like system to find infringing content (which they already do to some extent), but rather than having hundreds of different stakeholders implement a hundred different systems (or the same system hundreds of times) externally, it's simply more efficient to centralize it at the point where the content is stored.

There's a big difference between the claim that content owners would do something similar anyway to provide a basis for DMCA takedown notices and that it is more efficient for Google to do it for them and the claim that it is legally mandatory for Google to do it.

> Also, if YouTube wants to make money, let's face it, they need content people really want, which is what the big content creators own. Pretty sure they have this content ID system to keep those folks happy.

There's also a big difference between the claim that it is beneficial to YouTube in terms of positive relations with people it wants to do business with and the claim that it is legally mandatory for them to do it.
> before sliding it thru

The US are still using magnet stripes?
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Was "echosystem" a typo? (Regardless, a brilliant portmanteau of "echo chamber" and "ecosystem" IMO)
We have these conversations regularly with our kids, they are very important. If you can actually get a lot of schools to go for this that would be amazing.

Is it only free for schools and teachers in Australia or everywhere?
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anentropic: I liked the effect of when a translation appearing as soon as they return. Not the most efficient decision I know! :D
Nice tool and concept dude.

But it doesn't seems to look properly at the meaning of content though.

I mean, I think it just finds the first presence of what the given pattern is and generates the result.

For example, I attempted this, with input data as date/time.

input data:

2015-09-15T09:15:17-05:00
1998-11-05T08:15:21-05:00
1999-01-03T04:33:30-05:00
2000-11-05T09:16:00-05:00

pattern:

09:15 on 09-15

result:

09:15 on 09-15
11:05 on 11-05
01:03 on 01-03
11:05 on 11-05

What I was expecting:

09:15 on 09-15
08:15 on 11-05
04:33 on 01-03
09:16 on 11-05

Although I helped it at certain level by using the same special character pattern the input data has.

And as I was afraid, it doesn't handle special characters, neither uses them in the process either, as @j2kun has mentioned in a comment.

But, it is promising at some point and have nice use cases too. :)
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We're not parsing GitHub comments ATM. That's a good idea though, but it would be difficult to track content. Maybe it's just simpler to track issues in one place and improvements in another?
If the candidate has knowledge relevant to the role he is applying, can you really conclude that much from those first 2 minutes?

Could you share on past interview experiences when you decided a candidate was not a fit from those first 2 minutes?

The problem with most interviews is that they fallback to a confirmation bias thing.
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As somebody who worked on SSDs here is my commentary:

1. Most of the recommendations are things that will have little to no benefit on any modern SSD because all of this is handled for you in the firmware. When SSD firmware is not perfectly optimizing your performance, it is doing so to extend the life of the drive. Take this with a grain of salt though since many SSD manufacturers use really bad code provided by the controller manufacturer (SandForce notably provided awful stock firmware).

2. SSD benchmarks commentary is mostly accurate - since performance is very motherboard chipset-dependent, we chose the best ones to publish. Can't really blame anyone, but it means that if you bought the drive you are incredibly unlikely to achieve identical performance.

3. "Benchmarks are hard". No, not really. I wrote most of the benchmarks we used for linux testing. The reason benchmarks could be considered difficult is because all of the internal benchmarks that are used were written in-house and not released to the public. Reviewers never really had the right tools.

4. Enterprise SSDs and Consumer SSDs are drastically different. If you want consistent high performance, get an enterprise PCI-X drive. NAND quality is the major difference... and good NAND is hard to find. Generally an enterprise SSD will also have a significantly faster controller, and on larger drives, will contain more than one controller to avoid straining resources.
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I suspect it's in the works. I don't know how reliant it is on Win32 APIs (probably awfully reliant), but some work to isolate those calls and attempt to bring POSIX into the fold could certainly be possible. I guess it's really a matter of getting developers on Mac to buy into using Visual Studio, which could be a challenge.
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And Linux, really.
"a personal touch"... towards the user this creates the impression that the service has human beings working hard to provide high-quality advice. Nevertheless, many requests will be answerable by a combination of natural language processing, machine learning, semantic and geo-search on openly accessible data such as OSM, and one to two minutes of random delay. Clever.
Guessing that the wrong way involves throwing the wooden tow truck at the 3 year old girl.
I agree with this comment and there's a lot of truth to this observation, except for one tiny nitpick: "buddy, you're out of market."

That depends on many factors, though...primarily the employer and what kind of work is done. For instance, Google has a huge C++ codebase that needs to be maintained. I guess it could be argued that even in C++, one needs to keep up with the C++11/C++14 curve, but I doubt that curve is as extreme or difficult to keep current on as, say, new developments in JavaScript.
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foldl' is a consistent and meaningful name. fold performs a fold without specifying an order[1], foldl folds from the left, and foldl' is a non-lazy version of of foldl.

1: fold :: (Foldable t,Monoid m) => t m -> m
In a "total war" there are no "civilians with no military value".

The UK Bomber Command in WW2 had a strategy of "area bombing" - which was basically to hit the centre of German cities because they were easy to find and to hit at night. There were lots of euphemisms used e.g. "dehousing" - but everyone knew that it was a policy of targeting civilians.

Of course, the UK was on the winning side, so no war crimes trials.
Just click the "Thumb down -1" then :-D Facebook denied it from us for so long, now's your time to take revenge :-)
Oh man, that movie was just horrible. And at least you have a sense of humor about how horrible it was, but I've face-palmed so many times when people ask me, as a Google employee, if that's how it really is to work there.
>if it's a US citizen who gets killed, but that US citizen has an Arab name, no apology is apparently needed

It helps if they are the son of a "senior talent-recruiter and motivator who was involved in planning terrorist operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki
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I prefer Axiom for its lightness: https://github.com/tsujigiri/axiom

...but that might just be because I built it.
No, what they found was that there was no correlation between doing well on brainteasers (like "How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane?") and job performance.
Is it me or this is very similar to the way zenhub.io [1] works?

Anyway, I recently also stumble upon a similar tool that enables voting for PR and even auto merges the code [2], which is not precisely the scope that feathub targets, but it is very useful and similar enough to worth mentioning it :p

[1] https://www.zenhub.io/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9351286
Presumably (and I have worked on devices like these, but not for Verifone) there is some sort of encryption going on.

I.E. some protocols I've worked with have had all sensitive data protected by ANSI X9.24 Appendix 1 (I think...) derived keys, or keys derived by various other standard means, such that being able to read the data stream is pretty irrelevant.
but you are assuming that everyone has the same sensibility.

It's like swearing. By culture, I'm inclined to swear when something goes bad (i.e. hard to find bug), but I know some people don't like it, so I try not to do it around them, or around people whom I don't know well enough.

It's common courtesy, even if there is noone clamoring for it.
Clever, but I'm holding out for Roombots for my self-assembling furniture needs:

http://biorob.epfl.ch/roombots
NASA specifically wanted people right out of college to do operations so that they would not have to unlearn bad habits and since everyone would have to learn new skills for the moon landing to be successful.

http://history.nasa.gov/monograph14.pdf (see p. 17)
Yup, it's rather quaint at this point!
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Except.. War. So there you go. Catch 22.
Yeah, sounds ridiculous, but, well, I don't know, maybe it's on purpose… Like to get a feeling of how able is that person of communicating with his colleagues and explaining code without appropriate media at hand or whatever. It's debatable if this is really what interviewee should be tested for, but ideas about the best interviewing strategy and "what the team needs" diverge drastically, so I guess it's his business.

One more possible scenario: some manager thinks your team absolutely needs more people. You don't think so, because there's some limit on how many people are needed to change a light bulb. So you, in fact, actually aren't that interested in the candidate unless you see that he is perfect fit, somebody you just cannot lose only because you don't need more people right now. And I cannot judge you, it's, well, _OK_ to not to hire someone. Yeah, in the perfect world everybody is always polite and sincerely interested in others and so on, but c'mon, lets just allow people do their job and keep them away from all these political bullshit.
So you're saying the Nazi Holocaust and the U.S. invasion of Vietnam are equally onerous, because both involved destruction of crops?

That is comparing fundamentally different things based on a single non-essential concrete.

The most important point: Nazism was an evil fascist ideology that willfully killed millions. The United States has never been that way.

Secondarily, to give a concrete difference: The civillian death toll from Nazism was massively greater than the civillian death toll in Vietnam, even if you are extremely generous in figuring the latter (estimates range from 245,000 to 2 million, per Wikipedia).
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Thanks a lot for all the advise! Using a library at first seems like a good idea. And then go deeper into the material as I learn the the practicalities, rather than doing it the other way around.
The pattern of "Oh, sure, we're associated with that project" is a very dark one. "Contribute to something on GitHub off of GitHub" has been used by a number of hard-to-verify bitcoin tip sites, recruiter schemes, and shadier characters. I hope featurehub goes opt-in very soon so it can avoid a noisy argument like this one that made it to HN last October:

https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit/issues/127
One thing I've noticed about Material Design is that most of the examples of "best designs" have elements that are overlapping to some extent, but none of the frameworks that I see make it easy to have overlapping elements with defaults like grid layouts. I guess this isn't limited to just material design though. It seems like many times overlapping visual elements is a subtle indicator of a more professional design. Is there a solution to this problem using CSS (I mean, I know how to overlap elements, but ideally there would be something more structured or principled) or is it just doomed to be difficult?
If there are keys that secure the traffic between the terminal and the bank, is an MITM setup going to be of any use?
People seem to buy this idea of patents on FUD: "No one will invent things if they can't have a monopoly on their invention." But is that the case in reality? I'd like to see some empirical evidence that the amount of inventions goes down critically without patents.

Even if the number of inventions went down, there are always upsides. Less time and money wasted on litigation and better products for consumers.
I just played with it for a while and the German translations often were pretty bad ("Essen sie nicht, dass" for "Don't eat that!", when "Essen Sie das nicht!" or "Iss das nicht!" would be correct)
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in canada it is unusual to see cars with more than 300,000 km on them, so a vehicle with 176,000 km is more than half way to being really well used, not "really low" mileage.

I had a toyota land cruiser with 365,000km on rebuilt engine and 800,000 km on the body though.

Where do you live that 110k miles is low mileage? How many miles is a lot to you? How/why are people driving that much?
`Either a` is a functor, not Either. I agree with the rest of your point, though. Maybe might be a better example - similar in spirit to Either, but without requiring an application to get a functor.
This would be useful as npm module.
Thanks, I'd actually never seen that one.
I guess I did miss the point. English is not my first language and I may not have understood what he was trying to say. You're welcome to explain/rephrase.

My understanding was that he's complaining that this type of study has no value since "yes women have the same salary for the same job/qualification but they can't get the same job since there is a bias against them"; that's why I posted a link to a recent study showing that there is actually a very strong bias in favor of women.
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I've got a side project webapp I'd like to use to learn some Haskell. What is the most mainstream Rails-like web application framework out there? By Rails-like I mostly mean convention-over-configuration, with a strong ecosystem of plugins so I don't have to re-invent the wheel for auth, file uploads, etc. So far I've seen:

- Yesod

- Snap

- Happstack

- Scotty

- Spock

Right now I'm learning Yesod, but I don't feel confident that's really what I want. Which of these are closest to Rails? Which are closest to Sinatra?
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BootRacer tests are really inaccurate. The problem is that boot times are dependent on many things outside of the SSD, namely Chipset, drivers, and BIOS settings. Testing methodology for the manufacturer would be to disable all features in the BIOS for this test to try to reduce variables, which leads to unclear lower numbers.
Yes. We're just now transitioning to chips. My cards are gradually being replaced with chip cards, starting last year. In October of this year, new rules will come into effect that basically require all cards and terminals to use chips, by putting the liability for fraudulent magstrip transactions onto whatever party was responsible for not being able to use a chip. (In other words, merchants will foot the bill for fraud if they don't upgrade their terminals.)

We're taking our time, but we're finally moving there.

Edit: despite having chip cards, I've yet to be able to use the chip in the US. Many places now have chip-enabled terminals, but often not set up to use the chip part, and after a few failed attempts I just gave up on it.
If we picture the political landscape of acceptable war tactics as a battlefield on which "war hawks" (seeking primarily to maximize military efficacy) and "peacenicks" (seeking primarily to minimize collateral damage) fight each other, then the items 1-7 on your list represent entrenched warhawk fortifications while the 8th represents a recent and relatively undefended warhawk raiding party. The peacenicks are attacking it.

In this analogy, your argument is "the peacenicks aren't effectively fighting the warhawks because they are only attacking the raiding party rather than the entrenched defenses." I have an alternative theory: they're attacking the raiding party because doing so gives the best expected ROI.
This split was learnt from in Rust, and Rust has both the Debug class (which is the inverse of Read) and a Display typeclass for showing nice versions of things.
Here is the map link:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/33%C2%B030'52.5%22N+73%C2%...
I guess its time for us to put together "Open Ancestry".
Sounds a little bit like the theory behind some communist parties' organization. Instead of a strict hierarchy, with leadership titles like Chairman or President and such, there are functional working groups or committees ("circles") with possibly intersecting membership. Then people have functional roles in those committees. The idea being that you aren't at a certain "rank" in the organization, but rather you are doing something specific in a specific sub-group of it.

It does have the problem you mention, that the leadership in practice will often end up not very dynamic. There's no leader, but the "lead link" of some particularly important "circle" will de facto be the leader of the organization, even if their official title is only something like Secretary.
I mentally pronounce foldl' as "fold ell prime," and it never gives me any difficulty.
If one cannot win an argument without calling names or using slurs, perhaps one should revisit the premise of the argument.
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It sounds like you just did a bad job of reviewing that resume. The candidate almost certainly had valuable skills that probably just don't align with what you were looking for.

I also don't understand why you mentioned that she was a woman or what this has to do with the article in the first place.
Yes they do.
Evidence: http://i.imgur.com/WAqvAmv.png
They have rough edges, wrong aspect ration in small sizes and look nasty.
Meh, you know what - this is a bold move of Microsoft, and its quite compelling to see how they have embraced the platform-ology that must be embraced in mobile, these days. I applaud the effort.

But the tricky part of all of this is that so much of the mobile space is more common than people think. Glomming one platform on the other is sort of de-rigeur, in mobile - as it has (and still is and always will be) been on desktop, in the server space, and so on. Tricky thing: you can Run X on A if you use Y and A to make/build/run X. Got Y?

Microsoft: please port Visual Studio to all platforms, including my iPad, kthxbai..
Out of curiosity, which Google office location?