skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest that if you're going in through the non-technical person, you're taking the wrong approach.

For many companies, you can determine who you might be working with or working for from the job description, title, etc. Then with a little bit of googling and/or LinkedIn exploration, find some of the relevant people. Even if you can only get to a potential coworker, it's a start.

Drop them a note saying "I'm interested in position X but I want to know more about the role and/or find the proper person to talk to. Do you have any suggestions?" or if you're remotely connected to them at all, cut to the chase with "I don't want to get caught in the HR blackhole. Who should I talk to?"

Most of the tech people out there will understand and often agree with that reasoning and either give you a name, offer to pass along your resume yourself, or - worse case - ignore you. But before they'll pass you along, they'll probably google you to make sure you're not a recruiter and/or scammer.
but most people I know that are against the war basically want to smoke more and more pot and/or Libertarians

Downvote because of the implication that an idea expounded by libertarians is, ipso facto, a bad idea. Our political discourse needs minds considerably more open than that.
If you think you can learn from a book there is something in England called "books on prescription". Here's a list of the books they carry:

http://www.overcoming.co.uk/single.htm?ipg=6320

(That page makes strong claims for efficacy and I'm not sure they can justify the strength of those claim. Still, some people find these books useful.)
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It might be a byproduct outside the US, but it certainly isn't one inside the US, which is the point of my comment.
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Apart from https://gnu.io/social/ and http://pump.io/ which have already been mentioned, I have a soft spot for https://project.jappix.com/features and https://movim.eu/en because of their use of XMPP pubsub which I believe to be the ideal infrastructure for decentralized microblogging. But for lack of large entities pouring tides of promotion money into them, they all have small populations.
Tinder for Guinea Pigs: generate startup descriptions
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> You're only doing yourself a disservice by catering to organizations with crappy hiring practices. Good luck!

I'm a CTO of a multi million pound firm now. But it did work for me very well when I was just a developer. I wouldn't be so quick to write it off.

Some of the big firms I've worked for absolutely did get hundreds of applications each day for jobs, especially ones aimed at graduates. They can afford to take the risk of missing a good candidate because they had T-SQL, but not SQL.
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China stocks is crazying in these days
It sounds like at least a dozen people showed up. So if the four guests were banned from AirBNB, that means this group can do this 3 times before they need to get more friends to put their names on the rentals.
"well-rounded" CAN mean being good at two or three things, it doesn't mean that everyone should attempt to be a polymath.

Also, the point of being "well-rounded" wasn't to excel at all activities, but by not totally subsuming yourself in one activity you might achieve a broader perspective about experiencing life.

Considering the question in the OP, it is funny you brought up Einstein, Musk, and Jobs in your reply.
agreed it would help a lot, the R word is the best way to quickly scan....
Do we have a proper source? We really shouldn't go on any number mentioned in Wikipedia unless it is comprehensive and well sourced.

Following news over the past few years, just by the number of mentions in the media over that time, the distinct impression I have it that it is more than one.

This article, from 2005 says that hundreds of people have been taken (from the streets) since a couple years prior. (http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-12-27-ci...)
> It might be worth the time to do it right.

The right way is the most simple way for your use case. For files under 5GB, this is one of the right ways.
That is why its critical to properly size the system. With the right size loop it works well. Also if you figure an ambient air temperature of 80-100 you can raise the dirt temp a lot before its as warm as the air.
One interesting point in review is that she is finding the function for sending heartbeat of small sketches useful. I think these were dismissed as more or less useless demo stuff right after the launch by some journalists.

Now when I think more, the sketches could be actually quite nice quick and discreet way of communicating with close friends. Quite quickly you would probably come up with simple symbols for various things.

Here could be a network effect that would help Apple sell more watches. Get an Apple Watch or you are excluded from the communications.
They tested it twice, it worked twice. Maybe we can drop the pseudo prefix soon. That would be great, isn't it?

We thought before that heavier than air things can't fly, but the damn experimenters didn't listen and actually built something that did fly.
Improving OpenStreetMap with probe data
You guys do know about git-extras do you?

The other day, I used git 1.7 on an old server and I also thought somebody did something wrong when it said there were differences between origin/branch and branch but there weren't any. But on modern git this should be good.
Parent appears to not have actually read the article. FFS, there's a bold heading halfway down: "Let's Encrypt is not a complete solution either"
That's actually pretty awesome.
most printers/routers/copiers offer HTTPS from what I've seen. Sometimes it's on by default, usually not. They just use self-generated, self-signed certificates. There are problems with that, but CPU power isnt one of them.
Another related step from the Chromium developers:

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...
The grandparent shouldn't have deleted the comment. It highlights a nuance that isn't often explored while ruffling some feathers.

So, why didn't we go nuke Saudi Arabia? A: It would not have accomplished anything. Morality is absent from the decision making process when it comes to warfare. If killing a million Saudis were the answer, they'd be dead.

Technology has made it possible (or necessary) for non nation-state actors to levy something very similar to war against nation-states.

In the case of a nation-state in the industrial and post-industrial age, the approach is straightforward -- you engage the enemy in the field AND destroy his ability to make war. The US Civil War was the dress-rehearsal for this, and WW1 explored the limits of what could be done before the innovations of the 20th century were fully baked.

Today, you can't have total war, because tools exist to permanently execute a total war -- nuclear weapons. So we fight in the fringes by arming various individuals and engaging in an evolved form of guerrilla warfare.

I think that history will conclude that the last decade and a half has been a process of the ultimate, seemingly omni-potent superpower figuring out how to scale down its war machine down as low as the individual actor.
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I don't think you use the same gasoline as the rest of the planet if that's your experience.
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Looks like it was edited on the sly:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
You vote. If you don't like the way other people are voting, change their minds. If you can't change their minds then you lost fairly.

Throwing people in jail over things that were repeatedly ruled legal and done in good faith is not something that we do in the United States, and is not a can of worms you want to open.

The unfortunate truth is that the great majority of Americans are NOT ignorant. They are aware that we were torturing people. Most of them either support what happened or just don't really care that much about it. If that bothers you, try to change it.
Not the grandparent, but I'll share my reasoning via an alternate universe:

Imagine if e-mail was owned by HP. (In this alternate universe, someone at Digital invented it. Digital > Compaq > HP) All email accounts are created at hp.com, everyone's email address is janedoe@hp.com, or bobspizza4344@hp.com, etc. If you pay $240 a year for Enterprise E-mail®, then you can customize the domain name, but hp.com still handles all the sending, receiving, and storage. You don't have a say in that.

Other companies have their own versions of "E-mail", variously called "MS Mail Plus for Windows Live 365™" or "iMail™", but you can't send message between them, so they're only used for niche internal communications. Everyone has an account at hp.com. You have to if you want to talk to anybody.

Some people tried to make an e-mail client once, but HP revoked their API key, so it doesn't work anymore. You have to use HP's e-mail client.

This is how Twitter is (and instant messaging as well, which is a shame. I thought XMPP was going to be our savior in that front, but Google saw to that). For me it's not so much a moral issue, but a practical one. E-mail is vastly better because it's open and interoperable. The WWW is way better than AOL and Prodigy and Compuserve were.
I'm saying the laws need to be changed because it doesn't protect anyone. Better to just make it legal and work to protect us in other ways.
I wasn't sure about publishing, but now that I did I'm glad it's out there.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-the-greatest-sho...
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>If that's the case, then just don't say silly generalizations like

The context of our conversation was video games. No koan, maxim or quote contains the unquestionable logical truth in all applications.

Ultimately your video game restriction might not even matter. If the kid goes through any kind of teenage rebellion from your strict rules, that will be a "bad" wisdom gaining experience itself. The only real choice you might be making is whether to deal with confrontation in small doses or in one major flame out.
China stock market = casino

invest only what you are not afraid to lose
It descends from the external choice operator in CSP, which offers a choice of events to the environment and lets any one of them happen (=~ accepting input on one of a number of channels, but CSP's semantics are a bit different from a typical PL).
Massive cuts proposed to NASA earth science budget draw protest
Acumatica reveals content pack for Microsoft BI at conference
You need to poll many frequencies at once, very quickly, in order to make a missile that can respond fast enough.

Maybe it's possible with a very wide SDR, but I've not seen one where it was.
unfortunately peaceful demonstration will not change a thing. Remember Occupy WS? How have their efforts transformed anything in the banking sector?

The only way US citizens can bring change is by boycotting their system (e.g. stop paying your taxes all at once). Guess the challenge is in how to motivate the masses. As a collective we are cowards. And people simply don't care as long as they don't directly feel affected. The only way any of this will improve is if it first gets worse for the average Joe. Unfortunately by then it will be too late and the situation will have so badly deteriorated that they only solution is to burn everything to the ground before starting fresh. (if this sounds radical just look at other political systems throughout history which required transformation. It is never peaceful.)

What is even worse is that the world has always looked to the US as some kind of role-model. And we now continue to have rotten people in rotten governments or previously good people in good governments getting away with abusing their powers.

The only way to solve this imo is to support systems and countries undermining the petro-dollar. Saying this makes you a terrorist though. Saddam Hussein set out in this directions and failed. The Russians and Iran are trying the same. Crazy world we live in where we have to look for the bad guys in hope for getting the good guys back on track.
The great irony of the Information Age is nothing will be remembered.
The EFF is not an unbiased source of information. They have an agenda and they are not afraid to embellish their stories to support it. They're have been quite a few posts on HN calling out this behavior over the past few months on EFF threads.

2. Sorry about the link... Must have copied it wrong. This should be the right link:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2503140

3. I'm not sure what you mean by "slang" - could you give an example in my post.
Why Expectant Mothers Can Just Chill Out
Recruiting in a buyer's market
So... WTF is 'kek'?
Sadly it's in C#.
> Tobacco is probably the worst drug ever consumed by man, considering amount of death and suffering it causes...

That is only because tobacco is much more widespread than meth, crack, and opium. The dangers of tobacco get inflated almost as much the dangers of other drugs get deflated.
Neither. They were implying that in the case of a 180 the President is a puppet.
> 5. Late-2018: Show a warning for http sites.

Honest question: Why would I show a warning for a http-only site which only displays photos from my latest vacation? (assuming said photos are hosted on my blog). Or random thoughts of mine about tramway-spotting? (again, assuming said rumblings happen on my blog)

IMHO this kills a large portion of the open-web.
I was really into that too. Until I realized what he was describing was App.net, which definitely did not work out.
The Secret Mountain Our Spies Will Hide in When Washington Is Destroyed
The parent comment was very specific about saying "legally in the US" and "American streets".

This is simply not the case, there are not hundreds of extraordinary renditions that started with a kidnapping on US soil.

But sure, let's all get outraged about a blatant misunderstanding of reality, instead of discussing the still outrageous reality.
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Authoritarian government.
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DoD investment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9448807

The DoD has had a problem with Twitter where they will not onboard to information sharing programs and will not censor certain types of Twitter content. Other partners, such as Facebook and Google, have been very complicit with the DoD. Twitter is willing to delete accounts, but shadowbanning content and dropping content has made them uncomfortable over the years.
None of the apps suggested actually help learn to think logically like you do when programming. There is ONE app I found that does just that and nothing more.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kodable/id577673067?mt=8

Kodable. It's free but more importantly, it teaches kids about loops and sequencing commands - things you do on a day to day basis while programming (unless you're a functional programmer haha).
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That is one problem I have with these "sharing" platforms, there currently are very poor systems for vetting sharers. AirBnB could really do a better job of investigating the backgrounds of potential renters and restrict rental access to only the people on the original AirBnB rental agreement.
A simple mathematical approach to designing mechanical invisibility cloaks
The Watsi Experiment