skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do they also have right to money already in my wallet?

what in the hell are you talking about? what rights? they're out to GET THEIRS just like everyone else, and they're more than happy to screw you over for it, as they should be. does that not sit well with you? boo fuckin' hoo.

like it or not, brown people are going to continue to come to the US and work/live here like they have for decades if not centuries. you can't stop it no matter how passive aggressive you get on the internet. they might even be smarter and/or harder working than you, which is a shock, i'm sure. and they sure as shit don't have to listen to your cockamamey ideas of staying in a shithole and "fixing" things they have no inclination or obligation to fix.

learn how to compete or die. in the real world nobody gives a shit what your skin color is or what your passport says. you just sound like a pathetic loser when you moan about people taking "your" stuff. if it wasn't them, it'd be someone else, most likely of your own skin color. this is America, land of opportunity, not the land of protectionist nativist crybabies.
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I'd say this is the key to reducing stress. Just expectations that you can easily meet on your terms. If you can't meet them, don't take them on and find another client you can satisfy. There certainly are clients and projects out there who are willing to deal with longer turn arounds in exchange for a lower price. And everyone is happy.
From part one[1] (which I'd recommend reading):

> Sometimes it will miss a number, as these phones aren’t 100% accurate, and there’s no way to know what you dialed, because there’s no screen. I know, how did we even manage to stay alive back then? If you botch a number, you’ll have to hang up and redial.

Does anyone remember this with rotary phones? I was pretty young when they were still in use, but I don't remember this being an issue.

[1]: http://www.stavros.io/posts/irotary-part-one/
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For some reason you think that mechanically bringing people from foreign country will level the playing field. This is far from truth. You need a large and diverse skillset to "pilot" a developed country (make advantage of its infrastructure, give back). Once you bring in millions of uneducated, unfamiliar and uncaring people, things go south.

You also lie to these people: you tell them that by leaving their communities they will land in developed paradise, but when they arrive they only see themself as 3rd sort, shunned by locals, without prospect of fruitful employment. Of course they'll radicalize.

If you are serious about wanting to make world better, you should implement something like american Green Card but on grand scale. Pre-select qualified applicants by testing (build emigration schools for them perhaps, where they learn how to live in developed countries), distribute entrance permits via lottery, shape their flow, monitor their destiny so you can at any moment prove they are happier than ever, don't hurt the receiving society and productive.

But this is obviously harder than "just opening the gates wide open" or "blaming for the lack of aforementioned".
Yeah, I wouldn't mess with that sort of current directly, especially when children are involved and the thing would be close to other things inside the house, plus remote switches are great because of their range. They can easily go tens of meters with a few walls between them.
It might sound mental, but if it works better than the alternatives... then how mental is it actually?

Thanks for the explanation. It's actually something I will try. I can't hurt to learn new things, can it?
Right. I understand those advantages. I was curious about the comparison of input parameters specifically.
The fileserver tier consists of pairs of Dell R720s
running in active/standby configuration. Each pair is
largely similar to the single pair of machines that the
old Pages infrastructure ran on.

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-r720/pd

Two Xeon E5-2600s per machine.
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We do have Fastly in front of *.github.io, but there's still a significant amount of traffic (on the order of thousands of requests per second throughout the day) that make it through to our own infrastructure.

We don't do any other caching on our own, although the other replies are correct in that the Linux kernel has its own filesystem cache which means not all requests end up hitting the SSD.
Summary about the market:

She "remains optimistic" while "growth rates for leaders... are slowing," and warning that global tech puiblic/private financings are now 17% above 1999 levels and "there are pockets of Internet company overvaluation but there are also pockets of undervaluation".
Sorry for the noob question, but could someone help me understand how this is (conceptual) possible?

I get that you can write a program which compiles language X to machine code, e.g. how python interpreting Go to write the assembly necessary would be technically possible.

My question is, how is the compiler generated? If it's written in c, gcc -o compiler, but what is the piece I'm missing when it comes to Go compiles a Go compiler -- or is this still done as "here's the machine code, now compile the Go runtime"?

I suppose my question is a similie to "the chicken or the egg?".
I have a feeling you're overwhelmed because you didn't do the proper work up front to ensure scope creep wouldn't happen, and that you'd always feel compensated for your work. A lot of freelancers publish guides for this type of work, and I think you should read one. Also make sure the contract/tax stuff is handled properly too! So you're not stressing next April.

Try reading this guys book, seems legit, maybe he offers strategies for handling scope creep and such:
http://texmexconsulting.com/

Then drink a beer, do some Yoga, and relax before the evenings work!
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Jára Cimrman is a Czech fictional character of a national giant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1ra_Cimrman

IMHO it wasn't auto-generated.
The Go project philosophy emphasizes simplicity of development over end-user usability.

Much like HackerNews website implementation, actually.
"and if you say that they should have protected the information, you are blaming the victim because you don't like them?"

If we only blamed Amazon in your example, then yes, we would only be blaming the victim.

How do we know they were "careless"?? They could have been using all of the correct security precautions and still got the data stolen.

It could have been an employee that installed malware because they fell for a phishing attack. Should they also be brought up on charges?

If my HN account gets compromised, should PG get brought up on charges? After all, he was supposed to protect my data, right?

Why aren't we even discussing the hackers that stole the data? Is it because they are supported here on HN?
I gotta say, IPFS looks nice. Thanks.
+1 on the Canada hack. Canada now has an "Express Entry" process for skilled workers that grants permanent residence in months 6 months or less.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/express/express-entry...

However, applying for a Work Permit is still rather cumbersome (which is typically the first step after the job offer and before Express Entry) I just went through this process with an employee. While there is no arbitrary quota, the process does take between 3-6 months.

But overall the path to citizenship is much shorter than in the US.

And Canada has public healthcare. So, no need to worry about healthcare while you're self employed.
112th KGS Computer Go Tournament
Eh, not every german (in the military at the time and civilians) was a nazi.
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You can use CloudFlare with flexible SSL in front of it and set up a page rule to redirect to HTTPS.
What I find shocking isn't only the level of play by machines, but also the number of techniques that can be applied to achieve it. Traditionally they were very domain knowledge based and now they tend to be hybrids. This for me really quantified how deep into the age of AI we're in. I never expected Go to be approched this quickly as the search space is so vast.

AyaMC (AyaBot 3d on KGS) was Aya[1] rewritten as a Monte Carlo simulation.

Many Faces of Go[2] (ManyFaces 2d on KGS) has been the strongest sold Go program which has transitioned to using Monte Carlo Tree Search.

NiceGo19N, was Detlef Schmicker's latest version of oakfoam, using a Convolutional Neural Network. The possibilty of using a CNN to play Go recently been described as promising, so it is good to see one such engine developed already. See this paper[3] for more information.

Hiratuka No Igo (aka HiraBot[4] 1d on KGS). I don't know its algorithm but its game invitation message is "15000 playouts per move".

[1] http://senseis.xmp.net/?Aya
[2] http://senseis.xmp.net/?TheManyFacesOfGo
[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6564
[4] http://senseis.xmp.net/?HiraBot
But does the GC run on the GC's own runtime data?

Can the GC be interrupted by itself if it takes too long or uses too much memory?

It seems like there are several things about the GC that would need to be special-cased, since the GC is implicitly invoked by the runtime.
People on Macrumors immediately saw stable WiFi connects and near-instantenous WiFi re-establishment speeds on laptop wakeup.

I wonder what led Apple to develop discoveryd in the first place. With such a project, it seems like there were some important issues to solve with mDNSResponder. Or is it just a mess of a code, peforming well but hard to maintain? Who knows. Maybe discoveryd isn't even dead yet, just in quarantine while they fix it...?
I built http://hackershelf.com just for this. It's a crowdsourced listing of legally free books on just about any topic.
This is probably an unsatisfying answer, but large tech companies (such as Google) generally want to conduct interviews in Java or C++. Python seems to be an outside option. So for that reason alone, you might want to learn java.

On the bright side, if that's what you're using Java for, you might not mind it so much. Academic-leaning data structures and algorithms problems don't require the heavy frameworks that got Java a bad reputation[1], nor do they deal with programming cultures that prefer method names that read like the first 5 chapter titles of the GOF design patterns book. If you need to write code to find a cycle in a linked list, or find the sub matrix with the largest sum, or find a sub tree in a BST, I don't think you'll find Java particularly onerous.

[1] I've heard things have improved considerably, and that Java frameworks are now much lighter than they were in the early days of spring, struts, and hibernate.
It's really rare, and it was more pronounced in the old phone, so it may have been a problem with the specific dial. The new phone has very very low error rates.
I agree, but I'm not married enough to the native client to be upset about it when there's a perfectly good mobile site waiting for me.

If they tank their native site, well, then they won't get to harvest any more data from me.
Just wanted to drop in and sing my praises of this service and team (WriteLatex/Overleaf). I am currently a grad student and have been using this for ~3 years and it is my absolute go-to for HW, resume, reports, project papers, etc. It is also simple to add collabs which makes it great for team projects too.

The new addition of conference/journal templates and integrated spell check is really opening it up to a broader audiences than just CS-centric users.

My friend (with very little coding experience) saw my resume and asked for help to craft his own. I sent him overleaf.com and a template and he was able to get started with LaTeX in their side-by-side environment and was able to add his own content very easily. I know without this service it would have been a headache setting up LaTeX for him locally and walking him through it, so props to the overleaf team for abstracting the tech this way.
> And one day I realized the stress of not having anywhere in my life that was 'not work' was really getting to me.

Same story for me. The extra money was for toys or some start-up down the road. Went home for the Christmas holiday one year, relaxed for the first time in a while and realized I wasn't enjoying the work anymore. After that I had a chat with the start-up I was helping out and eased out of the project. They were very understanding and we're still friends to this day.

Now I spend more time on side projects and lately my own start-up. Learned alot in the process and wouldn't trade it.
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doesn't sound different from the US.

People believe the unashamed media propaganda, few speak anything besides English, many can't afford to leave, people believe the evil east is out to get them. In the 80s the NSA kept out of politics for most part... But now the state is taken over by a miz of NSA and criminal corporate-military-financial entities.

Nationalism and borderline Fascism is the order of the day. We've been at continuous war for over 14 years.
On Linux, this is a simple addition to your ~/.Xmodmap:

keycode 66 = Mode_switch
keysym h = h H Left
keysym j = j J Down
keysym k = k K Up
keysym l = l L Right
keysym space = space space Return
keysym y = y Y BackSpace
keysym u = u U Next
keysym i = i I Prior
keysym o = o O Delete
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SmileNLP: yet another Java NLP library
You're not considering the situation where the candidate has a job already but is looking for a new one. Quitting your current job is a large commitment, and doing so for only a week trial period (where the odds are higher you'll be unemployed afterwords) is a pretty large risk.

That being said, for someone who is currently unemployed, putting job interviews on hold for a week is less of a risk
Yale president is the only example in the article that tops 2million per year.

And fun fact: private schools are corporations. School executives are corporate executives.

Headline is BS and article is boring disorganized listing of comp tidbits.
I have seen this first hand. Company A told me to complete a programming test, and only then they would talk to me further. Meanwhile, Company B gave me a solid job offer and I never got back to Company A.

I don't feel too bad about ditching Company A, because they have contacted me through recruiters a few times. It's always the same story. I complete their programming challenge (which is really easy, because it's always the same), submit it, then never hear anything back, not even an acknowledgement that they received my solution.
Having worked in both, I'm not sure I agree. I will agree that the incentives to skirt regulation seem higher in finance than in insurance, but my personal opinion (and I could be very wrong) is that is a result of the regulation not due to its lack.
Been there done that. Have a talk with the client NOW, and reset the expectations more realistically. You'll both be less stressed out.

Honest, frequent communication is the answer to this problem. A strong work ethic, ironically, just makes it worse.
The indictment is available here: https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/federal/nyed/370520/1-0.h...
>>> I have the luxury of telling people that, no, I won't take their 1) IQ test, 2) Personality Test, or 3) their Coding Challenges. Not everybody does, certainly.

I agree with this 100% and do the same thing.

If you need something that measures my ability, then go to my github page and go over the copious amounts of projects I have there and determine if my skill level is what you need for your company.

I had one interview where I had sent over a link to my github page. As soon as I sat down, I was given a large packet (it was about 20 pages) and asked to look at the code and figure out the bugs. Most of these were in Java and .Net. I reiterated I didn't work with either language and they told me to "just look at the examples and give it a try." I asked them if they had looked at my github page and reminded them I'm a front end developer. After they said, "Uhhh no, we didn't look at your examples." I stood up and told them, "Thank you gentlemen, but this interview is over. Thanks for wasting my time." and walked out.

I've also turned down "code challenges" that would eat up a week or so of my time. I've got a myriad of recruiters calling me for gigs, why would I waste a week working for free on your "code challenge"? I guess I'm at a point in my career where my work can speak for itself. I don't need to jump through a bunch of hoops to prove my abilities anymore.
Are you aware of the extensive US driven sanctions against Russia? We pressured the French to reneg on a hardware contracts with Russia, why would they not return the favor?
its pretty sad we live in a world where so many people like you wish to have overlords tell us what to do simply because some people have bad habits.
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Not every German in the Luftwaffe was a member of the NSDAP (aka, "a Nazi").
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I'm guessing the DOJ has something figured out.
interesting points, thank you.
Right, but the claim was that without the involvement of the US military, we'd have been better off. Which then means that either somebody else would have paid for a better GPS system, or that some other system would have been put up and operational by 2000. So, like I asked: which alternative system would have been ready by 2000 if not for the US military, or what other entity would have paid for GPS if not the US military?
“It appears that SourceForge took control of the 'GIMP for Windows' account”
A platitude is meaningless. GP is actually a true statement about using FaceBook.
Oh, I'm sure they knew what they were doing. They just don't care if it's a good idea for you. It's a great idea for them and their partners.
Someone used that code to make Tinfoil for Twitter as well https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mill_e.twi...
There's a lot of SaaS articles in an Enterprise selling article list. I'm curious how many SaaS products have broken the Enterprise market that people know of? And by Enterprise, I mean at least 6 figure annual price tag, not a few sales to 10 person teams that happen to work within an Enterprise. I guess Google for Work and Salesforce are two...
Hmm, where do you see this? I don't use Messenger, but many of my friends do, and I've never seen this. Is it only for Messenger-to-Messenger chats?
You still end up giving away your privacy just the same. I'm not sure how that's different.
feature and time management.

When working for others and developing software. You have to nail/bolt and anchor the features down. No changes! Or sure, you can make changes but have to drop other features Or you get paid extra for new requests AND still have the schedule stretched.
A minor nit-pick, most GPS chips will happily give out a position as a best-effort.

The actual accuracy of the measurement is given by the dilution of position (DOP), which does not appear to be in the data shown in the blog post.

This would undermine their ability to pin-point their location to within a meter, as the DOP could be very high; especially in areas with lots of tall buildings or other problematic environments.

From the comparisons, it looks like the author's GPS is getting a very low DOP (i.e. a good, clean signal from a constellation of >= 5 GPS satellites).

Either way -- still glad I don't use FaceBook, and an interesting find!
I'm curious, how does companies usually evaluate a github profile? and how important is that evaluation to the decision?

I ask this because I find many of the software engineers I follow on Twitter who work at major tech companies (github, twitter, google, etc) have a pretty sparse github profile.
Exactly right about .Net, just having Capitalized method names doesn't make it vastly different. There's an issue with the even Supreme court making decisions regarding technology. We may be in need of a more specialized ruling body that as an appreciation of the implications a decision.
And, you know, the organizations and companies that continue to work with them now that they KNOW that it is happening.
Most of those I see either:

1. Aren't static sites but are things like WordPress blogs running server-side PHP essentially unnecessarily.

2. Don't take down the server, but just hit the tiny bandwidth quota of some cheap shared hosting provider, so the host blocks it.
Teachers, bikers, and now FIFA - we have no problem throwing the hammer at these folks but the criminals that threaten the world economy get a free pass.
Why was the government involved in this case and on the side of patent trolls?
Then your argument degenerates. What you've said isn't factually incorrect, but it's boring; you've picked a property that no one can possibly prove or disprove (but that is obviously not true) and used that as an argument against the analytical method in general.

It's boring for two reasons; firstly because it doesn't allow you to make any decision at all based off it - it's the intellectual equivalent of sticking your head in the sand. Secondly, it's not a fact you need to know in order to judge success; there are many proxies for 'better/worse' which can be tested and quantified. These are widely used by big companies in order to optimise their workforces.

The reason that it's not really done in tech is simply because they're so much smaller, and so the benefit of someone spending the time on devising and performing such tests is lower.
Just use your two fingers to slightly zoom out one slide, and you won't have the address bar covering the headline after that.
I don't know what one you took, but the one I was told to take (and vociferously declined) was somebody's unscientific hack of the MMBI. You know, the test that tests for mental illness. No one's business. Sorry, you don't get to know how many friends I have (a question), if I have nagging doubts (a question), and so on. It doesn't matter if those are problem spots for me or not, it is the principle.

Also, that HR person is not a trained doctor. They have no business administering any kind of test of this type, and certainly have no business trying to interpret the results. It is just woo nonsense. Might as well try to do handwriting analysis, or read my tea leaves.

You are not allowed (in the states) to ask interview questions about health. Yet, somehow, the courts have found these 'personality' tests legal. I don't understand, but I will not participate. I don't take drugs, but I won't take a pee test either.*

* these results might vary depending on how close I am to foreclosure and how low my saving are. Principles are costly.
But the MAME developers are not distributing ROMs at all. Just because someone else is doing something illegal, doesn't mean they should too.