skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rest of your bizarre rant aside, this...

>> it is a /home/ built by North-Western European ancestors for the benefit of their progeny

... is historically ignorant.
When you say I stopped reading when then you make a judgment you also have to accept your idea is based on incomplete information.

Edit: Btw I upvoted because I believe we should all try to refrain from making judgments based on incomplete information, WHEN we have the data in front of us but decide not to go through it all. I do this a lot.
I think to some degree we agree. Caps are put in place to both ensure a profit to the carrier, as well as ensure availability to the users. If the Carrier did not need to make a profit, they could upgrade their infrastructure to be totally non blocking. Alternatively, if the Carrier needed to make a profit, but was okay providing degraded service, they could avoid upgrading infrastructure.

But, if they want to do both - Profit + good service, then caps are needed.

The competition, btw, is definitely fiber (See what happens to Comcast Service when a fiber competitor comes to town - it gets much better) and wireless (I haven't used a wireline carrier in singapore for 2+ months. All LTE, all the time.)

Regarding my limits - the nice things about Tier-1 ISPs (which Comcast is) - is that they don't pay for data use, as they engage in what is called "Settlement Free Peering" - what they do pay for is (roughly) Trenches + Vaults + Data Center Real Estate + Power + cooling + security + Chassis + Fiber + Interconnect Ports + Line-Cards. These are all a function of peak usage, not total usage. So - outside of peak-usage, which has reliable patterns of behavior, there is no costs to the ISP, or fellow users of the same resources, to your usage. Peak Usage may be as few as 4 hours/day, or 120 hours/month * 1 gigabit = 54 Terabytes. In a month, 1 gigabit could theoretically draw 324 Terabytes, so - that's 270 Terabytes off Peak + 10 Terabytes on Peak allowance = 280 Terabytes/month.

By doing just a bit of scheduling, you don't have to pay any extra, the ISPs network isn't overloaded, and you have a reasonable allowance of data to work with.

Of course, if they start selling 1 Gigabit Service, that's a lot of switch ports/chassis/routers/interconnects/etc/etc... they are going to have to upgrade to handle the new peaks.
That isn't what I said. I said the culture in Silicon Valley is not the same as the one in Ohio. I didn't say that Ohio is more diverse than Silicon Valley. In fact I said Silicon Valley has a diversity problem.

The problem is that people who study computer science are mostly white males, so the people qualified for the IT jobs are mostly white males. When a company tries to hire people it goes by resume first. You can't tell someone's race on a resume. Company get like 500+ resumes week for a position and have to find a way to screen out candidates based on resume. So usually they go by type of college or university degree, like bachelors or higher or degree from a local area college or university. Then throw the rest out. Problem is when they do that they also throw out people who are a minority or female as well without understanding that they are doing so. They also screen out by key words, type of company worked for, number of years of experience, etc. Most people they don't even bother to email or call back that they didn't get the job.
Not only that, they once funded the collider experiments at a physics laboratory where I worked when NSF had cut funding drastically, we're talking millions of dollars here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Relativistic_Heavy_Ion_Colli...

http://www0.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=21314
The most recent version of the course - http://www.cs.trinity.edu/About/The_Courses/cs2322/

They'll probably rewrite the CS department site eventually, but until then, it's a repository of all the information about J you can handle.
Atom, Electron and this are all based on Chromium so why would it be surprising? Change for the sake of change or masking that their heritage isn't Google's Chromium?
But if you're not evaluating the ones who fail, then what's the point of it? you're just grading for style points?

What I take away from your article is that being able to solve a FizzBuzz-style problem isn't correlated with being able to do a more intensive programming task later, which surprised me. What I take away from your comments here is that among people who were able to solve a FizzBuzz-style problem, some variety of style point scoring isn't correlated with being able to do a more intensive programming task, which... okay, that's totally plausible, and much less surprising/interesting.
> I get the feeling that Canada is changing its opinion of welcoming immigrants.

Well, our government is at any rate. As a Canadian by birth I don't know that I feel we (the citizenry) have had a lot of input into the matter. :/
You have expectations that HR cannot meet, unfortunately. As an outside recruiter, I try to eliminate all layers between the candidate and hiring manager (AKA the individual who will acknowledge and apprectiate your github work!). I'm sorry that's discouraging and frustrating, because it's unfair, but it will require more work on your part.
He was also part of the team that audited Lucifer an early precursor to DES, that Steven Levy mentions in his Crypto Wars book.
That's a good question. I had a hard time getting letters from my previous employers, so that part took the better part of a year. If you ignore that, I'd say 3 years? I was EB3 'other'. EB2 or EB1 category applicants from 'other' probably end up taking about a year. If you're unlucky enough to be in the India or China region, you're going to be waiting much, much longer than that though. EB3 India is probably more along the lines of 7-12 years.

Edit:

I think it's sort of important to note that I came to the US in 2010, which was a weird year for H1-Bs. The economy was bad, and I was able to file for an H1-B in August after I graduated. This lack of H1-Bs in 2010 probably resulted in fewer GC applications down the line as well, so your mileage may vary.
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I really like the author's analogy to a "communal sausage." Working at a company where our main backend is built on Rails / Ruby, security can always be a bit scary (though has gotten much better in recent history).

I'm fairly security ignorant, so maybe someone can enlighten me here, but why is the statement "traditional security tools aren’t effective" true? What kind of tools are we talking about? How would blackbox testing be different if the underlying software is changed?

I can definitely see how lower-level parts of the infrastructure would need to be tested differently, but I don't know what changes at the webapp-level.
Both Becker and Aaronson arrive at an interesting puzzle

> So the real question is not why the entropy is increasing, but why it was ever low to begin with

With regards to SapphireSun's question I am not a physicist either, but this seems to be a good place to start down the shape dynamics rabbit hole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwqkdvKHTlg
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> I totally see how this language and it's ecosystem are going to be the next big thing in programming.

I agree and it seems like 2015 has seen a substantial increase in interest in Haskell. The NY Haskell meetup group has seen a steadily increasing number of group joins this year. Both of the last two months have had a record number of new signups and have been more than double the median. I don't know what is causing the increased interest, but it's clearly not an isolated spike.
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The issue is it broadened it to a political instead of a judicial decision. Your citizenship can be revoked on the basis of a foreign country's conviction (say... Saudi Arabia perhaps?), which didn't used to be the case, and the decision happens from the office of PM.

Prior to C-24 there was a mechanism for stripping citizenship for treason and terrorism, but the bar was higher and at least potentially less political.
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You stopped reading too soon. If you'd read through, in Example 1 you'll find an explanation of why companies have an incentive to focus on credentialed engineers, and a footnote indicating that her willingness to source other kinds of candidates has caused problems for her with internal recruiting.

By no means does she think that the only good engineers are credentialed.
They do, planning to spend $91bn over the next 10 years, and the current petrochemical sector is valued at $48.5 bn.

(Source: wikipedia)
You need to keep reading, they explain the mis-aligned incentives of an internal recruiter later:
1. Bring in 10 StanFaceGoogMIT candidates, one gets an offer they don't accept - keep up the good work.

2. Bring in 10 ugly on paper candidates, two get an offer, and one accepts - expect a stern talking to about your performance.
Which AWK book? The one by A, W, and K?
Me too. In the comp sci department, at least, one of the professors made a compliant style a long time ago and it continues to get passed around. I'm defending on Thursday and so far there haven't been any real complaints other than a requirement that my figure captions be at the top of the figure instead of the bottom. Not a biggie.
I'm a tech recruiter that lived in Vegas for 6 months in 2012. Downtown was a bizarre, tiny pocket of tech startup angst that was struggling to establish an identity. There was ONE main coffee shop where seemingly everyone was pitching investors, ONE main apartment building that housed all of the Zappos frat boy engineers, and ONE main hipster bar appealing to this element (not including the little hip spot where you could "always" spot Tony grabbing a drink). There was this feeling of limitless potential, but little actual practical work happening to sustain downtown for the long-term.

Interesting to hear the latest there, but figured I would add my two cents too!
Yahoo! has a $40B market cap, and almost $50B in cash and assets. People may wave their arms about Alibaba, but yeah - Alibaba.

Google - almost 10 times the size of Yahoo! - has moved on to infrastructure projects that will have them around for decades. Marry that to ~$400B market cap that bounces around #2 or 3 in the world and about $100B in cash and...

Yeah. You'll remember Yahoo! and Google most of the rest of your lives.
Most political subreddits don't garner upvotes on the basis of "I'm glad I was shown this" but rather, "YOU need to read this".

And so you get a front page full of angry crap nobody wants to read but everyone thinks everyone else needs to see.

It doesn't make for a pleasant user experience.
There's a very good chance that they'll end up being transformed into PDFs before being released, and will also end up in print.
seeing the term terrorism used more broadly every day, that is not really such a good thing?
Again you are mentioning diabetes rates in a discussion about heart disease. Any particular reason why? I'm genuinely curious, they are related but not that strongly as I understand it.
Isn't that only for signatories to the Svalbard Treaty, though?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Treaty#/media/File:Sv...
Minor nit pick, 'losing' not 'loosing'.
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I understand exactly where he is coming from. At the end of the day, most people responsible for hiring go with "culture, values, and gut feelings." If they do not identify with you, your resume and experience does not matter one whit. Finally getting hired at a firm in Salt Lake City was supposed to happen; The more you go to bat, you will eventually get a hit. In other words, you got lucky at least once.

Also, you "may" have tried at tto high a level(Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.) only reserved for a few who "fit" the culture: Ivy League grads and/or those with better references and networks. And then Plan B was to get something "entry-level," which almost never works out.

People in the majority community will never understand that black males many times are victims of lack benefit of the doubt in this country. Again, this falls under that "culture,value, and gut feeling" category. Almost every comment or reply is going to downplay your experience, equate it with theirs, claim you feel entitled, call you a whiner, without realizing they are not the "experiencer," the "knower within."

I feel where you are coming from, but we must all start somewhere and you never gave up (at least on getting a job in Tech somewhere). Just realize that there are tens of thousands across demographic lines whose "Silicon Valley Dreams" were burned before they ever got started.

I will end with this: Underrepresented communities must seek their "niche," or a form in which makes you stand out from the rest, makes you unique, and increases your intellectual value. Furthermore, start/begin/ create your own opportunities instead of waiting on someone to give it to you.
URL appears to have changed to https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/06/announcing-first-pub...
The old "I stopped reading at ..." routine is pretty annoying even in the best of circumstances, but particularly so when the basis of the complaint is misinterpreting the article. There is no implication made in the article about only Facebook/Google engineers being "good". There is however exactly the opposite implication being made about both the definition of "good", and how this kind of credentialism is a structural issue. Too bad you stopped reading before getting there.
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Saudis running out of money is the silver lining around the ominous cloud of peak oil !
I see. It would be the same as marrying just to get a green card.
> A single hour spent by a bad candidate wastes at least 3 man-hours of work by the company, and most likely more.

So? Companies need employees. They have to do what it takes to get them. If it weren't worth it, they wouldn't do it.

It makes sense to me that more time in aggregate is spent by the company than the candidate, because the company has dedicated recruiting/HR/coordination people that handle the process. I, as an already full-time employed developer, don't have as much time to burn with interviewing.
Couldn't the probe be between the sun and Ceres, causing a similar effect?
Office hours in YC context:
http://www.ycombinator.com/atyc/#officehours
A corollary to "I stopped reading when..." is usually "I don't know enough about what they wrote to support an opinion".
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In SF. just paid 13 bucks for an Ok turkey sandwich.
I assume this is too green to work with cross-compilation (to arm built from x86, for example), but does anyone know if that support is planned?

I did some haskell work with iphone in the past, and it was a pain to go from testing locally to testing on device. Everything (including dependencies) had to be rebuilt. This would solve my multipackage woes, but only if it could separate platforms.
Ahh, my mistake. Cabal's solver is in the cabal-install package and since stack doesn't depend on it I assumed it wasn't tackling that problem.

Since it's actually shelling out to the cabal executable for its solving needs it still pretty much fits the definition of porcelain.
> They have no cultural understanding of saving for the future.

This is nonsense, Norway is an odd one out, barely any other countries save for the future. It's Norway that's culturally not normal.

> By the time, Saudi Arabia discovers that the move to solar is not optional.

There's enough cheap fossil fuels on planet earth to last pretty much forever so this also has no meaning, unless you're talking about other countries invading them if they keep using fossil fuels?

Even if all the other countries refused to sell them fossil fuels, I'd find it hard to believe after the oil runs out in such a huge reserve there are no other cheap alternatives locally like gas.
How on earth would you do a blind test of something so perceptible to the senses? You can hear the beating.
Why are universities graduating people who can't pass programming 101? Why are they so grossly negligent? They diluted the value of my degree, by graduating too many clueless people.

I did lots of problem sets, homework, and coding projects in school. Why do I have to do it again FOR EACH JOB INTERVIEW? Especially since the projects are usually less on-topic than the ones I did in school.

I.e., I do a homework project for a class, and if I don't get an A, I usually get a reason why not. I do a coding interview project, it goes into a black hole and I never hear from them again.
Please don't rewrite titles like this. It's against the HN rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Something tells me it has to do with this -- published at the very same hour: http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/23/envoy-15-million-a16z/#.tkv...
A couple of them mentioned here just for the Bay: http://www.wagonhq.com/blog/bayhac . Hope we still qualify as a startup!
ESET is still the best antivirus in my opinion. Doesn't drag down the machine's performance. Few negatives. The most real positives. - just a customer.
He missed my favorite sleazy tactic. One of these technical recruiting companies is advertising a job ... and you have to sign up for it with their alpha system. It usually is so buggy that I can't complete the process.
C really is defined in terms of the C abstract machine, in the specs, essentially a naive interpeter.
You can do TCO in OOP languages just fine, because it's perfectly possible to have non-virtual functions in OOP languages. But even with virtual method dispatch you can do a tail call (by doing a function call that discards the old stack frame, that is, not by compiling the code to a loop), if you're using the right calling convention. Not that that's necessarily an optimization.
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I stopped reading at "I stopped reading at ..."
I see yours and the author's point, but what exactly is an "ugly on paper" candidate?
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"Log in to watch"

Closed the tab.
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A great thing that you will learn from reading the ancient classics is that people such as the Greeks and Romans were much closer to our modern ideals of science and society than people of even 500 years ago, despite living in a completely different world. I think the collapse of ancient civilizations was one of the most culturally damaging events of human history, and we are lucky that we managed to revert, at least partially, the decay of knowledge that ensued.
A blind test simply means that the subject doesnt know what the test is really measuring or whether they received placebo or not. A placebo could be static noise or other audio.
Woah, flashback! It all started with Mega Brain, what almost 20 years ago. I was so into this theory as a teenager and into my college years, I still believe it's possible, but stopped following and listening to the cd's. Glad to see the Monroe Institute still pursuing this science.
> But picking Haskell as a start up is suicidal.

That's not the experience Skedge.me had. Rewriting their app in Haskell gave them an 80% code reduction, fixed all their major bugs that had been significantly impacting customer satisfaction, and the performance increases dramatically reduced their hosting costs. Their experience is described in more detail here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BveDrw9CwEg#t=1207
Few negatives. The most real positives. Is, in a meaningful sense, itself a kind of dangerous malware. Verdict: best A/v product.
Thanks for the feedback, Paul. Much appreciated. That's definitely the challenge and something I need to think about.
Depends on the region, of course, I should have put that as a disclaimer. Where I live you absolutely can't get an apartment from anyone unless you submit to a credit/background check (and pay for it yourself of course). This wasn't the case a few years ago but that's how it is now.
This might explain it too: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByFCtZfCcAAg_A3.jpg:large
I tested it and it worked for me. The main weakness of their analysis is the duration. 5 minutes of binaural waves is not enough.
Have you read much material from 500 years ago?

Also, that's a pretty Europe centric view. Have you looked at eg China?
I think people should read enough from the classics to understand how old some ideas are

The understatement of the century, or you are too nice.

I think people should read enough from the classics to understand how few new ideas there are
"Um, Um, Um, Um" - not very entertaining.
If this was a state (Soviet) sponsored production, I wonder who could/would claim ownership.
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Archimedes' "Sand Reckoner" is pretty readable, too. And people have been known to read Euclid for fun. (Or at least as much fun as a modern math textbook.)
I reject the racial explanation too. I had the same problem as a white male. I went to a small private school in the Midwest; I had no full-time related work experience at the time (despite part-time jobs and internships throughout college); and I applied without an address in Silicon Valley. I sent out a hundred or so job apps, didn't hear back from most, got one or two flyouts. Eventually found a position outside of Silicon Valley.

That said, this isn't intended to be mean. I'm not sure how people would judge my achievements if my skin color were different. I think it would be difficult to tell whether a perceived mistreatment is racially motivated, or just a normal occurrence given the circumstances.
Looks cool but I get no audio ;_;
A world without work might be totally awesome, and we have models for it
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Also a New Zealander. I did a 3 month internship in the Valley, and then did a 1 year internship after graduating - the idea was for me to get a H1B and stay on after that, but due to the cap being reached and losing out on the lottery my application was returned unprocessed. So I returned back to NZ and started a company here instead, we recently made our first two hires.

I still love the US and would much prefer to be building my company in the valley, but apparently I'm not wanted even after paying over a hundred thousand in taxes within a year of being there. The stress caused from not being able to stay in the country where I was building my life due to purely random chance, with nothing I could do about it, was massive.

I do hope to return to the US permanently at some point and that the system will be improved, but it seems that will take a while.
I have had an interview where both the (x * 8) and (x << 3) would have been frowned upon, for using a "magic number".
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