skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like your process went ok. But one hour tests are one thing. Projects that may take 10 or more hours are totally different. It really is amazing what some of these companies will demand of their applicants before even granting an interview.

And although this system might be more accessible than traditional recruiting, it is far from perfect. It is the job of the community to demand better and more respectful hiring practices from companies. Paying the applicant for the time they spent working on the project or offering a traditional interview for people who work full time and have families would be a good start.
While I concede the limitations of the data I relied on, I think they're illustrative of the general point. You, on the other hand, have provided zero evidence, empirical or anecdotal, for your conjecture that a high percentage of people pleading guilty are innocent.

Your bias comment also makes no sense. The bias in Judge Rakoff's article, to the extent it exists, is to cite higher than a 2-8% number because he's arguing against guilty pleas. And in the surveys the bias runs in the opposite direction: to make the reasonable doubt standard seem more stringent than it actually is. A judge saying that he only requires 75% probability of guilt to sustain a conviction is contrary to his self-interest.
I really enjoyed reading this article.

I've been thinking quite a bit about work recently. I'm just about to turn 29, and by all accounts I'm fairly successful: I graduated college with a worthless liberal arts degree just as the Great Recession was beginning. After an unsuccessful attempt at copywriting for a couple years, I managed to learn programming. A few years after that and I'm the leader of the engineering team at 12-person startup that looks to be pretty successful.

And yet I'm as unhappy now as I've ever been. And it sucks. Why can't I just be happy with what I have? I've got a steady job, I've got a pretty good income. Why do I feel so awful about my own life?

I've suspected for some time now that work itself is the problem. I'm trading in the best years of my life, my focus, my attention, my time, my life for money. That's the nature of this transaction. I'm trading in this short life I get for cash. I feel like a prostitute.

Honestly I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes thinking about it.

And apparently I'm not alone in how I feel about work. From the article: "A 2014 Gallup report of worker satisfaction found that as many as 70 percent of Americans don’t feel engaged by their current job."

I think the truth is that work is an ocean of human misery, unfulfilled dreams and wasted lives. I think a vast majority of us waste our youth, our time, our energy in fields that we don't give a shit about, when in a better society we'd be able to work on the things we do care about.
How about "birthright"?
Edit since edit feature fails:
Read Veale's The Creativity Myth. What you call "creativity" can be automated much like anything else. Emphasizing creativity would work for an extra couple of decades at most, so there's no sense in building, say, brand new educational institutions around it. Check out the N.Y. Times article announcing the creation of the Camp Fire Girls (co-invented by Gulick, a co-inventor of basketball) - there was a panic then about automation and the problem was not solved, it has just been continually deferred as the pace of change increasingly wreaks havoc on our ability to prepare children for adulthood. When the buzzwords of today's companies are "innovation" and "disruption", you may translate them to "unpredictability", "chaos", and "social insecurity". No one even tries to design in order to righteously earn a place in a human being's short life cycle - Silicon Valley designers often enough end up making dopamine squirters for poor toddlers on touch screens. The designers may heed warnings against giving their own children screens, ban TV's in the home, and send the kids to an unplugged school, but fewer are able to escape the swathe of the indefatigueable machine, or have any coherent and ever-presebt religion or philosophy. Have we made some thing more clever than ourselves? Yes and no, but the no shrinks, not only as the machine gets stronger, but as it weakens us.
Some instead some could follow Kant's idea of treating humans solely as ends, never as means, a sort of human-centered chauvinism or "humanism". Or one can conclude that if machines lack human flaws, and out perform homo sapiens at their supposed virtues, they deserve the future.
New genders, new sexualities, new body images, these might get some of the attention economy for a few, but they must be rewarded inequally is a mass of the bored; a creativity economy is the fame / long tail economy we already have. The production and assimilation of new distinctiveness will approach instantaneousness. And computers can be reformatted much more easily because they have no "self" to worry about or reinforce. People just won't learn fast enough.

Camp Fire cite:http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=2&res=9F00E...
I'm interested in your view concerning one of the axioms that I infer underlies your political thinking. What do you consider equality, and what do you consider the reasoning behind considering it a desirable goal?
Has little to do with work and a lot to do with sociology and economics. If you are paying someone, make them do shit. That's what good managers do. And then when this happens the expectations go way up alongside that... and now everyone is a whiny baby that wants things RIGHT NOW!
Interestingly waste collectors (garbos in Aussie slang) are well paid and it is quite a desirable job. They are also the hardest working government employees you see as they are given a route and when they have finished they can go home. Amazing how government can work when the structure is right.
Yeah, I've signed up for Equifax and MyFICO as well, and didn't have a problem with it. Maybe I just got "lucky" and stumbled on a bunch of really bizarre ones this time ;)
> I agree with them. While handling errors everywhere is a little painful to write, it enforces better practices by making you acknowledge that things could fail and ignore, handle, or pass the buck.

There are better ways of accomplishing the same thing though, one way is the Either monad in Haskell. Here's an example I post sometimes comparing error handling in Go to Haskell's either monad:

func failureExample()(*http.Response) {
// 1st get, do nothing if success else print exception and exit
response, err := http.Get("http://httpbin.org/status/200")
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("%s", err)
os.Exit(1)
} else {
defer response.Body.Close()
}

// 2nd get, do nothing if success else print exception and exit
response2, err := http.Get("http://httpbin.org/status/200")
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("%s", err)
os.Exit(1)
} else {
defer response2.Body.Close()
}

// 3rd get, do nothing if success else print exception and exit
response3, err := http.Get("http://httpbin.org/status/200")
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("%s", err)
os.Exit(1)
} else {
defer response3.Body.Close()
}

// 4th get, return response if success else print exception and exit
response4, err := http.Get("http://httpbin.org/status/404")
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("%s", err)
os.Exit(1)
} else {
defer response4.Body.Close()
}

return response4
}

func main() {
fmt.Println("A failure.")
failure := failureExample();
fmt.Println(failure);
}

The equivalent Haskell code:

failureExample :: IO (Either SomeException (Response LBS.ByteString))
failureExample = try $ do
get "http://www.httpbin.org/status/200"
get "http://www.httpbin.org/status/200"
get "http://www.httpbin.org/status/200"
get "http://www.httpbin.org/status/404"

main = failureExample >>= \case
Right r -> putStrLn $ "The successful pages status was (spoiler: it's 200!): " ++ show (r ^. responseStatus)
Left e -> putStrLn ("error: " ++ show e)
It's easy to win arguments when you move the goalposts around. Nobody argued that it was impossible for a trade agreement like TPP to influence US laws. They argue that TPP itself doesn't.
Nope, I'm an anarchist and transhumanist :)

I am concerned that the human population may crash after nuking too many ecosystem services. However, I'm not a biodiversity freak, but rather take a broader evolutionary perspective.
Would ice exhibit the property of reflecting from any angle as seen in this gif? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ceres_spots_animation_May...
What's the alternative to this world? A world where 99% of us work and 1% don't?
"it is more than a marketplace, it is a /home/ built by North-Western European ancestors for the benefit of their progeny"

So... straight up racism is your explanation. Got it. Was there really a need to write so many words to couch your racist views?
> They argue that TPP itself doesn't.

So who cares if it doesn't de jure, if it has a very major potential to do it de facto. It's all about the risk and impact, not about what it formally declares.

It's like saying, hey, we have a label that it's safe. Don't mind if it actually injures anyone.
Reading this types of cases and I really don't understand the american immigration system, I am from Honduras and there have been hundred of thousands hondurans migrating illegally to the US since the 90s, and a lot of them became legal due to threaties like the TPS, and most of them don't even have university degrees
Turn lights/switches/home-automation stuff on/off.
Read stuff from Audible.
One command music streaming. (Google Now will bring up a link for you to click)
Shopping. (Reorders prime items from Amazon)

Coming Soon:
Integrates natively with all sorts of apps - (There's an SDK in the works)
Wind farm would have to be about 30 times bigger than area taken by nuclear plant. Solar farm -- about 15 times [1]. Renewables definitely take more land. But there's no shortage of land in most places in the world. Shortage of arable land? Sure. But not land in general. E.g. all US energy demand could be met by covering a small fraction of Arizona deserts with solar panels. Solar and wind could also be located offshore.

[1] http://wilderness.org/sites/default/files/legacy/Website-Lan...
Researchers Complain About Changes in Amazon Tool Used for Surveys
> it easily pays for itself in identifying good candidates and weeding out bad ones

It even easily pays for itself in just weeding out the bad ones.
Yet I really want that because I constantly have friends asking for new things to listen to, and want to check out what some other people are into. It's one of the few social features I get a lot of value from.
Who is the master of Nodejs?
Hi combinators i have been looking for some helping material regarding node js . Kindly guide me where to start to build scalable web applications (single page or multipage) using node js . I really wana dig it down , your help will be appreciated.
Circa 2010
People work because they need to pay rent.

With mincome, if the basic needs are paid, then people could do other non-economic activities, such as more dedication to arts and culture, develop studies, etc...

For example, I believe a lot of people would increase participation on open-source projects in internet
Yes, ES uses multiple threads nicely. But as you move to 32 or 64 cores - in my experience - a single threaded client won't keep ES/Lucene busy enough.

With SOLR, it's similar:

> Sometimes you need to index a bunch of documents really, really fast. [...] The solution is two-fold: batching and multi-threading

From: http://lucidworks.com/blog/high-throughput-indexing-in-solr/
Tutorial for starting to use MongoDB in real time from your browser
Would anybody with experience with J like to share what they did/didn't like about the language or what they did and didn't expect from the language?
Ah, thanks! I've never been, so it was an unfamiliar concept.
That seems very unusual to have a large uptick in engagement without any corresponding increase in traffic. I'm not sure I understand how the Digg announcement would make existing Reddit users more active.
Right. I have no children, that I know of. I never much wanted to focus on money, and raising children didn't appeal to me as a hobby or avocation.
> no women allowed (well, we laugh at dinosaurs like that outside silicon valley where its still prevalent, etc).

The Valley has its own social obstacles to women's employment...
EU citizens have the right to move to and work in any country within the EU. See here: http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=457
Seems to be a smart solution but it only works when you have control over the "real" /16 network if I understand it correct? E.g. having multiple nodes on multiple cloud providers with completely different IP addresses not in the same /16 network will not work, correct?
It's not unreasonable for the company to ask for a few hours of the person they actually end up hiring. It's wasting the time of the dozens of other people that will never get reasonable consideration that's objectionable.

Wasting candidate time should never be used for screening. At most, steps that take a significant amount of time or effort should be reserved solely for determining the order in which the acceptable candidates receive offers, and the amounts of those offers.
What if your technology is classified?
I've actually never compared the two versions to see if one is much better than the other. At the time it was released, it was kind of a fact that the translations lost some/major nuance, however I played them in English and enjoyed them greatly nonetheless. I'd say treat it as translated literature: the translation perhaps isn't enough to do scholarly work on, but for enjoyment's sake it's probably just fine.
Maybe I've been reading too much science fiction, but imagine how cool it would be if it were some constructed light source.

And just like that, humanity was thrown into the midst of all the other interstellar species.
How  That Video Can Help Your Sales Strategy
Biased reply (I'm a data scientist there): Common Crawl[1]. We build and maintain an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone completely free.

[1]: http://commoncrawl.org/
> So who's lobbying against this exactly?

If you've ever come across any posts on HN regarding immigrant workers in technology (who are on the same visa, the H1B†, that the author of the Vox article was on), you will see a shockingly offensive amount contempt and hatred for highly-skilled immigrants.

To answer your question more directly, despite high support for skilled immigration reform, there are currently 2 senators who are hell-bent on making life hard for highly-skilled immigrants. One of them is Chuck Grassley, chair of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and the other is Jeff Sessions, chair of the Subcommittee on Immigration. Both senators (esp. Sessions) thoroughly hate immigrants of all kinds, and have avowed to do everything in their power to block immigration reform from passing, and the committee and subcommittee they chair are key to immigration reform passing in the Senate.

Jeff Sessions has even go so far as to write a document full of half-truths and lies, with the goal of convincing other Republicans that even the tiny trickle of high-skilled immigration now permitted is detestable, and must be put to an end. The Cato Institute has an excellent fact-based rebuttal of it: http://www.cato.org/blog/rebuttal-sen-sessions-anti-legal-im...

Opposition to immigration itself is pretty hard to believe in country like the U.S., but the opposition to economically beneficial high-skilled worker immigration, is even more shocking.

† Note: there are really no other alternatives than getting a work visa, if someone wants to immigrate as high-skilled worker. I've read ill-informed people on HN say ridiculous things like, they do not have a problem with people "coming to the US normally", but they hate to their guts anyone on a work visa. Ridiculous.
Public housing projects are almost by definition some of the most impoverished areas. To attribute the problems of slums to boredom seems misguided.

Additionally, I don't think the idea here is to encourage idleness. It's about people not needing to either beg an existing profitable business to take them in or create one ex nihilo in order to survive.

Just the idea that the alternative to jobs is idleness shows a strange conflation of ideas. We define "work" as that which we hope will earn us money — we know an activity is work because of a totally extrinsic factor. There are people in our society who are paid a king's ransom to literally play games, and there are people who do back-breaking labor without anywhere close to fair compensation, and this is all work because they make their living doing it. But if somebody (say, a painter) doesn't have customers or an employer, that's not work, and thus it looks like idleness, no matter how engaged they are in the activity.
I moved here early this year from another country and had zero credit score but a rather high salary.

Went to HSBC with proof of salary and they happily gave me a credit card with a decent limit. Got my credit score up rather fast.

If you're in a similar situation it might be worth looking into.
Are problems that fit in memory on a single machine (96GB in this article) considered "big data" now? This buzzword is becoming absolutely meaningless. But yeah, "Hyper-interactive visualytics at scale.", go nvidia PR.

Also, while it's absolutely amazing that they are able to scan 240B rows/sec, I wonder what one would use this capability for if they can only keep a few hundred million records around at a time? The difference between taking 10 or 100ms to scan the dataset should hardly matter to a user that is running "interactive analytics queries".
The article mentions we kick out the brightest, but there's actually a way to specifically immigrate using your educational prowess [1]. Basically, you need a masters of higher.

You got 2 degrees, were here for ~15 years.. surely research was done to find out how to immigrate? If you spent the time to get 2 degrees, I'd figure getting a masters would have been the more obvious choice...

[1]: http://www.workpermit.com/us/employer_eb2.htm
Evaluating an MRI machine: 140+ ports open, on public WiFi, crash on portscan
I first visited Reddit the day it opened (June 2005), and then started commenting regularly when they first added comments (Jan 2006).

The first announcement was by Paul Graham to comp.lang.lisp. AFAICT on that first visit, the only active users were the two founders (spez and kn0thing), PG, and spez's girlfriend, along with their sockpuppets. It was pretty boring while it was voting-only, but they kept at it, and once they added comments they got a small but fairly active userbase. The initial users were very technical, usually early-adopter programmers, and it drew heavily out of the Lisp/PL-theory crowd. I think that Reddit's YC batchmates also brought along some users, eg. there were a bunch of Semantic Web folks that presumably knew Aaron Schwartz.
~$100 USD u-locks which can only be unlocked via BT (don't let the battery in either device run down...), but that is clearly not "10 times the price" of a normal bike lock - it's more like 2X

Where are you shopping? A cable lock is $5 on amazon right now, U-locks start around $10.
Certainly, that is not all of it. For example, I would think that many, many Mexicans mainly try to move to the US for the money.
Is this what clojure's trampoline function is for?
Parkinson's law doesn't apply to this situation. We are in a situation where the same amount (or more) work is being done, just with fewer humans. This might lead to bigger rewards to people who work harder and smarter but that will be an ever smaller group.
And if you had a choice between a below-average licensed surgeon and an unlicensed surgeon?

There's no process that can guarantee above-average practitioners for everyone, it's a paradox. That doesn't mean minimum standards are pointless.
Envy – A Docker-based development environment
Works for me even though archive.is (https://archive.is/GZLs2) doesn't see it.

here's the announcement text: http://pastebin.com/aPLq5ySG
No, I wasn't making a "de facto" vs "de jure" argument. I was saying that it does not appear that there is any provision of the TPP that will change US laws. As I've said repeatedly in this thread: the point of the IPR provisions in TPP are to export US law to other countries. The TPP does not appear to involve us importing anyone else's law.

It's perfectly reasonable to be opposed to exporting our laws to other countries. But that's not what you said: you said you were concerned that the TPP will change US law, which is why you cited that weird Techdirt article, why you brought up the DMCA, and why you're trying to distinguish between "de facto" and "de jure" changes.
I imagine the existing users were both Digg and Reddit users, and started using Reddit more when they stopped using Digg.
Sorry to be the annoying European here, but the the American concept of building credit is really strange to me. Instead of just buying things with money I have, I am supposed to use the money as security for loans I don't need. That somehow proves that I am financially responsible in general.
Half are below the average of practicing surgeons. But the average surgeon is much better because you weed out a lot of incompetent people who can't get certified.
Did the Soviets Build a Better Shuttle Than We Did?
I'm not sure we were quite double their size. In July 2010, Digg claimed to have 200M pageviews[0] and we had 279M[1]. So I think we were more like 40% bigger in terms of pageviews, which Chris's post from the time[2] seems to confirm. Though we were undercounting a bit[3], so it was probably more like 55% or 60%.

And when it comes to uniques, my memory's pretty foggy, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Digg actually had more than we did at that point.

That said, you're absolutely correct that we were far from struggling, except in terms of getting approval from Conde Nast to buy more AWS power, or to hire, or to get any support whatsoever from their ad sales team.

[0] http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/08/28/kevin-rose-resp...

[1] https://github.com/drunken-economist/reddit-10-year-data/blo...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/d8d1f/dear_entire_mai...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9768040
Have you loved for a longer period in another country? :)
And if you're worth $100k/year and they're asking for a day of your time, it's not unreasonable for you to ask for $500 from them for turning up. How many employers do you know who offer that to all of their interview candidates?
>anything else you'd need a credit score for is probably better off being paid for with cash.

Your credit score has become a stand-in for a whole bunch of non-credit related things. You get lower insurance rates with a higher credit score and vis-versa. Every landlord nowadays requires a minimum credit score and employers will check your credit report as well. For the last item not having credit won't be a problem, however, they are just looking for negative items. Utility companies (cell phones, internet, electricity) usually require a down payment for those without a credit history (or those not wishing to authorize a credit check). Your credit is pulled when you get a bank account (don't know the consequences of not having a credit report for that one though - if you don't show up they may make you prove your identity more?)
He says he got a law degree (J.D.) and actually links to the Columbia class of 2009 where he is listed. So that's a "professional doctorate," definitely greater than a masters.
That is an excellent analogy. (Not being sarcastic.)