skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the key thing is not the idea, but the doing or making. A lot like our industry - ideas are cheap - it's the execution, the making, which is important. Is Twitter a stupid idea? Sure! Could my child have made it? Maybe! Why didn't my child make it?

Good question.
I got an asthma inhaler from my family doctor for what turned out to be a collapsed lung, many years ago.
> Sometimes the scope of this question is too big for people to grasp and they get stuck.

The ones who appear stuck could be the reasonably clever ones who know that the question's purpose is to reject poor-fit candidates. The extra time is needed to think about how to "game" the question to avoid looking like a poor fit, not because the question has a large scope. (And that includes avoiding haplessly looking like a poor fit even when the candidate knows he or she is actually a good fit, just by fumbling a rejector question.)

Even those who could instantly blurt out a honest answer aren't going to do that, if they know what is good for them. For instance "On Monday, I start getting paid $150K per year to work on new widgets for my toy open source GUI library, that nothing uses other than the demo calculator, text pad and mini paint program."

All the discussion stimulating questions about what languages you'd like to be using and such are just pieces of rope to hang yourself with. Especially the reversal "what would you absolutely not want to do?" You probably don't want to give a passionate discussion about things you refuse to do.

Suppose the job you're interviewing for is in fact close to ideal. You want to be doing exactly what they're doing and paid about what they pay. You have the skills and are in fact a great fit. But, oops, you can't say that, because it's indistinguishable from the bullshit that someone completely naive would blurt out.

All this kind of thinking is going to chew up many seconds of time, and create awkward silences.
I don't like how the article makes it seem like "self-sacrifice" is the only thing necessary for a successful founder. If you have a terrible idea, or terrible execution, it doesn't matter how much of your money and your time and your life you put in to the startup, it's still going to fail miserably.

There is no magic road to a successful startup, not even by cutting off your own arm (hopefully in a metaphorical sense).
Reddit gets a Material Design makeover
This seems like kind of a trick question. The vast majority of interviewers want to hear what they want to hear, or at least have you agree.

We've all been conditioned to expect this. Then, here comes along someone with a different question where if you answer it differently, you probably don't get the job.

In my mind, I'm going to ask, "Is this a serious question? Are we just filling time?"

> Are you ready to be CEO of Google on Monday?" If they say yes, then I'll probably entertain myself by asking how they'd run the company while mentally moving on to the next candidate.

This question...it just seems so loaded and I have to disagree. I can get a 'no' vote (which is enough to end the interview process) because I give a silly answer to an uncertainly question.

If I say, "I want to build apps for non-profits" is that going to sink me during a QA interview? What if I say, "I want to enable non-profits with tech?" during a product or project manager interview? To me, both of those things are heavily intersected. But it seems like I can get stopped right there. God forbid if someone says they want to be a stay-at-home parent.

I'm going to cold read you and tell you what you want to hear.

I feel this question is less-than-helpful because it doesn't really extract any extra information yet is approached with a different angle to make the question intentionally tricky and make good candidates fail.
Are they using Ceph?
I want a way to be able to use this with ssh rsync scp and so on to preserve legacy backup routines that are now in place. (Including on systems that you will not be writing b2 clients for like old versions of Solaris).
Is it me or there's no mention of durability?

Is this only for noncritical, reproducible data as S3 reduced redundancy?
> groupon users only ever get the cheapest bottle, if any.

Yeah, because absolutes like this help. Groupon customers can be just like any other customer out there. Some "regular" customers will get cheap wine, some will get an expensive bottle. Similarly, some Groupon customers will get the cheapest wine, others will take the money they saved by getting a Groupon and get the expensive wine. Being a "Groupon customer" might move the needle towards one direction but it's far from absolute the way you're making it out to be.
Commercial Drone Winners and Losers at the State Level
I think jekyll[0] works really well in conjunction with github pages for exactly your use case.

[0]: https://jekyllrb.com/
Which part of this question ensures the candidate is capable of doing the job?
Same in Brazil.
Good question. I think Meteor is certainly the closest of such platform at the moment, but you don't have to go far to find a developer who really hates JavaScript and will never switch over. Such hate may or may not be justified, but you won't easily change their minds. At the same time, there are people - including me - who only develop with JS with no real need to switch over to something else.

I wish I had a more educated answer (guess?), since this is all just anecdata.
Is there a reason you're focused on AWS topics and your account is only ~2 days old?

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=DinkyG

https://archive.is/fRf8i
The TSA policing identities of travelers-again
What about the Mozilla CEO, that had to resign over his his private political views? Isn't that a great example of PC-police in action?
I, for one, prefer the directness of not having to go through a front-end proxy. It probably eliminates some failure modes. I think that, instead of Backblaze providing an S3-compatible API, someone should do an open-source S3-compatible front-end for B2, that any interested user can run on a cheap VPS.
Show HN: DateNight.Media – Combine two movies to get great recommendations
Oh right, you can adjust the speed of the reaction throughout the day to adjust to market fluctuations.
I helped build this with our team at MediaHound to solve a really simple problem - finding a movie to watch that my wife and I will both like.

We would love for you to check it out and give us some feedback - try a few combinations of movies and filter by your favorite sources.

We are using our new API - The Entertainment Graph [https://developer.mediahound.com] to power the site. Looking forward to your feedback and answering any questions!
Philadelphia network gets upgrade but still may not bear pope traffic
Tesla Gigafactory and Battery Improvements Could Cut Battery Costs 70%
That's a good point. While I love Mongo, a lot of developers won't even consider Meteor since it has only NoSQL support.
I've been hunting around for a little while for the right job to move into, and so I've done quite a few interviews.

And there definitely have been moments when I've been trying to figure out whether the question I was asked was just part of a standard script the interviewer has to use (and thus is as simple/obvious as it appears) or is trying to accomplish something more subtle.
Years ago, when I was in college the first time, I was a tech support supervisor at a large retail store.

All candidates had to take an online personality test. The test was a joke. It asked things like

"Have you ever stolen anything from work (including little things like a pencil)?"

"Do you think it's ever ok to break the law (including minor things like speeding)?"

Many people who took the test assumed it was trying to find out whether they'd lie on a test and that saying yes to these questions was the correct answer.

Other people guessed correctly that the test wanted you to answer as if you were the perfect retail automaton.

The point is that the test punished honesty. And even if this question doesn't necessarily do that, i.e., the interviewer might be fine with answers that include "professional athlete", "swimsuit photographer", etc..., many candidates will think that it does. They will assume that they are supposed to say their dream job is the job they are applying for.
I think it was either Dali or Picasso or Duchamp or someone like that. That I am not at all sure makes me think it's probably someone else, and that the actual words were quite different - so I gave a vague source :)
I've emailed Jeff to get clarification on it.
Are we making an assumption that the candidate doesn't just say what I want to hear? Reminds me of economics class - "Ok class, before we begin you must first go forward with the assumption all people make rational decisions."
How to refactor your Swift code using TDD
For hotels the majority of bookings come from third party sites. Why would hotels use third party sites regularly if they hate serving customers that book with them?
>It generally takes you to some really interesting places, far from the well-beaten path.

You have a point on the "relaxing" thing. OTOH, the problem I see with that is that it doesn't really "take" you to those places, it just passes through them. You can watch them go by, but not stop and check them out.
For context: https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/3lutoo/imgur_is_doin...
The answer is "Yes", alcohol is bad for you.

Of course, it tastes good, so people want to believe these very specific studies. And ignore any of the confounding evidence in the second half of the article (such as the fact that people who drink moderately are healthy enough to do so).
What could the hacker accomplish even if they were able to execute some code? They're still in a browser tab and you can only do limited things. My thinking is that if the code was somewhat executed on 4chan, they could inject a <script> tag on the page that sends the cookie information you have on 4chan (which might include your session id) so others can login with your account. However, Reddit doesn't load images on their site directly so this type of attack would not be possible.
No, it's not. The answer is to stop defining yourself by how you earn a living. Pretty good basketball players, pretty good singers, pretty good poets (hell, even the best poets) can't make a living what they love. That doesn't mean they should stop writing poetry or singing or playing basketball. It means they should find a job they like, and continue to do what they love on their own time.
Why does 'Windows' support preclude an offering from being considered 'enterprise'?
> Downloads are just $0.05/GB

Can anyone compare that to other similar providers? While the storage is cheap, it seems more useful for cold storage.
Sure, any decision can be ignored. But then why even bother with jurisdiction stripping at all?

Because it's an explicitly enumerated provision in the Constitution?

How is [a Supreme Court decision proscribing me] relevant?

To try to make the stakes clear if your end all and be all of constitutionality is what the current set of Supremes decide?

Its like you have a canned rant that you are posting without any relation to the post it is in response to.

We're obviously talking past each other, so I'll stop.
It's how things work in Ontario, Canada, at least. Every single job I've ever had had 3 month probation periods. It was always great as a student finishing the probation period right around the time you were going to quit to go back to school.

It's just standard here, nobody is shocked by it. It's beneficial to both the employer and the employee. Don't like the company? You can leave with an hour's notice.
Yes. Keep in mind that currently anti-Western hostility in Iran are a direct result of American imperialism during the Cold War. The Iran nuclear deal framework wouldn't be necessary if the US hadn't tried to prevent democracy in Iran in the 1970s.
Bundle Club, a subscription service for new parents
What is the significance of this line?
"taking a pre-tax charge of $35 million in the process"
It cost them 35 million to lay off 1,100 folks? They are getting a tax cut?
Akamai has an API that you can hit to request that they purge some content of yours from their cache:

https://api.ccu.akamai.com/ccu/v2/docs/
Brian from Backblaze here. It's pretty simple for now. You can have as many people reading and writing to the same bucket, but they would all need to share the same credentials. Buckets are either "allPublic" or "allPrivate" (and you can flip them back and forth at any time between those two settings). But that's it at this point.

We're actively looking for feedback in this area, so as developers ask us for something like Amazon's IAM (AWS Identity and Access Management) we'll be filling that functionality out. Hopefully without adding too much complexity to the simple model we have now.
Larry - would you please email us at info@rsync.net ? We have a few items to discuss with you ...

(your profile mentions to respond to one of your comments if someone needs to reach you ...)
Very nice!

Boot http://riscv.org/angel/ into linux busybox in the browser

/ # cat /proc/cpuinfo

CPU info: PUNT!

/ #

What does "PUNT!" mean?
Franklin Institute in Philadelphia has a similar gear reduction setup attached to a hand crank on one side and a metal trash can within a vice on the other side. Children (and adults) are invited to crank the handle and turn the gears. It takes months to crush each can which is then replaced.
I start training to become Batman on Monday. If the interviewer suggests that that sounds far fetched, then Robin.
See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2660

Documentation seems to be ahead of current GitLab release. This failing task will be included in a following patch release, very soon.
Also, just about everyone's hot water cylinder in New Zealand is remote controlled by the power company (and has been since the 50's) Allows instant shedding of quite a lot of load in the short term without any visible impact to customers.
I think the best parts of the Route are those going through TX, NM and AZ.

Though I say that as somebody for whom those "western"/rocky/deserty looking places were extra enchanting and unfamiliar. So, if you're from the midwest in the first place, I guess it's not the same experience.

>When I lived in LA for a time we meant to hit the end of 66 in San Bernardino but never did.

The "official" end is in Santa Monica (right before the pier), with a memorial plate for the guy they named the highway after etc.
Are you seeing 10 second rebuilds with incremental builds? Or is this 10 seconds for a complete rebuild?
If someone writes a jclouds provider for B2, you can then use https://github.com/andrewgaul/s3proxy to interface with it
Wouldn't be very hard to make your own proxy.
For all those who are curious, I'm building something similar - but it has realtime sync (like Firebase) and offline support: http://github.com/amark/gun . I'm glad others are working on this problem too!
I enjoy questions such as this during interviews because, if I've handled the interview well so far, I can turn the question around a bit and use it to feel out the interviewer's opinion on a more important topic, or reinforce one of my previously well received comments.

On the other hand if I've been blowing the interview, its a decent chance for me to try and get things pointed in a positive direction again, and/or lighten the room up. Either way, its a better experience than just having someone read off a series of questions like a robot.
It doesn't have to be real, merely a convincing enough simulation. This is nothing new, truthiness was coined back in the late Bush administration.
though, hotels often do themselves no favours here. If an aggregator has rooms for $200 a night and the hotel gets 80% of that, you'd think the hotel would take 100% of $200 from a direct booking, but often it'll be $300+... Conceptually, booking direct should be cheaper since the hotel sees all of the money (and users of an aggregator pay for the convenience/discovery/ease factor)
You know that most of the world's population doesn't tip at all? Given that, it seems kind of strange to assume everyone just knows the appropriate tipping etiquette without being told when getting the coupon or sitting down.

Plus the most active users of groupon are probably doing it to save as much money as possible with coupons. They're unlikely to willingly throw away those savings on massive tips... and from what you hear about frequent groupon users they really don't tip the price pre-coupon.
What is a Tinygram? And what should you do about it?
It's easy enough to run unsigned apps, you just have to ctrl+click and select "open" then you'll get a different prompt that allows you to install the app anyway.

I suppose you can argue that, if that's the case, what's the point? Well, if you think that a piece of software should be signed but it is in fact not signed properly, then that's a clue that it's been tampered with. If the software isn't signed at all, then at least I can decide whether I trust the source enough to install it.
Reading the API, it seems that I need to precalculate a SHA-1 before uploading? This makes it impossible to stream data to b2 from another source, I'll need to store it first then send to b2.
http://gaul.org/object-store-comparison/ mentioned by @gaul a little bit ago has outbound pricing listed for a bunch of providers
Condemn the companies that support the mass surveillance bill CISA
These tests are so odd. But maybe, as you've pointed out, they are simply screening for people who are aware of when and how they need to lie.

It used to be fashionable to ask "what is your greatest weakness" in interviews. I always considered it an unfair question, but I was on an interview panel once with a guy who loved to ask it, and I couldn't stop him.

I slowly realized that it does reveal show a person handles an unfair question that he or she absolutely should not answer truthfully, but without stammering or being obviously evasive.

Like I said, I wouldn't ever ask this question, I consider it to be a bit of a trap. But maybe the people who are asking it are simply more cynical people who are checking to see if the candidate is an equally aware cynic? Just a bit more interview hazing, I guess.
how is it compared to relay+graphql?
A big need a lot of us on the "free plan" need is a way to archive our chats. That's what I thought this was initially.
Works great. Just isn't part of core. Meteor core is stubbornly trying to force use of atmosphere for everything. But everyine I know immediately installs https://github.com/meteorhacks/npm which allows for using regular npm packages.

I think inevitably the meteor team will bring this into core, or something similar, and we will be able to have our mix of atmosphere and non libraries.
I fully agree -- people underestimate this issue. We recently had a long discussion among the CS faculty on using GradeScope (a software for grading paper exams). It looks great and I would love to use it, but the feedback was that the University would not approve of it for privacy reasons. Even using Google forms is problematic for that.
Funny, I switched from a rolling release distro to Fedora around 2006, having gotten sufficiently annoyed with the lack of wide scale integration testing. I like that there's a Fedora "image" that gets tested as a whole, and every 6 months it gets updated to the latest and greatest (after more testing).
The illustrations look like they were done in Paper. Does anyone know if that's right or not?
The latest version of Meteor actually comes with support for Angular and React — so if you want it, it shouldn't be too hard to add. Personally, I guess I've grown a bit disenchanted with Angular lately. It makes some things easy, but I think it adds unnecessary complexity. I'm inclined to look for simpler, more functional/stateless solutions these days.
Better to use a file system based file change monitor and a makefile. Statting your file system for changes on every request adds to latency.
Oh, us poor Americans!

Something tells me this wouldn't be a headline if you replaced "Americans" with "Mexicans" or "Norwegians".
Well it is a damn sight better than how many window cleaners are there in London.
There is a chart here: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-providers.html

Backblaze is the same cost or cheaper as the cheapest tier in several other popular services like Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure. We don't know of anybody with a lower cost of downloads.
Can you run Node packages on Meteor yet?

The decision to be incompatible with the vast number of Node/npm modules is what originally turned me off from Meteor, and I hope it's resolved.
Being able to understand when to game the interview question (always, no exceptions, ever-- just remember that faking sincerity and warmth is part of gaming all questions properly)

You're engaging with the question by gaming it effectively. After all, they're hiring you for your ability to reconfigure your mind to be a tool for solving whatever task. Gaming questions properly demonstrates a spry mind.
So you're saying "bad for you" unless you're a healthy moderate drinker?

Or are you saying the healthy moderate drinker is somehow worse off than if they didn't drink at all? If so, how can we measure the harm that moderate drinking is doing on healthy people? If we can't measure any harm, are you open to the possibility that moderate drinking is good for healthy people?
When your comment stream has dwindled to flat earthers and moonshot hoax crackpots bickering with the author over trivia, is it time to turn off user comments?
Preventing duplicate cron job executions
Straight alcohol tastes anything but "good".
So your users can't use it commercially?
And yet he says you can set your own salary. I'm pretty sure I could operate just fine on monday as a billionaire philanthropist given that I get to set my own salary.

Setting aside hyperbole, I can think of several practical things I'd rather do than what I'm doing now, but I don't do them because they don't pay well, and I enjoy my current profession well enough.

If I could set my own salary, I'd like to run a barbecue restaurant, write for a newspaper, make computer games, or build robots. However, none of those pay well enough (or I lack the credentials--and time to get the credentials--to make them pay well enough), so they are relegated to hobbies.
So, one thing holding me back from using MongoDB (and thus Meteor) is a lack of understanding how schema can be managed.

Say in MongoDB you are storing documents in a collection such as { property: "" }, and decide you want to change that to { property2: "" }. Does that mean you have to script a change to every document to convert these objects?
> A less "grow fast and explode like a Unicorn" business model would probably make it work better for participating businesses.

I know a few more local versions of groupon who went into the game with this game plan. They all failed or pivoted out of it. It seems like a product that can only succeed by going big.
With a few minor and cheap design modifications, the Fukushima disaster could have been prevented. The nuke industry could learn a lot from the aviation industry about making unsafe things safe. The details are different, but the principles are the same.
I agree entirely. Typically when I have to stop and think for a few minutes during an interview, it's because I have to devise the "correct" answer to the loaded questions handed to me. It's annoying that it's this way, but once in a great while I get a wink from an interviewer that understands what I am doing. Last time I got the wink, I got the job.