skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very well said.

Interviews are not standardized tests. They are closer to a date/sale, than they are to a test. Same answer in an interview is likely to be interpreted differently by different people, very much like you're on a date.

The more you think of interviews like a test, the more you'll agonize about it, and the more you'll feel writing and believing such gospel-ic articles like this. True, there are a few basic common things, but beyond that, it's subjective by definition.

Whoever YOU think fits your values and ideas, is an A player. Everyone else is "B", because they are not exactly "compatible" to your thinking.

At http://InterviewKickstart.com, that's what we find. Every company has a different viewpoint of what a great engineer is. After a generic training for interviews, it's about compatibility with the companies.
Hinted fonts did look great on low-DPI screens. To my taste, Microsoft's Tahoma, the Win95 / NT4 system font designed by Matthew Carter, is probably the best font that you can squeeze into a grid about 9 pixels high:

https://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/family.aspx?FID=1...

However, nicely hinted fonts were designed from scratch for that purpose. You can see it in Tahoma's letter shapes at larger sizes, the construction is very grid-like overall.

A well-hinted Helvetica really wouldn't look any different from Arial back in 1995. The low resolution makes Helvetica lose its character.

I think Apple made a good choice in designing a more contemporary font.
I'm not sure how font hinting would solve this problem. The resolution of the Apple Watch is 326ppi, so the pixel grid doesn't matter so much.

Seems like the different San Francisco variants were designed to solve problems due to the physical dimensions of the letterforms at small sizes, not anything to do with a pixel grid.
Do you think it would have been more valuable if the people you asked were anonymous? Or at least felt they were?

Of course it could get nasty like internet comments, but I feel like especially when it's people you know personally, they would be more inclined to be honest about your flaws if they couldn't be identified.
Currently the mainstream opinion is that the bacteria didn't use arsenate, but were very good at using the small amounts of phosphate that was still present in the experiment. And that the experimenters were not very good at cleaning all the phosphate out of the growth medium.

So the highly publicized 2010 study is now pretty much falsified.

http://www.nature.com/news/arsenic-life-bacterium-prefers-ph...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFAJ-1#Criticism
We aren't naturally selected to live longer than 50. This means the paleo diet isn't necessarily the best. The Best diet will only be the best by coincidence not by "design" as any diet that lets you live to a hundred isn't part of the criteria in natural selection.
Perhaps people will decide that the flexibility and comfort of private vehicles, especially in a context like the one described where they create much less noise and pollution, is worth them taking up a little more space.

It's easy to fall into the trap of deciding that buses/bicycles are somehow morally better (or worse) than private cars. This is not so -- we should dispassionately judge the tradeoffs instead, ideally with an eye towards allowing individual people to make the choices that fit their needs best.
If you cancel on a guest as a host, Airbnb heavily penalizes your listings. They will be outranked by pretty much every other listing for at least a couple of months. (It happened to me and many other hosts I know.)
I remember that class, IIRC it was just called Geometry at my school. It took me about six weeks to figure out that we weren't doing calculations and so I felt like I was eternally weeks behind that semester as I struggled to internally catch up with the theorems and principles being taught. I always felt like the teacher was doing a good job, I had just missed something (I may have missed a couple of crucial days at the beginning of the year).
"pdfunite" is part of the "poppler-utils" package on Debian-based systems.

(But older versions of poppler-utils don't include pdfunite, so the "gs" solution might still be useful.)
Your grand-parent comment was about refuting the conjecture that it's due to helicopter parenting or a weakness of the students; then your parent comment was written as a supporting anecdote, and finally your comment claimed that the anecdote is not in support of the refutation at all, however without showing any efforts to explain why ("nananana").
Totally agreed. I wish camera reviews would compare average exposure times between phones for the same shots. I'm a guy who would prefer my phone get me the best shot it can at 1/60th, rather than a low ISO shot that's blurry.
> Another thing I'd add, which is related, is that grit, while important is far from sufficient for success.

This, 1k times. I've worked hard to be successful and I see lots of people who've failed because they won't put in the effort so it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking they lack grit.

Then I get a big ol' dose of reality when I see my brother-in-laws who work harder every day than I've ever had to work. Or I see my father-in-law who worked at a factory for years, destroyed his back, and at the time of retirement made somewhere in the neighborhood of 1/4 what I make.

It's important to work hard, but it's also important to aim that hard work in the right direction.
Ask HN: Anyone going to GitHub Universe?
Of course you are! :D

Anyways, I'm a foreign exchange student studying down in Monterey Bay (CSUMB), and bought a ticket. However, I don't really know anyone else going, and kinda uncertain about wether or not I have access to a car up there. So would anyone like some company in the car up/down there, and perhaps for dinner/party? :D
VW emissions carnage assessment, with an upside
Did you mean ingenious? Or disingenuous?
Fine - you can usually just check in to an hotel. And you can usually tell beforehand if that option is valid.
Tech companies or banks?
I'm applying for internships and I started wondering how the 2 compare when it comes to:
1) salaries
2) work-life balance (most important for me personally)
3) overall enjoyment
Nomad appears to share some of Consul's internals, but it does not seem possible to use an existing Consul cluster as backing KV store/lock provider/etc. I'd like to understand why.
I suspect that ctbattags meant "can you expand on why these will make the situation get worse", rather than "can you expand on what these things are".

But I'm not ctbattags, and I'm not psychic, so I could be wrong...
Oakland is super dangerous too. Chicago has a million shootings every weekend. So what.
This is a great project. There's no reason that any textbook, academic paper, or even a video lecture today shouldn't have a Medium-like comment/question/discussion layer. Academic papers are a natural place to start for obvious reasons (they don't undergo multiple editions once published, for example). Unfortunately, for-profit academic publishers (Elsevier et al.) have little incentive to introduce these innovations, and PLOS seems to have done little beyond allowing people to add comments at the end of an article.

Starting with famous out-of-copyright academic papers is a promising idea -- at the very least, we will hopefully end up with community-annotated versions of classic papers, which would be a great development in its own right. How long does copyright last on academic papers anyway?

Collaborative annotation has to be the future of academic publishing; the more projects push us in that direction, the better.
I don't. I think it depends on who you are but I am not the sort of person to be easily offended. I didnt do a blog post because really outside of the premise your structure and objectives will be different. If your friends are shy and introverted You could do an anonymous post.
As far as consequences are concerned, traditional economics as opposed the the crap that currently in vogue teaches us the exact technique to deal with excess debt; wage and price inflation. That's how the US successfully retired it's WWII debt.
Would that mean that this water have a very high salt content since it is not frozen?
obviously tech companies win on work-life balance.

Here's a running list of banker suicides for this year if you have any doubt: http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/01/bankers-suicide-conspiracy/
I went through phases in school, partially driven I believe by the fact I was suffering from dyslexia but didn't know it (given I made it to graduation with good enough grades from a very decent uni, I wasn't diagnosed until 25. Sadly late diagnoses is a bit more common then you think) However as some people may appreciate, particularly during exam times, I became extremely introverted. Friends noticed a difference in my attitude and some felt I had issues with them so stopped talking to me. This is was not the case from my side and I tried to explain. Teachers thought I was "slacking" in class as I wouldn't participate as much given we were asked to do quite a bit of reading and it meant that in group work, whilst I was vocal, my work was slow. From these experiences I learnt something. The way I look at the world and interpret situations and experiences when I went through months and sometimes a good year of being like this was extremely different to when I was confident and out going. Fair enough mine personality drift was triggered by my dyslexia, different people can have different triggers. The outcome is similar.

Introverts are extremely affective influencers in chaotic scenarios, they are known, particularly in Asia due to their more low key and effective nurturing techniques to be powerful leaders. They have been on the receiving end of criticism more than most people and have learnt in hindsight what could have made them tick and let's be honest, in this day and age of everyone being encouraged to speak their mind, people stand out from the crowd if they have a knack for building up others and are committed to listening instead of talking. This idea is a strength of an introvert. However, these strengths take a while to come into play as to be able to recognise them as strengths within yourself requires confidence and that takes a ridiculous amount of time to attain yourself for someone who is introverted. One is only really taught to appreciate and how to harness the strengths of different personalities at business school or the working environment through various negotiation/project management or graduate workshops. The school system lacks high quality teachers who can bring these strengths out of their introverted students at younger age. Fact is, there is no doubt a negative correlation between the more students who are built up and those who become depressed or bullied. Group work could be even more better with their input and a lot of the time so would group dynamic. Sharing my two pennies worth...
Compile-time assertion of sizeof(type) in C
Thanks for sharing. Since the Peninsula doesn't have rent control, but DOES have Prop 13, it has separate circumstances, but still many of the same symptoms.
It would be nice if YC had a site (similar to triplebyte) searchable and sortable highlighting their startups, what they do and so on. For example I didn't know about your company until I read your profile. I would probably take a closer look if I knew you were a YC company.
> Comparing them or even holding them up as some sort of great goal for smartphone cameras seems kinda … dumb? … I don’t know, pointless? … short-sighted?

It seems like the opposite of short-sighted to me; to look beyond the limitations of today's technology and find ways to make the impossible incrementally more achievable over time.
>students chose schools that offered these amenities regardless of how much that increased the price.

Not really. Consider the alternative: public universities are 100% free to students, who must in turn maintain their GPA and achieve minimum progress to remain enrolled. Some public funds are allocated to student services, even while we pare back subsidized loans and grants. Students who are price sensitive will go to a public uni, while others with different objectives and expectations are free to take on loans or self-fund attendance at their preferred private uni that better caters to their goals.
I don't understand it, but as an SA there's also a lot of people who are incapable of thinking 5 minutes ahead to the next problem - which is also baffling because its pretty much the same as programming.

You setup a cronjob, did you code the script well, who does is notify, how do we know when it fails, what's the recovery strategy?
I read today that the estimated valuation of Medium is $400 million. I find that astounding.

Bear in mind that Bezos bought The Washington Post, no slouch in the journalism world, for $250 million not too long ago.

How big is Medium's traffic? Monthly uniques? Ad revenue? Or any revenue?

Where is the there there?
VeraCrypt Patches Two Newly-Discovered TrueCrypt Vulnerabilities
I use Vagrant regularly for development work and it is a good tool, however, it does still have a lot of issues. I have also gotten the sense over the years that HashiCorp developers could have been more responsive to users and addressed more of the issues that mattered most to the user base.

And now, with a new, complex, and broad product introduced...I just don't have a lot of confidence that the quality is going to be there or that it will ever fulfill the very large goals that are outlined.

I would prefer they focused on Vagrant and made it a really outstanding, polished tool.
Well, yeah, me too.
Guaranteed loans are part of the problem. That's why I think the funding should be provided to the school rather than the student. Same money, different mechanism. It would also force schools to justify their extravagant investments, and limit their ability to borrow against future tuition revenues.
Actually I'd love to be able to drop down to Python in my ansible playbooks/configs but ansible modules are very different to yaml/template files for the effort.
JQuery 3.0 alpha
The thing that gets lost in most statements similar to "$CITY is dangerous!", is that it's usually not the whole city. Parts of it are. If you know what parts and stay away from those, you'll be okay. There are parts of San Francisco that are probably pretty scary from the point-of-view of upper-middle-class folks but when you know SF well enough, you know where _not_ to go.

- Mexico is a beautiful place with plenty to do on a family vacation, as long as you know where you're going.

- Oakland has fantastic entertainment, art and food... as long as you know where you're going.

- San Francisco is great; well-known as a major international tourist attraction... as long as you don't go to... http://www.vice.com/read/hunters-point-is-san-franciscos-rad...
I don't think you can quite compare Medium to Tumblr. Different market, different users, different product, different end result. That is like doing a linear comparison of Water to Ice Cubes.
How to Measure Diversity
Probably because they did such a good job with Vagrant that they realized they were running out of things to do and decided, in the interests of job security, to ride the train a little longer by "pivoting."

Then again, who am I to complain? Vagrant is a superb tool and the endless and pointless reinventing of standards every few years keeps like 70% of us employed.
> Fine, but C++'s "niche" is larger than all but maybe four other language's total market share. So the word "niche" doesn't really fit very well...

If the niche is well-defined, the size doesn't really matter in many respects, because its effectively a completely different market, and it doesn't matter whether that markets large or small in terms of what goes on outside that market.
You will probably appreciate this - Liz Crain is an artist who does ceramic pieces that are made to look like old rusted cans (oil cans, etc.). Her husband is a retired typesetter, so some of her ceramic "cans" are related to typography. We bought one called Interrobang and immediately commissioned her to do a Keming can:

https://www.facebook.com/lizcrainceramics/posts/102056813368...
What a great step in the right direction. Every time I navigate through another government website in search of information, it is a different experience. I'm all for consistency and can't wait until this is well adopted in all the .gov's I find myself visiting.
Where and when I went to high school, it was "Plane Geometry."
So, I wouldn't say the risk is overrated, but instead that people can stomach different amount of risk.

I'd say both are true. In this very thread, a user was saying that one is essentially at the mercy of the host, when that's not true, or at least not usually. Sure, it's still more risky than an hotel reservation, but I'd still say the risk is overrated - it's not that riskier.
This is a fascinating look at the economics of the music industry. Rather than the typical techie bleating "labels are evil, downloads should be free" we get an insider's in-depth and articulate description of the history and current problems faced by the music industry. Top-notch graphs too.
But that takes ages to train!
It doesn't change my opinion because the logging for data scientists is different than for DevOps. For data scientists I assume it would be all application information going into either a queue or stream processor, or being inserted directly into a database, or being pulled out of a database during ETL.

Stuff going to syslog isn't generally going to be used for data science.
If one has to live there and be familiar with the local geography in order to know precisely how to reduce one's risk of getting carjacked, it's fair to describe it as "dangerous". There is a real difference between "danger with pockets of safety" and the reverse.
Good ol' Kingdom of Spain. Governments tend to rearrange ministries (fusing them, eliminating some and embedding their competences in another, or simply renaming them) and the URL changes accordingly, but most of the times links break, the styles of a former deleted ministry are different from the new host, etc.
Does this mean that development focus will shift from Vagrant to Otto?

Is Otto mean to replace vagrant?
Agreed. The iOS 9 keyboard just 'looks' unbalanced (tangential to kerning I know, but nonetheless).
The absolutely worst two things which happened to Blogger during the last few years are, IMO:

1. What I percieve to be excessive use of JS. You can't even load a blog post there (well, at least, couldn't last time I visited a dot-blogspot site) without an on-page spinner and a bunch of stuff apparently happening in the background.

2. The tld-redirect crap. Admitedly, I had actually thought a similar mechanism to be benefitial prior to seeing an actual implementation of it but I mean, come on, does this not annoy others? What's the advantage of that anyway? Google is capable of geographical load balancing with IP addresses alone just fine, what's the deal?

Disclaimer: These are my end-user reactions. I have never operated at the scale Blogger does so there may be reasons I am not aware of.
if overall enjoyment is the most important for you, you definitely should try tech companies.
I have untrained eyes, but I could not notice a single difference between the Helvetica icon screen and the SF icon screen, other than sliiiightly different kerning. The letters looked exactly the same otherwise.
I believe computing has 1 concept needed to be understood by programmers: Input & Ouput. That's all programming is.
I was hoping someone would catch that :)
As others pointed out, font hinting is solving a completely different problem from the one that Apple faces or that you describe. You describe the problem of displaying small text on a low-resolution grid. Font hinting is indeed a passable solution to that problem. However Apple's problem is displaying small text, period (Retina displays have plenty of resolution). The first sentence of the top link you give, "A quality outline font is one that provides legibility at small sizes on low resolution devices" tells us why this is not relevant. Nobody cares about low-resolution devices anymore. Apple set out to make things legible assuming infinite resolution.
That and their cost is relatively low from a business standpoint (and I say this as a security person myself). Even the worst breaches generally don't have much effect on the bottom line (Target is a great example). Ashely Madison and Code Spaces are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head that were bad enough to actually cause a material effect to the bottom line.
This might stray a bit from the core topic, but does anyone have resources (preferably free) about the theory behind what Nomad covers? Batch/job/task Scheduling, etc.
That 50% rate is very likely bogus. At best its almost entirely lacking supporting data. It derives from a study done decades ago, based on 26,000 national adults (which warns that it is too inaccurate to be projected at the local level). Like most similar stats, it has been abused ever since.

Further, nowhere in any Detroit study has there been a conclusion that 50% of Detroit's entire population is not functionally literate. That's not an exaggeration, no such study exists stating those figures.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/05/06/detroit-lite...
> I presume this is a throwaway/anonymous account, for obvious reasons.

My HN is PGP verified by keybase.io via my profile, and linked to most of my online identities ;). Unfortunately, I had some serious data corruption issues with a PW manager and lost my credentials. I "think" I can get my old account back but I don't have the password anymore. I would be happy to send along the info privately as I am about to read the other half tonight.

I also, wrote the post light heartedly which fits with my personality. "As you all know, I am an amazing individual and it is really difficult to measure the breadth of my greatness due to the vast amount of positive qualities and skills I have".

I wrote something like that and made some other jokes. This allows people to know you can take a joke, build up a bit of cockyness which people love to strike down, and also segue into the serious bits without too much fanfare. Also, I would bet that people are more likely to respond honestly via email because it is dehumanizing.

Feel free too email me at skg@samuel.engineer for the results. I haven't looked at all the responses yet as I had a lot going on today.
Awesome, thanks for sharing!
Inside YC.
Well, I'm sure that was an excuse, but seriously. Do you honestly think the kind of geeks that'd do this are really that important to a company like Netflix these days? Maybe at the beginning...

If I had to attribute anything, it's more of a recruiting move. They want clever hacker geeks working for them. Maybe they are moving into home automation and this will be an interview question? I dunno how effective that is, though. I think someone just said, yeah, screw it, let's do it!
Well, in that respect, every turing complete language is at feature parity, but I think the meaning of "feature" here for most people (I still think there's a few specific differences in people's interpretations) is "language construct making hard, complex to program construct or methodology more easily expressed through language level support."

That is, both C and Perl can implement Hash data objects, but C requires a library or implementation, and Perl makes it a core data type of the language.
Human art is dead. Long live software art
I think you've pointed out exactly the reason why this product exists.