skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here - thanks a lot! :) I think many of the emerging performance bottlenecks in webdev are on the client rather than the server, so there's definitely a lot more research that needs to be done here. In particular, I feel like the whole "web worker" angle has been seriously overlooked, even though the tech is ~5 years old.
But you've got 100+ people trying putting their bag overhead and usually only 1 or 2 people physically in a 737 loading baggage (because it's so small).

Plus surely the airport is going to charge more to handle 100+ checked bags vs 5? And if there is a big problem with the baggage system and none of the baggage arrives, you've got a much bigger problem if everyone's baggage is checked vs only a handful of items...

Interesting.
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Apparently major chefs don't care for the Michelin stars:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/09/top-chefs-michelin...
Kind of a cop out answer. Obviously some recidivism is caused by some people being predisposed to crime, but when some countries have recidivism rates that are half of other countries' rates, can you really claim that it explains all of it?
It's actually pretty fast now, could take max one day to get something like that with https://github.com/anvaka/ngraph.offline.layout
That's less Dunning-Kruger and more appeal-to-authority fallacy.
How are you possibly going to get compensated when the transmission falls out a week after you rented the car out?
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It betrays a lack of confidence in the cultural queerness of NYers to imagine that their interests will be served by "one big suburban shopping mall." Do not fear: something weird and wonderful will always take root.

Probably not in those places where the rent is really high, though. It was ever thus.

So you will have to measure: is having the sense of being on the cultural vanguard worth enough to move to bohemia, leaving your rent-controlled apartment in a now-gentrified neighborhood? If not, you don't qualify. If so, you do.

Why do people who live in some of the most diverse and dynamic cities want them to stay the same?
I would suggest renaming the IONIZE, NEUTRALIZE functions (macros?) to something more boring but descriptive like wrap_key, unwrap_key.
Well, if all you were saying is that given the exact same requests, the exact same responses come back then you don't have to co-ordinate changes, then I'd agree. I'm not sure that's a particularly controversial point.

Although that does involve knowing your responses are identical.

If my results are different at all I would need to notify people downstream.
People don't use their legs because most people can't afford to live near their place of employment. It's hardly just people being lazy.

The average travel time to work in the USA is 25 minutes. That's in a car.

And I'm saying this as someone who walks to work. I'm aware of how lucky I am.

http://project.wnyc.org/commute-times-us/embed.html#5.00/42....
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> This may come off as sour grapes, but it's really important for Musk to point this out.

It does come off as sour grapes and it absolutely wasn't important for Musk to point this out. His PR team needs to deal with this, not him. He can send out congratulations and rah-rah for another amazing achievement for humanity, but his PR needs to get on the ball and show what the differences in goals and achievements BO and SpaceX have. They also should look at this as a failure to explain what the whole landing phase means for both companies. He can stay above the the whole thing. Its not like Bezos is beloved (the whole Stark / Hammer comparison is not far off).
Thanks Gayle. And thanks also for the huge amount of detail and care in your book. It is meticulous and brilliant.

What would you advise for the situation above? The rejection was certainly as a result of my actual coding performance, but I felt like the interviewer played a significant part. The company (strongly) encourages use of your book so I presumed the interviewer would encourage dialogue, give suggestions, give feedback, etc. He gave me a Leetcode question, answered my first question with a smirk ("what output format did he want from the function"), and sat in silence while I threw out ever suggestion I could think of.

Am I just deceiving myself? Do other people push through that awkwardness and disdain?

Anyway - thanks again. I appreciate your book and advice.
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Yeah, until a man gains easy access to 17-year-old girls' housing, then everyone will flip out. I mean, it's one thing to break stuff to get in, or conspicuously pick a lock, it's another to casually slide a card like everyone else and leave no trail other than maybe video surveillance or access logs showing the same card being used at two ends of campus faster than possible (which nobody will check until something bad happens and they go looking at that data.)

I had a similar experience at my university. I found easy unauthenticated sourcing of most of the data needed to clone the card of anybody by name. The issue number was the only thing to guess, but easy to bruteforce on something low-stakes like vending machines. The card was used for food, a debit-card-like system, automated door locks to semi-public buildings and on-campus housing.

With the permission and cooperation of the university security, I made a card of a high-level security guy (who could have been targeted using the public/semi-public org chart) and swiped into their datacenter where all the university data is hosted, along with that of some partners with sensitive data. Luckily the innermost parts need an RFID or something which I didn't have access to, but potentially I could have tailgated or social-engineered my way into that. They weren't interested in letting me research whether I could crack the RFID. :(

I was told my demo made a big splash, but IIRC I checked a year or two later and my source for the ID data was still wide open. There's having imperfect locks and then there's leaving all your keys out in public.
I'd encourage you to read a bit more on arbitration. The more people know, the less they tend to see it black-or-white.

Arbitration is routinely used to place contract parties at an unfair disadvantage in dispute resolution. It is also routinely used to avoid and compensate for various shortcomings of the publicly administered, publicly funded judicial system, which takes years to decide most anything, without the benefit of any experience in the area. Arbitration also plays a roll in international disputes, especially for business in countries without effective legal systems. If you're Russian in 1992, you're not going to attract billions in outside investment in reliance on your local legal system.

If you'd prefer a high-level metaphor to start: It's perfectly possible to believe folks should have access to both public and private mail carriers. Perhaps, as in the US, certain kinds of mail service should only come from the government; that's up for debate. Maybe certain kinds of mail service shouldn't be offered at all, like mailing children or dangerous chemicals.

Right now it's possible to litigate publicly (in court) and privately (arbitration). Consumer and other less-powerful parties can agree to arbitrate, but courts are very skeptical of such contracts. On the other hand, if you want to change what public law means for the public at large, you have to litigate publicly. Neither do we arbitrate criminal matters, though some plea bargain processes come close, engendering much controversy.
unikernels are only single language now for convenience and research purposes. in the future you'll probably compile to something similar to the llvm ir and generate a unikernel from that. there'll probably be a standard /dev/random, a standard tcp stack, a standard http parser, etc
John Ruskin was a prominent art critic during the late 1900's who held in great esteem the academic art of the period. His works are a good illustration of the generally held attitudes of that period, but he was on the wrong side of the notion of abstraction that began to take root in Paris. Further reading: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turn...
I can sympathize with your frustration, but it sounds like your car was on the cusp of all sorts of trouble when you left it with FlightCar.

I don't know their policies, but if I was the person renting your car - I would have been extremely frustrated that FlightCar even accepted your vehicle into their renting pool.

I do hope it all works out well for you though - and your story has successfully discouraged me from leaving my car with any such service.
Not that Blair/r000t deserves this sort of retaliation, but he definitely was heavily involved in similar activity himself in the past, and has poked the hornet's nest many a time.

Warning: graphic/obscene content.

https://encyclopediadramatica.se/R000t

https://r000t.com/
Yahoo's fantasy football was super popular, why was no effort put in to make a competing product to Draft King?

Tumblr acquisition was not a good one. It was too web oriented and users were moving more to mobile.

It takes a long time to reverse momentum, and to try a lot of things.
It was the thermostat and radiator, and I wasn't expecting / never asked for compensation for that. But the shop they took it to was going to charge $200 more than I ended up paying because they wanted to do things in a way that didn't really make sense / was easier for FlightCar.
And this guy is an undergrad. Holy shit.

This is the moment I am reminded of how much down the foodchain I really am.
If the problem you're solving is bringing E2E encryption to the masses, then starting with a site that brings up

"Your connection is not private

Attackers might be trying to steal your information"

as the very first thing I see is not really leaping over the first hurdle.
I can believe there was a bad experience, but even without seeing FlightCar's response, this story doesn't completely cohere.

* The vanity-lights in the sun-visors shouldn't "short out" just from being "left open". (It might drain the battery, or shorten the life of the bulb... but simply being 'open' wouldn't/shouldn't cause damage.) The actual failure may have been due to lifetime wear & tear, or perhaps even atypical use prior to the rental period... in which case FlightCar's responsibility is murky.

* The VW dealer price for repair is insane. Yet even though customer is displeased at FlightCar having slightly overestimated the radiator/themostat fix cost (by $200), customer expects FlightCar to cheerfully accept highest-possible cost for his own reimbursement.

Doing what this customer seems to want – generous reimbursement for something that isn't indisputably related to the incremental use during the rental period – might not be tenable for the business even if everyone was acting in good faith. And if FlightCar had a reputation for generous reimbursements, it would also attract people acting in bad faith: blaming FlightCar for preexisting issues that could be snuck by the check-in/check-out inspections.

The difficulty of tracking and resolving such issues may be a fatal flaw in the FlightCar business model.
Morale challenges tend to go hand in hand with moral challenges.
I've never rented from a person (only from apartment communities); is there no background check involved in these cases?
https://sports.yahoo.com/dailyfantasy/
If you click the timestamp of his comment there should be a [vouch] link. Clicking that should unkill his comment.

See this thread (and the sub it links to) for more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298512
I work on Daily Fantasy at Yahoo and would just like to point out that we do compete with DK/Fanduel :) https://yahoo.com/dailyfantasy/
Yeah, there is a reason that my first assertion was we need a more pedestrian friendly world.

Before life got in the way, I wanted to be an urban planner. So I am not just making stupid comments off the cuff. I have thought about the problem space and studied it some, formally even. Plus gave up my own car some years ago.

Better public transit would help. We don't need to walk the entire way to have a pedestrian life. We just need to be able to get there without a car.
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Agreed, the car's radiator was definitely not happy. FlightCar's policies are that they don't check or guarantee the condition of cars, which is a bit ridiculous. Kind of like AirBnb but for a hunk of metal that can go 100mph.

For reference, it's a 10-year-old Pasaat with 65k miles on it. I expect big repairs every once in a while, but some of this was actual damage.
I see a lot of parallels between Marissa Mayer's tenure at Yahoo and Dick Costolo's tenure at Twitter. Dick left two quarters ago and Twitter is still struggling to meet investor expectations.

I have a feeling that there are structural problems at Yahoo, like Twitter, that even a unicorn CEO would have difficulty fixing. A lot of analysts and investors seem very leadership oriented in their blame anyway.
oops, in my defense, I have never seen that product till now. Draft king throw their ads everywhere.
It's an EC2 instance running inside a VPC using a custom Amazon Linux that uses some LXC trickery to contain your process. In theory EFS is possible.
Because the traditional parking costs $5-15/day, while FlightCar may be paying you $5-15/day?

On a long trip, the difference could be hundreds of dollars in your favor – helping to cover your car/insurance payments while your car would otherwise be idle.
I like the idea of McDonald's hamburger as a symbol of mass produced luxury. Reminds me of when John Gruber quotes Warhol on Coca Cola. Whether or not the product is to your liking, you have to be impressed at the level of consistent quality that they can apply to an industrial food production process.

Chipotle may be the ascendant totem of aspirational ethnic food diners, but more tribute should be paid to the original cultural assimilation cuisine.

Recently on my first trip to New York, I was blown away by the Manhattan pizza shops. There is a huge number of independent proprietors, and each has their own, slightly differing process for making pizza. It's tasty food with lavish ingredients - meats, cheeses, fresh vegetables. Watching the queues at lunch, it was interesting to see such variety in customers - white, black, business suits, working class, etc. There didn't see to be any dominant demographic.

That level of uniqueness made me wonder why pizza is not a more celebrated food. It certainly has the same characteristics that enable Tokyo ramen otaku to write blogs painstakingly deconstructing their meals. Perhaps once the current anti carb movement dies down, it will come back into fashion.
Well, seeing as it's only been 958 days since they promised improved customer service, we should really cut them some slack here..
"Ms. Mayer called a meeting with senior executives in August and asked them to sign a written agreement to stay with the company for at least three more years, according to two people familiar with the meeting."

Is such an agreement enforceable? Or is this some meaningless pledge?

If you want people to stay, give them a decent financial incentive.
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Usually for sites like Airbnb.com, the only "background check" is looking at the potential renter's profile
I worked at LLNL 2001-2005 as a mechanical engineering. It was a very nice place to work. I had to go through the clearance process and that was the weirdest part. They sent people to interview a camp councelor I had when I was 10 years old! I also had to list every address I had lived at and every country I had ever visited with cooresponding dates.

Given the huge amount of personal data the government now has on me it was quite concerning when the OPM had 21.5 million government employees information hacked, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/07/0...
> There's a huge spike of value created when you cross the threshold of "you really don't need to think about sysadmin stuff, you can just focus on the application layer."

Right up until you discover that availability and data integrity and security are still problems, as you discover when it turns out your understanding of Amazon's AZs is faulty and your business goes offline.
> Police on patrol are only available to those who can afford it.

Police already regularly patrol SF's streets. This program provides security-guard-esque services that include special, additional patrols of the exterior and interior of a building.
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It's enough for me to live the way I live right now, indefinitely. I currently live in silicon valley paying very high rent ($1100/mo). If I didn't want to work I could live somewhere a lot cheaper.

"Retirement" means different things to different people. I was talking about financial independence, which means I can choose to retire, but more likely it will mean I find work I enjoy more, without considering the pay as much.

There are some risks, nothing is guaranteed:
- I could have health problems that cost me too much even with health insurance
- The market could crash and never recover

But if the market crashes and doesn't recover, maybe I'd have to go back to work for a while. Health problems are a risk for everyone, and no amount of money is going to guarantee good health. However, I bet that leaving the office job early will reduce the risk of health problems overall anyway.
This is training on top of the regular police training, mind.
It's not useless, it taught me that weight fluctuates a lot by the hour and some by the week (;

I took the average of the 3-4 last days at the same time (about waking up) is a good enough approximation. Once I learned this, "more often" means once daily, as opposed to "once monthly" (if any). It wasn't only about the hard number, it was about the motivation.
Heroku is more like Elastic Beanstalk than Amazon API Gateway. API Gateway is more of a Backend As A Service as I understand it, like Parse.
Can't respond to your first point as I don't really know, but I've only used those lights about three times in the lifetime of the car, so wear and tear is a hard thing to state. Proving anything is anyone's fault is an issue whenever insurance is involved, and generally comes down to trusting someone's word.

I definitely would take the car to another shop to get fixed, and the FlightCar rep knew this. The disagreement was not over price, it was over whether they'd cover repair at all.
One comedian back in the day was talking about "This amazing car I had on the weekend - it could go straight from 4th gear into Reverse: it was a rental car!"...
What I don't get is why visor lights would cost so much and why would they short out because they were left on. This says as much about VW as it does about FlightCar.

Bummer about FlightCar.
Couldn't read the article because it appears to be behind a paywall.

On the topic of Marissa Mayer though, has any analysis been done that's an overview of Meyer's major decisions/actions? I seem to see pieces come out almost monthly on things she's been doing at Yahoo, but as someone who doesn't follow executive movers and shakers too much, I don't want to come to an early judgement without fully understanding what her impact is.

That said, I can't help but feel that many of her early "successes" were coincidental and overly hyped, mostly as a result of Yahoo's fortunate investment in Alibaba. If I were currently seeking employment I would be extremely dubious towards anyone trying to convince me that Yahoo isn't still running on fumes, despite all the hype.
I am just throwing this out here.

Reading this thread, I thought of a meet-up type of group where the purpose would be to lie to the person in front of you. If the person buys X amounts of lies then you get Y amount of points.

What does lying have to do with interviews?
Nothing at all, but to make a person believe you, you must utilize and have a full comprehension of the social dynamic that occurs in a interview.(IMO)

Like I said, I am just putting this out there. However one thing is certain you need humans for this, it can not be a program. Also lying and wondering if that person believes you would add the stress of uncertainty that inherently comes with interviews. A minimal simulator.

I do not think this will ever gain traction, as the community of people interested to participate would not be centrally located geographically.

An other alternative is to invest in an interview coach. I know old school but I think this is the route to go. If you can find a HR professional who does IT headhunting. Her wisdom is priceless. Search for HR firms and head hunters on linkedin or whatever they are called officially and you will get the angle from the insiders. Might be pricey but I would consider it an investment.

just my 2 cents
(the comments show how they overlap a little bit)

OH. Thank you. This is what I was missing; I understood "cover" to mean "tile" and thought the bottom row was just misprinted slightly.
IQ (g) is highly inheritable at the high end and less so at the low normal range. It is like height. Almost all tall people have tall, well nourished parents, but many short people in the world were malnourished as children.

On this note I have found that replacing g/IQ with height in any conversation about human genetics make for a more civilised discussion.
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These special patrols are on top of regular police patrols. You can think of this program more as a rent-a-cop-as-a-security-guard program. Part of the services provided are additional patrols of the exterior and interior of a building.

Frankly, I would be really weirded out if SF made a habit of running patrol officers regularly through every building in the city.
Just Google the title and click the first result. That's how you can beat most paywalls.
This is one of the things most scientists envy physicists for. I would estimate 95% of those papers are copyrighted, and yet, since we have had this structure for so long, no publisher tries to pursue us for sharing our work with the public for free.

I don't know about other fields of physics, but in astro, most of the data is free access as well. I personally work only with public data and I'm paid to do it. A string attached to governmental funding from the Euro or NSF is usually a mandated free access database.

Sometimes I take for granted the fact that my morning ritual involves reading every publication in my field from the day before, without license. And then I download some free data, program in my free languages, write in my free latex editor, and then publish my work for free in a place anyone can read it. It's utopic.

edit: two archives with a lot of different missions data for example:
http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/frontpage/
https://archive.stsci.edu
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I had a really excellent online class in Negotiation and Conflict Management. A simulation was part of it. I thought it was really good.

So, look for a class, either online or local.
You'd assume that if a CEO were asking you to sign such an agreement, they would offer some sort of incentive in return. Otherwise it seems more like an ultimatum for you to declare your loyalty.
Looks like pokeapi does use Veekun's data: http://pokeapi.co/about/
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That's a lovely story.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10622288 adds context.
From the anime, the Pokedex actually speaking the description was always immersive. Maybe some client side TTS library could be built into this.
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