skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It varies tremendously from company to company. 10 days is not unheard of, but for example at my job, new employees get 12 vacation days plus 15 holidays. I've been there 9 years and get 21 vacation days a year plus the same 15 holidays (my long-tenured coworkers and I often struggle to use all of our vacation; we tend to take a lot of Fridays off to stay under the six-week cap). By contrast, many low-wage jobs get no paid vacation.
Not in my experience. But as I have mentioned in my own top-level comment, I have been fairly diligent about unfollowing the people that produced noise in the stream.
Hmm - no SD port, and single USB-C and only comes in 32 or 64GB... I assume Google isn't intending for you to be offline with this device for extended periods.
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Not that I have anything against Surface, but, despite all the effort, it still isn't a touch-first device. And Windows isn't a touch-first OS. IPad will vastly outsell it, and despite Google doing a crap job marketing Android to businesses, so will Android tablets. That's because Windows tablets have never been touch-first, and a great finger-touch UX is what characterizes mobile devices.
> "To that end, we’ve spent the last two months doing detailed interviews with CTOs and lead recruiters at the top 25 Y Combinator companies."

How were you determining which YC companies were top?
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Very likely, but also typically not exposed to the internet. So there's definitely plenty of risk here, but an adversary would likely have to be within your network to query your DC.
The Automation of Things (AoT)
I liked the treatment of Sesame Street as a microcosm of celebrity. Of course the show would find the very first popular chord it hits and then jam on it with all the subtlety of Nickelback. There's way too much money in that, emotional maturity is bound to take a back seat.

I can understand the lamentations, but really, if you were expecting your kids to learn the hard lessons of life from television programs, you deserve all the tantrums you get.
> On Android today, nothing is built from the ground up for tablets.

shrug, the two most common applications for me are the terminal and chrome. If I had a Pixel C, I'd load a linux distro on it and be pretty content.
It seems like this is an abstraction on the idea of a light field camera. (i.e. each hole in the mask acts as a tiny piny hole camera in the composite ...)

edit: fix typo
Mozilla made a smartphone?
In this case the people who need to be educated are the sysadmin. You need to make your password policy more inspired by this XKCD https://xkcd.com/936/ than by forcing incredibly hard to remember passwords.
Most likely because if you are doing ML and do not have a PhD (or previous experience), you are just looking at calling a library function that you do not understand. The majority of 'machine learning meetups' (not in the Bay Area), are attended by programmers that are looking to figure out how to call an R package to give them recommendations or similar items in a list (clustering).

edit I just read the other replies to this post. I believe that most startups with Machine Learning teams are doing more than just calling R-libraries; most development work that I've done for myself and teams has been for tooling and operationalizing data infrastructure (i.e. data engineering, not data science). However if you need a simple recommendation for an app then calling the library methods without 100% understanding may be enough (but calling library methods without underlying understanding is a bad trait in a programmer (e.g. calling the sort() function without understanding quicksort)).
Is this why okcupid is down?
It's typical. Often you get 15 days/year with several years at a company. National holidays usually don't count.

I was at a start-up once where we got a new CEO who essentially canceled a week of "whole company time off" at Christmas. If you wanted that time off, it came out of your vacation. He didn't care . . . and soon after that, I didn't care, either :-)

[Didn't help that he was really scarce in the office that week...]
Precisely. It's a flaw (shortcut) in the human brain, with effects far beyond programming interviews. This is why structuring interview evaluation is so important
The last 20 seconds are impressively creepy.

I'm thinking this technology demo will be spliced into 5s edits for least one prime time TV show themed around shadowy intelligence agencies by middle of next year.

Show writers will be able to incorporate this as a plot enabler for upcoming episodes, assuming they haven't already finished shooting the current seasons.
My kids when they were 2 did not attach to Elmo. I do know that my older kid at 6/7ish was bored by Elmo.

So maybe it's just that Elmo is polarizing even with kids?
The Pixel "line" has consisted of one device: The Chromebook Pixel, which has had two revisions, the most recent just earlier this year.
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You can sync alot of Drive docs even with 16GB
I think you're underestimating Asimov. I agree the final two Foundation books are dire, and not just because of the characters.

The characters in his short stories - which I certainly recommend reading - wouldn't be out of place on an old SF TV show like The Outer Limits, but they're certainly not badly written. He's a very deft, economic writer.

What he doesn't write are the staple chracters of traditional litfic - intellectual/academic, neurotic, possibly violent or latently so, more or less obvious sexually frustrated, middle class people. Or maybe middle class people looking at working class people.

Like a small mammal, a lot of modern litfic has an unexpectedly limited emotional range. It may be cute, but it's not often clever.
My mother claims I sat in front of the TV utterly hypnotized by the "phonetics shadows," and that it's how I learned to read.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfQseUDQB2o

Is there anything like this available for kids now? It's so stripped down and catchy that, even as an adult, I could watch these all day long.
It looks like there are multiple UAF patches (of which DNAME is one). The bigger problem appears to be the UAF in Recurse_ProcessResponse[0], which implies it may be more than just DNAME records.

[0] - https://twitter.com/Laughing_Mantis/status/67429469573696716...
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If you're considering such a thing, remember our friend Benson Tested many USB C Cables on Amazon for you too. http://www.computerworld.com/article/3002159/computer-hardwa...
Hi Ammon/Harj, Thank you for that effort and laying it out. Very helpful.

Just so the readers don't miss the context: By definition, most companies referred here, I'm guessing, are startups. And startups will definitely want more product-focused engineers, in order to keep moving fast.

Interviewing in general, is closer to a date, than it's to a standardized test. The smaller the company is, the more pronounced that characteristic is. For even slightly larger companies, it's a different story.

When I was a Director of Engineering at Box, the engineering team was tasked with hiring 25 engineers in a single quarter. For several quarters. When hiring at that scale, it's hard to hire based on personas and elaborate preferences. At that point, process is more important. Anyone that meets a consistent process gets hired. There are always biases at resume selection, but those are only to benefit the later process, and not so much of a preference.

[About us: http://InterviewKickstart.com]
Well I'm pretty impressed.

observed traffic volume due to this event was up to approximately 5
million queries per second, per DNS root name server letter receiving
the traffic.

i.e. over 50 million queries per second distributed evenly across IPv4
The answer is open source. Where is the wordpress to google's analytics product?
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Most, but not all, DNS root name server letters received this query load.

Why would you want to take down every DNS server though? That's not a very effective tactic due to caching, and what's the motive?
That's pretty amazing. It won't belong before Tupac really does release a new album...
Confirmed, I am blind :\
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My data as an investor supports your point. For a lot of young startups -- especially those with <=5 people -- people often spend >=10 hours per week on recruiting. Not every person at the company will spend that much time, but a lot of founders spend a huge chunk of their week on recruiting.
They estimate 2-5%

"""

We’re investigating elevated error rates for some Google Cloud Platform users. We believe these errors are affecting between 2-5 percent of Google App Engine (GAE) applications. We are working directly with the customers who are affected to restore full operation in their application as quickly as possible, and apologize for any inconvenience. We will provide another status update by 2015-12-08 12:30 US/Pacific with current details.
"""

We are affected. All our GCS reads/writes.
“Within your network” could include anything from “using the guest wifi” to “got someone with an account to click on the wrong link / look at the wrong media file”.

Yes, it's not a worm. That doesn't mean it's not a big deal for a lot of people, particularly if they've already had a minor compromise by someone waiting for this kind of exploit to escalate.
Dieter Bohn and Walt Mossberg at the Verge weren't impressed either. Consensus seems to be that the hardware is solid, but tablet Android is still a mess. Worse, even if Google fixes the problems in the OS, there are (still!) virtually no 3rd-party apps that support tablet Android natively; they're all just blown-up phone apps. Not only does that ruin the experience but-- like Microsoft and their stalled phone ambitions-- it's not a problem Google can fix no matter how good their developers are. All the software patches in the world can't fix the issue of apathetic 3rd-party devs.
This is absolutely awesome to see, having done (fairly modest - masters level) research in this field in the past.

For the uninitiated, I'll try and summarise my understanding of the general concept of computational photography:

A 'traditional' camera uses a physical system of lenses to focus light to a single point (area really), where the light is captured and recorded, using either film or a digital sensor. The captured light information is then processed in whatever necessary way depending on the capture mechanism to ultimately produce a photograph. But all that's produced is one, singular photograph, that's an exact mapping of the physical properties of the lens system.

Computational photography tries to virtualise aspects of this process by modelling the system's optics, so that extra information can be inferred from the captured light using these models. This extra information can reveal things about the scene being captured (more the computer vision side) or be used to post-process different effects into the image after the fact in an intelligent way that uses real information about the scene (more the photography, art, side) such that the captured information represents a space of possible images of the scene, rather than just one singular point in that space (one photograph).

To increase the quality and quantity of this information, extra sensors, better sensors, different sensors (light field capture etc) are used, and modifications to the system can be made such as coded apertures, adjusting parameters like focal length and exposure time by known amounts, and collecting samples over a range of these modifications. Looks like a coded aperture is used in this technique for example but this article doesn't go into a lot of detail on that.

When you start thinking about the possibilities of working with image 'spaces' instead of photographs, both for practical computer vision applications and just plain cool art applications, it quickly becomes obvious what a fascinating and exciting (and important) field this is, and will be in the future.

It's really, truly, awesome to see an application of this relatively new field of research which could hit the mainstream in a big way - namely thinner, lighter, solid state cameras in phones, which it looks like this research could ultimately lead to. Bravo to everyone involved!
Yes, obviously it's a chicken and egg problem. Once they sell 100,000,000 "desktop" devices that'll change. The reason Microsoft Windows destroyed everyone else was because you couldn't get quality software for most other computers. Windows Phone can't gain traction because it lacks quality software, for example. The problem is that software rarely comes first.

In short, if enough people overlook Android's shortcomings, it'll eventually reach a tipping point.
Hah, I always preferred Grover. Then again Elmo wasn't a thing in 1983.
Use white space and minimal typeface variation in all your written materials.

Describe past work in terms of what was made, not tech used to make it. Relegate tech buzzwards to a minimal "skills" section of your resume.

Use the words "make," "things," and "world" liberally. Say you got into programming to make the things that you wanted to see in the world.

Have examples of things, especially small things, that a non-technical person could use or see.

Have a BFA in some quasi-technological process like stone lithography or ceramics. Describe approaching software with a similar sense of craft.
"A new global study of how doctors use wearable technology"

where's the global study?
Funny that Ctrl X followed by Ctrl V will paste what was there originally after it was cut
My girlfriend worked for a startup in Seattle that offered "unlimited vacation", mainly because they didn't want to pay out employees that stock-piled unused vacation days.

In reality, it was nowhere near "unlimited vacation" as everything still needed to be approved, and it was very common for vacation requests to not be approved for a variety of business reasons. She probably ended up with ~20-25 days off per year, including stat holidays, which is the same as you'd get at Google or Microsoft.
There is a publicly accessible list of US no-fly-zones which a drone operator can use to program their drone's geofences: https://www.mapbox.com/drone/no-fly/#
Agree that Kotaku is bad in general, but it is not fair to unilaterally disavow the publication from HN. Some Kotaku authors are very, very good (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10460393 )

The bad Kotaku articles rarely get submitted, and the ones that do never get upvotes. The system works.
Yeah, I totally agree. We actually asked YC Companies about their fire rates. The fire rate at most of the companies was under 6% (documenting a high false negative rate approach)
tl;dr 2.0:

1) MongoDB Inc have made a "foreign data wrapper" for PostgreSQL which enables MongoDB databases to be accessed from within PostgreSQL.

2) This makes data in MongoDB databases accessible to existing analytics software for SQL databases, which is often made by companies with lots of money.

3) The CTO of SlamData Inc, which makes analytics software for NoSQL databases, thinks that MongoDB Inc shouldn't have done that.

tl;dr 3.0:

A company faces increased competition; isn't happy about it.
What's the actual real world experience of using Linux on an Android tablet though? I've looked into it briefly and you can do things in a chroot environment which has some limitations, or run a more vanilla Linux distribution that very likely has none of the drivers, power optimizations, etc. needed to make a usable mobile machine. It just seems like a horrible experience but I'd love to be proven wrong.
It's not really a rule, more like an observed behavioral pattern :)

The idea is that a comment should add something meaningful - constructive discussion, sharing your personal experience with the topic being discussed. Also, as far as I know, posts with high comments/votes ratio are penalized (flame wars detection).
It would help reflection attacks that direct e.g. DNS responses to the target. It wouldn't help when the DNS servers themselves are the target.
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Android is a hit with youth, and the less technical interface compared to the desktop is very welcome to older generations and those who are less technically saavy. Believe it or not, there are many people out there who still struggle with a mouse. Though ChromeOS supports touch, the apps they run generally are built around a mouse, whereas Android apps are ALWAYS built around touch.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Gecko-iOS links to https://hg.mozilla.org/users/tmielczarek_mozilla.com/gecko-i... which exists, again without much of a UI. The build instructions are in the wiki.
My two year old has no interest in Elmo. He's more interested (right now) in Pixar characters, and to a lesser extent Masha and the Bear. One could argue Masha is an equivalent to Elmo, though probably worse overall being a much less educational show. But the obsession with Pixar is fascinating to me. Not just Toy Story and Cars, but Wall-E and Up. Very proud of that, and impressed by Pixar frankly.
So it's not the first time this chart is actually posted on HN but actually almost everything is wrong on it. German does not include Austria, French does not include African countries, Chinese should be splitted, English and Russian numbers are way too low (I suspect at least half of the population of Ukraine speaks Russian). And there is I'm sure lots of other mistakes.
Have you worked at multiple jobs over those 10 years? As a hiring manager (working with only the limited data you've provided here) I'd be concerned that you value stability very highly, and you might be thrown by the rate of change (in requirements, tools used, business goals, desired feature set, etc) that is typical of a startup. Long tenure at a single job suggests you enjoy getting deeply specialized and developing mastery of a stable set of tools, which is needed at a certain stage of company but not at most early-stage startups.

Is that true of you? I.e. would you be frustrated by 3-4x/year significant churn in your technological tooling and top-level business goals? Would you be excited to learn a few new toolsets? If so, why haven't you done that on your own?
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previously and previously and previously.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20Ken%20Thompson%20Hack&so...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=reflections%20on%20trusting%20...
I have the broadcast running in the background (http://voinaimir.com/#broadcast) and despite not understanding anything, I find it inspiring and for some reason tremendously beautiful.
Would I be able to put a linux distro on it (I know that Android is linux, but...)?
> So, this is a device that could easily have been delivered with ChromeOS, but instead is running Android. In fact, I don't think the Pixel line has ever had an Android device, am I correct?

OTOH, Google has not ever released a device that was intended to operate without a keyboard and pointing device as a main interaction mode with ChromeOS. One of those
"not ever before" things was going to have to fail with with a Pixel tablet.

Honestly, I'm entirely unclear as to what "Pixel" as a brand is now (it used to be a brand-modifier in the Chromebook line), but branding without clear semantics is probably better than putting an OS that is less proven in a touch-first role on a tablet.
Many drones don't use WiFi, and at the speeds that aircraft are usually travelling you'd need a fairly large radius of effect on your WiFi jammer.

What happens when the drone's emergency behaviour is to either hold position or simply fall out of the sky?
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That explains why the data are visualized the way they are in the view menu :)
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I really liked how this analysis was done. Though i dont work in recruitment i have to work with CEOs often and notice similar approaches to hiring for other job roles as well. Way too similar in fact. I'd love to meet a recruitment company that is taking the same approach as TripleByte or perhaps TripleByte will aim to address other fields at some point. Either way its exciting.
Well you really should not be surprised about Google pushing for online all the time, app store, cloud services. It's the same business model as them, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon all set their sights on a few years ago.
Apple chose not support 32 bit devices in their blocking API, which isn't too unreasonable. I imagine it kept the code quite a bit cleaner (or avoided having to run parallel implementations to get good speed).
I think Sesame Street is for children from ages up to six or so. Spending as much time on Elmo as they do, in my opinion, drastically shrinks their audience. Children who would watch Sesame Street at age 5 find Elmo dull and switch to something else.

For sure, my evidence is anecdotal: my daughter enjoyed the show from ages two to three, maybe a year and a half total, and now has zero interest. She still finds Elmo cute and cuddly but gets bored by his segments way before they end.
Ultimately it comes down to how many expectations you're placing on the company you work for. If you're one of those who vets the company harder than the company vets prospects, then by all means cut out the middleman and do the legwork yourself. A hired gun is just going to get in the way.

If your job is just a vehicle to enable your lifestyle, like mine, then you'll be able to establish a set of criteria and only work with a recruiter that respects those criteria.
I agree, but I am skeptical of the information age's ability to guarantee employment for a large proportion of the population relative to agriculture (when everyone had to work for there to be enough food) and industrialization (where industry required a large human labor force).

There was a commenter on HN who said once: "When cars replaced carriages, did the horses get new jobs?"
Congrats to my friend and fellow GNU hacker Chris Webber for receiving this grant!
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There are other backup applications that encrypt locally before sending to server. Two examples are https://www.tarsnap.com/ and https://www.haystacksoftware.com/
As far as objectives go? Health. Physical size and energy. I do think better after pushing myself at the gym and currently I'm still scaling up that sort of effort. Once I'm leading a non-sedentary lifestyle I think that would be a better description of baseline performance.

Meditation is also a pretty decisive win for me and once again it's something that has to be done consistently for benefits to be sizable and stable.

Even if it comes down to refreshing myself every day with the same routine for four to six hours and the rest is working at something that is worth doing, and I live that day over and over for most of the year, I think it would be worth it.

I was not born with any obvious defects although I don't think I'm exceptional by any means when compared against others in the middle class. Growth is one of those things that occurs when you focus on the derivative instead of the total objective function
Well, the title says they stopped using Google analytics, and the article explained that they stopped using Google analytics, why they did it, and what they're doing instead. You may not find it interesting, but the title clearly reflects the content, so I'm not sure how it's click bait.
> Imagine how mistaken that would sound if you substitute "startup founders" for "programmers."

Isn't that pretty common among incubators and VCs? It's not the only factor, but for first-time founders, being from Stanford is a large plus when it comes to getting in the door. If you already have a track record then of course they just go by that. But when it's your first company, I don't think the "startup ecosystem" is any less reliant on these kinds of signalling credentials to filter the large volume of people who want funding.