skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi everyone,

I'm Joshua Hartman, the lead engineer for all of LinkedIn's consumer products. Thanks for all the passionate feedback here and we really appreciate it. I just wanted to say that we've been hard at work trying to improve the clarity of our products over the last year and this is something that we will continue to focus on going forward. Many of you have spoken of high volumes of emails. In 2015 LinkedIn built a piece of infrastructure called the "Air Traffic Controller" to make sure our communications are relevant. This infrastructure enabled us to cut the volume of email we sent by 50% and reduce customer complaints by 40% in 2015 - http://blog.linkedin.com/2015/11/10/sending-less-email-is-ju.... We know we have a lot more work to do for LinkedIn to work really well for the tech industry, and we have heard you and will keep refining the experience.

Thanks!
- Josh Hartman
Serious question - what convinced you to sign up for the premium in the first place?

Job-seekers get like, 5 InMails and 3 useless search filters, plus some vanity fluff that does nothing (who viewed your profile).

5 InMails may be worth the price in some cases, but I've always felt the jobseeker service was somewhat predatory. That you found it worthwhile makes me curious - am I missing something?
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> Gitcolony.com

> In our servers

> This is our cloud hosted version of Gitcolony which we operate and maintain for you.

git is distributed. Gitcolony is not distributed. For that matter GitHub, as a review tool, is also not distributed. For an example of a commercial tool with distributed reviews see http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/review

For an example of an open source tool with distributed reviews see https://github.com/google/git-appraise
Another candidate: http://www.basscss.com/
Git is distributed..
My experience too with companies in SV and several other States. Even if they accept a URL they insist on a file upload too. As an interviewer I like LinkedIn's format. It's far easier to read and easy to click through to previous employer's, recommenders, etc. compared to a resume.
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And within 2 min some one will paint a face on their ding dong and bypass your image recognition system.
The product is not "git"...
I really wish that I could switch back to google's algo from 10 years ago...
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From Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy:

It was an Ident-i-Eeze, and was a very naughty and silly thing for Harl to have lying around in his wallet, though it was perfectly understandable. There were so many different ways in which you were required to provide absolute proof of your identity these days that life could easily become extremely tiresome just from that factor alone, never mind the deeper existential problems of trying to function as a coherent consciousness in an epistemologically ambiguous physical universe. Just look at cash point machines, for instance. Queues of people standing around waiting to have their fingerprints read, their retinas scanned, bits of skin scraped from the nape of the neck and undergoing instant (or nearly instant --- a good six or seven seconds in tedious reality) genetic analysis, then having to answer trick questions about members of their family they didn't even remember they had, and about their recorded preferences for tablecloth colours. And that was just to get a bit of spare cash for the weekend. If you were trying to raise a loan for a jetcar, sign a missile treaty or pay an entire restaurant bill things could get really trying.

Hence the Ident-i-Eeze. This encoded every single piece of information about you, your body and your life into one all- purpose machine-readable card that you could then carry around in your wallet, and therefore represented technology's greatest triumph to date over both itself and plain common sense.
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Since no one claimed it to be revolutionary, I hope you aren't beating yourself up over that embarrassing personal failure.
> I've yet to see any technology that can replace an old fashioned master password as the 1st factor.

Since a few weeks I'm using the Windows Hello system on my new Surface Pro 4. Its using facial recognition, and it's pretty awesome: turn on the PC, sit still for a second, it greets you, logs in and you can work. For two factor logins I use the Microsoft Account app on Android, which also works very well (no typing a code, just approve the request on the phone).

Now only if Microsoft would fix the power/sleep issues with Surface 4, it would be perfect.
I think people greatly exaggerate how easy it is to catch up to Tesla for an established player. GM, Ford, BMW, Mercedes might have 100 years of deep knowledge in ICE engine design an manufacture. But that knowledge is worth nothing with an electric car which is completely different. Tesla is the company with the longest experience here. Not only that but they changed the fundamentals about how you build a car. They make most stuff in house and have very quick turn over times. They can do tweaks in 5 minutes which the competitors require a month to change due to the reliance large number of external suppliers. The competition is weighted down by legacy requirements. They need to build common platforms which can be used for both their ICE and electric cars. Tesla has no such concerns to worry about.

Tesla has a simple streamlined operation: They do almost everything in house and they only have to focus on electric cars. No other distractions.

They also have a sort of hidden weapon in the form of SpaceX. They have higher expertise than any other car maker on working aluminum from reusing the knowledge gained from SpaceX. Elon Musk can trickle down a lot of know how from his SpaceX operation. Most car companies are not using synergies from spaceship companies :-D
Great move by the docker team. The promise of containers has always been to make the environment that processes live in super lightweight, with a minimum of unnecessary binaries and permissions. Having a full ubuntu installation per container has been a major hazard to that, as it's required the use of overlays and other tricks to avoid having huge disk overhead per container. Moving to a much lighterweight base image means you need fewer overlays, because you can pay the 5mb cost for days. It also reduces the attack surface by a lot, for much greater security.
It's a good way to see who's been texting before phones allowed you to bypass the 140chat limit and reconstruct multiple messages into a single one.

Additionally it's also a good indicator of some one who uses Twitter way to much and has either polluted their autocorrect with this shorthand or have way too much confidence in their grammar and spelling skills and just hove autocorrect off.
"six-figure salary" implies a log scale, I would think. So 185k is about a quarter of the way from 100k to 1M. Still potentially "low", I suppose.
Work is for internal team use, I think, not for personal professional development. Users accounts won't persist across multiple jobs.
I heard Apple is selling the Mattel View-Master device on their own site and will soon have it in their stores. The build quality of it looks very good and the price is not bad.

I like the Wearality Sky, but not the price. It's going to be ridiculously expensive. I think it gives the best smartphone experience without additional IMU hardware like the GearVR, but not $100-125 dollars more than a regular cardboard better.

The Homido Mini is very cool. It folds up and fits in your pocket. It doesn't encompass the phone, it only clips on. Looks like opera glasses, almost. And for "Google Cardboard", it might actually be ideal because you're never going to try to use it for an extended period of time, but it fulfills that role of "cheap thing to give people an idea". It's so easy to just whip out at parties or whatnot.

If you want the literal cardboard box, I suggest the Unofficial Cardboard 2.0+. It modifies the Google design slightly to make it more comfortable and durable.
Ah, interesting. It looks like that feature has been added to Varnish Cache Plus, but it hasn't yet made its way into the generally-available open source product.
Well for one thing the "SELECT *" query will typically yield for results a runtime-typed flat list of fields/values as accessed via a generic database access api.

Whereas as an applications programmer I'd rather deal with structures that make sense in my domain of interest, and let the marshalling code from SQL results be handled for me, and with compile-time checking for correctness. When that's coupled with a database schema reverse engineering tool (not sure if this project provides one), that way whenever the database changes, compile errors will result, which errors allow me to quickly hunt down places in my code that are affected and need changing.
How are you a junior developer after 10 years of experience? That's pretty mid/senior level at that point.
Why don't they do that?
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Depends on what you want to do, but overall not much. Standard lines hung on towers run from $1 million to $4 million a mile, depending on terrain and other factors.

Though, we already have an electric grid and you can do a lot by simply shifting where each area's supply is coming from. AKA town A get's power from town B's power plant town B, get's power from town C's power plant etc.

Also, a lot of this infrastructure is a ~20+ year problem. So, a 50 billion dollar bill spread over 20 years spread over the entire US is ~8.50$ per year per person.
Definitely agreed and have some nice charts that show this, I should add them to the site. Although I would point at 24 hour window doesn't make sense.
You're never going to get 100% immersion from any current model phone and passive viewer contraption.
Hello all,

I am looking for feedback on how to make the three.js demo more mobile friendly and easier to manipulate and control.

Thank you,
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Google's definition (which is a good starting point) of intelligence: "the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills."

As far as I know, we have very little if anything in the way of software that accomplishes general learning (not limited to a specific domain).
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Fortran: Created 1957
C: Created 1972

And those where not simply 15 years, they were a very important 15 years of development.

Relatively, C is more modern than Fortran. It is also certainly more widespread.
Checkout is a product looking for a reason to exist and crippled with Visa-specific branding.
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> Javascript isn't interpreted, it is dynamically typed, but there is a compilation process before any JS code even executes.

Being interpreted and dynamically typed are not mutually exclusive. Regardless I'm not going to get into a pedantic argument about what is or isn't an interpreted language because it's ridiculous. If you feel strongly about JavaScript not being an interpreted language, as per your personal definition of interpreted languages, then feel free to update the wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreted_language).

> The plugin system is great. But updating, searching, parsing, is very slow.

I haven't noticed. By the time I get to the point of needing a search function over a project (because in file is instant) it's not the fastest operation in any editor.

> Have you tried displaying the keybindings? It takes forever.

Yeah though I've never noticed any slow down in doing so (seems to open in less than a second every time I try it on my MacBook Air). Regardless keybindings is something I'd open once every 3 months-ish; so it could take 20 minutes to open for all I care as long as the editor itself is fast and improves my productivity, which at the moment it does (I previously used Sublime).

I move to whatever editor makes me more productive. I have no loyalty here. I tried Visual Studio Code which was pretty nice but I'm too used to tabs and had to move back to Atom.
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The Chinese curse might be now updated to "may you wind-up dependent on 'really interesting novel applications'..."

Machine learning-derived applications are impressive and give a good show until one winds up in a situation where they are expected to work reliably. Sure, it's nice that the insurance company's phone-based, voice-recognition-driven, registration/etc system can understand 99% of the choices people give them - except total failure in that 1% is actually going to leave a large population unserved and angry. Of course the company has keypad backup - except they don't 'cause that would cost the money they claimed voice recognition could save, etc.

Machine learning apps are great for situations where
1) You don't expect 100% reliably and the degree of non-reliably doesn't have to even be quantified.
2) Either you are accept that they'll degrade over time and have an army of tuners and massive data collect to keep that from happening OR you are dealing with an environment you completely control.

This is kind of the conditions for regular automation - except even more so.
As usual very detailed. I think some of these are good just in general to fill in some dev blind spots. Thanks for writing this up and sharing.
This is just en eerie reminder of the same sort of dismissals against Steve Jobs: just a sales guy. Just good PR. Unfortunately for you this cheapo trick doesn't work with Elon Musk as it is very well known and documented how razor sharp he is when it comes to science and technology. He did most of the programming himself for his internet startup. He learned rocket science from the ground up without going to uni to get a degree. He impresses people with decades in the rocket industry with his insights and understanding of the subject. Elon Musk understand the technical details of his products exceptionally well. He knows the inside out of the Falcon 9 rocket. This isn't just some sales guy.
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I want to believe the numbers you provide are right, but then I look at https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Facebook-Salaries-E40772.ht... and cant see where to get more reliable sources for thinking facebook or google pay that.
In some cases, that might even be true.
Having used both chademo and supercharging extensively they are totally not the same.

One is 1/3rd the speed of the other in real-world usage.
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If that is what he was trying to say, then he's wrong. Hiddencost is right. We do not have a solid theoretical understanding of neural nets and why backprop, and all the other tricks (e.g. relu, dropout) works. There is basic intuition on why they work, but no rigorous theory. Even worse, we have no theory on which architectures work better or worse and why.

So whenever you read about some 50-layer net trained with this architecture with this padding/stride/normalization, and you wonder how they came up with that, the answer is: some grad student sat there, thought about his past experiences and the papers he's read of architectures that have worked well, and then spent months trying a bunch of things.
The pricing is a little weird here. As the team size grows, it gets more expensive per head at every pricing level. Usually, it's the opposite.
Thinning of the heard needed to happen. Now the more established companies (Alphabet and Facebook) will have their pick to buy some wounded unicorns at a steep discount.
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Publishing failures to replicate without blame seems like a good way forward, similar to the practice of publishing postmortems in the computer industry.
> some people may not be as interested in working on stuff they have no interest in using themselves.

Good thing this isn't some voluntary project but a massively funded commercial company. Since when must employees love every little thing they're doing?

This kind of BS culture is what runs companies into the ground the moment they need to actually build something that isn't "fun".
The problem with this approach is that you are forced to work in a subset of SQL due to the type system mismatch of SQL and the host language.

A "proper" solution to this problem requires language changes (as Microsoft did with C# 3.0).
So you know one guy, and SV is the only place worth having a job...

I'm just shy of 50, stepped out of a long stretch as a senior technical type at a fortune 50 company to take a 6 month consulting contract at an obscene rate and am now fielding more high 100s to mid 200s offers than I can seriously give consideration too. That's just in my city, where cost of living is a third or so of what it is in SV (we are, by most metrics, in the top 10 economies for US cities).

If this is untouchable, I can't imagine what touchable is like.
Wouldn't it be more reasonable for browsers to not cache them at all and universally reject missing intermediate certificates? (IIRC correctly, Chrome doesn't mind but Firefox will give you the train conductor)
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Very cool. I like that it (as far as I can see) is actually built on top of an SQL AST.

This is one of the shortcomings of ActiveRecord. The SQL building used to be extremely ad-hoc, and though ARel was eventually written to fix this problem, the integration between ARel and ActiveRecord is not very fluid (and ARel itself has some design issues; if I remember correctly from the last time I worked with it, it's not immutable, which can be very confusing when chaining expressions).
That's not true. Depending on the method for polynomial regression, you do know why it chose the coefficients. Furthermore, you know exactly what your model looks like, because you're dictating what the model is explicitly! (... a polynomial). In contrast to a convolutional neural net where you might have no idea what the filters in the third (not first) convolutional layer are doing. This is also a pretty bad example because polynomial regression is not giving amazing groundbreaking results. Polynomial regression has been known for centuries and gives pretty meh results in the real world.
> Additionally, SQL is extremely hard to compose.

I've seen almost everyone who doesn't use SQL directly say this but I always feel it's the exact opposite. SQL is easy to write once you do it enough. I've gotten to the point where I compose zero SQL in any application's code and, instead, do it all inside of stored procedures (of which they do not generate dynamic SQL). Then my code just calls stored procedures, my database users for the web application never have more access than executing a specific subset of stored procedures, and if there is a bug found in a stored procedure I can deploy them separately from the web application.

I'm guessing it's just different philosophies but almost every time I've used something that abstracts an existing interface to another, completely different interface, I always end up running into major issues.
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Yes, this was true for several years. As of January 2015, 3rd degree is visible again.

Though if you're willing to jump through some hoops, all profiles are visible.
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Those salaries on Glassdoor pretty much match what I'm saying, with salaries running up to $165 for senior devs. Add 30% for bonus and $100-150K in stock and you're into the $300K+ range I'm describing.

The $600K+ figure is for director level and above.

The $2M/year individual contributor was an outlier.
2d projections of complex multidimensional data are unreliable in the extreme as to adjacency meaning. Most adjacency especially are an artifact of the chosen projection method.
They can have responses to those. Thinkbot for example can. But they don't understand the topic of the current conversation usually so their next response wouldn't make any sense.

There should be some meta-markov states on top of the conversation states so as to not randomly deviate into an unrelated topic.
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But nothing in neural nets "falls out" of some underlying natural/physical equations. It is entirely human-constructed engineering.
For us, it boiled down to multi-master writes, and global replication (multi-datacenters). Cassandra worked best for our use case. Moreover, as others have pointed out, high availability with fault tolerance is another major reason. CAP theorem is real, and there are trade-offs to be made in several use cases.
Have you or anybody else tried to crack it? Ease of use isn't the only part of good security. Would a picture work? A recorded video on an iPad? etc.
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This story was linked in the parent article:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/i-built-a-botnet-that-could...
A nice interview, though from 2007. One thing has changed a smidgeon: "he has a self-imposed limit on the size of his product: 250KB. And he's stuck to both aims". The FAQ on sqlite.org says "With all features enabled, the library size can be less than 500KiB ... If optional features are omitted, the size of the SQLite library can be reduced below 300KiB." Close though!
Lacquer wood finish comes to mind, though tar is hardly durable. Not 100% on the specifics but people already use concrete sealant on roads so traction and cost wise it's in the ballpark.

Don't forget Silicon is really quite tough so your really looking for something that can sit outside for 20 years vs. trying to protect fragile components.
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You should take a closer look at what Diesel is doing with it's query builder. We actually do attempt to support the full power of every supported backend (of course there's still holes which need to be filled), with proper type guarantees which map to the semantics of Postgres. The main difference being that Diesel can check your queries for correctness at compile time.