skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can remember going through this with a 10MB file about 15 year ago. It felt like a lot after growing up with floppy disks. But even a modest CPU could iterate over it quickly, I just didn't realise. I just assumed I would need to process it in a database!
How long it has been soaking is probably a fuzzy measure, unless you want to make the user of the rice cooker to use a chronometer or make the rice cooker itself soak the rice.

As for the if/then statements, even fuzzy logic needs cutoff points.
Yeah, I've felt there's a sort of "damned if you do" dynamic to this. If upper class people stay away from traditionally-minority neighborhoods, that's evil "[neo-]segregation". If they move in, that's evil gentrification. You can't win!
Not to be insensitive, but what did he really expect? Experimenting with your brain in order to change your perceptions and though processes are bound to lead to major disruptions in your life.
In case any students are curious how much Amazon in Dublin offers (Undergraduate) students. I was offered: €25000.
>neuro-atypicals

Can you explain what someone neuro-typical looks like?
I make roughly $20 an hour (about 16 after taxes :( )at the moment as a junior full stack intern working part time (I live and work in US). Sometimes I wonder if I should move on to find some other job, even if its remote...

On the other hand, my work is not that stressful, and I'm still going to school so my job is very flexible on time.

Anyone else been in a position like me?
The article is about not over-engineering solutions to problems you do not have. If you don't have interesting problems that require world-class solutions, then don't hire as if you do.

> If they are not bored, chances are they are pretty mediocre. Mediocre engineers really excel at building enormously over complicated, awful-to-work-with messes they call “solutions”.

And then comes this line:

>At Stitch Fix, we strive to be Best in the World at the algorithms and analytics we produce.

Without further justification, why does StitchFix, a subscription shopping service, need to be the "Best in the World" at algorithms and analytics? They have harder problems than Google or the Centers for Disease Control or NASA?

Unless they have justification for that, it seems a bit ironic given the article's ire for over-engineering.
Why are they throwing even more complex solutions at the complicated procurement procedure?

Couldn't the solution be to simplify the procedure itself?
No, but like just about everyone else in the US, I have more to lose from a class war than I would ever stand to gain.
Presumably they believe the savings from being able to stop paying drivers will more than make up for it.
Cringely is more unintentionally entertaining than respected.
I felt the same way, especially wrt battery life, until the 2015 Chromebook Pixel came along. For $1000 I have a beautiful screen (touch but I don't use it that way), better battery life than my MBA, portable, rock solid in every way. With Crouton I get a real Linux environment running alongside ChromeOS, only an alt-tab away, complete with clipboard sharing between the two. That MBA was my gold standard for three-plus years, haven't missed it for one moment.
I'm pretty sure what they're referring to is a quirk of how Minecraft mods work.

The official Mojang Minecraft server code is closed-source, and is distributed as a .jar file. It does not natively support mods. Mods work by decompiling the Minecraft server .jar, patching it, and recompiling it.

The results of this process are non-redistributable. That's probably what the article is (confusedly) referring to.
Hmm, lets see.

1 - I asked you not to tell random people that they're autistic because it's bad form (fact) and questioned your knowledge of the matter (my opinion). No personal attack on you has been made.

2 - You retaliated by contradicting yourself and sending two ad hominem attacks at me. No attempt to disprove my claim of your lack of knowledge besides another deflection .

3 - I point out that you've contradicted yourself.

4 - You reply with another two ad hominem attacks on me.

Yeah, I rest my case. You enjoy your day.
> Software Engineer Recruiter (XXX) XXX-XXXX =====

Check Linkedin, see if his profile looks legit.

You might also actually ring him and chat him up, it's Friday.

Tell him if Sergey is serious, then ping me direct. :)
The Most Important Light Bulb Deal in the World
Invasion by the Soviet Union was an ever present risk. Neighboring Finland has been repeatedly occupied by Russia. During WW2, the Soviet Union attempted to annex Finland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland%E2%80%93Russia_relatio...
Show HN: OctaveWealth – Smart, flat-fee 401k
Wow, the officials involved in charging him with that crime are the worst.
OT, but I recommend Flux when using your laptop at night. It automatically color shifts your screen based on the time of day.

https://justgetflux.com/
The article is dangerously wrong in its discussion of IFS.

What you should do to avoid the problem of mishandling spaces is use proper quoting (for i in "$@"; do ...), not changing IFS; setting IFS to \n\t will still break embedded tabs and newlines.

In general, in bash scripts any of use of $ should always be between double quotes unless you have a reason to do otherwise.
Mathematics as far as it being a branch of logic was pretty much invented by the greeks as you say.

And the mathematics mentioned in this article are definitely 'tenuous' at best. I clicked on the 'African Fractals' and didn't really see anything that I would consider mathematics, although I did see some organizing principals I guess.

However the claim that mathematics is either 'theorems' or bust is not really valid standpoint in general... seeking one must by a practical definition of mathematics include at least Egyptians (at least in practical geometry), early South American (at least in practical geometry). Neither of which had any strong belief in the necessity or ideal of 'proving' theorems. Further one should include without doubt early Indian contributions which covered both practical and theoretical mathematics and early Chinese contributions although they seem grounded in theorem based approach
Also, they work a lot in OCaml. There have been a few posts about OCaml and Jane Street here on HN, IIRC.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=OCaml%20Jane%20Street&sort=byP...
>you learned to be better than typical,

Oh, so also atypical. It's almost like there isn't a typical for us to measure against. Who knew.
As I was reading graeme's post I was thinking the same thing. My only suggestion, in line with tangled_zan's response, would be to keep away from informal terminology for such things so as to avoid any chance of your tone being construed as disparaging.
I don't think it's that odd. People talk about Siri and Cortana the same way.
Out of curiosity, what does this add that GlassDoor.com doesn't?

Note: as of right now, GlassDoor is down for "Scheduled Maintenance" but the question stands.
how would that prove that it was actually her/her though? It could be easily be one of her higher ups who knows his salary details.
Don't know about how the grandparent commenter learned it, but I had a similar experience when I went through Meisner acting technique classes.

Meisner emphasizes reacting to the scene partners, and its basic training includes perceiving extremely subtle nonverbal messages from other people---"reading behind eyes". After several classes, I remember walking streets and I saw every people's eyes were illuminated as if shone by spotlight, sending out messages. (I don't say I could truly read what they were thinking like telepathy---what I perceived might be completely off from what they actually thought. But for the purpose of acting, perceiving something and reacting to it is what matters.)

The book to read is "Sanford Meisner on Acting", but I believe you need to actually do it (with a partner, under proper trainer) to see.
Yeah they do. I was offered a job after a summer internship but told them I'd only work in California -- after first declining, they offered me a position in SF the next day. When I arrived in SF to start there was ~12% added to my salary for cost of living adjustment over Seattle.
All they're really doing is providing another hosting solution. It happens to be personal hosting. So sure there are differences between this and a hosting services, but I don't really see a problem.
"I don't know what it is like to be employed as a programmer and to be given deadlines."

There is a trivial way of obtaining this knowledge...go get a job as a line developer.
That was really interesting. Subjectively, two of my friends graduating (Bachelor's) this year were rejected from Google SWE and have since received (and accepted) offers from Microsoft for SDE.
Building LibreOffice with GCC 6 and LTO
Absolutely. One is headquartered in Germany and the other in Japan/USA. Lexus cars are more reliable, though.
I'd love to try this out, but Chrome has disabled geolocation for any non-HTTPS sites: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-se...
If you don't mind me asking, how were you compensated for this? What was the model?
TLDR: It's not self driving. It's data collecting cars for now.

I know a little bit about this. It's not "self-driving" car per se. You know with current technology we can't have completely driver-less cars. But to get there we need a lot of data. Uber and Lyft saw all the rides on their systems and thought if we had a lot of sensors in cars and recored all of that we could have the winning factor for self driving cars which is data.

In order to record that data they need customized cars. They also need to own the car to own the data associated with it (this is my assumption).
The most important information is how good your math is. The next thing is what your age is.
People value transparency, and it might be that they would prefer a lower salary at a more transparent workplace. In addition, providing wage transparency allows for further transparency in other business areas, such as gross margins, R&D costs, etc. which may be valuable in allowing employees to understand the business better and contribute in more meaningful ways.

You are also only addressing the workers with below-average wages (who may be qualified for higher pay) when you say that secrecy helps employers. Half of all employees have above-median wages, so I would assume that transparency could be used to bargain them down, as the below-median workers were helped in bargaining-up; I am not sure what the net effect would be, and don't know why we should assume it goes one way or the other.

I am not an advocate for wage transparency or opaqueness, because I don't know which way the effects go for anyone. I am also an advocate of deregulation, and abolition of most laws, simply because there are so many that nobody knows what is illegal; this seems to be yet another case of governmental over-reach.
I'm not working for Amazon or any other big ones but I think this is a very good idea. Transparency always helps and I wish something good comes out of other people sharing their financial details.
Twitter Rules Out Long Tweets, Sticking to 140-Character Limit
Seems dickish toward the company you work at for 4 months though.

Were your offices by that famous Gaol? I thought it was interesting seeing a mix of the old and new so close together.
Post one! (Maybe wait until Monday morning, or whenever prime time is on here, to maximize participation.)
How is your comment related to tikhonj's? It seems like a non-sequitur.
"Unraveling probably happens in dating too."

Absolutely does, but in my observations, this has lead to the dating market bifurcating. There are some people who are seemingly always in a new relationship, two weeks after they got out of the last one, which often exploded in flames 1-2 years after it started. And then there are some people who are really picky, who go years single before finding their soulmate, who also went years single.

The two groups largely don't intersect. When someone from the latter meets someone from the former, the former person tends to end up in a relationship with someone else well before the latter has made up their mind.

I wonder if something similar is happening in the job market. One set of candidates can't afford to be jobless long, and so they will pick the offer in hand without waiting to see if a better one is around the corner. Another set can afford to be picky, so every job search involves multiple competing offers, and they'll hold out for the job that they really, really want even if it means passing up good immediate opportunities. Oftentimes, because they hold out for a job that both compensates them well and makes them happy, they can afford to be picky in their next job search.

I wonder if Jane Street is trying to position itself in the latter camp and attract more candidates who are picky about their employer with this article.
I've found this site super useful: http://www.bodylanguagesuccess.com

He goes through video examples from news clips, interview, late night show, etc and points out the body language of the people.
A few months ago I inquired about using Stripe from Puerto Rico, a US territory for over 100 years, and was told that it wasn't available in the unincorporated territories yet.

https://support.stripe.com/questions/can-i-use-stripe-if-my-...

And now I see Stripe getting friendly with Cuba.

I don't have a clear point to make, as I'm writing this while still upset, but I just felt like I had to get my word out there perhaps to get some perspective or perhaps to start a discussion.
This is the first time I've heard of Cuberite. I love the concept, but this has to be a copyright violation, right?
Delete hidden photos/videos with tinder like interface to free up space[Android]
I have to admit, I had not considered them just not showing up to work at all. I'm a bit unqualified to talk on this topic as I have never worked in fast food, I was more curious why it matters in that environment.
Seattle Googler here (throwaway account).

Position: Senior Software Engineer (level 5)

Tenure: 4 years, no prior experience

Comp: $300K (160 salary, 40 bonus, 100 stock)

Male, native English speaker

P.S. We're hiring.
Hey Guys, I have seen many people struggling to get rid of the photos and videos occupying their precious mobile storage. To make the process simpler and faster, I have made an android app which digs out all the hidden/visible photos and videos to get some free space back.
Please give it a try and provide some feedback. :)
Link to the app - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pilanites....
Having web apps that break my workflow every 2 months, and back end servers that change their API every 3 months, I'm very happy with a company where I can run software (that I still enjoy) 10-20 years later.
The law they cite only seems to cover employees sharing pay with each other (and anything else involved in collective bargaining), but I can't see that it clearly authorizes publicly sharing pay.
I'm a mechanic and software guy. Your theory is incorrect. German parts and labor generally cost more. Mostly due to complexity. An S-Class has more on-board electronics than the average Boeing. They begin to have issues after the 2 year mark and are not cheap to fix. Even if you have your own shop and parts. The 325 you had is a simpler BWM that did not carry such complexity.
> Well, there are two groups of companies. Companies that can't find the talent that they need in this country, and companies trying to save money.

how are the two things different?

Obviously, as you raise wages, you gain access to a larger pool of applicants.

I am not making a moral judgment about people who are unwilling to pay more than X for a service... but my point is just that in a free market, "there is not enough supply of service X" means exactly the same thing as "the price of service X is too high"
How to collect statsd metrics in containers
That's quite interesting. I have a former friend who joined some sort of super happy cult a year or so back, and undergone a similar change literally over a course of a single week. It was quite... disconcerting to watch.
Agreed, but that's not something you can automatically enforce.
It's not a fuzzy logic rice cooker. I've used [sic] because it's an incorrect characterization of the item.

I agree with your marketing observation. Maybe they could have called it sophisticated logic (or something like that)? The history of fuzzy logic (which was cool) could be replaced with stories of sophisticated problem solving.
I am curious if companies like Enterprise DB have solutions for cases like this?
I can answer both questions. Its been over ten years since I dropped out of CS. I used to excel at Maths in school, but that muscle must be retrained now.
Ask HN: How much do you make at Google?
I don't work for Google, but I would like to.

How much do senior software engineers make? What level are you? Do you work at Mountain View HQ, or elsewhere?

I don't have much to share, but I make $130K base at a Silicon Valley startup. Options aren't worth anything (yet), but from what I've read on HN, they probably won't be worth anything anyways. (-:

Thank you in advance for sharing!

This post was inspired by an earlier post by an Amazon Employee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11312984
Or a step further: don't use the usa.gov URLs for any link that appears to contain an embedded URL (e.g, contains "http://" or "https://").
No. Static typing in TS is very very far from what Scala can do[1]. Just as an example: Scala can do type inference (albeit local) which TS cannot do in any meaningful sense. There's a huge difference and you owe it to yourself to try it out for a real project!

[1] My company started out with TS, but after converting about 10% of our app from TS to Scala.JS + scala.js-react we just decided to convert the rest in a mad sprint over a few weeks. It has paid off in spades. We still struggle with the abomination that is CSS and separating styles from components, but it is what it is.
Eh, this is true of start up business ideas, but not necessarily true in an enterprise that has hired a bunch of doers. Vision is rare and important.
The SR-71 that is on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space facility at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles airport outside of Washington DC set an intercontinental speed record on its last flight (the flight it took to become a museum piece):

"On its last flight, March 6, 1990, Lt. Col. Ed Yielding and Lt. Col. Joseph Vida set a speed record by flying from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., in 1 hour, 4 minutes, and 20 seconds, averaging 3,418 kilometers (2,124 miles) per hour. At the flight's conclusion, they landed at Washington-Dulles International Airport and turned the airplane over to the Smithsonian." (http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=na...)

And rumors at the time were that it could have made the USA crossing significantly faster, but the military did not want to reveal the 'true' top speed of the aircraft.
The problem is solar radiation when going so far away from the earth shield. Harms humans in a short span of time, except when filming the Apollo missions.

The veracity of the Apollo missions is matter of debate across the globe.
"Create beautiful soundscapes with Soundscaper app for Adroid"

Are there noticeable loops in the generated noises? What is so special about it compared to the others?
Man’s discovery of bones under his pub could change what we know about the Irish
Fuzzy logic is not a "bunch of if statements".

Fuzzy logic differs from classical logic. In fuzzy logic one can model arbitrary (linear or nonlinear) functions.

In particular, in fuzzy logic the law of the excluded middle does not hold. So truth values can be true, false or something in-between. Typically the categorical (true, false) is replaced by the the closed interval [0, 1], with 0 meaning "absolutely false", 1 meaning "absolutely true", and an infinity of possible valid values in between, each to some degree true and to some degree false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic#Overview
Elements of Information Theory by Cover and Thomas

I had the same response as you did, and thought to myself "I never got round to reading Cover and Thomas, but this pdf is two or three times the speed, I really need to read Cover and Thomas first."
The reason I ask is because there has been some stuff that has come to light over the distribution of the JVM although to my understanding the OpenJDK platform does not hold the same restrictions.
> Mathematics proper, as in the derivation of theorems from axioms by means of proof

That is an extremely narrow definition [1]. It is acceptable to me as someone who works in the intersection of technology and mathematics -- but for the general public the word implies a wide field of study, exploration and usage.

For example, on Wikipedia "Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, “knowledge, study, learning”) is the study of topics such as quantity (numbers), structure, space, and change."

So all the author is saying that the residents of Benin City seem to have studied fractal patterns in some form and used them in art.

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[1] Although, reading your comment more carefully, you did qualify it with "mathematics proper". I guess my comment's whole point is that it's often "mathematics improper" when used by a popular columnist.
That's not at all what you said. Please don't be evasive.

> I'm assuming since you've singled me out for reply that you have little problem with ahoy's comment

Quite the opposite, and I'm surprised you'd fall for that non sequitur. The comment was bad by HN's standards. It added noise and indignation much more than it added information.

I replied to you, though, because you've posted more in this thread and because the pattern I described is problematic.
I think it's true that the different engineering roles do similar work but the SDEs are paid better. This is why most people I know (including myself) who started as non-SDEs chose to first convince their manager to switch job roles.

Personally, this netted me a 10% base pay increase. More counting the performance stock bonus that came with the change.
If you work at Google, you can continue the discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11314449
I really appreciate how the author went out of their way to empathize with and humanize the president
Ok, so let's say you were experimenting with the selenium library to see if you could scrape what comes out of skyscanner.

What steps would you take?
Wait:

> I can avoid spending time with people whom I was
trained to mistrust and who have learned to mistrust my
kind or me.

Is this privilege basically

"If I'm black, I have to spend time with whites, but whites don't have to spend time with blacks"?
I worked for Amazon (2013-2014), fresh out of college.

Title : Software Development Engineer (SDE I)

Base : 98,000

Sign on : 50,000 (2 year period)

Relocation : 10,000 (2 year)

Stocks : worth $70,000 (4 years)
I did get one eventually - but I was hilariously poor in college at times.