skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing. Imagine combining this with facial emotion detection algorithms like those in Microsoft Kinect and making an AI that can automatically empathize with users. When you're happy, the AI is happy. When you hate the world it hates the world. Maybe you could even optimize the UI so that certain offers like buying things or rating apps would only be shown when the user is in a good mood.
The author cites examples from Stripe and Pinterest, which are actually just anecdotes around usability testing, not recruitment of users.

I would argue focusing on sales puts you at risk of narrowing your scope and broader appeal.
A startup becomes uncool when it starts driving code churn as a value reducer ostensibly as "new value," but instead alienates their vendors and customers alike. IFTTT reminds me of the audicity of Hillary Clinton assuming she's already the next president while avoiding releasing those damaging Goldman Sachs transcripts (where her boilerplate contracts require a stenographer, and an attendee describes the tone of one speeches as that of her acting like a managing director cheerleading the troops). Or maybe the Drumpf's endless list of bankrupt companies and bringing meat from the grocery store to prove nothing. Oops. Edit: Anyhow, I'll move my weather warning texts over to a service that doesn't molest its developer partners without their consent. Thanks IFTTT, here's your mixtapes back.
There's no doubt that the FBI could arbitrarily edit/replace the contents of storage, the trick is getting it to boot after that. That's why they wanted Apple's cooperation to sign code or hand over the code signing keys.
Sorry to rant, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who is getting sick of seeing these articles about Theranos. They essentially all say the same thing, and have a picture of Holmes at the top standing next to an unidentified piece of lab equipment that looks like it was just unpacked.

I suppose they are popular due to some combination of schadenfreude and the morbid fascination that comes from watching a slow motion train wreck. But I find these articles empty of anything remotely interesting let alone any edifying content. They are just a monthly sign post for the accumulation of disparaging comments about Theranos.
It's presented as a really black and white argument. Marketing and a focus sales are not mutually exclusive at all.
Was it just the escape codes that weren't compatible, or was the as/400 trying to talk in EBCDIC?
> This is my 3rd HN account - I've abandoned the others (with lots of karma on them) specifically as a protest for (what I thought were) valid opinions being down voted and dismissed.

Hi there from my 2nd account! I have also abandoned about 1K points of karma, because I thought I should censor myself less and care less about it.

Surprisingly, I didn't get downvoted as much as I expected. Lot of comments I make and consider really silly get high karma, and yet other my comments which I consider to be a really good points are sitting there with 1. The moderation system seems quite random.

I think the big problem of modern moderation systems is the fleeting nature of all those discussions. Having a persistent discussion about a topic is difficult. I think something like Wiki or Stackoverflow works, but only to an extent.
This clarifies things a bit more so thanks.

So in short, if I understand correctly, a "clean" run would mean that in theory if you weren't carrying any safety equipment you would've made it just the same. However to avoid actually killing yourself attempting something like that, you just "lose a life" and get to start over again from the beginning without actually dying.

Sounds actually very logical as said before.
It would be nice to have a form to enter the data with: http://forms.google.com/
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Here's where expectation should be set for both candidates and interviewers. The point of solving Fizz Buzz problems is to open up angles for discussion. What would you do differently with this problem, at this scale, for this integration etc etc. If someone writes crude code, I'd ask if they follow style guides or conventions. If someone writes overly fancy and clever stuff, I'd ask if they ever have to maintain shit. There is not much value in talking if all candidates would write "import fizz-buzz-solver from 'fizz-buzz-solver';".

You see, the whole Fizz Buzz is nothing more than a prop to allow me to find out what this candidate can actually do. Anyone can include a package and critical thinking differentiate smart ones from the pack. Heh, if there is a package for any and everything, most devs would be flipping burgers instead of doing original work.

Believe me, most problems you think of as original, aren't original. It's not about solving problems either, it's about repacking the solutions into something to sell, or making it popular enough so you can make money off it.
>> Anyone can be a programmer.

Anyone can be a doctor or lawyer too. I know what you mean, I think, but I don't know if I buy the distinction. There is a formal pass-the-bar testing event for lawyers. For nurses and I believe doctors there are boards. Same basic purpose AFAIK. They take these tests when they are just entering the profession. How meaningful are they years later, compared with the experience gained in the interim? My wife is a registered nurse working in cardiac critical care for seven years. If she interviews for a new job with that employment record behind her they aren't going to ask her what an aorta is, which is sort of the equivalent of what Asana is talking about doing here (and what everyone does, to be fair).

So you seem to be saying that a professional nurse, as an example, can be trusted to know the basics after seven years of work, because he or she was required to take a hard test on graduation. But a programmer with seven years of experience must prove that he or she knows what a binary tree does? It's also worth pointing out that lawyers can get people jailed or cause them to lose their property. Doctors and nurses can kill them. So can we, occasionally, but it's rare.

The most effective interviewing technique, as far as I am concerned is to send the candidate out for lunch with a few of your engineers and tell them to find out whether he knows what he's doing. You spend an hour talking software with some people and it's awful hard to fake knowing your stuff.
True, it's the most explicit reference I know of.
What we need is a Silicon Valley tier company in Waterloo again (read: not Blackberry or Opentext).
It's hard to understand why so many cloud service providers and software stacks are still v4-only considering the operational and development cost of v4+NAT (complexity, management, scaling limitations etc). For most systems it would be enough for the front load balancers to speak v4.
Understanding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases will alleviate your anxiety/depression
I think we can both agree that interviewing is overdue for a radical reboot. Silicon Valley, disrupt interviews, please!

That said, there are places that don't interview the way you describe. I'm equally sure there are places that do (I vividly remember my Dropbox interview). My hope has always been that Darwin's Law will apply to such places over the long run, but instead I think what actually happens is that as these organizations grow the interview process just ends up being a diluted version of the same BS, which translates into "lowering the bar." Nevermind that your bar was curvier than Lombard Street.
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This is a legitimate concern I think. The US government has designated secure foundries in the US to ensure the security of government silicon.

See[pdf]:
http://www.ndia.org/Divisions/Divisions/SystemsEngineering/D...
How am I just learning about Runscope? This service is fantastic. I just signed up for free, they have a really smooth onboarding process, I now have a free API monitor pinging my API from multiple geographic locations and verifying correctness of the return value, they are generating some neat reports, and it looks like they even have a control I can publish/iframe with a nice graphical history.

I mean, this is almost better than StatusPage.io type solution just because it's so simple. The pricing is serious, and I think reasonable but it will be un-affordable for some. For now I'll play with the free option and will upgrade as soon as there's funding.

I really wish you luck with this product, it provides real value and is easy to use, that should be enough.

Edit: So I read that you raised $6m. I'm sure that helped create this software. What's great is the company can now take its time earn back that money, and if you can focus on the features that matter you can grow the feature-set in a controlled simple manor. The only problem I forsee is the investors may never see a return on the $6m, or rather, selling shares will never surpass the liquidation preference, so the challenge is paying yourself enough. If you have Board control you will be able to issue dividends, but otherwise getting cash out of the company will be hard.
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Does anyone have a spare invite for product hunt?

Please drop me a tweet over at http://twitter.com/getsendyapp and I'll follow you so I can send a DM.

Many thanks to anyone who can help.
The issue is getting perfect implementation and perfect opsec. With enough time, and willingness an opportunity will find itself.
So here's the thing - people like to say "This doesn't look like a big enough study..." but you never see them say what would be.

Basically: How do you justify your belief that their sample size is to small?

There are calculations to do this. 60 patients is, while small, pretty standard for a study like this, and decently powered. The authors also used the appropriate techniques to deal with small numbers in particular strata when they were controlling for the variables they mention.
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Fair point. In retrospect it felt sustainable fresh off our last round given the market at the time and the amount of runway it gave us. Not saying that it was, just that it felt that way.
Hi,

Author here. I wonder if you are referring to the form to enter the data? The link to the form is https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1J99v2E-jYM8JlIUPvTPfyc5v_pt... (this is actually the link that this HN post is linked to :) you might have missed it).

Thanks a lot for your interest.
Check out Neil Kolban's book on the ESP8266 [1]. I’m reading through this out-of-order just to get an idea about how the esp8266 works.

[1]:https://leanpub.com/ESP8266_ESP32
The main (claimed) innovation of Theranos was not just about the location of the blood draw, it's about quantity.

If you could really replace 10's of mls blood draws from the arm with a few drops (< 1 ml) drawn from the fingertip with no loss of clinically usable information, it would actually be a major breakthrough. There are distressingly large number of patients in hospitals requiring once a day (or even more frequent) blood draws to maintain correct treatment. The volume of blood and availability of veins and pain threshold can become actual, serious problems very quickly. This is doubly true in children.

If such tests were somehow found, they'll be noble-prize worthy scientific breakthroughs. Somehow Theranos is not giving off that vibe sadly.
The writing of good comments and the submission of good links will already do that.
It was in the 90s, especially after the Dr Dobbs article about it, and tons of late 90s and early 2000s games, like Grim Fandango, Baldurs Gate and Escape from Monkey Island used Lua due to its hotness.
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I don't know about Russia , but for religious ignorance, this is like cure.

Russia and middle East are two different story.

I am in middle East and I can see , there is only one way to solve this problem (radicalism). and it must solved by middle East people themselves. whether you like it or not, . whether you spend 200 years from now bombing.

This is not going to be solved. Yes. Sad news but truth.

BTW mentality for middle East people started when your fucking government started overthrowing democratically elected government in middle East.
It was originally part of an even more awesome concept called Future Systems, which was supposed to replace the entire IBM universe with capability-based single-level storage systems.

http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/fs.html

http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys

It never got off the ground. System/38 and AS/400 are the only visible remnants of it, survivors from an alien world.
A good friend of mine talked of a couple he knew who were big into climbing. You could really enjoy your time with them, as long as the discussion was around some form of climbing. Anything that was not climbing was simply not interesting to them - the example my friend gave was offering to play a board game, and them asking if it was about climbing...
> The developer terms of service don't seem to be available by a public URL, so I will quote the bits that stung me. I invite IFTTT lawyers to send me a takedown notice, because that will be the funniest part of this fracas so far.

Fun fact: legal language is not protected by copyright and can be copied, modified, republished, or reused.
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Those Umayyads settled further into western Europe than most people recognize. Their expeditions covered most of western France, from the English channel to the Loire valley at their greatest extent. Given this geographic distribution, it is very problematic to assume that there was no contact for another 800 years.

There were ample local converts, so it is unfair to claim that the conquest was accomplished solely by a army of foreigners.

A more culturally neutral history would explain that the native Celts kicked out the Goths during the expansion of the Umayyad empire.
The C interface looks really well made. I might try and play around with this to make a few microservices.
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I think what they're saying is: "side effects are real"
Some similar machines (HP Proliant, 24 cores, 256GB ram) on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/381566357980

That's 1500USD. I'm sure 900USD is possible if you keep an eye out, seems like a pretty sharp deal though.
Friedman is a tool, and the email dumps exposed that. Better to read Kennan if you want insight into American imperialism.
I had a really stellar interview experience at Asana (and, full disclosure, I didn't get an offer).

What really stood out was the pages of notes that the recruiter sent me before inviting me to apply again in a few months. I had just been through many on-site interviews at many companies, and no one came close to providing the level of feedback that Asana did. The document that I was sent can't have been too far off from the unedited notes that the interviewers shared with each other in their debrief. It really spoke to Asana's commitment to transparency and helping develop people - even those they didn't want to hire. I'm happy where I am now, but based on this experience, I would absolutely apply again in the future.
Please comment more. It may just be that I like your username but I've read many excellent comments and noticed they were yours. This is totally selfish of me but I'd rather have you yelling into the void sometimes so long as that keeps happening.
Really?

If a well-funded superpac would systematically and indefinitely try every legal exploit to re-enact slavery you'd be grinning each attempt because "democracy"? ....

The idea that our form of government allows us the freedom to resist predatory laws is inspiring, the necessity to fight that fight... over and over again... is the best representation that true freedom is delicate.

To protect that freedom we need to hold critical thinking above all else to guard ourselves against the faux intellectualism of statements like yours.
AFAIK it has high I/O efficiency and very high memory bandwidth, so for some tasks it might perform very well. If you are comparing single-core performance, probably much worse.
Honestly that is lot of BS. I get what your saying to a point, but I have never used my depression as an excuse to dismiss any of my normal duties, and I think it's pretty bad that you would assume many would.

By all accounts I have a great life, I have friends that have been with me for over 20 years, have a wife who by all my accounts is the greatest person in the world, have an amazing job that I completely love going to every day. I'm truly blessed with what I have, and could never argue otherwise.

I am a diagnosed manic depressive and I treat it like alcoholism. You're not going to see an alcoholic stand up in an AA meeting 20 years later and say "I'm not an alcoholic anymore". I treat depression the same way, you have to confront it head on each day and admit what is happening to you mentally. 10 years from now, 20 years from now, whenever. The great irony of that is that alcoholism is recognized as a disease where this article is arguing that depression isn't the same.

You can have the best life, the best people in it and still want to top yourself. To "fight the hellish mode" is such a radical oversimplification it's comical. I seriously have some of the best and most longstanding relationships with my friends that makes it most people jealous. Most people don't understand how a group of people could still be with each other after 20+ years. Yet I'm still depressed every day. It's never going away, it will always be there no matter what I do. To characterize that as victimization or lack of effort is exactly what leads people to kill themselves, because whats the point after honestly? You are literally saying their inability to foster positive relationships is what is the problem. Having nothing but positive relationships in my life I can tell you that's bullshit.

It's not interaction that fosters the problem, it's fucking depression, the disease. Get off you high horse or were going to have more Aaron Swartz's on our hands. The stigma is a 100% real, and garbage like this just makes people with depression feel more alienated.
Happens all the time here in Germany. Every year one gets at least three to four of these "we do not have enough talent, we need to hire foreign talent, make it easier" initiatives while at the same time people with the required education leave the country in droves. It was funny for a time, now it is just sad.
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Abdus Salam went around in the early 80s hat in hand ( I think UNESCO auspices) to Middle Eastern countries to found new universities. They threw like half a million at him and told him to pound sand. When everything settles down I would at least hope this new generation of leaders decides to invest something worth a damn in higher education. (And no, nothing I've heard about KAUST gives me any hope that that's a bellwether at present)
if you think that predisposed ideologies are conflicting cia and state department sponsorships categories, i have a militia in syria to sell you
Man, I regret that I arrived one term too late to get a full System/390 from my university. That thing would have been sweet in my dorm room.
I respect your time as well. Please, take as much of it as you need. I'm generous that way.
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> I feel almost hesitant to write this - but these executives have figured it out and it does not bode well for Canada. You guys are competing with India where you could pay people 1/4 the salary in Canada and get access to high quality talent.

If that's the case, why do they bother coming to Waterloo to recruit and go through the hassle of paying SF salaries, relocation and sponsoring visas?

I'd be happy with a 30% pay cut vs SF if I could live/work in Toronto but right now it's closer to 60%. I can't be alone.
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> 10x as many creators as commenters as voters

It's rather the opposite. There are tens of thousands of potential voters, a fraction of that in comments and a fraction of that in quality link submitters (once you filter out the spam). Anyway, regardless of the situation there is an easy way out of this: measure and adjust accordingly, I'm sure 'arc' has the ability to define named constants.

This would also answer the question 'what is karma good for?' once and for all.
Ah, I must have read the comments first and neglected to click the link itself. My apologies.
Funny, I see it exactly the other way around. I want NAT+Firewall to have at least decent perimeter security in a private LAN, the 10/8 subnet is large enough to do anything I can ever imagine to be doing and IPv4 is so much easier to grok. For most systems it would be enough for the front load balancers to speak v6.
>> You're using them to give your argument authority and credence

Yes, it gives my argument that we can have a fruitful conversation over email, more authority and credence.

You're being offensive accusing me of using the "Friend argument".

To insist that I've used that line for my comments I made prior to my invitation for an email conversation, ignoring the context, mindlessly linking to rationalwiki, to insinuate I'm disrespectful to my partner, and a close friend I've talked to every day for half a decade, is beyond insulting. You're using rationalwiki as a tool to label people you disagree with, to win arguments without thinking, to use as a weapon. Utter stupidity.

>> Finally, I hope you've talked to your friends about the situation for average Nepali. Villages are in positions where one bad hailstorm can cripple the village for a year, and force all the men to leave for the city or the Middle East to find work. Most villages don't receive the immediate benefits of tourism. Many are very remote, which adds a huge set of challenges - disaster response, medical aid, communication, etc.

Yes, I have.

>> There's a lot that can be done, like shoring up other economies within Nepal so our citizens don't have to work in incredibly dangerous fields.

>> The help of NGOs and charities is vital to many villages.

Laissez faire has historically proven to be the only means that can shore up economies. NGO's and charities will only weaken it, because you're buying up resources in the country, reducing access to it by businesses.
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