skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One basic way is to ask your interviewers what they like about their job. You're going to get a positive response, but is it hand-wavy or specific? Is it too specific, like they're just cherry-picking the one thing that keeps them employed there? Is there light in their eyes or are they reading a script?

Another way is to ask how decisions get made. Again, the specific answer is going to probably be something pretty non-controversial, so look for the subtleties.

Sometimes it's just obvious that it's too risky. I had one interview where the hiring manager's boss managed to freeze him out of his own loop. I ran from that one.

Also, you should be very skeptical if you felt like your interviews with individual contributors were lukewarm or poor but you still get the offer. That's very possibly a boss overriding flags from his team, or a team that's deadened enough to not throw flags in the first place. If you don't feel the interview went well, trust your gut--might not be just your fault.
Amazon cloud has 1M users and is near $10B in annual sales
This is really neat except there's no information on how to sign up.
I remember back in 2012 Sortable was offering $80-$100k for junior devs in KW. But they've been acquired now.
Well, it's a step up from Henry Kissinger and Bill Frist, but it mainly still just proves they've got good connections. Doesn't say much about the tech.
Some math:

A 208 sq-ft. mini-studio for $600/mo (+ the up-front purchase cost, whatever that is). That's $2.88/sq-ft.

By way of example, I found a 538 sq-ft. studio in downtown Austin for $1,387/mo. That's $2.58/sq-ft.

So, by area, the Kasita is more expensive. (This should not be surprising.) The argument then becomes one of absolute dollars: the difference between a 538 sq-ft. studio and a 208 sq-ft. Kasita being fairly moot, so hey, save $600+/mo.

And I laud this: I think there's a great market for micro-housing. (See also: all the "Tiny House" shows on HGTV.) I don't understand why I need to buy a "pod" and then convince developers to put a "rack" on their lots. Just build smaller apartments: the math should work out.
But how do we agree to pay for them?
Co-founder here.

Happening is a group messenger that allows third-parties to create seamless plugins using CoffeeScript and HTML5. As our platform does most of the work (accounts, groups, data sync, notifications, distribution, etc), plugins can be created very rapidly and deployed instantly.

I'll be lingering here to answer any question you may have.
Probably should have done this, before, you know, (fraudulently?) claiming they had this amazing breakthrough.
And $DEITY help you if you've fiddled with build.gradle. "Please wait five minutes while I go resync a bunch of stuff because you changed a variable name in your build file."
It's similar to Velocity at UW: http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/
Beans and lentils for carbs. They are high fiber, high protein and cheap. Only downside is the gas(with beans anyway. lentils aren't too bad in that regard)
Well what they really do is live further out, displacing poorer people. Places like Sunnyvale and Santa Clara are more doable.
The first build is slow, but the later ones are faster as Android Studio use gardle daemon to speedup the build time
Understanding Docker and Cloud-Container Services
There is! JMZ
So, what makes your boss such an "asshole" as you put it? I am not by any means trying to prove whether or not your boss is actually an asshole, but trying to find out why you think your boss is.

I have had bosses who I thought were horrible and many others around me liked them. I have had bosses that I would go to the ends of the earth with and my co-workers thought I was crazy. A lot of times it is personality and confidence (in yourself and in your manager) which dictate how well you will get along.

How to find the right match when you are interviewing? Well, how many dates does it take for you to decide who you'd like to marry? Do you marry everyone you date? In this business, I think it's best to not get too emotionally tied down. You're going to move, and that's ok.
US has big lithium deposits

problem is no-one wants to mine it until it is expensive and very profitable
Does this support 32 bit linux?
I Like It..by, Evon Latrail  (Sex Song)
Wow they're pimping this new book hard, aren't they?
What on earth? How is that even possible? o_O
What does AUM mean?

(Yes, can I have access to pitchbook?)
Is there a reason torify isn't sufficient?
47 year old television signals bouncing back to Earth
FBI Bought Tool to Break into IPhone Used in Terrorist Attack
> You are skipping the fact that most meat and produce products for sale ARE man made was well.

Did a man (or machine) literally put it together with two hands? This is the distinction being made.
When a projector and an app-enabled software defined radio cross paths
>> A way to look at it would be that SF's sphere of rent influence would end up shrinking, but the magnitude of the epicenter remains unaffected.

This is roughly the conjecture of Marchetti's constant :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchetti%27s_constant

See also induced demand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Name some of these cases.
The connection to hypertension is pretty conclusive, at least for some portion of the population. Here's one article about it:

http://www.gbhealthwatch.com/Trait-Salt-Sensitivity.php

Late life heart disease probably hasn't been a major factor in our evolution, but it's easy to sketch out how a lifetime of dietary choices that encouraged high blood pressure would have some impact in the last years.
I applaud that you would never try to make a founder feel terrible intentionally. That said, most founders end up struggling with those feelings regardless. It's an awful feeling, even if you know your investors understand that there is huge risk and don't demand a guaranteed home run (not that there is such a thing).
It would be far more interesting to see whether code review is actually successfully rejecting code with technical debt. Is there code that passes code review and isn't identified as introducing technical debt, considered to have introduced technical debt at a later point?
Try Bloomberg's piece:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-07/mashable-i...
Its complicated.

Unix was built around the human readable output of one binary being the input of another.

dbus, the carrier for much of the traffic between systemd parts, is far from human readable.

Also, one reason they give for developing everything in a single blob of code is that they can then change the protocol as they see fit.

This in turn makes it hard for third parties to replace a component, as they will constantly play catch up with the systemd developers.

Take logind for example. It depends on systemd-init being there and handling cgroups. Consolekit, what logind replaced, could be used on top of any init.

Gentoo forked udev into eudev after the former was merged with systemd, because it became a right pain to extract udev from the larger systemd code, even though at the time of merging it was promised that udev would still be usable separately. This because at every systemd release, the extraction process changed in some way or other.

With the traditional unix tools i can probably pipe some output from a GNU binary into busybox into a BSD binary and get the expected result. And if i don't i can break down the chain into parts, look at what they produce, and make adaptions right there in the terminal.

Anything similar for systemd will require a compiler and specialized tools for debugging dbus and whatsnot.

Maybe all this is fine in a devops environment where everything is in containers or virtual machines. But Linux got where it is because it was not just flexible, but also field repairable thanks to its unix heritage.
Idiots it was all click bait anyway
He tried, but the syntax was ill-defined, and the typography was poor.
How do you motivate designers to "flesh out" the full wardrobe/back catalogue?

If the workflow for adding new clothing sets is as slick as the frontend, I can see how it'd be easy to keep things up to date, but it's something else entirely having to go back through multiple seasons trying to remember which items composed an ensemble.

And (not knowing much about the fashion/clothing business) is it reasonably easy to swap out some items for similar looking ones if the original is not available (or too expensive), or do you face a problem where sometimes they just stop manufacturing things and there's no good substitutes?
As has been stated in other comments, it's not that we don't have enough homes or that we don't have affordable homes.

Perhaps the "free-market" is not the optimal distribution system for housing. Said another way, perhaps the manner in which we meet our most basic needs of shelter, security, and stability should not be left to the free market.

A corollary then might be, perhaps if social and political frameworks had priority over (but not to the exclusion of) economic frameworks runaway real-estate prices might not so inevitably lead to the unnecessary but unyielding march of the unwilding of our environment (when there are massive tracts of dilapidated real-estate crying out for redevelopment), gentrification of communities and the concomitant loss the cultures of those pushed out into either the diaspora or relocated into projects, and the hand-to-mouth existence that many of us experience, even full-time and well paid persons.

$600 houses are a red-herring to the real issues, not a solution to anything.
This is very people dependant. I'm fairly anti social and that sounds like a plus, although I mostly refuse to take any job that isn't remote nowadays.
Ask HN: Should I leave my company (Samsung)?
Cause of frustration and pain :
Since some time, Samsung has started to conduct regular programming contests among its developers. The contests are categorized as Intermediate, Advanced, Professional and Expert levels, with increasing difficulty in coding problems posed.

The aim is that it will help to identify top talent within the organisation and also improve software developing skills. The tests are being conducted throughout all Samsung software centers around the world, except for the American ones, who just refused. I am an engineer located in Korea, with regular contact with co-workers in Poland, India.

The problems posed are of coding competition variety, with restriction to use any library apart from <iostream> for c++. STL, <stdlib.h> etc are not allowed.

As a developer clears a level, she gets tagged to that level. Right now, its absolutely necessary that each developer reaches the "Advanced" level. Regular trainings are conducted ( by employees who are already Advanced). Mock tests (full day ) are conducted twice or thrice , before each "official exam",which is conducted once a month. Of course, employees are expected to perform and meet deadlines in their project work as usual, even though they have to attend the mock/official tests full day.

Managers are under pressure too. Since, each one of them has to ensure that their teams reach the set level.

My opinion : I don't know if its the right way.Even though i did reach the required level, It has left me frustrated. I have seen excellent developers, who regularly produce clean, maintainable code failing at this exercise.
Some centers have seen group-rebellion in terms of entire teams going on a fortnight leave to prepare for the test.

I think many of us have already left and will leave.
I think we should use this as a opportunity to prepare for future interviews.
What is your opinion ?
What's the plan for browser support of ES6? I like to imagine a world where I don't have to transpile my code with Babel first.
Ah, thanks, obligado.
What age are you? Millennials watch a lot of video on Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat.
They're no more space-efficient than any other tiny apartment. The only practical way of fitting more square footage of housing onto the same sized building plot is to go higher, but zoning/planning laws are a massive impediment to high-rise construction.

I'm also deeply uncomfortable with the promotion of "micro living" as something chic. I don't like the idea of legitimising inadequate housing. Tiny houses are barely tolerable for young single people and utterly miserable for families.

With a handful of exceptions (Hong Kong, Macao etc) urban areas have no shortage of places to put good-sized homes; What they lack is the political will to allow sufficient construction. Housing is increasingly seen as an investment vehicle rather than a basic human need.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_%281...

Good thoughts. You failed to mention Prop 13 which was put into place a long time ago and simply doesn't make sense anymore. It's at least part of the reason it is so affordable (in relative terms) for rich people to keep second homes here when they bought them years ago.

We live in a building of 60 units where probably at least a third of those are absentee owners. They're rich enough and the cost to maintain is so low that they don't even need or want to rent those units out. We've seen our neighbors only 2-3 times in past 2 years... but if you look at the property tax bills of folks who bought 10-20+ years ago they are minuscule and are only adjusted upon sale of the property. In our case, we're paying easily 4x what the previous owners were.

We moved from DC couple years back which is also very expensive but their tax valuations are re-assessed on a regular basis so you don't have this huge disparity in what the rich old people are paying in prop tax vs the young not quite rich people are.

If values and property taxes were reassessed every 3 years or so this would put more pressure on these absentee owners to either sell or rent their units thus increasing existing inventory as well as adding to the city's coffers.
It's not just the first build, the later ones are slow for me as well. Eclipse's first build (e.g. after you do a Clean project) is also slow but after that it's very fast.
I would much rather be a little underpaid and be able to work from home! Not having to suffer through traffic is worth at last 10k per year.
Only downside is not being around people as much. Kind of a two edged sword. But it makes me very friendly at the grocery store and coffee shop.
Been working from home since the 96 olympics. Hardest thing has been convincing my wife that when I am sitting at my desk and in the zone, that she should ask me a question every time she things of something new....
I'm daft. What's wrong with using uuids as primary keys everywhere? I'd appreciate it if you could elaborate :)
It's easy to stack boxes.

How much of the messy stuff like plumbing, kitchen, toilets, electricity, HVAC is handled by the "rack" vs. the "box"?
One thing you can do is ask to see the space where developers are working. Do developers there look generally happy? This is highly subjective and prone to false-positives, but in general if everybody kind of looks like they'd rather be somewhere else, take note of that.

Is there another developer in the interview besides the hiring manager? Do they seem engaged and are trying to sell the job to you (a good sign), or are they kind of disinterested (a bad sign)?

Are the interview questions adversarial? ("Solve this problem. Ha ha, that's not right" - bad) Or are they asking about you and your experiences and trying to relate them to what you'll be working on. (good)

What specific aspects of your current workplace do you view as toxic?
Fructose is not bad when its delivered with fiber. When you eat fruit, you are getting mostly fiber with a small portion of sugar. When you are eating refined sugars such as high fructose corn syrup you are getting very little or no fiber. The lack of fiber allows the sugar to be absorbed extremely quickly, which overloads your liver.
This sort of recalls some nostalgia i have for my middle school days. this was pre-Facebook, around the myspace era. And the prevailing thing on the web were these baroque, meticulously designed websites composed of handcrafted photoshop work, several kids in my class had designed and built their own websites and they were incredibly unique, detailed, and interesting to look at. Idk if anyone remembers this site but there was a site called "spoono.com" that was basically just an aggregator of these meticulously handmade, pixel perfect websites.

The most striking thing for me is that during this period the web felt much more like physical space. I would go to some of these websites just to spend some time immersed in the atmosphere they had so effectively created with this old, pixel by pixel style of design.

The biggest effect of html5/css3/social network era for me is that i no longer give a shit about your website. I might end up on your website if i click a HN link, but the desire to be on your website, with all the sense of place that entails, is completely gone.

And all of these websites are completely gone now too, vanished without a trace. It's like an entire generation of the webs history has been erased.
In the US I like Bob's Red Mill muesli. The only sugar is the naturally occurring sugar in the raisins and dates. To make it more interesting I sometimes mix it into a thick smoothie(made of only whole fruit and veggies and water/ice) and eat it with a spoon.
Assuming you're doing a typical full day interview loop pay attention to the first few interviewers, they're likely more of the junior employees. Ask them lots of questions about the work environment, boss, etc. Obviously don't come out and ask 'is your boss an asshole?', have more subtle questions like 'what's the work/life balance like?'.
This is just their medical and science advisory board, not their board of directors. Frist and Kissinger (ugh) are still on the BoD.
Smashgather: Automating a Smash Bros Leaderboard with Computer Vision
BBC's 2009 April Fools joke.
Feedback loop normally called overdrive. Broke my Voyager improperly using the headphone output for that, haha. I've only ever heard of the MS20 being the source for the lead in the track though. Random Youtube demos seem to get it close enough.
You perfectly described the issues that exist with the L train. It makes me wonder just why so many people decided to move to a region of Brooklyn with such historically poor subway service, when central Brooklyn, served by the 2,3,4,5 lines, is easily serving its rapidly-gentrifying population with relative ease.
It's not that we need parallelism for layout to work. Rather it's that, in 2016 with Moore's Law over, new standards for performance-critical things ought to consider parallelism so they can continue to scale in the future.
I do think so; hard to prove if reading the content isn't argument enough. One fact is that TLP is the third link on the left-hand blog roll on SSC's website, so there's at least a one-way relationship. Anecdotally I remember reading something by Scott Alexander that mentioned that TLP was part of the LW community at one point, but I can't back this up with links.
Intersection Observers
Code quality of a $10000 Toonz project
I agree with the author for the most part: the ideal solution is to build lots more housing - it's the morally and ethically correct thing to do. But, SF lacks the political will to do this and we need to accept that. the 2nd best solution would be to get tech companies out of SF. I hate this solution as much as the author, but I think it's worth considering. There's no reason why tech companies must be in SF, when there's so much Software engineering talent in the rest of the US where housing is much more accessible. I can understand large companies with big budgets paying top dollar moving to SF - they can out compete other companies for talent. But, I have no sympathies for software companies that can't find labor in SF because they went to the worst possible housing location offering modest compensation.
Try to find out who has worked for this boss (or CEO / founder) in the past. Reach out to them to hear about their experience and find out why they really left.
There is no spec for TeX as far as I know: it's defined by its (effectively frozen) implementation.
Assets under management - basically how much cash these firms raise and then need to deploy through investments.
Here's my checklist:

- If I'm asked a question, or asked to offer an opinion, do they seem really interested in my response? Do they challenge politely/with an intent to gain more info, or do they dismiss it?

- Whats' the average tenure on the team? How long have people been there?

- When asked the negatives or the challenges with the job, do they offer substantive responses, or platitudes?

- Are they interested in me as a person? Or is it just my skills and background?

- For the rest of the team, are they engaged? Do they seem to care about what they're doing? Do their concerns/negatives about the job match what their boss said?

- What's the ratio of leadership to worker bees? Are there lots of VPs for no apparent reason? Red flag.

It's largely qualitative, but I like to see consistency in temperament, enthusiasm, understanding of the challenges.

Example: I interviewed at a company a number of years ago for an executive leadership position. I met with four different execs, each of whom had a different cagey answer as to why business wasn't doing as well as it could. I opted not to join, as it "felt weird". Later I ran into someone I knew who happened to have taken a job there who confirmed my suspicion that it was a disorganized organization with a toxic atmosphere.

Trust your gut. If something feels wrong, it probably is, and don't let desire to get the job override your instincts if you can avoid it.
On some level, you never really know. People often behave differently when interviewing (or trying to close you) than normally, let alone during stressful periods.

The low hanging fruit here is:

* ALWAYS spend time with your future boss prior to accepting. Ideally try to spend as much time as you reasonably can. If this isn't possible push back pretty hard about why. Your direct manager is usually the biggest reason for your unhappiness at a job. "People don't leave jobs, they leave bosses" is a cliche for a reason.

* If people seem unhappy when you interview, don't assume it's just how they feel that day.

* Make sure you get a sense for the culture and whether you want to be part of it. If you're not into constant group activity, make sure you're not joining a hyper-intense "everyone hangs out with each other all the time" sort of place. Conversely if you're new in town, don't join a company where everyone is focused on working hyper efficiently and bouncing to go home to their families. Neither is right or wrong, but they can definitely be right or wrong for you.

* If you're connected, track down people who left the company and ask about your future boss. Were they hard to work with? Do people like them? If you have friends at the company (ideally, not reporting to your potential boss) ask about how your boss (and the department) is perceived by the rest of the company.

* Hit up linkedin and track down ex employees, ideally in the same job role. See where they ended up, and hit them up and ask why.

Good luck!
99% public web.
90% of intranet is MS
Most modern browsers are gunning hard for full support. Here is the best breakdown:

https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/

That said, it will be a long time before you can write vanilla ES6 without transpilation and publish it, for the same reason that many sites still sadly support IE<=8.
Why journalists shouldn't shy away from using hacked data
A bit pedantic, but it doesn't necessarily reduce the risk, but rather the impact: using 64 buckets would only have half as many connections go into a bad bucket. This, however, does not in any way decrease the chance of the problem occuring again.