skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering if any company in the US or outside ask for the candidate's preference about whiteboard vs. takehome project? It seems to be a highly debated sticking point for both camps: some feel they would rather have an easy (generic) way to prep by refreshing their CS101 and save time, while others want it to resemble actual work-like environment + problem.

What stops a company preparing 2 tracks and letting the person choose? Yes, it must make HR's, hiring managers' and interviewing engineers' lives a bit less planned and convenient, but it should increase the overall happiness levels for each candidate regardless of the result, which should result in referrals and a filled position (which is what the company really cares about).

What am I missing or is someone already doing this?
However, from the perspective of having lived here for two years, Nashville neighborhoods (and social activities/nightlife) are highly segregated. The normal everyday full-spectrum multicultural mix that you tend to find in other cities simply doesn't exist here, IME.
No other profession would put up with this nonsense. It's amazing how business people have tricked software engineers into demanding unreasonable standards of each other.
They also paid it back.
I do have a small number of mini side projects up on GitHub. I wouldn't mind doing another one, but can't come up with an idea for it. Also, it's tough to concentrate in my current state.

And I agree, I think using those whiteboard sessions is a negative sign for a workplace, but I'm not in a position to be picky at the moment.

I am trying to improve on the things I know I need to work on, namely algorithms. I just don't have a knack for it, and I've never needed to use them this actively in my career so far.
Thanks for the encouragement and offer. I may email you.
If he was paid for it, he was technically a session musician. The fact that he was uncredited shows he was never a band member.

George Martin did a lot more than just play a few piano bits - he had a lot of creative input. Here's what "The Beatles" by Spitz has to say about it:

"Two weeks later, on his way to the Studio from Sussex, scheduled to give the song another shot, he was explaining to Eric Clapton how something radical was needed to light fire under the Beatles. "We were in George's car, driving in London," Clapton remembered, "and he said, 'Do you want to come and play on this record?'" It was an astonishing invitation. The Beatles had used plenty of Session musicians on other albums, but no one capable of upstaging them, certainly never rock 'n roll virtuoso on the level of Eric Clapton. Clapton hesitated, unsure of what to do. He knew the other Beatles "wouldn't like it," but George brushed aside his reservations. "It's nothing to do with them," he insisted. "It's my song, and I'd like you to play on it."
Before anyone had chance to object, Clapton was already in Studio Two, strapping on his Les Paul guitar and listening to the rhythm track mixed down from their work on the sixteenth. The song was pretty much there, creating an effortless, affecting groove, but it lacked dramatic device to liberate the emotional tension that is never far from George's caged expression. Clapton's poignant guitar riff provided everything it needed. The way it weeps and moans, held in check by Eric's incisive phrasing, creates the longing that gives the song its emotional center. George's vocal couldn't have been more enchanting as he squeezes the mournful lyric of all its desperation, until by the end, he seems to be just barely hanging on, just riding atop the surging guitar as it works to strangle his overlapping cries."
Don't ever show up to the same meetups? Don't ever post anything on eg your blog?
Can Google app engine support big web apps like social websites?
I think it's a playground in the best sense of the term. Take some time and actually play with it, and a lot of fun stuff happens, lightbulbs go off, etc.

If you're expecting a lesson, you'll likely be disappointed, but I think there's real value in a true playground.

I think the biggest improvement would be if, when hovering over a 'neuron', you get a visual representation of what feeds into it.
I would beg to differ, maybe because I have never heard of someone searching 'sequel' instead of 'sql' but I have never had a problem with google or bing or duck duck go giving me what I was looking for by just using 'go'
CloudMaker (by Airbnb) – A Tool for Launching and Configuring EC2 Instances
Submit a pull request.
I started reading about ANNs in the 1980s, and had similar confusion to those here, since it was just for fun. I suggest reading a basic book or online information that goes over the basics [1]. I struggled through $200 text books, and jumped from one to the other as an autodidact. I am now studying TWEANNs (Topology and Weight Evolving Artificial Neural Networks), which basically are what you see here with the exception that they are able to not only change their weights, but also their topology, that is how many and where the neurons and layers are. ANNs (Artificial Neural Networks - as opposed to biological ones) can be a lot of fun, and are very relevant to machine learning and big data nowadays. It was exploratory for me. I used them for generative art and music programs. Be careful: soon you'll be reading about genetic algorithms, genetic programming [2], and artificial life ;) Genetic Programming can be used to evolve neural networks as well as generate computer programs to solve a problem in a specified domain. Hint: You'll probably want to use Lisp/Scheme for genetic programming!

[1] http://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-10-neural-networks/
[2] http://www.genetic-programming.com
And with a 301. Into the future kicking and screaming.
You want them to be aware of you already. Ideally, a few desks should have already been pounded by frustrated people at $buyer, while screaming "damn those guys at $seller!".

If you haven't demonstrated traction (eg. have users, customers, revenue, etc) it's going to be hard to get them interested. "market need" is just the tip of the iceberg.

(Unless your software is something truly insanely special and ground breaking, in which case kudos to you I guess)

Hiring an investment banker to run the process and shop you can be helpful. But if there's no "business" around the software you've created, then they probably wouldn't know where to start ;)

My $0.02..
I have been running through a few of the language books I've accumulated. I'm terrible at learning things through pedagogy and generally learn during the process of getting something done.

Thanks for the encouragement though. I realize now that one month and 5 in person interviews isn't that much, but it's tough not to think I've exhausted my options.
What is the best back end to use with android?
I want to create an app for android that have posts and chat , I choosed google app engine but is this choice really wise? is there some good alternative and does GAE offers a way to create chat rooms etc?
ASAN has not been successful at eliminating (sometimes exploitable) use after free bugs in the wild. For example, look at this year's Pwn2Own. All browsers are heavily unit tested, fuzzed, and run through tools like ASAN, in addition to making heavy use of smart pointers, and they all fell to UAF.

There is a reasonable argument to be made that memory safety problems don't happen enough to be worth eliminating in practice (though people are often reluctant to make this argument so explicitly). But I don't think it's possible to successfully argue that they can be eliminated at reasonable cost in C++ with the tools we have today.
Two quicks things. What is the time pressure to sell? Do you share customers with them or do they consume your product directly?

If there is lower time pressure and their customers are your customers, maybe the partnership route is a better first step (look for BizDev folks). In those talks it should become clear how important you are to their business, or not.
Yes, of course we do! It's the motivating example for ReDex :-)
Clearly you haven't done the back of the envelope calculation. Many people have looked at the problem and it's not a trivial one. First, to see how much wind could be harnessed see for ex. [0] or [1]. Assuming 100TW of power, it's ~10^7 turbines. If each one has 50*10^3 kg of steel, it's somewhere between 10^10 - 10^11 kg of steel. 100,000,000 tons if I'm not mistaking. It turns out that Japan produced as much steel on its own, just in 2014. If my estimate is off by a factor of 10, china produced 800 million tons of steel! Glassfibre could be challenging to scale, but it's hardly a scarce resource.

I can also see you have never worked or lived next to a wind turbine. I worked a few yards away from one for a year and the noise was imperceptible inside the building. (Mostly because, when it's moving fast, it's very windy, i.e. very noisy already due to the wind).

Finally, the migrant bird issue is an issue, but it's not hard to solve. Radar and Sonar systems exist to detect migrating flocks of birds and slow down the turbines [3]. But more importantly, buildings, skyscrapers and cars are the number one killer of birds (not turbines). Numbers would change, of course, if we truly tried to extract all accessible, high yield winds. But careful planning and technological solutions would mean that migrant birds would not be more affected than they are today by the human infrastructure.

[0] http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/0150...

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/106/27/10933.full.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_steel_pro...

[3] http://www.detect-inc.com/wind.html,http://www.dtbird.com/
It's hard for me to get excited about stereo 360 when we have light field capture coming soon.

This feels like the era of 640x480 digital cameras... It's easy to see the potential, and the current gen is still valuable for niche uses, but it's clear the next generation is what will really deliver on the promise of immersive video.
Yes, yes that's exactly what happened. Apple had nothing to do with it. And that charade they put up about suing then not suing, etc, was not a charade at all. /s
I am under 35, but I'm older than most of the people I've worked with. I hear mutterings of age discrimination on occasion throughout the community but I don't have any reason to believe that is happening to me.
Running a Rust-based OS on the Raspberry Pi is probably a no-go at the moment; too much proprietary code at the bootloader and hardware level.

You might get more luck with other ARM boards that is open down to the bare-metal. Sorry, but I am unable to recommended any boards, but a search for open ARM boards might give you some pointers.
> Maybe with some form of quantum entanglement?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem

Your other questions are all addressed in an article in The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/04/yuri-miln...
An Introduction to Sensory Augmentation
Normally though an additional winding on the transformer.

Switch mode transformers have three or four sets of windings. The primary (high voltage), secondary (low voltage) a bootstrap winding (for the chip) and sometimes a flyback winding.

The bootstrap winding takes off a variable voltage depending on the local supply and uses a linear regulator to produce the required voltage.

For a better explanation than I can manage in text the EEVBlog channel goes in to all sorts of regulators and how they work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM7t1Mpu7s4&list=PLn-ZIFhWxh...
I would be curious if there's ever been a city built from scratch with any success around startups; seems unlikely, unless it more of an R&D city funded by a very large entity.
Dependency Injection in Bottle/Flask (Python)
Magic is just advanced science.

I'm sitting here communicating with you, located on the complete other side of the world, using a device that fits in my hand and that also allows real-time video communication with almost anyone, almost anywhere on the planet.

200 years ago that would have been magic.

I'm just sad I won't get to see what 'magic' is available 200 years from now.

Maybe not any of the things the grandparent post mentioned, but barring some global calamity, whatever it is, it will be magical by today's standards.
YAML isn't a particularly good config format either, since it has a lot of unnecessary complexity. For example, bare words are strings, but some bare words, such as "true" are booleans. Which wouldn't be so bad, but did you know that "yes" and "no" are also booleans? I've gotten YAML files from an i18n-system that screwed this up in a pretty bad way.
for small fish, the law say that you must first return any gain, and then pay the fine plus damages.
The capacity to be alone
Apparently the code was 6969. Got it on the third try.
Because even if it is "the Paris of Appalachia", it's still Appalachia. I'm sure the city has made great strides but the outside perception is still negative.
This so much. I feel envious you expects a job after a month looking. I often see people looking for work for 3+ months.

Also I'd suggest making work for yourself in the meantime. Freelance or a side projects. Being 'employed' in some form, even if self manufactured, is often more attractive for prospective employers.
That is actually going away in Android N: http://developer.android.com/preview/api-overview.html#quick...
The strongest enforcement might actually come from the new employer. The new employer will ask the job candidate what documents he's signed or restrictions he's under. If the candidate admits he's subject to a non-compete, he won't get hired.

Your discretion and/or fearlessness of lawsuits won't matter. The new employer isn't willing to risk it.
Yeah, and stock actually moved up in the short term when this was first announced since a settlement was reached.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/15/business/dealbook/goldman-...

TLDR: Other wall street bank settlements were much greater.
Music has meaning, it's a tool for communicating very complex ideas.

I don't think anthropomorphising something that generates pleasant sounds is going to get you anywhere, by the time you get anywhere interesting, you've become the artist.

Here[1] is an interview with Alex Ebert where he discusses a non lyrical song teaching him about death.

[1] http://youtu.be/gVK51JvGzzk
Using the defaults, I had success at about 300 iterations with all the inputs and 5 hidden layers, each with a decreasing number of neurons (i.e. 6,5,4,3,2).

I don't know if that's a general feature to need fewer neurons with each layer, but that seems to work here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11480840
That is an excellent point, however, part of the reason those areas are not as densely developed is that the transportation infrastructure sucks.

And how to fix it? It takes a long time and a lot of investment to improve public transport, but it's challenging when the need for it is driven by short-term boom-bust tech "bubble" cycles. Makes it harder for the city to invest when demand might go poof in a year.
Whenever anyone at all asks you where you work, you just be evasive.

It doesn't matter about any of those, if just as a policy, whenever anyone at all asks where you work, you don't tell them.

Or you just talk in broad strokes/industry without specifically mentioning the name, and if your old employer "finds out" that you have another job, they still can't do anything because they don't know the specific employer.
I transferred all my domains away from namecheap several months ago when the Ukrainian based live chat support was adamant they couldn't send an "ACK" message and have my domain transfer out automatically, and instead had to wait nearly a week for the "AUTO-ACK" to process. They lied to me and insisted ICANN require a five day wait even when I linked the ICANN documentation stating otherwise.
> The best argument against noncompetes is about freedom
> [...] there should be a presumption in favor of preserving people's freedom to join a new company or start one of their own.

Alas, as nice as it is to cloth an issue we care about in the language of moral superiority, banning noncompete agreements does in fact impact the freedom of contract. (In the same way, but to a lesser extent, than the ban on being able to sell yourself into slavery.)

Pragmatically this is the right thing to do. But there's no Freedom argument for it.
That's a completely ridiculous and uneducated statement. Let's say you make $70k in a 3-person family (no subsidies), you pay $1,400 a month mortgage, $12,000 a year in health care premiums, and you have a $500 a month car loan. After taxes you have around $50,000. After mortgage you have roughly $33,000. After car payment you have $27,000. That gives you about $500 a week. Then you have cell phone, electricity, water, trash removal (some places), and then maybe cable. So...now you are down from $2k extra a month to $1,200 a month. If you want to eat, let's say $150 a week in groceries..you are now down to $600 a month...or $150 a week extra. Please tell me how the middle class can save any money, but a home, pay off debt, pay for college, go on vacation...etc. On just $150 a week extra, you could easy blow your monthly budget on buying everyone in the house shoes and then going out to eat 2 times a month.
Elon's don't propagate through spacetime. They pull the frame of the universe I the opposite direction.
Window's folks generally refer to this as "ghosting", after the discontinued Norton Ghost. I have used Acronis in the past, but there are alternatives:

http://alternativeto.net/software/norton-ghost/?platform=win...
There are several community that works with full or partial anonymity. The issue is the direction and purpose of them. Which lead to the formation of this community. We are building a road to the creation of a community with the Hubs.

Hacker News is a community with partial identification, has only your nickname, but is moved by the news and the community is built from each link. As Reddit, that directs the formation of communities for subreddits. 4chan does not have any kind of identification, but there are subdivisions and forming specific communities in each /. Forums is another place with partial identification, have been around since the birth of the internet.

There is a purpose for people to enter every day. And is not the individual profile of each. It is what the people wanna share. With the option to vote for each confession, and respond button, People will create a relationship, the bond...

There is not a ubiquitous platform for audio. But there is public for that, people wanting to produce content in this format. As can be seen in podcasts, radios, audio messages of What's app and others Messagers apps. It is a vacuum of a platform for audio that is not unique to music. I believe that CN can grow in this open road.

In this recent explosion of live video , few pay attention to a simple fact: Video, both production, and consumption, is for a minimum amount of people around the world. South America, Asia, Africa, middle east. Mobile is taking the internet where there was no computer. And many of these people have difficulties with reading and writing. Audio is more cheap and fast than images and video.

And anyone can express something using audio, include people that do not know how to write.Anyway, I agree with him about the need to enable the formation of communities and the need to be rewarded. And I believe that I will build a platform that allows it.

Thank you for the feedback. =)
The thing is, it's all so subjective. This expert does not appreciate Cooper's logo and the minimalist/Bauhaus style in general. He admits that it has received critical acclaim, and clearly many people do appreciate it, undoubtedly some who are considered experts. Who is right? Who is the true expert, the professional? By what metric is that determined? Experts and critics constantly disagree with each other, often vehemently so. They have different values and different goals.

I would probably not pay for this person's opinion because I don't share his values. I like abstract and minimal. I would rather pay for the opinion of someone whose taste I share and/or whose work I admire (in the context of choosing a logo for my business. In general life I like to be exposed to opposing/different perspectives).

Basically I just wish people would generally act less as if they have a claim to what's right or good or truthful, on such subjective matters, because they are really just sharing an opinion. To this author, communicating the brand identity is an important feature of a logo. No matter how many people agree, nor how many textbooks it's written in, nor how much data shows it drives profitability and brand awareness - it still can't be used to say that a logo is objectively wrong or bad.
Zuckerberg must suspect that there's an untapped pool of new Facebook users to be had there.
Datalba sounds like a fascinating idea! If it could run as a browser extension to tag media effortlessly, it would be immensely useful.
I'd argue that SpaceX was a bit of a special case. Elon Musk could probably build a deep-space asteroid mining company in a cave with a box of scraps.
Nice cherry picking.

And what about Finland? They are building currently a new reactor. It is a Type 3 with an improved fuel technology, but still far away of one of those green, magic, waste free types which are supposed to solve the waste problems.

What is the reason the Finns do not build one of those supa dupa waste free reactors? Have they been forced by some environmentalists to ignore the wonderful new technology. Or do they plan to throw the waste, aeh sorry "fuel", into the baltic sea as this is cheaper?
Since sites like this are so ubiquitous, I wonder if users will see warnings like this so often that they'll start to ignore them and just click "proceed" without thinking.

It's definitely a step forward in the right direction, provided Google Adsense, well, adheres to their own company's guidelines…
UX always wins. Build a great "open" UX and you have a chance to gain traction.

A bottoms up approach where we put the protocol first instead of experience is the "Architect Astronaut" way of looking at solving this problem and should be avoided - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
The headline kind of has the valence of government activity backwards, though I agree with its policy proposal.

Other states don't restrict job-hopping, they just stand by and don't interfere as the free market ends up having the effect of restricting job-hopping. Employees end up signing restrictive employment contracts, and states don't prohibit them from doing so. California has made a conscious decision that the economy overall works better if some kinds of private-sector contracts are prohibited, so it's restricted what can go into an employment contract to a greater degree than other states have (every state has some restrictions, e.g. in the modern era you can't sell yourself into indentured servitude, but some states are more restrictive than others).
Book recommendations? I really appreciated what you have to say.
Okay, so it works by minimizing (equiv. maximizing) some function. But that doesn't say much about how it "learns" the gradient. What function does it care about? Average squared error (predict_prob-Z_i)^2 ? Average absolute error? The likelihood function of some assumed distribution? Maximum distance between the classification border and closest observed points? If I saw someone carrying a bag full of blueberries and some bread home from the grocery store and asked to know how they chose to buy that, to which they replied "I had a list of characteristics which I thought where important for groceries to have in this trip to the store. For each grocery item, I recorded a vector of degrees to which the item possesses each of those characteristics. Finally, I chose the group of groceries that had the best combination of degree vectors", I still wouldn't really know anything about why they bought the blueberries and bread.