skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't thinking about Facebook, Snapchat, Amazon or even Uber - those are examples of companies that do provide a lot of honest value (not to mention I wouldn't call either of them a startup now). I meant all your random SaaS businesses that try to "change the world" by doing something utterly irrelevant that's only meant to give them enough growth to have a shot at getting acquihired by an established corporation.
I don't know what BFS is.

I just googled it. Oh, I know what it is now.

If you haven't been exposed to it, it's just jargon. That's the point. You are testing for jargon rather than ability.

It is the distinction between saying 'implement FizzBuzz' and going silent, and actually explaining what it is. As an interviewer it is easy to forget that whilst you may have asked a question 20 times, this may be the candidate's first encounter with your terminology.

Steelmanning as applied to interviews, basically.
Maybe the difference is between just contributing to open-source, and contributing highly-differentiated stuff to open-source, such that your name(or your creation's name, and not something that you just helped in a bit) gets passed around ?
Really? An external tool that isn't a text based editor but does have in depth knowledge of the code? I've never heard of such a thing.

Also for reference I don't really write Java. I write php, sql, shell scripts, ldif files, html, occasionally JavaScript and/or css, lua...
Meja+rias+kupu+kupu+minimalis+putih+MRI-007
I thought the author actually did a pretty good job at parsing the difference between the biotech teams at established VC firms and the people who invested in Theranos, explaining in measurable and falsifiable terms how the former differ from the latter (academic background, require peer-reviewed studies before investing, etc).
Why You Should Not Focus on Employee Engagement
Speaking as a user only, and someone who sometimes builds software that needs Qt4 or Qt5, Qt is definitely better than Gtk3. It has an odd 30MB base memory overhead for any Qt window, but it just works, it doesn't require you to fix your theme on each Gtk3 release, and it doesn't have many regressions, like black rectangles visible for each window upon creation, before widgets are visible. It also didn't break its file selector from the previous release (Gtk2). Moreover, and this may be debatable, it didn't force ClientSideDecorations in the form of vertical space waste, at a time when vertical space is getting scarce and it's all just wider and wider, on everything, regardless of GNOME or Wayland use.

Gtk3 had one job: make it work with Wayland and HiDPI, but like many open source projects they redid too much and broke more than they fixed.

Case in point: just updated to Firefox 46 and it now requires Gtk3, which introduced many UI regressions and oddities.

So, Qt is the better choice when compared to Gtk3, though those who don't feel the pain of Gtk3 and use GNOME may disagree. I use Qt apps on X, Wayland and Windows, for what it's worth.
Sounds like it could just as well be a case of a bunch of people overvalued perceived business sensibility and ignored technical sensibility, which is incredibly common.
As I understand it, a baseball player who performs at the average level is already close to being a superstar; most players are below. This is the reason baseball statistics assess players in terms of "wins above replacement" rather than comparison to the average -- it would be very difficult, if you fired a player, to get an average player to fill your vacancy. (You may wonder how this could be, if baseball ability is normally distributed. Baseball ability is normally distributed in the general population, but not among professional baseball players.)

The comment you responded to was making the point that it's massively unrealistic to expect a team to have a win rate too far from 50% because the absolute difference in skill among all players is small (which means that the skill differences are easily overcome by random variation). Relative differences between players aren't relevant to that argument; you'd need to be talking about the relative difference between the size of the absolute skill gap and the effect of day-to-day variation.
We Are What We Build, by Eric Meyer
Your notion of the opening of Japan as arrogant imperialism is as subjective and useless as America's notion of it as, well, the opening of Japan.
Might the HDD be attached to one Pi this way? It would be interesting if a ghetto SAN could be arrange. Do only the enterprise people get to HDD's with ethernet interfaces directly?

http://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/product-content/hdd...
Oh it "works", it's just a crummy redirect, and it happens even on desktop browsers. You'll have to hold the back button, until you get a listing of links you want to get back to.
I'm currently considering jobs directions too and finally have a name for what I'm experiencing. "career interview fatigue", it's probably similar to whatever performing elephants in circuses experience right before they snap.

I think it comes from a decade of experience of being asked to jump through increasingly ridiculous hoop sizes over time, and complicity cooperating with this nonsense system in an otherwise analytical logical calling.
Was it a scam, though, or is it just another example of "fake it till you make it"? Is there any reason to suspect that Holmes did not believe in her ability to deliver? I mean, it is quite likely that she was delusional, her delusion fueled by her lack of expertise, but delusion is not a scam, and one can argue that delusion is what drives the ecosystem.

In addition to the delusion, there was operational mismanagement, but even that is not a scam.
You would also need to consider that the top teams tend to have larger squads, so they can rest players without impinging upon their overall quality.
Lifelong Leicester supporter here, I keep expecting to wake from this most far fetched of dreams...

Yes huge amount of luck. I think there is more luck that many would like to admit in professional football (or sport). To some extent you make your own luck of course but our lack of injuries, limited suspensions and the fact that several of our players seem to have reached that sweet spot in their career at the same point have contributed.

Ranieri is an extremely experienced manager, the fact that he has had to make limited changes to a team which was on a tremendous run before he arrived has been important.

The tactics have changed subtly throughout the season, Vardy was the force that won us some many games early on. Then the defence took over, we've gone 1-0 up in some many games recently it makes it very difficult for teams to come back at us without conceding more.
Using Foursquare to Predict Chipotle Q1 Sales
I'd personally rather it get asked in a transparent way (like this) vs some programmer making some stupid assumptions in some cube somewhere.
While that may be true, I would speculate that due to higher spending on social programs, the European poor enjoy I higher quality of life than their American counterparts. Don't discount things like tax-funded transportation, healthcare, and education, and the luxury of not maintaining a massive standing military.
"Blue" is as common in life as any other "colour" - your eyes are just less sensitive to it because there's so damn much of it on earth. If you "de colour corrected" the human eye and brain, you'd see everything outdoors as a deep blue.
> Pretty sure the endgame here is that your headphones have a USB C connection on them instead of a 3.5mm audio jack.

Like most people, I want to keep using my audio equipment that does not use USB, so I'll need an adapter.
You are saying then that the animations are 'minimal' in the Arkham games, which they are not. To make the animation as fluent as it is would require a lot of work and tweaking. Street Fighter on the other hand has a defined set of animations that are played independently of the attack animation, resulting in far less work but overall less satisfying visuals.

Finally, of course you can build the environment separately if there is no dependency on it.
There are lots of high radiation environments people have to deal with.
Satellites, Medical Devices, Nuclear power plants, Particle accelerators, and even the type of robots sent in to nuclear disaster areas:
http://www.sciencealert.com/the-robots-sent-into-fukushima-h...
Previous threads:

Part 1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9443028

Part 2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9483997

Part 3 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9645499

Part 4 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9835285
Placing blame in a business setting is overvalued.

Let's all worry about blaming someone for a problem instead of fixing it. It's so much more productive.
As always, the problem is all those old earphones, headphones, and so on. The only chance of such thing prospering is if all those main cellphones come with earphones using such connection.

In computers, on the other hand, I'd love to have a phone with USB connector instead of the 3.5mm. That way I could get rid of those noise (caused by motherboard consuming power in variables ways), without using my USB-soundboard.
>Moreover, as AnandTech points out, with the extra power and programmability on offer, in-ear headphones could also be used to track health data like temperature, which can in turn feed into the growing array of fitness-tracking databases.

I'm glad that they're just straight up admitting that the reason that they're doing this is snooping. That's quite refreshing.
In some realpolitik sense, of course. But never would I argue that the grotesque excesses of American history were signals of strength or potential in line with some greater ideality. They were unchecked manifestations of baser instincts which their societies failed to counter. Strength was to be found in those that, faced with these circumstances, stood against them.
What....? Seriously, wtf? Is it really that hard to provide outlets to charge your phone?
What exactly is a “unit” in unit testing?
The freedom of the free market doesn't denote the universal freedom of its participants, but rather the freedom of the participants to agree on the price of goods without interference. That's the only specific freedom guaranteed to a free market. e.g. One is not usually free to trade stolen goods in a free market.

In economic theory, capital is that which can be combined with labour to produce money. It is the "means of production". It isn't just any money, or just any accumulation of goods.

In a socialist free market, the vendors can set their prices, and the consumers can choose which prices they'll accept, and/or negotiate a better deal, just like any normal free market. The only (necessary) difference is that the capital - i.e. the means by which the goods being traded were produced - is communally owned.

One possible policy is all consumers get the same basic income, and vendors - in the form of worker collectives - are given control over capital by lot or election. Profit would be reinvested in the capital, and/or returned to the state to be redistributed.

The consequences are similar. With enough vendors and consumers, prices would tend to the marginal cost of goods. Vendors who consistently fail to sell their goods at or above cost will, rather than running out of capital, have their control over the shared capital taken away by the state/community (e.g. via a recall process).
So the use case here is particularly interesting.

Most of the answers are talking about spaceflight, because it is one of the only radioactive environments that has a particle distribution that can be effectively fought.

Most earthbound environments have particle distributions that are practically unsolvable in software, and should instead be solved by using mechanical and noise tolerant analogue methods of sensing and manipulating and then massively shielding your computation (normally by controlling from a different building).

*Note. By particle distribution I am refferring to both rate and charge
Automatic Image Colorization with Simultaneous Classification
Blue is very common. Human perception of it is just poor, as with so many blue photons about you don't need to detect them as efficiently as say red or green. This is why blue neon signs are illegible at night.
very fun concept. I guess there is no way around "location spoofing"? I was in north korea which is obviously not true.
Looks very neat! Found my Rust reading for the week.
I recall Kante being recruited by some larger clubs, including Marseille. He was a relatively expensive transfer as well. I would think he was the standout signing, along with Huth and Fuchs who were both considered future top level players at one point in their careers.

It amazes me that Mahrez is the subject of so much transfer talk when Kante is a really game changing player.
The US plants more soy than wheat already so the adapting part would probably go OK. The bigger question would be the math about calories (it probably works out, meat production consumes a lot of calories).

I guess we could also plant lots of potatoes (which produce more calories/acre than soy).
The entire US approach to dealing with crime is tainted by both racism and a religious-fundamentalist approach to sin. People very much want to believe that there are good people and bad people, and that it's feasible to sort everyone into those categories and put the bad people in prison and punish them eternally for their intrinsic badness.

This blinds people to misconduct by the ""good guys"".
Drag and drop's pretty neat I reckon. Pretty nice when things tie into the native APIs in OS X so you can even drag snippets of text between applications. Pretty sure people would have shat their pants when they first saw that working in NextStep - it's nice not to break it.
How else is Beats going to sell you the same overpriced headphones for the second time in three years? Gotta think about those gold plated yachts and CEO salaries. Won't somebody think of the executives!
That's why I use a cheap featurephone with a keyboard and a touchscreen tablet. Smartphones are a poor hybrid, in my opinion.
Well yes, that's the fundamental trick of a No True Scotsman argument.[0]

The headline reads "Don't Blame Silicon Valley" not "Don't Blame Top Tier Silicon Valley Experienced Life Science VC Teams"

This is the article's thesis:

"It is tempting to see Theranos as another example of Silicon Valley hype — a company based on a wisp of an unproven idea becomes a multibillion-dollar phenomenon with the backing of pump-and-dump venture capitalists.

In fact, however, Silicon Valley’s most experienced investors in start-ups saw red flags at Theranos before anyone else. The Theranos saga shows just how well Silicon Valley does its homework"

A corrected sentence could be something like "The Theranos saga, while showing how SV fundraising hype can incinerate billions of dollars, also has a small story involving a few specific guys who know life science who aren't as easily fooled."

But they didn't write that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

Person A: You can't blame Silicon Valley for this

Person B: But these people are all Silicon Valley players

Person A: Ah yes, but they're not true Silcon Valley players
Someone once told me, "Save all lives at any cost to privacy". I feel that's similar to what you mentioned, "win at all costs" justice system. Perhaps there's more of this kind of mentality when it comes to the Justice System, particularly the FBI and Prosecutors.
The next sentence pretty much confirms my impression that this claim is almost certainly bullshit:

> Because the plane runs a different operating system, nothing would befall it. But it would pass the virus on to other devices that plugged into the charger.

That's just...not how computers work.
9 things we wish we knew before going to Silicon Valley
What kind of compiler technology? I've seen it mentioned that it uses a nanopass design, but that's more of a development strategy than something that results in performant code or low compile times.
"...almost as if they were looking for a reason not to hire me"

Essentially that's what is going on. Easier to exercise your biases when the default is "don't hire."
Found a more complete list here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10575963
I don’t think that matters here. What matters here is our perception and only our perception, since this whole discussion is only about perception and what humans do with that perception, not wavelengths.
Qt's accessibility support is only moderately useful in practice. As one anecdote, TeamTalk (http://bearware.dk/) has a "classic" MFC-based front-end just for blind Windows users.
This was one of the things I loved so much about Android's Holo UI. It LOOKED LIKE THE FUTURE.

I will probably never love a software UI as much as I loved Android 3.0-4.1.
Stupid question. For any other use than a satellite where weight is critical, isn't it easier to protect the computer with a heavy enough layer of metal and not worry about radiations, or are we talking about radiations that are so high that it wouldn't help?
Hiring isn't broken, dude. You just don't interview well, and you seem antagonistic even to the idea that your cachet and skills, insofar as they exist, aren't useful to the market. That's a problem -- for you.

Interviews exist because employers need a way to quantify and qualify your ability. Typical computer science problems are a (flawed, but concrete) way of doing that. No reasonable interviewer expects you to recollect breadth-first search flawlessly, on demand, onto a whiteboard. But they do expect you to be able to reason from a problem statement to something approximating a solution. That's fundamentally what programmers do. You should have the chops to think in this way, and you should be eager to try. Emoting "what the fuck?!" and claiming you can't, or won't, because you're not a recent graduate is an excuse and a cop-out.

A few popular open-source projects don't necessarily speak to your talent as a programmer. A 960 day GitHub streak is trivia, not a signal of anything useful. (If anything, it marks you as a target for burnout!) A few Hackathon wins and a couple hundred GH stars are the artifacts of a successful hobbyist, not a proxy for professional ability, or a gateway to employment.
If a phone only has one USB-type C connector on it, how will you both charge and listen to music with your headphones with it? Is there going to be two connectors, one at the top and one at the bottom?
Cool kids use Git to manage their whole infrastructure
How do you fix a problem if you don't know what the cause was?
How about the overwhelming blue/orange cast in movies?

Or the fact that old terminals were green (thus not futuristic) and red is damn hard to read.
No, it's not a test of whether you know it, it's a test of whether you can implement it. If the candidate doesn't know/recall what BFS is, it's trivial to demonstrate the basic idea on a whiteboard, and it's the candidate's job to convert the idea into code. (Which, at the end of day, is pretty much what the vast majority of coding is about.)
The purposes of these interviews is not (usually) to see if you know the answer. It's to see how you problem solve.

If you knew the correct answer to e.g. the BFS algorithm, you'll get thrown another question that they hope you don't know.

When interviewing, the thing I want to see most is how someone works through a problem: can they solve from first principles? do they go via trial and error? do they ask for a computer to google things up/a book?

Picking raw CS problems is an easy option, as its something that you should be able to solve, and it means I don't have to require you to know Angular/React/Flavour of the month (new tools are easy to teach the right candidate).

You're not going to immediately know the answer to everything that comes up in your job; so evaluating how you solve the unfamiliar is very important.
I was doing some research on Pasadena case, and found this

https://www.google.com.br/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http...
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DFJ invested $500k at the seed stage, and did not take a board seat (which is customary for seed). That is nothing in the venture world, from both a financial and a commitment perspective; their lack of control/involvement reflects that (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-19/early-ther...).

In fact, VC firms often make those kinds of investments solely as footholds for potential future investment. To illustrate again that that is a relatively low amount of money from a committment perspective, most VCs have an explicit policy of not investing in companies that compete with portfolio companies, except for companies they funded for seed (e.g. seed is enough of a crapshoot that they won't always hold themselves to not investing in competitors).

If not now, as recently as 1-4 years ago, you could seriously have gotten three times that kind of seed funding by just being a team of two ex-FB/Google/etc employees with a semi-plausible idea and prototype.
Agile is no magic bullet. Additionally 'change' means a very different thing when you are talking about in-flexible data (3d models, textures, animation etc), and usually means throwing the data away completely and starting over. This is a lot more work that adding a form field to a web page, or changing the business logic behind a query by moving some code around.
The proposal sends analog audio out on the auxiliary pins, so adapters will be passive and dirt cheap.
I think this is the crux of the problem - in the US and Canada (at least) there is an IT class of professionals that are exempt from overtime. Why? Please someone tell me why?

And it's not just the gaming industry.

I am involved with 10 projects right now (way more than my usual load). 1 of them has a reasonable schedule (though my component is sort of aggressively scheduled), 3 have completely ridiculous schedules (from day one requiring overtime and weekend work to complete), 1 has stupid political nonsense going on which makes it a complete cluster that is making the timeline silly, 2 others are being rushed in phases, since the timeline was stupid to begin with, 2 others are crunched because they are related to the 3 that have stupid timelines (forcing the team to split in to 5 different teams and work in parallel) and the last one is being finalized but had some pressures on my component, which rushed my work.

So, anecdotally, 90% of the projects I am involved in currently have issues with their scheduling.

As I have been involved with software/hardware development since 1995, my experience suggests this is nothing new.
Just went through this process from the POV of employer.

The risk of choosing the wrong person is so great, that it's often better to not choose anyone. If there is any doubt what-so-ever, it's better to not make a a hire, it can be too damaging to a team, manager, company.

I've tried so many different "coding interview" scenarios. But I found the best one was a real task that a real staff member would be expected to do, extract it out into its own example, and before I talk to someone, they present their solution to the task, and the only thing we talk about, is their solution. If they can dissect and discuss their solution eloquently, and reason about trade-offs, short-cuts, talk about what they may have done better....

Of course, it can also be a simple case of, "is this person an asshole? are they going to rub my team up the wrong way? yes? fuck them."
The "management" exemption is often heavily abused to extend unpaid overtime. It happens at e.g. Rockstar and Jagex.
Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11579676