skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking for a job as a fresh graduate. With no work history it is all bullshit multi-day interviews, giving presentations, showing you have 'people skills', rediculously high applciation to interview and interview to offer ratio.

My favourite was a small company that told me they 'like to get girls in for interviews' on the phone and then I stupidly still went to a face to face (I was desperate) and I got rejected - the reason was I used a loop to implement something but didn't suggest I could copy and paste the loop innards 10 times, and therefore was 'holding things back'.
You are conflating the investment banker and the equity research analyst, which have legally mandated information sharing firewalls. Also this potential conflict is clearly and openly disclosed, e.g. "This company publishes research and also seeks to do investment banking business with Tesla".

Further, Goldman conducted a secondary share offering for Tesla as recently as summer 2015, so it was exceedingly obvious to anyone who makes investment decisions based on the research that this conflict exists.

I have worked at several wall street firms and also worked for firms in silicon valley, and I frankly noticed more numerous and blatant conflict of interest situations in silicon valley.

EDIT/UPDATE: Prominently displayed in large font on page 1 of the Goldman research report on Tesla:

"Goldman Sachs does and seeks to do business with companies covered in its research reports. As a result, investors should be aware that the firm may have a conflict of interest that could affect the objectivity of this report. Investors should consider this report as only a single factor in making their investment decision."
I'm quoting the author of the book that this thread is discussing, this isn't a random cherry-pick. :)

Craig Venter wasn't sailing around the world 3 billion years ago.

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okay, so, I was trying to explain what the state-of-the-research was, and what this book says. I used to think that the RNA-world hypothesis was also the most likely! You have a good understanding of biology, and you're smart enough to make decent arguments, but you just aren't up to date.

I don't think anything I say will persuade you. You should go read The Vital Question and publish in a journal when you prove Nick Lane wrong.
I want my bathroom and my dishes to clean themselves. That's all. Nothing else is onerous.
Nitpicking, but: "Unauthorized" is better terminology than "illegal", given that deportation is an administrative process rather than a civil or criminal one.
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Realtime, Peer-to-Peer, Offline-First, Graph.

A podcast on its performance (25+M ops/sec) just happened on http://readthesource.io/ an hour or so ago, hangouts link: http://youtu.be/70dn1oZQFCk?a .

MIT / ZLIB / Apache 2 license - do whatever you want with it.
It's still there: the red lines outline the lower left hand corner of the heatsink (the big metallic structure).
It seems to me that it's simpler to understand. If you really want to keep something a secret, it's probably not a good idea to keep a copy on your (or their) phone.

Providing separate options would make it easier to make mistakes.
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I've been hearing a little about design sprints and product discovery, and am curious if anyone is currently using either of these with a team. Does it seem to be working?
If I recall correctly myself (getting old!), Google has had the ability to build your own custom image since GCE went GA 2.5 years ago. Now, admittadly, it took a while to get IAM and VPC going, but we done did it now!

I'd love to hear what other boring stuff has been a showstopper for you, in case we missed something dumb :)
Its a valid point but the world can adapt. One off-the-cuff example, perhaps FOIA will move to a real-time request enviroment where I can offer permission to use my data to small company A and large companies A, B & C have to give direct access to their database about me via API so the information gap is leveled. If Small company A can get enough sign-ups they have access to large amounts of information.
WhatsApp is pretty big, but I doubt Google is even now second before Facebook, WeChat or QQ. Unless you include e-mail, but that isn't being encrypted as I understand.
It's really not correct to say Tesla "loses money on every car" if the marginal cost is less than the sale price, because the implication of the phrase is Tesla would lose even more money if they sold more cars.
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This is absolutely baffling. Not a replacement for Hangouts, doesn't integrate with SMS... it's dead before it has even started.
We produce more than a 10x calorie surplus globally, hunger is a separate issue mostly relating to livestock.
Sirius (http://sirius.clarity-lab.org/) is open source and self-hosted.
> ...come from CIA and ISA.

ISA, yes. CIA, no - or at best extremely rarely. The CIA keeps what it pulls from the military, the NSA by comparison is a revolving door and relies heavily on loaned assets. For TAREX you can pretty easily find the USMC MOS that regularly gets loaned out, they don't even try to hide it. If the NSA wanted something they'd be much more likely to use resources from the host nation, not ISA and especially not CIA.
> A billion years! Why did it take so long to form a eukaryote then? It's because it's very x 10^9 unlikely to happen.

You say it was change. Could have as well taken 0.5 or 2 billion years.

In another comment, /u/dnautics said it was because in the newly formed oxygen atmosphere, the mitochondria had to seek shelter inside other cells.

Who knows? At least the appearances of oxygen atmosphere and eukaryotic cells happened at about the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_evolutionary_h...
The most disturbing to me is not even favoritism and sexism conditions at work (which is ironic given Sheryl Sandberg's book and official line), but the fact that Facebook: 1. uses humans to pick the trending topics, which are inherently biased in one way or another; 2. the trending sources are very limited and curated (e.g. no Twitter), which is clearly anti-competitive practices.
Pretty much no other E2E app feels the same way, and certainly doesn't enforce that.
Got it. That looks like a bad digital image stitching job. Especially the misaligned fins. But the red lines are odd indeed.
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/debian.html has a QEMU image link and instructions.
I had a bottle of Renegade, a 100% malted barley distilled in steel barrels with white oak chips for 60 days. It was.... weird, to say the least. Confusing. I don't usually drink malt whiskey other than scotch, so that could have just been totally new to me, but I wasn't a big fan.
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This was eerily similar to The Circle, by Dave Eggers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_%28Eggers_novel%29
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I was an early backer of Coin, but by the time it actually shipped to me, years late, Apple Pay had been out for months. My Coin box went unopened into the recycling bin. And this was before I read reviews saying it only worked 1 in 5 times.
I thought it was a reference to Office Space.
If it makes you feel any better, I got a coin 2.0, and it worked so infrequently I stopped using it after like a couple weeks. Plus the annoyed looks from people at shops being like WTF is this thing (which were validated when it didn't work with their system) got old fast.
"Most, if not all, of what you’ve read about Facebook’s Trending team in Gizmodo over the past few weeks has been mischaracterized or taken out of context. There is no political bias that I know of and we were never told to suppress conservative news." That sounds like an insight to me.
Wow, did not know that's available on AWS marketplace! Thanks for sharing! : )
I think they mean per planet.
Check out my I/O talk on Friday (Progressive Web Apps on Firebase). While the Firebase Web SDK doesn't support persistent offline just yet, we do have some new ways to get the job done.

https://events.google.com/io2016/schedule?filters=Firebase&s...
I wasn't trying to comment directly on the specifics of xkas - I just think this is a perfect illustration of how backwards-incompatibilities that means users can't just upgrade and keep working introduce friction against upgrading, and once you get too much friction significant portions of your userbase will stop upgrading at all. I think this lesson is really valuable in a wider context than xkas.

Since you mention Linux, this is why Linus has the "no regressions" policy - if something works on kernel N then it should also work on kernel N+1, so that people can upgrade their kernel and not worry about something breaking in userspace. (I think there is actually a very good chance that an a.out binary compiled for Linux 0.01 would still work today.)
I quite like my Huawei and wear it most days.
I'm not too familiar with the Research / IB relationship or ethics of it but I'm curious about how this would affect the general market if they did know about it. Do people blindly follow Goldman's research advice and thereby increase the share price and give Goldman a higher commission or something?
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I carry a couple different credit cards because they have different rewards programs, and I hate having a bunch of shit in my wallet, so I backed Coin.
It certainly seems so to those of us who work in tech, but is that true for "real" newspapers? I'd imagine (and perhaps even hope) that when interviewing for a newspaper job at, say, the New York Times, "Reporter for [unknown local newspaper]" would carry more weight than "Curator of social media at [third party] contracting for Facebook".
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It really depends on the perspective you bring and what you're comparing it to. If the equivalent alternative to working at Google on AdSense sales is working as a consultant at McKinsey or at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker, then no it may not necessarily be the "opportunity of a lifetime".

To someone in the Silicon Valley bubble comparing a PMM role at Google to a PMM role at Uber or Airbnb, it may be difficult to see the real value of Google on a resume.

However, to most people in the world those roles are all opportunities of a lifetime. If you look at my peers in every job I've held since working at Google and treated Google as a neutral company (i.e. not having any real career boosting value), I would have been by far the least qualified individual in many of those roles. Having Google on my resume landed me interviews and job offers I would not otherwise have gotten.

It also suggests a credibility to employers in the non-engineering world because many believe that an employee at Google must be super intelligent and highly competent. Believe it or not, I'd venture to say that this is more so true outside of Silicon Valley (where Google isn't as common of a former employee among job applicants) than inside. But I think it boosts your career prospects either way.

The key, like most things in life, is how the individual chooses to leverage the name recognition on their resume and supplement that experience with other experiences.
I'm amazed that people still feel this level of paranoia about stuff, when they have a clear option: do not use the product. Concerned about the privacy implication of Google Home? Don't get one. Don't like the fact that Apple Watch reads biometric data? Get a Casio watch. Don't like the fact that Facebook knows who your friends are? Go out more.

The very fact that someone is watching the keynote and going "oh my Gawd, the level of intrusion" at every turn, kind of tells me they are interested in having the features but don't want to provide the data. Otherwise you wouldn't even be watching the keynote. Am I missing something?

(Full disclaimer: I do work for an Alphabet company, so take my words with as many grains of salt as you want.)
You might have better ideas as you understand them in your head, but the actual words you use to communicate with other humans matter. These don't say that much. In contrast, Nick Lane's are intriguing.
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I disagree. The article states:

> There is no political bias that I know of and we were never told to suppress conservative news.

But then later goes on to say:

> “Facebook relies heavily on just 10 news sources to determine whether a trending news story has editorial authority.” The problem is, even after repeated questions and requests for guidance, no one ever explained what that meant. Much of it was left to interpretation for curators and copy editors. Topics are treated differently depending on who you are working with.

Which leads to a fairly obvious observation: providing insufficient editorial guidelines leaves room for unconscious bias to take over.

Of course, qualified journalists should be aware of their own biases and be able to compensate for them. Unfortunately, journalism in the US is becoming increasingly less valued and more partisan.

I wouldn't be surprised if this whole bias fiasco was an unexpected side-effect of Facebook hiring largely left-leaning editorial staff.
>> threatened to commit suicide
That's just union tactics
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Prominently displayed in large font on page 1 of the Goldman research report on Tesla:

"Goldman Sachs does and seeks to do business with companies covered in its research reports. As a result, investors should be aware that the firm may have a conflict of interest that could affect the objectivity of this report. Investors should consider this report as only a single factor in making their investment decision."

(I put this in the reply to a child, but I felt it was relevant enough to reply directly to the parent.)
The number of people using messaging apps (not sms) daily has skyrocketed in the last couple years, has it not? The shift is probably less recognizable because it's not a shift to messaging in general (text messaging represented that shift years ago), but a shift in platform from sms to messaging applications that innovators actually have some control over. Personally, i think it's a combination of that and the machine learning thing you mention. I'd wager that the amount of time the average person spends looking at/using a messaging app every day is very significant. Especially for something that has yet to be integrated very well or monetized.
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Maybe that's the problem? The file format is too loose and it shouldn't allow arbitrary content anywhere.
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Do you really think that just getting enough people to vote is going to fix the situation?

It's like a 140 lb weakling being squashed by a 300 lb sumo wrestler and you're telling him to just squirm more.
Your asterisked point about Bill Gates I 100% agree with. Your ideas vs. Nick Lane's, not as much.
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Steal traffic from whom?
I've been pretty quiet about this, but over the last couple of months I have been trying to negotiate with Moxie a way to distribute the GPL licensed AxolotlKit on the iOS App Store in ChatSecure (which is open source). After being denied a license, I was told by Moxie that I would be unable to write a non-GPL AxolotlV3 implementation because there is not publicly available documentation, and that any re-implementation will necessarily be a derivative work because the source code must be consulted. You may notice the AxolotlV2 documentation has been removed... and there was never documentation for AxolotlV3. The only public spec is the original double ratchet, and a few blog posts, which don't include things like signed prekeys and 4-way DH.
Perhaps if they are switching fields to one where people aren't knowledgeable about the actual role. To those of us who have encountered the people in the example, the AdSense sales reps, on an ongoing basis...yeah, I'm not sure that would win them any bonus points.
"Certain left-wing ideologies"?

Which ones?
I think Optalysys looks interesting!

For the curious, Optalysys has built a general purpose optics-based correlation/pattern matching machine. From some of their predecessor-company marketing material: The correlator performs pattern matching on large data sets such as high-resolution images, providing a measure of similarity and relative position between objects within the input scene. This allows large images [and general data converted to images] to be analysed far faster than electronic equivalents.

Going back to the topic of NN-based computing, I found this talk to be intriguing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkIuIIp6bl0. The main argument is that because Moore's law may no longer be in effect, it will become increasingly important to explore alternate computing solutions. (Google's TPU could be supporting evidence for this argument.) The speaker also co-authored a paper which I liked "General-Purpose Code Acceleration with Limited-Precision Analog Computation".
Existing homeowners don't usually oppose new development in order to maximize their property values. They are usually more motivated by quality of life issues. Some people specifically chose to live in low-density suburbs in order to have a little space, privacy, and quiet. It's hard to convince them to put up with more noise and traffic congestion just so that newcomers can have cheaper housing.
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I assume you've never had the pleasure of configuring a Sendmail installation?
By far the coolest thing announced today. This could honestly be revolutionary for how apps are used in the future.
i wouldn't say that people blindly follow the research at big investment firms, but they take it seriously. i had invested for years and just used company reports, yahoo finance, motley fool, and media articles. when i invested in tesla i ended up getting morgan stanley's research. i couldn't believe how well done it was. the media and the other resources are a joke in comparison. one of the key things is they have models into the future that project sales and profit and have dcf analysis. if you want to bring down income inequality, you should make a napster for financial research.
I apologize. I assumed he was generalizing.
Not a very good article since it doesn't mention Lost Spirits (www.lostspirits.net), with working technology that can age Whiskey and other spirits in a week. Maybe it's technically true that you can't hide the age, but apparently you can just fake it.
I believe there was a story a few years back about someone who developed a new technique for aging whiskey which was supposed to be much faster but the chemically identical (or very similar) to longer barrel aging. I don't think it's as simple as the small barrel aging they mention, because it was more recent and was getting a lot of attention.

Edit: Found it[1], although it's rum, not whiskey. Thanks to etherealmachine for pointing me in the right direction.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9369387
That's why I like Apple Pay ;-) You then only need one backup card, maybe two.

(I'm in Canada, though, where NFC is commonplace. And it's still in the rollout process, so I won't get a lighter wallet until June at the earliest.)
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Facebook is definitely a more compelling advertising platform... Given that, Twitter should be doubling down on engineering a better one. That is what I find surprising about these metrics, if they are accurate. Granting the most SBC to Sales & Marketing seems like an admission of product failure.
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Professors don't do much of the actual research work themselves. They are the ideas person, giving their grad students direction, and applying to grants to fund them.

So, what will probably happen is that they will direct you to one of their students, if they think you can give him a hand on his project.

Are you looking for a summer internship kind of thing?

Anyways, just wanted to give you a heads up. Do go ahead and ask! And if one prof isn't interested, ask another one. All profs are quite different. If you know someone in the department (grad or undergrad student), you could ask them for suggestions as to which prof would be open to having a HS level intern.
Because there's an absolute sippy straw of bandwidth to the thing if that's a 1x pci-e connection.

For if it were delivering performance on par with a $1000 Maxwell class GPU, why wouldn't you guys crow about it? That would be a really big deal wouldn't it? TitanX for 20W? That'd be awesome.

And having suffered through multiple pitches for us to buy various FPGA and boutique processors, I have yet to see someone who produced perf per watt numbers first, subsequently produce an impressive performance number. In fact, it took nearly yelling at one vendor for them to finally admit perf was abysmal.

Finally, training does not equal inference. Training requires strong scaling, but inference need only weak scale. So I suspect that Urs had to bite his tongue and buy a bunch of gpus for training networks.

Am I missing something?
> This is just FUD. AWS prices are always lowering, there is never a time they have increased. Even if they increased their prices, Google, Rackspace and Microsoft would eat their lunch. There is plenty of competition in the computing space.

The prices are lowered, but AWS is also continuously introducing new more powerful instance types and deprecates older ones.

> If your solutions are so narrowly defined that they won't run on anything else than AWS, then you are doing it wrong. You might run on specific AWS services, but there should be no reason why someone could not recreate their solutions over on Google Compute or other services.

AWS has many solutions that are different than you are used to. For example there is no NFS (well there is EFS which supposed to be similar, but it's still in preview for at least a year now). You're forced to improvise, and use their solutions. Typically S3, which is not exactly 1:1 alternative to NFS, so you'll need to improvise and rework your applications to that model.

If you want to move to something else, you no longer will have these services available.

> Yes, you might have to rework some of your solutions, but it should be very doable.

Exactly, that's what's pointed out. You'll have to rewrite your applications. There's no lock in that can't be solved by rewriting. The problem is that the rewrite might be quite expensive.
My 2004 Nokia feature phone had a mobile web browser, with some degree of HTML rendering capability, and no way to update the phone OTA. HTML or data support seem like a weird place to draw the line.