skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think FB has a strategy here that plays along well with their messenger (and their emphasis on bots). Imagine the example they give "I would like to sell my old bike for $200, anyone interested?", being matched with another user who said "I am looking for a cheap bike nearby". This plays right into google's territory, with the ability to organize and match people's intentions.
Despite all the negative sentiment here, I am super excited about this. I use CoreOS heavily and really like how everything just works. Running Kubernetes on it, is the first cluster solution for me that works without configuration orgies and is robust against machine outages. Torus seems to be the missing piece. For now we use local volumes with sidecar containers for r/o storage and nfs volumes for r/w storage.

All other solutions are not practical. GCE and EBS are only single mount. iSCSI is unsupported in the cloud. Leaving only Ceph and Glusterfs, both mentioned here, but needing heavy configuration.
In the May 2016 thread, a number of questions / criticisms were raised about our recruitment process at BaseCase:

-) https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=basecase_com (scroll down a bit)

Unfortunately, I was only made aware of this after the thread had closed for commenting. For that reason, I thought it best to reply here to the issues raised.

Firstly, I'd like to say that recruitment is hard, and reasonable people can disagree on what constitutes the 'best' strategy.

With that in mind, I think the main issues raised in the thread were:

1. Rejection email not sent

2. 9hr coding test is too long

3. Coding test is 'pointless OO', not suitable for a senior position

I'll address them one-by-one.

1. Rejection email not sent

One of the posters (wayn3) mentioned they didn't receive a rejection email. I've checked our logs, and he's right that when he wrote his comment we hadn't sent the rejection email, but we subsequently did. So - wayn3: apologies for taking so long to send a rejection notice (3 weeks / May 10). It doesn't usually take me so long to review a solution, but sometimes it does happen due to other commitments.

But I would like to say that to the best of my knowledge, we never "drop" conversations, we make it clear if / when we reject a candidate.

2. 9hr coding test is too long

9hr is the time limit, not the expected duration. The amount of time required is usually 3.5hrs - 7hrs, with an average of about 6hrs for a good solution.

3. Coding test is 'pointless OO', not suitable for a senior position

I'm not looking for OO code specifically. Candidates can submit any kind of solution and I'll review it.

But to some extent the criticism is accurate - the test isn't technically very challenging, and it doesn't have any 'tricky' questions. This is however intentional: the day-to-day of software engineering is writing high quality, easy to maintain code for (mostly!) straight-forward problems. Logic tricks / fancy math are only rarely required for the work we do at BaseCase.

Put another way, the programming test tries to be a 'work sample' tests, simulating something more like the code you would actually write at BaseCase (without requiring you to learn all about our architecture).

This isn't to say that work at BaseCase is boring or humdrum, it's just that the challenges are related to designing high quality, easy to maintain software. To evaluate someone's ability to do this, I need to review a couple of hundred of lines of code they've written to solve a straight-forward problem.

If anyone has any questions please add them in here and I'll try to answer them.

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The solution is so obvious, at least for big media outlets who complain the most: INSOURCE YOUR ADVERTISING.

This means: no external services to track the f..k out of your users, and you yourself provide a platform for bidders to upload banner images or plaintext ads (Google Adsense-like) to.

Benefits, aside from making it harder for people to ad-block:

1) you don't hand over a sizable chunk of your ad income to middlemen with incentives for fraud (they charge the advertiser, but claim fraud towards you and keep the change)

2) you can be (relatively) sure that your site doesn't get a nasty Google penalty for serving malware.

Is there any (F)OSS/SaaS platform available for an individual to provide such a platform for bidders?

edit: I forgot offering paid content and referral links (Amazon!), these can be worth quite a chunk of money if your site is popular enough.
Great post. So the follow-up question is, how much work would be involved in mirroring all that in a native UTF-8 encoded string type? :-)

Windows interop, and 8/16 conversions, would obviously be an expense, but ~half the storage requirements of UTF-16 have to represent a substantial CPU/RAM saving.

Guess it's too much cruft and complexity to introduce into .NET now, but who knows? https://twitter.com/terrajobst/status/717935598904807424
But Standard Oil literally bought the refineries, railroad, long term contracts on crude.

That would be like Uber buying every road and every manufacturer.

I also don't think Uber's biggest competition is cars or taxis, I imagine it is public transport. The markets with the best scale (esp outside of US) have good public transit. People aren't going to go from paying a £10 uber to a £30 black taxi in London, they'll go back to getting the tube or the bus home after a night out.
Facebook has become an indispensable app for the very low end $40-45 android smartphones. Such as the ones you can see for sale on AliExpress with 3.7" screens and Android 4.4 running on a very cheap MediaTek chipset.

People who buy these in developing nations usually require that the handset retail vendor install the .APK for Facebook (though they don't know the process of HOW facebook gets installed without the Play store, they just know that "I want facebook on my phone), before buying the phone.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-fa...
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150ms to boot the VM that is running the container processes with the stripped down Linux Kernel, lkvm, and DAX. This is about what we observe in the rkt Clear Containers "stage1": https://coreos.com/blog/rkt-0.8-with-new-vm-support/

One note: you can run multiple "container processes", like redis and a redis dashboard, inside of these Clear Container VMs. This means in the case of Kubernetes we will only incur the cost of the startup time and Kernel/init overhead once per pod instead of once per process.
End-to-end encryption means the server doesn't know the content of the message. Only the clients, the end-points, have the decryption key.
I think AlphaGo had a pretty good simulation of its human opponent, even though strategy and intuition are hard.
Well, there's the new Quark, Curie, Edison offerings.

I don't see how that can save a company though.

They used to sell $200 processors like popcorn.
The advantage is that you get to keep your passwords on a single database rather than having a separate copy of the database for each operating system. Synchronizing two separate copies of the database would be painful.

An alternate solution is to keep a single password database on a FAT32 formatted partition or thumbdrive which is readable from both Operating systems.
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that your gloss was a strange interpretation (I'd say your summary is reasonable), just the original was.
Because they're so repugnant that they make reasonable people question why anyone would be willing to tolerate, let alone defend him. He's freely declared himself so reprehensible that it impairs his ability to lead any project because it will inevitably attract this type of discussion.

If you'd prefer this not to be the case, please outline what restrictions on free speech you'd like emplaced so that people would not be able to discuss his views.
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Downtown LA, including the Arts District, is excellent now. Plenty of restaurants, shops, bars, museums, etc.
Bike share at the metro stops and on both sides of the light rail lines would make a lot of sense as a last-mile solution.
Sure, but it also carries a $15,000 premium over a car that at least matches it on various utility comparisons.
The Facebook loving farmers of Myanmar: $40 Android phones in the 3rd world
Write right.
It was, in fact, originally posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11773332 by me (the author), but that post never got much attention :p
not a very good name for international expansion as "Speck" means "bacon" in German.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speck
This is a great point. UberEATS and UberCats and put our stuff anywhere with an API? I'm starting to see the platform in action.
Ya know, I normally don't believe in these "Facebook is listening into your conversations"-type voices and opinions because it seems like such an invasion of privacy and the company wouldn't do something like _that_ without permission. However, after a recent episode where I _know_ Facebook was listening to my conversation[1], I'm now much more nervous based on this machine learning news. I've become highly critical and pessimistic when Facebook says things like "Better understanding people's interests" and "New deep neural network architectures", not so much because of what their intent with the data is, but how they receive that data. It's done so sneakily, this is what I disagree with. I normally don't have a problem with Google reading my emails and suggesting news topics on Google Now + my flights, etc., because they ask if they can, but with Facebook, there's an era of creepiness that they are always listening.

[1]: This past weekend, a close friend was telling me about his friend who works at Google and the following morning, this Google person came up on my "Friends suggestions". It was the most bizarre thing... I also confirmed with my friend if he looked this Google guy up later on Facebook, which may have prompted his Google friend to show up on mine, and he said he didn't touch Facebook after our conversation.

EDIT: For further clarity.
Oho so now they are claiming that net neutrality is being violated? So basically publishers are attempting to expand "neutrality" to not transit paths but onto end-points.

I do hope that Springer disables their firewalls, virus scanners and spam filters. Could be a boon to sci-hub once their systems are compromised and all their data leaked...
Sure!

I like a lot of the ideas, both on the merit of being weird and fun and genuinely being better.
The view of having an operating system that has:
* a built-in identity system and PKI
* a typed and versioned file system
* a typed command line
* all apps being state machines (both being able to be upgrades over the air and operating based entirely on RPC primitives)
* having the entire thing be a function on an atomically updated event log that is crash-proof, upgradable without a restart, and replayable

is just great, even if it's not really usable yet. I'm not sure how feasible the entire project is, because holy hell is it ambitious, but I really hope they do well.

Playing around with Hoon is actually pretty nice. Reading it as a beginner is scary as hell due to all the weird runes, but learning it is nowhere as hard as it looks. It's vaguely lisp-like, pure and side-effect free, strongly typed, and easy to use. I've been doing codegolf challenges in it for fun on my free time.
What this article does not explain is who is entitled to the money. It just says those who have jumped through hoops. I owned dell stock and it was sold without my consent, am I also entitled to the increased amount?
I whitelist cookies from sites, and Google is not whitelisted, which I think has the same effect
I earnt something through bug bounties but I do it occasionally.
Such results as they published today have become pretty standard in the academic papers. I was wondering why weren't there any cutting edge applications of deep learning in text, as a product. It's probably too expensive to run the necessary hardware to use the latest and greatest ideas.
The new trains and stuff are nice. Some of the other aspects of this "Mobility Plan" are really annoying. The main one I dislike is how some already incredibly busy streets have had a whole lane sliced out for a bike lane. It's usually empty, and not that safe, because of people turning right across it.
I get that everyone having a car in LA is not a way to allow greater density, but, it's reality for now and making everyone in that reality suffer isn't a great way to get re-elected. More light rail lines, awesome, making driving a car more miserable than it is, not so much.
It's only recently started to become a major issue. Perhaps it has been enabled by default more recently, I'm not sure—when I first installed it some time ago, I believe I enabled it manually as part of the setup process.
Hrmmmm, running uBlock Origin 1.7.2, and got hit by it.
Don't forget Domino's. They and others in their business had this whole thing with drivers using their own cars for short notice transportation jobs decades ago.
The MitM on the automated update check is by far more dangerous.
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I've heard that Uber is going after those contracts as well.
Yes! That should be like a netflix for content websites or where you could buy credits which works on all major publications and can be spend as you like.
Bill Gurley's open letter to Uber
If Diggler had bombed I most certainly would have heard about it - I was reading about him before all this 538 stuff, when he had a Hostage crisis in Russia[1]. However if that had happened we would just have a different but equally humourous narrative, perhaps blaming his family court issues, or some other nefarious plot :D

Really you're overthinking it, and you shouldn't feel the need to protect Nate Silver et al, they're completely unaffected by Carl (afaik they haven't even acknowledged his "existence") so don't worry about it

[1] = http://www.cafe.com/breaking-missing-journalist-carl-diggler...
So ignoring the abstruseness and pretentiousness for a moment [x], what I don't like is this model of immutable networking Urbit has. Maybe I am in a minority position, but I fear the future where everything is cryptographically signed, verifiable and irrefutable.

I want to be able to go on a website and post bullshit that I'll regret 15 years later. And if after 15 years someone unearths that post, I want to be able to say "that proves nothing, anybody with a text editor could have forged that". You might say a prospective employer wouldn't buy that argument even now, but I want to live in a world where people do buy that argument. Where you can post party pictures on the internet, because it's trivially easy to fake pictures, and everybody has accepted that pictures have no proving power, so everybody feels free to post them, even my boss. Let technology drive society to be more laissez faire.

A similar thing with bitcoin. My utopia doesn't involve cryptographically secure, ideal money - it rather involves no money at all. I'd rather put my energy into developing a new kind of society based on free association (rather than labor & money) than using algorithms to cement this society.

I believe cryptography is great for being CRYPTic, i.e. providing anonymity. But using it to prove identity etc. should be used very sparingly and not without thinking about the consequences.

[x] And I don't want to denigrate this project. It seems to be a great technical and theoretical achievement - it's just that their ideals are not necessarily mine.
I've met a lot of black people, but I've never met the black race. I've met a lot of white people, but I've never met the white race. I've never met a race and I don't expect to.

I've met stupid people and smart people and a whole lot of people who were stupid one way and smart another, but I've never met anyone with an IQ and I don't expect I ever will.
Not sure how many people bike there, but if they make driving even worse, and people notice an empty bike lane, maybe it will encourage them to try hoping on a bike instead, whenever possible?
> They're not writing blog posts or comments on HN, they're writing code.

Actually, the problem is that 90% of the code still remains to be written, while others (including me) have already done so. They've addressed only the very simplest part of the problem, not even far enough to show any performance comparisons, in a manner strongly reminiscent of Sheepdog (belying your "own approach" claim). That's a poor basis from which to promise so much. It's like writing an interpreter for a simple programming language and claiming it'll be a full optimizing C++ compiler soon. Just a few little pieces remaining, right?

It's perfectly fine for them to start their own project and have high hopes for it. The more the merrier. However, I have little patience for people who blur the lines between what's there and what might hypothetically exist some time in the future. That's far too often used to stifle real innovation that's occurring elsewhere. Maybe it's more common in storage than whatever your specialty is, but it's a well known part of the playbook. It's important to be crystal clear about what's real vs. what's seriously thought out vs. what's total blue-sky. Users and fellow developers deserve nothing less.
Unless you're about to say you don't have a culture, maybe you should accept that people will argue according the culture they have and leave it at that.

It's like I said "I like pepperoni pizza," and you're trying to say "no one kind of pizza is objectively better than the rest, so you have no right to choose pepperoni pizza over any other pizza." But in fact I do have this right, being that I'm the one choosing which pizza to eat.

If I disagree with someone's morals, it's because I'm the one who's choosing which morals to disagree with. The "who I am to judge" is the one who's doing the judging. Just like you are with your inane position here.
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It would be great to have a service that looks at a website's DOM structure, then you download some rewrite rules and you literally only download content.

Makes me wish you could go to HTTP and say: give me only the div's with the attribute "name" that equals "header" and "body" and all img tags with class "illustration".
You are looking for https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/
"race" and "IQ" are fictions, so what does that do for their truth value?

I would ask, are these concepts truly useful?
uMatrix isn't a typical consumer-friendly adblocker, it's a general purpose request blocker and explicitly warns that it will break many things. uBlock, AdBlock, etc., will generally not. Certain things do still break occasionally, but it's pretty rare and usually it's on a site that I don't actually care about. Disqus comments are blocked deliberately by most tracking blockers because Disqus tracks user behavior and discloses their data to third parties.
Any other tech companies like Microsoft or Apple? Apple also uses Irish dodge plus its stored profits are always in the news. I'd be surprised if they didn't go after them.
I have just taken a look at the blog post you linked to.

If you've read that and come to the conclusion that the author is a racist, I can explain what you've missed in one word: intent.

The author is exploring ideas. The early parts of the blog post set this exploratory tone quite clearly by framing Carlyle not as someone with absolute moral authority, but as an original thinker, a counterbalance to his time and our time. By exploring Carlyle's ideas the idea is to examine commonly held assumptions. It's an intellectual exercise, and a healthy one at that.

As for the 'racist' comments, I don't think they're racist. The 'racist' argument being made can be summarised as... 'The idea that genetic diversity is equally balanced across all races has not been proven, it's an assumption made to further a political cause. However, even if there are genetic traits more closely associated with one race over the others, it does not make those other races inferior. This line of reasoning exposes another form of oppression, one based on intellect rather than genetics, where the right to rule over others is determined by perceived intellectual superiority.'

To me, that's not racist. I do believe there are genetic dispositions amongst people of different backgrounds. For example, look at average height. If I go to Asia or South America and stand next to people I meet there, I would tend to be taller. Do I think I'm a better person than them because I'm taller? Fuck no. Can you appreciate this point of view?
No it's not. Intel tried to be cool but it won't.
Why pay the advertisers? Why not pay publishers directly?

Why not have a single, income-prorated content fee which is then allocated as a quality-and-utilisation pro-rated compensation to information creators?

BBC license fee, but universal and income based, on steroids.

$100/year per person would cover all Internet advertising. $500/year per person would cover all advertising period.

(And that's for major industrialised nations only -- US, EU, Japan, Canada, Australia, roughly).
On the homepage it says: "KeePass is really free, and more than that: it is open source (OSI certified). You can have a look at its full source and check whether the encryption algorithms are implemented correctly.".

Why do you say it's proprietary?
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We need Software Engineers who can help us in the following three areas:

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+ Data Pipeline (Apache Spark, Kafka, Zookeeper, some numpy and pandas for minor analysis)

+ Machine Learning, Stats, Data Analysis (NLP, Image Processing, and any quantitative tool we can use. We train production models that impact business bottom line: search, fraud detection, product recommendations. Here we're looking for someone who can leverage above tools to bring algos to production)

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