skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, we make them do a really hard HackerRank test, and then write syntactically correct code to print a binary tree in raster order on a whiteboard. And then we don't hire them because their salary demands are too high so we get someone cheaper with less experience.
Claudius from ArangoDB here. Frank already answered a question about realtime queries below: "We are evaluating various possibilities, how to implement streaming queries in an efficient and scalable way. For instance, are restrictions to the general AQL necessary for such queries to be able to scale? Stay tuned."

Regarding performance, it would be great if somebody with excellent knowledge about rethinkdb would contribute to https://github.com/weinberger/nosql-tests
What am I missing -- rent for large houses in nice East Bay suburbs seems to be around $3500-$4000 a month which is easily less than a third of your take-home income. I'm not sure about Berkeley proper.
Another reason is because of growth, 100% y/y for them right now. That's the main reason.
I'm not sure what happened with Comodo in the past couple of years. I used to love their firewall and "secure" browser products- but then they stripped features from their free firewall option, and added sponsored links to the address bar autocomplete results! Literally a complete 180 from impressions of privacy and security I originally had of the company.
I got in a clinical trial that was being run by my allergist as part of a multi-center study.

At the time I had allergic asthma and was getting conventional treatment (inhaled steroids, immunotherapy) so I was a control in a study of the effects of the new drug Xolair.

For five years I got all my yearly diagnostics done for free, plus a yearly appointment -- in fact it was better than free because they'd pay me about $40.

Funny enough I am less bothered by asthma now, maybe the immunotherapy worked.
I would place those three or four conversations on the same level, to be frank. Also, living somewhere that isn't a tech capital, I'm actually annoyed to hear programming language discussion on the bus in the city, but maybe that's because I'm trying to get home from my job, not stay at my desk.
This guy worked at RIM back in the day. Amazingly talented.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel
They have an animated gif of playing tug of war with it! They are definitely trying to fix that whole "robot abuse" image that so many people got upset about last time!

https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/hv-kG4NOcjymzhIBMnzFNFo7Uqc...
If it is doing this in the US and got caught what kind of information must they be collecting in other countries where the laws are not so well defined and/or enforced?
Australia's mass shootings dropped to zero after gun reforms
This Irish woman was many things – wife, mother, sailor, rebel and plunderer
Excuse my ignorance. How are interest rates and pensions connected?
Yes, I know it's not accurate, which is why I called it a tale.

Neither was I saying russians jerry-rigged everything. What it does seem, is they used more simplifying approaches to control costs & complexity (possibly at the cost of some amount of additional risk)
Love that you're from upstate NY and your name is "overcast."

I'm making do in Ithaca just fine. More restaurants per person than New York City, a rush hour that only lasts 10 minutes on 5 roads, and a bunch of really nice people for a place this cold and gray make Ithaca the most good enough place in the world for me.

As far as big cities go, you take the great with the terrible.
You are right. Seattle is the bay area for people who have kids they want in good schools and to have a decent upper middle class lifestyle with cars/large house/lawn. With that comes risk adverse big-tech-co jobs that pay high but steady.
A lot of financial institutions use .NET for in-house desktop apps.
Nice post on the SaaS offerings! That, however, is not an option for enterprises where source code is that critical, it should "never leave the perimeter".

Those firms need a behind-the-firewall kind of security, under a common software platform, preferably open source (like rhodecode.com).

In other words, it is a must to have source code management that is developer-focused (with code reviews, pull requests and automation), yet provides unified security across the code base, with access controls and common authentication.
> AWS just hosts their stuff, the same way they host Netflix.

Uh, AWS already has a competing web services product, it's functionality is just severely lacking when you compare to Twilio: https://aws.amazon.com/sns/

> Their future competitors are therefore Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp (hey, also Facebook!)

Funny enough, Twilio's largest customer is actually WhatsApp. If Facebook wants to increase some margin and can do it more cost effectively than using Twilio as a provider (I don't see why not) then this is a huge threat to Twilio commercially speaking.
Volkswagen to pay $10.2B to settle claims in emissions-cheating scandal
You first try self-hosting but when things get serious, you usually switch to SaaS version of Sentry because maintaining an extra server and an application which you don't familiar with is not that easy. Open-source is actually a marketing strategy here. It makes the barrier for you to try the software is quite low which is extremely important for both startups and enterprise companies. Even some enterprise companies don't want to pay when they're evaluating your product.

If you don't want to pay, then host Sentry on your server, the company behind Sentry doesn't lose anything. In fact they can still benefit from you since you became a part of the community. These people usually advocate Sentry, report bugs etc.
New Data from Old Satellites: A Nimbus Success Story
Wow this news front-paged fast! I just tagged the commit, grabbed a quick lunch, and I haven't finished drafting the official release announcement yet :)

If you want to know what Phoenix 1.2 is all about, check my ElixirConfEU keynote which demos Phoenix Presence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n338leKvqnA

José Valim and I were also on the changelog podcast talking about what's new:
https://changelog.com/208/
Back on its feet within 10 seconds -- looks like the banana peel issue is solved.
Dataloop raises $5M
I'd say they added a dash of Erlang to C# with the tuples and pattern matching.
> If his system is vulnerable, whose isn't

That's the thing, everyone's vulnerable but vulnerable is not a synonym for compromised. And you don't cover the camera because you think you've been compromised, you do it before in case you ever were later.
Yeah, they used outflow numbers for the entire state to "prove" that there's an exodus from the Bay Area. Here's your hint:

"California has seen negative outward migration to other states for 22 of the last 25 years."

Obviously the Bay Area does not have negative outward migration, or the traffic and housing issues would be solved.

Another interesting quote cites a man inexplicably commuting from SF to the East Bay which is not something you'd do if you were trying to optimize your housing costs.

A third cites a woman and her sister moving from The Villages in SJ to Dayton, Ohio. Not mentioned is the fact that The Villages is a retirement community on a golf course (you have to be over 55 to live there).
For simple mathematical operations you can import them as functions:

from operator import mul, add
arr = [1, 2, 3]
sum_of_squares = reduce(add, map(mul, arr, arr))
Fairly standard scummy marketing though. Once you have the appropriate auth level to generate certificates of the type you desire (a one-off process, or at leas once-per-two-years) every certificate you have signed is free.
Blanket statements are silly, "SF is better", "Toronto/Wloo is better". Silly blanket statements.

If you are a company that NEEDS high growth to be sustainable in the long term (Uber, Google's ML products for example), then SF is your place. Capital to fund your growth flows like the Niagara. If you are a company that is serving other startups, SF is also great for that.

However, if your company is solving an interesting technical/scientific problem or is a niche industry product or if you are not affected by high/low growth or easy capital, then the "value" engineering talent in Toronto/Waterloo is perfect (see: Geoffrey Hinton's NN group at UToronto). Keep grinding, you'll win in the long run.

Joist probably should've made this call earlier on. No idea why they waited this long.

P.S: Most smart advice in Waterloo and Toronto will tell you this exact same thing.
Getting any tech job at this point in time is simply a matter of which bullet you will finally, defeatedly choose not to dodge. Every company wants your fealty, overt signals that you'll cower yourself to them, much, much more than any kind of technology competence or aptitude.

It's either this, or a person hasn't had enough experience yet to know this, and so they still have bright-eyed optimism that this one company is the one that's going to elevate their career, treat them in a minimally acceptable manner, etc., and you can bet the recruiting staff is banking on finding these people. It's very depressing.
It was/is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11959444
Even so, testing a live nuclear missile with a 1,250km range must be tremendously exciting.
Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News, regardless of the way someone rubs you.

You've posted quite a few other uncivil and unsubstantive comments to Hacker News too, unfortunately. Please (re-)read the site rules and follow them when commenting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Everything from Wolf3d to Quake3 has a special place in our household's hearts. My dad brought the original iD games to mine and my sister's attention when we were still kids. The first time we played co-op Doom as a family on LAN is one of those memories that's been seared onto my brain - taking down a Cyberdemon together was too much fun!

Quake had a similar impact because that's when we migrated from keyboard to mouse for looking around - given it was truly 3D and all. But I have to say that the Cyberdemon > Shambler, despite how cuddly the Shambler looked.

Happy Birthday Quake!
> We could have right now a RoboDog, with some machine guns on it and let them patrol and secure a perimeter. Fire at anything it moves.

Its sad that this is thought of as the innovative use of RoboDog.
If you are talking about the sparks sprayed towards the engines, then that wasn't the ignition system.

Igniting a rocket engine like that would cause the flame to travel backwards into the combustion chamber and the engine to spontaneously disassemble.

The sparks merely burned off the excess hydrogen that might escape from the engines and avoid unplanned conflagrations around the pad from it.

Actual ignition was done by ignitors inside the engines themselves.
In case any are interested, the original model and experiment for a leakers' market was Tim May's BlackNet as described here:

http://osaka.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/tcmay.htm

Good news he only received a few offers despite all the privacy tech involved. I wonder what the number would be today. Wikileaks shows it could be significant.
Some startups use it for their stack. BizSpark + C#/.NET + Azure is a really attractive stack for the aspiring startup, IMO.
Newest Boston Dynamics Robot Video – Introduceing SpotMini
It Was Broadcasted Live (or almost) In The USSR.

No Way, the Government of the USSR would have done that if they had any doubt about it being an hoax.
As part of my branding consulting services, I could totally come up with some non-trademarked-but-like-totally-better names. For instance:

1) We gonna encrypt u

2) Allow us to encrypt!

3) I CAN HAZ NCRYPTON?
The Chinese made a heat shield out of oak:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14619738-300-space-od...
It would have cost apple time and money to do what the FBI requested. This wasn't simply 'send us a file', they asked them to make a custom version of the software.

And if they did it, the FBI would have made more future requests for apple to spend time and money.

And if the custom software somehow got out into the wild, that would threaten apple's bottom line as well.

The FBI situation was just another example of apple taking care of themselves.
I find mob-and-pitchfork style of threads and articles to be off-topic for HN.

If someone posted an article about one of the accusers of JA and creating a mob-and-pitchfork threads against them, I would flag it equally the same as this one. If the only purpose of the submission is to attack people (see attack articles on Wikipedia for definition and concept), then its fail the first HN rule for the threads it will create, ie its not civil to have mob-and-pitchfork threads and its not something anyone would say in a face-to-face conversation with the accused or accuser. In a previous article discussion about JA, someone compared him to hitler. Do you think they would be perfectly fine say that in person?

>> any article that only results in mob-and-pitchfork style discussion
> "while allowing stories on the same topics you do agree with"

If topic == mob-and-pitchfork; goto flag-article(). How could I have been be more clear in previous comment? All, any, and regardless if I like the person being attacked or not, I do not find such article to be civil and productive for discussion. I don't even find it productive for social change, as all it does is raising the tone and driving out those that social campaigns tries to convince. Left are those that are already convinces that they are right, flaming against each other.
Opera with an ad blocker vs Edge without it doesn't seem like an ubiased test.
I've been really enjoying Minecraft lately because it bucks that trend for all of the right reasons.

All of its graphical simplicity both helps make the game world more modifiable, and encourages users to use their imagination to interpret the world, just like simple LEGO blocks do.
The Perils of Using Technology to Solve Other People's Problems
Government jobs are dull, underpaid, largely unrewarding, and people in them have to take shit from Ayn Rand acolytes like you every day for problems that are way above their pay grade.

Assuring that the people who serve society don't spend their final years in poverty is the least we can do.
I relocated to Toronto SPECIFICALLY to work for Joist, exactly one week ago. I was laid off along with everyone else within 6 days of working for them! Prior to that I was working in the USA for a few years; I'm now in a position where I have to figure out next steps with regards to my career :/ I'm still unsure why they hired me and brought me down here? I'm also hoping that they pay me for my time there (I worked my hardest to impress them, albeit only a week!)

By the way by my count it was closer to 90 people laid off, so they are depressing these numbers.
UUIDs as tokens? wow.
Who do you guys trust for your wildcards needs? Assuming you were to build a super cheap side project on the weekends and you needed subject alternative names for your first-level subdomains.
This is actually also an issue in the Silicon Valley, where you see lots of startups throwing away perfectly functional electronics because they reached enterprise end-of-life or they raised a new round and want to buy everyone the latest laptop.

I work at OpThrift (https://opthrift.com) where we help people buy high-quality used laptops, and startups throwing equipment away is one of our biggest supply sources. Half of the time, they don't even care about what price they get and just want us to get the devices out of their office.
When resources are tight, I'm a big fan of having a bare metal server + lxc + ansible.

I've also recently began looking into docker, but the update image dance seems like more work to me than the above.
That's a bit of a mis-nomer because a pop sets them up much better for a secondary. Among other benefits of a pop. Absence of a pop gives the impression of "failure" which takes awhile to overcome.
> the convention of 0 for off and 1 for on was established precisely to avoid picking a language

I figured that politics was the case. What is less supportable is working backwards from that to concoct a rational reason. People who understand digital electronic conventions are highly unlikely to not recognize "ON" and "OFF". Furthermore, anyone who does not know either would find "ON" just as easy to learn as "|".

(That's why I referred to "ON" as a 'glyph'.)
I like this a lot. I had a startup, failed, went back to full time job, save more, start again. Every iteration I learn more. Hopefully someday I'll make it.
Unification is a mistake. But 囍 has nothing to do with unification. Do you think that 福倒 should have a code point? Would it be considered one of the chinese characters (very iffy) or one of the holiday symbols?

The 天书 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Book_from_the_Sky ), by design, consists solely of chinese characters that don't exist. (Theoretically. A couple of them, by oversight, did exist.) They are still recognizably "chinese characters" by virtue of being composed of the same components. Should they have unicode points?

囍 plainly exists, but has no textual use. Is it more similar to 靑 or to ️U+2764 "heavy black heart"?
Please refrain from "rules lawyering". It's not funny and doesn't add to the conversation.
There's social security, retirement funds, and savings. Why does 'government job' mean anything special?
Yes, exactly. Remember how everyone jumped on those "apple recycles all the metal" stories, which proved to be almost entirely false? People just love feeling good about apple, even when those good feelings are based on falsehoods.
I really enjoyed this article because it doesn't grab the most immediate reaction to a poor attempt to solve a complex social problem through technology. A knee-jerk response to that might be to condemn technologists and "solutionists" for even trying.

This guy is smart enough to acknowledge that while technology alone cannot solve complicated social issues, it can and often is a part of the whole solution.
The alpha is turned up in those thumbnails but the linked images are all dark :(

Quake had such a dark, dreary, earthtone color palette. Unreal was like a rainbow by comparison.
Pattern matching

Is it mimics the Erlang behaviour?
It's the way she broadly insults the reading audience by finishing up with the dismissive enjoinder not to send them any personal tales of woe.
And they say "Opera Developer (39.0.2248.0)" - which is presumably a dev build of the browser.

Like it would be fine if they say "in next version we will retake the top" or whatever but don't try to dispute their results by providing something they had no way of measuring.
I mean, thanks for describing how many open source companies make money?
Easy enough to say if you're a developer and can afford to be choosy. For most fields, though, the labor market is heavily biased in favor of the employer.
Yeah. I don't know. We bought a real house on the Peninsula on far less income.
And the bullets.
Oculus Founder on Exclusivity
C# is basically becoming Scala
You're overanalyzing it. The company priced 10mm shares at $15 with the banks running the IPO so:

company -> banks

The first actual public trade was $23.99 so

banks/clients of banks -> public markets.
It's a bit like a buggy whip manufacturer registering a trademark on the word 'ford' at the introduction of the model T. Understandable, but not permissible.
Actually, it might go up quickly once they start filling up their financial results every 3 months. If they have a steady growth the market will react positively and the employees owning shares will benefit from it.
It seems like if you also add googly eyes to any robot like the one in BD's video they begin to appear more friendly.
We should find a way to mine some of the rich veins of discussion here—perhaps picking one thing and going into it in more detail. Every time I read or hear Alan I end up with a list of references to new things I'd never heard of before.
Latin is not really SOV. It is common, but word order can vary greatly. In this case, you can actually use any combination (SOV, SVO, OVS...). Classical writers would often place the most important or impactful word in a sentence last, and this word is often the verb.
Interview with Olympic Hopeful Ben True
As others have said, this is standard curriculum.

Maybe you should be directing your attention to those who actively exploit compound interest to take advantage of others?
I think what they were saying is that the best talent in the world isn't in Toronto, so remoting from Toronto isn't the problem (according to them).
I'm a Florida transplant as well and I agree with you 100%. Used to live on the beach for 1/4 of what I pay here to live 2 hours from work. I'd love to go back, but the "opportunity risk" is real. You lose your tech job suddenly in the Bay Area, and you might spend 3-6 months and you're back at work. You lose your tech job in Florida, and you're probably going to be moving out of the state.

Tons of people have already popped up in these threads saying things like "But Austin!" And "What about Raleigh-Durham?" etc. While there might be greater than 1 tech company in these areas, they still don't hold a candle to the Bay Area when it comes to where you best mitigate the risk of job loss.
If 'protect revenue loss' is an oblique way of justifying outright theft, then sure.

These snakes are aggressive as hell. They monitor domain registrations and email-bomb anyone in DNS records. Their spam gets through filters and they'll call you up to sell you certs. Fuck them.
I really like https://www.scirra.com/construct2 for having fun and fast prototype iterations. Just be aware, that it is UI and click heavy, but yet powerful and flexible. I think it will be hard to manage large code bases in Construct, but that is something I have not yet gotten into with my simple hobby projects.
Canada is a country, not a dear friend. Workers and companies owe nothing to it. If it makes more sense for someone to leave, then more power to them. Canada can either try to make itself more appealing or deal with people leaving.
Good good. One more reason to pry 2.7 out of Guido's hands and into 2.8.
It is only obvious if you take the theorem as a given (as mathematicians typically do). However, I bet if you are given a slightly different system, it would be difficult to say whether this is true: For some natural number N, do there exist n primes p1,..,pn such that p1..pn = N and no other m primes q1,..,qm where q1..qm = N ? As an example, Gowers gives the complex numbers, where it may intuitively appear to be true ... but it is not.

Gowers mentions that, to him, an obvious argument would be: 23 x 22 != 21 x 25, since 2 divides 23x22, but 2 does not divide 21x25.
It is weird that Google Finance [1] is not displaying the stock while Yahoo does [2].

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWLO&ei=WRRsV5j0KtD9...

[2] http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=TWLO&ql=0
I was already a massive NIN fan so I LOVED the soundtrack. Even though I haven't heard it for years I can a) still hear it and b) picture the points in the game where it switched.

Trent Reznor makes great soundtracks. Natural Born Killers is incredible.
The volume is 12 million and it hasn't traded under 23. So, yes, in theory they could have sold the block for more than $15, possibly as high as 23 and change.
Couple of notes on the title:

- it should probably start with "Show HN: " (which is kind of a convention when you're posting your own code)

- the indefinite article in English has two forms, the choice of which depends on whether the word following starts with a consonant or a vowel sound. In the former case, use "a"; in the latter, use "an". Since "GitHub" starts with a consonant sound, the correct usage here would be "A GitHub..."

HTH! HAND.
your reprehend motivated me to donate