skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wondered about who exactly prefers to use Launchpad. I've had to use it for PPAs, and it seems terrible. I feel like the median FOSS developer would see no benefit in hosting a new project on Launchpad vs. Github or anywhere else.
The side-business making $1500/mo is the other venture that he started himself using the Anymailfinder API.

Then, he partnered up with the guy from Anymailfinder.
Oh, really?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/16/chinas-debt...
As a long time independent consultant looking for a regular 9 to 5 job, my recent interview experiences would be consistent with this statement. After a series of phone interviews and a 4 hour on-site, all of which yielded positive feedback, I was told the position went to someone "more passionate" about the company mission.

After reflecting a bit on what I may have done or said wrong, it hit me. This place had the typical startup perks: catered lunches, stocked kitchen (with plenty of energy drinks), and a younger demographic (I'm 40). My conclusion is that "More Passionate" is actually code for "willing to work 14 hour days."
Interesting. 177 days ago you posted that you don't know the details of NodeJS [1].

I suspect the problem in your case is not ageism or the interviewing process, but that you represent yourself to be something you are not, and it is obvious to those who interview you.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11054599
"I've basically built a request router and ~MVC into Wordpress"

That sounds really interesting and something I think a lot of devs would be interested in.
Whoa whoa whoa stop the clock ;)

Before everyone gets up in a big frenzy on the price, read the article (closely):

"It isn’t clear how much Wal-Mart would pay, but a person familiar with the matter said Jet could be valued at up to $3 billion in private markets."

That is nowhere near a statement that $3B is number from Wal-Mart. That means "someone" thinks they COULD be valued at UP TO $3B in "private markets". That "someone" could be Jet's CEO. Or their banker.

Wal-Mart isn't dumb. In fact, they're the opposite of dumb when it comes to paying for things. They wouldn't pay $3B for a failed ecommerce startup if they can let it fail and buy the assets or pay much, much less in various other scenarios.

I doubt we'll see this deal go for anywhere close to $3B, if it happens at all. This is likely a negotaition tactic to drum up interest (and/or the price) from other potential acquirers.
>>You can indeed prepare for "puzzle" interviews.

The term 'Preparation' is a misnomer here.

That process literally involves living your life on sites like TopCoder, HackerRank etc. You will likely be spending any time you can spare on such sites, to 'prepare'.

You can be the most productive person in your current job. That doesn't prepare you for these interviews.
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Walmart's brand in the UK - ASDA - provides online shopping with both collection and home delivery services. Not really sure why they don't do it in the US.
But would they still have a safe platform?
This is the most succinct phrasing of the best advice on "How much to value stock [options]" that I've ever read. Thank you.
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True. Though what would happen if you launched your lunar vehicle from a platform on international waters?

Loophole? Or do we now get to mix in Maritime Law as well as the Outer Space Treaty, which is an even cooler jail story in the making...
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Many thanks for the pointers! You're my favorite comment for the day (https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=akkartik&comments=...)
I'm glad to see innovation in this area. I have a few questions.

Can you tell me where (or even how) you acquired the data to train your machine learning system?

If you could go into some detail about the specific techniques you've used that would also be great to know.

Finally, what does your service do that is not provided by something like SiftScience? I imagine there is overlap here - is it that you primarily focus on web application security instead of fraud signaling?
You should ask this question to Intel, nobody in the DragonFly team has access to such hardware.
We have to do with boring alternatives we can actually find on Newegg like dual Xeon-E5 and quad-Opteron boxes :-)
Totally agree with you
Cultural separation due to lack of communication and transit.
I agree that one man's spam can be another man's valuable service offering. But generally sending unsolicited email to people at work is considered spam.

The alternatives are numerous. Adwords, Facebook advertising, LinkedIn ads, running ad campaigns on targeted websites, etc. I saw one a story about one guy that was acutally able to specifically target a single person at a specific company he wanted using LinkedIn ads [1].

[1] http://thehustle.co/the-linkedin-hack-that-made-me-120000
Stories quite regularly hit the front page with 3-5 points.
The team I joined uses feature flags like this a lot.

> When are those conditionals deleted?

For us, almost never. A few weeks after the feature flag becomes True everywhere, we just never even look at what would happen if the flag is False. This helps the confounding of multiple flags, but also thankfully multiple flags usually don't collide-- they're all fairly specific changes.

> What strategy do you use to decide when to permanently enable a feature and simplify the codebase?

When I'm refactoring/cleaning-up other stuff.

The really big benefits I see for feature-flags is that:

- You can merge into master faster. Often my feature has added some utility function or refactored something or added some css that the other engineers could (and should) use. So it's great to have the code rejoined sooner.

- Our tester can test on prod, for the few situations where our QA server is not an exact enough replicate of prod.

- It makes it really easy to show marketing/business/TheBoard new features that are _almost_ ready but all our bugs weren't quite finished before boardmeeting/sprintend/etc.
I think it's arrogance. Programming has this weird allure where you think you understand the rest of the world.
I really dislike this tone of China acting fundamentally badly. It's their country, they can do whatever the heck they want. If they want a local replacement for everything already existing outside of Chine, so be it. If you just let established big players have all the cake, chances for success of local competitors become pretty slim.

Stealing trade secrets if of course not okay, but that is more of a theoretical argument, the west probably has his fingers equally deep in the Chinese cookie jar. If you make agreements and China later unilaterally breaks them, that is of course also not okay.

But investors don't seem to care, it's not that nobody knows what to expect, but the lure of huge profits seems to win again and again.
How did you get into farming? I have, and am considering, access to a family farm that presently just breaks even on farm income (poor wheat yield, but also some portion rented out for cattle), but makes a profit off of oil. I've contemplated learning and moving into the industry, also as a way to get out of the city (however small the one I'm in presently may be).
Bought a domain name for $5,000 and sold for $350,000. Bought another domain name for $10, sold for $45,000
would simply coughing up the money for an expensive oracle/sql server solution have worked in this case?
Nope. I bought an HTC Vive because Valve promised linux support. It's 5+ months since release and there's still not even a hint that they're working on it.

It was a huge mistake to buy hardware based on promises of software support.
It depends. By design (for plausible deniability) the key is not a password, it's a mathematical fact which can be independently discovered.

If you generated weak keys then it's not theft for me to guess/calculate them and allocate those coins to myself.

This is why BTC is described as proving the strength of hash functions, etc. If it was easy to cheat, someone would claim the public bug bounty by giving themselves all the coins. Because they haven't, we have a fairly good minimum bound on the difficulty.
It's also because companies can completely rebrand themselves when they go abroad (as do humans sometimes, go figure).

PBR is sold as a premium beer brand in China, and in Korea, VWs are considered luxurious. Pretty ironic, seeing as it's name literally means people's car in German.
This kind of comment comes up often in these threads. It takes a certain degree of conceit to think a company can only be valuable if you heard of it.
I'm inclined to believe him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Caby
I haven't really had the blocked off issue. With the Rift I can hear things outside the headset and I can pop up one ear to talk more easily. The games are mirrored to our 65" TV so my spouse can see what I see and enjoy games vicariously the way she usually does.

They enjoy when I play horror games and let loose with the color commentary.

I actually pulled her into the game and play Elite with her now. I'm in VR and she is on a screen.

I do agree there is a temptation to use a screen just for comfort and ease of context switching. I think a solid forward facing camera with stellar software support is table stakes for a VR headset. Not PiP, I am talking about always available full screen pass through that can activate and deactivate lightning quick. Heck give me a hardware button on the set.

And wireless. I can dream right?
I mean obviously there is no one-size-fits-all recommendation. It depends a lot what their goals and background are.

I started out learning PHP on a LAMP stack on an old laptop, and reading C tutorials online. Probably my best move was working through SICP.

If they were math-inclined and weren't worried about immediate employability I'd recommend SICP even though Scheme is irrelevant in industry.

But if they wanted to make money as a web dev as fast as possible, JavaScript makes sense.
I have a friend who dumped a lot of money into Apple just after the Enron scandal and held it there for a while - it turned out to be a great college fund for her son, as intended all along.
You can't exactly practice these problems. There is generally some trick involved somewhere which the interviewer expects you to demonstrate.

Some tricky way of traversing a tree, or expecting you to know the complexity of every sorting algorithm that exists out there. There is so much of material out there, you'd pretty much be on top of it all the time to 'not forget' stuff with the passage of time.
Absolutely true, and the scale keeps getting larger > 12 billion rows, and comes up with even harder challenges.

Worked on a 1.3 trillion row (for 1 table, others varying below this) database this year for predictive analytics, and it was mind boggling the hoops to jump through to try to get that thing to run anything in a manageable time frame.

Any POC level show of a database would be about meaningless at that scale. You have to do a real test to view the challenges around it.
Burned by Dropbox Carousel. After that, decided to use Dropbox only for its original purpose of syncing files. I am more than happy with OneNote.
I have carried diagnosis from childhood into adulthood.

In my experience the primary 'problem' is that I cannot direct my attention at will. I may want to read a book, I may be enjoying the book, but when I will myself to concentrate on the book my attention may or may not obey me.

From the outside, this can look like laziness, disinterest, etc, but fundamentally the difference is, what I want to concentrate on, and what I can concentrate on are not always the same thing. This is problematic in a variety of ways, and certainly does feel like a disorder when you experience it. If this mismatch between command and control was between say, my brain and my legs, then no one would ever question if it existed or not.

I've certainly found that my strategies for coping with this, and my ability to direct my attention have gotten better with age. It's unclear to me if this is due to hard work on my part, or a change in brain structure as I age.

Personally, I have found that medication is only a very small portion of my overall strategy, and I do think it is quite likely that sitting in a classroom 8 hours a day is just not something children, or really anyone is particularly well suited for. It's likely, I think, that we are over-prescribing and over-diagnosing things that should be considered 'normal' behavior in children.

Having said that, I am absolutely convinced that for some, medication is an effective and life changing tool as part of a larger strategy to cope with ADD.
Recently went on vacation and used grocery pickup at a Maine grocery store and picked up groceries for the entire week.

Awesome service but I asked the lady how many pick ups they did this Sunday and she said 35. and I said what's the most and she said 65 - 70.

Grocery pick-up has not caught on yet and grocery delivery I would imagine is even less than that
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I don't know why you've been grayed out.

Skills are skills. Even if you don't have the latest iPhone or Android flavor TangoUniformVoo 8.9.

Considering that i'm a bit rusty (no allusion intended), if i'm certified in Sun's Java 1.5/5.0, can i still program in OracleJava, and what about Google'sJava? ....Though maybe it takes a little bit of elbow grease and sharp elbows to push the script-kiddies currently in HRManagement aside.
It's rare for an engineer to have 1 point they would probably have to be engineer #1 or #2
It does provide host key rotation in OpenSSH 6.8+: http://blog.djm.net.au/2015/02/key-rotation-in-openssh-68.ht...
That was 202 working days to build a 21 story building. Broad built a 57 story building with 800 apartments at the speed of 3 floors per day: http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/broad-sustainab... . So the same concept, but built 30x faster. The whole building is basically built at a factory and each segment is hauled in and snapped together.
For temporary feature flags, we try to clean up as soon as possible. As part of the rollout plan for a new feature, we'll have defined what metrics we're trying to achieve, and once we're confident that we've met those marks, we clean up the flag.

We eagerly create "cleanup branches" and corresponding pull requests to remove a flag-- that front-loads the cleanup work and means we aren't context switching back to try and remember how to clean up a flag.

Also, we've found that in practice flags are usually independent-- testing permutations of flags shouldn't typically be necessary. People usually take an analogous shortcut with feature branches-- we test branches in isolation but don't usually re-test after merging.
yet FORTRAN and COBOL do

and so do reams of magnetic tape around the Beltway

who will maintain old code? you?
Tax is unavoidable, but the difference in rates is big enough to be worth some risk, I think. A 10% drop in price is no worse than paying short term instead of long term rates.
Side projects as an investment of time (and learning). I know this is not really answering the question, but side projects have always gotten me my next job (moreso than any current place of employment) because they are a living portfolio and very easy to point to. In addition to showing I can ship a product. I credit side projects with nearly tripling my salary in just under 5 years.
At one point in my college life I decided I wanted to actually learn material that seemed important. Attempting to do this lead to an extroidinary depression; the professors often don't care and the system itself is fairly inefficient.
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Have bought an expensive domain name for my business.

Also the worst investment yet.
> > LeadGenius looks gross too. Has it been praised on HN?

> They are a YC company.

While HN is offered by YC, being a YC company does not mean getting favorable reception by the community on HN.

So LeadGenius being a YC company and Anymailfinder getting poor reception on HN doesn't demonstrate any kind of inconsistency.
This super smart team didn't even know how to configure Cloudflare. Non-US access got blocked with a captcha. This same company disabled downloading their app if you weren't in the US. And then the site would plaster big scary banners telling you a ZIP code was mandatory and if you weren't in the US, beware! Who comes up with this stuff?

Somehow, with all that money raised, they failed to realise there'd be some customers using freight forwarders.

When I went to purchase, the site stopped working, just providing some sort of generic error page. I called them up. A lady told me they were "performing maintenance" (middle of day). The website provided zero indication; just appeared broken.

Shipping took a while.

I'm certain they have smart people. But my anecdotal experience was that things were a bit clueless and not even remotely close to the level of taking on Amazon in any way.
I ask what the budget is when I'm asked what about my salary history.
Joke or mistake?
I'd be extremely interested from a wholly self-interested point of view to know what you think of http://demo.django-cms.org/ (for an out-of-the-box demo of django CMS), and whether you'd find that as quick to get to grips with as WordPress).

Or if you would like to compare it with actually working on the site as a developer rather than just as a content editor, then it would be https://www.django-cms.org/en/blog/2016/02/16/build-a-websit....

What further improvements would take it right up to, or even past, WordPress levels of ease-of-use, in your opinion?
You are right about the arrogance of the Western Consensus. It is group-corporate-narcissism, that group being the 'leaders' in politics, business and elsewhere.

I think that group-narcissism got the better of Uber. Is Uber likely to be headed up by high-functioning narcissists? Well, let's start with the name, dictionary definition being:

'Uber - denoting an outstanding or supreme example of a particular kind of person or thing.'

Then there is the idea that they can just waltz in to the China market (where most people were riding Flying Pigeon bicycles not so long ago) and make a success of it, spending investors money as if it was water. All they have for that money is an easily copied app. Uber have no local knowledge, no appreciation of local ways, just ego and arrogance, all said in the name and it is no surprise that it went pear shaped.

Facebook, Twitter, those things are where narcissists go to get likes. This works well in the West where everyone is a special snowflake, but China is not like that so it is no surprise that, technical hurdles aside, our social media is different to their social media...

Every company wants to be the best and we all want to work for the best companies, however, the leadership does not have to be a small in-group of ultra-narcissists. For instance, HN darling Tesla seems devoid of narcissism and is more about altruism. Google seems wired that way too. If Google and Tesla take over the world and outer space I will be happy with that. If the corporate narcissists such as Uber run the show then they will not last, arrogance will get the better of them and our new Chinese overlords will replace them.
While that is mostly true, the amount of available plugins is one of the main selling points of WordPress. So if you have to avoid plugins altogether to stay safe, or don't need the plugins to begin with, you're probably better off with something saner (like bolt CMS).

People (product, marketing, and so on) also always demand to install plugins (usable multi-language support, "SEO features" and all kind of things).

Oh, and you'll also need some kind of caching plugin, because all that plugins are making it insufferably slow.

And you want to keep it up to date (and plugins!) and fast, because security issues and worms taking advantage of it always lurking around the corner.

I've got plenty of bad experiences with WordPress. In my opinion, in the long run we would have been better off with our own custom solution (we maintain our own proprietary PHP framework anyways, and we had code that would have covered most of the requirements. Management will always insist on WordPress for "saving time").
interesting that that's interesting enough for you to research and note.

(please re-read the original article.)
> I know of people who withdrew 20 100RMB notes and had 3 fakes in them.

Can't you just put the money back in ATM and then go to a bank counter to recollect it?
For me it was English lessons, when I was 16 my mom paid less than 200 dollars for a year of English lessons in a shitty English school, I didn't want to study English at the time and I was angry because she did it without asking me (teenage me was really dumb). My English may not be perfect, but that year of English lessons pays itself several times every single day with my salary.
My career. Every move to drive my career forward that involved doing things that were hard and scary rather then doing the same thing familiar things indefinitely.
The "local knowledge" argument doesn't hold much water. The reason is any company entering China hires natives and people who in theory (and at the level they hire at) are quite capable of rivaling those who work for companies in that country.
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We already have paying clients and a solid MRR is in the works.

Job and company description here: https://angel.co/stealth-73/jobs/159722-technical-co-founder...

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What they do is secret
Ivan, co-founder of Wallarm, here.

There are few different tasks for machine learning.

1. Traffic clustering (hierarchical clustering algorithms). We use ML to understand how your application works in terms of business logic. E.g. clustering numbers of HTTP requests for /login as cluster determined by (HTTP_header->HOST="yoursite.com" + HTTP_URL->"/login" + ...).

2. Data profiling inside clusters. We use statistical distribution algorithms to understand which data is normal for fields POST->login and POST->password inside cluster from p.1. It is not hardcoded data templates like "only digits" or smth like this. Wallarm generates profiles dynamically.

3. Fuzzy search. Those data which is abnormal (from p.2), we understand if it looks like XSS or SQLi or any other attack or not.
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100 Mbps here, and backblaze uploads are a good 50-100% faster than crashplan
Did WSJ have the $3B clickbait title and then change it? Or did the HN submission just add the extra "for $3B"?

All the article says is that "a person familiar with the matter said Jet could be valued at up to $3 billion in private markets."

If this is a HN addition, can that be fixed?
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Luck.
My best investment was buying back shares from our VC investor after a few years, shortly before our startup took off. The investor lost interest in the Internet due to other failed investments (ca. 2002) and I was confident enough to pay off the price of the shares using my salary.
That's awesome. I hadn't read that before, but it makes perfect sense to me.

Now just to find out where the intersection of my skills are. Right now, I'm not entirely sure what that would be.
Yeah I know what you mean, I just ordered a cable from Walmart.com the other day not realizing it was from a third party seller until after it shipped. Felt like a bait and switch.