skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meanwhile, the market capitalization of Deutsche Bank has become a grim Wall Street joke. This summer, Deutsche Bank, which is a hundred and forty-six years old, has been valued at about eighteen billion dollars—the same as Snapchat.

Sobering.
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> Docker seems to be more portable to other host OSs, though?

Most of the "Docker on Windows/Mac" setup is basically running all of the Docker containers in a VM on Windows or macOS (e.g. Docker Toolbox, boot2docker and not HyperKit[1]), rather than running them right in your OS's kernel as would be the case on Linux.

[1] https://github.com/docker/HyperKit/
I agree, although sticking with what you know and have expertise in is always a good choice (PHP).
>> I think we're mostly on the same page, it's just a matter of degrees.

Indeed.

Man, I hope we all get all more great managers. It makes a world of difference when you get one, it just feels so rare.

>> the kumara [2] never sings of its own sweetness

I really like that saying (Kumara also looks delicious). I feel like I've known a few people with that attitude, and it was always a pleasure working with them. It just sucks that they usually didn't get as far as they deserved. All in all, it (actively managing your career vs being humble and letting your work speak for itself) is a tough balance to keep. Worth the effort though.

Your replies help me remember that all the people in this employer-employee relationship are fully complex and rounded individuals. That's something i ought to remember more of the time, so thank you.

Maybe it all comes down to odds. How much can an employee leave to chance, to the good nature of his manager, the fairness of his company's performance review process?

Not much.
If there's going to be a human being in the loop reading the comments anyway, why not take it one step farther: Community management as a service.

I know of companies that pay salaries to full-time community managers. If you can't justify dedicating a person to it full-time, or don't have the expertise in house, why not contract it out?
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Mate, you self-worth is being jeopardised by (may I say) your own deluded thoughts and your reliance on external validation.

When I first joined IBM research right out of school I thought that everyone would be some Einstein and I would be blown away. And at first I was, with everyone talking acronyms and things that just flew over my head. But over time, I realised the place was run by only a few truly smart people and the rest were just regular 9-5'rs. Don't ever compare yourself to anyone. Another memory: I played pro tennis years ago and I would watch some player and think "OMG, this guy is amazing", but I never knew that this guy was probably looking at me and saying the same things. I learned not to care about appearances or be intimidated by someone off court. I learned that the only thing that matters is when I'm on the court, playing against him and trying to kick his ass. Nothing else mattered.

And jumping ship is not the answer. My mother said a great thing: "when you move, you take yourself with you". If you have deluded thoughts and rely on external validation, then why do you think moving will solve this?
These are both great points, really. Financial independence is the dream. Until then, the deal matters.
Get actual, immediate help. ASAP.

Unrelated, but the issue w.r.t. your wife is probably something else that should be discussed, but it's secondary to the immediate issue.

As soon as you reach the point that "death doesn't seem so bad anymore" you need to take a step back and put things in their proper perspective. If you cannot do this yourself, or feel that the risk of attempting to is too great, then you need to put your trust in someone else until you're rational again.
If I have 1825 days left to live, and afterwards my life would be passed on to another "soul", how would I live it?
Contrary to a lot of others here, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and believe that Instapaper is going to be kept as a standalone product.

It's not without precedent for an established platform with an active user base, either. Facebook was smart enough to keep Instagram and Whatsapp separate, so I'm hoping that Pinterest is thinking the same.
Ask HN: Taking a few months off?
Hello All,

I currently feel the burnout from a stressful project and commute that I have been doing for about 2 years. I started as a consultant with the idea that it would be a short gig, but ended up in a leadership role. I know this is something that is not to complain about, but this opportunity has afforded me an opportunity to take a few months off before looking for another job. I want the communities thoughts on quitting a job without something else lined up (based on my current experiences, it seems like the market is still quite ripe for developers) and how would future employers look at taking a few months off to myself. I would try and work on side projects and continue to learn the things I feel I am currently weak on, but won't get an opportunity to learn at my current project. Thanks All!
Have you seen correlation between rankings and crawl rate?
Generally people are looking for a preferred solution, solving the problem, but not in the preferred way is usually not enough.

This isn't good or anything (though, sometimes there's the really obvious super slow way, and its appropriate to ask for something better), its just the way it is.

This is especially pronounced with junior interviewers, I've gotten dinged for missing capitalization on one variable in an otherwise flawless exercise.

Most interviewers at these company, especially those with little empathy or training, are looking to rule you out, and are looking to find a problem with whatever it is you do. Sometimes they tell themselves that its because they want to keep a high bar, but its usually just so they can feel better than someone else, they aren't good at judging problem solving ability, only that you arrived at the solution that they had in mind.

I've had offers from the Big 4, and I've totally bombed interviews with them too. I prepared a lot before hand, and its mostly just luck of the draw, if I get a set of coding questions I've seen before, or is similar to what I've seen, I pass, if I don't, I don't. I'm the same engineer either way.

I wish a lot of people in our industry would quit with the alpha nerd crap, you aren't that important, and you're pissing on people that could help you build your project. I think its egged on by the "A players all the time" mantra at large tech organizations, so when you take insecure nerds, and puff their egos up, this is what you get.
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Hey, don't be too hard on your self. I failed interviews from Big 4 and a lot of other startups too. There are tons of false negatives as a part of the interview process.

Just focus on yourself and your job.
In theory, but many if not most interviewers will ding you for getting them wrong anyways.
Amen. If that isn't the truth, i don't know what is.

To me, that complexity is what makes it difficult for the system to find and reward the right people. That's what make it easy for employee value to get lost in the numbers, in exhaustion, in time crunches and stack rankings.
I thought the criticisms were going to be different.

This isn't a popular opinion, but alcohol is extremely hazardous.

There are 88,000 alcohol-related deaths in the US each year[0]. That's more than double the total number of the ever unpopular gun-related deaths[1].

Granted, dying of cirrhosis, or getting hit by a drunk driver, or even getting beat by a drunk boyfriend doesn't have the media appeal of a crazed gun-toting redneck.

Anyway, I think people should be able to hoard all the guns and booze they want, but I have to acknowledge alcohol does have a pretty terrible cost on society.

[0] http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_S...
Reversing aging doesn't work that way. Aging is damage, and reversal of aging is damage repair. Damage repair can be rapid and sweeping, and usually is.

You might examine some of the animal studies for, say, stem cell therapy or senescent cell clearance. Benefits are rapid and very evident for things that do actually work. Even slower items like myostatin blockade to provoke muscle growth show sizable, obvious benefits over a period of a few weeks to a few months.
> Modern AI researchers are like people trying to invent flying machines without the formulas of aerodynamics

An apt analogy, given that flying machines were designed by individuals without a robust understanding of fluid mechanics.
I think serverless is a very misleading name, because it does still need server infrastructure and server software.

The serverless term will confuse non-technical people to think there's actually no server infrastructure or software needed.
I totally agree with everything you said, but often one doesn't really know what the process will be like until you're in it. I know it sounds weird, but it takes superhuman effort to back out when you're on site and being subjected to this stuff.
You are not your job. Fuck it.
IBM research and pro tennis. Has to be trolling!
I certainly don't, although I'm but a single datapoint.

I'll fight hard for my ideas, but not at the cost of missing what other people have to say. I'm reasonably old (nearing 50), I've been coding professionally since before college, and have a reasonably good head on my shoulders.

But so do other people, and ignoring what they're saying, or dismissing it because I'm not saying it, is a lost opportunity. Even if that opportunity ends up cementing my owb belief. I owe it to them, and more selfishly, to myself, to consider the possibility I'm wrong.

(A verrrrrrry remote possibility, but ya' never know ;)
I think you are placing too much weight on your employment. It's good to have a job, but it shouldn't be your sole focus. Technology can be horrible because conferences and communities glamourise these big technology companies. You are buying into that hype, yet the reality is different.

I suggest maybe looking for work with an interesting business that isn't as well known - one that doesn't have weird, abstract puzzles during the interview process. A place where you can build your confidence, rather than be a cog in a multinational machine.

As for the depression/anxiety. You sound like you are over thinking things. Criticising elements of your life, rather than accepting them. The lack of confidence from your job will be making it worse. Read about mindfulness, it's a collection of techniques that teaches you to look at your surroundings in vivid detail without making judgements, and to just sit down without thoughts running through your head. The depression and anxiety will slowly fade away as you get used to thinking in a standard fashion.
This feels weird....
Apex is a framework used to help build and deploy applications on Lambda. This project appears to be a way to run your own Lambda service locally. There are other projects out there like OpenWhisk[1], Iron Worker[2], Gestalt[3], and Funktion[4].

[1] - https://github.com/openwhisk/openwhisk

[2] - https://www.iron.io/platform/ironworker/

[3] - https://galacticfog.github.io/

[4] - https://github.com/fabric8io/funktion

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What's the cost in making a template more generic? Greater compile time. Need for compiler that can handle generics. Greater number of functions in binaries, and thus more unique places for bugs to occur. Dynamic library bloat. Harder to understand code. Quirky edge cases. Harder to learn languages. Harder to parse languages. And of course, developer time is spent dealing with all of this.

Abstractions leak because they are models, and thus are necessarily different from the concrete things that they model. These differences can and will cause problems. Generic programming is an abstraction that pretends you aren't working on low-level un-typed system. And you pay for that abstraction any time you need to deal with low-level demands through that abstraction.
You guys are going to be really surprised by this, but I swear it's true: the answer to life is different for each person
Read the book Bounce by Matthew Syed. It was pretty entertaining and gave me a whole new perspective on raw intelligence vs learned skill.
Here in Silicon Valley a buddy of mine works with major contracts for startup financing and taking companies public (at a major player where they've handled lots of big names you'd recognize. I won't say more than that). Over BBQ and beers he was telling me that hidden in the layers of legal contracts are legally defined casinos - placing bets on future events for the company. That allows them to avoid disclosure of those liabilities (they are bets in the future) and lets them transfer ownership and control to foreign countries (he specifically mentioned that Russia is a major player in these deals.) With no disclosure required, these "side contracts" are essentially secret, and the lawyers set it up so that nobody knows.

I can't say I really understand this stuff - but it sounds really, really bad. Huge sums hidden offshore. Ownership hidden. And foreign countries secretly having control of US based companies (Specifically, I happen to know that a couple are doing very secret work with and for the NSA.)
How's your savings? How's your confidence about finding work again?

I've taken time off twice (eight months last time) and the recharge was great and worth it.
Neural Networks Aren't Magic
From http://stupidfilter.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.Status:

[For StupidFilter, w]e've gathered a fairly large (225K+ comments) database of comments, primarily from Youtube, that ever-inspiring font of stupidity. We've implemented a web-based comment ranking system to seed our stupidity corpus and that's proceeding nicely.

Apparently it's now in beta...
Intel 3101s (64 bits of storage) were $99.50 (in 1970 $).
Just like public utilities don't have a monopoly on the provision of power, because, hey, every home-owner can buy a diesel generator. With the level of substitution you are describing, you've made the word monopoly meaningless.

The regional broadcasters for the Olympics have a monopoly because of their economic power in setting the price for their good. Other than circumventing copyright or using a VPN, there is no competitor that will provide you with the Olympics for less money. Random youtube videos are not a substitute for watching an Olympics broadcast live.
Beware of attempting to extract patterns from self-reported in-person interview failures. Most people who fail at the BigCo interviews I'm familiar with are getting bad reviews for:

poor communication, not making sure they understand the problem, not testing their solution, not being willing or able to explain their thought process, being unable to answer "I don't know" when pressed.

Occasionally there's someone who claims to know something and very clearly doesn't.

Phone screens generally filter out most of the people who know no data structures or algorithms.

Of course, every hiring process is different, so there's some variation within and across companies, but I think a lot of geeks think they screwed up the tech when they really screwed up the communication.
Do not let yourself be defined by your job. Even though you spend most of your waking hours at work, you are still more than that job. Any job. Even if you are the weakest link at work (someone has to be), you are still more than that.

Seek validation outside of work. Collect that Big 4 paycheck and remember to enjoy the rest of the day. You are still living a better existence than perhaps 90% of this Earth.
What makes you think China isn't creating it's own IP? it is after all 1/4 of the worlds people, and contains 1/4 of the world's smart people ... more than are in the US ....
I agree - doesn't scale, but it's far from a bad idea. I've done it for someone who takes reviews very personally. I abstracted the useful criticism and didn't make mention of the petty stuff.
> That's why the dollar is the global reserve currency: because it is the most desired currency.

Why is that? Because we make our allies in the ME sell oil in dollars? And how long will this arrangement last?

The idea that the US can export its inflation and keep printing money indefinitely seems foolish to me.
On top of that, I'd keep trying until you find someone you click with. A lot of people get discouraged when the first doctor or counselor they speak with isn't a good fit.
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Are you saying you yourself do this? You're using BSD, running in VGA textmode, from which you run qemu with -nographic to load an image of another OS? You yourself are doing this?

Most of "major VPS providers" I know use Linux, not BSD. (Yes, there are some exceptions but the reliance on Linux is almost universal.)

I would love it if you were right and I am wrong, but I seriously doubt you have tested this recently. I will happily give Qemu another go if you have tested this recently and it worked.
I was on a tennis scholarship and played a season of pro tournaments until it was apparent that tennis was not my future. Joined IBM upon graduation. Why is this not plausible?
Remember that the Big 4 are some of the most selective in the industry and that even they admit that their puzzles have zero predictive power about a person's intelligence or abilities.

You really sound like you're just suffering from burnout.

Take a break. Cut loose. Go tell your wife to go fuck herself if she can't understand that how your burnout is effecting your mental health (But do tell her about your burnout first. Hopefully, your wife will be your strongest pillar of support while you recuperate. If not, find a different support network.)

Remember that you did make it into one of the Big 4 and that that's more than enough to impress a lot of people. Also, remember that when it comes to criticism, there's at least as much B.S. and power-plays as there is constructive consideration, especially in more competitive environments.
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Interview puzzles are so hit-or-miss. No matter how many of them I solve, I always stutter when I'm faced with a new one. If the problem is new, it either "clicks" right away or I bomb the interview. No middle ground.

It may helpful to consider that the current interview system is, literally, designed to make you fail.

That is to say: not with 100% certainty -- and on some level, they want at least some of the candidates to succeed, some of the time -- but on another level, it quite deliberately designed to (1) quickly segregated candidates into easily identifiable "badass 10xer" and "worthless poser" categories, and (2) do so with a high, if queasily acceptable false negative rate; along with an allegedly low false negative rate.

That is: it's known to be noisy in both directions; but it's generally considered to be OK -- and many people say this quite openly -- to flush out a whole lot of potentially good candidates if it minimizes the chances of passing a single bad candidate. So it's not that they want you to fail outright -- just that if you aren't clearly and immediately identifiable as their guy/gal, then they want you to "fail fast", as the saying goes, and to do so in a way that you can be easily labelled as a "failure" and a "washout".

Hence -- the whiteboarding sesions; the logic puzzles; the Fermi problems; the "no matter what answer I give they'l find a way to pick it it apart" style of questioning.

Point being -- yes it's a game; yes the rules have changed significantly in recent years; and yes, it's very much rigged, or more delicately put: cleverly optimized to save time and resources (including attention and emotional costs) on the hiring side, at the expense of the those same resources on the candidate's side.

My thoughts are descending into the darkest reaches. Death doesn't seem so bad anymore. Then I don't have to think about all this.

I don't know where I went wrong. I used to be intelligent. I used to be liked by my teams. I used to be good at puzzles.

Now I'm dumb and worthless.

I don't have the option to stop working for a while. I have the savings for it, but it's unacceptable to my wife.

I don't know what to do.

I'm very sorry to be hearing all of this. The good news is the current fad for puzzles and aggressive grilling session is, after all, just a fad. Not all hiring sessions are run this way; a great many aren't -- just keep rolling the dice, and eventually you'll get a fair shot, and find yourself sitting across from the table from someone who treats you like an equal and an intelligent human being from the get go. Rather than a secretly incompetent poser / washout / has-been / never-was waiting to be exposed.

Because it is after all just a game. And you only need the dice to turn up once for you to get out of the current rut you're in.
Taking time off between jobs is very common and future employers won't think anything of it. The only question is whether you can afford the opportunity cost of not bringing in a salary.
By ignoring robots.txt and bypassing capchas.
> cars on Laguna Seca rarely go above 100mph

Depends heavily on the car: https://youtu.be/pXP3Eij2GGA (same driver as your video)

Anyway, this was around Portland International Raceway and your car has to be pretty dang slow to not break 100 MPH on both the front straight and the back straight there.
This is an extremely common situation. No doubt you are not alone at your company, but no one will admit it.

This is just a temporary down cycle in your life. It's hard to see now but things will get better again in time. While you're waiting it out you must see a pdoc to get treatment.

You are not a loser, less capable, or less intelligent. It's all an illusion created by your brain and it's fixable.

Also you must realize a lot of big 4 interviews are bullshit and don't mean anything. Don't believe me? Read about how Google realized its own interviews were bullshit: https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2016/02/the-stack-overflow-in...

So from a scientific perspective, you actually have no right to criticize yourself based on admittedly invalid criteria.

So maybe you want to believe me, but are not sure if I truly understand your "big 4" level of difficulty. Well surprise! Been there done that, worked with PhDs in math/cs, people from Stanford, Harvard and the rest, people claiming an IQ of 180, etc. My conclusion? Everything above applies no matter whar company you're at.

Again, your abilities are not the problem. You are suffering from insecurities and depression which are fixable.

Here's an experiment for you: When you go to see your local pdoc, ask her how many people she knows like you at the same damn "big 4" company you work at, suffering silently together on the same campus.

Hang tough - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass