skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of the 6 tests I've personally run, 1 passed decently, 2 were probably affected by nerves, 3 just weren't capable. We've had >30 people come in so far and offered to 3 or 4 I believe.

The test is essentially writing a function that can take any number of numbers and add them together followed by a couple of bits around javascript's built in functions and object syntax.

1 of the failures couldn't write a for loop despite having 5 years experience including React.

The test also works as a general personality test as we need people who are fully confident in their abilities due to the difficultly and scale of the product. We are specifically aiming for the top 20% of candidates who come in, so there are subsequent tests after this one.

I thought I'd be able to spot a bad CV, but it turns out either people are lying or they are crediting other people's work to themselves when they are able to hide amongst the team at large organisations.
Pedantic point: not everything is Gaussian. Income, for example, doesn't go below zero. It may not even be log-normal, but rather a power distribution.

Pedantic point aside, you bring up an important point. Can behavioral incentives be aligned to avoid the bottom side of participation?
This is similar to "editors picks". I think this is one tool that is not out there yet - a means for journalists / editors to say "this is worthy of interest" in a maintainable, curated manner of link pages (aka HN) and in producing their own work.

I suspect this will look a lot like modelling software - as in this is how much trade is going between these countries in a nice graphic, but the raw data can be modelled / interpreted to show the editors world view.
The commute may be long, but at least there is an abundance of lanes.
Yeah check out today's electric airplane thread for another example. Apparently the concept is impossible.
Word count is rising :-/. I will try to make it go down.

> You joined into the discussion with, "you don't know and I don't have to tell you."

No (and there you go again -- your paraphrase is incomplete and downright inaccurate).

I commented (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12587142) to link back to our previous HN exchange, because your comment up above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12578451) made claims that you cannot possibly back up! One example: "He could have stayed if he wanted to." You don't know that and can't really know it, so stop saying it.

Do you see how you used the "He was fired!" refutation (which I refute all the time by saying I resigned) as carte blanche to go make unjustified assertions, inaccurate and incomplete paraphrases, and three other things?

> I can't hold Mozilla's board in contempt

Who asked you to hold anyone in contempt? Are you the judge now? And note the either/or again: either me, or them. No third or fourth alternative?

Here are some more unjustified assertions or questions implying facts not in evidence that you've made:

* "The protestors had zero control over the Mozilla board."

* "...had a right to do so?" (totally irrelevant and I never said otherwise; when did you stop beating your spouse?)

* "... we both agree on ...." (we haven't agreed on those and they're irrelevant again)

* "What else do you feel was unfair?" (I never said "unfair", I'm here to object to you Making Stuff Up)

Do you see what I mean? You're all over the map with unrelated and unjustified claims and questions implying I said things I never said.

Just consider your "He could have stayed if he wanted to." Why'd you write that? I don't mean what you imagined or guessed or inferred predicated on assumptions or beliefs and nothing else. I mean what needs did it serve to say something you can't possibly know, as if it were an incontrovertible fact.
John F. Kennedy Moon Speech - Rice Stadium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuW4oGKzVKc
I'm not sure I understand what's motivating the hostility. I don't force my friends to not use whatever social media apps they enjoy, and they don't force me to use them. I'm not sure how either of these attitudes make anyone an "asshole".
Tesla is really good about warranty work. You don't pay for a thing--labor and parts are included.
Pretty interesting to see this. Key thing here is that DJI again times the market debuts of other drone manufactures, here the GoPro Karma introduced last week. But the more important thing is that DJI again raises the bar for all players in the civilian drone market - here with the range of 7 km. I don't want to praise DJI, but the guys appear to be quite good, although 7 km is currently a ridiculous thing - mostly you are not allowed to fly beyond line of sight (bls), i.e. beyond ca. 300 - 600 m.
Somehow Apple and some other companies manage to handle that way better, including offline downloads for content and the ability to give them my EUR.

Google on the other hand refuses to even show us Podcasts category on Play music. Podcasts.
When they rolled out ECoin in Mr Robot, I thought it was a stretch...
There's plenty of "activists" trying to develop encrypted messaging systems, blogging about privacy rights etc, and they are not all that social.
No, I committed no error. You seem to be confusing what people strongly desire with what is actually possible.
> Reddit's last round valued them at $500 million

> That's a successful company by any standard.

Simply being "valued" at some dollar amount doesn't actually mean success. Revenue and positive net profit mean success...
Yes. It is not difficult. There are typings files floating around. When you need to use something that's not in the typings file, spend 2 minutes updating it and keep going. Not a big deal at all.
I don't think knee-jerk negativity creates healthy tension, it just sucks down the conversation.

I have no problem with intelligent, well thought out negativity. It's just the "why would anyone want to spend $100,000 to die in a metal box?" stuff that I really dislike.
If terraforming is not possible and the Mars colony requires sealed and pressurized buildings, why does it need to be on Mars? Just build it on earth. And if earth runs out of mineable resources, mine asteroids instead, and build your colonies inside those asteroids.
Yes, the ODROID is interesting, too.
If I want raw performance, I actually want some form of the Jetson.
Even adding a Teensy3 over USB or serial for the cases where I really need bit twiddling, the RPi3+Teensy3 system came out ahead for me. (Mainly, robotics control, some computer vision.)
The onboard camera/GPU integration of the Pi3 is great for me, too.

And if I want absolute-lowest-price, CHIP is still where it's at, unless I can stretch as low as the ESP8266, but then we're no longer in the same category.

So, anyway, I'm not particularly excited about yet another beaglebone that's two or three times too expensive for what it is, in singles. Others have differing needs/opinions.
ah, interesting, I've only read the linked paper (and this news hasn't made it to our internal "cool stuff we've launched recently" newsletter).

Still, OP was complaining about the quality of German->English, which is still using PBMT, so...
I especially liked the point about not seeing criticism or lack of attention as necessarily being red flags.

It's sort of counter-intuitive that this would be the case because after something fairly radically new becomes popular there's so much positive said about it.

It's an easy leap to assume that praise was always present, and that lack of it in your case is a signal that what you're working on won't succeed—but it seems like in actuality, when you're doing something novel enough people aren't going to 'get it' immediately by definition.

It's also easy to assume that those you speak to about your work will approach it with the optimism and energy with which you regard it, and without a little optimism and sustained attention it's easy to miss the potential or even comprehend the significance at all of some new idea.

Even having acknowledge this concept in the past, I still needed the reminder in the video to see I was potentially making the mistake again in my own project. It's a good point to remind yourself of periodically.
> What were those 'ideals'? What was that vision?

I don't know that.

> That was McCarthy's vision: a tool for AI research.

You don't know that.

> No, Scheme went away from the idealized Lisp. -> R6RS.

Neat! I'm glad we cleared that up.

EDIT: Okay, maybe "You don't know that" is a bit strongly-worded; there's no doubt that that was part of McCarthy's vision, but there's a great more to Lisp than that, and notably, Scheme is also a pretty good tool for AI research. The real fundamental point I'm making is that the "Common Lisp is One True Lisp" vs "Scheme is One True Lisp" vs "There Are Many True Lisps" is based on unclear goals that nobody really knows. McCarthy is dead and it's questionable whether he was the sole proprietor of the "ideal Lisp" concept anyway.

Or put more tersely, I don't care.
> You don't have to pretend there's a secret conspiracy, affirmative action colleges are openly trying to correct for the effects of structural racism that they have no control over.

This is an interesting case. In fact, you do have to admit there's a secret conspiracy, for the simple reason that "correcting for the effects of structural racism" is illegal for public colleges, and they therefore never formally admit to that justification. You're correct, though, that that is how they are generally perceived by the public and how their executives generally think about what they're doing, as far as we can tell. I think that's a pretty good match to the concept of "conspiracy".
The point of having isConnected in the state is that it will change depending on OS events. Random is just used as an example
> I've constantly racked my brain...Am I approaching it wrong?...

I don't think so and I have a similar problem as you. Certain problems have already been solved by other methods and wont yield to digitization. What is needed is simply a transplanting of existing tech to under served sectors.There are many businesses that are profitable without the need for extreme tech innovation.

My peeve for instance, is that in my part of the world certain kinds of farming (rice, oil palm)yield decent and more or less assured profits (>500% over a decade) and there is no need for new technology other than that which already exists. This could logically fall under agriculture. The main barrier is relatively small amounts of capital (<200k - 1M usd) but try telling that to unicorn obsessed VC's looking for the next Snapchat.
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I keep seeing stuff on here that describes classical conservative stuff as "liberal" (or sometimes 'neoliberal'), and it's starting to leave me thoroughly befuddled. This time you even used the word "conservative". Where I come from "liberal" and "conservative" are as opposite as (and indeed roughly synonymous with) Left and Right.
"Self sustaining death robot armies" gets me thinking. What if the biggest threat is bad ideologies? Humans make pretty good self sustaining death robot soldiers if you can shape their brain accordingly.
We need the spotify of media, where journalists are paid directly from their readers maybe an aportioned rev share model. People who want articles about the kardashians still get them and people who want to read about conflict in the middle east get theirs. No more editorializing based on the current trendy group think, no more editorializing based on what their rich billionaire owner thinks their next crusade is.

The reason the media is so bad is because of economics, people have this bad habit of wanting to live in houses and feed themselves.
If the interviewer is just another rank-and-file engineer rather than a manager, he/she may not be motivated to see someone get hired.
I know, right? Maybe we can engineer a hardy Martian goat that can eat the algae that puts oxygen into the air. Martian goats produce C02 and fertilize the soil. Now you have a source of dairy and meat for our future colonists. Imagine kids in the future, growing up dreaming of being goat herders on Mars.
Seriously when I saw the announcement this morning, the Ecorp logo all of a sudden made sense.
> Decreases the chances of them being politically abused.

Isolation and distance do terrible things even to supposedly well educated people. I wouldn't count on people to not drop straight into barbarity after prolonged exposure to the truly alien environment on Mars.

> Why do you say "need" to?

Because the first time someone murders another person in a tent city of a million people with no air, you want to have some way of prosecuting and punishing that doesn't involve sectarian violence and lynching.

You vastly underestimate the social aspect of this endeavor.

> lifeless, barren, frozen, useless desert

I'm impressed: in this short internet exchange, we have pretty much rehashed the entirety of the conflict Kim Stanley Robinson sees playing out on Mars.
The community has to take part in the culture to ensure it doesn't get corrupted too. The mods can't do everything.

Total side anecdote about this: I was at the airport check-in counter. At the only open counter was an obvious hoarder with many trash bags as carry ons asking all kinds of vague questions about if the TSA was going to take his stuff. The guy behind the counter kept answering his questions politely. I guess policy was never to tell a customer to get lost. This was taking a very long time, so a little old lady at the front of the line went over to him and told him to hurry it up. He looked a bit shocked and moved on. I guess companies are so scared of bad reviews or creating controversy that they indulge these people for as long as it takes and it's up to the other customers to put a stop to it.
This reminds me of companies rewriting applications from VB to c++/c#.

Half the people complained about VB being good enough and more popular.

But the overall feeling was that once the rapid application dev version is out the door and ok then it's a good time to redo it with something more engineering-y, for long term support before the first version gets too ossified.

(i'm sure i'm going to burn karma for comparing node with vb but...)
Vamp is awesome! It fits really nice into Kubernetes.
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> "correcting for the effects of structural racism" is illegal for public colleges

No, its not.

Certain mechanisms might be (whether or not they have that purpose), but pursuing that purpose is not.
I think that pretty much is just the reflection of the fact that Google never properly cared to bring their products outside of US. A lot of even their free services are region locked for no good reason (which is kind of opposed to Apple for example, who rarely region locks their services).
Without tenure, professors become terrified sheep
I think your math is faulty.

An electric plane wouldn't need as much energy as a fuel burning jet because you only need to be turning the fan blades. Where a jet loses a lot of energy compressing the air, a electric jet would probably be more like a propfan or a ducted fan. The best jets are about ~35% efficient at turning energy in to forward speed. Assuming an electric motor is 80% efficient and the propulsion is 80% efficient, you'd be looking at 64% efficiency.

It's possible there are other factors reducing the efficiency of an electric motor, but I doubt they are worse than parity with the existing jets. Using your numbers, that means an electric plane would use $25,000 worth of electricity.

The typical plant outputs much more than 333 MW as well. As we move toward less fossil fuel use, infrastructure will better support our increased energy usage. When internal combustion engines were first introduced, someone easily could have said "Do you realize how many billions of gallons of fuel it will take to power all of that? Not a chance in the world of that happening!"

The state I live in has well over 100,000 MW of generating capacity. Given that scale, supplying energy to planes doesn't seem so ridiculous.

I'm willing to bet that we won't just be slapping electric motors in place of fuel turbines anyways. Plane designs will probably progressively move towards better suitability for alternative energy. Maybe electronic motors for extra energy during take-off, with enough reserve power for emergencies?
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In all fairness, my parent poster was talking about human circadian rhythms, not greenhouses.

I actually agree that there are numerous challenges associated with very long days and nights. Artificial lighting per se is not among them. Solar power is a reasonable one.
Well, you'll have to work with what I could find in about a minute of searching the internet, which is only suggestive:

> As elsewhere in the United States, the Jews of postwar Los Angles made their most spectacular fortunes in property development. S. Mark Taper, an English Jew with experience in London home construction, arrived in Los Angles in 1939 to lay the basis for one of California’s great real estate empires. Louis Boyer similarly became one of the state’s largest home developers, putting up 50,000 units by the mid-1960s.

> At one point in the late 1960s, Jew comprised perhaps 40 percent of southern California’s homebuilders and at least half of the builders of shopping centers. Other Jewish entrepreneurs provided their building materials. David Familian’s pipe and supply company was the city’s largest. Reuben and Lester Finkelstein built their grandfather’s scrap business into the vastly successful Southwest Steel Rolling Mills, the city’s second largest. Harvey Aluminum Inc., founded in 1934 as a small machine tool company, became southern California’s leading producer of aluminum, titanium, and special alloys.

> Jewish builders not infrequently began investing their savings in banks and savings and loan associations, until Jewish builders-cum-financiers surpassed even the older film magnates as the city’s economic heavyweights. All the while, too, Jews continued to play their traditional role as producers of consumer goods. As in the East, southern California’s clothing industry was largely Jewish, as were liquor and tobacco, and much of the wholesale food trade.

( http://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/american-jewry-1945-... , claims to be an excerpt from https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679745300/ )

Being "excluded from society" doesn't mean you get shut out of good jobs. It means you get shut out of certain good jobs. Jews weren't exactly popular in Europe from the Middle Ages forward, but everyone acknowledged that they nevertheless had good jobs.

Disraeli was the English prime minister. (He was formally Anglican, and I find it very plausible that that was politically significant. But it is fairly common for Jews to identify as Jewish by ancestry but not by religion, so he's at least worth bringing up.)

On a different note, I find it interesting how Jews get completely glossed over in opinings such as this one, from elsewhere in the thread:

> IMO it's unlikely to be coincidence that the excluded groups today are exactly those that that suffered overt, legalized discrimination until the civil rights era.
> while this is some sort of an engineering achievement this is quite far from designing an actual battery.

You build a better battery and I'll sing your praises, too. Until then, go be a debby downer somewhere else.
Impressive. I just wished some engineers could take at least a single day off to regenerate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1YxNYiyALg&feature=youtu.be... - especially when they are on a world changing mission.
> Why are you certain folks have tried to make a self-sustaining Antarctic colony? I don't see why anyone would bother. You can get supplies from the outside. Activity on the continent transitioned directly from exploration to scientific outposts.

Nobody said they _had_ to, but I'm sure someone has tried over the years out of a scientific interest. (Although I have no source for this, so it's unsubstantiated unless someone digs something up).

> The transit time to Mars with this system is 3-4 months

Travel time depends on trajectory, however safe estimates usually are around 6 months each way.[1]

> It's possible that the reduced gravity on Mars would continue to cause harm, but I rather doubt that it would be so bad as to make the whole venture impossible

Well, the effects we're observing now (for the first time!) are largely from Scott Kelly[2]'s year in microgravity. Going to mars and back takes around 1 year's time (6 months approximately each way), plus we assume they'll stay on the surface longer than a few hours... so these may prove to be serious complications. The scary thing is, few talk about these issues when dreaming about traveling to Mars (Musk included, apparently).

[1] http://www.universetoday.com/14841/how-long-does-it-take-to-...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Kelly_(astronaut)
Vogon Poetry.
Firms do not operate independent of the social institutions, norms, and beliefs which surround them. This includes the producers and the consumers. Trying to divorce markets from society is like trying to separate a fish from water and still expect it to survive (even fish with lungs still need moisture). And as proof of my point look at every venture that tried to run counter to social norms like private busing firms in the 1930s which tried to fight back against Jim Crow laws. They were promptly outlawed or bought out by those friendly to racist ideologies. Similarly, movable type printing presses were closely regulated when Catholicism was the only lawful faith in the HRE. Get caught without your license even in a liberal free city in the HRE expect your press ceased and yourself in a prison or worse. Social norms and institutions always shape fashion not the other way round.
>In some ways HN is designed to combat this.

Yeah, those things are an example of something that sounds great in theory, but doesn't work out in practice.
Link to the motivation page: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/wiki/Motivation
Disney is a conglomerate that doesn't just make movies and theme parks. They also own the ABC television network and ESPN (and I'm sure others). I assume if this rumor is true and not a stalking horse that they figure owning another channel to end users is more valuable than just sending their content through it.

Since they can already use Twitter for free, I assume it's all about the analytics.

But this is all a guess. I have to say that the Disney execs I've met have all been very smart and good at execution.
> Underserved Communities and Social Services

This is the problem YC should be solving. Instead, YC is still patently and openly biased towards the Ivy League class, which is really just a bias against poor people. It's been a decade and still nothing predicts YC acceptance like the Right Background and Culture Fit.

So get on it! Raise a billion dollars and fund every decent team founded by people from poor backgrounds. Stop giving money to people that don't really need it and don't really appreciate it.

This could change the entire world.. Poor children could grow up knowing that someone would fund them if they try to make something of themselves. Initial funding is the roadblock.

A simple proxy for "poor" in this case can be anyone who did not have parents who could buy them into a fancy school or send them around the world.