skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there's "common knowledge" and then there's what you experience when you actually try to get a job at the salary you thought you could get. I agree for software developers you can make more money in a commercial setting at Google or wherever.

But unless things have changed drastically you're not going to make more money working a government contract.
> It's not possible to design and evaluate a weekend project for each one of them

Can't you just design and evaluate one project that they can all do?
That actually didn't increase the debt. Most of those loans were repaid.

The money to the banks, I'm not so sure.

Don't forget Obama was handed two active wars that he had to fund. They were spending billions per day on military operations. He wound them down as fast as he could but it still took years.
It may also mean the opposite.

There's a lot of big industry rich people who would love less regulation.
Trump has created wealth, but he also destroyed wealth in his multiple bankruptcies and the contractors he stiffed. One could argue that casinos (even if they are profitable) are a net destructor of wealth. It is very hard to get a clear picture of exactly how much net wealth he created since there is no reliable information. Tax returns would have been a good start...

His father, Fred Trump, built a real estate empire of 27.000 apartments in Brooklyn and Queens. Just sitting on those and maintaining and expanding it would have resulted in a fortune many times bigger than he has today.
Sometimes I think Clojure should have been developed on top of the ErlangVM instead of the JVM. I think that the ErlangVM solves a lot better the problems that Clojure is trying to solve. Also, seems like targeting the ErlangVM is an achievable feat, since Elixir in its version 1.3 has proven to be extremely solid.

Crazy idea: if I wanted to implement Clojure on top of the ErlangVM, where should I start?
Not necessarily, look at all the projects on Kickstarter. There are still a lot of products that can be designed and build for less than $1 million.
Similar to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiled_web_map
Belief propagation
I'd love to see that experiment, as I'm actually more inclined to believe in (occasional) pair programming (by the virtue of enforcing some focus) than in TDD.

> Open-plan offices are hip and in Europe maybe even a requirement due to space constraints but I'd personally choose a cubicle over higher pay.

Yeah. When I was still a high-schooler and later a university student, I used to laugh at cubicles. Oh, the corporate culture, oh, the rat race, etc. Now that I spent some time in this career, I would voluntarily go to cubicle and even take a pay cut. I now understand that cubicles were a good idea of solving the space/cost constraints.

Hell, every now and then I think about building my own cubicle out of pizza boxes, but I'm pretty sure the management wouldn't be happy about it. Over-the-ear headphones suffice for eliminating sound for now, but I still can't focus when I have people walking behind my back.
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Disk seeks when lopking up the next file to compile used to be a huge bottleneck.
You can probably do this by hooking Leaflet.js up to a custom tileserver ;P
I had left my Nikon camera in a shop, when I've realized and ran back, a shop associate was trying to knot it to a chair she just put outside of the shop (so it can be seen).
It was amazing!
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Other story I had in Japan. That I lost direction in Kyoto and had no money since all ATM is closed (at night).At some point somebody just stopped his bike and asked where i go. When I told him, he said that I should wait a bit, he will pick up his car and bring me there (in the middle of the night!) .. and so he did.

No place like japan (or at least very few)!
Sorry but no stats. Amazon has different hiring procedures for different teams. This was for a particular team in one branch.
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Do you think the perception of crime/safety might be an explanation? The difference with three decades ago is the ease of information distribution with social media/internet. Most likely also media coverage has shifted more to crime reporting.

If I'm not mistaken Levitt describes this perception of crime in his book, Freakonomics, as well.
The Objet software tells you how much material will be used, then just multiply with material price.
In running his businesses, he also delegated "actual wealth creation" to others. E.g. the waiter serving drinks is the one creating wealth as much or more so than the owner of the business...
> Westerners are almost too comfortable acting on behalf of themselves. It is almost a given. And that is also why parents are less inclined to "let them loose" because "loose" is what they are. They are free thinking and free acting

A bit of a fiction. All you have to do is have a look the tribalism in campus culture to falsify this.

In fact, the current campus hysteria is in part motivated by a lack of independence, self-reliance and accountability for one's actions.
The biggest eye-opener for me was that I shouldn't try to convince people on the spot. Debating political and similar issues is like challenging people. This means that even if at some point they start doubting their position, they will not admit it, they will just raise their shield and double down. Continuing further will just bring resentment. You cannot teach anything to anybody. We have a saying in my country - "You can only take by force, you can't give anything by force".

This lead to rethinking pretty much everything I do. I think it can be summarized in one word - patience. I have to pick my battles carefully. I shouldn't jump to every opportunity to debate. I have to let some things go. I have to identify the good opportunities - where I can say something truly engaging, touching. Most importantly, I have to be brief. No long answers, at most just 1 reply after that. No battles, they can't be won on the spot but perhaps I will make the other party reflect on what I've said later. This means that I have be efficient, leading to thinking about the other people involved, why they have their position and how to bring to their attention that there are other just as credible positions.

A couple of quotes I find worthy:

Plato: "[...]if you talk to any ordinary Spartan, he seems to be stupid, but eventually, like an expert marksman, he shoots in some brief remark that proves you to be only a child".

Epictetus: "Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. [...] So that if ever any talk should happen among the unlearned concerning philosophic theorems, be you, for the most part, silent. For there is great danger in immediately throwing out what you have not digested. And, if anyone tells you that you know nothing, and you are not nettled at it, then you may be sure that you have begun your business. For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk".
This works, but make sure they spend the 2 hours in your office and not 12 hours at home solving a 2 hour problem..

Yes. And to make sure they don't cheat on it, maybe don't let them use a computer or the internet. A whiteboard ought to be enough. And just to be really sure, make them explain what they're doing in real time as they do it.

That will do quite well, and offer a wonderful alternative to the standard, awful, whiteboard coding interview.
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should give you an idea of what's going on.
Little bit expensive for just a box and a disk
I've always found Japanese kindergarten elementary school education to be quite good. They encourage children to be independent, they have children clean the school to teach responsibility (most schools do not have janitors on staff), they often have student councils where the students determine some of the rules and how they are enforced.

However, the education after that is too focused on rote memory, multiple choice tests and not enough on critical thinking. This, I believe, is what creates a lot of problems today with Japanese young adults. If I had a kid, I'd send her to a Japanese school until around 8-9 years old and then switch to an international school.
It works like google maps.
The high resolution image is sampled into several layers of lower resolution. You can call it levels.

Every level is split into quadrants.

So when someone zooms in, it will fetch the quadrants that is visible to the browser viewport. By doing this way, the browser doesnt have to load the rest of the image and thus save alot of bandwidth!
Oh yes, I missed that. So that makes the whole webpage different.
Oh wow, I guess clothes that is being sold is just some widget. Too many people in the tech world simply do not get fashion.
I have solved and implemented workaround of this. Rather than only one home assignment of 2 hours, I give one assignment for home. Next assignment, which is enhancement of first assignment, is given when they appear of face 2 face interview.

This makes sure that if someone has not solved home assignment with other's help.
Is it normal to get $65mm in VC money for an online clothes store? Should I be trying to found a company like this?
And this idea is painfully ignorant of the simple fact that illegal immigrants pay taxes just like everyone else.
How do you guys deal with re-factoring code?

As a very rough guide. Replacing one big function with two smaller functions is often better than replacing two small functions with one big one.
Is there a way I can get in touch with you, just want to bounce some ideas around
Though it's worth reiterating the meme going around right now: anyone who claims to be able to predict the future statements and actions of Donald Trump from the past actions and statements of Donald Trump is lying.
> Browser vendors really need to change their attitude towards extensions, as they basically allow users to install malware/spyware in their browsers without performing any real certification / auditing.

Browser vendors have already increased restrictions on extensions to the point where it impedes the development and use of some security improving extensions. There may be some things that could be changed to improve transparency and end user control. But it is ultimately the end user's responsibility to determine what is and isn't appropriate for their use. Browser vendors don't have enough information to make that call.

> At the very least there should be a way for users to see a full audit log of the information that an extension sends to remote servers, as this is usually already enough to tell if the extension is sending more data than it should.

Which of the popular browser's don't have the ability to display network traffic? I've used the one in Chrome and the one in Firefox on multiple occasions.

Normally, the problem isn't detecting that an extension is sending data to a server. The problem is that people don't look for that and discover it. Or they discover it and tolerate it based on a hope that the data will never be misused. Cloudy judgement.
Damn, what country is that? Sounds like a very controlled, restrictive environment.
Yes ok, thought you looked that up online.
I think this is something that should be present everywhere. Especially when serving customers from countries with unreasonable data caps enforced by ISPs.

I have seen some times load up 5-6 MB files when a 100-200kb image would have done the job.

If us developers could have an easy way to do this, I think it would really make the internet a lot faster.
s/Clojure/ClojureScript
No, I find the UX dreadful coming from a website that title itself "clean code". The style is bare and the author still manages poor presentation. At the very least a different style for the code would have been nice.
Misleading title. This uses zoomable tiles which has been done for a decade already. It is most definitely not serving 700MP in 700ms.
Actually its common for many if not all employers to ban outside work with out approval from your manager.
> The real question is whether it's onerous enough to act as a deterrent, not whether some people will circumvent it.

Deterring what? "Illegal immigration" or "people walking across the border"? If it is the former, then that plan is just so stupid to be of any value. Banning transfer of money from US to Mexico to make Mexico pay for "building a 10 ft high border-wall" is ... wow, just saying that out loud feels weird.

(PS: I'm neither an American nor a Mexican!)
What works for one person doesn't work for everybody. I feel that it does work for me - it keeps me focused on the problem at hand without getting distracted, over-engineering the solution, or yak-shaving.
This news is obviously important and shows a key trend in the vehicle industry but dailymail is utter garbage as a news source and in no way trustworthy for facts.

Would recommend truth seekers visit one of the following:

http://fortune.com/2016/11/09/general-motors-layoffs-ohio-mi...

or

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-generalmotors-layoffs-idUS...
This document is from before the election, it's invalid now.
Analogies can be well used, but here all you said is "I prefer to have just a bit of diversity" in a pseudo-explanatory way.
By lying about what actually gets served and by reinventing on-demand requesting of image tiles. This is ancient tech.
Hmm hmm study the internals of Lumo maybe? Here's a question, would you be able to build non-actor based concurrency primitives like async's go blocks on a actor based erlang framework? (sorta shooting the shit here)
HR don't care they can afford the cost where as an individual employee is unlikely to be able.
>clients

The type of situation you're describing is is why I avoid working for any sort of shop or agency.
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haha, generation 3 and already at score > 10000

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Take a look at LFE [0]

[0] http://lfe.io
After reading this thread, I'm actually going to do just that. Not that I agree with the solution but it solves my issue at least

EDIT: Just tried to do so, and the spotify installer doesn't let you choose where to install.
State surveillance does turn away some foreign customers, according to prior articles and comments on HN.
>I will purposely challenge their solution to see how they react.

Exactly like Google, who tell applicants that their solution is wrong when it isn't. Most people complain about how bad their application process is and that interviewers don't know anything. Nope, they just weed out smart asses like you that are a pain to work with.
I support the goals of the ACA, but the law as written is a horrible hack which tries to implement a national health insurance system, without actually doing so or calling it that. It weaves together multiple semi-separate existing systems, adds in significant complexity and uses the threat of an income-tax penalty to try to get people to comply. The system only works well if it has broad subscription across healthy and unhealthy individuals, but as implemented many of the insurance pools are oversubscribed with unhealthy individuals, costing much more than the income to the plans can support.

In their attempts to lock in parts of the law so that an incoming shift of government couldn't easily change or repeal it, the Democrats hardcoded idiocies like a fixed date for the launch of the healthcare.gov website and features it had to have while leaving funding and development of the site a bit up in the air.

In a nominally functioning government, the ACA would have been a broad, general law laying out specific goals, requirements and mandates for compliance, delegating implementation and enforcement to a new or existing agency. But in the "regulations are bad, laws are good" environment in DC, processes and requirements which should have been regulations (which can be drawn up and vetted by a bureacracy under legislative supervision) ended up being in the actual law, which can only be changed by Congress and the President working together, which all but stopped after the 2010 midterm elections.

Add in the the Federal government is limited (by design) in what it can mandate individual States can do and you have this mess called Obamacare.

I don't support repealing it, I do support modifying it to make implementation more flexible, but that is almost certainly not going to happen under a Republican government.
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> This is so true. Back in the day when I was involve in embedded Linux development, the quickest bootup time was about 40secs. This was booting a v2.6 kernel in a minimum configuration on an ARM7 system over SPI NAND FLASH.

The older NAND file systems were very slow. I've had a similar case where repartitioning the huge NAND into a smaller partition and only using a small partition reduced the boot time to 10 seconds without any other change. Modern UBIFS systems apparently don't have this problem.

As for subsecond boot times: no chance with Linux.
The Dell XPS seems to get recommended a lot. I have a 2012 HP Pavilion which works fine with Ubuntu 16.04.
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There is opensource component that does this: Open Seadragon
https://openseadragon.github.io

You pass a big image to "vips dzsave"
http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=VIPS
and it creates a .dzi file describing the tiles and a set of directories with zoomed in tiles. Then you add a div to your HTML and execute this js

viewer = new OpenSeadragon({
id: "openseadragondiv",
prefixUrl: "/Scripts/openseadragon/images/"
});
viewer.open(pathToDZI);

It also has plenty of useful plugins, eg. Scale bar https://pages.nist.gov/OpenSeadragonScalebar/ or Annotations (to draw on the image) https://github.com/Emigre/openseadragon-annotations
TL;DR - he is completely unpredictable, so no one really knows.
It is because Stitch Fix isn't doing anything new and fashion is incredibly fast, Stitch Fix has to depend on a supply chain (whole sellers) that lag behind in terms of trends and styles in terms of weeks, seasons are measured in weeks. It is also going to be incredibly hard for them to drive growth and their market position is dependent on their ability to match clothes for people.
>>Let's try this a different way: have you ever even attempted to identify what your "issue with Islam" is?

My issue with Islam is its ideology and its doctrine. It's very similar to my issue with Nazism and white supremacist ideology like KKK. Do we think, that when someone criticizes Nazism/KKK are they reducing all German/white people to some bad thing? No.

It's very similar when it comes to Islam too. I criticize Islam. I criticize Islam's pedophile, rapist and thuggish prophet Muhammad. I criticize Islam's treatment of women and kaafirs (disbelievers). I criticize Islam's barbaric misogynist doctrines.

>> You don't seem to have any single articulable criticism or complaint besides "the others are comin', see this scary video!". Have you even thought farther than that? Did you not feel the need to?

I gave links to those videos as a starting point for the western world. But I do not base my criticism on these videos. I do base my criticism of Islam on the very foundational scriptures of Islam called Quran and Hadiths. Very similar how I criticize the Nazi ideology based on Mein Kampf.

You may wish to look into those scriptures to educate yourself about the vicious ideology of Islam.
Here's an open-source time-proven project for huge image visualization over web: http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/
What's interesting is I've run it several times now, and I've gotten the perfect bird about half the time on an early generation (<10), but sometimes it just doesn't want to find it for a while. I'm wondering if the net is just at the threshold of being the minimal set of neurons that are needed for it to be able to get it so easily by random chance.
Only if mabbo is in the US, right?
"Hopefully, the bootup time is in the subseconds by now. Are we getting to these speed yet?"

You can do that[0] with minimal system. Actually, it's not that difficult to get booting time down to few seconds on most embedded systems. But in real world boot time highly depends on modules and drivers that must be loaded to make system up and running.

http://www.makelinux.com/emb/fastboot/omap
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12870953
When the value your offering provides, which in Spotify's case is a ridiculous amount of music for a few bucks a month, most customers will forgive less than perfect software.

Obviously HN has a techie lean, and we dislike "bad" software but in the real world this matters little to 90+% of Spotify's customer base I'm sure.
Japan is a much safer country than US.
Broken, here's cached version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20161110084057/http://www.sander...
So your filtering for the "desperate" job seekers
Stupid clickbait about NOT serving 700 megapixels in under 700 milliseconds but just about 5 megapixels in about 24 images of < 50 kilobytes each. Big whoop...
The surveillance industry also acts as an implicit subsidy so it's a toss up if it's actually a net drain on Silicon Valley's economic position.
On a standard kernel you can still set kernel.modules_disabled=1 after everything you need is loaded. There should be no big difference in behaviour in both cases. Not that the module injection is common anyway...
Custom and practice - you need to read your company handbook /contract some time.
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I had my first ever whiteboard interview recently. I severely underestimated how difficult it is to write code as compared to a terminal. At the end of it I came out feeling deflated and rather angry as the same piece of work on a machine would have been trivial.
This is one of these fantastic "all that is done with so little code?!" moments.

Amazing that this can be done in 300 lines of perfectly readable JS without any libraries. And the author apparently wrote it in 2 days. Great intro to genetic algorithms and reinforcement learning. Universities should teach like that.

Edit:
Somebody has asked about the big picture how the thing works:

You use a neuronal network to decide at each step to flap the birds wings or not. That is the only output. The input is only the birds height (y-position) and the height of the next hole. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedforward_neural_network)

The question now is how to find the correct weights for the net.

That net is not trained in a traditional supervised way like with gradient descent (which would be more complicated). Instead it uses a genetic algorithms to find new weights for neuronal networks of future generations. That is use some of the best individuals. Some randomly generated ones and some created by breeding from existing individuals. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm)

And that's basically it in this case.
I spent the first 30 seconds or so reading this thread thinking that World Of Tanks must have some browser extension. Never heard of Web Of Trust before.
While it is an interesting point, it is a weak excuse for their poor election forecast, which right up till the end[1] had Clinton as a sure winner.

Now, the difference was in the margin ...

[1] http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/